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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. Good to be back

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Speaker 1: with you again today. My name is Rick Burgess, a

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Speaker 1: We do a Wednesday Bible Study. And I went back

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Speaker 1: discipleship strategy to reach in disciple men. This Bible study

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Speaker 1: is Ephesian, so this will be installment number three. We

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Speaker 1: are still in chapter one. There's that much there. The

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Speaker 1: verses today will be a verse fifteen through twenty three. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is still chapter one. If you miss the first

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Speaker 1: two installments, those are also in the archives. So let's

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Speaker 1: open up in a word of prayer, and let's jump

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Speaker 1: right in. Lord, thank you for the opportunity to unpack

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Speaker 1: your holy word. May your Holy Spirit guide us. Lord,

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Speaker 1: give us the clarity of interpretation. Also give us the

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Speaker 1: clarity of application to each individual life that has joined

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Speaker 1: us today. And Lord, I'm just so grateful for the

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Speaker 1: things and the hope that we've already experienced as we

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Speaker 1: read these incredible words, these reminders that you inspired the

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Speaker 1: apostle Paul to write down. We are so gracious to

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Speaker 1: each other only because you've been gracious to us. You

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Speaker 1: have shown us what grace looks like, what mercy looks like,

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Speaker 1: and the reminder of that is certainly hopeful for all

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Speaker 1: who have been redeemed, but a reminder for us to

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Speaker 1: let's look at what Paul's talking about now, so to

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Speaker 1: kind of set up where we're going today. The last

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Speaker 1: for in fifteen he says, for this reason. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: what reason? Because I've heard of your faith in the

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Speaker 1: beautiful part, during his three year stay in Ephesus, there

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Speaker 1: But also what has happened since he hasn't been there

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Speaker 1: like what I hear about how you're treating each other,

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Speaker 1: how you treat the saints, all saints, uh, you know.

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Speaker 1: And and now that one, that one I had land

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Speaker 1: and pondered a little bit. Now, I kind of wanted

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit to kind of get off my back

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Speaker 1: a little bit, because I certainly love some of the saints,

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Speaker 1: treating all my brothers and sisters in the church, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, with love and grace, and and some people,

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Speaker 1: be hard to love too. Uh. But let's just call it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: love than others. Okay. And but what what he is

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Speaker 1: to take the proper attitude that we're all in this together.

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Speaker 1: my prayers. Now, this is the guy who also wrote

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Speaker 1: that that were our prayers should never cease. Now, I've

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Speaker 1: always struggled with that. Am I the only one pray

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Speaker 1: Certainly think that's a great goal, but is it practical?

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Speaker 1: Paul when he was kind of saying to the Corinthians,

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Speaker 1: I'm not asking for a dime. Now you'll see the Philippi.

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Speaker 1: he said. But y'all's attitude so bad. I wouldn't ask

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Speaker 1: So what do you say, I'm making tents. I'm doing

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Speaker 1: my own thing. So I'm not familiar I did. This

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Speaker 1: so he'd make some tints. Well, let me tell you

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Speaker 1: And I've learned this. I'm I'm I'll tell you a

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Speaker 1: just just carrying on conversation. I did some some deer

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Speaker 1: she's like, how many more things you're gonna shoot this year?

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Speaker 1: You know? And I'm like, well, I'm not. It's not

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Speaker 1: about me. I'm going to host others and uh, and

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Speaker 1: So I sat out in the woods yesterday from from

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Speaker 1: lot happened. I unfortunately did, apparently setting myself in a

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Speaker 1: here's God going, here's here's here's nearly five hours, uh

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Speaker 1: And if anybody wants you to do something right now,

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Speaker 1: why don't you turn that phone off? And why don't

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Speaker 1: you use this time to spend with me? And some

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Speaker 1: of it you just sit here and be quiet, but listen,

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Speaker 1: you can listen, and and so those opportunities. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: has called you, What are the riches of his glorious

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Speaker 1: inheritance in the saints. So let's go at the front

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Speaker 1: part of that first, the hope that we've been called to,

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Speaker 1: the hope that is in him. That's the first part

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Speaker 1: of eighteen. This is embracing that wide sweep of God's

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Speaker 1: eternal purpose in Christ, our hope in Him. We've been

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Speaker 1: caught up, guys list and ladies out there, We've been

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Speaker 1: called up in something that is so big, it's so

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Speaker 1: base to the universe, far beyond anything we could ever

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Speaker 1: ask or think, that our minds simply cannot take it

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Speaker 1: all in no wonder, Paul says, I'm going to pray

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Speaker 1: for your eyes of understanding that there might be they

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Speaker 1: might be enlightened that you just this, somehow you can

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Speaker 1: see it that we've become the objects of the triune

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Speaker 1: God's attention. Has that ever blown your mind? Think about God?

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Speaker 1: I am, I have always been. I have a friend

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Speaker 1: of mine that still has small children, he said. The

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Speaker 1: number one question I keep having to go back to

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Speaker 1: is my sweet little babies. They keep asking, Daddy, now,

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Speaker 1: Daddy one more time, who made God? Where did God

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Speaker 1: come from? And he says, I take them back again.

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Speaker 1: I say God didn't come from anywhere. God's where everything

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Speaker 1: comes from. He's the beginning. Now, if anybody honestly with

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Speaker 1: your finite and can grasp that I have always been,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing before me. Now. I want you to think

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Speaker 1: about that and then look at the vastness that we

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Speaker 1: talked about this. A lot of this really lines up

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Speaker 1: great with us finishing job because we just had God's resume.

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Speaker 1: The vastness of the universe, you know, we still haven't

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Speaker 1: seen the end of it. And the more telescopes we

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Speaker 1: develop and the more we see, it just keeps on going.

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Speaker 1: It's vast, all of that power, the power to say,

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Speaker 1: let there be light, the power that says I have

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Speaker 1: made a human being, and I breathed my breath of

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Speaker 1: life in him. For some reason, he's taken an interest

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Speaker 1: in us. He certainly doesn't worship us, we're to worship him,

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Speaker 1: but the fact that he even gives us the time

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Speaker 1: of day. But he went further than that, and Paul

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Speaker 1: wants him to understand that you realize he's going further

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Speaker 1: than that. He's actually provided redemption, and he desires a

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Speaker 1: for us to pray to him, to speak with him.

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Speaker 1: He desires us, through his son's perfection, to now be

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Speaker 1: back in good standing with him, to come into his presence,

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Speaker 1: to spend eternity with him. And Paul said, I want

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Speaker 1: this to occupy your thoughts, and when it occupies your

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Speaker 1: thoughts as it has done for me this week, I

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Speaker 1: want you to find hope in it, right Scott Dawson,

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Speaker 1: dear friend of mine, He says, you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of things that human beings. They can live a

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Speaker 1: certain amount of time with no water, they can live

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Speaker 1: a certain amount of time with no food, But nobody

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Speaker 1: can live without hope. And Paul saying, take joy in this.

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Speaker 1: Have home this on your worst day, when things seem

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Speaker 1: so hopeless. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: the beginning of everything, has taken an interest in you

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Speaker 1: and desires to fellowship with you. And I want you

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Speaker 1: to find hope in that. And I want that to

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Speaker 1: occupy occupy your your your mind. Get off the mundane

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Speaker 1: and the temporal and set your mind on the eternal.

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Speaker 1: Right now, if I were to ask your thoughts, how

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Speaker 1: many of your thoughts revolve around the temporal versus that

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Speaker 1: revolve around the eternal. If you'll shift that a little bit,

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Speaker 1: I promise you'll have a better life. You You won't

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Speaker 1: find yourself so easily downtrodden. You know when you when

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Speaker 1: you keep thinking to yourself. Because what happens so many times,

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Speaker 1: and we've seen it over and over again. Solomon writes

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Speaker 1: about it, and great to tell and Ecclesiastes is if

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Speaker 1: you're not careful and you just focus on the temporal,

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Speaker 1: what will happen whether you're falling state is sooner or

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Speaker 1: later you'll start thinking, is this all there is? Is this?

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Speaker 1: It is as good as it gets? You know, have

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Speaker 1: you ever met? Is there anything more sad than to

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Speaker 1: meet someone and you talk to them and you realize that,

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Speaker 1: in their opinion, they've already lived their best days. Their

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Speaker 1: best days are behind them, but they think they've already

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Speaker 1: experienced the greatest things they could ever experience, and everything

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Speaker 1: else is just downhill from here. But just just just

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Speaker 1: the dawn of a new day. Is that that breath

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Speaker 1: that you took to start the day, The Lord God

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Speaker 1: Almighty provided it because he absolutely could have forbid it.

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Speaker 1: So why did he do it? He's taking an interest,

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Speaker 1: He still has more, he's teaching. How about this? Some

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Speaker 1: of you may say, I don't know that I have

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Speaker 1: anything else to do. I would disagree with that, But

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Speaker 1: one thing that I would absolutely tell you with zero hesitation,

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Speaker 1: you got more to learn. You got more to learn,

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Speaker 1: and he loves us enough to teach you on, doesn't

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Speaker 1: he amen? So the second part of this, his heritage

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Speaker 1: in us, the inheritage, this inheritance is a fact to

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Speaker 1: the Saint. And we talked about that a little bit

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Speaker 1: in some other verses. He's repeating that a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to talk about the glory, the theme of

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Speaker 1: his inheritance, the inheritance, the fullness of this inheritance, the

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Speaker 1: untold wealth. Look what he says in the last part.

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Speaker 1: He says, the hope to which has called you, what

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Speaker 1: are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints?

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Speaker 1: He says, if you can, if you can try, I

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Speaker 1: think about the great Heymn when I think about what

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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing, but when I think about what he actually

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Speaker 1: did for me, I can scarcely take it in. I

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Speaker 1: can scarcely take it in. I almost can't comprehend that

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Speaker 1: this is available to me, and so we can only

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Speaker 1: He says, that's fine. If you can't take it in,

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Speaker 1: won't you just marvel at it. I'm gonna say that again.

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Speaker 1: If you can't take it in, won't you just marvel

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Speaker 1: at what God has done? Just be in all of it?

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Speaker 1: And he says, so, think about what the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 1: is telling us through Paul think about that that these

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Speaker 1: riches of this glorious inheritance is for every single saint,

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Speaker 1: all the redeemed, that it is a fact that we

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Speaker 1: will receive our reward. Now it's not our just reward,

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Speaker 1: because honestly, be careful saying you just want there to

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Speaker 1: be justice, Because if all you want is for there

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Speaker 1: to be justice and everything to be fair, than all

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Speaker 1: of us have got to go to hell. Because it's

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Speaker 1: really not fair that Jesus had to go do and

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Speaker 1: take the wrath of God when it should have been me.

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Speaker 1: That's really not fair. It's really not justice. But what

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Speaker 1: God decided is that he would justify us anyway. Okay,

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Speaker 1: he would do it through grace and mercy. What we

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Speaker 1: deserved we didn't get if you've been redeemed. And Paul says,

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Speaker 1: remember that. So the next thing wants us to know

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Speaker 1: in nineteen. He wants us in them to know more

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Speaker 1: of the power of Christ. Look at nineteen. See, Paul's

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Speaker 1: not going to get off this. He wants us to

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Speaker 1: go deeper. He's telling this church. Remember, this is a

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Speaker 1: church that did pretty well. But what did Jesus say

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Speaker 1: about them in the Revelation. You've been doing great, but

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Speaker 1: I have this against you. You've lost your love for me.

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Speaker 1: You're not doing it because you love me anymore. So

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Speaker 1: think about that. Now here's Paul saying, y'all need to

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Speaker 1: go deeper. Don't be satisfied. You know have you? Have

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Speaker 1: you ever? I used to be guilty of this, and

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Speaker 1: I can be really bad about this. Somebody's trying to

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Speaker 1: instruct you and you're like, I got it, and they're

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Speaker 1: kind of like, you really need to let me finish.

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Speaker 1: You don't have it. I got it, And then the

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Speaker 1: next thing you know, you're lost and you're like the

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Speaker 1: guy was like yeah, or the or your wife. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't finished telling you everything you need to do. You

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Speaker 1: assumed you understood where I was going, and you took

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Speaker 1: off and you needed more to tell and I was

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Speaker 1: I had it and I wanted to give it to you,

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Speaker 1: but you shut me off and you went on. And

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Speaker 1: now that's why you're into this situation. Whether you said

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Speaker 1: this is what you wanted to know, I said that

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Speaker 1: I wanted this, but I want a particular brand of this,

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Speaker 1: and this is the one I wanted that didn't have

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Speaker 1: to dies in it, that didn't have the scent in it,

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Speaker 1: and all you did is go buy me some some

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Speaker 1: some some laundry detergent. I had a very specific detergent

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Speaker 1: that I wanted, and all you did was, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: got it, you need laundry detergent. No, I needed a

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Speaker 1: specific laundry detergent. I didn't need this, and I was

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Speaker 1: going to tell you that. And by the way, I

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Speaker 1: did tell you that, and you stopped listening. That's that's

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Speaker 1: just a random example.

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Speaker 2: But uh so, so anyway, the this is what Paul

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Speaker 2: is saying is be careful not to say, guys, I

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Speaker 2: bet everybody in here will tell me you're redeemed.

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Speaker 1: Be careful not to have the attitude. I got it,

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Speaker 1: I understand it. I'm good, he says, Keep going deeper

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Speaker 1: that you can't imagine the fullness of everything. You got

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Speaker 1: to know more about the power of Christ. I've been

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Speaker 1: guilty of taking the power of Christ and treating it

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Speaker 1: as if it had some limit that it didn't have,

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Speaker 1: because I didn't know enough about about what really was

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Speaker 1: available to me. I didn't know enough about what what

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Speaker 1: you know. I got real caught up in what's to come.

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Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. I want to be having focused,

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Speaker 1: but I have to I had to be careful and

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Speaker 1: had to be reprimanded by the Holy Spirit. Is don't

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Speaker 1: disregard what's available to you right now. You're redeemed now, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're working it out now. There's things you have access

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Speaker 1: now because you're redeemed, not just in the future. Now.

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Speaker 1: And so that's what he wants. Go deeper. Look at

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Speaker 1: nineteen and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power

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Speaker 1: toward us who believe according to the working of His

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Speaker 1: great might. He's saying, it is impossible to measure the

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Speaker 1: true power that Christ provides. It is upward beyond anything

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Speaker 1: we can see. The universe, as I've already said, is

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Speaker 1: seemingly endless. All of God's power is now directed toward

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Speaker 1: all who are redeemed. How can we have this truth

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Speaker 1: yet continue to live such powerless lives? How can we

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Speaker 1: look just like the world? How can we be disappointed

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Speaker 1: just like them? How can we grieve just like them?

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Speaker 1: How can we be disappointed just like them? How can

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Speaker 1: we be unforgiving just like them? How can we disregard

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Speaker 1: this in our life? When we look on the priority

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Speaker 1: of our time, how little of it is spent on this?

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Speaker 1: How can that even be, it can only be because

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Speaker 1: we don't fully understand the vastest and the power of it,

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Speaker 1: Because look, guys, we'll lose our mind over the simplest

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Speaker 1: little things that don't even compare. You know, I've heard

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Speaker 1: it said that we think so much sometimes of the temporal,

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Speaker 1: and we think so little of Jesus. Sometimes we think

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Speaker 1: so much of ourselfs and we think so little of Him.

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Speaker 1: And Paul is saying, the only way that this can happen,

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Speaker 1: this is important, The only way this can happen if

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Speaker 1: you truly are in this state. The reason is likely

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Speaker 1: the reason is probably because you haven't quite fully understood

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Speaker 1: what you got, because if you fully understood it, you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't so easily disregard it. And I know that there's

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Speaker 1: many of you that have been through things in here,

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Speaker 1: and those of us that have gone down these roads.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it can be the opposite. It's what we do

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Speaker 1: understand and that carry us through it because we didn't.

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Speaker 1: If we didn't understand it, would we wouldn't have never

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Speaker 1: got through it. It's the only thing that carries you

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Speaker 1: through many times is remembering what Paul is reminding us of.

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Speaker 1: But remember it even on the good days, not just

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Speaker 1: on the desperate days. Nothing wrong with remembering it on

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Speaker 1: the remembering it on the desperate days. Praise God, we

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Speaker 1: have it. But he's saying, rep this a little more.

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Speaker 1: Be pursuing this on any day. It'll serve you well.

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Speaker 1: How can we live such powerless lives if we fully

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Speaker 1: understand the power that we have been given. And also

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Speaker 1: he's talking about the dimensions of it, which of course

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Speaker 1: are the greatness of his power. It's immeasurable according to

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Speaker 1: the working of his great might, the working of his

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Speaker 1: mighty power. The power here is the word grottos, and

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Speaker 1: it means strength are power put forth with an effect

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Speaker 1: the might of Jesus. This is the Greek word that

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Speaker 1: means it's an endowment of strength that has been endowed

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Speaker 1: to us. The working where he says this working, when

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Speaker 1: he throws that. When I first looked at that, I

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Speaker 1: thought his mighty What is he talking about? According to

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Speaker 1: the working of what this means here, it translates to

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Speaker 1: the word that we use for energy. He's saying, the

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Speaker 1: strength continues to be putting forth. He's saying he's working

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Speaker 1: on giving you more of him, and you're not there yet.

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Speaker 1: He's still giving. It hasn't stopped, the faucet hasn't turned off.

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Speaker 1: And what many of us do will take a cup

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Speaker 1: and go, I'm good, Go get seconds, go get thirds.

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Speaker 1: He's still You realize what all this Greek means right

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Speaker 1: here is he's taking his power, he's taking his might

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Speaker 1: and on the redeemed he is pushing it in action.

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Speaker 1: He's he's endowing us with his very strength. He is

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Speaker 1: putting forth his energy, He's putting forth his power. The

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Speaker 1: question is are we receiving it? Are we saying let

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Speaker 1: me have it? Are we going I'm good? Have you

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Speaker 1: ever have you ever thought that even like I know

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Speaker 1: I have, preparing yourself for taking test, and you like,

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Speaker 1: I think I've stayed enough, I'm good. Suddenly they throw

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Speaker 1: that thing down in front of and you're like, how

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Speaker 1: about I was it good? I needed to continue to

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Speaker 1: pursue that. And so I don't ever want us to

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Speaker 1: have the attitude. I got this gospel thing, I've been redeemed.

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Speaker 1: I go to church, I do my thing, I attend

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday Bible study. This is what I do. I

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Speaker 1: hope you come in here, wide open, ready to learn more,

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Speaker 1: wide open, ready to receive. I hope you go into

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Speaker 1: worship saying, say something to me today that I've never

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Speaker 1: heard before. Hey, don't ever You've heard me say this

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Speaker 1: so many times. Don't ever let anybody get up in

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Speaker 1: front of you. Are you yourself and your own time

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Speaker 1: and look at something in scripture that's familiar to you

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Speaker 1: and say, I think I got this. I can't tell

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Speaker 1: how many times that I thought I had something, only

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Speaker 1: to glean something else. And I don't even know how

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Speaker 1: that happened. It's supernatural. God in his perfection, said you're

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Speaker 1: not quite ready for this one point ten years from now.

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Speaker 1: Let's study this again. Now you can have it right.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to hand over things to people that

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Speaker 1: can't trust with it. So then he goes on and

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Speaker 1: he talks about the the the expenditure of the Cross.

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Speaker 1: It was his strength, his power, his energy that emptied

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Speaker 1: that tomb in order to redeem us from sin. Do

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Speaker 1: you realize, brothers and sisters out there, do y'all realize?

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Speaker 1: John talks about this in First John when he's talking

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Speaker 1: about those that practice sin, not people who stumble, those

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Speaker 1: who deliberately and perpetual, the perpetually practice sin. They're actually

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Speaker 1: children of the devil. They're not children of God. And

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Speaker 1: one of the things he says, and the reason why

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Speaker 1: I know that, is that anybody who's truly redeemed has

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Speaker 1: received the very seed of God in their life. They've

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Speaker 1: received the Holy Spirit. His spirit is in their life.

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Speaker 1: And if they had the spirit in their life, there's

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Speaker 1: no way that they continue to live such a defiant

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Speaker 1: life and a lifestyle against God. No desire to be

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Speaker 1: in the church, no desire to be in worship, no

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Speaker 1: desire to be obedient to Him whatsoever. But somehow they

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Speaker 1: believe the right thing. So they say that they're with us,

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Speaker 1: but they never were of us. So when they fall away,

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Speaker 1: don't act like somebody fell out of redemption. They were

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Speaker 1: never in redemption. You know why, because they should have

713
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Speaker 1: received the power that raised Jesus from the dead. You mean,

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Speaker 1: we got the power that raised Jesus from the dead,

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Speaker 1: and it's had no impact on us. He said. The

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Speaker 1: energy that is flowing your way it emptied the tomb.

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Speaker 1: Y'all realize, raising yourself from the dead, that's big. That's

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Speaker 1: a pretty powerful move right there. That means that you're

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Speaker 1: in charge of it, and that has now been afforded

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Speaker 1: to the redeemed to be sanctified. So now we get

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Speaker 1: into twenty and twenty that he worked in Christ when

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Speaker 1: he raised him from the dead and seated him at

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Speaker 1: the right hand in the heavenly places. The demonstration of

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Speaker 1: it now, okay, so remember you know the apostles, man,

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Speaker 1: they just they were downtrodden on Crucifixion day. We don't

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Speaker 1: even we can't even document that many of them were

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Speaker 1: even there. They think it's over those that were against Jesus.

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Speaker 1: They think it's over the Roman Empire. They're just trying

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Speaker 1: to deal with this and get this thing over with, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So on the third day, Christ burst, the bands of death,

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Speaker 1: rose bodily through these these grave clothes that have been

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Speaker 1: put on him, marched out in the power of endless life.

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Speaker 1: He now is marching out holding eternal life. Raising Jesus

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Speaker 1: was an example and a demonstration of God's energy. So

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Speaker 1: he wants us to know that. So now he wants

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Speaker 1: you to know the distinction of it. The second part

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Speaker 1: of twenty and then into twenty one, he said it

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Speaker 1: was very distinct. Okay, he worked this in Christ when

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Speaker 1: he raised him from the dead. And then look here

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Speaker 1: seated him at the right hand in the heavenly places.

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Speaker 1: All seats of power are now below Jesus. So, first

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Speaker 1: of all, where is he seated. He's at the right

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Speaker 1: hand of God, the Father, in heavenly places. Now do

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Speaker 1: y'all realize that Jesus is there now. He's not in

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Speaker 1: a manger, he's not on the cross, he's not in

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Speaker 1: a tomb. He's in his glorified state, and he's seated

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Speaker 1: at the right hand of the Father. So now let's

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Speaker 1: look at twenty one. What he subdued. Okay, what he

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Speaker 1: took captive of far above all rule and authority and

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Speaker 1: power and dominion, and above every name that is named,

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Speaker 1: not only in this age but also in the one

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Speaker 1: to come. Now that's power, no seat of power, none

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Speaker 1: is above Jesus. Now what does that include any seats

754
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: of power in the supernatural? He clears that Jesus is

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00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: above Satan, He's above all his demonic allies. Satan is

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Speaker 1: no match none for Jesus. He rules over Satan, he

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Speaker 1: rules over his allies. Satan can't do anything unless God

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Speaker 1: allows it, and He's given that authority now to his

759
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Speaker 1: son Jesus. So remember that should Satan and his demons

760
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: be you shouldn't be thinking it's a homecoming game. But

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Speaker 1: I will say this, as long as you got Jesus,

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00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: now you got to have Jesus. Don't made me go

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Speaker 1: Acts nineteen again, because I know you've heard this, probably

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Speaker 1: till you're just blue in the face. We had a

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Speaker 1: bunch of sons of a Pharisee that started throwing around

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Speaker 1: Jesus's name at a demon, and the demon didn't recognize it.

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00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: Didn't that the name of Jesus and of itself has

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Speaker 1: no power if it's being handled by the lost. It's

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Speaker 1: only those that are redeemed. Paul used the name of

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Speaker 1: Jesus to cast out demons and to tell them what

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Speaker 1: to do, because he actually had been redeemed by Jesus.

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00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: He belonged to Jesus. Now, if somebody who rejected Jesus

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Speaker 1: or didn't believe in the deity of Jesus just thinks

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Speaker 1: they're going to throw around the name of Jesus. The demons,

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00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: as you were called, laughed at these these idiots and said, Paul,

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Speaker 1: you know we reckon Jesus. I know, Paul, we recognize

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Speaker 1: I don't know who you are I'm not doing anything,

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Speaker 1: and stripped the poor boy's naked and ran them running

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Speaker 1: for their lives. But they used the name of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: but in their hands it had no power because they

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00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: didn't belong to Jesus. Now that that's that's stop again.

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00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: Every time we talk about this, does the name of

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Speaker 1: Jesus have power in my hands? If it does, and

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Speaker 1: you've been redeemed, he is over the powers of the

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Speaker 1: evil one. Okay? Now, can can we be harassed by demons?

786
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Speaker 1: We can? But can we be possessed by demons? No? Okay?

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Speaker 1: But when they harass us though God still has to

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Speaker 1: allow it. Look at Joe, look at Paul. You know

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Speaker 1: they took some heat in spiritual warfare, but only the

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00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: only heat they took. Paul even tells us was good

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Speaker 1: for it kept him from being conceited, so made him

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Speaker 1: to always remember where the power was, and it wasn't

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Speaker 1: in him, It was in Jesus. So he's over all

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Speaker 1: the supernatural. Nothing supernatural is above Jesus. Angels aren't above Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Satan's not above Jesus. Who is an angel? Are the

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Speaker 1: demons that tried to rebel? Who else? All secular seats

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00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: of power. Now, this is what's beautiful. You know, we

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Speaker 1: start thinking, well, sometimes we all elevate ourselves above. No,

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Speaker 1: he's above every secular power. But he's not just above

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Speaker 1: the current secular power brokers. He's above the ones in

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Speaker 1: the past, he's above the ones now, and he's above

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00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: anybody else that shows up in the future. Now, imagine

803
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: being going to make that claim. Well, you don't know

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00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: who's coming in future. I actually do. If I'm Jesus,

805
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be above them too. They're gonna look

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00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: impress him for a while, but they're not above me.

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Speaker 1: You know. The thing you look at, you know, because

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Speaker 1: of all the battles and all the things that have

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Speaker 1: gone on, and when you get down to that final battle,

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Speaker 1: you know, I appreciate him letting us ride out with him,

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Speaker 1: but apparently we don't do a whole lot, and the

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00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,359
Speaker 1: angels don't get involved. I mean, Jesus goes out there

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Speaker 1: and everybody, the most wicked, evil, powerful people that the

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Speaker 1: world has ever known, stand before him, and he slaughters

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Speaker 1: them in seconds. So that's how far above everybody else

816
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: he is. You know, it doesn't matter who they are

817
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: or what they claim. He rules. The age of his

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00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: intervention is to come. Paul still wants us to know

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00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: more of this position in Christ. In verses twenty two

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00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: and twenty three, all things are under his feet. Look

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Speaker 1: at twenty two and twenty three, and we'll be done.

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Speaker 1: And he puts all things under his feet and gave

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Speaker 1: him has head over all things to the Church, which

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Speaker 1: is his body, the fullness of Him who feels all

825
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Speaker 1: in all interesting. So once men pierced these feet, but

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Speaker 1: now He's going to put everything, including their necks. If

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Speaker 1: they oppose him, all of his enemies will be to him,

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Speaker 1: and all the fallen earth will be to him, nothing

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Speaker 1: but a footstool. Can you imagine that his fullness, the

830
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Speaker 1: Church finds all fullness in him, the head Christ has

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Speaker 1: head over all things in the universe, and its head

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Speaker 1: of all things in the Church. He gives the church

833
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Speaker 1: its dignity, He gives the church its destiny, He gives

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Speaker 1: the church its power. If He's not there, has no dignity,

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00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: it has no destiny, and it has no power. The

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Speaker 1: church it laid the sea. You remember when we unpack that,

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Speaker 1: and again, I look, I'm such a I'm low on

838
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Speaker 1: the whole. You know, I'm fourth fifth string, okay when

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00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: it comes to those advance in the Kingdom of God.

840
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Speaker 1: So but I will tell you there's nothing wrong with

841
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Speaker 1: preaching the Church of Lay of the Sea as a

842
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: redemption message. Nothing wrong with that. But Jesus is not

843
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: knocking at our heart being asked to come in. Jesus

844
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: is knocking on his church saying I'm not in there

845
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: Lay of the Sea, and the church it lay to

846
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: Sea was having church without Jesus. Again, if you want

847
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: to use as an analogy, that's no problem, but that's

848
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Speaker 1: not what that is about. The church it Lay of

849
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Speaker 1: the Sea is Jesus saying, y'all really think y'all are something,

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Speaker 1: and you think you got all this stuff, you don't

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Speaker 1: need anything, But unfortunately you've become so so self sufficient

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Speaker 1: you don't think you need me. And I'm on the

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Speaker 1: outside of the church and I'm knocking at the door

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Speaker 1: of the church for somebody in the church to get

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Speaker 1: up and open the door and bring me back into

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Speaker 1: the church. And I've been to a few churches and

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Speaker 1: they have certainly kicked that. This seems like they have

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Speaker 1: kicked Jesus out and he'll go And so what he's

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Speaker 1: saying is if I'm not there, then the church will

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Speaker 1: never be full. And Christ finds all his fullness, which

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Speaker 1: is really really interesting in his bride. He desires the bride.

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Speaker 1: He desires the church. He went to the Cross for

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Speaker 1: the church. He loves the church. But he's head of

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Speaker 1: the church. The church is enamored and in awe of him.

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Speaker 1: He is not in all the church, but he desires

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Speaker 1: the church, which is beautiful. What a statement. But the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is clear here we are incomplete without him.

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Speaker 1: He is not incomplete without us. But he says the

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Speaker 1: fact that he is the head, we the church are

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Speaker 1: his body, and the fact that he does the next

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Speaker 1: thing what he says here, which is his body, the church,

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Speaker 1: the fullness of him. Let me tell you what he

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Speaker 1: is saying that involves us be my hands and feet.

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Speaker 1: Not that he needs us to be, He desires us

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Speaker 1: to be. We are nothing but the hands and feet

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Speaker 1: of Jesus, and everything we do is the church. The

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Speaker 1: bride is supposed to be to bring glory to the

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Speaker 1: groom and tell the world not their desperate need for us,

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Speaker 1: not their desperate need for all the activities that go

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Speaker 1: on at a church building. But they're desperate need for him,

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Speaker 1: the head of the church. You're coming here not to

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Speaker 1: get in a program. You're not even coming here to

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Speaker 1: be part of a spiritual social club. You're coming here

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Speaker 1: to worship and serve him. And we're telling you how

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Speaker 1: wonderful that is. I don't have a problem with it,

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Speaker 1: as far as I don't think people are in sin

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Speaker 1: for doing this. But let me tell you one thing.

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Speaker 1: You're never going to hear me say. If you come

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Speaker 1: to church and you're in and the small group where

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Speaker 1: I have the opportunity to teach, you'll never hear me

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Speaker 1: say we're doing life together. We're advancing the Kingdom of

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Speaker 1: God together. I can do life with anybody. I'm more

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Speaker 1: concerned about eternal life. We're here to be the handsome

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Speaker 1: feet of Jesus. We're here to be disciples and make disciples.

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Speaker 1: I see the world out there doing life together. Now.

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Speaker 1: Are we supposed to be there for each other? Absolutely

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Speaker 1: when life gets hard, and it does. But we're not

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Speaker 1: doing life together. We're advancing eternal life. We're advancing the

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Speaker 1: Kingdom of God together. And the question that Paul reminds

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Speaker 1: us of today is how much do you think about that?

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Speaker 1: How much do you desire to know more about that?

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Speaker 1: Have you had enough? Jesus? Are you just thirsty for more?

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Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: this incredible message, this incredible reminder, the conviction of it,

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Speaker 1: but also the hope of it, the encouragement of it.

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Speaker 1: Remembering who you are, and just being in awe that

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Speaker 1: you have given us access to fellowship with you, to

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Speaker 1: be co heirs with you. It really is mind blowing.

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Speaker 1: So help us, Lord, Sometimes we're not capable of taking

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Speaker 1: you into bigger bites, but just because we need to

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Speaker 1: take you in smaller bites, may we desire to continue

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Speaker 1: to want more and never be satisfied with our knowledge

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Speaker 1: of you. In your glorious and holy name, we pray

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Speaker 1: Jesus Amen,