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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Open Doors
Publishing Date: 2023-12-17T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/open-doors/

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how far we go with it.

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Why not talk about Christmas?

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We will.

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In our songs, in our prayers,

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in the things we say about Christmas.

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Some of us who have been Christians for 40 years

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have heard every message you can conceive

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when we think about Christmas.

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So that'll still weave its way in,

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and I love the songs, and I love the skits

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and the plays that we go to, and I love watching it.

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But we also have to prepare for what lies ahead, eh?

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And so we start with this new series called Open Door.

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Why?

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Because we are in that space.

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We are in that space between,

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we are in that space between one door closing

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and another opening.

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Both physically, geographically, locationally,

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we are in that space, and some of you

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are actually individually in that space

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where you feel like one door is closing

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and another is opening, and you're in that

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in-between space.

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We are in that space between one door closing

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and the other opening.

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And usually when that happens, it's a precursor.

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Usually when that happens, it's a precursor

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to new permission, to new permission.

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Okay, so what does that mean?

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That means that if this is a door that's behind me

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and this is a door that's ahead of me

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and I'm in this narrow place between two doors,

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it usually means that I am or we are going to step into

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a new permission that God is giving us.

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What do you mean by new permission?

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We've talked about this before,

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but permission is an invitation.

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Permission is an invitation into a greater measure of God.

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Permission is an invitation into a greater measure of God

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that he wants to manifest through you.

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That's what permission is.

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And God keeps increasing our permission

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with every individual, every church.

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He wants to keep increasing permission.

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Jesus had to learn this too.

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In Luke 1.52, even when he was young, it was said of him

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that he grew in wisdom and favor and stature

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with God and man.

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When you grow in favor and wisdom and stature

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with God and man, it means God is giving you

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greater permission.

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What does permission looks like?

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It looks like the extent of your authority,

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the radius of your influence,

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the extent of your authority,

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the radius of your influence,

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and the license you have to do things.

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Not everybody starts at 007, license to kill.

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Only Nick has that in this church.

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Nick can kill you with bok choy, be careful.

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He'll bring dinner for me and it'll be really good.

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It'll be lots of sausages, lots of meat,

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lots of really well-made food,

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and then he'll cover it all with bok choy.

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That just kills you.

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One of the things that happens with permission is,

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I should call you the bok choy contract killer or something.

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Anyways, back to what's, yeah.

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So permission is an invitation.

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Permission is an invitation into a greater measure of God

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that he wants to manifest through you.

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It's not, and permission doesn't mean,

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oh, I'll make you this or make you that.

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It is, listen, I want to manifest myself through you,

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and the way I see you right now,

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I think it's time to invite you into a greater measure of me

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so that I can accomplish what I want through you.

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And when he does that, three things happen.

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One, it gives you a new license to do things.

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Without license, when you do things, you get caught.

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Doesn't matter where you are, whether you're in the nation,

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whether you're on the road driving,

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whether you're in the church, whether you're at home.

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Children know the license they have.

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When you cross that, one of two things happen.

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Either there is discipline because I have crossed

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what was appointed to me, or I break something

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because I'm not ready for it.

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One of the other happens.

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And so one must discover one's license,

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and according to that, you know your radius of influence.

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With greater permission comes greater radius of influence.

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And the third thing is greater authority.

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These are three things that come with permission.

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And so it's good to find out what you have permission for

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every year in the Lord.

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It's good to find it out.

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Any questions thus far?

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Any questions?

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Okay.

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You increase in permission by letting go

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of things you were

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some good,

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some ugly.

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As your radius of influence grows,

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as my radius of influence grows, know that I have now

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a greater chance of influencing you with my ugliness.

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I need to get rid of it.

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I also have a greater chance of influencing you

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with what is old.

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I've got to get rid of that too.

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To hold on to it is to not be able to step into permission.

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So it's death by installments,

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bit by bit in each of our lives,

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we'll have to let go of things.

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Everybody here.

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Otherwise you don't step into permission.

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And when you don't step into permission,

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you get left on the bowed potters.

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That's called tabera.

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Tabera is where the fire falls.

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The fringe is always where those that

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do not walk in permission end up.

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And the fringe is not a good place to stay.

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And so even with what we are doing with the church,

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if I resist it, if I refuse it,

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if I want to be the head honcho,

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if I want everything to be under my charge,

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the best thing to do is not to divide the church into two.

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Not to let these things happen.

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But if I do that, then I get left on the fringes.

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Some good things that have to be let go now.

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I think what we're doing in the rags,

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well, you know, is pretty good.

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Why disrupt it?

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I don't think May's preaching will be

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as good as mine initially.

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I know for a fact that down dawn's preaching

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will not be as good as mine.

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Why let go of such great preaching?

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Because it's not by might, not by power,

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not by preaching, but by the spirit of the living God.

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So some things are good,

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but we still don't let go of it.

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Good things have to be let go of too.

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And if we hold onto it,

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if we refuse to move into permission that God is giving us,

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then you don't move with God.

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You move with flesh.

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And flesh stinks.

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It rots, it decays.

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Any questions?

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Okay.

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So it's death by installments.

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Death by installments.

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Of what?

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Death of what?

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Death Jacob of your mindset,

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of your method of operation,

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of your perception of things.

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Sometimes guys, I've said this before,

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vision must die for obedience to live.

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Crazy, God may give you a vision

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and then ask you to lay down that vision.

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God may give you a vision,

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and it is a godly vision.

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It's a heavenly vision.

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And then after giving you the vision,

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he'll ask you to lay it down

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because obedience has to live before vision can live.

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This is what he does with Isaac.

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He gives Abraham a vision that out of you will come a boy

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who will be the son of promise

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and out of him will come generations after generations.

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Yet what happens?

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The vision has to die, obedience has to live.

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Sometimes the very things that are precious to us

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that we nurture have to be laid down

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so that it can live again.

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Question?

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Yeah, Abraham laid down his vision of Isaac.

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No, he laid Isaac down.

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Isaac was a visioned, yeah.

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Yeah, but when you are given a vision,

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the hardest thing to do is to lay it down and kill it.

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But obedience comes first.

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Vision sometimes has to be laid down for obedience to live.

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It's one of the hardest things to do

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because both are coming from God.

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The vision came from God

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and now God is asking you to lay it down.

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We have to be so fluid to be Holy Spirit strategic.

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We have to be so fluid to be Holy Spirit strategic.

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It is not possible for the Holy Spirit to strategize

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unless there's a fluidity of obedience,

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even if it means a God vision must be laid down.

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It's so much easier living the easy way

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of not risking any of these, staying the same.

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Any questions?

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Okay.

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The sooner I get used to this,

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the less I'll prevent God from,

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the less I'll end up preserving things

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God intends to change.

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The sooner I get used to this,

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the less I'll preserve

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what God wants to change.

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So everything must be up for grabs, guys.

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I mean up for grabs with God, everything.

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And if you are old, then practice this regularly

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because older minds are actually less flexible.

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Practice it.

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Yep.

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If we don't follow the promises that God has given us,

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then how do we,

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it doesn't sound like a good question,

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maybe you're not waiting for it,

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but how do we determine if God has told us something

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and we know it's true,

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and if we hear it somewhere,

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trying to do it, not to be a fool,

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how do we differentiate between the enemy's lies

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and impersonating him?

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Yeah.

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If God has told us that.

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Yeah, two broader questions,

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so let me narrow it down to the first part.

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My responsibility is to hold onto God

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before I hold onto the promises of God.

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Knowing his nature is what brings me

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to an understanding of his promise.

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Therein lies the first key.

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Know his nature,

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and you will know how to handle the promise.

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If you don't know his nature,

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then if the promise is delayed,

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you will begin to doubt, question, suspect God.

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Know his nature,

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and you will know how to deal with the promise.

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That was what differentiated the guys in Hebrews 11

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from all the rest.

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Know his nature,

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and you will know how to deal with the promise.

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And two, once you know his nature,

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even when, I mean, this is why I find the story

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of the Syrophoenician woman so amazing.

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Here is a woman who seems to know the nature

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of a Jesus who is an outsider.

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She's Syrophoenician.

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The Israelites don't know him well.

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She knows him well.

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When he says stuff like,

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I only feed, only the dogs are fed crumbs,

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her response is different

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because she's seen something about this rabbi.

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And then, if you know his nature, you can wrestle with him.

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If you don't know his nature,

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you will never wrestle with him.

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If you know the nature of God, you will wrestle with him.

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Because these things are difficult.

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How do you know how to lay down the vision

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and how to be obedient first?

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You have to wrestle with him.

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You have to tell him, but this is not fair.

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You said you would give me Isaac.

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Now you want to take Isaac away.

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What's happening here?

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If you know his nature, you will wrestle with him.

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This is not fair.

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You said that if there are 10 people in Sodom,

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you will spare it.

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Can I go for five?

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Can I go for 30?

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Can I go for 20?

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If you know his nature, you wrestle with God.

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And sometimes wrestling may take two days,

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three days, four days.

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So what?

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But if you don't know his nature,

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all you have is his promise.

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And somehow, even though it is a promise of God,

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it is not as good as God.

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This is what happens with the 10 lepers.

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Nine of them got rewarded by the promise

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that you are cleansed.

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One ran after the nature of God.

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One.

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I'm not saying only 10% make it.

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I'm just saying it's very sad

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because the promise and the reward are so what we live for.

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And that is why Hebrews 11 has the courage to say,

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many stood on the promises of God and did not receive it.

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And they are counted among the heroes of faith.

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Because they received something far greater.

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They received a knowledge of the nature of the King

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and the creator of the universe.

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The word that existed from the beginning.

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It is the only way we can go through difficulties

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when promises don't come to pass.

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Or promises are taking long.

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It is the only way we can go through difficulties.

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Otherwise, difficulties will wreck your faith

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and begin to have your question the promises of God.

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I am saying that

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it is easy to obey God if I know his nature

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and lay down anything that is required if I know it.

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It's really, the discussion is not about promise or nature.

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The discussion is about.

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Isn't that the first thing you go after the nature of God

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to actually hold onto the promises?

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Sorry, say that again, Marcus.

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Isn't that you go to understand the nature of God

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before holding onto his promise?

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It makes it so much easier.

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No, but isn't that the way we should go?

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Yeah, it is, but it is not what happens in reality.

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It is not what happens in reality.

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In reality, especially in an instant,

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gratifying Christian culture that we have,

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the promise is what people go after, not the nature.

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And here's the thing,

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the knowing the nature of God takes long

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because it's a relationship.

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It's a relationship.

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So you can't know the nature like this.

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And so what's the easy way?

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Go for the promise.

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Nature takes long to happen.

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Takes long to happen.

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That is what we go after.

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And so we short-circuit the process by thinking,

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this is gonna take long, why not just go after the promise?

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And if I know the nature of God,

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there's another thing that happens.

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The more you know the nature of God,

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the more you become like him.

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The more you know the nature of God,

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the more you become part of the body.

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The more you know the nature of God,

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the more you become loving.

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The more you know the nature of God,

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the less you care about the promise because you know him.

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It's like a child who knows his dad.

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What does he need a promise for?

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But it takes time.

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The nature of God will require intimacy

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and it removes this one thing called transaction.

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That's why it takes time.

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When reputation, responsibility to,

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and the approval of people becomes more important than God,

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I become an unreliable servant in the kingdom.

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If I want to massage my reputation,

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if I want to massage my reputation,

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if I want to be responsible first to people,

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if I want the approval of people before God,

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I end up being an unreliable servant in the kingdom.

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And yet all three are actually good things to do.

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It is good to maintain a good reputation in public eye.

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The Bible talks about it.

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Make sure that the ones you place in position

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have good reputation.

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Nothing wrong with it.

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It is important to be responsible to people.

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It is important to have the non-suck-up approval of people

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and yet all three become negatives

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when they are placed before God.

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When they are placed before what God is demanding of me.

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And so,

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guys, these are the things that oppose shifting,

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oppose change, oppose stepping into new permission,

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oppose moving with the body of Christ.

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These are the things that prevent.

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These are the things that prevent us.

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These are the things that prevent us

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from stepping into places that nobody stepped into.

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These are the things that will prevent us

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from the unprecedented step that Derek read of,

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of stepping into something that hasn't been

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since the times of Noah.

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That's a ridiculous word.

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How impossible is that?

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Derek, stop throwing things around.

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You see this with Elijah.

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Elijah had the brook and the ravens.

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And even though he had the brook and the ravens,

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what does he do?

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He's being fed.

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There's water, there's meat.

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And then God turns up and says,

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I want you to move on.

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No more water for you.

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No more meat for you.

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I need you to go to a widow.

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For all the people that he's told to go to,

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he's told to go to a widow.

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The poorest of the poor.

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And that's where he goes.

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Quick to change, quick to change.

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Is that you?

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Someone asked me, go ahead.

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Yeah, so if you, yeah.

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Her question is, if a body wants to go one direction,

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if a body is going a certain direction,

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but Anne begins to feel that she needs to do something else,

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how do you reconcile it?

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If you had six children,

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George is happy you look a little suspicious.

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If you had six children,

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and you guys want to go on a trip to Arizona,

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but one of them wants to go to Vegas

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and the other one to New York,

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how does it really work?

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So either they'll have to wait till they turn 18

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before they can do what they want,

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or if they're 18, they can say, we want to go.

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But they can't go with the group.

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So it's the same principle.

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If you have a sense that what you need to do

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is not what, let's say, this tribe is doing,

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then there's only two options.

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Either I have to place my desire subservient

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to the desire of the people that I belong to,

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or I have to say, this will not work for me

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because this isn't what I think is my call.

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And then you'll have to find a place

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where they can help you around,

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but you can't do both.

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That's eating, there's something that is dishonest about it.

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If it is striding two boats,

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because you will split your pants at some point.

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That was not the conclusion I was heading for,

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but that's what will happen.

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Yeah.

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But that is how this works.

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Because so many times you have to place

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your personal vision at the foot of the corporate vision.

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So many times.

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What do you think Christ is doing?

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Sacrifices and offerings you haven't, ask for.

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What you are looking for is a body.

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Why?

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Because there's a large group of people

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who will go to hell if I don't.

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And so here I come and I offer you my body.

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Hebrews chapter 10.

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So guys, when we talk about open doors,

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let's look at some open door scriptures.

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And, take them out of context.

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And find what and how we can apply it.

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There, that takes care of all the exegesis you wanted to do.

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I'm being cynical.

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Yeah.

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The other thing is guys, every time God gives us permission,

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you will always come to a threshold.

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And divine thresholds will always end up

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messing with your thinking, messing with your defects,

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messing with the things that are familiar in your life.

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Let me say that again.

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Every time God brings us into a place of new permission,

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let's say God brings Finn, Harry, and Mark

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into a new place, a place of new permission.

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But God is saying, hey, I want through you

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to manifest myself and I'm inviting you

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into a greater measure of what I want to do through you.

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Let's say he does that.

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As soon as that process begins,

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and they're at that threshold where they're deciding

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whether to cross over or not,

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because there are two doors.

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There's a door behind you, there's a door in front of you.

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You can either return, and that is usually what happens.

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There's no stagnant position in this corridor.

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You can't stand in the middle of this corridor.

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Not possible.

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You either head this way or you head back.

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There's never stagnancy in Christ.

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There's never stagnancy in Christ.

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There's no standing still.

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And so either I move forward or I go back.

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And so whenever you're at that point in your life,

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know that God will break through for you over fear,

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because it will come with fear.

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Whenever there is things that are unfamiliar, there's fear.

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It will come with intimidation, sometimes from people,

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sometimes from the enemy.

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It'll come with unbelief,

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because you find it hard to believe

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what God is asking you to step into.

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How are you gonna manage?

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It'll come with poor self-image,

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because how God thinks of you

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and how you think of yourself are not the same.

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It'll come with a reminder of past defeats.

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It'll come with the option of compromise,

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where you don't go all the way, you go halfway.

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All these things are there.

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And God, if you come to this place and say,

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Father, I really wanna go ahead,

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God will break through for you in these areas.

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I've been a believer now for 30-something years,

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and have crossed many thresholds.

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And each time these things come up,

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and each time you decide that, nope,

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gonna see through what happens is,

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God will break through in that area of fear for you.

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What is it?

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Is it fear of money?

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Is it fear of security?

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Fear of job?

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Fear of location moving?

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Fear of losing people?

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Fear of people coming against you?

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Eventually, his intent is,

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can I make you as fearless as I was?

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And then the same thing then applies to intimidation.

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People will intimidate.

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The devil will intimidate.

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Unbelief, common.

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But with every temptation, there's a way out.

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But this will happen.

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If this isn't happening to you,

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we need to bury you, because you're dead.

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It is not that temptation won't happen.

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It is that through even when temptation happens,

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I will give you a way to escape.

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So when one says, oh, these things don't happen to me,

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that's a lie.

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We have to overcome this,

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till this becomes zero, zero, zero, zero.

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Or we get there.

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Yeah.

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Sorry?

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I could have completely avoided this question

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by not writing that down.

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No.

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It would be nice to think everything has to be in context.

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One of the people who used to take scriptures

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and use it in different contexts to explain

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the intent of the nature of God was both Jesus and Paul.

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It doesn't sit well with the theological types,

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but I can show you places where it's done again

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and again and again.

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We don't have a problem with things being taken

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out of context in this church,

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because I don't.

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And that's why when I'm going to show you

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these different scriptures,

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I am taking them out of context to show you

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how we need to function with God.

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I'm completely comfortable doing it.

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Yeah?

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So the first one is, when it comes to an open door.

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First scripture I want to take is Luke 12, 35, 36.

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It says, be dressed and ready for service

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like servants waiting for their master

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so that when he comes and knocks,

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they can immediately open the door for him.

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As this church

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is invited

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to step

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through an open door

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into what 2024,

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into what Hebrides 2.0,

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into what Derek

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read in terms of the prophetic,

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in terms of your own individual lives

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where God is showing you things.

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These are some of the scriptures I want to use to show you

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how to prep

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and approach

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and navigate

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an open door.

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Yeah?

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So the first one is Luke 12, 25, and 36.

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So one of the first things I need to do

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if I believe that the church is stepping through an open door,

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or that I'm stepping through an open door,

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and I am, and the church is,

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is that I have to make sure that I am dressed and ready.

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It is not something that happens on one bright morning.

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It is something that I have to be doing daily

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where I'm dressed and ready,

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dressed and ready, dressed and ready,

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so that when the master comes and knocks,

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there is no hesitation and I immediately open the door.

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Dressed and ready.

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This is what Jesus asks of Israel with the Passover meal.

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He says, go get a lamb, start the Passover meal,

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and then he says, make sure that your loins are girded

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and your sandals are on your feet,

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because as soon as the meal is over,

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something is going to happen.

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This idea of being dressed and ready is so critical.

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So what does dressed and ready look like?

00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:56.100
Dressed and ready looks like waking you any day

00:32:56.100 --> 00:32:57.700
and asking you if you have finished reading

00:32:57.700 --> 00:32:58.940
what you were supposed to read.

00:32:58.940 --> 00:33:00.500
Waking you and asking you any day,

00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:02.820
have you gone through the different types of prayers

00:33:02.820 --> 00:33:04.740
we said we should pray?

00:33:04.740 --> 00:33:05.700
Waking you and asking you,

00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:08.500
so what is your identity for the new year?

00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:10.740
Waking you and asking you, what have you let go?

00:33:10.740 --> 00:33:12.780
What have you put behind you?

00:33:12.780 --> 00:33:15.060
What is the debris behind you?

00:33:15.060 --> 00:33:16.260
Waking you and asking you,

00:33:16.260 --> 00:33:18.620
what are the promises of God that await you?

00:33:18.620 --> 00:33:19.540
Waking and asking you,

00:33:19.540 --> 00:33:22.260
who is God approaching you as right now?

00:33:22.260 --> 00:33:23.220
Waking and asking you,

00:33:23.220 --> 00:33:24.540
how are you dealing with a demonic

00:33:24.540 --> 00:33:26.580
that has attacked you last year and you lost?

00:33:26.580 --> 00:33:28.380
How are you going to deal with it this year?

00:33:28.380 --> 00:33:29.500
Waking and asking you,

00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:32.420
so what is the condition of the generosity of your heart?

00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:33.460
Waking and asking you,

00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:36.620
hey, how's the blazing purity thing going?

00:33:36.620 --> 00:33:37.740
Waking and asking you,

00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:39.780
how much are you a part of the body of Christ?

00:33:39.780 --> 00:33:42.180
Waking and asking you, what is your role?

00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:43.100
Waking and asking you,

00:33:43.100 --> 00:33:45.660
how are you embracing what God is doing?

00:33:45.660 --> 00:33:47.860
And immediately answers come out, why?

00:33:47.860 --> 00:33:50.740
Because you're not going through the notes of one Sunday,

00:33:50.740 --> 00:33:53.220
you're going through everything that God has been teaching

00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:55.660
for the last 18 months and you're dressed and ready,

00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:58.220
you're dressed and ready, you're dressed and ready.

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Some of the guys who end up playing in the NHL

00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:07.740
have spent four years, five years playing for a farm team,

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:10.020
but they practice and they practice and they practice

00:34:10.020 --> 00:34:12.100
because they know one day they will be called

00:34:12.100 --> 00:34:14.860
and that day will be the only game

00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:16.020
that they can show the coach

00:34:16.020 --> 00:34:19.020
that they're worth being called again.

00:34:22.620 --> 00:34:25.060
And these are guys who had dreams to be in the NHL.

00:34:25.060 --> 00:34:28.220
Instead of flying in planes, they're riding in buses.

00:34:29.180 --> 00:34:30.180
As they're getting paid millions,

00:34:30.180 --> 00:34:32.380
they get paid a few thousands, but they keep at it,

00:34:32.380 --> 00:34:34.500
they keep at it and one day they get the call

00:34:34.500 --> 00:34:35.860
and it changes their lives.

00:34:42.140 --> 00:34:43.780
Now you see why David says,

00:34:43.780 --> 00:34:45.980
I fought the lion and I fought the bear.

00:34:45.980 --> 00:34:48.340
What can this uncircumcised Philistine do to me?

00:34:48.340 --> 00:34:49.180
Why?

00:34:49.180 --> 00:34:51.260
Because he was ready.

00:34:51.260 --> 00:34:52.700
How are you ready?

00:34:52.700 --> 00:34:55.460
If you're a soldier, you're ready by going into battle.

00:34:55.820 --> 00:34:58.540
And they will ask you to sit, like his brothers did.

00:34:58.540 --> 00:35:01.900
You little squirt, sit down there.

00:35:01.900 --> 00:35:03.500
What are you doing in the front line?

00:35:09.860 --> 00:35:13.340
Be dressed, be ready,

00:35:14.700 --> 00:35:17.260
like servants waiting for their master

00:35:17.260 --> 00:35:20.140
so that when he comes and knocks,

00:35:20.140 --> 00:35:23.060
they can immediately open the door for him.

00:35:23.100 --> 00:35:25.140
Be alert to divine disruptions.

00:35:25.140 --> 00:35:27.740
Be alert to divine disruptions.

00:35:28.860 --> 00:35:30.980
How can you be alert to divine disruptions?

00:35:30.980 --> 00:35:34.580
By doing the same thing, waiting for the master.

00:35:34.580 --> 00:35:36.460
One day he's gonna come and knock.

00:35:36.460 --> 00:35:37.860
And when he comes and knock,

00:35:39.100 --> 00:35:43.420
there'll be oil in my lamp and the wick will be trimmed.

00:35:45.020 --> 00:35:46.660
And it's only a matter of time, guys.

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Come on.

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Yeah.

00:36:11.700 --> 00:36:13.300
This is how God proves you.

00:36:15.140 --> 00:36:16.380
This is how he proves you.

00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:20.300
He will suddenly call you up and he'll say, come.

00:36:21.140 --> 00:36:24.980
And then one of two things will happen.

00:36:25.900 --> 00:36:28.860
Either you'll go and do the best you can

00:36:28.860 --> 00:36:31.900
because you've been preparing for years,

00:36:31.900 --> 00:36:35.980
or you'll go up and you don't know what to do

00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:37.380
because you weren't prepared.

00:36:42.260 --> 00:36:46.420
My first exposure to the demonic was

00:36:46.420 --> 00:36:48.820
when I finished leading worship and I sat down,

00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:51.500
and a man who called Alan Jones,

00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:55.860
who has come to Acts 29, had a long lineup of people

00:36:55.860 --> 00:36:58.380
that he had to deal with.

00:36:58.380 --> 00:37:01.500
So he looks around, he couldn't see anybody else,

00:37:01.500 --> 00:37:03.060
and he calls me up and says,

00:37:03.060 --> 00:37:06.260
this woman just tried jumping off Alex Fraser.

00:37:06.260 --> 00:37:07.900
She's got a demon, cast it out.

00:37:09.860 --> 00:37:14.140
And I'm thinking to myself, I have heard, I have read,

00:37:14.140 --> 00:37:15.620
I have never done.

00:37:15.660 --> 00:37:19.260
I remember, I think Joan was there.

00:37:19.260 --> 00:37:21.220
This happened at Richmond Pentecostal.

00:37:22.660 --> 00:37:25.220
And be ready.

00:37:25.220 --> 00:37:26.700
You never know when you're called.

00:37:26.700 --> 00:37:31.100
And those moments will catapult you into another place,

00:37:31.100 --> 00:37:31.940
catapult you.

00:37:33.940 --> 00:37:36.100
Our understanding of be ready is,

00:37:36.100 --> 00:37:37.540
why haven't you called me yet?

00:37:38.780 --> 00:37:40.860
God's understanding of be ready is,

00:37:40.860 --> 00:37:42.820
nobody can prevent you from stepping into

00:37:42.820 --> 00:37:44.620
what I want you to step into.

00:37:44.620 --> 00:37:46.500
And if they prevent you, I'll remove them,

00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:48.060
but I'll make sure you make it.

00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:49.780
Very simple.

00:37:53.060 --> 00:37:54.060
Next one.

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So now you know what I mean by out of context.

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Next one, Revelation 3 20.

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Revelation 3 20.

00:38:06.220 --> 00:38:09.420
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,

00:38:09.420 --> 00:38:13.220
if anyone hears my voice and opens the door,

00:38:13.220 --> 00:38:18.220
I will come in and have supper with you.

00:38:25.140 --> 00:38:27.220
One of the ways you,

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:30.900
one of the ways doors open quickly for you

00:38:30.900 --> 00:38:33.660
is if God finds out that intimacy

00:38:33.660 --> 00:38:35.500
is way too precious to you.

00:38:37.100 --> 00:38:38.620
In Revelation 3 20, it says,

00:38:38.620 --> 00:38:41.420
if anyone hears my voice and opens the door,

00:38:41.420 --> 00:38:43.300
I will come and eat with you.

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:44.580
I will come and dine with you.

00:38:44.580 --> 00:38:46.620
I will come and have supper with you.

00:38:46.620 --> 00:38:49.500
So one of the things that really creates

00:38:49.500 --> 00:38:51.620
quick open doors in people's lives

00:38:51.620 --> 00:38:53.100
is this idea of intimacy.

00:38:54.860 --> 00:38:57.500
Intimacy always leads to Jesus saying,

00:38:57.500 --> 00:39:00.500
hey, I wanna show you another door you can walk through.

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And so, try to go down this road

00:39:06.900 --> 00:39:09.500
of heightened intimacy internally.

00:39:09.500 --> 00:39:14.500
Heightened intimacy internally.

00:39:17.620 --> 00:39:20.020
Heightened intimacy internally

00:39:20.020 --> 00:39:25.020
will lead to increased receptivity externally.

00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:33.740
Beautifully, heightened intimacy internally

00:39:33.740 --> 00:39:38.260
always leads to increased receptivity externally.

00:39:40.140 --> 00:39:43.220
If you know it about your own spouses,

00:39:43.220 --> 00:39:47.140
if you are extra sensitive and intimate with your spouse,

00:39:47.140 --> 00:39:48.700
you know how things,

00:39:49.580 --> 00:39:51.460
you know the things she notices outside.

00:39:51.460 --> 00:39:53.060
You know the dress she wants.

00:39:53.060 --> 00:39:54.860
You know what is annoying her.

00:39:54.860 --> 00:39:56.700
You know when she's tired.

00:39:57.580 --> 00:40:01.900
Internal intimacy always increases external receptivity.

00:40:01.900 --> 00:40:02.980
Always.

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This is why you go down this route.

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You'll find that doors open one after the other

00:40:08.420 --> 00:40:10.180
because God has found a friend.

00:40:12.380 --> 00:40:14.140
Who would you like to take through a door?

00:40:14.140 --> 00:40:17.340
An enemy, a stranger, an acquaintance, or a friend?

00:40:19.300 --> 00:40:21.780
Sometimes you take a person through doors

00:40:21.780 --> 00:40:23.780
not even because you want them to do anything.

00:40:23.780 --> 00:40:26.140
You're taking them because you wanna show them.

00:40:31.140 --> 00:40:33.180
That's the beauty of this.

00:40:33.180 --> 00:40:37.060
I mean, Dawn has come to my house many times.

00:40:39.380 --> 00:40:41.460
And I don't take him and show him the shelf

00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:43.660
where I keep my planes

00:40:43.660 --> 00:40:45.660
because there's no intimacy there

00:40:46.660 --> 00:40:49.380
between his interest in planes and my interest in planes.

00:40:49.380 --> 00:40:51.020
George came to my house once.

00:40:53.220 --> 00:40:55.580
The fellow is almost as crazy about planes as I am.

00:40:55.580 --> 00:40:57.500
And so where did we spend most of the time?

00:40:57.500 --> 00:40:59.100
In front, talking about the SR-71,

00:40:59.100 --> 00:41:04.100
talking about the 789, talking about the Raptor.

00:41:04.100 --> 00:41:04.940
All those planes.

00:41:04.940 --> 00:41:05.780
Why?

00:41:05.780 --> 00:41:07.860
Because wherever there is a degree of intimacy,

00:41:07.860 --> 00:41:09.580
you will take a person through a door

00:41:09.580 --> 00:41:13.260
just to show them what you want to show them.

00:41:13.260 --> 00:41:16.460
Doors happen quickly when intimacy increases.

00:41:21.900 --> 00:41:23.260
I liked what May prayed.

00:41:23.260 --> 00:41:26.140
Oh God, let the operation be boring.

00:41:27.700 --> 00:41:30.820
But when it comes to God, it's very difficult.

00:41:30.820 --> 00:41:33.820
Having a boring relationship with God makes it so difficult.

00:41:38.860 --> 00:41:41.500
The church must provide you an opportunity

00:41:41.500 --> 00:41:43.260
to know a God who is not boring.

00:41:43.260 --> 00:41:46.020
And if this church is not providing you that,

00:41:46.020 --> 00:41:47.980
please don't come back next week.

00:41:53.300 --> 00:41:54.900
But if you're back here next week

00:41:56.420 --> 00:41:57.820
and you get to hear part two.

00:41:59.860 --> 00:42:01.300
Next one, Revelation 4.1.

00:42:02.860 --> 00:42:06.540
Tim, you're still invited because it's your first time.

00:42:08.540 --> 00:42:10.140
This only applies to anybody who's been here

00:42:10.140 --> 00:42:11.580
more than two or three times.

00:42:12.940 --> 00:42:13.980
Revelation 4.1.

00:42:14.940 --> 00:42:18.620
After this I looked and behold, the door standing open.

00:42:18.620 --> 00:42:21.020
Behold, the door standing open in heaven.

00:42:21.020 --> 00:42:23.340
And I heard a voice saying, come up here

00:42:23.340 --> 00:42:26.100
and I will show you what must take place after this.

00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:30.060
Revelation 4.1.

00:42:30.060 --> 00:42:31.420
After this I looked and behold,

00:42:31.420 --> 00:42:33.620
the door standing open in heaven.

00:42:33.620 --> 00:42:36.180
And I heard a voice saying, come up here

00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:39.020
and I will show you what must take place after this.

00:42:39.020 --> 00:42:42.900
Okay, so another thing that you need for open doors

00:42:42.900 --> 00:42:45.380
is spiritual upside.

00:42:46.860 --> 00:42:49.540
That's spiritual sight, spiritual upside.

00:42:49.540 --> 00:42:50.540
Spiritual upside.

00:42:51.900 --> 00:42:53.460
Ask this question of yourself,

00:42:53.460 --> 00:42:56.620
is God continuously inviting me

00:42:56.620 --> 00:42:59.980
to see more of what he's doing?

00:43:01.500 --> 00:43:02.980
So we've already dealt with his nature.

00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:05.460
So we're not talking about inviting you

00:43:05.460 --> 00:43:07.540
to see more of his nature.

00:43:07.540 --> 00:43:12.420
Is he inviting you to see more of what he is doing?

00:43:14.060 --> 00:43:15.100
Ask that question.

00:43:19.500 --> 00:43:24.500
And is it possible to do that without time spent?

00:43:24.500 --> 00:43:26.780
I mean, he'll need time to show you things.

00:43:26.780 --> 00:43:28.980
Not a lot of time, sometimes we can do it in a second.

00:43:28.980 --> 00:43:30.180
But he wants to know whether you're interested.

00:43:30.180 --> 00:43:31.980
So the question is,

00:43:31.980 --> 00:43:34.100
is this something that is happening in your life

00:43:34.100 --> 00:43:37.340
and my life where God is saying, hey,

00:43:39.340 --> 00:43:41.060
first he'll present you a door and saying,

00:43:41.060 --> 00:43:42.100
you wanna step through this?

00:43:42.100 --> 00:43:44.220
Cause I want you to see what I'm doing.

00:43:45.820 --> 00:43:49.220
Sometimes Mark takes Finn and Harry to work.

00:43:49.220 --> 00:43:50.580
He wants them to see what he's doing

00:43:50.580 --> 00:43:51.540
and then he gives them a hammer

00:43:51.540 --> 00:43:53.900
so they can break down things.

00:43:53.900 --> 00:43:55.340
He takes them to work.

00:43:55.340 --> 00:43:57.540
He wants them to see what he's doing.

00:43:57.540 --> 00:43:58.380
God is like that.

00:43:59.380 --> 00:44:03.700
And if the answer to this question is no,

00:44:03.700 --> 00:44:06.420
I really don't have an idea what he's doing,

00:44:06.420 --> 00:44:11.420
then step into it so that these open doors become yours.

00:44:17.100 --> 00:44:19.260
Why is it that this church has an abundance

00:44:19.260 --> 00:44:20.820
of the prophetic spoken?

00:44:20.820 --> 00:44:24.100
Why are we asked to step into things that are unprecedented?

00:44:24.100 --> 00:44:27.180
Why say stuff like since the times of Noah?

00:44:27.180 --> 00:44:28.500
Why Hebrides 2.0?

00:44:28.500 --> 00:44:29.980
Where is this coming from?

00:44:31.460 --> 00:44:34.460
It is because God wants to show us what he's doing

00:44:34.460 --> 00:44:37.900
so that we can begin to step into it.

00:44:37.900 --> 00:44:41.300
Whether we'll finish it or not is a different thing.

00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:44.100
But whether we'll show it or not is a different thing.

00:44:44.100 --> 00:44:45.820
The more we step into it

00:44:45.820 --> 00:44:46.980
and the more we are willing to do it,

00:44:46.980 --> 00:44:48.140
the more he will show.

00:44:54.060 --> 00:44:54.900
Any questions?

00:44:55.860 --> 00:44:56.940
Ask this question, eh?

00:44:56.940 --> 00:44:58.500
And once you ask this question,

00:44:58.500 --> 00:45:01.220
decide that if this is not my experience,

00:45:01.220 --> 00:45:03.820
then father, can I also have this?

00:45:05.540 --> 00:45:07.620
Because who are the fellow workers in the vineyard?

00:45:07.620 --> 00:45:09.300
Who are the builders?

00:45:09.300 --> 00:45:10.660
Who are the laborers?

00:45:10.660 --> 00:45:11.500
You.

00:45:13.740 --> 00:45:15.940
Come up high, I wanna show you what I'm doing.

00:45:17.300 --> 00:45:20.220
Every few months, guys, this is not once in a blue moon.

00:45:23.300 --> 00:45:24.140
Next one.

00:45:24.900 --> 00:45:25.740
Next one.

00:45:29.980 --> 00:45:31.180
Revelations 3.2.

00:45:32.180 --> 00:45:33.260
Revelations 3.2.

00:45:41.340 --> 00:45:43.540
I know you have little strength,

00:45:43.540 --> 00:45:47.260
but I have placed before you an open door no one can shut.

00:45:47.260 --> 00:45:49.140
I know you have little strength,

00:45:49.140 --> 00:45:51.700
but I have placed before you an open door no one can shut.

00:45:51.700 --> 00:45:53.380
Look at this girl.

00:45:53.380 --> 00:45:54.740
Can you stand, please?

00:45:55.580 --> 00:45:56.540
Don't worry, you're not on camera.

00:45:58.500 --> 00:46:00.500
Doesn't it so fit her?

00:46:00.500 --> 00:46:02.860
I know you have little strength,

00:46:02.860 --> 00:46:05.060
but behold, I placed before you an open door.

00:46:05.980 --> 00:46:07.380
To begin with, she's a girl.

00:46:09.060 --> 00:46:11.620
That itself makes it difficult.

00:46:13.420 --> 00:46:14.260
And look at her.

00:46:15.820 --> 00:46:17.580
Does she look like a fiery preacher?

00:46:19.140 --> 00:46:20.740
Can you see any anointing on her?

00:46:20.860 --> 00:46:21.700
Look at her.

00:46:23.780 --> 00:46:27.700
He takes what seems to be, thanks, May.

00:46:27.700 --> 00:46:29.980
He takes what seems to be of little strength,

00:46:29.980 --> 00:46:32.180
and then he takes it and he turns it around.

00:46:36.820 --> 00:46:37.660
Look at her.

00:46:37.660 --> 00:46:39.180
Do you mind standing?

00:46:39.180 --> 00:46:40.020
You, Sue.

00:46:40.740 --> 00:46:41.580
Yeah.

00:46:46.660 --> 00:46:48.220
Do you know how much she's done?

00:46:51.700 --> 00:46:53.700
You're more than 70, right?

00:46:53.700 --> 00:46:54.700
Or 70.

00:46:54.700 --> 00:46:55.740
I want to call it out, Sue.

00:46:55.740 --> 00:46:58.860
I'm not trying to mess around with you.

00:46:58.860 --> 00:47:00.940
It doesn't matter, man.

00:47:00.940 --> 00:47:01.780
Look at that guy.

00:47:01.780 --> 00:47:02.620
Thanks, Sue.

00:47:02.620 --> 00:47:03.820
That one, stand up.

00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:05.220
These are the people that in the end

00:47:05.220 --> 00:47:07.780
will start being used like huge champions.

00:47:07.780 --> 00:47:08.620
Why?

00:47:08.620 --> 00:47:12.260
Because behold, I know you have little strength,

00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:14.980
but with this little strength, see what I will do.

00:47:14.980 --> 00:47:17.140
I'm placing before you an open door.

00:47:17.140 --> 00:47:18.700
Look at you and me.

00:47:20.940 --> 00:47:24.060
You think this is not a church of little strength?

00:47:24.060 --> 00:47:25.100
What do we have, man?

00:47:27.700 --> 00:47:29.900
Other than a handsome preacher, we got squat.

00:47:35.060 --> 00:47:36.380
That was too loud, I said.

00:47:40.060 --> 00:47:41.860
And thanks, that one.

00:47:41.860 --> 00:47:43.780
At the end of the day, one of the things I marvel at

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is how little strength we have

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and what an influence we've had

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and will continue to have across the world.

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Three eighths, sorry.

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You have little strength.

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Behold, I place before you an open door.

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Why does God place an open door

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before people of little strength?

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Because he gets all the glory.

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The power.

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I do not know of another church

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that is this small, this weak,

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that has received as powerful

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and as impossible promises as we have received.

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Do not know of any other church.

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It's crazy.

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And you have an opportunity to step into it.

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So I say to Don and Keziah, I say to me, I say to the others who will follow after this,

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you have an opportunity to step into it and prove God.

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Prove God.

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It's huge, man.

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Go home today and write what David wrote, if you dare to.

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Go home today and write what David wrote.

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The Lord comes and says to David, that I picked you from the field.

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You were a shepherd. I picked you from the field and I brought you.

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And I set you up as king over my people.

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And David's response is, who am I?

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What am I, O God, that you decided to choose me?

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What is my father's family that you decided to choose me?

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And not only have you chosen me, now you give me a promise saying that for the rest of eternity

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there will be a man from my family that will sit on the throne and that his throne will be everlasting.

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And David begins to cry out to God and write this beautiful poem saying, O God, who am I?

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Go home today and write or say to God, Father, who am I?

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That you have given me the privilege of being amongst the people to whom you have given

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promises that are impossible.

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And O God, as I say this, count me worthy, make me worthy to walk with you

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into what awaits us as a people.

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Sometimes if you don't count our blessings, we lose sight of what God is doing.

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Next one.

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Acts 12.10.

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One of the things that happens is once you have an open door you have to begin to walk towards it.

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And as you walk towards it, it's only then that it will open.

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Acts 12.

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It's Paul in prison.

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And what happens is, Acts 12, then the angel said to him, put on your clothes and sandals, and Peter did.

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Wrap your cloak around you and follow me, the angel told him.

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Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea what the angel was doing and what was really happening.

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He thought he was seeing a vision.

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They passed the first and the second guards, came to the iron gate leading to the city.

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It opened for them by itself and they went through it.

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When they walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left them.

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One of the ways, once you recognize open doors, and please write them down, please write them down.

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It could be in the area of business, it could be in the area of church, it could be the area of ministry,

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it could be the area of what God is calling you to become.

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It may have nothing to do with the church.

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It may have everything to do with you.

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It could be for the church.

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It could be for Acts 29.

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Whatever it is, one of the things, once you define it, it is so important to define what God is doing.

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This out there little tweety bird circling around your head is pointless.

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You must write it down.

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Once you write it down, you'll find that now that you know the definition of the door,

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it is only as you walk towards it that it swings open.

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Things don't swing open till there is a start.

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It doesn't matter how, whether the start is a failure or a success,

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whether the start has two people or no people or a hundred people, there must be a start.

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And once you have a start, that is when doors begin to...

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Just imagine, Apollo is approaching this huge iron door.

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This was a word that Anne Mebs gave this church, that guys, always remember,

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that what seems impossible will open as you approach it.

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Then they swing wide open.

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Faith requires action.

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Faith requires starting.

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Faith requires walking.

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Faith requires the risk of thinking that,

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Ah shucks, when I get there, maybe it won't open.

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But it'll...

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Next one, 1 Corinthians 16, 9.

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1 Corinthians 16, 9.

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It says there,

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A great door for effective work has opened to me,

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though there are many who oppose me.

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A great door for effective work has opened to me,

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though there are many who oppose me.

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Doors that God wants to open for the church,

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or for your own life,

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are doors that are for effective, divine work that benefits others.

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God doesn't open doors just for my personal...

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It is so that any door that He opens is an effective, divine work that benefits others.

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Always.

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Always.

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It must benefit others.

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It is a divine effect.

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It is for effective, divine work.

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And when these doors open,

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it is so that any door that He opens is an effective, divine work that benefits others.

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Always.

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And when these words mix together,

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then you have opposition.

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Any authentic door will have an opposition in terms of being open.

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Pardon?

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Any authentic door that God wants to open in your life

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will be resisted by the world, by the enemy.

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There will be resistance.

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But that is the nature of warfare.

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Any authentic door will be resisted.

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Why would an active enemy not resist the work of God and lose?

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Like I said, every child should be bought an iPhone 3 that they can drop or throw.

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Not to use, just throw.

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So, any effective, divine door that comes into your life,

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expect, not expect as in have faith for,

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but don't be surprised if there is opposition.

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There will be opposition.

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And in the very area of opposition,

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you begin to see where your victory lies.

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In the area of the prophetic, if you find opposition,

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prophesy like crazy under the power of the Spirit.

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In the area of going into a nation and trying to convert that nation,

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if the nation is being shut to you,

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in that very area, step up and begin to break down doors.

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Your opposition shows you where you will be most effective.

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I'm making a list of things where there is opposition,

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because then I get to know where I should not remove my focus from,

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because I know I will have success there.

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An ashaddo, five questions.

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How do you know the difference between opposition and ashaddo?

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Five questions.

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We have to figure out who is it coming from.

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And how we figure out who it is coming from is,

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is it a test?

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Is it a test?

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Is it a test?

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Is it a test?

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Is it a trial?

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Is it discipline?

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Is it Satan?

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Is it fallenness of the world?

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Last one, is it persecution?

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Six questions.

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I'm not saying it's easy to get an answer for these six questions,

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but these are the six questions you ask.

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And in asking these six questions, you usually identify the source.

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And once you know the source, you know the response.

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This identifies the source, and once you know the source,

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you can plan your response.

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Which one?

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Fifth one.

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Is it the fallenness, oh that's terrible.

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Is it the fallenness of the world?

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As in the world is corrupt, the world is rotting, the world is decaying.

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What is causing the opposition?

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Is the opposition a test where the opposition is a test?

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Is the opposition a test where God wants me to overcome it

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because he wants to show me what he knows about me?

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Is the opposition a trial?

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Then what brought on the trial?

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Was it my mistake?

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Was it my sin?

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Was it your sin?

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Was it your failure?

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Was it my failure?

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Is it discipline?

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In which case, what do I need to correct so that it doesn't continue?

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Is it Satan?

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Then what is the weapon I need to use to end what he is doing?

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Is it the fallenness of the world?

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If it is, what promise is there in the word that I can use to counter it?

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Because the finished works of the cross are meant to take care of certain things in the fallen world.

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Is it persecution?

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In which case, does God want me to escape it or go through it?

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Trials can be caused by...

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Okay, so trials can be caused by David.

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David is taking the cart with the ark.

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Two guys die.

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That wasn't a test.

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That wasn't the devil.

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That wasn't the fallenness of the world.

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That was his mistake that he made.

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And so he had to correct it.

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It wasn't even discipline because what happened was already predicted will happen if you touch the ark.

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But that is something he did.

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Sometimes a trial is caused by somebody else.

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Another time David is going through a time when there's famine in the land for three years.

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It wasn't his fault.

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It was that Saul had killed the Gibeonites when there was a pact with the Gibeonites that it shouldn't happen.

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So sometimes it's your fault.

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Another story.

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A woman saying, alas, alas...

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She goes to Elisha and says, alas, alas, the debtors are coming to take away my two children because my husband was in debt.

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It wasn't her fault.

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Sometimes trials are caused by my sins.

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Sometimes it's caused by someone else's sins.

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Sometimes it's caused by me taking on your problems.

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Sometimes we take on people's problems willingly.

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But is it a trial? Yes.

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This identifies the source.

01:01:25.740 --> 01:01:27.740
Once you know the source, you know the response.

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Strong opposition in an area, slander or accusation in areas often indicates a door that you need to focus on.

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Here's another one.

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Two more and we're done.

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Second Corinthians 12.

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This is a very odd one.

01:01:51.740 --> 01:01:53.740
Second Corinthians 12.

01:01:55.740 --> 01:01:57.740
Second Corinthians 12.

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Started talking again, huh?

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There.

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You just have to talk back to them.

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Second Corinthians 12.

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No, it's not 12.

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Second Corinthians 2.

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Second Corinthians 2.

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Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened the door for me, I still had no peace of mind because I did not find my brother Titus there.

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So I said goodbye to them and went to Macedonia.

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Sometimes, guys, the Lord opens a door for you.

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And if you sometimes those that open are those where it is permissive for you to step through or not.

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And if you don't, it does not affect your life in God.

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Some doors that God opens are doors that are like bonus.

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Hey, do you want this?

01:03:18.740 --> 01:03:21.740
It's up to you whether you want to go through it or not.

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Always have a discussion about any door that God opens in your life.

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It doesn't matter what area it is in.

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Always have a discussion with God.

01:03:29.740 --> 01:03:32.740
Okay, so you've opened this door, Father, for me.

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What do you mean by door?

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Okay, so I can only speak out of my life.

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So for me, a door would be, hey, Jacob, what about this nation?

01:03:40.740 --> 01:03:46.740
Or hey, Jacob, what about becoming this so that Acts 20 and can step into this?

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Had a question?

01:03:47.740 --> 01:03:51.740
Okay, because you were grinning in a way that I thought you had a question.

01:03:51.740 --> 01:03:54.740
You had a smirk on your face, so I thought you had a question.

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I thought so.

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Yeah, I thought so.

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So when it comes to an open door in my life would be something like that.

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Where it would be something that Acts 29 needs, that God will say,

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hey, why don't you become this so that Acts 29 benefits here?

01:04:13.740 --> 01:04:15.740
Or what about this nation?

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Or why don't you begin to focus on the prophetic?

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Those are open doors for you, for me.

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What is the open door for you?

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For a businessman it might be something else.

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So depending on which person, who you are as a person,

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you can begin to decide what kind of door God is asking you to step into.

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And when he does, sometimes you have to have a discussion about the door.

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Father, is this something that I can delay for now?

01:04:47.740 --> 01:04:49.740
I don't have the courage to.

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Or Father, I do have a degree of fear.

01:04:52.740 --> 01:04:54.740
Can you help me with it?

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Father, is this a door that I have to go through right now, or can I delay it?

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Ask God, because some doors are permissive.

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Some doors are just a bonus given to you.

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Hey Jacob, I know you're doing this, but do you want this too?

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It's like a father.

01:05:08.740 --> 01:05:10.740
Never forget that he's a father.

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Fathers do that with their children.

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Fathers do that with their children, saying,

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hey, this is something I want to give you, but if you want, I can give you this too.

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Or a dad says, I want to take you on this journey,

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and sometimes the boy says, Dad, can I not do it today?

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Can I do it tomorrow, because I would rather do this?

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There are those options too.

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All of this happens through conversation, eh?

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Can't happen without conversation.

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And the better I know the nature of God, the easier it becomes.

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Any questions?

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Yeah, so there are times where I'll say to God the Father,

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I've been away for two weeks now, and I know you want me to go here,

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but can I not go now?

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Can I go later?

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Will this door shut if I don't go now?

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Can I postpone what I'm going to do?

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Or Father, I was supposed to go to Japan in November,

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because there was a time that I was supposed to be in Japan from November 14th or something.

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And Father, I'm not ready for it.

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Spiritually, I didn't prepare myself.

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I can go if you ask me to, but I really don't want to go.

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If you tell me to, I still will.

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If it be your will, I still will, but if I can skip this this time, I'll skip it.

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Conversations. And the Father will talk back.

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Sometimes I'll go regardless, because He's saying,

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no, I want you to go.

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Even if you're weak and tired and exhausted, I'll still use you there.

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Other times, He'll say, okay, take a pass.

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Some doors are permissive.

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Paul has been given an open door in Troas.

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And even though he has an open door in Troas, he was not at peace.

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He's saying that God opened the door, and yet He's saying He's not at peace.

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And so He doesn't go. He goes to Macedonia.

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And what happens in Macedonia? God opens a door in Macedonia.

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And later on, Paul comes back to Troas.

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Next one. Act 1626.

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Act 1626. It says,

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A great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken,

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and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.

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Sometimes, doors open because of the ferocity of God.

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Sometimes, doors open because of the ferocity of God,

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because of the sheer power of God that shakes things.

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Be ready for that.

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It usually happens when how God works with you is in sheer power.

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But some of you expect in the years ahead that one of the things God will do

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is He will use you in acts only of power.

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It won't be love. It won't be wisdom.

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It'll be sheer power.

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And when it is acts of sheer power, know that you have to be like Joshua,

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knowing that on the seventh day,

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when you go around the city and you shout,

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the ferocity of God will cause doors to crumble, and you have to be ready.

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Some of you will be used in sheer power.

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I wish it was me.

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But be ready for that.

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Because sometimes God just dusts things through a massive earthquake or a massive wind shaking.

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He just shakes things, pulls things out of the...

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Some of you, I pray God, I pray God that someone like Don ends up being a Samson

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who can carry the gates of Hebron on his back.

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That the church that may will operate will be very different from the church that Don operates.

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That one will have maybe a door of power, one will have a door of wisdom or whatever.

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Find out.

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One of the requirements that now is incumbent upon them and upon me to help them is,

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Oh God, what is the nature of the church?

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And pay attention, eh?

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This goes back to the whole idea of being dressed and ready.

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Do you know why?

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Not do you know why.

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One of the reasons why they are in a place to do what they're doing

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is because when they had nothing to do, they were being dressed and ready.

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Be dressed and ready.

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Because it's only a matter of time.

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Last one.

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Isaiah 49...

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What's Isaiah 49, 24 to 26?

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Let me just read it.

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I don't know that scripture.

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Isaiah 49, 24 to 26.

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Can plunder be taken from warriors or captives rescued from the fears?

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But this is what the Lord says.

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Yes, captives will be taken from warriors.

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Plunder will be retrieved from the fears.

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I will contend with those who contend with you and your children I will save.

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There is a ferocity of God that opens doors, eh?

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I pray God that you embrace it.

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Because some places need to be shaken and doors be opened

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just because you have the ability to channel the sheer power of God.

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Last one.

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Psalm 24, verse 9.

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Love this one.

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Psalm 24, verse 9.

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Open up the ancient gates.

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Open up the ancient doors.

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Let the king of glory enter.

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What's your name?

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Jane, can you finish with the Shekinah song that you had in your list?

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Psalm 24, verse 9.

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Open up the ancient gates.

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Open up the ancient doors.

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Let the king of glory enter.

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Who is this king of glory?

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The Lord, strong and mighty in battle.

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There is this opening of doors too.

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And that, this church absolutely has to, must buy into.

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Hebrides 2.0 does not happen without this.

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And it is across the earth, eh?

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It seems impossible.

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It seems like such an impossibility.

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Open up the doors.

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And for this, the one thing that is required is blazing purity.

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Clean hands, pure heart.

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That we must never escape.

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That is dressed and ready.

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Give me clean hands.

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Give me pure hearts.

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Why?

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Because it is only those that have clean hands and pure hearts that can ascend the holy hill.

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And it is from there that ancient doors are open and demonic ancient doors are shut.

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There is two ways this happens.

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On one hand there is an opening of ancient doors that heaven has ordained.

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And then there is a shutting down of demonic doors that have been open for so long that they need to be shut down.

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It's both.

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The strange thing is because it is God doing it, you can do this with a pebble or a stone like David did.

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Or you can do it with a storm where God sends hailstones from heaven.

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You can do it with a mustard seed because all you need is a little faith and it hits Goliath right where, in the center of the forehead.

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Or you can do it with an earthquake.

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You can do it however you want as long as you know the weapon that God wants you to use.

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But this is how the king of glory enters.

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So go examine these scriptures that I'm going to write and see if you want to make a fresh start.

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I'll write them down for you. You can go home and look at them.

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John 21, 6.

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For some of us, we are in the place where Peter was.

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Messed up. Don't feel good about ourselves. Let people down. Let God down.

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John 21, 6. Peter. Fresh start.

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For some of us, it's Isaiah 43, 19.

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Can you not see it? Behold, I'm doing a new thing.

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Seek new vision. This is the best time to do it.

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You get 12 months to practice it.

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For some of us, we already know what we need to do.

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But we need to start. Havoc 21 and 2. It is time.

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Write the vision down. It won't tarry.

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It is for the appointed time. It is time.

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For some of us, it's Isaiah 54, 2.

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Time to extend the tent pegs and the stakes.

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Whatever you're doing, this doesn't apply to just church.

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It could apply to whatever God is.

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I mean, God doesn't limit it to church, right?

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He does it on the individual level and He does it on the corporate level.

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Sometimes it's Luke 47, where it's time to let go of all the things that haunt me from my past because all is forgiven.

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Sometimes it's Judges 6, 2.

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Time to step out of the shade.

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And then the last one is Jeremiah 1, 7.

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You're not too young. You're not too old.

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Get one of these scriptures.

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See if you sense any of these applies to you.

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Go home and say, if you need a fresh start like Peter, after messing up and going fishing, start.

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If it's new vision, ask.

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If it is time, have a good two.

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If it is time to extend your tent because you've been waiting and God is saying, here's the rope, here's some more canvas, extend your tent.

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If it is, oh my God, my life is defined by my failure and my shame, Luke 7, 47.

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Step out of the shade for some of us.

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Judges 6, 2 is the story of Gideon.

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Step out of the shade.

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Come out of the winepress.

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And then the last one is Jeremiah, where God says to Jeremiah, listen, don't say you're too young.

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And I say that to you.

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Don't say you're too young.

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But don't say you're too old either.

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Come.