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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Jordan
Publishing Date: 2022-07-24T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/jordan/

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Then at that point, something changes.

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From that point on, it's just Elisha that crosses the 50,

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stand on this shore and watch the rest of the proceeding.

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What outfits you to cross the Jordan?

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It's an invitation to everybody,

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but there is a posturing or positioning that I need to have

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so that I'm now equipped to cross the Jordan.

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And in the process, anticipate the mantle

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that God wants to throw my way,

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throw our way, throw your way.

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And that's what we look at today,

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and then we look at what actually happened next week.

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So it doesn't matter whether it's Gilgal Bethel Jericho,

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it doesn't matter whether it's Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,

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and the ends of the earth.

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As much as we love saying it, and as much as we believe it,

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there is this process of us positioning ourselves

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or getting into this outfit where we can have that happen.

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And I want us to know, especially in a church like this,

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it's important to know that a mission trip

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is not what qualifies or disqualifies you,

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because it's very easy at Act 29 to think

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that I've made the cut if I go on a mission trip.

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No, that's not how we qualify for stuff like this.

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A mission trip is not what qualifies or disqualifies me

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from being Elisha-like.

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And at the end of the day, what is it to be like Elisha-like?

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It is to be a profitable servant, a profitable servant.

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That's what we're aiming at.

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That's what we're aiming at.

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He is a profitable servant

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that ends up getting the rights of the firstborn.

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You do not...

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The problem with today's charismatic Christianity

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is that we wanna be precious sons,

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but not profitable servants.

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We wanna be precious sons, but not profitable servants.

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But what God wants is, can I have both a profitable servant

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and a precious son?

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And you see this happening in the life of Elisha,

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where he's a profitable servant.

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All he used to do for years on end

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was to wash Elijah's hands, man, and wash his feet.

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He'd do the bidding of Elijah.

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So on one hand, he's a profitable servant,

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which we again will look at in Luke 17 10,

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where Jesus talks about a parable

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where he talks about profitable servants.

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But Elisha was a profitable servant,

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and he ends up having more than any of the other sons

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of the prophet.

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And it's a combination of both

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that allows you to wear the mantle.

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It's one thing to receive a mantle,

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it's another thing to wear it,

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because receiving a mantle doesn't mean it'll fit.

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I think I've said this here before,

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Leonard Ravenhill, when he was dying,

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had scores of students turn up at his door

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on his deathbed and plead

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that Leonard Ravenhill's mantle fall on them.

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This was the ultimate preacher in the US at that time.

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Nobody as fiery as him.

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The next guy who was anything like him

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was David Wilkerson.

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And they would plead, they'd knock on the door,

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wait saying, please, can I have your mantle?

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And his son comes in one day,

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his biological son walks into the room,

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and Leonard Ravenhill says to his son,

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they all want my mantle, but nobody wants my sackcloth.

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And you cannot have the mantle fit

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if I don't learn how to walk as a profitable servant.

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A son cannot wear his father's mantle

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unless he proves himself to be a profitable servant.

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This is why you have tons and tons of preachers

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who give over everything they've built

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to their biological sons who squander it

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or distort it within a matter of two years.

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And so going on a trip doesn't make me a profitable servant.

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Because in a church like this, it's easy to assume,

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hey, if I go on a trip, then maybe I made the cut.

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It ain't no cut, man.

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A trip doesn't mean you're a profitable servant,

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it means you're an able traveling servant.

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And so, I'm not going to be a profitable servant.

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I'm going to be a profitable servant.

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You're an able traveling servant.

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You're a traveling servant and you're able to travel.

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Great. That's all it means.

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Again, the same applies.

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Moving from Vernon or moving from Brazil

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or moving from Dayton or moving from South Africa

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to Vancouver or to New York

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doesn't mean you're a profitable servant.

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It just means that you're a faith-filled servant.

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You had enough faith to leave Brazil.

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You had enough faith to leave South Africa.

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You didn't have faith to leave Dayton and go to New York.

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You didn't have faith to leave Vernon and come here.

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You had faith for it, but it doesn't make you profitable.

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What makes you profitable is what they will do

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now that they've come from South Africa.

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What the Brazilians will do once they have come here.

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That's what makes you profitable.

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Larissa going to New York doesn't make her profitable.

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It just makes her full of faith.

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Let's see what Larissa does in New York.

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That's what makes us profitable.

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And that is what allows you to step into the next mantle

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that God wants to give you.

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That's how this works, guys.

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Because sometimes we

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conflate going on a trip with being profitable and it ain't.

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What qualifies me is not the objective,

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but how I prosecute the journey.

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What qualifies me is not the objective,

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but how I prosecute

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the journey.

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I had two incidents early in my life

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where I was as full of myself then as I am now.

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And I remember going up to this guy, Willard Thiessen.

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He's the one who started that Canadian TV channel.

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It's a new day.

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He was the one who started it and he came to Vancouver.

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And so I go up to him and full of enthusiasm

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and I tell him, I want you to pray for me.

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I'm called to the nations.

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I'm this and I'm that.

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And I just need you to lay hands on me and pray.

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And so he listens to it for a few minutes.

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He puts his hand on me, big gnarled hands.

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My head is big. His hand was bigger.

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And he puts his hand on my head and he says,

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Father, Jacob is so destination oriented.

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Can you please make him journey oriented so he enjoys it?

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And he walked away.

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I'm thinking to myself, surely you need greater anointing prayed on me.

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That's not what you're supposed to pray and go.

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It was exactly what he prayed and he walked away

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as if to say, you got to get your act together, man.

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You think so highly of yourself that if you don't forget your destination

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and think of your journey, you ain't going to make it.

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And then three years later, I'm in Surrey

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and there's this guy called Joshua Fowler,

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Joshua Fowler, prophet, apostle type.

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And so I go up to him after everybody's left and I go up to him and say,

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Joshua, I need to speak to you.

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You see, I'm called to the nations.

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And I said, I want you to pray for me and tell me how I should go about it.

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And he doesn't even pray for me, man.

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He says, start in Jerusalem.

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And once you have established something in Jerusalem, go to Judea,

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then Samaria and the ends of the earth.

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And he walks away.

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And these two men kind of deflated my bubble.

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But at the same time, what they said was so critical, man.

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Start in Jerusalem.

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Once you establish something in Jerusalem, then you couldn't go to Judea,

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Samaria and the ends of the earth.

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And at that time, there was squat in Jerusalem, at least in my Jerusalem.

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And it's the same for us, eh?

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So you can go on trips, you can be called to the nations,

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you can be the most anointed, most gifted person in this church.

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And yet, it means squat in terms of being a profitable servant.

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And you never get to wear the mantle you're supposed to wear

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because these two haven't combined.

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Any questions before we go on?

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You cannot go to the great prosecutor.

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Prosecute, let me choose a...

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How I outwork, how I outwork the journey.

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How I execute the journey, yeah.

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Any other questions?

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Any premise there that you agree with, don't agree with?

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No?

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Yeah.

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So for Elisha, what did be enchanting him from the other prophets?

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Yeah.

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I think one of the things about Elijah, Elisha was his readiness, his persistence.

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And his knowing that there was something more.

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That if he didn't persist, that he would not get it.

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And there was a readiness. He would go anywhere.

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And this is Elijah saying, listen, I want you to stay here.

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And he's saying, you can kill me. That's the only way I'll stay here.

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That kind of persistence?

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Because when he says, as the Lord lives and as you live,

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it is this refusal to settle for anything less.

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Because inside him, he knows there is more.

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He remembered the time Elijah, again, in a very brusque way,

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threw his mantle over him and started walking away.

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And he said, shall I say bye to my parents?

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And he says, I don't care.

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Elijah did everything in his power to make it difficult for Elisha.

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We must do that for the ones we are raising.

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In a good way.

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Yesterday, Tuni had eight to nine songs prepared for worship today.

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Eight to nine songs.

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And so when I heard that, I thought to myself, great, spring a surprise on him this morning.

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Give him three songs and tell him to work with three songs.

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Give it to him fifteen minutes before the worship service.

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And then tell him to start with free worship.

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And that puts pressure on him.

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But you do not get results until you place a demand on what already exists within the person.

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You're not trying to bring out from the person something that it doesn't have.

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You're bringing out of the person what the person already has.

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That's the important criteria.

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You cannot force someone to dance when they have two left feet.

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But if they have two, not two right feet, if they have one left feet and one right foot, then well, get them to dance, man.

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They have it in them.

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Tuni has it in him.

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That's how this works.

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And when demand is placed, you only have two reactions.

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Leave me alone or I can't go that far.

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Just let me go till here.

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Or do what you want with me.

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That's how this works.

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Fortunately, Tuni's attitude is, do what you want with me.

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And we'll talk about why Elisha got to see what he got to see in detail next week.

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But how do we position ourselves so that when we come to the job and we are still the ones that cross over?

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Guys, one of the fears we must have, it's a healthy fear to have, is that there is going to be a day of reckoning.

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Not for the world.

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Not for the world.

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And here is what it will look like based on 2 Corinthians 5.

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It will be, this is what I gave you, Jacob.

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This is what I had planned for you.

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These were the days that I had numbered for you.

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These were the paths that I prepared, the good works I prepared for you to do before the foundations of the earth.

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It is a healthy fear to have.

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And it's a healthy fear to have.

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It's a healthy fear to have.

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These are the good works I prepared for you to do before the foundations of the earth.

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It was supposed to be for the sake of the kingdom.

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It was supposed to happen in the context of the body.

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These things are very final.

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There is no shift or change in this.

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Now Jacob, tell me, what did you do with it?

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Oh, so you were a pastor.

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Great.

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Do you remember that parable in Luke 12 where I said,

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When the master goes away and leaves the house in charge of a steward,

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does he mistreat his servants?

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Does he feed them?

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Does he not feed them?

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What did you do?

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These are the questions and there is no escaping this.

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I want us to be aware of this.

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Because when she comes up and says,

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there is momentum, wake up, wake up.

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It is to wake up to these facts too.

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That there is a reckoning.

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And it is a healthy fear because we will give account.

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We will give account.

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It is not an account that has us lose our eternal salvation.

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That is secure in Christ.

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But there is something to pleasing the one that we will now see face to face.

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There is something to being given things to rule over based on how I did here.

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Not because I want to rule.

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All those ruling things are here on earth.

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There it will be just this amazing responsibility you want to discharge.

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Just like a child discharges a responsibility that you give the child at home.

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He loves doing it for his father.

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And there is a deep regret of things not done.

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I hate that.

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A deep regret of paths not traversed.

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That I hate.

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I can't imagine what Moses went through

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and met him face to face and realized he didn't lead them into the promised land.

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Another guy that blows my mind.

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I can't imagine what Ravi Zacharias said when he met Jesus face to face.

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What do you stand there with?

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Books?

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Souls saved?

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What do you stand there with?

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These are the things that put the fear of the living God in me.

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It's not necessarily scriptural because 2 Corinthians 5 says it.

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When you stand before the Baima Judgment,

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it is not about your eternal security.

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But there is a giving of account.

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So Paul says, I approach this with fear and trembling.

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And I warn others.

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So I'm not putting something on you.

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I'm just giving you 2 Corinthians 5.

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Moving on.

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How do we then prepare ourselves to cross the Jordan?

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The first, remember, our intent is to be profitable servants.

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Because we are already precious sons.

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We are already precious sons.

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So the idea of being profitable servants.

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What does a profitable servant look like?

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Based on Luke 12, which we will shortly read,

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you're dressed, you're ready, you're resourced, and you're alert.

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You're dressed, you're ready, you're resourced, and you're alert.

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What do you mean resourced?

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Let's go to Luke 12.

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Luke 12.

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Verse 35.

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Reading from the NIV.

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Be dressed, ready for service, and keep your lamps burning,

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like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet.

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So that when he comes and knocks, they can immediately open the door for him.

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As in, be ready with your lamps burning.

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As in, I'm not preparing for a mission trip.

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I'm not preparing for a Sunday service.

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I'm not preparing for an event.

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This is the condition that you and I always are in.

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Resourced.

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Enough for the Spirit of God.

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Active in my life throughout.

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So at a moment's call, when the master returns,

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I am resourced, I'm ready, I'm dressed for the occasion.

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And I love this next line, eh?

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It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes.

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Truly, I tell you, he will dress himself to serve,

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and we'll have them recline at the table and come and wait on him.

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Just think of the reversal there.

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You're waiting for the master, ready, resourced, dressed, and alert.

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And once he sees you like that, the master begins to serve you.

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Why? Because the moment I'm a profitable servant,

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when God comes and he becomes my father and he serves the sons.

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This is so easily interchangeably.

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You have the attitude of a profitable servant.

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You're there waiting, dressed, resourced, ready, alert.

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And the moment he sees you like that and he comes in,

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instead of saying, okay, now take off my shoes, give me a massage, take my socks off,

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he says, guys, settle down.

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I'm glad that you are profitable servants,

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but can I just switch roles now where you take the place of sons,

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I become the father, and I serve you.

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And when he sees the sons, I become the father, and I serve you.

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Shifts in a second, God begins to serve you.

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Because in this kingdom, everybody is servant and son, and son and servant.

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That's how this works.

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So, second one.

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Embrace the priesthood. Embrace.

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Hey, can we turn the air conditioning on?

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Embrace the priesthood.

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Embrace the priesthood.

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Embrace the priesthood. As in, go to 1 Peter 2, 5.

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1 Peter 2, 5, and read it from the message.

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I love the way it says it there.

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1 Peter 2, 5.

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1 Peter 2, 5.

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Embrace the priesthood. As in, know what you are a part of.

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Allow yourself to be placed.

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1 Peter 2, 5, from the message.

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Present yourselves, and it's talking to each of us.

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Present yourselves as building stones for the construction of a sanctuary,

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vibrant with life, in which you will serve as holy priests,

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offering Christ-approved lives up to God.

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Present yourselves as building stones for the construction of a sanctuary,

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vibrant with life, in which you will serve as holy priests,

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offering Christ-approved lives up to God.

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And so the intent is, hey, embrace the priesthood.

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As in, know that you are a living stone.

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Know that this sanctuary cannot be built by you.

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Know that if you are part of this and allow yourselves to be placed where God wants to place you,

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then this sanctuary will be complete.

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Know that God will begin to fill this place like he cannot otherwise.

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But to be absolutely available for placement is critical to Cross the Jordan.

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Elisha was ready for anything, man.

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What would be the use if Elisha gave up 12 yoke of oxen and joined Elijah and didn't Cross the Jordan?

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Can you imagine the loss?

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Just think of that for a second.

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He gives up the 12 yoke of oxen.

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He's given up his business.

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Maybe he had all 12 yoke of oxen or maybe he had one.

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Don't know. But let's assume that he had all 12 yoke of oxen, that he was a rich guy.

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He gives it all up, leaves his father and mother, leaves his land, comes to a new place with Elijah,

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and then doesn't Cross the Jordan.

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Can you imagine?

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Embrace the priesthood. Allow yourselves to be placed.

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If I hold back from being placed, two things happen.

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I don't get to be living.

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And two, I don't allow God to do what he can with a group of people.

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I don't get to be living. Why do I say that? I don't get to be living.

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Because guys, the strange thing with living stones, God doesn't build anything with bricks.

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Every one of us is different.

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He has to take very different people and put them together.

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And in Hebrew understanding, if stones...

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You can have a very polished stone, but if stones don't touch each other, they're not living. They're dead.

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Stones that are not touching each other.

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If stones are not connected, they are dead.

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So a stone that sits by itself, as brilliant as it is, is dead.

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Living stones are stones that are being put together to build something.

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And so if I hold back, I'm losing out on real life.

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I must allow myself to be placed.

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Sometimes placed to wash someone's hands, feet.

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Sometimes to do more.

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I must allow myself to be placed.

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I'll take one more and then if you have questions, feel free to ask.

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Third, cleansed vessels.

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Cleansed vessels.

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2 Timothy 2, 19-21.

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You know, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you talk about.

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Some of the points are just common to every teaching that you can teach.

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Cleansed vessels. 2 Timothy 2, 19-21.

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Let me go there.

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It is so self-explanatory.

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2 Timothy 2, 19-21.

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Meanwhile, God's firm foundation is as firm as ever.

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Let me read it from the NIV.

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Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription.

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The Lord knows those who are His, and everyone who confesses the name of the Lord

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must turn away from wickedness.

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In the large house there are articles, not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay.

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Some for special purposes, some for common use.

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Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes,

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made holy, useful to the master, prepared to do any good work.

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One more time.

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Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription.

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The Lord knows those who are His, and everyone who confesses the name of the Lord

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must turn away from wickedness.

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In the large house there are articles, not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay.

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Some for special purposes, and some for common use.

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Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes,

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made holy, useful to the master, prepared to do any good work.

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So clear, man.

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So clear.

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That's what allows you to cross the Jordan, eh?

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We had another guy who was supposed to become the next Elisha.

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His name was Gehazi.

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But the problem with Gehazi was that when it came to being a clean vessel, he failed.

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So a man who was supposed to be now perhaps the inheritor of another double portion,

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from the man who inherited a double portion, ends up being a leper.

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He still does good, but he ends up being a leper.

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There is something to clean vessels that allows you to cross the Jordan.

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How do you wear a mantle without that?

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It don't fit, man. It'll begin to itch.

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The problem with holy mantles on an unholy body is that the body begins to itch.

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Any questions, guys, before we take the next three?

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Guys, we don't become this in a day, but God notices the intent of my heart.

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We don't become this in a day.

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Don't think that, okay, so now I'm done because I ain't going to make this cut.

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It's not making the cut.

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You know why it's not making the cut?

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Because we're not in the Old Testament anymore.

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We don't have to reach a mark.

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We have already been made holy.

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We've got to live it.

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It means to look at my heart and say, boy, this guy has a desire to run.

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Sure, he's falling, but every time he falls, he comes back to me, gets up and starts running.

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That's what he's looking for.

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Because there are no marked levels in New Testament Christianity anymore.

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Because the level was here and only one could reach it.

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He reached it and he lives in me.

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Now the question is, do I passionately desire that?

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So I don't have to become this tomorrow because I already am it.

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I have to live it out.

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So sometimes when you hear this, you immediately start disqualifying yourself.

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Instead of that, my heart should begin to leap saying, I was this way today.

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Tomorrow I get a chance to be better than I am today.

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And that the Spirit of God can do because that's what he does with expectation and hope.

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One of the things that perhaps we should try to do when we listen to a teaching is say to the Holy Spirit,

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Spirit of God, could you take what is being spoken and what is true

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and begin to create expectation and hope in my heart so that my life begins to gallop?

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And could you help me to stay awake for the next 20 minutes?

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Okay, next one.

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This is a...

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We should be teachers by now.

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If you've been in this church for two or two and a half years, you should be teachers by now.

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Paul says this in Hebrews 5, sorry, Hebrews 5, 12 to 14.

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He says, hey, I wish I could feed you meat but I still have to feed you milk.

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You should be teachers by now. You should be able to discern between right and wrong.

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You shouldn't be... And different parts of the epistle he then says that

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I don't want you to return to the fundamentals. You already know the fundamentals.

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Anybody who's been in this church for two and a half years should be able to teach and instruct.

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I'm not saying you have to take the position of a teacher, but surely we should be able to teach and instruct.

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And I believe most of us can.

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Ezra 7, 10. I'm beginning to really like that verse.

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Ezra 7, 10. He was called out by God to lead Israel and here's what it says in Ezra 7, 10.

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Ezra decided that from now on he was going to study the word.

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He was going to study the word so that he could do it.

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He was going to study the word so that he could do it and then instruct others.

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Brilliant, man! Isn't that the formula?

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I will now study the word. I will study the word so I can do it.

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I will study the word so I can do it and then teach others.

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This is not an Ezra thing. This is a common thing for all New Testament believers.

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Ezra 7, 10.

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Next one.

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Have an increasing idea of your giftedness.

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Have an increasing idea of your giftedness.

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What are you gifted at? Do you have an idea?

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You must have an idea, have a grasp of your giftedness and calling.

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Hey, is the AC on?

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Is it cold? It's on, eh? Gosh, I must be preaching up a storm.

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At least here in this area. It's a hot storm.

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Have a grasp of your giftedness and calling.

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All you guys are cold?

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No, Sheldon, you could put him on the North Pole and he'd still take his thing off.

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Yeah, guys, have an increasing grasp of your giftedness and calling.

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Have an increasingly clear grasp of your giftedness and your calling.

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What are you supposed to steward in this season of your life?

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What are you supposed to steward in this season of your life?

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What are you supposed to steward in this season of your life?

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Why? Because without knowing it, you can't pour it out.

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If you don't know it, you can't pour it.

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I went to a restaurant here on Fraser once with some friends and there was some tea there.

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I was going to drink the tea and so I asked the lady about the container that was on the table.

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I said, is it sugar or salt?

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And she's the lady who's in charge of serving there and she said, I don't know.

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And so I'm thinking to myself, okay, so there's a container there.

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It has some white substance in it.

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I'm asking her whether it's sugar or salt because salt doesn't go well with masala tea.

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And so I'm asking her, is it sugar or salt?

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She says, I don't know. It wasn't even, let me try.

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It was, I don't know.

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And now I'm thinking to myself, okay, do not put it in the tea until you sprinkle it and lick it.

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But the point is, if you do not know what is in the container, you do not know how to pour it out,

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where to pour it out, when to pour it out, how much to pour out.

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And so it is important that I increasingly get to know the giftedness and the calling of my life

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and that I also know what I'm supposed to steward in this season of my life.

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Because if I don't know, I cannot pour it out.

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And may I say to us here that some of us do not know our giftedness and your giftedness and calling.

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We do not know.

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And on one hand, it's a safe place to live.

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If you do not know your giftedness and calling, you can just coast.

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But if you know your giftedness and calling, then you can't coast.

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Because if you have a pickup in this church, you know what will happen to you.

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If you have a truck in this church, you know what will happen to you.

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Every time someone moves, you get called.

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If you're a mechanic, you know what's going to happen to you.

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Brandon's not here.

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I mean, that's how it works, guys.

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Once you know your giftedness and calling, you're stuck.

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You cannot coast.

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Every time someone has a problem, you're the one they'll come to.

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So the best way to live a Christian life that is undisturbed is not to discover your giftedness and calling.

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That way...

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But the problem is you don't steward your...

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Steward the seasons of your life.

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And therefore, you never cross the Jordan. Never.

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But one of the ways...

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Now, here's the catch.

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The only way you can discover your giftedness and calling is by someone placing a demand on what is your giftedness and calling.

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And that's something we shy away from.

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Why? Because the demand is never fun.

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So if she has a giftedness and calling, and I go place a demand on it, she's got only two choices.

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Either say, okay, I'm going to be...

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Because remember, nothing of the Holy Spirit will flow out unless you're foolish.

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Foolishness provokes the Spirit of God, and foolishness provokes the life of the Spirit of God in you.

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No foolishness, no outflow.

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No outflow, no need for inflow.

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No need for inflow.

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No foolishness, no outflow, no outflow, no need for inflow.

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Reducing that inscription.

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Oh, plenty of places.

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Right from Hebrews 11, throughout Hebrews 11, right through Jesus' life where he says, count the cost.

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And after you count the cost, recognize that you are unable to pay it.

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And now that you're unable to pay it, follow me.

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Follow me.

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Hebrews 11, every time the Holy Spirit moved on anybody in Hebrews 11, they had to do really foolish things.

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From Abraham to Joshua to Noah to Joseph to Moses to Moses' parents to Samson to Gideon to all the guys.

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All of them had to step into foolishness before the Spirit of God took over.

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Because what does foolishness do?

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Foolishness takes away my dependence on my own skills.

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At the end of the day, the opposite of faith is not doubt, the opposite of faith is not fear, the opposite of faith is self-reliance.

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And foolishness strips away self-reliance.

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Again and again and again.

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Okay, so let's go with risk.

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Maybe in my mind the word is foolishness, but maybe that's not a good word.

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So let's go with risk.

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Because it's perhaps more definitive of what these guys did in Hebrews 11.

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So let's go with risk.

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Risk.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think you can't take a risk without being foolish because you're abandoning some reason.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But let's go with risk.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But let's go with risk because you can put foolishness in risk, but you can't put risk in foolishness sometimes.

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So let's go with risk.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So if you don't know, you can't pour it out.

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So now what happens is if you say, hey, I want to discover my gift in the name of Jesus, I want to do it.

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Let's assume after the service, Matt comes up and says to me, hey, I want to discover my giftedness and calling, and I want to steward the season of my life.

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And I know it's more than doing a thesis.

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And now he comes and I say, great.

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Now that you've registered yourself, you went to Dayton last time.

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Let me send you to Timbuktu tomorrow.

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And behold, the games begin.

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This is not some random thing.

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You have to find out what God has for Matt.

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Matt did this.

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He sat at this cafe in Richmond and said, sign me up for foolishness.

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Oh, sign me up for risk.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Next one.

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This is how we cross the Jordan.

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Otherwise, we come to Gilgash, to Bethel, to Jericho, and we stop there and we watch one man cross across and we wave at him.

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This is how we cross the Jordan.

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We watch one man cross across and we wave at him.

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It's too high a cost to pay, man.

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After all you've left to wear the same clothes for the next 20 years, no thank you.

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Everyone here sitting here has paid a very high cost.

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Very high cost.

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All of us.

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Some of you more than others.

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Next one.

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Rising up in maturity.

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Rising up in maturity.

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Rising up in maturity.

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We won't go into details, but maturity may be defined in very simple ways.

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End of self-preservation.

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Very, very difficult.

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This is why we'll do it for the rest of our lives.

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End of self-determination.

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End of self-preservation.

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End of self-determination.

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End of self-determination.

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Very difficult because you're saying I'm no longer the one who determines how my life goes.

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And end of taking offense.

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Very difficult because you still have people like Sheldon on the earth.

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Rising up in maturity.

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We could take these three things and put it together.

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And man, maturity will happen fast.

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End of self-preservation.

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Think of this guys.

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Isn't this exactly opposite of the world?

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This is what the world says we should not be.

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Preserve, hold dear, do not give away.

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End of self-determination.

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You're your own man.

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You're your own man.

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He is saying end of self-determination.

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As in I no longer am the one that determines where I go.

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Scriptural proof, John 21 is the best example.

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When you were a child you decided what you would wear, what you would do.

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But the time has come where you will have your hands tied and taken where you do not want to go.

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Sometimes by God, other times by people.

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I love Christianity because of this.

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Because it is so blooming hard and challenging and easy.

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Hard and challenging when you think like a human.

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Easy when you think like you belong to this God.

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What would you not do for him?

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Beautiful eh?

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End of taking offense.

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You can do anything you want to me.

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I will not be offended by you.

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He then begins to just provoke you and nothing happens.

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Any questions?

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What time is it?

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We'll go for another 10 minutes.

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Another one.

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This you all know.

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You are committed to M3.

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Not X3 Aaron, M3.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You are committed.

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Yeah.

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You are committed to M3.

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What's M3?

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Let's put Mr. Butler on the spot.

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What's M3?

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No.

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Though it is.

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There is an M3 BMW.

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But since the M3 was made, it is not a BMW.

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It is a BMW.

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It is a BMW.

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It is a BMW.

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But since we are a prosperity-breeding mega church,

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he could only think of BMW M3s.

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Prosperity gospel.

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Prosperity gospel.

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Make the Father known.

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Thanks Mr. Butler.

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Make the Father known.

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Make disciples.

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Multiply churches.

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Please get this right the next time Mark.

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Multiply churches.

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Why is this important to Cross the Jordan?

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Because if we don't have this, we don't need to Cross the Jordan.

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We don't need new mantles.

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If this ain't my main purpose, I don't need a mantle.

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This is what God is after.

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This is what God has been after since the beginning.

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Right from Adam onwards is all he's been after.

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This is Genesis 128 put in different words.

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The Genesis 128 mandate.

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Go forth, multiply, replenish, subdue.

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That's a different way of saying it.

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So if we don't have this at the center of our lives,

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and this can only be done in the context of a body,

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it was given in the context of a body,

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it wasn't given to individuals.

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If we don't have this at the center of our lives,

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then there is no need of a mantle.

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Because I ain't after the same thing that God is after.

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Make the Father known, make disciples, multiply churches.

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The cool thing is, we'll repeat this so many times,

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you'll say it in your sleep.

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And then that's great, because once you start saying things in your sleep,

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it's a good sign.

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Next one.

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External things become less important.

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External temporals become less important.

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Internal eternals become more important.

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So Mark moves from M3 BMW to M3 Jesus.

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That's what begins to happen.

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This is going all across the earth, you want to show your face?

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So external temporals become less important.

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They're still important in my life, external temporals,

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and they have to begin to become less important.

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1 Timothy has such a cool verse, it says there,

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God has given us things to enjoy, he has given it to us for our pleasure.

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So on one hand you have to hold that,

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that there are things given to us to enjoy and for our pleasure.

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On the other hand, external temporals have to become less important.

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And what that means is everything is from and towards heaven's purposes first.

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Everything is from and towards heaven's purposes first.

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This should not compete.

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The problem is when things that are external temporals

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compete in my life against internal eternals.

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God has given us things to enjoy,

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but when they begin to compete against heaven's purposes,

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I have a problem, and I still have this problem.

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First Timothy 6'6 or 6' something, or second Timothy 6'6 or 6' something.

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I've narrowed it down.

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Three more when we're done.

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Next one, giving and distributing, giving and distributing your wealth.

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Wealth is more than money, it's money and everything else.

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Giving and distributing your wealth for kingdom purposes.

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How much of it? All of it.

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Come on Jacob, 10%, 20%, 30% all.

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Giving and distributing your wealth for kingdom purposes.

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You guys do it so well, man. You guys do it so well.

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I know people here who have done such crazy things with their wealth

00:43:36.120 --> 00:43:38.120
for the sake of king and kingdom,

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and the purposes of God in this church and through this church

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just boggles my mind.

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One of the strong points of this church,

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which is why we still don't take an offering and there's money,

00:43:53.120 --> 00:43:57.120
which is why there'll be more money now that I've announced that the rent is going up.

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At the end of the day, I'm fascinated by how giving this church is.

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This allows us to get to the Jordan and cross the day.

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Any questions before we move on to the last two?

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But all of it, huh? Giving and distributing your wealth, all of it.

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We've got to beat Bill Gates and the Oracle of Omaha, what's his name? Buffett.

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We've got to beat Buffett and Gates and Edith.

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They're giving away everything.

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Bill Gates made a statement saying, by the time I leave, I've got to have nothing left.

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Come on man, he can't take that. It's your privilege.

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Everything. All.

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Any questions on that because your faces are not betraying your real emotions?

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Diana, you've been totally poker-faced today.

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Everything okay? Not a single question out of you.

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I'm feeling very convicted and challenged right now.

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Great. You can write out checks to Jacob John.

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It might help ease some of your guilt and conviction.

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Okay, okay. If it's conviction, then deal with the Holy Spirit.

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If it's guilt, deal with me.

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So, giving and distributing your wealth for kingdom purposes, but all of it, guys. All of it.

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I want us to think all, because if we don't think all, we'll stop short. All of it.

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You've got to think all of it.

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If you think all of it, we'll get to 30% by tomorrow. All of it.

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But Jacob, if I give all of it, what do I have to live on?

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Let your plenty supply my lack today so that my plenty can supply your lack tomorrow.

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So that neither has too much, no one has too less.

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These are the things the New Testament church saw. Let us see it again.

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There are families here that have taken out their investments so that they can redistribute it for the sake of the kingdom.

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I'm thinking to myself, what's wrong with you?

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There are people here that have taken five-figure chunks of their money and given it for certain purposes.

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Bless you for being so generous.

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Some of you feed so many people across the earth. You don't just give here. You give in different parts of the world.

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That's the beauty of it. You're not even limiting your giving to here. You give here.

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It's not like the pie is growing smaller. You know how if you take a pizza and divide it into 16 pieces, everyone gets one pepperoni?

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You're not even like that. You're letting the pizza grow bigger. You're giving here and then you're distributing at different places across the earth too.

00:46:58.120 --> 00:47:03.120
Outside of this church. I marvel at how much you guys give.

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I bless you for it, man. It's amazing.

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I don't think you'll have any problems with regard to this point when it comes to Jordan, but perhaps the other points.

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Two more.

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Hey, if you want to cross the Jordan, you have to learn how to break yokes.

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Break yokes and deal with the Mark 16 verse 17, 18 commission.

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And they shall lay hands on the sick and the sick shall be healed. They shall cast out demons. They shall drink poison and nothing shall happen to them.

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They shall speak in new tongues. Breaking yokes, Isaiah 58 verse 6, dealing with the works of the enemy is important if you are to cross Jordan.

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Because this mantle that God is giving you is a mantle that requires doing the works of God, not just the words of God.

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The words of God must lead to the works of God and the works of God should speak words.

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The words of God must lead to the works of God and the works of God should give evidence for the words you speak.

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One last time.

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The words of God must lead to the works of God and the works of God should give evidence for the words you speak.

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And therefore, if I want to cross the Jordan, I must say to God, Father, I'm so willing

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to try this even if I fail a million times.

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I'm so willing to try this.

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You know, this guy's wife died recently.

00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:48.800
Bill Johnson's wife from Bethel died recently.

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Listen to this.

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I just saved it.

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I'm not the...

00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:57.160
I like some of his writings, but I'm not the biggest Bill Johnson fan, so don't take this

00:48:57.160 --> 00:49:05.640
as my endorsement of Bill Johnson and everything he does, but listen to this.

00:49:05.640 --> 00:49:09.300
Bill Johnson of the Bethel Church in Reading, California, preached three days after losing

00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:11.800
his beloved wife, Benny, to cancer.

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This was a quote from his sermon.

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God is not a vending machine that I get up to put a quarter in it and withdraw from him

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what I want.

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He chooses what he gives, but it is the wicked at heart that say God didn't do what I wanted.

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He's a liar.

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May I never be found critiquing God when things don't go my way.

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May I always be found having a heart ready to be critiqued by him.

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Is God my friend?

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He is.

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But he is my Lord first, and I'll never have the pain I'm feeling right now in eternity.

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So in this moment, it is a privilege to respond rightly to the Lord of my life with deeper

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trust and devotion.

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I will bow before the lamb on the throne in awe and worship him forever, but never will

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I have the face-to-face chance to do that while I'm in pain, except in this life.

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So in this moment, I choose to do that.

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When I said yes to Jesus, I gave up my right to fully understand or be in charge of my

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life.

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I'll try everything, and you will try everything that Jesus expects us to try here on earth.

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And when we fail, we will get up again and say these words and say, I may have failed

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this time, I'm going to start again.

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We don't stop.

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So the Mark 16, 17, 18, and Isaiah 58, 6 of Breaking Yolks is critical for Jordan crossing.

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And the last one, which we'll so visit after this series is done, is Psalm 144, verse 1.

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Oh God, you train my hands for war and my fingers for battle.

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Let me guarantee you that any church or any group of people that does not want to fight

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and war, that does not want to prevail, will not cross the Jordan, because the very word

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kingdom implies warfare.

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The very word kingdom implies warfare, and there is no advancing of the kingdom without

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spiritual conflict.

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No.

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This is not highlighting the devil and stuff like that.

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It is very simple.

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Right from Genesis 315, there has been a battle on.

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In the Old Testament, the battle was different, and the New Testament is different.

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The Old Testament, the battle was very simple.

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The seed of the woman will crush the seed of the serpent.

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And so what was the intent of the enemy right from the get-go?

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Can I destroy the seed of the woman?

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And the conflict started.

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Every war that Israel fought was very simple.

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We have to preserve the seed of the woman, because out of the seed of the woman will

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come one that will crush the head of the serpent.

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And finally he did come.

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And then the battle shifts.

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In the New Testament, it is no longer preserving the seed of the woman, even though Revelation

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12 talks about another attack.

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But now it talks about, now that the promised Messiah has come, we need to advance his kingdom,

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tooth and nail by satanic forces.

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And there are two extremes in Christianity now.

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One which says, let's not talk about the devil, let's focus on Jesus.

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Really bad theology.

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The other one which says, let's focus on the devil, because that's what he's up to.

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Really bad theology.

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What we need to stand and see is that if you call him king, you have to see him as warrior.

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If you call him king, you have to see him as warrior.

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If you use the word kingdom, you have to understand that it advances only through spiritual conflict

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and war.

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But we can't choose one side or the other.

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And there is no need to cross the Jordan to receive another mantle if this is not part

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of our equation.

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It ain't going to happen.

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And this church is going to walk that route.

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Any questions?

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We'll talk about that for the rest of the year.

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So looking forward to it.

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And from your faces, I can see that you are so enthusiastic about it.

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Thank you.

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So any questions?

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Warfare results in peace in the new heaven and new earth.

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From Genesis to Revelation.

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Please don't avoid it.

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To avoid it is silly.

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Just because you've seen an extreme somewhere doesn't mean you avoid it.

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It's like not riding cars anymore, not flying planes anymore because one crashed.

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Any questions?

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I'd say go with cleansed vessels.

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Start there.

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You can have all the rest.

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But if you don't have that, you don't have much.

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All I mean by cleansed vessels is what I keep saying.

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Can we have a passionate desire for blazing purity?

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Blazing purity.

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Not even be pure.

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It's a passion for blazing purity.

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I was thinking of this while I was driving to the church today.

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I was at the crosswalk of Fraser and Southeast Marine and there were two girls crossing the

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road at the zebra crossing.

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I'm looking at people parked on both sides of the road.

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Most of the cars had men in them.

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And there was not one man who wasn't looking at these women with not any good intent.

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I'm sitting there thinking to myself, father, don't we Christians have to be different?

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Why aren't we different?

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Because we do exactly the same thing.

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I know I'm talking to the men right now.

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The same applies to women in different contexts.

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But I'm thinking to myself, come on Lord, we've got to have a better standard than the

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world.

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If our heads turn on a swivel the same way the world's head turns on a swivel, how are

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we any different?

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What distinguishes us?

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We feel guilty, they don't.

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That ain't a measure.

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The amazing purity is to have a counterculture here on earth that establishes a new value,

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man.

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And it becomes contagious.

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Danny and Phoebe begin to catch it and they don't know any other way.

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Isaac begins to catch it.

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And a new standard is established.

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This is just a passing thought when I was driving.

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I thought to myself, father, may this church learn how to be different?

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Maybe not do the same things that the world does and then feel guilty and offer a prayer

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of forgiveness.

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That ain't blazing purity.

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That's just repentance, which is good, but it ain't good enough.

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As we get older as Christians, we should be repenting less.

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Repenting less.

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If the degree of repentance is still the same, either it's because you've become highly aware

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of the holiness of God or it's because nothing has changed.

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It be the other.

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And at the end of the day, after all this is done, we go to Luke 17, 10, and here's

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what it says.

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Jacob, after you've done all this, just sit at the table and when God says, hey, great

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job, Jacob, say, but we are unprofitable servants.

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He's calling us to be profitable servants.

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And at the end of the day, after having done all this, we still say we are but unprofitable

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servants.

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Jane, do you have a song on unprofitable servants?

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You.

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Okay.

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Guys, we'll see you next Sunday.

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There's a shower when?

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Today?

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Oh, okay.

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Next Sunday after church.

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Otherwise, we're good.

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If you want prayer, Joan and Jane and Mason, she's raising her hand.

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Were you raising your hand?

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No, okay.

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Joan.