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Always a Joel to come into 44 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 4: your homes. 45 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 5: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying 46 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 5: be a part of one of our services. 47 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 4: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 48 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you 49 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 5: again for coming out. 50 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 4: And I like to start with something funny. And I heard. 51 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 5: About this young lady. She came home from a date, 52 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 5: very sad. She told her mother that her boyfriend just 53 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 5: proposed to her. Her mother said, well, why are you 54 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 5: so sad, she said, because he told me he's an atheist. Mom, 55 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 5: he doesn't even believe that there's a hell. Her mother said, 56 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 5: marry him anyway. Between the two of us, we'll prove 57 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 5: to him how wrong he is. Hold up your Bible, 58 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 5: say it like you mean it. 59 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 60 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 61 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 62 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind 63 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 64 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name. 65 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 4: God bless you. 66 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about shame off you. 67 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 5: We've all heard the phrase shame on you, starting from 68 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 5: a child. You didn't clean your room, Shame on you. 69 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 5: You were mean to your little sister, Shame on you. 70 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 5: Even as adults, we may not hear it out loud, 71 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 5: but it plays in our thoughts. 72 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 4: It fell back into that bad habit. 73 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 5: Shame on you. You went through a divorce, shame on you. 74 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 5: We don't realize how destructive shame is. We use it 75 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 5: to try to convince people to do better, but shame 76 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 5: does just the opposite. 77 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: Causes us to feel. 78 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 5: Guilty, unworthy, like we don't deserve to be blessed. A 79 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 5: young lady told me how she had a baby when 80 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 5: she was a teenager and she wasn't able to keep it. 81 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 4: She put it up for adoption. 82 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 5: Now ten years later, she said, I feel so ashamed 83 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 5: I abandoned my baby. I can't sleep at night thinking 84 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 5: about what a terrible mother I am. That voice is 85 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 5: constantly whispering shame on you. Shame is one of the 86 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 5: enemy's favorite tools. He's called the accuser. He'll remind you 87 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 5: of every mistake, every failure, even things that weren't your fault. 88 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 5: He'll try to deceive you into thinking that. 89 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: You were to blame. 90 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 5: People that were abused as a child had no choice 91 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 5: in it. He'll whisper you're not good enough, you deserved it, 92 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 5: that's why they mistreated you. He'll try to twist it 93 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,239 Speaker 5: and convince you to carry around all this heaviness. 94 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 4: But the scripture talks. 95 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 5: About how God has removed our shame, whether it was 96 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 5: your fault or somebody else's. You don't have to carry 97 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 5: the heavy load of guilt, beating yourself up, feeling wrong 98 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 5: on the inside. When the enemy says shame on you, 99 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 5: God says, shame off you. I've forgiven you, I've redeemed you, 100 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 5: I've made you valuable. 101 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 4: What people did or didn't do to you, they don't 102 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 4: determine your worth. 103 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 5: Your worth comes from your creator, the Most High God 104 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 5: breathed his life into you. 105 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 4: He crowned you with his favor. 106 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 5: He calls you a masterpiece. Don't go around as shamed, guilty, condemned. 107 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 4: Shake off the shame. 108 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 5: Every time you hear that voice whispering shame on you. 109 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 5: By faith, you need to hear God answering back shame off. 110 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 4: You don't accept the shame. 111 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 5: And I'm not saying a course to be flippant and think, well, 112 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 5: I made a big mistake. 113 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 4: I hurt somebody, No big deal. 114 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 5: No, we should be remorseful, ask for forgiveness, do better 115 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 5: next time. But the problem is if you don't put 116 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 5: your foot down and say, shame off me. Even though 117 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 5: God has removed it, that shame will follow you around. 118 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 5: The young lady asked me, Joel, do you think God 119 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 5: will forgive me? I said, I know God will forgive you. 120 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 5: The real question is will you give yourself? Will you 121 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 5: shake off the shame? I found it's more difficult to 122 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 5: forgive ourself than it is to forgive other people. The 123 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 5: enemy knows if we feel wrong on the inside, we'll 124 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 5: never become who we were created to be. That's why 125 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 5: he works over time to try to bring guilt, shame, 126 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 5: make you feel like you don't deserve to be blessed. 127 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 5: You have to turn off the accusing voices. You may 128 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 5: have made mistakes, but the moment you ask God to 129 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 5: forgive you, he not only forgave you, he took it 130 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 5: one step further. He doesn't remember it anymore. And when 131 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 5: those thoughts try to remind you of mistakes of the past, 132 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 5: saying things like, shame on you. You were unfaithful in 133 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 5: that relationship, Shame on you. You were dishonest in the 134 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 5: business deal. Shame on you. You were rude to that 135 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 5: family member last month. You've already asked for forgiveness. That 136 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 5: means God doesn't remember. That's a sure sign. 137 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 4: The accuser is at work. 138 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 5: You can either accept the shame, feel wrong on the inside, 139 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 5: or you can rise up and say, no, shame off me. 140 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 5: I know I've been forgiven. I know God's mercies bigger 141 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 5: than this mistake. If God doesn't remember it, I'm not 142 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 5: going to remember it either. When the Israelites had been 143 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 5: in slavery in Egypt for many years, they were very 144 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 5: beaten down, not only physically but emotionally. They were constantly 145 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 5: told they were no good, they couldn't do anything right, 146 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 5: they would never measure up over time. 147 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 4: They let that steal their sense of value. 148 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 5: They felt inferior, insecure, like they had no self worth. 149 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 4: And when a person is being. 150 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 5: Mistreated abused, especially for a long time, instead of recognizing 151 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 5: that the other person is doing them wrong, it's easy 152 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 5: for them to accept the blame and start thinking they 153 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 5: deserve what's happening. Before long, they're not only ashamed of 154 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 5: what's happening, but they start to become ashamed of who 155 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 5: they are. That's the way the Israelites felt, That's how 156 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 5: the enemy twist things. But after four hundred and thirty years. 157 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 5: God brought them out of the slavery, out of the abuse. 158 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 5: Just as they were about to enter the Promised Land, 159 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 5: God said to them, this day I have rolled away 160 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 5: the reproach of Egypt off of you. Reproach means shame, blame, disgrace. Notice, 161 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 5: they couldn't go into the Promised Land with the shame, 162 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 5: feeling unworthy, not valuable. God had to roll away the reproach. 163 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:46,319 Speaker 5: In the same way, before you can reach your highest potential, 164 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 5: you have to get rid of any shame. You may 165 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 5: have made mistakes, people may have done you wrong, but 166 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 5: you can't sit around guilty, condemned, blaming yourself, blaming others. 167 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 4: Whatever. 168 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 5: Your Egypt is a divorce, an addiction, somebody that did 169 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 5: you wrong. 170 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 4: God is saying this day, not. 171 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 5: Tomorrow, not next week, not six months from now. Today, 172 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 5: God is rolling away the reproach. He's rolling away the guilt, 173 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 5: rolling away the shame. 174 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 4: Now it's up to you to accept it. 175 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 5: You have to quit dwelling on your failures, quit believing 176 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 5: those lies that you've made too many mistakes, you've been 177 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 5: hurt too badly. 178 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 4: Know the reproach has been rolled away. 179 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 5: When you get up in the morning and you hear 180 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 5: those voices and they come to all of us, shame 181 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 5: on you. You have to answer right back. No shame off 182 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 5: of me. I know my reproach has been taken away. 183 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 5: I know this man he was happily married, has a 184 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 5: good family, but he let his guard down and got 185 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,079 Speaker 5: involved with another woman. They were friends at work. The 186 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 5: heat of the moment, it turned into something else. It 187 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 5: happened that one time. 188 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,079 Speaker 4: That was it. He felt so badly about it. He 189 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 4: knew it was wrong. 190 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 5: He asked God to forgive him, but year after year 191 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 5: went by and he still felt this heaviness on the inside. 192 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 5: He knew God had forgiven him, but he couldn't forgive himself. 193 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 5: On the outside, he looked fine, he was happy, but 194 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 5: on the inside he had this sense of shame, guilt, 195 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 5: like he had to settle for second best. And one 196 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 5: day a minister that he respected pulled him to the 197 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 5: side and said, whatever is holding you back, whatever lie 198 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 5: is keeping you from rising higher, today that power is 199 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 5: being broken. God is about to release you to a 200 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 5: new level of your destiny. This man began to weep 201 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 5: and weep all the guilt, the shame, the heaviness that he. 202 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 4: Had allowed to become a part of his life. 203 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 5: It suddenly lifted off of him. It was like a 204 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 5: chain was broken, a stronghold came down. For years, he 205 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 5: had allowed the accuser to pile on the shame. 206 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 4: Tell him you don't deserve it. You blew it, sit 207 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 4: on the sidelines. 208 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 5: God showed up and said, I have the final say, 209 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 5: and I say not shame on you. 210 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 4: But shame off you. In that moment, he was chained. 211 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 4: Maybe like him. 212 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 5: You know God has forgiven you, but you still have 213 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 5: this sense of unworthiness, like you don't deserve it. You 214 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 5: could never reach your highest potential friends. That shame has 215 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 5: held you back long enough. Today God has removed the reproach. 216 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 5: Today the chains have been broken, burdens have been lifted. 217 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 4: God is saying, shame off of you. Now you have 218 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 4: to get in agreement. 219 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 5: Quit listening to the accusing voices, Quit believing the lies. 220 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 4: That you have to settle for second best. Nothing you've 221 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 4: done is a surprise to God. 222 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 5: He's not up in the heaven scratching his head. He said, 223 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 5: oh man, I didn't see that last mistake coming. 224 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 4: They threw me off. 225 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 5: Now, God had the mercy before you made the mistake. 226 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 5: He had the solution before you had the problem. Why 227 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 5: don't you shake off the shame, shake off the guilt. 228 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 4: This is a new day. The reproach has been rolled away. 229 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 4: Here's the key. 230 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 5: Don't let one negative event become your identity. Don't let 231 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 5: one failure, a divorce, a bankruptcy, and addiction become who 232 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 5: you are. It's easy to take all the blame. 233 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 4: Let it consume you. 234 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 5: Before long, you become known as the man who blew 235 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 5: his marriage, the woman that was abused, the young person 236 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 5: that has the addiction. No, that's what you did. That's 237 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 5: not who you are. That's what happened to you. That 238 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 5: is not your identity. The enemy would love to. 239 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 4: Stick these labels on us. 240 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 5: Addicted, unfaithful, divorce, bad parent. 241 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 4: Don't believe those lies. 242 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 5: You may struggle with an addiction, but you are not 243 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:07,479 Speaker 5: an addict. 244 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,119 Speaker 4: What you do does. 245 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 5: Not change your identity. You are still a child of 246 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 5: the most High God. You may have failed in some 247 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 5: area of your life. We all have, but you're. 248 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 4: Not a failure. 249 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 5: You may have had some bad breaks, but you are 250 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 5: not a victim. When those thoughts of guilt and shame 251 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 5: try to relabel you, you have to remind yourself. I 252 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 5: am not who people say I am. I am not 253 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 5: whose circumstances say I am. I am who God says 254 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 5: I am. God says I am approved. I am accepted. 255 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 5: I am valuable. 256 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 4: I am a masterpiece. 257 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 5: In the scripture, names had a lot more meaning and 258 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 5: significance than they have today. Isaac had a son and 259 00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 5: he named him Jacob. Jacob means trickster, swindler, deci. Every 260 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 5: time someone said hello Jacob, they were saying hello, trickster, 261 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 5: Good morning Jacob, Good morning, con man. It's time to 262 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 5: go to school, Jacob, time to go to school. 263 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 4: Cheater. 264 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 5: He had heard this so long he didn't know any better. 265 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 5: He became exactly what people called him. For years, he 266 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 5: was told, you're a con man. He conned his brother 267 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 5: Esau out of his inheritance. 268 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 4: You're a cheater. 269 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 5: He cheated his uncle went around tricking people. Later in life, 270 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 5: Jacob got tired of living like that. One night, he 271 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 5: went down to the brook to get alone with God. 272 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 5: An angel appeared unto him in the form of a man. 273 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 5: The angel asked Jacob what his name was. He said, 274 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 5: I am Jacob. He was saying, I am a cheater. 275 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 5: I am a deceiver. I am dishonest. The angel didn't say, 276 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 5: you're right, Jacob. You've lived a really terrible life. You 277 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 5: ought to be ashamed of yourself. The angel said you 278 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 5: are not Jacob. He was saying you are not a deceiver. 279 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 5: You may have let people talk you into that, but 280 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 5: that is not your true identity. The angel told Jacob, 281 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 5: God has a new name for you. Instead of Jacob, 282 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 5: you will now be called Israel. Israel means prince with God. 283 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 5: God took this man that had lived a life of dishonesty, 284 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 5: gone around cheating people instead of giving him what he deserved. 285 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 5: Instead of shaking his finger saying shame on you, Jacob, 286 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 5: God said, shame off you, Jacob. 287 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 4: You're my son. 288 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 5: I have destined you to leave your mark in your generation, 289 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 5: not in disgrace, not as a failure. 290 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 4: I've called you to be a prince. I've called you 291 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 4: to reign in life. First thing God had to do 292 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 4: was remove the reproach. 293 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 5: God had to get the shame off of him. Are 294 00:15:55,280 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 5: you wearing any negative labels today? Have you let circumstance, failures, 295 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 5: or even people put a label on you that says 296 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 5: not valuable, not worthy? Addicted, bad parent, blew his marriage, 297 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 5: didn't raise his children right. Doesn't deserve to be blessed. Friends, 298 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 5: This is what grace is all about. None of us 299 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 5: deserve it. But God says, I'm gonna bless you anyway. 300 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 4: I know your true identity. 301 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 5: I've breathed my life into you. You may feel, like Jacob, 302 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 5: you've made some poor choices. You could easily live with 303 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 5: that sense of shame. But God in effect is changing 304 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 5: our names today to prince, to princes, to redeem, to forgiven, 305 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 5: to highly favored people. Jacob could have easily told the angel, 306 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 5: I don't see how God could ever make me a prince. 307 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 5: I've made so many bad choices. No, he accepted it 308 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 5: into his spirit. He agreed with what God said. In fact, 309 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 5: oh the Angel, I'm not leaving here until you bless me. 310 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 5: He was saying, I may not deserve it, but since 311 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 5: the shame has been rolled away, I'm asking for favor, 312 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 5: I'm asking for new levels. I'm asking for the fullness 313 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 5: of my destiny. God didn't say, Jacob, who do you. 314 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 4: Think you are? 315 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 5: I'm gonna bless you. You know the life you've lived. 316 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 5: God said Jacob. I like your boldness. I like the 317 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 5: fact that you shook off the shame. You got rid 318 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 5: of the guilt. Now you're ready to step up to 319 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 5: who I've created you to be. 320 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 4: You live like that. 321 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 5: God will bless you in amazing ways, even if you're 322 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 5: still struggling in an area. There is no shame to 323 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 5: ask for help. Sometimes we think we're supposed to be perfect. 324 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 5: We can't let anybody know we have a bad habit, 325 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 5: an addiction, this struggle. We'd be embarrassed. No, don't let 326 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 5: shame keep you isolated. Real healing bee begins when we 327 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 5: get honest. The scripture says, confess your faults one to another, 328 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 5: and you will be healed. Some things you can't overcome 329 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 5: on your own. You need somebody to stand in faith 330 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 5: with you. 331 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 3: Now. 332 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 5: I'm not saying that you have to announce it, but 333 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 5: you can find a person that you can trust to 334 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 5: walk with you through it. There's something about getting it 335 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 5: out in the open. Don't let the fear of what 336 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 5: other people think keep you from your miracle. 337 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 4: I've learned everybody is dealing with something. 338 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 5: The people that you think have it all together look 339 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 5: fine on the outside. 340 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 4: They're good at pretending everyone has issues. 341 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 5: It's easy to hide things and only let people see 342 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 5: what we want them to see. The same person that 343 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 5: comes to church on Sunday and waves to you so 344 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 5: friendly on Monday, if you cut them off in traffic, 345 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 5: they may wave to you with one finger in the 346 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 5: ear and not saying one way, Jesus, the other person 347 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 5: comes out. Even in the scripture, some of the heroes 348 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 5: of faith, they all had their weaknesses. One day Peter 349 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 5: was preaching to thousands, telling a crippled man to rise 350 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 5: and walk. Another day he was cursing people out, denying 351 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 5: that he knew Jesus. One day, David was defeating a 352 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 5: giant leading God's people. Another day he was committing adultery, 353 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 5: having the lady's husband killed. He was so ashamed of 354 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 5: himself he tried to hide it for a year. 355 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 4: Finally got it out in the open, confessed his faults. 356 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 4: God restored him. 357 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 5: One day, Noah was building an arc saving his family. 358 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 5: Another day he was getting drunk running around naked. You 359 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 5: think you have issues, you have nothing. 360 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 4: To be ashamed of. And here's another thought. 361 00:19:55,200 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 5: Most likely the things you're struggling with didn't start with you. 362 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 4: They were passed down. 363 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 5: Now this is your opportunity to put an end to it. 364 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 5: You can be the one to break the negative cycle 365 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 5: in your family. 366 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 4: The first step shake off the shame. 367 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 5: Don't be embarrassed, don't try to hide it. You don't 368 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 5: have to go through life pretending. If you'll get honest, 369 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,919 Speaker 5: go to God and ask him for help. Find a 370 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 5: friend to stick with you in the faith. You can 371 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 5: overcome anything that's holding you back. 372 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 4: The forces that are for you are greater than the 373 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 4: forces that are against you. 374 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 5: I received a letter from a teenage girl that lives 375 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 5: in another state. She told how she struggled with anorexia. 376 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 5: She wouldn't hardly eat anything. She got to where she 377 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 5: was skin and bones. On top of that, she was 378 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 5: cutting herself. It's the only way she could find relief 379 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 5: from the pain she felt on the inside. She came 380 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 5: from a well respected family, was too embarrassed to tell anyone. 381 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 5: She felt ashamed of who she was guilty for injuring herself. 382 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 4: She knew it was wrong, but she kept hearing the voices. 383 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 4: You're not valuable, you're no good. Look at you. 384 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 5: That's what the enemy loves to do. Heep on the guilt, 385 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 5: the shame. He knows it will keep us from our destiny. 386 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 5: And she got to the point where she wouldn't look 387 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 5: anyone in the eyes. 388 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 4: She was so beaten down. 389 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 5: One day she heard me on TV talking about how 390 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 5: God will heal your hurts, He'll give you beauty for ashes, 391 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 5: how there's no shame, and being honest and going to 392 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 5: God and asking for help. 393 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 4: She made a decision that day that she wasn't going. 394 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 5: To pretend anymore. She told her parents what was going on. 395 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 5: They got her the help she needed. Long story short, 396 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 5: Today she's not only healthy, whole, free, but she's a 397 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,959 Speaker 5: counselor helping other young people that are struggling in that 398 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,719 Speaker 5: same situation. That's what happens. When you shake off the shame. 399 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 5: God will take your scars and turn them into stars. 400 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 5: He'll use you to help others. Maybe you're struggling in 401 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 5: an area right now. The next time you hear that 402 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 5: voice whispering shame on you, Instead of believing that lie, 403 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 5: beating yourself up, getting depressed, why don't you rise up 404 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,640 Speaker 5: and say, now, shame off me. If you'll start shaking 405 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 5: off the guilt the shame, then you can enter into 406 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 5: your promised land. 407 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 4: That's when you'll see the healing, the breakthrough, the new levels. 408 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 5: Some people are living with a sense of shame because 409 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 5: something that happened that wasn't. 410 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,719 Speaker 4: Even their fault. They were mistreated growing up. 411 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 5: Somebody took advantage of them, the way the enemy twists things, 412 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 5: so he'll try to convince you it was your fault. 413 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,360 Speaker 4: You deserved it. 414 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 5: If you would have been better, that wouldn't have happened. 415 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 5: Don't believe those lies. You can't help how someone. 416 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 4: Treated you when you were younger. 417 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 5: If they did you wrong, the problem wasn't with you, 418 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 5: The problem was with them. God said he will be 419 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 5: your vindicator. God saw what happened. He saw the injustice. 420 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 4: You may think. 421 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 5: Nobody knows what I've endured. Nobody knows the hurt, the shame, 422 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 5: the pain. 423 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 4: But God knows. 424 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 5: He saw every person that lifted a finger against you. 425 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 5: He saw every lonely night, every tear, every hurt. And 426 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 5: God said in Isaiah fifty four, you will forget the 427 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 5: shame of your youth. 428 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 4: You will not remember the reproach. 429 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 5: God is going to pay you back for that injustice 430 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 5: in such a way that you don't even remember what happened. 431 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 4: It's not going to be on the forefront of your mind. 432 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 4: He's going to make your life so blessed, so rewarding. 433 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 5: So fulfilling, you won't even think about those people that 434 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 5: hurt you. 435 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 4: Now do your part forgive the people that did you wrong. 436 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 5: As long as you continue to dwell on it, you're 437 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 5: allowing them to continue to hurt you. 438 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 4: Let it go. 439 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 5: What they did did not change your identity. You're still 440 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 5: a masterpiece. You're still wearing a crown of favor. You're 441 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 5: still destined to do great things. Why don't you take 442 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 5: off the old labels that say damaged, mistreated, abused, put 443 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:31,479 Speaker 5: on some new labels, accepted, approved, valuable, masterpiece. When you 444 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 5: do that, God promises you will not only forget the 445 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 5: shame of your past, but he takes it a step 446 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 5: further Isaiah sixty one. He said, instead of your former shame, 447 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 5: you shall receive a twofold recompense. Instead of dishonor and reproach, 448 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 5: you will possess double what you forfeited. You may have 449 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 5: had some unfair things happen, but stay in faith. Because 450 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 5: of that injustice, God is going to. 451 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 4: Pay you back double. Because of what happened. 452 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 5: The person that walked out and broke your heart, the 453 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 5: people that mistreated you, made you feel ashamed. 454 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 4: That did not go unnoticed. God saw it. 455 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 5: He's going to pay you back with double the joy, 456 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 5: double the peace, double the. 457 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 4: Honor, double the fulfillment. 458 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 5: Your life is going to be richer because or in 459 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 5: spite of that injustice. Now, this promise won't do us 460 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 5: any good if we sit back, ashamed, guilty, beating ourselves up. 461 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 5: Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high. Nothing 462 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 5: that was done to you, nothing that you've done, has 463 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 5: changed your identity. You are still a child of the 464 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 5: Most High God. His plans for you are still for 465 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 5: good and not evil. You may have had some bad breaks, 466 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 5: but really those setbacks were a set up. 467 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 4: For God to bring you out with double I know a. 468 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 5: Lady that always struggled with her self worth. 469 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 4: She never felt like she was good enough. 470 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 5: This insecurity came from being born out of wedlock. Her 471 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 5: mother and father weren't married, and as a child, she 472 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 5: saw on her birth certificate the little box that was 473 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 5: checked that said illegitimate. 474 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 4: That phrase became ingrained in her thinking. 475 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 5: All through her childhood her teenage years, she felt inferior. 476 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 4: Anytime she tried to move. 477 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 5: Forward, she'd hear voices whispering you weren't wanted. 478 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 4: You're not valuable. 479 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 5: There's something wrong with you. She went around with this 480 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 5: sense of shame, unworthiness. She was wearing the label illegitimate, 481 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 5: not up to par. 482 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 4: One day, I was talking. 483 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 5: About how our worth and value doesn't come from people, 484 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 5: it comes from God. 485 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 4: She said, it was like. 486 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 5: Something exploded on the inside. Instead of believing those lies 487 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,719 Speaker 5: that she should be ashamed that she has no value, 488 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 5: she started reprogramming her thinking, I am not an accident. 489 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 5: I am not a mistake. I've been handpicked by Almighty God. 490 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 5: I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Her attitude was, no 491 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 5: matter what my birth certificate says, I know I am legitimate. 492 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 5: The most High God breathes his life into me. Today 493 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 5: she is living a free, blessed, confident, faithful life, just 494 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 5: like God promised. She doesn't remember the shame of her youth. 495 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 5: Are you carrying around any guilt, shame, heaviness? Friends, this 496 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 5: is your day to be free. The reproach has been 497 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 5: rolled away. The door is open, but you have to 498 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 5: walk out of it. Take off the negative labels. When 499 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 5: the enemy whispers shame on you answer right back, no, 500 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 5: shame off me. I've been forgiven. I've been redeemed. I 501 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 5: am invaluable. If you'll do this, I believe and declare 502 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 5: every chain is being broken. God is going to pay 503 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,360 Speaker 5: you back double for that injustice. You're going to enter 504 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 5: into your promised land and become everything God's created you 505 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 5: to be in Jesus' name. And if you receive it today, 506 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 5: can you say amen? We never like to close our 507 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 5: broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 508 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 5: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 509 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 5: I repent of my sins. 510 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 4: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 511 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 512 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 5: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church, 513 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 5: keep God first place. 514 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 4: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed. 515 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the Julus Dean podcast. 516 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: Help us continue to share the message of hope with 517 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 2: those all over the world. 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