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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Teleios-It-Takes-One-Man
Publishing Date: 2020-11-15T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/teleios-it-takes-one-man/

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it kind of gives me an intro into what we are going to talk about. Never doubt that a small group

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of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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And I want to talk about how you and I really don't believe that it takes only one man or one

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woman to shift things around. But the fact remains that a very small percentage of change agents,

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as in 3% of a nation, if they behave a certain way, 3% of a church, 3% of a community, if they

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can begin to frame, shift and transform their systems or their culture. And so if you took the

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years 600 BC to 2020 AD, you're talking about 25 billion people who've lived during those times,

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and it took about 3,200 people, that's all it took to change or shift civilization over the

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number of years that have existed. Over the last 2,800 years, it took less than 3,200 people to

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bring about massive shifts in how the world functions. It takes very few people, and I'm

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not even approaching Christ or Christianity or the church right now, I'm just talking about the

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world. These are stats from the world that when the top 3% of any nation, any community, any church,

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any corporation begins to behave a certain way, just 3%, that it has the power to shift,

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transform or frame that culture or the ethos of that place. It always has. That if you took the

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years 600 BC to 2020 AD, 25 billion people were led that less than 3,200 people. These 3,200 people,

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I'm sure Steve Jobs is one of them, actually were involved in shifting the way the world functions.

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And this is without Christ. Without Christ. What I want to achieve today is to help me and to help

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you understand that it takes only one man. You do not need more than that. We are a majority of one.

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When I say man, don't get hung up about man because I mean woman too. I'm not saying it to you,

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I'm not saying it to anyone who's listening five years down the road. But if this can be achieved

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in the world without Christ, what happens when you and I actually think that this can happen

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through one man or one woman? So what is God's expectation? God's expectation is that you will

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step into the gap between Ezekiel 20 to verse 30. So God's expectation is, can my people step into

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the gap between Ezekiel 22-30 and 2 Chronicles 16-9? Can my people step into that gap? What does

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Ezekiel 22-30 say? That's God's hope. That guy's, Jacob, can you step into that gap? Because my son

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did and so now that he lives in you, can you step into that gap too? Ezekiel 22 verse 30. Ezekiel 22

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verse 30. I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap

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on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it. I'll stop there because I believe he

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finds people now. Ever since his son Jesus Christ came on the earth, I believe that when God goes

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looking, he finds. So there's this scripture and then there's a scripture in 2 Chronicles 16-9 which

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many of us know. In 2 Chronicles 16-9 says, God's eyes roam to and fro across the earth looking for

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somebody he can show himself strong on behalf of. And it's in this gap that God wants you to step

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into. So on one hand there is Ezekiel 22 verse 30 where God is saying, hey I'm looking for someone,

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Jacob, can you be that someone who can step into the gap? I'm looking for a man who can do that for

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the sake of the land. And then at the other end is, if you do that, then here's what I'm going to do.

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My eyes are roaming to and fro so that I can show myself steadfast on behalf of someone who is loyal

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to me. And when you decide that you are willing to step into that gap, now it takes one man to

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change things in nations, communities, world, movements, culture, things change. Jesus did this.

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God was looking for a man, Jesus stepped up and God's eyes roamed to and fro found him and decided

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that from now on I'll be steadfast to him. This is my begotten son, hear him. This is where we are

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going. I want us to understand that there is nobody in this room, nobody in this room who's

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exempt from becoming a majority of one affecting the earth. You'll probably not be heard of, you'll

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probably not be known, but the Bible has stories and characters that changed the world because they

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were willing to step into this gap. It's a shame that we are not following in the path of the Hebrew

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11 heroes. If you read Hebrews 11, 33 to 35, everyone, every incident there happened to a

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person, a man, a woman. Turn to Hebrews 11, 33 to 35. Hebrews 11, 33 to 35. I'm starting at verse 32.

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And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell you about Gideon, about Barak, about Samson,

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about Jephthah, about David, about Samuel and the prophets who through faith conquered kingdoms,

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administered justice, gained what was promised, who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury

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of flames, escaped the edge of the sword, whose weakness was turned to strength, who became powerful

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in battle, routed foreign armies, women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were

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tortured and refused to be released so that they might gain a better resurrection. Some faced

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years and flogging while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned,

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they were sawed into, they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and

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goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered

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in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground, but they were all commended for their

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faith. Yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for

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us so that only together with us they would be made perfect. The point being, guys, all those

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stories in Hebrews chapter 11 happen to individuals. So am I suddenly individualizing

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Christianity? No, I'm preaching to all of us so that all of us begin to step into this position

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as individuals. Any questions?

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Takes one man. Takes one man. So let's look at scriptures and see whether this is true.

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Go to Ecclesiastes 13. Ecclesiastes, I don't think it's 13. Let me just see.

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Let me just quickly google it. It's about this poor man who had great wisdom.

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Can someone find it?

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Okay, Ecclesiastes 9.

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Verse 13 to 15. I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me. So

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this is a true story that Solomon is saying, that he actually knew of a man such as this. There was

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once a small city with only a few people in it and a powerful king came against it, surrounded it,

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and built huge siege works against it. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise,

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and he saved the city by his wisdom, but nobody remembered the poor man. So I said wisdom is better

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than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are no longer heard. Now you can

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take many morals out of it, but one of the things you need to realize is that a man, one man with

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wisdom, can save an entire city. Cry out for it. Cry out for it. One man with wisdom can save an

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entire city that would otherwise be removed from the face of the earth. This was an actual story

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that happened. Solomon wasn't spinning a parable. This actually happened. One man with the wisdom

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of Jesus Christ can save a city, a nation. Everything that God did throughout biblical history

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was through one man and finally he created the one man called the church. We'll come to that later,

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but everything in the Bible was done through one man who stepped between Ezekiel 22.30 and

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2 Chronicles 16.9 and launched himself. And whenever they were afraid, God would come and

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try to build them up. He says to Jeremiah, don't say you're just a youth. I've set you up to plant,

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to pull down, to restore nations, to tear them down. It's always one man. We've got to capture

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the one-man-ness of how God starts things because it's easy to wait for somebody else who's more

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gifted, more charismatic, more Holy Spirit anointed, more positional to do the work when God is looking

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for really everybody in this church to become that one man through which he can rot miracles here on

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earth. And with miracles, I'm not talking about raising the dead. I'm talking about shifting an entire group

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or tribe of people. Let me give you another one. Number 16, 46 to 48. Number 16. Number 16.

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46 to 48. And the strange thing is Jesus is all these examples I'm giving. I'll give you eight or

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nine or ten examples and after I'm done through those examples, you'll realize that Jesus actually

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took on every one of these stories upon himself because he had to be that one man.

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Number 16, 46 to 48. Then Moses said to Aaron, take your censer and put incense in it along with

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fire from the altar and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from

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the Lord. The plague has started. So Aaron did as Moses said and ran in the midst of the assembly.

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The plague had already started among the people but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement

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for them. He stood between the living and the dead and the plague stopped. But 14,700 people died

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from the plague in addition to those who had died because of Korah. Then Aaron returned to Moses at

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the entrance of the tent of the meeting for the plague had stopped. Imagine this, one man becomes

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a dividing line. One man becomes a dividing line. I've seen paintings of this where you see a man

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who looks relatively frail with a censer in his hand running up and down with a group of people

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on one side lying dead and the other side literally covered by him alive. Takes one man.

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Takes one man for your family. Takes one man in this church. Takes one man in a community.

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Takes one man in a city. Takes one man in the nation. God is looking. But we don't think that

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can work with us. When I tell you the qualifications of what is required, it is available to most

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everybody. Aaron wasn't even God's first choice. He defaulted to Aaron because Moses was resistant.

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A dividing line, a plumb line, a covering to some where it's literally 1st Corinthians 2 being

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played out. To some I become the fragrance of life. To others I become the stench of death.

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But you become a dividing line. One man. Let's take another one. Numbers 25, 7 to 9. Numbers 25, 7 to 9.

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Guys you have no idea of how much power rests in that one man when he begins to step into places

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like this. You don't know how many lives are saved. You don't know how many mishaps are prevented.

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You don't know how many wells are dug and how much water is provided.

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Because one man decides that he is going to step into that gap.

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14,700 dead on one side and about a million alive on the other side. Why? Because one man runs with the sensor.

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Why? Because one man runs with the sensor.

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Connect to men and women like that and your life will benefit.

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Connect to men and women like that and you will benefit. You will reap the benefits

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Connect to them.

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Don't connect to things because it's your tradition. Connect to it because it is life.

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Numbers 25, 7 to 9. Oh my god I can go down another track if I wanted to right now.

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But I won't. Numbers 25 verse 7 to 9. There's a time for some of those things. Numbers 25, 7 to 9.

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Let's start at 6. Then an Israelite woman brought to his, brought to, then an Israelite man brought

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to his family, a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel

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while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of the meeting. When Feneha saw of,

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when Feneha son of Eliezer, the son of Aaron the priest saw this, he left the assembly,

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took a spear in his hand. Aaron come up here quickly, quickly Aaron. Come, come, come, come quickly.

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Come up on stage.

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Father I just lay hands on this boy right now and pray father, come, come, come, come. Don't worry.

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Father I just lay hands on this boy right now and I pray father an aggression to begin to descend on

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him, a holy aggression, a holy aggression where even in his loose boniness there will be these

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times when his entire body becomes taut and tense because he knows there's an assignment given to

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him. Where he will not lose his drawl in walking and talking and thinking and playing but there

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will be these times that suddenly out of the blue he'll know the stirring of the spirit and everything

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in him will become tense, will become alert, will literally be like a arrow that is in a bow that is

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about to be released and that when that happens he will know what needs to be done, he'll finish it

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and then go back as if nothing really happened. I just pray that upon this boy at a very young age

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in Jesus name. Amen. Bless you Aaron. Thanks man.

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Guys numbers 25, 7 to 9. When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest saw this,

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he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the

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spear through both of them, through the Israelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against

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the Israelites was stopped but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. Here was a man whose

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zeal halts what could have been disabling compromise. Here was a man whose zeal stopped what

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could have been disabling compromise. If Israel had gone down that route then

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Balaam would have achieved what he always wanted to achieve. Balaam wanted to contaminate Israel.

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Numbers 23, Balaam's ended his curses, didn't work. Along comes this woman brought in

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to again, once again, draw Israel into sexual immorality and idolatry and there is one man whose

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zeal halts disabling compromise and stops what needs to happen. Balaam later succeeds

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Balaam later succeeds where he brings in women from Midianite tribes to once again

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connect with the Israelites and guess who kills Balaam? Phinehas.

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Sometimes you need just one man to have enough zeal to halt disabling compromise, one man

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and you'll be highly unpopular because Christianity demands tolerance now. Christianity demands

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diplomacy now. To have Christians who begin to rail against that which is a compromise is seen as

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not a kosher thing to do. Everyone's told to pipe down. You're either patronized or you're tolerated

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but my god if god gives you something that you have to be zealous over,

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step into that circle, draw a circle around yourself and stand there and say this will be my

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lifelong attempt that I will stand and speak against what is false and I will stand and speak

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for what is true come what may. One man, one man. All that Martin Luther accomplished in his life

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was that the just shall live by faith. That's all he accomplished. 500 years ago. That's all he

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accomplished. The just shall live by faith. That's all he preached. That's all he accomplished.

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Find what is your god-given assignment

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and hone it, grow in it

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because it takes one man.

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Any questions before we go on? Any questions guys?

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Any questions guys?

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Okay let's look at another one. First Kings 1822. First Kings 1822.

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First Kings 1822. You know the story.

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First Kings 1822.

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Then Elijah said to them, I am the only one of the Lord's prophets left but Baal has 450 prophets.

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Get two bulls for us. Let them choose one for themselves and let them cut it into pieces.

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I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood. Then you call on the name of your god

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and I will call on the name of the Lord, the God who answers by fire. He is God. One man.

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One man who becomes a voice that returns God's people into a place where they're reformed.

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One man. All reformation is started by one man. Show me a time in the history of the world where

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reformation happened through more than one man. It was always started by one man

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and when that one man starts he has to endure because not everybody will join him. A few

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rag-tag people will join him but it begins there.

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What do you think we are doing man? What do you think I've been doing for 16 years?

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I will see it. I will see the church reformed. I will see the church beginning to function as a

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house, as a family where sons and daughters gather around the father and anything the father does

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is possible for every son and daughter. We will raise people. We will raise sons and daughters.

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This will become norm.

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One man starts reformation in any area. It doesn't have to be in church. It can be

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the culture of Christ in your business, the culture of Christ in social work, the culture of Christ

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in worship. It doesn't matter but it always starts with one man and then others join and then you

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become a people who are reformed and once you become a people who are reformed now you have a

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model that someone can look at. When one man starts something there is nowhere he can go to

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present it as a model because everything that he starts must be reflected in a people.

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Jesus had to find 12 so that he could pass on to them who he was and how he functions.

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Now that the 12 caught it they could be sent out so that they could now create communities

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that could reflect the very thing that Jesus taught them.

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One man starts it but he begins to build around himself a people and once you have a people who

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behave a certain way now you have others that can come and say aha it works amongst the people.

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What happens with Christian superstars and there are plenty of them what happens with Christian

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superstars is they begin to take on the one-man responsibility but they never raise a people

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and so all you have is one man on tv that you're looking at.

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Where are the people? Show me the people who reflect what you learned and do it better than

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you. You get it right? Can't be otherwise when it becomes a one-man thing without it

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spilling over percolating into a people then you have Christian superstars. Go ahead Brandon.

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Yeah.

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Okay now say it without the mask.

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Yeah I'll get there in about 23 minutes. Yeah I honestly will I have that and if I don't you can

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repeat the question again with and without the mask.

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Guys a voice that prepares the people for reformation I think of guys like David Wilkerson

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ah so unpopular when he was around because his message was so hard but even today his voice

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resounds. William Wilberforce changed slavery had to fight for years eh. Danno some of the things

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that you've been given to you you'll have to stand and fight for years it won't come in one or two

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years man sometimes you have to stand and fight for years before change happens one man it takes

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one man why do you have to fight for years because you've got to build a people who now

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have the same DNA and can run with it.

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Martin Luther wasn't a perfect man had theology that stunk but my god the one thing he kept saying

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again and again and again enough the just shall only live by faith we are the product of that eh.

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One man either think in terms of one man or think in terms of majority of one because God is the one

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who does the work majority of one or one man but all it takes is one man.

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You don't have a fire in my belly with regard to this teaching I think without having preached it

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that it is one of the best teachings I've taught even though I haven't taught it yet.

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Because if we get this God will not go around looking

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because if we get this God will not go around looking for that one man.

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Second first Kings 22 first Kings 22 ah what a dearth of this is there today in the world

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first Kings 22 11 to 13 you don't know how difficult this situation must have been for

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Micaiah first Kings 22 verse let's start at eight the king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat

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let's start at verse seven but Jehoshaphat asked

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let's start at verse six so the king of Israel brought together the prophets about 400 men and

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asked them shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead or shall I refrain go they answered for the lord

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will give it to the king's hand but Jehoshaphat asked is there not a prophet of the lord here

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whom we can inquire of the king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat there is still one man through whom

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we can inquire of the lord but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me

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but always bad he's Micaiah the son of Imla the king should not say that Jehoshaphat replied

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so the king of Israel called one of his officials and said bring Micaiah son of Imla at once dressed

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in their royal robes the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah was sitting on their

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thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria with all the prophets

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prophesying before them now Zedekiah the son of Canaanah had made iron horns and declared this

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is what the lord says with these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed but all the other

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prophets were prophesying the same thing attack Ramoth Gilead and be victorious they said for the

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lord will give it into the king's hand the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him look as

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one man the other prophets are predicting success for the king let your words agree with theirs and

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speak favorably but Micaiah said as surely as the lord lives i can tell him only what the lord

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tells him and then he tells him the truth after hesitating once guys one man the thing with this

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one man thing is you have to refuse being validated at the table of your peers you have to refuse being

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validated at the table of your peers it's a common thing in prophetic circles now especially in

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North American prophetic circles one man either says something true and everybody regurgitates it

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or one man says something false but he's famous enough and everybody parrots it

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if you want to be this one man you have to learn how not to want validation at the table of your

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peers everybody else might be saying the same thing but if you are hearing a different sound

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you will have to check it out test it out verify it get it right and then speak it even if you're

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not invited to that table again very few prophets in North America exist that do that i mean you

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just have to look at the US right now to see how it works one man speaks and if he's famous

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the others will join the choir you're not listening to the voice of God you're listening to the choir

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refuse to be validated at the table of your peers refuse to be validated at the table of your peers

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is

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Hebrews 11 12 Hebrews 11 12

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Hebrews 11 12 through one man God births ancient agendas that he has spoken of

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through one man God births ancient agendas that he has spoken of Hebrews 11 12

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Hebrews 11 12

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and so from this one man and he as good as dead came descendants as numerous as the stars in the

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sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore because God had promised that through I will

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raise up a nation I will raise up a nation the seed that I am sending will crush the serpent's

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head I will raise up a nation go to Isaiah 51 2 it says the same thing Isaiah 51 2 Isaiah 51 2

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listen to me you who pursue righteousness and who you seek the Lord look to the rock from which you

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were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who

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gave you birth when I called him he was but one and I blessed him and made him many guys understand

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that God starts everything with one man I pray God that some of you will be known guys the other

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thing is if you want to be this one man you have to have not an opinion but an but a God sent word

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to speak that does not dilly dally that doesn't choose gray some of you at acts 29 choose gray

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one of the one of the hardest things I had to work on Derek when he first came to acts 29 was Derek

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would never say his actual opinion he would say yes it is true that this happens but we also have

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to look at this side yes it is white but it could also be gray and I remember sitting with him

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driving him around saying Derek a time has to come when you have to stop becoming someone who

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portrays both sides of the equation like CNN have what you think is a God-given opinion on things

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and begin to speak them because this is what you think it's not just an opinion it is God-informed

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some of you and I hope you know who I'm talking about have the ability to say very little ask

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you any question and your response will be maybe yeah kind of all right get over it

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it's not the way you can be that one man

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if that's hard hitting it's because I'm speaking to you if it's not hard hitting let it go

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guys it's through one man that God usually brings this forerunner ability he goes and clears the way

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for others next one first Samuel 17 8 to 10 first Samuel 17 8 to 10 first Samuel 17 8 to 10

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first Samuel 17 8 to 10 famous story

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I'm never tired of reading this story every time I read it I see something else in it

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that I've never seen before first Samuel's first Samuel 17 8 to 10 how many years we've been

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reading to say at least 40 years Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel at least 40

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if you're over 40 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel why do you come out and line up

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for battle am I not a Philistine and you aren't you the servants of Saul choose a man and have

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him come down to me if he's able to fight and kill me we will become your subjects but if I overcome

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him and kill him you will become our subjects in service then the Philistine said this day I defy

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the ranks of Israel give me a man and let us fight each other on hearing the Philistines word Saul

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and all the Israelites were dismayed dismayed and terrified what we don't realize is one of the

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things Satan does is he always tries to engage you in a one-on-one battle knowing that most

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Christians will not engage him one-on-one Pharaoh becomes chief he takes on Moses Herod

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takes on Jesus Goliath takes on David it's an old ploy of the enemy you see it in the movie Troy

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where Brad Pitt has to go Brad Pitt has to go and fight the other nice guy it pardon

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I was just talking about a worldly movie I don't know why you're responding so confidently

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I'm kidding James Hector so um so we just gave you your membership also how could you so guys

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here's the thing it's an old satanic ploy to bring forth Goliaths against the church against

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the people of God and oddly enough Satan is confident that there are very few in the church

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that are skilled to stand up against anything one-on-one

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but Christ is looking for those one-on-ones because he knows that an entire territory can be taken

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if one steps up and conquers the Goliath rather than fighting through minions rather than fighting

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through armies rather than fighting through foot soldiers you take that one and the rest of them

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flee this is why they decided to the enemy armies decided to go after Ahab's chariot because they

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thought if we defeat Ahab the entire army will scatter and then they found out that Jehoshaphat

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was dressed up in Ahab's clothes this was an old ploy it's an old satanic ploy if the leader of

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a community of a church of a people of a house church of a family of a two family two people

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family unit if a leader does not know how to take on the enemy in one-on-one battles life becomes

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very difficult

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one man

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any questions

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one-on-one battles is you know something is coming again coming against your family say

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suddenly you realize that there are mishaps happening in your family people are falling sick

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there's strife happening in your family and instead of dealing with it from a either a

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mental point of view or an emotional point of view you sit down and you decide to figure out

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father why is this happening what is it that's coming against me you begin to find out what it

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is that is coming against you and then you begin to take a stance because you realize that you are

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the gatekeeper and that you will be the first one that has to face this and if you face it well and

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defeat it then not only do you save your family but you get extra ground

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paul would go into places and he would even before he preached be able to dismantle the

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powers that reigned there there's almost an apostolic edge to it because we find that philip

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went to samaria and philip was not able to do some of the things that peter and john could do

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and peter and john was sent by jerusalem to samaria having heard what philip had done and

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then guess what happens simon magus gets dismantled acts chapter eight

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philip was doing science wonders and miracles simon actually believed

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but when jerusalem heard about it they sent to samaria peter and john and then things began to

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change dramatically one man strange thing is it operates both at the level of a family

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the level of a church the level of a city the level of a nation

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david goes up the rest of israel doesn't goliath is doing what satan has done for years on it

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send me your best man because he knows that for some strange reason the people of god rarely have

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the ability to take on their best man we're going to surprise him man show him that it isn't status

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code that it is no longer how it used to be that without making much noise without indulging in

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without indulging in flailing spiritual warfare that we understand authority and have the ability

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to take on their best and then take on his territory

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genesis 45 verse seven sometimes god does this too genesis 45 verse seven he'll send you ahead

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to save an entire nation entire people group 45 seven genesis 45 seven

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this is joseph speaking to his brothers but god sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant

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on the earth and save your lives by a great deliverance one man joseph is sent ahead to

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preserve a remnant when you are sent somewhere do not hold on to what you used to enjoy doing

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go and do not amend what you're being sent for hear me again when you are sent somewhere by god

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then do not hold on to what you used to be doing

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because you're being sent far ahead of time to preserve or raise up a remnant god sends one man

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to raise up a remnant if joseph hadn't gone and he had if he hadn't endured what he endured jacob

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and his sons would not exist israel would not exist there would be a tribe today called effray

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but not israel there would be a tribe today called manasseh but not israel israel would not exist

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when you're sent let go of what you used to engage in and do not amend what you're being sent for

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oh the next one blew my mind even though i've known it matthew chapter one verse five

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you can change the your past in terms of generational past cultural past you can change it

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and then you can launch your future your generational future your cultural future break out of

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cultural future break out of cultural and generational traps nests strongholds

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here is a prostitute called rayhan one woman changes the nature both of her pagan

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kinnonite background and of her profession by joining israel and who does she marry she

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marries a guy called solomon or salmon or salmon and guess who they begat or gave birth to they

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gave birth to a guy called boaz and guess who boaz marries boaz marries a moabitess who has

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no business in israel and boaz marries ruth and ruth and boaz give birth to obaid obaid gives birth

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to jesse jesse gives birth to david and jesus is called the son of david why because one woman

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decided that she would go against everything that her tribe her people her city said she should do

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you can change your generational and cultural past when you decide you'll stand between ezekiel 22

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30 and second chronicle 16 9 i beg you do this don't get trapped in your generational and cultural

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past because it will weigh heavy on you and it will defy god remember the only thing that nullifies

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jesus's principles is the tradition of man nothing else can come against the word but the tradition

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of man

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it's not time yet phoebe hey there's no church there's no vietnamese church after this

00:41:24.520 --> 00:41:31.240
just so you know so this one's gonna go long we're in no hurry to get out

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there's so many other scriptures i can give you one man isaiah in isaiah 45 one prophesies about

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a man called cyrus and he says cyrus you don't even know god but god is going to pull you out

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and he's going to use you and what does cyrus does this pagan king empties his treasury to

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rebuild jerusalem and to give back everything that is required for the rebuilding of jerusalem and

00:41:53.720 --> 00:41:59.480
the temple who does he do it to ezra and himiah one man it takes one man it takes to prophesy

00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:06.840
and one pagan who did not know god it takes to restore the temple to its glory and to rebuild

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israel its walls ezra and nehemiah benefited from cyrus's largesse takes one man guys

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okay so let's look at what this one man needs to do so he can function well

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to answer that question that brandon had asked

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who was it brandon

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warble beast okay

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it's all emily's fault

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okay so if you want to be this one man

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here are some of the things we need to start doing seek seeking the generic

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and the specific

00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:16.680
seeking the generic and the specific

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seeking the generic and the specific as in create time to go and begin to

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seek god for his generic commands and his specific commands because it is in that process that the god

00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:43.960
tells you what he has for you so if you go to isaiah 6 8 it was a generic statement that god was

00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:50.840
making when he says who shall we send who will go for us it wasn't directed to isaiah isaiah happens

00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:58.360
to hear it as perhaps did others but isaiah is the first to respond and he says send me i will go

00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:06.280
and so one of the things we need to do is create time to seek god for the generic and the specific

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create time create time like joshua did in exodus 33 verse 11 where moses would leave the tent but

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joshua would stay in the tent create time create time like in psalm 84 verse 2 where it says

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where it says uh or verse 11 where it says i'd rather be a sentry in the house of the lord

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verse 2 also says something about seeking god psalm 84 verse 2 can someone read it out psalm 84

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verse 2 thanks for all the help

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psalm 84 2 even the sparrow has found a home in the swallow and nest for herself

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where she may have her young a place near your altar a lot i know verse 2 my soul yearns even

00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:07.320
faints for the courts of the lord my heart and my flesh cry out for the living god guys create time

00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:14.920
once you create time like joshua did like david does in psalm 84 no it's an asap psalm like asap

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does in psalm 84 what happens is you begin to pick up on god's generic invitations and then once

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you pick up on god's generic invitations now that god has your attention he takes you to revelations

00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:35.160
four one or four two where it says very specifically john hears a voice and he sees heaven open and it

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says in revelations four two

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after this i looked and there before me was a door standing open in heaven and the voice i had first

00:45:48.120 --> 00:45:53.880
heard speaking to me like a trumpet said come up here and i will show you what must take place

00:45:53.880 --> 00:46:03.320
after this engage in this this is where you start guys engage in this and for all of us it'll be

00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:12.760
different eh what are we doing we are partnering with god and what he wants to do on earth

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that's what we're doing

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any questions on the first point

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okay tough crowd eh

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different it's in the area

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could be but more than that it is along the lines of

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okay i'll i'll give you an idea of a generic conversation um you know blessing may remember

00:46:53.640 --> 00:47:00.680
these people so there used to be this really amazing guy called vic rosado he's much he's very

00:47:00.680 --> 00:47:05.960
old now but he used to be an amazing apostolic church planter and there was another guy from

00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:10.920
the u.s who used to come to visit very often and he was so full of faith his name was mike hyman

00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:17.080
and so these two guys would come to bahrain every so often and as soon as they knew they were coming

00:47:17.080 --> 00:47:22.200
i would ask the pastor of the church to take me to the airport so i could carry their bags

00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:28.360
and i would go to the airport to receive them i was like hardly a year in the lawn i would go to

00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:33.160
carry their bags why because if you sat in the back seat of the car while they were talking

00:47:33.160 --> 00:47:38.360
you would hear things you just would not otherwise hear and it would fascinate me the stories they

00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:45.000
were telling what is the intent the intent was to figure out this god that i did not know being

00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:51.160
spoken of by people who had the experience of god and so every time they came i would plead to be

00:47:51.160 --> 00:47:55.240
taken to the airport so i could sit in the car and i would not say a word i'd actually carry their

00:47:55.240 --> 00:48:02.440
bags like real like i don't do it anymore but i used to but the point was this that i wanted

00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:07.240
to hear of a god i had not experienced from people who had experienced that god that is what an

00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:13.880
invitation looks like where you begin to engage in or hear conversations where you begin to marvel

00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:20.360
at this god and see the bigness of this god that is what a generic invitation looks like you're not

00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:27.480
even there to get some great nugget of spiritual truth you are there to see how god functions you

00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:34.840
are there to figure out god's minds it's like going to a forum where bill gates and what's the

00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:41.240
other guy warren buffett and don muller sheryl are sitting and discussing finances

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you can easily pick the odd man out

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so it would be like that you go there and you listen why do people spend a thousand bucks to have dinner with warren buffett not because of his looks

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this is what i mean by generic invitation it is sheerly for the sake of being in the same room

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and out of that now that god sees that our shucks moses has left to attend a meeting but joshua's

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still hanging around this boy has something that i can use

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next one once you get past seeking go to authorization authorization

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authorization authorization by the spirit authorization by the spirit

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authorization by the spirit this precedes this precedes assignment this precedes assignment

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this precedes empowerment

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this precedes assignment and precedes empowerment meaning you have to be authorized by the spirit

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as it it should become evident that the holy spirit is behind what you're being invited into

00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:11.560
how do you figure that out you figure that out by first listening then you figure that out by

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verifying it with the word then you figure that out with is this what god has been calling me

00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:20.440
into you figure that out by the prophetic spoken over your life you figure that out by the people

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that you belong to is this where they are going to you figure that out by going testing it out with

00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:31.160
people who have walked this path before you figure that out by asking god to flesh it out elaborate

00:50:31.160 --> 00:50:37.000
on it some more. That is how you figure that, ah shucks what God is sending me for is not

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from anybody else but him. In Isaiah 30 verse 1 it says that Israel is on an errand which

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I didn't send them on, they're making an alliance that I did not assign through my spirit. Isaiah

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30 verse 1. And yet in Acts chapter 13 verse 2, while they were praying and fasting the

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Holy Spirit said to the group that was gathered there, set aside for me Paul and Barnabas for

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the assignment that I have for them. So there's an authorization that has to happen by the spirit

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before you get an assignment or before you're empowered for it. It isn't complicated guys,

00:51:17.040 --> 00:51:27.520
it isn't complicated. Before you can do any work at the airport, this guy, what's his name? Evan,

00:51:27.520 --> 00:51:34.560
works at the airport. Evan goes to places in the airport that you and I cannot go to. Why?

00:51:34.560 --> 00:51:41.880
Because he's got a badge. He's authorized. Once he's authorized then he can go and finish his

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assignment. You need to be authorized by the spirit and these are the ways you authorize

00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:51.480
by the spirit. This is answering the previous question that Wobblebeast was asking.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but after Derek and I had the conversation we realized that was not his motive. So,

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no, he was, there was nothing redeeming there. But see, even when I, you have to discern before

00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:51.040
finding fault. Yeah? Finding fault without discernment may either become judgment or

00:52:51.040 --> 00:52:57.120
may become error. So if I am looking, if I want to find fault with you, I don't need to listen to

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God, I just need to listen to the devil. He'll give me all your faults because he's the accuser.

00:53:00.240 --> 00:53:05.920
But if I'm actually trying to find a fault with you that needs correction, then I need discernment

00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:10.800
to know one, that it is something God is pointing out, two, that it is something God wants to address

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now. Three, that I have the ability to address it without dissing you or trashing you. That

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sometimes wasn't God's intent but I might still do it, but that's my personality flaw. But to find

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flaws without discerning always ends up in problems and that's what the church does say. The church

00:53:33.160 --> 00:53:39.800
finds flaws without discerning. But if you are someone that God has placed to help people,

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you need to discern what the Holy Spirit is saying and then sometimes be ruthless about it,

00:53:45.520 --> 00:53:51.920
sometimes be disciplined about it, sometimes be kind about it. Like I said, diplomacy is not a

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fruit of the Holy Spirit. So use discernment instead. Authorization by the Spirit, as in make

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sure that what you're doing is initiated by the Spirit. Like I said, Isaiah 30 verse 1 says,

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Hey Israel, what you're doing, I did not initiate. You're making an alliance that is not of me. Make

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sure it's initiated by the Holy Spirit. Make sure you're appointed to it by the Holy Spirit. Make

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sure that people around you recognize that it is the Holy Spirit and you are in the flow of things.

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Make sure it's sustained by the Holy Spirit and make sure it's concluded by the Holy Spirit.

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Third thing, obedience. Obedience. Obedience. Before you obey, count the cost. Before you obey,

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count the cost. This thing that God is now asking me to take a stand for as one man so that he can

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change a culture, a nation, a city, a region, a family, a church. This thing that God is asking

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me to take a stand for. Am I willing at this present time to pay the cost? And if you think

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you are not, give yourself another year and go tell somebody, I cannot at present because I'm

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scared. I cannot at present because there's too much involved. I cannot at present because I have

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far too many responsibilities. I need help. And then try it again a year from now. If you are

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sincere, God does not shut that window. It is when you're insincere, lazy, disobedient,

00:55:37.200 --> 00:55:42.720
trying to skirt things that God says, okay, I'll come back later. Otherwise the window stays open,

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man. But count the cost because it will cost you your reputation. It will cost you your family. It

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will cost you your friends. It will cost you money. It will cost you being not understood. It will

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cost you a backlash from culture and from the systems of the world. Count the cost.

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And it's not a one-time payment either. Labans and Delilahs will continuously try to barter

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and ensnare as you keep going down this road. It's fascinating how Abraham in Genesis 12 is

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told to leave his land, his country, his clan and go to Canaan. Guess what he does halfway through.

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He decides to go to Egypt. God didn't tell him to go to Egypt but he decides to go to Egypt.

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Why does he go to Egypt? Because there was a famine in the land. The same man who was

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obedient and paid a cost of leaving clan, country, people now goes to Egypt without being told. And

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for that entire period of time there was no voice of God till he returns back to Negev after that

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terrible incident with Abumalek taking his wife because he pawned her off as a sister. And then

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he comes back to Bethel and Negev where he started off from near the Oaks of Mamre and that's when

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God starts talking again and Melchizedek appears to him. Sometimes your Navi goes on the blink when

00:57:24.780 --> 00:57:30.460
you short-circuit obedience. And it's not that God is saying I won't talk to you because God's voice

00:57:30.460 --> 00:57:36.020
will be active in other areas. But in the area that you were assigned there will be silence because

00:57:36.020 --> 00:57:40.740
the Navi is on the blink because you decided not to follow the lady who says turn right and you went

00:57:40.740 --> 00:57:59.460
left. Next one. Guys who want to take this on, one man or one woman being able to change things,

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finishing. You have to learn how to finish. John 434, Jesus put it this way,

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I have been sent by my father to finish his work. Many are sent, few finish man. I'm telling you

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this is a serious problem. You know I heard another preacher say this that 30%, only 30%

00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:30.400
of the people in the Bible finish their assignments. Only 30% of all the heroes in the Bible actually

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finish their assignments. Moses didn't, Aaron didn't, Gideon didn't, Ananias and Sapphira didn't, Judas didn't,

00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:57.400
Mark didn't, Barnabas didn't, Josiah didn't, Esa didn't. They were supposed to clear the high places.

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Very specific instructions were given. Only 30% of the heroes in the Bible finished. So this

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finishing thing is an age-old problem. And yet Jesus very clearly says I've been sent to finish

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the works of God and later on in Acts chapter 20 verse 24 when Paul is saying goodbye to the elders

00:59:15.600 --> 00:59:22.840
of Ephesus, he says to them in Acts 20 24, listen I have given you the whole counsel of God. I've

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finished everything I was given to do. I've given you. I've finished it. There's this thing

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that is required in terms of finishing guys. It's critical. Finishing requires discipline. You know

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at the, when I went through these different points I began to audit myself. I began to audit myself.

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Where am I falling short? Why is it that I cannot yet be this man? Where am I falling short? And one

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of the areas I find myself falling short is finishing requires discipline as in repeat,

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repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat onfication, on good days,

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on bad days, on bad days, on boring days, on boring days. Repeat. Finishing requires discipline.

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First Corinthians 9, 25 to 27.

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First Corinthians 9, 25 to 27.

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First Corinthians 9, 25 to 27.

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Do you know that in a race, all the runners run

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but only one gets the prize?

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No longer do we run for the prize.

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We run saying, money, money, odikyo, odikyo,

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that's Greek for run, run.

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Just run, just participate.

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I'll give you a certificate, if they don't give it,

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I'll print it for you.

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No, we run for a prize, man.

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First Corinthians 9, 24 to 27.

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Do you not know that in a race, all the runners run

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but only one gets the prize?

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Run in such a way as to get the prize.

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Everyone who competes in the games

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goes into strict training.

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They do it to get a crown that will not last

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but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

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Therefore, I do not run like a man running aimlessly.

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I do not fight like a man beating the air.

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No, I beat my body and make it my slave

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so that after I preach to others,

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I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

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Finishing requires discipline.

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The problem with this finishing thing

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is we start so eagerly, right?

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Is your eager willingness matched by completion?

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Second Corinthians 8, 11, in a totally different context says,

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since you've expressed such eager willingness,

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are you going to complete what you said you would do?

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He's talking about it in terms of money

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but I want to draw that principle out.

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Jacob, is your eager willingness matched by your completion?

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Next thing, again, taking a scripture out of context.

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Galatians 3, 3.

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We all start in the spirit but do we finish in the spirit

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or do we finish in the flesh?

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Because we got bored of it, tired of it,

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ran out of enthusiasm,

01:02:03.160 --> 01:02:06.480
don't see it as something that needs to be finished.

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So just finish it in the flesh.

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If you started in the spirit, finish in the spirit.

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And then another scripture that I'm pulling out of context

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is from James chapter one, verse four.

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In the process of discipline and perseverance

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and endurance and learning how to finish,

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are you maturing or are you a complaining, grumpy old man

01:02:27.120 --> 01:02:30.120
that people want to take this assignment away from

01:02:30.120 --> 01:02:31.440
because you're making their life miserable

01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:32.840
even though you will finish?

01:02:45.120 --> 01:02:46.320
Two more and we're done.

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Oh, we're still doing good for time, it's not four yet.

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Next one is eagle eye.

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You can call it whatever you want

01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:58.520
but I like calling it eagle eye this week.

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Eagle eye, eagle eye is the eye of faith

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that opens your mind to the spirit.

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Eagle eye is the eye of faith

01:03:06.920 --> 01:03:09.720
that opens your mind to the spirit.

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Eagle eye is the eye of faith

01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:13.360
that opens your mind to the spirit.

01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:16.920
It permits you to discern things spiritually.

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Not by your five senses, not by your logic

01:03:19.240 --> 01:03:21.920
but it permits you to discern things spiritually.

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And this is critical if you want to be that oneерж

01:03:25.520 --> 01:03:26.360
that is able to change things.

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How does Phineas know that it is actually being,

01:03:28.840 --> 01:03:32.360
it will actually be zealous if I take a javelin

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and thrust it through the man and the woman?

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How does David know that even though

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his brothers are there, even though King Saul is there

01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:42.480
and even though King Saul is giving him his own armor

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that he's not supposed to take on Saul's armor

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but he's supposed to go with what is very natural to him

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which is the five stones and the sling.

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How does Elijah know that fire will come down

01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:55.720
even though there are 450 of them

01:03:55.720 --> 01:03:57.320
and there's just one of him?

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How does Micaiah know that 400 prophets

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are prophesying one thing

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and they were prophets being sought by the King of Israel

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and the King of Judah and yet he alone will stand

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and say something different and it'll actually happen.

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You cannot go by your five senses.

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You cannot go by your logic.

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You cannot go by your peers.

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You can only go with eyes of faith

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that open your mind to the things of the spirit.

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This is how one man or one woman can take and change things.

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How does Rahab know, a pagan?

01:04:26.760 --> 01:04:30.320
How does she know that I need to align with these people?

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How does Ruth, who's a Moabite,

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say what her sister-in-law who was from Israel

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could not say when she said,

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where you go, I will go.

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Your God will be my God.

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Where you die, I will die.

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How do people do this?

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In George Bush Senior's home,

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there's this rock and on the rock are four words,

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four letters.

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I've said this before.

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CAVU.

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It's a term used by fighter pilots.

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Ceiling and visibility unlimited.

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Ceiling and visibility unlimited.

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It's a term used by fighter pilots.

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Ceiling and visibility unlimited.

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Ceiling and visibility unlimited.

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That is what happens when you have an eagle eye.

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There is no limit to what God can now allow you to see

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and allow you to begin to think is possible.

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CAVU, C-A-V-U.

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Ceiling and visibility unlimited.

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That is why you need the eagle eye.

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Guys, try to process who you are

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and what you must do through the eyes of the Spirit.

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I try so hard to do this.

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I sit and try to process who I am on a weekly basis

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because sometimes when I look at myself,

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sometimes when I look at things I do,

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look at the size of the church,

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look at how little I have,

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when you are being asked to do ridiculous things,

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I think to myself,

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if I don't process my life through the eyes of the Spirit,

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if I don't see who I am and what I must do

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through the eyes of the Spirit,

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there is just no way I can attempt it.

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You know, Jacob does something strange

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in Genesis chapter 30, verse 39,

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with his sheep when he has to separate them from Laban.

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He takes them, makes them face the barks

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that are speckled and spotted,

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and then they begin to reproduce

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and they reproduce speckled and spotted kids.

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And then he takes them away

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and makes them face in another direction

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so that when the rest of Laban's flocks come,

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that they're not facing Laban's flock.

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And I heard a preacher put it this way

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and I love the he phrased it, he said,

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once they became what they beheld,

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he did not let them behold something else.

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Once they became what they beheld,

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once they became what they beheld,

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once they became what they beheld,

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he did not let them behold something other.

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Once they became what they beheld,

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he did not let them behold something other.

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Once they became what they beheld,

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He did not let them behold something other. Once I've seen what God is calling me to, I cannot then keep looking at my

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importance.

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Abraham had the ability not to do that. He refused to look at his importance. He refused to look at his wife's importance.

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Once he beheld what he, God said he had become, he refused to behold anything else.

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That's when you are no longer moved by what you see or what you don't see with your physical eyes.

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Anyone who has to change the world, any man or woman who has to change things must learn how not to determine things by

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what you see or don't see with your physical eyes. But you have to learn now to frame your world through your

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spiritual eyes. You have to frame your world through your spiritual eyes. In 1 Kings 18, you see Elijah doing this

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brilliantly. 1 Kings 18, verse, let's start at verse 43 and then I'll go to 41. 1 Kings 18, 43. 1 Kings 18, 43.

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Go and look towards the sea. He told his servant, and he went up and looked. There is nothing there he said. Seven times

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Elijah said go back. So here is Elijah who is telling his servant to go look and he's seeing nothing. But look what

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Elijah has already said in verse 41. He said, I will look where you want me to look. He said, I will look where you want

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me to go. He said, I will look where you want me to go. He said, I will look where you want me to look. I said,

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has already said in verse 41. Look what Elijah has already said in verse 41. And Elijah said

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to Ahab, go eat and drink for there is a sound of heavy rain. You cannot trust your physical

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eyes if you want to be that one man or one woman that is about to partner with God as

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God is changing the world. If he doesn't get you, he'll get somebody else, guys. He's

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got plenty of people now with Christ living in them. That gap is continuously being filled.

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You must realize that you're usually the second or third choice. So here is Elijah, does not

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trust his eyes, told his servant seven times and there's nothing. And yet two verses preceding,

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he's already told Ahab, hey listen, I hear the sound of rain. Why? Because he begins

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to frame his world with what he sees spiritually and not what he sees physically. And he speaks

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it, man. I won't even go there today because we've spent a lot of time talking about speaking.

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Last one. Meekness. Why put in meekness there? Because it's important in this whole context.

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You know, when you guys wrote scriptures for me on these little pebbles and gave it to me for my

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birthday, yesterday I pulled out a stone and it was from Marcus, Marcus and Laurie and Marcus.

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And Marcus had put down Matthew 5.5 and it says, blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the

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earth. And as you go about being that one man or woman that God is using to change cultures,

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nations, territories, regions, reforming systems and so on, stay unassuming in

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self-forgetfulness and surrender strength. Stay unassuming, stay unassuming,

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stay unassuming in self-forgetfulness, stay unassuming in self-forgetfulness and

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surrender strength. In self-forgetfulness and surrender strength. Stay unassuming in

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self-forgetfulness and surrender strength. Without isolating from people who correct you. Without

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isolating, without isolating from people who can correct you. The last word is correct.

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Stay unassuming in self-forgetfulness and surrender strength without isolating from people

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who correct you. Because once this thing begins guys, you will be surprised at the clout, the

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authority, the command, the spirit realms that you will be shown the way God operates. And man,

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if you and I can't maintain meekness through it, then it's only a matter of time before one

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of two things happens. Either you cross boundaries or you fall into the one man syndrome that Elijah

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fell into. Let's look at both of them. One is in 1 Kings 19, 10, 1 Kings 19 verse 10. He had just

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taken care of 450 prophets of Baal and some followers of Jezebel. And then in 1 Kings 19,

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10 this happens to him. He replied, I've been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The

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Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, put your prophets to death with

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a sword. I am the only one left and now they're trying to kill me too. That's the one man only

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syndrome where it's no longer, sure Elijah was that one man God was using but now that becomes

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the boomerang where it comes and knocks him out where he now begins to say woe is me. Or you can

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look at what happened with Uzziah in 2 Chronicles 26. Uzziah in 2 Chronicles 26 verse 12. Uzziah,

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2 Chronicles 26 verse 16, sorry. Let's start at half of verse 15. His fame spread far and wide,

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for he was greatly helped until he became powerful. But after Uzziah became powerful,

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his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the

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Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. He crossed a boundary. He presumed that because

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he was now beginning to do what he was beginning to do that he could take on assignments that he

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was not given. He was a king, he was not a priest, he was not supposed to do that and he went ahead

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and did it. This is what happens if meekness is not maintained. These, I mean I don't know whether

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it helps at all but either you can put all this under SAFE.MO if that helps. Seeking authorization,

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F was what? Finishing. E was, what was it? Eagle Eye. M was meekness. O was obedience.

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And if that doesn't work then I thought of Doremi Fasola. I'm just trying to be super helpful.

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So whatever acronym works for you, you said Mifaso. Sounds like a Japanese word but let's go with it.

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So, or is it Spanish because usually Derek would know if it's Spanish. Because I've heard him going

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to that Brazilian place and saying Mifaso and they usually kick him out. So I don't know what that's about.

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So choose one of these and then go home and ask yourself this question. If I audit myself,

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where am I coming up short? Where am I coming up short? In which areas am I coming up short?

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I'm finding that my struggle is in that discipline when it comes to finishing. That after a while I

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switch over to something else that I find is perhaps a little more exciting or I don't continue

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with what I need to develop in terms of discipline. That is one major area for me. And then the other

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thing was creating time to desire, dream and be like Joshua or Psalm 84. But father, just because

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I spent one hour with you over the last ten years, can I just up it to two hours instead of keeping

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it at one hour? Because you've got so much more you want to do. If what you're doing today is the

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same as what you were doing two years ago, then I would suggest to you that you're not growing.

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This is the only relationship where just because you know a person doesn't

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lessen the time you spend with them, it increases the time you spend with them.

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I want to show you a picture of a guy called, put up the other picture.

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Not too many people know this guy. I love that he's not well known. His name is Christian Fuhrer,

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German. Used to pastor in a church called Nikolai Church in Leipzig. Every Monday from 1980 onwards,

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1982 onwards, he began to have a prayer meeting. Few used to gather. Kept at it every Monday from

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1982 to 89. And what would they pray? They would pray against the Cold War, atheism. And what was

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their favorite scripture? The Beatitudes. They would go with the Beatitudes again and again and

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again. In 1989, there were 70,000 people who marched out of this church. And it is the only

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revolution known in the world where there was no violence. Because he actually believed that the

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way to take down the Berlin Wall and to bring an end to the rule that then used to prevail in GDR

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was through the Beatitudes, through nonviolence. And so over a period of eight or nine years,

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he kept at it. The police didn't know how to handle it. They said, we don't know how to handle

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candles and prayer. People used to come to him and say, you don't really think that your candles

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and prayers can change something. And it did. One of the things he said really bothered me. He said,

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it's not the throne and the altar, but the street and the altar that belong together. It's not the

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throne and the altar, but the street and the altar that belong together. What he was trying to say

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was, listen, if you are approaching the throne of God, or if you're at the altar of God, then it

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must percolate into the normalcy of life and not just stay in the church. He died about four or five

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years ago. But as I was reading about his life, and I didn't know about him until about two days ago,

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I thought to myself, wow, shucks. Nobody knows that he was such a critical part of bringing the

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wall down. Nobody even knows it. You are hearing it for the first time.

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So what happen we can decide?

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What willarring effects us from Jesus Christ?

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The change will to 생 diminpticality Transfigure the

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President at his mercy. I can see a person that can meet Armed Forces Х

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roll the judge to say oh the Magistrate, here I am!

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Because I know, if you have Kony Yea Sinan Baritani,

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and if you want to believe in the Presence of Jesus Christ,

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house church it is required that I resist in you that which is present

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status that is one of the things I must do if I see in Liggy things that he is

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holding on to that he is resistant to leaving that he holds two pressures

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above kingdom and above King then it is required of me till he either tells me

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to leave or till he stops me to resist that so that it breaks because all

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kingdom breakthrough whether it be in church whether it be in my life whether

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it be in your life whether it be in a nation whether it be in a culture does

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not come to pass all kingdom breakthrough only comes to pass when

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there is sustained resistance against present status and to do that you can

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use a chisel you can use a scalpel you can use a hammer you can use a bedpan

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use whatever you want I mean bedpan hasn't knocked the person out use

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whatever you want but there's no other way of kingdom breakthrough and guess

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what opposes kingdom breakthrough most it is opposed violently by the religious

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spirit it is opposed violently by the religious spirit and it is co-opted

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deceptively deceptively by the spirit of the antichrist two things that we need

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to be aware of if you go down this road be sure that you will face resistance

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from the religious spirit the religious spirit as in the spirit that puts

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tradition and religion and rites and rituals and ways of doing things that

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have absolutely nothing to do with Christ sometimes coming from the

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previous generation as in me if I am influenced by the religious spirit and

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one of you young guys come up with something that the spirit is doing I

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don't want to be the one that resists you because the religious spirit always

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opposes any breakthrough in the kingdom and the other spirit that will come

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against you is the spirit of the antichrist and the spirit of the

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antichrist works differently it doesn't try to cheat you it just co-opts you as

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in now that you have a movement going let me offer you a platform on CNN or

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let me offer you some money or let me offer you a place in the Congress or let

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me offer you a tour of the White House the spirit of antichrist always co-opts

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the Christian Church it has done it for centuries we Christians are suckers for

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baubles throw a few trinkets our way our wheels suck up

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Jesus Christ was the one man who fits all the above and is to be imitated he

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was wisdom he was the man who was a dividing line he was a man who would not

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compromise he was a voice that reformed everything he would refuse validation at

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the table of his peers he would birth ancient agendas he was the one man who

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subdued the devil he was sent to preserve us when famine hits he redeemed

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our past and our future he restored our fortunes he sought his father created

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time with his father he was authorized by the spirit sustained by the spirit he

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was obedient to unto death he finished what he started he saw things with his

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spiritual eyes he had meekness that nobody can match and this Christ now

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lives in me we have been made one new manner Ephesians 2 verse 14 talks about

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it first Peter 2 verse 9 to 11 talks about it Galatians 6 15 talks about it

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one new man

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let me in

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hey guys I really believe that God wants to do really impactful dent leaving

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leaving large people group affecting things through you who are sitting here

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and listening and it may not come with any recognition and I know that doesn't

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matter to you and I praise God for that I can say that confidently about you but

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if you don't take on this mentality of it takes one man then you will wait for

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someone else who is ahead of you or someone else who is doing well or

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someone else who is more gifted or someone else who has more money or

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someone else who has more influence I can't wait for that I want to leave the

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earth saying what Paul said that I have finished what was given me to do and I

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haven't seen the half of it yet honestly I'm so dissatisfied with what

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I've accomplished and it's a it's a happy dissatisfaction I plead with you

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this is a this is a teaching both for now and it's a kairos kind of teaching

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and by kairos I mean there's a fluid moving of God upon you through this

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teaching if you want it but it has to change your way of thinking you have to

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go with these Miphaso or safe mo you have to go over it and decide whether

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you are willing to step up into this gap I will I will remember this we are the

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only people who are for the benefit of the non members of this church

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everything we are we are for the benefit of someone else God is going to do all

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these things not for you it's for someone else so it doesn't matter if

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you're not heard of it doesn't matter if nobody writes a book about you it

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doesn't matter that you've never heard of Christian Fuhrer who was instrumental

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in bringing the wall down nobody knows about it which is so odd but so

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brilliant any questions

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surrendered strength looks like strength that I know I have that is at the

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command of someone else and so I refuse to turn stones into bread even though I

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have the power to do it