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Right. All right. So now we’re going to be introducing Dwayne White. Today pastor Dwayne is an amazing man who not only has been a part of our world 2019. He came with Bishop Tony Miller and was a part of our ordination and 50th anniversary and part of our part of the the leadership of where we’re the life was heading.

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And today he is getting to be with us again with I believe in assignment from God. He leads a leadership network, oh two ministries, and this network is continuing to build churches and to strengthen the heart of leaders so that the church can do what it is assigned by God to do. Amen. And so if you guys will put your hands together for Pastor Dwayne White.

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The only pressure is to. Never mind.

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How are you doing? It’s been a minute. You look even better than you did the last time I saw you. And you looked really good. Then this is one of the most loving, kind, caring churches that you’ll ever, ever be a part of, ever go to. I love this church. I love all your pastors. I love your previous pastors.

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I love your current pastors. I don’t even know your future pastors, but I’m sure I love them too. This is a generational house where love and faith has been passed down from generation to generation. And you can feel it, and I just, I love you and there’s nothing you can do about it. Thank you for the invitation to be here.

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If I don’t make any sense today, blame jet lag. If I make sense today, give all the credit to Jesus and the Holy Ghost. Because I flew in from Vietnam yesterday and I don’t know what they it is. I don’t know what time zone I’m in. All I know that Jesus is Lord and God is good, and he’s got some great things that he wants to do in this house.

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Amen.

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Turn with me to Matthew chapter four. And I’m going to I’m going to share some things that have been on my heart for this year. And then I’m going to just pray and prophesy a little bit. Is that right?

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I believe that before we put this on our calendar, God had this day on his hearts, and I believe that he wants to say some things to us individually and corporately. This this house. I’m just bragging on you. I’ve traveled a 70 nations. I’ve flown 4.4 million air miles with American and One World partners, plus some other random ones.

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So I’m getting close to 5 million air miles.

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So I haven’t been everywhere, but I’ve been somewhere and everywhere I go since I came here in 2019. I tell everybody about this place.

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So you’re famous.

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You’re famous in in in the highlands of Vietnam. I was telling people about you. Then you’re famous, you say. I don’t even know where that is. Well, they didn’t know where you were either. They’d never heard of me walk. You never heard of. Dang, they never heard of me.

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You’ve heard of Danang? There you go. Well, now they’ve heard of me. What?

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But no matter how great the past has been, God always has more in store. So can we believe God to do something that he’s never done in this place?

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Matthew chapter four, verse 18. And Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea. For they were fishermen. And he said to them, follow me, turn to your neighbor and say, Follow Jesus.

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He said, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they immediately left their nets and followed him. Jesus, I thank you that you have something you want to say to your church today, and I pray that you would use me as a vessel to do that. I ask you to speak your truth to this house.

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Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. Take everything that’s in your heart and speak it through me. And. And if I say anything that’s not of you, don’t even let people remember it. But everything that’s from you. Let it be seed sown. And hearts that bear good fruit.

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In Jesus name. And if you agree, say Amen. Christianity did not begin with a belief system. It began with a voice. It didn’t begin with a doctrine. It didn’t begin with a creed or a statement of faith. It began with a voice, the voice of Jesus, wrapped in an invitation that we see here. Two words, simple words that changed the world.

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Follow me. This first invitation echoed on the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee. Peter is exhausted. He had fished all night, caught nothing. He’s got vocational failure. He’s got emotional fatigue. His nets are empty. And for a fisherman, that’s not a good day. Jesus didn’t give him a lecture. He didn’t give him a theology. He gave him an invitation.

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Follow me, and I want you to. And he said, I’m inviting you to go from fishing for men to fishing for fishing for fish to fishing for men. I want you to go from survival to purpose, from disappointment to calling. And 2000 years later, the same invitation is still the clarion call of Jesus to every would be follower.

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Now, some of you may be saying, Duane, you flew all the way from Vietnam, stayed up for 48 straight hours or whatever it was to come here and tell us we need to follow Jesus. That’s all you got? Yes.

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Yes.

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He said, everybody that’s been to church twice knows you need to follow Jesus. Yeah, we know it. But spend three seconds on the internet and you’ll find out not everybody’s doing it.

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Come on. Are you here? We believe in Jesus. We ascribe to doctrines about Jesus. But I have a question. Are we really following Jesus?

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Jesus? Jesus says, follow me. Or some version of that 21 times in the Gospels. You know how many times he said, follow my teaching, follow a doctor, and follow a belief system?

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Zero. Now I can hear some of you, but won’t follow in Jesus results in following his teachings. Of course. Won’t following Jesus result in better doctrine? Absolutely. Won’t following Jesus result in a better belief system? You better believe it. Yes, of course it will. But the initiation and the initial invitation is to follow him above all else, and then everything else falls into line.

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He said, follow me. Not my favorite prophet. Follow me. Not your favorite preacher. Follow me. Listen. We follow those people as they follow Christ. Even Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ. So, so in any area that that we’re not following Christ, somebody that we’re following is not following Christ. Don’t follow them in that area. Just follow them as they follow Jesus.

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See, discipleship is always allays. Discipleship always begins with an invitation, not a proposition. It’s not an invitation into a transaction. It’s an invitation into transformation. We want to make the gospel transactional.

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Jesus invitation was to be transformed.

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Following Jesus is different than following anything. There’s a lot of a lot of things asking us to follow them. Social media is all about who do you follow or follow me, everybody. Every influencer. Follow me. Follow me. Follow me. Follow me, follow me. And we’re clicking follow follow follow follow, follow. How many followers you have? How many? How many people are you following?

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But but listen. Following Jesus. If we try to follow Jesus the way we follow our our favorite influencer, we got a problem. Because that’s more like being a fan than a follower. In our world today, Jesus has actually, he’s got a lot of fans, but I think he’s looking for some more followers. I don’t know if you like the World Cup.

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I love the World Cup. I found kindred spirits on the front row because we I was really worried if they were going to let me watch the World Cup while I was here, because it might not be, you know, spiritual enough. I didn’t know they did secular things like watch soccer or what the rest of the world calls football.

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And then they they met me at the airport, and Pastor Jonathan is wearing a US soccer jersey. And I said, thank you, Jesus.

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You’ve answered my prayers.

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Millions of fans will watch, but Jesus isn’t looking for more fans because fans are fickle.

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The World Cup you don’t like this team? Take that shirt off. Put on another one. They get eliminated. Get another one. That one. You know, like I’ve changed teams like five times. They’re all out. But today I’ll pick another one. Go messy.

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And when he was playing England I used to live in England. We lived in England for a couple of years, so England is my number two team. When he was playing England boo Messi but now he’s playing Spain go messy. That’s what fans are like when Jesus is popular. Yay, Jesus when he’s not. Who’s Jesus?

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See, Jesus never recruited fans. He invited followers, fans, cheer from the stands, followers carry a cross, fans watch, followers walk, fans agree, followers align, fans add Jesus followers rearrange their life around Jesus. Fans admire followers, obey fans protect their imagination. Followers offer it to be transformed. Fans consume the moment. Followers carry their cross down the way. Turn to your neighbor and say, don’t be a fan.

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Be a follower.

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Here’s the thing though.

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Following Jesus is not a straight line. Have you ever noticed that? Think, oh Jesus headed over there. I’m a following.

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It’s a winding road. It’s not. It’s not a straight line. But it’s not just a circle either. Can I come off this? Is that right? I mean, some places they freak out that you think. You think the Trinity’s come apart if you step off the stage like it’s a big deal. So you have to ask these things.

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That gasp because you’ve just walked out of their live feed anyway. So it’s not a straight line. It’s not just a circle. Following Jesus is a spiral. Do you have a picture of the spiral staircase? It looks more like that. Just leave that up for a moment. Now I’m going to let you use your prophetic imagination. Okay, let’s imagine that this was a spiral and every one is a step up like that.

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If I were to walk around it and it gradually goes up, I’ll I’ll be at the same place eventually. But I’m higher than I was. I’ll be in another place eventually, but I’m higher than I was. I’ll be at another place. Like the same proximity, but higher. Come on. Are you here? And every time you think you’re circling back around to where you began.

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But if you’re following Jesus, it’s always higher than where you were to begin with.

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That ought to be good news for somebody, because you thought you’ve been working at walking in circles, going nowhere, but you didn’t realize you were going higher and higher and higher and higher and higher. Now. Now following Jesus is always an ascending spiral, but life is filled with a lot of spirals. Anybody ever had a downward spiral? Some of you go, yeah, yesterday.

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Life happens and we spiral out of control. I’ve had a lot of spirals in my life. When I was 13, my 12, 13, my dad left my mom for another woman. I was devastated, I thought we had a perfect little family. My sister was older, she was smarter, and she knew things weren’t great. But I was just. I was just young and dumb.

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And then all of a sudden they’re getting a divorce. And so I was spiraling. Pastor Pat and I set in my living room with a pistol in my hand. And I thought, while I’m spiraling out of control, I thought, if I leave a note and tell my mom and dad that my dying wish is that they get they stay together, don’t get a divorce.

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At least my sister will have parents.

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I was spiraling and Jesus walked into that room, that living room, and he he called me.

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He did, but not on a cell phone because we didn’t even have cell phones.

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But he said, Duane, I’m calling you to be a prophet to nations. Put that gun down and follow me. He didn’t say it exactly like that, but that was the idea. I knew what he meant, and I put that gun down, and I’ve been following Jesus. Yeah.

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I could tell you. Spiral after spiral. Everybody in here has stories where you are spiraling, but whenever you’re spiraling down, Jesus interrupts your downward spiral with an invitation. Don’t you love the interruptions of Jesus? He interrupts your downward spiral so that he can change the trajectory of your life, and you begin an upward spiral. So I was going like this.

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Jesus gives me an invitation that interrupts my life and turns the trajectory of my spiral, and I start spiraling upward. And life is always an opportunity for Jesus to bring an invitation. I’ve even got better news than that. There’s sometimes you’re going high, everything’s flying, and Jesus will interrupt that so that you can go even higher than you ever thought you could go.

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I don’t know about you, but I’m thankful for Jesus invitations when whether it’s because I’m out of control, I’m overwhelmed. I’m. I’m disoriented. Jesus invitation becomes an interruption to the spiral of my life and changes the trajectory I’m going to give you real fast. If you’re taking notes, write these down fast because I’m going to breeze through them.

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But I’m giving you Bible study for this whole week. Okay? I’m going to throw them out there. I’m not going to go read them. I’m not even going to explain them a lot. I’m just going to read them or mention them. Sorry. You can go read them and you can study them. So I’m giving you four days of Bible study right now.

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If you didn’t know what you were going to study in your Bible, I’m now giving you almost a week’s worth of Bible study. All right. Are you ready? Number one, the first invitation that Jesus, the first spiral that Jesus interrupts with his invitation. Number one is disruptions. That’s what life does to us. We see this in Abraham’s life.

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In Genesis 12, Abraham’s life was already unsettled. He was uprooted in motion. No map. And into that disruption God speaks to him and says, go to a land you know not of that I will show you. The invitation doesn’t remove the uncertainty. It gives direction to his life. Even in the midst of the uncertainty, everybody’s life is filled with disruptions.

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That diagnosis comes that you weren’t expecting, that unexpected job loss, that broken relationship, that tragedy that comes out of nowhere. But whenever disruption comes, we have to learn to look for the invitation. If you’re taking notes, y’all to write that down, I’m going to learn to look for the invitation. Number two, I told you I was going to do these fast disappointments.

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Disappointments are what life takes from us. We see this in the life of Elijah in first Kings 19. He’s fresh off victory and yet completely burned out. And that’s how everybody’s going to feel after youth camp. Fresh off victory and completely worn out. But in his case, unlike all the youth camp workers, he was fearful. He was exhausted.

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He was ready to quit. God doesn’t explain away the disappointment. He meets him in the middle of it quietly. Listen, this is for somebody today. Disappointment does not disqualify you. It it gives you an opportunity for discernment. Our our oldest daughter’s 34 this year when she was, I don’t know, 1011, 12, 13, probably probably 10 or 11. She was going to the orthodontist and the Orthodox was about 30 minutes from our house.

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And I was traveling all over the world, and I happened to be home. And my wife said, look, you’re home. You’re taking her to the orthodontist. I said, yes, ma’am. And so I got in and I drove her to the appointment. 30 minutes I get there and I said, we have an appointment today. Orthodontics appointment. They said, who?

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And I said, Kelsey, what? They said, no, she has no appointment today. And I said she has no appointment today. My wife told me she had an appointment Monday at 9 a.m. and they said no, she has an appointment, but it’s not today. It’s Wednesday at 10 a.m. and I said, no, you don’t know my wife. She would never make a mistake.

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That’s that’s that’s impossible. And if you don’t believe me, ask her. No, I’m just kidding. I’m just kidding. I’m just kidding. Just kidding. And they said, well, sir, it’s not today at nine. It’s when you have to come back. So guess what happened? We got this appointed.

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We thought we had an appointment. I’m preaching to somebody right now, but we got that the devil behind that counter. And she wasn’t a devil. I’m kidding, I’m kidding. She disappointed us. So we get in the car and all the way home, I’m thinking, well, I’m not coming back Wednesday at 10:00. I’ll tell you what. I paid my dues.

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I drove here today, and I’m driving back at the hour and something out of my day. And, you know, I’m all frustrated. My daughter is crying, and she said, you know, I’m upset. And and while I’m driving along, the Holy Spirit spoke to me. And he said, Duane, you will come back Wednesday at 10:00 because you cannot let today’s disappointment cause you to miss Wednesday’s divine appointment.

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And I’ve come to tell somebody today that you thought you had a divine appointment, and then you got disappointed. But you cannot let yesterday’s disappointment cause you to miss tomorrow’s divine appointment just because it didn’t happen. So we got a prophetic word about timing. Just because it didn’t happen in your timing doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen in God’s timing.

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Just because you got the moment wrong doesn’t mean you’ve missed the moment forever. Keep following Jesus and His invitation, and he will turn your disappointment into divine appointments.

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Number three dysfunctions. Jesus meets us in our dysfunctions. That’s what forms within us. Gideon in Judges chapter six, he’s threshing wheat in a wine press that is the epitome of dysfunction. You don’t thresh wheat in a wine press. You thresh wheat in a threshing floor. You stomp grapes and a wine press. Don’t you remember the I Love Lucy?

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Anybody in here old enough to remember? Anyway, that’s what I always think of when I think of a winepress. Anyway, he’s doing the right thing in the wrong place. That’s dysfunction. That’s survival mode. He’s hiding and afraid. And an angel interrupts his his his dysfunction with an invitation. And the angel doesn’t shame him. He just interrupts him. His dysfunction isn’t condemned.

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It’s renamed and reframed. And that invitation changes everything. Listen, you may have been living in dysfunction. God brought me all the way from Vietnam to to. I’m not an angel, but I’m going to represent the Lord today. And he came. He’s coming to you and giving you an invitation to step out of your hiding. Step out of being afraid.

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Step out of your dysfunction because God has a great victory on the other side of your dysfunction.

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Thank you.

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For.

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Damage. Jesus comes and meets us in our damage. That’s what life does to us or through us and Moses. And since it was both Exodus two and three, Moses began as a baby in a basket caught between worlds, left with a wounded identity and a violent pass. And a voice comes in a burning bush and interrupts all that damage with an invitation.

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Our friend, pastor, Pastor Celine no, our friend Doctor Graham Cato from South Africa, and he says sin equals damage. Damage done to me. Is somebody sinning against me? Damage done through me is me sinning against someone else.

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When damage is done to me, if it doesn’t get healed, damage will ultimately be done through me because the pain I don’t let God transform, I will ultimately transfer. So Mo yeah, she said, say it again. I’m a man and her authority. I’ll do it.

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The the pain. I don’t let Jesus transform. I will ultimately and inevitably transfer to others. So Moses was violent not because he just had anger issues. His anger issues were from his identity damage issues. Come on somebody, are you here? So. So once I get healed of the damage done to me, I’ll be healed from doing damage through me.

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Come on. And we’re trying to anger manage people out of the damage that caused the anger to begin with. But you can’t manage your way out of your own sin. You get healed of what’s been done to you, and you’re then free to not do the same things through you.

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Somebody’s going to have a burning bush.

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An interruption to heal the damage through an invitation. God meets Moses in the wilderness. And that listen, that invitation doesn’t deny the damage. It reframes it. Now, can we put the picture up again of the spiral? Can we go back to that? I want this to burn in your mind, and I want you to think about Peter’s life.

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So Peter gets this invitation, and you kind of got to put a few stories together. It’s not all in the text we read, but if you read all the Gospels and put it all together. Peter fished all night, caught no fish. Jesus comes, tells him to throw his hand on the other side. He catches a net breaking boat sinking harvest man that’ll preach.

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We love to preach that. Wow. And it preaches. And then he invites him to follow him. Don’t don’t, don’t don’t be a you’re not going to be a fish or fish going to be fishermen. And and Peter follows him. And he’s following him upward. But you get right to the end of the three and a half years of following Jesus in the natural.

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And Peter looks like he went down. So what are you talking about? Well, Peter tells well, Jesus tells Peter, you’re going to deny me three times before the cock crows. Peter says. Ain’t no way I’ve given up everything to follow you. Jesus. Everybody may deny you. I will never deny you. Sunday. He needs speaking tongues yet.

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But he was acting Pentecost before Pentecost. I’ll never deny you. I can relate to Peter so much. There’s so many things I’ve told God I’d never do. And then I did them anyway.

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Three times. So? So, Peter, watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this. This is how good God is. He puts these little details in the Bible. We read right over him. What? Peter’s warming himself by a fire. Anybody remember what kind of fire it was? Charcoal. Everybody say charcoal. Remember? Charcoal. Everybody say charcoal. Swarming stuff about charcoal.

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Fire somebody. So you’re going to be Peter. He’s warming himself by this. Fire. Somebody. Do you know Jesus? You know that? I saw you with that guy. Jesus. He says, no, not me. One time, as a person I know I saw you were Jesus. You were those disciples. No, no, no, not me. Two times another person comes. I know I saw you this time.

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The Bible says Peter cursed. That doesn’t mean he said a four letter word. It means he swore a curse on himself if he knew this man. There’s nothing worse in his culture that he could have done. That’s as bad as it gets.

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He’s failed. The first invitation to follow Jesus came after vocational failure. There’s another one coming after personal failure. So it looks like C. Depending on which perspective you’re looking at, that the spiral is up or down. So Peter feels like he’s spiraling down. Jesus goes to his death, burial, and resurrection. The women come.

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Which I could preach all day on. The women came. But that’s not my message today. And he says, go tell the disciples to meet me. Where?

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Galilee, on the shoreline. Where it all began.

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Spiral.

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Same place. This is the A class y’all are. Y’all are the advanced class. So he’s going to same place, different level. He says, meet me on the shoreline in Galilee and get the disciples. And what else does Angel say? And Peter, why did he say that, Peter? Because Peter said, Disciple Peter, you don’t have to say happy or just say to the apple, I don’t understand God blind.

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You say why you say, Hey Peter, Peter said, disciple.

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Why are you throwing arm Peter? Because Peter didn’t feel like a disciple.

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Peter felt like a failure. And I think God knew that. If he said just the disciples, Peter would have stayed on.

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Let that sink in for a minute. It doesn’t matter how bad you failed, how you feel about your life. Jesus is still calling your name to the shoreline, saying, everybody doing okay.

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So he he.

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Peter goes to Galilee and then he says, I’m going to do what he said, but I don’t know. I’m going fishing.

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That’s where I relate to Peter. Now wait a minute, pastor Pat, Peter said, I gave up everything to follow you. Where did you get the boat?

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I think it’s called plan B. Jesus, I can follow you. But I kept this boat in Galilee. Storage.

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It’s it’s only 50 shekels a month. Just in case this doesn’t work out. I got a I got a boat plan B, how many of us have a plan B? We’re coming to Jesus. We’re singing I surrender all you. But I got plan B just in case. Is Jesus thing don’t work out. So he’s fishing and he fish all night.

00:37:05:17 – 00:37:36:27
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And he caught nothing. Sang place different level. Doesn’t feel like a different level. Come on. Are you here? Jesus comes. He says, hey, boys, how’s it going? If I’m them, I’m saying, shut up. I don’t want to talk about it. It’s not going so well. Plan B is failing.

00:37:36:29 – 00:37:46:10
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Yeah, I’m trying to figure out plan C. Thank you very much. Say, see, they don’t recognize these yet.

00:37:46:12 – 00:37:51:17
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Move your net a little bit. I’ve heard that before.

00:37:51:19 – 00:38:07:04
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And they catch a bunch of fish Peter all of a sudden goes ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. I know who this is. He jumps out. He runs to Jesus.

00:38:07:07 – 00:38:20:03
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And Jesus can you can you be Peter for for me for a minute, pastor. Thank you. So Jesus has a fire.

00:38:20:05 – 00:38:47:28
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Guess what kind of fire it is. Y’all are the advanced class deja vu all over again. This time Jesus got the fire that’s different than the one Peter had sitting by that same place on the. So it’s the same shoreline where he called him the first time, right after failure of fishing all night and catching nothing in front of a charcoal fire.

00:38:48:01 – 00:39:11:11
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Can God shout any more signs to him? And then he looks at him and says, Peter, do you love me? Peter says, what? I love you now in English that reads a certain way because we take all the words for love and we put them in one word. We call it love. I say, I love bluebell ice cream.

00:39:11:11 – 00:39:36:07
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And then I look at my wife and I say, I love you. I don’t mean the same thing. So I love Mexican food. I don’t love Mexican food. Like I love Chris Seddon. Wait. Come on. Somebody, are you here? So in Greek, they had a lot of words for love. One of the words that we know real well is a gap.

00:39:36:08 – 00:40:10:02
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Or if we were British, we would say agape, but we say agape. Now what is agape? God kind of love. Did you know that’s not what it was in Jesus day? Until Jesus gave a definition Homer would have written about agape, but he didn’t mean the God kind of love. It was a generic kind of garden variety love that Jesus hijacks and says, I’m going to show you what real love means.

00:40:10:02 – 00:40:35:14
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And then Paul defines it in first Corinthians 13 and gives it the that, that definition. And we know love is patient, agape. He’s patient. He’s kind of got a that’s what agape is. So so agape had to be lived out. But Peter had been following Jesus long enough to know what Jesus meant when he said agape. So he looks at Peter and he says, Peter, do you agape?

00:40:35:16 – 00:41:10:25
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Me and Peter could not answer that question, so he changes his answer. See, we don’t get this in English. He doesn’t say, I got for you. He says, Lord, I filial you. What is filial brotherly love? Deep. See them. We’re taught me we’re tired. Brotherly love. So what is Peter doing? He’s such a failure. Jesus says I do you agape me and he says, you know, I feel you.

00:41:10:28 – 00:41:47:16
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I you taught me agape. I can’t, obviously not. I failed you. Jesus asked him again. Peter, do you agape me? And he says, I filial you. Yeah, yeah. Then we get to the third time. How many times did Peter deny Jesus anybody reading the sign language from heaven here? It just keeps going. And he says, Jesus then says, Peter, do you feel me?

00:41:47:18 – 00:42:17:22
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He wasn’t compromising. He was coming to meet Peter where he was at. Yeah. And then Peter says, you know, I feel you. Jesus. I’ve said it twice already. And he keeps telling him, feed my lambs. And then he looks at him and he says, Peter, when you were young, you went and dressed yourself and went where you wanted to.

00:42:17:25 – 00:42:48:03
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But there’s going to come a day where you’re not going to dress yourself. You’re going to go where you don’t want to go. And he was speaking of the death. Peter would die as a martyr. And then he says to him, follow me, and I’m going to add a word that’s implied. Again, thank you, worship team. You can come.

00:42:48:06 – 00:42:59:17
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I’m landing this plane. If somebody will come tickle those eyebrows. The runway is in sight.

00:42:59:20 – 00:43:07:10
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Follow me again.

00:43:07:12 – 00:43:28:20
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See, the invitation to follow Jesus isn’t once it’s over and over and over and over. And like Peter, when you think you’re spiraling down, Jesus interrupts you and realize. And you realize.

00:43:28:22 – 00:43:48:05
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Even though I didn’t get it perfect, I’m further along than I thought. How does that work? I don’t know. It’s called a mystery. I don’t know.

00:43:48:07 – 00:43:56:18
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Peter should have been disqualified. He cursed God.

00:43:56:20 – 00:44:04:27
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And yet he dies, hung upside down.

00:44:05:00 – 00:44:40:26
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Today. Whether you’ve been. You’ve never said yes to following Jesus. Today could be your day. Jesus is coming, and he’s inviting you to follow him. But I have a suspicion that there’s some people in here that have been following Jesus ten years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, 60 years, and he’s still inviting you to follow him.

00:44:40:29 – 00:45:17:07
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And every time you say, yes, you’re writing the lyrics to your own doxology. Say, wait a minute, Dwayne, what’s a doxology? That’s a that’s a big word. We as Protestants, no one. Doxology. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. That’s the only doxology we know. The traditional church has several, but a doxology is a a him or a song of praise to God.

00:45:17:07 – 00:45:58:23
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And it comes from two words doxa, glory ology word. So it’s a word of glory. It’s a word of glory that gives praise to God. So every time you say yes to Jesus, you’re writing another note in the doxology of your life that only has one lyric, and that one lyric is yes. And every time you say yes, you join with the praise of all the saints who have lived, all the martyrs, all the all the church planters, all the saints in heaven, all the saints on earth.

00:45:58:24 – 00:46:24:21
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You begin to join in that song, and you begin to add to the praise of the glory of God, to those who worship the lamb. And it was written in revelation 14 four. It says, and they were those who followed the lamb wherever he went.

00:46:24:23 – 00:46:42:18
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This morning when I was praying, the Holy Spirit said, this church and this people followed me from a valley to a mountain and said, yes.

00:46:42:20 – 00:47:02:17
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But from this mountain there are yeses that will send people from this mountain to the four corners of the earth. And I’m going to prophesy that this house will not just be known for who it gathers, it will be known for who it sends.

00:47:02:20 – 00:47:19:14
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And don’t get frustrated when you look. And there’s so many that have sinned and you think, oh, if they were all still here, we would have thousands.

00:47:19:17 – 00:47:32:27
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But you follow Jesus because this is an apostolic house. It’s a house called to send people to the nations.

00:47:32:29 – 00:47:45:10
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And I hear the Lord saying, not one, not two, but five.

00:47:45:12 – 00:48:13:14
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Not one, not two, five. Now we had a little conversation that sparked God telling me that. And I’m not going to unpack all that, but I felt like he said to say it publicly. Not one, not two, but five.

00:48:13:16 – 00:48:26:23
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Not going from just 1 to 2. But you’re headed to five.

00:48:26:25 – 00:48:30:24
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If you’re willing to follow Jesus.

00:48:30:27 – 00:48:44:05
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And give him your yes. Would you stand to your feet and lift your hands?

00:48:44:07 – 00:49:01:12
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I wasn’t going to do this, but would you be willing to just step out of your seat, come down here around the front and just make this an altar where you say yes.

00:49:01:14 – 00:49:17:13
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Just crowd in the front. When the front is filled, fill the aisles. It’s really just an act of faith.

00:49:17:16 – 00:49:26:02
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God, you see, you see the response from young and old.

00:49:26:04 – 00:49:57:22
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Lift your hands. I want to pray for you, father. Right now, in the name of Jesus. You see every heart, you see every hand. You see every person that got up from where they were and said, I’m going to keep following you. And whether this is a first time following or a 5000 time following God. We know that our yes is a part of the song of Heaven that’s being released in this house in Jesus name.

00:49:57:22 – 00:50:21:03
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And I thank you, God that some people are going to follow you to other nations. Some people are going to follow you into the business community. Some people are going to follow you into church planting. Some people are going to follow you into songwriting. Some people are going to follow you into teaching and education. Some people are going to follow you into a into the medical community.

00:50:21:03 – 00:50:39:12
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Some people are going to follow you into politics. God help them. Some people are going to follow you wherever the land may lead.

00:50:39:14 – 00:51:08:27
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There’s a strong intercessory prayer coming on you. Man. God’s awakening dreams in you again. You’re going to dream new dreams. Matter of fact, God’s releasing dreams all over this house. There are dreams coming all over this house. God’s going to wake people up in the night time with visions. You’re going to dream dreams and have visions. Quota about 16 delivered.

00:51:08:29 – 00:51:26:26
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There’s a spirit of intercession coming on you. You’re going to begin to intercede like you never have before. This lady here with the glasses on. Just here in the the the white t shirt. Y’all right there.

00:51:26:28 – 00:51:48:00
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I don’t know who he is. But God says, don’t worry about him because I got him. I felt like there’s a young man you’ve been concerned about. Maybe he’s not following Jesus, I don’t know, or he’s got some problem in his life. I have no idea. But there’s a hymn, and I feel like as a young man and God saying, don’t.

00:51:48:01 – 00:52:17:08
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I’ve got him. And so you can hold on in faith, in prayer and let go in the natural and watch what I do, because I got it, I got it. This young man here with the blond hair, with your hands like this, Jesus is handing out gifts to you. One is a gift of healing. You’re going to see a lot of people healed in your lifetime.

00:52:17:09 – 00:52:40:01
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You’re going to have a gift to heal the sick. Another one is a gift to disciple and care for people. But you can’t be a disciple or if you’re not a disciple. So all your life, just keep being disciple, keep being discipled, and remember that preparation time is not wasted time. Jesus is always going to be preparing you for what he has prepared for you.

00:52:40:01 – 00:53:04:27
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There’s a new fire being lit in this lady’s life right here. God is lighting a brand new fire in you. It’s going to burn brighter than ever before. The passion for souls is burning in your heart. The passion for the lost is going to begin to burn in your heart. And you’re going to see. You’re going to see radical salvations.

00:53:04:29 – 00:53:35:11
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Radical salvations. I hear the Lord saying that this youth camp is going to be different than any youth camp you’ve ever had. God says, expect the unexpected. Everybody grab those prayer cards and make that. Don’t just think it’s some cute idea. I know you don’t, but I’m. I just heard the Holy Ghost say I’m pray, pray, pray, pray, pray because I’m going to do something I’ve never done.

00:53:35:14 – 00:53:42:12
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How many people can believe God to do something he’s never done before?

00:53:42:15 – 00:53:56:06
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God always has something new. He’s always got something up his sleeve. He’s got really big sleeves.

00:53:56:08 – 00:54:23:10
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I hear the Lord saying, there are several people that I see at least eight, ten people that need a promotion. And I hear God saying, I put your promotion in motion. I’ll put your promotion in motion. There are people in here that have wanted to write books, but you felt like you you’ve been too intimidated to write. If that’s you, lift your hands.

00:54:23:10 – 00:54:48:19
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I pray for you right now, in the name of Jesus. I release a spirit of writing in this house. To be able to write, you got to write it. You’ve got to write it. It’s your legacy. I hear God saying, tell the stories. I don’t know what else you’re going to write, but you got to write the stories.

00:54:48:21 – 00:54:52:16
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Quarter I by Sakata.

00:54:52:19 – 00:54:59:20
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I release a gift of writing in Jesus name.

00:54:59:22 – 00:55:08:09
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For This is wild. I also see not just books. I see you writing poetry.

00:55:08:11 – 00:55:13:23
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I see you writing poetry.

00:55:13:25 – 00:55:17:22
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Wow.

00:55:17:24 – 00:55:30:03
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I don’t think I’m good enough. Jesus says that’s not my opinion.

00:55:30:06 – 00:55:40:10
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There’s other people going to write poetry. I see. I see a book of poetry from this house.

00:55:40:12 – 00:55:53:25
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Jesus says the call was to come up the mountain. Now the calls to go down the mountain. The call was to gather in the mountain. And I’m going to give a call to send from the mountain.

00:55:53:28 – 00:55:59:11
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Is it better to go or to stay? It’s better to obey.

00:55:59:13 – 00:56:15:28
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It’s better to obey. Some may want to go. And Jesus said, stay. Somebody want to stay in? Jesus says, go. It’s not. It’s it’s just better to obey. Obedience is better than sacrifice.

00:56:16:01 – 00:56:24:28
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Jesus. We say yes, we say yes.

00:56:25:00 – 00:56:40:23
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We say yes.

00:56:40:25 – 00:57:29:02
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You, senior. Yes to the Lord right now.

00:57:29:04 – 00:57:32:23
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Which?

00:57:32:25 – 00:57:36:16
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We say.

00:57:36:19 – 00:57:43:23
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Go.

00:57:43:26 – 00:57:48:13
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Away.

00:57:48:16 – 00:58:07:07
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Angels are ascending and descending while you sing your yes to God. The passing out gifts as you sing your yes to God.

00:58:07:09 – 00:58:15:10
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Say.

00:58:15:13 – 00:58:26:02
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To.

00:58:26:04 – 00:58:50:14
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To you can now over this world. You can have all this world in me.

00:58:50:16 – 00:58:57:22
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You.

00:58:57:25 – 00:59:00:28
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You.

00:59:01:00 – 00:59:17:01
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Know it’s for you now. This world.

00:59:17:04 – 00:59:45:15
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You’re not just going to have a gift to teach kids the Bible. You’re going to have the gift to teach them how to hear the voice of God and how to know when God is speaking to them. My wife and I have a book coming out in about a month. It’s a kids book on on how to read the signs of God in our life, how to interpret God’s signs in our life.

00:59:45:15 – 01:00:02:19
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It’s for 6 to 9 year olds want to make sure we give you a copy, because you’re going to teach kids how to hear the voice of God.

01:00:02:21 – 01:00:10:02
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You’re not behind. You’re not behind.

01:00:10:04 – 01:00:18:11
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You think I’m behind? You’re not behind.

01:00:18:14 – 01:00:26:22
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You don’t have to catch up. Just keep saying yes.

01:00:26:24 – 01:00:41:02
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This message today was for nobody else. It was for you. You, my brother, are not by.

01:00:41:05 – 01:00:57:19
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You’re not just going to this young man right here. You’re not just going to walk with Jesus. You’re going to run with Jesus. You’re going to run with Jesus, and then you’re going to learn to walk with Jesus, and then you’re going to learn to run with Jesus. A lot of people are running when they ought to be walking.

01:00:57:19 – 01:01:10:28
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They’re walking when they ought to be running. You’re going to learn how to live in pace with God’s grace over your life.

01:01:11:00 – 01:01:35:21
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I’m I’m going to be done. I just want to give you a little public service announcement. After 35 years of prophetic ministry, the Lord opened a door for my wife and I to gather a cohort of 11 people to do our doctorate with Doctor Leonard Sweet. Never heard him. You ought to look him up. He’s written 90 books.

01:01:35:23 – 01:02:01:06
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If you read one book a month of lands that take you several years to read them all, there’s some folks that read 90 books. He’s written Andy book, and we got our doctorate in semiotics and spirit hermeneutics. And I learned stuff and studying my doctorate about the prophetic that I’d never learned after 35 years of prophetic ministry. This is my dissertation redone.

01:02:01:06 – 01:02:33:15
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It’s called God Speaks Sign Language, Deus and Insignia. And I talk about when things are semiotic and when they’re prophetic and when they overlap, when they’re both, when they’re separate, how the prophetic works, how semiotics works. If you ever heard of semiotics, you ought to get this. Now listen, this book is written in a theological term tone. If you don’t like scholarship and you’re kind of not a theology nerd, don’t get this book because you’ll want your money back and it’ll be awkward.

01:02:33:15 – 01:02:55:08
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And, you know, you’ll say, I hate that. So just the theology nerds get that book. But then I wrote a companion to it as a part of my it wasn’t a it was a part of my my total project I did for podcasts on the prophetic and semiotics wrote that dissertation. And then I wrote this book called Here’s Your Sign.

01:02:55:15 – 01:03:25:01
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This book is much easier to read. It’s got a lot of stories in it. And Bishop, Tony Miller’s mentor in the prophetic Dale gentry, I don’t know if you guys ever met Dale. Dale, he’s 83 now. He’s my mentor in the prophetic. He he wrote a recommendation, said, this is the greatest book on prophecy he’s ever read. I just started weeping because I thought, Dale, don’t lie when you’re 83.

01:03:25:03 – 01:03:50:24
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But it was very humbling. I’ve given this book to Uber drivers. One was a 40 year old gal that was pregnant. She had a 19 year old son, didn’t plan on getting pregnant, got pregnant, I married, she had known Jesus, walked away from him and I handed her this book and she said, today I said, God, if you’re real, give me a sign.

01:03:50:24 – 01:03:56:22
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And literally this book says, here’s your sign.

01:03:56:24 – 01:04:13:14
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At another Uber driver in Vegas that was seeking. And he said, I believe in God and I believe in the supernatural, but I just I don’t know, I don’t know about religion. I don’t know, he said. It seems like religions heard a lot of people. And I said, I said, would I get if I give you a book?

01:04:13:14 – 01:04:33:16
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Would you read it? He said, you wrote a book. I said, yeah, I’ve written a few books. I said, if I give you one, would you read it? And he said, yeah, I handed it to him. He read it in a day, this book, and like 24, 48 hours later he wrote me back and he said, I believe now I believe so trust that book will be a blessing to you.

01:04:33:17 – 01:05:00:14
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What I preach today and some more is in this book called Follow Me again. This is much shorter and easier to read, and if today’s message blessed you, hopefully this book will bless you as well. Those will be in the fellowship hall. I would love for you to get them if you if you can’t afford them, we just have a suggested donation.

01:05:00:14 – 01:05:15:15
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If you can’t afford this, if you’ll read it. Take it now. Don’t take it if you’re not going to read it, but if you’ll read it, you can have it. I would want to be a blessing to you in that way. All that money that comes from this, I don’t keep it. It helps us do what we do around the world.

01:05:15:16 – 01:05:50:09
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I’m getting Follow Me translated into Vietnamese. And then I’m also going to get this this one, it’ll take a little longer. Translate into Vietnamese if you if you follow us as we follow Christ on social media. I write every week on Substack. I’m called the contemplative, charismatic. And every Tuesday I post a post that is free. If you if you’re on Substack and our book that’s coming out for kids, I think this House will absolutely love it because it’s such a prophetic house.

01:05:50:10 – 01:05:55:23
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I wrote it to my grandkids.

01:05:55:25 – 01:06:14:02
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What a what a tragedy be. My grandkids didn’t know how to hear the voice of God. He said, well, you can just teach him. I said, yeah, but if I write a book, they can read it and I can read it to them, and then they can keep it and read it to their kids and their grandkids. It’s part of why you got it right.

01:06:14:04 – 01:06:23:23
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You got some great grandkids, great great grandkids. You need to know what you got to say after you’re gone.

01:06:23:26 – 01:06:43:00
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I love you. There’s nothing you can do about it. God bless.

01:06:43:02 – 01:07:16:14
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Church. Thank you. Thank you for your. Yes. Thank you for staying the course. What we’re doing is for his glory and restoration of all things. It’s so great hearing about your books. Jeremiah and Michelle are doing a book signing. Tanya’s written a book. So, so many are writing. This is such a good thing, pastor Pat. Hurry up.

01:07:16:17 – 01:07:52:11
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Father, we thank you for this amazing time. Thank you for your love, God, as we go forward, as we follow you. Lord, give us strength. God. Lord, just bring peace in every heart today. Remove the weight. Father, remove God. Every burden that is hindered. We’re following you in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Church, we have fellowship across the way.

01:07:52:13 – 01:08:13:13
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Visitors. If if you don’t know what that is, we eat food together and we have food prepared. If you didn’t bring any, we’d love to hear your story. Just look for for me, Wes Schram. Jacqueline. We’ll have we’ll make it clear over there. God bless everyone.