Raised To Life Starts Now (Not Later) - Heaven Part 12

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Good morning, guys.
You give up this fantastic

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worship team in Bay, Chile in
here yet?

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Well, if you come this up, it
was like 73 with heat on.

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It was like, let's turn it down
a little bit.

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They turned down a little bit.
So we're going to turn up a

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little bit.
So anyway, yeah, if I'm cold, I

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know you're cold.
So anyway, man, we're going to

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talk about heaven for all
eternity.

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Amen.
This is the 11th week in our

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series of heaven.
And I'll be honest with you,

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I've never preached an 11 week
series before.

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I'm loving it.
So if you're not loving it, I'm

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sorry.
We're going to keep preaching

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it.
So it's going to happen, all

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right, But I want to celebrate a
few things for a jump in one.

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Last week was our Life group
Community week and we had over

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50 first time guests come to our
community week.

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Is that awesome?
It's awesome and they're in

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different groups, had different
number of tents and everything,

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but it was just cool to see
people that don't even normally

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come to our church.
Just friends, family,

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grandparents, kids show up to
groups and really get connected.

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There was really no agenda just
to hang out and just just to

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feel the Spirit of God and get
connected to God's people.

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I just know overtime usually
works like this.

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Give it two months, six months,
a year or whatever and they'll

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say, man, I, they'll visit,
they'll visit again.

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They'll say, man, I came one
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It's just like life group thing.
I was like community week.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was at
that thing.

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It's just how God works this
through relationships.

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So thank you guys for inviting
out.

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Can you give it up for those who
came out to this that aren't

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normally going to life groups?
I want to say a huge thank you

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guys are inviting.
I know you might have invited.

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And you're like, man, they
didn't show up.

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Hey, it happened to me too.
Amen But you, you know, we're

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not charging people coming in
charge of just planting seed.

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Amen.
So some plants, some water and

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God brings increase.
It's just not about them getting

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to a thing, but just let you
know, like that God is still

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moving.
I mean, one week, all these

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different guests, I keep
thinking like, what would happen

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if we got behind Easter just a
little bit?

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It'd be crazy, right?
I mean, last year we had just

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shy of 600.
We, we didn't that's, that's

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insane.
By the way, OK, we, we sent no

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Mailer.
There's just an ad on, you know,

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just like a video online, right?
Like we're, we're, it's just you

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guys bringing people.
Amen.

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Like some guys spend lots and
lots of money on Facebook.

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We do not.
And it's you guys, right?

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And so I will say thank you guys
to our inviting and you know,

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it'll pay off.
And so just keep inviting and

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just ultimately that they find
Jesus, right?

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I mean, be praying for them.
It's really not about coming

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here, but then getting to
Christ.

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But also say thank you to our
life group team and our life

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group of leaders.
There's a lot of work that

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behind the scenes for this.
It's our first time ever.

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So give it up for them as well.
Lot of effort.

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My house was was something
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I usually run, I don't know, we
had like 14 or 12 or something

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and there was 44 people that
showed up and it was 31° high

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weather a last Monday.
You guys remember that?

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It was great.
And I was like, no, Nope,

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deflatables aren't going to
come.

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No, we're not going to do a
backyard BBQ.

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We're out in the like we're
going to cram my house.

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And I felt so bad.
I don't know who it was, but

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there was a it was a grandma
there and she's at the kitchen

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table and there's just you
couldn't get through anywhere,

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you know, and she was at the
table and she was like this.

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I was like, this is a bad
representation of church in

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Jesus, but we'll do better.
Lord give us better weather.

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Amen.
It was crazy.

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So anyway, today is just going
to be a good day.

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I've been inviting people to
Easter.

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There's a lady that I'm working
on we've mentioned before we

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keep praying for her names
Heather and just come through

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huge burn church experience and
I'm just praying she comes out

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just put another bug in here
last week.

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And then there's some guys in my
neighborhood, some some families

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that used to come that haven't
come a while.

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And I'm also working on a
barbecue joint in more so

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getting them out as well.
So anyway, just be inviting and

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see what God can do.
Amen.

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Just don't know how like one
relationship can change

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somebody's life.
And it's just a simple, simple

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invite.
I want to give a huge shout out

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real quick before we jump in.
There's a family of church.

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I don't know if you familiar
with the term like a shut in

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family, like there's health
concerns.

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They really can't get out.
They can't come here on Sundays,

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can't go to life groups.
They have a lot of like they're

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small things, but big to them.
And so a couple of our guys this

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week and, and if you ask them,
they, they would tell you

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straight up, they did not do a
whole lot, which they didn't.

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There was like 10 or 15 minutes,
but they made time and showed up

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and they're committed to go
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And they show up this lady's
house and this is what she said.

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She said what a godsend.
She was so excited and she

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really said this and I couldn't
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I'm blessed beyond my wildest
dreams.

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You guys make dreams come true
last week, wildest dreams are

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like this.
They showed up for for 10 or 15

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minutes and hung out and then
make commitment.

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I'm going to be here.
Whatever it is, right, Moving

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things, picking up things.
They're they're just not in that

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stage of life.
They can do certain things.

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And so I want you to give a big
shout out big real life.

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Thank you to Bruce Cornell and
to Mike Baker.

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I know where he's at, but I see
Bruce back here.

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So thank you guys for doing
that.

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Feel like why you clapping man?
I was there 10 minutes.

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But for Jesus, Amen.
And it makes a big difference.

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She felt so the word is covered,
right?

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You ever felt uncovered like
nobody, nobody sees me, nobody

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knows I'm there, Nobody's
praying for me.

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And what you get to do is show
up and just cover people with

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your love and and your grace and
your servanthood.

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And we got to get really good at
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Amen.
There's a church that just gets

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involved in people's lives.
So thank you guys for that.

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It really means me a lot.
Means a lot.

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Well, today we're jumping in.
We're going to talk about

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heaven, but we're going to take
a different spin on it.

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I've been praying all week.
We're going to tive into this

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idea of baptism.
And I'm praying that your

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baptism, you're so moved by what
it truly means, will actually

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change how you live on earth,
your baptism.

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So it's going to be a little
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You can be like, where are we
going with this?

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And you're going to see it's
going to be awesome.

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So this is dedicated to those
you guys may be wondering about

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baptism.
You may grew up in church and

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your whole life and going, I'm
not sure what this really is.

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There's so many variations of it
out there.

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Maybe didn't grow up in church,
Like that's just weird.

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And be like that little weird.
That was me growing up.

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I didn't grow up in church.
I was like, why would people do

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this weird thing, right?
You may think it's just a

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symbol, the past.
You may not know what to think

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of it.
So we're going to dive into

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that.
Maybe you're here today and you

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know what it is, but you're on
the fence.

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Like, should I do this or
shouldn't do this?

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Like, you know, is it gonna line
out for some of you guys?

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You've been baptized and you're
wondering like why you're still

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struggling.
Like you're obedient to God.

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You're, you're faithfully fallen
God.

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You're in the Bible.
You do all the right things on

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the outside, but you just,
there's just trials, right?

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There's things happening and
you're wondering you might feel

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overwhelmed, you may feel like
you're not enough.

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And these, these are all natural
things.

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But I just want to give you
today, like why it's happening.

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I'll give you a illustration of
being overwhelmed, the tidbit of

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my life.
We're a little behind anybody

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behind it.
May got Christmas stuff up

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still.
We're getting ready for next

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year.
Amen.

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Yeah, we're early.
We're not late.

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Come on, somebody, you know, now
the tree is down one of the

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trees.
But I'll give you the why This

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is why this is.
But if you go to my house,

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there's still a tree on the
outside by my door.

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Anybody seen the tree by my door
a little bit?

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OK, you know what I'm talking
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You're like, why is the
Christmas thing still outside?

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Well, here's what happened.
OK, we wait a little too long

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and it's a little birdies made a
little nest in there and it was

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like eggs in the tree.
I'm like, are you serious?

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Like Jesus put this bird to lay
eggs in this tree.

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So I can't take this tree down,
right?

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So it's just like committed to
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And yesterday there was bird
poop all over my driveway and I

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was like, they have hatched.
It is time.

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It is time, right?
The Lion King moment, right?

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There's just like, it was just
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Like let's go take it down.
It's like, oh, look, great,

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thank you.
The Robin laid eggs and the

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Christmas decorations.
That's a problem.

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Anybody like that little
overwhelmed, little behind like

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that.
Welcome to life.

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Amen.
So we're talking about baptism.

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So how many guys have been
baptized?

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Show hands real high show hands.
How many baptized?

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Wow, dude, dude, nice dude.
Give it up for a basement

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baptized.
That's amazing.

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That's really good that wow,
that's actually kind of

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impressive, right.
And I got baptized.

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I was, I think I was 16 or 17
because I came to Christ at 15.

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It was not too long after, but
I, I went to those churches.

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The, the pastor wore the black
robe.

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You know what I'm talking about.
And I must have like weight on

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the bottom because the thing
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It wouldn't like float around
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And he put waders on before he
put the robe on.

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OK.
And so he had like just hunter

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waders that went real high.
It was really fun.

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If somebody was got him off
kilter was leave it that way.

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And it'd fill up the water into
the waders.

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You know what I'm talking about.
So you'd be like, I was like,

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yeah, defeated, right.
And he'd raise his hand.

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All right.
And he'd say, because your faith

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and trust in the Lord, I'm not
doing right, right.

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I baptize you, my brother.
Come on, somebody.

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And then my father, son, the
Holy Spirit buried lack of his

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death, right, just gets all into
it, right.

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It's like because you're faith
and trust, it's all this, raise

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your hand.
And it's all very regiment.

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Anybody like that.
It's just me, right, It's just

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me, it's just me.
It's cool, right?

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So so I was on staff.
I got hired back on staff.

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I came to Christ, came back to
the church, got hired staff.

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And of course, like first time
baptizing, I get a youth pastor

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like, hey, baptized these youth
kids, like, you know, whatever.

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And so I go up there and like by
the power vested in me, by the

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way, that's how you finished the
wedding, right?

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So I was like, we're doing a
wedding right now, you know, And

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I was like, what?
I was no recovery.

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I was like, Bruce getting
baptized three times.

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You sent it, right?
Oh, man, I'll hold down longer

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if I need to.
Amen.

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You just tell me you going to
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Do lectures a couple seconds
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There it is.
But anyway, so I know your

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experiences with baptism, but
that was my experience.

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The black robe, right, Thank
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I mean, maybe you like that kind
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not into that.
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black robe, you know, I mean,
now we have swim trunks.

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It's great.
But anyway, we used to say this

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all time baptism.
We trampled that word.

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Baptism is an outward expression
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Have you heard that before?
Most of us, I mean, some of

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y'all like that's the first time
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symbol like if something

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happened in your past, you can
do it because Jesus got baptized

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because you followed his
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And I started thinking about
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I was like, man, this is a
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Remember last week we talked
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It's not the fullest of the
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That statement is only partially
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It is 100% true, but it actually
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baptism.
Like we don't get baptized just

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because, well, you came to
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It's a symbol of you coming to
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It's just an outward symbol of
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That's all we talk about, right?
That's just the, I mean, it's

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just the Baptist world, right?
But here's the reality of your

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baptism.
It's actually actually a

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declaration that the
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in you.
It's a declaration, so it's not

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looking back as like this
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It's a declaration now and where
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You're buried likes of his death
and you're raised to what newest

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life, right?
It's you're going to live

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differently now.
So I want to talk about what it

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is that heaven lived inside of
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Not this just this symbol, but a
new identity in Christ that the

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resurrection isn't something
that happened way back there or

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way out in the future actually
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and right now.
So if you got your Bible being

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in Colossians chapter 1 and
we're going to start with Jesus,

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this what a great idea, Amen.
We talk about Jesus at church.

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And so Colossians chapter one,
verse 15, it says this, the sun

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is the image of the what
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You know, people kind of wonder
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What was what's his character?
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And just look at Jesus, Amen.
So I encourage you guys read the

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gospels, get in the book of
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If you wonder who God is, just
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It says this.
He is the first born of all

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creation.
Now look at all these in hymns.

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For in Him all things were what
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visible and invisible, with
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rulers or authority, all things
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And for Jesus verse 17, He is
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again, and in Him all things
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You guys heard of Laminin?
It's a great message by Luke.

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You lamb and lacrosse holds
everything together in your

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body.
Look it up.

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It's Google it.
OK, I'm not Louis.

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I'm not going to preach the
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OK, he's fantastic.
But verse 18 and he is the head

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of the body, the church, and
he's the beginning and the what

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says again, he's the first born
from among the what among the

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dead.
All right, just put that in your

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mind.
We'll come back to it.

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This is an interesting
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Here's the purpose.
So that in everything he might

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have the supremacy, the
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Brett sent me a video yesterday
he saw on Facebook and it was a

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it was about Judas like
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And it says Satan ere and him at
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And then Jesus says to Judas, he
says, whatever you do, do it

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quickly.
But they made the point that he

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wasn't actually talking to
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He was actually talking to Satan
inside of Judas that Satan

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himself had to get permission
from Jesus to, to to betray him

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and put him on the cross.
That's pretty good, isn't it?

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And I text Brett back.
I said, Amen.

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This is the supremacy of Christ.
He has all authority.

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Jesus is not even crucified
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authority and permission to save
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Amen.
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So it says this verse 19 for God
was pleased to have been all his

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to have all his fullness dwell
in him and through him to

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reconcile himself all things
were things on earth or things

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in heaven by making peace
through his blood shed on the

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cross.
Can I get an Amen.

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That's good.
That's good news for all of us

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and that Jesus in charge of
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So verse 18 he's the beginning
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dead.
Now this is this is really

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interesting thought.
What does it mean?

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There's a first born among the
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Because the natural answer is
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but he was not the first person
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Chronologically.
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So you got to go all the way
back to Old Testament, go first

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King 17, you got to go to
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widow's son from the dead.
Then you got to go as protege,

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you got to go Elijah, and he
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Elijah dies.
And we sang this song, guys, no

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rattle.
And you throw the dead man's

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body on the bones of Elijah, and
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So there's three right there in
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Then you have Jarius's daughter,
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OK.
And then you have another woman,

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son, Those rose in Luke 7.
And then you got to abort

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Lazarus.
Come on, somebody.

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So.
So now you've got six people

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that are raised from the dead.
So it's not chronological.

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That's how we say it all.
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What it really is.
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people, there's six people.
They're actually raised to the

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same life.
To the same life, they're in the

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same sin, the same brokenness,
the same sin nature grave still

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has or death has a sting, grave
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They're just raised back and go
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He's a prototype of heaven.
He's the first person to

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actually be raised in the
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Amen.
He did something special on the

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cross.
You know, we talked about Silent

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Saturday.
We're going to get into this in

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a couple weeks, right?
But Silent Saturday wasn't

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silent for Jesus.
He he would, he was finding

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death, hell in the grave for us.
And the Bible says in

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Revelation, he goes down to hell
and he actually steals the keys

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of our salvation.
So Jesus was busy, Amen.

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He was the first type of a new

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family.
He's a new origin, a new way of

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living.
He's a leader of a resurrected

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humanity.
And so it's a whole new kind of

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life where sin has no power,
Amen, where death has no claim

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and grave has no future.
He's the first crack of heaven

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into humanity.
And so when Jesus rose from the

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dead, he's the first born from
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And what's amazing about Jesus
being the first born, wouldn't

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you think that there'd be a
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Come on, somebody that Jesus
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He was the very beginning of a
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Then there's a part of you that
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There's a part of you that is
perfectly holy through Jesus.

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There's a part of you that was
resurrected to life through

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Christ, Amen.
So what this means is it means

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you're not who your mom and dad
or your old friend, your ex says

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you were, Amen, That there's no
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Even sin doesn't have power over
you, Amen.

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Now, I talked to a lot of
Christians and it's like who can

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have the worst possible story
by, you know, it's like you talk

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to him.
It's like how you doing and

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you're like ready, like man, I
love you brother, I'm praying

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for you, but I cannot sit here
any longer than hear the saddest

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story in history, right, because
you don't really want to step

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out and change.
Just like moping.

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And I'm like, man, as
Christians, we should have the

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greatest story ever.
The power of Jesus lives in US.

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Amen.
And we're not defeated.

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So you know, you may take a a
six month window of anybody's

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life when they're adult.
And sadly, you can put it in any

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six months, the most of their
life, and it looks very similar

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because they're not living under
the power of Jesus or even

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through the power of Jesus.
And so those old habits, even

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though they're dead to those
habits, they're still living in

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the wrong way.
So I'm about you, I'm excited.

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I'm maybe the like the, I don't
know, make a number out five

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billionth person that you know
what I mean?

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Like Jesus, the first born, I'm
like the five billionth born.

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I have no idea, Amen.
But I'm just glad I'm born.

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Amen.
I mean, the Holy Spirit has

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changed my life.
I'm resurrected to life just

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like Jesus.
So what happened to us?

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Let's dive through it.
Romans chapter 6, this is

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probably the most prolific
passage on baptism in the Bible.

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It says this as Paul speaking.
He says, or do you not know that

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all of us, let me say all that's
you and me, you know Jesus, OK,

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We're baptized into who?
Christ Jesus.

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And we're baptized into his man.
That sounds sexy, doesn't it?

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Baptized into his death.
Like what?

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What does this even mean?
And you know, it says then say

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you're baptized around Jesus or
close to Jesus.

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We're actually baptized into
Jesus.

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And it's so significant that
we're united with Christ like

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this.
The moment we called on Jesus as

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our Lord and Savior that we are
actually baptized with Jesus.

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That means that we are sharing
in his life.

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We also share into his death and
the the death the part of us

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that died with Jesus, we're
crucified with Christ is no

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longer I that lives, but Christ
that lives in US.

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We're joined in, we're connected
to him.

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We're placed inside his life.
We're also placed inside of his

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death.
What's really cool is that his

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story is actually become our
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Now, if you, if you ever studied
this, if you get a chance, you

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should and you can do it like
real easily.

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You got Google chat, CPT all the
different AIS, but you guys just

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go in and say, what are all the
things that happened at the

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moment that I start a
relationship with Jesus when I

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called Jesus when I got saved.
What are all the things that

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changed?
You guys would take a guess how

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many things changed the moment
you called on Jesus.

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There's, there's at least 25
major, major, major things that

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change.
I mean, you're adopted as a son,

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you're forgiven, you're given a
new identity.

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Your name is written in the
Lamb's book of life.

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You're, you're made an heir to
the throne.

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The Holy Spirit lives in you.
The power of the Holy Spirit is

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on you.
You're gifted in the church.

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You become part of the body of
Christ.

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You're in the family believers.
You're, you're a son or daughter

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of the king.
I mean, just go on, on.

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Amen.
And then thank you Jesus.

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And one of the things that
happens is they're baptized into

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Jesus.
We're united with Jesus fully.

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You know, some people think,
well, Jesus is on the throne

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since the right hand, the
Father, He's omnipresent, Amen.

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He's ever at all times, and he's
in US.

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You know, we think the Holy
Spirit's not as well.

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Jesus is also in US.
We're joined with him.

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So verse 4 says this.
We therefore buried with him

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through the baptism into what?
Into death in order that just as

450
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Jesus raised the dead through
the glory of the Father, we too

451
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,240
may live a new life.
That's when we get baptized.

452
00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,240
You said bury his death and
resurrect your life, but that

453
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:36,800
buried his death.
Think about this.

454
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,440
There's actually a part of you
that died with Jesus.

455
00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,800
When you accepted Jesus, you got
united with Christ and there's a

456
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,880
sin nature.
There's a authority over sin.

457
00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,480
There's a your spirit of God was
buried by Jesus to death and was

458
00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,200
crucified and put to death.
There's a part of you that no

459
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,000
longer exists there.
There's an old version of you

460
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,440
that you no longer have.
Amen.

461
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,160
You have a new identity.
And this is so soul shaping

462
00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:09,240
because so many times I've been
there that we live defeated or

463
00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,440
under a power that is no longer
in charge of us.

464
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,040
And I've seen so many
conversations and and when

465
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,680
people are full of anxiety and
fear, we all have these these

466
00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,640
moments, but you have to look
into it.

467
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,960
And if something is making you
fearful or have anxiety or

468
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:25,520
you're worried or you're
stressed, it has power over you.

469
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,920
Amen.
And I see so many grown men,

470
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,000
they're still talking about
something that happened 30-40

471
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,280
years ago and things they wish
they were, and they're upset

472
00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:37,960
about all these things.
I'm not saying it's right or

473
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:42,120
like should happen that way, But
the gospel truth is that your

474
00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:45,040
baptism and the resurrection
power of God is far greater than

475
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,080
anything else in your life.
That that, that's the endless

476
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,360
wall of God's grace.
Amen.

477
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,200
And I think as a church, as men,
as women of God, if we could

478
00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,960
just dive into the resurrected
part of our life and the power

479
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,880
of God through us, we can say,
you know what, it wasn't right,

480
00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:59,720
it wasn't fair.
But thank you, Jesus, that

481
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,720
heaven lives in me.
God, I'm living for the power of

482
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,240
God that's through me.
And that's a war we're going to

483
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,600
talk about in a little bit.
But just know positionally,

484
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,360
you're forever changed.
Your old identity is gone.

485
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,600
You're no longer a slave to sin.
There's a version of you that no

486
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,960
longer exists.
Verse 5 says this.

487
00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,800
For if we have been united with
him and death like this, will we

488
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,840
certainly be also united with
him and the resurrection like

489
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,200
his?
For we know that our old self

490
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,520
was crucified with him.
Somebody say old self, dude, I'm

491
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,200
so glad the old self is gone.
Amen.

492
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,560
This old self that's buried,
it's crucified, it's dead has no

493
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,800
power over me.
It's a memory of the past.

494
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,080
And yes, we like to think it may
still be there.

495
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,320
And that old man that we have to
say Jesus lives in your heart.

496
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,880
But but grandpa lives in your
bones, right?

497
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,320
And we, we like to go back to
the old man, but the old man is

498
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,880
dead, Amen.
He's gone.

499
00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,200
We, we sing so many great songs
about this, by the way.

500
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,160
But if we were to know that the
old self was crucified with

501
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:04,200
Jesus so that the body ruled by
sin might be done away with,

502
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,680
anybody excited by ruled by sin
is done away with.

503
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,120
That mean you're absent from sin
but has no power over you.

504
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,480
It says that we should no longer
be slaves of sin because anyone

505
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,080
has died, has been set free from
sin.

506
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,400
Can I get Amen.
What it's saying is you're no

507
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,320
longer a slave to sin.
You're actually check this out.

508
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,960
You're actually a slave to
righteousness.

509
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,640
Your dispensation has changed.
That's how you know you know

510
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,720
Jesus because when you sin, you
actually feel conviction.

511
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,160
It doesn't mean that you're not
going to sin, but there's a

512
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,880
conviction from God and it's not
the conviction of you should do

513
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,720
better and earn me.
It is the conviction of son, I

514
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,240
love you.
Step into my grace, Amen.

515
00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,360
Step into the the the life I
have for you.

516
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,040
Quit choosing a path that's
breaking you and breaking

517
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,000
relationship.
Step into the grace of God.

518
00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:52,600
I'll never leave you or forsake
you.

519
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,080
I've chosen you.
You're my son or daughter and

520
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,320
live in my power and strength.
I have a far better life for you

521
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,360
than you're putting out.
Amen.

522
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,960
But so awful.
We got our head down and Jesus

523
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,080
said, no, I've already set you
free.

524
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,640
That's your baptism is a
picture, It's a declaration.

525
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,040
You're going to live from that
cause.

526
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,440
Verse 8 says this.
Now if we've died with Christ,

527
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,720
we believe that we'll also live
with him.

528
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,320
For we know that since Christ
was raised from the dead, he

529
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,680
cannot die again.
Death no longer has mastery over

530
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,120
him.
The death he died, he died to

531
00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:26,880
sin once and for all, but the
life he lives, he lives to who

532
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,280
Jesus is living to God.
He died for our sin and he's

533
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,640
choosing to live for God.
Verse 11 in the same way, count

534
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,320
yourselves what?
Dead to sin, but alive to God in

535
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,040
Christ Jesus.
Amen.

536
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,520
You didn't become a bad person
becoming good, you're a dead

537
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,840
person becoming alive.
Don't forget it.

538
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,760
Don't forget it because when
you're, when you look in the

539
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,640
mirror and you're like, oh, I'm
too worried, I've got too much

540
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,600
going on.
I'm too afraid, like I'm not

541
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,040
enough.
And all these things we tell

542
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,480
ourselves, all these
inadequacies and all the shame.

543
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,960
Hey, you got to look in the
mirror and say, look, I'm dead

544
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,160
to the old man and I'm living
for Christ, not my power.

545
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:07,720
Look, what was this say at the
end of the verse?

546
00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:11,960
It says you're alive to God in
Christ Jesus.

547
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,880
It's Christ in you.
Amen.

548
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,240
Like I know we like to read self
help books, you know, we've all

549
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,480
done it.
We read the books and like I'm

550
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,960
going to become a better version
of myself.

551
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,640
Jesus made you a better version
of yourself.

552
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,600
Amen.
It's not that you have to be

553
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,040
somebody different.
You have to learn to walk in the

554
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,520
ways of Jesus.
You have to walk in the Spirit's

555
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,160
power.
You have to walk differently

556
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,120
through Christ, knowing that
sin's not your master, that

557
00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:40,120
you're dead, but the party is
resurrected just like Christ.

558
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,320
So you might ask the question
like, why do we still battle,

559
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,160
right?
Anybody in the battle right now?

560
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,160
Show of hands.
Just one person.

561
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,160
Just it.
This should be called Victory

562
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:51,880
Church.
Amen.

563
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,360
Victory Church.
You show up on Easter side.

564
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:56,520
We preach victory.
Not nobody has battles in this

565
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,160
church.
We have won them all, baby.

566
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,080
Thank you for your honesty,
John.

567
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,880
The rest of you need to pray.
I probably just put you to

568
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,400
sleep, But it's all right.
We'll blame you guys.

569
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,640
I'm just kidding.
Oh, man.

570
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,040
So why do we still battle,
right?

571
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,760
We're all in a battle.
We all have trials.

572
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,840
I mean, it just you don't take
very long to talk about somebody

573
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,440
to see that, right?
And may feel like you keep

574
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,400
losing or you feel adequate, you
even desire to do the right

575
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,760
thing and then you mess up like
you want to do it and then it

576
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,000
doesn't work.
And you might have been saved,

577
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,800
baptized, gone to church, read
the Bible in the disciple making

578
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,360
groups.
You might be on staff.

579
00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:31,200
You might all the things right.
And then you're like, man, I

580
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,000
just don't look like Jesus.
Still, there's a pardon me and

581
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,600
there's rule is just so heavy
and you feel a little defeated.

582
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,520
And so there's a verse you might
know it, but Matthew 2641.

583
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,800
It says this the spirit is
willing, but the flesh is weak.

584
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,680
Man, I love that.
You know, when you get a little

585
00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,560
more jacked up and you can't do
something right and you're like,

586
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,280
man, the spirit's willing, but
the flesh is weak.

587
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:52,720
Like I just can't do what I used
to do, right?

588
00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:56,160
But the reality, what's talking
about is there's desire inside

589
00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,080
your soul, your spirit, it's
resurrected, it's pure, it's

590
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,720
holy.
Think about this, for the Holy

591
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,680
Spirit to live in you, you
actually have to part of you

592
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,440
that actually has to be
perfectly holy.

593
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,280
Think about it.
The Holy Spirit cannot take up

594
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,800
residence in something that's
not set apart to him fully.

595
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,520
And so the God of the universe,
when he resurrected, when Jesus

596
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,440
resurrected, he gave us a part
of ourselves so the Holy Spirit

597
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,120
can enter into the first time.
That's what makes you different

598
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,200
than all the rest of the Old
Testament, all these rest of the

599
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,840
people who raised from the dead,
their body was raised, but Jesus

600
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,000
raised our soul to life and the
Holy Spirit now lives in it.

601
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,960
And that spirit is willing.
It's calling us, it knows, but

602
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,880
he's saying Sean don't, right?
And he's speaking to us and he's

603
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,760
drinking us.
But the flesh is weak.

604
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,760
And So what you have is a war,
right?

605
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,280
You, you, you, you got the, the
Spirit of God and the flesh of

606
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,920
man and they're warring to each
other.

607
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,200
And you might like wonder like
man, why am I, why am I still

608
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,960
struggling?
It's because you're in a battle,

609
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,320
Amen.
You're in a real battle, like

610
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,080
legit part of you is the Holy
Spirit and looks perfect like

611
00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,880
Jesus.
It will not be changed when you

612
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,480
go to heaven because it's
already been resurrected.

613
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,760
Amen.
What does heaven look like,

614
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,520
right?
Resurrected soul, resurrected

615
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,080
body with a resurrected Jesus,
with a resurrected earth.

616
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,440
That's heaven, Amen.
And there's a part of you that

617
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,200
already looks just like heaven.
Hallelujah.

618
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,560
Praise God like we're partly
there and that part of us we

619
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,200
have to let shine through the
rest of us.

620
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,880
The Spirit's resurrected, but
the flesh is still being

621
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,880
renewed.
So you got the old man versus

622
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,960
new man, right?
But the good news is this, the

623
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,040
resurrection power lives in you.
So chapter 8, Romans 8, verse

624
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:39,680
11, it says the same Spirit who
raised Jesus from the dead is

625
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:45,800
where living in you.
There you go, there you go.

626
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,040
It says He's living just in your
pastor.

627
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,000
The Holy Spirit is living just
in the past.

628
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,560
So many people put pastors on
this pedestal, like, like

629
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,440
they're the only Holy Spirit in
the room, Amen.

630
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,320
Like you're just like, oh, the
pastor's professional pastor.

631
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,560
You have enough of God to look
just like God.

632
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,840
Amen.
You.

633
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,280
I get to encourage you.
I get to shepherd you.

634
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,680
I get to teach you.
But ultimately you have the

635
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,000
greatest teacher and shepherd
and leader who lives in you, the

636
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,880
Holy Spirit of God, Amen.
They say the Holy Spirit lives

637
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,400
in a church building or the Holy
Spirit just lives in the Bible.

638
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:20,560
Does it?
Does it say that?

639
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,480
I mean, we, we, we, but think
about how we live though, right?

640
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,760
Like we were like, OK, bitch, I
just know enough of the Bible,

641
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,120
which I'm all for knowing the
Bible.

642
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:30,200
You know me, right?
Like I'm all for memorizing

643
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,680
Scripture and hold close to your
heart and open every day.

644
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,240
But you know what?
The power of God and the Holy

645
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,440
Spirit doesn't live in the
Bible.

646
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,400
It lives in listen to you,
listen to you, you, you have you

647
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,160
have enough in you to wake up in
the morning and say, God's put

648
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,680
me here on purpose.
I'm going to walk so fire my

649
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,400
step like I'm going to radically
change because Jesus radically

650
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,560
changed my life.
Like I'm not going to put myself

651
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,600
under my past.
You know, sometimes you think,

652
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,720
oh, the Holy Spirit's reserved
for those people who are really

653
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,320
smart and have degrees in the
Bible.

654
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,040
They just so they're so
spiritual, these people.

655
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,000
I'm going to tell you something.
Just because you go to college

656
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,840
doesn't make you more spiritual.
Amen.

657
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,880
Sometimes you get Dumber.
Any parents out there sent their

658
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,160
kids to college?
Let's get nice.

659
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,320
We've been to college and it's
like the experience.

660
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:12,800
You're like, oh, cool.
You know, I used to walk with

661
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,800
Jesus, but now it is do my
thing, right?

662
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,000
You might think, well, the Holy
Spirit reserved just for mature

663
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,360
Christians.
The Holy Spirit just lives fully

664
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,520
mature Christians.
That is not true, Amen.

665
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,960
Sometimes you show up the church
like, Oh, these people, man, I'm

666
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,280
I'm behind the a ball
spiritually.

667
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,240
I remember walking into to
college and I met all sorts of

668
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,600
guys.
They're pastors, kids and

669
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,720
they're fifth generation church
planters, and I'm just do that a

670
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,280
Raytown come on, somebody right.
And I felt like I was behind the

671
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,080
a ball spiritually for so long
in my life because these guys

672
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,680
had habits and they walk with
God.

673
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,120
You can tell like they had God's
presence and I was like, man,

674
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,480
I'm just just got to do more
together.

675
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:46,920
I try things.
I'm just not good enough.

676
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,840
I can't get there.
And I realized where time is

677
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,800
like man, you are enough, Amen.
Like I don't need to be them.

678
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,960
I need to be what God's asking
me to be like.

679
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,680
I don't answer to nobody.
I answer.

680
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,240
I answer to Jesus himself, not
to any man.

681
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,640
Like I'm not looking for
validation or approval.

682
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,560
I'm not looking for your likes
or your opinions.

683
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,800
You will give them or not.
Doesn't mean I care, right?

684
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,800
I love you.
But there's a voice I was

685
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,160
listening to is the name of
Jesus.

686
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:13,800
Amen.
And when you when you're

687
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,920
baptized, you're making the
decision that you're going to

688
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,280
live and declare, I'm living
every day by the power of God

689
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,040
through me, I am crucified.
I'm living a new life.

690
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,360
It's not just a symbol like, oh,
it's just a symbol.

691
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,320
What happened?
No, no, it's a life I now live

692
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,840
for Jesus.
And that is very powerful.

693
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,400
It's like it will.
It just changes your whole

694
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,280
dynamic, you know, think about
my children and, and the future

695
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,400
they have.
And I'm just thank Jesus that

696
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,200
there's parts of me look much
more like Jesus than it did in

697
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,960
the past.
Amen.

698
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,720
Because I look at my kids and
they're just spitting image of

699
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,520
me, good, bad and ugly.
Amen.

700
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,920
And, and, and I just get to like
be more humble and say, no, Lord

701
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,680
just changed my life and I get
to see it in my kids.

702
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,240
Now.
I, I can't look back and say,

703
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,440
well, you know, my dad didn't do
this and this didn't work out

704
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,960
and oh man, and duh, duh, duh.
And the church I used to be at

705
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:11,000
and all So what, like the power
of God lives in me.

706
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,920
So I get to act like that, Amen.
I, I, I get to say no to my

707
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,240
flesh.
I, I can't make excuses for bad

708
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,440
behavior.
Amen.

709
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,480
Because the Holy Spirit, the
Bible calls it when you sin and

710
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,040
you're a Christian, you grieve
the Holy Spirit of promise

711
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,920
because the Holy Spirit wants a
better life for you, not because

712
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,680
he's trying to conform you,
which a lot of churches somehow

713
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,640
think that's their job.
But he, he wants you, yeah,

714
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,240
transform you.
He want, he wants to shape you

715
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,680
into the image of his son.
So God gets glory.

716
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:47,720
The best way to worship God,
it's spelled OBEY is to obey.

717
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,160
The best way to worship God is
to humble yourself and say yes

718
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,640
and Amen.
And we, we don't know why we, we

719
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,080
go through this stuff, right?
Like y'all walking through some

720
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,160
hard stuff, just John, but I
know y'all working through hard

721
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,320
stuff, right?
Y'all walking through hard stuff

722
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,280
and you're wondering like why to
walk through all this stuff

723
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,040
because God's trying to teach
you like the if the power is in

724
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,920
you, then the question is, are
you walking to God's power?

725
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,320
Are are you choosing to say yes
to the Spirit of God?

726
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,200
Do you know what that even looks
like?

727
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,400
It's not like we're always
trying to look for answers.

728
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,520
Oh, it's out there and I'll
become like this and I'll learn

729
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:21,600
this skill and I'll do this
thing.

730
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,320
It's like what you need to do is
look to God to humble yourself

731
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,880
and say God used my life.
I'm listening to your voice and

732
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,360
we the way God shapes you.
We're not going to like it, but

733
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,760
you learn to like it is through
trials.

734
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,600
Somebody say trials.
We don't like trials, but God

735
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,360
gives us trials on purpose.
And this is what you see.

736
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,280
Like how does God teach us to
walk in his power?

737
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,920
And you know, you thought I was
going to say go to church more.

738
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,000
You thought I was going to say
go to go to life group, right?

739
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,760
You thought I was going to say
memorize some scripture.

740
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,960
No, God knows exactly where to
put the pressure.

741
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,240
Amen.
He he knows what makes you tick.

742
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,280
And he knows how to squeeze.
He knows how to pull.

743
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:06,880
I call it the rub and hug,
Right?

744
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,840
He knows when to push on you.
And he knows when to get

745
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,520
something out of you.
He knows and encourage you.

746
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,160
She's laughing.
Some people.

747
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:15,960
Yeah.
Somebody's.

748
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:16,880
I don't know what they're over
there.

749
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,120
We're praying for you.
I know.

750
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,080
I saw Urania.
I was like, must be guilty.

751
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,080
But James 1-2 says this.
Consider it pure.

752
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,880
What joy?
Consider it pure joy, my

753
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:35,120
brothers and sisters, whenever
you face trials of many kinds.

754
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,280
That's interesting.
I mean, how many of us really

755
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,720
enjoy trials?
That's assigned maturity,

756
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,000
though, isn't it?
Because when you walk through

757
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,960
something hard, it's not, oh
man, God's chastising me.

758
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,680
Or the stuff in the past, like
if I was just better at this and

759
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,400
this and this.
And I can't believe we're here.

760
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,200
And it's those people out there
and we'd like to talk about

761
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,960
everything else.
We've been trying to solve the

762
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,960
trial.
Do you solve trials?

763
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,720
What was the point of the trial?
The point of the trial.

764
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,800
Look what it says.
Count all joy.

765
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,840
Because you know that the
testing of your faith produces

766
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,520
what?
Perseverance.

767
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,480
This is the last word I'd used
on the American church.

768
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:20,199
Perseverance.
I don't know, man.

769
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,600
I see a lot of people come and
go in church.

770
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,400
I see a lot of people come for a
season, then it gets hard and

771
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:32,080
somebody says something.
Wow, Welcome the people, man.

772
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,080
I love it.
People expect everybody else to

773
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,480
be more mature than them, and we
judge others.

774
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,280
As my wife came to this
conclusion, she figured this

775
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,480
out.
We judge others by their actions

776
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,560
and we judge ourself by our
intentions.

777
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,760
True.
And we use like, it's like

778
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,800
saying we use any excuse just to
get you away from the things of

779
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,000
God.
And we get these trials and it's

780
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,520
like, oh man, perseverance
doesn't exist.

781
00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:56,960
What's perseverance?
It's endurance.

782
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,160
It's stamina.
How many books in the New

783
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:00,880
Testament are written with a
theme?

784
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,760
Stand firm, pull in the armor of
God, don't move.

785
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,640
I mean, most every single book
Paul writes and Peter writes is

786
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,440
all about standing firm in your
faith.

787
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,960
How do you stand firm?
You go through hard stuff.

788
00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:16,120
So he says let hard stuff, let
perseverance finish its work so

789
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:20,280
that you may be what?
Mature and complete and lacking,

790
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:26,280
not lacking anything.
So, so trials are opportunities

791
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,720
for the resurrection power of
Jesus to shine through your life

792
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,760
past your flesh.
Just opportunities.

793
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,800
It's an opportunity.
So, so, so when your family

794
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,200
dynamic is crazy and you get
really hard news or finances are

795
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,400
all messed up or relationships
not where it should be, or

796
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,120
somebody says something about
you, they'll never happen,

797
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:51,600
right?
Or you're betrayed or there's

798
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,840
people who are walking beside
you that now are against you and

799
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,600
never looked, then looked away.
You go, God, what are you doing?

800
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,160
And what you need to do is say
thank you, Jesus, that you've

801
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:04,040
given me another trial because
there's a part of me that you're

802
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,080
trying to kill.
Still.

803
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,440
There's a part of me that
doesn't look like you.

804
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,600
And what an opportunity to be
shaped.

805
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,880
I came to the point in my
Christian life, I was sharing

806
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,080
this with a young man this week
that began to thank God for my

807
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,280
Saul's.
Guess who your Saul was the

808
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,840
first king of Israel, because
everybody's got a king.

809
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,520
We need a king too, right?
They put him in charge and they

810
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:27,960
got real prideful and real
arrogant.

811
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,680
And then he, he, he was going to
all this witchcraft and

812
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,760
crystals, all the things, right?
These mediums, instead of going

813
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,520
to the, the, the God of the
universe who established him,

814
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,680
he's trying everything else and
God just strips him of his power

815
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,360
and he gives it to a little boy
named David.

816
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,720
He was leftover.
His dad didn't even care.

817
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:46,720
I was telling the young man he,
there's seven brothers.

818
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,480
He, he wasn't even in the room
when Samuel showed up.

819
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,320
Who can I anoint?
Oh, here's my sons.

820
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,360
Oh, yeah, I guess there's a 7th
one.

821
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,200
Get him out there from the
sheep.

822
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,560
Bring him in.
That's just my leftover son.

823
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,120
He really, he won't mount to
anything.

824
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,480
And the guy anoints him.
And for 14 years he runs from

825
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,520
Saul.
Saul tried to kill him.

826
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,640
And the opportunity that we
talked about, but to, to, to

827
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,600
kill him in a cave.
Saul's relieving himself.

828
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,560
Not going to go into details.
And he cuts part of his cloak

829
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,120
and he comes out after he goes
out and he says he could have

830
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,840
killed you today, but I only
killed God's man, his anointed.

831
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,440
And so here's a piece of your
cloak back.

832
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,080
And all the men that followed
Saul are like stand up guy, man,

833
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,440
integrity, God's guy's back.
And they walked off.

834
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,320
And then David becomes the next
king through trial.

835
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,280
And so if you walk through a
hard season, I was to encourage

836
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,240
you, God has put your Saul there
on purpose.

837
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,120
Saul's not your problem.
Saul reveals the problem.

838
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,800
It's like an orange.
We talk about a lot, right?

839
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,160
If you take an orange, you
squeeze it, what do you get?

840
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,200
Who said apple juice?
I'm scared, right?

841
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,480
You get orange juice, right?
And when trials come, they

842
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,760
squeeze you.
It does it look more like Jesus

843
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,960
or does it look more like you?
Because the pressure is not the

844
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,320
problem, Amen.
You can't, you can't change the

845
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,840
circumstances, nor you're called
to.

846
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,120
Jesus can if you want to remove
all your circumstances, He can

847
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,440
remove all your circumstances.
He could change them.

848
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,680
But you know, what wouldn't
happen is we wouldn't develop.

849
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,480
Amen.
How many of us go to church and,

850
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,280
and, and read books or do stuff
and we're not living in the Holy

851
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,680
Spirit's power?
How many of us just show up and

852
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,880
go through the motions, right?
And Jesus like, well, I'm going

853
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,200
to make it a little harder on
you and make it a little more

854
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,360
difficult on you.
Like, you know, I think great

855
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,280
Christians all walk with a limp.
I don't know any Christian that

856
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,440
goes well.
My life was easy and turned out

857
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,800
great.
And I'm here because I'm such a

858
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,240
great person.
I'm obedient to God.

859
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,200
I haven't found one yet.
That's not me.

860
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,160
Sorry.
Right, all of us have to walk

861
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,440
through the limp because Jesus
is always trying to get our

862
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,680
attention.
And it goes back to our baptism.

863
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,640
Think about our baptism.
Your, your, your union with

864
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,520
Christ.
You're 9 with Christ and his

865
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,560
death, and you're raised to new
life.

866
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,720
This is really cool.
This means that there's more

867
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,200
Jesus in you than you think.
Amen.

868
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,120
There's more Jesus in you than
you think.

869
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,360
And if you wouldn't just give up
on what God is doing, if you

870
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,200
just stand a little perseverance
and a little more stamina and

871
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,960
you just go, you know what?
I'm going to outlast this trial.

872
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,160
Jesus.
Jesus is changing me.

873
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,440
Like I'm learning a lot of
patience.

874
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:13,400
Amen.
Same here.

875
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,480
I'll learn a lot of patience and
a lot of hard things.

876
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,080
But here's what's cool about
your baptism.

877
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,000
It's not a symbol.
It's not just a tradition.

878
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,240
There's all partial things,
right?

879
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,520
It's not even a good person
getting better.

880
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,760
It's not just because Christians
get baptized.

881
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,040
We don't get baptized because
everybody gets baptized.

882
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,920
You saw everybody get don't get
baptized because the rest of the

883
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,120
people raise their hand.
Amen.

884
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,800
Get baptized because you're
declaring that the victories are

885
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,280
one in your life and you're
going to choose as best you can

886
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,520
with all of your being, you're
going to live from victory in

887
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,160
God.
That's what your baptism is.

888
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,240
So when you get up there, it's
like, well, I'm just doing this

889
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:48,560
because, you know, everybody
wants it.

890
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,600
No, no, you're doing it because
a part of you died and you were

891
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,640
celebrating a funeral of your
old man, Amen.

892
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:57,560
How many knew your bachelors was
a funeral?

893
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,720
That's pretty cool.
You can use you just look at

894
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:02,520
that moment and be like, that's
when I died.

895
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,320
I didn't live in it yet fully,
but that's when I died.

896
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,200
That's good news, Amen.
Because you are you are

897
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,640
accountable to God.
You there's there's no limits to

898
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,800
what the Holy Spirit can do.
And you look at it like why?

899
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,880
I can't really change my family.
Yes, you can.

900
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,120
God can change your family
through you.

901
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,520
Amen.
I've I've reread the I've

902
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,800
rewritten the legacy through
Jesus in my family, all to God's

903
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:28,440
glory.
Amen.

904
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,840
It's not me, it's Christ in me.
You think why?

905
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,000
I can't really do a lot of
stuff.

906
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,680
You could do everything through
Christ.

907
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,520
If God's calling you to do it,
he'll supply the way to do it.

908
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,040
And if we just get our eyes off
ourselves for a little bit, like

909
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,240
off of our own dreams and own
legacy and our own past and the

910
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:47,200
sins around us and the sins in
US.

911
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,560
And since we've done it was look
at the resurrection and power of

912
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,280
Jesus.
There is no limits to what God

913
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,400
can do through your life.
Have you heard that before?

914
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:57,440
And you get to tell that to your
kids.

915
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,800
Amen.
You get to share that with every

916
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,440
person you meet this week.
How many people need to hear

917
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:03,280
that this week in your life?
You may.

918
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,280
Yeah.
Somebody needs to hear that this

919
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,200
week.
The Holy Spirit's power in you

920
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,480
is greater than anything else in
your life.

921
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,600
If you just want to step into
that man like I don't.

922
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,400
I'm not perfect, but I can show
you like he's done this in my

923
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:13,280
life.
He could do it for you.

924
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,120
That's the greatest thing you
could ever share.

925
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:20,120
I once was a man living for
myself and then God killed me.

926
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,520
I live for him.
What a great story, Amen?

927
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,400
And we get to celebrate that on
Easter.

928
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,240
And I'm going to tell you what
heaven is going to make it

929
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:29,520
through Easter.
I know that much, Amen.

930
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,280
We're going to make it 13 weeks.
We'll see what we're going to

931
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,360
do.
I want to encourage you guys.

932
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,520
We're going to just pray your
prayers, surrender, and that's

933
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,160
about you guys.
Put your hands out and to God.

934
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,400
God will come before you got to
pray your prayers.

935
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,520
Surrender got our life not built
on our old man God.

936
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,640
He is dead, He is gone, He is
finished as far as the east is

937
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,120
from the West.
God, you removed the power of

938
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,120
sin for my life and you've wiped
out every sin that I do and I

939
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,040
have done, God, and help me,
Lord, to step into your fullness

940
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,680
and to your grace.
Not because I'm earning this,

941
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,600
Lord, not because I deserve
this, because you love me.

942
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,440
Help me step in and know what
it's like to be loved deeply,

943
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:06,360
God.
Help me to live from your power,

944
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,800
God.
Help me to remove anxiety and

945
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,920
fear and worry.
Take those things from me, God.

946
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,520
Remind me, God, of your Holy
Spirit's power.

947
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,600
God, I declare today I want to
live by your grace, got to live

948
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:18,520
with your power, the Holy
Spirit.

949
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,400
God, thank you as a part of me
that looks just like Jesus, the

950
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,200
part that looks just like
heaven, God, help me to tap into

951
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:25,760
that.
Help me to walk wisely, God,

952
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,760
teach me, God, through trial,
say thank you for my soul.

953
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,760
So God, I surrender my will,
God, because I know my will is

954
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,240
not your will.
And so I trust you.

955
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,400
I trust you.
In this hard season, I trust

956
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:40,160
you.
It's difficult.

957
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,760
I trust him, overwhelmed Lord,
because now your good, You know

958
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,200
your goodness to shine through
me.

959
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,520
And God, you want to use me for
your glory so it could help me

960
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,000
be a person that's marked by
you, by your power and your

961
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,680
strength.
And when people look at my life,

962
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,480
at the end of the day they'll
know that only Jesus could have

963
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,640
done what happened in his life
because I was baptized into

964
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,840
Christ.
So thank you Jesus.

965
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,080
I want to pray for one more
group of people in the house.

966
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,160
That's those of you.
Let's say you know what, I need

967
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:08,480
to be baptized into Christ
today.

968
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,200
Like maybe you seem like I get
baptized with water, sign the

969
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,280
card.
But some of you are like, man, I

970
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,240
get baptized with Christ today.
I've never been united with

971
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:18,360
Christ.
I don't have the Holy Spirit

972
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:19,800
power in me.
There's not a part that looks

973
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,520
like heaven.
I've just been playing church.

974
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,640
I maybe just showed up.
I don't really know what this is

975
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,360
all about, but you recognize
that Jesus died for you and that

976
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,840
you're united as death and you
can have new life in Christ

977
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,000
today and the power of God live
in you today.

978
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,920
What greater promise is there
that Jesus came and died for us

979
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,480
and gave us the Father gave us
one only son who should

980
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,000
believeth him shall not perish,
but everlasting life.

981
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:42,400
And that's not a promise for
tomorrow.

982
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,440
That's a promise for right now.
You can walk out of here with

983
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,120
everlasting life through Jesus
in literally in Christ forgiven.

984
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,640
And so Dave, you need Jesus, you
need forgiven.

985
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,040
You need new life.
The mouth says it's open to

986
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,160
anyone who calls the name of the
Lord and today is the day that

987
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,800
believe Jesus.
The Holy Spirit's calling you to

988
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,320
cry out and humble yourself and
obey God and say yes to Jesus.

989
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,280
If that's you, you need to call
on Jesus, then I'd be looking

990
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:07,920
around.
Just raise your hand high and

991
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,280
says to me, I need Jesus today.
Not going to make it weird to

992
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:11,480
call you out.
I need Jesus.

993
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,440
Come on, see your hands up all
across the room.

994
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,440
I need Christ today.
The Spirit of God speaking to

995
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,840
you, just humble yourself.
Say Lord, I need you.

996
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,400
This prayer does not save you,
but your heart towards him.

997
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,000
Say I believe in you.
Jesus, I believe this book is

998
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,360
true.
These words are true.

999
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,960
I feel you, Holy Spirit, calling
me to yourself today.

1000
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,960
God, thank you that you sent
Jesus to dine across my sins.

1001
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,480
God, I ask for new life.
God, I am now baptized.

1002
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,640
In this moment I feel the weight
of my sin being lifted.

1003
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,680
God, I'm a new creation,
creation.

1004
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,920
God, I can feel the oldest gone.
God, I'm being crucified with

1005
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,280
you right now.
Lord, I have a new identity in

1006
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:46,440
you.
God shaped me.

1007
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,360
God call me into your path and
your way.

1008
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,760
God enter into me.
God thank you Holy Spirit for

1009
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,000
living in me.
I'm a new creation.

1010
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,680
The old is gone.
God thank you for new life in

1011
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,120
Jesus.
God help me to walk in your

1012
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,520
power and I praise in Jesus name
The church said Amen.

1013
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,120
Come on, give some glory to
Jesus today.

1014
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:07,760
Amen.
And what a reminder, this is the

1015
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,040
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1016
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