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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: The Elisha Company
Publishing Date: 2023-04-16T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/the-elisha-company/

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Vivek, feel free to come and attend church services once in a while.

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Yeah.

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All righty, before we start, I'll just ask Betty to pray for the Dayton guys,

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and then we'll start after that.

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Go ahead, Betty.

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And so Father, I just want to thank you for the people who have come to visit us today.

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And I thank you specifically for the Dayton crew.

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Thank you so much. They're our family.

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Thank you so much. They're an extension of our family.

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Thank you so much. They are your family, your people that you brought together from different walks of life, Father.

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But you brought them up together with one heart, Father.

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And I just bless them, Father.

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Bless them, Father. Bless them that they may walk in a land of milk and honey, Father.

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A land of milk and honey flowing.

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That they be your gate-crashers, Father, or gate-openers, Father.

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That your milk and honey will flow through these people.

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That their hearts, because they're aligned with you, aligned with one another,

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that when they speak, as they walk, as they have their way, Father, you have their way through them.

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Each and every single one of them, Father, because that is your will.

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That is your desire for Dayton and beyond Dayton.

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And milk and honey, sticky, flowy substance, Father, so it cannot be contained.

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It will go everywhere. It will go everywhere where they go.

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And so we just thank you, Father, that these people will be the people of milk and honey.

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That will bring your good news, bring your mercy and goodness to every place that they will go because they go with you, Father.

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And Father, I just want to, I'd like to call up Mike.

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Can you please come up?

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And Father, I just, I just want to thank you for Mike, Father.

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Father, I just want to thank you for Mike, because Mike is your strong man, Father.

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Father, I want to lay hands on him for his healing, Father.

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Father, you are with him. You are inside of him, Father.

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And because he's your temple, healing and goodness will flow out of him.

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And Father, Father, he'll be a refreshment in the desert, Father, others, Father, where there is dryness, when there is deadness, he's freshness.

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He's not just water. He's snow. He's snow, Father, to be stored up and then to be released, Father.

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So he's a refreshment in the desert. And you will heal him completely from head to toe, inside and outside, Father, so he could be a refreshment in dry, arid places.

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So wherever there's dryness, deadness, discomfort, he's a man that will bring your goodness, your flow, Father, and again, your refreshment in life.

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Father, he will bring life. So we thank you for him, Father.

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We thank you for how you have moved through him, how you continue to use him for your kingdom.

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And I pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen.

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Mike, wait.

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Because this picture of, like you said, you're a strong man, God gave me a picture of a horse.

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And the first thing he knows about a horse is horses have muscles. And God wants to give you muscles.

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You see this guy with a Detroit Tigers hat?

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Just put your hand up.

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So the guy, him and the guy sitting next to him, they work out like crazy.

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They got pretty big muscles.

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But God wants to give you, God wants to give you muscles, but it takes work. It takes a lot of time.

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So God is calling you out to begin this training process.

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And he's going to give you muscles that you didn't know you had, spiritually.

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Spiritual muscles that you thought maybe they were for other people, but know they're for you.

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And things that maybe, gifts of prophecy, gifts of healing, gifts of courage.

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He's going to bring those out of you because you thought maybe they're for others, but know they're for you.

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You can step into these things and use them for your family, for your friends, for those around you, people you don't know.

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But it takes training. These guys have been training for a lot of years.

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Don't think, okay, it's going to happen tomorrow, it's going to happen soon, but it will take work.

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So step into this training process and God will just bless you along the way with your obedience, with your faithfulness.

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He will bless you.

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Father, I just pray that you'll help him to teach well, Abba.

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He loves the word. He likes thinking.

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I ask that you take his appetite for the word and his ability to think and now help him to teach well.

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To break into little edible parts, things that are from your word that can be fed to others.

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To simplify things, to tell stories.

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To his ability to think, Father, I ask that you add imagination.

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Spirit of God, I ask for imagination to run like crazy in his head.

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He's very factual, Abba. I pray that you add imagination to his love for facts.

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Let his wife notice it first, that the guy is actually daydreaming. He never does that.

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So I ask Father for imagination to be added to his factual ways of approaching life.

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Let it trigger something in him. We pray this for Mike right now. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Cool. Thank you, guys.

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All righty. Hey, I want to talk about this thing called the Elisha Company.

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And why talk about this? I actually have two sets of notes.

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The Elisha Company has 15 points and my teaching on presence has 13 points. Which would you prefer?

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I was thinking of both. No way.

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Only one of them? Oh, let's go with Elisha then.

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Yeah, because last night I thought we'd go with presence, but felt no Elisha Company. Why?

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Because, one, going into Victoria, going into these different nations, it's pretty strange that at one time you go to so many different places.

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And yet we're not spreading ourselves thin. Wally is happening every week.

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I mean, I heard that there were tons of stories from Wally yesterday.

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Derek was sending me photographs and telling me that there were stories.

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I don't know why they always leave me out when it comes to muscles.

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Really? There's a gym downstairs? Nobody told me.

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But you know, my WhatsApp status says I'm at the gym.

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So the reason we want to talk about Elisha Company is, and the words are very deliberate.

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The word Elisha, which then means it is the next generation, the company means a troop.

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Where it's not just one Elisha, it's a group of Elishas that now have the ability to be farmed out or to be sent out.

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And you find them in multiple places. That's what this looks like.

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So, I want to talk about that.

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So in a sense, it's a prophetic message from scriptures.

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It's not prophecy, but it's a prophetic message from scriptures.

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So you can extract what you want and apply it to your lives.

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And it's being released to a people. It's not being released to an individual.

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It might give us a blueprint of how to approach the next four or five months.

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And that's why I put that picture up there.

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Somehow, eagles are always associated with either Elijah or Elisha.

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But we're talking about a company, not an individual.

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It's so refreshing, so satisfying when you have a quiver full of arrows and all of them fly straight.

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It's one thing to have one arrow. You've got to shoot it, then go run, pull it out of the guy you just killed.

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Put it back in your quiver, perhaps wash it and then shoot it again.

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That's so difficult. It takes time.

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But when you have a company, then it's amazing. You've got a quiver full of arrows.

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And that's what we've become. That's what we've become.

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And the strange thing is, at the end of the day, the god of Elijah still gets known.

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It's amazing. Elisha did twice the works that Elijah did, but it is the god of Elijah that was known through Elisha.

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God still gets all that he's supposed to get.

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And so that's why I'm deliberately calling it Elisha Company.

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And we'll just look at Second Kings 2. I'll go from there.

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And besides the message, if there's something else you want to look forward to, there's cake after the AGM meeting.

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But I know you guys are so spiritual, you will say, but this is my meat and drink.

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Thank you, Sue. The rest of you are on probation.

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And so there is a rising of Elishas. So it's not one or two, it's many rising.

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So there's a rising of Elishas. And if you read Psalm 18, verse 29, it says,

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Oh, God, you help me run over troops. You help me scale a wall.

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And when Elishas rise, it becomes very difficult for any wall or any troop to stop them.

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And it's almost like 1 Chronicles 12, 8 and 9, where it says the Gadites had faces that were fierce like lions.

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They had the ability to handle sword and spear. And they were a troop.

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The word Gadite means troop. When Leah gives birth to her son, she names him Gad.

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And the reason she names him Gad is because she says, now I have a troop.

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That's the sense of the word Gadites. And in 1 Chronicles 12, verse 8 and 9, it actually talks about that.

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It says that the Gadites were a troop that could not be stopped because they had this ability with sword and spear.

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And their faces were as fierce as lions. And their feet were as sure as gazelles. That's what it says.

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So that's where we're going. So we'll look at the different signs that Elisha performed and extract principles out of that.

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So the first one is in 2 Kings 2, verse 14. 2 Kings 2, 14.

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And that is when Elijah throws his cloak over Elisha. And Elisha inherits Elijah's mantle.

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That's the first one. And so one of the things that you can do, and when I say you, I mean you as a people.

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I also mean you as individuals. One of the things you can do over the next few months is figure out what you want to inherit.

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And what you have inherited.

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We talked about this last week in response to a question. What is it that is characteristic of this Church?

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There's pioneering. There is the prophetic. It is a body-centered Church.

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There is freedom of worship.

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There is a raising of leaders.

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It is nation-affecting or nation-influencing. Those are the characteristics of the Church.

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But now the question is, what do you want to inherit and what have you inherited?

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What do you want to inherit? As you go forward, Elisha has to figure out what have I inherited and what do I want to inherit?

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Both questions have to be asked.

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And when you ask a question like that, here's another question you have to ask.

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Okay, so who am I inheriting from?

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So the first question is, what have I inherited?

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Second question is, what do I want to inherit?

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Third question, who am I inheriting from?

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You have to have an idea. Inheritances must be longed for.

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People who don't long after inheritance will squander their inheritance.

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There should be a desire.

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So who do I inherit from?

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And so that then leads to two things.

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One, what is it that I can inherit from the tribe or body or family that I belong to?

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That's the first one.

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And two, what can I inherit from Jacob or other leaders in the church?

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It takes guts to ask that question, even, because it seems so self-promoting.

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These are two questions you have to ask.

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What can I inherit from the tribe or the body or the family that I belong to?

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Because there are specific traits that you can inherit from the very spirit that is present in us as a corporate people.

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And then the second question is, what can I inherit from Jacob's life or the life of a leader in this church that I follow?

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Both questions need to be answered.

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I'm sure your light is on, just so you know.

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I was scared you would burst into that song, this little light of mine.

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So these are two questions that need to be asked.

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Any questions on these questions?

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I have one.

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When I'm thinking about inheriting something from the tribe or the body, it's more general in general.

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And very strongly present.

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Certain things are so strongly present.

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I just asked Betty and Evan on the spot to come and pray for Mike.

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It wasn't planned.

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But there is an ability.

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The spirit of the prophetic is so evident in this church.

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It's very easy.

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There's no laboring.

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You go to Wally and you'll find certain traits present in the church in Wally that are so strong that you won't find it at Acts 29.

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Same people, by the way.

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It's not some new people that are in Wally.

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It's these muscled individuals like Derek and Prashanth and Pawan and Mark.

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And me.

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So it's these guys who are in this church who go to Wally.

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And yet the traits and the anointing and the way the spirit works in Wally is so different from Acts 29.

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We don't realize what God is up to.

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We don't see it.

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And if you don't see it, you can't know what you want.

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You got to see it. Someone has to show it.

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How can it even be that the very guys who are in this church who operate differently here,

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operate differently in Wally?

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Because God builds tribes a certain way.

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What do you desire then from what is present?

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One should know.

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And what do you desire from my life?

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You should know.

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Because that's how inheritances are bequeathed.

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And you can be passive about it and you'll still get a sprinkle of it.

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You can be active about it and you can get oodles of it.

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You can get your own well.

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And then somebody else drinks from your well one day.

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Or you can be passive about it and you'll still get the sprinkle.

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Because it's impossible to escape.

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Any questions?

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This is important for us to become who we are saying we need to become,

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which is the Elisha Company.

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Which we already are.

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We're just informing ourselves of who we already are.

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Hear me clearly.

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We are informing ourselves of who we already are.

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This teaching is not going to make you this.

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This teaching is going to inform you.

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Go ahead, Nana.

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Can you give an example of what happens when you're passive?

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Passive is...

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Nah.

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I don't believe in getting stuff from man.

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Whatever God wants to give me, God will give me.

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That's passive.

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You've got to be like Caleb.

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Say, I want those hills.

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You've got to be like Peter.

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Please, please, let me be the first man who walks on water.

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That's active.

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Everyone but Diana.

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I won't repeat the name again.

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The person may get offended.

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So, if I want to give something to you,

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then what do I do with my farm?

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And if someone wants to give you a certain head and strong need,

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what do I do?

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Okay, so let me put it this way.

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When I wanted things from Mike Scantleberry,

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when I wanted things from Eddie O'Neill,

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when I wanted things from people who taught me,

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I would go and harass them, spend time with them,

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spend money to go be with them, honor them,

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find time, find ways to get things off them.

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And I started ages and ages and ages ago.

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I've said this to you before.

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I'd beg the pastor in the church in Bahrain to allow me to come

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and pick up people from the airport

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because sitting in the back of the car listening to them converse

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hatch dreams that I'm either now living or I'm yet to live.

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Yeah.

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Next one.

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Yeah, the next one is in chapter 2, verse 16,

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where Elisha's must handle rejection.

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The Elisha Company must handle rejection, must handle rejection.

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In verse 16, it talks about the very men who Elisha had raised,

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50 of them were not willing to acknowledge Elisha

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as the one who Elisha had appointed.

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They were not willing.

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They kept, Elisha said, listen, Elisha's gone.

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I saw him taken up in a whirlwind.

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But the 50 don't want to give him the privilege of now becoming the next leader.

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So they're saying stuff like, no, no, let's go search for them.

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They insist Elisha is so embarrassed that he says, all right, go search,

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because he knows Elisha's gone.

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But there'll be resistance.

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So the second thing that the next point that we need to be aware of

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is that a seeming rejection, a seeming rejection or refusal,

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or refusal by people, by people to accept your new position

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or sometimes your new form internally and externally will happen.

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And you must bear, you must bear people's scrutiny.

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You must bear people's scrutiny.

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You must bear people's scrutiny till they either reject you or accept.

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So what happens is when people change,

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when you change, people find it very hard to interact with you.

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I was telling someone last night that people converge around what you project.

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People converge around what you project.

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Always remember that, eh?

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People converge around what you project.

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And so as you begin to change, you begin to project a different person.

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When you project a different person, people find it very hard to interact

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because they want the old Dilna.

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They want the old Mark.

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They want the old David.

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They don't want this new David.

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They want the old fun guy.

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And then when you begin to change, people find it very hard.

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And so there will always be this resistance, this rejection.

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And sometimes it will be from people who really know you well,

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who don't want to lose out on the old Jillian or the old Don or the old Kezia.

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They don't want to.

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And you've got to stand your ground.

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You have to let them scrutinize your life and decide whether they want to receive

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or they want to reject.

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Internal and external change does happen with Elisha's.

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Some of your closest friends, some of your family members will begin to push you away

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because they don't like the new you.

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Any questions?

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Hey, Mary and her brothers, Mary and her children preferred the old Jesus, man.

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The Jesus of Nazareth was a really nice Jesus.

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Good carpenter, took care of his family.

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And then he changed.

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He changed and began speaking crazy.

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And when he began speaking crazy, Mary and the siblings turned up at the door

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and said, we want to take you home.

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It was an intervention.

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That was what was happening there.

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It's not a new idea.

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They came to take him home.

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Because they wanted to lock him up for a while so that he'd come back to his senses.

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And that's when he states that line, who's my mother and who are my brothers,

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but those that do the will of the Father.

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One of the ways we can avoid rejection and refusal is to refuse to show how you've changed

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either with your words or with your actions.

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Hide your bush, hide your, hide it under the bushel now.

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Hide, hide what?

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Hide it under the bushel now.

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I'm going to let it shine.

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Hide it.

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You'll be safe.

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Do not speak, do not show.

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I'm not suggesting that.

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I'm saying it's a bad idea.

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I saw a few heads going, hmm, that's a good point.

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No.

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So Jacob, how do you handle the change?

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If the internal and external change is real and it is God,

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then you will have to take time to sometimes explain it, sometimes just...

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There are three options.

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One, you take time to explain it.

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Some will understand.

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Or you just be quiet because even if you explain it, no one will understand.

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Three, you cannot amend it.

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Four, you should not get proud about it.

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So there was a certain person whose friends advised her not to move to a certain city

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because they thought it was a really bad idea.

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The person tried explaining it.

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Some understood.

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The person tried explaining it.

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Some got even madder.

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So it doesn't always work.

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So these are the four ways.

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Explain it because some will understand.

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Do not explain it because it's no point.

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Do not be proud.

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Do not amend.

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Do not be proud.

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Do not amend.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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When we change, people get detached and it's okay.

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Because if your change is genuine and it is Christ-like, they will recognize it.

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They will recognize it.

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Later, yeah.

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They will recognize it.

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And during the time of detachment, it is difficult.

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It sucks.

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But they will recognize it.

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It happened with my parents.

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But they recognized it later.

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And they were only proud of their son.

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They were not very proud of him for a while.

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But then they were super proud.

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Yeah.

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You always keep the door open.

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And that's the pride part.

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Pride is when you reject them because they rejected you.

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Pride is when you reject them because they rejected you.

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Okay.

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Third one is in 219.

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2 Kings 2, 19.

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And it says that,

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The men of the city said to Elisha,

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Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see,

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But the water is bad and the land is unproductive.

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And then Elisha takes a bowl, a new bowl,

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Takes some salt and it sprinkles it at the source.

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And the waters get healed.

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And they will never lead to barrenness and death again.

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One of the things we must realize, guys,

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This is not what God is saying we will become.

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This is who we are.

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God is informing us of who we are.

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Please make that distinction.

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We are not teaching this so that we become something.

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We are teaching this so that we are informed of who we are.

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It's like an instruction manual for a car you already have.

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Not a car you're waiting for.

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Yeah.

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So the third thing is, guys,

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And you should try this.

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Try this in Japan. Try this in Israel.

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Try this in New York. Try this in Vancouver.

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Try this in Burnaby. Try this even in Surrey.

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There's hope for every city, Derek.

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So, we have, we have, we have,

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And when I say we, I'm including everybody in this building.

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It's not an Ax 29 thing.

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Yeah?

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We have the permission.

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We have the permission

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and the power

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to end

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bitter years,

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to end bitter

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years

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of unfruitfulness

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and

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sequence of things that are aborted,

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have been aborted, sequence of things that have been aborted,

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sequence of things that have been

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aborted.

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Or a cycle of

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things, a cycle

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of things that have been aborted.

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We have the permission

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and the power. You need to, you need to,

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I'm only informing you of what you already have.

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I'm informing you of what you already have.

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That I,

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I can go, you can go, we can go

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to places and we have both the permission

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and the power to end

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cycles of

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abortion. I'm not talking about

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real, like, pregnancy abortions.

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I'm thinking, I'm talking about things that

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keep getting aborted. The thing with abortions

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is this, that something begins to

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flower and it almost comes to

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a place where it's going to bear fruit and then it collapses.

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It's with life.

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We have the permission

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and the power to end the things

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that are being aborted.

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And we have the permission and the power to end

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bitter years of unfruitfulness.

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Guys, if you, if you

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and I understand that this is who we already are,

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not what we are going to become,

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then you begin to walk in it. We're just being

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informed of who we are so that we can

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do something with who we are.

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As in go and find a situation

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that's unfruitful. In Wally

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or in Burnaby or in Tokyo

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and say, well then, I know

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that I have the permission and the power to end this.

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And it's not with magical

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words, it's with a simple prayer. Because

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permission and power does not require a whole set

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of words, man. When you

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have permission, what words do you need?

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You don't even need words, you have the key.

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Open sesame is

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enough.

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Own this.

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You own it by going over it.

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Again and again and again.

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Own this for your own life. There are things in your

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life that are unfruitful.

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There are things in your

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life that are being aborted again and again and again.

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Own this for your own life too.

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Oh God, in this area, I'm not

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producing. Every time I sow seeds,

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they're taken away.

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Hopelessness has begun to take

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over where you don't even think

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anything is going to change. You don't even

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want to talk about it because talking about it

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is like revisiting old wounds.

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Try this out in your own life and it's easier

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to try it out in someone else's life.

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Any questions?

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Okay, fourth one.

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It's from Second Kings

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to verse 23 and 24.

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This one

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may not apply to all of us

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at this particular

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time because we may need to learn

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how to do this. But in 23 and 24

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it says, but from there, Elisha went

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up to Bethel. As he was walking along the

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road, some youths came out of the town and

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jeered at him, go upon you

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baldhead. They said, go upon you

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baldhead. He turned around, looked at them, and called

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on a curse on them in the name of the Lord.

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Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled

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forty-two of the youths, and he went to Mount

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Carmel and from there returned to Samaria.

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So what's the principle

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we draw from here?

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Decree

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divine judgments

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against

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powers

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that try

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to

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dismantle or destroy

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the church

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or try

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to prevail

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against

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the church

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being conscious

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that a battle

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is not

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not against

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flesh and blood. That's not food and

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beverage, it's flesh and blood, but

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against

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powers.

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Yeah. For some of us

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the battle is against food and beverage too.

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But, I mean

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flesh and blood, yeah.

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Decree divine judgments.

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Decree divine judgments. This is something that

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has to be learned, because

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how can I learn how to decree divine

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judgments? Those three words are

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important. If we are not

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prone to speaking, we are not prone to

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decreeing. You cannot turn the switch on

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overnight. One should learn how to do

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it. Two,

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it must be divine,

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meaning it should be God-inspired. Three,

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it is a judgment. Your judgment has

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to be accurate.

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And if you haven't practiced

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it, you cannot do it tomorrow.

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That's why I said it doesn't apply to all.

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Some of the things that we've been learning

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over the years is so that we can all come

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to a place where we function together

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at the same level of maturity.

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But that is a pipe

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dream, because we don't all grow together.

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Some of us grow fast, some of us

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grow slow, some of us don't grow.

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But, we still

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get to participate in what God has made

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us as a people.

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Take a plain, rare situation

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and move around.

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So Instagram,

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every situation where we are all by

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ourselves, and we get divinely

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inspired to decrease ourselves.

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How do we go about it?

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Very easy. WhatsApp, text,

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call, sing.

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This is what I sense. What do you think?

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Call anybody that you think is in

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a place where they operate in this.

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Whoever you think operates in this, call them, ask.

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Verify.

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I still do it.

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I'll call someone and say, hey, this is what I'm thinking.

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Because these three

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words are critically, do I know

00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.000
how to decree? Have I practiced decree?

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We started talking about decree in

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1990,

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no,

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2003 we started talking about it.

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If you

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haven't practiced it, then it's on you.

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Divine, it has to be God inspired.

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Judgment,

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it has to be accurate.

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Because if you call down fire,

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you're not going to be able to do it.

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So make sure you're wearing an asbestos suit.

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Because otherwise

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you can lose

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some hair.

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And then it's against powers that

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dismantle or destroy the church.

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Examples,

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someone is a super real

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.000
man.

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Maybe I shared this with you.

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I remember some guys going to a

00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.000
particular city

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in India

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where

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a man

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who is probably the fourth

00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.000
or fifth richest man in the world

00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.000
lives, who

00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.000
was funding tons

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.000
and tons of activities against

00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.000
churches.

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And these

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:48.000
people went there just for

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nine hours. And they sat

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.000
in a hotel room with some locals

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and began to decree that this

00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.000
must end. That this

00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.000
funding of

00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.000
the dismantling and destroying of

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.000
believers in

00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.000
churches must end.

00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.000
Four hours after

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:10.000
these guys gathered and prayed,

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:12.000
that man lost

00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.000
fifty-one billion

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.000
dollars

00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.000
and was completely

00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:20.000
undone in terms of both his

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financial standing and his

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power and clout.

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Not just in that nation but around the world.

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That is sometimes

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how effective this can be.

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I know those guys who went and did

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that.

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That's how

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powerful this can be at times.

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That man cannot rise again.

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He cannot rise in that nation.

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He cannot rise in the world.

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So,

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I'm just giving you one recent example that I know of.

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Any questions?

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If our battle becomes against flesh and blood, then we

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step into a spirit that is not Jesus.

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Because at some point,

00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.000
James and John say,

00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.000
can I call down fire on these guys?

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And Jesus says, you are not of my

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.000
spirit. James and John

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actually knew that they could call down fire.

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And they knew because they had already read

00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:20.000
the Old Testament that they knew Elijah did it.

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They knew that

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this was real. It wasn't

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.000
something they were imagining.

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It was real. And Jesus says, you're not

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of my spirit.

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How did you

00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.000
create something

00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000
not against

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flesh and blood with maybe

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somebody actively

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using that spirit?

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At least the way

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that I think is a sincere way

00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:50.000
to pray is, Father, I release this

00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:52.000
man into the hands of the Holy Spirit.

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For I know you're a compassionate, merciful

00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:56.000
God who is able

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to rescue him from his ways of error.

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I seek his salvation

00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:02.000
that if it be today or

00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.000
the day before he dies or the second before he dies

00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.000
that he sees you face to face and receives

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.000
you as Lord. For there is nothing

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.000
as terrible as a man being cut off from his

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.000
creator. So, Father,

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stop this man.

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Even let what happened to Nebuchadnezzar happen.

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But let him come back to his senses

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and let him receive you as Christ and Lord.

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Yeah.

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Sorry?

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Oh, yeah.

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They were praying for his salvation.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There is a tendency in us to exact

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a pound of flesh for all the evildoer.

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I have to first get my heart

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right. And that's

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.000
why it's good when you pray with a group of people because your

00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.000
heart may not be right. Then suddenly someone

00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:56.000
else begins to pray with such compassion that you feel

00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.000
ashamed. It's happened to

00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:00.000
me.

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.000
I wanted fire and brimstone. I didn't say it, but

00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.000
inside me I really wanted it.

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And then while I'm desiring

00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.000
it, the other person is praying, Father, mercy

00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.000
Lord, shower some mercy. And I'm thinking to myself, this is

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:12.000
for me.

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Next one.

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Chapter 3, verse 17.

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Chapter 3, verse 17.

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For this is what the Lord says, you will see neither wind

00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.000
nor rain, yet this valley will be filled with

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.000
water. And you, your cattle, and your

00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:34.000
other animals will drink. This is an easy

00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.000
thing in the eyes of the Lord. He will also

00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.000
hand Moab over to you. You will overthrow

00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.000
every fortified city, every major town.

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You will cut down every good tree, stop up all the

00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.000
springs, and ruin every good field with

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.000
stones. So this is

00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:48.000
when, guys,

00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:50.000
one of the things we should be able to do

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.000
is cause

00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:56.000
when, when, when, what's

00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:58.000
her name? What's her name? Betty. When

00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.000
Betty was praying for Mike, I was thinking

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.000
of this. Where streams

00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:04.000
are refreshing it cause

00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:06.000
we must be able to cause streams

00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.000
to flow

00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:10.000
in desert

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:12.000
or

00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.000
parched places,

00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:16.000
arid places. This is

00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.000
not who we need to become.

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This is who we are. Isaiah 32

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2. Just read Isaiah 32 2.

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It's such a cool scripture.

00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:26.000
Isaiah 32 2. Look at

00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.000
what causes it to happen.

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Isaiah 32

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2.

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We think

00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:36.000
streams in the desert are things that

00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:38.000
God just makes happen, but look who makes

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it happen. Start with verse

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1. Isaiah 32 verse 1. See

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a king will reign in righteousness

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and rulers will rule with justice.

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Each man will be like a shelter from

00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:50.000
the wind and a refuge from the

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.000
storm, like streams of water in

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.000
the desert and the shadow of a great

00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:56.000
rock in a thirsty land. God is

00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:58.000
literally saying, listen, this is what I've made

00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.000
you. You go into Victoria,

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you stand, and you will be

00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.000
able to be a shelter in the storm.

00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:06.000
You stand and you will bring

00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:08.000
into families, into lives,

00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.000
in Tokyo, in Victoria,

00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:12.000
an ability for streams from me to

00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.000
flow. I will cause you to refresh.

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This is not who we need to

00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.000
become. This is who we are.

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.000
Draw from what is common

00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.000
in this house and

00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.000
use it in your situation,

00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:26.000
in your workplace, in your mission,

00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.000
in your home. Draw from

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it. It's like

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.000
belonging to a company that has certain

00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.000
benefits.

00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:36.000
Let's say you work for an airline.

00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:38.000
Now you have some benefits that come with the airline.

00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.000
Draw from it.

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.000
Let's say you belong to Google or Microsoft.

00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.000
There are certain benefits that come from

00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.000
it. You get free computers, maybe.

00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:48.000
Or maybe not.

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:50.000
Draw from it.

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We are talking about things that we can draw from.

00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.000
Isaiah

00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:58.000
32 tells you why there will be streams

00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.000
in the desert. It's not because God suddenly

00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.000
carves out a stream. It is because

00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:04.000
that is the kind of shepherds we are.

00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:08.000
We must own

00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.000
this, guys.

00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.000
Go over it again and again so that you

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.000
identify with your nature.

00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.000
We are just being informed of

00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:18.000
our nature in God.

00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.000
Wally, know this. Know that you can

00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.000
end unfruitful years.

00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:26.000
Know that you can cause suddenly streams to flow

00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:28.000
in desert places.

00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.000
You look at things in Wally and you think, how can this change?

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.000
That's exactly

00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:34.000
why God comes in.

00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.000
We are so far removed from when we got

00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:40.000
saved that we don't realize how

00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.000
parched, arid, dry, deserted,

00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:44.000
addicted, perverse we

00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.000
were.

00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:48.000
And then, God happened.

00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.000
Next one.

00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.000
Chapter 4, verse 1.

00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.000
2 Kings 2, 4, 1.

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.000
2 Kings 2, 4, 1.

00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:04.000
The wife of a man from the company of the

00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:06.000
prophets cried out to Elisha,

00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.000
Your servant, my husband, is dead.

00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.000
And you know that he revered the Lord.

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.000
But now his creditors have come to take my two boys

00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:14.000
as his slave.

00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.000
One of the things we are

00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:18.000
called to do is to provide for

00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:20.000
ones

00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.000
who have served

00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.000
faithfully,

00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:26.000
who have served faithfully,

00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.000
but for various

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.000
reasons

00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.000
fallen upon hard times.

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And the various reasons could be sickness,

00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.000
could be sin,

00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:48.000
could be bad

00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:50.000
decisions, could be

00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:52.000
betrayal, could be

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.000
reasons we don't know,

00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.000
could be

00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.000
them leaving

00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:06.000
and not

00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.000
being able to make it.

00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.000
Whatever it be.

00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:14.000
This is a strange one, eh, when I saw it,

00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.000
that this

00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:18.000
Elisha company, this group

00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.000
that is here under this roof

00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:22.000
must be able

00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.000
to provide for those that have served

00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:26.000
faithfully.

00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:28.000
Even as I speak, if they come to mind,

00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:30.000
send them some money.

00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.000
Even as I speak,

00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:34.000
if they come to mind, if you remember Melchizedek

00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.000
in your life, who come and

00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:38.000
broke bread and water into your life,

00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.000
bread and wine into your life ages ago,

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:42.000
that are struggling,

00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.000
that have had a hard time,

00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.000
send them something.

00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:48.000
Respond to some of these things immediately.

00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:54.000
These are men who serve faithfully,

00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.000
but for whatever reason are not able to do well right now,

00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.000
well then let your plentee supply their lack.

00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.000
Yeah?

00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.000
Any questions guys before we go on?

00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000
Some maybe left.

00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.000
They left before their time.

00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.000
Before things could work out for them,

00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.000
they left. Maybe they were part of this church

00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000
and they left.

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.000
If you remember them,

00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.000
and you remember their faithful service,

00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.000
bless them.

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I remember there was a woman

00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.000
who was a priest,

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.000
she was a priest,

00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.000
she was a priest,

00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:36.000
she was a priest,

00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.000
she was a priest,

00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:40.000
I remember there was a person

00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.000
who left this church,

00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:44.000
and we felt

00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:46.000
that the person was going through a really hard time,

00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:48.000
so we sent Derek,

00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.000
with a certain amount of money,

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.000
to just drop off.

00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.000
And he went in the middle of the night,

00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:56.000
dressed in black

00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:58.000
with a mask on,

00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.000
ta-dan, ta-dan,

00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.000
and he left some money there.

00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.000
So,

00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:06.000
if you want to do that,

00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.000
then the outfit is still available.

00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.000
In this case,

00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.000
it was anonymous.

00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:18.000
But remember those that have served us faithfully

00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.000
and bless them. It's who we are.

00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.000
It's who we are.

00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:26.000
Next one.

00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.000
Chapter 4, verse 17.

00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.000
This is again one of those things where,

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.000
if you haven't learned how to do this,

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it will not happen right now,

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but chapter 4, verse 17.

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Then Elisha said, call her.

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So he called her and she stood in the doorway.

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About this time next year, Elisha said,

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you will hold a son in your arms.

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No, my lord, she objected.

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Don't mislead your servant or man or god.

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But the woman became pregnant the next year,

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about the same time she gave birth to a son,

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just as Elisha had told her.

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The child grew, and one day he went out to his father,

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who was with the reapers.

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His father told the servant, carry him to his mother.

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After the servant had lifted him up

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and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap

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till noon, and then he died.

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She went up and laid him on the bed

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of the man of god, then shut the door

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and went out.

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One of the things that I so look forward to this church doing

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is, will you contend,

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will you contend

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for what you know

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god has ordained a birth?

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Will you contend for what you know

00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:52.000
god has ordained a birth,

00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.000
so that the son who is born,

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so that the son who is born,

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so that the son who is born

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will not meet an untimely death?

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This is critically, there are so many things

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:12.000
that god births and ordains,

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and guys the strange thing is when god births

00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:16.000
something, he does it with words.

00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:18.000
How does god birth anything?

00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:20.000
He announces it.

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Why does he announce it?

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He announces it to make his people know

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that I'm going to do something.

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That's what the prophets were doing.

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That's what he says in Amos,

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that listen, before I do anything, I

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tell my prophets about it.

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In those days he had to pick a few prophets.

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Today a church can be prophetic.

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He announces it. That's how he births everything.

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He announces it.

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And when things are announced

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and things have to be sustained,

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you have to then begin to contend for it.

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Think of some of the things that god has announced

00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.000
he will do, either through this church

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or he has announced it in this church.

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Think of some of those things.

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I don't want to repeat them before you.

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But do you contend for it?

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Do you contend for it?

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Because guys, one of the things that can happen

00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.000
in churches like this is because

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there are things that god keeps saying or doing,

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we can get neutral about it.

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I'll tell you what neutrality sounds like.

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Elijah is on Mount Carmel.

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And he says, if god is god,

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follow him.

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Or follow Baal.

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And the strange thing is,

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the next verse says,

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and Israel remained silent.

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Israel remained silent.

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There's a challenge being thrown out by Elijah.

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If god is god, follow him.

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If Baal is Baal, if Baal is god,

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go ahead, follow him.

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And instead of saying god is god,

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you're just coming out and speaking.

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Sometimes when things are being birthed

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and you do not speak,

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it's not disagreeing with people in the church,

00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:54.000
you're disagreeing with god.

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But in my heart I'm agreeing.

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Thank god you had to both speak

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and believe in your heart before you got born again.

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So, will you contend for what you know

00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:14.000
that god has ordained your birth

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so that the son who is born

00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:18.000
will not meet an untimely end?

00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:20.000
Some things are sustained by us agreeing with god,

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saying, oh god, this is what you said

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and I agree with you.

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I'll open my mouth and I'll speak.

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I'll open my mouth and I'll speak.

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Sometimes it requires stretching over

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that which is dying to revive it.

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That's the kind of contention we're talking about.

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It has to be life upon life.

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You pouring out your life

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to see what god has spoken will live.

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But Jacob, why does god need that?

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Can't he do it himself?

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He can do it himself, but he's the head of the body

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and he uses the body

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to stretch over that which is dying.

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It is his life that gives life, but it happens through you.

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Hey, I want to say something else

00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:04.000
that is going to bother some of us.

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If what I'm teaching right now

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is something that you're not connecting to,

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it is because...

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This is such a harsh statement to make,

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but I just feel that I have to make this

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so that you're aware of your condition.

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If what I'm saying is not connecting with you,

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it is because your spirit is dulled

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to the life-giving things of god.

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And the reason I'm saying it is so that

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you will wake up to the fact that you need

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to enliven yourself.

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Not because of the teaching, not because of the preacher,

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but because of the content.

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Just so you know.

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But you can always talk to each other

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and you want to be able to get everything

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regarding that to go on.

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No, no, no, no. I really don't want us to rara.

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But I want us to be able to

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speak when required, eh?

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Sometimes when I ask you

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to stretch out your hand

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and I see you sitting like this

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stretching out your hand, I think to myself,

00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:08.000
why? Is it pride?

00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:10.000
Is it rebellion? Is it disobedience?

00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:12.000
Is it disagreement? What is it?

00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:14.000
Don't understand it.

00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:16.000
When I'm in a church, it doesn't matter

00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:18.000
how tired I am and the pastor asks me to do something,

00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:20.000
I'll do it. Why? Because I want to

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stand with the people of god, even though

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my hands are tired.

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Why do we not do it?

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You think you will not be held accountable for it?

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You will be held accountable for it.

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I hate rara.

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Hate it.

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Because it's so artificial.

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J-E-S-U-S?

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Jesus!

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Let's say an amen now. Let me hear an amen.

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No!

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But should an amen come from within you?

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Say it. Thank god our

00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.000
worship leaders don't do this too.

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Okay, next one.

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Sometimes guys,

00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:00.000
Elisha's staff won't do,

00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:02.000
Gehazi won't do.

00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:04.000
Sometimes you have to go and pour out your life.

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Remember that, eh?

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You can't send someone else sometimes.

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You have to go.

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As Elisha, sometimes you have to go.

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As Elisha, sometimes you have to go.

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I mean, for these guys going to Japan,

00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:18.000
I mean, for these guys going to Japan,

00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:20.000
I mean, for these guys going to Japan,

00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:22.000
I mean, for these guys going to Japan,

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I mean, for these guys going to Japan,

00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:26.000
embrace what is being taught.

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This is what you can do in Tokyo.

00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.000
For guys going to Israel,

00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:34.000
embrace this.

00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:36.000
We don't go to the Holy Land for Holy Land tours.

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The Jew needs to be saved even if he's special.

00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.000
Just like the Afghani

00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:44.000
and the Pakistani needs to be saved.

00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.000
And the Indian needs to be saved.

00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.000
And the Bangladesh needs to be saved.

00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:50.000
We got this absurd thought that

00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.000
chosen people, Abraham's physical

00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:56.000
descendants, so

00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:58.000
there'll be some magical way in which they'll be saved.

00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:00.000
Nope! It's only through Jesus Christ.

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.000
We got to stop making

00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:04.000
this myth

00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:06.000
this myth

00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:10.000
Christians exploit Israel

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:12.000
for their own benefit.

00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:16.000
It's wrong.

00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:22.000
That's just a side

00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.000
hobby horse to flog.

00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.000
No, no, no. Christians should go on tours.

00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:34.000
I'm sure when you go on a tour and you walk the paths that Jesus walked,

00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:36.000
it'll break your heart.

00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.000
I'm not saying no to that.

00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:40.000
But we need to look at Israel

00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:42.000
as a nation that needs saving.

00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:48.000
And we don't.

00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.000
Sometimes

00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.000
Elijah's staff and Gehazi

00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:56.000
being sent will not do.

00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:58.000
You have to go pour out your life.

00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:00.000
Sometimes guys when it looks like

00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:02.000
why go all the way, why spend so much money,

00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:04.000
why do this, it is because

00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:06.000
you alone can set

00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:08.000
that place free.

00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:10.000
You were called for that.

00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:12.000
You alone. Nobody else can.

00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:14.000
I can't.

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You can.

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And when you know that in your heart

00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:20.000
and when you know that in your heart,

00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:22.000
spare no expense.

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Spare no expense.

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Yeah.

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Elijah tries. He says

00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.000
hey Gehazi, take my staff and lay it on the boy's

00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:34.000
body.

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Nothing. Squat.

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Sometimes you need to go.

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Next one.

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Chapter 4, verse 39

00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:48.000
to 41. Chapter 4, verse 39

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to 41.

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Elijah returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in the region

00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:56.000
while the company of prophets was meeting with him

00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.000
he said to his servant, put on the large pot

00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:00.000
and cook some stew for these men.

00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.000
One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found

00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:04.000
a wild wine.

00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:06.000
He gathered some of its goods and

00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:08.000
filled the fold of his cloak.

00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.000
When he returned he cut them up,

00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:12.000
put it in the pot of stew.

00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:14.000
This was a whole vegetarian thing.

00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.000
That's what went wrong there.

00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:18.000
Though no one knew what they were.

00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:20.000
The stew was poured out for the men but as they

00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.000
began to eat it they cried, oh man of God

00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:24.000
there is death in the pot. They could not eat it.

00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:26.000
Elijah said get some flour. He put it into

00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:28.000
the pot and said serve it to the people to eat

00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.000
and there was nothing harmful in the pot.

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So one of the things

00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.000
this is another very cool one.

00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:36.000
That you've got to believe man because if you believe this

00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:38.000
and walk in it because God is saying this is who you are

00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:40.000
then people will benefit.

00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:42.000
What is it we are talking about?

00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:44.000
We will see

00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:46.000
the preserving

00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:48.000
power

00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:50.000
of God

00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:52.000
working through us.

00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:56.000
Working through us.

00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:58.000
The preserving power of God working through us.

00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:00.000
Guys

00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.000
there's a scripture which says

00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:06.000
rejoice for the steps of the

00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:08.000
righteous man are

00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:10.000
ordained by God in the time of trouble

00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.000
he will preserve you, uphold you, keep you.

00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:16.000
We are appointed to be keepers.

00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:18.000
People that we keep will be

00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:20.000
preserved, will be upheld,

00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:22.000
will be protected.

00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.000
Own that eh?

00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:26.000
You are people that can keep.

00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.000
This is something God is giving you

00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:30.000
saying if you keep somebody

00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:32.000
I'll make sure they're protected.

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There's something in the Bible called protective hospitality.

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Protective hospitality is when

00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:38.000
people come into your care and

00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:40.000
you make sure that

00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.000
on my watch nothing will happen.

00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:44.000
That I would

00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:46.000
lay down my life, the life of my family

00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:48.000
before they are touched.

00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:50.000
That is keeping power.

00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.000
That is preserving power.

00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:54.000
That is a power that whenever God gives something in your charge

00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:56.000
you will make sure that that person

00:56:56.000 --> 00:56:58.000
is protected.

00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:00.000
Protective hospitality is what makes the father

00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:02.000
throw the son out

00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:04.000
so that he can be

00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:06.000
destroyed but you can be preserved.

00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:08.000
Preserving power is

00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:10.000
sacrificial. It is a power that God

00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.000
gives because the people have realized that we are

00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:14.000
keepers. As in we have

00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:16.000
the ability, we have the desire, we

00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:18.000
have the compassion and we have the faith

00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:20.000
to keep those that are given to us.

00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.000
The demonized can come, the depraved

00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.000
can come, the addicted can come.

00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:26.000
But as they bask under your shelter

00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:28.000
you prepare a table for them in the presence of

00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:30.000
their enemies and they begin to recover.

00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:32.000
Some of you have seen that.

00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:34.000
Some of you have seen the people that have come under your charge

00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:36.000
and how day after day,

00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:38.000
month after month, week after week, you see

00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:40.000
them being set free. It is the

00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:42.000
power of God that sets them free. But it comes

00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:44.000
through you. That's what keeping

00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:46.000
power does. That's what preserving power does.

00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.000
We have seen it in this church. And we will

00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:50.000
see it again and again and again. Because

00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:52.000
this is our nature given by God. We are

00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:54.000
just being informed of who we are.

00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:56.000
The world needs this

00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:58.000
guys.

00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:00.000
Do you know what happens when the demonized

00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:02.000
set free? You don't even pray

00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:04.000
because they come under what is called your covering.

00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:14.000
Yeah.

00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:16.000
It's a magnificent thing that God is informing

00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:18.000
us about.

00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:20.000
When you keep somebody

00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:22.000
something begins to happen.

00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.000
Next one.

00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:30.000
Next one.

00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:36.000
442.

00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:38.000
What time is it?

00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:40.000
Say that with a little more

00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:42.000
enthusiasm.

00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:44.000
There you go.

00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:48.000
A man came from Baal, Shalisha

00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.000
bringing the man who got 20 loads of barley

00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.000
baked from the first ripe grain along with some heads of

00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:54.000
new grain. Give it to the people to eat.

00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:56.000
Crazy. This guy was tithing or giving

00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:58.000
his first fruits.

00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:00.000
He was giving his first fruits and instead of

00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:02.000
taking the first fruits and keeping the first fruits

00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:04.000
Elijah distributes it.

00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:08.000
I find that so amazing.

00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:12.000
Someone told me about that

00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:14.000
five or six years ago.

00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.000
Before that when I would receive first fruits

00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:18.000
I would keep the first fruits.

00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:20.000
People would honor me with their first fruits saying

00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:22.000
here is my first fruits at the beginning of the year.

00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:24.000
They would say Jacob thank you for what you've done in my life.

00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:26.000
Here's the first fruits and I would keep it.

00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:28.000
It would help me do

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whatever I want to do. Travel, do this, do that.

00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.000
Spend it on my own.

00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:34.000
I'd keep the first fruits. Someone told me this.

00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:36.000
Hey have you read 2 Kings 2, 442?

00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.000
It says so he

00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:40.000
brings his first fruits to Elijah

00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:42.000
and Elijah instead of keeping it says distribute it.

00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.000
And once I began distributing it

00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:46.000
I found that it increases

00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:48.000
it doesn't decrease. That's not the reason.

00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:50.000
The reason was

00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:52.000
what a cool thing to do with first fruits.

00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:54.000
It multiplies.

00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:56.000
So the principle here is very simple.

00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:58.000
Release first fruits.

00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.000
Release first fruits.

01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.000
And then if you receive it

01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.000
use it to feed others.

01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:10.000
And then if you don't

01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:12.000
you will not receive it.

01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:16.000
And you will see

01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:18.000
this word

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in bold letters.

01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:26.000
When money multiplies

01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.000
a few things happen.

01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.000
One, you can provide for others.

01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:36.000
You can end poverty

01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:38.000
in your community

01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:40.000
or your company.

01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:42.000
And you can have

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your needs

01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:46.000
wants

01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:48.000
whims

01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:50.000
fancies

01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:52.000
and burgers

01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.000
taken care of.

01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:00.000
Yeah.

01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:04.000
Next one.

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Let's skip a few.

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Because it's 103 and we got the AGM through.

01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:20.000
Let's go to sixth one.

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The company of the prophet said to Elijah

01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:26.000
look the place where we meet

01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:28.000
with you is too small for us.

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Let us go to Jordan where each of us can get a pole

01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:32.000
and let us build a place there for us to live.

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So you know the story.

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The prophet said to Elijah

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can we go build a school for prophets?

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And Elijah said yes.

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They took permission.

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They go build a school.

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While they're building the school, after having

01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:48.000
taken permission from the man of God

01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:50.000
which is the same as taking the permission of God

01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:52.000
they begin to build a school and they borrowed an axe

01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:54.000
because Israel had no metal implements.

01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:56.000
They borrowed an axe.

01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:58.000
They're chopping. The axe that flies off

01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:00.000
falls into the river, drowns.

01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:02.000
And they come and say alas alas master

01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:04.000
the axe that was on the river.

01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:06.000
They say alas alas master the axe that was

01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:08.000
borrowed meaning it would be super expensive.

01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:10.000
And Elijah says take this staff

01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:12.000
throw it where the axe fell

01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:14.000
it comes floating up.

01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.000
Guys, this church

01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:18.000
and if you don't know it yet

01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:20.000
you must have been living under a

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Bushel.

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So one of the things that we are

01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:34.000
so meant to do

01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.000
is to restore people's

01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:38.000
destinies back to them.

01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:40.000
This church excels at it.

01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:42.000
Wherever you go

01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.000
know that you can take

01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:46.000
anybody anywhere in the world

01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:48.000
and the anointing of God will be

01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:50.000
present upon you to help them

01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:52.000
get back into the trajectory appointed

01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:54.000
to them. Sometimes it's a trajectory

01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:56.000
that they lost, sometimes

01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:58.000
it's a trajectory they haven't found.

01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:00.000
We are meant to do this.

01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:02.000
We are meant to do this.

01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:04.000
Every time someone comes

01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:06.000
to this church or comes into

01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.000
your presence know that you have the

01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:10.000
ability in some small way

01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:12.000
to put them back on the path that

01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:14.000
they either lost or haven't found.

01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:16.000
We restore people's

01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:18.000
destiny. We restore

01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:20.000
desolate heritages. We give back

01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:22.000
to people what they lost.

01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.000
We do this well.

01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:26.000
It is a trait in this house.

01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:28.000
It is yours. It is

01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:30.000
from God. It has very little to do

01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:32.000
with you.

01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:34.000
But one of the things we excel at

01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:36.000
wherever the axe is

01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:38.000
drawn, go back there, throw the

01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:40.000
wood shaft in and it will come

01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:42.000
floating up. Pick it up.

01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:44.000
Tell them to pick it up. You don't pick it up for them.

01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:46.000
You tell them to pick it up.

01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:48.000
You can only tell people what God is saying.

01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:50.000
From there on it's up to them whether they run in it or not.

01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:54.000
Elisha doesn't go and pick it up. Elisha says

01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:56.000
there it is, go pick it up. Then it's up to the

01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:58.000
person if they want to pick it up. But if they pick it up

01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:00.000
they can start rebuilding or building

01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:02.000
what God has ordained them to do.

01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:04.000
This is a trait in this house. Embrace it.

01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:10.000
Example,

01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:12.000
I met with the guys from Dayton

01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:14.000
last night and can

01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:16.000
put people back on their trajectory.

01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:18.000
It's the easiest thing to do.

01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.000
It flows like water.

01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.000
Doesn't matter. You can go up to

01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:26.000
anybody on the street today and you

01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:28.000
have the ability to begin to speak into their lives

01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:30.000
and restore them.

01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:32.000
Restoring desolate heritage

01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:34.000
is so a part of our DNA

01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:36.000
that it's inescapable.

01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:40.000
Evidence of what?

01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:46.000
Yeah, but you announce it,

01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:48.000
they have to pick up the axe.

01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.000
We don't pick up the axe for them. We cause it to

01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:52.000
float to the surface.

01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:56.000
That's up to the person, right?

01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:58.000
Even Jesus wouldn't force

01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:00.000
someone to do what he told them to do.

01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:06.000
Even Jesus wouldn't.

01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:08.000
I mean, if I could force

01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:10.000
you guys to do what I wanted to do,

01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:20.000
If I could force just one person

01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:22.000
sitting at that corner to do what I wanted to do,

01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:26.000
I would do it.

01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:36.000
Okay.

01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:38.000
One more.

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Two more.

01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:42.000
Okay, two more.

01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:52.000
Chapter 8 was 7-15.

01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:54.000
Chapter 8 was 7-15.

01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:02.000
Elijah begins to

01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:04.000
anoint Hazael the king.

01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:06.000
And

01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:08.000
as he begins to anoint him as king,

01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:10.000
he begins to prophesy and predict the future.

01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:12.000
He begins to

01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:14.000
finish what

01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:16.000
Elijah had left unfinished.

01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:18.000
He begins to

01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:20.000
on one hand complete Elijah's

01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:22.000
task because Elijah kind of resigned and got raptured.

01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:24.000
And now he is completing Elijah's task.

01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:26.000
And he is also

01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:28.000
predicting the future of what will happen to

01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:30.000
Israel, the things that are going to happen.

01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:32.000
Some of us, and

01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:34.000
it's open for the entire church, but some

01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:36.000
of us will finish

01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:38.000
what Jacob can

01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:40.000
never finish in this lifetime.

01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:42.000
Some of us will finish what Eddie could never

01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:44.000
finish in his lifetime. Some of us will finish

01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:46.000
what the people that went before us

01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:48.000
will not be able to finish.

01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:50.000
Some of us will do this.

01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:52.000
I want to

01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:54.000
give you a direct word.

01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:56.000
Please come and, yeah,

01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:58.000
you Prashanth, please

01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:00.000
embrace this.

01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:02.000
Please come

01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:04.000
and join this company.

01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:08.000
Please

01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:10.000
give it another shot.

01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:12.000
You are one of the most capable

01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:14.000
individuals I've met.

01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:16.000
Please come and give it a shot.

01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:20.000
I plead with you.

01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:22.000
It's not that you're not doing

01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:24.000
everything you're supposed to do. You're one of the most exceptional

01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:26.000
workers that I

01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:28.000
have seen. But I

01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:30.000
think you know what I'm saying when I say please

01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:32.000
come because you will

01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:34.000
finish some of the things that I cannot,

01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:36.000
that others cannot.

01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:38.000
Take this upon

01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:40.000
yourself because you don't have a mantle

01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:42.000
yet and that mantle must fall

01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:44.000
on you because you have the ability to finish

01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:46.000
it. I

01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:48.000
can plead on my knees if I need to.

01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:50.000
That is, no, I know, I know

01:07:50.000 --> 01:07:52.000
you wouldn't want that, but

01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:54.000
that is how desperate I am

01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:56.000
about this because I know that you can

01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:58.000
finish some of the things nobody else in this church can finish.

01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:02.000
I'm not embarrassing you. I'm just

01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:04.000
exalting you, if anything.

01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:06.000
It puts you in a

01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:08.000
difficult situation though and I

01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:10.000
appreciate that, but

01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:12.000
yeah.

01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:18.000
Last one.

01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:24.000
Chapter 6,

01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:26.000
verse 12.

01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:34.000
The enraged king of

01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:36.000
Aram, this enraged the king of

01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:38.000
Aram, verse 11, he summoned his officers

01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:40.000
and demanded of them, will you not

01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:42.000
tell me which of us is on the side of the king of

01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:44.000
Israel? None of us, my lord the king,

01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:46.000
said one of his officers, but Elisha the prophet,

01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:48.000
who is in Israel, tells the king in Israel

01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:50.000
the very words you speak in your bedroom.

01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:56.000
I don't know if you believe this, see?

01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:58.000
I'm absolutely convinced of it. I've seen it

01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:00.000
at work. Unfortunately, I cannot

01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:02.000
share more stories on

01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:04.000
Arrow when it's being recorded, but

01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:06.000
do you believe? I really asked

01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:08.000
this of you and only you can answer it.

01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:10.000
Do you believe?

01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:12.000
I believe

01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:16.000
that the destiny

01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:20.000
of nations

01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:24.000
will be

01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:26.000
shaped

01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:28.000
on the annual

01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:32.000
called

01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:34.000
Acts 29. By Acts 29, I mean

01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:36.000
anybody attached to it.

01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:38.000
Do you believe that?

01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:40.000
Because a few of us

01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:44.000
will learn

01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:46.000
to command here

01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:50.000
the chariots of Israel

01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:56.000
and its horsemen

01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:00.000
to fight

01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:04.000
princes of Persia

01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:06.000
and Greece.

01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:10.000
And see spiritual realities

01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:14.000
come to pass

01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:18.000
on Earth.

01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:22.000
It's a question, eh? I'll end with that question.

01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:24.000
Do you believe

01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:26.000
that the destiny of nations

01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:28.000
can be shaped on this annual

01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:30.000
called Acts 29?

01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:32.000
I don't know if you believe that,

01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:34.000
but it's a question

01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:36.000
worth asking.

01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:40.000
Some of us will learn to command

01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:42.000
here chariots of Israel and horsemen

01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:44.000
like Elisha did. You know what happens

01:10:44.000 --> 01:10:46.000
when you command here the chariots of Israel

01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:48.000
and horsemen? You become to the enemy

01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:52.000
a threat that

01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:54.000
dismantles its plants and you become to

01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:56.000
Israel protection.

01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:58.000
You become to Israel protection,

01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:00.000
you become to the enemy a threat.

01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:02.000
That's what Elisha did.

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He was surrounded

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by people and he says

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his servant says,

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look we are surrounded, what are we going to do now?

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And Elisha says, oh God will you open the eyes of

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this man? And he opens

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his eyes and he sees the chariots of

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Israel and the horsemen. What does that do?

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On one hand for Israel it becomes protection.

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Doesn't matter how many thousands there are, there are more

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amongst us than there are with them.

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And two, it becomes the enemy,

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its defeat. Two things happen.

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Some of us will command here the chariots of

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Israel and horsemen to fight the princes of Persia

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and Greece, which is from the book of Daniel,

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and to see spiritual realities come to pass here on earth.

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The question though is,

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do I really believe that the destiny of

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nations would be shaped on an anvil called

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Acts 29? When I say destiny of

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nations, the shape of those nations, how they

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will be affected.

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Powers, spiritual

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and governmental.

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Do you really believe that?

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Because it happened in the book of Acts.

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That is something you

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have to ask and to the extent

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that you believe it, begin to step into it a little

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bit. Maybe begin to start by praying

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for a nation.

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Then perhaps investing in that nation.

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Then perhaps going to that nation.

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Then perhaps saying, can we do this

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and this in this nation?

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Then perhaps saying, but these are the powers that are involved in

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the nation. Then asking, how do we deal with

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these powers? Then saying, can you

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forge a team that can go and deal with these

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powers? Then saying,

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what do we do with regard to spreading

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the gospel in these nations?

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Then saying, okay, these are the people we need to

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connect to. Can you give us, O God,

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inroads into corridors of power? Can you give us,

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O God, inroads into the poor?

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It all started

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in an upper room in Jerusalem.

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Think of that for a second.

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It all started in an upper

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room in Jerusalem. It is the

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sheer power of the Spirit of God

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with a people who were willing

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to obey and did not love

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their lives unto death.

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They overcame the

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devil by the word of the testimony

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and by the blood of the lamb.

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And they did not love their lives

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even unto death. What does it

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mean not to love your lives even unto death?

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That you don't

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think much of the things of

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life to begin with. And death

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later.

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But things of life

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first.

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Any questions?

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There are two more,

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but they're okay.

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Any questions, guys?

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God is informing

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us of who we are. He's not asking

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us to become anything.

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He's just informing us. So we don't

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even need to pray.

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We don't need to pray saying, O God, make us this.

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But some of these points apply directly

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to you. If they apply directly

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to you, change your thinking.

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Go over this again and again and again and again.

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Yeah?

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So let's not pray. Let's go to the

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AGM. Yeah?

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What do you do with an instruction manual?

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You read it and you put things together.

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Yeah?

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Cool.

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What happens next?

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Oh, we pause

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for a couple of minutes

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and then everybody is welcome

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to stay.

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But if you haven't signed

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your life away and given us

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the PIN code to your bank

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account, you cannot

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vote. Yeah.