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Amen. Well, you should be very happy to know

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that I have one point sermon today. Hey, who

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cheered for that? Come on, Ray. He's ready for

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lunch. I have one point, one point message. And

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it's good, you know, because we kind of have

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a smaller crowd today. But this is going to be

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a special day. Every day is a special day in

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the house of God. But I believe this is going

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to be a special day. I have one point. I'm just

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going to pour my heart out today. Pour my heart

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out for one point. You may be saying, what is

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that point? Well, I'm not going to tell you unless

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you ask me. What's the point? The point is Jesus

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is alive. Amen? Jesus is alive. Hallelujah. He

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lives. Isn't it great that we don't have a dead

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God? We have a living Christ. Have you ever recently,

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or have you recently, just taken a moment and

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just considered him? Hebrews chapter 12. He says,

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consider him. Meaning, you should take moments

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just to consider him. Who is he? What has he

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done? Do I believe in my heart that he is who

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he says he is, that he's done what he says he's

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done? Have you done it lately? Let's do it today.

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Let's consider him. Let's let our faith shoot

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out of this place like a rocket and just go for

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Jesus in a big way. Come on. Are you with me?

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I mean, I see a people. I know you guys are hungry.

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Can we just talk like this? I said, I'm just

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going to pour my heart. I'm just going to talk

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to you like my friends today. There's a time

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to teach and everything, and that's wonderful.

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But there's time to preach where we just declare

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Jesus, declare. That's the heralding of Jesus,

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the preaching. It is because he is. That's what

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we're going to do today. And I see a people that's

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hungry. That's hungry. And so I want you just

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to get with Jesus today. Let's get together in

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unity of the faith and just magnify Jesus. This

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has actually been my prayer this week, if you

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want to know the truth. That we would hear today

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the simplicity of Christ. And it would be like

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it was the first time. Like we'd never heard

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before. Like I heard the... Does anyone remember

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the first time they heard the gospel? No? You

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all were saved from the womb, right? Set apart.

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Maybe you don't remember the first time you heard

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the gospel. And maybe we just grew up in America

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and it's just like we hear it, whatever. And

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maybe that's good. Maybe that's what we're doing

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today. You've never even maybe taken a moment

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to think about what you've bought into here with

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Jesus. Or you've just kind of come in to the

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church and thought, this is just what we do.

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I'm going to keep kicking that. And maybe you've

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never had a moment where you considered him and

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thought, am I fully convinced that he's alive?

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And my prayer is that today would be like the

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first time you ever heard the gospel and that

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you would leave this place fully convinced. Not

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just about a message, but about a man and a reality

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that is because he is. Amen? So are you with

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me? Can we go? Can we lift off? I mean, but here's

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the thing. When we hear, and this is the thought,

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okay? This is our year of kingdom expansion,

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right? We're wanting to expand the kingdom. It's

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our mandate. It's what we want to do. We want

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to win the loss and everything. But there's times

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when we have to recalibrate ourselves on what

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we're doing, why we're doing it, right? I was

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with Dr. Chuck and Trey and a few other guys.

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Who else was with us? Was it just us? Okay. Anyway,

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we were shooting. I bought a gun, a rifle. and

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Dr. Chuggs, like my big brother, he was trying

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to help me get it sighted in. So I've got this

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powerful weapon, and I'm trying to hit the target

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to get it sighted in, and he said, hey, guess

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what? Your scope is not even screwed to the gun.

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Like, we can sight it, but it just keeps moving

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because it's not tight on the frame. So think

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of it. You've got all this power, firepower,

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but because it's not calibrated, you're not hitting

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anything. And Paul warns us, he says, you can

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get into a place where you're punching and beating

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the air, like lots of activity, but you're not

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focused, you're not calibrated. So my prayers

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today would be like a recalibration where we

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side ourselves back into the gospel of Jesus

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Christ. That's where we say, amen, I'm with you.

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I hope you are. If I can get at least one person,

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I'll just talk to you. Maybe two. I know you're

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with me. I think my wife is with me. But it's

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true that Jesus lives. He's alive. He really

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died and he really rose again. The Bible even

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says that after Jesus rose from the grave, he

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was seen by more than 500 people. John says we

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handled him. We touched him after he rose from

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the grave. Peter said, we didn't follow cunningly

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devised fables when we made known to you the

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gospel of Jesus Christ. He said, we were eyewitnesses

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to his majesty. Think of it. A man, more than

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one, was there on the mountain when the father

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spoke and said, this is my beloved son. And those

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men wrote their testimonies for us to read. It's

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not a religion that we're following. Jesus didn't

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come to establish the religion of Christianity.

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He's not a religious martyr. He's the Lord from

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heaven. He's real. He's the reality. He said,

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I am the truth. He's the truth. And men and women,

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did you know the first person that preach the

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gospel. This is just a side note. I'm going to

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try not to go too far on side notes today. But

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this is a side note. The first person that preached

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the gospel was a woman. Did you know that? What

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was her name? Huh? Rhea probably knows. Mary.

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The first one that was entrusted with the gospel

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message was a woman. And then Peter and John,

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no way. And then John had to brag and say, I

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outran Peter. I got there before him. But it's

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truth. It's not just words on a page. It's reality.

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Jesus is alive. Jesus lives. He really died on

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a cross. He really went to the grave. He really

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rose again. And he did it for you. He did it

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for me. He did it for us. And so that inspires

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worship, right? It inspires praise when you think

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about what must have been on his mind, on his

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heart, when he was on the cross, experiencing

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the pain, my pain, your pain. Experiencing the

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ridicule, my ridicule, dying, my death, your

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death. Powerful, beautiful, wonderful. Let's

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look at a scripture. Hebrews chapter 2. Oh, I

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think we're going to get so free today. Chapter

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2, verse 14 and 15. Wait for the screen. Inasmuch

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then as the children have partaken of flesh and

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blood, he himself, Jesus, likewise shared in

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the same. In the same what? Flesh and blood.

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That through death, he might destroy him who

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had the power of death, that is the devil, and

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release. Everybody say release. I've been released.

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Somebody said it. What does that mean? Delivered.

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Freed. I have been released. You've been released.

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Those who through fear of death were all their

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lifetime subject to bondage. Jesus released us.

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The door is open. Through death, destroyed death,

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and released us. Anybody afraid to die? See,

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he released us from fear. He released us from

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the fear of death. Why? How? Because through

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death he destroyed death and him who had the

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power of death. Therefore, those who are in Christ

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Jesus no longer die. We cannot die. We do not

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die. What does it mean? It means that the death

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of the body is not the moment when we experience

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victory. Hello? This has been our mentality,

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that someday when my body goes into the grave,

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I'll have victory over sin, victory over the

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devil, victory over death, and I'll get into

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heaven, and one day everything will be all right.

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When he died on the cross, oh, we're going to

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get into this. He released those. He delivered

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us from death through death. We're going to have

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to change the lyric of the song. The final breath

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upon the cross is now alive in me. We have to

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change that lyric. Because this is what happened.

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He breathed life into Adam. Stay with me, okay?

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Stay with me. The breath that he breathed into

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Adam. Does everybody remember that? I'm getting

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excited here. What happened? Adam went from being

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dust to man. The breath of life came. Man was

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alive. His name was Adam. And then the Bible

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says Adam fell. He sinned. He committed high

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treason against God. And from that moment until

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Christ, death reigned. That's what the Bible

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says. Death was reigning as a king over mankind

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all our lifetime. So everyone born into this

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world was subject to the fear of death. And the

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devil had rightfully taken the keys. Man could

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not be free because they were born into Adam.

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But Jesus came, was bruised, beaten, pierced,

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mocked, and scourged upon the cross. And as he

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hung there on the cross, he said, it is finished.

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And the Bible declares he, what? Breathed his

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last. So God came to Adam and then Christ on

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the cross. The breath that came to Adam, inhaled

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into his lungs, was exhaled out of the Christ

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on the cross. What does it mean? All those born

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into the order of Adam, his death. When Christ

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Jesus said, it is finished, and breathed out,

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he breathed death out of his lungs and gave up

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his spirit. And it was the end. The end. Because

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have you ever wondered? How could Jesus say it

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is finished when we know he had a few more things

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to do? He had a couple days ahead of him, right?

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He had a grave. He had to go to hell. He had

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to rise again. But how did he say it's finished?

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What did he mean? What was he saying? It's finished.

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What's finished? I got you right where I want

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you now. I'm going to pretend he said party.

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I'm going to join him. I love it. It is finished.

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What is finished, Jesus? What Jesus was saying

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was death is finished. Sacrificial system finished.

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Sin finished. Adam finished. You see it? The

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man of sin who had fallen, who had fallen and

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become slave to Satan, slave to death, slave

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to sin and the effects of sin, Jesus said, it's

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finished. The breath that Adam corrupted, Jesus

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exhaled forever and then went to hell with no

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blood in his body and no breath in his lungs.

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So what does it mean for you, for me? The prison

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doors are open. Sin is defeated. Death is defeated.

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Death, see, and this is what we got to do. And

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this is what we preach. Why we go all around

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the world preaching the gospel? Why are we excited

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about the gospel? Why does it inspire us? What

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is finished? Death is finished. Sin is finished.

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Sickness is finished. Satan is finished. It's

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not. It's real. It's reality. I believe in my

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heart that Jesus died on the cross. I believe

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that he finished the work on the cross. The essence

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of Christian life, and listen, because I'm just

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telling you the beginning, you know, there's

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much more. We're going to get into following

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Christ. But the essence of Christianity is not

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what we can do for God. We sometimes live like

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God needs to respond to us. You don't have to

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raise your hand, but have you had that mentality

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maybe in your prayer? Like, you need to do this

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for me, God. Look at my sacrifice. Look what

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I'm doing. Look at me. You need to respond to

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me. But the truth is, the reality is, the way

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that he set it up is that all of our life is

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a response to what he's done. You see the little

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subtle nuance. God is not needing to respond

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to you. We need to respond to him. In other words,

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I'm so grateful that you have died on the cross,

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that sin is finished, that death is finished,

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that Satan is finished. Now my life is lived

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in response to what you have done. I live in

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response to his sacrifice. My sacrifice, if there

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be any sacrifice, is just a response to his sacrifice.

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In other words, when I lay my life down on the

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altar, like we talked about a few weeks ago,

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it's just because of what he's done. It's all

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predicated and inspired by what he's done. You

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agree? That's how we live. So he released those

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who through fear of death were all their lifetime

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subject to bondage. So let's think about this.

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I really want to get this because when we, really

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get this picture of what Jesus did on the cross.

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It gives us such a liberty. Because really, without

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the gospel, it's very easy, like I said, to get

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out of balance with our approach to God, our

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relationship with God, and then we can very easily

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get into works. We can very easily get our eyes

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off of what Jesus has done for us. And it can

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really mess us up. So I really want to just,

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I really am praying that we just collectively

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see this together. God became a man and died

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as sin. Let's look at a few things here. Romans

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chapter 6. Let's look at, I want to read just

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several verses here in Romans 6. This will be

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very vital for us. Let's start in verse 1. Gospel.

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6 Romans. What shall we say then? Shall we continue

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in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not.

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How shall we who died to sin live any longer

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in it? Do you not know that as many of us as

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were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized

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into his death? Therefore we were buried with

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him through baptism into the death that just

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as Christ... Okay, we're going to get into that.

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But this is what I want to see. Look at verse

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6. Knowing this. Just so I know you're still

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with me. Say, knowing this. Knowing what, Paul?

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Knowing this. You ought to know. We ought to

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know this. That our old man was crucified. Crucified.

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Wait a second. So that means that Jesus on the

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cross, when he said it is finished, whenever

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he died and breathed out his last, wait, are

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you saying that I was there? Is that what he

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says? Knowing this, that our old man was crucified

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with him, that the body of sin may be done away

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with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

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Right? Similar language to what he said in Hebrews

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2. Release those who fear of death. No longer

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slaves of sin. Is this anybody's experience?

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Or are we slaves of sin? Are we slaves and in

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bondage to the fear of death? So when Jesus was

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on the cross, you were on the cross. What does

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it mean to follow Jesus? If you're going to follow

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Jesus, your first stop is going to be the cross.

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We were at this conference I was telling you

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about, and you guys should look up this guy.

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His name is Brother Yun. Chinese. Has anyone

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ever heard of Brother Yun? The heavenly man?

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You have to hear the whole story about why he's

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the heavenly man. Well, we got, I mean, we were

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so blessed by this Brother Yoon, but he would

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get up, and every time he would come to speak,

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and he just spoke a little bit of English, and

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he would sing in his broken English, I have decided

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to follow Jesus. And it was so sweet and so beautiful.

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Well, let me just tell you a little bit of his

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story, because as we get into talking about the

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gospel, this man was in prison five times for

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the gospel. Tortured for the gospel. He had his

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legs broken and sat in a Chinese prison with

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his legs, femur bones broken because of the gospel,

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because he was preaching the gospel as a young

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man. And they say, you're going to die in this

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prison. Listen to this. This will challenge you.

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You're going to die in this prison because you've

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been preaching the gospel. He was so sold out

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for the gospel. And they were at a gathering,

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and the Chinese police came, and he tried to

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run because one of the tenets of his faith is

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run from the police. I'm not kidding. That was

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one of the tenets. That's what they train in

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seminary. You must be ready to die for the gospel,

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you must be ready to suffer for the gospel, and

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you must be ready to run from the police. That's

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literally one of their pillars. So he's... tries

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to run from the police. They catch him, and they

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break his legs so that he won't be able to run

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anymore. And they take him and say, you're going

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to die in prison. Well, he's in there with another

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pastor. This other pastor is praying one day,

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and the Lord speaks to him and says, go to the

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gate of the prison, touch it, and I'm going to

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open the door. So he touches this door, this

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other Chinese minister, and the door opens. And

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then he says, go over and open this for Brother

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Yoon who's there with his legs broken in the

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cell. So he goes over and touches his door and

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the door opens. And then he said, this is his

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testimony. We heard his testimony. Both of theirs.

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He said, then I got scared and then I went back

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into my cell and started praying again. And he

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said, the Lord spoke to him and said, tell Brother

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Yoon. that he needs to leave. So he was like,

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well, Lord, you know, he's got two broken legs,

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so we need something to happen. So he said, Brother

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Yoon had already heard the voice of God say,

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you need to leave. And then his cellmate or his

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fellow prisoner came around and said, the Lord

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says you need to leave. So he stands up. With

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two broken legs, stands up, and as he begins

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to walk, he is perfectly healed and walks. Now,

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this is like a max security prison. So the miracle

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just continues, and he walks right out of the

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doors, and as if that weren't enough, a taxi

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cab is waiting. Have you heard this? So he...

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You know, gets out of the prison, and his fellow

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guy, whose name is Pastor Peter, is praying,

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hey, I'm glad, Lord, that you opened the doors.

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I'm glad you healed his legs. But once he gets,

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like, out in the front, they're just going to

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shoot him. So, you know, hide the guard's eyes.

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Anyways, he makes it past all this, gets in a

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car and this taxi, and he said, I didn't want

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them to know I was a prisoner or think I was

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weird, so I just started singing. I have decided.

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He didn't know what to do. obviously that was

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like the worst thing you could do but you know

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he's probably amped up a little bit so he just

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said go forward just keep driving so this taxi

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takes him to a house that with one of his parishioners

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one of his people who he led to the lord and

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he knocked on the door and they opened the door

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and said we were praying and the lord told us

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to cook some dumplings and get some clothes ready

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because brother yoon was going to come So he

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got the dumplings, ate, got some fresh, you know,

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out of his prison clothes, and then went on to

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continue to preach the gospel. That was just

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one of five times that he was in a Chinese prison.

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The other man that was his, actually his pastor

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and spiritual father who was the one that touched

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the gates of these, the doors of these prisons,

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was in there for 25 years in a Chinese prison.

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25 years. suffering, torture, and shame for the

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name of Christ. Amazing. But what inspires that

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in someone? That's the question you walk away

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with. Why would you do that? We have this comfort

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level here in the West, and they have this persecution

00:29:01.700 --> 00:29:06.319
that's happening. How can you endure that? And

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I walked away with one answer, and that is a

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deep conviction of the reality of the gospel.

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Like what we're talking about, just seared in

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the depths of his spirit and the mentality of

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victory. How could someone be sustained in that?

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How could John the Apostle be sustained in the

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Isle of Patmos being banished? How could Peter

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endure being crucified upside down? A deep conviction

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for Christ crucified and Jesus alive. Amen? Let's

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get it. Let's get it. Let's appreciate what Jesus

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has done. So, knowing that our old name was crucified.

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So, we were crucified with Christ. When he died,

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we died. When he was buried, we were buried.

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Now, catch this. When he rose from the grave,

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we rose from the grave. Christianity begins at

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the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's our

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starting place. That's our rallying point. Death

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happens on the cross, but Christianity starts

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when Jesus rose from the grave. Put 2 Corinthians

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5 .17. Let's just get on a power verse and let's

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just go for it here. Let's just let it rip. 2

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Corinthians 5 .17. I feel like we're just going

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to plow the devil over today. Therefore, if anyone

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is in Christ, he's a new creation. Old things

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have passed away. Behold, all things have become

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new. Is anyone in Christ in this room? If anyone

00:30:58.049 --> 00:31:00.750
is in Christ, old things have passed. What has

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passed? What passed on the cross? Sin, death,

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sickness. Sin and its dirty effects. Old things

00:31:11.619 --> 00:31:17.299
have passed away. Breaking news. You cannot be

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a sinner and a new creation at the same time.

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You are not a sinner if you are in Christ. You

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are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

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I know that we have a practice of confessing

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our sins. When's the last time you confessed

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your sins? Maybe this morning. But when's the

00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:53.880
last time you confessed your righteousness? Old

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things pass. All things have become new. Jesus

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is alive, and we're alive with him. I'm just

00:32:07.019 --> 00:32:08.640
going to let the word speak for itself today.

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Look at Galatians chapter 2. Verse 20. Galatians

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2 .20. This is Paul, but you can put yourself

00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.960
here in this verse. I have been crucified with

00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:51.460
Christ. So you can quote this. I have been crucified

00:32:51.460 --> 00:32:54.859
with Christ. Have you been crucified with Christ?

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You were crucified with Christ. I have been crucified

00:33:00.619 --> 00:33:04.039
with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but

00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.319
Christ. So what happens when you're crucified

00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.000
with Christ? It's no longer us that live, but

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:12.539
Christ lives in me. And the life which I now

00:33:12.539 --> 00:33:15.420
live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the

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Son of God who loved me and gave himself for

00:33:17.339 --> 00:33:24.240
me. I was crucified. I was buried. And I was

00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:31.680
risen with Christ. Amen? Is that real to your

00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:38.309
spirit? Yeah? Were you crucified with Christ?

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Or are you in bondage to sin? Are you in bondage

00:33:41.630 --> 00:33:45.009
to fear? Are you in bondage to death? Or did

00:33:45.009 --> 00:33:51.410
Jesus kick death, defeat death, defeat sin, defeat

00:33:51.410 --> 00:33:57.730
the devil? Yes? He defeated sin. He defeated

00:33:57.730 --> 00:34:03.180
the devil. He overcame death. He triumphed. See,

00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:06.259
Jesus blasted sin on the cross. Therefore, our

00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:09.480
preaching should be blasting sin. And if you

00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:13.820
came in today with sin or sins in your life,

00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:17.099
then the preaching isn't you should do this or

00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:20.039
that. The preaching is, hey, everyone, it's good

00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:24.380
news. Jesus paid the price for your sins. That's

00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:28.219
how you blast it. If you're struggling with fear

00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:35.570
in your life, It's, hey, everyone, Jesus released

00:34:35.570 --> 00:34:37.570
us from the bondage of fear. He hasn't given

00:34:37.570 --> 00:34:39.829
us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and

00:34:39.829 --> 00:34:46.409
sound mind. So our life, our preaching, our prayers,

00:34:46.710 --> 00:34:50.610
we should, just like Jesus blasted these things

00:34:50.610 --> 00:34:52.769
on the cross, we should blast them with our prayer,

00:34:52.869 --> 00:34:55.789
blast them with our preaching, blast them with

00:34:55.789 --> 00:35:14.170
our Bible reading. I mean, I... Oh, Lord. It's

00:35:14.170 --> 00:35:19.230
time that we awaken to these things. It's time

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that we awaken to the simplicity of the gospel.

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Yeah? Anybody just, I mean... I want the lion

00:35:31.860 --> 00:35:38.840
to awaken inside of me. Think of this. Christianity

00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:47.380
is a strong man's thing. We've too often, I don't

00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:49.480
want to be critical of anyone, okay? I love everyone.

00:35:49.579 --> 00:35:53.559
I love you. I love the body of Christ. But we've

00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:59.210
too often glorified the weakness. Of the human

00:35:59.210 --> 00:36:02.530
condition. The gospel is not the glorification

00:36:02.530 --> 00:36:07.150
of the human weakness condition. Listen. The

00:36:07.150 --> 00:36:10.670
gospel is not glorifying human weakness. The

00:36:10.670 --> 00:36:13.550
gospel is the destruction of human weakness to

00:36:13.550 --> 00:36:24.949
glorify the risen Christ. Oh my. Because our

00:36:24.949 --> 00:36:28.900
God doesn't just. Come with us in the trials

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:36.599
of life Are there trials in life are there challenges

00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:42.400
are the yes praise God for those But the message

00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:47.300
is that In Christ, we are led in victory. We

00:36:47.300 --> 00:36:49.579
are led in triumph. We are more than conquerors.

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He who is in us is greater than he who is in

00:36:51.619 --> 00:36:55.239
the world. I have been crucified to sin, to weakness,

00:36:55.420 --> 00:36:58.420
to death, to destruction, to fear. I was crucified

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on the cross. And when he rose up, I rose up

00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:14.619
to walk in new, victorious, glorious life. Therefore,

00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:20.199
let sin not reign over you anymore. Let death

00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:24.059
not reign anymore. Let sickness not reign anymore.

00:37:25.019 --> 00:37:30.960
Let fear not reign anymore. Are we awakening

00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:35.800
some sleeping lions in this place? Are you fed

00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:44.500
up with the devil? That's what it takes. taking

00:37:44.500 --> 00:37:50.920
the pill of religion and defeat. I want the risen

00:37:50.920 --> 00:38:00.920
Christ to be manifest in my life. I want what

00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:10.059
the word says. I want it. I want it. It's true.

00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:19.559
It's reality. I don't care about eloquence. I

00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:22.519
don't care about saying the right words. I know

00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.280
that Jesus died and rose again and destroyed

00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:27.659
death and destroyed sin and destroyed sickness

00:38:27.659 --> 00:38:31.139
and destroyed fear. That's what I know. And I

00:38:31.139 --> 00:38:33.559
want to eat of the fruit of what he has done.

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That's what I'm interested in. And then I want

00:38:36.820 --> 00:38:42.000
to help people get in this victory. And I see

00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.840
a church who can jump into the victory of the

00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:49.909
resurrected Christ. And if a fear or a devil

00:38:49.909 --> 00:38:52.650
tries to do anything in any of our lives, then

00:38:52.650 --> 00:38:56.309
we know, hey, he's done it. He's overcome. He's

00:38:56.309 --> 00:38:59.510
won the victory. And we bind together and we

00:38:59.510 --> 00:39:02.869
strengthen ourselves together in the reality

00:39:02.869 --> 00:39:05.929
of the gospel. And we kick that thing out of

00:39:05.929 --> 00:39:08.949
each other's lives. And we become a city set

00:39:08.949 --> 00:39:11.269
on a hill. We become the light of the world.

00:39:11.369 --> 00:39:15.590
What do they have? How do we explain these people?

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Walking. In victory. Walking in the light of

00:39:20.420 --> 00:39:22.780
truth. Walking in resurrection light. How do

00:39:22.780 --> 00:39:25.519
we explain it? I don't know, but we better just

00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:32.820
go join them. That was the book of Acts model.

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The people would come and say, okay, what must

00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:49.960
I do to be saved? you remember that it was and

00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:52.039
of course they went and evangelized they did

00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:55.980
all these things but people would come hey what

00:39:55.980 --> 00:40:01.219
you have is real how do i get it let me tell

00:40:01.219 --> 00:40:06.690
you it's not complex God became a man, died on

00:40:06.690 --> 00:40:08.530
a cross, went to the grave, rose again after

00:40:08.530 --> 00:40:11.070
three days, sent his Holy Spirit to live inside

00:40:11.070 --> 00:40:12.690
of me. Now I'm a witness to that resurrection,

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and I walk in that divine life and power. I don't

00:40:18.949 --> 00:40:21.389
let my mind deviate from the simplicity of that

00:40:21.389 --> 00:40:28.289
gospel. I mean, I believe, guys, it's time that

00:40:28.289 --> 00:40:33.199
we just bury ourselves in this gospel. Bury ourselves

00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:35.699
in the life of Christ and just go for it all

00:40:35.699 --> 00:40:39.659
the way. If one person in this room leaves today

00:40:39.659 --> 00:40:43.199
with some fresh fire in their spirit to bury

00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:46.980
themselves in Christ, to really go for this thing

00:40:46.980 --> 00:40:49.760
with all of their life, if one person, I'll be

00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:54.320
so happy. I'd say, okay, that's it. There may

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.280
be 30 people that just say, I don't know what

00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:58.079
he was talking about. I don't know. He was yelling

00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:00.719
and screaming and sweating. face is red i don't

00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:03.059
know but let's go to lunch but if one person

00:41:03.059 --> 00:41:06.840
just says i'm done with devil i'm done with everything

00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.079
that jesus paid the price for and i'm going to

00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:11.360
live in this resurrection life if one person

00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:21.519
does i'll be happy crucified with christ crucified

00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:27.780
with christ buried with christ that means you

00:41:27.780 --> 00:41:35.170
know That means I lost my vote because I was

00:41:35.170 --> 00:41:41.510
crucified with him. You know, any person who's

00:41:41.510 --> 00:41:45.690
ever made impact for Jesus had one thing, if

00:41:45.690 --> 00:41:52.469
nothing else. I'm not here to please man. I don't

00:41:52.469 --> 00:41:54.429
care what you think of me. I don't care what

00:41:54.429 --> 00:41:57.010
man thinks of me. I'm here to live for Jesus

00:41:57.010 --> 00:42:01.559
Christ. That's what it means to be crucified

00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:04.840
with Christ, among many other things. Somebody

00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.579
said, a little boy came to their dad and said,

00:42:07.659 --> 00:42:11.420
Pop, how do I know that I'm dead in Christ? How

00:42:11.420 --> 00:42:14.900
do I know that I've died to myself? And he said,

00:42:14.980 --> 00:42:21.679
well, son, go to the grave over here. I want

00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:30.659
you to just curse them. this person in the grave.

00:42:30.980 --> 00:42:33.199
Say everything bad you can say about him, and

00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:37.500
come back and tell me what happens. Okay, so

00:42:37.500 --> 00:42:39.679
he comes back. What happened? Well, nothing.

00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:43.000
He didn't say anything. He says, okay, well,

00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:46.239
now go and just praise this person and tell everything

00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:48.960
good about this person, and come back and tell

00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:52.059
me what happens. So the little boy went and said

00:42:52.059 --> 00:42:54.579
he did it, and he came back. He said, Pop, I

00:42:54.579 --> 00:42:56.239
did it. What happened? They didn't say anything.

00:42:56.860 --> 00:42:58.719
Okay, that's what it means to be dead to yourself.

00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:03.800
Not swayed by the applause, not swayed by the

00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:08.460
ridicule, but totally buried in Christ. What

00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:12.219
was Paul's revelation? It's not I that live.

00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:18.500
I'm dead. I am out of the picture. It is no longer

00:43:18.500 --> 00:43:21.159
I but Christ. Christ is everything. Christ is

00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:25.280
my life. Jesus and him resurrected is the essence

00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:37.199
of my being. Yes, the essence of my being, Christ,

00:43:37.500 --> 00:43:48.920
Jesus. Hallelujah. Look at Colossians chapter

00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:59.739
3. We're crucified with him, buried with him,

00:43:59.820 --> 00:44:08.210
raised with him. Look at verse 1. If you believe

00:44:08.210 --> 00:44:15.010
that, does anybody believe that? Okay, well then

00:44:15.010 --> 00:44:16.829
this message is for you. If you believe that

00:44:16.829 --> 00:44:19.110
you're crucified with him, if you believe that

00:44:19.110 --> 00:44:22.289
you were buried with him, if you believe that

00:44:22.289 --> 00:44:24.750
you're raised with him, then he says, seek those

00:44:24.750 --> 00:44:28.730
things which are above, where Christ is sitting

00:44:28.730 --> 00:44:31.730
at the right hand of God. Anyone ever heard,

00:44:31.869 --> 00:44:35.329
don't be so heavenly minded that you're no earthly

00:44:35.329 --> 00:44:43.039
good? What do you think about that after hearing

00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:49.559
this scripture? So what happens is when we come

00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:54.920
into Christ, we're crucified to our Adam nature.

00:44:55.699 --> 00:44:58.400
We're crucified to sin. We're crucified to the

00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:02.079
world. We're crucified to all the effects of

00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:04.559
that sin. We're buried with Christ. We're raised

00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:07.920
with Christ. Then actually, Not theoretically,

00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:11.559
not theologically, not mystically. Actually,

00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:21.360
our life then is hidden with Christ in God. The

00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:27.559
reality of who we are is right there, seated

00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:34.489
in God, seated in Christ. That would mean we

00:45:34.489 --> 00:45:36.510
were crucified with him. We were buried with

00:45:36.510 --> 00:45:41.170
him. We rose from the grave with him. But then

00:45:41.170 --> 00:45:47.349
when he ascended, think about it. What does it

00:45:47.349 --> 00:45:49.550
mean to follow Christ? Follow him to the cross.

00:45:50.409 --> 00:45:53.090
Follow him to the grave. Follow him in the resurrection.

00:45:53.550 --> 00:45:56.809
And then he didn't stop at just resurrection.

00:45:58.829 --> 00:46:05.119
He lifted up. I mean, this. Think about it. There's

00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:07.880
men and women watching, and Jesus said, I want

00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:10.539
you to go in Jerusalem and wait until you be

00:46:10.539 --> 00:46:13.079
endued with power from on high. And as he's talking,

00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:16.900
he just starts lifting up from the air. It wasn't

00:46:16.900 --> 00:46:18.739
like, you know, beam me up, Scotty. It was a

00:46:18.739 --> 00:46:22.199
slow levitation. He just started going, and their

00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.119
jaws were on the floor. If there was any doubt

00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:33.130
about this man being God, We watched him go into

00:46:33.130 --> 00:46:37.630
heaven. So if you were there, do you think you

00:46:37.630 --> 00:46:40.789
would have gone to the upper room? I probably

00:46:40.789 --> 00:46:42.769
would have said, okay, whatever you say, sir,

00:46:42.949 --> 00:46:46.630
I'll be there in the upper room. So he went up

00:46:46.630 --> 00:46:51.349
into heaven. He rose from the earth. And then

00:46:51.349 --> 00:46:54.449
Paul gets this revelation that in the same way,

00:46:54.510 --> 00:46:57.750
when you come into Christ, you raise up with

00:46:57.750 --> 00:47:02.000
him. What does it mean? You ascend above the

00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:06.820
things of the earth. My life is no longer, anybody

00:47:06.820 --> 00:47:09.940
grow up in church hearing earthly, don't be earthly,

00:47:10.179 --> 00:47:14.519
don't be worldly. Well, that always confused

00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:17.539
me. Well, how am I not going to be worldly? I'm

00:47:17.539 --> 00:47:21.179
right here in this world. What does it mean?

00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.860
It means that your life, the actual life that

00:47:24.860 --> 00:47:33.460
you have, think of it like this. A dog has dog

00:47:33.460 --> 00:47:40.920
life. Right? A cat has cat life. I see some of

00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:43.179
you kind of smiling like, come on, is this elementary

00:47:43.179 --> 00:47:47.239
school? Maybe. That's kind of how I think. I'm

00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:49.900
pretty elementary. I just want it to make sense.

00:47:50.820 --> 00:47:53.860
A dog has dog life. A cat has cat life. A tree

00:47:53.860 --> 00:47:57.599
has tree life. When we're born into this world

00:47:57.599 --> 00:47:59.860
from our mama and papa, we're born with human

00:47:59.860 --> 00:48:06.019
life. But that life is full of corruption and

00:48:06.019 --> 00:48:13.420
sin and mess. So when Jesus died on the cross,

00:48:13.699 --> 00:48:17.059
he killed that life. Because remember, I said

00:48:17.059 --> 00:48:18.840
he breathed that life out. He said, it's finished.

00:48:18.900 --> 00:48:24.019
This life is done. Come on, can you bear with

00:48:24.019 --> 00:48:34.260
me? God can't die. Right? The Word can't die.

00:48:38.539 --> 00:48:43.219
We can agree, right? So, if the Word can't die,

00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:51.320
how did Jesus die? He died as a man. He died

00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:55.960
as Adam. Why am I saying this? Why does the Gospel

00:48:55.960 --> 00:49:00.099
say it? Because... We want to really, really

00:49:00.099 --> 00:49:03.159
get the understanding that sin no longer has

00:49:03.159 --> 00:49:05.440
dominion over me. Death no longer has dominion

00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:08.619
over me because that life is actually, factually

00:49:08.619 --> 00:49:14.699
dead. So he died. He became a man so that he

00:49:14.699 --> 00:49:19.559
could die. And he died as Adam. So that human

00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:27.710
life, that life died. That was a type of life.

00:49:30.090 --> 00:49:32.929
Then he rose from the grave. Now think of it.

00:49:34.469 --> 00:49:40.809
Is everybody with me? Okay, think of it. He said,

00:49:40.849 --> 00:49:43.630
it is finished. All the blood left his body,

00:49:43.730 --> 00:49:46.389
right? He breathed his last. There was there

00:49:46.389 --> 00:49:52.250
now on the cross, Jesus Christ, hands spread,

00:49:52.510 --> 00:49:58.690
nails, nails. crown of thorns, nails. Now, did

00:49:58.690 --> 00:50:01.769
he have two nails? Was it in the wrist? I don't

00:50:01.769 --> 00:50:04.929
know. But he's there on the cross. He says, it's

00:50:04.929 --> 00:50:09.969
finished. And he closes Adam, closes the door

00:50:09.969 --> 00:50:12.849
on Adam, and they take a body from the cross

00:50:12.849 --> 00:50:18.929
that is no life, no blood. It's flesh and it's

00:50:18.929 --> 00:50:23.730
bone. And they put that body into... Joseph's

00:50:23.730 --> 00:50:28.070
tomb, right? With no flesh, no bone, I'm sorry,

00:50:28.130 --> 00:50:36.050
no blood, and no breath, no life. The life of

00:50:36.050 --> 00:50:42.489
the body, gone. Then Jesus, in the grave, after

00:50:42.489 --> 00:50:49.010
three days, three nights, I've never seen the

00:50:49.010 --> 00:50:50.929
chosen, but I think it's the chosen, right, where

00:50:50.929 --> 00:50:56.170
he wakes up. Something happens. What happens?

00:50:58.230 --> 00:51:04.050
Life comes into his body. But wait, what life

00:51:04.050 --> 00:51:13.670
is it? The life on the cross left him. And he,

00:51:13.750 --> 00:51:18.730
as a man, died. But then he's in the grave and

00:51:18.730 --> 00:51:25.519
life comes. What life is it? The Bible says that

00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:28.699
Jesus was raised from the dead by the glory of

00:51:28.699 --> 00:51:33.360
the Father. The life that left his body was the

00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:36.059
life of man that each of us are born into this

00:51:36.059 --> 00:51:41.400
world with, the life of sin. He became sin. Are

00:51:41.400 --> 00:51:46.440
you with me? He became sin. He didn't become

00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:51.739
sins. He became sin, which was a life, a nature.

00:51:52.460 --> 00:52:02.539
He became sin on the cross. Buried sin. Then

00:52:02.539 --> 00:52:07.760
life came into his body. It was the spirit of

00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:12.639
life from God. And the Bible says that in that

00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:16.360
moment, Jesus became the first person to be born

00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:21.929
again. Old things had passed. Why? Because life

00:52:21.929 --> 00:52:24.630
was crucified on the cross and buried in the

00:52:24.630 --> 00:52:27.230
grave, a body with no life, no blood, no breath.

00:52:27.650 --> 00:52:32.510
And then after three days, Jesus didn't, it wasn't

00:52:32.510 --> 00:52:35.949
a restoration, you understand? It wasn't a remodel.

00:52:37.269 --> 00:52:42.329
It was a new life, a new order. He changed lives.

00:52:48.010 --> 00:52:51.940
The life that was now, animating the person of

00:52:51.940 --> 00:52:55.260
Jesus after he rose from the grave was zoe life

00:52:55.260 --> 00:53:00.719
of God what we call eternal life he could walk

00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:09.460
through walls he could he was the new creation

00:53:09.460 --> 00:53:15.760
the firstborn the firstborn the firstborn you

00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:21.679
see it he was no longer Adam man. He was now

00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:29.460
God man. Zoe life man. He has a body, but his

00:53:29.460 --> 00:53:32.940
body now, instead of having blood and the breath

00:53:32.940 --> 00:53:37.480
of Adam, it has the spirit of God. Now, come

00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:38.960
on, we're getting deeper, I know, but listen,

00:53:39.099 --> 00:53:41.900
this is so powerful. This can do so much in our

00:53:41.900 --> 00:53:47.300
day -to -day lives. Romans 8 -11. We can maybe

00:53:47.300 --> 00:53:51.760
come back to that. Just forget about having points

00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:53.679
and all that, okay? I'm sorry. We're just rolling.

00:53:59.460 --> 00:54:03.659
I want to live forever. That's important to me.

00:54:04.380 --> 00:54:08.539
And I shall. Romans 8, 11. And you shall too.

00:54:10.900 --> 00:54:16.360
Now, look at this. If the spirit of him who raised

00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:21.170
Jesus, so... there's a mystery revealed, right?

00:54:21.869 --> 00:54:25.030
How did Jesus get raised from the dead? The Spirit

00:54:25.030 --> 00:54:30.650
of God, this great Holy Ghost, raised Jesus from

00:54:30.650 --> 00:54:36.610
the dead. Now, if that Spirit does what? Dwells

00:54:36.610 --> 00:54:45.210
in you. That's born again. I've come through

00:54:45.210 --> 00:54:47.909
the cross. I've come through the grave. I've

00:54:47.909 --> 00:54:50.849
come through the resurrection, and now the life

00:54:50.849 --> 00:54:57.349
in my body is the same life that was in Jesus

00:54:57.349 --> 00:55:02.550
on the cross? No. It was on Jesus and in Jesus

00:55:02.550 --> 00:55:06.949
after he rose from the grave. You see it? What

00:55:06.949 --> 00:55:13.659
does it mean to be a Christian then? The life

00:55:13.659 --> 00:55:16.920
of Adam leaves, and the life of Jesus, the Spirit

00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:19.179
of God that raised him from the dead, is now

00:55:19.179 --> 00:55:25.639
my actual life. Not someday, whenever I enter

00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:28.519
the pearly gates, not someday when my body perishes.

00:55:28.940 --> 00:55:33.460
Now, eternal life. Now, life. Now, the same life

00:55:33.460 --> 00:55:38.090
that raised Jesus. now dwells inside of this

00:55:38.090 --> 00:55:41.309
body. My body is the temple of this life. I've

00:55:41.309 --> 00:55:45.349
changed lives. Born again, not after flesh and

00:55:45.349 --> 00:55:48.289
blood, not after flesh and bone. I was born of

00:55:48.289 --> 00:55:53.750
my mama once, but I was born of God again. I'm

00:55:53.750 --> 00:55:57.389
a new creation, a new man. The old me died on

00:55:57.389 --> 00:56:02.530
the cross. The new me rose with Christ, and now

00:56:02.530 --> 00:56:06.340
I'm filled with the... Resurrection life of God.

00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:16.260
Yeah? How could death have its way in me? I will

00:56:16.260 --> 00:56:21.199
never die. See how strong the gospel is? Man,

00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:24.199
it just puts something in you. You know, people

00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:26.719
say, you don't say that. The devil's going to

00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:28.920
get riled up and come at you. I wish he would.

00:56:29.099 --> 00:56:34.840
He's scared of me. I put him on the run. That's

00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:37.940
the mentality of a Christian. Oh, don't do that

00:56:37.940 --> 00:56:39.179
because there's a witch in that neighborhood.

00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:41.139
They may curse you. I'll curse the witch. Come

00:56:41.139 --> 00:56:44.380
on. I've got the life of resurrection in me.

00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:48.019
It's not me boasting. It's just me agreeing with

00:56:48.019 --> 00:56:52.980
what the Scripture says. I mean, either God is...

00:56:53.929 --> 00:56:56.469
Very schizophrenic and confused, or he means

00:56:56.469 --> 00:56:58.349
what he says, and if he means what he says, that

00:56:58.349 --> 00:57:00.530
means you and you and you and me have the life

00:57:00.530 --> 00:57:03.730
of resurrection in every fiber of our beings.

00:57:04.849 --> 00:57:07.670
And we've come into union with the resurrected

00:57:07.670 --> 00:57:11.889
Christ. Sin is not even a consciousness on my

00:57:11.889 --> 00:57:16.469
radar. That's such a low thing. My mind is set

00:57:16.469 --> 00:57:19.530
on things above. My mind is set upon resurrection,

00:57:19.829 --> 00:57:23.250
enthroned, all authority, Christ. I have no time

00:57:23.250 --> 00:57:27.050
to even think about sin. I don't consider it.

00:57:27.070 --> 00:57:29.969
Why? Because through one sacrifice, forever,

00:57:30.329 --> 00:57:34.449
he has destroyed sin on the cross. It's no longer

00:57:34.449 --> 00:57:37.190
a factor in my life. I live in resurrection.

00:57:37.329 --> 00:57:41.130
I live in Christ. where there is no sin, where

00:57:41.130 --> 00:57:45.849
moth and rust does not decay. That's where we

00:57:45.849 --> 00:57:49.969
are. That's where we're seated. Where's the devil?

00:57:50.070 --> 00:57:55.530
Under our feet. Where's sin? On the cross. How

00:57:55.530 --> 00:57:57.750
do you get free from sin? Oh, sin, sin, sin.

00:57:57.829 --> 00:58:02.329
How do I get free? Stop focusing on sin. Jesus

00:58:02.329 --> 00:58:06.510
destroyed it on the cross. The more you focus

00:58:06.510 --> 00:58:10.400
on it, the more you empower it. All you do is

00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:14.380
surrender to the cross. That is victory over

00:58:14.380 --> 00:58:18.340
sin. You don't need gospel and. You just need

00:58:18.340 --> 00:58:29.539
gospel. That is freedom. I feel like I'm preaching

00:58:29.539 --> 00:58:31.679
this a lot better than you're responding, if

00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:35.340
I can just be honest. I'm doing the best I can.

00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:39.369
I'm doing my level best here. I want us to get

00:58:39.369 --> 00:58:41.849
so stirred up and so filled up with the life

00:58:41.849 --> 00:58:44.750
of God, the reality of the gospel, and all of

00:58:44.750 --> 00:58:51.190
our doing is out of inspiration. Hello, have

00:58:51.190 --> 00:58:56.010
you heard about Jesus? Jesus loves you. For God

00:58:56.010 --> 00:59:02.190
so loved the world that he gave... No! Pooey!

00:59:05.670 --> 00:59:10.579
It's got to be born out of... I want to wake

00:59:10.579 --> 00:59:13.320
up in the morning and say, yes, I'm alive in

00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:22.980
Christ today. World, the lion is awake. You better

00:59:22.980 --> 00:59:30.960
watch out. I'm ready to blast sin because my

00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:34.019
Savior blasted it. I'm ready to blast sickness

00:59:34.019 --> 00:59:37.139
because my Savior blasted it. I'm ready to blast

00:59:37.139 --> 00:59:41.960
death because my Savior blasted it. And I believe

00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:47.099
that. I believe that. Your life, your life is

00:59:47.099 --> 00:59:56.880
the answer to the cry of the masses. If you have

00:59:56.880 --> 01:00:04.869
the gospel, He said it's not a cunningly devised

01:00:04.869 --> 01:00:08.010
fable. This is not a made -up thing. This is

01:00:08.010 --> 01:00:11.809
life and life eternal. And in this message is

01:00:11.809 --> 01:00:16.170
the power of God. He's vested all of who he is

01:00:16.170 --> 01:00:19.690
in this message. Jesus died. You died. Jesus

01:00:19.690 --> 01:00:22.050
buried. You buried. Jesus rose again. You rose

01:00:22.050 --> 01:00:24.389
again. Jesus ascended and you ascended. Jesus

01:00:24.389 --> 01:00:28.320
seated and you seated. And if you can get that

01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:30.760
message into somebody's heart, that is all the

01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:34.539
deliverance they will ever need. That's all that

01:00:34.539 --> 01:00:37.099
they'll ever need. All things that pertain to

01:00:37.099 --> 01:00:43.119
life and godliness in that right there. It reveals

01:00:43.119 --> 01:00:46.019
your relationship to everything that you will

01:00:46.019 --> 01:00:56.619
ever face. What is my relationship to God? Son.

01:00:56.800 --> 01:00:59.519
What is my relationship to devil? Master. What

01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:04.059
is my relationship to you? Brother. Sister. What

01:01:04.059 --> 01:01:06.800
is my relationship to sin? Master. What is my

01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:10.460
relationship to death? Master. What is my relationship

01:01:10.460 --> 01:01:17.780
to wife? I love you, babe. That's all we need

01:01:17.780 --> 01:01:21.300
to know. Everything I encounter in life, I just

01:01:21.300 --> 01:01:23.840
need to know what is my relationship to it. That's

01:01:23.840 --> 01:01:26.539
it. Life is just a series of answering that one

01:01:26.539 --> 01:01:29.179
question. If I can answer that one question,

01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:31.639
I'll live in the purpose and will of God for

01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:38.780
my life. Our problem is not that this is, if

01:01:38.780 --> 01:01:40.400
you don't hear anything else, hear this with

01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:44.139
all of your heart. He who has ears to hear. I

01:01:44.139 --> 01:01:46.920
say that because Jesus said it. And I like Jesus.

01:01:51.170 --> 01:01:53.730
We don't have a problem with believing the Bible.

01:01:55.550 --> 01:01:59.150
If I surveyed all of you in this room, you would

01:01:59.150 --> 01:02:01.309
say, I believe the Bible with all of my heart.

01:02:01.469 --> 01:02:06.150
I'm ready and willing to believe it, right? Maybe

01:02:06.150 --> 01:02:09.530
not. I don't know. It wasn't much of a... I could

01:02:09.530 --> 01:02:15.289
be wrong. Where am I? Is this the Mormon church?

01:02:17.530 --> 01:02:29.429
Lord Jesus, I'm sorry. You don't have a problem

01:02:29.429 --> 01:02:31.250
believing the Bible. I'm ready. I want to believe

01:02:31.250 --> 01:02:33.449
the Bible. Our problem is just understanding

01:02:33.449 --> 01:02:37.230
the Bible. Because if we understand it, I'm ready

01:02:37.230 --> 01:02:40.510
for full throttle, right? So if we can just buy

01:02:40.510 --> 01:02:43.769
into the simplicity of the gospel and just say

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this is the understanding of understandings and

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I'm ready to burn it all down and cast my all

01:02:49.409 --> 01:02:53.809
upon Jehovah and go 100 % in and for this gospel.

01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:01.340
Because I understand what he's done for me. I

01:03:01.340 --> 01:03:04.179
see what he's done. I see who he is. And then

01:03:04.179 --> 01:03:07.239
I see who I am. And I see who my challenge is.

01:03:07.340 --> 01:03:09.840
And I see my relationship to it. Is that bearing

01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:18.219
witness with anybody? Then all of our doing,

01:03:18.380 --> 01:03:23.099
all of our doing is just so wonderful. I'm so

01:03:23.099 --> 01:03:27.019
happy to... I preach the gospel to one or to

01:03:27.019 --> 01:03:30.659
one million. I'm so happy just to let my life

01:03:30.659 --> 01:03:34.800
be the essence and overflow of what he has done

01:03:34.800 --> 01:03:38.340
and who he is. And my whole thought, my whole

01:03:38.340 --> 01:03:40.900
thought life is just wrapped up in and totally

01:03:40.900 --> 01:03:44.579
engrossed in the thought of Jesus and his gospel

01:03:44.579 --> 01:03:50.980
and what he's done and who he is. There's nothing

01:03:50.980 --> 01:03:58.469
else like it. There's nothing else. So good.

01:03:59.489 --> 01:04:04.070
Jesus is so good. He's so wonderful. He said,

01:04:04.090 --> 01:04:06.349
all authority in heaven and earth has been given

01:04:06.349 --> 01:04:12.710
to me. All authority given to him. He has all

01:04:12.710 --> 01:04:18.650
power, all authority, all might. Don't ever get

01:04:18.650 --> 01:04:21.050
entangled with a demon again. Don't ever get

01:04:21.050 --> 01:04:24.630
messed up in sin again. The prison doors are

01:04:24.630 --> 01:04:30.670
open. Jesus has overcome. He's seated in heavenly

01:04:30.670 --> 01:04:37.769
places. Let's look at Ephesians chapter 2. I

01:04:37.769 --> 01:05:10.199
don't even know what time it is. Did I not say

01:05:10.199 --> 01:05:15.300
verse? Let's just read verse 1. We'll read a

01:05:15.300 --> 01:05:16.880
few verses, and then I'm going to share a few

01:05:16.880 --> 01:05:18.480
testimonies, and then we're going to pray, okay?

01:05:19.659 --> 01:05:27.840
We'll be right out. And you he made alive. Remember?

01:05:28.599 --> 01:05:31.579
Resurrection. You he made alive. But I thought

01:05:31.579 --> 01:05:33.260
I was alive. Well, you were, but you died on

01:05:33.260 --> 01:05:36.789
the cross. Now you were made alive. Even though

01:05:36.789 --> 01:05:38.929
you were dead in trespasses and sins, now you

01:05:38.929 --> 01:05:41.590
are alive again, in which you once walked according

01:05:41.590 --> 01:05:43.010
to the course of this world, according to the

01:05:43.010 --> 01:05:44.650
prince of the power of the air, the spirit who

01:05:44.650 --> 01:05:46.590
now works in the sons of disobedience, among

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whom also we all conduct ourselves in the lust

01:05:49.550 --> 01:05:57.250
of the flesh. Verse 5. Even when we were dead

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in trespasses, were dead. In trespasses. He made

01:06:00.710 --> 01:06:03.489
us alive together with Christ. There it is. See

01:06:03.489 --> 01:06:06.949
that beautiful union. The beautiful synergy of

01:06:06.949 --> 01:06:10.750
us and Christ. Made us alive together with Christ.

01:06:12.170 --> 01:06:15.190
Then stop there. Look at verse 6. And raised

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us up together. Have you been raised with Christ?

01:06:21.909 --> 01:06:24.210
Now that doesn't mean just raised from the dead.

01:06:24.349 --> 01:06:31.489
Look. Raised us up together and what? Made us

01:06:31.489 --> 01:06:35.449
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

01:06:35.849 --> 01:06:43.130
When? It's already done. Where are you? Where

01:06:43.130 --> 01:06:47.909
are we? What does it mean? I remember one time

01:06:47.909 --> 01:06:51.670
we were in Cuba and we just let it rip about

01:06:51.670 --> 01:06:53.829
the gospel for several days. And I asked the

01:06:53.829 --> 01:06:57.409
worship leader, I said, what's one thing you

01:06:57.409 --> 01:07:00.650
could take away from this? this week of meetings

01:07:00.650 --> 01:07:02.369
that we've had and preaching, what's one thing?

01:07:03.269 --> 01:07:05.510
And she looked at me and said, all I need to

01:07:05.510 --> 01:07:09.809
do is sit down. I said, yes, that's exactly right.

01:07:09.889 --> 01:07:15.510
Just sit down. Don't punch the air, like Paul

01:07:15.510 --> 01:07:19.409
says, and have activity with no power. Just sit

01:07:19.409 --> 01:07:21.550
down and let the power of the resurrection work

01:07:21.550 --> 01:07:30.090
in your life. Amen? Yes, this is real. I wish

01:07:30.090 --> 01:07:33.030
we could go on. I'd love to just continue. But

01:07:33.030 --> 01:07:38.389
to your much relief, I just want to share a few

01:07:38.389 --> 01:07:43.030
testimonies, and then we're going to pray. Anybody

01:07:43.030 --> 01:07:44.710
feel like their faith is just getting stirred

01:07:44.710 --> 01:07:48.409
up a little bit and feeling like, man, what I've

01:07:48.409 --> 01:07:51.630
signed up here with Jesus, I mean, this thing

01:07:51.630 --> 01:07:56.559
is big. This thing is real. Anybody? Can we put

01:07:56.559 --> 01:07:59.239
some of those testimonies up? I don't need no

01:07:59.239 --> 01:08:06.300
particular order. So this little boy, you remember

01:08:06.300 --> 01:08:11.460
this boy? I wish the pictures were a little bigger,

01:08:11.539 --> 01:08:13.420
but I think you can see. This is a young boy

01:08:13.420 --> 01:08:16.640
and his dad. This little boy, if you see up close,

01:08:16.699 --> 01:08:19.279
his eyes are just sparkling. His eyes are just

01:08:19.279 --> 01:08:23.119
so beautiful. But when he came to the meeting,

01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:25.300
and this is in Cuba. He came to the meeting,

01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:28.539
his eyes, he had these glasses that were so thick,

01:08:28.680 --> 01:08:31.720
he couldn't see. And I think, was he probably

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10 or 12? He couldn't do schoolwork, he couldn't

01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:41.800
function, because he was basically blind. But

01:08:41.800 --> 01:08:43.520
he could see some light, but he had these big

01:08:43.520 --> 01:08:46.880
glasses. And so he came to the meeting, we prayed

01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:48.899
for him very simply, in the name of Jesus, be

01:08:48.899 --> 01:08:54.250
healed, and look at his eyes. God opened his

01:08:54.250 --> 01:08:57.449
eyes up, and he started seeing properly, seeing

01:08:57.449 --> 01:08:59.750
rightly. I don't know if it's 20 -20 vision,

01:08:59.850 --> 01:09:05.109
but it's good vision. And so, yes, please. Jesus

01:09:05.109 --> 01:09:09.850
did it. And so now he's my little buddy every

01:09:09.850 --> 01:09:12.529
time I go. You know, I have to go see him. And

01:09:12.529 --> 01:09:15.270
he met him, and his dad messages me. And he's

01:09:15.270 --> 01:09:17.770
just doing very wonderfully. But Jesus opened

01:09:17.770 --> 01:09:23.960
his eyes. We can go on. I don't know if you can

01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:26.340
read this. So this is our pastor in India who

01:09:26.340 --> 01:09:29.739
he'll send me testimonies. So he said, this woman,

01:09:29.819 --> 01:09:33.960
and bear with his English, this woman gave birth

01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:37.500
to a baby boy. It was dead, and the doctor said,

01:09:37.579 --> 01:09:40.000
go and bury it. And she was giving, this is her

01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:43.460
picture, giving testimony that when she was pregnant,

01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:47.520
she prayed to God, I need one baby boy after

01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:51.699
four girls. But it was dead. And our pastor,

01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:54.539
these are their names, Badar and Dinesh, prayed

01:09:54.539 --> 01:09:59.680
for her. And her child started to cry. The doctor

01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:02.699
said, go bury the baby. And they prayed, and

01:10:02.699 --> 01:10:04.460
the baby started crying. And he said, there's

01:10:04.460 --> 01:10:06.579
a great miracle happened in that village called

01:10:06.579 --> 01:10:09.380
Mosca Mauri. And her name is Kavita, and today

01:10:09.380 --> 01:10:14.399
she brought the baby to the house church. Amen.

01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:23.000
Jesus did it. Jesus is alive. Okay, this guy,

01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:27.340
obviously he's just cool, but I did it out of

01:10:27.340 --> 01:10:30.140
order. Can you go over one? Okay, you see him.

01:10:30.659 --> 01:10:34.619
I don't know if you remember this guy. Haas and

01:10:34.619 --> 01:10:36.680
Jennifer and Sean and Leslie, but they're not

01:10:36.680 --> 01:10:39.359
here, and Michelle, we went to Cuba. And this

01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:43.340
guy, he had the very, I don't know if it was

01:10:43.340 --> 01:10:45.819
asthma. I'm not 100 % sure, but he had difficulty

01:10:45.819 --> 01:10:48.340
breathing. And so you see him here, and he's...

01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:52.260
He's demonstrating his ability to breathe freely,

01:10:52.420 --> 01:10:55.039
and he was just so happy. You can see even like

01:10:55.039 --> 01:10:57.500
the next few days in the trip, he's just like

01:10:57.500 --> 01:11:00.739
always come up to me and like show me how he

01:11:00.739 --> 01:11:04.079
was so happy and so free. So we can go to the

01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:10.340
next one. There he is again. Victory. So this

01:11:10.340 --> 01:11:14.640
little girl, she came to our meeting in Pakistan.

01:11:14.819 --> 01:11:17.600
We had a crusade where they invited just a bunch

01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:21.810
of people. Muslims, everybody. And so we're preaching

01:11:21.810 --> 01:11:25.310
in Pakistan, and there's people there, and we

01:11:25.310 --> 01:11:31.329
don't know who's listening, probably mostly Muslim.

01:11:31.489 --> 01:11:34.329
And I had a word, what you may call like a word

01:11:34.329 --> 01:11:36.729
of knowledge, that there's a girl here who half

01:11:36.729 --> 01:11:40.609
your body is paralyzed or mostly paralyzed, and

01:11:40.609 --> 01:11:45.180
God wants to heal you. And so... I just went

01:11:45.180 --> 01:11:47.920
out on a limb. I said, if that's you, come up

01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:50.000
here. And there's like, you know, thousands of

01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:53.039
people there. And actually several people came

01:11:53.039 --> 01:11:55.539
up, which is kind of awkward. But she came up

01:11:55.539 --> 01:11:57.920
and she stood right in front of me and we prayed

01:11:57.920 --> 01:12:00.859
and she got healed there on the podium in front

01:12:00.859 --> 01:12:03.260
of everyone. And then we found out she was a

01:12:03.260 --> 01:12:05.979
Muslim. So then she gave her heart to Christ

01:12:05.979 --> 01:12:08.060
and then she immediately got plugged into the

01:12:08.060 --> 01:12:10.659
house church. And you can see from her face.

01:12:12.490 --> 01:12:15.029
How excited and happy she was to have met Jesus.

01:12:17.250 --> 01:12:22.470
How many more we got? Okay, this is our pastor

01:12:22.470 --> 01:12:23.989
again in India. Praise the Lord, sir. Kindly

01:12:23.989 --> 01:12:28.989
pray for Sister Huki. She got healing from leprosy

01:12:28.989 --> 01:12:31.630
in a village called Baharmak in Madhya Pradesh.

01:12:31.970 --> 01:12:34.489
So this is her. I wish you could zoom in, but

01:12:34.489 --> 01:12:37.050
you can see her showing her arms that were leprous.

01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:40.340
And you can see how the wounds on her arms had

01:12:40.340 --> 01:12:42.800
healed up and she still had the spots, but the

01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:51.220
leprosy was gone. So you can go on. So this one

01:12:51.220 --> 01:12:53.920
I added because I thought it would be neat just

01:12:53.920 --> 01:12:56.520
to tell you, but several, maybe several months

01:12:56.520 --> 01:13:01.260
ago, I was ministering here and I did something

01:13:01.260 --> 01:13:04.220
that was very uncomfortable and very, it's a

01:13:04.220 --> 01:13:07.579
challenge for me. And it was... beginning of

01:13:07.579 --> 01:13:09.220
service i said i want to pray for anyone who

01:13:09.220 --> 01:13:12.880
has hearing problems or you know deaf ears and

01:13:12.880 --> 01:13:15.899
i did it and but it was just sheer obedience

01:13:15.899 --> 01:13:18.199
because i've been praying before church back

01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:20.539
here nobody knows this i was praying back there

01:13:20.539 --> 01:13:23.300
and i felt the lord say pray for people who have

01:13:23.300 --> 01:13:25.859
problems hearing i said no i don't want to do

01:13:25.859 --> 01:13:28.079
that you know it's like this such a you know

01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:30.619
in front of everyone well as i'm praying this

01:13:30.619 --> 01:13:33.579
message comes in This is our pastor from India.

01:13:33.619 --> 01:13:35.180
He said, praise the Lord, sir, this young man

01:13:35.180 --> 01:13:37.739
from Madhya Pradesh was not able to hear from

01:13:37.739 --> 01:13:41.060
both ears. He was deaf. And God healed him, and

01:13:41.060 --> 01:13:43.800
he started to hear or listen. Now kindly pray

01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:46.140
for us today. We're doing work for church building.

01:13:46.779 --> 01:13:48.979
So I get this message as I'm wrestling with the

01:13:48.979 --> 01:13:51.579
Lord on if I should do this or not. So I said,

01:13:51.619 --> 01:13:56.739
okay, Lord, I'll do it. And we did it. So praise

01:13:56.739 --> 01:14:02.220
God, this man was deaf. Amen. Just one or two

01:14:02.220 --> 01:14:05.539
more, we'll pray. He was suffering from devil

01:14:05.539 --> 01:14:07.680
spirits more than 15 years. He lost his wife,

01:14:07.720 --> 01:14:10.079
his two sons, his daughter. He used to cut himself

01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:15.199
in his body. Yeah, he was healed. He used to

01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:17.140
be bound with chains. So that's common practice

01:14:17.140 --> 01:14:18.800
there. So he's still in fellowship in the church.

01:14:19.439 --> 01:14:26.319
Let's go on. Okay, can we play this one? You'll

01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:35.319
like this one. for people to pray for each other,

01:14:35.439 --> 01:14:42.140
I felt called to go to Brad and ask him to pray

01:14:42.140 --> 01:14:43.300
for me. We were all praying for each other in

01:14:43.300 --> 01:14:45.340
the church. I hadn't been sleeping well at all

01:14:45.340 --> 01:14:47.619
because my back and my shoulders were in pain,

01:14:47.800 --> 01:14:50.859
keeping my husband awake. This had been going

01:14:50.859 --> 01:14:54.359
on for months, and so he began to pray, and then

01:14:54.359 --> 01:14:56.199
tears began to well up in my eyes and run down

01:14:56.199 --> 01:15:00.630
my face, and I began to feel. coldness like ice

01:15:00.630 --> 01:15:02.590
water across my shoulders and down the middle

01:15:02.590 --> 01:15:04.289
of my back. It stopped about the middle of my

01:15:04.289 --> 01:15:08.310
back, which is where the pain stops. When it

01:15:08.310 --> 01:15:11.750
got to where that area where my back didn't hurt,

01:15:11.869 --> 01:15:15.770
it quit. And it just stayed cold for the longest

01:15:15.770 --> 01:15:19.869
time. And for the first time in months that night,

01:15:19.949 --> 01:15:22.449
I slept flat on my back. I slept all night. I

01:15:22.449 --> 01:15:25.550
didn't wake up to even get up, do anything. I

01:15:25.550 --> 01:15:28.569
just slept peacefully, calmly all night long.

01:15:29.440 --> 01:15:32.180
Night two, I slept all night. Night three, I

01:15:32.180 --> 01:15:35.220
slept all night. And I've slept every night.

01:15:35.279 --> 01:15:37.920
Some nights, not even waking up to go to the

01:15:37.920 --> 01:15:40.659
bathroom or anything, just slept all night. And

01:15:40.659 --> 01:15:43.039
I wake up every morning, bright and early. Where

01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:45.819
I'd been waking up, I just was still exhausted.

01:15:46.060 --> 01:15:51.680
Okay, thank you. Amen. How awesome. So Jesus

01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:53.619
is alive. That's the point. Why am I showing

01:15:53.619 --> 01:15:55.500
you this? Because Jesus is alive. And you can

01:15:55.500 --> 01:15:57.520
believe the gospel with all of your heart. And

01:15:57.520 --> 01:15:59.960
Jesus is the same in the Bible as he is today

01:15:59.960 --> 01:16:02.000
in this room. So if you would just close your

01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:04.300
eyes with me. We're going to pray out. And if

01:16:04.300 --> 01:16:07.420
anybody wants or needs prayer, this is what I

01:16:07.420 --> 01:16:11.600
feel to do. You believe the gospel, okay? And

01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:14.420
this is what I'm going to ask you to do as we're

01:16:14.420 --> 01:16:18.109
dismissed. We're going to pray out. And if you

01:16:18.109 --> 01:16:20.529
desire prayer, if there's some challenge in your

01:16:20.529 --> 01:16:22.590
body, in your mind, in your spirit, or something

01:16:22.590 --> 01:16:26.529
that you want to overcome, grab the person next

01:16:26.529 --> 01:16:30.090
to you and have them pray for you on the basis

01:16:30.090 --> 01:16:33.729
of what we talked about today. Okay? Just be

01:16:33.729 --> 01:16:38.029
bold, be open, and if that's you, and just believe

01:16:38.029 --> 01:16:42.510
God for your miracle to happen today. Okay? So

01:16:42.510 --> 01:16:45.420
with our eyes closed, we're going to pray. And

01:16:45.420 --> 01:16:47.119
it will be dismissed. Father, we thank you so

01:16:47.119 --> 01:16:49.119
much for Jesus. We thank you for the gospel.

01:16:49.359 --> 01:16:52.800
We thank you for your words. We thank you for

01:16:52.800 --> 01:16:55.420
everything that you've done for us. Lord, we

01:16:55.420 --> 01:16:59.600
just receive it in humility. And may we walk

01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:02.000
from this place in the boldness of what you've

01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:03.760
done and what you've accomplished for us like

01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:08.159
never before in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen.