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Speaker 1: Let us pray blessed be the God and Father of

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Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all

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Speaker 1: spiritual blessings in heavenly places. In Christ Ephesians won three.

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Speaker 1: I bless you, Heavenly Father, for sending your son, my

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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ, who opened the door to heaven, and

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Speaker 1: release all the spiritual blessings stolen from us when Adam sinned.

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Speaker 1: You have provided every resource necessary to live victoriously in

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Speaker 1: this life. You gave us the Bible to teach us

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Speaker 1: how to live. You gave us your Holy Spirit to

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Speaker 1: us authority in the name of Jesus to rule over

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Speaker 1: demonic activity. There are no more excuses for me to

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Speaker 1: and be restored through the blood of Christ. Amen. Thank

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Speaker 3: How many people are excited for the word of God tonight.

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Speaker 3: It has been a week of literally just being saturated

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Speaker 3: with the good news of Jesus Christ, and tonight I

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Speaker 3: have got a particular assignment. So why don't you put

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Speaker 3: Pick up your Bible real quick. Tone. We need to Ephesians,

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Speaker 3: this is gonna set the tone for what I believe

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Speaker 3: God is going to speak into this moment and beyond.

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Speaker 3: I believe God's going to give you something that you

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Speaker 3: your perspective. And in Ephesians chapter one, it says this

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Speaker 3: verse three, or praise to God, the father of our Lord,

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Speaker 3: Jesus Christ to us blessed us with every spiritual blessing

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Speaker 3: in the heavenly realms, because we are united with Christ.

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Speaker 3: Even before he made the world, God loved us and

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Speaker 3: and he gave him great pleasure. So we praise God

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Speaker 3: with all wisdom and understanding. God has now revealed to

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Speaker 3: verse ten and this is the plan. At the right time,

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Speaker 3: he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ,

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Speaker 3: everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because we are

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Speaker 3: to require a teaching approach tonight where we can learn

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Speaker 3: know if you have the heart to receive it tonight,

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Speaker 3: from this moment on, you will not look at things

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Speaker 3: Your destiny is calling, Your destiny is calling. You're ready

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Speaker 3: receive it in your name. Amen. Go ahead and grab

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Speaker 3: so this Sunday, we're celebrating ten years as a church,

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Speaker 3: Pastor Jurgen preached it our very first ever sermon and

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Speaker 3: it was fantastic. Ten years ago. I actually wanted to

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Speaker 3: how bad it was not the church. Our entrance into America,

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Speaker 3: it very clear when when I sat for my naturalization test,

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Speaker 3: The question was who can run for the office of

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Speaker 3: I asked, why did they remove that? They said, well,

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Speaker 3: In fact, I really want to help you tonight. That's

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Speaker 3: my goal. I've I've been watching you know, as a

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Speaker 3: to hope anymore because, as Romans eight twenty four says,

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Speaker 3: in this hope we were saved. Now I hope that's seen.

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Speaker 3: There's no hope at all who hopes and what they

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Speaker 3: sees because you will see, you won't need to hope.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to help you understand that there are some

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Speaker 3: tensions that we deal with here in the scene realm

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Speaker 3: that we won't need to in the unseen room, but

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Speaker 3: they walk in parallel. Among other things, you won't need

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Speaker 3: in heaven. Mention this before. You won't need prayer. You

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Speaker 3: won't need fasting, Thank you Jesus. You won't need repentance.

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Speaker 3: There will be no need for them. There'll be absolutely

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Speaker 3: no need because prayer is essential now, because prayer is

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Speaker 3: the language of Heaven. It's the believer's tool to transcend

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Speaker 3: realms and connect with Heaven. The reality of these two

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Speaker 3: realms exist separately, but simultaneously and with paralleled purpose, creating

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Speaker 3: some perplexing tensions. For instance, I want to teach you

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Speaker 3: how this works in salvation. In salvation, we have what

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Speaker 3: is called a multi state tension for the believer. For example,

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Speaker 3: in First Peter, we see salvation has already been one

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Speaker 3: for us, and it is secured in heaven. One Peter,

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Speaker 3: chapter one, verse four. Write this down, and we have

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Speaker 3: a priceless inheritance and inheritance that is kept in heaven

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Speaker 3: for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change

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Speaker 3: and decay. However, at the same time, the Bible also

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Speaker 3: makes it clear that while we are saved, we're also

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Speaker 3: being saved. Maybe I could show you with scripture, because

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Speaker 3: I want to make sure we establish a foundation and

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Speaker 3: an understanding of how we access what God has for us.

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Speaker 3: May maybe we could do this. We got three screens,

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Speaker 3: Maybe we could put up three scriptures, because on the left,

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Speaker 3: let's put up Ephesians chapter two, verse eight. In the

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Speaker 3: center till let's put up First Corinthians chapter one, eighteen,

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Speaker 3: and on the right, let's put up Romans thirteen eleven.

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Speaker 3: I want to show you these three passages the port wrote,

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Speaker 3: revealing the tension that we possess or have to deal

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Speaker 3: with in salvation. And Ephesians two eighty says four, by

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Speaker 3: grace you have been saved through faith, and this is

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Speaker 3: not your own doing. It's the gift of God that

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Speaker 3: talks about past. First Corinthians one eighteen, he says, for

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Speaker 3: the word of the cross is folly to those who

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Speaker 3: are perishing, but to those who to us who are

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Speaker 3: being saved, it is the power of God that talks

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Speaker 3: about present. In Romans thirteen eleven, it says, besides this,

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Speaker 3: you know the time that the hour has come for

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Speaker 3: you to wake from your sleep. For salvation is nearer

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Speaker 3: now to us than when we first leave talking about

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Speaker 3: the future. Support which one is it? Is it done,

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Speaker 3: yet to be done, or in the middle, all of them,

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Speaker 3: all of it, all at once, all existing at the

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Speaker 3: same time. That at the same time that your salvation

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Speaker 3: is secured, you've still got a way to go. And

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Speaker 3: God's working right now. You're being saved right now in

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Speaker 3: this meeting. You're being saved right now. Is your revelation

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Speaker 3: is illuminating your being saved. I'm so glad you're being

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Speaker 3: saved finally. At the same time, it's near, it's coming.

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Speaker 3: So there's this multi state tension that we live with

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Speaker 3: that's connected to the scene room, in the unseen room.

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Speaker 3: This is why we're limited but not lacking. I'll stay

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Speaker 3: with me. This is gonna get good. It's the ascension,

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Speaker 3: which is referred to as the now and not yet

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Speaker 3: of salvation, exists both in the scene room and the

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Speaker 3: unseen room. In the We're limited but well, Paul illuminates,

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Speaker 3: in the unseen room, we're not lacking one thing. In fact,

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Speaker 3: Jesus is our great example of accessing what's available in

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Speaker 3: the unseen room while existing in the scene room. I

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Speaker 3: think it'd be good for us to use Jesus as

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Speaker 3: our example tonight. This is because Jesus is maybe shocking

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Speaker 3: to hear, was also limited but not lacking. One of

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Speaker 3: the most difficult things to get your mind around concept

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Speaker 3: to understand how Jesus could be at the same time

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Speaker 3: both fully God and fully man. Many a campfire and

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Speaker 3: a youth setting have we tried to wrap our minds

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Speaker 3: around these concepts. How is it that God can be

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Speaker 3: fully God and at the same time fully man. You see,

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Speaker 3: Jesus was limited but not lacking. John one fourteen reveals

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Speaker 3: it so eloquently. The Word became flesh and made his

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Speaker 3: dwelling among us. In other words, Jesus came into the

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Speaker 3: world born of a virgin birth. Now check this out

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Speaker 3: that I'm not a biologist either, Okay, but when it

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Speaker 3: says in scripture that he was born, that tells me

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Speaker 3: he was a baby human come from Newcastle, Australia, Steel City.

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Speaker 3: That means anybody held a baby. Babies can't do much.

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Speaker 3: They they're limited. But this baby was God. But a

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Speaker 3: baby fully God, but limited, not lacking, but not performing miracles.

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Speaker 3: In fact, there was so much inactivity in the life

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Speaker 3: of Jesus. We have nothing between birth to twelve years old,

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Speaker 3: Like where's the You've seen that meme with baby Jesus

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Speaker 3: walking on the bathtub order and Mary's trying to get

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Speaker 3: him in, you know what I mean. Like that'd be

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Speaker 3: a cool inclusion, wouldn't they Like in scripture Mary had

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Speaker 3: the hardest time getting Jesus under the water, you know.

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Speaker 3: But the truth is Jesus was limited, completely limited. However,

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Speaker 3: we do see a little inclusion in Luke Chapter two.

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Speaker 3: Luke adds something that we find fascinating because along the

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Speaker 3: journey between birth baby until we see Jesus ministring and

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Speaker 3: healing and operating in the full authority of the God

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Speaker 3: Head and ministering in the Holy Spirit, and all those

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Speaker 3: kind of things between birth and that we get one

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Speaker 3: little inclusion at twelve years old. It's fascinating one. It's

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Speaker 3: worthy of looking at to understand how God's called us

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Speaker 3: to live with limitation. In Luke chapter two, verse forty six,

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Speaker 3: it says this, three days later, they finally discovered him

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Speaker 3: in the temple, sitting among the religious teachers, listening to

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Speaker 3: them and asking questions verse forty seven. All who heard

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Speaker 3: him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. His

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Speaker 3: parents didn't know what to think. Son. His mother said

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Speaker 3: to him, why have you done this to us? Your

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Speaker 3: father and I have been frantic searching for you everywhere,

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Speaker 3: But why did you need to search? He asked, didn't

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Speaker 3: you know that I must be in my father's house?

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Speaker 3: But they didn't understand what he meant. Then he returned

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Speaker 3: to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them, and

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Speaker 3: his mother stored all these things in her heart verse

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Speaker 3: fifty two. Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature, and

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Speaker 3: in favor with God and all the people. Now, this

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Speaker 3: midway inclusion in scripture is absolutely and vital. It's not

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Speaker 3: just a cool progress story in the development of Jesus

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Speaker 3: It's actually significant for the way we need to approach

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Speaker 3: the scene and the unseen realm, and the very blessings

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Speaker 3: that God has given to us. In this passage will

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Speaker 3: reveal your destiny. In this passage will reveal how you

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Speaker 3: access every spiritual blessing that is yours in Christ Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Even though you are limited, you need to know that

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Speaker 3: you are not lad. The first thing this passage reveals

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Speaker 3: is that Jesus in verse forty six, was listening to

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Speaker 3: them and asking questions. Twelve years old. Jesus wasn't doing

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Speaker 3: what twelve year olds are encouraged to do today, which is,

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Speaker 3: if you can dream it, you can be it. Luke

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Speaker 3: didn't write the story this way. Jesus is in a field,

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Speaker 3: just looking at the sky, wondering what he could be.

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Speaker 3: None say that. Didn't say that Jesus was talking with

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Speaker 3: a random stranger and they were convincing him that, hey,

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Speaker 3: you're probably the Messiah, so whatever you want to be,

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Speaker 3: you could be. No. No, he he's in the temple

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Speaker 3: and he's talking and studying ancient prophets. He's studying everything

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Speaker 3: that was prophesied about him so that he could make

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Speaker 3: sure he would fulfill what he was destined to do,

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Speaker 3: Jesus is the fulfillment of every single prophecy, and so

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Speaker 3: to fulfill the prophecies, what Jesus did is he went

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Speaker 3: to where the prophecies were written and began to ask

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Speaker 3: questions to those that knew the prophecies. He began to

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Speaker 3: ask what did the prophecies say? And as they said them,

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Speaker 3: his answers astounded them because what he was beginning to

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Speaker 3: piece together was the fact that verse fifty two said

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Speaker 3: Jesus grew in wisdom and in statuurep and in favor

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Speaker 3: with God. Jesus didn't lack anything. He was fully God

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Speaker 3: at birth. He was in every way God, possessing the

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Speaker 3: full power of God. Yet he also had to grow

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Speaker 3: into the fullness of that revelation. Stay with me, Stay

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Speaker 3: with me. I'm trying to get it somewhere. Let me

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Speaker 3: put it this way. Spiritual growth doesn't come from addition,

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Speaker 3: if anything, It comes from nutrition, feeding on the word

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Speaker 3: of God. That's how you grow. It's not coming from

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Speaker 3: something you don't have. It's from feeding on God's word.

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Speaker 3: And as you feed on God's word, something is revealed

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Speaker 3: that God put it inside you. But you couldn't see it.

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Speaker 3: You didn't know it was there. But as you began

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Speaker 3: to feed on the word of God, you began to

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Speaker 3: access it. And what came out of you was already

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Speaker 3: in you. That God spoke over you from the beginning

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Speaker 3: of time. His plan was already in motion. He just

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Speaker 3: needed someone to begin to go to the manual. You're

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Speaker 3: going to read it. We're goin to read it. It's

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Speaker 3: so interesting that when Mary comes and says, your father

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Speaker 3: and I, I don't know why. I picture Mary like

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Speaker 3: my mom. I don't know why. How do you do that?

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Speaker 3: Is it just me? My mom's five foot nothing and

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Speaker 3: she's from Liverpool. She will stab you. Give her a chance.

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Speaker 3: Where have you been? Father? This wasn't credit to your

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Speaker 3: father and I ha ha, Hi everyone Father and I.

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Speaker 3: But I love the answer my father, did you know

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Speaker 3: I need to be in my father's house. See what

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Speaker 3: we see is a progress in the revelation. Not only

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Speaker 3: do I know this is my father's house, I'm revealing

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Speaker 3: who I am. I'm the son Jesus is building his

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Speaker 3: identity around his destiny. Jesus fed on the word of God.

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Speaker 3: He grew in revelation, which was the key to accessing

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Speaker 3: every spiritual blessing. This is the word of God. Studying

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Speaker 3: the Word of God. The idea of revelation is actually

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Speaker 3: what Paul is talking about. In verse nine of Ephesians,

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Speaker 3: he says, God has now revealed to us his mysterious

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Speaker 3: will regarding Christ, which is to fulfill his own good plan.

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Speaker 3: Not only did Jesus receive revelation, but just as powerfully

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Speaker 3: he came into agreement with it. I want to talk

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Speaker 3: to you about the power of agreement. You're limited, but

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Speaker 3: let me remind you you're not lacking, and there are

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Speaker 3: some things that God has given you so you can

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Speaker 3: access what's available to you. And a big part of

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Speaker 3: the process is following the model that Jesus gave us,

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Speaker 3: which is to go to the Word to begin to

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Speaker 3: seek revelation. But when you get revelation, there is a

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Speaker 3: key that will unlock what God has for you. In fact,

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Speaker 3: several times in scripture, Jesus reveals that he only does

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Speaker 3: what he sees the Father doing. Jesus was constantly in

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Speaker 3: agreement with the Father. In fact, talking about revelation in

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Speaker 3: the Book of Revelation, chapter three, verse fourteen, we find

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Speaker 3: that Jesus is referred to as the Amen of Heaven.

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Speaker 3: This is an amazing title that is given to Jesus

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Speaker 3: at the end of the book, at the end of time,

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Speaker 3: at the fulfillment of God's plan, which is what revelation

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Speaker 3: is illuminating hate that we win and this is how

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Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. And what we find is that Jesus

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Speaker 3: is referred to as the Amen of Heaven. I love

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Speaker 3: this because what it's doing at the end of the

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Speaker 3: book is referring to the beginning of the book that

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Speaker 3: when man fell, God's redemptive plan was enacted to bring

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Speaker 3: men back into relationship with God. Sin is what separated us.

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Speaker 3: Sin cast us out of relationship. But God, loving us

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Speaker 3: so much, decided that he is going to send his

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Speaker 3: son Jesus. Jesus, being part of the God, had said

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Speaker 3: I'll do it. In obedience, he stepped out into the world,

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Speaker 3: out of heaven as a human, taking sin upon himself. Therefore,

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Speaker 3: in the end of the book it refers to his

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Speaker 3: obedience in the beginning of the book, saying that he

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Speaker 3: is the Amen of Heaven. Amen means let it be so,

645
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Speaker 3: let it be done, Let your will be done on

646
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Speaker 3: earth as it is in heaven came into agreement. This

647
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Speaker 3: is both in reference to his obedience to the Father

648
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Speaker 3: and to his agreement from the beginning to carry out

649
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Speaker 3: the full redemptive plan of Heaven for humanity. Jesus's revelation

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Speaker 3: was met with an amen, amen as an agreement, amen

651
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Speaker 3: as willing surrender, amen as alignment. I wonder what it

652
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Speaker 3: would look like if we didn't just get stuck wondering

653
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Speaker 3: about all the possibilities that we could do in this life,

654
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Speaker 3: and simply come into agreement with what God has already

655
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Speaker 3: dead for us in life. I just I wonder if

656
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Speaker 3: it's more simple than we think. I mean, we love

657
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Speaker 3: the complexity of discovering what's the possibilities? But I wonder

658
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Speaker 3: if it's more simple than we think. I wonder if

659
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Speaker 3: when we realize that, if God has already equipped me

660
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Speaker 3: with everything I need to fulfill his calling, why would

661
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Speaker 3: I then separate myself from God to find what it

662
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 3: is I'm called to do, what my destiny is. Why

663
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Speaker 3: would I not go back to the word, seek revelation,

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Speaker 3: from revelation, come into agreement, to come into agreement? Can

665
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Speaker 3: I illuminate? You don't get to pick a purpose, you

666
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 3: don't get to pick a purpose. You should be thankful

667
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Speaker 3: for that because what you pick would be way lower

668
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 3: than what God would pick for you. How do I

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Speaker 3: know this because you always take the elevator and not

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Speaker 3: the stairs. And it would be the same with your purpose.

671
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Speaker 3: That if you were picking your purpose in life, you

672
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Speaker 3: would probably pick the path of least resistance. But the

673
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:20,479
Speaker 3: path of least resistance also lacks significance. And God loves

674
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Speaker 3: you so much that the purpose that He has for

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Speaker 3: you has significance intertwined with it. That's why it comes

676
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Speaker 3: with resistance. That's why it comes with some things that

677
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 3: are available to you that you don't currently have in

678
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Speaker 3: your hands. But even though you're limited, God says, you're

679
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Speaker 3: not lacking. I want you to find everything that I've

680
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Speaker 3: given to you, and I want you to access it.

681
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 3: How do we access it? This word agreement, This word

682
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 3: agreement coming into agreement. The Bible calls that amen, amen

683
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 3: is a word of agreement. Amen is saying Jesus, I

684
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Speaker 3: agree with you, Jesus. I know what the world is saying,

685
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 3: I know what my conditions are saying, I know what

686
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,479
Speaker 3: my circumstances is presenting. But God, you know what I'm choosing.

687
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 3: I'm choosing to side with you. I'm choosing to come

688
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 3: into agreement with God. That's the power of amen. So

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Speaker 3: when a word comes from the pulpit, when the word

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Speaker 3: comes from the stage, it's a darn good idea to

691
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Speaker 3: say Amen, it's a good it's a really good idea

692
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 3: to say, God, I'm gonna I like that. I want that.

693
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 3: I'm going to access it by an Amen. Amen is

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Speaker 3: the key that unlocks the spiritual blessings that you have

695
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Speaker 3: in Christ Jesus. Amen literally says God, I agree with it.

696
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 3: Let it be done in my life. Let me walk

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00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,439
Speaker 3: it out. Amen. Amen is the key. It's the it's

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Speaker 3: the it's the it's the code. It's the four digit

699
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 3: code that unlocks everything that is available but held up,

700
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Speaker 3: held up, the code is not trying to think what

701
00:46:56,280 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 3: it could be, trying be anything. I'm gonna unlock the thing,

702
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 3: unlock the thing that was planned from the beginning, and

703
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 3: it was God's good pleasure to do it. He designed

704
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 3: it from the beginning. What if I was to tell

705
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 3: you that your destiny is calling for a response tonight.

706
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 3: What if I was to tell you that your destiny

707
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 3: is calling for some agreement tonight that your destiny is

708
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 3: literally shouting from heaven and calling you by name, a

709
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 3: name that God had planned even before your parents thought

710
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 3: of it in their mind. A name that goes beyond

711
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 3: a sentence or a language, but a name that bears

712
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 3: identity in Christ Jesus, and a God that is calling

713
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 3: you to say, God, I agree with you. God, I

714
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 3: come in. Not a God who's angry and upset that

715
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 3: you haven't figured it all out yet, Not a God

716
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 3: who has no plans for you. What do you want

717
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 3: to do? What do you want to be? Maybe I

718
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 3: didn't get it right, Maybe you're not a boy. That's

719
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 3: my conference. The truth is, the enemy's plan is so

720
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 3: evident on the earth and so ferocious right now with

721
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 3: gender confusion, because his intent is directly corrupt the purpose

722
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 3: of God in your life. His aim is to still kill, destroy,

723
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 3: to prevent you from ever discovering his plan. Why because

724
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 3: when you know his plan, you have a chance to

725
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 3: fulfill his plan. And fulfill his plan, you'll be effective

726
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 3: against the kingdom of darkness. So let's not be naive,

727
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 3: Let's not be ignorant. Let us be fully aware that

728
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 3: the reason the enemy is trying to confuse gender, because

729
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 3: gender is the premise for identity. Identity is discovered your destiny.

730
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 3: So if he can, if he can get you at

731
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 3: confusing your gender, you will never know your destiny. If

732
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 3: he can get you to question your your binary, he

733
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 3: will get you to He will avert and divert you

734
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 3: from ever knowing your destiny in Christ Jesus. That's why

735
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 3: there is an all out assault on identity right now.

736
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 3: But I'm telling you you don't even have to go wondering.

737
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 3: God has already spoken of. God has already decreated. God

738
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 3: has already told you very clearly who he's called you

739
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 3: to be. He said, would you just come into agreement

740
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 3: with what I've said and watch as you find freedom

741
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 3: like you've never found before. Freedom isn't in anything. Freedom

742
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 3: is in the thing he's called you to be. That's

743
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 3: where real freedom is. That's where freedom is. They're coming

744
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 3: into agreement. What if I told you that God has

745
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 3: predestined you. He's predestined you. It's predestined you. What does

746
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 3: it mean to be predestined? It means before you had

747
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 3: a destiny, before you were even a thing. You had

748
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 3: a destiny before anything, before you're a thought an inkling

749
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 3: God had a destiny in mind for you. Can I

750
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 3: give you one more scripture before we minister, because I

751
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 3: want to pray for some people tonight. Ephesian chapter four,

752
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 3: verse one that says, therefore I a prisoner for serving

753
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 3: the Lord, beg you. Look at the language Paul's desperate.

754
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 3: Is that a new thing? This is something that Paul

755
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 3: was dealing with in his day. He's like, I beg you.

756
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 3: I plead with you to lead a life worthy of

757
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 3: your calling, for you have been called in Christ. What

758
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 3: Paul is saying is he's like, I'm trying to get

759
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 3: as desperate in my language as I can. He says,

760
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 3: I plead with you, would you fulfill or lead a

761
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 3: life worthy of your calling? In other words, he's saying,

762
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 3: there's some of you that I'm living up to your calling.

763
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,760
Speaker 3: You're living so far below what God has called you.

764
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 3: You have a high calling in Christ, Jesus. Why are

765
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 3: you acting like you're not significant? Why are you acting

766
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 3: and wondering? If God has a plan for you. I'm

767
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,840
Speaker 3: trying to reveal to you God has a plan. Would

768
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 3: your rise to the occasion, would you begin to get

769
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 3: something on the inside of you? If that reminds you

770
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 3: I'm not down, defeated or insignificant. I've been called, I've

771
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 3: been chosen, I've been pre my God. I might be

772
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 3: limited right now. That's the fact I might be limited

773
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 3: right now. When I look at my life, I might

774
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 3: not have everything I need. I think I might have

775
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 3: some severe limitations. Maybe you've been through some opposition and

776
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 3: the circumstances around your life, maybe they've caused some limitations.

777
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 3: Maybe you've been through divorce. May you've been through depression.

778
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,959
Speaker 3: Maybe you have been through some things that have left

779
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 3: you feeling very limited. Well, what I love about our

780
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:30,240
Speaker 3: God is even in that moment, he wants to remind

781
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 3: you you're not lacking anything because my promise is not corrupted.

782
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 3: My purpose will still be achieved that despite what's around you.

783
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 3: In fact, the Bible makes it clear that God uses

784
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 3: the least likely though, when the circumstances look the bleakest.

785
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 3: That's the moment where God gets most of the glory.

786
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,959
Speaker 3: So God says I can work with that. God loves

787
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,760
Speaker 3: to work with limitation. No word loves to work with limitation,

788
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 3: And he can work with limitation as long as you

789
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 3: know you're not lacking you know lacking. I don't know

790
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 3: who needs to hear this tonight be your destiny's calling.

791
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 3: Stop wondering, start looking to Jesus and stepping into agreement.

792
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna pray for some people right now. I'm

793
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 3: gonna pray for some people, and I'm just gonna do

794
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 3: a simple call and don't have time to muck around.

795
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,359
Speaker 3: I'm gonna call you if you right now, and you're

796
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 3: gonna have to run to the altar. If there has

797
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 3: been any doubt in your mind around your identity, any

798
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,439
Speaker 3: doubt in around your significance, any doubt in your mind

799
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 3: around your calling, that you have gone through rounds and

800
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 3: you've been wondering, God, are you with me? God? Are

801
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 3: you for me? I'm gonna pray that tonight as we

802
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,919
Speaker 3: step into agreement with God like a clarity, You're gonna

803
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,280
Speaker 3: know who you are in Christ Jesus, that your identity

804
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 3: is gonna be cemented in Him. So come right now,

805
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 3: come quick, come quick, come right in, Come right in.

806
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 3: We're gonna pray. I don't have time to wait, but

807
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 3: we're gonna get our identity fixed. We're gonna build the

808
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 3: foundation right We're gonna admit the fact that we're limited,

809
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 3: but I know that tonight I am not lacking one

810
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,320
Speaker 3: single thing. If my God is for me, it doesn't

811
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 3: matter what things are coming against me and trying to

812
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 3: dictate my identity. I'm getting my identity in Christ Jesus. Tonight,

813
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 3: come on, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming. Come right down,

814
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 3: Come right down, push right in, push right in, and

815
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 3: come down from the balcony. Will wait, we'll pray. In fact,

816
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 3: if you're already down here, just close your eyes and

817
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 3: stop praying. Just start asking God, reveal it, reveal it.

818
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 3: It's revelation. The Bible makes it very clear. You ask

819
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 3: God for braid, he won't give you a snake or

820
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 3: a stone. You ask God to reveal something. Watch us,

821
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 3: He'll do it. He'll speak right to your heart. He'll

822
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 3: bypass all those corrupt thoughts and those twisted mentalities. He'll

823
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 3: speak to the heart of you. He'll begin to remind

824
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 3: you exactly how he shaped you and destined you and

825
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 3: designed you, that you designed you for significance. Why have

826
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 3: you been believing a lie? Why on earth have you

827
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 3: been living lower than you're calling in Christ Jesus. What

828
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 3: lies have you believed? That? Of course you to doubt.

829
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,280
Speaker 3: Doubt didn't come from God, fear didn't come from God.

830
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 3: What have you believed? Paul says, we tear it down,

831
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 3: every pretension that has set itself up against the knowledge

832
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 3: of God. He was vicious with these language, he says,

833
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 3: we tear it down. We demolish every argument. That's what

834
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 3: we're gonna do tonight. We're gonna get aggressive with our destiny.

835
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 3: Some of you have been too passive with your destiny, waiting

836
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 3: for it to happen. God's inviting you to get on board.

837
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 3: Your destiny is calling tonight. Your destiny is calling tonight.

838
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 3: The first thing we're going to pray for is to say, Jesus,

839
00:55:55,440 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 3: I belong to you God. I pray right now, Lord,

840
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 3: for each and every person that is on this altar. Lord,

841
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 3: as they unlock with the code, and tonight they're saying

842
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 3: Amen to your purpose, to your promise. As they say

843
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 3: amen to You, Jesus, I pray that right now, every

844
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 3: negative thought, every doubt, every deceit from the enemy would

845
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 3: begin to be removed from their mind. We do what

846
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 3: Paul instructs. We take captive every thought. We bring it

847
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 3: under the submission of the Lord. Jesus Christ, and instead

848
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 3: of believing the lies that we are insignificant, instead of

849
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 3: believing the lies that we don't have a purpose. Lord,

850
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 3: I pray right now, Lord, that that lie would be

851
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 3: exchanged for truth, and that the truth would come through

852
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 3: your spirit. And as your spirit is ministering right now, Lord,

853
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 3: that their heart would begin to beat, Lord, with a

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Speaker 3: the first breath you talk. That heart has been beating

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Speaker 3: with everything you have called it, even though we don't

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Speaker 3: see it. We agree with him. We say him in

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Speaker 3: to it tonight.

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