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Speaker 6: go at night. Say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 6: is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about remove the grave clothes.

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Speaker 5: There are people God has put in our lives on purpose,

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Speaker 5: so we can help restore them. They're off course, they're addicted,

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Speaker 5: they're broken. It's easy to judge and think they should

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Speaker 6: It's their own fault.

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Speaker 5: But if it was not for the grace of God,

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Speaker 5: that could be us. We didn't get to where we

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Speaker 5: are because we're so talented, so disciplined, so obedient. That

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Speaker 5: get the talent, Where did you get the discipline? It

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Speaker 5: came from your heavenly Father. Wasn't anything we chose.

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Speaker 6: It's simply the goodness of God.

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Speaker 5: But too often we look at others and think, why

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Speaker 5: are they still making poor choices, Why are they still addicted?

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Speaker 5: Why do they get in bad relationships? Again and again?

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Speaker 5: It's because God has given you grace in that area.

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Speaker 5: Without his grace, you would be where they are. And

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Speaker 5: instead of looking down on them pointing the finger, you

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Speaker 5: should know better. They don't need more condemnation. God didn't

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Speaker 5: put them there so you could judge them.

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Speaker 6: He put them there so you could love them.

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Speaker 5: Love heels, love restores, love lifts up all around.

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Speaker 6: You are hurting people, broken people.

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Speaker 5: People that may not have had the advantages that you had.

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Speaker 5: They weren't raised by parents that invested in them. They've

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Speaker 5: It's easy to criticize, but you don't know where you

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Speaker 5: would be if you had walked in their shoes. The

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Speaker 5: longer I live, the less judgmental I am. I realize

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Speaker 5: everyone didn't get what I got. It's easy for me

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Speaker 5: to feel secure, valuable, confident, believe big. I had parents

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Speaker 6: Life is not a level playing field.

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Speaker 5: When you're tempted to be judgmental, you need to remind

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Speaker 5: yourself most likely they didn't get everything you got. If

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Speaker 5: be making the same decisions that they're making. God has

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Speaker 5: freely given you mercy. Here's my challenge, Freely give it

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Speaker 5: to others. Don't be stingy with your mercy. God is

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Speaker 5: counting on us to lift the fallen, to restore the broken,

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Speaker 6: Where are the healers? Where are the restorers?

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Speaker 5: Where are the people that, instead of running away from

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Speaker 5: the broken. They help heal the broken John Chapter eleven.

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Speaker 5: Lazarus was very sick. His two sisters sent word to

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Speaker 5: He spoke to Lazarus, said, Lazarus.

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Speaker 5: Instantly he woke up. He was raised from the dead,

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Speaker 5: a great miracle. The problem was Lazarus was wrapped with

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Speaker 5: they would wrap them up like a mummy. Verse forty

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Speaker 5: Them, unwrap him and let him go. Even though Lazarus

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Speaker 5: had to remove his grave clothes or he would have

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Speaker 6: Of what God had done.

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Speaker 5: You can imagine when they went to take off the

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Speaker 6: Every layer they unwrapped, the stench got worse. It was dirty, messy, smelly.

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Speaker 5: Lazarus a whole lot to have been willing to endure

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Speaker 5: all it took to remove his grave clothes. This is

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Speaker 5: what God has called us to do. There are people

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Speaker 5: around us wearing grave clothes. God has done something on

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Speaker 5: the inside, He's breathed life into them, given them purpose.

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Speaker 5: But they're still bound on the outside. They have addictions,

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Speaker 6: The problem is it's messy.

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Speaker 5: It's tempting to think when they clean themselves up, then

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Speaker 5: I'll help them when they get back on course, Joel,

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Speaker 5: If someone doesn't step up to remove their grave clothes?

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Speaker 5: Where are the people that are willing to get dirty

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Speaker 6: Others have written off.

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Speaker 5: It would be easy to remove grave clothes if they

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Speaker 5: Grave clothes are messy. Grave close stink, and we think

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Speaker 5: They compromise, they're bitter, they're jealous, they have a long

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Speaker 5: just because they're still dirty, doesn't mean they're not clean

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Speaker 5: on the inside. Jesus spoke life to Lazarus. He was

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Speaker 6: What am I saying? Don't judge by appearance.

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Speaker 5: The grave clothes may stink, they may be dirty, but

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Speaker 5: There's a forgiven person. There's a victorious person.

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Speaker 6: Help remove the grave clothes. How do you do this?

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Speaker 5: By speaking faith into them, not telling them what they are,

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Speaker 5: For years, my mom prayed for a man by the

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Speaker 5: says God's calling on your life is irrevocable. That means

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Speaker 5: would think Joseiah would say, I am done with this lady.

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Speaker 5: torn her head down in shame. He got up close

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Speaker 5: He smiled and said, don't worry, I'm going to get

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Speaker 5: you out of here. What was that promiscuous grace. It

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Speaker 5: goes to unusual places. He went to the man in

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Speaker 5: He said, you're not taking her anywhere. She belongs to me.

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Speaker 6: She's for sale. You'll have to buy her.

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Speaker 5: He took out his wallet and paid fifteen shekels and

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Speaker 5: five barley loaves. He bought back what should have been already.

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Speaker 5: His Hoseiah is a picture of God. Gomer represents you

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Speaker 5: and me. All been unfaithful. We went our own way,

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Speaker 5: did our own thing. But God, who is rich in mercy,

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Speaker 5: when we turned our back on him, he had every

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Speaker 5: and he brought us back, not with fifteen shekels, but

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Speaker 5: with the blood of his own son. Since God has

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Speaker 5: be a Hoseiah and buy somebody else back?

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Speaker 6: Will you rescue them?

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Speaker 5: They are hurting people all around you, broken people that

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Speaker 5: deserve your kindness. You could walk away. Nobody would fault you.

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Speaker 5: But God rescued you. He's counting on you to rescue them.

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Speaker 5: They're not in your path by accident. God put them

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Speaker 5: But underneath the mess, the addictions, the bad habits, there's

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Speaker 5: Will you be a Hoseiah and go after the hurting,

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Speaker 5: Go after the broken, those that are addicted, those that

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Speaker 5: have been written.

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Speaker 5: Not with your finger pointed in judgment telling them what

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Speaker 6: Go after them with something more.

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Speaker 5: Powerful, with love, with mercy, with the goodness of God.

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Speaker 5: They don't deserve it. Neither did we while we were

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Speaker 5: I'm asking you show that mercy to others.

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Speaker 6: Be a Hoseiah.

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Speaker 5: If you'll do this, I believe and declare as you

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