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You keep on getting better.

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I had a friend of mine, he used to say he's gooder.

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He gets more gooder.

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You keep on getting gooder.

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I'm glad his goodness never ends.

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He's good to me every day.

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Every day that I live, every morning that he calls is my eyes to open

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and gives me strength to roll out.

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Some mornings it's a roll.

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You look like this, rolling's easier anyway.

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You have your Bibles.

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Are you ready for the Word?

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Somebody don't even look like you have ready this morning.

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I'm wound up, I've already taught for about 45 minutes.

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Come now on to preaching.

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We got to talking about holiness and I got happy.

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I love God.

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I love him.

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I just want to try my best to please him.

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Do the best I can.

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Don't you?

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You really want to please him?

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Trust me, I know what he's working with with me.

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I don't always make him happy, but he loves me.

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The scripture says the son that he loveeth, he chasteneth.

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What's that mean?

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That means he stripes your legs when you need it.

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Turn with me to the book of 2 Samuel.

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2 Samuel chapter 5.

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This is one of those mornings where you seem like you're going to do more listening

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than participate.

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That's going to be alright too, I guess.

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But you do know by now, the less you participate, the longer I go.

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To your advantage, we preached Thursday night at the Lake Hills Church of God.

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I meant to tell you that last Sunday so you could be praying.

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I forgot it.

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We preached down there Thursday night in a night of revival.

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Two people responded to the altar call after I left the lung.

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One young man came in about three minutes.

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I don't even know if it was that long.

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He received the baptism of the Holy Ghost just like that.

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As easy as I have ever seen anyone receive the Spirit baptism in my life.

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After service, his eyes got baptism.

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He texted his pastor as soon as service was over.

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I got filled with the Holy Ghost.

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I said, how long have you been in church?

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He said, I've been saved about three weeks.

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Sometimes it's just easier for the babes.

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The Lord just wonderfully filled that young man with his loving Spirit.

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It was just wonderful to see.

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I want you to see some things.

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Second, chapter five, looking at verse 17, we're continuing with our thought and theme on breaking limits.

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But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel,

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the Philistines came up to seek David and David heard of it and he went down to the hole.

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The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the Valley of Refine.

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David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines?

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Will thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.

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And David came to Beel Parazim and David smoked them there and said,

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The Lord hath broken forth upon my enemies right before me.

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As the breach of waters, therefore, he called the name of that place, Beel Parazim.

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And they that left their images and David and his men burned them.

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And the Philistines came up yet again and spread themselves in the Valley of Refine.

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And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up, but fetch a compass behind them and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

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And let it be when you hear the sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees,

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That then thou shalt bestir yourself, for then shall the Lord go out before you to smite the host of the Philistines.

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And David did so as the Lord had commanded him and smoked the Philistines from Giba until they came to Gezer.

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Breaking limits. These are God of breakthrough.

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Father, I love you. I thank you. I need your help today.

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Lord, I desperately need your help today.

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Lord, that we that have ears to hear would be attentive to what the Spirit is saying this morning

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and that you be that breakthrough in our lives.

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For I know, Father, there are areas in our lives that we need barriers to be removed.

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And you are the one who does it.

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I'll be quick to praise you for your goodness and for your glory.

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In Christ's name, the church said, Amen and Amen.

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Breaking limits. Astonished beyond measure.

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Paul wrote to the church of Galatia in the fifth chapter, verse one.

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He said, stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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We take our text this morning from Second Samuel.

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Very familiar passage of scripture, a story in young David's life.

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He's still a young king.

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Some believe possibly it's been two years since Samuel had anointed him.

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And during that two year period, he's been on the run from Saul.

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Saul's been seeking him out, trying to kill him because he knows that God has transferred his anointing to be king from himself to young David.

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But now we come to that point in David's life and the narrative of the story.

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And we read that now David has been anointed king over all of Israel.

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And isn't it amazing how that when God blesses you, the devil hears about it first.

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You know, the church world needs to learn how to rejoice with one another instead of being envious of others blessings when God pours out on their life.

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But that isn't always the case. You know, you do realize not everybody wants to see you blessed.

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I don't know why that is.

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But the Philistines are the enemies of David and Israel.

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And they have heard that David has been anointed king.

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And so they're going to seek and try to get advantage over a young king.

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And so they go set the battle in array.

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They set the field at Riffaim and they are encamped all about.

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But what they did not understand is that David is a man after God's own heart and that David is the man that God himself had selected.

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That David, they knew he had defeated Goliath.

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They understood that.

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But they thought the entirety of their army were going to be able to take care of young David.

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But what they have failed to realize about this new king is that his first seeking of advice was not to his council of advisors or his captains over his host.

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But the scripture says that David went down to the hold.

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Some believe that that was that familiar cave of a doolm where that David met God when he was running for his very life.

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But notice if you understand the story of the cave of a doolm, David was there first of all alone.

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But before you know it, every ragtag misfit broke, busted, disgusted member of Israel had showed up at a doolm.

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And he has ended up with a misfit army of 400 men.

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But now there's something about being a misfit when you know you're a misfit.

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When you know that you're a misfit, you know where your help comes from.

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And see, they had enough sense to align themselves and connect themselves with the anointing of God.

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Now, you surely ain't going to make me have to get right down and start preaching this morning.

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Sometimes when we feel misaligned and isolated and we feel like we are misfit, you need to find yourself down to the hold.

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See, in the hold was a familiar place with David because David had met God down in the hold.

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And he knew that if he could just get down there and he could talk to God, that he's going to hear something from God and God is going to answer him.

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So down in the hold, he seeks God.

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He said, shall I go up against them, God?

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I need to know, shall I get my 400 ragtag and shall I get the army of Israel and shall we go up and are we going to be victorious?

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You just love it when God answers just like that.

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Yes, arise and go forth and doubtless, I'm going with you and I'm going before you.

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Somebody needs to hear that this morning.

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As Paul said to the church of Galatia, stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has called and separated you.

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You need to know that there's still a hold for your life.

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There's still a place that you can descend to and find God and meet God and God meet you there.

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And can I tell you this morning, there's no dissension like the dissension to your knees.

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Hallelujah.

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Oh, it is true that, oh, saying we stand no taller than when we are bowed on our knees because when we're bowed on our knees, we are before the one who is over creation.

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We are before the one who has orchestrated our life and the one who is in control of everything and the one who is able to bring about deliverance for our life,

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the one who is able to break through and break forth upon us and to break limits in our lives and bring his blessing.

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And it's in that hole that David heard from God.

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God said, arise and go up and the victory will be yours.

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You need to know that today that you can arise and go forth and the victory will be yours because God is still on your side.

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And it's very important that we realize that we stand firm as we bow on our knees, that we stand firm when we understand that we go and take everything to the Lord in prayer,

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that we cast all our care upon him because we realize truly that he cares for us.

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And it is now David is in the array in battle and victory truly becomes his.

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But notice David just didn't have a victory moment.

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He didn't just have a little victory shout.

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It was a moment that his life was changed.

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He encountered God in a way that he had never encountered him before.

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He said he has broke forth on this battlefield like the rushing waters breaking through a dam.

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He could not be restrained.

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The enemy was powerless before him and he's broke forth and he's going to be named now.

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He's called Bell Parasim.

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He's the master of the breakthrough.

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My heavenly father, he is the master of the breakthrough.

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You need to hear this morning.

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It doesn't matter the battle plan of the enemy.

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It doesn't matter how fancy his army looks against you.

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It doesn't matter the number that seems to be impeding you.

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What you need to know is you serve the God who is the master of the breakthrough.

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And he will break forth on your behalf.

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But what you and I have to do is realize there is a position in the hold that will spring forth the victory of God Almighty in our lives.

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David had smoked the bear.

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David had smoked the lion.

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David had killed Goliath and never did he call him Bell Parasim.

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Not one time do we read where he understood the power of God in his life like he did on that day.

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Oh, God has done great things for us in our lives.

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He's done many marvelous things for you.

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But I'm here to tell you he's got something for you that you've never seen him do before.

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He's got a move of his power and a move of his anointing and a deliverance coming your way that you have never encountered before.

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The master of the breakthrough is about to spring forth into your life.

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Hallelujah.

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The master of the breakthrough.

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But you've got to understand the enemy is just not content to be defeated.

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So he comes back.

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The Philistines come back and they set up camp again.

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Can I tell you this morning, just because the devil runs off one day don't mean he's not coming back against you tomorrow.

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Huh?

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He's not contented with you and your victory like we become contented in the victory that we acquire.

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Oh, now, my God, we could just stop plow right there a little bit.

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We when we become contented in our victory, we lose heart in the next battle.

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Because we're still celebrating.

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Oh, he ran off last week.

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But there's got to be a conscious understanding that he's coming back tomorrow.

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And that means that when he shows back up, the God who is the master of the breakthrough is going to break through again.

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But don't always put God in a little box because what he wants to do the next time may be different than what he did the time before.

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David goes back down to the hole and he's praised again.

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He seeks God again.

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Shall I go up as before?

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Nope. We're going to go up a little bit different.

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He said, I want you to come pass or circle around behind them.

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We're going to put on a surprise attack to the enemy.

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Let me tell you something this morning.

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God has a surprise attack plan for the enemy that has camped before you and what he's trying to come against you with.

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Oh, I know you went head on last time and I know your faith came to the level and God broke through and you won your victory.

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But this time he's going to circle you around the backside and give you some specific instruction.

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David, I want you to go around behind them and I want you to hide over where the mulberry bushes are.

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You know that place behind the ridge on the other holler.

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Yeah, I know what you're talking about, God.

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Well, I want you to hide the army there.

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And when you hear the breeze rustling in the tops of the mulberry trees, then I want you to attack.

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My God, if you'll make your way down to the hold instead of going to the complaint department, God might give you another plan of attack.

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Oh, God, here it is again.

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Oh, God, there they are again.

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The same old same old popping up.

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My God, he's got a plan of attack for you.

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He's got a circle around behind him for you.

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Just get back to the hold.

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When you hear the going in the mulberry trees, then I want you to attack.

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I want you to go out and get them and I'm going to go before you to smite the host of the police.

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When we when we take into thought that God is really on our side,

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when we realize that we don't have to do the same thing the same way all the time, he he likes things a little different.

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He likes to do things a little different.

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Why? Because he don't you and I getting complacent and looking for the same thing all the time.

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It's like Thursday being spaghetti night.

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There's no surprise.

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Thursday is spaghetti night.

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But what if you come in on Thursday and you've got man which?

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Well, it's spaghetti night.

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Well, if you eat supper here, it's man which not hello.

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That's the way it is.

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Sometimes with God, we get so accustomed to God doing the thing the way we want God to do it or the way that he's done it before.

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We get so rigid and he can't do anything different and we got him in our little old God box.

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And if it ain't in the box, then we're not going to accept it.

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But I'm here to tell you it's time to throw the box away and allow God to do something different.

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Get your spirit right.

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Get your heart right.

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Get your attitude out of the mud and get back down to the hold and get some new instruction.

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It just may be you got to circle around behind and put on a sneak attack.

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But the thing about it is in both occasions, God said, I am going with you and I'm going before you and the victory will be delivered because I am the Lord.

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Too many times as believers.

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We are given a far more important declaration of deliverance and independence and victory through Christ than we can ever imagine.

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And we've been promised things that we can't even see because of the world that has set against us.

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And it is important for you and I that we stand firm in the liberty that we have been given.

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And we stand fast. We stand secure in the liberty that we have in Christ who has made us free.

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You can encapsulate yourself in bondage.

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You can tie your own self. You can put your own limits on.

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You can put the restrictors in your own life because of a lack of faith or a bad rotten stinking attitude.

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And we can hinder ourselves and limit our own victories from the Lord.

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But it's time we get our attitude saved. It's time we get them sanctified.

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And it's time we get back down to the hold and we get on our knees before God and say, God, whichever way you want to do it, I'm here.

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I'm available. And I have a smile on my face.

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I am ready. Oh, I know we went straight home.

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But if you want me in the mulberries, I'm ready to go to the mulberries.

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And to think about the power that we have through the Holy Spirit at work in our life.

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We must endeavor not to relinquish that freedom to return back into the enslavements of the liberty, the limiting power of doubt and disbelief.

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But what we must have in our life is we must have an exercising of obedience to what thus saith the Lord.

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Can I tell you today that if David hadn't went to the mulberry trees and waited for the goings in the top, that victory would not have been his.

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You got to be where God sent you. You got to do it the way God has directed it.

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And if you do, then the victory shall be yours.

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And we relinquish so many victories in our life, overcoming of things that sit against us and hold us and limit our response to God and from God because we fail to be obedient.

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When any time any kind of worry or fear or anger or resentment, any time lust or greed or any of those things beset us, they limit us.

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Any time we allow those emotions in our life, we limit what God will do, not can do, but will do.

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Because there's no way we can limit what he can do, but we definitely limit what he will do.

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If there are sins in our life, God is not going to bless your sin.

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So when everything's going against me, what I tend to do is get down to the hole and have a good self-examination.

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And make sure that Pastor Cliff doesn't have any limiters going on in his life that he has placed there.

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And what if you do? You ask him to forgive you and to cleanse you of that and get it out of your life.

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That's what you do.

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And then you present yourself now worthy for the victory and the deliverance to be ushered into your life.

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Because you don't have lust, you don't have sin, you don't have attitude, you don't have this thing restricting you from receiving from God.

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The limits removed.

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When we begin to think about all that God has for us, there's some good news.

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Christ is an expert in the area of deliverance.

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Amen.

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He's an expert at breaking limits off of our life.

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Our root text that we've been coming from out of John about that man that was deaf and dumb.

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And Christ brought about a healing in his life.

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He opened his ears and the string that had the limitations on his tongue was loose.

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And he spoke plainly and he heard clearly.

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Christ is the one who brings about liberty in our life.

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He is the one who is able to set loose those things that we have placed in our life.

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And he is able to move the barriers and the limits that we put.

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But you have to get down to the hold first.

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You have to make your way before him first.

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You have to talk to him.

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You have to pray before him.

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You have to seek him.

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And when you do, he will answer you.

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Second Peter 2 and 9 says, The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations.

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He knows how.

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Let me tell you what that little verse right there means.

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It means he knows how to get me out of the mess I got myself into.

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You wouldn't believe it, but I've gotten in more trouble because of my mouth than any other thing.

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Isn't that hard to believe?

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It's hard to believe because of me, because of my mouth.

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I did more detention hall because of my mouth than anything I physically done.

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I was a smart mouth.

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And you'd think as many times as it had been mashed at home for the same thing that at school one would learn.

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But I tell you what I learned at school, they couldn't mash my mouth.

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I went to high and in and did several times.

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But that didn't hurt as bad as your mouth swelling up.

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So the majority of the limits and the restrictors that have been in my spiritual life,

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been because of my mouth.

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I'm familiar with the hold.

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Let me just put it that way.

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I'm familiar with going back down there.

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I'm familiar with saying, oh God, it's me again.

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He said, I know and I know what you said.

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Can I tell you this morning he knows what you said and what you meant by what you said and how you said it.

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So take it from someone who gets their spiritual mouth mashed.

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Would you please hush?

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Save yourself some dilemma.

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You said, where's this going?

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The person that needs it knows exactly where it's going.

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So if you don't need it, it's not for you today.

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Aren't you glad he knows us individually?

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I better get on.

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I'm having way too much fun.

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Christ didn't intend for us to stay captive in this world.

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That was not his intention when he left his throne in glory to come to this earth.

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Knowing the thief's killing, knowing the thief is destroying, knowing that he's holding people in captivity.

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That was not his intention when he came to this earth.

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He came that you and I might have life and have it more abundantly.

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He gave his life as a ransom so that you and I could come up out of the hold and know that victory is ours.

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To come up out of that place of despair, out of that place of a tulam.

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But know that it is in that place that he meets you and victory is on the other side.

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You may have to make a journey back down, but stand fast therefore.

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And the liberty wherewith you have been called in Christ Jesus.

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Don't encapsulate yourself.

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Don't put bondage and chains on you.

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Don't put limits because of speech and doubt and disbelief.

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But let your faith sell in God and align to his word.

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First John 3 and 8 says, For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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You do realize that in the spirit realm, obviously there's a battle between good and evil.

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But do you realize that there is a battle at the recruiting station?

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What does that mean?

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That means the devil is trying to use you as much as God is trying to use you.

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They're both in a struggle over the same instrument.

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So don't be a member.

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Don't be a vessel.

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The enemy is trying to use you.

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God's trying to use us.

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So don't yield to the hand and the voice of the enemy.

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Do not restrict.

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Do not put the restrictions of blessings in and on our life.

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But know that the master of the breakthrough is willing to rush forth like a wall of water.

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It's like a tidal wave of his spiritual anointing that is ready to be dashed upon you, to be poured out upon you in your life.

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To spring and to break forth, David said, like this wall of rushing water.

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Destroy means to dissolve, to break up, to melt, to put off.

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Christ has come to liberate us.

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To take away the limits of the flesh for us.

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You do know the scripture says that the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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It's your flesh, my flesh, the attitude of my flesh that needs his liberating power upon it.

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I need him to break forth, be the master of the breakthrough of my flesh.

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Entire human race is seeking deliverance, whether they realize it or not.

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The entirety of the human race is searching for deliverance from something.

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Why do you think pharmacies have so many antidepressants on their shelves?

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Pain relievers on their shelves.

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It's why there's such a demand for therapy, for psychiatrists, for psychologists.

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Everyone is trying to escape the reality and the problems of life because they are so twisted and so bound.

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The enemy has his world in a knot.

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He has us turning ourselves inside out.

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But God, if we can just get the wherewithal to find the path that leads back to the hold.

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If we can just remember, if I can go there, I can find him there.

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A doolum was not a very pleasant place, but it's where he found God.

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It's where he could find him when he needed him the most in the hold.

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Become that place of safety for David.

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People need help, whether they're saint or sinner.

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There's so much oppression, oppression.

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Follow the difference.

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Oppression versus possession.

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The enemy rides us like a monkey on our back to weigh us down with the cares and the trouble

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and the problems and the crisis and the issues of life.

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You don't have to be possessed of the devil to have control.

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He can just put enough weight on us and oppress us to the point that we fall into a state of depression.

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There are probably many in this room who battle against that darkness.

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And you are a blood-bought, born-again child of God.

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But the devil knows that if he can oppress your mind, man, I'm plowing deeper than I fully thought we'd be plowing today.

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But the master of the breakthrough, Isaiah the prophet said he will keep his mind in perfect peace.

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The one whose mind is stayed on him.

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He will keep his mind.

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He will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him.

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For those of you who are being tormented in your mind and the oppressor is trying to bring darkness into your mind

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and to overshadow the victor that has been declared over your life, I'm here to tell you I'll walk with you down to the hole.

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I'll hold hands with you down in the hole.

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I'll seek God with you in the hole because he is your deliverer and he will break forth.

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He will come forth.

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The master of the breakthrough will rush into your life.

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There is good news.

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There's bad news.

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We know there are lines, dens.

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We know that there are fiery furnaces.

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We know that there are pits.

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We know that the snares are set for us daily.

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I know that we are contending for the faith.

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You got to know you're not out for a Sunday stroll.

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We are contending for the faith.

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There's contention, which means there's resistance.

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The devil is out to get you.

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He's out to get us all.

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We have to be in our good wit.

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We have to have our minds focused.

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No wonder the author declares to us looking unto Jesus, who is the author and the finisher of our faith,

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and we don't look to him until we lay aside the weight that so easily beset us

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and that sin that is so rampant and easily to entrap us.

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Look unto Jesus, the originator, the one who completed our faith.

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It becomes a decision point for us.

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Do we bypass the hold and try to just do it on our own?

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Or do we make our way to the hold and inquire of the Lord?

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What's your plan?

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What would you have me do?

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Should I go up as before?

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No, no, no, no. He's waiting for you.

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They knew where you came from before and they're waiting.

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The devil's waiting.

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He's got a trap.

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He has a plan.

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He'll come up out of that path on the left from a doodum.

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And we'll be hiding there.

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And we've got the army.

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We got him.

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God says, whoa, no, you ain't going up that way.

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Go out the back door.

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Circle around and wait for me there.

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You know, that's the part for us that's difficult.

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It's the waiting for him there.

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I can just see old David just keep looking up.

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Is that a breeze?

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That leaf move?

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I think it was going to be more than that, that God did.

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Because when God shows up, you don't have to say, was that it?

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Whoo.

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When he comes on the scene, you're going to, well, we can't miss that sign.

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Those treetops are nearly touching the ground.

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Let's go.

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Charge.

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He leaves no doubt.

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You don't have to figure it out if it's him showing up.

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You just got to wait until he gets there.

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Destroy the plan.

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I mean, there's good news.

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That good news is there is a clear theology of deliverance that dominates the

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scriptural patterns filled with promises of God's help.

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He is the author of deliverance.

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He is the one who removes the limits.

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The first five books of the Bible, the Torah, the Pentateuch, reveal that he

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delivers from chaos, bondage, anarchy, disease, and wilderness wonderings.

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The historical books of Joshua, Judges, the Samuels, Kings, Chronicles,

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Esther, Nehemiah, Ruth reveal he rescues us from our enemies.

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The books of the prophets announce his deliverance for us from our

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backslidings and the entrapments of the enemy.

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The New Testament announces his emancipation for all.

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Aren't you glad?

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The Gospels exhibit his deliverance from sickness, sorrow, and pain.

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Acts pours out of the spirit, demonstrates our freedom from complacency,

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and the empowerment for service.

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Those 21 epistles express deliverance from sin's mastery.

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Read your Bible.

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Revelation, Christ completely liberates us from the world system and translates

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us into his heavenly kingdom.

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From Genesis through, he is our liberator.

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From Genesis through, Revelation, he is the master of the breakthrough.

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Whether you need a breakthrough from disease, whether you need breakthrough

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from mental torment, or you need breakthrough from a literal enemy, he is

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the one that is able.

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Whether you need set free from the elements, he is master over the elements.

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If you're on the sea, he walks upon the sea, he commands it to lay still,

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he commands a calm and a peace that astonishes those.

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There's not even a whipple in the sail.

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00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:58,000
He exercises authority and power over the demonic spirits.

450
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Breaking limits, astonished beyond measure, the master, the breakthrough.

451
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000
That's who he is.

452
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
He springs forth.

453
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000
God himself is deliverer.

454
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:24,000
It is his mode, it's his being, it's his purpose for you and our life.

455
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,000
As the psalmist said in 3 and 8, salvation belongeth unto the Lord, thy blessing

456
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
is upon thy people.

457
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000
I like this one very particularly in Job chapter 5 and 19.

458
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:43,000
It says, he shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea in seven there shall no

459
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000
evil touch you.

460
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000
I was thinking about that as I read that this morning.

461
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I thought, well, I wonder if that's where he'll deliver you six ways from Sunday

462
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000
or from.

463
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000
Anybody ever heard of that?

464
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000
That's six ways from Sunday.

465
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:05,000
He'll deliver you out of six troubles and double on Sunday.

466
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:13,000
On that seventh trial, tribulation, attack, it ain't going to hurt you.

467
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000
In other words, it doesn't matter how many directions the enemy is coming from,

468
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
he's going to set you free.

469
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,000
He is your deliverer.

470
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Psalm 91 and 3, surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and

471
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,000
from the noisome pestilence.

472
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,000
When you stop to think about it, in his delivering work in the breaking of

473
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:38,000
limits, he delivered Noah from a flood, Moses from the Egyptians, Joshua from

474
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:49,000
the Canaanites, Samson from the Philistines, he is an expert.

475
00:40:49,000 --> 00:41:03,000
David from a giant, Elisha from a king, Gideon from an army, he's an expert.

476
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Peter from a tempest, Paul from a storm, Stephen from those who were stoning him,

477
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,000
well, I thought he died.

478
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Well, you got to look at it now.

479
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000
He did.

480
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:20,000
But he said, I see the Lord.

481
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Come on.

482
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,000
There's no greater deliverance than from this old walk of life.

483
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,000
Because to be absent from this walk of life is to be present with the Lord.

484
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,000
See, we got all this all back.

485
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
We're so afraid to die.

486
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,000
Don't be afraid to die.

487
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:42,000
That's your rejoicing moment.

488
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:49,000
He delivered a widow from oppression, Elijah from depression, the demoniac from

489
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000
possession.

490
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:58,000
I mean, if I named yours yet, let's keep going.

491
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:08,000
His ministry is described in Luke 418 as the liberator.

492
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:13,000
The spirit of the Lord is upon me.

493
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,000
I don't know if I've ever told you this is my life verse right here.

494
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,000
I had a church member a few years ago.

495
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000
He made these walking sticks and he come up to me.

496
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,000
I didn't know what he's doing.

497
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,000
He said, what's your favorite verse?

498
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,000
And I said, well, my life verse in Luke 418.

499
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,000
And I begin to give it to him.

500
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,000
He said, OK.

501
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Well, about two weeks later, he shows up at church with this beautiful walking

502
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000
stick.

503
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000
And guess what's curved all the way around it, carved all around it?

504
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,000
My life verse.

505
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,000
It's all around it.

506
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,000
So when I take hold of it, I'm walking in his liberty.

507
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,000
I'm walking beyond the limits that I can put on myself.

508
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:50,000
Then the devil can put against me any barriers that are there because I take

509
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,000
hold of the word of hope that's been given to me.

510
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:58,000
The spirit of the Lord is upon me and he's anointed me to preach, preach,

511
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:06,000
preach.

512
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:12,000
Preach gospel to the poor, sent me to heal broken hearted, preach deliverance

513
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:17,000
to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them

514
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:25,000
that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

515
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:32,000
And that's what we have been commissioned and empowered to do.

516
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:38,000
This God of the breakthrough, the master of the breakthrough, desires for you to

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00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:44,000
fulfill what you have been commissioned to do.

518
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:55,000
And they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

519
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:07,000
Yes, you and I, we the they shall cast out devils in his name.

520
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Don't you love those restrictors that have been removed?

521
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,000
And if you'll be able to take up the servant, I'm not one of them not doing

522
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,000
that.

523
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,000
I would have to have an epiphany to do that.

524
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,000
What's that?

525
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:29,000
I'd have to see the Lord standing right here.

526
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,000
I handle serpents with shotguns.

527
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,000
Only good way to handle one.

528
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,000
I ain't doing it.

529
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:45,000
Now, I'm not going to tempt the Lord my God with ignorance.

530
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:51,000
If you drink any deadly thing, I'm not sipping on streak nine just to be sipping

531
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,000
on streak nine to try to prove a point.

532
00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:03,000
He has given me enough sense to leave the snakes and the streak nine alone.

533
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:08,000
But I'm going to do my best with that anointing with oil.

534
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:09,000
I've handled a few serpents.

535
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:15,000
They just don't two feet.

536
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,000
You've seen them.

537
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:24,000
They're the only ones I'm handling and I'm going to endeavor to follow that

538
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:31,000
commission and that command to preach the gospel.

539
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:36,000
About eight years ago, stand with me, I'm quitting.

540
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,000
I'm not finished, but I'm done.

541
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:51,000
About eight, maybe nine years ago now, I came to a conclusion about my ministry.

542
00:45:51,000 --> 00:46:00,000
I stopped chasing the crowd.

543
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000
It was about to get the best of me.

544
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:10,000
I stopped chasing after a crowd, preachers, pastors.

545
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,000
You know how we do.

546
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,000
We do everything under the heavens to try to get a crowd.

547
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,000
Every type of event.

548
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:28,000
I said, no, I'm done with that.

549
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,000
They said, well, Pastor, what are we going to do?

550
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,000
I said, well, you know, here's what I'm going to do.

551
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,000
I'm going to preach.

552
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:40,000
What a novel idea.

553
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,000
Isn't that novel?

554
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:48,000
The first thing he called me to do when he called me to the ministry is to

555
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,000
preach the gospel.

556
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,000
When he calls you out of darkness, the first thing you are called to do out of

557
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,000
that darkness is to be the light.

558
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:07,000
You're going to be the same mandate, witness.

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00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:16,000
So I gave up on the get them in quick ideas.

560
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:21,000
Turn my church back into a church, not a community center.

561
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:26,000
It's not very proper when you do that stuff.

562
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:32,000
I started focusing on just preaching the gospel.

563
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,000
And you notice for next Sunday will be five years.

564
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:36,000
Hallelujah.

565
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:43,000
Our fifth year anniversary next Sunday.

566
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,000
That's been my focus.

567
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,000
That is my modus operandi.

568
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,000
That's it.

569
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,000
Don't look for pastor to come up with some big, well, what are we going to do?

570
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,000
Plan?

571
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,000
No.

572
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000
I'm going to preach the gospel.

573
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,000
And we're going to fellowship the church.

574
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,000
What's that mean?

575
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:10,000
We're going to eat as many events as we can eat at.

576
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,000
And we're going to be the body of Christ.

577
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,000
I'll never forget.

578
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:20,000
I don't know why my mind is going here, but I'll never forget that first Sunday

579
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:25,000
is known as try out Sunday.

580
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,000
How many were here that day?

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00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,000
Yeah.

582
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,000
And then we had the rapid round.

583
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:38,000
That's where Sister Kathy and I had to stand down here and field questions

584
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,000
like out of a gatling gun.

585
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:43,000
You got to be quick.

586
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:48,000
And I just preached like I just preached to you, so I really wasn't focused too well.

587
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,000
I remember somebody asked me, I don't remember who it was.

588
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,000
What are you going to do to grow the church?

589
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,000
And I've told this to others before.

590
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:01,000
I said, well, if I remember my answer correctly, I said, I believe as much as I read,

591
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:07,000
it's an unnatural occurrence for a shepherd to reproduce a sheep.

592
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:14,000
I think there's actually some Bible against that.

593
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,000
But I committed that day to this.

594
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:24,000
I will give you every ounce of myself when I stand behind this podium

595
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:28,000
and I will preach the gospel.

596
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,000
And I'm trying my best to hold up my end of the bargain.

597
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,000
And if I remember, I said, if you wanted to grow, then you better find some sheep.

598
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,000
Sheep.

599
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:48,000
And look, we got some sheep out today, but we got more sheep and we had that day.

600
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,000
And that's still my commission.

601
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:59,000
Five years in, I'm not about a gimmick.

602
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,000
There are things that we will do.

603
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,000
We'll celebrate the days that need celebrating.

604
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,000
I'm not talking about that.

605
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:12,000
I'm talking about creating things just to draw a crowd.

606
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:18,000
But I'm just one who believes.

607
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:24,000
And if we just preach the word, I think that God will draw some people.

608
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,000
He already is.

609
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,000
He already is.

610
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:38,000
And there's people you know that as you witness to, He'll draw them as well.

611
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:43,000
He's the master of the breakthrough.

612
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:48,000
He will burst forth on the scene of your dilemmas.

613
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:53,000
It just amazes me what He's done in this short five years, man,

614
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:58,000
how He's broken forth on our church.

615
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:03,000
It just toggles my mind.

616
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,000
He is your deliverer.

617
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,000
He is the one who is able to set us free.

618
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:14,000
He is the emancipator of our soul and of our life.

619
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:22,000
The one who breaks off the shackles, who removes the limits, who delivers our heart.

620
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,000
Father, I love you today.

621
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:31,000
Lord, I thank you so much for your goodness and your mercy.

622
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:38,000
I thank you, Lord, for your help today, for I have felt your anointing.

623
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:45,000
And I have witnessed your word as it's landed upon the hearts of your people.

624
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,000
It's landed, Lord.

625
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,000
I've seen it and I've watched your spirit over them.

626
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:54,000
And you're speaking and dealing and ministering.

627
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,000
And they've went to the hold this morning.

628
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,000
We've went down to the hold.

629
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:07,000
And we're hearing from you there.

630
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:12,000
Some of you need to just walk head on and He's going to defeat the devil for you.

631
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:17,000
But some of you this morning, He may be asking you to sneak around the back

632
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,000
and wait for Him there.

633
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:25,000
And He'll bring you that victory.

634
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,000
Hands raised if you need God to do something in your life.

635
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:32,000
You need Him this morning.

636
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,000
I need some deliverance and I know He's the deliverer.

637
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:40,000
Father God, all over this house this morning,

638
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,000
from balcony to floor, hands are lifted.

639
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,000
We need your deliverance.

640
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:51,000
We need you to be set free one more time.

641
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,000
We've made our way to the hold this morning.

642
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,000
Now what say ye?

643
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,000
What do we need to do?

644
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:58,000
How do we need to approach?

645
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,000
How do we need to advance this morning?

646
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:05,000
Do I need to go head on or do I need to hear your other plan

647
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,000
and wait for you to get there?

648
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:12,000
However, Lord, speak to your people this morning.

649
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000
You are the God of their breakthrough.

650
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:21,000
Physically, financially, spiritually, emotionally,

651
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,000
you are the God of the breakthrough.

652
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:31,000
You are Bel Tarazim, the master of the breakthrough.

653
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:32,000
We need you this morning.

654
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,000
We need you today.

655
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,000
We need a healing touch today.

656
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,000
We need your delivering power this morning.

657
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,000
Father, there are those in the room facing procedures and surgeries

658
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,000
and they need peace in their heart and mind.

659
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:49,000
They need to know that you're going with them.

660
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:53,000
Lord, there's others dealing with battles.

661
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,000
The onslaught of the enemies coming against them.

662
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Break through on their behalf.

663
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:02,000
Break through and be their deliverer.

664
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,000
Set your people free.

665
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,000
Set them at liberty.

666
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,000
Those are bruised to bring about a healing.

667
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,000
The brokenhearted bring to them encouragement.

668
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,000
Break forth into their lives.

669
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:19,000
Spring forward into their life.

670
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,000
Lord, we'll be quick to praise you.

671
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,000
Father, I pray for the sick, those who are not here today,

672
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,000
those on beds of affliction.

673
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,000
I know that you're able and you have been faithful.

674
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:36,000
We see that every day that we are gifted.

675
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,000
Your faithfulness.

676
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:39,000
Move upon the sick.

677
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,000
Move upon those who are downtrodden.

678
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:48,000
Move in the lives of those who are being bound by the enemy.

679
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:52,000
Father, help us who restrict ourselves.

680
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,000
Forgive me, oh Lord.

681
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:58,000
Cleanse me, oh Lord, of the trouble that I get my own self in

682
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:02,000
and you still bail me out.

683
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:03,000
Help me, Lord.

684
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:04,000
Help us.

685
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,000
It's a good time this morning.

686
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000
If there's something there, just go ahead and repent.

687
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:12,000
Lord, forgive me of any thought, any deed, any action.

688
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Cleanse me of anything that's not pleasing to you

689
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,000
that I've sinned against you.

690
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,000
Cleanse me, Lord.

691
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:26,000
Forgive me as I ask forgiveness today in the name of Jesus.

692
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,000
Thank you, Lord, for your cleansing power

693
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:34,000
and your compassionate, forgiving heart.

694
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,000
I pray now that you go with your people.

695
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,000
Bless the household of faith.

696
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:47,000
Break forth into their lives and in any way that they need you,

697
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,000
be their deliverer.

698
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,000
Amen and amen.

699
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,000
Give the Lord a good handclap of praise.

700
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,000
He is the master of the breakthrough.

701
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,000
Hallelujah.

702
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:03,000
Don't forget tonight, 6 o'clock, we're in service this evening.

703
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:07,000
I've been contemplating all of this foul weather forecasting

704
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:11,000
and thinking about our Wednesday evening and our folks that get out

705
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:15,000
and trouble that we may get trying to get back home on Wednesday.

706
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,000
It's going to be bitterly cold.

707
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:23,000
If you could keep the faith, if you will keep the faith through Wednesday

708
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:27,000
to get you back next Sunday, I won't get you out in the cold this Wednesday.

709
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,000
How many won't backslide if we don't have church Wednesday?

710
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,000
Okay.

711
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,000
All right, we're going to play it on the safe side.

712
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,000
No service this Wednesday.

713
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,000
Stay warm, stay safe.

714
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,000
It's East Tennessee.

715
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,000
It may look like it is out there right now.

716
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,000
And if it is, you better pray for your pastor

717
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:51,000
because I'm going to feel about this big if it isn't bitterly cold and bad.

718
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:52,000
Amen.

719
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,000
So stay safe.

720
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:54,000
I'll see you tonight.

721
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,000
That will be our midweek service.

722
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:57,000
That will be our two for the one.

723
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,000
God bless you.

724
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,000
Go in grace, go in peace.

725
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,000
Yours, Smith.