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Acts chapter 8.
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We're going to read a verse 4.
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It says, Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.
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Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them.
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And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
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For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them.
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And many taken with palsy or paralyzed, and that were lame were healed.
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And there was a great joy in that city.
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But there was a certain man called Simon, which before time in the same city used magic tricks, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself of some great one.
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To whom they all gave heed from the least of the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
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And to him that ameth God because that of long time he had dewitched them with sorcery.
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But when they believed on preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.
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Then Simon himself believed also, and when he was baptized, he continued with love and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
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Let's pray.
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Father, we thank you again for this opportunity now to read the Holy Word.
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We pray God and bless them on everyone according to Sabbath Lord this morning.
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God, we pray that you open the ears, the hearts, and mind, and all those who want to voice wonder that the hearts have been prepared to receive thy word, receive thy spirit.
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God, we pray this morning that you remove all physical and spiritual traction along.
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I pray, God, that if anyone's in need of a Savior, I pray to call upon you before his everlasting day.
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God, we pray that you speak from me to the congregation.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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The title of this morning is something about that name.
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Something about that name.
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As you grow older in life, you start to realize what matters the most to you.
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I've realized that every word in the Bible is true, and that as the Bible says, the grass with the flower fades, but the word of God shall stand forever.
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I've learned to live by that my entire life since I've been saved, and I've realized that things will come and go, but the only thing that's somebody standing at the end is the word of God.
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Man makes error, man speaks error, man speaks lies, man does all these things.
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The failure we try not to attain, but man is still weak.
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But the word of God will stand forever.
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And it says that we start realizing as a person that some things start meaning to you more than others.
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But there's something about that name Jesus.
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When we speak that name Jesus, it's a name that is so sweet, it's a name that is so powerful, it's a name that is so relaxing.
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It's just something about that name of Jesus.
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When we speak Jesus, we start seeing good things happen.
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Never have I spoken, prayed to God, and saw whether God abandoned me.
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God is always with us from now until the end of the world.
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And it's just something about that name Jesus that the devil don't like.
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Maybe it was because he was defeated thousands of years ago on the cross of Calvary.
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When Jesus says it is finished, that means the devil was finished, the devil lost.
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So it's just something about that name Jesus that makes us have that joy in our heart.
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Something about the name Jesus that makes us feel God's presence in our lives.
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When we speak Jesus, we see things starting to happen.
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We see things starting to move in our lives.
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But it's all about speaking the name Jesus.
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You see, I want us to get taught up this morning on our scriptures.
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In the beginning of the chapter, we see that there's a man named Saul, which is Paul, later he called Paul, and just approved the stoning of Stephen.
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Stephen was the first demon mentioned in the Bible, and not only was Stephen a man of God, but Stephen was stoned to death for being a man of God.
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You see, and it tells us that the church was being persecuted, and they were all scattered.
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The Bible says they were all scattered except for the disciples, the apostles, the preachers, was still put in place.
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You see, the devil had a plan.
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That time all Christianity was conformed to that one spot in Jerusalem.
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But so the devil tried to scatter them out, hoping that the gospel would die out.
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But what happened to the devil's plan was it backfired on him.
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When he scattered the people out that was preaching the gospel, living for Jesus, they didn't die out.
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They started preaching to other people.
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You see, so the devil has a plan this morning, but God has a better plan.
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We can think about the things the devil has done in our lives, and every time the devil has done something in our lives, God has counter-offered way more better than the devil has offered.
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But it tells us Stephen was brought down, was sold to death, and it says that Saul was a leader of persecution wreaking havoc.
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The Bible says he was wreaking havoc on everybody's house, their families, men and women, all ages, all gender, it didn't matter.
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If you confess to be a Christian, you will get killed in that damn time.
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So you think about it, the pressure there was on the Christians was.
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The Christians was up under a lot of pressure by preaching Christ crucified, knowing that Saul and all his workers were about to get them, if they were called preaching Jesus, they would have been killed.
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So that's what we had in our scripture this morning.
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Nobody was spared.
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So it says we get to a man named Philip, Philip the Evangelist.
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He was not the same Philip that was called as a disciple, it was a different Philip.
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He started as a deacon and then became a traveling preacher and evangelist.
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So Philip was called to be a preacher.
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He was called first to be a deacon.
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Then he was called to be a preacher.
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Not to settle down, but to be a traveling preacher.
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You see, I've been blessed the last 11 years to be called to be here at Lambert Grove Baptist Church.
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I go back to work, go home, and do all this, travel all over, but I've been called to be pastor of Lambert Grove Baptist Church.
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There's different types of pastors.
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You've got evangelists that don't have a home church.
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They preach all over the country, all over the world.
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You see, that's what Philip was doing.
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He was called to be an evangelist.
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And it says that we must preach Christ in Christ only.
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That's number one.
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So it says Samaria was crying out for that.
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They were filled with confusion and darkness, and the human heart was trouble.
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He preached Jesus to them, to a world that was in trouble.
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My friend, just as Samaria was this morning in the United States in the same condition.
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We have confusion, we have problems, we have where everything is, everything bad has been celebrated for good, everything that's good has been celebrated for bad.
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You see, we have a nation this morning, we have a world that's living with broken hearts.
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Samaria was on the same road we were on.
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They knew all about the good things, they knew about the bad things, but in the end they were celebrating the bad more than the good.
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You look around this morning, we got people celebrating the bad more than good.
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They want to criticize the things that you do wrong, and lift you up when you do things wrong and criticize you for being a child of God.
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So Samaria was in the same shape we were in.
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But Philip was called to preach Christ crucified.
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You see, this morning we can preach all kinds of things we want to preach.
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But the gospel this morning to the broken heart and to the lost must be Jesus Christ plus nothing.
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That's what it starts at.
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It starts with Jesus.
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There ain't nothing you can do to save yourself this morning.
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There ain't nothing you can do to make it to heaven but by Jesus.
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You see, Philip was tall.
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Philip knew that he had to be a dedicated preacher, a dedicated Christian to Christ in order to see people change their lives.
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This morning we've got to understand, Philip didn't preach politics or any kind of special program to help.
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He preached Jesus Christ.
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You see, all these things we've got going on in the world is good this morning.
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I told you in a way I like the way technology is going and the way it scares me to dead.
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In certain situations, it's so easy to read and figure out what a verse of scripture means by picking it up on the cell phone.
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That's a blessing.
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God has blessed us with some of the greatest people in the world.
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They figured out how to answer questions by just typing a letter or a verse in your phone, just like that, you can get your answers.
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God has blessed us with technology with smart people.
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But on the other hand, the devil is using this same tool to win people over as well.
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Not only can you search good things and find answers quick, you can type in some pattern and find answers just pay quick as well.
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So the devil is using a tool against us, just as God has given us a tool to use it for us.
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But it tells us this morning that we must understand that we must preach Jesus Christ.
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This past Wednesday, we were in a Bible study and I brought out to them just what Jesus Christ means to you.
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What does Christ mean to you this morning?
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How serious are you about Jesus Christ?
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How serious are you about your eternity spending with God?
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You see, the only way we can make it this morning is by Jesus Christ.
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Secondly, it says the true spiritual power in verse 63.
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It tells us the crowd he was preaching to buy to, the Bible says they were in one accord and gave heed.
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They accepted the gospel.
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But I'll tell you this morning, you realize they were in one mind and one accord.
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We can be in one mind and one accord and be in accord in the wrong things.
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You can be in one mind and one accord on something bad, and if you've got everybody working together, for something bad, that's gonna come out.
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So we've got to be careful this morning when we're all in one accord and one mind and make sure we're doing it for the right reason.
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Think about it this morning.
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Uh many of you have heard me preach about the Tower of Laban.
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And you think about it, everybody in that day and time in the Old Testament, in the earth, was all speaking one language.
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They were all in one accord.
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Think about how good they were getting along.
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Everybody was on the same page, everybody was talking the same talk, same language, doing the same things.
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So God had told them to do one thing.
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God had told them to scatter the earth, scatter out and preach about God.
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So they were all of one accord, they were speaking one certain language, so they decided to stay in this one town to build the city up and build a tower to try to reach heaven.
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They were thinking they could outsmart God.
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We got so many people that's on the same page, so we can outsmack God.
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God has told us to do this, but we got so many people against God, and we're working together, we can do it.
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That's what their mindset was to build a city up, build a tower up to reach the heavens of God.
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To show God how strong we are on one accord.
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So God saw what they were doing.
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You see, the thing about God this morning, God sees everything you're doing.
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You can be playing with God, you can be playing with church, you can be playing about the Bible, but God sees straight through the glass houses this morning.
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God saw that they were on one accord.
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God sees that they were on one mind, taking heed and doing everything they're supposed to do to please man.
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So when God saw these things, he said, I'm going to teach one person a different language, and watch how it spreads and confuses them.
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So God saw that they were in one accord.
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So he started speaking one different language to the one different person.
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It spread like a wildfire.
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They got confused, and guess what happened?
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They couldn't build a tower or each heaven.
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You see, you can outsmark God this morning.
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I pray that we all know one accord, but we must take heed to God's word.
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Not taking heed to Satan's word.
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You see, they become confused, and God show them that I'm more powerful than any number you can think of.
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As long as we serve God and obey God, God's going to bless us.
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So we've got to understand, we've got to make sure we're on the right page together.
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That name Jesus cleaned the unclean.
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That name Jesus that says demons was cast out.
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Many were healed that was paralyzed, many that was lame were healed.
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Why is that name Jesus?
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When that name Jesus is spoken, the power of Satan is broken.
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Jesus has all authority over all Satan and his angels this morning.
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But we've got to understand this morning.
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Not only will the name of Jesus do all these things, but it will bring great joy.
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In verse 8, it says, and there was great joy in that city.
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This morning we all get a joy out of something.
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Think about it.
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Moeil, what brings great joy to the city?
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For many people, it's football.
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Many people is Mardi Gros.
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But once the football game's overwhelming, once the Mardi Grove season is overwhelming, you left with a city that's broken.
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You left with a city that's been trashed, you left with a city that's disobeyed God.
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But for that season, they had great joy in that city.
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You see, when Philip was preaching to the Samarians about Jesus Christ, the Bible says there was great joy in that city.
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Because they believed in Jesus Christ.
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So what brings your joy this morning?
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For some people, this morning it's your birthday.
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I remember growing up, I look forward to a birthday every year to see what I was thinking to get.
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Then when I got at 12, I thought about 15.
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Getting a permit.
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16, getting driver license.
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21, I could go out and party and do all these things.
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But as I get older, I realize I don't like birthdays when they roll around.
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You don't get any more gifts, all you do is get older now.
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For some people this morning, their joy is their wedding day.
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Getting married to the person they love, that's their joy.
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Later on down the road, a few weeks later, you realize that that wasn't a big joy.
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I signed up for a bad punishment.
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Many people this morning, their joy, what brings them joy is watching their baby being born in this world.
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That's one of the greatest joys I have this morning is watching my children getting born.
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But as time went on, I realized just how bad my children was.
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The joy was on every birthday.
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Well, many people this morning is payday.
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Everybody looks forward to Friday or Thursday or Wednesday night, whenever you get paid, you look forward to it.
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Getting your reward.
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Then when you get your check, you realize just how much money the government took from you.
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The harder you work, the more they take from you.
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So then you're not looking, those long weeks again, you're not looking to pay because you know they're going to steal your money from you.
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Everybody has a joy that they have this morning in something the world has gained.
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But my friend, the Bible says it only lasts for a season.
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That joy only lasts for a season.
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We can live and sing, we can party, but in the morning I remember.
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Partying, living it up as a teenager, young man.
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Friday night living it up, Saturday morning feeling bad.
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Saturday night living up, Sunday morning feeling bad.
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You had a joy while you were living for God.
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Doing all the bad things, you had a joy.
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The next morning it hurts you.
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But now that you live for God, you have a joy that that joy never grows over.
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That joy nobody can take from you.
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But it says this morning, all things only bring joy for a minute.
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It says that many just want to help and they don't realize they need Jesus every day.
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Now there were ten lepers in the Bible, Jesus speaks about.
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Jesus was crossing over to Samaria in Galilee, and there were ten lepers that he came across and had leprosy.
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Leprosy was bad back then.
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Leprosy was something bad that was contagious.
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And one of you had when you were diagnosed with leprosy, you had it.
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Every time you went around a crowd of people, if I had leprosy this morning, I tell you, within a service, don't come around, I'm unclean.
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You had to stay away from society.
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So Jesus encountered ten lepers that was walking.
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They had leprosy.
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One cried out, they all cried out this morning for Jesus, Master, have mercy on us, have pity on us.
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Jesus told them, Start walking to the priest.
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The reason he told them to start walking to the priest was to show him that you're healed.
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So when they started walking towards the priest, nine realized they were healed and kept going.
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One got healed and realized that Jesus Christ healed me, so I'm going to turn around and give thanks.
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That brought great joy because he realized that Jesus had healed him.
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It wasn't a joy that was only going to last for certain minutes of the day, certain weeks of the year.
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It was a joy that God brought forever.
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When you become a Christian, you get saved this morning.
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You have a joy that only lasts for eternity.
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A joy that lasts forever.
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That joy won't ever get old this morning.
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Maybe it gets a little bit low enough to do like King David and say, God, restore me the joy of my salvation.
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As a Christian this morning, we should have a joy in our heart and know that God has saved us from hell.
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That's what kind of joy we should have this morning.
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Out of ten left, there's only one turn around.
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That's the way we do as humans.
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We seek God and want God for things in life, and then we get it.
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Many of us will get to turn around and say, God, thank you.
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That's all God wants us to do for Him to hear you say, Thank you.
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Because we always ask.
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We're always trying to get God to blow us out something.
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God helping with this sickness, helping with my finances, helping with my marriage, helping with everything going on.
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Help me, help me, help me.
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But the moment we get these things, we move on to the next thing.
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Instead of turning around and saying, God, thank you this morning.
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That leper this morning realized that it was Jesus that had mercy on him.
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I realized this morning that there wasn't nothing a preacher could do.
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It was only by Jesus Christ that had mercy on me and saved my soul.
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I don't care what kind of denomination I belong to, don't care what kind of preacher I sat upon.
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It had to be worked out between me and Jesus Christ this morning.
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The Bible says that he gives life, he takes life.
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God give eternity and salvation, and you must choose God this morning.
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We can't walk around and be a sad Christian.
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We must have joy this morning.
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But it says only if one man turned back and we saw and started shouting praises to God.
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When God does something for us, we should always say thank you because just one time won't be enough.
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We should always be thankful this morning.
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So we ask ourselves this morning, are you joyful this morning?
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What do you have a joy in this morning?
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Well, many people is getting up and going to church.
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I have a joy on Sunday mornings.
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Getting up and coming out to God's house, I have a joy on Wednesday morning.
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Wednesday evening to get out of God's house and do Bible study.
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We have a joy this morning.
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As a Christian, do you have a joy of serving God?
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The Bible says we must serve God and serve others.
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I'm not worried about how many more times God's going to bless you.
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I'm worried about now spreading the blessings from God to others, letting them know that God loves you.
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That's what we must realize this morning.
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And thirdly, verses 9 through 13, it says, be not deceived.
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Long before this time when the magician had amazed the crown of population with magic.
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Claiming to be a servant of God.
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It says he was good at it.
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He had won the whole crowd over it.
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He was a magician.
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You know, I've been around these magic houses.
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We'll go up to Tennessee on vacation.
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It looks real.
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There's a trick to it.
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Somebody else.
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I can figure out there's a trick to it.
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These people ain't a magician.
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There's only one magician.
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That's God.
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There's only one man that can perform miracles, and that's God.
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We look at it as entertainment, but I don't believe in no magic man can perform tricks on me and help me out.
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It's only God.
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You see what it tells us this morning?
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That even so much they believed in Simon, they said this man is some form of God.
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He had won the whole crown over by doing tricks.
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Won the whole crown over by showing them how much of a magician he was.
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It said he won the crown over.
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They started shouting and believing he was God.
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Now you remember this morning, a couple weeks ago, I told you about a guy that was preaching and taking credit for what God had done, and the crowd cheering him on and he died.
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You see, this same thing would happen to Simon, the sorcerer, if he wouldn't have bowed down to Jesus.
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This morning, when we take credit for what God has done, God's going to get us.
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So I don't care about you giving me credit because I'm nothing.
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I'm filthy rag this morning.
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All I am is a servant of God trying to preach the gospel.
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So don't give me credit for nothing.
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When you look at me, you say, God has blessed him, the same as I look at you and say, God has blessed you.
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You haven't done nothing for yourself.
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God has done it all.
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But we've got to understand this morning that they will make mistaking him for God.
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We've got people living in this world this morning that's mistaken God for Satan.
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They didn't bless by the devil.
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You know, it burns me up.
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This man or this woman, they don't even go to church, don't believe in God, don't worship God, they call on God, they pretend to say that they love God, but when they get a new bible, they get a new house, they say, look what God has done.
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The devil's got them so fooled, they think God has blessed them.
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That ain't God's blessing, brother.
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God don't bless the wicked.
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God don't bless the disobedient.
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God blesses the obedient and the servants of him.
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But they got so blindfolded and so bewitched by the devil, the devil's making them think God has given you this, but it's him the whole time.
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That's what Simon was doing.
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He was realizing that he was doing all these things.
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These people thought it was the God, and it was the devil in sheep's clothes.
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You see, that's the way the devil works.
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But we have many people in many churches today that are bewitched by Satan and relying on their own strength instead of submitting to God.
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We become so willful and strong-minded that we get in a point in life and we think we can do it without calling on God.
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You think you can do that.
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I've said it many times before, and I've already kept myself.
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Well, if I work six to seventy hours next week, I'm gonna buy this.
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Six to seven hours rolling around, and guess what?
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Something else took that money from me.
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So when you rely on yourself, God will show you that it ain't you that you're relying on, that you must rely on God.
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The Bible says that God will give you, but you've got to obey God.
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So the church's thing was relying on self will.
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This morning we're relying on self will and we're seeing our walk with God crumble.
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We're seeing our walk with God get harder because we're relying on self.
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If everybody could save themselves, don't you think God would have spared his son?
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He wouldn't have sent Jesus out of heaven to die on the cross for you if you can save yourself.
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If a thief on the cross to save himself, save himself.
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You think you would have cried out to Jesus?
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Absolutely not.
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This morning you must submit to God.
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Satan won't distract you.
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Don't be deceived by Satan.
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Satan will give you anything you want.
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I told you last Sunday.
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Satan will give you anything you want but salvation.
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You want a new car, you can hit the lottery with Satan.
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People sell out to Satan every day just to get worldly things.
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You want a new house?
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Sell out to Satan.
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He'll give it to you.
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He'll build you a mansion and give it to you.
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Satan will let you become the CEO of a company if that's what you want.
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Satan will give you all these things, but Satan can't give you salvation.
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When you die and stand before God, the Bible doesn't say that every knee shall bow, bow and confess the name of Jesus Christ.
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It says Jesus Christ, not Satan.
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The Bible doesn't say that you've got to bow down and confess Satan.
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It says you've got to bow down to Jesus Christ.
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You see, he can't give you eternity.
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He can give you new clothes, though.
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Many people sell it unto the devil just one new vehicle.
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If I do this, I'll move anything you want.
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If I give you the vehicle, the second give you that vehicle.
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But we've got to understand this morning, you can't make it to heaven by walking alone.
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You must have Jesus plus nothing.
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The devil and Simon had the population won over until you noticed the word, but the next verse says, But when they believe, Philip preaching Jesus.
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They were won over by Simon the magician.
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All the things he was telling them and showing them, they believed.
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But it says, when Philip preached Jesus, then they changed their heart.
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This morning the devil may have you in a grip over.
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He may have you tied as a nine-way mind.
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But once you call on Jesus this morning and receive Christ, then everything will start getting better for you this morning.
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You see, they were going over.
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They thought the Simon had all the things going, and that's all they need to believe in, was Simon.
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But then Philip started preaching Jesus, they started changing.
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Then they said they were baptized, they were saved, and then baptized.
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This morning, when we get saved, we see a change in our lives.
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Do you remember when you were changed?
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I remember and think about it every day of what God changed me.
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Don't you remember this morning when you found that joy in God?
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Don't you remember this morning when you found that joy of serving God?
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The Bible says, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
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So this morning when you got Jesus, you've got it all this morning.
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You don't need anything else, nothing but Jesus.
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You say, Well, preacher, I got some of the baddest habits you can have.
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My friend, God can break you.
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God is so powerful this morning, He sent the devil into the swine and cast into the drone and in the sea.
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That's how powerful our God is.
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It doesn't matter how bad of a demon you got, it doesn't matter how much sin you committed.
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Jesus Christ, he removed those things, said that when he preached Jesus, they that was unclean became clean.
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They that was lost was found.
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This morning we may be living in the lost and found.
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Living on that line outside of God's word.
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God can find you this morning.
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God can save you this morning.
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But it says God is so powerful that even Simon the magician was saved also.
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Not only did God change the crown, he changed the man that was working for Satan.
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It says Simon was saved.
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And after Simon got saved, he didn't do no magic tricks.
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Guess what he started doing?
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He started going around with Philip preaching about Jesus Christ.
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That's what God can do for you this morning.
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God can change you from working for the devil to working against the devil.
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This morning, when you get saved, you will get saved away from Satan and start working for God and using God to fight Satan off.
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You see, this morning Simon bowed down to God.
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He realized that he was only doing his selfish acts.
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That whenever God meant business, God meant business.
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So it says, what happens when you believe in Romans 10, 9?
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It says that if thou shalt confess with the mouth, the Lord Jesus shall believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
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But you must believe in Jesus Christ.
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Do you believe that Jesus died for your sin this morning?
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Do you believe that Jesus can change you this morning?
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You know, before I got saved, I had doubt.
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I didn't think God could do it.
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The moment I accepted Christ and prayed for him to come into my heart, I realized that I sucked against God a long time because God can do it.
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Do you realize God can do it this morning?
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Then it said that when you believe you will receive it in Romans 10, 17, it says, so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
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Have you ever been around somebody that's listening but they really ain't listening?
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I know plenty of you.
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Makes me mad.
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You can be talking, looking right.
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You can be in full conversation with them, just about to the end, and they say, What'd you say now?
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Oh, yeah, I know plenty of them.
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That awful bunch of the world works.
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That awful bunch.
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Wide open talking.
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You can be pouring your heart out to them in mid conversation.
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Who'd you say what'd you say?
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I'm not even talking about no Bible.
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Just forget it.
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You'll be watching everything the whole time, your lips moving.
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Don't know what you're saying.
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The Bible says you've got to understand.
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By faith, we receive God's word by hearing.
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You've got to hear.
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Amen.
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So stop looking at God's word and start hearing God's word.
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Stop seeing God speak and start listening to God's speak.
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That's the difference.
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Stop being a hearer and start being a doer.
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Start listening by faith.
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God tells you that he can remove that mountain, you've got to believe God can remove that mountain.
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If God tells you this morning that he can heal you from sickness, you've got to believe because these ten left that we talked about, they didn't know what was going to happen.
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They thought they were going to die and isolate the community by itself.
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But whenever they said, Jesus have a master of Jesus, have mercy and pity on me, God heard that cry.
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So this morning, just because you got the unthinkable going on in your life, you've got the ship out to seek this morning, call on God.
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Just give God a shot.
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I've never met nobody who can strive God and regret it.
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Everybody that I know is the counter God, this is the best decision to ever try.
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The best decision they ever made.
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Once you try Jesus, you realize just how good God is.
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You say, Well, preacher I don't know how long I can live for God.
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Once you get saved and truly saved, the Bible says that He keeps you in the hands of no man can pluck you out of the hands of God.
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So as long as you strive and you live for God, God will keep you.
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But it tells us that we must understand the Holy Spirit will convict you.
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Even when it convicts you of sin, the Holy Spirit will tell you when you sin.
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As a pastor, the Holy Spirit tells me when I see it.
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As a Christian, you know, as a Christian, when you do something wrong, the Holy Spirit tells you you shouldn't do that, son, you shouldn't do that.
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The Holy Spirit will convince you of sin.
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What brings you joy this morning?
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In closing, what will you decide?
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We got a decision again today.
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Every day of our life, we are at the crossroads.
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You're either going to choose God and go the right direction, or you're going to choose Satan and continue living on the path of destruction.
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Every day, when we get up out of bed, we've got to make a decision.
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And I'm going to follow God today, obey God, and give God all the time I'm supposed to give Him, I'm going to continue to live with this path of destruction, this broad road.
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Where everybody's at.
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All your buddies may be on this road.
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Well, do you want to follow your buddy to hell?
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Never.
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So it says this morning in John 12.26, if any man serve me, let him follow me in where I am, there shall also my servant be, and if any man serve me, him will my father honor.
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So this morning, I'm looking forward to that place called heaven.
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Are you looking forward this morning to know that if God calls you home today, that when God gets your room ready, that he's going to call you home?
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Are you looking forward to that joy this morning?
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It's not a room that's halfway built.
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Jesus says, if I go away, that means he went away to prepare.
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He's building our room and eternity to us.
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Then when he gets it ready, he says, There will I come and receive you and take you back to the Fatherland.
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So you've got to understand this morning that if you follow God, God will give you the blessings you need in life.
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Are you ready to surrender to God and turn from your sins?
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Simon was amazed by God.
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This same magician we talked about was amazed by God.
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But Simon had to make the decision whether to follow God or keep following the magician tricks that he'd been taught.
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Simon chose God.
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God is dealing with you this morning.
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Maybe you, just like King David, maybe you've been a Christian and you fell away a little bit.
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Maybe you don't realize that there's a joy in Christianity walk with God.
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Today you can find that joy again.
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Just pray that prayer.
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God will restore me the joy of my salvation.
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Many this morning have realized that they've lost as a person.
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They've never experienced that joy.
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The only joy they've experienced is the joy that says the Bible said sin last for a season.
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That's the only joy they've ever experienced.
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The Bible says this morning, will we true, asking us, will we choose the true God?
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At the cross at the cross, first saw the light.
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Will you choose God this morning?
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God is calling on you.
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God has done his part.
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Now you must do your part.
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You're looking for that joy that's on the last word.
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It's called Jesus Christ.
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Let's pray.
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Father, we thank you again for the script we read.
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We thank you this morning, God, for the spirit and our service.
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I pray, Lord, that we remove our self-will out of our heart and let our God down.
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Let you have your way with us this morning, God.
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Whether we've already been saved and we're asking you to restore us to joy by salvation.
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Maybe we've drifted away a little bit, God, and we've been slunk, we've got a rut.
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God, I pray this morning that we ask you to restore us to joy by salvation.
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We live in a time where we have so many troubles, we have so many problems.
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But God, I pray this morning that we never lose our joy of being a Christian this morning.
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And God, we pray this morning for those that haven't never experienced this joy of salvation.
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I pray that they step out of faith this morning and grab you by the hand and let you lead them throughout this life that we live.
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Father, we thank you for sending your Son.
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God across for our sins, and we ask this in Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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Acts chapter 8.
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We're going to read a verse 4.
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It says, Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.
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Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them.
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And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
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For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them.
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And many taken with palsy or paralyzed, and that were lame were healed.
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And there was a great joy in that city.
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But there was a certain man called Simon, which before time in the same city used magic tricks, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself of some great one.
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To whom they all gave heed from the least of the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
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And to him that ameth God because that of long time he had dewitched them with sorcery.
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But when they believed on preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.
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Then Simon himself believed also, and when he was baptized, he continued with love and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
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Let's pray.
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Father, we thank you again for this opportunity now to read the Holy Word.
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We pray God and bless them on everyone according to Sabbath Lord this morning.
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God, we pray that you open the ears, the hearts, and mind, and all those who want to voice wonder that the hearts have been prepared to receive thy word, receive thy spirit.
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God, we pray this morning that you remove all physical and spiritual traction along.
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I pray, God, that if anyone's in need of a Savior, I pray to call upon you before his everlasting day.
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God, we pray that you speak from me to the congregation.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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The title of this morning is something about that name.
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Something about that name.
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As you grow older in life, you start to realize what matters the most to you.
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I've realized that every word in the Bible is true, and that as the Bible says, the grass with the flower fades, but the word of God shall stand forever.
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I've learned to live by that my entire life since I've been saved, and I've realized that things will come and go, but the only thing that's somebody standing at the end is the word of God.
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Man makes error, man speaks error, man speaks lies, man does all these things.
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The failure we try not to attain, but man is still weak.
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But the word of God will stand forever.
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And it says that we start realizing as a person that some things start meaning to you more than others.
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But there's something about that name Jesus.
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When we speak that name Jesus, it's a name that is so sweet, it's a name that is so powerful, it's a name that is so relaxing.
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It's just something about that name of Jesus.
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When we speak Jesus, we start seeing good things happen.
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Never have I spoken, prayed to God, and saw whether God abandoned me.
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God is always with us from now until the end of the world.
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And it's just something about that name Jesus that the devil don't like.
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Maybe it was because he was defeated thousands of years ago on the cross of Calvary.
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When Jesus says it is finished, that means the devil was finished, the devil lost.
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So it's just something about that name Jesus that makes us have that joy in our heart.
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Something about the name Jesus that makes us feel God's presence in our lives.
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When we speak Jesus, we see things starting to happen.
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We see things starting to move in our lives.
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But it's all about speaking the name Jesus.
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You see, I want us to get taught up this morning on our scriptures.
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In the beginning of the chapter, we see that there's a man named Saul, which is Paul, later he called Paul, and just approved the stoning of Stephen.
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Stephen was the first demon mentioned in the Bible, and not only was Stephen a man of God, but Stephen was stoned to death for being a man of God.
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You see, and it tells us that the church was being persecuted, and they were all scattered.
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The Bible says they were all scattered except for the disciples, the apostles, the preachers, was still put in place.
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You see, the devil had a plan.
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That time all Christianity was conformed to that one spot in Jerusalem.
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But so the devil tried to scatter them out, hoping that the gospel would die out.
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But what happened to the devil's plan was it backfired on him.
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When he scattered the people out that was preaching the gospel, living for Jesus, they didn't die out.
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They started preaching to other people.
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You see, so the devil has a plan this morning, but God has a better plan.
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We can think about the things the devil has done in our lives, and every time the devil has done something in our lives, God has counter-offered way more better than the devil has offered.
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But it tells us Stephen was brought down, was sold to death, and it says that Saul was a leader of persecution wreaking havoc.
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The Bible says he was wreaking havoc on everybody's house, their families, men and women, all ages, all gender, it didn't matter.
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If you confess to be a Christian, you will get killed in that damn time.
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So you think about it, the pressure there was on the Christians was.
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The Christians was up under a lot of pressure by preaching Christ crucified, knowing that Saul and all his workers were about to get them, if they were called preaching Jesus, they would have been killed.
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So that's what we had in our scripture this morning.
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Nobody was spared.
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So it says we get to a man named Philip, Philip the Evangelist.
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He was not the same Philip that was called as a disciple, it was a different Philip.
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He started as a deacon and then became a traveling preacher and evangelist.
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So Philip was called to be a preacher.
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He was called first to be a deacon.
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Then he was called to be a preacher.
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Not to settle down, but to be a traveling preacher.
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You see, I've been blessed the last 11 years to be called to be here at Lambert Grove Baptist Church.
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I go back to work, go home, and do all this, travel all over, but I've been called to be pastor of Lambert Grove Baptist Church.
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There's different types of pastors.
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You've got evangelists that don't have a home church.
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They preach all over the country, all over the world.
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You see, that's what Philip was doing.
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He was called to be an evangelist.
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And it says that we must preach Christ in Christ only.
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That's number one.
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So it says Samaria was crying out for that.
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They were filled with confusion and darkness, and the human heart was trouble.
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He preached Jesus to them, to a world that was in trouble.
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My friend, just as Samaria was this morning in the United States in the same condition.
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We have confusion, we have problems, we have where everything is, everything bad has been celebrated for good, everything that's good has been celebrated for bad.
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You see, we have a nation this morning, we have a world that's living with broken hearts.
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Samaria was on the same road we were on.
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They knew all about the good things, they knew about the bad things, but in the end they were celebrating the bad more than the good.
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You look around this morning, we got people celebrating the bad more than good.
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They want to criticize the things that you do wrong, and lift you up when you do things wrong and criticize you for being a child of God.
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So Samaria was in the same shape we were in.
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But Philip was called to preach Christ crucified.
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You see, this morning we can preach all kinds of things we want to preach.
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But the gospel this morning to the broken heart and to the lost must be Jesus Christ plus nothing.
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That's what it starts at.
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It starts with Jesus.
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There ain't nothing you can do to save yourself this morning.
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There ain't nothing you can do to make it to heaven but by Jesus.
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You see, Philip was tall.
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Philip knew that he had to be a dedicated preacher, a dedicated Christian to Christ in order to see people change their lives.
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This morning we've got to understand, Philip didn't preach politics or any kind of special program to help.
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He preached Jesus Christ.
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You see, all these things we've got going on in the world is good this morning.
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I told you in a way I like the way technology is going and the way it scares me to dead.
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In certain situations, it's so easy to read and figure out what a verse of scripture means by picking it up on the cell phone.
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That's a blessing.
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God has blessed us with some of the greatest people in the world.
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They figured out how to answer questions by just typing a letter or a verse in your phone, just like that, you can get your answers.
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God has blessed us with technology with smart people.
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But on the other hand, the devil is using this same tool to win people over as well.
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Not only can you search good things and find answers quick, you can type in some pattern and find answers just pay quick as well.
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So the devil is using a tool against us, just as God has given us a tool to use it for us.
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But it tells us this morning that we must understand that we must preach Jesus Christ.
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This past Wednesday, we were in a Bible study and I brought out to them just what Jesus Christ means to you.
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What does Christ mean to you this morning?
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How serious are you about Jesus Christ?
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How serious are you about your eternity spending with God?
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You see, the only way we can make it this morning is by Jesus Christ.
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Secondly, it says the true spiritual power in verse 63.
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It tells us the crowd he was preaching to buy to, the Bible says they were in one accord and gave heed.
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They accepted the gospel.
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But I'll tell you this morning, you realize they were in one mind and one accord.
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We can be in one mind and one accord and be in accord in the wrong things.
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You can be in one mind and one accord on something bad, and if you've got everybody working together, for something bad, that's gonna come out.
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So we've got to be careful this morning when we're all in one accord and one mind and make sure we're doing it for the right reason.
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Think about it this morning.
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Uh many of you have heard me preach about the Tower of Laban.
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And you think about it, everybody in that day and time in the Old Testament, in the earth, was all speaking one language.
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They were all in one accord.
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Think about how good they were getting along.
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Everybody was on the same page, everybody was talking the same talk, same language, doing the same things.
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So God had told them to do one thing.
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God had told them to scatter the earth, scatter out and preach about God.
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So they were all of one accord, they were speaking one certain language, so they decided to stay in this one town to build the city up and build a tower to try to reach heaven.
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They were thinking they could outsmart God.
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We got so many people that's on the same page, so we can outsmack God.
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God has told us to do this, but we got so many people against God, and we're working together, we can do it.
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That's what their mindset was to build a city up, build a tower up to reach the heavens of God.
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To show God how strong we are on one accord.
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So God saw what they were doing.
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You see, the thing about God this morning, God sees everything you're doing.
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You can be playing with God, you can be playing with church, you can be playing about the Bible, but God sees straight through the glass houses this morning.
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God saw that they were on one accord.
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God sees that they were on one mind, taking heed and doing everything they're supposed to do to please man.
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So when God saw these things, he said, I'm going to teach one person a different language, and watch how it spreads and confuses them.
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So God saw that they were in one accord.
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So he started speaking one different language to the one different person.
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It spread like a wildfire.
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They got confused, and guess what happened?
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They couldn't build a tower or each heaven.
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You see, you can outsmark God this morning.
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I pray that we all know one accord, but we must take heed to God's word.
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Not taking heed to Satan's word.
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You see, they become confused, and God show them that I'm more powerful than any number you can think of.
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As long as we serve God and obey God, God's going to bless us.
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So we've got to understand, we've got to make sure we're on the right page together.
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That name Jesus cleaned the unclean.
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That name Jesus that says demons was cast out.
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Many were healed that was paralyzed, many that was lame were healed.
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Why is that name Jesus?
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When that name Jesus is spoken, the power of Satan is broken.
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Jesus has all authority over all Satan and his angels this morning.
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But we've got to understand this morning.
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Not only will the name of Jesus do all these things, but it will bring great joy.
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In verse 8, it says, and there was great joy in that city.
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This morning we all get a joy out of something.
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Think about it.
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Moeil, what brings great joy to the city?
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For many people, it's football.
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Many people is Mardi Gros.
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But once the football game's overwhelming, once the Mardi Grove season is overwhelming, you left with a city that's broken.
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You left with a city that's been trashed, you left with a city that's disobeyed God.
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But for that season, they had great joy in that city.
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You see, when Philip was preaching to the Samarians about Jesus Christ, the Bible says there was great joy in that city.
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Because they believed in Jesus Christ.
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So what brings your joy this morning?
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For some people, this morning it's your birthday.
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I remember growing up, I look forward to a birthday every year to see what I was thinking to get.
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Then when I got at 12, I thought about 15.
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Getting a permit.
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16, getting driver license.
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21, I could go out and party and do all these things.
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But as I get older, I realize I don't like birthdays when they roll around.
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You don't get any more gifts, all you do is get older now.
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For some people this morning, their joy is their wedding day.
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Getting married to the person they love, that's their joy.
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Later on down the road, a few weeks later, you realize that that wasn't a big joy.
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I signed up for a bad punishment.
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Many people this morning, their joy, what brings them joy is watching their baby being born in this world.
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That's one of the greatest joys I have this morning is watching my children getting born.
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But as time went on, I realized just how bad my children was.
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The joy was on every birthday.
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Well, many people this morning is payday.
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Everybody looks forward to Friday or Thursday or Wednesday night, whenever you get paid, you look forward to it.
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Getting your reward.
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Then when you get your check, you realize just how much money the government took from you.
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The harder you work, the more they take from you.
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So then you're not looking, those long weeks again, you're not looking to pay because you know they're going to steal your money from you.
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Everybody has a joy that they have this morning in something the world has gained.
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But my friend, the Bible says it only lasts for a season.
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That joy only lasts for a season.
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We can live and sing, we can party, but in the morning I remember.
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Partying, living it up as a teenager, young man.
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Friday night living it up, Saturday morning feeling bad.
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Saturday night living up, Sunday morning feeling bad.
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You had a joy while you were living for God.
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Doing all the bad things, you had a joy.
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The next morning it hurts you.
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But now that you live for God, you have a joy that that joy never grows over.
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That joy nobody can take from you.
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But it says this morning, all things only bring joy for a minute.
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It says that many just want to help and they don't realize they need Jesus every day.
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Now there were ten lepers in the Bible, Jesus speaks about.
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Jesus was crossing over to Samaria in Galilee, and there were ten lepers that he came across and had leprosy.
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Leprosy was bad back then.
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Leprosy was something bad that was contagious.
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And one of you had when you were diagnosed with leprosy, you had it.
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Every time you went around a crowd of people, if I had leprosy this morning, I tell you, within a service, don't come around, I'm unclean.
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You had to stay away from society.
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So Jesus encountered ten lepers that was walking.
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They had leprosy.
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One cried out, they all cried out this morning for Jesus, Master, have mercy on us, have pity on us.
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Jesus told them, Start walking to the priest.
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The reason he told them to start walking to the priest was to show him that you're healed.
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So when they started walking towards the priest, nine realized they were healed and kept going.
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One got healed and realized that Jesus Christ healed me, so I'm going to turn around and give thanks.
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That brought great joy because he realized that Jesus had healed him.
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It wasn't a joy that was only going to last for certain minutes of the day, certain weeks of the year.
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It was a joy that God brought forever.
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When you become a Christian, you get saved this morning.
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You have a joy that only lasts for eternity.
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A joy that lasts forever.
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That joy won't ever get old this morning.
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Maybe it gets a little bit low enough to do like King David and say, God, restore me the joy of my salvation.
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As a Christian this morning, we should have a joy in our heart and know that God has saved us from hell.
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That's what kind of joy we should have this morning.
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Out of ten left, there's only one turn around.
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That's the way we do as humans.
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We seek God and want God for things in life, and then we get it.
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Many of us will get to turn around and say, God, thank you.
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That's all God wants us to do for Him to hear you say, Thank you.
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Because we always ask.
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We're always trying to get God to blow us out something.
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God helping with this sickness, helping with my finances, helping with my marriage, helping with everything going on.
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Help me, help me, help me.
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But the moment we get these things, we move on to the next thing.
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Instead of turning around and saying, God, thank you this morning.
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That leper this morning realized that it was Jesus that had mercy on him.
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I realized this morning that there wasn't nothing a preacher could do.
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It was only by Jesus Christ that had mercy on me and saved my soul.
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I don't care what kind of denomination I belong to, don't care what kind of preacher I sat upon.
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It had to be worked out between me and Jesus Christ this morning.
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The Bible says that he gives life, he takes life.
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God give eternity and salvation, and you must choose God this morning.
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We can't walk around and be a sad Christian.
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We must have joy this morning.
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But it says only if one man turned back and we saw and started shouting praises to God.
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When God does something for us, we should always say thank you because just one time won't be enough.
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We should always be thankful this morning.
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So we ask ourselves this morning, are you joyful this morning?
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What do you have a joy in this morning?
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Well, many people is getting up and going to church.
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I have a joy on Sunday mornings.
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Getting up and coming out to God's house, I have a joy on Wednesday morning.
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Wednesday evening to get out of God's house and do Bible study.
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We have a joy this morning.
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As a Christian, do you have a joy of serving God?
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The Bible says we must serve God and serve others.
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I'm not worried about how many more times God's going to bless you.
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I'm worried about now spreading the blessings from God to others, letting them know that God loves you.
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That's what we must realize this morning.
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And thirdly, verses 9 through 13, it says, be not deceived.
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Long before this time when the magician had amazed the crown of population with magic.
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Claiming to be a servant of God.
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It says he was good at it.
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He had won the whole crowd over it.
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He was a magician.
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You know, I've been around these magic houses.
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We'll go up to Tennessee on vacation.
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It looks real.
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There's a trick to it.
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Somebody else.
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I can figure out there's a trick to it.
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These people ain't a magician.
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There's only one magician.
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That's God.
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There's only one man that can perform miracles, and that's God.
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We look at it as entertainment, but I don't believe in no magic man can perform tricks on me and help me out.
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It's only God.
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You see what it tells us this morning?
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That even so much they believed in Simon, they said this man is some form of God.
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He had won the whole crown over by doing tricks.
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Won the whole crown over by showing them how much of a magician he was.
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It said he won the crown over.
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They started shouting and believing he was God.
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Now you remember this morning, a couple weeks ago, I told you about a guy that was preaching and taking credit for what God had done, and the crowd cheering him on and he died.
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You see, this same thing would happen to Simon, the sorcerer, if he wouldn't have bowed down to Jesus.
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This morning, when we take credit for what God has done, God's going to get us.
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So I don't care about you giving me credit because I'm nothing.
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I'm filthy rag this morning.
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All I am is a servant of God trying to preach the gospel.
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So don't give me credit for nothing.
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When you look at me, you say, God has blessed him, the same as I look at you and say, God has blessed you.
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You haven't done nothing for yourself.
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God has done it all.
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But we've got to understand this morning that they will make mistaking him for God.
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We've got people living in this world this morning that's mistaken God for Satan.
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They didn't bless by the devil.
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You know, it burns me up.
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This man or this woman, they don't even go to church, don't believe in God, don't worship God, they call on God, they pretend to say that they love God, but when they get a new bible, they get a new house, they say, look what God has done.
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The devil's got them so fooled, they think God has blessed them.
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That ain't God's blessing, brother.
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God don't bless the wicked.
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God don't bless the disobedient.
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God blesses the obedient and the servants of him.
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But they got so blindfolded and so bewitched by the devil, the devil's making them think God has given you this, but it's him the whole time.
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That's what Simon was doing.
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He was realizing that he was doing all these things.
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These people thought it was the God, and it was the devil in sheep's clothes.
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You see, that's the way the devil works.
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But we have many people in many churches today that are bewitched by Satan and relying on their own strength instead of submitting to God.
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We become so willful and strong-minded that we get in a point in life and we think we can do it without calling on God.
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You think you can do that.
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I've said it many times before, and I've already kept myself.
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Well, if I work six to seventy hours next week, I'm gonna buy this.
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Six to seven hours rolling around, and guess what?
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Something else took that money from me.
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So when you rely on yourself, God will show you that it ain't you that you're relying on, that you must rely on God.
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The Bible says that God will give you, but you've got to obey God.
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So the church's thing was relying on self will.
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This morning we're relying on self will and we're seeing our walk with God crumble.
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We're seeing our walk with God get harder because we're relying on self.
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If everybody could save themselves, don't you think God would have spared his son?
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He wouldn't have sent Jesus out of heaven to die on the cross for you if you can save yourself.
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If a thief on the cross to save himself, save himself.
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You think you would have cried out to Jesus?
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Absolutely not.
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This morning you must submit to God.
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Satan won't distract you.
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Don't be deceived by Satan.
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Satan will give you anything you want.
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I told you last Sunday.
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Satan will give you anything you want but salvation.
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You want a new car, you can hit the lottery with Satan.
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People sell out to Satan every day just to get worldly things.
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You want a new house?
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Sell out to Satan.
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He'll give it to you.
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He'll build you a mansion and give it to you.
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Satan will let you become the CEO of a company if that's what you want.
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Satan will give you all these things, but Satan can't give you salvation.
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When you die and stand before God, the Bible doesn't say that every knee shall bow, bow and confess the name of Jesus Christ.
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It says Jesus Christ, not Satan.
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The Bible doesn't say that you've got to bow down and confess Satan.
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It says you've got to bow down to Jesus Christ.
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You see, he can't give you eternity.
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He can give you new clothes, though.
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Many people sell it unto the devil just one new vehicle.
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If I do this, I'll move anything you want.
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If I give you the vehicle, the second give you that vehicle.
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But we've got to understand this morning, you can't make it to heaven by walking alone.
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You must have Jesus plus nothing.
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The devil and Simon had the population won over until you noticed the word, but the next verse says, But when they believe, Philip preaching Jesus.
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They were won over by Simon the magician.
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All the things he was telling them and showing them, they believed.
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But it says, when Philip preached Jesus, then they changed their heart.
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This morning the devil may have you in a grip over.
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He may have you tied as a nine-way mind.
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But once you call on Jesus this morning and receive Christ, then everything will start getting better for you this morning.
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You see, they were going over.
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They thought the Simon had all the things going, and that's all they need to believe in, was Simon.
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But then Philip started preaching Jesus, they started changing.
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Then they said they were baptized, they were saved, and then baptized.
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This morning, when we get saved, we see a change in our lives.
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Do you remember when you were changed?
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I remember and think about it every day of what God changed me.
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Don't you remember this morning when you found that joy in God?
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Don't you remember this morning when you found that joy of serving God?
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The Bible says, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
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So this morning when you got Jesus, you've got it all this morning.
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You don't need anything else, nothing but Jesus.
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You say, Well, preacher, I got some of the baddest habits you can have.
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My friend, God can break you.
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God is so powerful this morning, He sent the devil into the swine and cast into the drone and in the sea.
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That's how powerful our God is.
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It doesn't matter how bad of a demon you got, it doesn't matter how much sin you committed.
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Jesus Christ, he removed those things, said that when he preached Jesus, they that was unclean became clean.
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They that was lost was found.
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This morning we may be living in the lost and found.
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Living on that line outside of God's word.
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God can find you this morning.
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God can save you this morning.
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But it says God is so powerful that even Simon the magician was saved also.
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Not only did God change the crown, he changed the man that was working for Satan.
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It says Simon was saved.
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And after Simon got saved, he didn't do no magic tricks.
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Guess what he started doing?
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He started going around with Philip preaching about Jesus Christ.
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That's what God can do for you this morning.
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God can change you from working for the devil to working against the devil.
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This morning, when you get saved, you will get saved away from Satan and start working for God and using God to fight Satan off.
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You see, this morning Simon bowed down to God.
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He realized that he was only doing his selfish acts.
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That whenever God meant business, God meant business.
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So it says, what happens when you believe in Romans 10, 9?
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It says that if thou shalt confess with the mouth, the Lord Jesus shall believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
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But you must believe in Jesus Christ.
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Do you believe that Jesus died for your sin this morning?
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Do you believe that Jesus can change you this morning?
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You know, before I got saved, I had doubt.
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I didn't think God could do it.
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The moment I accepted Christ and prayed for him to come into my heart, I realized that I sucked against God a long time because God can do it.
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Do you realize God can do it this morning?
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Then it said that when you believe you will receive it in Romans 10, 17, it says, so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
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Have you ever been around somebody that's listening but they really ain't listening?
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I know plenty of you.
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Makes me mad.
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You can be talking, looking right.
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You can be in full conversation with them, just about to the end, and they say, What'd you say now?
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Oh, yeah, I know plenty of them.
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That awful bunch of the world works.
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That awful bunch.
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Wide open talking.
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You can be pouring your heart out to them in mid conversation.
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Who'd you say what'd you say?
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I'm not even talking about no Bible.
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Just forget it.
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You'll be watching everything the whole time, your lips moving.
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Don't know what you're saying.
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The Bible says you've got to understand.
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By faith, we receive God's word by hearing.
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You've got to hear.
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Amen.
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So stop looking at God's word and start hearing God's word.
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Stop seeing God speak and start listening to God's speak.
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That's the difference.
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Stop being a hearer and start being a doer.
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Start listening by faith.
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God tells you that he can remove that mountain, you've got to believe God can remove that mountain.
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If God tells you this morning that he can heal you from sickness, you've got to believe because these ten left that we talked about, they didn't know what was going to happen.
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They thought they were going to die and isolate the community by itself.
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But whenever they said, Jesus have a master of Jesus, have mercy and pity on me, God heard that cry.
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So this morning, just because you got the unthinkable going on in your life, you've got the ship out to seek this morning, call on God.
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Just give God a shot.
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I've never met nobody who can strive God and regret it.
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Everybody that I know is the counter God, this is the best decision to ever try.
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The best decision they ever made.
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Once you try Jesus, you realize just how good God is.
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You say, Well, preacher I don't know how long I can live for God.
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Once you get saved and truly saved, the Bible says that He keeps you in the hands of no man can pluck you out of the hands of God.
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So as long as you strive and you live for God, God will keep you.
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But it tells us that we must understand the Holy Spirit will convict you.
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Even when it convicts you of sin, the Holy Spirit will tell you when you sin.
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As a pastor, the Holy Spirit tells me when I see it.
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As a Christian, you know, as a Christian, when you do something wrong, the Holy Spirit tells you you shouldn't do that, son, you shouldn't do that.
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The Holy Spirit will convince you of sin.
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What brings you joy this morning?
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In closing, what will you decide?
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We got a decision again today.
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Every day of our life, we are at the crossroads.
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You're either going to choose God and go the right direction, or you're going to choose Satan and continue living on the path of destruction.
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Every day, when we get up out of bed, we've got to make a decision.
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And I'm going to follow God today, obey God, and give God all the time I'm supposed to give Him, I'm going to continue to live with this path of destruction, this broad road.
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Where everybody's at.
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All your buddies may be on this road.
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Well, do you want to follow your buddy to hell?
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Never.
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So it says this morning in John 12.26, if any man serve me, let him follow me in where I am, there shall also my servant be, and if any man serve me, him will my father honor.
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So this morning, I'm looking forward to that place called heaven.
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Are you looking forward this morning to know that if God calls you home today, that when God gets your room ready, that he's going to call you home?
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Are you looking forward to that joy this morning?
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It's not a room that's halfway built.
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Jesus says, if I go away, that means he went away to prepare.
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He's building our room and eternity to us.
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Then when he gets it ready, he says, There will I come and receive you and take you back to the Fatherland.
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So you've got to understand this morning that if you follow God, God will give you the blessings you need in life.
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Are you ready to surrender to God and turn from your sins?
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Simon was amazed by God.
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This same magician we talked about was amazed by God.
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But Simon had to make the decision whether to follow God or keep following the magician tricks that he'd been taught.
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Simon chose God.
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God is dealing with you this morning.
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Maybe you, just like King David, maybe you've been a Christian and you fell away a little bit.
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Maybe you don't realize that there's a joy in Christianity walk with God.
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Today you can find that joy again.
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Just pray that prayer.
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God will restore me the joy of my salvation.
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Many this morning have realized that they've lost as a person.
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They've never experienced that joy.
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The only joy they've experienced is the joy that says the Bible said sin last for a season.
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That's the only joy they've ever experienced.
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The Bible says this morning, will we true, asking us, will we choose the true God?
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At the cross at the cross, first saw the light.
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Will you choose God this morning?
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God is calling on you.
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God has done his part.
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Now you must do your part.
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You're looking for that joy that's on the last word.
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It's called Jesus Christ.
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Let's pray.
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Father, we thank you again for the script we read.
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We thank you this morning, God, for the spirit and our service.
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I pray, Lord, that we remove our self-will out of our heart and let our God down.
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Let you have your way with us this morning, God.
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Whether we've already been saved and we're asking you to restore us to joy by salvation.
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Maybe we've drifted away a little bit, God, and we've been slunk, we've got a rut.
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God, I pray this morning that we ask you to restore us to joy by salvation.
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We live in a time where we have so many troubles, we have so many problems.
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But God, I pray this morning that we never lose our joy of being a Christian this morning.
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And God, we pray this morning for those that haven't never experienced this joy of salvation.
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I pray that they step out of faith this morning and grab you by the hand and let you lead them throughout this life that we live.
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Father, we thank you for sending your Son.
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God across for our sins, and we ask this in Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
