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

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Good morning, good morning.

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Hey God is good isn't he?

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Turn to somebody give him a high five and tell them God is awesome.

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He is awesome because he is.

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I heard you worshiping, praying this morning and we need to recognize Jesus every time

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we come in the building we need to recognize the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and it

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is good to have you here and we honor the Lord this morning coming together with worship.

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This morning before I minister I want to take an opportunity to do something that is very

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important here at Life House.

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For weeks we have been announcing that Pastor Andrew and Alicia and their family are moving

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on in ministry.

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God has given them a new position, a new assignment in ministry and many of you have been wondering

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or we have talked about who is going to replace them in the student ministries area and I

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am going to ask if Pastor Alyssa Calhoun would come, would you give her a hand?

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Come on give her a warm welcome.

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She is with us this morning and she is going to be the new, you can get front and center

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come on.

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I want to see you not me.

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They see me all the time.

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But she is going to be the new student ministries pastor here and she is going to be working

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with children and youth.

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She comes with great credentials, she is a Penn State graduate, she is also an ordained

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minister in the Church of God and she has a track record for doing amazing things in

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the kingdom.

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We have kept tabs on her for a while now, she didn't know that we were stalking her

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a little bit.

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But we were watching and she is a PA girl, she is from Bedford County and we know the

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family and Jeff and Kim it is so good to have you here, her parents are here this morning

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and it has been a delight to get to know Alyssa and Ryan her fiance who is sitting up front

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here and they are getting married in April by the way.

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So we wanted to take this opportunity to give her a moment just to say hello to you and

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then after that we are going to pray over Alyssa and we are going to install her as

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the student ministry pastor here.

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I am going to ask if the deacons would come up first and get in behind her and then we

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want the rest of the congregation to come up because this is a church thing, amen?

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This is family business.

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And we want to install Alyssa and just let her get an opportunity to meet you and to

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know you so after the gathering if you haven't talked with her yet you need to do that and

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all you students out there definitely get up here and get introduced but if you would

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just go ahead and maybe share just for a moment or so.

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Sure, I will be relatively quick again so like Pastor Kip said my name is Alyssa and

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that is my fiance Ryan.

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We are super, super excited to be here.

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We have been looking forward to this since we started talking and we are just really

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excited to see what God is going to do.

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We have been praying over it.

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We believe that there are some really incredible things that are going to happen here and so

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we are really excited to be a part of it.

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We love the family and the community that is here already and we are excited to keep

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it going.

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Yeah, thank you.

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Well listen I am going to ask Ryan would you come up with her as well?

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Mom and dad come on up.

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We need to get you in behind but if you would just kind of maybe stand right there.

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I am going to ask if the deacons would make their way to the front if you would if you

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serve on the deacon board and then listen let's do this.

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Hey teens and kids let's get you up in here behind the deacons.

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Come on.

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This is your pastor right here.

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So I want the children and the kids come up the teens.

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They all know how to pray right?

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Come on.

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I am going to get one of my mic.

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That will really get them going.

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Just come up.

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I want you to get around as well.

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Church come up.

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We are going to work as many of you as they can as possible for you to make your way out

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and you can face them and we are going to, here is what we are going to do.

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You know the laying on of hands is a biblical concept.

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It is something that is talked about and spoken about in the Bible.

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So what we want to do is a point of contact.

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We want everybody to make a point of contact in front of them.

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Touch the person's shoulder in front of you.

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I know we are not going to be able to get everybody up front because we have a lot of

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people in the house.

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But we are going to take opportunity because this is important.

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This is family business.

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We want to make sure that we recognize that this is God's call and they are stationed

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here at Life House.

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So Father we come before you.

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We are just grateful, thankful this morning Lord for what you are doing in Pastor Alyssa

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and Ryan's life.

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Lord God we thank you for the call in their life.

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God the assignment on their life.

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We thank you Lord for the heart that they have for student ministry.

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And Lord I am just praying right now God that your hand, your anointing would be upon them.

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God I know your seal is there.

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God I know your call is there.

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But Lord God we, God right now establish that in this house Lord, in this congregation.

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And Lord we just give you praise.

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We give you glory.

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We give you honor this morning.

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And we thank you for all that you are going to do in their lives.

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God here in Carlisle at the East Shore campus as they just oversee student ministries we

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just give you praise.

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We give you honor this morning and everybody said together amen.

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Now listen afterwards don't do it now but afterwards you just need to hug them alright.

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Hug the life out of them after your gathering.

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Thank you so much for praying and if you are visiting this morning thank you for indulging

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us for a few moments to do this very important thing as we go.

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So if you would just make your way, listen shake somebodies hand on the way back.

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Do something crazy.

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Say hello.

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You can hug somebodies neck on the way back.

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God's been so good to us here.

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Has blessed us with so many children and teenagers and we are blessed with youth in this facility

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and in this house and we are grateful for that.

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We are thankful for that and you have got your job cut out for you.

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There is a bunch of kids here and a bunch of teens.

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We are really believing for what God is going to do in hearts and lives and we know God's

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plan going forward is going to be amazing.

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Well listen I am going to start a message series this week and it is called Great Conversation.

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Great Conversation.

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I want to read you something out of a little article I read.

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It is kind of out of a book.

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Sherry Turkle a professor at MIT the author of Alone Together, Why We Expect More From

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Technology and Less From Each Other has spent years studying how our plugged in lives has

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changed who we are.

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She claims that all of our technological devices have produced a world in which we are always

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communicating but we are seldom having real conversations.

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I agree with Sherry's research and writing.

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We live in a world that is always communicating in some form or fashion probably half of you

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have been on your phone set at some point this morning even since you came in the doors

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right but we are seldom having those real conversations.

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Plenty of communication that is on a surface level that may be the light.

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Plenty of digital one sided conversations that go on where somebody is hiding behind

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a screen and typing away whatever they are thinking or feeling or whatever their opinions

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are.

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Plenty of spin and opinion on things but rare is the conversation that is making a difference

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in somebody's life.

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Change things that really shift what is taking place and here is the deal we need good conversation

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in our life.

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It is important for our spiritual well being but we need great conversation in our life

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because it is critical to our spiritual, our emotional and our physical survival.

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You might say that is a little dramatic pastor.

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It isn't.

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It is the truth.

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We must get into great Jesus conversation with others.

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They need to hear us and we need to hear them for our survival spiritually, emotionally

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and even ultimately physically.

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We need to hear words in our ears that bring life and Jesus showed us this.

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He modeled it.

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He did it on a regular basis and it is threaded all through scripture, all through the New

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Testament.

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Jesus changed lives with great conversation.

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Turn to somebody right now and tell them we are going to talk great conversation this morning.

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We are going to talk great cuts.

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Come on preach at them just a little bit.

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I don't want to be the only one preaching.

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Jesus still changes lives through great conversation.

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He did it back then.

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He is doing it now.

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Now listen I am very aware that when I start talking about great conversations and you

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engaging in great conversations that runs chills up some of your spines.

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Some of you are like man I hate having conversations with people I don't know.

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Some of you are like I have a conversation bubble that I work just fine in.

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There is this bubble that I have and I am fine with conversations in my bubble.

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How many know a bubble?

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It is kind of a perimeter.

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Kind of a circle that is around me.

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And I am good with having conversations in my conversation bubble.

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But you are telling me I need to go outside of my conversation bubble.

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Some of you are like peace out I am going to lunch.

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I want to hear that.

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How many know that most of us have a conversation bubble?

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If you recognize that raise your hand.

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How many of you have a conversation bubble?

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Come on.

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Some of you are happy.

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You have a conversation bubble right?

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You do.

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And here is the thing with our conversation bubble.

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We only let X amount of people in that bubble.

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We kind of pick and choose who goes in there.

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And if you are inside the conversation bubble you will talk somebody's ear off.

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And some of you get outside your conversation bubble and you are like people think you are

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mute.

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You get outside the conversation bubble and you don't talk at all.

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People swear you are mute.

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You get inside the conversation bubble and you are going crazy.

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You talk somebody's ear off.

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You ever meet someone like that?

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I remember when I was youth pastoring we would have teenage girls like that sometimes in

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particular and I am not picking on the girls but this was true they would come into the

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youth group and they are all just shy and they are just quiet and then all of a sudden

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they get to know a couple of girls and they talk so fast and so long you think their jaws

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are going to lock up.

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Like they are just gone.

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Because they are in their bubble.

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They are in with the people that they know.

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They are in with the people they love.

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Now I know there are some of you sitting out here and you are like there is a conversation

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bubble.

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Some of you talk to anybody right?

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If something has a pulse you are in.

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You are going to talk to anybody.

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It doesn't matter where you are at.

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But I have great news for you.

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If you are in the bubble or you are outside the bubble right?

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There is good news.

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You can get into great conversation because what I practice inside the bubble I will ultimately

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do outside the bubble.

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What I practice in the conversation bubble right?

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If I am talking Jesus inside my conversation bubble.

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If I am talking Jesus with other people.

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If I am going to my life group.

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The little plug there.

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If I am going to my life group and I am talking about Jesus in the life group and I do that

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enough inside the group you know what happens?

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It spills out into the outside of the group.

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It really does.

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Because anything that is on overload spills out right?

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If you are doing it a bunch here it is going to spill out somewhere else.

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So the next several weeks going on this complete month we are going to talk about great conversations

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that happened in scripture and what we can learn from those great conversations.

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So you have your Bible this morning.

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You can go to John chapter 3.

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We are going to start off with verse 1.

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John chapter 3 verse 1 and this particular portion of scripture Jesus is having a conversation

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with a guy named Nicodemus.

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Say Nicodemus while you are turning.

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Nicodemus I am going to pray over the word.

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Lord we thank you for this day God for your blessings God as we turn into your word.

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God I pray you prepare our hearts.

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Your word is already blessed so God just open our hearts open our minds to receive your

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word and God that we might hear and God not only hear but Lord it would change us and

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shift us.

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God the move in your circle and in your presence and we just give you glory in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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This particular portion if you are still turning in John chapter 3 is about this man named

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Nicodemus and I just want to give you just a short little bio on him.

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Nicodemus was a Pharisee and typically Pharisees were against Jesus.

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Typically they were in complete opposition to Jesus.

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They were constantly challenging Jesus on every front publicly and privately both.

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They would come up against Jesus.

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They thought he was a heretic.

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They didn't believe in him.

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They didn't think he was a legitimate teacher and so this was normally the Pharisees view

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of Christ but Nic is a little bit different.

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I'm calling Nic for short.

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Nicodemus he is a little bit different.

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This patriotic traditional religious ritualistic teacher ruler of the Jews and he is a member

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of the Sanhedrin which is the highest serving court in Jewish culture at that time.

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He was fascinated with Jesus.

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He had an interest quietly of course because his colleagues were on the other end but quietly

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he had this fascination with Jesus.

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He was curious and he was open to the possibility that Jesus might in fact be a teacher sent

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from God.

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So that's where we pick up in John chapter 3 verse 1 it says this.

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There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews.

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This man came to Jesus by night and he said, Rabbi we know that you are a teacher come

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from God.

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So no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with them.

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On the front end of this conversation with Jesus Nicodemus does not come in to the table

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like normal Pharisees.

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He doesn't come in with interrogating or difficult questions that they want answered.

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He doesn't lead in with loud accusations or a defensive accuse of any kind but he acknowledges

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Jesus as a teacher from God.

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He acknowledges that there is actually evidence in Jesus life of the power of God working

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in him and he starts this conversation with Jesus actually with great respect for Jesus.

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And Nic believes that Jesus is legit.

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Somewhere in his heart he believes that even though Jesus doesn't hold the credentials

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of studying under Gamal and other leaders religious leaders even though Jesus doesn't

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hold those credentials that somehow this Jesus is not a heretic but he is in fact a teacher

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from God.

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And Nic comes into this conversation in a very respectful manner but Jesus does not

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respond with the same soft niceties.

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He gets right to the heart of why Nicodemus is coming to him.

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He goes right to see a teacher who probably honestly if he had been left in normal conversation

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probably would have got lost somewhere.

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If Nicodemus would have been left to just conversate he probably would have got lost

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in splitting some kind of theological hair somewhere and at the end of the day the conversation

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might not have led to anything.

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But Jesus doesn't respond that way.

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Listen to how he responds in verse 3.

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He says Jesus answered and said to him most surely I say to you unless one is born again

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he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Nicolás comes in kind of with soft niceties and showing respect and Jesus gets right to

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the chase.

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He totally throws Nic off his conversation game.

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If he says if you want to see the kingdom of God if you want to get near God your life

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has been spent in religiosity and chasing religion but if you want to get where God

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is you got to be born again.

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Nicodemus everything in your life has got to change.

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It has got to become brand new.

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Nicodemus hasn't heard this before.

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This is all new.

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Doctrine and I think he just set him back completely.

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He's probably thinking I just came I thought I was going to get into conversation with

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Jesus right talk about the mosaic law a little bit maybe some Jewish history.

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Let's debate a little bit about the prophets going back and forth but what Jesus said Jesus

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hit him square.

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And what am I saying now this great conversation has to include conversation about new life

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in Jesus.

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Great conversation has got to include the conversation about having new life in Jesus

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inside the bubble outside the bubble right.

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We should be looking and we should be talking about new life in Christ new birth in Jesus.

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How can that happen.

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How can we experience new life in our Lord and Savior testifying say testifying testifying

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of what God's done in you that's brand new since you came to Christ.

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Right.

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If we know Jesus as Lord and Savior we should be able to categorically go down through and

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recite in our own lives right in your own words what God has changed in me.

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There should be some personal things that God's changed in me and the new work that

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Jesus is doing in my life.

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We should be able to explain that that I was dead in sin and I was far from God and when

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I came to Jesus now I'm alive.

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That's baptism and I come up brand new in him that the only way to God is through Jesus

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that there there is no other life right.

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All other life leads to death outside of Jesus.

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We should be able to talk about that when we great conversation right.

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Jesus conversation always includes Jesus and new life in him.

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Some way some form some shape.

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Right.

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And and we know that it's easy.

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It's easier to do this inside the bubble.

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How many know it's easier to do it in church.

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It's easy to talk Jesus in the church is comfortable in the church.

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If you're with brothers and sisters and Lord you've been a Christian.

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It's easy to call a church chat.

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We can do church chat.

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We can get into talking about Jesus all day long.

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You get into your life group.

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Right.

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And we're talking about the Lord talking about what the word of God says and what it means

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and how it brings new life into your into my personal life in your personal life.

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And we should be doing that.

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But we should be looking for that to overflow so much inside the bubble that that flows

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out when we get outside the bubble.

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That there's overflow naked demons.

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He was a deeply educated man in old religion and really kind of what God had set out in

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the mosaic law to try to get close to God.

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His mental picture of getting near God probably meant keeping the law as closely as you can.

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It meant getting as educated as you can in the ways of God.

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And he was you know deep religious practices that he would do so much to the extreme even

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he would have a picture of going to the temple and making sacrifice for his sin.

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Really actually taking a lamb and sacrificing that line at lamb for the sin in his life.

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He was for him it was religion.

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It was if he was he was thinking if I'm pious enough if I'm religious enough if I'm educated

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enough right if I'm serving on the highest council which he did in Jewish culture if

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I got enough of that then maybe I'm going to have new life in God.

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And Jesus blows his theory right out the window and says Nickadamus you got to be born again.

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You got to find new life in me.

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It's all got to change in me.

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You're involved in good stuff Nick.

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Right.

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You're involved in good things no doubt but you need to experience God by experiencing

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me.

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Jesus.

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You got to be born again.

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New life in Christ.

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Great conversation includes new life in Jesus.

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Now I got to ask you a question.

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If think about I want you to go back maybe categorically in your mind the conversations

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that you've had over the last week and I want you to just kind of think about the different

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people that you've talked with the people you've intersected with the people that you

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know you maybe came across in life and I want you to think about how many of them conversations

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had anything to do with new life in Jesus.

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I want you to think about the words that were spoke were any of the conversations that you

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got involved in over the last seven days you know since we were here last Sunday did any

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of those conversations involve anything that had to do with new life in Christ what Jesus

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was doing right.

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Come on I know this is challenging.

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You go back and start thinking was there one conversation I had was there two conversations

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was there no conversation right.

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How many conversations did I have about new life with Jesus.

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Nicodemus is stunned and he's not getting what Jesus is saying.

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I think what Jesus said rattled him.

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I don't know I wasn't there I'm just speculating but I think it threw him off his game a bit

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right because if you read in verse four about this encounter Nicodemus he doesn't come back

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and start asking questions he gets rattled and now listen he's educated right and highly

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educated and he says Nicodemus said to him how can a man he's talking to Jesus he's really

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he's going back to Jesus.

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Jesus says you need to be born again and Nicodemus said to him how can a man be born again when

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he's old.

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Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born.

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I think Jesus tilted his head and looked at him like are you crazy.

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You know what I think Jesus may I don't know if Jesus rolled his eyes you know but he rolled

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his eyes in Nicodemus right there.

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Do you know who you are.

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So Jesus answered him in verse five he says this most assuredly I say to you unless one

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is born of water right that's physical natural birth and the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom

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of God that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of spirit is spirit

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do not marvel that I said to you you must be born again the wind blows where it wishes

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and you hear the sound of it but can you but cannot tell where it comes from or where it

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goes so is everyone who was born of the spirit.

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Come on Nick right.

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Come on they could name us we're talking about spirit things here we're talking about things

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that you can't see you can't see wind but you can sense wind you can see the results

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of when you can say hey come on Nick you know what we're talking about here we're not talking

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about the physical right now we're talking about the spiritual born again you know what

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it is to be born again in the flesh right or to be born the first time but we're talking

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about spirit birth here we're talking about you know what it is to come alive in Christ

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and great conversation means we include spiritual conversation we include spiritual conversation

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it's easy to get caught and having conversation right if we're going to get into a conversation

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it's easy to have conversation about the world around us right it's easy to talk about the

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physical things around us how many know it's easy to talk about the weather that's one

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of the first things we go to it's a big go-to right especially if you're older like I am

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I don't know what it is oh god we like to check the weather the older you get and you're

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a guy I don't know what it is just like I got to check the weather app I got to know

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why you got to know what's happening out there right it is right we like that it's easy to

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talk about those things we love the site we like to talk about the news we right now politics

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right the hot button right now it's politics we like to talk about our schedules we like

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to talk about last night's game we like to talk about what we ate last night right some

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of you take pictures and send it to people some of you post it on social media I had

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corn you know okay great okay you know that we do that right it's easy to talk about the

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physical things and it's easy to talk about somebody that went off the rails right somebody

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that you know that went off the rails or something that went off the rails that you were doing

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how many we really love to talk about people that went off the rails right we're Christian

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sharing right we're gossiping all right so it's easy it's easy to do those things it's

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our default it's where we live right we converse we talk about what we hear what we see what

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we smell what we taste what we feel we talk about those things but something spiritual

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comes up in the middle of the conversation everybody's like crickets right silence you

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can hear the proverbial pin drop you know something spiritual comes up why does that

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happen why does that take place and I don't know is it because we feel like you know spiritual

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conversations are too complex maybe for casual conversation you know that's that's a complex

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subject of some kind do we think maybe it's way too personal some people are like well

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that's a very personal thing we can't talk about that in casual conversation right well

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let's keep it very physical and emotional in the conversation but let's not go to the

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spiritual do we feel unequipped some people talk about feeling unequipped unqualified

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right lacking the right training it's hard to explain and we start to squirm at the thought

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of diving into something spiritually in a conversation like well you know what yeah

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but here's the thing honestly that's a little bit funny that it's funny that we tighten

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up when it comes to spiritual conversation because everyone's sitting in this room listening

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online whoever's at East Shore this morning right worshiping there every one of us sitting

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in here we possess something that we possess from our very first breath and it's three

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things say three things you possess what you've possessed from birth you possess your body

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say your body you possess your soul say your soul and your spirit right none of you you've

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had all three before they ever put clothes on you when you were born right you had your

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body your soul and your spirit and you are as much spirit as you are soul and you are

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as much spirit as you are body and vice versa we're as much spirit we're as much spiritual

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beings as we are physical beings or emotional beings we're all three right we have body

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soul and spirit and how many of you just didn't pick up your spirit on the way to church this

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morning right you don't just get spiritual on Sundays you didn't stop downtown Carlisle

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say yeah got to pick up a spirit on the way to church right got my body got my my soul

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my mind will and emotions but I gotta stop and pick up my spirit this morning that's

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not how it works you've had all three always 1st Thessalonians 523 says how now may the

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God of peace himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit and soul and body

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be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ you've always been in possession

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of all three it's what makes you you so we should be comfortable talking about all three

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body soul and spirit in the bubble and out of the bubble right I should be comfortable

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conversing about the physical stuff in my life now I want you to turn right now only

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do this if you know the person sitting beside you because it would be weird if you don't

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but turn to the person right beside now and pinch him pinch him on the arm right now give

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him a good one all right pinch him on the arm tell him oh you are physical okay all

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right that's their physical body very easy to do right it's easy for us to pick up on

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the physical side of things right that's physical but we should also be comfortable talking

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about our soul and your soul is your mind will and your emotions now if you pinch somebody

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hard enough that was sitting beside you I can guarantee you probably just stirred up

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their soul a little bit right their emotions got stirred a little bit they're thinking

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something in their will that they want to do to you a little bit later right they're

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got their intentions are there right our soul is a primary spot for our mind and our will

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and our emotions and some of us will conversate all day long about the physical and some of

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us even get pretty comfortable conversating about our soul well you know especially to

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those inside the bubble we how many know inside the bubble you don't mind telling somebody

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what's on your mind you don't mind telling them how you're feeling it that day right

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you don't even mind telling them your intentions sometimes if they are inside your bubble right

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some of you can do all three of those at one time you're an expert at conversating in all

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three of those at one time and you'll spew out your emotions and your intentions right

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and all of it all in the same on the same breath you might have did it on the way to

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church this morning there was a lot of kids in the house this morning your children might

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have been goofing off in the back seat and you just about dislocated your neck right physically

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to turn around and express your soulish emotions while declaring your will and intentions as

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soon as you can get free from your seatbelt right it's body mind will and emotions together

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it's all those together we can typically can converse about the body and the soul pretty

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naturally but we should as with the spirit as well because it's the spirit that makes

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up the deepest part of you it's the deepest part of you I want you to think yourself I

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wanted you to picture yourself in this manner this morning I want you to think of yourself

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as three circles right three concentric circles so there's this big circle on the outside

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that's part of you and that's your physical side that's your body so I didn't say your

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body was big but go with me on this okay big big circle right on the outside and that represents

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your body but there's an inner ring right if you go in and you make a ring inside of

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that bigger ring there's the soul part of you and if you go in again and go in a little

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to the core of who you are you're going to find your spirit man your spirit woman that

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eternal part of you that got places in every human being and you got a body you got a soul

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and then you got a spirit in that kind of order and it's the deepest level of connection

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that you will make with another individual in conversation is in that core part of you

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it is that spirit side of you that is that deepest part of you and Jesus jumped right

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to this with Nicodemus he went right to his spirit he bypassed the physical niceties he

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went right past his emotions or how he was feeling or his opinions along the way right

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his mind will and emotions and he went right to the core where Nicodemus lived and he said

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man you got to be born again this thing's got to be new from the inside out because

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here's the thing when Jesus redeems us what's the first thing he redeems in our life when

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we believe that he is Lord and we confess with our mouths that we are sinners and we

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are far from God and sin is separating us from God and we bend distance from him when

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we recognize that he is the Savior and we come to him and we say Lord I commit to follow

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you I realize my sin I confess it I repent come into my life when that happens you know

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what Jesus redeems first in you your spirit you go from death to life in your spirit we

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always work from the outside in God works from the inside out he renews your spirit

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you are born again inside because what's in there is dead you are a dead if you didn't

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if you don't know this man if you don't have Jesus you're a dead man or dead woman walking

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you're a zombie all right it's true but he renews that spirit side and once he renews

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the spirit he goes out a little further right and he starts to renew our soul how many know

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after you get saved he starts to change your emotions a little bit he starts to change

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your will right these things the mind he starts to change your mind about some things he renews

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your mind so he works out and then one day one day not now in the next life the word

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of God tells us that we're going to step into heaven and he's going to give me a brand new

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body what's corruptible is going to become incorruptible and he's going to change the

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body he works from the inside out so when he had this conversation with Nick he didn't

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stick out in the outer circle Jesus didn't just talk nice to him he didn't even get to

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the next circle in he went right to the spirit and if we're going to have great conversations

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somehow someway in our conversations we got to get to the heart of it we got to get to

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right we got to point people to God we got to get them to Jesus and you might think well

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that sounds like a complicated thing it is not my mind quickly went back as I'm getting

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ready to close my mind quickly went back I just said ready but my mind quickly went back

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to a time when I was walking through an airport and I'll never forget this and I've told this

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story here before but as long as I live I'll never forget I had a conversation that was

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less than ten seconds with an individual and he ministered to my spirit in ten seconds

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I was going through and the person how many of you go into an airport there's always people

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that are assigned to work for the airlines that transport people that might be in wheelchairs

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or you know have a lot of stuff and they're pushing around there's this guy he's just

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pushing this person in a wheelchair and they're coming along and I held the door open somewhere

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I held the door open and I held the door open and as this guy is going by he looked at me

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he said hey that's just how our Lord does right the Lord just steps up he opens the

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door for us and in ten seconds time he spoke something about the Lord Jesus into my spirit

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and he went right by me and I'm like and he looked me square in the eye and said man that's

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how our Lord does if we allow him to right he opens the door in our life and he walked

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right by me I'm like boom right it wasn't hey how's it going it wasn't you know how

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you feeling today right my mind will emotions he went right to the spirit he just tell me

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about what God does great conversation less than ten seconds great conversation I'm going

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to ask you to stand support.

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

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