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Welcome, everyone, to Supernatural Saturday.

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I know we have a lot of new people joining our community and if you are new to this session,

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this is where we lean into the prophetic reality of heaven.

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God is always speaking, but we're not always listening.

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And so this is the time that we set aside every week to lean into what is heaven saying

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to us and through us together.

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And so, Lord, we thank you for this time together.

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We thank you, Lord, that you always want to communicate with us, that you're always

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trying to get information to us that's going to benefit our lives and the lives of others

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around us.

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And so, Lord, we tune in today.

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We ask that you would help us, give us the grace to have our minds and our hearts and

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our spirits open to receive what you are saying, even if it's not what we expect, even if it's

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not what we were doing already.

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Lord, speak to us and through us in Jesus' name, amen.

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So, I know all of you are probably aware that just a couple days ago, a couple things happened

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a couple days ago.

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A couple days ago, we hit the halfway mark of 2024, according to the Gregorian calendar.

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So if you go by the American calendar, the regular calendar, we are halfway through the

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year 2024.

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And really we are, no matter what, I mean, we're halfway through.

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Now there's another simultaneous calendar that's going on right now, the Hebraic calendar,

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and we will celebrate that new year in just a couple months in September.

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So we're towards the end of that year, 5784, but we are midway through 2024.

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Midway.

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Guys, you have a half a year left.

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And so the very first thing that I feel like heaven wants to release over us is the knowledge

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that the story is not over yet.

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Just grab a hold of that this morning.

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The year's not over yet.

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There's a whole half a year left.

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And you know what I noticed?

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I noticed that people on Facebook are always rushing ahead.

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They're always talking about, hey, you know, winter's coming.

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What?

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I don't know about y'all, but it's 100 degrees outside at my house right now, and it's going

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to be this way for the next three months.

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I don't see winter on the horizon.

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Now, if I sat around and thought about it, I know I can do the deductions, the math maths

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that someday winter's going to come.

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Yes, it is, but it's not here now.

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And we have to learn how to enjoy to be in the present moment.

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And right now we are halfway through the year.

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The year still has a whole six months to go, and there's so much that can happen.

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I have learned myself in my life that there are so many things that can happen in such

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a short amount of time because of something called a tipping point, because of something

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called a suddenly.

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There are those times when it seems like there's nothing there, seems like there's nothing

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different, there's nothing new on the horizon, and then all of a sudden there's an open door.

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And I will tell you, in case you have not been in our community long enough to remember

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our Supernatural Saturdays around the new year of the Hebraic year, 5784, but we are

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in the year of the door.

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And those doors, friends, they show up out of nowhere.

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And so at the beginning of this call, I just want to encourage you that it doesn't matter

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if you don't like where you are now.

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Everything's changing.com.

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It always is.

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That's kind of like a little saying I always say, everything's changing.com, because it

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always is changing.

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It is.

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And even if you cannot see the manifestation of those changes with your naked eye, it does

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not mean that it's not happening.

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I want you to sit with that for a second.

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God is always moving.

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You guys, the kingdom of heaven is not a stationary kingdom.

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It's always moving.

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It's always advancing.

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Get a hold of that right now in your heart.

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I want you to close your eyes and I want you to meditate on that.

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I want you to speak that over yourself that God is always on the move.

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God is always on the move.

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And I know it doesn't feel like that in our own lives, because a lot of times we'll wake

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up to the same old, same old, same old.

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And I want to propose something to you this morning, and I don't want it to offend you

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in the wrong way, but I want it to offend you in the right way.

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Because when it offends us in the right way, it can cause us to change.

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Now, if it offends us in the wrong way, then we just kind of take our ball and go home,

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right?

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I don't want to play with you anymore, Jackie.

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I'm going to take my ball and go home.

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So I don't want you to hear what I'm about to say this morning through the ears of condemnation

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or legalism or religion.

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I just want you to hear it through the words of a loving Father in heaven, an Abba, that

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wants to invite you into the more.

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The more.

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There's always the more.

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You know, we hear all these scriptures about the kingdom of heaven and we hear about how

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it's, you know, peace, joy, and righteousness and the Holy Spirit.

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We hear about how God wants us to prosper, even as our souls prosper and so many other

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things that I know a lot of people are like, it's not a prosperity gospel, but it really

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is friends.

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It really is a prosperity gospel.

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Now is it a.

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You take your liberty and use it to oppress others gospel?

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No.

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So if only if you only want to abound and be abundant so that you can leave a bigger

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footprint on the earth, meaning like a carbon footprint, like buy more stuff, you know,

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hoard it up, have barns full of stuff for yourself.

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Then yeah, you know that that's the wrong kind of prosperity, but the kind of kingdom

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prosperity is blessed to be a blessing.

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You're blessed to be a blessing.

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And so the gospel, the kingdom gospel is absolutely a prosperity gospel.

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And God is always, the Bible says, looking for someone to get his resources into the

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earth through.

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He's always looking for someone to get his resources into the earth through because he

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has decided friends to work through humanity.

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Could he do a sovereign act?

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Yes.

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Does he sometimes do a sovereign act?

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Yes.

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But the majority of the time, what God does is he works through his family on the earth

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to get someone anything they need.

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Remember God is the source, but I like to say he's the head of the human resource department.

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If you go into the human resource department in heaven, you will see God, his little name

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tag there.

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His little, little desk tag.

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He's the head.

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He is the human resource director.

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And then all kinds of angels doing his multitasking for him, right?

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All kinds of angels, just making his will known on the earth.

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And someday we'll do a Supernatural Saturday about angelic undergirding because it's very

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real.

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And it's how a lot of those doors that we're talking about right now get opened.

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But I really want to stay focused.

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I want to stay focused because we just celebrated, America just celebrated freedom.

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We just celebrated freedom from tyranny and oppression, freedom from taxation without

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representation.

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We just celebrated all kinds of things that our forefathers left their homeland to go

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find another nation that they could have freedom to live life as they chose to pursue life,

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liberty, happiness, all of those things in the form of their governments, their religion,

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all the things, right?

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The problem is, is that oftentimes when we forget what we've been freed from, we end

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up oppressing others.

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And that's what's happened here.

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And that's what happens every time, everywhere.

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And why is that?

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Humanity, the curse, right?

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All of us, even though we have been redeemed in our spirits and we are heaven bound, all

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of us have things in our flesh that will keep us oppressed and help us to oppress

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others.

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You're like, well, Jackie, I don't oppress anyone.

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Well, of course you do.

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We all do.

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We all use our liberty to oppress others in a lot of ways.

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We'll speak things over other people and we'll participate in activities that are bringing

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oppression.

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Like, here's a little small example.

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A small example is, you know, there's all this gossip out there.

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And now that we have all this social media, it's always in front of our face.

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It's gossip about all kinds of people.

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It can be gossip about your neighbors or your friends, people that you went to church with

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at one point in time in your life or people you worked with.

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And it can be, and oftentimes is, gossip about people that you've never met and you're never

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going to meet.

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misleaders and politicians and celebrities, and it's just coursing through the internet.

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And a lot of times we read it and we make a judgment on it.

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We come into agreement with it.

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Oh yeah, I can see that.

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Bennifer J. Lo and Ben Affleck.

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I knew that was a train wreck coming.

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You know, that's none of my business.

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That's not my business.

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And oftentimes, instead of just praying, what we do is we come into agreement with whatever

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it is that is being said.

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sourced against those people. And that's oppression. Gossiping

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about people slandering people, it's it's a form of oppression.

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And so it's, I'm using that example to show you how easy it

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is to get involved with something that is hurting other

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people, keeping other people hostage. And I say all that to

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get to where I want to get to because there are open doors.

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There's information from heaven, God wants us to go forward, he

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wants us to move forward. But there's all kinds of little tiny

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things that entangle us and keep our minds shut down. It's about

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our minds being free friends. And it's about us being able to

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go forward in the freedom with which we've been set free. So

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here's the idea that keeps coming into my heart, into my

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spirit into my mind over the course of the last week or so,

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who the sun sets free, is free. Who the sun sets free is free.

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And I use the example of America and all that because we're

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celebrating freedom, but we're really not that free. We might

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have been free for a moment, you know, after the Revolutionary

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ideas of humanity. Yeah, they're in a different form than they

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were in the original oppression, but they come back to oppress

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again. Are you with me? Are you with me? We may we may be more

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free. Okay, then. I don't know. We may be more free than

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somebody else. And this is where this is where we this is where

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we settle for less friends, is that a lot of times we will

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compare our freedom to someone who is, in our opinion, visibly

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more oppressed. Do you get what I'm saying? Well, compare our

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freedom to someone who is visibly more oppressed than us.

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Well, I'm glad I'm not that guy. I'm glad I'm not her. You know,

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I used to be in a really scary marriage, but I'm free now. But

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are you free? Are you free from the effects of that thing? And

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you can't answer that question right now because you guys we

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make 35,000 decisions every single day based on unconscious

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things. 35,000 that's just the average person. So we have to

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get free free, right? And that is going to be a process because

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Jesus himself says in his word, if you continue in my words, you

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will know the truth, and it will make you free. That's a

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process, isn't it? Now before you thought this was going to be

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a real buzzkill downer today, I want to share the main thing.

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Matthew 2028 says that the Son of Man came not to be served,

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but to serve and to lay down his life or give his life as a

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ransom for many. I want us to focus on that. Because I believe

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there's a lot of open doors in the second half of 2024. In the

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second half of 5784, the year of the door, I believe there's a

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lot of opportunities waiting for each and every one of you.

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They're waiting for each and every one of you. But I need you

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to see clearly because remember, the greatest weapon of the

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oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. We have to have a mind

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shift. And not just one, but many, we have to have mindset

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shifts, and we have to have them every day. And you guys, if you

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haven't noticed, Supernatural Saturday has been building up

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line upon line, precept upon precept, we've been building,

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we've been going somewhere. Last week, we talked about if you

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don't give up, you win. And before that, we talked about

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team spirit and team flesh. And you see that we're going

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somewhere. And you can't just, it can't just be for a moment on

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Saturday mornings when you hear the word, but to be doers of the

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word, we have to get momentum. Basically, all these puzzle

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pieces have to be put together. And I believe that God's going

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to give us the grace to be able to do that in each of our own

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separate lives. And then of course, as a community, God wants

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us to be free. Saturday morning is a is a stoke to the fire.

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God blowing on the kingdom embers in our hearts. You guys

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going to church is just not enough. It isn't. And depending

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on what you're being taught there, you could actually be

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sabotage.

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to be sabotaged.

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And I don't say that because I'm not a friend

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or an ally of local church.

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I am a friend.

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I am an ally to local church, good local church.

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And when I say good local church,

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where they are teaching the Bible

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through the lens of Christ,

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through the lens of the finished work of the cross,

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not when people are being oppressed.

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Remember, don't let your liberty be used to oppress others.

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And we see this all through the Bible, right?

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Don't we see it?

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We see it even in the disciples.

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And if you think that it can't happen, it can happen.

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You know, they're running around.

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Jesus has ascended into heaven

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and they're running around with their version

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of what he left behind.

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And there's old tendencies that start creeping in.

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Right?

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It starts creeping in where now it's not good enough

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to just believe on Jesus.

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Now you have to be circumcised again

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and you have to do this and you have to do that.

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Friends, I want you with the help of Holy Spirit

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to examine and see if you really believe the scripture.

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He gave his life as a ransom for many.

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Do you guys know what the word ransom means?

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The ransom means something of value

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that's given in exchange for the release

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of a prisoner or a hostage.

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You guys, we were being held hostage.

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We were prisoners to the curse.

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As soon as you were born,

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you didn't have to do anything.

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As soon as you were born,

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you came out of your mother's womb,

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a prisoner, a hostage to the curse.

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You were gonna get an opportunity to get freed from that.

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You were gonna get an opportunity to have a savior.

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Okay?

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And each and every one of you took that opportunity.

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That's why you're here.

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But then oftentimes,

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we exchange one bondage for another bondage.

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And Paul talks about this in one of his letters.

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He says, have you begun in grace

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now to continue in your flesh?

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What?

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And what was he talking about

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when he was talking about flesh?

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He was talking about a different captor,

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a different thing that holds people hostage,

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and that's the law.

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So you were born oppressed,

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under an oppressor,

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a prisoner, a hostage,

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and then you were set free,

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but a lot of people exchanged that freedom

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for then another oppressor,

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which is the law,

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which is legalism,

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religion.

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Guys, the Bible says that true religion

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is just taking care of the widows and the orphans.

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If it's a list of things that you use

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to keep yourself back,

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to hold yourself back,

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and to hold others back,

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because you think this is the only right way to do it,

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and if they're not doing it this way,

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then you're gonna make sure that you tell them.

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I mean, raise your hand

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if someone has ever said to you

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in a spiritual community or context,

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a church context,

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that you should not want the things that you want,

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whatever it is that you're wanting,

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a marriage, a baby,

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that you should just be content where you are.

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You should just go ahead and suck it up.

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This is what God might want for you.

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Because it doesn't mean that they're bad people,

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once again,

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just misinformed.

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I remember when I was a very young believer,

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and I don't even wanna use the word believer anymore,

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a very young follower of Christ.

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A lot of people believe in God

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and they don't follow Jesus.

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Coming up with our own language

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that sounds cool and trendy,

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I'm a believer.

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Well, the devil believes,

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but he's definitely not a Christian.

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And the word Christian is really misinformed too,

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because it can mean anything now.

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But I was a very young follower of Christ.

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I had just had my awakening,

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my conversion experience,

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and I was doing something that I did not enjoy,

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and I do know that God was stretching me with it,

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I do know that it was a very important part

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of my discipleship.

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But I had a spiritual mother type figure

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who was much, much older than me.

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She was at least,

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she's old enough to be my mom.

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And she came by one day

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while I was working at the church,

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working in the daycare,

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doing things that I just did not enjoy doing.

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And I complained to her.

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I told her that I was unhappy,

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and that I had other things that I wanted to do,

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and other desires,

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and other ambitions,

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and ideas even of things that I could do

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for God in his kingdom,

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because I wanted to do it.

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to serve the Lord.

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The ideas that I had weren't like,

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oh, I wanna run out and I'll make a bunch of money

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and I'm gonna buy some stuff.

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No, it was about ministry.

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It was about serving the Lord.

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It was about going out and specifically working

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with down and out people.

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And I did end up doing that.

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I did end up going to school to be a social worker

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and a psychologist.

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I did end up working at homeless shelters on staff

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and working with dual diagnosis men and women

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that's mentally ill and chemically addicted.

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I did end up doing all of that.

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I ended up running the outreach department of that church,

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driving a church van to the least of these

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for over a decade of my life.

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I did end up doing all that stuff,

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but this was the first step in getting to those places.

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And so friends, please do not despise small beginnings

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towards what it is that you wanna do.

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But you can't stay there.

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You can't stay in those small beginnings.

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And so this voice showed up in my life that day

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and she said, you should just learn to be content here

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because God has chosen this for you to do.

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And I was like, well, not forever.

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And she's like, baby, it might be forever.

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You need to just go ahead and make peace with the idea

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that this might be your life.

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What? No, friends.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Okay?

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Yes, we can have power to be content wherever we are.

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You know that scripture everyone quotes of everyone loves?

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I think it's Philippians 4.13.

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He gives me strength.

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I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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That actually is about contentment.

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That scripture, Paul wrote that scripture.

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You guys realize that one of the most joyous books

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of the Bible was written from prison?

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It was written as a real prisoner.

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Not like you guys, the gate's open, y'all.

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We can go.

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We're not held hostage here.

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Jesus freed us, but he was straight up a real prisoner.

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Okay?

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He was imprisoned for the ministry that he was in doing

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when he wrote that book.

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And so, and that's where that comes from,

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that scripture that says,

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and I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

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I can suffer.

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I can be content in being imprisoned.

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I can, you know, it's about contentment.

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So yes, friends, we can be content doing things

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that we don't love and we can do them cheerfully

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because God loves a cheerful giver.

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And oftentimes the thing that you don't love

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is leading to something that you do love.

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Write that down.

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The thing that you don't love is actually leading

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to something that you do love if you keep moving forward.

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If you just sit down and feel sorry for yourself

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in whatever it is that you don't want,

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then you can't have what God is inviting you into.

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Not because God's not gonna let you have it,

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but because you're not gonna allow yourself to have it.

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Right?

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We're always, you guys, we're never staying in.

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We're always going through.

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We're going through.

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We're passing through.

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Remember, the kingdom of God is moving.

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And so if you've been stuck and stagnant

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in something that you just really don't like for years,

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then you're the one that missed the turnoff.

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You're the one.

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And you can pray today and just say,

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God, take my feet off this pathway of pain

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and lead me back to you.

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Lead me back to your purpose for my life.

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We all get detoured and sidetracked, friends.

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We all get delayed.

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It's part of our fragile form that we're living in.

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God knows our fragile form.

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He knows it.

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So Jesus claimed to be a ransom for many.

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So I'm gonna say something to you right now.

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Remember, this is the good kind of offense.

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This is the kind of offense that shows you

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the hard parts of your heart

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that are keeping you from fully being abundant.

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Ready?

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Nobody is coming to rescue you.

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Nobody is coming to rescue you.

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And I know that the modern church, quote unquote,

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because you guys, we are the church.

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The word church in the ancient text is ecclesia.

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And it is a military word.

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It is a military unit of people, right?

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It's a, them are fighting words, okay?

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The word church.

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And that's when Jesus said, upon this rock,

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I will build my church and the gates of hell

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will not prevail against it.

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Okay?

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That's the church that Christ is coming back for.

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And it is a group of people.

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It is not a building.

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Okay?

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So I know that in the buildings called church,

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the buildings, we hear a lot about,

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he's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming,

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he's coming, he's coming, he's coming.

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He's gonna do it, he's gonna do it, he's gonna do it.

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Yeah.

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But he did it.

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He did it.

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He's not going to do it.

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He did it.

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So when you hear that, God's gonna, God's gonna, God's gonna, God's gonna, God's gonna, God did.

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He did. And you have to live in the finished work of the cross. God did. And so when I say

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nobody's coming to rescue you, what I'm really saying is no one's coming to rescue you because

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He already came.

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Friends, I know that that is a very small kind of change in words, but it means so much,

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and it's really important that you understand that it's not semantics.

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If we get a hold of what I'm saying right now, it'll change your entire life.

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Because waiting to be rescued by Jesus means that you are sitting in a waiting room.

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It means that you are helpless and hopeless waiting for Him to ride in on His white horse

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and save the day. And there will be a time that Jesus returns to earth on a white horse,

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I believe, in Christ setting up His kingdom on earth fully. But in the meantime, friends,

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we are the people that are bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth. He's gonna bring it fully

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to earth, and He's gonna rule and reign. That is gonna happen. But in the meantime,

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we are giving people that foretaste with the help of Holy Spirit of what heaven looks like.

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We are here not to get into heaven someday, but to get heaven into us in the earth. That is what

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we are here to do. And if you are waiting for something that already happened, and think about

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it, there are whole people groups waiting for something that already happened. The Jews are

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waiting for Messiah. Messiah has already been here. He's already been here. And if we call

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ourselves Christians, which are Christ followers, then we are the ones that know better than anybody

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that He's been here. He's already been here. Can we even really call ourselves Christ followers

499
00:27:09.280 --> 00:27:15.760
if we're still living in the law? Can we call ourselves Christ followers if we're still living

500
00:27:15.760 --> 00:27:23.280
in bondage, waiting to be ransomed, still being held hostage by a set of rules, by a set of

501
00:27:23.280 --> 00:27:30.400
ideologies that God only gave to the earth to show us our need for a Savior? Guys, the law was a

502
00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:35.920
schoolmaster to teach you when you were young that you are in need of a Savior, to teach you

503
00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:41.200
when you were in your incomplete phase, to teach you of a completion phase.

504
00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:53.920
And now, as we continue in the life-giving words of Christ, as we continue in the bondage-breaking

505
00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:59.520
acts of Christ, the finished work of the cross, we become more and more free. And our freedom

506
00:27:59.520 --> 00:28:06.080
should create freedom for others. That's how you can always tell if you're being spirit-led

507
00:28:06.080 --> 00:28:13.440
or flesh-led, but still being a Christian. Does your freedom oppress other people, or does it

508
00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:19.760
set other people free? Do the things that you preach and tell other people, does it cause their

509
00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:26.480
countenance to fall or light up with joy? Are you always telling people a list of rules and things

510
00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:32.880
that they have to do to please God, or are you letting them know that they have an Abba in heaven

511
00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:39.680
that's crazy about them? Because the Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to

512
00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:49.600
turn away from themselves and towards Him. Not the condemnation of God, not the punishment of God.

513
00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:57.520
Friends, we have to live fully ransomed. We have to live fully ransomed. We're celebrating freedom

514
00:28:57.520 --> 00:29:01.920
in America, and we all know that America ain't that free. Now, we're free from some things that

515
00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:05.120
we used to be entangled with, but we got all kinds of other bondage going on here.

516
00:29:07.520 --> 00:29:14.400
And that's often what happens. We'll leave something that imprisoned us just to choose a new

517
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:20.480
We'll leave something that imprisoned us just to choose a new prison. We don't want that.

518
00:29:22.080 --> 00:29:25.440
Raise your hand if you're like, I don't want that. I want to be free. I want to live free.

519
00:29:27.360 --> 00:29:32.720
I want to live free. Guys, there's a song that's popular in churches right now, and

520
00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:37.680
part of it just says, I don't remember what I was doing before I met you.

521
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:44.880
You know, singing to Jesus. But you guys, I fully remember what I was doing before I met Jesus.

522
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:52.160
I fully remember the bondage that I was in before I met Jesus. I remember the drugs. I remember the

523
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:59.600
alcohol. I remember the shenanigans and the debauchery. I remember the fear and the anxiety.

524
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.900
and the mental illness. I remember the sleepless nights. I remember the

525
00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:12.460
homelessness. I remember the pain. I remember all of it. I remember. And so

526
00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:17.940
that's a nice song, but it doesn't apply to me because I remember the bondage

527
00:30:17.940 --> 00:30:24.180
that I was in. But let me go further and forward with you. I remember those first

528
00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:28.260
days of meeting Jesus. And you guys, I know that there were a lot of people

529
00:30:28.260 --> 00:30:31.860
that were probably bricks in that wall, people that said something to me when I

530
00:30:31.860 --> 00:30:35.940
was a child. I remember my grandmother telling me something about Jesus. But

531
00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:41.580
once again, you know, she was in that legalistic kind of vein of following,

532
00:30:41.580 --> 00:30:45.420
following Jesus. So it's always about, he's coming for you, he gonna get you,

533
00:30:45.420 --> 00:30:49.940
you're gonna get in trouble, you know, kind of idea. So I really wasn't. I was

534
00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:55.220
like, okay, that's good. I'm gonna stay over here. But there were little things,

535
00:30:55.220 --> 00:31:00.860
little line items in the story. Okay, little sentences in the story. But when I

536
00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:09.500
did fully meet him, I met him in my car, driving by myself. I asked God who he was

537
00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:12.940
and he answered with fire.

538
00:31:16.220 --> 00:31:21.740
It was a radical conversion. Just thinking about it makes me emotional. It

539
00:31:21.740 --> 00:31:27.260
was a radical conversion. And you guys, I was then a week later in my living

540
00:31:27.260 --> 00:31:33.100
room, baptized in the Spirit. Once again, by myself with just one other person. My

541
00:31:33.100 --> 00:31:41.940
former husband was there. Baptized in the Spirit. Singing in languages that I had

542
00:31:41.940 --> 00:31:49.500
never learned and fully understanding myself in English in my mind. Crazy

543
00:31:49.580 --> 00:31:59.220
things. And then, if that wasn't enough, after that night, I woke up and not only

544
00:31:59.220 --> 00:32:03.660
was I transformed, not only was I full of joy, not only was I in peace for the very

545
00:32:03.660 --> 00:32:09.300
first time in my life, I came out of my mother's womb running for my life. Not

546
00:32:09.300 --> 00:32:14.300
only was I finally in a place of rest and peace and felt fully taken care of

547
00:32:14.300 --> 00:32:18.740
and loved in a supernatural way that I could not understand, because remember, I

548
00:32:18.780 --> 00:32:25.780
have not been discipled yet. All I know is that whoever I was before no longer

549
00:32:25.780 --> 00:32:32.180
lives here anymore. Waking up the next day and receiving information from

550
00:32:32.180 --> 00:32:37.340
heaven about other people and where they are and how to go find them. Go to the

551
00:32:37.340 --> 00:32:40.540
airport. This is back before 9-11, so you could go to the airport, y'all. You could

552
00:32:40.540 --> 00:32:43.980
just go in the airport. I don't know. You guys remember this, right? You could just

553
00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:47.300
go in the airport. You didn't have to have a ticket. You could just go. You go

554
00:32:47.300 --> 00:32:50.780
through TSA and you could go sit down and wait at a gate for someone to come

555
00:32:50.780 --> 00:32:56.220
in, whatever. Go to the airport, Jackie. Go to this terminal. Go to this place. Go

556
00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:59.860
to this bench. Sit here and wait. There's gonna be a girl that comes by and this

557
00:32:59.860 --> 00:33:02.860
is what she looks like. She has on a red puffy coat and this is what she looks

558
00:33:02.860 --> 00:33:06.340
like and this is the message that I want you to give to her and sure enough, y'all

559
00:33:06.340 --> 00:33:09.580
went to the airport, sat down, did the thing and there she came and I gave her

560
00:33:09.580 --> 00:33:13.980
the message and then that kept happening and it kept happening and it was so

561
00:33:13.980 --> 00:33:18.940
amazing, exciting to see people receive these prophetic words, these words of

562
00:33:18.940 --> 00:33:21.780
knowledge. You guys know, I didn't know what they were because no one had told

563
00:33:21.780 --> 00:33:30.180
me yet. I was free and I was using my liberty to create liberty for others.

564
00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:41.100
It was crazy but then the religious people got their hands on me. They got

565
00:33:41.100 --> 00:33:44.460
their hands on me through my former husband. I was like, come to church now.

566
00:33:44.460 --> 00:33:49.660
Come to church. Be discipled. Do this and you guys, once again, I'm not against

567
00:33:49.660 --> 00:33:57.500
local church. I'm an ally of spiritual community but that stopped my growth and

568
00:33:57.500 --> 00:34:03.420
introduced all kinds of ideas to me that I did not have which are God's mad at

569
00:34:03.420 --> 00:34:11.340
you and now you need to do this list of things to make him happy and you guys,

570
00:34:11.340 --> 00:34:15.659
that and of course discipleship is super important but we have to be discipled in

571
00:34:15.659 --> 00:34:18.340
the spirit.

572
00:34:19.500 --> 00:34:26.179
Jesus is the word. We have to be discipled and we have to disciple others

573
00:34:26.179 --> 00:34:31.940
and I know that we've all, all of us have had these layers put on us but you guys

574
00:34:31.980 --> 00:34:35.260
it's taken a long time to peel those layers off and I didn't even get a

575
00:34:35.260 --> 00:34:39.219
chance. That would be the next 10 years of my life. I'd be being programmed

576
00:34:39.219 --> 00:34:45.100
the wrong direction and guess what I started suffering from again? Fear and

577
00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:49.540
mental health issues. All the things that I've been set free from and delivered

578
00:34:49.540 --> 00:34:53.500
from came back upon me but now in a religious context, now I felt like God

579
00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:58.780
was doing it to me because he wasn't happy with me.

580
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.760
And I would remain that way.

581
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:06.240
I almost lost my life several times as a follower of Christ

582
00:35:06.240 --> 00:35:07.640
because of my mental health,

583
00:35:09.040 --> 00:35:13.760
after being discipled by religion and by legalism.

584
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.840
And the worst kind, y'all, like the kind of people

585
00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:19.400
that have just added so much stuff.

586
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:21.240
And remember, it's not about the people.

587
00:35:21.240 --> 00:35:23.800
They were literally just teaching me what they knew.

588
00:35:24.680 --> 00:35:26.000
They were just teaching me what they knew.

589
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:27.280
They weren't bad people at all.

590
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:28.960
They were good people for the most part,

591
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.880
except the pastor ended up going to prison.

592
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.840
You guys know that story, okay?

593
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:36.880
But besides that, like, Jackie, that's a big thing.

594
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:40.360
Besides that, they were well-meaning people

595
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:42.560
that had just been generationally following

596
00:35:42.560 --> 00:35:46.160
what they had been taught, that women shouldn't speak.

597
00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:48.160
How do you think I did there?

598
00:35:48.160 --> 00:35:50.120
Baby, come on.

599
00:35:50.120 --> 00:35:52.400
How do you think I did in a spiritual community

600
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:55.880
that believed that women were to be seen and not heard,

601
00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:59.760
unless it was in the nursery or something with the babies,

602
00:36:00.640 --> 00:36:04.040
and women were to wear dresses only

603
00:36:05.160 --> 00:36:06.560
and not cut their hair

604
00:36:07.560 --> 00:36:11.360
because of some very misinterpreted scriptures?

605
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.640
Yeah, you guys, it was hard.

606
00:36:13.640 --> 00:36:15.040
But I learned a lot of things.

607
00:36:15.040 --> 00:36:20.040
One thing that I learned to do is I learned to really pray.

608
00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:22.000
I learned to intercede.

609
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.200
And that's what I did pretty much for that 10 years,

610
00:36:24.200 --> 00:36:25.760
besides all that social work stuff

611
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:27.120
that I just told you about.

612
00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:32.000
You guys, I've had to repent, though.

613
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:33.400
I've had to come to God and say,

614
00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:36.800
you know, I know that during that timeframe

615
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:38.600
when I was being told and taught,

616
00:36:38.600 --> 00:36:40.280
what I was being told and taught,

617
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:45.200
that I taught and told a lot of other people that as well,

618
00:36:45.200 --> 00:36:47.400
at a homeless shelter here or there or whatever.

619
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.720
The freedom with which I had been made free

620
00:36:49.720 --> 00:36:51.280
was now entangled,

621
00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:54.480
and it was mixed with all this other stuff.

622
00:36:56.720 --> 00:36:59.240
And friends, I'm not trying to tell you or myself

623
00:36:59.240 --> 00:37:01.320
that that's not gonna be the case.

624
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:04.080
We're always gonna have some entanglement of flesh

625
00:37:04.080 --> 00:37:07.080
and the power of the flesh, which is the law.

626
00:37:07.080 --> 00:37:10.320
You know that the law is only powered by the flesh, right?

627
00:37:11.200 --> 00:37:13.320
Because it's all about you, and it's not about Jesus.

628
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:14.360
It's all about you.

629
00:37:15.600 --> 00:37:16.720
It's all about what you can do.

630
00:37:16.720 --> 00:37:18.480
It's not about what Jesus can do through you

631
00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:19.720
or what Jesus already did.

632
00:37:19.720 --> 00:37:20.760
It's about you.

633
00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:23.640
And so there is gonna be, there is a mixture,

634
00:37:23.640 --> 00:37:25.600
and we have to continue to ask God

635
00:37:25.600 --> 00:37:29.640
to help us to make free, help make us free,

636
00:37:29.640 --> 00:37:33.440
and show us the areas where we're still believing a lie,

637
00:37:35.160 --> 00:37:36.520
where we still have mindsets

638
00:37:36.520 --> 00:37:38.120
that are keeping us from living in abundance.

639
00:37:38.120 --> 00:37:39.600
And that's what this life looks like.

640
00:37:39.600 --> 00:37:42.000
It looks like walking it out, enjoy,

641
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:44.360
and also, friends, enjoying where you are now.

642
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:46.440
We cannot be in constant hard work.

643
00:37:47.560 --> 00:37:49.080
We can't be constantly looking

644
00:37:49.080 --> 00:37:51.040
for where we're not believing the truth

645
00:37:51.040 --> 00:37:52.840
or not surrendering to Jesus.

646
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:54.480
We have to enjoy this life.

647
00:37:56.200 --> 00:37:59.920
But friends, when that pastor fell and he went to prison,

648
00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:02.680
it was like, I was like a bird with a French fry.

649
00:38:02.680 --> 00:38:05.000
When I tell you that the door was open

650
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.080
and I ran out as fast as I could,

651
00:38:07.080 --> 00:38:09.640
and immediately, I want you to see something,

652
00:38:09.640 --> 00:38:14.640
immediately on the other side of stepping out of that,

653
00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:18.480
I began to get better.

654
00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:21.440
My mental health began to come into alignment.

655
00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:24.080
All the issues and problems that I had in my body

656
00:38:24.080 --> 00:38:26.760
and in my mind began to fade away

657
00:38:27.720 --> 00:38:30.440
until one day I literally woke up

658
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.400
and I realized that I no longer had any of them anymore,

659
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:36.720
and I hadn't had them for a long time.

660
00:38:37.560 --> 00:38:38.840
Isn't that crazy?

661
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.560
It's crazy, and it's good, because here's the thing,

662
00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:45.000
and I remember so many times during that

663
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:46.080
when I would cry out to God.

664
00:38:46.120 --> 00:38:48.960
In fact, one time, and I really feel like

665
00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:50.520
Holy Spirit wanted me to share this.

666
00:38:50.520 --> 00:38:53.800
One time, I was just snotting up the carpet, you guys.

667
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.440
I was just, I was in a victim posture.

668
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:01.840
I was broken, and I was crying out to God to help me,

669
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:06.160
and I was just in a place of anxiety and fear,

670
00:39:06.160 --> 00:39:11.160
and I was just freaking out, freaking out.

671
00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:13.480
I don't know if any of you have ever been there,

672
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:18.480
but I was freaking out, and I was begging God to help me,

673
00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:20.560
begging Him to help me.

674
00:39:20.560 --> 00:39:22.640
I did not think that I was gonna make it,

675
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:28.920
and very calmly and very gently, but also very firmly,

676
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:33.360
I heard the Lord say to me, get up, Jackie.

677
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.640
This is not who you've been created to be,

678
00:39:38.640 --> 00:39:41.200
and y'all, I didn't know what that meant yet,

679
00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:46.200
but I felt, I felt the strength of my Abba in that moment,

680
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:50.680
and I knew that whatever I was operating in

681
00:39:50.680 --> 00:39:53.920
was not my true self, and that's where the heart work

682
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:56.680
was born, if you ever wonder where it came from.

683
00:39:58.680 --> 00:40:01.680
And so, that's where the heart work was born.

684
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.320
It was born on the true spirit discipleship that started after that.

685
00:40:01.680 --> 00:40:04.680
And so, that's where the heart work was born.

686
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.920
I already told you that I was discipled by man and by religion,

687
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:12.080
but then a new discipleship started, and it was a discipleship of the heart.

688
00:40:13.200 --> 00:40:14.800
It was a spiritual discipleship.

689
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:18.480
And because I didn't have a human person to lead me through it,

690
00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:21.680
God let me be the pioneer of that specific protocol.

691
00:40:21.680 --> 00:40:25.120
And I know there's a lot of great protocols out there of true discipleship,

692
00:40:25.120 --> 00:40:27.760
but I'm just saying that is where it came from.

693
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.160
And I began once again, like I told you,

694
00:40:30.160 --> 00:40:34.960
to get more and more and more free and more and more and more abundant.

695
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:39.760
I'm 28 years into walking with Jesus, and this is where I've gotten to.

696
00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:42.640
So friends, let freedom ring.

697
00:40:43.200 --> 00:40:46.400
Nobody's coming to rescue you because Jesus already did it.

698
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:48.480
You know, he's the beginning and the end.

699
00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:50.640
He's the Alpha and he's the Omega, right?

700
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.920
But you notice he's not the middle because you're the middle.

701
00:40:55.520 --> 00:40:56.240
You're the middle.

702
00:40:56.880 --> 00:40:58.320
He's the beginning.

703
00:40:58.320 --> 00:40:59.120
He's the end.

704
00:40:59.120 --> 00:41:01.440
He's the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning and the end.

705
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:03.120
You are the middle.

706
00:41:03.120 --> 00:41:08.320
You have to walk out what Jesus ransomed for you.

707
00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:14.320
We have to walk that out, and you guys, we're going to walk it out imperfectly.

708
00:41:16.160 --> 00:41:19.120
We're going to walk it out imperfectly.

709
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:23.360
One thing that I wrote down here is that you have to stop

710
00:41:24.080 --> 00:41:26.000
oppressing yourself with your words.

711
00:41:27.600 --> 00:41:33.280
A lot of you have had a lot of criticism in your lives from a lot of different sources,

712
00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:35.520
and now you've become your own biggest critic.

713
00:41:38.560 --> 00:41:40.480
You've become your own biggest critic.

714
00:41:46.720 --> 00:41:51.200
Those voices, and unfortunately, those voices are voices of people that also,

715
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.760
once again, were being oppressed by others.

716
00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:59.680
They were being oppressed by others, and then that oppression was handed down to you

717
00:41:59.680 --> 00:42:05.920
in the form of verbal aggression and probably even abuse.

718
00:42:06.640 --> 00:42:09.840
And so now you verbally abuse yourselves.

719
00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:14.000
I can say that because I'm one of those people.

720
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.400
I know that I encourage you all, and I love you all,

721
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:20.720
and I'm very careful to try to be as life-giving as I can to others,

722
00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:22.640
but I'm not like that with myself all the time.

723
00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:28.800
I was severely verbally abused all of my life.

724
00:42:31.200 --> 00:42:33.520
From the time that I could understand language,

725
00:42:33.520 --> 00:42:36.560
someone was telling me that I was out of order, I wasn't right,

726
00:42:36.560 --> 00:42:40.640
or I should have never been born, or I'm the worst thing that ever happened to them,

727
00:42:40.640 --> 00:42:43.680
or the best thing that could ever happen to me is that I could lose my voice

728
00:42:43.680 --> 00:42:48.320
and never be able to speak again, and on and on and on and on and on.

729
00:42:51.120 --> 00:42:54.480
You guys, we have to break that.

730
00:42:57.680 --> 00:42:59.040
Nobody's going to break it but you.

731
00:42:59.040 --> 00:43:01.040
Jesus already gave you the power to break it.

732
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.200
He died on the cross, not just for you, but as you.

733
00:43:05.200 --> 00:43:06.160
He died as you.

734
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:09.600
He died as you.

735
00:43:10.560 --> 00:43:11.600
You've been ransomed.

736
00:43:13.520 --> 00:43:19.440
You're not a hostage anymore to any of the brokenness that comes from sin,

737
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:22.640
to any of the brokenness that comes from religion.

738
00:43:23.200 --> 00:43:24.240
You are not a hostage.

739
00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:27.680
You can be free.

740
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:34.800
You can be free.

741
00:43:35.520 --> 00:43:39.200
For the second half of 2024, it can look totally different than the first half

742
00:43:39.200 --> 00:43:43.680
because the first half, you might have been waiting for Jesus to rescue you.

743
00:43:43.680 --> 00:43:46.400
I want you to raise your hand and be honest

744
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.600
if you've been waiting for God to do something for you,

745
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:52.560
and that's why you're praying.

746
00:43:52.560 --> 00:43:54.480
You're just waiting for God to do something for you.

747
00:43:55.680 --> 00:43:58.640
Some area of your life is really stuck, it's torn from the floor up,

748
00:43:58.640 --> 00:44:00.400
and you're just waiting for God to fix it.

749
00:44:04.240 --> 00:44:09.360
Just hoping one day you're going to wake up and it's going to be your turn.

750
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:13.040
It's going to be your turn for God to fix it.

751
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:19.840
And you're going to be the person that's making the post and praising God because God did it.

752
00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:23.200
Y'all, he already did it.

753
00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:34.560
Now you have to take imperfect action towards that with faith.

754
00:44:36.240 --> 00:44:41.360
It's not an accident that the Bible says we walk by faith and not by sight.

755
00:44:41.520 --> 00:44:42.800
And not by sight.

756
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:45.600
It doesn't say we sit in the waiting room by faith.

757
00:44:45.600 --> 00:44:47.760
It doesn't say we sit at all.

758
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:49.600
It doesn't say we sleep by faith.

759
00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:50.160
It doesn't.

760
00:44:50.160 --> 00:44:51.280
It's an action.

761
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:54.320
It's an action verse.

762
00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:55.760
We walk by faith.

763
00:44:56.960 --> 00:45:00.000
And friends, if you are walking by faith, hey, you know what?

764
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.760
God told me I can have this and I can have it.

765
00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:03.760
I don't know where it is.

766
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:06.780
I don't know how to get it, but I'm going to start moving towards whatever direction

767
00:45:06.780 --> 00:45:09.400
I think that I can go right now.

768
00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:12.440
It doesn't say we run by face because we walk by face.

769
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:13.440
I'm going to walk.

770
00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:14.440
I'm going to walk.

771
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:15.440
I'm going to head out.

772
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:16.440
I'm going to head towards it.

773
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:18.560
I'm going to make like a baby and head out.

774
00:45:18.560 --> 00:45:19.560
I'm going to head out.

775
00:45:19.560 --> 00:45:22.080
Here I go.

776
00:45:22.080 --> 00:45:24.640
And guess what?

777
00:45:24.640 --> 00:45:29.880
Proverbs 3, 5 says to us, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own

778
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:35.880
understanding, but in all your ways, you are walking, you're making a way in all your

779
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:42.800
ways and you're doing acknowledge him and he will direct your path.

780
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:52.120
And that is indicative of steps.

781
00:45:52.120 --> 00:45:53.120
What does that look like?

782
00:45:53.120 --> 00:45:54.120
Friends?

783
00:45:54.120 --> 00:45:57.320
It looks like, Hey, you know what, God, you said that I can have this.

784
00:45:57.320 --> 00:45:58.320
Do I deserve it?

785
00:45:58.320 --> 00:45:59.320
No, I really don't.

786
00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:01.120
But you said I can have it.

787
00:46:01.120 --> 00:46:02.680
So I'm going to head towards it.

788
00:46:02.680 --> 00:46:05.280
A lot of you, thank you, Holy Spirit.

789
00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:09.040
A lot of you are not heading towards it because you don't think you deserve it.

790
00:46:09.040 --> 00:46:16.480
And you're waiting for God to give it to you out of pity.

791
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:19.320
Just wipe that slime off of yourself right now.

792
00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:24.480
I don't know where that thought came from, but someone slimed you with that because that's

793
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:25.480
not true.

794
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:30.120
If this was about us earning it, we're all doomed.

795
00:46:30.120 --> 00:46:38.600
If this was about deserving it, then what is the purpose of the death of Christ?

796
00:46:38.600 --> 00:46:41.120
What's the purpose of the death of Christ?

797
00:46:41.120 --> 00:46:47.120
If you have to be good enough to have it, it's not about you, it's about Jesus.

798
00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:50.680
And every single time you make it about you, I want you to remember if you've got a tattoo

799
00:46:50.680 --> 00:46:53.080
it on your arm.

800
00:46:53.080 --> 00:46:58.360
It's not about me, it's about Jesus.

801
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:01.600
And if you think that's going to give you a license to just act any old way you want

802
00:47:01.600 --> 00:47:05.960
to and still expect to be blessed by God, it isn't.

803
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:11.480
Because it's the law that actually makes people cut up and act wrong.

804
00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:16.640
It actually empowers your flesh because it makes it all about you and what you do or

805
00:47:16.640 --> 00:47:19.520
don't do, black and white, wrong and right.

806
00:47:19.520 --> 00:47:24.720
But when you make it about Jesus, there's a love that comes over you like you haven't

807
00:47:24.720 --> 00:47:25.720
experienced before.

808
00:47:25.720 --> 00:47:28.840
Remember, I experienced it before the law got a hold of me.

809
00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:32.480
I know what it feels like.

810
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:38.120
I know what it feels like to not know anything different but Him.

811
00:47:38.120 --> 00:47:41.320
That's why Paul says, I purpose to know nothing but Christ.

812
00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:42.920
He knew a lot of stuff, y'all.

813
00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:44.160
He was a Pharisee of the Pharisees.

814
00:47:44.160 --> 00:47:46.840
He's like, I don't want to know nothing but Christ.

815
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:49.760
I don't want to know nothing but Christ.

816
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:55.040
I don't want to know about the 620 precepts that the Jews have to do to be righteous.

817
00:47:55.040 --> 00:47:57.240
I don't want to know nothing but Christ.

818
00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:07.960
And you see some of Paul's harshness and legalism leaking into some of his letters, but for

819
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:11.800
the most part, he stood strong in Jesus.

820
00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:16.560
He said, oh, I don't do what I should do and the things that I should do, I don't do.

821
00:48:16.560 --> 00:48:25.240
And oh, but Jesus, friends, we have to do this because our freedom creates freedom for

822
00:48:25.240 --> 00:48:26.640
others.

823
00:48:26.640 --> 00:48:30.800
You have the keys to unlock someone's cage.

824
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:32.160
You do.

825
00:48:32.160 --> 00:48:40.480
You have the words to call someone out of their grave clothes.

826
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:42.680
They were dead in their flesh.

827
00:48:42.680 --> 00:48:43.680
Wow.

828
00:48:43.680 --> 00:48:45.560
Thank you, Holy Spirit.

829
00:48:45.560 --> 00:48:49.360
Do you guys know that in your flesh, you can only be dead?

830
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:53.320
Do you guys know that in your flesh, you can only be dead?

831
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:55.760
You can be dead in your flesh or alive in the spirit.

832
00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:58.880
If you're in legalism, if you're in the law, if you're in religion, you are dead in your

833
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:01.600
flesh.

834
00:49:01.600 --> 00:49:08.440
But if you're following after Jesus and you have purposed to live a finished work of the

835
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:13.880
cross life where he already did it, then you are alive in the spirit.

836
00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:17.280
And remember, go back to the Supernatural Saturday from a few weeks ago.

837
00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:19.720
You have to, it's a daily choice.

838
00:49:19.720 --> 00:49:20.720
It's a daily choice.

839
00:49:20.720 --> 00:49:24.000
You guys, I wish that I could say it's a one and done, but it's not a one and done.

840
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:25.600
There are all kinds of voices everywhere.

841
00:49:25.600 --> 00:49:31.600
They're going to try to drag you back into good, but that's not God.

842
00:49:31.600 --> 00:49:32.600
It sounds good.

843
00:49:32.600 --> 00:49:40.240
It's going to sound good to your flesh because your flesh likes to be abused.

844
00:49:40.240 --> 00:49:42.840
Your flesh wants it to be hard.

845
00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:47.760
Otherwise it's not, it's not God.

846
00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:54.120
I'm talking about your religious, the religious power that, that the, the empowered, the flesh

847
00:49:54.120 --> 00:49:57.360
in religion, the power that religion has over the flesh.

848
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.800
When Jesus said, come to me, all you that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give

849
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:05.800
you rest.

850
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:11.120
Guys, he was talking about from the curse and the law.

851
00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:15.160
Take my yoke upon you, because my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

852
00:50:15.160 --> 00:50:20.960
Back in the Bible times, rabbis, which Jesus was known as one, which is why the religious

853
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:25.640
leaders were after him, he wasn't just some citizen.

854
00:50:25.640 --> 00:50:26.640
He was a teacher.

855
00:50:26.640 --> 00:50:30.800
He was a teacher of the scrolls and the Torah.

856
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:32.800
He was a teacher of the prophets.

857
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:35.140
He was a teacher.

858
00:50:35.140 --> 00:50:37.640
And so he was a rabbi.

859
00:50:37.640 --> 00:50:39.880
And that's why he was a heretic to them.

860
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:42.060
That's why he was blasphemous.

861
00:50:42.060 --> 00:50:43.840
That's why, because he was a rabbi.

862
00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:49.280
But back in those times, every set of teachings that a rabbi was known for, every rabbi was

863
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:52.000
known for like kind of a different soapbox, right?

864
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.080
A different set of teachings.

865
00:50:54.080 --> 00:50:56.160
And it was called their yoke.

866
00:50:56.680 --> 00:50:59.320
If you didn't know that, that's why that scripture says that.

867
00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:02.800
A lot of people are like, man, Jesus wants us to get into a yoke with him or, you know,

868
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:03.800
what are we going to do?

869
00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:04.800
Are we going to plow the field?

870
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:05.800
Okay.

871
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:06.800
Yeah.

872
00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:09.600
Of course, harvest is part of the new birth experience.

873
00:51:09.600 --> 00:51:10.600
That's typology.

874
00:51:10.600 --> 00:51:13.280
That's language that's used in the New Testament.

875
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:15.600
But that's not what Jesus is talking about.

876
00:51:15.600 --> 00:51:19.680
He's saying my set of teachings are things you've never heard before.

877
00:51:19.680 --> 00:51:23.920
These other teachings, they have you weary and heavy laden with what?

878
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:29.680
With trying to perform, with trying to please God through your precepts, through your works,

879
00:51:29.680 --> 00:51:31.240
through your flesh.

880
00:51:31.240 --> 00:51:34.240
Come to me and I will give you rest.

881
00:51:34.240 --> 00:51:36.160
Take my yoke upon you.

882
00:51:36.160 --> 00:51:42.760
Listen to my teachings because my teachings are empowered through the spirit, right?

883
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.240
They're easy and the burden is light.

884
00:51:45.240 --> 00:51:52.920
That's going to be an epiphany for someone listening to this right now, live or in replay.

885
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:57.720
Friends, 35,000 decisions are made every day and they're going to be made from not

886
00:51:57.720 --> 00:52:01.200
who God is, but who you believe he is.

887
00:52:01.200 --> 00:52:05.920
Not from who God really is, but from who you believe he is.

888
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:11.880
Because whoever he is to you, he will be through you.

889
00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:18.840
If he is a taskmaster, if he is a hard hair splitting, rule keeping God, then that is

890
00:52:18.840 --> 00:52:21.280
what you will be like to yourself and others.

891
00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:25.560
And when you do not measure up and friends, you will not measure up.

892
00:52:25.560 --> 00:52:27.160
That's why we needed a savior.

893
00:52:27.160 --> 00:52:31.800
When you do not measure up and you will not, you're going to be really hard on yourself

894
00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:35.520
and you're going to criticize yourself and that's going to flow out of you into others.

895
00:52:35.520 --> 00:52:38.800
If you always have to be perfect, you're going to make sure that everyone around you is trying

896
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:41.800
to be perfect too.

897
00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:47.800
It's time for us to step into grace.

898
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:51.000
It's time for us to live a life of mercy.

899
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:53.320
It's time for us to live in the finished work of the cross.

900
00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:56.800
It's time for us to live a rescued life.

901
00:52:56.800 --> 00:52:58.320
We've been released.

902
00:52:58.320 --> 00:52:59.720
The prison door is open.

903
00:52:59.720 --> 00:53:02.640
Get up and walk out.

904
00:53:02.640 --> 00:53:07.920
Get up and walk out and be empowered by the spirit.

905
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:10.760
God, I can't do this, but you can do this through me.

906
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:18.320
I can't do this, but you did this for me and as me and I want to live in that finished work.

907
00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:23.200
God, I don't want to live in the bed that I have made anymore.

908
00:53:23.200 --> 00:53:26.480
I want to live, I want to sleep in the bed that Jesus made.

909
00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:28.240
I don't want to sleep in the bed that I made.

910
00:53:28.240 --> 00:53:32.320
I want to sleep in the bed that Jesus made at the finished work of the cross.

911
00:53:32.320 --> 00:53:33.320
What does that mean, friends?

912
00:53:33.320 --> 00:53:37.400
It means that if you are continuing to walk in the consequences of things that you've

913
00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:45.000
been repented of and been forgiven of, then you have chosen to punish yourself because

914
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.720
God is not punishing you.

915
00:53:46.720 --> 00:53:47.980
And I'm going to say that again.

916
00:53:47.980 --> 00:53:53.120
If you continue to live in the consequences, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially,

917
00:53:53.120 --> 00:53:57.200
relationally, of things that you've repented of and been forgiven of or you've forgiven

918
00:53:57.200 --> 00:54:03.860
other people of because they're the ones that did it, then you are still living in those

919
00:54:03.860 --> 00:54:09.640
consequences because you have chosen to be in a place of punishment instead of being

920
00:54:09.640 --> 00:54:13.160
in a place of freedom.

921
00:54:13.160 --> 00:54:14.600
That means the bankruptcy.

922
00:54:14.600 --> 00:54:20.200
That means the divorce that caused the bankruptcy, that caused this and that, the financial things,

923
00:54:20.200 --> 00:54:28.400
the $25,000 that you gave to the scammer on the dating site, whatever it was, the bad

924
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:33.120
marriages or relationships that you were in, which caused you to not be able to parent

925
00:54:33.120 --> 00:54:37.400
effectively and now your children, they don't talk to you.

926
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:41.120
If you're living in those consequences, and we can't force anyone else, but I promise

927
00:54:41.120 --> 00:54:45.640
you, if you will begin to see yourself on the other side of the cross, if you begin

928
00:54:45.640 --> 00:54:52.120
to see yourself free from your mistakes and from your wrongdoings, from your frailties,

929
00:54:52.120 --> 00:54:57.240
from the things that you didn't know to do better, so you didn't do better, and you see

930
00:54:57.240 --> 00:55:00.040
yourself fully redeemed.

931
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.540
by the blood of Jesus, you've repented, you've forgiven,

932
00:55:04.540 --> 00:55:08.880
and you've been forgiven, those things will start to shift.

933
00:55:10.040 --> 00:55:11.460
And you can speak to those things,

934
00:55:11.460 --> 00:55:13.460
and you can say, hey, you know what?

935
00:55:13.460 --> 00:55:14.880
I've been forgiven.

936
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:17.920
If someone that was vindicated in a court case,

937
00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:21.060
they were being tried for some heinous crimes,

938
00:55:21.060 --> 00:55:24.180
and they were acquitted,

939
00:55:24.180 --> 00:55:25.980
regardless of whether they were guilty or not.

940
00:55:25.980 --> 00:55:30.460
God calls you not guilty because Jesus paid for your guilt.

941
00:55:30.460 --> 00:55:32.540
It's important that you get ahold of this.

942
00:55:34.580 --> 00:55:37.000
If someone in a court trial was acquitted,

943
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.560
how weird would it be for them to still go with the bailiff

944
00:55:40.560 --> 00:55:42.700
and make a decision to go sit in the prison cell

945
00:55:42.700 --> 00:55:44.080
for the rest of their life?

946
00:55:44.080 --> 00:55:44.980
Why?

947
00:55:44.980 --> 00:55:46.380
Why would they do that?

948
00:55:46.380 --> 00:55:47.620
They wouldn't do that.

949
00:55:48.980 --> 00:55:50.180
But that's what we do.

950
00:55:52.020 --> 00:55:53.220
That's what we do.

951
00:55:53.220 --> 00:55:56.740
By one man's disobedience, Adam, sin came into the earth,

952
00:55:56.740 --> 00:55:58.220
the curse came upon us,

953
00:55:58.220 --> 00:56:03.220
but by one man's obedience, we've all been set free.

954
00:56:06.420 --> 00:56:08.020
We've all been made righteous.

955
00:56:10.100 --> 00:56:10.940
That, what does that mean?

956
00:56:10.940 --> 00:56:12.460
That means right standing with God.

957
00:56:12.460 --> 00:56:14.300
You guys know that last year's single

958
00:56:14.300 --> 00:56:16.660
is all about being restored in our relationship

959
00:56:16.660 --> 00:56:19.700
with God, ourselves, and others, including our spirit mates.

960
00:56:19.700 --> 00:56:23.020
Stepping into divine design, to original design,

961
00:56:23.780 --> 00:56:26.860
as sons and daughters of God, through Christ Jesus.

962
00:56:26.860 --> 00:56:29.340
As sons and daughters of God, through Christ Jesus,

963
00:56:29.340 --> 00:56:31.340
through the ministry of reconciliation.

964
00:56:33.980 --> 00:56:36.220
This came into the world through the curse,

965
00:56:36.220 --> 00:56:38.900
but re-came into the world through Jesus.

966
00:56:41.100 --> 00:56:44.100
And you guys, it's not a situation where we can just like,

967
00:56:44.100 --> 00:56:45.580
oh yeah, I love that, that sounds so good.

968
00:56:45.580 --> 00:56:47.600
Yeah, uh-huh, I believe that, I'm gonna do that.

969
00:56:47.600 --> 00:56:49.020
No.

970
00:56:49.020 --> 00:56:51.840
Every day, you have to choose this.

971
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:54.400
You have to, the Bible says, take your thoughts captive

972
00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:57.280
and make them align to what?

973
00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:58.120
To Christ.

974
00:56:58.120 --> 00:57:01.280
It says every high and lofty thing, what is that?

975
00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:03.920
That's human reasoning, that's your ideas

976
00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:06.760
and ideologies of man, that includes religion.

977
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:10.300
Anything that tries to set itself up

978
00:57:10.300 --> 00:57:15.220
against the knowledge of Christ, we have to pull it down.

979
00:57:17.040 --> 00:57:20.480
These are the high places, these are the strongholds.

980
00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:21.960
We have to pull it down, through what?

981
00:57:21.960 --> 00:57:22.800
Through our own power?

982
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:23.620
No.

983
00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:28.920
Through his power, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

984
00:57:32.040 --> 00:57:34.000
Friends, I don't want you to live in condemnation anymore.

985
00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:35.600
I want you to be free.

986
00:57:35.600 --> 00:57:38.720
Who the son sets free is free.

987
00:57:38.720 --> 00:57:39.740
You are free.

988
00:57:40.640 --> 00:57:43.380
All the things that you don't like about your life

989
00:57:43.380 --> 00:57:45.640
are empowered by the curse and they are empowered

990
00:57:45.640 --> 00:57:48.580
by religion, but Jesus has given you power

991
00:57:48.580 --> 00:57:50.940
to overcome the world.

992
00:57:50.940 --> 00:57:53.100
He has overcome it and he has created you

993
00:57:53.100 --> 00:57:54.980
to be an overcomer of what?

994
00:57:54.980 --> 00:57:56.940
Of all of that stuff that we just said.

995
00:57:59.300 --> 00:58:01.580
And I believe that you'll start seeing these doors.

996
00:58:01.580 --> 00:58:04.680
They're open, they're waiting for you to walk through them

997
00:58:04.680 --> 00:58:06.900
and you'll start seeing them.

998
00:58:06.900 --> 00:58:08.700
I woke up at 6.16 this morning, you guys,

999
00:58:08.700 --> 00:58:10.380
and I end with this.

1000
00:58:10.380 --> 00:58:12.640
The ancient of days has ancient ways.

1001
00:58:12.640 --> 00:58:15.020
It was 6.16 on the clock when I woke up.

1002
00:58:15.020 --> 00:58:16.820
The ancient of days has ancient ways

1003
00:58:16.860 --> 00:58:20.980
and if you ask him to show you where the good path is

1004
00:58:20.980 --> 00:58:25.360
and then you take it, you will live your life in shalom.

1005
00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:27.540
Your peace will increase.

1006
00:58:27.540 --> 00:58:29.420
Shalom, shalom, my friends.

1007
00:58:29.420 --> 00:58:31.480
We are to live in peace.

1008
00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:34.860
We are to turn our back on confusion and chaos

1009
00:58:34.860 --> 00:58:39.860
and we are to be free so that we can, everywhere we go,

1010
00:58:40.140 --> 00:58:42.580
create freedom for others.

1011
00:58:42.580 --> 00:58:44.140
Father God, we thank you for this word today.

1012
00:58:44.140 --> 00:58:45.980
We ask that you would help us to activate it

1013
00:58:46.020 --> 00:58:47.620
in our own hearts and lives.

1014
00:58:47.620 --> 00:58:52.020
Anywhere where we have been siding with or aligning with

1015
00:58:52.020 --> 00:58:55.300
or partnering with lies that are powered by the curse

1016
00:58:55.300 --> 00:58:58.140
or powered by religion about ourselves, about others,

1017
00:58:58.140 --> 00:59:00.620
I pray that you would reveal and heal those in us.

1018
00:59:00.620 --> 00:59:03.260
Help us to align with the finished work of the cross.

1019
00:59:03.260 --> 00:59:05.380
You have come to rescue us and set us free

1020
00:59:05.380 --> 00:59:08.020
and you have done that work and it is done.

1021
00:59:08.020 --> 00:59:11.100
So let us be people that walk truly free

1022
00:59:11.100 --> 00:59:13.340
from everything that has beset us,

1023
00:59:13.340 --> 00:59:16.860
everything that hinders us and let us be abundant

1024
00:59:16.860 --> 00:59:19.140
so that we have something to bless

1025
00:59:19.140 --> 00:59:23.500
and be a blessing with others with every day of our lives.

1026
00:59:23.500 --> 00:59:25.340
In Jesus' name, amen.

1027
00:59:25.340 --> 00:59:26.900
All right, I love you guys, see you soon.

1028
00:59:26.900 --> 00:59:27.740
Bye, everyone.