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The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever.

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Amen.

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If you have your Bibles, be turned with me to Mark's gospel.

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Hallelujah.

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Mark chapter seven.

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Hallelujah.

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Balcony section is looking good today.

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Hallelujah. Yeah, the left side is strong side today.

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Hallelujah.

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The Lord is good to us.

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Merciful and kind.

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Amen.

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Also be in prayer Saturday.

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Brother Wayne Henry.

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He has one job.

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As to stand by his son and not lose the ring.

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One job. We talked about that. We discussed that Wednesday.

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And I said, you think it's safe?

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Are we going to give him the real one?

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We're going chances.

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See, I'll pray for brother Wayne. One job not to lose the ring.

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As we see that Malachi and Emma are wed on Saturday.

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It's going to be a good day.

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Amen.

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Mark's gospel, chapter seven.

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We're going to begin reading at verse thirty one.

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As we read together.

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And again, departing from the coast of Tyree and Sidon,

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he came.

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And to the Sea of Galilee.

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Through the midst of the coast of Decapolis.

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And they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech.

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And they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

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And he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit.

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And he touched his tongue.

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And looking up to heaven, he sighed and he said unto him, epitha, that is to be opened.

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And straightway, his ears were open and the string of his tongue was loosed.

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And he spake plain.

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And he charged them that they should tell no man.

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But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published.

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It's hard to keep good news quiet in it.

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And were beyond measure astonished.

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Saying he had done all things well.

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He maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.

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We attempted this passage several weeks ago.

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The Lord had other plans that day.

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But I want to speak to you on this thought this morning.

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Beyond good.

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Beyond good.

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Father, I love you and I thank you and I praise you today.

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Now Lord, I need your help.

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For nothing we do today of our own will be lasting.

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That which we do for you and through you and of you will be edifying to the body of Christ.

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So I ask Lord that you help us.

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We that have ears to hear, may we hear what the Spirit says to the church.

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That we leave lifted.

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Lifted by your word and strengthened through your grace.

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Do you be praised forever?

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In Christ's name.

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And the church said amen and amen.

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And you can be seated.

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Beyond good.

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A couple of weeks ago I ministered to you on the subject of current events.

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It's been a month now, right at a month since the Hamas raid and Israel has been invoked

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and war has taken place.

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Early on there's this sense of urgency and alarm.

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Is this it?

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Is this what's going to catapult us into the end?

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Like most events, if the end doesn't immediately come, if the Lord hadn't appeared, complacency

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begins to set back in.

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There's the wonderment of it all still making its way around.

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As we begin to look, news continues, news carries on.

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Some of the top stories from this past week, I don't know if you read the article, but

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there's a rather large comet making its way toward the earth.

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It's called the devil comet of all things.

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It's supposed to come close to the earth.

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They don't think it's going to make impact, but it's supposed to come close to the earth

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around April or May in the spring.

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It was first spotted in 1812.

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It has a 71 year circular cycle.

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It comes around every several one years.

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It orbits.

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The reason it's kindly alarming, it is two times larger than Mount Everest.

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It's a pretty big deal.

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It's only going to come 144,158,116 miles to the earth.

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Why scientists figure that would set us at alarm, I have no idea.

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The headline said, comet coming toward the earth.

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I thought, it's going to get close.

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100 million miles?

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Come on, folk.

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I think there's more important things going on than that in our world.

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Jonathan Turley wrote an article about faith and the dire situation of faith in America.

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He said, faith is the one thing that no system of government can do without.

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Without faith in the underlying values of a constitutional system, authority rests on

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a mix of coercion and capitulation.

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The single greatest threat to America is hiding in plain sight.

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It's one of the main headlines that I read this week.

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It's the changing of the guard in our culture and how many today are calling our constitution

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outdated and we just need to do away with it.

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You know why that is?

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Because our constitution holds mankind accountable.

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You can't just do what you will.

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You can't just have it your way.

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It's not McDonald's.

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You can't have it your way.

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And that's what's bothering some people because our culture is slowly making this a moral

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turn away from God.

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And there's too much mention of God, his existence, and our submission to him in that document.

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So we got to get away from that.

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I thought that article really struck me.

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The simple greatest threat to America is hiding in plain sight.

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Well, how's that so?

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Have you not been watching any of the news?

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I know it's hard to look at.

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I know it's hard to watch.

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But our universities are rioting in the street celebrating terrorism.

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The so-called smart folk.

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Hello?

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Some are too smart for their own good.

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And I've told you before, common sense isn't so common in our culture anymore.

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I looked it up this morning just to see.

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And I'm sure it's updated since midnight last night at my last count at 10 o'clock, there

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were 21 earthquakes around the world.

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21 measuring from 2.7 to 6.3 in magnitude.

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21 since 12 a.m.

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This whole earth is rocking, isn't it?

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It's groaning.

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It's moaning according to the author of Acts.

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Luke records she's groaning, longing for her day of redemption.

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These are all things that are happening.

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What else happened in our culture?

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Israel went with its ground invasion, the beginning stages.

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While that is going on, right in the middle of this event, I'm watching the news and there

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was an alert came over and the anchor switched his story from the ground invasion to the

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state of Maine.

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An unstable individual took 19 lives which included his own.

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This world is topsy-turvy.

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This world is upside down.

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Things are happening.

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In spite of all those things, I also read stories where at Auburn University hundreds

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of college students, they're not all riding in the streets.

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Some are experiencing an encounter of God.

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Hundreds of Auburn students were baptized in a lake.

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Down at Free Chapel at Jensen Franklin's Church, just a typical service broke out in revival

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where hundreds came to an altar one night to receive Jesus Christ as Lord.

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What are you trying to get to this morning, Pastor?

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What I'm trying to get to is in spite of all the negativity, in spite of all that the enemy

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is doing, in spite of all of the signs of the time, God is still good.

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Amen?

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We get our focus so narrowed down to the negativity that's going on in our world.

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The old saying, the squeaky wheel is what's getting the grease.

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You know what wheel is squeaking the loudest?

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The amoral wheel, the evil wheel is squeaking the loudest.

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That's what's being protruded in your face every day.

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When you open your phone and you scan the news, that's the images that you get.

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What do you get when you get on Facebook?

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You see a lot of the negativity that's going on in the world and what's happening in your

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friends' and families' lives.

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We're being posted out there everywhere, some for good intention.

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They are needing a prayer to go on and a vigil to take place on their behalf.

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But that's not always what's happening.

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But I know this much, while that is taking place, God is still at work.

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God is still doing some good things for those who call on Him and those who love Him.

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He's still at work.

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We're still getting some good reports for you.

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Don't have to go back for six months and have another checkup because the cancer's gone

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and they've got it all and God was faithful and He's kept you and He brought you through

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and we get to rejoice with those types of testimonies.

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It's not all evil in this world because God is beyond good and God is still moving and

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God is still saving and God is still healing and God is still delivering and He's doing

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so for all who will call upon His name.

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However, we live in a world bound by limits.

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We live in a world of fixed limitations.

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We live in a world where physical strength is limited.

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I saw it yesterday.

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I saw physical strength limited.

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I saw Brother Brian get a catch in his back.

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We're sitting counter tops at the house, nine foot sheets of granite.

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The fellow that's having me set it is about this big.

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He's a Hispanic brother.

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I've known him for almost 20 years now.

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He's about this big and we're looking at these nine foot pieces of granite.

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He said, Pastor, can we get some help?

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I said, I know a man bigger than both of us.

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So he rolls up second lift.

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I seen him, he had his hips kind of twisted.

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We come up with that granite and I saw it in his eyes.

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I said, uh-oh, we're in trouble.

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So he's kind of gimping around this morning.

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Physical strength has limited.

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Should have called show guns and put him on the other end and would have been good.

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I wouldn't have had to touch it.

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I wouldn't have this thing I got going up my neck.

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We live in a world that has fixed limits.

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Machinery has limitations.

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Maths has limitations.

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Medicine has limitations.

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There's some things that we cannot do for ourselves, but I'm here to tell you again

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this morning and just to remind you, we serve a God who is not limited by anything.

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Amen.

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He is all powerful.

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He has all knowledge.

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Amen.

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He is ever present.

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He's all places at all times and the God that you serve is able to sustain you and to keep

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you and to carry you through all the negativity that's going on in this world.

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Hear me, child of God.

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Don't be alarmed.

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Don't be alarmed by the factions of what's taking place in the Middle East.

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It's already been warned.

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You've already been told and we already understand that all of that has to happen so that we

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can hear the trumpet, the alarm of the child of God to be notified of the appearance of

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the Son of the Living God, your Savior, your Redeemer in the sky.

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All of this has to happen.

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Don't be frightened.

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Don't be afraid.

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Just be ready.

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Hallelujah.

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Just be ready.

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Don't be anxious.

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Don't be nervous.

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Just be ready because in the moment in the twinkling of an eye, when that trump sounds

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and that archangel gives his shout, there's going to be a transformation that takes place.

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It's going to blow the mind of every earthly being.

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They're going to see something because of the absence of others.

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You and I are going to be gone.

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We're going to be taken.

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Don't be alarmed because he is beyond good.

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Our scripture this morning tells us of a man who has some physical limitations going on.

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He's unable to hear and he's unable to make audible speech.

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He's making noises, but there's no clarification.

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This is what we have to deal with today in a lot of cases.

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We need to understand that even though we can't go beyond silence at times, we can't

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go beyond the limitations of our physicality.

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We have to understand that we have not totally exhausted the power and the authority and

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the resources that we have in God.

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You may come to those moments of limitation when I begin to look for that definition to

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be limited, the word limit is a point or a level which something does not or may not

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extend past, a restriction.

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Amen.

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It's a restriction.

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When I begin to think about limits, listen to this, to be limited is to be restricted,

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resisted or restrained.

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A spirit of limitation can delay you from getting to or receiving from God what he has

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destined for you in your life.

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It's not all about the physical restrictions and the physical limits.

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There are spiritual limits that you put on God.

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God is not limited, but we limit his moving in our life because of the spirit of limitation.

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How does this begin to take place?

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Pastor, the things that cause this limit of us receiving from God are this, doubt will

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limit you from getting anything from God.

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Unbelief will limit you from getting, it doesn't limit his power to get it to you.

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It limits you from believing and receiving.

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Disobedience will limit you.

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Sin will limit you.

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Rebellion will limit you.

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Any effect of the enemy given into or trying to come over or you to surrender to will cause

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the limitation of God's goodness and glory.

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He's not limited in giving it, but we limit ourselves in receiving it.

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It's this limitation that we put on him when we automatically think, when we see the mountain,

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when we see the limitation physical or whatever, we begin to thank God.

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There's no way this can happen.

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Well, you're already put up a roadblock.

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You've already put up a limit sign.

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You've already put up a restriction.

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When you confess to yourself that this is impossible, what you need to remind yourself

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is this, with men things are impossible, but not with God.

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All things are possible to those who believe.

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The possibilities are limitless in God.

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You are the one who bring, we bring about spiritual limitations on our life.

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I'm here to remind you this morning, do not limit God and what God can do or what God

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will do.

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These things bring about limitations.

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The spirit sets on doubt, disbelief, unbelief, rebellion, disobedience.

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Sin is a big limiter.

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Hello?

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God is not going to bless your sin.

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Are you hearing me?

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You limit his goodness in your life when sin is present, but that's easy.

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There's an easy remedy for that.

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People say, oh, it's so hard to get rid of sin.

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No, it's not.

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It's not hard to get rid of it.

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It's just hard to keep from doing it.

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It's easy to get shed of it.

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Hello?

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How so?

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If any man sins, according to the word of God, he has an advocate with the Father, Christ

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Jesus the righteous.

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And if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to

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cleanse us of all our unrighteousness.

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It's not the hard parts not getting rid of it.

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The hard part of it is quit committing it.

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In other words, you got to take authority over your flesh.

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You got to take authority over your mind.

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You got to take authority over your spirit and get it yielded and submitted under the

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mighty hand of God that when you draw near him, he'll draw near to you and you'll understand

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he's beyond good.

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Take off the limiters.

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We govern back.

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How many know what a governor is?

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It's a device on a carbureted engine.

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There's some truck drivers in here.

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The company's got you governed back to about 65.

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And you want to do something about those people fussing at you going down the road, but you

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just can't.

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You got her pegged foot, I mean out there in the injector now, but that's all you can

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get is 65.

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Can I tell you something?

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Take the governor off of God.

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Take the limiter off of God.

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He's wanting to throttle up your life.

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Hello.

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What are you saying?

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He's wanting to give you the gas.

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He's wanting to rev you up.

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He's wanting to take you beyond the limits that you are limiting him with in your life.

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I just don't believe that.

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Well, I'm glad you don't because I'm about to give you some book chapter to let you know

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that you can.

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Psalm 78 and 41.

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Yay.

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They.

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You need to underline this little word, they.

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You do know that's a new identification today.

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There's he, him, her and she and they and them.

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Like it's a new thing.

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There's always been they and them.

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If you amen real good, I'd have preached it, but you didn't.

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So we shall move on.

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Yay.

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They turned back and tempted God.

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Are you with me?

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Are you here?

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And limited the holy one of Israel.

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Now this is in the day of provocation.

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What's that?

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It's in the wilderness when the children of Israel were brought to the edge of the promised

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land.

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Spies were seen in.

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They come back 10 with evil reports and two with a good report.

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And they tempted God.

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Why?

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Because they put limits on themselves.

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How so?

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How many remember the text?

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How many remember the story?

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Were you at you Bible readers when they said we are as grasshoppers in our own eyes and

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so we are in theirs?

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Do you see the limit?

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They just put a halt on the promise.

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They put a 40 year delay on the promise.

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That's the reason I gave you the limiter about it just a minute ago.

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We can put restrictions and restraints on ourselves.

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God wanted them in then.

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God said I'll go before you now.

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He wasn't having to be delayed.

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His power wasn't short.

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Their faith was short.

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They saw themselves as something that God did not see them as.

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You've got to understand it's greater than he that is in you than he that is in this

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world.

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You've got to understand it's not by might nor by power but it's by my spirit saith the

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Lord.

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So don't look at what you've come up against and put it in measurements to your own ability

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but measure it in the ability of he that is in you and the devil will flee from you if

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you will just simply let God rise.

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It's the spirit of limitation.

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Churches put it on like a blanket.

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You see how that displayed right there?

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Talking about a particular people who confessed to him we don't want no more people.

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I like a small church and I'm thinking it's not your church.

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That's what I told him.

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I said who do they think they are?

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It's not theirs.

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When we begin to take possession and ownership of something that doesn't belong to us it's

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called thievery.

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So they're trying to steal from God what belongs to him.

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It's his house.

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It's his church and he'll do with it whatsoever he wills.

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We simply have to be obedient but the limiters is there's a limit of faith because people

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don't like it crowded.

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My, my, my don't you just love a good crowd.

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Some of you don't know where that's going so you don't know where to clap or not.

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This kingdom isn't about us it's about him.

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And I'll tell you what God will do in a place where he's being lifted up his son is being

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lifted up.

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You do remember the text correctly.

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If I be lifted up I'll draw all men unto me.

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Are you hearing me?

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That's the book.

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The Bible declares Jesus of himself said if the son of man be lifted if I be lifted up

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if I be exalted I will draw men will be drawn.

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So any church is proclaiming the life-giving hope of an unlimited God who will work through

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and to people and in people who put no restrictions and limits on him he will begin to move and

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the walls will begin to be moved down and you'll have to extend your tent stakes.

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Not one thing I found out about God he won't force goodness and blessings on anyone.

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He won't force it.

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If you don't want it don't worry you're not going to have to fend it off.

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Hello?

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I've had people tell me that man I don't know about that Holy Ghost stuff.

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I said well you don't have to.

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What you mean?

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I said well if you're not wanting it if you don't want him if you don't want his power

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if you don't want his ability if you don't want his strength in your life don't worry

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he ain't gonna shove it down your throat.

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You don't have to be worried about this Holy Ghost thing.

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You've got no worry because you're not in danger of him getting on you.

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Now you might sit close to somebody that's got a good double dose and get a little splash

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every now and then you go oh.

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Hello?

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Oh what was that?

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Don't worry that's all you're gonna get.

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A little splash.

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Hello?

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People say I don't know about that rolling in the floor.

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I said well don't worry about it you're not gonna be down there.

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I don't know about running around.

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Look don't be concerned because you're not gonna move.

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Well why?

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Because you don't want to.

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Sometimes in the moment you take the limiters off of God and say God I need more of you.

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I want more of you.

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Show me that glory they were singing about.

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Throw me that authority.

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Show me that power.

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Show me your anointing.

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I surrender.

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I take the limits off.

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If there's any sin in me I confess it.

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I repent.

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Wash me.

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Purge me.

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Cleanse me.

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Oh my God sanctify me.

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Clean me up.

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I want some of that.

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But if you don't want it don't worry honey all you're gonna do is be embarrassed by the

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rest of us that's got it.

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When I was growing up I used to get embarrassed if I had a friend come to church because I

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knew.

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Just as sure as you could get anybody to our church.

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Look when I was growing up our church was right on the little side road, blacktop road.

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For fun us boys would take our pocketknives.

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Where's the needle now?

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He in there a little bit older than me.

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We carried our pocketknives around.

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You know what we would do before church before it got dark?

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We didn't have a basketball goal.

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That was sin in my day.

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We'd take our pocketknives and dig bullets out of the board and batten.

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Where the idiots drive down the road and shoot at the church.

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That's what we did for fun.

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Dig 22 bullets out of the wall.

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Huh?

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How many of you got that testimony in your past?

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You got to dig bullets out of your church wall.

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But I remember going in there we were building that little church as a house we converted

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out of the bathroom on the back.

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And I remember dad up there playing his old guitar.

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Light strung down through on a drop cord through the middle of the church.

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No limits on God.

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Holy Ghost begin to move.

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People's lives begin to be touched.

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Change agent begin to happen.

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People got washed up, sanctified, filled with his glorious Holy Ghost power.

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Begin to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave.

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It was none of this wildfire garbage at our place.

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I'm telling you that was enough of the real to burn out anything that might flash up or

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flare up.

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They could spot them a mile away.

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And when they get them Holy Ghost eyes tuned in on you and come at you with a bottle of

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oil, you will be getting out the door or you'll be getting right.

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We have got to take the limits off of God.

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We got to take our hands off.

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They limited God in the day of provocation.

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Instead of entering into the promised land, they tempted God and said, God, you ain't

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good enough.

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We can't do it.

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God said, okay, you wonder for 40 years and we'll get back to this.

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Somebody needs to know he ain't opposed to you wandering around until you get your mind

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made up.

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He's not going to shove you into a land flowing with milk and honey.

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He'll lead you to it.

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And he'll make a promise.

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He told Moses, I'll go before you.

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That's where we get the words for the song we did this morning.

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Moses said, well, if you don't go, I ain't going.

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But if you go and show me a little bit of that glory, take the limits off God.

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I want to see it.

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Well, son, you can't see it all.

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You can't hold up to it.

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I know you sit the bush.

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Hello.

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Where my Bible readers at?

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You know, everybody knows the Bush story when he had to take his shoes off and got close

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to that Bush because he heard the voice out of that burning bush said, take your shoes

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off for now.

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You standing on holy ground.

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I got a mission for you.

501
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,500
I'm here to tell somebody God's still got a mission for you.

502
00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:40,120
He's just waiting on you to get your shoes off and get ready.

503
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,160
He's waiting on you to get back to the edge of the promise where he can take you all the

504
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,160
way.

505
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:51,280
He's waiting on you to get the limits off where he can go beyond good in your life.

506
00:30:51,280 --> 00:31:02,400
Well, we've about slipped into one this morning.

507
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,520
I believe I'm preaching about two dozen folks.

508
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,360
It's ready to get the limits off.

509
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:11,240
I don't know about the other hundred of you, but I think there's at least two or three

510
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,240
dozen that's ready to get the limiters off.

511
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,400
I think they some folks ready to get some separation.

512
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,520
They're ready to get some shoes off and get on some holy ground.

513
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,960
I think it's time.

514
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,160
I think it's time we shake it off.

515
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,040
We've got used to a few more folk.

516
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,120
I think we can get used to a few more.

517
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:29,120
Why?

518
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,440
Because pastor, let me tell you today, I've got friends, I've got neighbors, I've got

519
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,720
family that the devil's tormenting their life.

520
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,960
They can't sleep well.

521
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,520
They can't rest well.

522
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,720
They're getting diagnosis after diagnosis.

523
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,840
Well, can I tell you something?

524
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,440
This lame man had a diagnosis.

525
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:52,240
He was deaf and dumb and I wanted you to take a hold of that little four letter word, they.

526
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,120
They brought him.

527
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,200
They besought him.

528
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,560
Can I tell you this morning, if this old crazy world's got anything right, you're the they.

529
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:02,560
Who are the they?

530
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,480
They are the they that believe that all things are possible.

531
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:10,880
They are the ones who are trusting you this morning and it's up to you to go get them.

532
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:20,720
It's up to you to go find them and bring them in and we'll besiege him on their behalf.

533
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,000
First thing he did is he got them out.

534
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,520
There's something about getting out before you can get in.

535
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,280
You got to get out before you can get in.

536
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,280
Out of what?

537
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:35,280
Out of your own way?

538
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,560
Some of you folk, your biggest problem is you.

539
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,920
It's not the devil.

540
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:41,920
It's not the devil.

541
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,480
You.

542
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,880
For many years, I was my own problem.

543
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,880
And can I tell you today, the limit that I have on God for what I receive in my life,

544
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,480
it's not God's problem, it's mine.

545
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:55,480
Hello?

546
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,000
What do you mean?

547
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,000
Do you limit God?

548
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,360
Well, I do because I'm not seeing what I want to see yet.

549
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,360
What is that?

550
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,560
That shekinah glory.

551
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:10,080
That cloud of the Holy One moving into this place, hovering where none of us are able

552
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:15,440
to get on our feet, but we're prostrated before the holy presence of our holy God.

553
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,900
And then when people get up, cancers are gone.

554
00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:22,800
When people get up, backs are healed and arms are healed and shoulders are healed and cataracts

555
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:27,560
are removed and glaucoma is taken care of and high blood pressure is taken care of and

556
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,240
diabetes has been rebuked.

557
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:34,680
All of these things are possible in that glory that Moses said he wanted to see and that's

558
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,800
the desire that is beginning to build in my heart.

559
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,080
We're not praying enough for it yet, but God's already moving me and we're going to get back

560
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:48,760
to praying again.

561
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,640
I was thinking the other day, for about two years we met on Thursday, a year and a half

562
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,880
maybe, Thursday morning.

563
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:06,320
And I began to think back since we stopped meeting, what we are experiencing is the harvest

564
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,760
of those prayers.

565
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,640
Yeah?

566
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:15,280
Anywhere from three to ten or twelve of us would gather on Thursday morning.

567
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:22,640
I know it wasn't a very conducive time for those of you that work, but it was the hour

568
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,680
that the Lord put on my heart and so that's why we did it.

569
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:32,320
So get ready to start adjusting your schedule.

570
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,880
First of all, how many want more?

571
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,880
You want more of God.

572
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:42,280
Yeah, I mean, I know it can be a scary type thing because we don't know what God's going

573
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,440
to do when he shows up.

574
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,640
It can be uncomfortable, but like I said, don't worry about it.

575
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:53,960
You sit close enough to the back or you won't have to worry about it, but I dare you to

576
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:58,120
get in it.

577
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:03,680
I challenge you when I set this time of prayer, you start praying whether you can come here

578
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,000
to do it or not.

579
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,160
There's something about corporate prayer.

580
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:13,080
There's something about it when people of God get together, set aside all agendas and

581
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,280
pray together.

582
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:16,880
Amen?

583
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:21,320
No preaching prayer, no singing.

584
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,240
Pray.

585
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:28,640
If you get consistent, you'll pray everything you know to pray in about four minutes.

586
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,280
The first two or three times together.

587
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,480
Yeah, and you're going to think, my Lord, I've been here for 30 minutes and you're going

588
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,520
to look at your clock and it's going to be, I ain't been here for five minutes.

589
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,560
But if you'll get consistently practicing prayer, next thing you know, you'll look at

590
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,080
that watch and say, I've been here an hour.

591
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,240
I can give you a formula to get you to an hour.

592
00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:54,240
Hello?

593
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:58,240
Nothing wrong with an hour prayer.

594
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:02,440
We do want God to intervene in our crisis and situations.

595
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:07,520
They brought this man to Jesus who was his only hope and his only answer.

596
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:12,040
And then Jesus takes him out of the mist of unbelief and doubt that he was surrounded

597
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:13,040
by.

598
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,040
He put his fingers in his ears.

599
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:20,440
He spit and he touched old boy's tongue and he began to hear and began to speak plainly.

600
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:28,160
So much so that their astonishment, the Bible says they were beyond astonished.

601
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,480
That's the way I want to be.

602
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,960
That's the way I want to leave here on Sundays, Wednesdays, when any time that we gather.

603
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,880
That's the way I want to leave here that we've been in his presence.

604
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:43,680
And when he does his wonderful, mighty deeds on people and in people and through people,

605
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,440
I want to leave here scratching my head.

606
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,240
My Lord, I've never seen it quite like that before.

607
00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:52,680
Isn't that what the disciples and others said when Jesus spoke to the wind and the waves

608
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,040
in their private conversation.

609
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,560
Man, he's even got power over the wind and the waves.

610
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,340
I've never seen it and never heard it.

611
00:36:58,340 --> 00:37:00,680
Never seen anything like this before.

612
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:01,840
That's what I'm longing for.

613
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,880
I don't need a recap of 1886.

614
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,720
I don't need a recap of 30 years ago.

615
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:10,360
I need a fresh outpouring.

616
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:15,960
I'm longing for a limit to be taken off and people's faith to rise to a level that God

617
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:22,960
is able to do all things and exceed your expectation and exceed my expectation and see the most

618
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:28,840
vile sinners saved.

619
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,760
They said he was beyond astonishing.

620
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:32,760
He's beyond good.

621
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:38,040
It was a good thing that he did, but it was better than that.

622
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:39,040
They were amazed.

623
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,040
They took him aside.

624
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,500
He got him out of that mess.

625
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:44,500
He looked up.

626
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:45,720
There's an acknowledgement.

627
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,360
Jesus looked up to heaven.

628
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:54,320
He realizes that all things good come from above.

629
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:58,280
Isn't that what James said?

630
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:04,520
All those good and perfect things come from above, come from God in whom there is no shadow

631
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,800
or variableness of turning.

632
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,040
The consistency of God remains.

633
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,600
He did it in James's day.

634
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,200
He did it in Peter's day.

635
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,800
He did it in Paul's day.

636
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,000
He's still doing it today.

637
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,600
Why?

638
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:27,600
Because he is still good.

639
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:34,200
It takes an acknowledgement toward heaven that we take the limitations off of God through

640
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,840
our doubt and our unbelief.

641
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:44,920
In Kings 13, it's the story of King Josiah who comes to an elderly prophet, oh, Elisha.

642
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,320
He's sick.

643
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:52,360
The Bible says he's laying in the bed sick of the disease that he would ultimately die

644
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,360
from.

645
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:59,560
Here comes the king of Israel, comes into Elisha's presence.

646
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:04,960
He has a problem with Syria.

647
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:13,320
They still got a problem with Syria, but they're working on it.

648
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,720
Hello?

649
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:18,640
But let me just give you a little tidbit right here.

650
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,320
They wouldn't have to be working on it today if Josiah would have took care of it the day

651
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,040
he went into the prophet's room.

652
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:30,440
He come in, I love the story.

653
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:35,720
He gave that wonderful shout, the horseman of God and the chariot of Israel, and the

654
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:39,640
old prophet stirred up because he remembered that saying.

655
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,760
You remember the day Elijah was took out of his presence when that fiery chariot come

656
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:50,640
down, picked him up, and he's standing there with drool?

657
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,920
It's a day he wouldn't soon forget.

658
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,240
How so?

659
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:59,320
It's the day that he picked up the anointing as well.

660
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:05,160
It was a day that that cloak of Elijah come fluttering back toward the earth, and Elisha

661
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:10,960
picks it and walks to the Jordan, and he smites the waters of Jordan with the cloak of Elijah

662
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:16,560
and made this declaration, where is the Lord God of Elijah?

663
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,680
I'm ready to get a mantle and go to smiting.

664
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:25,040
I'm ready to see the Lord God of Elijah.

665
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,200
You're just going to have to bear with me.

666
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,200
I didn't get to preach last week.

667
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:34,760
I got to get two weeks worth and it's still five till.

668
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:43,240
That is the recognition that the old sick prophet heard on his deathbed, and a realization

669
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,120
struck him.

670
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:56,360
The Jordan stood at attention, so he sat up, picked up a bow, said, here, take it.

671
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,440
Loose an arrow out the window.

672
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,560
And the king immediately looses the arrow.

673
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,320
Then he hands him the quiver, hands him a handful.

674
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:10,360
He said, now you smite, strike the earth.

675
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,880
I can see an old king in his pompous arrogant attitude.

676
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:14,880
Hello?

677
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,520
I told you we get in our own way sometimes.

678
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,200
We're the one that do the limiting.

679
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:32,440
So to appease the prophet, he just half-heartedly taps the ground three times.

680
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:37,040
And there was enough life, and oh, Elijah, he come up.

681
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:41,800
Oh, had a wobbly prophet come up.

682
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,440
Something was still in him.

683
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:44,440
What are you doing?

684
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,960
You should have not stopped less than five or six strikes to the ground.

685
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,080
If you would have followed through, if you would have had faith, if you didn't have

686
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:59,800
to just been eager, you would have destroyed them.

687
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:00,800
But not now.

688
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:01,800
You're going to defeat them.

689
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:07,840
You're going to put them at bay, but they're still going to be there if you would have

690
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:14,480
just not limited God.

691
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:18,400
How many times do we come into a church service like the king came before?

692
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,400
Oh, Elijah, half-hearted.

693
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:39,240
We come in after a bad day on the gridiron, and we're put out because they didn't perform

694
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:43,680
the way we thought they should have.

695
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,280
Are you with me?

696
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,640
Huh?

697
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:55,760
Whatever it is that puts you out, some folks get, I've got pastor friends in Knoxville

698
00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:03,960
that when the Vols lose, their attendance is down 12, 15, 18% on Sunday.

699
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,520
Now I'm here to tell you something this morning.

700
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,360
Get ready.

701
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:15,040
I hope your skids got grease on it because I'm about to apply.

702
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:20,960
It's about the most pathetic, pitiful thing I've heard of and I have experienced myself.

703
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,120
I'm not talking about the people.

704
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:26,280
I'm talking about me.

705
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:32,520
It almost happened again yesterday.

706
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,520
I didn't need that.

707
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,040
Oh, that wasn't her.

708
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,640
It come from that section.

709
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,400
I thought she a manned that real loud.

710
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,400
It was a solemn, just a man.

711
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:50,760
I thought, baby.

712
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:51,760
Forgive me, honey.

713
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:52,760
That wasn't you.

714
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:53,760
Who was it?

715
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:54,760
Sister D.O.

716
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:55,760
Hey!

717
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:56,760
You're forgiven.

718
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:07,520
But that's about pitiful, isn't it?

719
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:13,240
That we, the bloodbath, the born again, supposedly sanctified, hopefully filled with the Holy

720
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:20,440
Ghost, let something like that deter us so much that we can't even praise the God of

721
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:27,800
our salvation on Sunday or whatever it was that keeps you from it.

722
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,800
A bad Saturday.

723
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,760
That's the reason I try to stay alone on Saturday.

724
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,760
I try to separate myself.

725
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,280
I don't need anything else.

726
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:40,000
And I've learned over the years to just turn the thing off.

727
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:46,600
I watched Clint Eastwood.

728
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:47,720
Pale Rider was on.

729
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:51,440
I thought, that's better than what's going on over there on ES and PN.

730
00:44:51,440 --> 00:45:00,120
You know, you can take an axe handle to the devil, but you still can't make that bunch

731
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,920
catch a ball.

732
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,400
Hello?

733
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:13,280
But no, here we'll stroll in on Sunday morning.

734
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:14,280
We've stayed up.

735
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,960
Now, one o'clock is my average all week long.

736
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:19,160
So it's got nothing to do with staying up.

737
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,520
It's attitude when we get here.

738
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:26,680
Do you know why I'm in my office to 10.30 every Sunday morning?

739
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,280
So that that attitude stays in check.

740
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,280
Hello?

741
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:37,360
Because you wouldn't believe some of the stuff you can get dumped on you.

742
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:38,360
Well, you might.

743
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:43,000
You're the ones that dump.

744
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,440
Right before you preach, you say, boy, you're feeling it today.

745
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:46,440
Yes, I am.

746
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:47,440
Because why?

747
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,600
It's time for us to take the limits off of God.

748
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,200
I'm not talking about serious deeds.

749
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:55,760
I'm not talking about things that we urgently need God to move on our behalf.

750
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:56,840
That's not what I'm talking about.

751
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,160
It's just the random stuff.

752
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:00,480
It's hard enough for us.

753
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,000
And it's a challenge for us.

754
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,720
And I think this is where the Lord is trying to get us to go.

755
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:10,560
If we will begin to focus more and prepare ourselves more for the atmosphere of worship

756
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:15,520
that we are trying to create, we're not setting lights and smoke and all of this.

757
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,120
It's the praises of the people, the atmosphere for God to move in.

758
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,040
It's us lifting our voices.

759
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,600
It's you raising your hands.

760
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,600
It's you clapping them together.

761
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:29,280
Whether you know the words or not, you can still worship God and praise him and acknowledge

762
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,280
him.

763
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:31,280
God, I'm in your house.

764
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,440
And I thank you for what you've done this week.

765
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:35,920
I thank you for what you're doing.

766
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,560
And, oh God, I worship you from the depth of my heart.

767
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:44,040
And we create an atmosphere where the limits are taken off because he dwells within the

768
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:45,760
praises of his people.

769
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,960
And his power begins to move.

770
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,000
His glory begins to descend.

771
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,360
And our faith begins to be lifted up.

772
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,240
And we take the limits off of God.

773
00:46:54,240 --> 00:47:08,520
And God begins to move.

774
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:17,480
We let too much of the world affect our faith and our response toward God.

775
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,320
They brought him.

776
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,820
They beseeched him.

777
00:47:22,820 --> 00:47:25,900
He removed him.

778
00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:29,000
He looked up to heaven.

779
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,000
And then he touched him.

780
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,320
Now there's a formula.

781
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,840
You hear it?

782
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,840
Separation.

783
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,840
Elevation.

784
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,680
Manifestations.

785
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,520
Tell me you got that.

786
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,720
Our stenographer on the front row.

787
00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:53,920
That's what happens.

788
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:58,240
That's how it works.

789
00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:02,400
Separation, elevation, and manifestation.

790
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,960
When we truly separate ourselves from the world that we're so surrounded by every other

791
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,160
day of the week.

792
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:16,960
And that we spend our Saturday afternoons, evenings, nights preparing for this moment.

793
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,660
Are you hearing me?

794
00:48:18,660 --> 00:48:22,960
If we would prepare our soul, if you would prepare your spirit as much as we prepare

795
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,640
other things in our lives.

796
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,840
We wash and polish our automobiles.

797
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:28,840
Most of you do.

798
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:38,040
Mine's still got mud in it from the last Arkansas duck trip.

799
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:44,220
Whatever it is that takes away our undivided attention and our focus from God.

800
00:48:44,220 --> 00:48:49,080
You do realize that we come in here to meet him, right?

801
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,200
That's the whole purpose of coming in here on Sunday.

802
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:57,820
That's the whole purpose of us uniting and coming together as the unison body of Christ.

803
00:48:57,820 --> 00:49:02,160
That we may again encounter the presence of our holy God.

804
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:07,000
That's the reason I'm such a stickler on no drinks and stuff in the sanctuary.

805
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,000
No coffee.

806
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,880
No, you've heard those.

807
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,700
I think this is the holy place.

808
00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:14,800
This is the place where we prepare to meet God.

809
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:22,040
And we can't meet him in the way that we need to meet him if we're limited by a latte.

810
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:23,640
Come on somebody.

811
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,400
Because he deserves our undivided attention.

812
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,360
I'm not talking about a cheese and a Cheerio for the babies.

813
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:39,000
I'm talking about a sausage, egg, McMuffin for you.

814
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:48,480
I'm talking about it's time for us to take away some of the limits and go to see God

815
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,880
beyond good.

816
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,920
To encounter his beyond goodness.

817
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,280
But we have a spirit of limitation over us.

818
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:01,920
We have a spirit of limitation that we bring in on Sunday.

819
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,540
We have it.

820
00:50:03,540 --> 00:50:12,040
When things get to the place, when the rudimentary inconvenience is no longer inconvenience us

821
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:18,840
because we're so concentrated and so focused on getting into God's presence and so focused

822
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,160
into pouring our soul and our hearts out to him.

823
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:28,100
And we're so focused on hearing his word and him hearing our praise and our worship.

824
00:50:28,100 --> 00:50:30,720
Because you know he longs to hear it.

825
00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:36,520
The father seeks such who will worship him in spirit and in truth.

826
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:37,520
He seeks it.

827
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,000
He longs for it.

828
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,000
Why?

829
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,440
Because he's a jealous God.

830
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,520
Why do you think he said have no other gods before me?

831
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:54,360
Don't you dare bow down to any other graven image.

832
00:50:54,360 --> 00:51:00,680
So where we are with our children sometimes, especially as they grow older, mothers often

833
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:11,800
speak these words, I brought you into this world and I'll take you out.

834
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:17,040
He brought us into this world.

835
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:23,080
You don't want to get out of here without him.

836
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:31,440
So I think if we will remove some of these things that limit our focus, we will see this

837
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:37,080
astonishment for ourselves.

838
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,880
I believe we too can be astonished.

839
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:46,120
One of the most astounding things and presences of God that you'll ever be a part of is what

840
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:50,000
I only know how to explain as a holy hush.

841
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:56,040
When there's such an oppression, and I mean it that way, when there's such an oppression

842
00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:03,200
of his presence where you dare not lift your head, you dare not speak, and God forbid that

843
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,240
you move a muscle.

844
00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:09,120
Those are the moments when, I mean, shouting's great.

845
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:10,400
I love to shout.

846
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:11,920
All that's good stuff.

847
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,080
It's wonderful.

848
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:18,540
But there's nothing that brings the reminder of the awe and the revered of God other than

849
00:52:18,540 --> 00:52:27,160
when his presence comes in and you are arrested by his glory.

850
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:34,880
And you leave thinking, what just happened?

851
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:41,400
I've seen it arrest the congregation for over 45 minutes and it was nearly two o'clock on

852
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,520
a Sunday morning.

853
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,480
No one would move.

854
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:46,760
No babies cried.

855
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,240
No babies fidgeted.

856
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:49,240
None of that.

857
00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:53,680
I'm talking about not a sound.

858
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:58,040
You begin to wonder what is happening.

859
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:04,160
And I mean there's nothing and we're just arrested.

860
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:14,640
And before it's over, all you can hear is low moans and weeping begin to rise up because

861
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:18,480
of the acknowledgement of a holy God.

862
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:22,080
Are you hearing me this morning?

863
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:30,920
Our God is holy and he deserves the revere and the worship and the attention of his people

864
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,840
when we gather.

865
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:40,400
And I think we're just a few limits away from entering in.

866
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,580
I think we just got to do some personal housekeeping.

867
00:53:43,580 --> 00:53:45,640
Are you hearing pastor this morning?

868
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:50,800
How we have to do is some personal guidance in our own lives and get some issues in check

869
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:56,280
in our own lives and get our attitudes wrapped around so that we are those so focused they

870
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:05,740
brought him so that when we bring people all our mind is on is God touching them.

871
00:54:05,740 --> 00:54:12,040
You see the shift moves from you to them.

872
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,720
When you get so focused and you're in his presence and you take the limits off of God

873
00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:21,680
for your own life, when you get others near his glory, it doesn't become about you.

874
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:26,040
Your prayers shift, your prayer changes and you're sitting there thinking God they've got

875
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:30,760
this going on, they've got that going on, they got this report, this, this, this and

876
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:37,160
you're praying for them that they would encounter the same glory that you have been encountering.

877
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,440
Stand with me or I'll go all day.

878
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:48,560
I am not finished but I am done.

879
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,600
I don't know how do you give an altar call?

880
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,200
How do we respond to a word like this?

881
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:59,040
If I give an altar call you're not going to move.

882
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,760
So how do we respond?

883
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:06,180
Are you starting to follow me here with the limitations?

884
00:55:06,180 --> 00:55:12,040
We limit God's glory and power moving in our life when we hear the declaration of his word

885
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:18,480
and we've truly feel as though we've heard a word from heaven but then we are restrained

886
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,240
because we don't respond or move.

887
00:55:21,240 --> 00:55:24,760
Are you hearing me?

888
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:27,520
So what do we do?

889
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:32,040
How do we take off the limits?

890
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:38,600
Take off the limiters, take off the governor and let God have full reign and full throttle

891
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:44,040
in our lives.

892
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:54,960
Only thing I know, I don't want to be shocked at all when he moves.

893
00:55:54,960 --> 00:56:02,440
I want to be amazed by what he does but not by his doing it.

894
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,760
That make sense?

895
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:10,720
I don't want to leave going like, well boy, I'm amazed God showed up today.

896
00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:16,120
That's not what I'm after.

897
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:28,280
I want it to be, wow, God showed up today because of my expectation for him to do so.

898
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:32,040
Only way I know to do it.

899
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:33,560
How many are ready to take the limits off?

900
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,760
If that's you, just come join me in this altar.

901
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,440
Get as tight as you can.

902
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,760
You folks up front got to move on up toward that bottom step.

903
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,680
Come on in here.

904
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,800
You want the limits off.

905
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,840
You don't want to be the limiter.

906
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:49,840
You don't want to be in doubt.

907
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:55,840
You don't want to be in disbelief but you want to believe God.

908
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:57,640
You have needs.

909
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:05,720
You know people who have needs and you want to see God totally unrestricted in their lives.

910
00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:24,120
I think one of the things that makes Hopewell so unique, we're not going to put on airs

911
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,240
about anything.

912
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:31,360
I'm about as real as you'll ever encounter.

913
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:39,560
I don't care to tell you when to mess up because I know I'm not perfect.

914
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,920
I need Jesus.

915
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,520
I need him every single day of my life.

916
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,560
I want you to know that.

917
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:49,160
I don't know if you do it in your life.

918
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:53,080
I practice repentance every day.

919
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:57,440
It's a part of my daily prayer and my daily meditations.

920
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:07,440
Every single day because I know the old wretched man that I am.

921
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:13,960
Sometimes my attitude stinks and the Holy Ghost has to tune me up.

922
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:19,520
So when you hear me preach as though I've, the way I have this morning, know this, it's

923
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,480
come from the filter of my heart.

924
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:26,120
The Holy Ghost is ringing me out.

925
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:35,520
I don't even say some of the things that come to my mind.

926
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:41,080
I'm going to determine within myself, I'm not going to be one of the limiters.

927
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:49,720
Whatever you want to do, God, I want to see your glory.

928
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:53,000
I'm going to separate.

929
00:58:53,000 --> 00:59:00,320
I'm going to elevate so that he can manifest.

930
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:01,680
How many are willing to do that?

931
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:02,680
Separate.

932
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:04,920
Now look, just a second.

933
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:13,160
I'm talking about where the scripture says, lay aside the weight and the sin, S-I-N, which

934
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:21,600
doth so easily beset you so that you may run this race with patience.

935
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:28,960
You know that nagging thing that the devil always gets you with.

936
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:34,520
Some of you may have to do some changing on your phone package.

937
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:39,000
You've got more access than you'd be needing.

938
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:43,120
Oh, come on.

939
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:44,800
How do you know that?

940
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:53,000
Because there's algorithms generated by a world that is amoral, going as fast as they

941
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,960
can away from God.

942
00:59:55,960 --> 01:00:03,680
And whether you search for it or not, it pops up.

943
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:06,640
Anybody besides me been violated?

944
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:10,280
You just don't want to own up to it.

945
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:14,160
Same algorithms are running on your phones.

946
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:15,160
Be careful.

947
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,000
We're going to change my package.

948
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:22,080
I don't want to see it.

949
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:23,080
Don't need to see it.

950
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:26,160
Got no desire to see it.

951
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,560
That's some separating.

952
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:30,560
We got to separate.

953
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:39,960
Then we're going to have to elevate our attention, our focus.

954
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:46,240
Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven.

955
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:47,240
What does the psalm say?

956
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,360
I lifted my eyes into the hills.

957
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,760
From whence comes my help?

958
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:59,920
My help comes from the Lord, who is the maker of the heavens and the earth.

959
01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:05,200
I think today is going to be a marker.

960
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:12,160
I know it is for my life, for what I know I'm experiencing right now.

961
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:18,480
And our time together on Sunday mornings, if you're going to have to slip out, sit toward

962
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:22,560
the back where you can get at.

963
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:26,640
I'm not going to limit any more of this time factor.

964
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,440
I want God.

965
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:31,480
I need God.

966
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,680
My children need God.

967
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:36,560
My grandchildren need God.

968
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:38,960
My brothers need God.

969
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,520
My nephews need him.

970
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:45,400
I'm not just talking about, oh, they need him.

971
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:46,400
No.

972
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:50,280
They need him.

973
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:58,480
And I got to take some limiters off so I can rev up and get a little more RPM to receive

974
01:01:58,480 --> 01:01:59,880
what we need in my family.

975
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:04,520
I'm talking about my family and I know some of you, yours is going to hell in a hand basket

976
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:05,520
too.

977
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:18,160
But if the devil is going to take the basket, he's going to have to rip it out of my hand.

978
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:24,520
I've done fool around and got spiritually mad, brother Terry.

979
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:28,520
My righteous indignation has stirred up.

980
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:31,400
I could carry less if we do, we're going to do events.

981
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:32,400
Don't take this wrong.

982
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,400
I don't care if we do another one.

983
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:37,920
I want God.

984
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:41,640
We had a wonderful time last week.

985
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:46,440
Outside what we did last week was as in alignment with scripture as you can get.

986
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:53,440
That's as a koinonia fellowship as you can lace together the word, worship and the people

987
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:55,960
of God together.

988
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:56,960
We're going to do those things.

989
01:02:56,960 --> 01:03:01,120
We're going to take off some of the limiters.

990
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:06,200
Father I love you.

991
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:08,680
If you mean it from your heart, pray it with me.

992
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:13,720
Father I now decide to separate.

993
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:17,460
You can take me out like you did this deaf and dumb man.

994
01:03:17,460 --> 01:03:23,440
You took him away from what was hindering him, what was limiting him.

995
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:24,640
Take me away, separate me.

996
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:25,880
Help me separate.

997
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:26,880
Let me identify.

998
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:30,520
Holy ghost, Holy ghost quicken my spirit this week.

999
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:31,520
Quicken me, quicken me.

1000
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,680
And if there's limiters, you just check me.

1001
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:35,640
You check me, Holy ghost, you check me.

1002
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:36,640
Check me.

1003
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:40,200
And God I pray over the discernment of every person here who's making a bow before you

1004
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,440
this morning, making a commitment to you today.

1005
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:49,040
I pray their discernment level goes up five notches so that they know when you quicken

1006
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:50,040
their spirit.

1007
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:51,860
Check, check, check, check.

1008
01:03:51,860 --> 01:03:52,860
That's a limiter check.

1009
01:03:52,860 --> 01:03:53,860
That's a limiter check.

1010
01:03:53,860 --> 01:03:55,280
Separate it from me.

1011
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:56,280
Separate it from me.

1012
01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:57,280
Separate it from me.

1013
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:58,280
Separate it.

1014
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:01,040
Separate it from me.

1015
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:05,280
I choose to start elevating my gaze.

1016
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:09,660
Jesus I'm going to follow your example.

1017
01:04:09,660 --> 01:04:13,840
When you broke the bread on both occasions and when you were at Lazarus' tomb about

1018
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:18,200
to raise him up every time you lifted your eyes toward heaven.

1019
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:27,680
How can I expect a great and mighty miracle if I'm not focused on heaven?

1020
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:29,040
So I make a commitment today.

1021
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,560
I'm going to change my focus.

1022
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:33,480
I'm going to change my modus operandi.

1023
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,120
I'm going to change the way I function.

1024
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:37,120
I'm making a commitment.

1025
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,680
My family's dying without you.

1026
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:44,220
And if Lord, if what's going on in the Middle East is an indicator of your soon return,

1027
01:04:44,220 --> 01:04:47,560
if this is setting it all into motion, I'm not going to be frightened.

1028
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:50,880
I'm not going to be scared, but I'm going to be ready and I'm going to help try to get

1029
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:53,280
as many as I can ready.

1030
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:58,480
If this is the event, if you're about to split those eastern skies, I'm ready.

1031
01:04:58,480 --> 01:04:59,480
I'm looking up.

1032
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,440
I got to be looking up to see you anyway.

1033
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:02,440
Hallelujah.

1034
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:13,800
Now Father, as I separate and elevate, I long for you to manifest.

1035
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,000
Show us your glory.

1036
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,560
I'm going to beat the ground until I break the arrow shafts.

1037
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,320
I've not stopped it.

1038
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:27,920
I'm going to beat them plum down until there's no feathers left.

1039
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:31,480
I'm striking the ground.

1040
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:35,480
How many of you are willing to strike the ground for your family?

1041
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:41,800
Total victory, total annihilation of the enemy, total being done with him.

1042
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:46,600
We take authority today, Lord, that you've given us because you have all authority in

1043
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:50,480
heaven and on earth.

1044
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,960
We walk in that today.

1045
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,520
Now Lord, you speak to us.

1046
01:05:55,520 --> 01:06:00,560
Lord, we're coming into the holidays.

1047
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,320
We're going to go through a season of thanksgiving.

1048
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:11,480
We're going to enter into a season of rejoicing for the joy and the peace that you placed

1049
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:13,680
on earth.

1050
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:20,520
These next two months, we're going to start shifting our focus and going to be ready for

1051
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:21,520
2024.

1052
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:29,280
Now, what I need you to do is pray that God gives me the theme, the purpose, the word,

1053
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:39,640
the idea, the thought, the direction, the message, the mission, whatever it is for 2024.

1054
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:46,200
I need your help because I don't want to play church.

1055
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,680
I'm not interested in that.

1056
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,640
I want to see his glory.

1057
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:57,760
And I just believe that there's enough people related to you, connected to you to feel this

1058
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:10,960
place twice that need to experience that glory in their life.

1059
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:17,680
Granted, Father, we're here.

1060
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:18,920
We're here.

1061
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:21,920
I'm going to be here.

1062
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,920
Oh, Jesus.

1063
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:28,560
Mighty God.

1064
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:35,920
Separate, elevate, manifest.

1065
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:38,760
I want to throw that word motivate.

1066
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:45,760
Elevate, separate, motivate because some of you like me, we need a little bit more spiritual

1067
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:48,240
motivation.

1068
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:54,160
And don't think for a moment the limiters cannot be spiritual because the story in Mark

1069
01:07:54,160 --> 01:08:01,760
7, before we get to the deaf and dumb man, is the Syrophoenician woman who makes her

1070
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:10,280
way to Jesus' feet and he rebukes the spiritual bondage off of her daughter.

1071
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,360
So let the Holy Ghost speak to you.

1072
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,480
Father, I love you.

1073
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:18,440
I thank you.

1074
01:08:18,440 --> 01:08:22,200
Go with your people this morning.

1075
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:35,440
May your face smile upon them as we take the next two months to align, to come to alignment,

1076
01:08:35,440 --> 01:08:49,840
to separate, to discipline ourselves, to elevate so that you are able to motivate.

1077
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:55,240
Because if we're motivated, you will be here.

1078
01:08:55,240 --> 01:09:00,320
You will show up.

1079
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:02,320
Your glory will move.

1080
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:08,800
In Jesus' name I pray.

1081
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:10,800
Amen.

1082
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:13,800
And amen.

1083
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,800
My God.

1084
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:21,800
Phew.