What You Fear Most Motivates You
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know it started out weird um every 3 months I have to go take
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blood test then go see the doctor a week later Monday I went and took my blood
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test felt great doctor calls me on Tuesday and says you got to go to the hospital right now and I go for what and
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he goes well your potassium levels at 6.5 you need to get to the hospital your heart could stop beating it's all this
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kind of stuff he's telling me and I went okay and he goes I'm being serious I said okay I'm going to the hospital so I
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get to the hospital I walk into the emergency room at qu Delta walk up to the cter L goes why are you here and I
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said my doctor sent me here says my blood potassium levels is 6.5 and I need to be treated oh my God I was
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like I felt fine get back there the nurse comes in
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she goes how are you feeling and I'm I feel fine okay so we got to do this really
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invasive procedure I said which is she so she goes we're going to shoot you full of sugar we're going to shoot you
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full of insulin we're going to shoot you full of uh calcium and we're going to shoot you full of Lasix and I go sounds
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like the treatment is worse than the condition so they did right I've never
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had my blood sugar go to 395 before it did
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um I never had Soo many blood tests taken out of my arms in a matter of 4
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hours but they did and the whole time the nurse the doctor the
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nephologist the the um what do you call them the FLOTUS they come into my room
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right I'm in the ER they come in there and I'm just laying there and they go you're not freaked out
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and I go for what well you your heart could stop beating and I go you know what I said if
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you knew the god I knew you wouldn't worry about it and they go what do you mean I said if my heart stops beating I
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have a DNR in place don't resuscitate me because that means my ministry here on Earth is over and the doctor goes
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what said if it's my time it's my time I
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don't care and they go and never anybody could be this calm you know your heart could
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stop and I went okay and they were like did I get
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up to they finally after I don't know how many hours I was in the ER they finally send me upstairs
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right I thought I was going to get to go home the neologist says oh I want to keep you overnight for observation all
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right so you know they're up there doing blood they go in there checking my blood sugar every two hours they come in 2
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hours after I eat check my blood sugar they go do all this stuff and I'm telling them I said you know what I really want to do and they go what's up
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I said I'd like to go to sleep and they're going what I said I'd like to go to
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sleep oh so I get up the next morning they feed me breakfast they feed me
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lunch and nurse comes in she goes all your blood Works back to
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normal I don't know what to say I said I do said what's that I said get my paperwork so I can go home I'm tired of
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being in this hospital so I go to see the doctor Friday doctor pulls up all my
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blood work right and he goes you know other than that potassium level being high I have nothing to say I said what
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do you mean and he says everything's normal he says your A1C is normal your
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your cholesterol all your cholesterol levels are normal uh your blood pressure
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he goes how old are you I said 61 he goes and your blood pressure is 117 over
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78 he goes I don't have anybody your age comes in here with blood pressure like that or numbers like this and I went if
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you knew the god I knew you wouldn't worry about it so I'm sharing all this with you
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because it ties directly to this what you fear most motivates
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you that sounds like a weird statement right what you fear most motivates
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you how many of you are familiar with job go there the next slide Chris so
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before I get into that part there's two words in Hebrew that we're looking at here that translate into English as
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fear the first one is pakad and it means to be startled or to be afraid or you
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saw a spider and you jumped up on top of the table that's what that one means it's the same word that used in
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job 3:25 and that word is used 25 times that one word 25 times in the Old
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Testament the other one is pronounced
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yearo and it means to be morally reverent or to stand in awe and it's
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what's used in Proverbs 1:7 and it's used 45 times in the Old
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Testament okay so go to the next slide Chris fear motivates every area of your
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life what type of fear you're experiences experiencing influences how
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you think how you speak and how you act so if you're
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experiencing go back to the previous slide Chris so if you're experiencing
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pakad you're experiencing terror you're
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afraid you ever have you ever do you suffer from
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anxiety overthinking it overthinking it overthinking it
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you're falling into the first kind of fear because whatever you're
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thinking it's not true it just might be true but it's not
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true so you're you're following this fear that can overwhelm
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you but when you get a bad report or you have the doctor tell you something and you react in year
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off it doesn't matter so go two slides up Chris so
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these are scriptures to look at and we're going to look at them and I'm going to I'm going to share with you why
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they're important and they do tie into what we've been talking about uh the
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first one is Proverbs 1 and 7 you guys should probably know these by by
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now Proverbs 1:7 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise
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wisdom and instruction now if we left it like that
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and fear and you say the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom people say why should I be afraid of God if God
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is full of love well if we want to accurately translate that that scripture
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it should say this faith in the Lord is the beginning of
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wisdom think about that and fools despise wisdom and and
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instruction faith in the Lord is the beginning of wisdom because it changes your
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opinion it changes your outlook it changes everything that you do because
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we're no longer talking about fear we're talking about Faith how many you seen those bumper stickers to say faith over
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fear okay how many times have you said Faith over fear how many times did you actually
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believe that how many times have you had a bad
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report and you speak the opposite of the bad bad report and people look at you
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like you're an alien from Mars because you're not
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afraid you're not worried not overcome by
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it this is how most people react it's in
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job I'm going to read it to you because it's
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important it's important to be able to wrap this around round uh wrap this in your mind the correct
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way because it affects how you worship it affects what you
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do and this is what it says it says for the this is job what happened to job
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lost his kids he lost his house he was get covered in boils he's got all this stuff going on listen to what he said
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this is 325 says for the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me me and that which
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I was afraid of is come unto me if you fear
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God using the wrong definition of fear you can't draw close to him because
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you're afraid of what's going to happen you're afraid that God's standing there with a big old baseball bat waiting on
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you to make a mistake but when you have faith in God
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and faith that his word says as it says in uh uh 1 John 1:9 he says Brethren if
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we sin he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness if we understand that
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then we know God's not standing there with a baseball bat we understand he's standing there with his arms
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outstretched saying get up dust yourself off come back to me let me clean you up
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so you can keep going and go forward so many times
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in our church life and Christians are bad at killing their own somebody makes a
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mistake and all of a sudden that person's pushed over in the corner by himself they they have been
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subjected to judgment rather than being
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given Grace remember you weren't perfect either you had come to Jesus and ask him
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to forgive you it took took his grace and his mercy and his blood to bring you
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back into into fellowship with God when you have people who stumble and fall and
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guess what we all stumble and fall there is nobody sitting in this building right now who has never stumbled and
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fell so none of us have the right to
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judge what we do have though is a god-given mission to extend
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Grace and and the church forgets that the church forgets where they came from
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the church forgets their failures you ever met sister holier than
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thou that's not someone you want to hang around with okay cuz when you when you get to
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start hanging around with them man that critical spirit jump off on you it it's
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like how many of you has ever ridden a horse you ever saddle a horse and accidentally get a bur under the
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blanket oh yeah you don't fall off you get throw off you get throwed way off in fact that horse if you can't get that
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that bur out from underneath that saddle he'll stomp you it hurts him that
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bad uh but we have people in church they react the same
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way to someone who has stumbled and Fallen it's all of a sudden oh you're a
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pariah we can't get near you I've experienced this firsthand by the way when I went through my divorce I go to
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Texas I'm in I'm in Houston Texas right I go to Friendswood and I go to church assembly
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God church not much bigger than this one I go in there everything was cool the first time I went to church but between
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the first time I went to church and the second time I went to church the pastor called the SoCal
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Network and he found out that I was going through a divorce I come back to church the
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following Sunday I wound up sitting on the back row over in the corner and told
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there was Fellowship after church but I wasn't welcome to join you went through a divorce
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yep I was also told at that very same that very same service that I was not
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allowed to address any of the women that live that were attended that church and that I wasn't allowed to shake hands
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with any of the women that attended that church and I looked at him and I said and and
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so why am I here then and the pastor looked me goes well
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you know this is the Bible Belt I go well nothing you just told me lines up your
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scripture um and I won't be back and I didn't go
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back that's an example of what I'm talking about you can't live that way because
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you're never going to extend Grace to those who need it most if you're constantly judging them for their past
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failures we all have past failures we all had to come to that point where we
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looked up and what we saw in front of us was the cross we said we need what's at the
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cross forgiveness grace mercy Redemption
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not judgment Jesus said I came to save not to
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condemn and that's the thing we have to do Proverbs
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18:21 is anybody taking
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notes mental [Music]
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Proverbs 18:21 says death and life are in the power of
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the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof when you have people coming into
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church you can clearly see they need Jesus are the words coming out of your
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mouth speaking life to them or are you speaking death to
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them there's a statement that says where Angel men will go Where
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Angels Fear To Tread there's also another one that says but for the grace of God there go
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I the only reason you're standing here today is by God's grace amen
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okay we've all had some pretty major things happen I mean Brenda you're here today because of God's grace all right
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I've been in some of them nasty accidents okay and survived them
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um we're all here by God's grace there isn't a single one of us sitting here
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who hasn't experienced God's grace and every single one of us are
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required by God to extend that same Grace to other people backsliding Christians Christians
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that aren't walking in the place that they probably could walk in a better place people who've never known
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Jesus we're supposed to be in the business of extending
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Grace of telling them God loved them so much that he sent his son to die in
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their place the Great
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Commission and in that process what happens is when we keep that
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perspective in how to talk to people how to treat people how to do what Jesus
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said in Matthew 7:12 do unto others as you would have them do unto you not do unto others as they've already done unto
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you okay we begin to walk in that place where we become
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effective where God is able to use us in in Mighty ways
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and to help us reach people that would be considered unreachable um I had to learn that
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lesson too it it was it was quite a thing realizing
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that that these homeless people I worked with were just as important I'm talking
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about when I was at the mission this is where I learned it at that these homeless people in these people that were drug addicts and alcoholics and
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prostitutes and all these other people that were coming there for a free meal needed Jesus's love just as much as
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I did and that it wasn't my place to say well you can't come
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here unless they got violent with somebody you know and then I had to call the police to get them off the property
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but outside of that wasn't my place to say you can't be here Jesus came for
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everybody he didn't leave anybody be out and
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so I began to realize that and and then it began to put pieces together pieces
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that I had here and there that I'd learned over all the years I've been saved at that time it was
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oh 30 years 29 somewhere 28 somewhere in there um that I began putting these
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pieces together and it made a bigger picture and when I got all the pieces put in there guess what the picture
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was Jesus it's a picture picture of Jesus not a picture of me not a picture
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of anything else it was a picture of Jesus and I realized that to reach the people that God wanted me to reach I had
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to reach them with Jesus no matter what situation they were in
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so and with that came a better understanding of God's word 3D John 2 it
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says Brethren a w that you prospers and be in health even as thy soul prospers
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my prosperity and my health are not based on what comes out of my pocketbook
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my prosperity and my health is based on what's going into my spirit into my soul
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I would that you prosper and be in health even as thy Soul Prosper my soul
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has to is the key to prospering and I'm not just talking about financial prospering I
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mean flourishing living a uh the joyfill life living the life of Peace living a
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life of love living a life extending Grace it all comes from what's coming out of my spirit because as a man think
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in his heart so is he and then you have to come to the
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place where you realize that nothing can take that away
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from you and that's in Romans 8 and I'm going to go over there this is
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actually my favorite chapter in the whole in the whole Bible is Romans chapter 8 there's more stuff in Romans
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chapter 8 than you can possibly imagine and in the last two verses of
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Romans chapter 8 Paul tells you this he says for I am persuaded have you
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ever been persuaded if you're persuaded it doesn't matter what somebody tells you they can't convince you of anything other
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else anything other than what you are persuaded in he says I am persuaded that neither
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death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height
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nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
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lord that removes
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fear completely why why because there's no torment in it he's telling you have hope
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have faith accept God's grace why because there's nothing that can
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separate you from him except for one thing
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you you can separate yourself from it but there's nothing in creation that can
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separate you from the love of God unless you allow it to
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you have control Jesus said those the father put in my hand that I don't lose any of them
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he said my sheep know my voice another they will not follow you might be saying well brother
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John what's is there any more slides Chris or is that the last one so you might be asking why I did
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this I started out the beginning of this month teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and fear is really critical for
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you to understand now I'm going to tell you why have you been in a service you felt the Holy Spirit dealing
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with you you felt like God wanted you to do something but you held back because
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you were afraid that you were either going to say the wrong thing you were going to do the wrong thing or that you
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might be missing
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God every person who is trying to get to that place of operating
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the gifts of the Spirit experiences that experience even me first time God wanted
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me to give a message in church um I held
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back so and God gave the message to somebody else because I was afraid I was going to
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say something wrong and I didn't realize till later on
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that it wasn't me doing the speaking to start with it was God so how could God get it
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wrong okay so the next opportunity came up and I felt the Holy Spirit dealing
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with me to give the message I gave the message Happ to be a message in tongues and then as soon as I finished giving
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the message I had the I had the interpretation and I gave that
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too and I'm saying this to you because a lot of times now I've went over quite a
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quite a number of things that keep the Holy Spirit from from operating in the church like uh lack of Praise prayer and
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worship those kind of things fear you being
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afraid of what you might say or do will hinder the
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spirit and I've I've seen sister I've seen you operate in a word of knowledge
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I've seen you come up here this is before I pray for you to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and say I
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really feel the holy spirit is telling me that somebody needs
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prayer he operates that way sometimes he tells you a specific
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person sometimes it's a general statement because there's more than one person who needs prayer for the same
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thing sometimes he gives you a message directly for somebody I've been there
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too um had people up here in the prayer line and start to pray for them there was like I don't know 30 of them up here
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at one time and and as I was praying for them God would give me a message for
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each person specifically you remember uh brother
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Mike brother Mike vinon used to operate in the gifts of the Spirit in that way that he would personally tell you a word
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from a message from the word he would give you a word from God so so all of
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those things are possible for any person setting in the
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church but to be able to operate in that
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area you have to let go of the fear you have to not be afraid
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um it's just like when you're praying and you begin to speak in tongues in your prayer
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closet there's no fear associated with that because you nobody can hear you it's just you in your prayer closet
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but when you're in church and you get a message in tongues you're scared because you don't want to say something to somebody say what was
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that or wow CU here's the thing it's really
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bad that Pentecostals are this way for the most part they measure your
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spiritual maturity on how many times you give a message in
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tongues and guess what you can be going through the worst kind of garbage at home failing God
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miserably and he'll still use you to give that message in tones or he'll use you to give a word of
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Prophecy or a word of knowledge or any of these other things because you were yielded at the moment and you were
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repented at the moment and God used you at that moment to meet somebody else's
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need that's what the gifts of the Spirit do they're to meet somebody else's need
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you take care of your need when you're back in your prayer closet when you're praying in Tong James said build up your
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Most Holy Faith or Jude did build up your Most Holy Faith praying in the
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spirit that's how you build it up that type of prayer life is between
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you and God when you're alone when you're in there crying out to God because everything went sideways
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this week um or you you or the enemy used somebody
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to try to give you a bad report and uh they can't understand why
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you're not receiving it you know the doctor goes um do you feel weak do you feel
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dizzy how's your heart going um you have a are you having cold sweats
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or you having that no I don't have any symptoms at all I feel fine
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so I I get down to the emergency room now on Monday it was at 6.5 at
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Tuesday it's at 5.8 they put me through all this I got the bruises to prove it they put me
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through all this stuff 2 hours later it's normal in fact it went all the way down
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to three and then it balanced off at
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4.4 and the whole time I'm just laying there twiddling my thumbs cuz I'm in a room with no TV there's nothing in that
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room it's just me you know there's no TV there's no
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radio you can't be on your phone because you don't want your battery to die in your phone while you say because unless
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you get up on a floor where they can plug it in and charge your phone your phone's going to die right so you have all these things going
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on so I want to encourage you couple of things
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don't accept bad reports because if it didn't come from
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God it's not something youi the doctors still are kind of you
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know bewildered um because I never got freaked
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out at all I just looked at him and I go okay
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he you're not making any sense you're not making any sense and I go but I feel
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fine he said actually I felt better before you started giving me this treatment than I do right now because
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they gave me this shot and it sent my blood sugar to 395 my blood sugars never went that high
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before the highest they ever been is 159 and they sent it to
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395 before the insulin kicked in to bring it back down
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and I'm going like I bet you if you take a buest tomorrow my my uh potassium level will be
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normal but we can't take a chance like I feel
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fine don't accept the bad report don't accept things that don't line up to
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God's word what did he say he said by his stripes you are healed does it not
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it says he was bruised for our iniquities that's our failings the chastisement of our peace was upon in
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other words that takes away the fear there's no fear and by his stripes we are
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healed so if we don't have to if he did everything he did to take away our iniquities to bring us
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peace and to heal our bodies our minds and our souls what have we got to fear
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fear has torment and we're able to do great and
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abundantly and exceedingly for his name's sake to do the things he's called
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us to do so I want I want you guys
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to begin to look at yourself that way I'm blessed I'm
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redeemed I I have God's will directing me the enemy has no Authority me over me
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when you have those days where he's beating you over the
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head you need to be able to tell him you know what that's a lie his word says by his stripes I'm
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Healed his word says the chastisement of my peace was upon him you don't you
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shouldn't have to fight anxiety depression and these other
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things when you accept the fact that he's he took that that beating that's
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what the chastisement is to give you peace in every area of
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your life when doctors could call you and give you a bad report you don't freak
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out they don't know how to act it's kind of funny I I mean I when saw my doctor
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on Friday and he's from India from right across the border of where I'm going
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next month told me so he goes I'm from Punjab in Northern India and you're
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going to Punjab in pacan they're right across the border from each other uh cuz I had to make sure my
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vaccinations were all up to date and they are he said the only thing you need do is take malaria medication but then
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you're good I said all right and uh but e even
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on Friday after being out of the hospital for 2 days he still still freaking out over the blood
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work and I'm like okay whatever and he goes I don't get it and so I told him I
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said I'm a pastor and a Christian and a and he goes a Christian and I go I'm not Catholic cuz you got to realize in the
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Middle East in India Pakistan any of the Muslim countries when you tell them
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you're Christian they automatically assume you're Catholic okay you have to explain it to
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them so I explained it to him I said I am not Catholic he goes I didn't know there
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were any Christians in Pakistan I said oh yeah especially in in in the punjob region he goes that's where I'm from but
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on the other side of the border so okay God wants to use you he wants you
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to be a testimony to people he wants you to be a testimony to your own
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doctor if you get an opportunity
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and he does expect people to look at you like you're from Mars especially when you have peace that
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surpasses all understanding when you have that that bad report from the
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doctor doesn't matter when you're in church and you're
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in service and you feel the Holy Spirit begin to deal with you that God wants you to do
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something I'm not talking about jumping out the windows or running around outside screaming and yelling I'm
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talking about getting up and praying for somebody for laying hands on somebody for giving somebody a word of knowledge
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or a Word of Wisdom don't be
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afraid because he wants to use you to meet somebody else's
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need all right and what are you guys going to do this week you're going to go
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you're going to go be the church you're going to do what he said to do go into
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all the world sharing the gospel with them Heavenly Father we thank you and Praise
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You Lord God we ask that you bring all those that are going to be back this evening back
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