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Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great summer.

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Speaker 2: Know that we're praying for you, and we know God

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Speaker 2: has awesome things in store.

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Speaker 3: So great having you with us. Enjoy the message today.

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Speaker 4: Joel and I read a restaurant having a lovely dinner

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Speaker 4: one evening. We had been sitting there for a while chatting,

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Speaker 4: but we were ready to go, so we called the

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Speaker 4: waiter over to ask him for our check, and he said, oh,

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I should have been over here earlier. He said,

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Speaker 4: there was a man in the corner booth right there,

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Speaker 4: and he already paid your bill.

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Speaker 1: He paid the tip and all. He said, you.

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Speaker 4: Guys are free to go. Joel and Ill looked at

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Speaker 4: each other and we thought, man, that's awesome. That's good news.

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Speaker 4: Somebody paid our bill. But can I tell you today

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Speaker 4: there's a man who has already paid your bill.

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Speaker 1: He's already canceled your debt.

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Speaker 4: It is paid in full. And his name is Jesus Christ. Say,

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Speaker 4: we've been talking about it all day. It's the Easter message.

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Speaker 4: It is finished, it is done. He has already created

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Speaker 4: you in his righteousness. When you are found in him,

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Speaker 4: he has given you the power of the resurrection. Joel

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Speaker 4: quoted it earlier. The same power that raised him from

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Speaker 4: the dead is alive in you.

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Speaker 1: You see, you've got resurrection power.

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Speaker 4: God has given you mercy and grace so that you

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Speaker 4: can go in this resurrected life. You are free to go.

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Speaker 4: How do we live this resurrected life.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to just talk about it. We don't

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Speaker 4: Just come in here on Easter and say, yes, Jesus

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Speaker 4: is alive. We want to live the life that he

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Speaker 4: died to give us. We want everything that Jesus died

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Speaker 4: to give us. Can you imagine if you did something

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Speaker 4: for someone, you labored for someone, you gave it you're all,

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Speaker 4: and they weren't interested. You see, Jesus gave it his

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Speaker 4: all because he wanted me and you.

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Speaker 1: He wanted us to be interested. He wanted us to

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Speaker 1: walk in power.

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Speaker 3: So we have to.

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Speaker 4: Take hold of everything that he took hold for us.

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Speaker 4: The apostle Paul said in Philippians. He said, I press

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Speaker 4: on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus

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Speaker 4: took hold for me. He said, I have to press you. See,

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Speaker 4: sometimes it's hard to take hold of the things that

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Speaker 4: are right there in front of you, because there are

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Speaker 4: some things that are trying to distract you. There are

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Speaker 4: some things that are trying to act more powerful than

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Speaker 4: what is right there in front of you. Have you

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Speaker 4: ever known what to do but you didn't do it?

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Speaker 1: You just didn't do it. Aren't you glad you're Forgod?

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Speaker 1: Aren't you glad that Jesus gives us second chances?

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Speaker 4: See, there's a pressing, there's a fight of good, fight

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Speaker 4: of faith that's involved. Paul said, I'm not looking back,

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Speaker 4: he says, I'm pressing forward. You know, Paul killed Christians

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Speaker 4: before he gave his heart to Christ, before he had

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Speaker 1: The resurrection of Jesus.

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine the guilt that he had to face

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Speaker 4: when he was coming to these Christian believers and trying

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine what that felt like.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever heard, like in your mind like something

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Speaker 4: to saying that you can't tell somebody about this because

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Speaker 4: you've made mistakes. You can't share the gospel, You're not

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Speaker 4: good enough. Who says you can do that? Can you

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Speaker 4: imagine that Paul had to press and he had to say,

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Speaker 4: I'm not settling, I'm not stopping.

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Speaker 1: I'm not looking back. I got a call on my life.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take hold of everything Christ took hold for me,

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Speaker 4: and I'm moving forward. You see, that's what you and

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Speaker 4: I are gonna have to do. We're gonna have to

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Speaker 4: do some pressing. We're gonna have to say there's some

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Speaker 4: not letting anything stop me. Paul, he didn't let a

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Speaker 4: can you imagine, he said, I'm writing. I'm writing this

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Speaker 4: in prison, he pressed on because he had resurrection power

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Speaker 4: on the inside of him. You see, he left a

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Speaker 4: don't let the hard stuff stop you.

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Speaker 4: Jesus is there to help you. His blood is full

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Speaker 4: of power. He's taken away the shame. He's taken away

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Speaker 4: the guilt. If you don't lock your past.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you can rewrite your future. Don't worry about it.

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Speaker 4: He has set you free to go and live this

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Speaker 1: When Jesus walked.

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Speaker 4: The earth, it wasn't easy for him. He didn't stop short.

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Speaker 1: Listen. He was beaten, he was bruised, he was spit on.

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Speaker 4: He was denied, he was hung on a cross to die.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't good. It was hard. But on that third day,

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Speaker 4: Came out of that grave, just like he said.

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Speaker 1: He would, Hey, he turned that whole thing around and

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Speaker 1: guess what it was good.

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Speaker 4: Can I tell you his plan worked and his plan

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Speaker 4: is still working in your life. He can turn around

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Speaker 4: what's not good and make it work for your good.

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Speaker 4: You see it says in Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven.

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Speaker 4: This is what God spoke through the prophet Jeremiah. He said,

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Speaker 4: I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.

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Speaker 4: Their plans to prosper you, not to harm you. Their

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Speaker 4: plans to give you a future and a hope. And

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Speaker 4: he went on to say, call upon me. If you

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Speaker 4: seek me, you will find me. You see, his plan

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Speaker 4: was to reconcile our life to his. His plan was

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Speaker 4: to break down that dividing wall between us and God

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Speaker 4: so that we could call upon him, so that He

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Speaker 4: would answer us and show us great and mighty things.

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Speaker 4: But sometimes we stop short because it's difficult. But can

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Speaker 4: I tell you God can change those difficult things in

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Speaker 4: your life if you'll press on and take hold of

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Speaker 4: all Jesus did for you. You know, sometimes we think

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Speaker 4: we have to pay God back, But can I tell

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Speaker 4: you there's nothing that you can do to pay God

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Speaker 4: back for giving his only begotten.

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Speaker 1: Son for you. He exchanged death, your death for his death.

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Speaker 4: Now you can live in eternity forever and ever with

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Speaker 4: the Father. See, he didn't come just for eternal purposes.

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Speaker 4: He came down to empower you right here on earth.

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Speaker 4: We think we can pay God back, but we could

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Speaker 4: never pay him back for what he's done for us.

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Speaker 4: You know, he didn't die to make us religious. He

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Speaker 4: didn't die so that we could have religious ceremonies, that

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Speaker 4: we could do this, that we could keep this strict work.

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Speaker 4: He died because he wanted a relationship with us. That's

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Speaker 4: what this death, burial and resurrection is about today. That's

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Speaker 4: why he said, my plans are good for you. They're

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Speaker 4: to prosper you, not to harm you.

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Speaker 1: Call upon me. It's an invitation to say.

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Speaker 4: My plan worked on the Cross and it's still working

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Speaker 4: in your life today. I love what the psalmist David

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Speaker 4: said in saw On one sixteen. He said, what shall

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Speaker 4: I render unto the Lord for all the benefits that

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Speaker 4: he has given me? He was saying, what can I

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Speaker 4: give back to God for everything that He's done for me?

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Speaker 4: He was prophesying the resurrection and what Jesus would do,

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Speaker 4: cup of my salvation and call.

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Speaker 1: Upon his name. What can I give?

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Speaker 4: What I can give is to take what He's done

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Speaker 4: for me and call upon his name. See, we think

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Speaker 4: we have the price to pay, but Jesus has already

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Speaker 4: paid the price.

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Speaker 1: All we have to do is take hold of it.

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Speaker 4: Listen when guilt, when condemnation comes knocking at your door,

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Speaker 4: when failure says you can't go on, you've made a mess.

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Speaker 1: When things don't look good.

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Speaker 4: I want you to know His plan is still working

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Speaker 4: in your life, and he can take what doesn't look

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Speaker 4: good and turn it around and use it for your good.

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Speaker 2: Amen.

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Speaker 1: Call upon his name.

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Speaker 4: Live this resurrected life. Praise God. He is awesome in

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Speaker 4: this place today.

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Speaker 1: Amen. We love you so much.

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Speaker 5: Our negative thinking can short circuit God's power and blessing

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Speaker 3: Our thinking sets the limits for our life.

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Speaker 2: Every morning, you have to power up your mind, get

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Speaker 2: God says about you. When you think thoughts of faith, hope,

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