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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: The Crossover
Publishing Date: 2025-09-07T06:04:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/the-crossover/

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Okay, guys, let's go. Today, as you can see in the picture, the title will be the crossover.

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Yeah, the crossover. I asked Chad J.P.T. to create this image, and it came out pretty good.

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I liked it. I was trying to find a picture that might explain what I wanted to share,

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and I was trying to find on the internet, but couldn't. And then I asked Chad J.P.T.

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and then this came up. So I was like, oh, I liked it.

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So yeah, it's like God parting the Red Sea and Israelites crossing over, right?

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So we're talking about the crossover. That's the sermon we will be talking about today.

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So if you read the book of Exodus, there was a moment in their history where Israel stood between the Red Sea, right?

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They were at the Red Sea moment where they couldn't go forward, and then they couldn't go backwards

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because Pharaoh and his armies were chasing them, right? So they were kind of caught in between.

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They couldn't move forward, nor could they go back. And it was in that place the Lord said,

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He said, move forward. Yeah? March forward. And we all know the rest of the story.

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But the crossover is a moment when God calls you. God calls you to leave the unfamiliar,

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to leave the old patterns, to leave the old systems of operating, old securities,

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old identities, and to step into the new. So that's a crossover, right?

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Crossover is always God's invitation. It's like, come, come, right?

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Crossover, crossover to my sight. Jesus calling Peter and said, come, walk on water.

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It's always God's initiative, God's invitation for us to step into the new.

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So crossover is never a denial of the past, but it is an invitation to be delivered from the past.

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Yeah? So Red Sea is not just a path. It is not just a doorway, but it is an ending.

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You know, it's the Red Sea moment where it was a doorway for the Israelites, right?

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It was a passage. God opened and split the sea so that the Israelites can walk through.

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So for God's people, it was a doorway for their breakthrough, whereas for the enemy, it was a trap.

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But the Israelites thought that they were in trouble. Yeah?

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The Israelites thought that we are doomed. The enemy is behind us. Here is the Red Sea.

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We can't go anywhere. We are doomed.

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But God leading the Israelites to the Red Sea was his plan.

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And oftentimes when we are not paying attention, oftentimes God's way of leading us,

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God's way of helping us learn and grow and walk sometimes can be so confusing in that sense.

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Is this really from God or is this from the enemy? We may be confused at times.

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And so it's important to pay attention to what God is saying, where God is leading,

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because it is never a trap for you. It's a trap for the enemy.

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But it's a doorway to your freedom. Yeah?

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And so, you know, today I know some of us are standing at your own waters.

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Some of us are standing at your own waters and habits that won't break,

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strongholds that have ravaged your life for ages, some addictions that you were struggling to break,

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some of the traditions that you have inherited knowingly and unknowingly,

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and you're struggling to shake off from your own lives, from your own families.

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Things that have set you as a prisoner, that has bounded you.

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Today is the day of your crossover.

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And I say that boldly. Today is the day of your crossover.

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Not because of my teaching, but because the divine warrior is here.

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The purifying fire is here.

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We've been praying, we've been asking for this, and now we've got to change our posture.

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And saying that it is here, it's for my taking.

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And so today is the day of your crossover. Can you believe that?

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He will set things right in your life. He will purify things in your life.

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And you can expect this anytime, every time, because Hebrides 2.0 is here.

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So like I said, the crossover is always God's initiative.

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It's always God's initiative.

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Sometimes He opens doors where we cannot see.

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Sometimes we don't have the faith for it, but He still gives us this free will,

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whether we will step out or not.

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And oftentimes people are scared. They refuse.

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They would rather prefer to be in slavery. Yeah?

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And yet, the same waters that saved the Israelites judged Egypt.

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And so this is what Christ does as well.

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He doesn't just forgive you. He doesn't just redeem you.

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But He ends, He breaks the tyranny of sin, of shame, of fear, of guilt.

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He deals with those things as well. Right?

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So on one hand, crossovers are an invitation to transition into something different.

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And yet crossover is also a time when there is termination. Right?

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Where God puts an end to something in your life.

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So it matters. Crossover really matters.

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Because it exposes the things of the past, not to shame you, not to condemn you.

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Like I said, it's not a denial of the past, but it breaks you free from the past.

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And we know that God is the God of seasons. God is the God of seasons.

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And in God's kingdom, there are these defining moments where God initiates and invites you to come on board.

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And as you say yes and come on board, the momentum shifts.

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And then you are able to crossover.

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And so today I want us to think about what would my crossover look like?

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Yeah? You may be running well. That's great.

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You may not be struggling with any addiction or any strongholds in your life. Fine.

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But are you still going to stay the same?

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There's more, even for those who are running well. Yeah?

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And for those who are struggling to run consistently, this is for you as well.

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It's for everybody, right? So the old may have served us well.

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The old strategies, the old system, the old ways of operating may have brought us thus far.

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And yet God is inviting us for more.

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And so fresh invitation, right? Demands fresh strategies, fresh ways of operating, new obedience, new ways, new strategies, and a deeper surrender.

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So in scripture, crossovers usually marks a radical shift in a person's life or in a tribe's life, right?

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Where the old identity is now transformed into new, right?

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And old mission is now transferred into a new mission, right?

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And the old assignment is replaced by a new mantle and a new assignment that comes in, right?

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So we will see this again and again. And I just want to highlight five crossovers.

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There are so many in the scripture.

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And yet I just want to highlight five crossovers in the Bible so that at least you get an idea about what crossover looks like.

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Yeah? So the first one is the disciples crossover, where they crossover from nets to nations, right?

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From nets to nations, yeah.

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So the disciples were skilled fishermen.

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They know how to catch fishes.

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But the day and the moment when Jesus intervened in their fishing adventure, so to say,

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He gives a new direction. He invites them for a new crossover.

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You guys have been fishing, but now I want you to fish men.

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It's an invitation to something they have never done before.

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These guys are professional fishermen.

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Jesus is inviting into something quite different.

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Yeah? And it's an invitation to a crossover.

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And you know what these guys did?

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We all know they left their nets, their boats, and they followed Jesus.

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Jesus didn't promise anything. Jesus didn't promise fame or riches or recognition or influence or authority or power.

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Jesus didn't.

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And yet these guys left their nets, their boats, they crossed over.

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Yeah? The momentum has shifted.

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So the old nets may have served them well because that's where they get their provision.

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That is what their identity is about, their livelihood. Everything depends on fishing.

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Now, after they said yes and crossed over to Jesus' invitation,

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now Jesus is teaching them how to cast out demons, how to heal the sick, how to preach the gospel.

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Miracles and signs and wonders became natural to these guys.

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If they had refused to cross over, life would have been very predictable for these guys.

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They'll be fishing. They'll catch some fishes.

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There'll be days when they catch a lot of fish. There'll be days when they caught little.

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But they would get married, settle in that region of Galilee.

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Life would have been somehow predictable.

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But the day in the moment they crossed over, what happened was they saw a lame man walk, blind see, deaf hear.

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Yeah? Dead been raised.

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It's extraordinary, guys.

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That's the crossover Jesus invites you and I.

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Something that is so natural, so ordinary that you are kind of like, is this life all about?

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And Jesus now invites with the realities of heaven and say that this is what my kingdom is like.

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And that's an invitation for you and for me.

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So that's the first crossover we see in the Bible.

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I know there's so much more.

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The second one is Elisha's crossover from plowing to being a prophet.

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From plow to being a prophet, right?

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He was a farmer until Elijah, his master, met him.

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He was plowing the field. He was a farmer.

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And then Elijah goes and meets this guy and casts his mantle on him.

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And now it's for Elisha to decide whether he'll respond to the invitation or not.

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God will put an invitation and cast his mantle on you.

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And it's another thing for you to respond or not.

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Because there is free will involved in this, right?

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And you know, the amazing thing that Elisha did was, what he did was so radical.

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He went home, burned his plow, right?

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Slaughtered the oxen, called a feast and gave the meat for people to eat and then followed.

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He burned the old system of operating.

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He burned things of the past. Why?

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Because what lies ahead is much greater.

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Yeah?

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Sometimes guys, leaving behind the old is not good enough.

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Sometimes we have to burn it so that we don't get back there again.

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Yeah?

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And I was sharing this story with one of our friends the other day,

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but there was a friend of mine who wanted to give up alcohol.

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And then there are bottles in his house.

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He wouldn't clear it.

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He would abstain from it.

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But he didn't clear it out.

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So one week later he would go back again.

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Yeah? Abstaining isn't good enough.

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Sometimes you have to burn it guys.

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If you are to really cross over, leave yourselves no room for options.

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It's important guys. Yeah?

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So we all know the story.

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Later on he crossed over Jordan.

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He received a mantle, the double portion,

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and we know what unfolded in the life of Elijah.

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Amazing.

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What God did with Elijah, God did twice with his servant Elijah.

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Amazing story. Yeah?

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So the old was honored.

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The old was honored.

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But he knows it cannot carry him forward.

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A new mantle, a new mission, a new momentum requires things of the past to be burned.

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Yeah?

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The third crossover is Israel. Right?

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So the first one that I mentioned is a group of guys. Right?

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It's a bunch of people.

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The disciples. The second one is personal. Right?

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Elijah is personal.

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The third one is a tribe.

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The Israelites. Right?

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The Israelis crossed over.

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They crossed over from being in wilderness to the promised land.

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So if you read that story, which we are all familiar with,

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until they crossed Jordan.

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You know how God provided?

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Mana from heaven.

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Right?

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But the day they stepped into Jordan,

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Mana stopped flowing.

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Why?

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The season has shifted.

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Why?

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There was a crossover that happened.

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Right?

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So now they don't need to rely on God to rain down Mana from heaven

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because God had blessed the produce of the land.

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So for the first time, Mana stopped flowing,

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and they are able to eat the produce of the land.

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God doesn't waste the old.

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Yeah. God doesn't waste the old, but the new demands, new courage,

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new strategies, new ways of operating. Right?

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So it's important to understand this because

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if we cling on to the old Mana,

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we will miss out God's plentiful harvest that is from the land,

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the produce of the land. Yeah?

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And yes, both are God. Right?

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Be it Mana from heaven or be it the produce of the land,

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both are from God.

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But pay attention if God switches channels.

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God switches channels.

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So that's the Israelites' crossover. Right?

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And then the fourth one, Paul's crossover

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from being a persecutor to being an apostle.

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It was a beautiful crossover, so to say.

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Paul was zealous for the law.

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He was the one persecuting the church.

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And yet, you know what happened?

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On the road to Damascus, it was one single encounter

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that was enough to completely ruin his life for good.

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Yeah? Ruin his life for good.

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Sometimes we need that, eh?

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Sometimes God ruins our life for good.

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We need that.

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And you know, purifying fire,

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purifying fire, divine warrior is here exactly for that.

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He's here to ruin your life, to ruin your marriage,

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to ruin your family, to ruin your business for good.

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You can never be the same.

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The same person who is trying to destroy the church

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now builds the church, protects the church,

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sacrifices for the church.

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It's the same guy, guys. Yeah?

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So whatever was my profit,

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I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

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That's what Paul said, right?

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So he left behind his status because he was a Pharisee.

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He's an expert in the law.

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He's a Hebrew of Hebrews.

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Like, if you want, you know, status, recognition, degrees, fame,

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Paul has it all.

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And he abandons all of these things.

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Why? Because of one single encounter

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which ruined him for good, and he crossed over. Right?

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So sometimes the very passion, the passion, the zeal,

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that defines you.

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God doesn't waste that zeal,

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but he would redirect that zeal for his purpose.

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So Paul is still zealous.

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That passion, that fire is still in him.

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And yet, God changed him, changed God as in God redirected

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that passion, that fire.

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And so he's no longer Saul.

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He redirected his zeal, his passion,

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and what we get is Paul.

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But the fire that is in him remains.

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God did not remove the zeal, the passion, the fire that was in Saul.

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He redirected it.

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Same thing can be said.

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You may be passionate about music.

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Yeah? Rock music was something that you love.

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Yeah, heavy metals, you know, once upon a time.

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And then God redeems it.

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So you still have love and passion for music,

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but now the music, the genre that you listen to,

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the songs that you write, the songs that you compose

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are completely different.

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Yeah?

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I cannot imagine now singing songs that doesn't glorify God.

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I cannot.

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But once upon a time, I loved metal music, rock music.

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Yeah?

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So I still love music and have passion for music.

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And so God did not remove that zeal in my life,

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but he had redirected it.

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And same can be said of sports.

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Same can be said of business, your entrepreneurial gifts.

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Whatever your gifts, whatever your passions are,

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God can redirect it and use it for good.

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Yeah?

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So don't think of zeal as evil,

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but it's how you channel it.

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That's the fourth one.

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The fifth crossover.

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Of course, Jesus himself, the greatest crossover.

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Right?

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Every crossover points to the greatest crossover of all,

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and that is Jesus Christ.

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As a young boy, Jesus grew in stature, in wisdom,

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and in the favor of God and men.

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Right?

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So people knew that even at a very young age,

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there's something different about this boy.

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But he was not known for performing miracles.

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He was not known for healing the sick.

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He was not known for casting out demons.

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Those things weren't visible or manifesting in Jesus' life.

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But you know what happened?

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What happened was at his baptism,

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when Jesus came up out of the water,

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the Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove,

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and after that he was led into the wilderness by the Spirit,

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and he returned in the power of the Spirit.

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From that day onwards, Jesus was never the same.

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Miracles begin to happen everywhere Jesus goes.

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Why?

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Because there was a crossover that happened at baptism.

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The empowerment of the Spirit came upon him.

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Yeah?

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There was a crossover there.

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There was one.

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But the ultimate crossover was at the cross.

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His ministry shifted from teaching, healing,

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to becoming the Lamb of God.

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It was a crossover from life to death and death to resurrection.

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It was an ultimate crossover, guys.

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This is why you and I cannot die anymore.

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Death does not have the final say anymore.

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Why?

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Because somebody had crossed over for you and for me.

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Crazy, eh?

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That's the ultimate crossover, right?

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He humbled himself to death, even death on the cross.

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Beautiful.

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God exalted him and gave him the name above every other name.

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In the Philippians 2, 8 and 9, right?

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So every true crossover requires dying.

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It requires dying.

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Something ends so that resurrection life can begin.

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You cannot experience resurrection life without the cross.

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You cannot.

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I cannot.

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You cannot see a crown without surrender.

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So, like we just discussed, five crossovers here,

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and there's so many more in the Bible.

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But if crossover is critical for people like you and me, as God's people,

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then how can I learn?

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How can I participate in these kind of God-initiated crossovers, right?

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I want to share a few ways, a few principles that we can learn

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how to engage and participate in these God-initiated crossovers.

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Yeah?

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So, first one.

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Remember and ruminate on God's word, God's promise, right?

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Remember and ruminate, right?

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God always speaks before he acts.

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God speaks before he acts.

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God said, let there be light, and there was light, right?

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God said, he'll give the promised land, and we know how it unfolded.

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When God speaks, nothing goes to the ground empty.

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When he releases his word, it always accomplishes what it has been sent out for.

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Right?

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So, Jesus calls Peter and Andrew, follow me.

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I will make you fishes of men, in Matthew 4.

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The word itself created a possibility of a new reality.

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The word itself, when God speaks, it invites you to a possibility of a new reality.

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Yeah, hear me again.

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When God speaks, right?

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When God releases something in your life,

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he invites you to a possibility of a new reality.

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It's beautiful, guys. Yeah?

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So, when God speaks, when God has a word for you,

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it's always an invitation to experience something in his terms, in his ways.

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And it's always good. Why?

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Because he has a plan for you, he has a plan to prosper you,

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he has a plan to give you hope and a future.

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God knows the best for you.

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So, it's important to remember these words that God had spoken over me,

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over yourself, over this church.

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It's important to remember. Why?

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Because people often forget.

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People don't ruminate over it, to chew, right?

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To ruminate is to chew the cut, to think about it, to ponder, to contemplate, to meditate on it.

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There is no crossover because of ignorance.

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Many people don't experience crossover because of ignorance.

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They forget what God had spoken.

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And the enemy doesn't spare. Why?

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Because it's his intent to distort your memory.

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The Israelites would forget God's goodness.

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They're eating supernatural provision from God, which is mana,

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and on the other hand, they're complaining. Yeah?

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The enemy will distort your memory and my memory.

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So, it's important to go back to what God had said.

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Words that God had spoken to you individually.

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God had spoken to you through the body.

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Because we have to understand.

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And in order to really embrace that,

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and in order to really allow the word of God and the promise of God to take deep roots,

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repetition is required.

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Having a glance or just skipping through is not enough.

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The word has to become flesh, guys. Yeah?

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So, first one. What are the words that have been spoken over your life?

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What are the words that have been given to us as a body?

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Remember those promises. Go back.

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Write it on your wall. Ruminate on it.

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Let these words come alive.

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Speak. Declare. Repeat it. Right?

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And say again, Lord, you said so.

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You said so. Content for it. Right?

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It's important, guys. Yeah?

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And then the second one. Recognize God's kairos moment.

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As in, recognize God's appointed time.

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Recognize God's appointed time.

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Not all times are the same, guys.

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As in, like, not all times are the same.

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As in, there are some times that are divinely appointed.

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You know, I love in 1 Chronicles 12.

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1 Chronicles 12, Chapter 12, Verse 32.

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The sons of Issachar, they understood their times.

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And they know what the Israelites are supposed to do.

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Beautiful, eh? They know. They can read the times they're in.

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When Israelites should go to war, when Israelites should plan, when Israelites should camp.

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The things that Israelites are supposed to do, the sons of Issachar,

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they know. They can read the signs of time.

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Can you?

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Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and the Sadducees in Matthew 16.

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Now, I'll read two verses here.

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You know, Jesus said to them,

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When evening comes, you said, it will be fair weather, for the sky is red.

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And in the morning, today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.

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You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky.

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But you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

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Right?

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The Sadducees and the Pharisees, they can predict the weather, depending on how the sky looks.

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But they don't know how to read the signs of the times.

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Can you?

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Moses can.

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When they were at the Red Sea moment, people were panicking.

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The enemies in pursuit of them, the Red Sea in front of them, they're panicking.

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They're saying, why did you bring us up here? We were better off in Egypt.

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And you know what Moses said?

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Because Moses knew the time that he was in at the moment.

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He said, don't be afraid, guys.

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The Lord has brought us here.

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I am not paraphrasing here, but I am saying the Egyptians that were pursuing us, you will see them no more.

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Today is the day.

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You will see them no more.

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And you know what?

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Exactly that happened.

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Beautiful, eh?

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One will be at the mercy of our circumstances if we don't understand the times we're in.

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What life brings, whatever it is, it will be.

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Christians aren't supposed to live at the mercy of our circumstances.

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We don't live by chance.

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We live by luck.

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We are to understand who God is, what God says, and so there should be direction.

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Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

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Even that phrase is enough.

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Word is a lamp.

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Lamp gives you a short vision, and a light gives path, which is a long vision.

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Short vision, long vision.

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It's beautiful, guys.

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The principle is that recognizing this kairos moment, God's appointed time, is perceived spiritually.

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It is perceived, discerned by the Spirit.

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Because the Holy Spirit searches the deep things of God.

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The Holy Spirit searches the mind of Christ, and He reveals it to you.

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So without the Spirit, you cannot discern the signs of the times.

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Yeah?

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Do you see what God is doing?

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Do you know what God is doing in our midst?

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Acts 29 has been in a place where it has never been before.

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If you are stuck with the things of the past of Acts 29 that we are known for of the past, you will miss out, guys.

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We're not praying for Hebrides 2.0 anymore.

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Things have shifted, guys.

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A lot of things have shifted.

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So do you know what God is doing in this house?

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Right?

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Are you able to understand the kairos moment that we are in right now?

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If you don't, hang out with people who know.

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Let them help you understand the times we are in.

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Yeah?

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Things are shifting, guys.

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The third one.

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How can we position ourselves, our ways for the crossover?

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The third one is release the old.

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Release the old.

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To enter the new, I must let go of the old.

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Old securities, old ways.

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Yeah?

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Old strategies.

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Like I said, Elisha, he burned his plows.

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He slaughtered his oxen.

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The Israelites had stopped gathering manna the day when they entered the promised land.

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You know, if you also read the story of Elijah, there was a time when the ravens were bringing food to him,

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and he was able to drink from the brook.

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And you know, it dried up.

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Deliberate.

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If Elijah had not understood, he would still stay there and asking why the brook had dried up.

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And he would still be praying for ravens to bring him food.

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But he understood it was God's deliberate move so that he can now switch his attention to the widow.

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Beautiful, eh?

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Don't be stuck to the past.

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Release the old.

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It may have served you well.

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Let go, guys. Let go.

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It's important, guys.

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Old provision, old methods, old comfort.

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It cannot sustain you in the new season.

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What are the nets that you need to let go?

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Like Peter and Andrew.

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What are the plows that you need to burn?

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Think in your own lives, eh?

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Things that you need to let go.

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Things that you need to release that you have been holding on to.

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When I was thinking about this point, I was thinking of some of the words that were spoken over my life,

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I was holding on, pricing them so much.

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It's like my Isaac, and I'm not willing to lay it at the altar.

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I know it has come from the Lord, but can I place it at the altar?

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We have to release the old, guys.

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Fourth one.

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Can you receive the new assignment?

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Can you receive the new assignment?

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God will not call you out simply and let you be wandering.

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God calls you out so that he can call you into something.

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It's always like this, eh?

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He doesn't randomly call people out, and then as people respond, they're unsure now.

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That's not the nature of God.

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So when he calls you out, he will call you into something.

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God said to Jeremiah, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

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I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.

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On one hand, God's initiative, and yet on the other hand, he will require your participation.

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I love that about God.

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His creation, like even the Garden of Eden, he could have put angels and make it automatic

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so that there's nobody, no human required, right?

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But he would partner with Adam and Eve, and he said,

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you be the one who steward it.

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You be the one who name things.

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You be the one who rule on my behalf.

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To have dominion, to rule, to govern, to steward.

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Crazy.

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God does things like that.

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And so, as I was reading this story over and over again about this Red Sea moment,

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when the people were at the Red Sea moment, and they were confused, they were scared,

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and God did not say, don't worry about it, I'll part it, and then you go, right?

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No. He said to Moses, why are you crying out to me?

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Isn't that funny, eh?

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Why are you crying out to me?

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You said, you raise your staff, right?

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You part the Red Sea.

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Crazy, eh?

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The God of the universe invites, initiates, empowers Moses to do it.

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Crazy, eh?

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Now, Moses, instead of crying out to God, now he raises his staff, right?

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And then he stretched out his hand over the sea to divide the water.

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And God did it, but how?

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Through Moses.

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Beautiful, eh?

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Moses parted the Red Sea.

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Yes.

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With the help of God.

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Stunningly beautiful, guys.

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This is what God does.

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God loves partnership, guys.

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Partnership.

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He loves to bring His plans and purposes.

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God's never going to bring His own plans and purposes without you and I getting involved.

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That's not the God we read in the Bible if He's not engaging you and I.

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Yeah?

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Even take another example.

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The feeding of the 5,000.

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Jesus could have fed 5,000.

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You know, of all the people whom He chose, small boy.

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A little boy who had five loaves and two fish.

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Now, this little boy and Jesus now begins to partner.

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Beautiful, eh?

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Whatever he has, he brings it to Jesus.

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Jesus now breaks it, multiplies it.

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God does it in partnership with you and with me.

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You may be ordinary.

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Your skills may be ordinary.

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There may be nothing flashy about you.

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It doesn't matter.

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Can you get in partnership with this divine warrior, purifying fire?

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You will shake up the ground, man.

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Open your hands to receive this new assignment.

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It's on us, guys.

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It's on us to carry this fire.

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It's on you.

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It's on me.

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This is why God requires a greater consecration for you and for me.

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Yeah?

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We have to embrace this.

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God is starting in this house.

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Week after week, if you had seen, there's always this invitation

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for greater consecration, a demand that he's placing on you and me.

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Why?

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Because purifying fire, it will burn you if you are not consecrating yourself.

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You will not be able to hold it.

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I will not be able to hold it.

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Yeah?

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The next one, ready yourself for immediate obedience.

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Immediate obedience.

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Crossovers require immediate obedience without excuses, guys.

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You know, if you read Luke 9, one man said, Lord, I'll follow you.

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But let me first say farewell to those at home.

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And you know what Jesus said?

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No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom.

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And you know, another said, let me first bury my father.

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And Jesus said, let the death bury the dead.

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I love how Jesus gives us no room for options.

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You and I cannot say later, Jesus.

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Yeah?

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Jesus didn't say, pray about it.

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Or you know, if you decide, come back later after a year, no.

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Delay and excuses will distort the momentum of the crossover.

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Yeah?

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Many pay a heavy price for this, guys.

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A heavy price for not responding to God's invitation.

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If we think that we are not ready today, don't think that you'll be ready tomorrow.

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Because God knows your situation and he invites you.

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Because if you say yes today, you're better off tomorrow.

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If you say yes today, you are better off tomorrow.

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You may not fully understand.

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Say yes.

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Yeah?

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Satan loves to delay your yes.

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Not today.

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Not today.

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You're not ready.

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You're still living in sin.

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Don't expose it yet.

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Don't repent yet.

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Hang in a little longer.

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The enemy comes to kill, steal, destroy.

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Kill, steal, destroy.

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That pattern you'll see over and over again.

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Right?

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So readiness means embracing the new.

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New disciplines, new ways, new structures of functioning to step into the new.

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It's critical, guys.

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Understanding is overrated, guys.

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The world will say, prove it to me.

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Show it to me.

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Explain it to me.

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And then I will believe.

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Faith is not required in that context.

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Because everything is proven, everything is laid out, everything is explained rationally.

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It's like, yeah, it makes sense.

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Okay, I believe.

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There's no room for faith.

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The world is like this.

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Show it to me.

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Make it believable.

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And I'll consider joining your church.

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I'll consider joining what God is saying, what God is doing.

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God says on the op, God says, believe.

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And you will see.

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Salvation is like that.

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Right?

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Salvation is if you believe in Jesus Christ, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you will be saved.

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Right?

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Jesus invites you to believe him first.

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And then you will be saved.

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Crazy, eh?

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That means you and I are supposed to exercise our faith.

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Right?

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The disciples believed Jesus, so they left their nets, their boats, and they followed.

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They had this crossover.

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And you know what?

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They saw.

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Beautiful, eh?

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Next one.

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Rely on the rush of the Spirit.

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Rely on the rush of the Spirit.

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I deliberately mentioned rush.

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Rely on the rush of the Spirit.

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Because the Spirit is always present.

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Yeah?

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The Spirit is always present.

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But there are moments when comes the rushing wind of the Spirit.

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For a specific time, for a specific purpose.

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Right?

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So in our worship, presence is here.

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God is here.

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But there will be times when God comes as a rushing wind and he wants to heal.

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Or he has something to do in our midst.

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Right?

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Or say when you are meeting somebody and you are asking the Lord what you are supposed to speak into this person's life.

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And then suddenly the Spirit deposits something and you know, you can catch from the Spirit that this word is for this person.

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Right?

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There is this specific time and specific moments when the rush of the Spirit comes.

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And so I am saying, I am not denying the importance of the Spirit being present all the time.

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But catch these moments as well.

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There are times when there is this rush of the Spirit and it is amazing.

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Things that can take years.

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It is done.

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And I have had these kind of few experiences and it just blows away my mind.

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The disciples were asked not to leave Jerusalem.

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So they were waiting for the promise of Jesus.

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And then came the Holy Spirit in Acts 2.

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Right?

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Came the rush of the Spirit.

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Tons of fire that fall on each person's head.

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They were never the same.

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Never the same.

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Yeah?

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So I pray that, I know we are believing, like we believe in the work of the Spirit, we believe in the move of the Spirit.

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But pay attention.

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Because these are moments you and I can easily miss.

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I love how, I don't know where is it exactly.

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I cannot find it here.

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But anyway, I can't find it here.

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But there was this time when Jesus was there.

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Jesus was teaching.

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And then there was the power of the Spirit that was there to heal.

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Yeah?

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Jesus is a healer.

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Jesus heals.

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He does healing.

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But there was this specific time when the power of God was with him to heal.

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Recognize those times.

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There will be specific times when the Lord wants to do certain things.

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Like how, I love how Jilin started us.

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That the Lord wants us to start with forgiving, right?

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You know, forgiveness.

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Such kind of thing.

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If you are able to catch the things from the Spirit at that particular moment and at that particular time.

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It does wonders, guys.

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Yeah?

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Last one.

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Rejoice in the crossover assignment.

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Rejoice in the crossover assignment.

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Do not participate grudgingly, guys.

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Israel would do grudgingly.

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They were feeding on mana, which is extraordinary.

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They were not planting.

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They were not pruning.

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They were not farming.

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And yet, they are getting this supernatural provision.

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On one hand, it's supernatural.

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On the other hand, they're complaining.

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Complaining and ingratitude, it was never a small issue in the Bible.

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And today, I hope that complaining, being ungrateful, I hope that these kind of negativity, the Lord puts an end to it today.

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It's not a small issue in the Bible, guys.

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Yeah?

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You know, I put this quote, yeah, I'm just going to read it out.

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It was on my Instagram.

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But I'm just going to read it.

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I thought it's pretty good.

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Yeah?

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Ingratitude, or say complain, is not a small issue.

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It distorts our memory of God's goodness.

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It distorts our memory of God's goodness.

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It reflects a heart that is no longer centered on God's faithfulness.

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Right?

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When you're ungrateful, when there's an ingratitude.

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And then the next line goes like this.

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It invites worldliness by focusing on what I don't have rather than on who God is.

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And if we are ungrateful for getting to glorify and thank him, we start to envy Egypt again.

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The very place, longing for God, longing for what God had already saved us from.

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We begin to long for the very place of captivity.

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That's what ingratitude does, guys.

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It distorts your memory.

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Say, for example, you've been experiencing God's provision.

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You've been experiencing God's healing.

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You've been experiencing God's favor all these years.

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And then yesterday, something didn't turn out the way you wanted.

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Now you begin to complain.

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It just distorts the entire history of what God has been doing in your life.

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It is not a small issue, guys.

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Participate. Rejoice in the crossover assignment.

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Yeah?

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Joy should be the string for our mission.

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This is something that God has been doing, and we should participate with joy.

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Rejoicing in this.

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Fixing our eyes on the one leading us, not on our obstacles.

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Instead of fixing our eyes on the God who is much bigger than our problems,

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we often focus on our problems.

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Rather than focusing on someone who can fix our problems.

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Yeah?

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There are two different things, guys.

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When we are invited to participate in this, God wants us to do this cheerfully.

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God loves a cheerful giver.

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That's what we read in 2 Corinthians 9, right?

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7. God loves a cheerful giver.

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This is not just giving about money.

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Giving your time.

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Giving your service.

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Giving your wisdom.

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Giving your money.

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Giving your time.

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Giving yourself for the benefit of others.

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Can you do this joyfully?

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Yeah?

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Can I ask the sound guys, the music team to come up?

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So just a quick recap of all the points that we've been discussing.

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These are the 7 Rs, so to say.

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If we are to step into the crossover.

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And I hope that we remember these principles.

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If we can remember what God had said, what God had spoken.

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If we can ruminate over these words, these promises spoken.

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And if we can recognize the Kairos moment that God is doing.

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And if we can let go of the old and say,

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when you see this Kairos moment, release the old things.

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And then latch on to what God is saying, what God is doing.

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And then can you embrace this as a new assignment?

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And then, instead of delaying, say later, can I say yes immediately?

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And then, can I begin to pay attention to the rush of the spirit?

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Yeah?

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And then, I do this joyfully.

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Because it's going to impact my life, it's going to impact everybody.

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Yeah?

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So shall we all rise?

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And then I want us to close our eyes as we ponder on what we just shared today.

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Church, hear the word of the Lord.

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Today is a day of your crossover.

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Step out of your slavery.

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Break every agreement, every chain that had shaped your yesterday.

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Burn the old religious baggages, historical junks, patterns that had kept you small.

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Expose it.

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Present it to the divine warrior who is here.

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Like Jacob at Peniel, wrestle with God until he renames you today.

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Then walk forward with a new identity.

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Close every exit and every option to go back.

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As Elisha would set on fire his plow and slaughter his oxen, no return.

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Only forward with God.

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Can you do the same?

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Receive this mental purifying fire that God has released upon us.

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Can you take this?

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Can you receive it with clean hands and a pure heart?

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Can you run with these guys?

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What had rested on Elijah did not die with him.

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It fell on Elisha.

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And now it begins to rest on generations that followed.

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Can this fire not die with you?

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But can this fire be passed on to your friends, to your neighbors, to people around you?

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Do not cling to manna when God is calling you to a harvest.

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When manna ceases, maturity begins.

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Sow, reap and steward the land of promise.

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Stand in faith, guys.

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Stand at the waters.

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The Lord who parted the Red Sea is still the same God.

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And you will walk today.

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You will walk today and cross over.

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The Lord will drown your enemy.

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The Lord will drown your fears.

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The Lord will drown your strongholds.

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Consecrate yourselves today, guys.

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Consecrate yourselves.

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Joshua said, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

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The wonders of God is here.

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Set your heart apart.

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Your habits, your calendars, your relationship.

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Lay every idol that you hold on the altar.

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Severe every tie that cannot enter Canaan with you.

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Take the next step with immediate obedience, guys.

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Do not delay this, guys.

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This inheritance is for the taking.

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So, Abba, we remember, we remember, we remember this crossover that you are inviting us today.

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And we say, yes, Abba, yes.

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Today is our crossover day, Father.

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So we embrace this, Abba, with joy.

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And we say, yes.

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We bless you, Abba.

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