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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Tetelestai
Publishing Date: 2019-04-19T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/tetelestai/

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Tethelestai is basically Greek for it is finished.

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That's what D was, those were his last words on the cross, kind of his last words on the cross.

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And Tethelestai basically means it is finished. And it's an accounting term.

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And it actually means taking the toll.

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And so when Jesus said it is finished, there were many meanings to it, but one of the things we really wanted to emphasize was that

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He wanted to say, hey guys, the debt that you owe, the debt that man owes God, the debt that man owes God has been completely wiped forever.

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That's basically what he wanted to say.

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Hey, can you make this thing come further?

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Yeah. So Tethelestai means that it's finished and it's an accounting term that basically means patient full.

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And Jesus' intent when he declared it on the cross was to let us know that listen, the debt of sin owed by you to my father has been wiped out completely and forever.

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The debt of sin owed by you to my father has just been wiped out by me completely and forever.

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That was the whole intent.

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So we're going to look at a scripture to see the debt that has been wiped out and what has happened.

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And that's in Galatians 3, 13 and 14. Galatians 3, 13 and 14. Galatians 3, 13 and 14.

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And here's what it says. It says Christ has redeemed us from the curse.

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Christ has redeemed us from the curse.

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What curse? The curse of the law.

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Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.

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And there it goes on to this. That's one part of it. I mean the verse is much longer. I'll read the verse first and then break it up.

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Galatians 3, 13 and 14. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, cursed as everyone hangs on a tree.

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And then it goes on to say that the blessing of Abraham might conform with their ties with Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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So we bring that into two parts. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, or three parts, by becoming a curse.

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And in the process, the blessings of Abraham are now ours.

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That's what we look at today. So when he says it is finished, Tetelahes Christ, what he's trying to say is, hey, I've paid completely and forever the debt that I owed my father.

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And when we begin to expand that further, we find that what he paid allowed him to ransom us or redeem us from the curse of the law.

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And how did he do that? By becoming a curse. What happens in the bargain? We get the blessings of Abraham and they now sit upon us.

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So here's the first question. Christ delivered us from the curse of the law. That's what we look at first. Christ delivered us from the curse of the law.

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If you want to know what the law is still doing, Exodus 20, Exodus 20, Exodus 20, just go to Exodus 20. That's where it begins, eh?

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Go to Exodus 20. Everyone's familiar with this chapter. So Exodus 20 is when God begins to speak the words and give the Ten Commandments.

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Yes? Are you there? Exodus 20. Then go on to Exodus 21 and the commandments still continue. This is God still speaking on Sinai.

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He's not done. So we think he gave the Ten Commandments and then said, alright, I'm done. But he keeps going. 21 and then go on to 22 and then go on to 23.

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And at the end of 23, he takes a break. And at the end of 23, he actually tells Moses, hey, why don't you bring 70 of your elders and come and eat and drink with me? Why?

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Because every covenant was always followed by a meme. Every covenant is followed by a meme. Doesn't matter whether it's the marriage covenant or the Ten Commandments or the New Testament, Jesus started the covenant with a meme.

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And so this covenant too had to be concluded with a meme. So what does he say? He says to Moses, hey, why don't 70 of your elders come up the mountain and they go up the mountain.

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He's just delivered to them the Mosaic covenant and they say that these 78 and drank with God on the mountain, which is just nuts.

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There's not just Moses going up. Moses and 70 elders go up the mountain to eat and drink with him. And so this was the law that was given to them.

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And please note that the law at that time given by God was external, was ceremonial, was moral. But it was not internal.

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As in it wasn't really the condition of the heart. It was the performance of certain rules and regulations that have to be met.

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It was moral, it was ceremonial, it was external. And what was God's intent? Hey guys, here is my blazing holiness. If you want to be my people, these are the standards that have to be met.

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He's setting them up. Say these are the standards that have to be met. Oh by the way, if you meet them all, these great things will happen to you. If you don't meet them, these terrible things will happen to you.

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We aren't even talking about an internal condition, which is why Jesus starts off so brilliantly in Matthew 5 where he says, you have heard it said that you should not murder.

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But let me say to you that anyone who looks at someone with anger has already committed murder. What is Jesus doing here? He's taking what was external and making it internal, the condition of the heart, where for Israel it was an external requirement.

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It was moral, yes, but it was still external and ceremonial. You have heard it said that one should not commit adultery. But let me say to you, if you look at a woman with lust in your eyes, then you have already committed adultery.

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Jesus was upping the ante by saying, hey, it is impossible to achieve this, but I have come, once I start living in you, you will be able to achieve this.

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And so when you look at Exodus, 20 Exodus, 21 Exodus, 22 Exodus, 23, you see what God spoke to them on Sinai. And now he says to them, you follow all this and Deuteronomy 28, 1-14 will happen. You don't follow this and Deuteronomy 28, 15-16 will happen.

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All those things that Chris read is what happens when you break the law. The curse of the law, the curse of the law is what Chris just read in Deuteronomy 28, 15-68, and it's a consequence of breaking the law.

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We are going somewhere with this.

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Guys, because the Old Testament writers did not have a view of God as Father, because they never met Jesus Christ, because they attributed to God sovereignty, because they assumed that evil and goodness were not in the Bible, they assumed that God was the Father.

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Evil and good comes from God, because they thought that God is bad and good. They attribute everything in the book to God. So when you read it, this is the best Moses could do.

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That the Lord will send plates, the Lord will send diseases, the Lord will cause you to eat your children, the Lord will strike you with diseases, the Lord will ruin you, the Lord will do evil to you.

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And yet, if you want to see the actual image of God, look at Jesus. Which part of this fits with Jesus? How many of us can say with any degree of confidence, and Jesus will send you diseases, and Jesus will ruin you, and Jesus will cause your family to be ripped away from you, and Jesus will cause you to eat your children, and Jesus will cause disasters to come upon you, and Jesus will do you evil, and Jesus will send you plates.

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It doesn't compute, and the reason it doesn't compute is because it was impossible for people before Jesus Christ came on the earth to even figure out a God who is good.

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Because right from the beginning of time, ever since Adam failed, ever since his ear was poisoned with his thoughts, that do you think God really means good to you, when his intent is to subdue you?

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And God had said, listen, I've sent you to subdue them, and Satan comes and whispers in each ear saying, he doesn't mean good.

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Ever since that, we've had such a distorted image of God, and the sad thing is it still continues even after Jesus has come.

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What the devil did with the curse of the law is he began to weaponize the curse of the law against us. He took the curse of the law, and he began to use it against us. How? He is a legalist.

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Now if you look at Deuteronomy 13.3, verse 1-3, you will see God in his courts, Joshua the High Priest, Satan on one side and Angel on the other side.

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Now what is Satan standing there accusing Joshua? What is he accusing of?ability of sin.ию What did Joshua robe him with? of filth-spattered garments.

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and then Satan begins to accuse him. The accuser of the brethren was cast out from heaven when

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Christ won the victory on the cross. He cannot accuse us before God anymore. When you think of

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the songs we sang together today, every song says the same thing. Every song says the same thing.

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The first song said, I stand before and write it. The first song said, till Jesus leaves heaven,

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I will not be displaced. We now still think that the enemy has the ability to take the curses of

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the law and keep chucking it on us. He used it as a weapon. He's used it as a weapon forever. Do you

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know that in Psalm 78, when I talked about the plagues of Egypt, I was talking to the young

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man, Alan Sabhan. When you talk about the plagues of Egypt, when you read Psalm 78, you find that

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the plagues of Egypt were caused by a band of marauding evil angels. Amazing, eh? The Hebrew

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word for it is ra ra malak, a band of evil angels. Psalm 78. God is a good God. He didn't change at

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Malachi. God is a good God. He didn't change when Adam fell. God does not indulge in evil. He does

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not send evil. You are evil parents. That's just a statement from the Bible. You parents being as

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evil as you are. That's what the Bible says. You are parents that are evil. And yet, when you are

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come, when your kids come to you and ask you for an egg, you do not give them a scorpion. When they

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ask you for fish, you do not give them a serpent. When they ask you for bread, you do not give them

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stone. Why is it that we assume that a good God chooses to do evil? Will one day the inhabitants

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of the earth who choose to go with the deceiver, the adversary, the opponent, the accuser, will they

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face the wrath of God? Yes. But is God someone who sends evil and good, disaster and nice things?

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No. He's the one who said, can a spring produce both salty water and sweet water? Can a plant

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produce good fruit and bad fruit? We got to understand this in our heart. If you try to reason

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with your mind, you can come up with a hundred circumstances over the last ten days on CNN that

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would prove God a liar. But let all men be liars, but God be true. We do not work God's character or

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personality with our reasoning. We look at the word and we see the face of Jesus. And in the face

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of Jesus, you see an accurate image of God. I'm not trying to browbeat you into submission to a good

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God. I'm trying to open our eyes and your eyes to see a good God. And if that means putting matchsticks

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so that our eyelids say open, yes, it's cruel, but it is helpful. Satan used the curse of the law.

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And here's what God is saying. Imagine how all this started. He says to Adam, hey Adam, I wanted to give you a few lines.

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By the way, just so that you have choice. Because if there is no choice, there is no freedom. If there is no freedom, there is no love.

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So here, I want to place a tree in this garden called the tree of life. And I don't want you to eat from it.

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Not the tree of life. A tree of knowledge of good and evil. I'm going to place it in this garden. I don't want you to eat from it.

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And the only reason I'm prohibiting you from eating from it is so that you now have the freedom to eat

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from it or not eat from it. You have to have choice. If you do not have choice, you cannot obey me. Obedience that doesn't have choice

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ain't obedience. It's robotic. And where there is no freedom, there is no love. Where there is no choice, there is no freedom.

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So a Bible that was supposed to be one verse ticked now has 66 books because of Adam. That is all. That is the only command given to Adam.

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Now he has choice and he chooses. And God says, hey by the way, I also want to tell you that there are consequences to your choices.

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You can have the freedom to choose, but you've got to know that there are consequences to your choices. So here's what I want to tell you.

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I plan to supply you for the rest of my life. By the way, there will be children that you'll have. And if Adam had not followed,

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we would have fathomed the infinity of God every day and it would never end. What were the first few days or months or years like,

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depending on whether you're a new earth and old earth guy, what were the first few days like? What was it like when God would walk with Adam in the cool of the evening?

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What were they talking about? What about God was Adam discovering? How long was it supposed to go on? Because there will never be an end to it because God is infinite.

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What were we supposed to fathom? How would that would it have been? What would what would that Eden look like? We will get there. We will get there.

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God's plan hasn't changed. There is no plan B. It's always been plan A. It's always been plan A. And thank God for something called eternity.

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It lasts forever and it's as infinite as he is because time is contained in him. So it's less finite. It's more finite than he is. He's infinite.

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Time is contained in God. We will get back there. There is no plan B. But what would it have been like?

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And Adam chooses them. Before he chooses, God says to him, hey Adam, by the way, if you decide not to go with following me and if you eat of the tree, I also want you to know that there are consequences.

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And the consequences are, muth, muth, that's the word used in Hebrew, dying you will die. Dying you will die. That's the choice given to them.

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And Satan is waiting. Can I get these two to break that one prohibition to supply them seductions given that they have choice so that they eat?

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Because if I do, I can take what God has said as a consequence and use it as a weapon against them. And the moment they eat of it, dying they will need to die.

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So when God supplies the law in 21, 22, 23 and then he calls them out to the mountain and says let's eat and drink together. Brilliant God. Every covenant adds the meal.

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Someone asked me when I was in Lithuania, why should I get married in a church? Why do I need a pastor to get married? Why all these things that happen in a church during...

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When you ask it, you don't have to get married in a church. You don't have to go get married by a pastor or stuff like that. But remember it's a covenant so as long as you fulfill these seven needs of a covenant, you're fine.

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Make sure that there are witnesses, make sure there's a meal after the covenant, make sure that there is a greater power that is involved.

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And as I listed the requirements of the covenant of marriage, I think you quickly realize that the church is the easiest place to meet all of them.

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So you went away quite happily, not disillusioned by the church. And his name was my name too, he had my name. Oh I had his name. Anyway that's not important, it's just that I have a really great name.

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So, Satan uses the consequence of breaking the law as a weapon. And the curse of the law that we so often attribute to God's name, God set this up, is basically the way the Old Testament writers had to write it.

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Because you would not put the name Jesus in front of any of these curses that were read out in Isaiah 65. You would not put the name of Jesus before it. Not because you were scared, but because you know Jesus better than us.

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Stand in the New Testament and read the Old Testament, please. Look at the face of Jesus while you read the Old Testament, please.

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Because if you don't, God's going to come out looking horrendous. He'll come out looking really evil. And God does not change. When he said I'm the same, I'm changing Jesus yesterday, today and forever, he also meant in the book of Malachi and in the book of Genesis and before time existed.

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It wasn't that he had a heart change at some point when John the Baptist came along because he was dressed in leather. He's always been the same.

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So, now that we know what God delivered us from, think of what we've been delivered from. Deuteronomy 28, 15 to 68 is what we've been delivered from. These things that should happen to anyone who breaks the law. Jesus is saying, does not apply to you anymore.

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Can you look through that list? It's a humongous list. And Jesus is saying, I've delivered you from the curse of the law. When you write down the things that are written there, your heart should begin to rejoice at that chapter.

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Your heart should begin to say, my God, thank God I know what the curse of the law is because I have someone who's delivered me from the curse of the law. List those things down because there is freedom from those things.

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A people that used to labor under it. Gentiles who weren't even aware of it and yet were under the curse. And by the way, your gentiles in case you thought you were something else. And now the thing that you can separate from that.

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So, how did Christ become a curse? To begin with, he identified with Deuteronomy 21, 22 and 23. You can read Deuteronomy 21, 22 and 23.

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And so this is how the Jews immediately identified Jesus as one that was cursed. For them it was like an abomination when something like this was done to a man.

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Deuteronomy 21, 22 and 23. If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his body is hung on a tree, you must not leave his body on the tree overnight. Be sure to bury him that same day because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as inheritance.

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So, the man who would take the body off the tree was not for the sake of the dignity of the guy who was on the tree but for the sake of the land. Because this man who would be hung on a tree was so cursed that the land would be under a curse if he was left overnight.

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Not only was someone put on a tree or a stake to be punished with death, he would be left on a tree for a while so that after death you could still shame him and everything he represented. He was an abomination before God to the point that it was best not to leave him on a tree overnight because if you left a man like that on a tree overnight the land would be cursed.

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You can imagine how the Jews think of Jesus. How the Jews then thought of Jesus. Why it was a big deal that Joseph of Arimathea gave his tomb to a man who was cursed. We think, oh well he had an extra tomb or two because he thought, so let's give him one.

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This was like desecrating your ancestral burial place by giving your tomb to a man who was so cursed that to leave him overnight would curse the land.

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So when the Bible says in Galatians 3 verse 13 and 14 that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, cursed with every one hand on a tree, Jesus immediately identified with that in his death.

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That aside, imagine what's happening on the cross and imagine what's happening in Gethsemane. I'm surprised and appalled that he was sweating blood in the Garden of Gethsemane.

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He wasn't the first man to be crucified. Many had been crucified. Many had been scourged. Some would die while they were being scourged. Some would stay alive on the cross. Some would die on the cross.

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So he wasn't the first man to be crucified. But even before crucifixion he was sweating blood.

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Because what is he submitting himself to? He is about to submit himself to or was submitting himself to the curse of the law that is supposed to fall on every human being that has ever existed.

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I do not understand the agony of Gethsemane. We cannot because we do not understand what it is to take the sins of the world.

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Taking the sin of your spouse or your child is difficult enough. You know how it crafts with you.

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Just taking the load of the sin of your child, your parent, your spouse or a pastor can devastate and destroy, break a church, break a man or woman.

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What does it do when you take the curse of the law upon yourself of 8 billion that have existed before, 8 billion that have existed present and another, maybe 8 billion that exist hereafter?

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What does it look like? I have no idea. I am not even trying to describe it to you.

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But what Christ does on the cross, and this is why the reading of Deuteronomy 28 was so important, is that Christ submitted to the curse pronounced by the law of God.

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Christ submitted to the curse pronounced by the law of God. He is taking it upon himself.

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And by submitting to the curse on my behalf, he is saying, I have ransomed you. I have ransomed you. I have rescued you from the curse of the law.

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If I am rescued from the curse of the law, I have got to understand that I cannot go back and keep thinking that this is going to happen to me again. God is going to do this to me again.

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You have got to stop thinking like that.

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We will talk about that some more.

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You know what the Old Testament picture of redemption looks like. Go to 2 Samuel 21 and you will see an example.

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2 Samuel 21.

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Femens have to be made, you guys. Femens have to be made to avoid a curse.

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2 Samuel 21 verse 1 onwards, and this reads maybe 7 or 8 verses.

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This was a curse that was put on Israel ages ago.

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2 Samuel 21 verse 1 to 8 or 9.

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During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years.

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So David sought the place of the Lord.

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The Lord said, it is an account of Saul and his blood stained house.

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It is because he put the Gibeonites to death.

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Joshua had made a treaty with the Gibeonites saying, we swear by God that we will not destroy you.

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Saul went ahead and did it and there was a curse upon the land.

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There has been a famine in the land for three years.

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The king, verse 2, the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.

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The Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites.

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The Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel,

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Judah had tried to annihilate them.

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David asked the Gibeonites, what shall I do for you?

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How shall I make amends so that you will bless the Lord's inheritance?

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The Gibeonites answered him, we have no right to demand silver or gold from Saul or his family.

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Nor do we have the right to put anyone in Israel to death.

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What do you want me to do for you? David asked.

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They answered the king, ask for the man who destroyed us and plotted against us

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so that we have been decimated and have no place anywhere in Israel.

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Let seven of his male descendants be given to us to be killed and exposed before the Lord of Gibeah of Saul,

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the Lord's chosen one.

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So the king said, I will give them to you.

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The king spared Matthew, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul,

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because we oath before the Lord we will be treated even in Jonathan, the son of Saul.

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But the king took Armoni and Matthew, the two sons of Aya, daughter of Rispa,

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whom she had borne to Saul together with five sons of Saul's daughter, Meira,

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whom she had borne to Atreus, son of Arzalite and Meholite.

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He handed them over to the Gibeonites, who killed and exposed them on a hill

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before the Lord. All seven of them fell together.

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They were put to death during the first days of the harvest,

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just at the barley harvest beginning.

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You want to bring a curse? There was a price to be paid.

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Otherwise the curse of the lamb will affect, curse of the law will affect everybody.

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And so when Christ talks about being a redeemer,

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what he's saying is, hey, let me pay the ransom that will rescue you

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from the curse of the law. And on your behalf,

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I will submit myself to the curses that Chris pronounced.

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Huge, man, what has happened?

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Any questions before we go?

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Any questions?

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Strange God, eh?

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He tells you there are consequences

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knowing that you're going to take your freedom and sin.

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Then he's already decided he's going to send his son

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to help you by paying a ransom.

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He also knows how grievous it will be.

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The son is not forced into it.

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The son says, father, you don't need sacrifices and offering.

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You're looking for a body. Let me come and do your will.

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The son comes down to the earth.

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He takes upon him the curses that the Lord has given him.

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He takes upon him the curses that are supposed to follow us.

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And who causes these curses to unfold?

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The devil who uses sin and the curse of sin

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as weapons against humans.

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This is why the victory he won at the cross

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was a horrible defeat for the enemy.

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And this is why if he can keep the church thinking

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that God is still not good,

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that God is not doing the things that Chris mentioned,

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then the enemy knows that even though I've defeated,

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they don't know better.

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Any questions?

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Any thoughts if not questions?

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Can you say that again please?

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Can you say it again please?

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Say what you said.

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On one hand he knows that as soon as he gives them choice,

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that they are going to take the choice and use it against him.

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In his foreknowledge he still goes ahead and gives them choice

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knowing now that his son will have to be sent

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to rescue them from the curse of the law

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which is the consequence of sin.

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The consequence of sin or the curse of the law

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is what Satan has been using ever since Eve agreed

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to his whisper against man.

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But the son knows that his father won't force him

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so the son chooses to come and says,

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offer sacrifices and offerings you didn't need

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but here I am, I'll present myself,

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let me go and die for them.

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Not because the father was forcing him to

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but because he was fully aware that he will have to

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submit himself to the curse of the law

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and he comes and does that and it was horrible.

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When I say horrible I don't know anything about it.

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And he takes it upon himself.

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And now for us to subject ourselves to the same thing again

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is receiving the grace of God in vain.

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And now when you hear the whisper that God is bad,

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God is evil, God is going to do disasters to you,

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He's going to harm you, you never know what He's going to do,

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He's sovereign so He can get away with anything,

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He is sovereign but He's true to His character

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and His character is revealed

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in the brilliant but marred face of His son.

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The cool thing is guys,

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He just doesn't submit himself to the curse

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and therefore wracks them up,

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He neutralizes it.

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He neutralizes the curse.

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What do you mean neutralizes the curse?

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See, He fulfills the law

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and then He bears the curse.

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And then He bears the curse of the law.

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I mean God is a brilliant mathematician,

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He knows how to make everything...

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That's not what you do in math,

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and His eyes will do that in math,

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everything will go...

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He bears the curse.

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See, He fulfills the law first,

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He didn't bear the curse because He broke the law,

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He fulfills the law

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and then bears the curse

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and in doing so He neutralizes the curse.

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What do you mean by that?

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The demands of the law no longer apply to us

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because someone who lives in me fulfilled it.

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That's just pure excitement.

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Can you say that again please?

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With the same excitement I don't know.

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The demands of the law

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are no longer applicable to me

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because there is someone who fulfilled it

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and He lives in me,

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therefore the demands of the law

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don't have to be met by me.

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It is awesome man.

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And the curse of the law

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I am not subject to

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because He who fulfilled it

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and bore the curse of the law

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now lives in me.

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This may I suggest

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is one definition of freedom.

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Small hallelujahs will be okay.

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Amen. Praise the Lord.

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Good enough?

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In the legal service

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I can say that

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we would be on the church only if we brought them from the law

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so if the one who lives in me has already fulfilled the law

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there isn't even a need for the church to apply the curse

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the one who lives in me has already fulfilled the law.

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And further down

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in that today with Him living in me

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when I still go ahead and sin

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there is someone I can run to say

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He fulfilled it, forgive me

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and therefore the effect of the curse

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is that Satan is a legalist

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and he will continue to try

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to use the curse of the law against us Christians

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but now there is a place of refuge.

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But again on that you mentioned that

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he cannot refuse God or whatever

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but he can refuse us people.

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You know in the Old Testament there were these cities

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called the cities of refuge

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where if you committed a murder you could run to the city

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in the temple there used to be an altar with four horns on it

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you could go grab the horns

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but you could not be killed.

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Cities of refuge were for murderers

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who may have committed a murder without knowing.

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We have a city of refuge

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every time we still sin

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knowingly or unknowingly.

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And there ain't no secondary place like

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Purgatory

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it is a place where you are fully

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fully paid for.

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He's free you from the demands of the curse

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and he's free you from the curse.

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Satan is a legalist

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he will try to enforce the demands of the curse on you

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you know it's like a stick and non-stick frying pan

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I'm not an expert on those things

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but I remember buying this frying pan

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and I believe it was non-stick

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so half my egg would stay on the pan

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like that's the only thing I try at home

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an occasional egg

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and so when I go and try to scoop the egg off the pan

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half of it would remain on the pan

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and half of it would come out

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so I'd have to make two eggs to get one egg

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and then I discovered that there were these things

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called non-stick pans

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and once I started using non-stick pans

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the entire egg would appear on my plate

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the point being this

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that Satan will still as a legalist

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and by legalist what I mean is

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Jacob has gandhis

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he needs to be punished

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he still hasn't stopped

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today he does not accuse me before God

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he accuses me in my ear

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because he's been cast out from heaven

00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:37.420
he has no place of accusation before God

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so what does he do?

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he comes down to the earth

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and he whispers in your ear

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he whispers two things

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one he accuses you

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or things that you don't need to

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and he sticks like a bat-bang

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and then he distorts the face of God in your ear

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saying God's going to get you

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this is what happens

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see what happened

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look at it

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it just goes on

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why do you think they call him an accuser?

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what do you do when you still sin?

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very easy guys

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repent, turn, change

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repent, turn, change

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1 Peter 5.7

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your enemy the devil

00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:30.340
walks around like a roaring lion

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prowling around to see who he can devour

00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:34.340
resist it

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James 4.7

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submit to God, resist the devil and he'll flee from you

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now knowing that you have been freed from the demands of the law

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and knowing that you have been freed from bearing the curse of the law when you break it

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when you live out the life that is un-Jesus life

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you know that there is place for you to quickly go and say

00:37:55.300 --> 00:37:57.300
I'm going to mess up again knowingly or unknowingly

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I want to come to you running

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because in you there is change

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there is a turning around

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and in you there is a way to live

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that isn't like how I used to live

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use it, use it

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don't wait for it

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one of the lies that the enemy has used so powerfully in our Christians life

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is still in the middle of sin

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come and tell you

00:38:22.260 --> 00:38:23.260
you've sinned

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now you better work on becoming better before you can go back to God

00:38:26.260 --> 00:38:27.260
and it is a lie from the pit of hell

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because I've fallen for it so many times

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it is in the middle of the sin

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that Christ as savior appears in his brilliance

00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:47.260
if you have to wait till you have eaten the parts that the pig eats

00:38:48.260 --> 00:38:50.260
and till you have finished all your money

00:38:51.260 --> 00:38:53.260
then you will come walking to him six months later as a servant

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when you could still go to him as a son

00:38:57.260 --> 00:38:58.260
before you feast with the pigs

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let's see the last part

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normally you are free from the curse

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Galatians 3,14 says

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the blessings of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles and Christ Jesus

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that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith

00:39:27.260 --> 00:39:29.260
so then there is a freeing and then there is a

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but isn't that typically God

00:39:32.260 --> 00:39:34.260
when has God just freed you and now then

00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:38.260
which parent rescues their child from a situation

00:39:39.260 --> 00:39:40.260
but I've asked you to on your own

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no

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once you rescue your child

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you then begin to do something for the child that begins to

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restore to the child the dignity or the confidence of the child

00:39:53.220 --> 00:39:55.220
so now that we have he rescued us

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then he says I'll give you the blessings of Abraham

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now there may be many

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there may be many things to the blessings of Abraham

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but let me just give you the two things that I mentioned in the scriptures

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and if we get those two things we get everything else

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because there have been servants of the blessings of Abraham

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wealth and cars and houses and jobs

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so let's just go through the two main things

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and then the other stuff will be added up to us as well

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hey you realize then that the diseases and the sicknesses

00:40:31.180 --> 00:40:32.180
that we sometimes labor under

00:40:33.180 --> 00:40:34.180
are the result of

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the curse of the

00:40:38.180 --> 00:40:39.180
law

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and that it does not have to continue in your life

00:40:44.140 --> 00:40:45.140
that you can cry out to God

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go there Harideh

00:40:58.140 --> 00:40:59.140
the blessing of Abraham

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here the first one

00:41:10.140 --> 00:41:11.140
blessing of Abraham

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Romans 4 verse 3

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Romans 4 verse 3

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this is what we should run after man

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and I'll explain it some more

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and it will get really beautiful

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Romans 4 3

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Romans 4 3

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it says that

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Abraham believed God

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and it was credited to him as righteousness

00:41:42.100 --> 00:41:43.100
guys the blessing of Abraham

00:41:46.100 --> 00:41:47.100
is being made like God

00:41:48.100 --> 00:41:49.100
or in other words

00:41:50.100 --> 00:41:51.100
Abraham

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entered

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into

00:41:57.100 --> 00:41:58.100
what

00:41:59.100 --> 00:42:00.100
God

00:42:01.100 --> 00:42:02.100
was

00:42:03.100 --> 00:42:04.100
doing

00:42:05.100 --> 00:42:06.100
by faith

00:42:08.100 --> 00:42:09.100
do you get this

00:42:10.100 --> 00:42:11.100
that would be really cool

00:42:12.100 --> 00:42:13.100
to be made right with God

00:42:14.100 --> 00:42:16.100
is to enter into what God

00:42:17.100 --> 00:42:18.100
is doing

00:42:19.100 --> 00:42:20.100
by faith

00:42:21.100 --> 00:42:22.100
to be made right with God

00:42:23.100 --> 00:42:24.100
is to enter into what God

00:42:25.100 --> 00:42:26.100
is doing

00:42:27.100 --> 00:42:28.100
by faith in any area of your life

00:42:29.100 --> 00:42:30.100
what do you think

00:42:31.100 --> 00:42:32.100
you would do when you get born again

00:42:33.100 --> 00:42:34.100
God has been in the business

00:42:35.100 --> 00:42:36.100
of restoring man

00:42:37.060 --> 00:42:38.060
and God sent back to his father

00:42:39.060 --> 00:42:40.060
what happens when you get born again

00:42:41.060 --> 00:42:42.060
you enter into what

00:42:43.060 --> 00:42:44.060
Jesus Christ is already

00:42:45.060 --> 00:42:46.060
doing

00:42:47.060 --> 00:42:48.060
take any area of your life

00:42:49.060 --> 00:42:50.060
to be made right with God

00:42:51.060 --> 00:42:52.060
is you entering into

00:42:53.060 --> 00:42:54.060
what God is doing

00:42:55.060 --> 00:42:56.060
by faith

00:42:57.060 --> 00:42:58.060
entering into what God is doing by faith

00:42:59.060 --> 00:43:00.060
you need healing

00:43:01.060 --> 00:43:02.060
what do you think Jesus Christ is doing

00:43:03.060 --> 00:43:04.060
he's already done it

00:43:05.020 --> 00:43:06.020
he took stripes on his back

00:43:07.020 --> 00:43:08.020
what do you think God is still doing

00:43:09.020 --> 00:43:10.020
he loves healing

00:43:11.020 --> 00:43:12.020
enter into what God is doing

00:43:13.020 --> 00:43:14.020
by faith

00:43:15.020 --> 00:43:16.020
is there a need for provision in your life

00:43:17.020 --> 00:43:18.020
he's a father

00:43:19.020 --> 00:43:20.020
he likes providing for his children

00:43:21.020 --> 00:43:22.020
does he like doing it

00:43:23.020 --> 00:43:24.020
yes is it something that he's actively doing

00:43:25.020 --> 00:43:26.020
yes

00:43:27.020 --> 00:43:28.020
has he set principles here on earth

00:43:29.020 --> 00:43:30.020
so that he's able to help you

00:43:31.020 --> 00:43:32.020
yes well then

00:43:33.020 --> 00:43:34.020
enter into what God is doing

00:43:35.020 --> 00:43:36.020
by faith

00:43:37.020 --> 00:43:38.020
this is the blessing of Abraham

00:43:39.020 --> 00:43:40.020
the blessing of Abraham is not cars

00:43:41.020 --> 00:43:42.020
and houses and wealth

00:43:43.020 --> 00:43:44.020
and sheep and donkeys and oxen

00:43:45.020 --> 00:43:46.020
the blessing of Abraham is one

00:43:47.020 --> 00:43:48.020
entering into what God is doing

00:43:49.020 --> 00:43:50.020
here was a man

00:43:51.020 --> 00:43:52.020
who came from the ear of Chaldeans

00:43:53.020 --> 00:43:56.020
and he was able to suddenly see

00:43:57.020 --> 00:43:58.020
and hear the call of a God

00:43:59.020 --> 00:44:00.020
that the world had not known

00:44:01.020 --> 00:44:02.020
and he entered into it

00:44:03.020 --> 00:44:04.020
without even being promised

00:44:05.020 --> 00:44:06.020
a reward

00:44:07.020 --> 00:44:08.020
he saw a city that was built

00:44:09.020 --> 00:44:10.020
by the hands of God

00:44:11.020 --> 00:44:12.020
invisible and he leaves his family

00:44:13.020 --> 00:44:14.020
his nation his people

00:44:15.020 --> 00:44:16.020
his stepson

00:44:17.020 --> 00:44:18.020
his otherwise Hagar

00:44:19.020 --> 00:44:20.020
and he begins to follow

00:44:21.020 --> 00:44:22.020
this invisible God

00:44:23.020 --> 00:44:24.020
and this man who lived

00:44:25.020 --> 00:44:26.020
before the law was given

00:44:27.020 --> 00:44:28.020
did it sheerly by faith

00:44:29.020 --> 00:44:30.020
and what did he do

00:44:31.020 --> 00:44:32.020
he entered into what God was doing

00:44:33.020 --> 00:44:34.020
and therefore God said

00:44:35.020 --> 00:44:36.020
because you entered into what I am doing

00:44:37.020 --> 00:44:38.020
I want you to know

00:44:39.020 --> 00:44:40.020
that you have been made right with me

00:44:41.020 --> 00:44:44.020
enter into what God is doing

00:44:45.020 --> 00:44:46.020
whatever God is doing find out

00:44:47.020 --> 00:44:48.020
and there are different ways

00:44:49.020 --> 00:44:50.020
we can enter into it

00:44:51.020 --> 00:44:54.020
I am trying to exit something right now

00:44:55.020 --> 00:44:59.020
there are different ways of doing this

00:45:00.020 --> 00:45:01.020
sometimes it is a prophetic voice

00:45:02.020 --> 00:45:03.020
sometimes it is a prophetic word

00:45:03.980 --> 00:45:04.980
sometimes it is an encouragement

00:45:05.980 --> 00:45:06.980
sometimes it is the word of God

00:45:07.980 --> 00:45:08.980
that speaks to you

00:45:09.980 --> 00:45:10.980
sometimes it is a dream

00:45:11.980 --> 00:45:12.980
sometimes it is a vision

00:45:13.980 --> 00:45:14.980
sometimes it is a teaching like this

00:45:15.980 --> 00:45:16.980
there are different ways that God says to you

00:45:17.980 --> 00:45:18.980
in your situation

00:45:19.980 --> 00:45:20.980
hey this is what I am doing

00:45:21.980 --> 00:45:22.980
come come come

00:45:23.980 --> 00:45:24.980
some things are already provided in this word

00:45:25.980 --> 00:45:26.980
we don't even have to go looking for it

00:45:27.980 --> 00:45:28.980
it is already provided

00:45:29.980 --> 00:45:30.980
this is what I am doing

00:45:31.980 --> 00:45:32.980
my word stands forever

00:45:33.980 --> 00:45:34.980
my word to perform it

00:45:35.980 --> 00:45:36.980
come step in

00:45:39.980 --> 00:45:40.980
what do you think the Syrian

00:45:41.980 --> 00:45:42.980
Syro-Phoenician woman was doing

00:45:43.980 --> 00:45:44.980
somehow she got the

00:45:45.980 --> 00:45:48.980
I mean she was a non-Israelite man

00:45:49.980 --> 00:45:50.980
she got the hang of one simple truth

00:45:51.980 --> 00:45:52.980
that this Jesus even though he is Jewish

00:45:53.980 --> 00:45:54.980
and isn't into the Gentiles

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:56.980
is actually into the Gentiles

00:45:57.980 --> 00:45:58.980
and if I can go and pray

00:45:59.980 --> 00:46:00.980
and ask him for my daughter's healing

00:46:01.940 --> 00:46:02.940
I don't like that

00:46:03.940 --> 00:46:05.940
she entered into what Jesus was doing

00:46:06.940 --> 00:46:07.940
and refused to see

00:46:08.940 --> 00:46:10.940
who made the Syro-Phoenician woman sorry

00:46:17.940 --> 00:46:18.940
and so she doesn't let go

00:46:19.940 --> 00:46:20.940
she argues

00:46:21.940 --> 00:46:22.940
but Lord even the dogs get the scraps

00:46:23.940 --> 00:46:24.940
that fall on the table

00:46:27.940 --> 00:46:29.940
maybe you and I have the foresight

00:46:30.900 --> 00:46:31.900
even that we already have the

00:46:32.900 --> 00:46:33.900
insight of the word

00:46:34.900 --> 00:46:35.900
to see what God is doing

00:46:36.900 --> 00:46:37.900
so that you don't have to labor

00:46:38.900 --> 00:46:39.900
on the things that the enemy is using

00:46:40.900 --> 00:46:41.900
either as a deception

00:46:42.900 --> 00:46:43.900
or recognizing against your body

00:46:44.900 --> 00:46:45.900
your mind your spirit your soul

00:46:46.900 --> 00:46:47.900
why fall for it

00:46:48.900 --> 00:46:49.900
when this Redeemer has

00:46:50.900 --> 00:46:51.900
marvellously set me free

00:46:52.900 --> 00:46:53.900
but Jesus it doesn't happen

00:46:54.900 --> 00:46:55.900
the last two times I pray

00:46:56.900 --> 00:46:57.900
well then pray a hundred and two times

00:46:58.860 --> 00:46:59.860
but why did it happen

00:47:00.860 --> 00:47:01.860
when I prayed to them

00:47:02.860 --> 00:47:03.860
I don't know I wish I could make it happen

00:47:04.860 --> 00:47:05.860
before you even say a word

00:47:06.860 --> 00:47:07.860
but I don't know

00:47:08.860 --> 00:47:09.860
how all I know is he is faithful

00:47:10.860 --> 00:47:11.860
he is true he is kind

00:47:12.860 --> 00:47:13.860
he is gentle

00:47:14.860 --> 00:47:15.860
he ain't none of the things

00:47:16.860 --> 00:47:17.860
that Deuteronomy 28, 15 to 68

00:47:18.860 --> 00:47:19.860
says he is

00:47:22.860 --> 00:47:23.860
but he is Jesus

00:47:24.860 --> 00:47:25.860
the invisible image of the visible God

00:47:26.820 --> 00:47:27.820
the brilliant radiance of the invisible God

00:47:28.820 --> 00:47:30.820
gentle pure kind helpful friend

00:47:31.820 --> 00:47:32.820
thus quencher

00:47:33.820 --> 00:47:34.820
soul-satisfier

00:47:35.820 --> 00:47:36.820
son of the living God

00:47:37.820 --> 00:47:38.820
compassionate gracious

00:47:39.820 --> 00:47:40.820
the Lord bless you

00:47:41.820 --> 00:47:42.820
remember the sermon from last week

00:47:43.820 --> 00:47:44.820
the Lord bless you

00:47:45.820 --> 00:47:46.820
I will go down on my knees

00:47:47.820 --> 00:47:48.820
and the father goes down before his child

00:47:49.820 --> 00:47:50.820
and I will bless you

00:47:51.820 --> 00:47:52.820
I will give you gifts of great value

00:47:53.820 --> 00:47:54.820
the Lord keep you

00:47:55.780 --> 00:47:56.780
I will give you gifts of insight

00:47:57.780 --> 00:47:58.780
so that nobody can come in

00:47:59.780 --> 00:48:00.780
I will keep you

00:48:01.780 --> 00:48:02.780
I will cause my face

00:48:03.780 --> 00:48:04.780
which in the olden days

00:48:05.780 --> 00:48:06.780
no man could look at

00:48:07.780 --> 00:48:08.780
I will cause my face

00:48:09.780 --> 00:48:10.780
which is my presence

00:48:11.780 --> 00:48:12.780
to shine

00:48:13.780 --> 00:48:14.780
as in bring order into your darkness

00:48:15.780 --> 00:48:16.780
just as I said

00:48:17.780 --> 00:48:18.780
in Genesis 1

00:48:19.780 --> 00:48:20.780
let there be light

00:48:21.780 --> 00:48:22.780
and the void was turned into something beautiful

00:48:23.780 --> 00:48:24.780
I will be gracious unto you

00:48:25.780 --> 00:48:26.780
I will not be in hesitation

00:48:27.780 --> 00:48:28.780
cause you see my face is not in a frown

00:48:29.780 --> 00:48:30.780
it is in a smile of favor towards you

00:48:31.780 --> 00:48:32.780
and I will cause my peace to settle on you

00:48:33.780 --> 00:48:36.780
my peace that makes up for every deficiency in your life

00:48:37.780 --> 00:48:38.780
my peace which means restoration

00:48:39.780 --> 00:48:40.780
this is what I give on it

00:48:41.780 --> 00:48:42.780
you wanna seek God in the Old Testament

00:48:43.780 --> 00:48:45.780
look at the blessing that Aaron was supposed to pronounce upon Israel

00:48:46.780 --> 00:48:47.780
and in that you see Yahweh

00:48:48.780 --> 00:48:49.780
and you see it in Jesus too

00:48:52.780 --> 00:48:53.780
this is who we worship guys

00:48:54.740 --> 00:48:55.740
the blessings of Abraham

00:48:56.740 --> 00:48:58.740
Abraham entered into what God was doing by faith

00:48:59.740 --> 00:49:02.740
and then there is something that God gives us that even Abraham didn't have

00:49:03.740 --> 00:49:04.740
and it is in the second part of Galatians 3.14

00:49:05.740 --> 00:49:06.740
it says the promise of the Spirit

00:49:13.740 --> 00:49:14.740
the promise of the Spirit

00:49:15.740 --> 00:49:16.740
these are the two blessings of Abraham

00:49:17.740 --> 00:49:18.740
you receive these and you have everything

00:49:19.740 --> 00:49:20.740
go ahead

00:49:21.700 --> 00:49:22.700
didn't he just say that Abraham was the building?

00:49:23.700 --> 00:49:24.700
he didn't

00:49:25.700 --> 00:49:26.700
so how was that a blessing of Abraham?

00:49:27.700 --> 00:49:28.700
because God through Abraham

00:49:29.700 --> 00:49:30.700
didn't release to him everything

00:49:31.700 --> 00:49:32.700
cause there was no way Abraham could have handled it

00:49:33.700 --> 00:49:34.700
cause Abraham wasn't renewed

00:49:35.700 --> 00:49:38.700
there was no way the Spirit of God could live in him

00:49:39.700 --> 00:49:41.700
we get something that Abraham could occasionally have

00:49:42.700 --> 00:49:43.700
descend on him but never live

00:49:44.700 --> 00:49:45.700
in him

00:49:46.700 --> 00:49:47.700
in him

00:49:48.700 --> 00:49:49.700
in him

00:49:50.660 --> 00:49:53.660
how do you think Abraham was hearing God?

00:49:54.660 --> 00:49:56.660
sometimes in a vision, sometimes in a dream

00:49:57.660 --> 00:49:58.660
sometimes he would just know

00:49:59.660 --> 00:50:01.660
sometimes he would be angelic visitor

00:50:02.660 --> 00:50:03.660
how did he know?

00:50:04.660 --> 00:50:06.660
this pagan whose father was an idol worshiper

00:50:07.660 --> 00:50:08.660
Terah

00:50:09.660 --> 00:50:12.660
knew he could hear the voice of God

00:50:13.660 --> 00:50:16.660
how did he hear the voice say look up at the stars?

00:50:17.620 --> 00:50:20.620
the Spirit of God was at work in him

00:50:21.620 --> 00:50:22.620
but never lived in him

00:50:23.620 --> 00:50:24.620
these are the two blessings of Abraham

00:50:25.620 --> 00:50:28.620
entering into what God was doing by faith

00:50:29.620 --> 00:50:30.620
and the second part was

00:50:31.620 --> 00:50:33.620
the second blessing that we received

00:50:34.620 --> 00:50:35.620
the blessing of Abraham was receiving

00:50:36.620 --> 00:50:37.620
the gift of the promised Spirit

00:50:38.620 --> 00:50:39.620
the gift of the promised Spirit

00:50:40.620 --> 00:50:41.620
the gift of the promised Spirit

00:50:42.620 --> 00:50:43.620
Jesus submitted up this way before he went to the cross

00:50:44.580 --> 00:50:45.580
I have so much more to tell you Jacob

00:50:46.580 --> 00:50:47.580
but I can't

00:50:48.580 --> 00:50:49.580
but don't worry I'm not leaving you as an orphan

00:50:50.580 --> 00:50:51.580
I'll be gone

00:50:52.580 --> 00:50:53.580
but I'm telling you the Spirit

00:50:54.580 --> 00:50:55.580
oh by the way his name is the Spirit of Truth

00:50:56.580 --> 00:50:57.580
and he will lead you into all truth

00:50:58.580 --> 00:50:59.580
he will take from what is mine

00:51:00.580 --> 00:51:01.580
and explain it to you

00:51:02.580 --> 00:51:03.580
he will also show you the Father

00:51:04.580 --> 00:51:05.580
so that you can approach the Father directly

00:51:06.580 --> 00:51:07.580
and what was he trying to say there?

00:51:08.580 --> 00:51:09.580
my Spirit and the Father Spirit will live in you

00:51:10.580 --> 00:51:11.580
your DNA will change

00:51:12.580 --> 00:51:13.580
you will be redeemed

00:51:14.580 --> 00:51:15.580
and you will be able to approach the Father directly

00:51:16.580 --> 00:51:17.580
and by the way Paul says in Romans 8.15

00:51:18.580 --> 00:51:19.580
I just want you to know

00:51:20.580 --> 00:51:21.580
that when the Spirit of God comes into you

00:51:22.580 --> 00:51:23.580
he is also called the Spirit of Adoption

00:51:24.580 --> 00:51:25.580
and something makes you transpire in you

00:51:26.580 --> 00:51:27.580
but the same Amma cry

00:51:28.580 --> 00:51:29.580
that used to come from Jesus' lips

00:51:30.580 --> 00:51:31.580
will start coming from Jacob's lips

00:51:32.580 --> 00:51:33.580
this is just nuts

00:51:40.580 --> 00:51:41.580
any questions guys?

00:51:42.540 --> 00:51:43.540
any questions?

00:51:48.540 --> 00:51:49.540
okay

00:51:50.540 --> 00:51:51.540
so enter into what God is doing for you guys

00:51:52.540 --> 00:51:53.540
enter into what God is doing for you

00:51:54.540 --> 00:51:55.540
enter into what God is doing for you

00:51:56.540 --> 00:51:57.540
take whatever context you have

00:51:58.540 --> 00:51:59.540
is it your marriage?

00:52:00.540 --> 00:52:01.540
is it your body?

00:52:02.540 --> 00:52:03.540
is it your future?

00:52:04.540 --> 00:52:05.540
is it your vision?

00:52:06.540 --> 00:52:07.540
is it your not knowing what to do next?

00:52:08.540 --> 00:52:09.540
is it a fear?

00:52:10.540 --> 00:52:11.540
what is it?

00:52:12.540 --> 00:52:14.540
enter into what God is doing by faith

00:52:15.540 --> 00:52:16.540
how can you find it out?

00:52:17.540 --> 00:52:18.540
or this church knows how to find it out

00:52:19.540 --> 00:52:20.540
if God doesn't speak to you directly

00:52:21.540 --> 00:52:22.540
you can come to someone praying with them

00:52:23.540 --> 00:52:25.540
ask those that have a prophetic gifting in this church

00:52:26.540 --> 00:52:27.540
come and ask

00:52:28.540 --> 00:52:29.540
mean there are many different ways

00:52:30.540 --> 00:52:31.540
this church does not have an excuse for I don't know

00:52:32.540 --> 00:52:33.540
because there is always a way to find out

00:52:34.540 --> 00:52:35.540
over a period of time

00:52:36.500 --> 00:52:37.500
no answers make up immediate

00:52:38.500 --> 00:52:39.500
because over a period of time

00:52:40.500 --> 00:52:41.500
through hearing the voice of God

00:52:42.500 --> 00:52:43.500
through listening

00:52:44.500 --> 00:52:45.500
through verifying

00:52:46.500 --> 00:52:47.500
through checking into the world

00:52:48.500 --> 00:52:49.500
we can figure out the mind and the voice of God

00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:51.500
not because we are experts

00:52:52.500 --> 00:52:53.500
but because Christ likes us

00:52:54.500 --> 00:52:55.500
knowing what he is thinking

00:52:56.500 --> 00:52:57.500
so we can try and figure that out

00:52:58.500 --> 00:52:59.500
but enter into what God is doing for you by faith

00:53:00.500 --> 00:53:01.500
you know I was at the airport on Monday

00:53:02.500 --> 00:53:03.500
just sitting where the plane ran

00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:05.460
at the airport

00:53:06.460 --> 00:53:07.460
and watching planes

00:53:08.460 --> 00:53:09.460
and suddenly there were these two eagles in the sky

00:53:10.460 --> 00:53:11.460
and one eagle

00:53:12.460 --> 00:53:13.460
and both of them seemed about the same age

00:53:14.460 --> 00:53:15.460
are you know the age of eagles?

00:53:16.460 --> 00:53:17.460
eagles we don't

00:53:18.460 --> 00:53:19.460
they look the same

00:53:20.460 --> 00:53:21.460
so all these eagles are in the sky

00:53:22.460 --> 00:53:23.460
and this one eagle

00:53:24.460 --> 00:53:25.460
had this amazing map

00:53:26.460 --> 00:53:28.460
of finding the thermal currents that were there

00:53:29.460 --> 00:53:30.460
and just entering them

00:53:31.460 --> 00:53:32.460
and flying without effort

00:53:33.420 --> 00:53:34.420
he never blew his flat wings

00:53:35.420 --> 00:53:36.420
but she

00:53:37.420 --> 00:53:38.420
how do you know it's a she you don't know

00:53:39.420 --> 00:53:40.420
but she seemed to

00:53:41.420 --> 00:53:42.420
just struggle man

00:53:43.420 --> 00:53:44.420
she was about three feet away from him

00:53:45.420 --> 00:53:46.420
and she just kept flacking away

00:53:47.420 --> 00:53:48.420
and then she would flap

00:53:49.420 --> 00:53:50.420
and she would suddenly enter

00:53:51.420 --> 00:53:52.420
this current that the other eagle was flying in

00:53:53.420 --> 00:53:54.420
and then she would enter

00:53:55.420 --> 00:53:56.420
and then she would have to flap

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and I'm looking at them thinking to myself

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why can't she get it right?

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it could be the other way rather

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let's tell you the story

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she was soaring without effort

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and he was just flapping around

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I would say happy son

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he was just flapping around

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and I was thinking to myself

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why father teach me how to do this

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teach me how to enter by faith

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into what you're doing

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and help me to be born on the wings of your spirit

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so that the things you want done

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happen in quick time

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instead of me flapping around

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in my own reasoning

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reason causes you to flap around

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you will get where you need to get

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but it will take you 20 years

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and I will be there in two

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if I don't flap around

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I'm just going to read through this

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faith is placed in the nature of God

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when you have to

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enter into what God is doing

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by faith

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place your faith in the nature of God

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not in your understanding of Greek or Hebrew

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but in your understanding of the spirit

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and in your understanding of the soul

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and in your understanding of the spirit

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and in your understanding of the spirit

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but in the nature of God

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discovering through the word and through experience

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you can only discover God's nature through word and experience

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not just through the word

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the word ain't enough to discover the nature of God

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it has to be both

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the word and experience

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and as you increasingly recognize his majesty and his faithfulness

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it will embolden your heart

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as you increasingly recognize his majesty

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and his faithfulness and his grace

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it will embolden your heart

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it will embolden your heart

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hey, move from knowing his character to knowing his personality

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move from knowing his character to knowing his personality

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and that comes through intimacy

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that comes through intimacy

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one of the things that I love doing when I go to churches where

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people don't know God

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is I'll pray to him

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as a boy prays to his father

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and almost always there will be people who come up to me after the church service and say

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I wish I had a relationship like that with God

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when you pray to him like a child prays to his father

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you can do that when you know the personality of God

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character is one place he has

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the word is a beginning point

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then you go to his character and his nature

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and from his character and nature you go to his personality

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when I first gave him a believer there was this pastor called Sid Spain

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who used to be at this chapel in a naval base in Bahrain

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and if we turned up early for the service

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we'd be up on stage

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and you would think he was talking to somebody and he was

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but there was no one else in the room

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and he used to blow my mind

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he'd say stuff like

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so, father

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what about

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and you would enter the chapel and you would think

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he's talking to somebody and then you would realize there's nobody there

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but he'd come about half an hour before the service

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and have this very audible conversations with the father

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and it impressed my heart so much man

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I know you have to go to see him at lunch appointments and stuff like that

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but really who cares? I do

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that was brilliant

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yeah that's the stuff

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any questions?

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any questions?

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okay that's great

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hey do we have Joy to the World?

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the words for Joy to the World?

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as far as the person's far

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see if you have it

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I just want to say that one word

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and please

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if there is any sickness or disease in your body

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please come up for prayer today

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let's just pray

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that since the curse of the law has been born

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and since he was tried for my sickness

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that can't heal you

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because the devil cannot use that reprimand

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if there is any oil in your eyes

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please bring us some oil

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the bible says

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that if someone is sick

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let them ask the elders to pray for them

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the elders will anoint the Lord and pray for you

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and your sins will be forgiven and your bodies will be healed

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let's just have that today

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anyone who has any sickness please feel free to come up

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let's just sing this song before we sing

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hey you want to sit on the feet?

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I know you love this song

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let's start with the first verse

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it's very Christmassy

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yeah let's start with that and then go to the

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as far as the person's far

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this has never happened

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because the first verse is so perfect