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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer. For more

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Speaker 2: So we are kicking off a six week series, and

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Speaker 2: it's Paul's letter to the church's in Galatian. It's all

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Speaker 2: They wanted to add Jesus onto their life, but they

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Speaker 2: never met Christ. What happened, pastor to Paul, I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what. By the way, his name wasn't always Paul.

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Speaker 2: His name first was Saul. And the Bible actually said

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Speaker 2: he had letters in his hand. He had letters in

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Speaker 2: his hand. He was a Jewish zealot, he was a

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Speaker 2: religious zealate, and he was on the way to Damascus,

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Speaker 2: Syria modern day Syria, Damascus it's Silicity today. And the

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Speaker 2: Bible said had letters in his hand to do what

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Speaker 2: to throw Christians in prison, to torture them and ultimately

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Speaker 2: to kill. Do you know the Bible says an Act

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Speaker 2: chapter eight, read Acts chapter eight and Acts chapter nine.

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Speaker 2: There was a young man named Saul that was superintending

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Speaker 2: and overseeing the first Christian martyr's death. His name was Stephen,

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Speaker 2: and the Bible says that the literally Saul, who became Paul,

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Speaker 2: was on the road to Damascus, and the Bible says

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Speaker 2: he had an encounter with Christ and he was knocked

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Speaker 2: to the ground, and the Lord started talking to Saul,

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Speaker 2: and he realized and he realized, oh my gosh, my

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Speaker 2: whole life I was living for myself, and now I've

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Speaker 2: met Christ. What happens is is that when you try

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Speaker 2: to live the Christian life in your own strength and

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Speaker 2: you've never truly been born again. One day a religious

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Speaker 2: leader came to Jesus and he said, he goes, well

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Speaker 2: must I do to? I mean, how do I get

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Speaker 2: into this thing? And Jesus goes, you need to be

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Speaker 2: born again? Born again? What does it mean to be

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Speaker 2: born again? You're born once from your mother's wom, once

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Speaker 2: from water, but then you've got to be born from above.

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Speaker 2: Christianity is not just getting a little bit better. You're

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Speaker 2: actually born again. Everybody say born again. When you're born again,

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Speaker 2: you meet Christ the Holy Spirit. Watch this, God takes

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Speaker 2: out of you the hardest stone and he puts his

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Speaker 2: spirit on the inside of you. Being born again is

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Speaker 2: analogous to becoming a follower of Jesus, becoming a Christian.

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Speaker 2: You're born again, You're born from above. You encounter Christ.

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Speaker 2: When you encounter Christ, guess what Christianity moves from your

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Speaker 2: head to your heart. You have an encounter with Christ.

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Speaker 2: And when you encounter Christ, I'm telling you transformation. Pastor

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Speaker 2: are you saying the Christians never sinn? Of course we sin,

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Speaker 2: but we have a new power to fight against sin.

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Speaker 2: Guess what your heart moves from ought to to want to?

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Speaker 2: You want to serve God? Why? Because you've been born

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Speaker 2: Everybody say born again. Paul was born again. He met Christ.

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Speaker 2: I remember when I gave my heart to Jesus. I

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Speaker 2: was invited to a Bible study by two girls and

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Speaker 2: I went to that Bible study. I was nineteen, I

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Speaker 2: was right turning nineteen. I was a freshman at college

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Speaker 2: at Tulane University, and these two girls were there, and

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Speaker 2: the Bible study leader at the end, He goes, is

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Speaker 2: anybody is this exactly how he said it? He goes,

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Speaker 2: anybody want to receive Jesus? Man, I'm like, Jesus, man, Jesus,

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Speaker 2: is that a figure to speak Jesus? He goes, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: does anybody want to open their heart to Christ? And

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Speaker 2: I was just like And of course the whole group

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Speaker 2: was praying for me, because I like a big heathen.

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Speaker 2: So they're all doing this. Everybody's bound their head, but

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Speaker 2: they're really going like this. I was in there, you know,

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Speaker 2: and everybody just I just kind of you know, and

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Speaker 2: so and boy, the devil's lying to me, the devil saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: look at you, you've sinned too much. God can't forgive you.

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Speaker 2: By the way, By the way, if the devil ever

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Speaker 2: lies to you and says you've sin too much that

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Speaker 2: God can't forgive you, that is a lie from the

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Speaker 2: pit of hell. The blood of Christ is stronger than

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Speaker 2: any sin you've ever committed. How many all grateful for that? Okay,

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Speaker 2: here's the second lie, here's the second life. Steve, go

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Speaker 2: home and change first, then come to God. Oh man,

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Speaker 2: that's a false gospel. You don't let me tell you.

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Speaker 2: If we could change before we came to God, then

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Speaker 2: we wouldn't need God. No, you bring all your bad,

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Speaker 2: all your good. You come to Christ just like you are,

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Speaker 2: and He transforms your heart. It's Christ. And let me

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Speaker 2: tell you. I prayed that prayer. I said Jesus. And

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Speaker 2: you may think this is hokey. Whatever I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: it happened. I said, Jesus, if you can take my life,

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Speaker 2: if you can transform my life. I grew up in church.

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Speaker 2: I knew all the words. I knew that, but I

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Speaker 2: wasn't born again. Now, my mom says, you were always

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Speaker 2: a good boy. That's not what you told me in

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Speaker 2: high school. I was a sinful person. I was a heathen,

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Speaker 2: I was a pagan, whatever turn. I was not in Christ.

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Speaker 2: And I pray to prayer and I opened my heart

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Speaker 2: to Jesus. And the next day, I'm telling you, this

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Speaker 2: guy was blue or the grass was greener, and it

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Speaker 2: was like, this is real. Can I tell you why?

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Speaker 2: Because when you encounter Christ, your eyes are open. You

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Speaker 2: meet Jesus. And when you meet Christ, someday it's not

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Speaker 2: you add religion on your life, you're born again. Question.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking every location, those that are watching at all

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Speaker 2: of our correctional facilities. Have you been born, I say,

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Speaker 2: born again? Have you been born again? Have you trusted

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Speaker 2: Christ as your savior? Are you just trying to add

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Speaker 2: a little bit of Jesus onto your life? Born again?

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Speaker 2: Paul encountered Christ number two. He not only encountered Christ,

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Speaker 2: he embraced grace. Galatian, Chapter one, verse thirteen. Paul knew

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Speaker 2: it was the grace of God that transformed him. What

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Speaker 2: is Gray's pastor we're gonna be doing it each week.

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Speaker 2: I know unmerited favor. I get all that, but I

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Speaker 2: like this. It makes sense God doing for me what

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Speaker 2: I couldn't do for myself and what I can't do

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Speaker 2: for myself. How many no grace saves us, but grace

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Speaker 2: also empowers us. Galatian, Chapter one, verse thirteen. Here's what

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Speaker 2: he said. Paul said, for you have heard of my

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Speaker 2: previous way of life and Judaism, how intensely I persecuted

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Speaker 2: the Church of God, and I try to destroy it. Paul,

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Speaker 2: try to destroy the church. If there's anybody who the

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Speaker 2: devil could a lie to you, hypocrite, you preacher, try

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Speaker 2: to destroy the church. He's writing about it right now.

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Speaker 2: He says, you try to destroy it. I was advancing

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Speaker 2: in Judaism, Judaism beyond many of my own among my people,

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Speaker 2: and were extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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Speaker 2: But when God, who set me apart from my mother's woman,

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Speaker 2: call me by his grace, everybody said grace. Paul understood grace.

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Speaker 2: He understood that grace is God doing for us what

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Speaker 2: we can't do for ourselves. Hear me with this, you

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Speaker 2: need a whole baptism of grace. We all need that

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Speaker 2: God do it well, Pastor are you teaching irresponsibility? No,

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Speaker 2: we are very response about our lives, but we can't

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Speaker 2: do the very things that grace only can do. Grace

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Speaker 2: changes us, Grace saves us by the power of Christ.

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Speaker 2: Paul recognized that. He says it. He called me by

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Speaker 2: his grace to reveal his son in me that I

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Speaker 2: may preach him among the gentiles. My immediate response was

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Speaker 2: not to consult with any human being. Can I tell

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Speaker 2: you why Paul was a zealot for religion, throwing Christians

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Speaker 2: in jail, persecuting the church, he said, he said, I

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Speaker 2: tried to destroy the church. Then he met Jesus. You

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Speaker 2: got any God with Christ? Boy, I tell you. If

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Speaker 2: there's anybody I know, I know I've heard all kind

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Speaker 2: of voices where the devil's lied to me and said,

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Speaker 2: what about you? And what about you? And you ever

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Speaker 2: been there before? If there's anybody, it was Paul. He's praying,

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Speaker 2: you're the right place of God in Christ. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he wrote all this stuff right inspired by the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 2: and the devil sah, you're a you're a hypocrite. He

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Speaker 2: had cast that thought down. I am sealed by the

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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. I'm righteous in God, not by my works,

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Speaker 2: but by the blood of Gorid. I mean, if there's

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Speaker 2: anybody that had to confess the word, I know what

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Speaker 2: it's like to have those lies about your past. Matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, first year of the church, I never forget.

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Speaker 2: A woman called our church and she told my wife.

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Speaker 2: She goes, if that church knew about your husband and

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Speaker 2: what he was like before he was a Christian, they

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Speaker 2: wouldn't come. She goes. He tells him every week. So

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Speaker 2: let me go, let me go on record, Let me

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Speaker 2: go on record. I was smoking pot, on drugs, and

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Speaker 2: my parents don't agree with this, but it's true. I

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Speaker 2: was messed up, immoral, fill with her, fill with hate.

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Speaker 2: But Christ got a hold of my life, transform me,

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Speaker 2: and I don't live in con the nation anymore. Bye.

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Speaker 2: By the way, By the way, somebody told me when

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Speaker 2: I gave my heart to crist said, well, you know what,

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Speaker 2: let's see if it sticks. It stuck. It stuck. So

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Speaker 2: I was a horrible person. I know some guests going,

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Speaker 2: we're not coming back. Sorry. I was transformed by God's grace.

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Speaker 2: If you're looking for a little meat, proper pastor that

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Speaker 2: never had a pass. Sorry, But I know one thing.

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Speaker 2: I know the grace of Jesus. I know what it's

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Speaker 2: like to be lost and now found. I know what

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Speaker 2: it's lost. I know what it's like. It's grace. If

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Speaker 2: I said grace. I love the story of John Newton.

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Speaker 2: You may not recognize his name, but you know the

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Speaker 2: hem he wrote, amazing grace. Okay. Newton lived a rough,

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Speaker 2: rebellious life working on slave ships. The guy was foul.

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Speaker 2: But one night, in the middle of a violent storm.

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Speaker 2: How you know, God can get your attention. Come on, Jonah,

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Speaker 2: God will get your attention. God will allow things to

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Speaker 2: tribulate around you a little bit. God, God has attention.

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Speaker 2: He was gloriously born again, became a great hymn writer,

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Speaker 2: a Christian, powerful preacher and abolitionist. His life was changed.

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Speaker 2: He was once lost, then he became found in Christ.

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Speaker 2: He was once blind. Now he could see. You have

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Speaker 2: to encounter Christ. You have to realize it's the grace

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Speaker 2: of Jesus. And I said, the grace of Jesus. Go

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Speaker 2: trying to transform yourself and surrender to God. It's God

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Speaker 2: who transformed. It's Jesus. He'll save you. Let me give

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Speaker 2: you the third and final thing. After we encounter Christ,

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Speaker 2: we embrace grace. And every day it's a grace journey. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we live by grace, by the power of grace. The

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Speaker 2: grace of God is God doing for us what we

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Speaker 2: can't do for ourselves. Grace not only saves us, but

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Speaker 2: grace empowers us and sustains us. It's God helping us. Yes,

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Speaker 2: every day, let me give a third and final thing.

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Speaker 2: Engage in community. Look at this Galatian Chapter one, verse eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem. This

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Speaker 2: is Paul. He got born again. Here it is he's

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Speaker 2: in on his way to Damascus. From Israel, up to Damascus,

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Speaker 2: which is Syria. He gets born again, and for three

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Speaker 2: years he goes into what's called the Arabian desert. Watch this,

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Speaker 2: Watch this my last point, and we're done. We'll pick

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Speaker 2: it up here next week. Then, after three years, I

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Speaker 2: went to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephis, that's Peter,

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Speaker 2: and I stayed with him fifteen days. They only heard

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Speaker 2: the report the man who formally persecuted us is now

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Speaker 2: preaching the faith he once tried to destroy. And they

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Speaker 2: praised God because of me. They did him praise me,

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Speaker 2: he said, But they praise God because of me. In

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Speaker 2: other words, they saw the work of grace in Paul's heart.

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Speaker 2: How did Paul get to Jerusalem? How did he do it?

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you Acts chapter nine, verse twenty seven. But Barnabas,

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Speaker 2: I say, Barnabas, you need a Barnabas in your life.

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Speaker 2: But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles,

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Speaker 2: and he told him how Saul, on his journey had

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Speaker 2: seen the Lord, and that the Lord had spoken to him,

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Speaker 2: and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the

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Speaker 2: name of Jesus. So Saul stayed with them and moved

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Speaker 2: about freely and Jerusalem, speaking boldly. Can I tell you

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Speaker 2: something here's what happened. Paul Saul who became Paul, got

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Speaker 2: born again. He goes into the Arabian desert. He's preaching

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Speaker 2: for three years. But guess what. God loved Paul so

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Speaker 2: much he didn't let him live isolated. You know what

634
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Speaker 2: he did, he said Barnabas. Barnabas comes and shows up.

635
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Speaker 2: He says, hey, hey, I heard you, the guy that

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Speaker 2: got transformed. You were the zealot who was trying to

637
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Speaker 2: destroy the church. You got born again. That's you. He goes, yeah,

638
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Speaker 2: remember Barnabas's name is son of Encouragement. Hey, you know

639
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Speaker 2: we need some Barnabases in our lives. And he goes

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Speaker 2: and listen, listen, He goes, Paul, Paul, listen, I'm gonna

641
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Speaker 2: bring you a jerusale. Paul goes, I'm not going there.

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Speaker 2: They don't like me there, Paul, I got your back.

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Speaker 2: How many'all know we need some I got your back, friends,

644
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Speaker 2: how many'll know we need some people like that. God

645
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Speaker 2: loved Paul so much that he wasn't gonna let him

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Speaker 2: live in the desert by himself forever, because you get

647
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Speaker 2: weird by yourself. That was funny. We all get weird

648
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Speaker 2: He's not gonna let Paul just be in a coffee

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Speaker 2: shop by himself, forever, reading the Bible by himself. You

650
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Speaker 2: get weird, weird, weird, weird, weird. We all get weird.

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Speaker 2: Barnabas goes, come on, he goes, I don't want to

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Speaker 2: do it now, No follow me. Come on. He goes,

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Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna go up there, and the Bible

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Speaker 2: says Barnabas. Barnabas brought Paul, and he presented him to

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Speaker 2: the Jerusalem. He brought him there years, three years, and

656
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Speaker 2: he says, you need some fellowship, You need some community.

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Speaker 2: Everybody say community, you need some friends. I've heard people

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Speaker 2: say this. I'm so sick of people hating on the

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Speaker 2: body of Christ. The body of Christ. Is this The

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Speaker 2: body of Christ got problems? Of course, the body of

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Speaker 2: Christ has problems. So does your natural family. We're imperfect

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Speaker 2: people washed by the blood of Christ. Of course, the

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Speaker 2: body of Christ. But it's the only thing God's got

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Speaker 2: on the earth called his family. Be careful mocking God's family,

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Speaker 2: Be careful mocking God's family. We're gonna bring you to

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Speaker 2: the church. Come on, Paul, come on, come on, come on,

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Speaker 2: come on, And he connects him. I thank God for

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Speaker 2: men that did that with me. Y'all heard about Pastor

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Speaker 2: Doug arm and Mike Cutchie, different guys that I knew.

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Speaker 2: Back then. My life was a disaster. It was terrible.

671
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Speaker 2: I had so much stuff going on in my life.

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Speaker 2: And I thank God for Brother Doug. Everybody say Brother Doug.

673
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Speaker 2: They called him brother. Brother Doug brought me. He says,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna preack you up for small girl said, don't

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Speaker 2: do that. All that suff because y'all know, I got saved.

676
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Speaker 2: For the first three months, I just kept going backslide

677
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Speaker 2: and backslide. I go get loaded, backslide, go get loaded, backslid,

678
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Speaker 2: backslie until Brother Doug. Ever, I say, Brother Doug, how

679
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Speaker 2: many know you need a brother Doug. You need a Barnabas.

680
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Speaker 2: You need a Barnabas in your life. You need somebody

681
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Speaker 2: that's gonna hold you and bring you to that group.

682
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Speaker 2: You need somebody. By the way, I love that one

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Speaker 2: guy left this small group. He's mad. He goes, I'm

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Speaker 2: walking away from God. In his small group, there's a

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Speaker 2: group of men. They all set up chairs on Tuesday

686
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Speaker 2: night in his yard, and they had one empty chair

687
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Speaker 2: and they said, and finally, after like six weeks, he

688
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Speaker 2: came out crying, how many know God fights for us,

689
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Speaker 2: but we need some people to fight for us and

690
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Speaker 2: stand with us. Come on, we need some people to

691
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Speaker 2: stand with us. Encounter Christ. Have you been born again?

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Speaker 2: Have you truly been born again? Have you trusted Jesus

693
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Speaker 2: as your savior? Or you're still trying to trust in

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Speaker 2: your own righteousness? Number two, you gotta embrace grace. It's

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Speaker 2: the grace of Jesus that saves you. Then it's the

696
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Speaker 2: grace of Jesus, watch Us that sustained you. It's God

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Speaker 2: doing for you what you can't do for yourself. The

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Speaker 2: number three, you got engage in community. By the way,

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Speaker 2: that's what I love small groups around church the King

700
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Speaker 2: this is a small group sign up weekend. All of

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Speaker 2: our locations and campuses online as well. You need community.

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Speaker 2: The Christian life was never designed to be lived alone.

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Speaker 2: So where are you with God? Are you ready to

704
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Speaker 2: stand before God? Or are you hoping that when you

705
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Speaker 2: get up there you've done more good than bad that

706
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Speaker 2: won't get you to heaven. I'm going to ask ever

707
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Speaker 2: about it to bow their heads. All of our locations,

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Speaker 2: those that are watching online, those that are all of

709
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Speaker 2: our correctional facilities right now as well. God loves you.

710
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Speaker 2: God's not mad at you. But this is a moment

711
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Speaker 2: if you say, pastor, well, how do I become a Christian?

712
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Speaker 2: What do I do to become a Christian? Number one,

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Speaker 2: you got to recognize all of sin Romans three twenty three.

714
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Speaker 2: All of us have sinned and come short of the

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Speaker 2: glory of God. We've sinned, we've blown it. We've got

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Speaker 2: to recognize that unless you recognize you're a sinner, you

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Speaker 2: won't see your need for a savior. Number one, you

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Speaker 2: got to recognize I've sinned, I have. We all have

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Speaker 2: fallen short. We can't save ourselves. Number two, you got

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Speaker 2: to trust Jesus as your savior. The wages of sin

721
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Speaker 2: is death Romans six twenty three. But the gift of

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Speaker 2: God is Christ. Jesus our Lord. He is the one

723
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Speaker 2: that died in your place and my place and the cross.

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Speaker 2: And then number three, you personally have to confess. I

725
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Speaker 2: can pray with you, but I can't pray for you.

726
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Speaker 2: You have to confess Jesus. I need you, wash with

727
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Speaker 2: your blood, give me a new heart and new life.

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Speaker 2: I sense the Holy Spirit right now, God is moving

729
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Speaker 2: in this place. Do you know, Christ, are you ready

730
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Speaker 2: to stand before God? Maybe you once had a relationship,

731
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Speaker 2: but you've walked away. You've lost that place with God.

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Speaker 2: That's sweet place with Christ. And this is your moment

733
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Speaker 2: to say, I want to resubmit my heart to Christ.

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Speaker 2: Wherever you are, this is a moment, Pastor, pray for me.

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Speaker 2: If that's you at the counter three, I'm gonna ask

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Speaker 2: for a show of hands, Pastor. I need Christ where

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Speaker 2: I need to be with God. I'm not sure if

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Speaker 2: I die today that I'm ready to stay before God.

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Speaker 2: If that's you, all of our locations, I'm gonna ask

740
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Speaker 2: you at the counter three just to hold your hand

741
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Speaker 2: up high so I can see it, and we're going

742
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Speaker 2: to pray. One, two, three, quickly hold your hand up.

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Speaker 2: God bless you right there. God bless you. God bless you.

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Speaker 2: God bless you. God bless you every soing. God bless

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Speaker 2: you and you as well up top. God bless you, sir,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, sir.

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Speaker 2: Anybody else, Pastor pray for me. God bless you and

748
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Speaker 2: you as well. God bless you, ma'am Jesus loves you.

749
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Speaker 2: He died for you. He brought you here today to

750
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Speaker 2: let you know that. Anybody else, all of our locations,

751
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Speaker 2: God bless you, Son right here, anybody else, pastor pray

752
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Speaker 2: for me. I need Christ Church family. Can we pray

753
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Speaker 2: with those that are trusting God bless you, ma'am. God

754
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Speaker 2: loves you, He cares about you. He brought you here

755
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Speaker 2: just so you could hear that today. Church, Let's pray

756
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 2: with those that are trusting Christ right now? Can we

757
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Speaker 2: do that? Say Dear Jesus. Come on everyone, Dear Jesus.

758
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Speaker 2: I come to you today, a sinner in need of

759
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Speaker 2: a savior. Say Jesus, truth your blood, give me a

760
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 2: new heart, a new life, a new reason to live.

761
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Speaker 2: I want you to say this, say Jesus, I turn

762
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Speaker 2: to you, I turn to the cross. I want you

763
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Speaker 2: to say this, say Jesus, I take my life and

764
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Speaker 2: I put in your hands. Let me pray for you. Father.

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Speaker 2: I thank of you the ceiling work of the Holy

766
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Speaker 2: Spirit and the word of the Living God. Taking deep

767
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Speaker 2: in the hearts of your people in Jesus name, you

768
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Speaker 2: will be like God human unity. God was severed and

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Speaker 2: through it all God's promise remain true.

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Speaker 1: Follow me Apron and I would make it great.

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Speaker 2: This is the chosen people. Listen to the chosen people

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Speaker 2: at the chosen.

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Speaker 1: People dot com.

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Speaker 2: That's the Chosen People dot come h