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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Signs-and-Wonder-part-2
Publishing Date: 2021-05-02T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/signs-and-wonder-part-2/

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Okay, so guys I'm starting again.

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Signs and Wonders Part 2.

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So the first miracle that Jesus did was

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at the wedding in Cana. And so the first miracle

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was John Chapter 2, verse 1 to 11. And when you look at the first miracle

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there was a need at the time and Jesus

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wasn't actually ready. I'm just bringing these points up

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to show the kind of God we have and the willingness

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he has to do miracles, signs and wonders.

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We somehow have been convinced because either of

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we have been convinced because of a lack of miracles and signs and wonders

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in our lives around us and through churches coming up

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with continuous theologies to tell you why things don't work.

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We sometimes forget how willing this God is.

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To engage in signs, miracles and wonders.

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So when you look at John Chapter 2, verse 1 to 11, you see that

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1. There was a need.

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2. The need was the kind

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that would cause embarrassment

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and loss of dignity.

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So it was not a question of life and death, though embarrassment

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and dignity was pretty important in that culture.

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3. Jesus was not ready.

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It's not my time, he said. He wasn't ready.

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And yet, to spare a family

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embarrassment and a loss of dignity

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Jesus performs a miracle. And I would say to you, he only did what

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I saw his father doing. And so in the process, he restores

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to this family

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restores lack, as in he makes up for the lack

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he restores dignity

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he restores shortfall

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shortfall as in

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when you don't have

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enough, you don't know what is enough. It's insufficient.

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So he restores shortfall. And in the process

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he restores, he shows 5 of his disciples

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at this stage in his life, he only had 5 disciples.

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For the first time, his 5 disciples see a miracle

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and they actually end up believing.

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That's how verse 11 ends. That they actually end up believing.

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That's the first miracle.

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I want us to understand how willing God is to do

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miracles, signs and wonders.

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Guys, these are things I'm struggling with.

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I'm struggling with.

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How have we reached a place where we

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struggle with a God who does signs, miracles and wonders?

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I was checking online. And every place

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I check online, every article ends

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the same way. Yes, God can do miracles, but he is sovereign.

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Yes, God can do miracles, but that ended with the apostles.

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Yes, God can do miracles, but we shouldn't expect it every time.

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Yes, God can do miracles, but we live in a earth that is

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sick and dying and suffering. Yes, God can do miracles,

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but our trust should not be in miracles. Yes, God can do miracles, but

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the greatest miracle is salvation. Yes, God can do miracles, but let us not

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become like a wicked and adulterous generation. There's so much

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of it that you think to yourself, really, at the end of the day, does God

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do it or doesn't he?

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And when you look at the stories, it seems to present a different Jesus.

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And either Jesus is the same unchanging Jesus, or

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there's something hidden in the Bible that we're not seeing, where this was meant

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for the New Testament times, or this was meant for the Samaritans, or this was meant for the Gentiles,

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and this ain't applicable anymore.

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I want to get out of this. I want to get out of this.

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And the only way to get out of this is to take a hammer to it every time,

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and then use mortar and

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build a new structure.

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There's two things. There's a deconstruction of a mindset, and the reconstruction

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of a biblical view. It has to

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be both, because you cannot inhabit what you don't believe.

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You cannot inhabit what you don't believe. If you half believe it,

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you will only inhabit what you half believe.

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It's not even dependent on whether you got your miracle or not.

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That becomes such a problem. How come I am still sick?

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If I am still sick, then this doesn't work.

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I want to get out of this so that I trust and believe Jesus has the same unchanging one,

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who if anything is increasing in who he is,

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then I will not be able to see the miracle.

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If anything is increasing in who he is on the earth, because

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the Bible says as the days come to an end, the devil is

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increasing in his rage, his fury, his evil, his wickedness, and his

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ways over the sons of disobedience. At this time, do you think Christ who said

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that the greater the darkness, the greater the light will hold back who

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he is through his people?

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That was the first miracle.

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Then you look at the fact that the Bible actually says in John

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chapter 2 verse 7 that through this miracle he displayed his glory and

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his disciples believed him. Five of them believed him. That's the first time they

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decided, ah shucks, this is more than a rabbi we have in our midst.

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The last miracle he did was in John 21 verse 6, where he says,

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boys do you have any fish? And they say, we fished all night.

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And he says, okay, cast your net on the other side. And they pull up 153 fish.

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And in the process, Jesus restores Peter.

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He restores provision.

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Restores provision.

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He propels them into their future commission.

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That you just won't be fishers of fish, you'll be fishers of men.

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That's his last miracle.

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One of the words that I want us to just continuously focus on is the word

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restore. Restore is the word restore.

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Restore is the word restore.

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What we continuously focus on is the word restore.

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Because we said this yesterday,

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that the reason God does signs, miracles and wonders is

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because he is obsessed with restoration.

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He's so obsessed with restoration that he allows

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the murder of his son.

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That's how obsessed he is with restoration.

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He's so obsessed with restoration that his son is slain before the foundations of the earth were laid.

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And that God is not

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waiting for some end day. If he was waiting for some end day,

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the Bible would be much shorter and the Gospels would be missing because he would just turn up on the end day

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and in one swoop restore everything. Remove the devil,

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make us whole and we'd be restored. But that's not the plan.

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The plan was that the kingdom would break in with the coming of the Lord.

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The plan was that the kingdom would break in with the coming of Jesus and then we would work towards

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this time and everything would come to an amazing finale.

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But in the process, we gotta show the world

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what it looks like. And Jesus is alive

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and he's left his body on the earth for one purpose. Can you join me

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in my mission to restore?

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These things should sink somewhere deep inside.

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When you look at his miracles,

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you have the nobleman's son who was sick and

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Jesus says to him, go, your son

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is well. And when he was going, his servants meet him and they say, hey, your son

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is well. And he said, which hour did it happen? And they find out it was the

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same hour that Jesus spoke. There was a miracle

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of fish being caught on the other side of the boat

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when Peter says to him, go away from me for I'm a sinful man.

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There were demoniacs, one in Gadarin, two somewhere else

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and many more where people were delivered of

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fears, not ordinary demons,

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demons like legion. Mary was delivered of seven demons.

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There was Peter's mother-in-law who was

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unable to move because of a fever and Jesus lifts her up and

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rebukes the fever. There was walking through the midst of persecutors

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who were going to throw him over a cliff and he walks through them

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and they cannot stop him. There were lepers that were healed.

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There were the ten lepers and then there was a leper in Luke 5

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who said, if you are willing, you will make me clean. There was a widowed son

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who was dead and he was raised back to life. There was a centurion servant

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who was raised back to life. There was the stilling of the storm.

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There was the paralytic, many paralytics. There was Jairus's

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daughter. There was the issue of blood. There was Bartimaeus

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and then there were other blind men. There was the mute man and Jesus touched his tongue

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and he became okay. There was the pool at Bethesda where there was a man who had

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been crippled for 38 years. There was another man who had a widowed hand.

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He stretched out his hand and the widowed hand on a sabbath became well. There was the feeding of the

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5000. There was the feeding of the 4000. There was the word of Fatha

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and the mouth was spoken and the ears popped open. There was a syrophenician woman

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whose daughter was demonized who was healed. There was a blind man in John chapter 9

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who began to see but he saw things like trees and Jesus asked him to wash

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touched his eyes again and his eyes were restored. There was a boy

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that would be thrown into the fire by a demon and the father brought him to the

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disciples. They couldn't do anything. Jesus healed him. There was a woman who was bent for

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18 years, a daughter of Abraham. He delivered her from a demon and he

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was taken back out. There was a man who came with a swelling or dropsy on sabbath.

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Jesus healed him. There were the ten lepers and they all walked to the priest.

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All of them got healed. One man came back. There was Lazarus who was put in a tomb for

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four days and he came out of it alive. There was a fig tree that existed

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one day with leaves and in a few hours was completely

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withered away by Jesus' command. There was Malchus, the man

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whose ear Peter cut and Jesus put his hand on his ear and the ear was

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restored. There was a resurrection where a man who was dead and who was put in a tomb

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rose again to life and presented himself to the disciples.

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There was a cat of the 153 fish. There was a walking through walls and

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appearing to the disciples while they were sitting hidden. There was a walk to

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Emmaus and he was breaking bread and suddenly he disappeared.

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You are saying that this Jesus

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doesn't do anything anymore, Jacob? Get your

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mind right.

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I'm talking to myself. After giving you that entire list

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John 21 verse 25 still says that if I would begin to record

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everything that Jesus did there would not be enough books to record them.

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So what we are hearing is just this vignette

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of what Jesus did. There aren't enough books to write

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all the things he actually did. What kind of man is this, man?

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Who roams the earth today

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and who lives in his body and is waiting to do the same thing.

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Either he is unchanging

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and he does the same yesterday, today and forever or we've got

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some really bad theology to justify our

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importance.

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The thing is we've got to prove this. We've got to prove it works.

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But you can't prove anything till you believe what has been said.

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The book of Acts is a repeat. All these things I've mentioned

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all these healings, deliverances, provision happens in the book of Acts.

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The only things that are added on is there are thousands of salvations

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there's this amazing thing called translation that happens

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where a man is in one spot, one second and the next spot he's about

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eighteen to twenty miles away in a second.

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There's

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angelic interventions that happen in the book of Acts

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where Peter is in a prison and suddenly the doors start just swinging

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open. Chains fall off. Two different occasions.

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Once with Paul and Silas, once with Peter. Doors swinging open, guards standing there

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nobody aware, walking right through and he had to literally pinch himself

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to see if this was real and the angel actually wakes him up by kicking him.

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Saying, wake up Peter.

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Paul had the same thing, chains fall off.

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Besides that the other miracles that happen in the book of Acts is

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Simon Magus being struck blind and

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Herod being struck to death. Acts chapter five and

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sorry, and then Ananias and Sapphira are dying on the spot.

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Acts five, Acts nine, Acts twelve. Acts eight, Acts twelve.

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These were miracles too. But miracles

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that resulted, yes in the word of God spreading, yes fear being caused

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among people, amazement but opposition being removed.

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Those are the additions in the book of Acts.

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But otherwise you can basically put miracles

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under these categories.

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You can put them under multiplication.

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Healing is my mic still on.

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Deliverance from demons.

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Replacement as in healing is one thing

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but when someone who doesn't have

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a hand suddenly has a hand replaced, when someone who doesn't have

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who is mute from birth has hearing replaced.

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You're talking about more than something that is damaged being

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repaired. You're talking about something being

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literally recreated or regenerated.

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Control over nature where elements of nature

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are controlled or made to go one way or the other

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like it did with the wind and the waves.

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The ability to conquer

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times and space

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where he appeared, disappeared, translation.

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These are things in the New Testament where

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provision which is one of God's

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favorite things to do in miracles and life where

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what was dead was brought back to life. Look at this man.

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Look at this. What kind of God are we serving?

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This is just nuts man. Not bad Manoj.

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This is just nuts. This is who God is.

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These are the areas of miracles.

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Life as in physical life being restored.

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Provision. This is one of God's

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common themes providing miraculously.

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A miracle is a violation or an

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overriding of the natural by the intervention of the supernatural.

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Time space.

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Yeah. I got stories I can share from

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time space man. Multiplication where things multiply.

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Healing.

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Deliverance. Replacement or regeneration.

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Control over the elements of nature.

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And usually whenever these

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things happen it would affect three

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groups of people. It would affect those

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watching. It would affect those

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with Jesus as in his disciples.

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And it would affect those on whom

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or for whom the miracle was done.

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And the reactions would be

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awe, doubt,

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resistance, opposition.

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And we have to

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take stock of that. That there are three groups that are affected

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when miracles are done. The ones who are watching, the ones

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with you in the process and the ones to whom the miracle

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is done. And the reaction is either awe

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and amazement, sometimes doubt

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and often times resistance and opposition.

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Because there can't be a neutral reaction to a miracle.

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It's impossible to be neutral.

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But let's

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set this aside. I just wanted you to know that we can visit that later.

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But I want us to look at the different areas that the world is

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waiting for us to be provided, for us to provide

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them in. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

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I want to go into method now. Method.

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Don's question is, do we have the same

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authority in all these areas just like Jesus?

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I would say

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when it comes to miracles, because it's the supernatural intervention

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of God violating or overriding

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natural order, I'd say it's

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not as much about authority

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as it is about us

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doing what God is asking us to do in any given moment.

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Because in all these things, the one thing that he wants to do is

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restore.

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He wants to restore.

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So when he's providing, he wants to restore what is missing. When he's healing,

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he wants to restore what is damaged. When he delivers, he wants to restore

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sanity back. There are times when casting out demons

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requires authority. But somehow when we think of miracles,

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we are thinking of an intervention by God, a supernatural

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intervention to change natural order. And I would deal

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with authority only later. The first thing I want to deal with is my mental

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space. Because I'm not even ready to acknowledge

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that signs and miracles and wonders are God's

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favorite thing. These are a few of

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his favorite things.

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She's

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laughing too. So that is

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where my struggle is. I think the authority thing will be easier for me.

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So when it comes to method,

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when it comes to method,

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if you look at Acts chapter 3, verse 1 to 12 for instance,

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Acts chapter 3, verse 1 to 12, where Peter and John went to pray,

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everything is a song. It's so easy to remember things by song.

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Peter and John went to pray.

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They met a lame man on their way. He asked for some

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alms and he held out his palms. This is what Peter

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did say. Silver and gold have I

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none. But such as I have, give I thee.

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In the name of Jesus Christ,

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of Nazareth, rise up and walk. He went walking and

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leaping and praising God. Walking and leaping and

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praising God. In the name of Jesus Christ,

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of Nazareth, rise up and walk.

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That's Acts chapter 3, verse 1 to 12, in song.

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So when you look at that picture,

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and the guy was asking for alms, he wasn't even asking for

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healing. So when you look at that and we talk about method,

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here are some things we need to know with regard to method.

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First, expectation.

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Second, professed knowledge.

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Third, imitation.

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Fourth,

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professed

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dependence.

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Fifth, exposure.

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Sixth, verification.

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So the first one is perhaps

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the most important. Do you have an expectation

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that God does miracles?

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One. That God does miracles today? Two.

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That God does miracles today through you? Three. That God does miracles

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every day through you? Four. That God does

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miracles for the rest of your life. That expectation is

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where we are struggling. Because what expectation does is expectation

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triggers

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unsolicited action.

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Expectation triggers unsolicited action.

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As in, it doesn't even wait for, hey, could you heal me?

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I mean Peter and John were being asked for change.

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But they had the strange expectation that if a man is

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begging for money, it is their appointed responsibility

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to say to the man, we don't have silver and gold, we don't have anything to give you, but we do have

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something to give you and we have what we have to give is in the name of Jesus Christ

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and you look like you need help, so in the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk.

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Who asked him to get healed? Nobody. The guy wasn't asking, saying

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please heal me.

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Just about two months before that, Peter had denied Jesus three times.

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Yeah.

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I think God expects believers

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to have some faith, but he doesn't expect unbelievers to have any faith.

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Because what could they have faith in? They don't know Jesus.

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God really shows off in front of unbelievers.

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So

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the first one is expectation. Expectation triggers unsolicited

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action cause of anticipated outcome.

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Cause of anticipated outcome.

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Expectation triggers unasked, uninvited

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unsolicited action because of anticipated outcome. I know what's

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going to happen. I know you're asking me for money, but I'm just going to

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go ahead and heal you because I know the anticipated outcome.

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This wasn't Peter and John saying, hey, here's a lame guy.

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Do you want to try that thing that Jesus did? Let's see if it works. It wasn't a

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let's try this and see if it works. It was

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this expectation that triggered

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unasked, uninvited action because they had

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an anticipated outcome that they knew would come to pass.

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What confidence, man.

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This is what I don't have.

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Yeah, because he grew up amongst them. Capernaum and why wasn't

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Jesus able to perform miracles in Capernaum and Galilee? He was the son of

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the soil who grew up amongst them. They had seen him do things in

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surrounding neighborhoods. He comes to his own town and his own town is not willing to

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believe. So when there is enough reason to have

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faith and you choose not to believe, then there's nothing much

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we can do. So there can be people at Acts 29, you tell them a

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thing that is from the Bible and you teach them and they can still resist it.

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At that point, there's nothing you can do because

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it's not for a lack of teaching, not for a lack of goading, pushing,

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persuading, loving. It is just this is who I am.

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There's nothing you can do.

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Professed knowledge, as in this should

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continuously be built up. Who Jesus is,

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how he's a restorer, who he is in me.

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This must continuously be built up.

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Professed knowledge, meaning I should speak it out.

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I should speak it out. I must have, it's a professed knowledge, not knowledge that

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sits in my head. But this is who Jesus is. That's what we're

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doing now. This is professed knowledge. We're looking at stories, looking

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at scriptures, looking at the nature of God, particularly his intent to restore

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and we're saying, but this is who he is. We are growing in knowledge and knowledge that

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we grow in is always spoken. It'll be discussed.

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Questions will come up. Professed knowledge.

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Perhaps the difference between a

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theologian and a practicing theologian is

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one has knowledge and teaches it. Another one

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professes it, wants to practice it, wants to see it work. It's not enough for it to

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be something that is filling books. I don't want

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this to fill books. I don't want it to be in my notes.

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I want to see us, I really mean us.

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I really want to see us show the world that this works.

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Third, imitation.

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Imitation recalls how Jesus did it.

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And it makes

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contextual adjustments so that we can repeat the same, we can

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imitate the same thing in our context. Imitation

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is how did Jesus do this? How did Paul do it? How did Peter do it?

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So that's how they do it. So I'll probably do the same. Only

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there might be contextual changes that I'll have to make and so I'll make those changes.

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Maybe I can't

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tell the doctors and nurses to leave the room because I'm in the hospital room.

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Let them stay but I'll ask all the other moners to leave.

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But imitation

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is

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something that I have to learn from Bible stories.

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This is what happened in the Bible. This is what I'll still do. If anything needs to be added, I'll add.

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But this is the methodology, guys.

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The fourth one is

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profess dependence where I acknowledge the source

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of the miracle. I

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give him

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recognition for what he's doing. I rely,

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I speak about my reliance on him

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as I go about doing what I'm about to do.

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And you'll see this. Peter in Acts chapter 3, hey guys, he says in

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3 verse 12 and verse 16, do not look at us. This is

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surely in the name of Jesus Christ. You know with Jesus we are talking about the one that the

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rulers put to death, that Jesus Christ. It is surely by the power

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in his name that this man has been healed. Same thing in Acts chapter 14 that we

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read yesterday. It is this profess dependence which

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acknowledges, gives glory, and

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speaks of the one in whose name you are going to do what you're

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going to do or you just finish doing what you have done.

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One of the coolest things is when I know that something is going to happen and you go

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tell someone that listen, I'm going to pray in the name of Jesus and when I'm going to pray in the name of

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Jesus, this is going to happen. But I want you to know that it has nothing to do with me,

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it has to do with Jesus. Tell the person. It is so much

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fun.

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It is such a foolish, boastful,

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clamorous, not glamorous,

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clamorous as in loud and unruly declaration of who

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God is and what he's going to do. Your absolute dependence on him.

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He's giving glory before it happens and after it happens.

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The fifth one is exposure. You have to calibrate exposure.

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As in you have to decide, Father as I go about

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doing this healing or miracle,

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do I do it publicly in open space or do I

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do it privately where I call this person aside? Do I expel moaners

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or don't I? Do I close the doors or do I not close the doors?

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Jesus had to go through this process every time. There were times when he didn't want to

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do it publicly and he was forced to do it publicly and the Bible says that

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because the information was shared publicly, Jesus couldn't enter the town again

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because there was too much of a crowd. Other times he would close the door so that nobody saw it.

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Other times he would expel the moaners. Other times Paul and Silas

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would do things out in the open and immediately would be followed by opposition

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and beating up. When the spirit of divination was cast out as the woman

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in Acts 16, seconds later Paul and Silas were beaten up by the crowd.

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It's only today that we use healing in

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mass crusades to invite people in so that

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whatever intent the crusader has is met.

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But in the New Testament it was thought of before

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it was done. Because the

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primary intent here is restoration.

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And the last one is verification. Verification is when you

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ask the person to validate the

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miracle that happened. Go to

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the doctor, go to the priest, go to whoever needs to check

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whether the fish I gave you is plastic or real

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before you eat it or before you boil it. Because plastic doesn't boil well.

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Encourage validation.

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Encourage validation. Jesus

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at one point goes up to Thomas and what does he say? Listen, here

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feel the nail marks. Because Thomas had

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said till I put my fingers into the marks of the nail I won't believe. Feel it.

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That is something that we must

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engage in. So these are the six steps in terms of methods. Any questions?

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Exposure.

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When it comes to where and how I do the miracle I have to

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figure out, I should calibrate as in I should calculate whether God is

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saying do it openly. Do it

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behind closed doors.

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Call, expel moaners.

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Call in the pastor. Depends.

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Who do I take with me? That's another important thing. Who do I

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take with me? Exposure is so important who I take with me.

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Why is it that at times I can take all twelve? Why is it that other times

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I can only take Peter, James and John?

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Why is it that at times I break the bread

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and I multiply it and give it? Why at other times do I say

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to Philip you go do it? That's what I mean by

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exposure. Any questions?

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Pardon?

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Will take time.

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Yeah, I'm not sure but perhaps.

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For me the only step that I really want to

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cement forever is expectation.

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Once I cement that the rest of it

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is not going to be a problem.

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The rest of it

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will just increase. Imitation is not much of a problem if you are fluent in the

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word or have an idea of what the stories in the Bible are.

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Dependent acknowledgement I think most of us

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are okay with. Exposure is hearing and doing. Verification is scary.

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Because it proves whether the thing was real or not.

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Expectation is where I would have a struggle.

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This must be my constant expectation.

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What a place to start his first miracle.

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Yeah.

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In Cana at a wedding.

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So know this that

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it only happens by the power of the Holy Spirit. It only happens by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Realize that miracles happen by the power of the Holy Spirit

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not by you. Try to take the pressure off you.

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Try to take the pressure off you. This can only happen by the power

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of the Holy Spirit. Try to take the pressure off you.

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So Jacob shouldn't we ask the Lord before we go heal somebody? I think we've got

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the asking quite, we've got the asking

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thing done quite well.

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Most of us know how to hear God. I think now what is required

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is a daring. And so we know

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that it is only by the Holy Spirit that it happens. Luke 5 17, the power of God

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was present to heal. Jesus needed the power of the Holy Spirit there.

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Romans 15 19, the words and the deeds, the signs and the wonders

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Paul says that I have done all across the place is by the power

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of the Holy Spirit. Galatians 3 verse 5, why are you

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going back to your old ways? Aren't the miracles that were done amongst you in this church

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done by the power of the Holy Spirit? Isaiah 60 verse 1 and 2

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this is something that perhaps you can read every morning for the next

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hundred days where you start with this idea of the

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Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me.

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And he has anointed me to preach the

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good news to the poor, to open the eyes of the blind,

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to set captives free, to set people at liberty,

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to announce the year of favor. The year of favor

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was a year when people would be released from that which was damaged and broken

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and people would be restored. That was the year of favor. It was the year

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of Jubilee. Isaiah 61, let me

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read it. I was pleading with the Lord that today as I

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teach, oh God would you teach me, would you help me to understand words that I've

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never understood before. The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord

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is on me because the Lord has anointed me

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to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.000
the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the

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captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim

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the year of the Lord's favor, to comfort those

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who mourn. The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord

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has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor, send me to

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bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom to the captives, release from darkness

00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.000
for prisoners.

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Keep going over that. The other thing I want to say guys, and I think this is such a

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critical point, is that miracles lie at the heart of the Gospel.

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Miracles lie

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at the heart of the Gospel.

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Miracles lie at the heart of the Gospel.

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Miracles lie at the heart of the Gospel. Why is this important?

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What's the commission? Go preach the good news to all nations.

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The Gospel, if our primary

00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:36.000
job is to preach the Gospel, then miracles

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lie at the heart of the Gospel. Because here's the Gospel guys,

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listen to this. Here's the Gospel. Because most of us

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wouldn't know how to define the Gospel. I asked myself the day before yesterday

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and I, Jacob defined the Gospel. I was surprised at how ill-defined

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:56.000
it was. Here is the Gospel.

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The Gospel is the good news

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that the one and only

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Holy God has promised

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to restore all, has promised to restore

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all things, including you,

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through the death and resurrection of his son Jesus Christ.

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Let me say that again. Here is the Gospel. This is what we are supposed to preach.

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Here is the Gospel. The Gospel is the

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good news, this is part one of the Gospel. The Gospel is the good news

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that the one and only Holy God

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has promised

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.000
to restore all things,

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including you, through the death

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:52.000
and resurrection of his son Jesus Christ.

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That he's restoring all things, including you. What have we

00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:00.000
made the Gospel? We have made the Gospel my salvation. I am saved.

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That is not the way the Gospel was

00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:08.000
meant to be in the heart of God. The idea was, listen,

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I'm the one and only Holy God. I'm the sovereign one. I made the

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earth beautiful. I had a plan for it. I knew

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that Adam would mess up, but I still had a plan for it. And I'm not going to change

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my plan. And I have promised right from the moment I turned up in the

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garden and cursed the serpent, I promised there. And I promised before

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the foundations of the earth by having my son slain. I promised

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that I would restore all things, all things, including

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you, Jacob, through the death and resurrection of my son Jesus Christ,

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whose love for you is extravagant,

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who came as a willing sacrifice to reconcile,

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to restore all things back to me so that I can have Eden back.

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Eden is mine. You gave it away. I get it back.

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And I will restore. That is why this word restore

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is critical when it comes to miracle signs and wonders. Because healing

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signs, wonders, miracles are meant for one thing.

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To give the world a taste, to give the church a taste, to give you a taste

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of what is going to happen one day already because the kingdom has broken

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in. This must somehow grab my heart.

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Because like it or not,

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signs, wonders and miracles lie at the heart of the gospel. Because the gospel

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is about restoring.

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These are the works of God

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meant to restore creation and undo brokenness.

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That's what these things are. No other religion offers it.

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Why are we domesticating, taming, sterilizing, sanitizing, destroying

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what God has meant? I would say

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I put it this way. Dare to think.

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Dare, I'm just taking words that Derek said yesterday,

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dare to think, dare to think

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God's absolute

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desire to restore. Dare to think God's absolute

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desire to restore

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the world.

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Dare to think

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God's absolute desire to restore

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in super store.

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In super store.

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Dare to think God's absolute desire to restore in super store

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through a miracle

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in a life

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in a life

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today.

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Dare to think like this, that God has

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this obsessive desire to restore.

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And that often those restorations come not

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through a long process, though there are some processes that are long for restoration.

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Often those processes come also through

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miracle signs and wonders. And it might happen in super store

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or in the street or at work. And it might happen

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through you and it might happen today.

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I feel like coughing but

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it's so difficult nowadays you can't cough.

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So I'll have to drink coffee and drink water and give my throat a break.

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What do you do when you shout like this?

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It's not like it's 20 minutes, it's like

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almost 20 minutes.

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It's like 20 minutes.

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It's like 20 minutes, it's like almost an hour.

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I'm talking about the worship.

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I mean give Don and Michael a turn at worship and they repeat the song so many

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times that at the end of the day I didn't know how to sing a little louder.

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Sorry Michael.

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And by the time Don was done

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I didn't have any moves left.

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Alright moving on.

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Even Phoebe stopped.

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Guys the Gospel can't just be words.

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It has to be words like the Bible.

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It has to be words, it has to be words, lifestyle works.

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The Gospel can't just be words, it has to be words, lifestyle

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works. First Thessalonians 1.5.

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Sometimes you have these scriptures hidden away in places like Thessalonica.

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Nobody goes there. First Thessalonians 1.5.

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Guys who get completely ignored, Neham, Obadiah,

00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:38.000
Thessalonians. We think Thessalonians is a person.

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It was just a letter written to the people there.

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First Thessalonians 1.5.

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For we know brothers, loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our Gospel

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came to you not simply with words but also with power,

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with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction.

00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:06.000
Beautifully. This Gospel is not just words, it's words,

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lifestyle works. Words, lifestyle works.

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So the equation is very simple. When words are spoken,

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when words are spoken,

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works happen.

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And the works that happen validate

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the words.

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When words are spoken, works happen.

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And when works happen, it validates the words and

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the presence of God.

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That's why Jesus said, son your sins are forgiven.

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But since you don't believe that, let me show

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you that my words matter. Pick up your bed and walk.

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And in him picking up his bed and walking, the people

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around realized, oh shucks, his sins are forgiven too. Which is what I just

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sang, Psalm 103. Forgive all your sins, heal all your diseases.

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This is how it works.

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First Thessalonians 1.5.

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John 14.11. Listen to it. Just listen to it.

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Jesus is saying this, John 14.11. I'm reading from the message.

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If you can't believe that the Father is in me and I'm in the Father,

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believe what you see these works. If you can't believe

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what I'm saying, look at the works I'm doing.

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How can we sanitize this?

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Guys, there are two extremes nowadays. We mutilate the Gospel

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by either peddling signs without preaching the Word

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or preaching the Word without an expectation of signs.

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We mutilate it. We mutilate the Gospel

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by either peddling signs without preaching the Word

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or preaching the Word without an expectation of signs.

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And I'm saying Acts 29. Acts 29, please

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let us preach the Word and expect signs.

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Because that's how Jesus said we should go about doing things. Jesus commanded

00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:26.000
go, preach, heal, raise the dead,

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cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. And if He commanded me to do that

00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.000
and if I obey, He will not hold back. Heaven backs

00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:38.000
what Jesus says. If He commanded,

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go, preach. And that's the order.

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He commanded it, go. So they won't come here,

00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:50.000
you go. Go, preach, heal, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers,

00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.000
cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Heaven will back you up.

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Jesus said in Matthew 16, verse 17 and 18,

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these signs will accompany those who believe. Jesus said,

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these signs will accompany those who believe. They will cast out demons.

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They will lay their hands on the sick and the sick shall be healed. Jesus said this.

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Come on, man.

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We've got to at least begin to experiment with this and increase our level of

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expectation.

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Jacob, you're setting us up for failure.

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If after praying for five people, one person rises,

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I can live with that.

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I always think your batting average

00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:46.000
goes up as you bat more.

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I know I've said this before. Jeevan and I were sitting

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with a pastor from New West and he asked Jeevan,

00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:58.000
why is it that more miracles happen in India and South America and places

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like that than in Canada? I had a really good answer but unfortunately,

00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:06.000
Jeevan beat me to it and his answer was better so I shut up.

00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:10.000
Jeevan said, that's because in

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an Indian village, when you don't have money, you can't go to the bank to

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get it. When you don't have medicines, you can't go to a doctor because there's no doctor.

00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:22.000
When you have a pain, you can't go

00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:26.000
and get Tylenol. You do not have a choice but to turn

00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:30.000
to the only one who can help you.

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When they turn to their gods and they find no relief and you tell them that

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your god heals, they come. And he says,

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people begin to see miracles because they do not

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have any other choice. It's true.

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Now when they come to you and you say you're a Jesus believer

00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:54.000
and they ask you to pray and you don't know how to pray, all you do is lay hands and say,

00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:58.000
Jesus please take this pain away and Jesus take the pain away and you become a

00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:02.000
hero and you realize this is much easier than you thought.

00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:06.000
There's no great intellectual

00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:10.000
thinking in this. It's just foolish obedience.

00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:14.000
The second part

00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:18.000
of the definition of the gospel is, he redeemed

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you so you can join his community and become

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partners with God on his mission of restoration. That's the second part

00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:30.000
of the gospel. The first part of the gospel was that it is

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.000
the good news of the one and only holy god promising to restore

00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:38.000
all things including you through the death and resurrection of his son Jesus Christ

00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:42.000
who extravagantly loves you. As you believe that

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and with faith receive that, he now redeems you so that you

00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:50.000
can join his community and

00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:54.000
partner with him on the mission of restoring all things.

00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:58.000
That's our mission, restoring all things back to the father. That's your mission.

00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:02.000
Why do you think Jesus is saying go preach, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, heal the sick,

00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:06.000
cast out demons? Why is he doing that? Because he wants everything restored back to him.

00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:10.000
That's why he came. I'm restoring all things back to my father.

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:14.000
I'm reconciling all things back to my father. Why is

00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:18.000
Jane singing walls be broken down? Because Jesus said that the wall

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of hostility between God and man, between Jew and Gentile,

00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:26.000
I'm breaking down. Coming to reconcile.

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This is what we are supposed to do.

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Let me end with one verse and one story.

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John 14-12, Jesus is saying

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I'm on my way to my father. I'm giving you the same work to do that I've been doing.

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Period. I'm on my way to the father.

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I'm giving you the same work to do that I was doing.

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How do you argue

00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:58.000
with stuff like this man? You know where we get stuck? When he said

00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:02.000
greater works, what did he mean by greater works? How many of us have done

00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.000
greater works? Really? See the rest of the scripture.

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I'm going to my father. I'm leaving you to do the work

00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:14.000
that I was doing. I'm leaving it to you to do. Whether your

00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:18.000
works are lesser or greater, we'll figure it out later. But at least start with that.

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I'll tell you a story.

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I'll tell you the story so that we

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also begin to do this.

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So in Jan of

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20, my God, this COVID has made an entire

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year disappear.

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I'm going to tell you a story.

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An entire year disappeared.

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Jan of October of 2019,

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I was in Delhi and I met a couple there and the couple's name is

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the husband's name is Kalyan. Very simple guy.

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No particular gifting, no charisma.

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He's from south of India and his wife, Anandi, she was

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more like

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a horse.

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She was like a horse, raring to go.

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So they felt a call upon their lives to go to north India

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from south India, which is like going from Vancouver to Quebec.

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Completely different culture, language, everything. So they decided to go

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and they didn't know the language. So they decided to go and

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they decided to go to a particular city called Varanasi, which is the birthplace of Hinduism.

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And so they go there.

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And that was 15 years ago.

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Over the last 15 years,

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I'll come to the conclusion then trace back, over the last 15 years

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they've planted 800 churches.

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They don't know how to speak the language.

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Even now the husband, his Hindi is pretty bad.

00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.000
I speak better Hindi than him.

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But over 15 years, especially in the last 10 years, 800 churches.

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In one of India's

00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:26.000
toughest places, if you ask an Indian, it is one of the

00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:30.000
toughest places to plant churches because that province is

00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:34.000
so solidly Hindu and nationalistic

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that it is like going into the lion's den. But that is

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the place they planted 800 churches. So how do they go about it?

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So whenever they come to a city,

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they'll decide that, okay, for the next seven weeks, let's go

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walking through these streets and pray. And so for seven weeks, they'll

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pray. So when Jane texted me this morning and said,

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I want to feel like today is a significant day where walls

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have to come down, we've got to do something like we did at Jericho, I was thinking

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of what this couple do. So they'll go around

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the city walking the streets for seven weeks, praying against spiritual

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powers that they recognize or they feel

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affecting the city. For seven weeks they do that. After seven weeks,

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signs and miracles start happening.

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So there'll be people that are demonized, people that are sick who will come

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in their path. And when they come in their path, these guys will go

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and just pray. And no fancy prayer, no

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shouting, no great method or anything, just simple prayers.

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And invariably after seven weeks, healings and signs and miracles

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start happening and people get healed or people get set free.

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And now, instead of saying come to our church,

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which they have, they'll say,

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where do you come from? And the guys will say, we come from such and such a village in the province.

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They'll say, next time you go to your village, we'd love to come and see the village.

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And so they'll go to the village that the family hails from.

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And when they go to the village, they'll meet the rest

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of the village and the rest of the family and in the process begin to

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establish relationship with that village and with the family and start a house church

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in that village. And in the process, over the last

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15 years, they've established 800 churches.

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All these 800 churches are house churches.

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So the intent is not to,

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if you meet someone in Vancouver and you bring them to Acts 29,

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it is spread this out. Spread this out.

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When I met them, I was in awe. I was in awe partly

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because they looked so ordinary.

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That blew my mind, man. Seven weeks of prayer,

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signs of miracles start breaking out, partly because the prayer involves

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going through the city, looking at spiritual powers that need to be

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stripped, blessings that need to be spoken. Seven weeks of that, miracles

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and healings, people turning to Christ, going into their

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families, their friends, their relatives, into their villages, into their

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hometowns, establishing house churches there. And then coming back to the city,

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training these guys and sending them out.

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Let's pray.

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I personally feel, Father, that we've come to the conclusion

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of all that can be taught on revival.

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From now on, we can

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remind ourselves of this thing

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called a revival that you are releasing across the globe through us.

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But there's not much more

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that you, Holy Spirit, want to teach us about it.

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You're saying, that was four good months of teaching.

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Now go do.

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So I thank you that you're putting a stop to it, Holy Spirit.

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I don't know what your plans are next week, but it ain't going to be

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more to show us about revival.

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You're done with that.

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Now go do.

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May that be

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the slogan for the next

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eight months. Now go do.

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Now go do, now go do, now go do, now go do.

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Now go do.

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Go restore.

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So Father, we just take a minute to just

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commit ourselves to this.

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The signs and wonders thing has to be added to everything

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we've learned from Shekinah 1.

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So I'm just going to ask Derek to come and conclude.

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And

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anything else, Father?

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Anything else?

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Another term, another phrase I hear is boots on the ground.

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Boots on the ground. Now go do.

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Boots on the ground.

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And the third thing you're saying is not at the pace you've been doing it.

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Not at the pace you've been doing it. Father, you're not interested

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and this sounds kind of rude.

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I'll make you sound rude when I say this, but you're not interested in

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us coming and sharing a testimony of how we spoke to this person

01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:40.000
or how we spoke to that person and the person was touched or the person's heart is

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open. You're saying that's good, but that's not what I'm

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after. I'm after you now taking on my obsessive

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heart and having a passion that is so

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fiery, so fierce that you will not settle.

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That you will be the beautiful feet on the

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mountains. That this is no longer about a chance

01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:08.000
meeting, but this is about deliberate, intentional going out.

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Yeah, I'll let Derek come up.

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There's something more you want to say about that, but I don't know what you want to say.

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I don't have the words for it.

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I might come up after Derek, Father.

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Father, I thank you that

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everything we've been hearing is for now.

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It's very much for now, Aba.

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Father, we just want to take a minute or two to

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talk to you, to set our hearts

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to the commission that you've given us.

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You're telling us that

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you're telling us this is what I've done always.

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I restore people back to how

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I created them, and I want to end brokenness.

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I restore and I end brokenness. I restore

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people and I end brokenness. And I do that

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through ordinary people like you. In Mark

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Chapter 16, it says, anyone who believes. And Aba,

01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:56.000
we believe the words that we've been hearing. We believe it, Aba.

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This is who you are. This is your very nature.

01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:04.000
Science, miracles, wonders, so that you

01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:08.000
restore people, so that you end brokenness. It's your very nature,

01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:12.000
Aba. It's your very nature. And so

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we say yes to your commission to us. And Aba,

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we're not looking, as Jacob said, we're not looking for stories.

01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:24.000
We're not looking for things to share.

01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:28.000
We're looking for

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where do you want to go? Where do you want me to go? Where do you want me to go?

01:05:32.000 --> 01:05:36.000
Who do you want me to talk to? How do I pray?

01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:40.000
And I'm going to pray. And I will expect it, Aba,

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that we will expect it as a people. Because you're the one who is doing it.

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Your spirit is jealous over the city. When Jane

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started, she said, she said, the city has been given

01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:56.000
to you. The city has been given to you. And so we

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say, yeah Aba, I look at the city, Aba. We look at the city.

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We look at the city.

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The city has been given to us. Because the city

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is yours. Before there was anyone here, you were here.

01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:16.000
And the people in the city will be restored

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by the name of Jesus. The people in the city

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will be restored. And the brokenness in the city will end, Aba.

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Father, so we say yes to the commission

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that we've been given. And we want to go.

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And so we look at the, we don't, Aba, we don't want to look at

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the next Saturday today. Next Saturday will come. But I want to look

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at today. I want to look at today. I want to look at

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tomorrow. Because this is for now, Aba. Because if

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we wait, that's not what you want of us.

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It's for now. It's for now. So church,

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this is for today. This is for today. This is for

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now. And Aba, you want us

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to respond to this. So I don't know much, but I'm just going to

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ask all of us, where we are at our homes, to lift

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our hands to you, even in this room,

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in response to the teaching, in response to the truth,

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in response to your word, saying

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I agree with your will for this city. I agree

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with your will for the people, so that those who are broken,

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their brokenness will end, so that people

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will be restored. In my raising of this hand, Aba, in our

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raising of these hands, we are saying yes.

01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:52.000
And we see your power that is waiting to

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flow through us, because you're the one who is doing it.

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Jesus' name.

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Guys,

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as we sing this song,

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to conclude, if necessary, don't sing it.

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Just listen to the words, then sing it when you think you want to sing it.

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This is not a song that I'm going to sing,

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but I'm going to sing it for you.

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I'm going to sing it for you.

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This is not a song that I'm asking for

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participation in. It's a song that I'm asking

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as a response or as a prayer from our heart.

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So sing it only if you need to, otherwise

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listen to the words and commit to God as the song is being sung.

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Father,

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I just say that

01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:20.000
even as I sing it

01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:24.000
on behalf of others,

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I'm going to sing it

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as I sing it.

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I'm going to sing it as I sing it

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on behalf of others and for myself.

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Father, help me with my...

01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:48.000
actually, first of all, I just want to lay down my fears.

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As I was listening to this message, I was like, but what about what other people think?

01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:56.000
It so often stunts me.

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Father, I just want to lay that down.

01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.000
Worrying about others' expectations of how I should be

01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:08.000
or act or behave. I just lay that down. Again, I lay it down, Father,

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at your feet. And I just say, Father,

01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:16.000
as I sing, I want to trample on it.

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I want to trample on it. And I'll do it again and again as many

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times as I need to. So you've got to

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help me with this Holy Spirit. Because as I do that, I know

01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:32.000
that you will clothe me with your boldness. That I don't need to try. I don't need to

01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:36.000
work hard at it. But this you want me to do.

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And if others wanted to, then you're inviting

01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:44.000
them to do the same. And that you're going to clothe them with

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power, with boldness, with opportunities.

01:10:48.000 --> 01:11:00.000
Jesus blinded all my darkness.

01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:04.000
He sparked my heart within.

01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:10.000
His grace and mercy lit a passion.

01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:14.000
Consume my sin.

01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:20.000
Jesus blinded all my darkness.

01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:24.000
He sparked my heart within.

01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:28.000
His grace and mercy lit a passion.

01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:32.000
Consume my sin.

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Now like a city on a hilltop,

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I'll shine through the night.

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I am a light made for your glory.

01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:48.000
I will not hide.

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Now like a city on a hilltop,

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I'll shine through the night.

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Oh, I'll shine through the night.

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I am a light made for your glory.

01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:08.000
I will not hide.

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As I've been touched by a fire

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full of the world, come and watch me burn.

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To sound it from the roof top.

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To sound it to the roof top.

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To shout it till everyone has heard.

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Oh, I've been touched by a fire

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full of the world, come and watch me burn.

01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:40.000
To shout it from the roof top.

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To shout it till everyone has heard.

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Till everyone has heard.

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This love will never be extinguished.

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It's alive and wild and free.

01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:04.000
I'm overtaken by his power.

01:13:04.000 --> 01:13:08.000
His spirit in me.

01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:12.000
This love, this love will never be

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extinguished.

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It's alive and wild and free.

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I'm overtaken by his power.

01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:28.000
His spirit in me.

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His spirit in me.

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His spirit in me.

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As I've been touched by

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a fire. So let the world come

01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:48.000
and watch me burn.

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Oh, I've been touched by a fire.

01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:56.000
I'll shout it till everyone has heard.

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Oh, I've been touched by a fire.

01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:04.000
So let the world come and watch me burn.

01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:08.000
I've been touched by

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a fire. To shout it from the roof top.

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And shout it till everyone has heard.

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Jesus has changed my life. His name be lifted high.

01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:24.000
This holy fire's burning inside of me.

01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:28.000
I cannot hold it inside. I cannot keep it quiet.

01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:32.000
This holy fire's burning inside of me.

01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:36.000
Jesus has changed my life.

01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:40.000
His name be lifted high. This holy fire's burning inside of me.

01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:44.000
I cannot hold it inside.

01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:48.000
I cannot keep it quiet.

01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:52.000
This holy fire's burning inside of me.

01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:56.000
And I've been touched by a fire.

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So let the world come and watch me burn.

01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.000
I've shouted

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from the roof top.

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Shout it till everyone has heard.

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We'll shout it from the roof top.

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And shout it till everyone has heard.

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Everyone has heard.

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Everyone has heard.

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Everyone has heard.

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Thank you guys.

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Ciao for now!