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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: The Father's Heart
Publishing Date: 2016-05-29T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/the-fathers-heart/

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So, last week we were talking about how we need to examine this thing about growing in the father

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and we said if you want to grow in the father, and the reason we titled it growing in the father

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is because we have to move through three stages. The first stage is I am the father's child,

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then I come to a place where I get to know the father's heart, and then I get to a place where I am the father's son.

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We said there is a difference between being a child and a son. We said how in Isaiah 9,6 it says unto us a child is born,

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but unto us a son is given. I will try not to move around too much so that the feedback is a little less.

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Anyway, so you start where you begin as the father's child, and guys this is not a phase that you leave and move on

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and never come back to. Throughout my life I will go through this cycle of being the father's child,

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learning his heart, becoming the father's son, growing in maturity, coming back to being a father's child,

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learning his heart some more, growing in maturity. It's a cycle that continues, eh?

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Because I am supposed to be childlike, and I am supposed to walk the earth as a mature son.

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And what changes me from child to son is knowing the father's heart. That's what changes me.

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So don't think we leave this stage behind. That's why today during the time of worship, if you heard what was being said,

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it was that father there are times when you don't need worship, when all you need is that I come to you as a child.

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I come running to you with the eagerness of a child, and just don't have anything to say.

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Maybe give you a hug while that's all I can give you, and that's all I give you.

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And those things are worth a million words. Those things are worth a hundred Matt Redmond songs and fifty Chris Tomlin songs.

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So it doesn't matter, eh? What he sometimes wants us to do is come as a child. Just remember that.

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You know, may I say something? Yes.

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Chris got a little girl, she played the lullaby for outside. I was having, she came in, she got all the other two here.

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And I hugged my back there, and then she went out again. Yeah.

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And that's sometimes all that one needs to do. Sometimes I see posts from Rhonda about little things that Tate does,

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where out of the blue he'll suddenly turn around and say to Rhonda that,

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you're the most beautiful mum I know. And mums just fall for stuff like that, eh?

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But it makes your day. This is how the father is. The father is not looking for worship.

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That is something we look for. Because worship is a way of expressing our heart towards him.

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Do not get stuck in worship. Worship is an avenue for expression. That is why we can't confine it to music.

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But the heart of a child approaching a father, he's always welcoming. His arms are always open.

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But I have to keep learning the father's heart so I can move from being the father's child to learning the father's heart to being the father's son.

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And that's huge, eh? We haven't even touched it. I would suggest to you that none of us have really explored it.

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Being the father's son as opposed to just being the father's child. I'm so looking forward to it.

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And the father's heart is unchanging. The father's heart is unchanging. It's non-negotiable. It's non-negotiable.

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The father's heart never changes. See, sometimes Hebrews 13, 8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

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We sometimes take that scripture and we adopt it to ourselves. No, no, no. You are supposed to change.

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But the father is unchanging. Don't make that scripture yours. I am the same yesterday, today and forever. I do not change.

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That's really dumb, eh? You must change. The father should stay unchanging.

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He is non-negotiable. All his attributes are non-negotiable. They do not change. That's what makes him God.

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I have to change. And so we talked about some of the father's heart attitudes two years ago.

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I mean, some of them stand out and I try them out every week sometimes.

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One of them was that, Father, I stand in your unadulterated goodness.

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I stand forever, constantly in your unadulterated goodness. That was one of them.

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The next one was, Father, you are embarrassingly lavish and extravagantly kind.

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Father, you are embarrassingly lavish and extravagantly kind.

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And I have said this many times, as I say these things about the father, you are thinking and I sometimes think,

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who are we talking about? Is this the same God or some other God?

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Because the God I know doesn't seem to appear like this because this is not our experience of him.

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But like I said, it's non-negotiable. These are his attributes from the Bible and they don't change.

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You and I haven't experienced space. We don't know what it is to float without gravity.

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But there is a place like that. You're experiencing it or not experiencing it doesn't make it real or unreal.

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It exists. This is who the father is.

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The third one was, exceeding great reward and shield.

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Father, you are my exceeding great reward and shield.

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Fourth one, see what I am doing closeness.

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Father, you are always saying, come see Jacob, come see what I am doing.

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I want to show you, come close, I want to show you what I am doing.

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Another one was, Jacob enjoying God.

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As in he is a God who enjoys Jacob and his face is full of favor.

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These are some of the attributes of the father.

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We talked about that two years ago. I won't go there right now.

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But let me sum up almost everything that the father is.

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In one verse that David uttered and it was,

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The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

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Nothing. Wow.

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Nobody dares say that here on earth.

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Because we haven't gotten there.

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I don't know how David got there.

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I don't know how David got there.

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But if the father is someone whose heart I have learned,

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then I will begin to say this.

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The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

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The moment I say I lack nothing, we immediately think of measurables.

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The moment I say I lack nothing, our minds are going to

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things that can be measured that we lack.

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I don't have the Stanley Cup yet.

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I don't have millions in my bank account.

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I don't have my own four bedroom house.

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I don't have a Land Rover yet.

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I don't have the iPad Pro.

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I don't have the iPhone 7.

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I don't have a cat. Sorry, that was not a prayer request.

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That was a praise report. I don't have a cat.

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These things, I mean, you can think of a hundred things

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that you can come up with because these are all measurables.

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The moment we say I lack nothing, we go and start seeing the things that we don't have.

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And the moment you think of measurables, guys,

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God is seen through lenses of deficit.

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The moment we say the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing,

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you start thinking of all the things you lack.

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And the moment you think of all the things you lack,

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you begin to see God through glasses that show him through an array of deficit.

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And he doesn't come out as the God he says he is

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because we are measuring him through these lenses of

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how much is in my bank account? Do I have a Land Rover?

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Do I have the Stanley Cup yet? Do I have my own apartment?

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Do I have as much as Sue does?

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And the moment you do that, you're finished, eh?

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It's a perfect thing to be said.

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Guys, we have to go after the essentials

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and then the measurables will be added to you.

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And I'll explain that.

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Go after the essentials and the measurables will be added to you.

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You see this in Daniel chapter 1.

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Here is Daniel. He's been taken with 19,000 other young men

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to Babylon, which is like New York and Los Angeles and London put together.

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It's the ultimate place to be in.

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They're given scholarships. They're separated.

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And they're separated for these reasons.

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They are handsome. They have great aptitude.

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They're well-groomed. They're from noble families.

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They seem to learn fast. They're intelligent.

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They have all these qualities.

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And yet look at what Daniel does in verse 15 to 20.

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Daniel goes up to the king's servant and he says,

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Could you do us a favor?

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Could we just throw away all these measurables?

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Could we just stick with the essentials?

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And here are the essentials.

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We are Jewish boys.

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We have a certain diet that we have to stick to.

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I know the king has set up these fancy things before us.

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We want to say no to this.

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We want to stick to the essentials of what God has told us.

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God can do and how we have to respond.

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If we stick to this, why don't you test us for 10 days?

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After 10 days, if you find us less than the others,

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then we'll go back to eating what you want us to.

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Ten days later, they check them out.

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These boys look more brilliant than the rest.

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The king calls all of them in.

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And out of all of them, Daniel and the three boys were 10 times better

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than the rest of the 18,956 people put together.

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Ten times better.

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Ten times better.

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So what are these essentials?

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We talked about these essentials some time ago.

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Let me write them down.

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Here are the essentials, seven essentials that God said he would provide.

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Seven essentials that God said he would provide.

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And my lack is always in these areas.

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And these areas of lack will be taken away when we are in need.

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And these areas of lack will be taken away when I find it

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in the constancy and the attributes and the nature of the Father.

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So here are the seven essentials.

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The first one is dignity or worth.

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The second one is authority.

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The third one is blessing and provision, and we take each one apart.

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Blessing and provision.

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The fourth one is security.

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The fifth one is freedom within order.

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Freedom within order.

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The sixth one is companionship and intimacy.

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Companionship and intimacy.

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And the seventh one is purpose.

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These are seven essentials that God has promised right from the Garden of Eden to provide man.

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Man cannot exist without these. God knows that.

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And he said, I your Father.

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Because remember, Adam is always known as the Son of God.

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They trace the genealogy of Jesus and they call him the Son of God with a big S.

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And they trace it up to Adam and when they come up to Adam in Luke 3.38,

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I think it's Luke 3.38, it says, and Adam was the Son of God.

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Adam's father, who is God, decided that I have made you, I know what you need.

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And I will provide these seven essentials for you throughout.

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When we say the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

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We immediately go to bank accounts, cars, apartments, the basic needs of life.

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And God is saying, sure, that's part of it.

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He's not dissing or diminishing that.

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But he's saying there's something far greater than that that I want to give you.

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I want to give you these seven essentials.

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Dignity and worth, authority, blessing and provision, security,

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freedom within boundaries, companionship and intimacy and purpose.

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These seven essentials God intends to always provide.

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Always provide.

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This is what, as we look at this, you will realize,

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it is possible for me to find these things in God.

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And that I can get to a point where I will say, the Lord is my shepherd.

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I lack nothing.

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Any questions before we go on?

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How do you need some pens?

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Hockey was my favorite game, not basketball.

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Any questions on this?

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What a statement, the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

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I've been struggling with this over the last few days.

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Father, I cannot say this.

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There are areas in my life where I can say, ah, good, good Father.

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Good, good Father is great.

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I can sing it, I can say it, because I know this is Him.

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But it's a whole different ball game when you move from good, good Father to I lack nothing.

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I wanted to call up the kids and see them here at some point today.

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And I wanted to ask them, so where do you go when you are scared?

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What do you do when you need food?

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What do you do when you're afraid at night?

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What do you do when you have a math problem you cannot solve?

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What do you do when you have a nightmare?

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What do you do when you want some money to buy something?

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What do you do when you have an owie?

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What do you do when you have some bully beat you up?

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What do you expect of your father to do?

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And if I asked them that question, if they answered like children,

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you'd be surprised at how the one thing that would continuously keep coming up was,

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I lack nothing. I lack nothing. I lack nothing.

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They'd either talk of their father or their mother.

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It doesn't matter. Kids don't necessarily separate that.

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It's only when we get a little older that we separate it.

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It's one thing to say good, good Father. It's one thing to sing good, good Father.

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It's another thing to come here.

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This is huge, man.

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The Lord is my, if you want to change the Lord is my shepherd, change his name.

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God is my Father. I lack nothing.

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And actually mean that because you lack nothing.

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Sorry?

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I would say it's contentment based on sufficiency.

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Not contentment based on I have learned how to be content when I have plenty and when I have lack.

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That's different. That's valid.

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Paul does say that. Paul says, I have learned in plenty and in lack to be content.

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We're not talking about that contentment because that is valid.

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We're talking about a different kind of contentment where your contentment comes out of your sufficiency in God.

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The strange thing is these children who would have sat here and answered

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would still not have received the pocket money, would still not have received the breakfast,

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would still not have the hurt of the owie go away, but they would be confident that they have it.

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This is a different kind of contentment.

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It's a contentment that comes out of sufficiency,

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which should then combine with a contentment that learns how to be content in plenty and in lack.

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Absolutely. These are the seven.

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When I lack in these seven, I find myself having,

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I find the deficits in my life are magnified so much so that they become the cares of the world that drown me.

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But these seven essentials he's willing to provide.

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It's been a great pleasure getting up in the morning over the last few days going over this,

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saying, aha, this one I know a little bit, this one I'm not strong enough in it yet.

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I got to work on and slowly begin to come to a place where I pray God that this whole church is able to say,

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God is my father and I lack nothing.

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All the Lord is my shepherd and I lack nothing. I lack nothing. Wow.

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So the first one is dignity or worth.

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The first one, I'm going to erase this.

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I have asked even to put up these seven essentials on the website.

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So you'll find it under notes maybe two or three days from now.

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I had someone from India email saying, acts 29 website notes have to be updated.

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The last time you put up notes was on December 28th. Could you please look into that?

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Yeah. So guys, the first one is dignity or worth.

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Heidi, we don't need pen.

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Dignity or worth?

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Guys, more than trying to figure out I'm made in the image of God, dignity.

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Your dignity or worth may be summarized in three things which you have to work on for the rest of your life.

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Because the world will attack this again and again and again and it attacked Jesus on this too.

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And it's very simple.

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The first part of dignity is if you want dignity or worth, I'm a much loved child.

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My spirit has become one with God's spirit.

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And the third one is I am the son that the father is raising up for himself.

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In this is all dignity and worth recaptured.

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This is the only place guys, nothing else will give you dignity and worth.

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No position, no amount of money.

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Because there will always be someone who will strip away your dignity.

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Always be someone.

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Doesn't matter how big and...

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I mean would tabloids exist if they weren't rich and famous people who strip their dignity?

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That's the only reason they exist.

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TV channels would dry up if we didn't do that.

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Satan is called the accuser.

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Accusations fly like crazy.

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But there's one accusation he cannot make.

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He tried it with Jesus.

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He said, if you are the son.

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He would attack Jesus on his very essence, his sonship.

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If you are the son.

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This is one thing that you must build up on a regular basis.

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Doesn't matter how young or how old you are.

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Or how often you've done this.

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This is under constant attack and this must be built again and again and again.

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I'm a much loved child.

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Who can take that away?

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Where do children run when their dignity is stripped?

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Back to the one place where their dignity is restored.

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And where is that?

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Into the arms of their mums and dads.

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I'm a much loved child.

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My spirit and his spirit have become one.

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As in the spirit of God and my spirit have become one.

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I am the temple.

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It gives my body dignity.

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It gives me dignity.

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The Holy Spirit actually thinks that this body belongs to him.

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You know what that does to someone who has no ministry credentials.

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Has no degrees.

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Is not a pastor.

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Is nothing.

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Your body belongs to God.

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He thinks it's his own body and uses it as if it's his own body.

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You know what it does to you?

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And thirdly, I am the son the father is raising up for himself.

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Psalm 80 11 or Psalm 84 11.

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I am the son the father is raising up for himself.

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Not for anybody else.

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For himself he's raising me up.

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You are the stalk my right hand has planted.

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You are the son I'm raising up for myself.

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Herein lies my dignity and worth.

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Guys sometimes when I go for these really large conferences and really famous preachers come there.

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If I don't run here no I'm finished.

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Because I get scared, nervous, inferior, not good enough and all that stuff.

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Because these are such high funder preachers that they've written books.

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People are in awe of them.

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And then along comes Jacob.

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And thank God for this eh.

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This is where all dignity lies.

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You don't need position.

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You don't need anything once you have this.

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Pardon?

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Anything that is added onto this is a fig leaf.

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And there's nothing wrong with fig leaves.

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But if you need a fig leaf for dignity then it's very easy to strip it off.

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Yeah when Eddie first heard me speak he actually said to me that listen.

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Don't try to copy others.

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At best you will be a bad copy.

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Why don't you be yourself?

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Because I so badly wanted to be like the other speakers because they were so good.

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At best he said you'll be a bad copy.

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The second thing guys is authority.

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Authority.

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Find this guys.

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If you don't find this you'll find yourself a loggerhead with the rest of the world.

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Because every time my dignity is not found in God I'll set myself up as an idol.

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I'll be an idol that requires dignity to be given to me.

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I will require you to honor me.

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Respect me.

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Give me dignity.

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And guess what?

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Among 50 people there will be at least one or two who will laugh at me.

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And when that happens I'm at loggerheads with them always.

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Strife enters.

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Because my dignity depends on how you treat me.

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When I don't get the respect that I demand from you trouble happens man.

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It doesn't mean we get walked over by people.

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It just means I derive my dignity from here.

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The second one is authority.

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May I define authority this way?

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It's the sound minded right.

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The sound minded right.

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As in one should have a sound mind when exerting authority.

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A sound mind comes from God.

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God says I have not given you a spirit of fear but a spirit of love and power and a sound mind.

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So that's why I call it a sound minded right.

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Authority is the sound minded right to enforce obedience.

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Let me rephrase that.

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Authority is the sound minded right to command and enforce obedience under God.

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To command and enforce obedience under God.

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Authority is the sound minded right to command and enforce obedience under God.

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What are we talking about here?

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That when God is my father I lack nothing.

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These are seven essentials God said he would provide.

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And one of the essentials was Jacob.

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When I place you as a man on earth I give you authority.

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And what is that authority?

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Sound minded right to command and enforce obedience under me.

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I give you that.

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That is part of who you are.

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When man was placed on the earth that was one of the first mandates given to man.

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First mandates given to man.

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What this requires is guys that I know what is under God.

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You know when I was reading this I was walking around thinking really father?

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So everything that is under you I must learn how to now exert authority over.

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So father when Prashanta and Derek come up I can pray for the correction of their bodies

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and the rebuking of their conditions because I have your essential given to me

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to command and enforce obedience under you.

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Sickness is something that is supposed to be enforced obedience over.

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So I'll call them out father and we as a church will pray.

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This is a God given right that we haven't fully embraced because we don't think it works.

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Because we tried it a few times and it took five days.

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So learn it.

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Learn it.

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I got another 50 years or 40 years to learn this.

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I'm willing to learn it.

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Guys I am not the man I was 10 years ago when Acts 29 started.

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And I'm happy for the progress that has happened.

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And I look forward to the progress again.

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Why should we ever chicken out from these seven essentials just because it isn't happening in a week?

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Keep at it.

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Authority is a sound minded right to command and enforce obedience under God.

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And so one must know what is under God.

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And one must constantly train themselves by practice to distinguish between good and evil.

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Hebrews 514 says those that are mature practice what they are taught.

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And they constantly train themselves so that they can distinguish between what is God and what is not.

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And once you do that you have this ability that.

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Hebrews 514.

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Let me give you an example.

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Simple example that everybody knows.

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Banks tell us feel money.

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They know what is real and what is not.

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How? Through constant practice.

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To do what? To distinguish between good and evil.

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Only then can you enforce authority over what is right and what is wrong.

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Otherwise without practice it doesn't happen.

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One can read the word for years and never practice it.

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This is why the Bible says Jacob be a doer and not a hearer.

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We can take these notes and never do anything with them.

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Or do it for two days and then say another set of notes.

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Great notes. Great preacher.

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Put it away and never learn it.

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Then you know what happens.

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The other scripture from Isaiah comes to pass.

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Hearing you do not hear.

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Hearing you do not hear.

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When do we become ones who hearing do not hear?

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When we do not practice or become doers of what we hear.

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That's when it happens.

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Now what is happening to Israel and so that's what happened to their condition.

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The third one.

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Blessing and provision.

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Blessing and provision.

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Blessing and provision.

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Any questions on these before I move on?

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Any questions on those before I move on?

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Blessing and provision.

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Blessing and provision.

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Blessing and provision.

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These are basically spiritual and physical needs.

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Spiritual and physical needs and wants.

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Spiritual and physical needs and wants.

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Spiritual and physical needs and wants.

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Furnished out of his lavish kindness.

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Furnished out of his lavish kindness.

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Towards what end?

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For life and godliness.

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Both.

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First Peter, second Peter talks about this.

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What's blessing and provision for?

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God is saying, hey Jacob, when I put you on earth, I as your father, your good good father,

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your father who is perfect, your father whose attributes do not change,

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I as your father, regardless of whether you were born in India,

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Nandigama, Mexico, Brazil or Vancouver, regardless of where you were born,

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I as your father decided that I would provide you this essential.

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And here is this essential.

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Do you see now why David says that, oh god, don't make me too rich in case I forget your ways,

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don't make me too poor in case I go begging, but give me sufficiency.

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This is a place of sufficiency and the next place after sufficiency,

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there's lack, sufficiency and plenty.

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This is a place of sufficiency.

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And this is an essential god decided to provide.

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Anytime you doubt god's intent, go back to Genesis 1, 2 and 3

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and see what was provided in the garden and you will know god's intent.

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He is the same unchanging god, yesterday, today and forever.

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Anytime you doubt god's intent, look at what he planned for Adam and you will know.

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Sin did not change god.

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Sin changed man.

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Stay with me on today, right to the end.

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Try not, yeah, stay with me to the end because it will be good.

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Meaning it will be good for us.

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Meaning it will be good for us.

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Spiritual and physical needs and wants furnished out of his lavish kindness

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for life and godliness.

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This is an essential he said he would provide.

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So what if I'm not there yet?

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I begin to have conversations with god about the saying,

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father, this is an essential and I believe that you are both willing and able to do this.

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Not just willing, you're able, not just able, you're willing.

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Able and willing to do this.

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So here I come, here I come.

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Bring me from a place of present lack to a place of sufficiency.

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When we get to the end of these seven, you will find that some of this will need a change of my thinking.

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If god wants to bring me from lack into sufficiency, he may need to tweak a few things here.

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And I'm willing.

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I'm willing.

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Any questions before we go on to the next one?

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I was talking about this to the ladies at the ladies conference when we were talking about shames and reproaches.

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One of the shames and reproaches that I used to really struggle with was this shame or reproach or condition of poverty

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that I was in a few years after I came to Vancouver.

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Where there were days when I'll give you these three instances that will show you where I was at and how this god proved himself true.

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There were days when I would feel really terrible because I had a dollar for a junior whopper, but it needed a dollar six.

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I forgot the tax and I didn't have it.

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There were days when I would have three dollars in my pocket and I would go to the gas station and pretend that I'd forgotten my wallet

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because it's embarrassing to ask the gas attendant to fill three dollars worth of gas.

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But I needed to get to the next place.

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And I would do desperate things.

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Yet at some point this began to kick in.

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That, oh God, you are someone who says you will provide us essentials.

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And spiritual and physical needs and wants are furnished out of your lavish kindness.

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There is a place for sowing and reaping and we talk about that in terms of money.

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But know this, that God said before he talked about sowing and reaping, Jesus says in Matthew 6,

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that look at the birds, they do not even toil or sow.

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So as much as sowing and reaping is a principle that is valid, remember that everything comes out of his lavish kindness.

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For what? For life and godliness.

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Are these two things that God wants for every child of his here on earth?

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Absolutely, life and godliness.

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And as God began to change the way I thought and the way I lived, provision began to come.

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Where some days I'm poorer than Jason and some days, because he's a kid,

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and some days I'm richer than all of you put together.

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But sufficiency.

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Next one.

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That's if we don't add Ryan to the mix because he's got a million in the bank.

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Next one, security.

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Security.

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This is another essential God said he would provide.

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Security.

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Security as in what? As in he's my cleft in the rock that I can hide myself in.

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My hiding place.

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There are times when unfortunately we are afraid. Jesus wasn't, but we are.

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That's the place we start, the cleft in the rock that I go hide myself in.

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That's okay. We'll move from there to the next place, but we can start by hiding in the hiding place.

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Though Jesus didn't need to because he was so confident of his father.

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You can see why he's called the son of David.

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David wrote, I lack nothing. Jesus lived, I lack nothing.

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Started the cleft in the rock, then move on to the rest in the storm.

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That's the next place.

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You move from the cleft in the rock to the rest in the storm,

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where even though the boat is being tossed about by waves, the carpenter is asleep at the stern.

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Rest in the storm.

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Where it's very hard to perturb you, you seem to have this ability to within 20 to 30 seconds to 2 minutes to 5 minutes

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come to a place of rest regardless of what comes your way.

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Rest in the storm.

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And then the third stage after that is fearlessness in the face of Goliath,

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where when you see Goliath you run towards him.

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Go figure.

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You run towards him.

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Go figure.

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You run towards him.

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Can you imagine the number of businesses that would go kaput if we began to live like this?

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Insurance, it would dry up.

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Security would dry up.

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All those things would dry up.

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How can we live cleft in the rock, rest in the storm, fearlessness in the face of Goliath?

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We live like that when suddenly God does become my life source and my shield.

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My life source and my shield, where nothing else is my life source.

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The moment something becomes my life source, I now have someone who can move me around like a puppet on a chain

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because my security is in something else.

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If my security is in Acts 29, Acts 29 can make me dance to its tune.

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If my security is in the ministry I do, it will make me dance to its tune.

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My security is in the money that I get, it will make me dance to its tune.

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But when he is my life source, security then becomes a moot point.

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We met with someone who was finding their security in $500 and was in the pro...

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and might just block their destiny because of $500.

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You'll be surprised at how in desperate times small amounts affect us.

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I was staying in a place once for $500 and I was in a place where I was like,

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I was staying in a place once for $550.

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I couldn't bear the thought of letting it go because it was the only thing I had.

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Man, if we can learn this when we are young, we will grow older much slower.

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Blessed are May and Betty and Rachel and Matt and Jillian and Dawn and Crystal

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and let's just leave it at that.

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And Ryan and Max, not you Derek anymore.

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Next one.

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Next one.

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Freedom under order.

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Surprising this one, that this would be an essential that God is providing.

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God is saying, hey Jacob, I want you to be so without any limitation.

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I'm putting no restraint on you.

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I'm putting no restriction on you.

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Nothing.

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All things are permissible.

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Not all things are beneficial.

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So I'll put around you this thing called order.

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Within order you will learn how to function.

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But I am putting no restraints on you.

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No restraints on you.

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I put you in this garden called Eden.

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It's really wide.

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You can run for days and you won't get to the end of it.

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All of it is yours.

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But let me introduce a little bit of order.

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Don't eat from that tree.

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Everything else is yours.

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Do what you want.

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Don't even think about it.

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Do what you want.

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Don't even wear clothes.

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Just roam around.

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I mean he didn't say that.

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But talk about absolute no restraint, no limitations.

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That's how they live, man.

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God is saying this is what I want you at 29 to enter into.

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My spirit is the spirit of absolute, absolute liberty.

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Any ceiling, Jacob, that you put on yourself is not from me.

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Any limitation you put on yourself is not from me.

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I want you every year to be like an emergent butterfly

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that breaks free from the pupa or the cocoon of the last year

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and emerges vibrant, brilliant, unto the Father.

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Unrestricted, limitless.

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It'll open our minds to dream, guys.

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The only covering is order.

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Wherever you're functioning.

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This is an essential given to man.

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It'll be, it'll be.

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As long as I live and I pray God that a true sun in this house

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rises up to take over this house wherever the time is.

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May we have this as one of our primary characteristics.

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There'll be no restraints or limitations, no policies,

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but great, great freedom.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, order is basically divinely ordained structures.

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Like in a family it is father, mother, children.

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Among siblings it's older brother and so on.

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In a church it's the pastor and then leaders and so on.

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Actually it's not.

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In a church it's elders.

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There's no pastor as a head.

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In the work it's the boss and employees.

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In the country it is the head of the state and people under.

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On the road it's the traffic cop.

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Everywhere God has ordained structures.

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And the moment these structures are broken,

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you and I will not prosper.

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Our problem is when these structures are broken,

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we either continue under it or we patch it up and say it's okay.

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This is how we have to do.

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Both are completely wrong.

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You'll never prosper under it.

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Every God ordained structure was given for one reason alone,

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to allow my freedom to prosper.

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To allow my freedom to prosper.

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That's why all God ordained structures were given.

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To allow my freedom to prosper.

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Your children will not prosper if they did not have order at home.

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And haven't we seen that?

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Don't we see that?

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But it's starting in the home.

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It's not starting in the school.

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Yes, it was wrong to take away...

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Not wrong.

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Yes, it was secular to take away prayer from school.

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But far before that it disappeared from the house.

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It's not taking away prayer from the house.

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It's not taking away prayer from the house.

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It's not taking away prayer from the house.

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But far before that it disappeared from the house.

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But at least they learned the fear of God in school.

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Gisela, but where I learn things is in my home.

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Yes, I do.

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And therefore it's in the home that these things are built.

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But you know the thing is, most children don't get born in those Christian rooms.

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Probably.

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Yes, that's true.

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And they come from England.

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I want to dance under the Son of God.

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I want to dance under the Son of God.

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I want to have such limitless imagination.

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I want to have such limitlessness to my life.

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I want it.

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I want it.

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The world is my oyster.

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Whatever thingy.

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That's how I want to think.

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Not because I want to become something,

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but because I want to be everything God wants me to be,

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whenever he wants me to be, without even being known.

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Without even being known.

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Limitlessness, guys.

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Freedom within order.

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Sometimes when I see you and I see the potential in you,

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my heart bursts.

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I'm not exaggerating.

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I'm not getting dramatic.

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I'm not getting emotional.

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Look, I'm absolutely plain faced.

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My heart sometimes bursts because I can't rip you apart

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and pull out what is within you.

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So instead my heart bursts.

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And it is not because I have eyes to see anything,

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but because I do have the grace to see with the eyes of God

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and see what is within you.

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Freedom under order.

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May this church increase in it.

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These are essentials given to man.

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It was given to Adam in the Garden of Eden.

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What do you want to be?

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You want to be Darwin for a change?

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Go ahead, name all the animals.

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But at least you know they came from me and you didn't come from a monkey.

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So that was settled.

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What else do you want to do?

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Do you want to attend the garden?

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Sure.

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Go ahead, grow roses.

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What do you want to do?

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Want to learn about me?

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Come.

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What do you want to learn?

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I'll come down every evening.

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I'll come down every evening.

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They got used to the sound of the rustling in the garden.

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God was there.

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Limitlessness.

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Time for us to return.

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If someone has to show the world, why not you?

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Next one.

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Ah, this is such a cool, enjoyable teaching.

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Next thing is companionship and intimacy.

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Companionship and intimacy.

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Essential given to man.

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Towards what?

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This was towards why companionship and intimacy?

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Towards holiness, purity, pleasure.

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Holiness, purity, pleasure and maturity and oneness.

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A whole lot of things there.

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Maturity and oneness.

00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:06.000
Why companionship and intimacy?

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Towards holiness, towards purity.

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We never think of marriage in terms of,

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one of the reasons marriage was ordained is so that

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we walk further in towards holiness.

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Where does it say so?

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Read Ephesians 5.25-30.

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Makes it very evident.

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Towards holiness, towards purity,

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towards the pleasure of each other's company,

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physical, emotional, relational, all those realms.

00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:37.000
Towards maturity and towards oneness.

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What are we talking about when we talk about companionship and intimacy?

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We're talking about with somebody,

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as in, again, within the order of marriage

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or within the order of companionship as God has ordained it.

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With somebody, with the body,

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with your family, with the family of families,

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which is a church, which is a family business actually.

00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:04.000
The church is not just a family.

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The church is a family business.

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When it's just a family, we fellowship.

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When it's a family business, after the fellowship,

00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:18.000
we go out and are profitable.

00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:22.000
With the Father, intimacy, companionship,

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pleasure, purity, maturity, oneness with the Father.

00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:27.000
Jesus kept saying this.

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Father, John 17, his testament prayer,

00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:35.000
he says, Oh Father, could you make Jacob and,

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could you show Jacob how you and I are one

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so that he can become one with us?

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And then, fathers and sons,

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fathers and sons within a household,

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it's brilliant, guys.

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I don't know, you'll have to ask the ones that

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can stand up and say, okay, we are sons in the house.

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You'll have to ask them, but I'll tell you something.

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The way I have poured my life into sons here in this church

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and in the world around,

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it's worth something, man.

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I've spared nothing.

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I've poured my life, my money, my time.

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I've poured everything.

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You know why?

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Because of these things.

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It's towards holiness, it's towards purity,

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it's towards pleasure, because I so enjoy it,

00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:35.000
towards maturity.

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Whose maturity?

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Both mine and theirs, and towards oneness,

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and towards this happening with the Father.

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So absolutely nothing else wanted in return.

00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:50.000
When does Marcus do anything for Ryan saying,

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Ryan, I'm doing this for you, but you've got to take care

00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.000
of me and Laurie when we get old.

00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:57.000
He never does that.

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What the son does is up to him.

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Any questions before we go on to the last one?

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Okay, last one is purpose.

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Purpose.

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Purpose is basically stewarding god-crafted seasons,

00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:32.000
stewarding god-crafted seasons,

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sorry, stewarding seasons of god-crafted works,

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stewarding seasons of god-crafted works,

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prepared before time, prepared before time.

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And released now.

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And released now.

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That's what purpose is.

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That's what purpose is.

00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:13.000
Stewarding seasons of god-crafted works.

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Guys, what god does in our lives,

00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:20.000
one of the things I've found much to my irritation sometimes

00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:27.000
is God will say, okay, for the next two years at Acts 29,

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do this, and so I'll all be excited about it.

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And so we'll have the State of the Union,

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and we'll tell people this is what we're going to do.

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And then eight months later God will say,

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okay, and I also want you to do this.

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And my mind is like, we haven't finished the first thing,

00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:41.000
you're bringing a second thing.

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And I've realized that God doesn't care too much

00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:47.000
for my neatly arranged boxes and charts and stuff like that.

00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:50.000
And just because he's told me to walk till Richmond

00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:54.000
doesn't mean that I won't have to stop in Burnaby in between.

00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:57.000
I'm learning that.

00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:58.000
Many don't, eh?

00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:03.000
I just got a WhatsApp from a pastor of a very large church

00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:09.000
in another country who literally went in and gave in his resignation

00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:10.000
because things were not working out.

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And one of the questions I asked him was this.

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Is it possible on your way to Jerusalem

00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:20.000
to stop at Jairus' house at the well in Samaria

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to speak to the Samaritan woman

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and at the jarrison to cast out two demons

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before you get to Jerusalem?

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Or have you set your faith like Flint so towards Jerusalem

00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:34.000
that people don't matter, nothing else matters.

00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:37.000
There's a target, there's a goal that has to be achieved.

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Let's go there.

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That is how we work here on earth.

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Jesus' journey was very different.

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He's supposed to go and God says go to Samaria.

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So he's sitting at a well, meets a Samaritan woman.

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Then on his way someone else stops him and says,

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Jairus' daughter has died so he's got to go there.

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While he's going there a woman with an issue of blood touches him.

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Now he's got to stop here.

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And now as he's going they say leave that blind man alone

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but now he has to stop with the blind man too.

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Finally he gets to where he needs to get

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because God is the marvelous orchestrator

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and you will never be late

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if these essentials are being provided by God.

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You will never be late.

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So purpose then is not I have to become this

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or I have to do this and I have to finish it in this.

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Purpose is now stewarding seasons of God.

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Hey, yesterday didn't it feel like winter?

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I almost had to turn the heat on.

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And it's summer.

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Stewarding seasons of God.

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Can I be as excited every morning getting up

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regardless of whether it's rain, snow or sun

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and not expecting it to be a certain type?

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Learning that, learning that.

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Seasons of God crafted words.

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God crafted words. Ephesians 2.10.

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Prepared before time.

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Prepared before time.

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Before I was born these things were prepared for me.

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And release now.

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Release now.

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I was absolutely sure that Acts 29 would only go to three places.

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Mongolia, Vietnam, Nandigama.

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What in the world is Nepal doing in between?

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I don't know.

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Seven essentials.

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Guys, essentials God promised to provide.

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This is important. Seasons of God crafted work.

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We get so stuck with one thing that we cannot let go of it

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till we finish it.

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God's saying, stop being so controlling Jacob.

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I learned a new word

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at the Chris Tomlin concert last week.

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It's called the obligal clap.

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The obligal clap is when you clap in obligation.

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It's called an obligal clap.

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Why it comes to mind is much of what some of us are doing right now

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is coming not out of obedience but out of obligation.

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Much of what some of us are doing right now

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is coming not out of obedience but out of obligation.

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And sometimes you may need to step back and say

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I know this is an obligation and I've been trying to fulfill it

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but it is sucking me dry.

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I need to step back from this, come back into a place of obedience

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before I start obliging again.

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Nothing wrong with obligation.

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I hope that makes sense to some of you.

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So let me conclude.

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Jesus had no lack.

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None of us can say that yet

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but none of us walk here. That's why we can't say that yet.

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But Jesus had no lack.

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Because these seven essentials he knew his father would provide.

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He was after all the last Adam.

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He knew how this works.

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Jesus had no lack.

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Second point is none of these essentials are realized in independence or isolation.

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None of these essentials are realized in independence or isolation.

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As in, I've written it down this way.

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The humility of mutual dependence is the avenue through which God banishes lack.

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The humility of mutual dependence

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is the avenue through which God banishes lack.

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The humility of mutual dependence

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is the avenue through which God banishes lack.

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Take any of these and they don't work

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on themselves. You would not need dignity or worth if you were living on Mount Everest.

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You would have no authority to exert you if you were living on Mount Everest.

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You wouldn't need freedom under order, order wouldn't exist if you were living alone.

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Companionship and intimacy, I'm reminded of what Eddie said. Someone came and said to Eddie's

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father, you know I'm a very spiritual person and Eddie's father said, who with?

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At the end of the day none of these can be practiced in isolation.

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Third point we already made, we will move from lack to sufficiency to plenty but first the

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thinking must be changed. How do we change the thinking? By journeying deep into the father's

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heart, by journeying deep into the father's heart. That's how we get to this place.

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I've been doing that every morning saying I didn't know this the way I see it now. Help me to get to

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a place where I can say the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing because these seven essentials you

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will provide I just have to keep diving into, diving into, keep going up the diving whatever

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they call that thing till you get to the top and dive right in plunging into the father's

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attributes and nature because all these things are provided by him. And the last thing is guys

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hear his voice through all this, hear his voice, hear his voice when you're feeling like your

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dignity is stripped, hear his voice, hear the father's voice calling his much-loved child back

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when there is lack in your life hear his voice as he says hey when was the last time you were a

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giver or hey why don't you invest it in this hear his voice or when you're scared hear his voice

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come running I'll surround you with songs of deliverance I am your hiding place

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here is voice it's a matter of seeking it seeking what seeking relationship

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seeking the word seeking answers

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and not seeking to please oneself think of this guys this is not in my notes but I'm just saying

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this for every situation in my life and your life and in life in general God has already provided

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the answer there is nothing on the face of the earth that I will meet for the rest of my life

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that God is not aware of that God has not furnished in Christ and his finished work and answer nothing

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and therefore when I'm standing here and I have a situation happening I can go this way or I can go

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that way and I have to stand here and do just one thing and God will wait and watch because he's

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provided me the answer and I have to seek him and I better have a relationship with him that's vibrant

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I have to seek his word and I better be doing that I have to seek father which way is it the math way

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I have to seek father which way is it the math way or is it the Gillian way which way because you have already provided me an answer

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the only thing I have to be aware of is I won't seek this for myself I'll seek his pleasure Jesus

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said the reason I make just judgments is because I have no desire to serve myself but to serve him

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therefore my judgments are always right and so I stand here and God watches so let's assume that

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it's a person who is lame God is provided for it and I'm standing and I'm about to say okay let

01:01:39.560 --> 01:01:45.960
me see how you go about it this Jacob I'm thinking to myself all I have to do is hear how he wants to do it

01:01:47.800 --> 01:01:51.480
sounds terribly simple it is Jesus got it right every time

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and this is the way I'm supposed to do it and I hear God saying do this this and this

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and I do it and without any effort without any drama without any Christian mumbo jumbo the guy starts walking

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silver and gold have I none but such as I have I give thee in the name of Jesus Christ rise up and

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walk and he rose up and walked acts three she talked about it two weeks ago really at the end

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of the day it is a matter of getting it right in terms of God's judgments by just learning how to

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hear better hear better hear better and remember one thing you can only do it for yourself

01:02:32.600 --> 01:02:38.440
everybody else has to do it for themselves you have a degree of authority over those placed in

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your charge and you can help them but even that you can do nothing about till they step up

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till they step up nobody learned under a better teacher than Judas

01:02:55.320 --> 01:03:07.960
and nobody saw love personified like those 12 nobody heard wisdom that the world longs for that

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Solomon couldn't replicate as Judas did and nothing changed

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at some point remember not to take on the responsibility of the lives others leave

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but release them into the hands of God

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thank you for listening I wanted to finish this I pray God that we go home and begin a practice

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I pray God that we go home and begin a practice this thing it is rich it is far more than I have

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preached as you go look at it the spirit of God will bring out things that I don't know

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that you will find out so that you and I can stand very quickly and say the Lord is my shepherd I

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lack nothing it's a huge thing it's one thing to say good good father it's another thing to say

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I lack nothing bless you guys thank you yeah