Let me pray for us and we’ll get going.

01:14:25:06 – 01:14:49:03
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Father, we thank you so much for your son, Jesus. We thank you, Lord, for filling us with Your Holy Spirit. We thank you for uniting with us as your sons and daughters forever. Thank you for your mercy and your grace and your truth. Today I pray that you would break through, and that you would assure us today that you’re setting all wrong things right.

01:14:49:05 – 01:15:12:27
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In Jesus name, Amen. Okay, well, the sermon for today is part of the Kingdom Way series. We’re talking about what the Kingdom of God means and how it touches earth. So the Kingdom of God is God’s reign. It’s God ruling directly. And we know that Jesus said to pray, your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, and the kingdom is ruled by a King Jesus.

01:15:13:00 – 01:15:39:28
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Jesus is God who took flesh. That was the ultimate action of humility. Did you know the whole gospel? The whole good news of Jesus is a descent. Every other religion is an ascent. How do we climb up to God where the gospel is saying, how does God descend to us to deliver us, to save us, to make wrong things right?

01:15:40:00 – 01:15:47:12
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The only people who don’t qualify to be made right are those who think they already are right.

01:15:47:14 – 01:16:10:27
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The Kingdom of God is coming for the humble. The Kingdom of God is coming for the broken, for the ones that have no resources. The world says, well, you know, the favored ones are the rich, the favored ones are the pastors. The favored ones are the ones that have attained something. The ones who really know, who really do, who really believe.

01:16:10:28 – 01:16:51:15
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That’s the ones that have made it. And Jesus says, you’ve made it. If you’re in a place where you just say, Only God can help me. Only God can help me. And when you’re in that place, is he ever going to let you down? No. By no means. God forbid. And when we see that mercy, when we see that descent of God coming off of a throne and becoming an embryo and becoming a child and becoming a carpenter and working in a job and being betrayed and going to a Roman cross and being betrayed by his best friend and washing feet.

01:16:51:15 – 01:17:15:23
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And that’s God. And there’s a crucified God, and there’s a buried God, and there’s a god in the underworld, and there’s a risen god, and there’s a risen man, and there’s a risen humanity. We say, what grace is this? What grace is this? What a free gift that God would give himself to us, to save us. And that makes us hit our knees.

01:17:15:26 – 01:17:35:10
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And it makes us say, thank you, Lord. And our text for today is in Luke 18. Luke 18 comes after what? Oh, yeah. Okay, good. Luke 17. All right. You’re right. So I just always want to remind people.

01:17:35:12 – 01:17:56:17
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I always want to remind people that you read the Bible in context. Okay. And all the way. If you want to read this later, all the way through Luke 17 and all the way through Luke 18, you see Jesus running into poor people and into rich people, and they have different reactions and different responses to God coming on the scene as a humble man.

01:17:56:19 – 01:18:18:11
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There is ten lepers he runs into and he says, go show yourself to the priest. And as they go there healed, and only one returns to weep on his feet, to be moved by his grace. Then in chapter 18, we’re going to talk about a widow who’s just pouring out her heart, saying, I need justice. I’ve been wronged.

01:18:18:12 – 01:18:42:21
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Somebody took my land or my inheritance or my possessions. It doesn’t doesn’t say specifically, but she’s just crying out, can I please be saved? She has nothing to offer but this plea, this plea of humility. Then we’re going to run into a notorious sinner, a tax collector, and he receives deliverance and justification from God. Then we run into a Pharisee, and he doesn’t.

01:18:42:24 – 01:19:16:08
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A man who has attained much, many things religiously, many things in self-denial, he leaves not set right, not justified. Quick definition justified would mean to be set right, to be rectified, to be made righteous, to be made exactly as you ought to be. To quote Thayer’s Greek lexicon, the biblical term, it’s from the root decay or decay. And it’s this word of justice and to be made just to be made righteous, to be exactly as you should be.

01:19:16:11 – 01:19:43:27
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And God takes the people that the world says, you’re not the way you should be. You’re not rich. You’re not strong. You can’t see. You’re a leper. You’re a widow. You’re a woman. You’re a sinner. You’re a tax collector. You have nothing to offer God. And Jesus says, I’m coming to deliver you. And I will descend to the lowest place to lift you to the highest place.

01:19:43:29 – 01:20:15:15
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The theme verse in here in Luke 18 is whoever humbles himself will be exalted, and whoever exalts himself will be humbled. Exalt means to be placed on a pinnacle at the uttermost throne of creation. In acts 531, Peter says, Jesus exalted the father, exalted Jesus to the right hand of God. God says, I’m going to meet you in your complete lack of qualification, and I’m going to raise you to the throne of heaven to sit with Christ.

01:20:15:17 – 01:20:42:10
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That sets things right. That’s a declaration, by the way, before you even see it happen, before anything even changes. Jesus says that’s who you are. What the Lord proclaims, he produces. God’s word is not empty word. It comes in power in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. When God’s Word rings out, it kindles faith. It quickens faith.

01:20:42:10 – 01:21:12:16
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It incites faith. It pulls on faith. It creates faith. It births faith because God says, I am totally faithful to you. I’m totally trustworthy even when you have nothing to offer me. Even when you failed me. I’m totally trustworthy. That’s who I really am. Throw out every other view of God. He’s totally trustworthy at your worst, and that triggers your faith.

01:21:12:18 – 01:21:18:03
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Sometimes we think our faith triggers God’s faithfulness to us.

01:21:18:06 – 01:21:44:06
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It’s God’s faithfulness to us that triggers our faith. God always initiates. So this message is called the humble faith of Jesus. Jesus has a question in here and he says, when I come, am I going to find faith on the earth? And I always wondered what that meant. But this weekend, that voice of God, the Lord showed me, and Jeremiah showed it, and Rose prophesied it.

01:21:44:09 – 01:22:04:21
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And what we’re going to see is God. God knew our faithfulness would not be enough. So he took on flesh, and he was faithful for us, and he was faithful as us. And he makes us right by the faith of Jesus Christ, not by the faith of me or even Pastor Jonathan, even though he’s really good, you know.

01:22:04:24 – 01:22:17:24
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Let me show you something I can. I have you come up real quick. My best friend Jeremy. Come on up. The anointed physician and the spirit. I’m going to say that. Okay? Now watch this. A lot of us think this, that this is how God is going to make you right. And that’s how God’s going to save you.

01:22:17:27 – 01:22:36:09
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Would you please come shake my hand? Okay, good. You’re good. That’s what we think. I’m putting it out there. Now you take it. Good. Has anybody ever heard that gospel presentation before? Okay. Now watch this.

01:22:36:12 – 01:22:56:21
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Take my hand. Take my wrist. Lock up right now. Let go! Now! Let go! That I’m not letting go. I took hold of you. I want you to take hold of me. Now, I’m not going to do this because he knows how to do jiu jitsu. And I’m probably going to be cartwheeling. All right? Yeah. See, I know.

01:22:56:22 – 01:23:15:12
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Right? So. Thanks, brother. Yeah. Really good. Thanks, Jerry. Bye. Okay, so never give him the grips. Never give him the grips. Okay. I learned that much as a white belt. And then I was like, I’m getting beat to shreds. It’s time to quit. Okay.

01:23:15:14 – 01:23:25:18
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All right. Enough of that. Okay. But what I just showed you is a biblical idea. It’s from Philippians 312. It says.

01:23:25:20 – 01:23:54:08
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Not that I have already attained or I am already perfected, but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. I lay hold of the one who has laid hold of me. He didn’t. He came to actually save you. He came to grab you when you’re drowning. He didn’t come to just dangle a life preserver at you and hope you could swim to it.

01:23:54:11 – 01:24:18:22
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He said it right. And now he says, Will you grab on? And we’re going somewhere. We’re no longer trying to stop drowning. We’re trying to stop other people from from drowning because he took care of the whole saving you. Now, he says, are you going to participate in this rescue mission? The faith of Christ is for you. The faith of Christ is for your neighbor.

01:24:18:23 – 01:24:36:25
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The faith of Christ is for this church. The faith of Christ is for this nation. It’s for the state. There’s a lot of war going on in the surface of this world. There’s a lot of strife and turmoil. But, you know, most of the world is underneath the surface. Most of the power struggles in this world is underneath the surface.

01:24:36:25 – 01:24:59:08
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And I believe God is winning. I believe the faith of Jesus Christ will overcome every activity of the enemy and every rebellion of mankind. I just believe that you don’t have to agree with me, but I have the faith of Jesus for that. That’s what he believes. Is it more important than what you believe or what God believes?

01:24:59:10 – 01:25:21:12
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What justifies you? What you believe or what God believes about you? That’s what makes you right. The faith of Jesus Christ. Okay, let me read our section. Luke 18 one through 17 I had to just preach the gospel first and I’ll do the teaching. All right. Also, I think this is really cool because I just want to say one other thing before I read it.

01:25:21:18 – 01:25:42:08
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I’m just kidding. No, I’m just read it. Right. Luke 18 one. We got to read it in context, or we’re not going to see where the flow of thought is here. Jesus told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, in a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.

01:25:42:09 – 01:26:07:27
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And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him, saying, give me justice against my adversary. Set things right. For a while he refused, but afterwards he said to himself, though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.

01:26:07:29 – 01:26:20:09
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And the Lord said, hear what the unrighteous judge says. Is God an unrighteous judge? Do you have to twist his arm?

01:26:20:11 – 01:26:44:22
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Hear what the unrighteous judge says, and will not God, the righteous judge, give justice to his chosen, his elect, who cried to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Jesus says, I’m going to give justice. I have a movement of compassion within me that prompts me to make things right.

01:26:44:25 – 01:26:55:29
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You know, God doesn’t make things right because it’s his duty to do it. Because he has to do it because he’s God. He does it because he’s moved by compassion.

01:26:56:02 – 01:27:19:14
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That’s how he wants us to be moved. Be moved by compassion and set something right. Nevertheless, he says, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? That’s the question of this message. Will he find faith on the earth? And what kind of faith is he looking for? We’re going to see pseudo faith, and we’re going to see the real deal.

01:27:19:20 – 01:27:43:09
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The faith of the widow. The faith of the leper. The faith of the notorious tax collector. The faith of an infant, a baby. Here we go. He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous. They had faith in their own faithfulness.

01:27:43:11 – 01:27:57:12
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Say law. Do you have faith in your own willpower to follow God? I don’t know about you, but mine fades. My grip loosens.

01:27:57:14 – 01:28:22:04
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His grip does not break. And when I’m ready again, I close my hand on his wrist and he pulls me out and he can last a long time. I’ve never outlasted him before. I’ve tried to leave my faith at least two times, by the way. Did you guys know that I’ve wanted to quit completely? And he goes. He always goes, you’re not going anywhere, son.

01:28:22:06 – 01:28:28:00
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You think this is up to you?

01:28:28:02 – 01:28:50:28
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Do you think I’m going to let Lainey, my daughter, just go do irreparable damage to herself when I can stop it, when I can hold her, when I can rescue her. Just the thought. He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and they treated others with contempt. That always happens to men.

01:28:50:29 – 01:29:13:29
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He said, This is Jesus. Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee. That’s a religious expert. The other was a tax collector. We know that’s not good even in our culture. Okay, good. I don’t even have to explain the cultural context. The Pharisee standing by himself. Oh, did you notice that stands all by himself.

01:29:14:01 – 01:29:32:14
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He prayed this. God, I thank you that I am not like other men. Extortionist, unjust, adulterers, or even like this. Linda, you’re not this tax collector.

01:29:32:16 – 01:30:00:20
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I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I get. Oh, man. But the tax collector standing far off would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. Do you think he lifted his head up after that, or did he keep going the rest of his life?

01:30:00:21 – 01:30:14:06
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God be merciful. I’m so sinner. I’m nothing. I’m nothing more. Did the Lord raise his head and say, look at me, son. You’re who I say you are.

01:30:14:09 – 01:30:25:23
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He was far off. Now he’s near. He was downcast. Now he’s upright.

01:30:25:25 – 01:30:38:29
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He was adrift. Now he’s gripped by the grace of heaven. This is the good news that God has done this for you.

01:30:39:01 – 01:30:54:29
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And you didn’t do anything to make him want to do it. He just wanted to do it while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us. You know, when it says sinners and tax collectors, it doesn’t mean a guy that made a mistake. That’s usually what we mean by sinners in our culture. We say, you know, we’ve all sin.

01:30:54:29 – 01:31:20:19
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We’re all sinners. Ha ha ha. We all gamble and smoke and chew, you know, whatever. You know, we’re doing things like, that’s not really we don’t, okay? We don’t do that. Nobody would ever do that. And I’m just kidding. But notorious like a sinner, that term sinner in their culture meant a really bad person, a tax collector, a prostitute, someone like Mary Magdalene, possessed by seven demons.

01:31:20:20 – 01:31:37:20
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Do you think Mary Magdalene did anything for Jesus or offered Jesus anything before he delivered her of seven demons? He gripped her and she followed, and her whole life was different. She became the apostle to the apostles.

01:31:37:22 – 01:31:46:13
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I don’t even know where I was going with that. Maybe I should stop. Okay.

01:31:46:16 – 01:32:13:01
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He went to his house. Justified. He lifted his eyes. It really changed something in his life before anything even shifted in his profession. This tax collector, this notorious person, he didn’t even amend his ways. And he was justified because it was God’s deed. It was a unilateral act of rescue. Just like the judgment for the widow. It was the judge’s decision.

01:32:13:03 – 01:32:36:09
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She had to wait for it to happen. She was dependent on it to happen. We’re dependent on the faith of Jesus Christ before we can move. This is for us as individuals. And I’m going to say later, it’s for us as a church. It’s for us as a people. The faith of Jesus Christ is corporate. It’s not just a personal, individual thing.

01:32:36:11 – 01:32:54:07
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He wants us to have one faith, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. You know, when we were all going around, that was awesome, Pastor John, that you had us all praying for people, and it looked like there were a lot of different people exercising their personal faith. But I saw one faith.

01:32:54:09 – 01:33:17:23
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I didn’t see uniformity, I saw harmony. I saw one accord. Acts one. They were all in the upper room, praying of one accord in harmony with one another. God can be doing multiple different things, but it’s one person doing the work. Who’s that person? Jesus. Okay. It’s the faith of Jesus Christ that we yield to and we partner with.

01:33:17:24 – 01:33:44:11
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Now, do we have to have faith or does it depend on Jesus’s faith? Apostle Pat yes. Our faith is vital. We can resist. We can lag behind. We can go limp. He doesn’t let go. But it’s not a really fun experience for us. If you’re a Christian right now, God’s gripped you. You got a partner. Start listening. Start yielding.

01:33:44:13 – 01:34:04:01
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Lift up your head. Draw near. He didn’t stay. The tax collector didn’t stay far off. He. I believe he drew near at the temple the next day. I have to believe that. I don’t believe God just gives you new legal paperwork and he changes nothing about you. Yeah, I believe he does give you a legal paperwork. You’re innocent.

01:34:04:01 – 01:34:30:24
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You’re acquitted. He nailed the handwriting to the cross. Colossians 215. I believe that’s in the Bible, but I also believe in second, second Corinthians 521. It says, we’ve been made into the righteousness of God. We’ve been genome I, we’ve been redeemed. We’ve been given the DNA of God. We’ve been given the faith of Christ in our spirits. That means we do have his faith.

01:34:30:26 – 01:34:47:28
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Or we could opt for our soul faith where we’re trying to figure things out. And I gotta get I got to generate the energy to pray through for this healing. Oh, I must have terrible faith. Well, your soul does. I’ll say your soul’s faith sucks. I’ll just say that. Sorry, to be blunt. Okay. Mine. Maybe yours does it.

01:34:47:29 – 01:34:56:14
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Mine is really bad. Mine has no juice to it whatsoever. I’ll see one little doubt and I’ll be like, not happening.

01:34:56:16 – 01:35:15:25
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Let’s go back to the theology textbooks and figure out why it didn’t work. That’s what. That’s how I’m wired. But my spirits not wired that way. That’s not who I really am. And when I’m in a corporate setting where I have other people as one with me, as one with the Holy Spirit, I tap into the faith of Christ.

01:35:15:27 – 01:35:42:00
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And there’s a breakthrough. We need each other. I need everyone in this room to help me. You know, there have been times of vulnerability. I just couldn’t I just couldn’t go forward anymore. And I had to have, you know, my brother Jeremy. I had to have my brother Nick. I had to have somebody that would pray for me and would truly hear me out, you know, and help me to believe what Christ believes.

01:35:42:05 – 01:36:01:00
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Help me to believe what the father says. Because on our own, our faith, our heart and our flesh will fail. But God is the strength of our heart and our portion forever. We have to have each other. There is a bunch of people in this room. There’s one Christ.

01:36:01:02 – 01:36:24:23
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There’s one spirit. If you’re new to the church, this is a core doctrine of our church that there’s Christ, the head in heaven, and there’s Christ, the body on the earth. And there’s no division, there’s no separation, there’s no inferiority. But we don’t believe. But I think last week or last weekend, I believe I think we started to believe.

01:36:24:25 – 01:36:48:25
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I think when Jeremy gave us a reproof at that worship night to say, let’s all in one, one accord yield to Jesus, praise him here, the Holy Spirit, we began to see, oh, this is how it is. And if you remember, Rose prophesied, this is the faith of Jesus Christ. So we’re just this is what teaching is. We try to figure out what God has already done.

01:36:48:27 – 01:37:04:17
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He’s already doing it. What do you think the Trinity is? You know, they’re like, it took him 300 years to develop the doctrine of the Trinity because they were all monotheist. And then all of a sudden, God was a man walking around getting crucified. And they’re like, we got to figure this thing out. How did that even happen?

01:37:04:18 – 01:37:23:24
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You know, so a lot of times our teaching is putting words to the encounters we’re having in the Holy Spirit so that they could be repeated so they could be deepened. They could be strengthened. That’s that’s why I think this is an important word, because I believe the Lord doesn’t want us all popping off in our own soul faith.

01:37:23:26 – 01:37:43:04
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I believe he wants us not to be running out ahead of the Holy Spirit, trying to do things because we have an anointing and a calling and an onion, which could be an emotion. But waiting back for the leadership of the Holy Spirit, waiting back for your brothers to make the journey with you and your sisters, to make the journey with you.

01:37:43:06 – 01:38:01:06
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If we move forward as one, as a house, I’m going to prophesy. If we move forward as one, as a house, we will plant many churches, we will be successful and we will propagate the message of life to this world.

01:38:01:08 – 01:38:04:24
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I’m still prophesying.

01:38:04:26 – 01:38:14:09
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If we do not move forward as one, it will scatter and it will wither, says the Lord.

01:38:14:11 – 01:38:35:23
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But there’s great news, because this is me now. Okay. Right. We can we can band together as one. And the Lord is with us. And we don’t have anything to worry about because he’s like, hey guys, I’m with you. It’s my faith. It’s my miracles, it’s my message, it’s my intervention. I know every person that’s going to come into this house and into any other house.

01:38:35:23 – 01:38:54:27
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I know them better than they know themselves. I’m going to reach them. I’m going to disclose their hearts. They’re going to cry out that God is truly among you. So what we learned at Voice of God last weekend, if we have the faith of Jesus Christ, we can stand. If we have the faith of Jesus Christ, we’re delivered.

01:38:54:27 – 01:39:20:26
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We’re made right, we’re justified, and we’re actually going to act in justice, in acts of justice toward this world, to liberate people from sin, from death, from Satan, from judgment. We will move in that. Okay. You probably finish reading the Scripture here. All right. So we did the tax collector, one last, last little vignette. Okay. Now they were bringing even infants to Jesus so that he might touch them.

01:39:20:26 – 01:39:45:29
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And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called to him, called them to him, saying, let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it. Okay, what kind of faith does an infant have?

01:39:46:01 – 01:40:18:05
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It said infant. It didn’t say eight year old kid or 15 year old kid. It said infant. Jesus said that’s the faith I’m looking for on this earth. All the only faith in infant has is the faith in its mom’s faithfulness, faith in its dad’s faithfulness. The faith of the parent is the faith of the child. And he says, if you cannot get this, you cannot get the kingdom.

01:40:18:08 – 01:40:49:24
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He’s like, that’s the faith I’m looking for on this earth. But you all are saying, David, you are saying, thank you, God. I’m not like these other men. I’m intellectual, I’m distinct. I work, I pay tithes, I administer in the church. I’m a, you know, a pillar of my community. He goes on the next account is the rich young ruler right after that, who can’t receive the kingdom because he can’t let go of his own attainments and his own willpower and his own achievement and his own strength.

01:40:49:25 – 01:41:06:16
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He can’t. That’s what he has faith in. And Jesus says, the only thing you lack is to sell everything and follow me. That’s all. The only thing you lack is to give up all faith in yourself.

01:41:06:18 – 01:41:34:23
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The message of the gospel is not believe in yourself. It is your worth more than you can possibly imagine. But it’s not to believe in yourself. It’s to believe in who you are in him, because you’re actually not divided from him. To be saved is to be in Christ, to be justified. To be made right is to be one spirit with Christ, absolutely indivisible from the righteous one.

01:41:34:26 – 01:41:57:26
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You know you’re in the righteous One when God looks at you. He says, there’s nothing wrong in you. You are exactly as you ought to be. Who believes me in Jesus name? You’re exactly who you ought to be. You’ll develop. You’ll mature. Yes, you may be four year old. For a four year old in your faith, you may be a 70 year old in your faith.

01:41:57:29 – 01:42:13:01
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You have a lot more becoming like God to do, but it’s in you. There’s nothing wrong in you. He made it right. Or do you trust your faith to make it right?

01:42:13:03 – 01:42:39:00
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Do you trust yourself? Denial to make it right? Do you trust your performance to make it right? Colossians two says those things are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. What’s a value? The faith of Jesus Christ. You know, Jesus was perfectly faithful to God, and he is perfectly faithful to us. He’s faithful before God, and he’s faithful before man.

01:42:39:00 – 01:43:04:07
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And he represents all man. We’re one in him, in Christ. His faithfulness is our faithfulness. When he was faithful in the 33 years of his life, in his life, his death, his burial, his resurrection when he was faithful, he didn’t just do it for you. He did it as you. Yes. And you have the very faithfulness and the very righteousness of Jesus Christ, because you’re one with him.

01:43:04:10 – 01:43:29:04
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We’re one with him. We have the faith of Jesus Christ. Not just me, not just the people that are getting it 100%. Everybody in this room that has the Spirit of God, that has the new nature of the New Covenant, the divine nature, the nature of God. Second Peter one three and for everyone who has that is one in him, whether you believe it or not.

01:43:29:11 – 01:43:53:04
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Because by the way, your faith is irrelevant in that it’s Christ’s faith. When will you believe? That’s the question. A Waco sleeper rise from the dead. Christ will shine on you. He has brought us in by a mighty act of deliverance. He has brought us in by a mighty act of justice, by one act of righteousness, by one act of justice.

01:43:53:06 – 01:44:24:13
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He undid everything Adam did. Romans five I believe, 1819 by one act of righteousness he saved humanity. That’s an act of justice, of justification. And he says, who wants to go? Who wants to grab on? I did my act of righteousness. Who’s going? Who’s going? Listen, okay, by the way, it’s done. There’s no more to be added to it.

01:44:24:16 – 01:44:46:12
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If we say there’s more to be added to it, we cheapen the work of Jesus Christ. And if we say it makes us complacent, we cheapen the work of the Holy Spirit because he poured out the Holy Spirit in us. Christ in us, the hope of glory filling us and radiating out from us. Because our salvation isn’t about us.

01:44:46:12 – 01:45:10:05
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It’s about the cosmos. It’s about the universe. It’s about the people on your block. It’s about the people in your work that need to know the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. So what would you do? How would you live when it’s no longer about you, when you’ve been justified, when you’ve been made right, you’ve been delivered from unrighteousness. The enemy had a grip on you.

01:45:10:10 – 01:45:32:20
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The powers of this world had a grip on you. Sin, death, Satan, the world, the flesh, the curse of the law. These are the powers that Paul goes through in the book of Galatians, and what he says is in Christ. You died to that whole world. That world was crucified to you and you to that world. That’s not you anymore.

01:45:32:22 – 01:45:58:09
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Now you receive the promised spirit by faith. And how do you receive the spirit? By works of the law, by self-righteousness, or by the hearing of faith? I say, the promise of God is for you to be filled with the spirit, to be made right. And it’s for you today. And that quickens faith. God has done it. God has done it.

01:45:58:09 – 01:46:19:28
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We receive, we receive, and then we bring justice to those around us. Justice is not just retaliation. That’s a very small bit of justice. I know as Americans, we think justice means John Wick or the Punisher or something like that. You know, kind of, you know, but I mean, justice is about making wrong things, right? And it’s motivated by mercy.

01:46:20:00 – 01:46:25:21
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Mercy to the broken or mercy to the victims who need to be set free.

01:46:25:23 – 01:46:41:11
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And God’s made you just he’s delivered you from those wicked powers, not by self-righteousness, but by his righteousness, not by your faith, but by his faith.

01:46:41:13 – 01:47:08:15
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No. Okay. What do we look to to justify our existence? We have this word justification. What do we look to to justify our existence? Do we look to good works or avoidance of evil? Do we look to our age, our nationality, our political affiliation, the causes we believe in? Do we look to our spouse to approve us and to justify our existence?

01:47:08:17 – 01:47:32:27
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Do we look to our pastor’s approval to justify our existence? Do we look for success in business or success in ministry? I often look for admiration from others to justify my existence. But what justifies my existence? The blood of Jesus. We’ve been justified by his blood.

01:47:32:29 – 01:47:54:02
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That’s what forgives us. That’s what makes us right. His blood. I think that justifies anyone in this room. God looked at you and said, you’re worth my blood. You’re worth my son’s blood. Who has a son in here? That’s a way bigger sacrifice than my blood.

01:47:54:05 – 01:47:58:20
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And he thinks you’re worth it because you’re a son to.

01:47:58:23 – 01:48:05:13
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You’re a daughter to. He made you and he predestined you to be loved.

01:48:05:15 – 01:48:15:10
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That’s why he came. That’s why he delivered you. That’s why he made you right. Jesus said, I’ll tell you another type of faith I’m looking for.

01:48:15:13 – 01:48:33:00
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Luke 18, the same chapter, verse 31. See my disciples, we’re going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished, for he will be delivered over to the Gentiles, and he will be mocked and shamed and shamefully treated and spit upon. And after flogging him, they will kill him.

01:48:33:00 – 01:49:00:08
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And on the third day he will rise. This is the faith I’m looking for, the faith that lays down its life for others. This is the faith of Jesus Christ. We say, yeah, I have faith. I believe all these intellectual properties. That’s not faith. Well, maybe it’s mental faith. Faith isn’t anything other than the faith of Christ being like him, believing him, trusting him.

01:49:00:10 – 01:49:19:05
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We trust in him because he’s trustworthy. Let me read a few scriptures on this, because I want us to really see this, and we’re getting close to being done here. But the Bible itself states many times that it is the faith of Christ that saves you. And I want that to remove pressure for somebody here because somebody here goes.

01:49:19:05 – 01:49:42:21
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I just didn’t believe I backslid. I threw my faith away. You know, I’m not worthy anymore. But it’s his faith. Stop believing in how strong your faith is and start joining your faith to his. All you need to do is hitch your trailer to the 4×4 of Jesus Christ’s faith, and he is going to pull you all the way.

01:49:42:23 – 01:50:05:07
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That’s what we do in intercession. I think we do. Maybe some people, some people in intercession. I must say, when I first started in intercession, I’ll put it like this I prayed as a religious compulsion. Whatever I felt that I should pray, I would pray in my flesh and I had to say it. Same thing in preaching the gospel.

01:50:05:07 – 01:50:14:08
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I got to pray for every person right now. And it was a religious compulsion. It was a faith of the flesh.

01:50:14:10 – 01:50:37:11
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There’s a faith of Jesus Christ that waits for the leadership of the Holy Spirit and is okay if you don’t get to perform a religious duty is okay to sit in the silence alone with God. Say thank you, ABBA. This is what I was made for. Thank you for setting things right for me when I was your enemy.

01:50:37:13 – 01:50:56:05
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Thank you so much. I want to weep on your feet. I want to be one that returns. I want to be one that says, thank you, God. I want to draw near. I want to raise my eyes to you. Okay? But I want I want us to see this, and I want it to remove the pressure that our faith has to be perfect all the time, because we are relying on his faithfulness.

01:50:56:08 – 01:51:19:07
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Okay. Romans 322. In the Young’s Literal Translation, the righteousness of God is through the faith of Jesus Christ to all through the faith in Jesus Christ, to all those young Young’s literal I think it I don’t know if it’s written on there. That’s not how it says in mind. But anyway. All right, here we go. Romans 326 and the net.

01:51:19:12 – 01:51:43:13
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This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus’s faithfulness. Galatians 215. Any team nets an academic translation. We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners. Yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law, but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.

01:51:43:18 – 01:52:02:00
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And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by works of the law. Did you see how it’s both our faith and his faith? Said, we put our faith in Jesus so we could be saved by Jesus faith.

01:52:02:02 – 01:52:26:18
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You understand that? So again, we’re hitching on to the faith of Jesus Christ. He did the plowing. He did the hard stuff. He finished the work. We’re clipping on to that. All right. Galatians 220. My favorite scripture in the King James I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh.

01:52:26:18 – 01:52:33:01
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I live by the faith of the Son of God, who love me and gave himself for me.

01:52:33:04 – 01:53:03:08
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There’s a lot more on this. I have one one other I want to. There’s Ephesians 311. There’s Philippians three nine. There’s second Timothy 213. If we’re faithless, he remains faithful because he can’t deny himself, because you’re united to him. Okay, there is second Corinthians 120. I believe we have we can put up, but in the passion. I like how it says for all God’s promises find their yes of fulfillment in Him and His, and as his yes and our Amen.

01:53:03:09 – 01:53:32:01
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Ascend to God. We bring him glory. Did everybody see that? Who said the perfect yes to God? And what do we say? Amen. Amen is different than I’m going to get this done myself. Amen. Is God revealed? This is what he’s doing. Amen. One accord with God. One accord with his body. Amen. Amen is vital, but it’s not primary.

01:53:32:03 – 01:53:58:08
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Your faith is essential. It’s not. It’s not the foundation. It’s not primary. It’s secondary. Do we understand this? Okay. All right. So Jesus said, yes, this is true. Like I said, individually, it’s also true corporately. This is why we say amen and why we agree in prayer. Anybody ever wonder why you have to say amen when people are praying?

01:53:58:11 – 01:54:24:18
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You know you don’t have to. But you know, what you’re doing is you’re saying God’s revealing something that he’s doing and we’re saying Amen. Look how it says this in Matthew 1819. Again, I say, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for them by my father in heaven. For where 2 or 3 are gathered in my name, there am I among them with my faith.

01:54:24:21 – 01:54:48:10
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Do you see that when we come together as one, we’re vulnerable, we’re humble, we’re in love with one another. His presence is there. His faith is there. Nothing of the kingdom of darkness stands against the faith of Jesus Christ. There’s one faith, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. And that faith is more than enough. That faith moves any mountain.

01:54:48:13 – 01:55:06:22
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Remember how Jesus said, speak to the mountain and it’ll move. It’ll be uprooted. If you have faith, it’ll be thrown in the ocean. Did he say it would happen all at once? Was he speaking to individuals or to all the disciples? Oh.

01:55:06:24 – 01:55:36:09
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Plural. If you all have faith as a mustard seed, speak to that mountain. What God revealed for you to move you continue to speak to it. You continue to trust my purpose, my faith, my spirit, my lead. That mountain will be uprooted and will be thrown into the sea. We just got to endure, endure in faith. Through faith and patience, we will inherit the promises of God.

01:55:36:11 – 01:55:56:16
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We want to rush it, but God’s not in a rush. He says, come together as a family. I’m going to tell you something. We’re going to agree on it, and it’s going to happen. That’s the faith of Christ in action. Its corporate. It’s not individual. It’s not a bunch of people, you know, that are really, really powered up in their souls.

01:55:56:18 – 01:56:14:25
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That’s maybe what we’ve seen and what we’ve experienced. But it’s not the teaching of Jesus that faith will never move a mountain, because it’s like trying to get enough logs to roll the pyramids, you know? It’s like you’re just not going to. We have 28 people with faith. No, we needed 29. That’s not going to. It’s a numeric thing.

01:56:14:25 – 01:56:36:24
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It’s not what it’s about. It’s about joining together as one. So how will this affect how we pray together? Are we all popping off on different things, compelled by a religious idea of, like, I got to say this, it’s my anointing, it’s my gift? Or are we coming together as one? Lord Jesus, we glorify you. Let your faith be expressed in this people.

01:56:36:26 – 01:56:56:22
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Holy spirit lead. Thank you Lord, you’re doing this. Amen. One accord, one accord. We want to press into that. We want to pray, and we’re going to see it happen. Doesn’t that unite us as a people? We have a shared vision, shared goals. God’s doing a lot of things at once. He’s playing five chess. You hear that in the news a lot.

01:56:56:23 – 01:57:16:24
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God’s the only one that could play five chess. Okay? He’s the only one I worship as my Messiah. Okay. All right, so we submit and focused faith to the undivided action of the Spirit of Christ. And we have the faith of Christ in our spirits that will grow to maturity. You know, in Galatians 522 it says, the fruit of the spirit.

01:57:16:24 – 01:57:40:21
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One of them is faithfulness, spirit given faithfulness. It’s the same word as faith pistons. It’s the the faith of Christ. That’s what’s in you. That’s what God has placed in you and in community that’s going to grow. There’s going to be so much fruit. There’s going to be faithfulness expressed in your life. If we don’t try to shortcut it, if we can, if we can stand in faith together.

01:57:40:23 – 01:58:03:21
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God is doing so much in this house. He will do so much, and we’re getting it. We’re coalescing into the unity of the faith. We’re getting that it’s by Christ and that we’re not actually divided, divided from Christ. We’re not out here. Jesus is my friend. He’s right next to me. We’re one spirit. Yeah. Jesus is my best, best friend, right?

01:58:03:25 – 01:58:34:24
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That’s best, best, best, best, right he is. But he’s also in me, and I’m in him and he’s in us. Christ in us is the hope of glory. Okay? Is Christ divided? No. Is the faith of Christ bifurcated? No. He’s not double minded. He’s not working at cross purposes. So what we want to do is have the humility and the patience and the unity to say, yes, Lord, you lead.

01:58:34:25 – 01:58:53:23
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Holy Spirit, you are the leader. You are the King. You’re the one that brings liberty. Wherever you lead, where the spirit of the Lord is, there’s liberty. The spirit will lead us in these new covenant days. The faith of Jesus Christ will lead us in these new covenant days. It will not be the letter of the law. It will not be individual human superstars.

01:58:53:23 – 01:58:58:27
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It will be the faith of Jesus Christ that leads us.

01:58:58:29 – 01:59:25:28
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When we unify and focus on Christ, we will move as one and we will move as Christ. None of us has a doubt that if Christ Jesus and his human body was walking around in here, he’d be healing everybody. But he is here, a Waco sleeper. We’re coming into it. It may take time to unlearn some mindsets, and I’m not there yet, but I’m going to be there.

01:59:26:01 – 01:59:38:02
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I’m exactly as I should be. I’m not yet everything I will be, but I will be. Otherwise I deny the work of the Holy Spirit.

01:59:38:04 – 02:00:08:03
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He’s faithful. He who began a good work in us shall complete it unto the day of Jesus Christ. So when we move as one and we move as Christ, we will set things right on the earth. Our faith will bring justice and rectification. It will set right broken bodies, broken identities, broken minds, broken families, broken schools, broken systems, broken cities, broken nations, and broken worlds.

02:00:08:06 – 02:00:37:29
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It will set you right. What the enemy has lied to you. What people have done to you together in this body will bring wholeness, will bring righteousness. The kingdom of God and the Kingdom way is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. And we move in that faith in the Holy Spirit, the one faith.

02:00:38:01 – 02:00:57:04
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Father, we thank you for your word. We pray that Your Word would sink deeply in us. Thank you, Lord, that you took care of what I never could. Thank you that you are faithful. When I was unfaithful. Thank you that you fulfilled the covenant that I could never keep. Lord. Thank you that you remove the sins that I could never remove.

02:00:57:07 – 02:01:18:11
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Thank you that your mercy washed away and set right so many things that I could never get right on my own. Thank you for your incredible faithfulness to me, Lord God. Time and time again. And teach me to move in your type of faith. God, teach us to have faith in your faithfulness. ABBA, father. You’re our parent. We depend on you.

02:01:18:11 – 02:01:41:27
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It’s your faithfulness that’s going to get it done. God, it’s not our faithfulness. God, I pray that we would receive an overflow of grace in this moment, that our faith would be strengthened as we unite with yours. God, I pray for every person in this room that they would trust the one who is trustworthy. You are trustworthy, God.

02:01:41:29 – 02:02:09:19
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Let us lay hold of the one who has laid hold of us. God, I pray for anyone in this room right now that has never laid hold. I pray now that they see your arm grabbing theirs, and that they would close their arm around yours, God, that they would be pulled out of the pit, that they would be pulled out of darkness, and they would see that you’ve done it all, and that you will by no means ever leave them or forsake them.

02:02:09:21 – 02:02:21:17
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So, father, we thank you so much for the glorious grace of your righteousness. God, I pray it would produce humility in us and gratitude in us.

02:02:21:20 – 02:02:41:18
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Yeah, I don’t want to fast forward to the next thing, because when we understand God’s deliverance, the response is worship. The the ten lepers went home and only one came back. They wanted to get on with their lives, but there was one that said, wow.

02:02:41:20 – 02:03:09:05
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I was an outcast and a Samaritan and a leper and a Jewish rabbi had mercy on me and connected me to God, cleansed my body, drew me near, raised my head. That’s who I am now. He defines me now. He justifies me now. I don’t need anybody else’s justification. Thank you God. We worship you, Lord. We thank you God.

02:03:09:07 – 02:03:34:08
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Thank you for your intervention, for your salvation, for your righteousness. Thank you for your humility, Jesus. Thank you for your descent to us. Thank you for your humility. Lord God, produce gentleness in us. Your humility. God produce it in us. God by your spirit. Give us the humility to continue to open up and continue to be vulnerable to one another.

02:03:34:13 – 02:03:58:04
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You’re already on the move. Holy spirit, I bless what you’re doing. I bless what you’re showing us, and I ask that you carry us into the next season with a confidence in your faithfulness. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Yeah.

02:03:58:06 – 02:04:29:09
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Amen. You guys, we’re not always going to have this band at this pulpit. At this church. What are you trying to say? What I’m trying to say is, I hope nobody takes for granted what you just got to encounter. And that you know this man. No. This hard that he is teaching. You know, we’re going to we’re going to go do fellowship together across the way.

02:04:29:13 – 02:04:53:15
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For those that are new here, we have food prepared for you. And and we hope you will join us, because building relationship with one another is what the church does. And so we’re going to do that. If you were prodded by this message and you need to respond. We’re going to also open the altar here for you to come and receive prayer.

02:04:53:19 – 02:05:19:07
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However, God needs to touch your life for you to say that Amen to God’s. Yes. And so. But church, it’s a good day and I’m so grateful that we get to do life together. So, father, thank you for this service. Bless our lives and unite us as one. In Jesus name, Amen.

02:05:19:09 – 02:05:24:07
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Let’s go to fellowship. And for those who need to respond, come forward.