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Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.

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Hey, listen, turn to somebody right now, give them a high five, tell them God's good.

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Give God some glory right now.

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Tell them God is good.

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Give them a high five, shake their hand, give them a nod.

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Whatever you got to do, poke them.

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If they're sleeping, poke them.

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All right, get them up.

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God is good.

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It's good to have you here at Life House this morning.

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We do want to give a shout out to the East Shore campus.

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They are doing a pre-launch.

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If you don't know what that is, we're getting ready to launch October 15th, officially launch

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that campus every single Sunday morning.

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They'll be meeting together right now.

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They're meeting on Thursdays doing Bible study and we have some pre-launch services to get

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ready.

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How many know we don't want to invite the general public in and for the first time do

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church, right?

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We want to get that all the bugs worked out.

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So they're up there right now having service and they're going to be bringing the recording

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in and we're excited about what God's doing there.

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He's unearthing things and shaking that community and we love it.

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It's been a journey of like casting seed.

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How many know when you cast seed, you don't see a plant pop up right away, right?

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You got to uncover the dirt.

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You got to throw in the seed and then you got to cover it back up and you got to wait

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a while.

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You got to let God do his work and that's what we've been doing.

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We've just been planting, watering and God's already beginning to see increase.

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So just keep that campus in prayer.

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We're excited about what's going to take place on October 15th.

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It's an exciting thing.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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If you want to know more about that, please see us.

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Some of you, I believe God's going to move on your heart to go up and be part of the

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launch team there for a period of time to help that campus get moving and rolling.

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If you want to know what that's all about, again, just see one of the pastors and we'd

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love to talk to you about that.

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Well how many this morning would like to hear some good news for a change?

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Amen.

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Yeah, good.

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I brought some with me.

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A study that was done by the Barna Group and if you've ever heard of Barna, they do a lot

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of polling and they do a lot of research and it's very extensive research and they found

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this out about across four generations, Generation Z, which is 11 to 26.

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Listen, if you're from Generation Z, raise your hand, give a woo woo.

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Okay, 11 to 26 year olds.

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Come on, raise your hand in here.

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If you're between the ages of 11 and 26, we got a couple.

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I didn't even hear a woo woo.

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Millennials, largest generation on the face of the planet, 27 to 42.

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Raise your hand.

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Okay, give a woo woo.

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Look at them.

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They're millennials.

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They're everywhere.

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Generation X, which is a generation I'm from, 43 to 58 year olds.

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We're the smallest generation.

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Woo woo.

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I got a mic.

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All right.

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And then the baby boomers who are from 1955 to 1964 and they're 59 to 68 years old.

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In fact, you raise your hand.

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Oh yeah.

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By the way, boomers, you are the second largest generation on the face of the planet currently,

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but out of these four generations, they began to ask some questions about spirituality and

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spiritual things.

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And across the board between 70 and 80% of Americans would like to grow spiritually across

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the board in the generations of 70 to 80% believe in the supernatural dimension, 70 to

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80% believe in God or a higher power.

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There is a spiritual curiosity that is alive and well in the United States of America.

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More than 75%, seven to eight people out of 10 are looking for the spiritual, looking

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for a higher power, are curious about God.

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Americans do believe in this spiritual and how many know that's good news?

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That is good news because we have the answer.

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We've got Jesus.

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We can talk to them.

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And in light of this spiritual curiosity, we want to be ready with spiritual answers.

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We want to be able to answer the questions that they have.

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We want to be able to articulate the truth about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

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because God's the answer, Jesus is the answer to what they're looking for.

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I should be ready to give an answer for the hope that lies within me.

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The thing that burns within me and following God, I should be ready to have that answer.

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I should be able to not only express but model true spirituality.

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I want to give them what they're hungry for.

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I want to hand it to them.

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So almost 80% of Americans, virtually in every generation category, are seeking spiritual

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direction.

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That's good news.

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It really is.

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That should excite us.

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That should embolden us just a little bit.

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It should encourage us to know and exercise our spiritual stuff.

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I'm just going to put it together like that, our spiritual stuff.

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And I'm not just talking about head knowledge stuff.

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When I'm talking about spiritual stuff, I'm not talking about who can quote the most scriptures.

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Back when I was young, you used to have Bible wars or sword wars.

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They call it all kinds of crazy names.

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Who could give the most scripture?

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And I'm not just talking about Bible theology and things that come out of our head or who

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can rip off the Roman road of salvation, all the scriptures for the Roman road of salvation.

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People want living, breathing truth, proof of spiritual existence.

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And the neat thing is that the good news is that Jesus came and He is the proof, but He

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is the proof in us.

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People want to experience spirituality.

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And how they're going to experience something spiritual is in us, the followers of Jesus

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Christ.

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People are chasing paranoia.

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I can't even say it.

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Paranormal.

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Man, I don't know where that came from.

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They're chasing it.

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They really are.

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You ever see the videos on TV or the TV shows and the videos online, right?

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They always got these little flashlights and they're walking into a haunted house and looking

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for orbs of light that are flying around.

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They're looking for something that goes bump in the night.

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It has spiritual things.

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They're after the spiritual things.

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But poke your neighbor right now and say, listen, you're the paranormal they're looking

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for.

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You're the paranormal.

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Come on, if you know Jesus, you're the paranormal they're looking for.

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You're the orb of light that they're wanting to see.

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They're the I don't know if you're the thing that goes bump in the night.

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But but you know, it is light.

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It is life.

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Jesus followers are God called us to be the carriers of light.

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He called us to be the spiritual legs and hands in the world around us.

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This is good news that people are searching and they want to experience the spiritual.

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They don't want to just hear about it.

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They don't want to just hear another sermon or another lecture or another word from somebody.

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They want to experience it.

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I mean, no, experiencing is an awesome thing, right?

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It's a very different thing to read about flying in a plane and then to actually fly

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in the plane itself.

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Those are two very different things.

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If you ask any 15 year olds or any 15 year olds in the house right now for 15, raise

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your hand.

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I mean, no, anybody's 15.

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It's a very different thing to read about driving a car and then actually drive in the

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car.

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It's a one thing to smell the steak.

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It's another thing to eat the steak.

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It's one thing to talk and care about God's presence, his power and experience something

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that's powerful from God and is a whole nother thing to experience.

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It's one thing to read.

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It's another thing to experience.

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And eight out of 10 of Americans are looking for spiritual proof.

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They're looking for a higher power.

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They're looking for somebody that's going to show them really the truth of what is beyond

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us.

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And I think it would be interesting.

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I just think it would be interesting if we were the spiritual proof that they bumped

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into.

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I think it would be awesome if they noticed a bit of the supernatural of Jesus within

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I think it would be tremendous, right?

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If people experience not just intellectual, but actually sensing the presence of God in

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us.

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And I'm not talking about being spacey, freaky or weird.

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How many ever met spacey, weird, freaky people, right?

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That's not what I'm talking about here.

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I'm talking about authentic spiritual move of God in our lives.

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So how do we make sure that others are bumping into something spiritual as they bump into

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us as the carriers of the gospel, as the representation, as the ambassadors of Jesus Christ?

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How do we make sure that they're experiencing that?

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How do we make sure that there's spiritual curiosity, you know, peaks and they want to

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follow us around?

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And you could ask that question and some of you are thinking, well, you got to take a

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46, you know, 46 part series, you know, a class to learn all that.

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But I think the answer is simple.

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I think in God's word is simple and clear how we get to the place in our own lives where

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people are sensing their they sense the spiritual going on in our lives.

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And I think it's simple enough that if you engage in this, it kind of automatically happens.

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How many like automatic, right?

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We got stuff all over our house that's programmed to turn on and turn off.

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I love automatic.

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I don't even got to hit the button.

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If you engage in the right thing spiritually, I think it happens automatically.

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And it's this one thing, it's worship, say worship, worship, turn somebody, tell him

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worship, preach at him this morning.

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OK, worship, worship.

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It's all about worshiping God, true, authentic worship of God, treasuring God above all things,

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looking to God as Lord and as God and as holy and as Savior, worshiping the one who should

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be exalted.

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Jesus said this in John chapter 12, verse 32.

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He said he said something that was simple but profound in John 12, 32.

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He said, and I and he was talking about himself.

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If I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself.

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When he spoke those words, there was a twofold meaning in what he was saying.

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And the first part of that is this was before he went to the cross.

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This is before he would die and he was speaking of his death.

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He was speaking that one day he would be put on a cross.

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He would be nailed to a tree and that he would be crucified and that he would die and they

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would put him into the ground.

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They would bury him.

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He would resurrect from the grave.

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He would go to the right hand of the father.

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He would send the Holy Spirit.

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He said, if I am lifted up, and he was talking about physically on that cross, if I am lifted

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up, I will draw people into me.

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But there was a secondary meaning in that scripture.

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If I am lifted up, if we lift up the name of Christ, if we worship God, if we lift him

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up, do you know what happens in the spiritual realm?

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People start to draw to him and that's us lifting him up.

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It's us exalting the name of Christ.

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It's us.

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Why do you think enemy works so hard to keep you from worshiping God?

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Why do you think the enemy works so hard to distract you from engaging in any kind of

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worship full time with the Lord?

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Why do you think he engages in getting your mind off in circumstances and things that

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are going on around you?

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You know, getting you all wrapped up emotionally or reacting some way in emotion.

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Why do you think he does that?

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Because it pulls you away from worship.

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It pulls you away from lifting up God.

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And as soon as you begin to lift up God and as soon as you engage in worship in your own

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life, the word of God says that all people begin to draw to Christ, not to me, right?

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Like, hey, listen, it is not my magnetic personality that brings people to the life house.

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It really is.

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And I know a shocking, right?

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It's not my, it's not my charisma, right?

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It's not my intellectual prowess that everybody comes in the door, you know, and they want

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to come to life.

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I listen, even if you're good at all those things, you're going to, you're going to,

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you might inspire people for just a little while.

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Then they're going to go out the door.

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They're going to go to Brewster's and get an ice cream, right?

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And it's going to be over.

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But if God is being glorified in our lives, if we are lifting him up, he begins to draw.

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His presence begins to move and it is in that worship.

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And I know it sounds too simple, right?

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But what happens is, is you begin to worship.

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God kind of leaks out of you.

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I don't know how else to put it, right?

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I don't know if you ever seen come to these little sprayers are around right now.

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We got one of those ones that you hook up and the pressure builds up and it just spritzes

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out, right?

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And you know what happens when you start worshiping God, when you start worshiping God on a regular

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basis in your own personal life, people get near you and they're like, what's going on?

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Right?

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Something's spraying on me, right?

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It's just God's squirting out of you and it's God's presence.

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And that's what it's really like.

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And Jesus said, if you lift me up, don't worry about having to draw them in.

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You're not going to have to have all the scripture memorized just perfectly.

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He said, I will draw them unto me.

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Right?

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It's worship.

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It's worship.

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It's worship that moves me closer to God.

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It's worship that brings me into the spiritual realm.

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It's worship that brings others into the spiritual realm that draws them.

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And I know it sounds simple.

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I know it sounds like it's something that should have 46 different steps to it and you

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should attend at least 14 different classes.

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I know it sounds like it, but it's not.

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It is worshiping God that slides me from the natural to the supernatural.

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It moves me from this realm to the next realm.

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I don't know if you know this, but heaven and earth kind of intersect.

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There's different realms that intersect.

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And when you begin to worship, they overlap one another.

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It's not like God's way out there somewhere and we're just here.

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They overlap.

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But when you engage in worship, you start to step from this realm into the next.

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You start to step from this realm, the natural realm into God's realm.

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Understand this.

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God wants to be near us and we got to engage in worship and engage in spiritual worshipful

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activity.

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And the reason we have to do that is because God is spirit.

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He's spirit.

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John 4 24 says this.

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God is spirit and those who worship him must worship him in what?

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Spirit and truth.

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God is spirit and those who you can't get to them from the natural.

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God is spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.

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There's nothing spiritual happening in me unless I'm worshiping God in spirit and in

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truth.

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If all I'm getting engaged in is in the natural that's going on around me.

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How many of we got plenty of natural every day?

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Right.

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You wake up to the natural.

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You're looking at the natural.

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You're staring at the natural.

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You get up and you naturally think I really need to clean my house this morning.

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Right.

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I need to go to work this morning.

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I got all these guys.

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I've got children who eat.

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They want to be fed this morning.

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Right.

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Some of you are like, oh, that happens every day all day long.

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Right.

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You know, there's lots of natural going on around us.

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But if I don't engage in worship in the middle, all the natural, I just get stuck in the natural.

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I just get drunk.

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How many of the natural will suck the life out of you?

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Amen.

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Them children are sucking the life out of you.

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Just go ahead and say amen.

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It's true.

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They need everything because that's what kids do.

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That's what they need.

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And what happens is if we don't engage in worship, we begin to drink and all we get

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caught in is the natural.

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If your only spiritual act of worship is coming to here on Sunday mornings, it's not enough.

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You're not going to get enough.

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You're not going to get enough of God to even spritz.

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Right.

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You're barely you get out the door and the spritz will be gone.

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That's it.

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You'll be dried up for the rest of the week.

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You got to worship.

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You got to engage and it might be in the middle of the natural, whatever you're doing.

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It might be in the middle of what's going on.

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And if you gauge in, listen, it's not about the environment.

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And I know we set environment.

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This is odd coming for me because I'm all about our environment being right.

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But we set an environment.

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It's not the environment that makes you worship.

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When you come into this house, just because the music's good, that doesn't necessarily

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mean you worship.

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Right.

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We get the lights just right.

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Right.

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We get them to the right level or the right color of lights up on the stage or the right

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taste of coffee.

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Right.

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That doesn't make you worship.

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It might point you towards God.

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And that's what we do.

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When you come, we put things on the wall like love God, love people every day, which we

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believe in.

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We put those things up so that you point you towards God, but it will not cause you to

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worship no matter how good the music is, no matter how soft the seat is, no matter how

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good the lighting is, none of that's going to make you worship.

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You get it right.

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It's not the environment.

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It comes from within.

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Here's the thing.

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You can walk in and my environment, my natural stuff may help me focus on God.

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But if I'm worshiping, if I got a heart of worship, my environment doesn't even matter.

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I get in the middle of a total mess and nothing's right.

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And you'll still worship God.

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Right.

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You got to worship.

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You got to move towards this present.

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God is spirit.

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And when we come to a spiritual God, we cannot come in the natural.

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We got to come in the spirit.

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When God brought Moses out, when he called him out of the backside of the desert and

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he said to go to deliver a people, a group of people who were enslaved right from Egypt,

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he had to bring Israel out of Egypt.

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They were enslaved.

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And he does that.

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He does it in obedience and does it in a spectacular way.

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It's actually was God.

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God performs 10 miracles and the Egyptians finally let these group of slaves, which is

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a million plus people loose and they go into the wilderness and Moses is leading them.

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And God tells Moses, you need to go up on the mountain.

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I'm going to give you some instruction.

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And when he goes up onto the mountain, he gives them 10 commandments.

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And you know what the first two commandments are?

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I'm going to read about it.

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Exodus 20 and one, right.

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The 10 commandments.

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Most of us have heard about that.

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And God spoke all these words saying I am the Lord God who brought you out of the land

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of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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You shall have no other gods before me.

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Do you know what that means?

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Your focus, your worship is first on God.

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You will have nothing else in front of me.

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And number two, you shall not make for yourselves a carved image of any likeness of anything

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that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under

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the earth.

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You shall not bow down to them nor serve them for I am the Lord your God.

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I am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third

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and fourth generations to those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands to those who

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love me and keep my commandments.

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His first two commandments were you don't worship anything else.

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If you're going to worship, you worship me.

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If you're going to get close to God, he's got to be first place.

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He will not share space with your worship.

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Whatever your first place thing is in your life is probably what you're worshiping.

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He will not.

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He won't.

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He won't share space with it.

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He's not okay with us bowing to everything else or anything else.

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He won't.

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He said first two things.

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He told him you're going to keep me before you.

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You got to worship me.

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I am the Lord your God.

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That's what he said.

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Right?

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If I'm going to get to a spiritual God, if I'm going to minister and have a spiritual

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generation who's looking for the spiritual, I got to live a life of worship.

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I got reminded of this this week.

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Man, I preached this all over me first before I got to you.

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So just know that.

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All right.

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So how do I stay?

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How do I stay in a constant state of worship?

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Right?

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How do I get there?

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Well, I believe it says you got to have an accurate understanding of God's true nature

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and his worth.

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You've got to have an accurate appraisal of God.

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Now, I don't know if you've ever gotten an appraisal done, but if you're going to sell

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a house or actually if you're going to buy a house, you'll have to get an appraisal done

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of the house.

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And what they'll do is they'll send somebody out.

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No, they'll compare it to other places right in the neighborhood and they'll walk through

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it and they'll see what kind of finishes are in the house and what kind of work was done

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in the house and the structure of the house.

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And they'll come up with an appraisal and they'll give a value and net worth of the

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house.

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That's what it's worth.

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They do the same thing with a car when you're going to trade your car in.

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How many of them when you trade your car in, it's not worth 10 cents, right?

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When you go to buy it, it's worth a million dollars.

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That's how it works.

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But they will.

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They'll come in and do an appraisal when you go into the car dealership and they're going

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to say, well, that car is worth X amount of dollars.

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And if you're going to worship God, you got to get a right appraisal of who God is.

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You got to get a right appraisal of what he's worth in your life.

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You got to understand his net worth because if you don't got a hold of that, you won't

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worship very long.

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When the environment ends, you'll stop worshiping God.

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You got to understand his value.

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We don't worship what we don't understand.

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We don't worship what we don't believe is greater than us.

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We won't worship what we don't love.

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We won't worship what doesn't hold first place in our life.

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We won't worship what we don't revere.

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We won't worship what we don't trust.

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We won't worship what we believe is powerless.

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We won't worship someone or something that we don't think has our best interest at heart.

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We we just won't worship something that doesn't have any value

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We worship we won't worship God if we don't have an accurate appraisal of who he is

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If our appraisal gets all jacked up, right if our God numbers are off when we're looking at God

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You won't worship him. You'll you'll just go on to something else in the natural

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We'll just kick on over into something else

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John Piper said it this way true worship is based on a right understanding of God's nature and it is a right

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valuing of God's

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worth

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If you're not worshiping God, it's a good chance that your appraisals messed up

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That you don't really understand God's worth, right?

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How many know what do you do with something that you don't think is valuable? What do you do with it now?

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There's been yard sales going here. I just seen just throw it away. All right, it's all about you. Just throw it away

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All right, that's what you do with something. It's not valuable, right? You throw it right in the trash can

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There's yard sales going on all over the place. I don't people yard sale right here like it's their job

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There's always yard sales everywhere, right and you go to yard sale

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What happens at the end of the yard sale right goes on for two or three days and when your sales done you just drive by

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The house and what's good? What's going on?

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Everything's out at the curb rights free. Yeah, it's just a free

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How many why do they put something that they paid $200 for like three years ago?

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Right for free at the end of the driveway because they don't see value in it anymore

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There's no value and what's they're putting out at the road and and sometimes as a pastor

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I scratch my head. I'm like I cannot understand for the life me why people who don't know Jesus

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Can't see the value of Jesus. He's everything. He is life

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He's a and I'm like why I don't get it like he's Savior. He'll keep you

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He'll give you an inheritance eternity. He's your light in life now, and I'm scratching my head like why don't they see that?

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Do you know why?

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They can't they don't understand his value

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To them it's not valuable

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You you you have to have a right appraisal of God before you'll start to worship God

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I used to watch Dixie and I used to watch a TV show once and while it was it was the antique Roadshow

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I've ever watched that right?

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Yeah

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And you get sucked into that because you want to see what the next thing's gonna be right?

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They know how it works is there's an appraiser right that comes out but somebody brings in something they got a little vase

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So they got a picture they got something that's been in their attic for 45 years, right?

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And they bring in they're smiling in front of the TV and the appraiser walks in and they're just hoping it's worth something

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You know and sometimes the appraiser comes in he's like well, you know, this is this and this is that and it's worth three dollars and sixty

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Two cents, you know like oh and they try not to show sadness like yes

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This means a lot to me, but they're really here to find out how much is right or they'll say this is worth

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$10,000 and they're like, you know ding ding and I've seen stuff go on this for like a half a million bucks

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And I've seen stuff that's just ugly

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Honestly, it's just ugly and I thought that was in my attic. I throw that in the trash. I throw it away

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It's worth a half a million dollars

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And I throw it in the garbage

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That's what people do with Jesus

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It

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That's what they do with Christ one of these days are gonna come to the end of their life

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And they're gonna step before the King of Kings the Lord and they're gonna see his true worth because they're gonna be there physically

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And that's who they're gonna realize they said at the trash

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You got to know his worth

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You got to understand what he's worth

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You got to know that he is the Savior

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You got to know that he is love and that he is light that he is the ultimate judge that he is the ruler of the earth

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That he is the Redeemer that he is the provider that he is the true and coming King that he is the wheel and the wheel

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That he is the bright and morning star that that he has your eternity in his hand

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That he has a great inheritance for you when you begin to understand that when you get a hold of that

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When you understand that it is his infinite worth of God

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In your life you will worship

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You don't care about the lights. You don't care about the music. It could be good bad or something in between

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Right. We worship

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Get ready to close

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It's actually you come Jesus said this in two places in Matthew in Matthew 13 44

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Super short scriptures. He said this and again the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure

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Hidden in a field which a man found and hid and for joy over it

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He goes and sells all that he has and he buys that

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field

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This is a man who will worship

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He looks at God and he sees he's got a right appraisal of God

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Right Jesus said it again in the next scripture in verse 45 again

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The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls who when he has found one pearl of great price

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Went and sold all that he had and he bought it

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When you got a right appraisal of the king of kings and the Lord of Lords

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You will worship and when you begin to worship you're gonna get leaky

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You're gonna leak out on other people you can just spray them when they come around you

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You're not gonna be able to help it's gonna be automatic

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It's gonna happen

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I'm gonna ask you to stand this morning

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If you're comfortable and you might be new this morning and this might not be comfortable it's perfectly fine

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Please just stay where you're at

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But if you're comfortable, I want us to come up together and all we're gonna do is I just want to come up around this

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Area and we're just gonna worship together. We're just gonna sing. That's all we're gonna do. I'm not gonna ask you to do anything else

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I want you to meditate and contemplate on God. That's all that's all you're gonna do this morning

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You don't have to say anything if you don't want to you don't have to sing if you don't want to

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But what I want you to do I want you to make your way up front

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And I want you to ask yourself one question

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Just one question only that's it. I'm making it handle one question this morning, right?

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I'm a like what a test it's one question

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Hey, well, that's good and bad. I guess right it's pass or fail

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Scratch that analogy. All right. Let me ask you one question. Go ahead. Just keep moving up. All right act like you like each other

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Just ask yourself what's what's my appraisal of God?

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What do I really believe God's worth in my life

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You'll understand your worship level when you answer that question it will cut away everything else

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It'll cut away the the excuses. It'll cut away the the circumstances

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It'll it'll just literally tear everything else away. What do I think God is worth in my life?

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Right because you got a value on that you have a value on that you do

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You either believe he's infinite worth you believe he's somewhere in between right and how I know if we get in between

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We worship sometimes and sometimes we don't

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Come on, I've done it right. I get looking at natural stuff

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And I'm not focused on him

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You can be in the in the middle of the natural and if you understand his worth you will praise him

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I've watched people do it. I watch his talking to me. All right

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You ready ask yourself the one question. You probably already did

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What is my value what is my appraisal of God? What is my appraisal of Jesus?

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Worship matters

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You're never gonna step into the spiritual. You're never gonna leak out on other people

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You just won't your intellect's not gonna do it right. Your charisma is not gonna do it. None of it. It'll be very short-lived

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We get caught in that all the time. It's short-lived

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If you meet somebody who worships God they leak on other people

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If you meet somebody who worships God they leak on other people it just happens. I'm asking you to bow your heads

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You could be at the East Shore campus you can be listening online you could be in the house this morning here in Carlisle

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What's he worth

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What's he worth? What's your appraisal?

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If you had to put a dollar amount on it

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I know it's easy to give the quick answer but answer honestly to yourself father. We come to you today grateful thankful

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Holy Spirit, I thank you for bringing the word alive. I thank you that is a living word

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I thank you that you spoke and moved on men and they and it was the inspired truth of God

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They came forward and Lord we come just asking ourself one question this morning

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We ask ourselves Lord what is your value in our eyes?

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And we ask it honestly we answer it honestly

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Because we want to come and worship you this morning

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We want to come with hearts Lord that are realizing

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Who you really are that you are the wheel in the wheel?

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God that you are the bright and morning star God that you're the one God who will take us from

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Glory to glory to glory God that your mercies are new every morning

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in you

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God help us to see that it is infinite value

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That it is infinite value. There's nothing else. It's even close

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Nothing

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God that we might worship you

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God that we might lift you up

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Come on

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Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church

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