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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Vision 2
Publishing Date: 2019-12-22T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/vision-2/

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Okay, I'm ready.

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Okay. Oh, hi. Good to see you guys.

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Guys,

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the message last Sunday was vision and this is the second part of the teaching.

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I've taught vision before but last Sunday when it was taught, it really had the hand of God on it.

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And I've been, I mean people listen to some of these things we put online in different parts of the world and

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some of them have been responding. So

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even though I've spoken

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and taught it a couple of times before in the last 14 years,

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there was something about last Sunday's teaching where you know it's a hand of God

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because otherwise, why would it be different from any of the other times I've preached it before?

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And so I really think the second part just completes what God wants to do.

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So if you haven't listened to the first part, go listen to it. It might be

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what gives you a ramp into 2020 like nothing else has given you a ramp.

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So if you haven't listened it just because you're used to Acts 29, don't bypass it.

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Listen to it because I'd really suggest you do.

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For some of you 2020 is really going to be new

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and that's not a cliche statement. It's because I know some of the things happening in your life.

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So today we go to vision, the second part of vision.

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And so here are some things that you and I can do to help

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transition into 2020 really

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brilliantly with God.

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If you go to Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 6, here's what it says.

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It says in Deuteronomy 1 6 that you've stayed long enough on this mountain. Take your tents down.

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Go into Amorite country. You've stayed long enough on this mountain.

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Take your tents down.

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Go into Amorite country. So this is a continuation from where we stopped last time.

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So in Deuteronomy 1 6 Israel is poised at a place of a new beginning.

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They've finished 40 years in the desert and now is the first chapter in Deuteronomy.

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Moses is summing up things and he says you stayed long enough on this mountain.

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Take your tents down. Go into Amorite country.

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Guys,

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sometimes God can bring you to a mountain and you can live in the afterglow of

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his presence.

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Afterglow of his presence.

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So it's not like his presence has passed. It's still there.

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And so God can bring you to a mountain and it carries the afterglow of his presence.

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And so we stick there. We stay on.

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I met somebody yesterday who I was talking to and it was the same situation.

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God brought them to this amazing place and they're doing well there. There's nothing wrong.

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People are still benefiting tremendously from where they've been brought to.

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But they are now basking in the afterglow of God's presence, not where he is actually present.

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The same thing happened in the

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Old Testament during the time of David where at one point David had moved the ark to

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a small hill called Zion and put it under a tent and yet

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worship would continue under the high priest Zadok at another place called Gibeon or Gibea in

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1st Chronicles 1639.

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And so one of the questions you have to ask is are you basking in the afterglow of what God

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did or have you moved down to where God presently is?

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Yeah?

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Just ask that question of yours. Of course guys at the end of the day

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what should happen if you're dwelling in the afterglow is this thing called holy frustration.

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But what happens is most Christians are not able to figure out when it is holy frustration.

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So they continue in it.

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Not everyone recognizes holy frustration.

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The prophetic can birth it

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But you must marshal it as in once you know that there is a frustration that is rising up in you

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not because things are not going well, not because things are breaking down.

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You just know that everything is going well and yet there is something in you that is

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frustrated that is dying and most of us don't recognize it unfortunately because we measure things by whether they are successful and whether they are working.

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And that is such a lousy measure.

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In Mark chapter 1 was something Jesus is

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gone off into the mountains because he's gone off to pray.

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People are gathering and Peter goes up to Jesus and says where are you Jesus?

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People are clamoring for you. What are you doing here?

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People need you down there and Jesus replies

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I have other places to go to because success was never the measure of whether he should stay or go.

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I remember some months ago going through this process of

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holy frustration where I knew that Acts 29 is doing well, the leaders are doing well,

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countries are being affected. All the things were right and yet I remember telling some guys here and then going seeking help.

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Guys, there is no way of navigating the future and the ways of God without seeking help.

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It's so amazing.

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It's so absurd when we don't.

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When I began to sense this thing of gosh, Lord, things are going well, but why is it that I feel like I'm dying?

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I remember going to different people.

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One of the guys I went to was Pastor Mike and met him at

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White Spot and

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I told him what I was feeling and then he begins to pray.

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I just want you to hear a bit of it so that you get a sense of what it's like.

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Yes, he has my God, that ability. He can stay at this cap.

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He can stay at this level and live out his life or he can develop a deep hunger

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and a deep thirst and a deep desire and a deep cry.

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And Father, today we ask you, my dear God, you are the one who has the power to do this.

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Today we ask you, my dear God, you have heard him out of his own mouth say that there is a dissatisfaction as to where he's at, my God.

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You know why? Because there's something calling him forward.

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There's more calling him, my God. There's a deep call.

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And Father, you know what we know? Here's what we know.

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Here's what we know. Father God, to break through into the next realm, we have to go where we have never gone before.

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There's more to it. There's about 13 or 14 minutes of it.

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But this is what I'm talking about. This happened earlier this year.

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And if you go back to the time when this happened, you'll notice a sea change, as in a radical change in the way I teach.

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Why? Because I knew that things were going well. But if I don't break into the next place in God, then I will die.

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And by die, I mean just begin to wither away.

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I want to say to you that, my God, avoid the afterglow of his presence.

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Where you are may be a healthy place, a good place, a successful place, but it still can be a place that you're supposed to move on.

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And that is why in this verse it says, you have stayed long enough at this mountain.

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God brought them to this mountain, guys.

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Take your tents down. Go into Amorite country.

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Basically, what he was saying is break camp, advance, take possession of what is given.

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Break camp, advance, take possession of what is given.

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Not everyone recognizes holy frustration.

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It can be birthed or stirred up prophetically where you begin to hear things that God is saying prophetically and then it begins to cause something to happen.

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But you don't know how to marshal it.

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You don't know what to do with it.

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Marshaling is the ability to take things and shape it so that it's directed a certain way.

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And that is where you need help.

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And that is why I started looking for help.

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I looked for help in this church.

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I looked for help in this church.

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I looked for help in this church.

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I looked for help in this church.

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I looked for help in this church.

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I looked for help outside this church.

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Why?

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Because if I can put it all together, I can get to a place that becomes a benefit for everybody.

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My God, man, this is to do not with your life.

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This is to do with the benefit that you are to people.

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Pull out the stops, man.

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Any questions before we go on?

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On that?

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And by the way, as we go through these points, you can't take these points in isolation.

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But if you take them in isolation, they may work for you.

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But I would suggest you take the whole gamut of it in tandem, and then you'll begin to get an idea of,

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ah, shucks, this is how it works.

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Though they will stand alone too.

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Any questions?

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Okay.

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Next one is from Jeremiah 6.16, where God says, through Jeremiah,

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he says, stand at the crossroads and look.

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Stand at the crossroads and look.

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The thing about the vision is there is a need to look.

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Vision doesn't drop into your lap without looking.

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Habakkuk, we talked about the same thing.

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That in Habakkuk, Habakkuk says, I'll climb the watchtower and I will look for his response.

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So there is a looking involved.

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So in Jeremiah 6.16, it says, stand at the crossroads and look.

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Then it says, ask for the ancient paths.

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Ask where the good way is.

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Walk in it and you will find restaurants.

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Ask for the ancient path.

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Ask where the good way is and walk in it and you will find rest for your souls.

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It's odd that to go forward, God is saying, look at the ancient path.

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I've said this before, but Israel, Israel always faced the future backwards.

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Israel faced the future backwards.

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Israel faced the future backwards because they were not going to be able to do it.

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They faced the future backwards, meaning if that was the future, Israel would walk towards the future this way.

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Why? Because what they knew was the faithfulness of God.

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So when you walk into the future backwards, your eyes are fixed on the faithfulness of God.

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It's the only thing you have guys.

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You got zero idea of the future.

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But you know the faithfulness of God over the last one year.

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Everything you read in the, I mean look at the book of Deuteronomy, which we just talked about.

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Go to Deuteronomy chapter 1 to Deuteronomy chapter 6.

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You know what Moses is doing?

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He's recounting the past.

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He's recounting the faithfulness of God.

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Almost all the books in the Old Testament are written with the intent,

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Can I help you recount the faithfulness of God so that as you look at the past,

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you will have the strength without even looking at the future to keep walking backwards

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because you have proven God as faithful.

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What do you think David was doing?

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Guys, and remember the word I'm using, recount the past.

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Recount the past requires putting into words the faithfulness of God.

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We don't put into words the faithfulness of God.

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If you're sleeping, wake up because this is not a teaching you want to sleep through.

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I meant that not in some kind of spiritual sleep.

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I'm just talking about physical sleep because some of us might feel sleepy.

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And I meant that in the nicest way because you'll miss out and it's never the same listening to the tape,

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though it's still pretty good.

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Recounting requires putting into words what we want to do when we talk about the faithfulness of God.

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How did David handle Goliath?

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What did he say to Saul?

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Hey Saul, just want you to know that I've dealt with a bear and I've dealt with a lion.

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What is he doing?

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Recounting the past.

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Look at the Psalms.

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You'll find him saying again and again,

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These things I remember as I pour out my soul.

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Man, when we come to the end of the year and you get an opportunity to recount the past,

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do it with a flourish.

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So what if it sounds the same as somebody else?

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Recount the past.

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When you go to Deuteronomy 4.32, you see a change.

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Deuteronomy 1-6 is the recounting of the past.

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Why? Because in Deuteronomy 7.1,

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Moses is saying you need to go into the future.

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Read Deuteronomy 7.1 and you'll see that.

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Deuteronomy 7.1.

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Now Moses is saying,

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When the Lord your God brings you into the land you're entering to possess and drive out before your many nations.

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He's talking about the future, but go to Deuteronomy 4.32.

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Deuteronomy 4.32.

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Look what it says.

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Ask now about the former days long before your time.

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From the day created man on earth,

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Ask from one end of the heaven to the other.

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Has anything so great ever happened?

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Has anything like it ever been heard of?

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Has any other people heard the voice of God speak out of the fire and lived?

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Has any God ever tried to take for himself one nation out of the other nations?

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By testings, by miraculous signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand,

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By an outstretched arm, by great and awesome deeds,

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Like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes.

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What's the point? The point is my God, Jacob.

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Look what I did for you in 2019 and then walk happily back.

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Because you can't see the future anyways.

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You know what?

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When we begin to do this, we won't even need prophetic words.

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Because you're so convinced of the security of God because you've proven him in 2019

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that you don't need the prophetic to lead you.

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You just know how to walk backwards.

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Any questions?

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You've got to practice this, eh?

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I love practicing what I find.

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That, so for the last little while,

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doesn't matter who I get, I'll start recounting things from the past.

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Why? Because as I recount what has happened in 2019,

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I get the strength I need for 2020.

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Any questions?

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And was faithful to fulfill them.

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Yeah.

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So in the beginning of 2019, God had given promises.

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And I have proven those promises one by one by one.

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They have been proven and God has been found faithful.

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As I reach the end of 2019, I look at how faithful he has been

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to all the promises he gave me in 2019.

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And I can now say that I can keep walking backwards

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even if I didn't receive a single prophetic word.

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Because God who gave me promises in 2019 and proved all of them faithful

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will now take care of me as I go into the past.

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This is how Israel walked.

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Israel walked into the future backwards.

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If you get a chance in this church to share how God has been to you in 2019,

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don't pass upon it, man.

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Let me have to stop you saying, please stop.

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We can't take anymore. I've got to teach too.

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Okay, next one.

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Joshua 3 verse 4.

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Joshua 3 verse 4.

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Joshua 3 verse 4.

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Joshua 3 verse 4.

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They're taking the ark into the Jordan.

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And God says through Joshua,

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make sure you keep a proper distance between you and it,

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about half a mile.

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Make sure you keep the distance

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and you'll see clearly the route to take.

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You've never been on this road before.

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So you have to be careful.

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The people are at least half a mile away,

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600 meters away from the ark.

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Not 600, 800 meters away from the ark.

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Because this is a road you haven't gone before.

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And so one of the things you have to learn to do as you go into 2020 is,

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guys, there's this intimacy,

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there's the,

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there's the,

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there's the,

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there's this intimacy,

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there's the Apostle John-like head on the chest intimacy

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that you must cultivate.

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John leaned his head on Jesus' chest.

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So there is that intimacy that you need to cultivate.

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But because many of you will in 2020

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be going down a road you haven't gone before,

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you've got to create

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enough room to see God's sovereign move

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because it won't be like it was in 2019.

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Maybe you did well in your business in 2019.

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Maybe you did well in your employment.

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Maybe you did well in church.

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Maybe you did well in the move of your house.

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Maybe you did well financially.

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And you are thinking,

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well then, that is exactly what I will do in 2020

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because it worked so well.

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And God is saying, I'm sovereign.

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Like Aslan says in the Caspian thing,

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what is the movie?

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No, no, not, it's a second movie.

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Prince Caspian.

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Aslan says to, what's the little girl's name?

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Lucy. Aslan says to Lucy,

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hey Lucy, things don't happen the same way twice.

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That's what he says to her.

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Two times he repeats that.

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Things don't happen the same way twice.

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This God is so creative

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that he will do things very differently.

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Give him room.

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Watch him from a distance

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to see which way he's leading.

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If you get too close, intimacy is one thing.

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Lean your head on his chest.

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Listen to his heart.

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But then after that, allow him to show you

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the way he is traveling

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because it ain't going to be the same way.

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It happened to Acts 29 a month ago.

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Remember when we stood out there?

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Out in the parking lot?

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During the conference?

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All of us went and stood out there.

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Why did we stand out there?

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Because it was a symbolic gesture

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where we were all standing outside

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and we are saying that for the last 14 years,

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God has shaped us into a people.

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Stand outside as the sun sets.

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Take a last look at the prototype that he has built.

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Because from this day on,

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you guys ain't going to be this way.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Head on chest, intimacy fosters trust.

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Head on chest, intimacy fosters trust.

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So you lean your head on Jesus like John did

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and it fosters trust.

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You know that this is someone who cannot let me down.

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It fosters trust.

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You know that even if we were to blind you,

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blind you as in blindfold you,

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you would still walk knowing that he takes care of you.

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So head on chest, intimacy fosters trust.

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But obedient reverence for his sovereignty

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frames your pathway.

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Obedient reverence for his,

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obedient reverence towards his sovereignty

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frames your pathway.

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Next time I go to New Zealand,

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next time Dano starts a business,

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next time you find an employment,

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next time you get a house,

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you are not going to go the same way

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you went last time just because it was successful.

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You're going to say,

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Oh God, I love trusting you.

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I know I'm safe in you,

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but I will not take advantage of my intimacy

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and change it into something called familiarity

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because I love your wisdom.

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I love your sovereign ways.

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And I will watch from a distance as you go.

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And then I'll keep a healthy distance

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so I know you're out.

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Do you know something?

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One of the reasons that people had to keep

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800 meters away from the priest

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is because when the priest stepped into the water,

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the people witnessed a miracle.

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It was then that the water started piling up

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and started drying out.

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You will see God things,

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let me put it this way,

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half the time when I meet with you

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and I tell you something that God is going to do in your life,

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what do you think I've been doing during the week?

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Figuring out,

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okay, so what's the next step that you have for Dano?

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What's the next step you have for Mark?

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What's the next step you have for Betty?

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What's the next step you have for Derek?

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I don't know the whole picture.

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All I can show you is a glimpse from a distance

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of what God is about to do.

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And once you receive it,

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and some of you do receive it with faith,

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God begins to hatch a plan.

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It's the same with Acts 29.

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It's the same with my life.

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Father, what are you showing from the distance?

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I don't need to know the whole picture,

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but if I get a glimpse of it,

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I know which way to travel.

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I don't want to get so pally with God that He becomes my buddy

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and I exchange intimacy for familiarity.

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This is the same Joshua, same Moses

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who used to go to the tent and see him face to face literally,

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and Moses would come out of the tent with his face glowing.

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And to the same Joshua who's now appointed in the place of Moses,

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God is saying, make sure you tell the people,

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and you too, because you're not a priest, you're a warrior.

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Let the priest go in first.

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You keep a distance and I'll show you what I'll do

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when their feet touch the water.

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Let God walk ahead and you will see things opening for you.

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When we are only intimate,

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we are like little children being carried by their parents.

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There has to be intimacy with this amazing reverence and obedience

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for His sovereignty.

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And then you begin to walk as a child who is born and a son who is given.

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Otherwise you end up being unto Him a child is born.

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The child's name is Jacob.

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He loves intimacy, he loves being cuddled, loves being carried.

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But unto us a son is given.

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Where is that son of mine who begins to watch from a distance

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and sees how I walk and then follows me?

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And you need to do this for others.

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When you begin to do this for others, guess what happens?

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The lame begin to walk.

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The ones who don't have direction begin to follow

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because they see you walking ahead of them.

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If you don't see me walking ahead of you,

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how can Acts 29 go into the next thing?

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And don't say the Holy Spirit will tell us.

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He will but He does it through people.

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The same applies to anybody who is in charge of anything.

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God will direct you so that others can watch.

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Moses had to be directed, Joshua had to be directed,

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Paul had to be directed, Peter had to be directed,

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Jesus had to be directed.

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People are directed so others can walk.

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Take Shiloh.

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You think Shiloh can just march breezily onto Southwest Marine and cross it?

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No.

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A time will come when he will cross the street

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without his father holding his hand.

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But he will walk at a distance knowing that when his father steps on the road,

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that's when he steps on the road.

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I'm belaboring this point because these are things we don't talk about.

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You know, when you find out God at a distance,

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when you wake up in the morning and seek Him

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or when you wake up in the night and seek Him

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or when you sleep late at night and seek Him.

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I don't know what time you seek Him but He's fine

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because it's morning at some point somewhere in the world.

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So, yeah.

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I've been operating on New Zealand time for the last 24 years.

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So, I'm asleep and I should be awake.

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But the point is this guys,

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seek Him and you will see Him in the distance

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and you will know the pathways He's creating.

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It is so much fun. So much fun.

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Because you don't even know what you know.

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I wish I could ask Dano to share some things that happened,

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some things that have happened in his life over the last one year.

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When I was writing this, I was thinking of that.

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How God showed him glimpses and then you have to go

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and you don't know whether it will happen.

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Then it happens and so on.

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Why am I not asking Dano?

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Because he will take up my time.

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So, the best thing to do is go and ask him yourself.

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Next one. Genesis 4, 7. Genesis 4, 7. Genesis 4, 7.

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And Genesis 4, 7 says this,

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Sin crouches at my door. Sin crouches at your door.

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Don't allow it to master you.

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Sin crouches at your door. Do not allow it to master you.

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Sin crouches at your door. Do not allow it to master you.

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What is the sin that in 2019, or what are the sins in 2019

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that kept crouching at your door because they did master you occasionally?

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What are the sins that were crouching at your door?

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What were the sins that were crouching at your door in 2019?

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All of us have them.

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What were the sins that were crouching at your door

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that continue to crouch at your door because it had some success in mastering you?

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Was it laziness? Was it lust? Was it some kind of an addiction?

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The problem with addictions is we don't call them that.

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We just call them habits that we can break tomorrow if we needed to.

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And it's been 18 years.

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Is it laziness? Is it lust? Is it addiction? Is it fear?

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Is it disdain? Is it anger?

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Guys, Babylon will say otherwise, but divine inheritance requires cleanness.

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Divine inheritance requires cleanness.

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In Babylon, you don't need that. In the world, you don't need that.

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You can get your inheritance even though you are unclean and corrupt.

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But when it comes to the kingdom of God, divine inheritance requires cleanness.

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There is a requirement for greater purity every year

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so that God can allot to me the inheritance that is due me.

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It's the same principle that parents use when they go from a plastic glass to stainless steel

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to Swarovski crystal when they serve their kids.

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Some kids never get to touch Swarovski crystal even though they are 27 and 28

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because their parents are still scared that they'll break it.

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But with every passing year, there is a requirement of greater purity

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because with that comes greater inheritance.

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There are three ways to overcome sins that are crouching at your door.

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The first one is flee from it.

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The second one is subdue it.

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The third one is die to it.

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These are the three methods.

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Choose the one that is at present working the best for you.

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Either flee from it, as in you know that there are certain things that trigger off certain habits.

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You know that there are certain things that always catch you at certain times during the week.

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Man, flee from it. Flee from it like Joseph did.

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Like Paul said, flee from youthful lusts.

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Flee from it. That's one way to avoid it.

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The other way to avoid it is to subdue it.

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Where you now have the power, you've learned how either to subdue it because it's demonic,

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you've learned how to break it and subdue it because you have practiced the word in certain ways

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that makes it effective to cut through certain habits.

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And then the third thing is the most beautiful.

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You die to it where it no longer is able to affect you.

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Once you're dead, nothing affects you.

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In areas, I love what Michael W. Smith once said in an interview.

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They asked him, what do you want to accomplish this year?

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And he says, one of the things I want to accomplish before I die is I want to get to a place where I never take offense.

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I thought, shucks, what a thing to desire.

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That I will never take offense.

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Can you imagine what will happen if I never took offense?

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I take offense.

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This is when you guys should say, no, you don't.

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I take offense.

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Great.

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Okay.

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Thanks.

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Yeah.

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So the point is this, guys.

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This is a way to beat sin that crouches at you.

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This is a way to beat sin that crouches at you.

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Because in Joshua 3.5, it said, God is saying to Israel, listen, I'm taking you into the new land that I promised you.

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So consecrate yourself.

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As in set yourself apart.

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As in give yourself unreservedly to me.

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And then see the miracle wonders that I will do.

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Some of the young adults met with me a couple of days ago.

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And here was their greatest fear.

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They're turning 30.

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I mean, I don't want to tell you who it is.

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But these young adults, and there was more than one, they were just scared that they were turning 30.

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It's like, you have no idea how it feels.

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And I was trying to tell them that I didn't go to the no.

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I was trying to tell them, guys, if you're actually passionately pursuing Christ, then every added year is such a bonus.

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Because you get so much richer.

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Your body doesn't decay like it should.

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You begin to get onto the wisdom of God and the smarts of God.

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You do in less time what used to take you much longer.

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You have overcome far too many sins.

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You find that you are diving into the infinity of God and finding out that he gets better and better every year.

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What is the disadvantage here?

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I don't understand what the disadvantage is.

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If you're pursuing God, my God, look forward to your 30s, man.

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I do not know how someone who's pursuing God can ever regret growing older.

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Because as you grow older, you get to know him better, man.

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When Gisela sits here and says, for the last 60 years I've been following God, we think to ourselves, that's just Gisela.

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No, man. For the last 60 years she's been following God.

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Actually, not last 60 years, last 74 years.

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There is something to being rich in God.

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It makes you much wiser in the way you do things.

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And by the way, if you begin to believe like I've often talked this church should believe,

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then we don't even have to worry about bodies dismantling and going into decay.

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Because the more you make yourself available for the resting of the Spirit of God, the more he quickens your mortal body.

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Often when songs here talk about how Jesus has destroyed death, I also throw in the word decay.

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Any questions?

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Not on what I just said, because you can argue about that.

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Not on the 30-year-olds who are lamenting turning 30 this year.

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But any questions on this whole idea of sin crouches that you do?

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Guys, if it has mastered you in 2019, pick one or two that you are not going to allow to master.

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By either fleeing from it, subduing it, dying to it.

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One or the other, whichever works for you.

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Any questions?

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I'm building a ramp for us to take off from.

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That's what I'm basically doing.

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Man, you're freaking me out with that t-shirt.

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But I can still concentrate on you.

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No, I don't want to be that freaked out.

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I can handle the t-shirt.

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Go ahead.

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Last week, it seemed to be about getting vision for the future, going into 2020.

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This week, you talked about the idea of the future.

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What's the idea of the future?

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What's the idea of the future?

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What's the idea of the future?

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It's going to be about getting vision for the future, going into 2020.

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This week, it seems to be about talking about the past.

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So you just do both, and you're both good.

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What are we doing? We're walking backwards.

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How do you think we're going to end this service?

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All of us are going to exit the church walking backwards.

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Yeah, it is.

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One of the ways we leave 2019 well and enter 2020 well is to practice these things.

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It's one thing to get what God has for us as a vision,

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and now to be able to enter into it requires this.

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Step one, step two.

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Yeah.

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Let me read out something, and you should identify the author of these words.

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Let's see how good you are at it.

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So I'm going to read it out, and you tell me who's saying this.

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Okay, here goes.

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Why are you treating me this way? What did I ever do to deserve this?

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Why did you dump this responsibility on me?

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Why tell me to carry them around like a nursing mother?

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Where am I supposed to get meat for all these people?

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I can't do this by myself. It's too much for me.

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If this is how you intend to treat me, do me a favor and kill me.

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I've seen enough. I've had enough. Let me out of here.

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This is Moses with his glasses on.

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I mean, when I read this in the message, I thought to myself,

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man, this is whining, but this was a grown-up whine.

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Let me read it again.

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Moses said to God, why are you treating me this way?

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What did I ever do to deserve this? Did I conceive them?

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Was I their mother? Why dump the responsibility of these people on me?

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Why tell me to carry them around like a nursing mother?

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Carry them all the way to the land you promised to their ancestors?

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Where am I supposed to get the meat for all these people who are whining to me?

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Give me the meat to eat.

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I can't do this by myself. It's too much.

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All these people, if this is how you intend to treat me,

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do me a favor and kill me.

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I've seen enough. I've had enough. Let me out of here.

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That's Moses.

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And what triggered this?

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Just go a few verses before that. This is in Numbers 11.

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Here's what it says.

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The riffraff among the people had a craving,

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and soon they had the people of Israel whining.

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Why can't we have meat?

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We ate fish in Egypt and got it free to say nothing of the cucumbers and melons and the leeks.

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I wouldn't be part of that.

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I mean, what I'm trying to say is this.

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A man like Moses, who was the meekest human on the face of the earth,

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the greatest leader of the face of the earth, ended up whining worse than the people.

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So the point that we need to understand as we go forward is let go of resentment,

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regret, and the people of Israel.

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Let go of resentment, regret, complaint.

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Ryan, there's a picture there that I, if you can pull up, you can put it up any time you pull it up,

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that I had sent.

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Let go of resentment, regret, and complaint against people, against God,

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against us, against circumstances, against missed opportunities, against being overlooked.

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Maybe I overlooked you.

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How long are you going to resent it?

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Maybe someone else overlooked you.

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Let go of resentment, regret, and complaint.

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I refuse to take into 2020.

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I mean, this is what happens, man.

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I mean, the intent of putting this up was not to show you how wonderful graphics are.

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It's a pretty bad graphic.

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But the point is, this is what happens.

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Let go of resentment, let go of regret, let go of complaint.

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You cannot move into 2020 carrying this.

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This is how we go into 2020 if you're carrying this.

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It's like a ball and chain that begins to give you a limp.

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It doesn't matter what kind of ramp you set up, you will not be able to take the ramp.

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I can't go into 2020 with my regrets, with my complaints, with my resentment.

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Because you may have caused them, but you won't be there to help me.

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Let go of resentment, regret, and complaint against people, against God, against circumstances,

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against missed opportunities, against being overlooked if you want to move forward.

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Otherwise, you will end up with a ball and chain limp.

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Let go of resentment against people who've done you harm or hurt you.

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I was listening to the Gator Gospel Choir on TV yesterday.

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They were interviewing Gloria Gator on the song, I Then Shall Live.

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I was listening to the song again.

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I loved the line where it says,

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So greatly pardoned that I'll forgive my brother.

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So greatly pardoned that I'll forgive my brother.

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So do not go into 2020 carrying this baggage.

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So Jacob, so what do you mean, I got eight days to settle it?

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No, you've got more than that time to settle it.

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Guys, here's the thing, we are so hasty about settling things before the New Year that it's never settled.

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I remember once there was a guy I wronged and I didn't get time to meet him.

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I told myself, you should get and fix things in December.

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And now it's December 31st, New Year's Eve.

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And I'm desperate, I've got to settle this.

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I can't take this into the New Year.

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So I go to his house and gate crash his party.

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Why? Because I need to get it off my chest.

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And poor guy sat and what choice does he have when I tell him,

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Hey, I did you wrong, you forgive me.

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And so he forgave me and I went home happy.

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Really? That's how this works?

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No. If there is resentment against someone that is still outstanding,

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you've got to begin the process in 2019 and complete it in 2020.

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But my God, there is no question of resentment being settled unless you talk about it.

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You've got to talk about it. It doesn't settle without talking.

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But begin the process. God delights when you begin the process.

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When did he delight in the prodigal son?

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At least in the story.

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When the boy is already making up his mind, I'll go tell my dad that I'll be a servant in his house.

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And the father sees him and doesn't even let him get into the speech

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because God knows your heart before you even use the words.

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Any questions?

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This is a simple one. We all know it.

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But please don't try to settle things by New Year's Eve.

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I think I told you that story of a pastor I used to really dislike.

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And I was feeling very guilty that I disliked him.

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So just before he goes up to preach, I write a note and give it to him saying,

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I just want you to know that I really hate you.

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But I don't know why I dislike you.

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I don't have a good reason, but I just thought I'll just confess that I hate you.

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And God bless you.

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And so just before he goes up to speak, I go and give him that letter.

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I've never seen him preach as badly as he did.

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Because I mean, what was I trying to do?

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I was trying to get off my chest my guilt.

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I couldn't care about what he thought and how he felt.

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Work through it, guys.

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Any questions before?

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Okay.

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Hey, if there are people who are not in church right now,

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they need to listen to this message, please tell them,

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hey, guy preached an amazing message.

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You've got to listen to it.

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There's this hockey player called Patrick Laney.

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He plays for the Winnipeg Jets.

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I really like his interviews.

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Because when you ask him, how did you score that goal, he's very honest.

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Yesterday he scored a pretty decent goal.

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So they asked him, how did you, what do you think about this goal?

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Usually most hockey players will say, he just passed and it was a great pass.

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And I just shot in and I don't know how it went in and it went in.

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That's how people usually speak.

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So they asked him, how did you shoot this goal?

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He said, it was a brilliant shot.

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There was no way the goalie could have stopped that.

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And it was so refreshing to hear a guy say the truth.

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That is a brilliant shot.

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I shot it.

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I don't know how the goalie could have stopped that.

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So it was a great goal.

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This is a great message.

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So make sure you tell people who are not in church about this,

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because it will really help.

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Because I'm telling you, there is a need to let go of resentment, regret and complaint.

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Resentment not against people, man.

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Resentment against God.

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Resentment against missed opportunities.

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Resentment against circumstances.

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You can't hold that and go on.

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It's this picture.

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Not only does it make you limp, it just dulls your mind because the shackle is around your mind.

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Next one, guys.

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Savor 2019.

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Savor 2019.

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Some of you had really good 2019s.

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Lick your lips.

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Before the end of the year, have another good taste of 2019.

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Pat yourself on the back.

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If you have a wife, ask her to pat your back.

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And once you're done, take off your armor, get rid of your kingly robes, go back into linen.

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And I'll explain that.

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But Savor 2019, I've had a great year and you are partly responsible for that.

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But now that I've savored 2019, I want to take off my kingly robes if I'm wearing them.

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I want to take off my armor, set them aside, don linen garments and return to again working with God without sweating.

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Ezekiel 44.19 puts it this way.

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The priests that minister before me, make sure that they wear linen clothes only because I don't want them to sweat.

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And the whole idea of not sweating was, I don't want you to strive.

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So Jacob, did you have a great year? Great. Let go of it.

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If you don't let go of it, you will either thrive in the old or strive in the old, one or the other.

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If you don't let go of 2019 and its glories and its wonderfulness, then one of two things will happen.

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You will either thrive in the old or you will strive in the old.

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David did this. David wore his kingly robes and at one point he decided the ark is coming in.

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The ark was always in the temple. It's a new beginning.

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It was at Beth Shemesh in Obed Eden's house. I'm bringing it into Jerusalem.

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For the first time in the history of man, the presence of God will be housed in a tent and it will be housed on a small hill.

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Great. I'm not going to bring this ark into the city dressed as a king.

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I'm going to take off my kingly garments though I've had a great reign.

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I'm going to wear priestly garments. I'll just wear linen as Moses prescribed and I'll bring it in.

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I look forward to linen garments starting again without striving and without thriving in the old.

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I get to again let God work and me enjoy the benefits.

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Any questions on that? If you have questions, if it's too abstract, ask.

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No? If you don't ask, Nick is going to ask anyways because Diana is not here.

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Okay, Pawan.

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The first step is to write it down and actually look at what your regret or complaint or resentment is.

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If I dislike you, I have to very clearly state to God, Father, I strongly dislike Pawan.

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And I have been helpless about it for months on end. That is where it first begins.

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Everything begins in this place of confession. It is not that God doesn't know it.

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You're not doing it for his benefit. You're doing it for your benefit.

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And honest without reason, without justification, confession of this is what I really feel, O God.

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And then the mercy of God begins to kick in.

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And after confession comes the idea of now how do I turn?

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And once I begin to turn, then comes the next idea of what have I deprived him of that I must return?

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And only after that comes restoration.

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We go quickly from, I've confessed my sins, everything is fine and dandy.

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Confession, repentance as in turning, restitution as in giving back to him what I robbed from him in the process of hating him.

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And finally, there is a place of restoration.

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Next one. It's from 2 Kings 13-19. I got three more. So this is the third.

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Then I got two more after that and we'll finish by 4-15.

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Next one. Ross, did they tell you how long this thing goes?

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They did, eh?

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Sam, who did you come with?

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Okay. Yeah. If it wasn't for the Sunday School play, we'd have been finished by now.

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But because of this... You were looking at your watch. Yeah, I noticed.

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Yeah.

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Guys, in 2 Kings 13-19, I know you know the story, but it highlights the need for something that needs to be done as we go into 2020.

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Elisha is with, I think, Jehoash. And he says, take an arrow, strike it on the ground, shoot it.

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And Jehoash takes his arrow, strikes it three times and shoots it.

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And in 1 Kings 13-19, Elisha is angry. He said, why did you strike it only three times?

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Why didn't you strike it five or six times?

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Because now you will only have victory over Syria three times when you could have completely demolished them.

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Guys, one of the things that God loves giving, if you ask, is holy passion.

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Holy passion. Cloak yourself in the zeal of God.

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Ephesians 3-20 says, ask and he will give beyond what you can imagine.

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Any endeavor of God, any vision of God, the first thing you should ask for is,

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Oh God, could you give me a fervency, a passion, a zeal for this that I can be cloaked in so that when I am done,

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when my mind cannot think further, when my body cannot go further, when things are not working out and my spirit begins to sag,

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I have one thing going for me which is a holy zeal and passion of God that keeps saying,

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No, just a little longer, just a little longer. And it gives you perseverance, man, like nothing else.

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The zeal of the Lord consumes you. When you begin to do things you would not dare to do in the vision that God has set you.

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And all the visions of God are impossible to do because if it is possible to do, it ain't from God.

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Any vision that is possible to do without a cost isn't from God.

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Any vision that does not require cost, that is not beyond your present ability and resources isn't from God.

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Vision from God is always beyond you.

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Cloak yourself in holy passion. You know what happens when you cloak yourself in holy passion?

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It increases your expectancy and faith.

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That's what happens when you cloak yourself in the zeal of God.

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Suddenly your expectancy increases. It isn't, well,

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your God stops being a mid-sized God. Your God is a hunking SUV that is huge.

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Because most of our Gods, the God we serve is usually mid-sized.

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He's a compact little God who can handle your little things.

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You will find that when you're cloaked with the zeal of God your expectancy increases and your faith increases.

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And when your expectancy increases, guess what increases? Your capacity increases.

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Your capacity leads to expectancy and faith, which leads to capacity,

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which leads to greater pouring out.

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Beautifully.

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The more zealous I am, the greater my expectancy. Oh God!

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Like Caleb I say, not like Barzilai like we said last week,

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but like Caleb I say, give me those hills where the anach dwell.

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That's expectancy and faith. What happens? Suddenly this 84-year-old's capacity expands.

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And what happens when capacity expands? You've got more to pour out.

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Why? Because the larger the bucket, the more the water. And who benefits? Whoever you're pouring out on.

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When I first went to Kenya, I was staying with Mushiri.

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I wanted to take a shower and he gave me this much water and a cloth.

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I'm thinking to myself, how does this work? Because you've got to take the cloth and dab.

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That's one way of showering there. And I'm looking at the water and thinking to myself,

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okay, so if I use this water and I put soap on, then it will be a problem.

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And so I just washed my face and went out. But the point is,

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the greater the capacity of your bucket, the greater the amount of water that goes in,

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the greater the people benefit.

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Two more.

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Fan passion, eh? Fan passion. I plead with God.

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Father, as I go to preach this, Father, I know the notes are there.

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I know the notes are there. I can teach, I can remember verses, but my God,

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could you cloak me with zeal so that when my words come out, they have the ability to set on fire.

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When I meet with you one on one, and ten minutes before I meet with you, I don't have anything,

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that's the only thing I ask for. Father, give me a passion for this guy so that when I'm there,

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whatever needs to come through, will come through and I'll set him or her on fire.

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Next one.

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Vision is shackled when provision is absent.

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Vision is shackled when provision is absent.

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Vision is shackled when provision is absent.

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It's from the Bible, eh? You can have tremendous vision,

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but if you don't have the provision that must come with it,

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then you do not get to see it come to fruition.

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And so, in 2 Corinthians, chapter 9, verse 10,

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it says, God supplies seed to the sower and bread for food.

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God supplies seed to the sower.

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God supplies bread for food.

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And then it goes on to say, and it increases the results of your good work.

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Of good works. That's how it says it in the NIRV.

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So, one of the ways you can really unshackle vision and cause provision to come through

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is be like God, man. Be like God.

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In terms of supplying seed to people so that they can sow and get a harvest

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and supplying bread to people so that they can eat.

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And when you do that, you will live in the light of provision

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and your vision suddenly begins to take wings.

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I need to speak to Mike and Mark after this.

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One of the ways you can unshackle vision,

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because vision is shackled when provision is absent,

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one of the ways you can unshackle vision is by doing what God does.

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He supplies seed to the sower, 2 Corinthians 9 and 10,

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and he supplies food for the bread as food.

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And so, when you begin to do that here on earth, a strange thing happens.

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As you begin to act like God, God begins to supply to you seed,

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and God begins to supply to you food so that you have enough to eat

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and you have more to sow.

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And in the process, you increase in your good works.

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You increase in your good works.

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Or you increase in life work.

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Not in your work life, in your life work.

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There's an increase in the results of your life work.

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And so, what then happens is when you begin to live in the light of this kind of generosity,

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of this kind of God action, you find that your vision begins to take wings

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and begins to reach orbits that you never thought possible,

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because you never thought that there would be this kind of provision

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to furnish your vision.

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I've seen this, man.

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Like, guys, every month, every year, every week, doesn't matter.

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We've got to get rid of this idea of tides.

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We never talk about money here.

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We don't take up an offering.

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One day, we'll talk about it just so that those of us who have come in the last four or five years

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can hear how these things work.

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On an average, and I can only speak of my life because it's the only life I know well,

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there's giving to the church.

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I wish Heidi was here.

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She can back all this up.

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Giving to the church, and it's never, never 10%.

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It's always more.

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Why?

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Because 10 is just the beginning.

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After that, you've got to go further.

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What about alms to the poor?

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Yes.

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What about giving to poor churches?

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Not through Acts 29.

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I'm talking from your own.

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What about giving to those that have, giving first roots,

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which is basically giving to those that have plowed and sown into your life?

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What about giving for the sake of the gospel?

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What about giving charity for causes across the world, be it Christian or non-Christian?

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This is what it looks like when we start sowing in terms of seed to the supply seed and food.

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This is what it begins to look like.

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And you can't then say that, okay, I'll take one, two, three, four, five, six, 10% divided by six.

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That would be one point something.

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No, it doesn't work like that.

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Get to a point this year where you slowly begin to lose control of what you're giving.

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And there are people like that in this church.

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You'll be surprised at how vision is unshackled when provision is present.

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Any questions before I go to the last one?

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So, where is the shift in talking about giving?

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Yeah.

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I thought there was...

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Giving.

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...sustaining the church.

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Yeah.

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You know, the confidence that I can teach this with in this church is so great because we don't even take an offering.

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And yet there's been enough money in this church, which gives me great confidence to teach this because this is not a money grab.

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Okay, last one.

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Last one is Hebrews 5.8.

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Hebrews 5.8.

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And Hebrews 5.8, it says, though he was a son, he learned obedience through suffering.

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Though he was a son, he learned obedience through suffering.

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So here's a question.

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Do you have the grace to carry the vision God has for you?

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First question.

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Second question.

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Do you have the character...

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Do you have the character to bear its weight?

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And I want to say to you that if I were to take what God has in store for me, offer Acts 29 in 2020, and I was asked the question,

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do you have the grace to carry the vision?

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Do you have the character to bear its weight?

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My answer is no.

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I don't.

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Because if I did, then it's an old vision, man.

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I neither have the grace to carry it, nor do I have the character to bear its weight.

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And therein now begins the process of muscling Jacob up so that Jacob is able to carry the vision and bear its weight.

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And may I suggest to you that it's the same with you, that you do not have either the grace to carry it or the character to bear its weight.

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And now begins an entire year of training for you to step into a place where you can carry it.

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So which then begs the third question.

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Do you have people in your life who can pour cement into your foundations so you can carry its weight?

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Do you have grace carriers in your life who, like Mike Scantleberry, can help me in times of my need?

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And if you don't, then you think you'll be able to carry it?

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I think I'll be able to carry it?

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No way.

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Because any vision that God is giving you will face unrelenting pressure from the world, from your own frailty, and from the devil.

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Any vision God gives you will face unrelenting opposition and pressure from the world, from financial systems, from the devil, and from your own frailty and weakness.

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What are you going to do then?

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Guys, it's always, you know the difference between visionaries and missionaries is this thing called the process of maturity.

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You have visionaries who can dream.

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Joseph was a dreamer.

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He had to be proven, man.

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In 41st Palace, in 41st Prison, and in Pharaoh's Palace, he had to be proven.

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Suddenly he moved from visionary to missionary.

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And by missionary I mean he is someone who fulfills a vision.

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Mission. A visionary is someone who dreams.

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That's great, man.

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Dream all you want.

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But it's the process of maturity that takes you from dreaming to doing.

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And if you and I think that we have the grace to carry the vision of God, then the vision is too small.

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And if you think you have the character to bear its weight, then your vision is too small.

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I don't have it, but I look forward to being trained by him.

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Although he was a son, he learned obedience through suffering.

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What do you mean by suffering?

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The opposition that Jesus faced, the unrelenting opposition that Jesus faced from the world he lived in,

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from the fact that he was constrained in flesh from the devil, was enough to make this man learn obedience to the point that he was obedient unto death

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and therefore has been given a name that is above every other name.

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And that begins to happen now, eh?

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And if you don't have people to pour cement into your life, and grace carriers who can stir up the grace within you,

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then you might as well collapse a ramp and go watch a circus, because it ain't going to happen.

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Oh my God, thank God for grace carriers and cement pourers in this church.

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May you not be a visionary man.

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May you end up being a missionary at the end of the year.

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Joseph was that way.

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Moses was also that way.

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Moses was a visionary, so what did he do?

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He went and killed an Egyptian and then fled, was in the desert for 40 years and became a missionary.

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Let's just pray.

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Father...