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Romans chapter 15 verse 13. We're not going to look so much at the context of

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what's going on here. I'll give you that as homework this week to go

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back and read the verses before this. We're just going to kind of kind of

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pluck this one little verse out. It's a beautiful verse. I think it's a good

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verse. Sometimes you may hear this verse in a benediction at a church service. So

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we're just going to look at this one little verse this morning. I'll read it

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then we'll pray and get started. Romans chapter 15 verse 13. Now may the God of

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hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him so that you may

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overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Let's pray. God we come

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to you today and we thank you for being good to us. God I praise you today for

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the work that you have done this week. I thank you for blessing us, blessing the

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kids, just allowing us to come and be in your house and to worship you. And God we

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praise you for your greatness. We thank you for Jesus and who he is and the hope

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that we have through him dear Lord. We come to you today and we need that hope.

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We live in a world that is full of pain and heartache and just just evil in our

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world dear Lord. And so God maybe there's something today that they come into this

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place and they they feel hopeless. I pray today dear Lord that we come and we hear

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your word and we rejoice in your presence and we feel your Holy Spirit God

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and that we can leave this place with hope that we can leave this place with

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joy and peace and I ask these things in Jesus name amen. This this week was a

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beautiful week. I asked Jennings to sing that last song before I preach today

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because I think that song tells exactly what this week was like. There was a

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sweet sweet spirit in this place and it was the presence of God. God was here

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this week. I know that our revival is not scheduled for another couple of weeks

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but but I believe that we had a revival this week. I believe that God worked in

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a mighty way. I believe that God worked amongst us adults. I believe that God

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works amongst the kids. Our teachers did such a good job this year. Our teachers

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the kids knew the Bible stories. They knew what mattered and and we did all

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this for one reason. Now we had a lot of fun. We we laughed and we acted silly and

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we ate good foods and we had some cool games. We made cool crafts but we did all

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of this and we always come together in God's house for one reason and that is

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so people can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ so that those who have heard it

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can grow in Jesus and those who have not heard it can come to Jesus and this week

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we had six children who gave their life to Jesus. Praise the Lord. That's good. We

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can clap. It's okay. That's good. Amen. We had six children. Three of them were going to be

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baptized here within the next two or three weeks. We're getting all the dates

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lined up where family can come but praise the Lord we had three from other

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churches that will be getting baptized at their churches in the next few weeks

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and what a what a what a beautiful thing that is. God was among us this week. The

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Spirit moved and God's Holy Spirit when he moves he moves in a powerful way. Now

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I don't it may just be me. I may be the only one that felt it but I hope some of

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the rest of you guys some of you workers some of you some of you folks felt that

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the power of God this week. You know when I sit here every night Dana asked me to

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to be the worship rally leader. I volunteered for recreation and she said

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no I want you to do a worship rally. Now I hadn't done that in a long time. I felt like I

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was too old. That's one reason why I didn't want to do it. I said I'm a 40 year old man.

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I don't this needs to be a young man's game. I don't know if I can even do it

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but I'm glad that she gave me the opportunity to do it because because I

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had the best seat in the house because I got to stand here every night and I look

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across here and I see 39 kids that were just as happy as they could be. They come

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every night with excitement and on this front row were 14 kids three to five

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years old. Yep, Payton taught that class. I'll be praying for her. She still recovered.

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But there's nothing more beautiful than to see these children that are

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that are sitting on this front pew. There's nothing more beautiful. Jesus you

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know there were some some folks bringing kids to Jesus and the disciples said

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look take him away. Jesus he's the Messiah. He's got important things to do.

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You don't have time for these kids and Jesus said look don't don't hinder the

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little children from coming unto me. And what a beautiful thing that is. What a

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beautiful story that is that Jesus reminds us of the importance of the kids

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and yeah they're a little rambunctious. They're a little wild. They got a little bit

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of energy but man what a beautiful thing that at that age that there are kids

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that feel this pew. And it gives me hope. It gives me hope when I see that there's

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another generation of young folks that are coming. That even in a small church

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like this that we could have 39 kids that would come every night and here's

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the cool part. Those kids didn't walk here. There's somebody that had to bring

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them. Those 39 kids had parents and had grandparents that cared enough about

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them that every night of the week that they would bring their kids and have to

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come pick them up at 830. That's late but they were faithful to do it every night

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and look listen at this for those of you that weren't here Friday night we had

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all of our kids lined up. We had about 120 people here on a Friday night that

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come to praise God for all the work that he had done. That's a beautiful thing.

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That's a beautiful thing how God worked and when I see that when I see all your

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smiling faces today when I see y'all are so faithful to come each week and so

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faithful to serve it gives me hope and our world needs hope today. Our world

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isn't a bad bad shape. We've got presidential candidates that's being

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shot at. We've got countries at war. We've got disease. We've got all this stuff

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that just that just overwhelms us and it can make us feel quite hopeless in this

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world today. But Romans chapter 15 verse 13 says now may the God of hope feel

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you with all joy and peace. May the God of hope. Now I don't know what your hope

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was when you came into this building today but I'll tell you this if you've

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tried to find hope in someone other than God you won't because the source of hope

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is God and God alone. So we come here today so that we can find hope in God so

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that we can know that there is hope in our situations. There's hope in our

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sinfulness and our addictions. There's hope in our broken relationships. There's

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hope in our and in our jobs that we hate. There's hope when the world seems to be

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against us. There's hope when everything seems to be falling apart. There is hope

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because we come here today to worship a God of hope and that is what we come

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today to find the hope of God so that we may be filled with what? With joy and

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peace. Now may the hope of God fill us this morning with joy and peace and as I

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come here every night this week and as I saw these kids there's a sense of hope.

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There's a sense of joy. There's a sense of peace. I saw all of our workers not

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just the kids but every time I would see everybody they were smiling they were

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excited they were happy. There was there was joy in this place. There was peace in

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this place. One night everybody had gone and I was turning off all the lights and

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and it was quiet and I was thinking man you know the life and the joy is in the

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people in the people of God and praising God and it brings life to this place and

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praise the Lord that we can come this week and we can come today and we can

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experience the hope of God and I hope today that you are experiencing the joy

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of God in your life that you're experiencing the peace of God in your

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life. So may the God of hope give joy and peace to us but but how do we receive

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that? No doubt God is a source of infinite hope and infinite joy and

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infinite peace but to obtain that there's something that's required for us

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and that's what the scripture says. Now may the God of hope fill you with joy

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and peace as you believe in Him or some of your translations may say as you

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trust in Him. Let me ask you that question today. I don't know the answer

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to it only you know the answer to that but but have you trusted in God today?

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Have you trusted in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? Do you know that when

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you feel hopeless and helpless do you know that when you struggle against sin

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in your life do you know that the only way that you will be delivered of that

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is through Jesus Christ that He is faithful to forgive us that He's faithful

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to restore us and begin to work in our life when we confess our sins when we

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seek Him when we call out to Him when our lives are falling apart and we say

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Lord Jesus I need you when we call out to God and say God I need some hope in

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the midst of my despair in the only place that we can find that hope and

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that joy and that peace today is when we have trusted in Jesus Christ as our Lord

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and Savior. Now I don't know but I but I want everybody in here to have trusted

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in Jesus Christ I don't know if you have. Now I say this a lot I'll say it again

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I'm not asking you do you come to church I'm not asking you if you pray

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occasionally I'm not asking you if you read your Bible sometimes I'm asking you

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have you trusted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior are you living for Him

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that's an easy question for us to answer we can we can answer that you know the

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answer that as soon as I say it are you living for Jesus Christ or are you

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living for the world are you living for Jesus Christ or are you living for

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yourself are you seeking the glory are you giving it to Jesus Christ in your

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life I don't know the answer to that but you know the answer to that and what

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what God's Word calls us to again and again is that we would repent of our

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sins that we would seek God that we would call out to Him and when we seek

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Him with all of our heart we will find it. Maybe the reason you haven't found

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Jesus in your life is you haven't been seeking Him but maybe today the Holy

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Spirit is working in your life and maybe today you realize that you need to seek

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out Jesus Christ I want to tell you that he's here for you today that he died on

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the cross that he was crucified and that he was resurrected and that is the

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greatest truth that you will ever hear in your life that's what we learned in

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VBS this week that God's truth never changes our world is constantly changing

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our world is constantly telling us oh this is right oh this is right oh this

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is acceptable oh this is my truth so whatever my truth is is okay but we

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don't live by our truth we must live by the truth of God's Word and the truth of

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God's Word is this is that we are sinners we are wretched men and women who

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do evil and horrible things but God in our sinfulness saw us and sent Jesus

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Christ his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him shall not

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perish but have everlasting life that Jesus Christ would give his life for us

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that is the grace of God so that our sins would be forgiven that is the

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truth of God's Word and God's truth never changes so we need to discover the

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hope of God today we need the joy and the peace of God to help get us through

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our life every day when we hear bad news after bad news after bad news and that

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only comes when we have trusted in Jesus Christ now may the God of hope fill you

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with all joy and peace as you believe in him so that you may overflow with hope

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by the power of the Holy Spirit the power of the Holy Spirit oh what a

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beautiful thing the scripture tells us that the Holy Spirit indwells in us when

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we come to Jesus Christ it's a beautiful thing when you see the spirit of God

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move some of you have experienced that some of you have been part of revivals

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where you've seen the Spirit of God move or been in a church service where you've

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seen the Spirit of God move or been part of a VBS where you've seen the Spirit of

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God move and when the Spirit of God moves it's evident it's evidence it's

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undeniable one of the one of the things we see the thing that we see when the

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Spirit of God moves is that lost souls come to Jesus Christ is that souls are

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saved that Jesus Christ begins to work that the Holy Spirit begins to work that

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God's Word begins to work and we it's evident to us when the Holy Spirit is at

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work because people give their life to Jesus Christ we see it in a variety of

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other ways Galatians chapter 5 verses 22 and 3 23 says but the fruit of the

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spirit is love joy peace patience kindness a goodness faith gentleness and

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self-control these are the things that we see when the Spirit of God moves

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these are the things that we see in our church these are the things that we saw

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this week in our church in VBS we saw the joy of God the peace of God the

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kindness of God we saw all of these qualities in the workers that we hear we

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saw in the children that were here and why because the Holy Spirit was working

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in this place God has been so good to us Enterprise Baptist Church God has blessed

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us so much through the years and in these last couple of years God has

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continued to bless us and I believe that God's Spirit is at work and I believe

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that God's Spirit will continue to work if we continue to listen to the Spirit

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of God and continue to follow the Spirit of God and continue to do the work of

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God and it's the Spirit of God and it's the work of God that will change this

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world now I know we're writing right up amongst the midst of a presidential

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election regardless of who you like it does not matter to me but I'll tell you

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this that our presidents are not going to change our world none of our leaders

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are going to change our world it is the power of God that will change our world

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it is the word of God that will change our world it is the Holy Spirit working

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among people that will change our world now we look at our world today and we

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say we're hopeless it's just it's no way this might be the end maybe maybe this

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is it maybe it is I don't know but then again maybe God wants to do a mighty

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work God does it he's done it many times a revival has to start somewhere

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the Spirit of God has to start working somewhere for that spark to ignite who's

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not to say that it may not be when it starts in you that it may not be the

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spirit working in you and you're obedient to God that causes the spark

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that brings the revival that changes the nation that changes the world who's not

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to say that it won't start at Enterprise Baptist Church who's not to say that it

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didn't start in VBS 2024 the Spirit of God wants to work among us and maybe for

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some of you today the Spirit of God has already been working on you maybe

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there's that conviction there to know that you need Jesus Christ as your Lord

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and Savior we come and we read God's Word and we study God's Word and it is

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good for us it is powerful for us and it tells us things about ourselves and it

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reveals us when we reveals to us when we come and we open our heart and we seek

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God we see that there are things in our life and in our heart that shouldn't be

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there and it just and it just brings this this burden this conviction on us

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but praise the Lord praise the Lord if you feel like that today because here's

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what the scripture says 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 verse 10 says for

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godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation

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now Paul said that after he had preached some hard words to these people he wrote

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to him in 1st Corinthians some hard things and and it grieves some of the

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people but Paul says praise the Lord that you're grieved by these things

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because godly grief leads to repentance and it's a repentance that leads to

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salvation in Jesus Christ and so when God's Spirit begins to work amongst us

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when God's Spirit begins to work in our lives when God's Spirit begins to work

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on our heart he's calling us to trust in Jesus Christ perhaps there are some of

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you today and you feel the Holy Spirit working on you perhaps today you know

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that you've not trusted in Jesus Christ maybe you've been to church a lot maybe

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you know a lot of scripture but maybe you've never trusted in Jesus Christ and

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repented of your sins and live for him maybe the Holy Spirit is working on you

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today well I pray today that if the Holy Spirit is working on you that you would

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not turn away from God but that you would repent of your sins that you would

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receive that salvation that comes only through Jesus Christ the power of the

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Holy Spirit is a beautiful thing the power of the Holy Spirit helps reveal to

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us the hope of God it helps reveal to us the joy and the peace of God but that

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only comes when we have trusted in Jesus Christ in just a few minutes we're gonna

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have our song of invitation we do this every week maybe there are some of you

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out there today and you've never trusted Jesus Christ and maybe today as you sit

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there you're ready to trust Jesus Christ as we have this song of invitation I

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would encourage you to come forward we use all this language walk in the aisle

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and asking Jesus into our heart you know the scripture never says anything about

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asking Jesus into our heart but it does call us to put our faith in Jesus Christ

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and to trust in Jesus Christ the Bible says never says you've got to walk the

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aisle to be saved these are terms that we use and they're good enough but what

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I'm calling you to today is not just walking an aisle but what I'm calling

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you to today is to put your trust in Jesus Christ to put your faith in Jesus

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Christ to repent of your sins and maybe today you're ready to make that decision

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as we sang this song of invitation I would invite you to come and respond if

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the Holy Spirit has spoken to you only you know the answer to that question

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only you can make that decision but I pray today that you would trust in Jesus

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Christ let's pray father God we come to you this morning we thank you for your

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good words I pray that you would bless these words I pray that you would bless

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each one that's here today God I thank you for all the ones who have come I

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thank you for the blessing of our VBS I pray for these children dear Lord who

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have put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ I pray that you would bless them

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as they prepare for their baptisms God I pray that you bless the workers that

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were here that we continue to grow in you through that experience God I pray

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that you'd bless this church God I pray that your Holy Spirit would work amongst

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us would work amongst many all over this country all over this world dear Lord

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that we would be those who were transformed by you God there there may

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be some today that came into this place looking for hope and peace and joy and I

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pray today that they have seen that it only comes when we trust in Jesus Christ

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so if there are some today that do not know Jesus Christ I pray God that in

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this time of invitation that they would respond that they would come that they

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would that they would put their faith in Jesus Christ today that we baptize them

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as as your word commands God maybe there are some here today and they're yours

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but maybe today they need to repent of something in their life maybe today they

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need to kind of just re-shift their focus dear Lord to put you back at the

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center God if you've spoken to anybody God I pray that right now that they

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would respond and I ask these things in Jesus name amen