Agree With God’s Perspective

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What's up, everybody?
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Welcome back to the Mark Casto program.
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We're gonna do something different for the next few weeks because I'm going to be recording courses that you will be able to take for absolutely free.
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And so to give me the capacity to do these courses and everything else that we're doing, um, I felt like the Holy Spirit gave me this idea to go back to some really important messages that I preached during our time, our first time here in Covington with the Shepherd's Tent and reintroduce those messages to you.
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So today's message is going to come out of this message I did on agreement with God's perspective.
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And I think it'll be a really, really powerful teaching for you.
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Um, but before we do that, I want to tell you a couple things.
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Number one, we are setting the family table for 2027.
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So we have a goal that by the end of the year, we're going to raise$200,000.
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You say, Mark, what in the world is that for?
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Well, we're going to need a salary to give ourselves the time to be able to create these courses, create these resources, write the books, preach the sermons, everything that we need to do to be able to sit still and do that.
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Secondly, it's going to help us with our relaunch.
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Guys, we are uh relaunching services here.
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We're having quarterly gatherings next year, we're hosting pastoral retreats, and we're going to need the resources to be able to book these venues, book these events, book these places, and be able to honor and serve these pastors and leaders that we believe God's opening the door for us to minister to.
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Plus, all the video stuff, the conversations, everything that we're doing media-wise, it's going to take resources to do it.
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Go check that out, sign up.
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Go do that on that site.
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Also, coming up here next weekend, my good covenant brother Bryn Waddell is coming for two days, and we are going to experience the presence of God, preach the gospel, and minister to God's people.
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It's going to be an amazing time.
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So, guys, without further ado, I want to thank you for joining me today.
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I hope you will enjoy this message.
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I believe it's going to be a great blessing to your life.
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Romans 8, verse 28, guys.
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If you can follow with me in the back.
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Sorry I didn't give you verses tonight.
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So we're going to read a handful of verses and then we're going to talk about this faith-rest life, but we're going to start here tonight.
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So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together, listen, to fit into God's perfect plan of bringing good into our lives.
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How many are like that?
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Okay.
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I'm going to make you audience participation tonight, all right?
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We are convinced, listen, that every detail of our lives is continually woven together to fit into God's perfect plan.
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What's God's perfect plan?
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Bringing goodness into your life.
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For we are his lovers, listen, who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.
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For he knew all about us before we were born.
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I used to preach a message years ago out of this whole verse, and it says, Let me let me let me go old school on you and give you some KJV so you know I'm real saved.
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Okay?
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For all my Baptist brother Sean.
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All right.
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For whom God did foreknow, these he also predestined to be conformed into the image of his son, that he might become the firstborn among many brethren.
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And those that he predestined, these he also called, and those that he called, he justified, and those that he justified, these he also glorified.
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Listen, I love this.
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This is the one verse I like in KJV.
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So so then Paul says, So what shall we say to these things?
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If God be for us, oh my God.
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Oh, if God be for us, then who can be against us?
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Right?
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All right.
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So God knew us before we were born, and he destined us, listen to this, from the beginning to share in the likeness of his son.
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So if you want to know what predestination means, let me give it to you like this.
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You, each and every one of you in the room tonight, have been predestined to be just like Jesus.
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Hey, listen, listen.
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It's at the core of your being.
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Oh, we're gonna slap the lie of total depravity out of this room tonight.
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I'm gonna smack that Calvinistic taste out of your mouth that you're totally depraved.
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There's nothing good in you.
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Listen, if there's nothing good in you, then why is he planning to entrust you with all this goodness?
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He's destined us from the beginning.
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Predestined us, what?
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In the likeness of his son.
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This means the son, we're gonna keep keep reading, is the oldest among a map a vast family of brothers and sisters who will, listen, be just like him.
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Verse 30.
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Having determined our destiny ahead of time, he called us to himself and transferred his perfect righteousness to everyone he called.
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Listen, and those who possess his perfect righteousness, he co-glorified with his son.
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You, my friend, are born to be glorious.
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And when you were born again, that was just awakening you to the plan that's been intact before you were ever conceived in your mother's womb.
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He didn't plan on making you glorious when you repeated the prayer because the preacher told you what to say at an altar one Sunday.
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This was his plan before you were ever a twinkle, this is what they used to say, in your daddy's eye.
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He had a plan for you that was predestined before you ever took your first breath on the planet, and the plan was to make you glorious.
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Listen, any gospel that does not redeem humanity and make us glorious is not the gospel.
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Any gospel message that has a low view of humanity is not the gospel.
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The Father does not need you to feel like snow-covered dung in order to initiate his rescue plan.
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Oh boy, this could be fun.
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Granted, I'm looking at a couple of faces that are like, mmm, try me.
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All right, here we go.
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So, any gospel preaching, any gospel preaching that keeps a low view of humanity is not the gospel.
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The gospel, when you hear the real gospel, the gospel brings you into a real humility.
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You ready?
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What is kingdom humility?
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Agreement with God's perspective.
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Okay?
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So what then is God's perspective of you?
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Sinner?
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No.
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Totally depraved?
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No.
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He has, through the person of Jesus, chosen to exclusively see each and every one of you through the perfect righteousness of his son.
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And that's before you prayed the sinner's prayer.
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Before you ever answered the altar call, he saw you exclusively through the lens of Jesus.
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You say, Mark, I struggle to believe that.
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Okay, let me let me let me tell you how Paul saw evangelism.
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Paul saw evangelism in 2 Corinthians chapter 5.
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You know the verses where he talks about if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
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Old things have passed away.
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Behold, all things become new.
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If you keep reading on down through 2 Corinthians 5, even into the first couple verses of 2 Corinthians chapter 6, you'll hear the Lord say this: I've called each and every one of you as ministers of reconciliation.
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And your assignment as ministers of reconciliation is to go into the world and tell them that the favor of God is aimed at their life.
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So, in other words, as a minister of reconciliation, your assignment is to awaken them to their original intent and the DNA that's in them that can only be awakened by way of the gospel.
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How will they hear without a preacher?
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A preacher is not somebody with a microphone.
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A preacher is somebody that's got a story of being hijacked by the goodness of God.
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I'm feeling a little fiery tonight now.
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What I'm calling this house to is a call to go deep into Christology.
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Do you understand what I mean when I say that?
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Your theology is rooted and grounded in the personhood of Christ.
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And listen, he fully represents the Father.
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Listen, this is wild, and fully represents us.
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He is fully God, and he is fully man.
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He is the only being that's able to show you the complete image of the Father and at the same time show you how you were destined to really live.
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You were born to be just like Him.
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Let me take it.
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People were struggling tonight when Olivia started singing, You're my equal.
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Well, first of all, that's in the Bible.
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It's called the Song of Solomon, which is which is an allegory of the bride and Jesus, the bridegroom king.
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That's how all devotional writers throughout church history have seen the book of Song of Solomon.
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Song of Solomon was not supposed to be a cool sex series for your favorite preacher on Facebook.
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Song of Solomon was, don't please don't make it that shallow to use it as a Christian erotica book.
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Please hear the revelation in this and go a little bit deeper.
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Come on.
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Than your favorite preacher on social media.
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And let's take it back to 2,000 years of Orthodox Christianity and recognize that the Song of Solomon was written from a perspective of understanding who you are as the bride of Christ.
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And he says to the bride, you are my one and my only, my equal, my dove.
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Meaning that the greatest compliment that you could give to Jesus is to recognize I'm his equal.
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Glad you said that.
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How about the New Testament, meaning that we are not no longer another?
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We now have been made one with the Christ.
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I share his name, which is why he said, if you ask anything in my name, I'll do it.
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Why?
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Because he wasn't talking about works, he was talking about marriage.
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My wife doesn't have to do anything to earn my resources.
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She has access to my resources based upon her commitment to a covenant.
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She didn't have to do anything to earn those resources at all.
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All she had to do was say yes to the affection that I aimed at her.
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And because she yielded to my affection, she now has every right to all my resources.
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If you're not flowing in the resources, you've not surrendered to his affection yet.
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And my friend, he will withhold until you fully surrender to his wooing.
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Because the goal was not to give you the Bible and a set of rules for you to live by and perfect church attendance on Sunday.
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He awakened you for bedroom intimacy, friend.
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For you to know his eyes, for you to know his whisper, for you to know his voice, for you to know his breath on your neck and say he's in the room.
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You were born for this, man.
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Jesus fully represents the Father, Jesus fully represents us.
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Listen, to the Father.
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Why are these truths important?
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I'm gonna just read some stuff I wrote today.
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Because if we are genuinely being invited into the faith-rest life, and we are warned in that same invitation, this would be in Hebrews 4, and we're warned in that same invitation not to respond to it the same way Israel did when they were invited into their inheritance, then we must recognize what kept them out of the promise.
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Come on, if you've been trekking with us here at the Shepherd's Tent, you know that we've been in Hebrews 3 and 4, and be and us being invited into the faith-rest life, the realm of confident trust.
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Okay?
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And so this is a word we're stewarding as a family, not only here, but as a family at large, our kingdom families all over.
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And we're being called into this faith-rest life, and and and we're warned in that not to act in unbelief like Israel did.
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Okay?
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Here's the deal.
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1 Corinthians, I believe it's chapter 10, verse 6, tells us that the reason why the story of Israel was written, it was written for our example so that you and I could learn from their walk with the Lord.
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Okay?
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Let me read it to you.
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Now, all these things, 1 Corinthians 10, 6, now all these things serve as types and pictures for us, lessons that teach us not to fail in the same way by callously craving, listen to this, worthless things.
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Which means practicing idolatry.
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Let me define idolatry for you.
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Any idea you have about him or yourself that's not in agreement with the person of Jesus.
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So you think idolatry is you binge watching Netflix and forgetting to pray.
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Might be a problem.
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Might be a problem.
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But let's get down to the root of where idolatry comes from.
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Any idea about him or yourself that doesn't align with the person of Jesus.
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See, people ask me all the time, Mark, why don't you preach on sin anymore?
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Because it's a non-issue for kingdom people.
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And you ready?
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These corporate gatherings are not for sinners.
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What a novel thought.
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That the corporate gatherings not, why did they gather in the early church?
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To throw out the evangelistic net because they didn't have real disciples who knew how to witness with their story?
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And so what happened is now that we've created a safe version of Christianity, you can come, let the guy with the microphone share his story, or for some of you, he'll share your story publicly to bring other people in, and we let the church cast the net.
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The problem is they're not really casting his net, they're casting their brand, pulling them into church life, and then when they actually meet Jesus, they get pulled out of that brand because that brand will no longer work for them.
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And then they find places like this that are popping up all over the country and say, where in the world has this place been?
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Oh my God.
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And the sad part is you had to go through a ton of deconstruction just to find it.
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Lord help me tonight.
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I'm feeling honoring.
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Okay.
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So practicing or chasing worthless things was the verse that I shared with you, which is practicing idolatry, and idolatry is any idea you have about the person of God or yourself that's outside of the lens of Jesus.
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My God.
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What we've discovered about Israel in this journey, friend, just doing a little review, was that they failed to enter into the promise because of their unbelief.
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Now, listen, still, if you dig deeper into what their unbelief was about, it was not their unbelief concerning if God could give them the promised land.
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It was not, they didn't have unbelief concerning the nature of God, and they didn't even have unbelief concerning the nature of the promise.
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They carried the grapes, they looked inside the land.
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It was exactly the way God said it was.
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What they missed in this was having a low view of themselves.
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So go back and read the story.
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When Moses sends in the 12 spies to look into the promised land, listen.
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They come back, ten of them come back with an evil report and say to Moses, It's exactly the way God said it, but we saw giants in there, and we know that they saw us and we saw ourselves as grasshoppers in their sight.
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Here's the deal, friend.
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Did they have a conversation with any giant?
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They didn't talk to a single person, which means the real problem was their insecurities about themselves that they projected onto their enemies.
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And had they walked in and actually had a conversation like the two men did under Joshua, they would have walked into Rahab's house and found out this.
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Rahab said, From the very moment that we found out you are outside of our city walls, we've all been living in fear because we know God's already given you this land.
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Isn't it sad when the enemy has to tell you the truth about you?
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Let me tell you something.
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Some of you that are going through stuff, please don't see it as an attack, see it as a compliment because he's come, he's coming after something that's prophesying about who you really are.
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God Almighty, I feel like throwing something.
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Take it as a compliment.
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If you're going through warfare, the enemy's nervous about something that you're about to be awakened to.
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Oh man.
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Okay, here we go.
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So, what kept them out of the promise?
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What keeps us out of the faith the rest of life?
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Our perspectives of ourself that are not in agreement with who Jesus says we are.
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This is why the doctrine of total depravity, which, for it, friend, for those of you that want a little church history lesson, the doctrine of total depravity did not exist till 500 years past Christ.
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Which, if you want to go a little bit deeper, the doctrine of original sin and total depravity was not taught until 500 years after Christ, created by a man who took one verse that was mistranslated from the Latin Vulgate to create this idea.
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So the lie of original sin and total depravity is based off of a mistranslation of the Bible.
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Don't take my word for it, go figure it out for yourself.
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Go find it.
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You can research it, you'll find it that it's all there.
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But we have lived under the communist thumb of Calvinism.
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Oh, it just sounds good to say it.
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Put you under the thumb of an idea that at best at your core, you're nothing but snow-covered dung.
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Here's a little review.
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What's my revelation of that?
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Snow covered dung?
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You no longer stink, but you're still a turd.
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That's what he was saying.
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You are nothing more than snow-covered dung.
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That's Calvinistic thinking.
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But what Jesus comes to say to you is I so value who you are in humanity that I was willing to put you on to fully represent you and bring this whole thing back together.
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So the doctrine of total depravity is a doctrine of demons.
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Couple that with the doctrine of double predestination and Calvinistic.
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Thinking.
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Listen to me.
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And you have now theologically put people who struggle in the category of those predestined for hell.
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We first got this place.
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We first got access to this building.
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This building wasn't even for rent.
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I'll spare you a long story to just say God gave us incredible favor, and the owners of this place called us.
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We met them on a Monday at 6 o'clock, and at 8:30, we walked out with the keys.
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No contract, no anything.
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But here was the owner's wife's one question.
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She said, I want to know, are you Calvinist?
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I said, Oh, I started, I don't know if I did this or not, but I could see myself doing this in the spirit.
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I said, No, ma'am, we're not.
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And when somebody asks you a question like that, it's a 50-50.
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So my answer is going to determine how the rest of this meeting is going to go.
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And I felt the Holy Ghost rise up in me.
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I said, no, ma'am, we're not.
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We're a Holy Ghost people, and we're believing God to pour out his spirit and revival all over the city.
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She said, Good.
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I've been praying for a revival family to come in this city and drive all that Calvinistic thinking out of our town.
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And here's what she said.
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Because I heard that there were churches in this town teaching kids as little as four and five years old that there are some people that are born and predestined for heaven and some that are predestined for hell.
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Now let's get into the reality of Calvinistic damnation.
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Everybody carries a measure of truth, right?
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But put yourself in that theological tank, if you will, for a minute.
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And think about a kid that's learned this, that there are some people predestined for heaven, some people that are predestined for hell.
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And when he reaches about 15 and he has not yet learned, I know some of y'all don't even know what I'm talking about because you got your halos on tonight.
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When you get about 13, 14, 15, and a little thing called hormones starts talking, and you're trying to learn how to navigate all of that, and you find yourself struggling, and you don't have the gospel like we're learning the gospel, and all of a sudden you find yourself constantly struggling, constantly finding yourself like you're displeasing to the Lord, and eventually you get so sick of being displeasing to the Lord that you eventually give up, and you, because of your theological training, say, Well, I must be one who's predestined for hell.
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That's why it's demons doctrine.
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Because any idea, oh man, let me remind you of worship tonight.
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Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
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You ready?
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I'm gonna say something tonight, it's gonna mess with you.
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The whole world saved, they just don't know it yet.
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The whole world belongs to this family and they just don't know it yet.
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They need somebody with enough beloved identity in their eyes and enough of the story of the goodness of God to walk in their world and say, I was jacked up just like you.
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But God, who is rich in mercy, came and rescued me out of that horrible pit, lifted me up out of the Murray Clay, set my feet on a rock, and if anything good's happening in my life, it's because of his faithfulness, not mine.
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And the goodness of God come crashing in, and all of a sudden they are awakened to what's been true about them the whole time.
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All people need is somebody to tell their mind what their spirit man already knows is true.
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And the truth is you're whole.
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Ready?
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The truth is you can do the same works he did and greater.
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It isn't a compliment for you to outdo Jesus.
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He's not insecure like the pastors you've set under most of your life.
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He doesn't mind that when greatness starts to shine on your life, he doesn't have to use religion to slap you down and remind you that you're a good soldier in the army of the Lord.
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You're a son and you're a daughter, and any father that would look at his children and try to suppress the greatness of who that son or daughter is is no father at all.
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So I want to deal tonight with that lying voice of accusation that keeps us with a low view of humanity.
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Let me tell you how poor our theology is.
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We have actually created an eschatology in our day that gives us permission to hate other nations.
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In the name of the rapture, you've been given permission to hate every Muslim on the planet.
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Oh Jesus.
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Looking for my friends.
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If I only have one, I'm good.
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All right.
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But we listen, any any message that gives you permission to hate another facet of his nature represented in another nationality, skin color, culture, whatever it is, any message that gives you permission to be racist or prejudiced outside of Israel in America is not the kingdom.
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If you can justify the torment of Palestinians because they're not real Jews, my friend, you need an encounter with Jesus.
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And let me let me let me just say this.
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And this idea that's promoted in American white culture that Jesus is colorblind, he's not colorblind, he's learned how to honor every facet of his nature.
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I'm not asking my congregation to be colorblind.
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I'm asking you to raise your honor level above the culture you were raised in.
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And I'm talking to white folk, black folk, Asian folk, Hispanic folk.
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I'm not just talking, hey, listen, white people aren't the only one racist, friend.
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I've experienced it since I've moved to Atlanta, and I want to let you know it has never been in the heart of the king for there to be any divide based on something as simple as melanin.
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I don't know who that was for, but have at it.
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Because guess what?
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Guess what?
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This man's gonna stand in this platform, stand in this building, and I'm gonna raise up Mexican sons, and I'm gonna raise up, I should say, Hispanic sons, Puerto Ricans too, right?
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We got all the flavors in here.
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Indian sons.
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Listen, Joel bought me a hat not too long ago.
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And I have learned wisdom over the years that you don't just wear stuff before you check out what you're wearing.
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I didn't feel like Joel was gonna set me up, but I just felt like I had to know.
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Joel bought me a pair of shoes one time and I was like, buddy, he was like, you need to wear them things.
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And I'm like, and get beat up and have to walk home without shoes.
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Okay?
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So but he bought me this hat.
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And and this hat is it represents a nonprofit that's for black fathers.
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And and he bought this hat from me, and so I go do the research about where this hat comes from, and it's it's a hat that's supposed to help recognize the power and the responsibility of black fathers.
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And I've said, Lord, why would he buy that hat for me?
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And he said, Because you've learned to love them just like your own, and you're actually going to ensure that black fathers carry on generational legacy for generations to come.
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See, because the kingdom doesn't look at this to say, are you doing something right for a race of people?
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Listen, we are now a new race of people, we just happen to be multicolored.
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And how many more guns and stab wounds are we gonna have to find out that we all bleed the same blood?
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All right, I don't talk about this stuff, but tonight I am being provoked by the Holy Ghost.
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You need to wake up because if your kingdom only represents one color, you don't have the kingdom.
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Alright, moving right along.
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So, why is it important to talk about a low view of humanity?
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Because how you feel about yourself directly comes from the result of how you feel Abba thinks about you.
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How you think about yourself is directly connected with how you feel like Abba sees you.
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Okay, can I can I share with you something?
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How you worship tells me how you see him.
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And so tonight, when we start singing about the joy of the Lord, many of you don't know how to relate with that because you see him as stoic, seated, austere, right?
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Royal.
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And Zephaniah had an encounter with God one time, and he goes into a vision and he sees God dancing, spinning, singing over his children, and then looks at Israel and says, Why don't you join him?
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Because you will only be able to worship him based upon the revelation that you have of him.
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So if you see him as stoic, you'll be a good little Baptist, Methodist, whatever, whatever.
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You'll be a good little church attender.
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But if you ever see the real him, there ain't enough room in here for you to release that level of extravagance.
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That felt good to say.
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All right.
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So, what do we say around here?
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Religion is nothing more than what?
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Self-hate.
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Religion is nothing more than self-hate.
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Hating ourselves, our flesh, we have believed for years that's agreement with God's perspective.
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But God loves human flesh so much that he put it on himself.
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Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost when I say that.
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Oh, not only have many of you grown up under the damning lies of religion, but they were reinforced by the lies we told ourselves or other, listen, hurt other things hurting people said about us.
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You're worthless, you're stupid.
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How dumb could you be?
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Come on, some of you, when I say that, you can hear your father's voice in that.
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You've heard it.
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You're worthless, you're a piece of trash.
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You will never be like us.
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You hear the sound of your trash, you're a burden.
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Even the way you were punished as a kid, can you hear it?
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I can, oh man, Abba made me stare at this for two days.
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And and this at the sound of when I was a young boy and my father cracking his belt on my backside, and I screamed, I promise I'll be good.
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I'll be good, Dad, I'll be good.
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And what I'm decreeing out of my mouth because of my religious upbringing is when I'm saying I'll be good, what I'm really saying is I'm not good.
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Guys, that's a universal lie that many of you have an experience with, just like me.
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My father didn't beat me, but my father, he was a disciplinary, like many of your fathers were that used the belt, used whatever was close.
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I got whipped with a cereal box, I got whipped with a coat hanger.
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Come on, you you have one of them parents where they just grabbed and growled, grab and growl.
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Pow! Don't this hurts me more than it hurts you.
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The hell it does.
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That is continuing the lie, this hurts me and not you.
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I know I'm making light of it, but I want you to hear the seriousness of the lies we've been telling ourselves because while we were getting whipped, it beat the heart of religion right out of us to say, I will be good, I'll be good, I promise I'll be good.
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And what we don't realize we're decreeing is I see something in me that's not good, so I'm gonna try better the next time.
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And the moment you try, you failed.
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What I've come to tell you is every lash you took that screamed from the end, that made you scream from the inside, I'll be good.
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I heard the voice of Abba say, You have always been good.
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I feel like Yahweh has anointed me tonight to break off these lies and to reveal the truth about who you are.
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When he looked at humanity, he said, It is good.
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Let me go a step further for the ladies.
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And when he created you, Adam joined in with him, saying, And you are very where's my wife at?
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She's very good.
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Yahweh looked at the creation and he looked at us in our humanity and declared over you and I, you are good.
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And nowhere throughout the old covenant, even the old covenant or the new, has he ever looked at humanity and declared us anything different?
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You have always been good.
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And when Adam fell, God didn't come into the garden and say, Adam, what did you do?
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Did you eat of that tree like I told you not to?
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No.
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The question was, Adam, where are you?
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What would have happened if Adam wouldn't have clothed himself in fig leaves and ran?
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What if he would have known that the whole time the goodness of Abba, I don't know, we would have might have had a whole different experience of humanity if he would have truly believed in the goodness of Abba.
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And instead of running, he would have showed up and said, Thank you, Dad, that you didn't not show up because you saw what I did.
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No, when he fell in the garden, God didn't keep his distance.
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He walked back into the garden to find out.
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Adam, I know where you are, but I'm asking you, do you?
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And in that fall of Adam came the grand delusion.
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That was the moment that the lie of separation came.
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And I'm here to tell you, friend, there is no sign of separation anywhere in the scripture.
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You have always been one with him.
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See, religion won't let you go here.
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Religion won't let you talk about this because religion likes their version of interpretation of the Bible.
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But if you ever meet him, you'll find out what the Bible really says.
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No one who has liked an encounter with Jesus should ever be able to interpret the scripture.
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Can I say something to you?
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I'm gonna say it.
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You have inherent value because you were made in the image of God.
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Period.
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And guess what?
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That means Muslims do too.
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Hey, hey, can I can I go a step further?
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Because maybe you grew up like me with eschatology that gave me permission to hate ten nations in the Middle East because they were Muslims.
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Let me give you a little revelation here.
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If you would upgrade your theology, you would realize that when Ishmael got kicked out of the camp, God didn't just let him walk into the desert presenceless.
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No, God came into the wilderness and found Ishmael and his mother crying, Hagar crying because they had been kicked out of the house.
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And God comes find Ishmael.
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And Islam are the sons of Ishmael.
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And you know why they're filling the earth?
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Because God made a covenant with them too.
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And we're not going to win them calling them the Antichrist or the nations of the beast.
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No, don't get me started.
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That laugh almost provokes me to do a whole thing on eschatology right now.
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But I'm here to tell you: any message that gives you permission to hate another group of people, you've not met him yet.
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Because when I look into the Middle East, I start hearing things in prayer like Iran is getting their prophets.
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Iran is going to see an apostolic revival culture raised up in their midst.
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And very soon they won't have to baptize privately in bathtubs.
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Oh man, friend, I've seen the pictures of the Iranian people that when they hear the gospel, they sneak them into houses and baptize them in bathtubs in the privacy of people's homes.
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But I'm here to tell you, all the way from the Ted leader, all the way down to the least of these in that nation, they are going to know Jesus because they belong to him.
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Sons of Ishmael belong to him too.
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So we as humanity have inherent value because we are all created in the image of God.
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But we here's what religion loves to do.
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We like to take verses like this Jeremiah 7:9, 17, 9.
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The heart is deceitfully wicked, brother.
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Who can know it?
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And they've used that verse to scare us into a low view of humanity.
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Watch this.
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That if you take that thought all the way down to what it what we think it means, you'll never be able to trust your heart on this side of Christ.
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You ever heard somebody?
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This is the way I was a disciple as a kid.
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Not only did I become a target of the devil the moment I got saved, but but also they would tell me this verse, Jeremiah 17, 9.
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Now listen.
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Now you need us in your life because your heart's deceitfully wicked now.
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And sometimes you might think it's the Holy Spirit, but it may be you talking and you can't trust yourself.
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Anybody heard that one?
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You can't trust yourself.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Just because you can't, because you didn't actually surrender to the gospel doesn't mean I can't.
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Just because you don't trust yourself, because you were raised under perverted pastors, doesn't mean you can't trust yourself.
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Just hey, listen, because I've got better news than that.
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He didn't save me so I could go to your church.
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He saved me so that I could become just like him.
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And now that I'm just like him, I don't have to worry about the foolishness that religion said I have to worry about.
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You can't trust your heart because your heart's deceitfully wicked.
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Okay.
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Jeremiah 17, 9.
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You're going to find out the Bible, for all you KJV people, can I remind you?
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King James was a pervert, alcoholic, owned slaves.
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You want me to keep going?
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Like little boys, but bless God, I'm KJV only.
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I love saying stuff like this.
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People say, it's KJV, the only way to God.
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I'm like, well, what do the Indians do?
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They speak Tamil and don't know English at all.
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If they can't read the King James Version of the Bible, are they going to hell?
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What about the Spanish people?
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We're so ridiculous.
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Religion makes us stupid.
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I don't know what you said, but I agree.
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Religion makes you dumb.
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It dumbs us down.
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It doesn't allow us to use our brain.
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But when you find out Jeremiah 17, verse 9, you ready for this?
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The heart's deceitfully wicked.
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Who could know it?
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That was translated in the days prior to the Great Reformation and in the Great Reformation.
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So KJV, NIV, all of our brothers and sisters in Calvinism helped us screw this one up too.
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Because their lens of interpretation has a very low view of humanity.
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Let me prove it to you.
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In Romans 8, verse 1, this is the way King James Version translated the Bible.
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There is now therefore no conversation.
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Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.
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You ready?
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That last part, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit, that was added in there because they were scared that you might think that if there's now therefore no condemnation, you would live however else you wanted to.
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Because religion only knows how to add things in to control you.
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So there's now therefore no condemnation as long as you follow the spirit and not the flesh.
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No, no, no.
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Let me correct that for you.
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There is now therefore no condemnation, period.
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But if that's not true, then you have to throw out Romans 4, too.
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Because Romans 4 says when you hear the powerful declaration of your life, he says, I will never hold your sins against you.
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Friend, you're gonna have to choose what version of the Bible you're gonna believe.
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So King James Version comes and their low view of humanity, where we're totally deprived, we're debauched people, nothing more than worms, snow-covered dung.
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But listen, friend, go back to the ancient subtuagent text of the scripture.
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That's an early Orthodox version of the Bible, the most credible original translation of the Bible.
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Here's how Jeremiah 17, 9 reads The heart is deep beyond all things, and it is the man.
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Nothing about that says that we are deceitfully wicked.
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It says we are deep and complex people because we were made in the image of God.
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That's why the scripture says deep calls unto deep.
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You are a deep well.
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And listen, when Jesus awakens the depths of who you are, you can trust that nothing deceitful would ever come out of that well.
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You can drop that bucket as far as you go, and you'll never bring up deceitfulness because he that is in Christ.
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So you know what I what I want to say to some of you?
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You can trust you again.
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All those whispers that you let religion talk you in out of, listen, the Holy Ghost is going to talk you back into them.
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Because religion will teach you even how to crucify the resurrected you.
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See, some of us have become so proficient in religion that when stuff starts to come alive, we'll crucify it too.
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Yahweh told me after four hellacious years of learning to die in South Carolina, he said, when you get to Covington, he said, those dying days are over.
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It's time for resurrection.
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Let me tell you something.
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Any gospel that keeps calling you to death is no gospel at all.
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Death was the quickest process of the gospel.
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And the only people that are continually in a posture of having to die to their flesh are people who still try to wiggle their way on the cross.
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Dying should be the quickest part.
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Why?
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Because you know what's on the other side of the exchange.
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People are like, it's just so hard to live in the flesh.
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Or no, no, no.
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They say it's just so hard to live for God.
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Oh, let me let me get He exchanges your depression for his joy.
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Sounds terrible to me.
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No, the reason why we hated it is they came up with stupid rules about following God.
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Hallelujah.
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Brother, listen, now that you're saved, you're gonna have to shut that money night football off.
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I'm serious.
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You think I'm kidding?
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You think I'm kidding?
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I grew up, if they thought any form of something was idolatry in your life, you better shut it off and you better make sure God's first.
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I had someone tell me that they had a pastor in their life one time that before they got behind the pulpit asked if they had intercourse with their husband before they could minister.
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Because that could taint the anointing.
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Why am I saying all this?
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Because you need to know how stupid religion is.
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God created all these things that we've made rules against.
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Tell me that being intimate with your spouse is going to take the anointing from you.
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Give me a break, man.
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As if your behavior determines the anointing.
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You're either one with Christ or you're not.
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These religious views of our humanity keeps us from trusting that the gospel can actually transform our deep and complex hearts.
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My question is, does anything that is not good originate in God?
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No.
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Are we still image bears made in the image of God?
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Yes, we are.
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Listen, and I may have struggled, listen, because of my, listen to this, unlightened parts of my mind.
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But at the core of who I am, I am good.
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Let me say it to you.
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You may have struggled in areas of your life because of the unenlightened parts of your mind.
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But listen, at the core of who you are is nothing but good.
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Can I tell you?
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The reason why you think you have a good side and a bad side is because you think that about him too.
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See, the reason why you have battles inside yourself of dueling natures is because you believe the father and the son are not the same.
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And you think the son is the good side of God and the father's the bad side of God.
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And I'm here to tell you, why don't you listen to the four burning ones that fly around the throne?
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Even on the backside they cry holy.
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Which means he's good all the way around.
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He's good all the way around, friend.
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You can travel front to front side, backside.
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You're only going to find one bit of his nature, and he's good, and he's all love.
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Ready?
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And you're created in his image.
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Which means what?
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At the core of who you are, you are absolutely good.
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I'm almost finished.
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I'm almost finished.
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Oh man.
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You may be unenlightened, but you are not depraved.
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I'm going to declare some things over you.
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You might be unenlightened.
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See, you say, what do you mean by unenlightened?
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That sounds like a New Age term.
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No, it's very much a biblical term.
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And that's why Paul prayed in Ephesians 1 that God would enlighten you, open up your eyes with the spirit of wisdom and revelation and enlighten you.
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You ready?
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The scripture, when it talks about darkness in the New Testament, it's not talking about evil.
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Darkness in the New Testament is ignorance.
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So listen, your battle's not even with the devil.
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Did you hear what I just said?
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Your battle's not even with the devil because God silenced him 2,000 years ago.
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Your battle is with ignorance.
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And once you get enlightened, and once you get enlightened, all of a sudden, the goodness that's already been in you by the revelation of Jesus starts pouring out of you.
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Jesus does not need you to feel like a turd in order to be saved.
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He didn't win you as a turd, he won you as a bride.
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Tweet that.
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Can I remind you what the scripture says?
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It's the goodness of God that leads men to change the way that they think.
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He didn't need, tell me, tell me, if your husband would have came to you and pointed out all your flaws, you're like, sign me up.
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I'm ready to be married to him the rest of my life.
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No, no, no.
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What made you fall in love with your spouse is they could look past your dirt and see the real you.
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And that's how Jesus woos his bride is he does not, he does not judge you based upon the dirt he finds on you.
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He's able to look past all of that and find original intent.
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And at the original intent, at the depths of who you are, he sees nothing but good.
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Okay, listen.
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Last statement.
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Remember that God cannot become anything that is evil or inherently bad, right?
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We all agree.
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God cannot become anything that is evil or inherently bad.
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Ready?
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And God became a man.
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I feel it in the Holy.
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I'm telling y'all.
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You're good.
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I feel the Holy Ghost right now.
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Because something on the inside is waking up and you're you're become you're beginning to be enlightened.
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And that's called the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.
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And you're gonna walk out of this room, not as snow-covered dunk.
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Awaken to the goodness that was placed in you before you were ever formed in your mother's womb.
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And why don't you just go ahead and take a leap further past your birth and read Psalm 139, where you and God, you were inside of God having conversations about what you would do with the greatness he put in you before you ever got here.
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When he sent you here, he sent you as a word that was birthed out of that conversation.
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That's why I read to you Romans 8.
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He knew you before you ever formed in your mother's womb.
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Listen, you are more than your body, you are a spirit being.
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This is why I don't believe in dating as teenagers.
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Which I'm increasing that with how immature most 30-year-olds are.
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And so what I tell people is you may enjoy each other's body as teenagers.
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But when you get enlightened, something may awaken in you that's an entirely different person than the one you slept with as a teenager.
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So why don't you quit just I'm talking to somebody tonight, why don't you quit giving your body away until you find out who you are and you'll give it to someone that deserves it?
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And if he, oh Jesus, I feel I'll slap a man right now.
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I feel it, I feel it in the Holy Ghost because you've believed a lie about yourself that the only value you can bring is your body.
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And I'm telling you, if he knew you before you had a body, that means you're bigger than your body.
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You're a spirit being full of the goodness of God, greatness on the inside of you, and you certainly don't need to reduce yourself to something that is temporary and give it to somebody for the rest of their oh Jesus, for the rest of your life.
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You're more than that, you're bigger than that, you're better than that.
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You've got goodness all on the inside, and you don't have to continue the curse your friends have cycled through so many times.
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You tonight can step into an enlightened place in Christ and realize I am good and I'm bigger than my body.
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He knew me before I was conceived in my mother's womb.
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I opened my notebook up.
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Don't worry.
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I'm gonna just say something to you.
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I felt I felt to write this earlier today.
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Because of our low view of ourselves, we are attracted to religion because it offers us a way to please God with our efforts.
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And when you learn how to please God with your efforts, it doesn't require you to trust.
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This is about you learning to trust the wild nature of the whispers of God.
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And the reason why some of you are staying at a low frequency of yourself is because of a low view of yourself, and you're bored because you were meant to risk it all on the wildness of a relationship with Abba.
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Listen to me, friend.
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And when you learn religion and efforts to please God, it doesn't require trust in how Abba feels about you.
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Listen, and your works demand a verdict that I am loved by God because I did this.
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However, Paul makes it clear, the love of Abba was aimed at you before you were even saved.
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Let me say it this way: the the the love of God was aimed at you before you were saved.
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How do you know?
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While we were yet sinners, Christ died.
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Because you're trying to do something that is already true about you.
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He is already pleased with you.
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Hey, you ready?
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And you don't need me to approve of that for you to believe it.
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Can I tell some of you?
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Because I feel it in the room for some people.
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Yahweh won't allow me to affirm you until you accept his affirmation first.
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Here's why.
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Because if I affirm you before he does, then you'll live and die by my opinion of you.
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But once you know you're loved, oh man.
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You know who the easiest people are to love?
01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:13.519
People who believe they're loved.
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You know the hardest people to love?
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The people who believe they're the hardest people to love.
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Here's why.
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Not because you did anything wrong, but because you project your insecurities onto them and make yourself feel that they think about you the same way you do.
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I'm helping you tonight.
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You literally, those of you that have not learned to be loved, the reason why it's so hard for you to receive love is because you take your insecurities, the feelings you have about yourself, and you project them onto other people and convince yourself that they believe the same lies you believe about yourself.
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And if I affirm you before he does, you'll get the order of fathering wrong.
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Because I am not the father.
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I'm just a father to bear witness to the father about how he feels about you.
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And if you ever get that order flipped, I promise you, you'll withhold that relationship until you find your affirmation in only him.
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You were born to be loved.
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You belong.
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I see you.
01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:44.480
I hear you.
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Oh, I felt this last week.
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I see you, I hear you, you belong.
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You're loved, man.
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And God doesn't struggle to love you, and he doesn't need your ministry to love you.
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Let me prove it to you.
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Before his son ever started his public ministry, before a miracle, before the multitude of fishes were created, before he ever walked on water, before he ever raised the dead, he has not done a thing but walk out and be baptized by John the Baptist.
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And the voice of heaven cracks the clouds open, a dove descends.
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And what does the voice of God say?
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This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.
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Why?
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Because he found goodness in who he was, not what he did.
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My friend, I'm asking you tonight, surrender to what love already says about you.
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And my friend, that's the gospel.
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The gospel is you don't have to earn a thing.
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You're already loved, you're already accepted, and all you have to do is trust that feeling, that reality that He has for you.
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So tonight I want you to stand on your feet.