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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Seed
Publishing Date: 2019-06-30T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/seed/

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So, we've been talking about unseen realm, and one of the things that happens in the

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unseen and does not manifest until much later is this idea of things that we sow that reap

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a harvest.

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And I think there's a phrase that goes this way, that there's a forest in an acorn.

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And so, I think it was Michelangelo who once said that he saw an angel in the marble and

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carved until he set it free.

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And so, there is this idea of you give someone a chunk of marble and you don't know what

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it might turn out to be, and then he begins to carve it because he saw an angel in the

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marble and he set it free.

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Or you take an acorn and it looks so tiny, and yet in an acorn is a forest because an

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to a tree which gives birth to many acorns and that's how forests are formed.

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And so, there is this unseen realm that just gestates within us, but it starts with the

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idea of a seed that we plant that at some point manifests.

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And if you go to Galatians chapter 6, verse 7 and 8, God puts it this way.

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He says,

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If you sow to the flesh, you reap corruption, you reap ruin, you reap destruction.

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If you sow to the spirit, you reap life.

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And so, the Bible indicates again and again and again that there are two destinations

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for seed and there are two harvests.

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And so, when it says sowing to the flesh, it means if I sow into the traditions of men,

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if I sow into the patterns of the world, if I sow into sin, if I sow into desire outside

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of God, then it will result in decay, it will result in corruption, it will result in loss.

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But then I can also sow into the traditions of men, and I sow into the patterns of the

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world. But then I can also sow to the spirit, and if I sow to the spirit, as in if I sow

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righteousness, if I sow principles from the word, if I sow what I hear him say, if I sow

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his ways, then it results in abundant life. And what does abundant life look like? It

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looks like shalom plus rest plus vision plus profit. That's what abundant life is.

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What does abundant life look like? Abundant life is this mixture of shalom or wholeness

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of rest where there's very little flailing of vision so that our people don't perish,

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of profit or increase. It captures the essence of what God said to Adam when he said multiply,

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replenish, subdue. That's what abundant life looks like.

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And what we don't realize is that each of us is a carrier of seed, and you're always

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sowing unknowingly or knowingly. You're always sowing. You're a carrier of seed. Every day

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of your life you are sowing, either knowingly or unknowingly you are sowing, and you're

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a carrier of seed. Very often the tongue is the spade, the tongue is the spade, and your

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words are seed. Very often the tongue is the spade, and your words are seed. Proverbs

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18-21 talks about how a man shall live by what he speaks. He either speaks death or

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he speaks life, and based on how he speaks, he eats. So your tongue is your spade, and

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your words are seed that you sow. Or as it says in Proverbs 23, verse 7, as a man thinks,

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so is he. So in that sense your thoughts and attitudes are seed that you plant knowingly

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or unknowingly. Throughout the day we are doing this knowingly or unknowingly. If we

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don't put it into words, we put it into thoughts, and our thoughts then begin to shape our attitude.

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I know you've all either heard this or read this, but sow a thought and you will reap

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an action. Sow a thought often enough and it always reaps an action. Sow an action long

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enough and it will always reap a habit. Sow a habit long enough and it will always reap

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a character. Sow a character long enough and you will always reap a destiny. Eddie used

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to say a man of choices is a man of destiny. As in the choices you make with the thoughts

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and the actions and the habits that you cultivate is what causes you then to reap a destiny.

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So I am the way I am today because of the things that I have sown. And I didn't mean

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that in a positive way. I meant if there are negative ways in my life today, they are the

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result of what I have sown. And there are positive things too, but when I just said

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it, I meant gosh man, many of us could be so different if we had been taught how to

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sow right. And the thing is guys, every seed has its body. Every seed has its own body.

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1 Corinthians 15.30 it says that every seed has its own body. As in it produces different

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things. I mean, now that TNT market is right under my home, I occasionally read a book

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and I venture into TNT. It's a scary place. But I'm fascinated by just the apples there, man.

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Like you would think that there's an apple seed and it brings apples. No, there's pink

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lady, there's granny, there's red delicious, there is golden. There is even something called

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envy. And those are really good and the most expensive. If that had dropped on Isaac Newton's

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head, we wouldn't have had the law of gravity because it would have killed him. Because

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it's that big and super expensive. But if an apple can produce six different varieties

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and then there's the most expensive one, the iPhone, but that's a whole different story.

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It is a little funny. You could have at least grinned. Okay, it was corny. Okay, moving on.

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So I planned that so elaborately for the last 20 minutes and got nothing for it. Okay,

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moving on. So every seed has a body produces something. And therefore, guys, here's the

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thing. Every time you saw a thought, every time you saw words, every time you saw an

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attitude that comes from God, it will produce an amazing bountiful harvest. By the same

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token, every time you saw something to the flesh, as in the traditions of men, sin,

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pleasing the desires of the body that are outside of God, all human philosophies and so

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on, every time you saw it, you will reap ruin, corruption, loss. And the Bible puts

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it simply this way, do not be deceived. God is not mocked. It then goes to say that

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breakthrough or break ins, break ins are not the same thing. They are not the same thing.

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It then goes to say that breakthrough or break ins break ins as in when Satan breaks in or

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breakthroughs as in when you break out into the things of God breakthroughs and break ins happen

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through what you saw through the seed that you saw, you can either saw into problems or you can

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saw yourself out of problems. I would go so far as to say this in a way that sounds ungodly. Some of

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the situations that I am in, I can get out of without even praying by sowing the right seed.

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Meaning it's okay if you prayed for it, but some of it you can get out of even without praying

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because you're inserting a principle of God that can get you out. By the same token, I can also get

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into situations without the devil's help. You know one of the things God desired, can we remove

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him from the overhead? There's only so much of chat I can handle. Thanks Ryan. Oh he's back.

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Thanks. I've got to spend three days with him starting tomorrow. Guys, I'm going to

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go ahead and say a few words about the things that I've been doing. I've been doing

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I've been doing things for God. Oh he's back. Thanks. I've got to spend three days with him starting tomorrow.

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Guys, yeah I can handle that. Guys, God had this idea of divine self governance

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and what he means by divine self governance and that's what he really desired for Israel.

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He said, hey can you self govern yourself? I'll give you a set of principles.

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You don't need a king or a president or a prime minister.

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Can you self-govern yourself based on the set of principles

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that I derive from my nature that you can participate in?

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That was his intent, self-governance.

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Subin would be such a happy dad if his son Daniel

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could learn at an early age how to self-govern himself

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in the ways of God and in the ways of his parents

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without the need for a stick or a reward

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because that is the way one was supposed to live.

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That is why God put his spirit within us.

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He says it in Ezekiel and he says it again

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in the New Testament where he says,

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I replace the heart of stone with the heart of flesh

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so that you may know my laws.

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No one will have to teach them to you.

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They'll be written on your heart and mind.

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And so one of the ways we can enter into this whole idea

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of divine self-governance is by determining

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what do I sow so that I get a godly harvest in my life?

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And the great thing about a godly harvest

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is every time you have a godly harvest,

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others benefit from it.

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And then the flip side is every time you have

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an ungodly harvest, people are affected.

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When you have a godly harvest, people benefit.

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When you have an ungodly harvest, people are affected.

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None of the things that I do in my life

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that are ungodly will not translate into this church.

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Everything that I do that is ungodly will affect the church.

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And you would think, well, then you're of the past

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so naturally, no, what about Achan?

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Achan at I, Israel lost the battle because of Achan.

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This whole thing called the family

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is not some utopian idea in the head of God.

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This was in his mind,

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we are actually limbs connected together.

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He really thinks you're a part of my life

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and I'm a part of your life

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and we are a part of Christ's life

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and Christ is a part of God's life.

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He thinks like this.

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Any questions before we go on?

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So many things in life you can weed out or garden

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in your life by following these simple principles.

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You can either weed it out or garden

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so that your landscape looks so different.

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We'll talk about that now.

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Any questions?

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I hope this church won't be a place

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this church won't be a bunch of Christians

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who are on either extreme

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because churches usually post themselves on two extremes

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where it's super legalistic

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and by legalistic, I mean, what did I do wrong?

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Or the other end, which is super chief grace,

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which is, how can I,

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this wrong doesn't matter.

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These are the two extremes that churches find themselves in.

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Either what did I do wrong?

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What's God gonna do?

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What opening have I given the devil?

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How is it gonna end now?

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So that's one extreme.

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The other extreme is wrong is nothing

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because the grace of God covers everything.

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Both are extreme.

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I pray that we land somewhere in the middle

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where we understand that what you sow, you reap.

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And we also understand that grace is poured out on me

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when I have done wrong, that it's not one or the other.

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It's both operating together.

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Both have to be held in tension.

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They are not contradictory.

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That I do sow what I reap, but thank God I don't reap

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all that I sow because of the grace of God

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that just comes in sometimes like a whirlwind

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and just sweeps the seeds away

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or comes in like amazing rain and produces a crop

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that I haven't worked hard enough to harvest.

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That is the idea of grace.

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Either it removes that which is harmful

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or adds that which I have not earned.

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But any of these extremes will paralyze us.

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One of the things I like doing is whenever things go wrong

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in my life, before I pray, I'd like to find out

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if there's anything that I can sow

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that will either correct it or anything I can weed out

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so that it doesn't become a tear

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that will be indistinguishable from the wheat.

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So it's good to ask these questions early

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before you even pray.

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And then you can pray and ask God to help you.

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But it's a great method.

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We do it in every other area of life,

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but for too long the church has told us

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that God is so gracious we don't need to do this.

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Or the church has told us God's gonna punish you

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because you did this.

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It's one or the other.

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Ministries are based on these.

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You either have a ministry that says

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if you don't get rid of these roots, you're finished.

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Or you have ministries that say,

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oh, don't worry about it, grace covers everything.

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It's neither, it's both.

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One of the things I love about the New Testament

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is when it says God does not reckon sins against us.

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Every time I go to him, a pastor may reckon your sin

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as you come up for prayer saying,

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I know what she has done, da da da da da.

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God doesn't reckon your sins first.

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He sees you with grace and then he deals with your sin.

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He doesn't see your sin first

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and then deal with your situation.

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Very different God, eh?

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Any questions before we go on?

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Whenever there are situations in my life

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that I think I need help with,

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the first thing I check is,

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is there anything I can weed out

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so that the situation will not continue?

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Or is there anything I can sow

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so that this situation will perpetuate profitably?

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And so many times things end so easily without prayer

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because I find out what needs to be found out.

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And the way you find it out is by asking God

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or by just sometimes examining your life.

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Husbands and wives do this.

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We got zero problem.

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Usually wives are more inscrutable than God.

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And yet husbands will go through a list of things

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that they think could be the reason

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why their wife is upset.

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And nine out of 10 times they get it right

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because they fixed all the things that they went through.

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And everything is okay.

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Much more so with God who is absolutely readable.

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He's not inscrutable.

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He's not nebulous.

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He doesn't speak in riddles.

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Okay.

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So when, I'm gonna call them carnal seeds,

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as in seeds of the flesh

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or seeds that bring out a harvest that is corrupt

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or that will result in loss or decay.

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And we all have, there's nobody here who doesn't have them.

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We have them in different areas.

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I have, when I was going through this,

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when I was writing down this list,

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I was thinking to myself, my God,

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you've had all of them at some point in your life.

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So all of them are present in this room

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in different capacities.

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The thing is to make sure that we get rid of them.

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So when carnal seeds are sown,

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the great thing is God mitigates,

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as in he steps in and prevents it

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from becoming the kind of harvest that it could become.

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God mitigates, God intervenes, God weeds out,

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and God smothers the harvest.

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So when carnal seeds are sown,

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the God of grace mitigates, intervenes,

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smothers the seed,

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and weeds it out before it can get deep roots

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and produce toxic harvest.

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So God is anyways working at it.

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If we were to actually reap everything we sowed,

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we'd be dead by now.

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Thank God that's not the way it works,

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because he's an amazing gardener

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and he takes ownership of his garden,

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meaning you, me.

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Satan, on the other hand,

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contaminates,

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plants,

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supplies,

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seed,

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through,

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I'm talking about carnal seed,

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through friends,

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systems of the world,

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through giving you your essential desires

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or giving you a way to satisfy them,

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through the bait of immediate gratification,

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because that is something he loves providing.

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If you can covet or desire something,

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or lust after something,

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the devil has a desire to provide you

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what you want gratification in.

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Or he contaminates plants and supplies carnal seed

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through your past experiences,

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through pain,

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through fear,

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where knowing that you have had a traumatic experience,

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knowing that you were betrayed,

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knowing that trust was broken,

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knowing that you were hurt,

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now he supplies you seed

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that will perpetuate that carnality.

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And by carnality,

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you are not going to get anything

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from that carnality.

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And by carnality,

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all I mean is that which is not of the spirit,

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and that will bring more loss, more decay,

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and more corruption,

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and nothing that will give you life.

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Satan provides that.

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And he does it through friends,

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it does it through the systems of the world,

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does it through human philosophies,

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does it through our parents,

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does it through sometimes churches.

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So what happens is once these seeds are planted,

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they can become intertwined,

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as in more than one seed intertwined and deeply rooted.

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And once they are deeply rooted,

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that's when they manifest.

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So something like say jealousy,

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let's assume I'm jealous.

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And so let's assume instead of combating it

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or countering it with other ways that the spirit provides,

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I keep walking that path of jealousy,

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it gets to a point where jealousy can combine with envy,

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can combine with bitterness,

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can combine with unforgiveness,

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and now they are intertwined and they get deeply rooted

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because I'm beginning to delve into it,

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dive into it, not pull myself out of it.

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And as it gets deeply rooted,

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it begins to manifest,

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as in you will begin to see it in my life.

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The thing with seed is, like I said,

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the forest is in the acorn.

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It has to fall to the ground.

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It takes time to develop.

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And that is when you and I can call out to the father

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and say, father, I'm your son, I'm your daughter.

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I'm struggling with this, help me.

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What do you think David would do in the Psalms?

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What was one of the reasons he wrote the Psalms?

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He didn't read it so that we read it in the Bible later.

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He wrote it because he wanted to get it out of his system.

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Oh God, look at what they have done to me.

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I want them to suffer.

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I want this to happen to them.

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I want that to happen to them.

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But oh God, you are good.

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It was this lament that he would write

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that would turn from lament and anger

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to love and purity and worship.

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So once it gets deeply rooted, it begins to manifest.

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The good news is that you don't have

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to let the roots develop.

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The good news is you don't have to let the roots develop.

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And all of us know as it begins to develop.

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Like I know when I am struggling with a certain way of thinking

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or I'm struggling with an issue, I know it.

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And I can either try to suppress it and say,

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oh Jesus, take it away.

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Or I can have a conversation with God

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so that he can help me weed it out.

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My God, he's so good at it.

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He's so good at it.

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To weed it out.

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I remember telling the church a story long ago

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where I was really bitter about this other pastor

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who I thought was getting unnecessary accolades

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even though I knew his life was hollow.

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I was sitting there thinking to myself,

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Father, how can you do this?

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You know the guy's life.

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And he's sitting there being such a hypocrite

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and you're doing nothing.

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And I was so bitter and jealous

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about what was happening with him.

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And I was complaining to the Lord about it.

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The next morning at about eight o'clock, God wakes me up

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because that's when he wakes me up.

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And he wakes me up and he says,

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I've got something exciting to show you in the Bible.

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And I'm thinking to myself,

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some great revelation is gonna come my way.

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And that this will be a profound moment in my life

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that God will show me the future.

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So I said, yes, Lord.

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And then he gives me this particular chapter to go read.

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And I'm thinking to myself, hallelujah.

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And I go read it.

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And it's this passage where it says,

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and the women came out and sang,

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Saul has killed thousands, David has killed 10,000,

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and Saul felt jealous.

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And I'm thinking to myself, this is what you woke me up for?

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You woke me up because you wanted to correct me.

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And yet that is the kind of father we have

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who is willing to wake you up excitedly

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because he wants to remove weeds from your life

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so that you can be the garden he wants you to be.

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I was deeply thankful, little disappointed,

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but deeply thankful for his willingness to do that with me.

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So the good news is he can weed it out.

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The bad news is that strongholds, once they develop,

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once things get intertwined and deeply rooted,

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they become strongholds.

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And once strongholds develop,

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they become the hideout of the demonic.

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Demons hide in strongholds.

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Let me give you an example.

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Let's assume you have a room in a house

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and in that room there's nothing.

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And then you begin to stack these wooden crates,

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one after the other.

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Every time you get a crate or a cardboard box,

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you stack it in the room and it just begins to pile up.

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And then one day you find that the snake

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has been able to get into the room.

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And now you can't catch the snake

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because every time you go and try to get that snake,

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it goes behind the cardboard boxes

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or slithers under a wooden crate.

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Now, if the room was empty,

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it would be easy to get that snake.

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But now that you have these wooden crates

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and cardboard boxes that I've collected,

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every time you wanna go grab that snake or kill it,

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the snake disappears behind a crate

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or disappears behind these cardboard boxes

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that have been stacked there for now months on end.

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The only way now that you can get to that snake

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and kill it without being harmed

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is by removing the cardboard boxes and the wooden crates.

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This is what is meant when I say that,

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if these seeds that we sow

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are allowed to become strongholds,

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then they become places that the demonic can hide.

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Any questions?

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Through the simple word, at the end of the day,

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every stronghold is dismantled through the word

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and the spirit.

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Every stronghold is dismantled by the word and the spirit.

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The weapons that we fight with are not carnal,

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but are spiritual for the pulling down of strongholds.

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And what are strongholds?

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Reasonings, thoughts, arguments, imaginations,

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and every lofty thing that raises itself up

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against the knowledge of God,

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to take them captive and bring them into submission

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and to be able to do that.

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To take them captive

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and bring them into submission to the Lord.

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How do you do it?

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Only with the word.

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And the spirit of God begins to work with the word.

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As in when I read that passage,

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it was not that I didn't know the passage,

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but in that passage,

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what happens immediately after Saul becomes jealous,

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is that the distressing spirit that had already left

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because David had played the harp,

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returns the very next day.

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I'm reading that word thinking,

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Father, the last thing I wanna do is waste my time

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getting jealous of someone who is perhaps faithful to you.

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And the last thing I wanna do is get jealous

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and have distressing spirits come into my life.

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No, thank you.

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It's not worth it.

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And this is a person I don't even know well.

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The amount of time we waste on people we don't know.

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That didn't come out right, but you know what I mean.

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So guys, learn the mechanics of how to go about this.

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This list is by no means conclusive.

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You can keep adding to this list.

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If you read the book of Proverbs,

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you'll find hundreds of cause and effect equations

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where, so this, read this, so this, read this.

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah,

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they have so many different equations like this.

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Life can become just principle-based

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and you can use faith for other things.

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Learn it, because once you do,

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God gives you the keys for weeding your life

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and watering it, both your physical life

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and your spiritual life.

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Any questions?

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Because I wanna go into the seed itself.

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Today, we'll only be able to do the carnal seeds

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and then next Sunday we'll do the life seeds.

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Any questions?

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Okay.

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So, first one is doing nothing.

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Doing nothing.

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Doing nothing is a seed.

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Doing nothing is the seed for decay or deterioration.

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Doing nothing is the seed for decay

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or things deteriorating.

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Doing nothing.

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Doing nothing unless commanded.

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The only time you do nothing

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is God tells you to do nothing,

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as when he told Joshua, I don't want you to do anything,

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I just want you to walk around the city once

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and then go do whatever soldiers do after they walk.

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And doing nothing unless commanded

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is the seed for decay and deterioration.

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Go to Ecclesiastes 10, 18.

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Sometimes what I read might depend on the version,

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so I'll try to give you the version.

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Ecclesiastes 10, 18.

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Ecclesiastes 10, 18.

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If a man is lazy, the rafters sag.

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If his hands are idle, the house leaks.

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If a man is lazy, the rafters sag.

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If his hands are idle, the house leaks.

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Sometimes we do nothing just based on the simple thing

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that God will take care of it.

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Unless God has told me to do nothing,

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I must do what I have been initially told to

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and continue with it.

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Otherwise it ends up with the rafters sagging

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and things decaying or deteriorating.

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Doesn't matter whether it's with regard to a job

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or whether it's regard to marriage

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or whether it's regard to something spiritual.

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I must do what I was last told to do

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and continue doing it till God gives me something new.

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Just this morning I was going over

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what God has asked me to do at the beginning of the year.

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Just wanted to go over it

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because I haven't received any new directions,

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so I just have to keep doing what I was told

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at the beginning of the year.

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Next one.

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After three, I'll go over three and then I'll stop

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and you can ask questions.

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Next one, gossip.

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Gossip is a seed for strife.

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Gossip is a seed for strife.

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Gossip is a seed for strife.

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What does gossip look like?

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Gossip looks like defaming someone, spreading rumors,

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being someone who mocked someone behind their back,

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speaking ill of someone.

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It's not a woman thing, it's a man thing too.

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I used to think only women do that,

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but it's so not true.

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Gossip is a seed for strife.

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One of the ways you can dismiss strife from a place

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is by casting out the scoffer.

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The Bible says in Proverbs 21, verse nine,

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that throw out the scoffer, or verse 10,

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throw out the scoffer and strife will end.

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Sometimes the easiest way to cause strife

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in any situation to end

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is to dismiss the scoffer or the mocker.

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One is scoffs.

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And who is one who scoffs?

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In Proverbs 22, it says a scoffer

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is a proud and arrogant man.

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And so once you dismiss the scoffer, strife ends.

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But gossip is the seed for strife.

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So one of the ways you can end strife in your life

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is by ending gossip.

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Proverbs 18, verse eight.

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Proverbs 18, verse eight.

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Proverbs 18, verse eight.

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The words of a gossip are like choice morsels.

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They go down to a man's inmost being.

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And there's another proverb which talks about

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dismissing the gossip or the scoffer and the strife will end.

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One of the things I've noticed about Chad

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is he is a guy who knows a whole lot of pastors.

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He knows their inside and their outside.

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He knows what they actually do in their churches

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and what he doesn't.

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But you'll never hear him either encouraging gossip

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or encouraging them to do something

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or you'll never hear him either encouraging gossip

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about somebody else or talking about them

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even though he knows exactly what's happening.

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I found that quite fascinating

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because when I find out a little about someone,

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I have to go tell someone, do you know what happened?

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But he has this ability to know a whole lot of information

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and not talk about it.

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Create strife, eh?

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Strife and discord.

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Third one, fear is the seed for insecurity

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and double-mindedness.

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Fear is the seed for insecurity

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and double-mindedness.

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It's in James chapter one, verses four to six.

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Insecurity and double-mindedness.

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And double-mindedness invariably leads to unbelief.

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So fear is where it starts but then it keeps escalating.

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And so whatever area I have fear in

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will be an area that I feel insecure in.

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And if I don't fix it with the word

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and by running into the arms of God

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and finding help there, then fear will lead to insecurity.

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Insecurity will lead to double-mindedness.

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Double-mindedness makes it difficult for me

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to believe God in that area.

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These are things we must nip in the bud.

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The whole idea of not letting a seed grow

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is to quickly recognize what is happening

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and then run for help.

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Run for help to either God,

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run for help to someone who is godly,

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run for help to the word.

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At the end of the day, God uses others,

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God uses his spirit and God uses his word.

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Any questions on these three before we go on?

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These are unseen things, guys.

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We only see them once they manifest.

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Okay, next one.

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Slander-laced,

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slander-laced accusation.

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As an accusation that has slander in it.

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Slander-laced accusation.

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Slander-laced accusation is the seed for affliction.

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Is the seed for affliction.

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I have personally experienced this.

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Is the seed for affliction.

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Because it couples you with the accuser.

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He's known as, Satan is sometimes known

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as the accuser of the brethren.

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When Jacob actively begins to slander or accuse

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someone else, particularly believers,

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then he is now running a two-legged race

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with the accuser of the brethren.

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Once Jacob slanders or accuses someone

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without any valid reason,

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you then begin to suffer this thing called affliction

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because you are way too close

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to the accuser of the brethren.

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One of the stories in the Old Testament

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that highlights this is Numbers chapter 12,

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where Miriam and her brother begin to,

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not Miriam and Aaron, begin to slanderously accuse Moses

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of being married to Zipporah

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and saying that he isn't the right guy

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and why should God only speak to him?

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That's in verse one.

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In verse 12, she's suddenly afflicted with leprosy.

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Her skin turns white.

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I've done this to people that have suffered immensely

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and it did not stop till I went and told them

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that I had slandered them and accused them.

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But thank God I knew the key.

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I prayed throughout the night praying

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that this affliction would go away and it did not.

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I repented of it.

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It did not.

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Finally, I had to go to the person

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and say to the person, I have slandered you.

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Will you forgive me?

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Or will you pray for me?

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And the person forgave me and prayed for me

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and the affliction immediately lifted.

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The affliction lifted within 20 or 25 seconds.

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This is what I mean by knowing these seed and keys

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so that many things in your life ends

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without even having to do any praying.

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My experience shouldn't be the criteria

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that we base this on, but I'm just giving you

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an anecdote to explain that these things are real.

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Yep.

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There isn't much difference except that

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when I say slander-laced accusation,

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I mean, you're now publicly accusing someone.

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You are going around saying something

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about somebody publicly, at least gossip.

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It's between you and me.

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But now I'm going, telling people, hey, did you hear about,

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it's very similar, but there is something

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that Satan does where he picks on things

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that are in your life.

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Some of it may be true, but he starts accusing you.

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Zechariah three is a classic example.

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But there's Joshua the High Priest standing on one side,

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the angel of God on one side, Satan on one side,

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and Satan is accusing him.

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He's called the accuser of the brethren.

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He still tries to accuse us,

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but every time he tries to accuse us before God,

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he suddenly has to confront the blood of Christ

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and it's freshly slain blood.

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So I'm not saying that accusations have to be valid

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before you use them.

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Sometimes accusations are valid,

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but there must be great shown,

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because accusations are accusations

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where the intent is, can I bring this person down?

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That's the point of accusation, right?

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Can I bring this person down?

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So it's very similar to gossip.

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I was thinking I should remove gossip,

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but I thought I'd leave that in,

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because it's such a familiar word to us.

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Jealousy is the seed for demonic oppression.

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Jealousy is the seed for demonic oppression.

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This is far more nasty than we give it credit for.

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It's an ancient spirit.

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Jealousy is seed for demonic oppression.

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It's an ancient spirit.

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In 1 Samuel 18, verse eight to 10,

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you'll read the story that I mentioned just now

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about Saul.

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What drove Satan to rebel?

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What drove Satan to rebellion was also jealousy.

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Here is the most high God who's receiving all worship.

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Why should he receive all worship?

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I will sit on Mount Zion.

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The king has been installed on Zion,

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and yet Satan says, I will sit on Mount Zion.

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Jealousy is the seed for demonic oppression.

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Whenever you're jealous, get rid of it quickly, eh?

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Because this is so common.

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Some of the things with these,

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some of the problems with these simple things

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is that they have become so common to human experience

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that we think it is okay.

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1 Samuel 18, eight to 10.

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Next one.

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Stinginess is the seed for spiritual disorientation

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and darkness.

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Stranger.

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Stinginess, as in being miserly,

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as in not being generous,

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is the seed for spiritual disorientation and darkness.

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Jesus put it this way in Matthew 6, 23.

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If your eye is evil, how great is the darkness within you?

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He was talking about money.

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He was talking about treasure.

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He was talking about where your heart is.

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He was talking about generosity.

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In Proverbs 21, verse nine,

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you see in the New King James Version

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and the King James Version, the opposite,

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that if a man has a bountiful eye,

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how blessed is he?

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By the same token, if a man has an evil eye,

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and by evil eye, it didn't mean an eye

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that looks at you evilly.

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Because Jesus uses the same phrase in Matthew 20,

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where he's distributing Dinahri to his laborers,

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and he says to one laborer,

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why do you have an evil eye

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with regard to how much I give this guy?

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Can't I be generous the way I want to be?

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An evil eye is an eye that is stingy or miserly.

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And it is surprising how stinginess

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brings in spiritual disorientation and darkness.

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What is the measure of stinginess?

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It changes from person to person, right?

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If I think that being generous

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is moving from 10% to 11%,

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I would suggest to you that I'm still stingy.

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It's not percentage.

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Generosity is the heart of God.

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Begin to increase in it.

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Stinginess brings in spiritual disorientation and darkness.

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An evil eye brings such darkness into a person's life,

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just as a bountiful eye, as it says in Proverbs 21, nine,

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brings such blessedness.

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And I'm not talking about offerings, guys.

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I'm talking about being generous.

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Any questions before we move on?

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Okay, next one, unforgiveness.

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I know you know enough about this one.

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Unforgiveness is the seed

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for spiritual quarantine and toxicity.

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Spiritual quarantine and toxicity.

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As in, once you don't forgive,

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once I don't forgive you for what you may have done to me,

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if you don't forgive me for what I've done to you,

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then till you do, you are not usable.

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You are quarantined.

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Because there is nothing that I have in common with Jesus

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when I refuse to forgive you.

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There is nothing that I have in common with Jesus

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when I refuse to forgive you.

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That's one side of it.

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So I'm quarantined saying,

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hey, Jacob, if you forgive, it's not that,

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I mean, there is a scripture which says,

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forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.

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I mean, if you were to flip it around,

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do not forgive me my sins

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if I do not forgive those that have sinned against me.

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That's not what it says.

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But the point is, unforgiveness causes me

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to be spiritually quarantined.

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And then leave that alone,

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it begins to develop toxicity inside me,

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which I know you've heard enough about,

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so I won't go there.

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Should I forgive if someone hasn't asked for forgiveness?

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Absolutely.

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Why?

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Because God does that.

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When does a person experience forgiveness?

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When he asks for it.

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When do you give it?

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As soon as you can.

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Here's a subtle one.

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Control is the seed for self-reliance.

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It's very subtle.

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You know, if you went into the Bible

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and Googled or searched for the word control,

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you'll only find words that have to do with self-control

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or someone controlling something in a good way.

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Control is a word that we have developed recently.

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I don't know what the right word is,

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I don't know what the right word is in the Bible.

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But you'll find stories where people,

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like for instance in Luke 12,

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where the man decided,

00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:20.560
hmm, now that I've done well, let me see what I can do.

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I can build some barns and then I can build bigger barns

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and then I can do this and then if I do this,

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then my life is secure.

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That is the whole idea of control.

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Can I secure my life by taking care of this, this, this

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and that so that in the eventuality that that happens,

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I can do this and this and it'll all be secure?

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Control is the seed for self-reliance.

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Control is the seed for us self-reliance.

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And it leads to delusion and the neglect of faith.

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It leads to delusion and the neglect of faith.

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It leads to delusion and the neglect of faith.

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As in one thinks one has everything under control and it's an absolute illusion

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because you have nothing under control and it leads to a neglect of faith

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because the opposite of faith is not fear the opposite of faith is self-reliance.

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What did God challenge people on always in the Old Testament? He did not say you

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He said you did not rely on me. Self-reliance is the opposite of faith.

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It's not fear that is the opposite of faith. Fear hollows faith but

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self-reliance is the contradiction to faith.

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It's what we teach our children be self-reliant and then we also expect

00:46:50.380 --> 00:46:53.020
them to show faith.

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This is going completely on a detour but one of the things that any martial art

00:47:05.060 --> 00:47:11.020
does to your child is it teaches your child how to be tremendously self-reliant

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for his or her own security and protection and there is a good side to

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it and there is a really detrimental side to it.

00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:21.300
But that's a topic for another day.

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That was supposed to be martial arts.

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Deception is the seed for concealment. For concealment. Concealment as a

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when I begin to live a life that is steeped in deception, either the world

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or sometimes God or the enemy, I don't know who, throws a blanket over me where

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I will stay concealed and will never see the light of day or light of

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breakthrough or light of emergence or light of God. This is what happened to

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Jacob. Jacob was highly deceptive and so every day he would be in a state of

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every time he would deceive and he would try to control his circumstances

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by thinking if I do this and do this then Esau may react this way. He would

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plan things so far ahead. He was a control freak and he was deceptive and

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his deception ended concealing him in Laban's land for 20 years.

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20 wasted years. That marriage should have taken 20 days, man. It took him 20

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years. Deception conceals you. Deception is the seed for concealment. Jacob

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deceived and stayed concealed in Laban's house. Any questions before we go on?

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Deception is using lies to on one hand pave the way for you and on the other

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hand deprive someone of a benefit. It's both. Lies would sometimes be just to

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get out of something. Here there's a double whammy. It is pave a creative

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path to a better life. It's a path to a better life. It's a path to a better

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life. Here there's a double whammy. It is pave a creative path for you and deprive

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someone of something in the process and Jacob did that many many times.

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Next one. Complaint. Complaint. Complaint or discontentment, which is often where

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the complaint comes from, is the seed for coveting or craving. When I complain,

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when I'm discontent, it's only a matter of time where I start craving or

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coveting. And when I don't get what I crave or covet, now I begin to step into

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envy and bitterness. James chapter four, verse one talks about this where it

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says, why do you fight? Why do you quarrel? It is because you desire things

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and when you don't get them, you don't like it. You ask a miss. You get bitter.

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You start fighting. So complaint and discontentment. It is not that you don't

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take your complaint to God. Take your complaint to God. David did this often.

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Write your own psalm. It's really helpful. Both Val and Jane will endorse your

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complaint. But at the end of the day, after you write your psalms and get done

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with your complaining, don't go into discontentment because discontentment

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will eventually lead to coveting. Coveting is wanting something right now

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and wanting it at whatever cost. Craving then leads to bitterness and envy when it

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is not met. And unfortunately because we don't have the power to turn stones into

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bread, you can crave for something and not get it. And it just leads to envy and

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bitterness. And that then brings in its own bitter pill because bitter envy, this

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is a nasty one again. Bitter envy is the seed for confusion and the demonic.

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Where do we see it? We see it in James chapter 3 verse 16. Complaint is the seed

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for discontentment. You'll see that in Exodus 16.3 and many times in Israel's

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life where Israel would begin to complain. The complaint would lead to

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discontentment. The discontentment would lead to bitterness. Bitterness against

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God, bitterness against Moses, bitterness against Joshua. And bitterness and envy

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would bring in all kinds of confusion and would bring in serpents. James 3 verse 16

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very clearly says, where there is bitter envy, there is always confusion, things

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which are sensual and that which is demonic. Guys, remember this. Just to put a

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small mark on it. Sexual discontentment also goes this route of coveting and

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craving. Next one, pride. Pride is the seed for divine resistance. This is one of

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the few things that God resists. Like when you read the word resist, it's a

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sense of a soldier taking a stand against the enemy. So every time I walk in pride,

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there is divine resistance to my progress. There's divine resistance to my progress.

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It's in James chapter 4 verse 6. I was reading something by C.S. Lewis on pride

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and he says pride is always competitive. It is always competitive. It will always

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compete. It will always compete. If a guy drives a little faster than you, you've got

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to show that next turn you'll drive a little faster. Doesn't matter what happens, it

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competes. Pride competes. After reading that article by C.S. Lewis yesterday, I was

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saying to him, as a father, I'd like to lose this desire to compete. Because

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competition, when you lose or win, you get critical. I want to lose the ability to

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compete. I don't want to compete. Except with Toronto. But otherwise, don't want to

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compete. Except against the Maple Leafs. Everything else is forgiven. So pride is

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the seed for divine resistance. It has the tendency to compete by nature and I must

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lose it. Next one is anger. Anger is the seed for stupidity. Yeah. Anger really

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makes you stupid. Stupidity, contention and plunder. A man who does not have

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control of his temper is like a city without walls. Can easily be entered into,

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can easily be plundered. A man who is angry is a man who is stupid, literally

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some versions say stupid because everything that he builds he destroys in a day.

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A man who is angry should be cast out because he will bring contention and discord.

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The thing is, we Christians are brilliant at disguising anger. Only our mothers, our

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fathers, our sisters, brothers and our spouses and occasionally our kids are ever

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exposed to our anger. And it comes out in these nasty flares that just shoot out

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and can be withdrawn. I want that gone from my life so that nobody near me gets

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singed. It won't be you. Because I'm supposed to take care of you. I'm a pastor.

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I'm supposed to be nice to you. It won't be people that I know. It will always be

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people that I know I cannot lose that will suffer.

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Destroy it out of your life because it brings stupidity, it brings contention and

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it plunders you. A man who does not have control over his temper is like a city

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that has walls. Anybody can enter anytime, take anything, put anything in.

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Oh, I'm glad my mum didn't turn up today. She would have looked at me like,

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really, you're talking about this? She was supposed to be here today. She's postponed

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her visit by a month. I'll preach some other sermon that day.

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So...

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Yeah, guys, remove this from your life because it's always the ones closest to us

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that bear it. It's never the ones that you are in charge over. It's always the ones

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that, you know, won't disappear if you get angry or won't leave the church or won't

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leave the company or won't sue you or won't take you to small courts. Those are

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the ones who bear it.

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Complacency. Complacency is the seed for loss and the sabotage of your destiny.

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There's this horrible verse in Zephaniah 1, verse 12 and 13, and God is saying this.

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God is saying that, I've heard what you're saying. You're saying that I won't do good,

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I won't do evil, that I'm neutral. Well, I want you to know that because of your

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complacent attitude, everything you have, you're going to lose. Your homes, your

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vineyards, your wells, everything you've planted will go away because of your

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complacency because you've decided that you will live your lives neutral, so much

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so that you're even saying that, I, God, am neutral. I won't do you any harm. I

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won't do you any good. Zephaniah 1, verse 12. What a powerful verse. I read that and

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thought to myself, nuts. Another word for complacency is mediocrity. One of the

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easiest ways to avoid being spotted for complacency is to make sure that you

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never hang out with passionate people because passion will always expose mediocrity.

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The easiest way to avoid being labeled or being exposed for mediocrity is if I can

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hang out with people just like me because passion will expose complacency and

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mediocrity. It's only when you stand next to something bright that you realize that

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you're wearing blue and black. Proverbs 1, 32 says your mediocrity will kill you.

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I taught something ages ago called taberah. If you ever get a chance, go listen to

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it on the website, taberah. Taberah is when the fire of God fell and it fell along

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the outskirts of the camp. And you realize that the ones around the outskirts of

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Israel's camp were the riffraff, as some versions say, that were complacent, that

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were dabbling in this and that, that were a mixed crowd. And that is where the fire

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fell. And God will not, after the passion of the cross, will not allow his children

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to continue in complacency or in mediocrity. One of two things will happen.

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One of two things will happen. Either he will say, I've got to ignite you because

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I cannot withstand lukewarmness. Or he will say, there will be loss and a sabotage of

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your destiny is one or the other because he hates this. He will do something to ignite

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you because lukewarmness and him don't get along well together.

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Three or four more and we're done. Legalism. Legalism. As in when I exalt or when I value

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the traditions of men, when I value my own culture, when I value my experience, when

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I value my thinking about the word, that's legalism. It's Christ plus something. Legalism

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is the seed for dullness. Legalism is the seed for dullness. Galatians 3.3, Paul says,

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Hey guys, what happened to you? Who bewitched you? Don't you know that everything you've

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gotten came by the Spirit and by hearing of faith? Why is it that you've walked into

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legalism now? How is it that you've become dull? Galatians 3.3. Legalism brings dullness

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and that dullness leads to greater stubbornness. Legalism is not some religious ritual.

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Legalism can happen to the best of us. It's stiff-neckedness and the stiff-neckedness

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comes because Jacob thinks that his experience, his thoughts, his present understanding or

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his culture is now exalted above the word, that this is higher than the word. It doesn't

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matter what you tell me. This is what I believe because this is what my experience has taught

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me. How do you battle legalism? You battle legalism by always being open to the fact

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that what you know today may be incomplete and that tomorrow someone may introduce something

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else that is better, that is wiser, that is more accurate. And if I don't live like that,

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and especially as we get older, if we don't live like that, this awaits us.

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What an encouraging message. Some Sundays we'll have to go through this, guys. Rebellion.

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Rebellion is the seed for dislocation. Rebellion is the seed for dislocation. Rebellion is

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the seed for dislocation. Genesis chapter 3, verse 24. Once they rebelled, they had to

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be put outside of the location that was planned for them before the foundation of time. They

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had to be put outside and an angel had to be put at the gate so that they could not

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enter back into Eden. Rebellion or the breaking of order is seed for dislocation. Genesis

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3, verse 24. Dislocates you. That's why keeping order is so brilliant. It locates you where

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you were supposed to be even before the foundations of the earth. Rebellion dislocates you. Once

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you're dislocated, then the serpent has rights because it says in Ecclesiastes 10, 8, break

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the head and the serpent will bite. Compromise is the seed for blindness and disgrace. Compromise

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is the seed for blindness and disgrace. Bible says when a man takes a bribe, when a man

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perverts justice, when a man compromises, what happens is that he now deliberately chooses

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blindness. He blinds himself to what is true. Eutronomy 16, I think verse 19 or 19, verse

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16 talks about it. Compromise is the seed for blindness. Eutronomy 16, 19. There was

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this king called Nehash in Judges chapter 11. Nehash, you know what he would do? He

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would go and he would blind people who would gouge out their right eye. Israel gathers

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7,000 Israelites gathered at Jabesh Gilead and they say, we'll come out to you. You can

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take whatever you want. And he says, okay, you come out to me. Here's a treaty I'll make

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with you. You come out to me and I'll take out your right eye. Every man, woman and child,

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I'll take out your right eye because I want to bring this grace on you. And they say,

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give us seven days and we'll let you know. And if nothing works, we'll come out. And

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then they send word to Saul. Saul has the spirit of God come down upon him. And he says,

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he cuts up an oxen and he sends the oxen to every tribe and he says, if you guys don't

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turn up here and fight with me, this will be the condition that all of you will have

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to bear as this oxen go. They all come, he goes, fights them, defeats Nehash. It's such

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a remote story that most of us don't remember, which is why I said it. But compromise causes

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blindness. And stand against this, see? It blinds you. Stand against it because once

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the blindness comes, this grace will follow but stand against it. Do not compromise. Do

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not compromise with your taxes. Do not compromise with the truth. Do not compromise with little

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things that have to do with the law and big things of the law. Do not compromise. Do not

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compromise. Daniel is brilliant at this. Keith Green brought out an album long ago called

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No Compromise. You should listen to the songs on that Keith Green album. Every one of them

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was about not changing or perverting or distorting that which is God. And I think that's why

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I said it. A culture that tolerates will also begin to be tolerating of God. We live in

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a culture that is very tolerant. Every time a culture becomes this tolerant, people in

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that culture become tolerant of God. Not obedient to God, tolerant of God. As in okay, we will

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humor you also. But don't get too God-ish on us now. Last two. Scorn. Scorn is a very

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important word. Scorn is the seed for barrenness. Scorn is the seed for barrenness. Scorn is

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the seed for barrenness. What you scorn or what you despise, you will not birth. Michael

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or Mikael, David's wife scorned him, was barren. Esau scorned his birthright, who was barren

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for the rest of his life even though he's sotted with tears. Scorn is the seed for barrenness.

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I'm talking about barrenness in terms of not being able to produce things in your life

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in the area that you despise something in. There are many things I despised with regard

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to church. And Acts 29 has suffered because of that. Because I as the pastor despise certain

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things about big churches or the way prophecy is being told. And I despise the fact that

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churches or the way prophecy is done or things like that. Because of that, this church has

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suffered because whatever you despise, you will not birth. Sorry? Whatever, because I

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have despised things, I have prevented them from happening at Acts 29. If I have despised

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big churches, Acts 29 has struggled to grow. If I have despised a certain way of doing

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things that I despise just because I didn't like the person who was doing it, then whatever

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I run begins to get affected. Because whatever you scorn, you will not possess. In that area,

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you will not be fruitful. If it is a church, you will not be fruitful. If it is a church,

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it doesn't matter how I mutilate it, you must believe it. God will judge me for mutilating

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it, but you must believe it so that it can be yours. If you despise prosperity because

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creatures teach prosperity in distorted, perverse ways, then you will not be able to enjoy what

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prosperity may look like here on earth. If you despise prophecy because there have been

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prophets that have abused and made money out of it and peddled their gifts, then you will

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not benefit. These are things that are already God provided. It is sad that the ones using

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that have given it such a bad rap, but we must now be wiser and look beyond them.

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Last one. Isolation, isolation, isolation is the seed, isolation is the seed for the

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cutting off of wisdom. Isolation is the seed for the cutting off, as in you cut yourself

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off from wisdom when you try to, when you choose to live. When you choose to live, you

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will not be able to live. You will not be able to live. You will not be able to live

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when you try to, when you choose to live an isolated life. You cut yourself off from

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wisdom. Proverbs 18.1, depending on the version you read, it says, a man who isolates himself

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is a man who strives against wisdom. He does not want to connect with wisdom. Proverbs

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18.1. Isolation is like damming a stream so that the water doesn't get through you. It

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just cuts you off from wisdom. Now it makes sense why it says in Proverbs that in a multitude

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of counselors there is wisdom. Any questions guys?

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This seems, 19 of these things seems like a lot and trust me, there's at least 200 and

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so we haven't done 10%. So we leave it at this just to give you an idea of how this

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works and now it becomes easy for me to stop plunder, to get the Spirit of God flowing over

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me and helping me because immediately after the verse which says God resists the proud,

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it says he gives grace to the humble and the Spirit of God is my helper. It prevents me

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from breaking order because I know that when I break, I dislocate myself. It prevents me

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from nursing bitter envy because I know that it is only a matter of time where confusion

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and the demonic comes. I'm not even going into things like sexual immorality or adultery

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because that's a dirt thing. I mean to go into sexual immorality and adultery and to

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think that you can come out of it without being stained is foolish. The Bible speaks

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about it at least 40 times out of which 20 are in the Proverbs itself. So I'm not even

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going into those obvious sins. I'm talking about these little seeds that we sow without

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thinking on a regular basis. Any questions before I conclude? My conclusion is so how

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do we deal with this? Very easy, really very easy. The great thing about Jesus and what's

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his name was right when he called his book bondage breaker. What was the guy's name?

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Anderson. Jesus is a marvelous bondage breaker. He breaks things very very easily. So once

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you know which area, let's say it's anger that I am dealing with, then first I go to

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Romans 2, 4 and in Romans 2, 4 it says it's the kindness of God that brings someone to

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repentance. Start there guys. Remember you're not dealing with a judge, you're not dealing

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with a lawgiver, you're not dealing with a faceless surgeon who just wants to remove

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an ulcer. You're dealing with a father and that's where it starts. And so you go to the

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father and you first begin in Romans 2, 4 where it says receive his kindness because

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his kindness leads to repentance. That's where you start. So how do you deal with this?

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So father, I am so sorry for flaring against my mom or my sister knowing that they'll always

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be around, they can't disown me, they can't disappear. I am so sorry for being angry with

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them. Let's take an example because that's happened in the past in my life. I'm so sorry

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but father before, I don't want to be just forgiven for this. I want it removed from

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my life because this is not who you are. I want it removed from my life. That's a father

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I come to you and I think of the millions of times you could have been at least a little

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angry with me yet every time you could have, what did you meet me with? With tremendous

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kindness like the prodigal father who's running down the lane because he can see his son at

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a distance. Kindness is where it starts. And then once I go to Romans 2, 4, I go to 2 Corinthians

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7, 10 where it says real repentance has remorse in it, has sorrow in it. Real repentance has

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sorrow in it. But that sorrow comes only after I see the kindness of God. And now I

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begin to sorrow that I have treated someone made in the image of God in a way that diminished

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them, that dissed them, that brought disdain on them. Doesn't matter whether it's your

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mother, father, friend, stranger, the guy who did not give you good service for the money

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you paid, how can I tear down someone made in the image of God? Father, I am so sorry

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because this is remorse that is genuine because repentance carries in it godly sorrow. 2 Corinthians

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7, 10. That's the second part. If those two parts are met, then it becomes super easy

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because now you're like really skiing down this amazing slope which I've never done in

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my life and don't intend to but I watch it and I think, man, this must be fun with the

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wind blowing through your locks of your hair which also I don't have but I imagine. And

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so now it is you've done those two things. The third thing is now in submission, resist

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the devil. In submission. Now that you have submitted to God, resist the devil. Resist

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the devil. Resist the devil. Because God has the ability to catch that snake hidden behind

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throw it out even before you get rid of the crates. Resist the devil and he will flee from

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you because you've just sprayed this amazing thing called snake spray and it makes snakes

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slither away like bear spray. And so now in submission to God, resist the devil. Father,

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I am done with this anger thing. I remember telling my sister some years ago, I told her,

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Reba, I will, I give you my word, I will never be angry with you again. I will never raise

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my voice against you because she was so hurt that time that I did it. She didn't say anything

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because I was in Bristol. She didn't know what to say but I could see the hurt on her

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face. She just walked away. That made me feel worse because at least when you're angry and

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someone's angry back, you feel that it cancels each other out. When the person is still nice

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to you, now it was like keeping coals on my head. I remember going and sitting her down and saying,

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I am so sorry I've done this to you before and it ain't gonna happen again. And surprisingly by the

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grace of God, I've kept my word man. And it's only the grace of God. I kept my word. Trust the Holy

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Spirit man. Trust the Holy Spirit. One of the things I've learned is when I am not able to do it,

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there is someone called the Holy Spirit and he is God and he lives in me. I must trust that he can

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change me. I must trust that he can change me. Why is it that he can only change a smoker who has a

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20-year addiction? Why can't he change you? He can change us. It's amazing how we trust God to

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change other people but we don't trust the Holy Spirit enough to change a habit in you. Trust the

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Holy Spirit. He is God. He can change you. He can change you. So now that we resist the devil,

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the snakes leaves before the crates are taken down. Trust the Holy Spirit for this. There is nobody

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interested, nobody interested in making you like Jesus as much as the Spirit of God. This is his

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life work. Can I bring out of you a blemishless bride for the bridegroom? If necessary, confess

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your sins to one another. As in go talk to somebody. Tell them, hey I had this problem. Hey guys,

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I'm telling you something. There's never been a sin in my life that I haven't gone and confessed

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to somebody else. It's been what certifies my victory because it is biblical. There has never

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been a sin in my life that I have not beaten, that God did not help me with but I had to bring it out

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into the light. You don't know how embarrassing it is when you're a pastor and you have to bring sins

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out into the light. But find people and you will always find people who won't write a blog about

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it and you can then bring it out into the open saying, here oh God and then go and say to Sheldon,

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here Sheldon, this is where I've been failing. Every sin that has been beaten has always found

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light in being confessed to someone else. I'm telling you the God-honest truth. God is my witness

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that I'm not trying to pull a fast one on you. These are biblically certified ways of victory.

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Then now that the snake has been removed from the room, rise up as many times as you need to

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cultivate like an athlete, like a soldier from 2nd Timothy 2 verse 2 to 5 where it says, like an

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athlete run according to the rules, like a soldier, do not get entangled in civilian affairs, like a

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farmer, wait patiently again and again and again go and take down those crates, go take those cardboard

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boxes out, throw them. Do they come back again? Get up again, go throw them out. Hey I've said

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this before, if you had a hundred dollar note in your hand and the wind blows and it blows out of

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your hand, what will you do? Go after it, pick it up. It happens again, what will you do? Go after it,

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pick it up. It happens a third time, trust me you won't come to the conclusion, ah if it blew three

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times it must be blowing in the wind and you start singing Bob Dylan. No, you would still go after it,

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pick it up again. The point being that it doesn't matter how many times I have to clear that room

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of crates, I will do it because I cannot afford, cannot afford the serpent and its brood to come

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back and build its lair there and so do it again and again like an athlete, like a farmer, like a

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soldier, discipline habits that dismantle old strongholds and build godly fortresses. Why? So

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that the world may benefit and so that no one is harmed.