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is us. I believe we are live and this is wild exciting. I'm so pumped to be bringing this

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to you. So if you, if this is, if you're just joining in now, if you're watching live or you're

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coming for the replay, then I want to say really tune into this message. This is called Love

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Unstoppable and we are going to explore what I believe is probably the single most powerful

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testimony in the entire New Testament. We're going to be looking at the Moses of the New Testament

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and what unfolded around this life that we have never seen the likes of before or since. So stay

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tuned in this. I am crazy pumped and excited, like so excited to be sharing this powerful story with

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you and to be going deeper in this chat and this conversation around unstoppable love. So let me

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just do a quick check, make sure everything's flying correctly as it should be in the tech

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side of things. So yes, it's happening. Very cool. Wonderful to be having you with me.

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There it goes. So how are you doing? Let me know how you are doing. Just drop in the comments

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where you are. What time is it? How are you doing? Have you been a part of the previous two chats

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that we've had? We've looked at the broken heart of God. We've looked at the burning heart of God.

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We've been exploring the dynamics and the beautiful dimensions of divine love, and it has

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been glorious. So it's 6am for me here in New Zealand time. I've been up for quite a while,

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and I am really, really looking forward to this moment together this morning. So

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let's pray for a moment before we jump into this really sacred testimony that is

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mind blowing and beautiful and powerful. And let's pray together.

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Beautiful Abba Father, King Jesus, Holy Spirit, we love you.

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We welcome your glory to come right now. We honor you as the God of the impossible, the God of

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wonders. Well, as we look at who you are, as we look at your power and your majesty and your awe

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and your wonders, we are undone to the very core of our being. We are undone. We are mind blown. We

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are set ablaze. We are left in awe and wonder of who you are. So we lift you up. We exalt you on

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high. We love you. We love you. We love you. Holy Spirit, I ask that you would come as we look at

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the all-consuming flame in this topic. I ask that you pour out your all-consuming fire on us.

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I ask that you would renew our minds and renew our hearts. And I ask that you would leave

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no stone unturned in us, that you would begin right here, that you would begin right here on

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the altar of our hearts, that you would bring a purifying fire upon our lives, that you would bring

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a spirit of renewal upon our minds, that you would take us into higher, wider, deeper, broader

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dimensions of the wonders of who you are. I'm asking, Holy Spirit, that you would do a deep

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work in us, that where we feel like we've reached maturity, that you would take us to whole new

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realms, that you would show us what you have available for us, that you would take off

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the blinders for us. I'm asking, Holy Spirit, that you would inspire us like never before.

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I'm asking, Holy Spirit, that you would awaken us to a degree that we have

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never imagined possible. I'm asking that you would renew our hearts in a way that we never

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imagined possible, that you would refine us. Holy Spirit, I say, start with me and leave no stone

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unturned, but go right into the core of our being, Holy Spirit. Leave no stone unturned,

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renew our minds, refine our hearts, bring your fire on us. And Holy Spirit, this is our prayer,

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this is our cry, this is our anthem, that your all-consuming fire would consume everything

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that can be consumed, that only Christ would remain. Burn everything up, Holy Spirit,

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that veils Christ in us, that the full measure of who you are would be on display in us, that Christ

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would be manifest in us, that Christ would be evident in us, that Christ would be

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manifest through us in Jesus.

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name. We love you and we give you all the glory and all the honor and we welcome you to move by

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your spirit. Holy Spirit, I thank you for an outpouring. I thank you for a moving. I thank you

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for a breaking out and a breaking through and I thank you for breaking open hearts and minds and

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new dimensions and new love and cameras and new inspiration and fresh faith and fresh dreams that

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Holy Spirit you would break out and you would move and you would grab a hold of hearts and

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lives in this session and you would breathe on us and we say take us Holy Spirit as we come

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in total surrender and we lay our lives down as sacrifices we ask that as we lay down as

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living sacrifices that your fire would fall that we would be the sacrifice and you would be the

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flame and we will be consumed by your all-consuming fire and Lord we just ask again that you would

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consume everything in us that can be consumed you would shake everything in us that can be shaken

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that you'd leave no stone unturned in our hearts and in our minds that you would find purity in

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our hearts and in our minds as you consume everything that can be consumed so that only

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Christ remains for your glory amen whoa wow um oh my gosh uh we are going to go so deep um right now

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into a beautiful beautiful story we're talking in this session we're talking about love

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unstoppable all right love unstoppable we've had uh we've had the two chats so far about the broken

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heart of God where we looked at the dynamics of God is a lovesick romantic he's a lovesick father

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and he is brokenhearted as he waits for us as he not just waits for you and I but as he waits

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for entire nations all right God is waiting for entire nations to run for him Christ is the hope

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of nations he's the desire of the nations and the broken heart of God is waiting longing for

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entire nations to run to him that's what he's dreaming for that's the call uh so there's

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there's that part of the broken heart of God that waits that that is it's broken waiting for us to

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come and then the other part of God is broken because of the injustice and the tyranny and the

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oppression that his beloved children suffer under that his heart is breaking with his people so

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we explored then in our last chat the dynamic of the burning heart of God that it burns right

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it burns uh as a lovesick parent as a lovesick romantic it burns for uh the fruition of the

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desires of God oh hang on let me just quickly check um here

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um just checking are we still live here are we still live oh sure

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um just give me a heads up if we're still live here

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yep we're still live give me a heads up just in the comments i just saw a notification that made

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me wonder if we're live but it looks like we still are okay sweet yep we're still live there

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sorry i just had a funny tech moment there um so we looked at this dynamic of the burning heart of

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God that is it's burning for something it's burning for heaven's finest to be fulfilled so

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it's burning the the burning heart of God is burning for John 14 12 and we looked at some of

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the stories of uh some of the ancient saints who walked in phenomenal power and phenomenal signs

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and wonders that are just mind-blowing in their magnitude their intensity their glory and that's

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John 14 12 in fulfillment which got Jesus he said anyone who has faith in me will do what

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I've been doing they will do even greater things than these and they understood their inheritance

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they understood that they understood Christ in them the hope of glory and this is what God is

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longing for us to step into is John 14 12 that we would reset anyone who has faith in me will do

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what I've been doing and they will do even greater things than these so this is the thing that God's

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heart burns for you to know your inheritance know your identity know your destiny no seamless union

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no effortless bliss know the power and the awe and the wonders of God and walk in the fullness

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of the signs and the wonders and the miracles that he has destined for you so there's the burning

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heart of God that longs for you to step in and step into fullness and then there's the burning

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heart of God that longs for the fruition

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of Matthew 28, 19 to 20, where he said,

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go therefore and make disciples of all nations,

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baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son,

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and of the Holy Spirit.

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And surely I am with thee always

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to the very end of the age.

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And his heart's burning for that.

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His heart, the heart of God is burning

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to see nations, disciples, entire nations.

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He's not longing for us to make disciples in nations,

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but to make disciples of nations.

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And God's heart is burning for that

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because he's a lovesick parent

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for every single child that isn't with him.

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He's a broken hearted, lovesick lover,

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romantic longing for every single one of his children

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and longing for all nations to be swept

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into relationship with him

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and to become swallowed up in the divine dance.

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That's what he's longing for.

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And so what we're checking out in this session,

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Love Unstoppable, is the power of love.

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What is the extent?

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What is the magnitude?

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What is the power of this love?

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As we obey, as we respond to the call of God,

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as we say, yes, God,

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the burning heart and the broken heart of God

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has this anthem, which is,

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whom shall we send, Isaiah 6,

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whom shall we send and who will go for us?

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Whom shall we send and who will go for us?

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And so what we're looking at is Love Unstoppable

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is the response that we have to this calling.

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Now, what is your response gonna be to this call

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when God says, whom shall I send and who will go for us?

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God's heart is broken and God's heart is burning

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for you to bring his lost sheep home,

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his lost sons and daughters home.

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How, what's your response gonna be?

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So we're gonna explore some of the responses

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people have had to this.

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So, you know, oftentimes,

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actually, I wanna read this one verse to you today,

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and then we're gonna get into some stories

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that will blow your mind.

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Okay, so Acts 1, verse eight,

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Jesus says this, he says,

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that you will receive power

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when the Holy Spirit comes on you,

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and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem

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and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.

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And one of the meanings of the Greek word

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used there for witnesses is actually martyrs.

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So we'll be martyrs, we'll be missionaries.

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This is what Jesus prophesied,

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that you will receive power

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when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,

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and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem

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and in all Judea and Samaria

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and to the very ends of the earth.

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Okay, so, wow.

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What we've got happening here in humanity

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and the story of humanity is what happens

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is we have so many people that have responded to this.

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Millions and millions of people

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have responded to that verse,

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and it's looked like all sorts of things, you know?

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And so many people, there's just countless numbers of people,

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millions of people who've laid their lives down

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in response to this, in response to the gospel.

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If you look at just a couple of stories,

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let me just take a couple of examples.

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You know, when Korea, right,

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when missionaries first started going to Korea,

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it was a completely Buddhist nation,

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and to be caught even possessing a Bible

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was an instant beheading, all right?

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And so there was executions all over the place.

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Korea was saturated in the blood of the martyrs,

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just like so many other countries.

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I'm sure you can name multiple countries

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where to get there, to get the gospel in,

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the gospel advanced on the shedding of the blood of the martyrs.

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Another place, you know, that you see massive amount of death,

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and it wasn't, well, they were martyrs,

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but it wasn't bloodshed,

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but it was when missionaries went to Africa, right?

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The water and the disease just started killing,

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it killed entire families.

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and becoming just sent out as missionaries

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and it paying the ultimate price.

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And so what we're gonna look at right now

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is the story of what I believe is,

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I would call this person the Moses of the New Testament.

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This story, this testimony is beyond what anyone,

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well, I would say that this story,

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as we go deep into it,

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is beyond what most people would have imagined possible.

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People would not have even imagined

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that this is part of our legacy,

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part of our heritage as the church,

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but there is a New Testament Moses,

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and we're gonna explore that today,

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and that is St. Patrick.

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So say St. Patrick.

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Now, March the 17th,

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many people are familiar with St. Patrick's Day.

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There's all sorts of mystery surrounding St. Patrick

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and all sorts of myth as well surrounding St. Patrick.

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But what we're gonna do today is jump into the story,

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because when you look at the actual story of it

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and what actually happened,

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this is more mind-blowing

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and probably the most mind-blowing, most impacting story.

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uh possibly the greatest testimony in all of Christian heritage. So uh if you're familiar

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with Saint Patrick let me know in the comments that you know a little bit about him but Saint

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Patrick uh he uh he was uh he was brought up in Britain okay so when he was young he was in

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he was in Britain his parents were uh there and at age 16 there was raiders came through right

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they came through Ireland both his parents were murdered they were killed by these raiders his

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his sisters were kidnapped and he was kidnapped and they were all taken different places by these

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raiders and so Saint Patrick became a shepherd a slave and he was kidnapped by by pirates but

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before that the life of Saint Patrick was already marked out by notable signs and wonders Saint

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Patrick was already even as a young man known as someone who walked in extreme intimacy and extreme

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power he was carried by his uncle at one stage to an event there was a gathering and his uncle

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carried him and then during that time his uncle fell down and it was assumed that he was dead

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and and Patrick had even at that age a young age before he was even 16 had such a reputation

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of being a man of God that they said Saint you know so they were like Patrick what are you going

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to do he's fallen down and he actually raised him up right then so you know some people say he might

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have been dead but he raised him up right then there was multiple stories of Saint Patrick

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moving an amazing power before he was even 16 so this is a life this is a man whose life was set

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apart and he was marked and God had his hand on him from the very time he was born so at 16 he's

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kidnapped by pirates and he's taken to Ireland and there he's a slave six years he's tending sheep

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out in the wilderness and he would just he devoted that time to prayer and he we have some really

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good records of Saint Patrick some of his own journals and diaries have been really well preserved

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so we've got some really amazing insights into his story which was really powerful so

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he spent about he would in his own journals he would talk about this how he'd spend about you

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know he'd pray about a hundred times during the day and about a hundred times during the night

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and he was out in the cold but he would be he was so filled up with the Holy Spirit that he'd be

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praying and he would be feeling the fire of God in him so that that even the ice and the snow and

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the cold wasn't impacting him he would be staying warm as he was praying and so he developed over

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the six years as a slave learned the Irish language learned the Irish ways and customs

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but also got stepped into a place of extreme extreme intimacy with the Lord and what happened

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is one night he had a vision that his ship was waiting for him to take him to freedom now this

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ship that was waiting for him that he saw in the vision it was over 200 miles away which is a big

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deal okay so you have to imagine walking 200 miles by foot and as an escaped slave if he was

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seen he could be killed on sight but he managed to escape he got to the boat that he'd seen in

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the vision and he said to them hey can you please take me on board and they actually said no we're

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not going to take you so he walked off praying and then actually they called him back and said

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actually we will take you we'll take you back and so Saint Patrick he got on this boat he got taken

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back and he actually got taken into captivity again one other time but then he came free and

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then he had this you know time goes on a little bit but he had this vision and this encounter with

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God was calling him back to Ireland and in this vision his dream he saw the Irish people calling

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him back and so he decided he begins to really devote his life to that call back to Ireland

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and this next season of his life is not a short time okay so he was kidnapped at about 16 he was

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six years in a slave in Ireland so he's come back at about in his 20s and then he begins to devote

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his entire life to becoming a missionary who will go back to the Irish but this is not a short

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process he spends nearly 40 years in intense preparation he ends up traveling all around Europe

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he meets many of the amazing saints of his day he's the part of all sorts of ministries and

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he meets yeah he just meets so many of the powerful saints of his age and in preparation

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for this moment when God will send him back to Ireland and then the time comes and he's

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this will be encouraging for you if you've been waiting for a while

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let me know if you've been waiting for a while for the call of God

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was being promised, what he'd been looking for to happen. Well, St. Patrick is probably in his 60s,

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around 60, nearly his 60s, somewhere in that age bracket before he finally gets to go to Ireland.

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So he's even commissioned by the Pope to go as the bishop to Ireland. There had been a missionary

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to Ireland before St. Patrick, but that guy really didn't see, saw next to no fruit, right? So there's

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pretty much no Christian establishment in that place at all in Ireland. So he goes back,

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and the first place that he goes to land, they are quite hostile, so he kept moving,

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and then he found a place where they welcomed, well, you know, where he received a bit of a

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welcome from just a couple of locals, and so he got established there. But now is where we need

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to kind of pause for a moment and understand the magnitude of what is about to be told. Now,

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there are many myths around St. Patrick, and I have done my very best to find the most reputable

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sources of information to bring to you about the life and the testimony and the miracles of St.

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Francis, because there are some really, really good accounts, and they are mind-blowing. There

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are myths, and I've done my very best to stay well, well clear of the myths, but to take the

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very most reputable sources of fact about the miraculous supernatural wonders that followed

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St. Patrick, because they were extreme. And I will preface it that it's hard to know the,

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it's always hard to know the exact details, because when we go to St. Patrick, he was born

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in the 4th century, towards the end of the 4th century. It's not known exactly when,

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but towards the end of the 4th century, they would think it's around about there,

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and he lived well into the 5th century. Okay, so St. Patrick, we'll talk about this later,

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but he lived a long time, and what we're going to do is just be really careful to

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share with you this, but I have to preface it with this, because the signs and the wonders that

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followed St. Patrick were so extreme that even for most supernaturally minded Christians,

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they could be hard to believe. Okay, what we, you have to understand is what the testimony that

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we're about to go into is possibly the most supernatural, most mind-blowing, most powerful

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series of events, of missions, of evangelism in world history. So there is a level of,

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like, this is a sacred story we're going into. There is a level of awe and wonder and the fear

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of God attached to this, and we just need to preface it with that, so that you don't think

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that we're going into something casual, something light, that though this is one of the most sacred,

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most awesome, most awe-inspiring and holy testimonies of the entire New Testament.

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There's many saints and many mystics and many people who've walked in wonders, but

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I don't know of anyone who walked in the level of power, apostolic power,

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nation-discipling power, that St. Francis did. Okay, so let's begin. Like, here's how St. Patrick

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began to actually impact and disciple the nation. You've got to have this in mind that St. Patrick

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hasn't gone to Ireland to make disciples in Ireland. He specifically went to Ireland to take

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on that nation. He wanted the nation. He wanted to disciple the entire nation. So his strategy,

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when God gave St. Patrick amazing strategies, he went, his desire was to witness to the King. He

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wanted to convert the King. Now, Ireland, at the time, had actually a phenomenal level of

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infrastructure and political infrastructure and spiritual infrastructure and community

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infrastructure. Ireland was a really sophisticated culture at that time. It hadn't been

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overtaken by the Romans. It had actually known peace for a long, long time. It was one of the

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few places that the Romans never managed to take. And so Ireland had known peace for a long time.

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They had a well-established culture and structure and hierarchy of greater kings and smaller kings

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and druids and priests. And so St. Patrick, because he wanted to win the nation, wanted to

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disciple the nation, he wanted to have a top-down approach, which means you've got to start with the

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kings. So they had this festival there, and as part of this festival, the law was that there

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was not allowed to be a single fire lit in the house.

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whole area right the the only so this particular night every fire had to be put out and no

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fire could be lit until the king lit his fire so the king has this big hill and he's making

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a massive bonfire and he's got this huge bonfire prepared and he's gonna gonna light it and

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it's gonna be that like ta-da the start of the um the festival and the festivities are

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gonna go for a few days but on another major hill saint patrick built his own enormous

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bonfire and he lit it before the king which uh was a wild crazy thing to do okay that

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was like that was you could be put to death for doing that okay but saint patrick he was

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not afraid he did not care he was after an audience with the king and this is and he

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knew this is how he would get it so the king is in total rage okay and um something i was

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going to mention before as well is that when it comes to saint patrick and you'll find

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this in a lot of cultures is that they already have that god's actually already spoken to

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their people interesting that you know god will even speak to um you know druids or spiritual

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people who don't even uh know christ yet but he will often even give them accurate prophetic

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information and in the culture the irish culture they actually had a very specific prophetic

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word about the coming of saint patrick before he came even to down to you know like what

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he would be dressed like what he would look like there was a prophetic word in their culture

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about a man coming who is going to bring uh this message about a new god okay so they

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had that actually embedded in their culture and some of them actually feared that saint

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patrick might be that man as they've heard reports about him coming and so there's a

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little of like oh what is this and uh so the king's like what should i do about this fire

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and his druids said to him oh you've got to go and put that out and they actually prophesied

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they said to him they said to him if you do not put that fire out the man who lit that

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fire uh that he said that fire will never go out in ireland and the man who lit the

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fire will be more famous than kings and queens and so they're like oh my gosh let's go and

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put this out so they they go over there they traveled a lot by chariots and so they went

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over uh to they found saint patrick and the druids advice him like king don't just go

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up to him like actually you're like seeing some people so they sent some people they

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summoned saint patrick and so saint patrick is coming they're all sitting down they've

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all been instructed not to stand up right because standing up would be to receive them

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and they're obviously not going to want to receive him they want they want to dishonor

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him and disrespect him and so saint patrick comes comes down towards him and he's singing

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at this time right he's singing some trust in horses and some in chariots but i trust

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in the lord our god and so he's singing this to them you know this this this is like him

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they're thinking that he's walking to his death right and here he comes singing like

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what is this and even though they were all instructed not to respond not to welcome him

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not to honor him one person uh they just can't help they're just overwhelmed they jump up

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and they actually end up uh converting to christ but then he comes in front of the king

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and all his druids and there's a really really powerful druid there who is boasting about

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his supernatural power he's boasting about all these things now it's time to get ready

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for some of the awe of the miracles of saint patrick we're we're talking here this story

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i'm about to share with you right now the events that unfolded over the next few days

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are some of the greatest uh power encounters of the new testament this is on par with moses

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and pharaoh okay so so get ready for mind-blowing huge enormous signs and wonders and miracles

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that have like a real awe and a real fear of god about them so this druid stands up

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and starts boasting about how he is the greatest he's the most powerful druid and there's no

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power greater and he starts levitating in front of the whole group right and so saint

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patrick prays and this druid who's levitating in front of them dies and falls down dead in front

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of them all and so some of them are like whoa what is this like who is this guy right but then the

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druid they've got all these followers and then they're like they're not ready to respond to

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christianity at all in fact they like they turn out in rage right they they respond in rage and

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anger and they want to kill saint francis saint patrick so they actually draw their swords and

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they go to attack him and he prays again and look as he prays again something wild happens actually

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there's this big tempest this big storm sweeps and not only that it actually puts a confusion

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there was a confusion from god came on all of those guys who are about to kill saint patrick

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and they all turned on themselves and they just started attacking themselves this is like

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King Jehoshaphat in the story of 2 Chronicles 20, these guys all start attacking themselves.

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They turn on themselves, and they actually kill about 50 of themselves, right?

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And so at that point, the king says, okay, okay, okay, now, why don't you come to the

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Come and see me tomorrow, come to the palace, come join the festivities, okay?

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So the king goes back to the palace, goes back to the festivities, but he lays an ambush

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for St. Patrick, okay?

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He has all these druids lying in wait to kill St. Patrick along the way.

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So they set out the next day to see this, to see the king, all right?

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And now they've got all these druids lying in wait with an ambush ready to kill St. Patrick.

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I'm not sure if this prayer has developed over time, but this is the day that St. Patrick

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This prayer is basically a prophetic song that came out this day as they were walking

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along that day through the wilderness.

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This is like a prophetic song that came out through St. Patrick.

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It's called the Prayer of St. Patrick.

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So let me read you the Prayer of St. Patrick, and then I'll tell you what happened after

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It says this, I arise today through a mighty strength, through the invocation of the Trinity,

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through a belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness, of the creator

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of creation, I arise today through the strength of Christ's birth and his baptism, through

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the strength of his crucifixion and his burial, through the strength of his resurrection and

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his ascension, through the strength of his descent from the judgment of doom, I arise

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today through the strength of the love of cherubim, in obedience of angels, in service

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of archangels, in the hope of resurrection to meet with reward, in the prayers of patriarchs,

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in preaching of the apostles, in faiths of confessors, in innocence of virgins, in deeds

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of righteous men, I arise today through the strength of heaven, light of the sun,

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splendor of fire, speed of lightning, swiftness of the wind, depth of the sea, stability of

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the earth, firmness of the rock, I arise today through God's strength to pilot me, God's

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might to uphold me, God's wisdom to guide me, God's eye to look before me, God's ear

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to hear me, God's word to speak for me, God's hand to guard me, God's way to lie before

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me, God's shield to protect me, God's hosts to save me, from snares of the devils, from

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temptations of vices, from everyone who desires me ill, afar and near, alone or in a multitude,

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I summon today all these powers between me and evil, against every cruel, merciless power

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that opposes my body and soul, against incarnations of false prophets, against black laws of magic,

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against false laws of heretics, against craft of idolatry, against spells of women and smiths

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and wizards, against every knowledge that corrupts man's body and soul, Christ shield

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me today against poison, against burning, against drowning, against wounding, so that

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reward may come to me in abundance, Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,

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Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left,

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Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of

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me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me, Christ in the eye that sees me, Christ

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in the ear that hears me, I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the trinity,

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through a belief in the threeness, through a confession of the oneness of the creator of

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creation. Whoa, how wild is that prayer, oh my gosh, so that's like a prophetic song, a prophetic

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prayer, prophetic declaration that rises up and bubbles up out of Saint Patrick's spirit as he's

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walking along to the castle, and listen, and here's what happened, right, because as he's praying that

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prayer, there's all these druids and soldiers, they're all in wait to kill him, okay, now you've

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got to think that the island that Saint Patrick went to be a missionary to, this is a pagan island,

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they do not have any desire for Christianity, they want to kill Christianity, and they've already

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tried to kill Saint Patrick and had this confusion come upon them, and it cost them the death of one

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druid, and it cost 50 men who actually turned on themselves and killed themselves, so you can see

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Sovereign hand of God protecting St. Patrick and so again here with this ambush laid, all those

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people that are waiting in ambush, St. Patrick's walking through the forest and he's got eight

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people there who are there with him, you know, his little ministry team. And what the people who are

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in waiting see is they see eight doe, eight deer, trotting along through the forest followed by a

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fawn. How amazing is that? That's what they see, but they never even see St. Patrick and his team

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going through. And then they get to the palace and the king can't believe that they've actually

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turned up, right? He can't believe that they've actually even survived and made it and turned up.

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And so they walk in there and again, everyone's seated, they're sitting down and they've been

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told not to respond, not to honor, not to welcome him. But as he comes in again, even a few more

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people just can't help, they jump up and they receive Jesus in that moment. And then they

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they welcome St. Patrick kind of superficially and they give him a poisoned drink and he blesses

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the drink and then he tips the drink upside down. Now, what do you think would happen when you tip

421
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:15.120
the drink upside down? It's going to tip out, right? The only thing that fell out of the drink

422
00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:19.600
was the poison. Then St. Francis drank it and he sat down with these guys, right? So

423
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:27.920
then things get into discussion, into debate because they are not happy about St. Francis

424
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:33.840
in any way. And then there's the next chief druid who's like, nah man, this is going down,

425
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:39.840
we're going to have a battle. And so this is like Elijah and the prophets of Baal stuff start

426
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:43.120
happening. And so this guy's like, right, let's have a battle. So the king's like, okay, right,

427
00:36:43.120 --> 00:36:50.880
let's set the conditions of this power encounter of the struggle. Let's see who is the real power,

428
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:59.840
okay? So the king suggests, why don't we have you throw your holy books in the water and see which

429
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:06.240
book comes out dry? And St. Patrick says, yeah, sure, let's do that. Knowing in faith, there's

430
00:37:06.240 --> 00:37:13.040
just this radical boldness. And there is so much boldness on St. Francis. He is fully persuaded,

431
00:37:13.040 --> 00:37:19.600
he is convicted, he has faith on fire. I don't know anyone who walks in faith like St. Patrick,

432
00:37:19.600 --> 00:37:23.920
but he's like, sure, throw the book into the water and my book will come out dry. But then

433
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:27.440
the druid's like, no, no, no, no, his God is the God of the water, let's not do that.

434
00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:33.120
So the king says, right, let's throw both your holy books into the fire and see which one doesn't

435
00:37:33.120 --> 00:37:37.760
burn. So St. Patrick's like, yeah, let's do that. And then the druid's like, no, no, no, his God is

436
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:45.040
also the God of fire, let's not do that. So they end up coming to this really elaborate and like,

437
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:51.840
intense, like this goes intense, crazy, insane, like the power encounter and the conditions that

438
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:56.880
they set up on it. Here's what happens is they say, okay, right, here's what we'll do. We will

439
00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:02.960
we'll take one of St. Francis's most loved disciples, and he's going to put on one of the

440
00:38:03.520 --> 00:38:08.480
garments of the druid. So he looks just like the druid, and they're both going into a house and

441
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:15.680
they surround St. Patrick's disciple with all this dry wood that's ready to burn and blaze.

442
00:38:15.680 --> 00:38:23.200
And then they surround the druid with wet green wood that's really unlikely to burn that's covered

443
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:30.640
in water. And then what they do is they actually lit the house on fire, and then they and then they

444
00:38:30.640 --> 00:38:38.560
left it to see what would happen and St. Patrick prayed and the green wood around the druid got

445
00:38:38.560 --> 00:38:44.560
burnt up, the druid got burnt up. And the only thing that got burnt up on the disciple of St.

446
00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:49.920
Patrick was the druid's garment. Now, you might be thinking, okay, this seems a little bit far

447
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:59.280
but let me tell you, what is so obvious and attests to the legitimacy of these miracles

448
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.720
is the fruit of what starts to happen. So bear with me as you start to see the fruit of what's

449
00:39:04.720 --> 00:39:11.520
about to start happening in Ireland as a result of these crazy signs and wonders. And then because

450
00:39:11.520 --> 00:39:17.680
then the kings thought, oh my gosh, this is crazy. So then the people, the followers of that druid,

451
00:39:17.680 --> 00:39:22.000
they rage against St. Patrick again. They go into like full-on rage mode,

452
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.920
they're ready to kill St. Patrick, there's a whole mob of them coming. And this is where it

453
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:31.680
gets to like Moses level. This is why I call St. Patrick, he's like the Moses of the New Testament

454
00:39:31.680 --> 00:39:38.160
because it's recorded in history. Now I'm not making any of this stuff up, it is wild supernatural

455
00:39:38.160 --> 00:39:43.360
stuff. But what happened is the testimonies and the records and the accounts of that day

456
00:39:43.520 --> 00:39:49.520
that the ground opened up and swallowed all the followers of the druid who are coming to

457
00:39:49.520 --> 00:39:56.000
kill St. Patrick. The ground literally swallowed up and consumed them alive.

458
00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:59.840
And then the fear of God fell on that place, okay.

459
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Now, let me contextualize this again, right?

460
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South Korea, I just mentioned this before,

461
00:40:06.460 --> 00:40:09.820
Korea, when missionaries went there, it was covered.

462
00:40:09.820 --> 00:40:12.500
It was baptized in the blood of martyrs.

463
00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:16.100
Countless martyrs beheaded, just death everywhere.

464
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So many places where missionaries have gone,

465
00:40:18.660 --> 00:40:21.380
there has been just a massive amount

466
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of persecution and death.

467
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And even to this day, we know the world is so thick

468
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with persecution of Christians

469
00:40:29.140 --> 00:40:31.220
and thousands upon thousands of Christians

470
00:40:31.220 --> 00:40:33.340
are killed every year in persecution.

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Well, let me contextualize this

472
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in the context of St. Patrick taking Ireland,

473
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there was only one martyr, okay?

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In the taking of this entire barbarian land,

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there was only one recorded martyr in the entire time.

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And that was a guy who was another really prestigious,

477
00:40:58.300 --> 00:41:00.980
well-known disciple.

478
00:41:00.980 --> 00:41:03.900
And that guy, there was another attempt

479
00:41:03.900 --> 00:41:06.140
on St. Patrick's life, and this guy knew the area

480
00:41:06.140 --> 00:41:08.060
and he knew there was a place coming up

481
00:41:08.060 --> 00:41:10.820
where they would quite likely take an attempt

482
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on St. Patrick's life.

483
00:41:11.940 --> 00:41:13.260
And he asked St. Patrick

484
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if he could drive Patrick's chariot in that moment.

485
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And they released the ambush

486
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and they actually killed that guy

487
00:41:19.140 --> 00:41:20.300
and they missed St. Patrick.

488
00:41:20.300 --> 00:41:23.900
So that was the only martyr in the whole taking of Ireland.

489
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And one of the big reasons for that

490
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is because the fear of God came on people so dramatically,

491
00:41:30.260 --> 00:41:33.860
so outrageously as druids,

492
00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:35.980
like the chief druids of the nation

493
00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:38.900
are falling down dead in these power encounters.

494
00:41:38.900 --> 00:41:41.780
And then those that are coming to attack St. Patrick

495
00:41:41.780 --> 00:41:45.940
are literally dying or being supernaturally sovereignly,

496
00:41:45.940 --> 00:41:48.220
Patrick is supernaturally sovereignly protected.

497
00:41:48.220 --> 00:41:49.820
No one can touch him.

498
00:41:49.820 --> 00:41:51.740
This is the level of favor

499
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and the level of the hand of God on St. Patrick

500
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that nothing they do actually can touch him, can kill him.

501
00:41:59.580 --> 00:42:01.140
God protects his life.

502
00:42:01.140 --> 00:42:04.060
And so this is one of the major things that breaks open.

503
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And I wanna share with you one other major event

504
00:42:07.100 --> 00:42:10.860
that happens before Ireland just completely breaks open

505
00:42:10.860 --> 00:42:13.420
to a flood of heaven on earth.

506
00:42:13.420 --> 00:42:17.660
So, and this is another parallel between the life of Moses

507
00:42:17.660 --> 00:42:20.460
is that St. Patrick then goes up onto a mountain,

508
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which is now called Mount Patrick,

509
00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:25.420
but in Irish, not Mount,

510
00:42:25.420 --> 00:42:28.260
but I think it's like Crag Patrick,

511
00:42:28.260 --> 00:42:30.940
something like that in Gaelic.

512
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But he goes up onto Mount Patrick

513
00:42:33.300 --> 00:42:36.300
and he prays and he fasts for 40 days.

514
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Now, he is engaged in that time

515
00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:44.740
in extreme spiritual warfare.

516
00:42:44.740 --> 00:42:46.660
It is going crazy.

517
00:42:46.660 --> 00:42:48.260
Okay, what St. Patrick is doing

518
00:42:48.260 --> 00:42:50.660
when he was 40 days on the mountain

519
00:42:50.660 --> 00:42:53.060
is he was taking on the principalities

520
00:42:54.060 --> 00:42:56.820
in the heavenly realms over Ireland.

521
00:42:56.820 --> 00:42:59.620
He was going into battle against them.

522
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There is testimonies of angels visiting him

523
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and just amazing encounters with God.

524
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But then also the mountain ends up getting covered.

525
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This huge oppression comes on the mountain,

526
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a huge oppression comes on St. Patrick

527
00:43:13.740 --> 00:43:16.420
and the mountain gets covered in black birds, okay?

528
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This is the recorded testimony of it,

529
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that black birds from all over came

530
00:43:20.220 --> 00:43:21.380
and flocked to the mountain

531
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and the mountain was covered in black birds

532
00:43:23.580 --> 00:43:28.180
and St. Patrick was going through this anguish in prayer,

533
00:43:28.180 --> 00:43:29.500
but then he got the breakthrough

534
00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:31.220
and all these black birds fled

535
00:43:31.220 --> 00:43:34.580
and white birds came and landed on the mountain

536
00:43:34.580 --> 00:43:37.660
and St. Patrick started having all these encounters

537
00:43:37.660 --> 00:43:41.260
with angels and started making amazing requests of God

538
00:43:41.260 --> 00:43:44.060
and just in this real amazing time of breakthrough,

539
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so similar to Moses on the mountain.

540
00:43:46.420 --> 00:43:49.820
And then God grants St. Patrick all these crazy prayers.

541
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And then after that moment, okay,

542
00:43:51.460 --> 00:43:55.580
after that moment, you see Ireland just breaks open

543
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for the gospel.

544
00:43:56.420 --> 00:43:57.820
St. Patrick goes somewhere

545
00:43:57.820 --> 00:44:00.660
and they're already waiting to be baptized.

546
00:44:00.660 --> 00:44:02.460
St. Patrick goes out into a field,

547
00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:04.340
people flock to him over land,

548
00:44:04.340 --> 00:44:05.940
but St. Patrick goes somewhere,

549
00:44:05.940 --> 00:44:08.340
people flock to him by boats, by foot.

550
00:44:08.340 --> 00:44:10.860
They are now like, like Ireland has gone

551
00:44:10.860 --> 00:44:15.540
from a completely like radically opposed place

552
00:44:15.540 --> 00:44:17.220
that's just completely, you know,

553
00:44:17.220 --> 00:44:21.100
like hating him, barbarian, pagan, dynamic,

554
00:44:21.100 --> 00:44:23.700
full-on druid and blood sacrifices.

555
00:44:23.700 --> 00:44:24.540
And you think of, you know,

556
00:44:24.540 --> 00:44:27.180
the extreme druidism and occult practices,

557
00:44:27.180 --> 00:44:31.300
the whole spiritual realm of Ireland has broken open

558
00:44:31.300 --> 00:44:33.700
and now people are flocking to the gospel.

559
00:44:33.700 --> 00:44:36.060
St. Patrick himself with his own hands

560
00:44:36.060 --> 00:44:39.540
baptized over 120,000 people.

561
00:44:39.540 --> 00:44:42.100
Now we're not talking big crowds in cities like we have now.

562
00:44:42.100 --> 00:44:44.580
Everywhere he went, he was baptizing people

563
00:44:44.580 --> 00:44:46.420
and then his followers were baptizing people.

564
00:44:46.420 --> 00:44:50.740
The whole place is engulfed in this atmosphere of heaven.

565
00:44:50.740 --> 00:44:52.180
Now there were pockets of places

566
00:44:52.180 --> 00:44:54.340
where people were still opposed to him

567
00:44:54.340 --> 00:44:55.780
and that's where he had that, you know,

568
00:44:55.780 --> 00:44:57.780
that other attempt on his life.

569
00:44:57.780 --> 00:45:00.100
But on the whole, everywhere.

570
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.400
he went, it just broke open. Okay, so that is just wild. He planted over 300 churches.

571
00:45:07.680 --> 00:45:13.280
He then established, now we want to transition and I want to share as we kind of wrap this up,

572
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like the strategy that the Lord gave him next, that was what set the world on fire. All right,

573
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:29.440
St. Patrick did not just influence Ireland, he set the world on fire. And first of all,

574
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:36.640
he got the most radical breakthrough in Ireland. He plants over 300 churches. There's other people

575
00:45:36.640 --> 00:45:42.480
planting churches all over the place as well, but he then creates monasteries and creates this

576
00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:47.920
monastic movement. Okay, and so the monasteries and the monastic movement, what that looks like

577
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:55.360
is they create these monasteries where they are devoted to prayer. And you might have heard this

578
00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:58.960
quote, I've said this a couple of times lately, I've just been really inspired by it. It actually

579
00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:05.840
comes from a monastic movement, the Tyburn Prayer Movement is where this quote comes from. But

580
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:14.320
this is the quote, our lives are devoted to perpetual adoration. Our lives are devoted

581
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:22.560
to perpetual adoration. How beautiful is that, right? Our lives are devoted to perpetual adoration.

582
00:46:22.560 --> 00:46:27.520
I don't know if you have a life motto, but I think I want that to be my life motto, right?

583
00:46:27.520 --> 00:46:36.240
My life is devoted to perpetual adoration. Oh, that, right there, that, I want that to be my

584
00:46:36.240 --> 00:46:41.440
motto. I want that to be your motto. Well, St. Patrick created these monastic, these monasteries,

585
00:46:41.680 --> 00:46:47.040
and people went there. And when we talk about monasteries, these monasteries that grew and

586
00:46:47.040 --> 00:46:52.240
expanded out of this monastic movement, we're just talking a few people going there, but

587
00:46:52.240 --> 00:46:56.640
thousands of people would end up going to these monasteries, and they would devote their lives

588
00:46:56.640 --> 00:47:03.440
to prayer. And they devoted their lives to prayer, they devoted their lives to working the land, so

589
00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:10.000
they were always out farming. And these monasteries became the hubs of creativity. So it's a place of

590
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:16.880
amazing creativity, a place of education, they became places of business, they became places of

591
00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:24.880
technology, as there's inventions and technology coming out of this place. You know, this move

592
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:31.200
that Francis, a move of God that, sorry, St. Patrick, this move, there's so many St. Francis's

593
00:47:31.200 --> 00:47:35.840
as well, and they all did monastic movements and monasteries and things like that as well. So

594
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:43.360
sometimes I say St. Francis by accident, but St. Patrick, this move of God that he ushered in,

595
00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:48.800
it meant that Ireland never experienced the Dark Ages, when the rest of Europe is going through

596
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:56.240
the Dark Ages, Ireland is experiencing this major season of enlightenment. And so their monasteries,

597
00:47:56.240 --> 00:48:03.440
the places, hubs of phenomenal creativity, the most beautiful artwork and sculptures and gold work

598
00:48:04.240 --> 00:48:12.000
and just beauty and writing and literature and study and education and business and technology,

599
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:19.120
they were thriving, phenomenal hubs. And they were so beautiful and so well revered, that royalty

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00:48:19.120 --> 00:48:24.720
from around Europe would send their kids to these monasteries to be raised in these monasteries and

601
00:48:24.720 --> 00:48:29.040
to be educated in these monasteries, because everyone was like, oh my gosh, I want to be

602
00:48:29.040 --> 00:48:34.960
educated by the Celtic monks, I want to be educated in this place. So we would have royalty

603
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:39.040
and commoners, because they would give free education to the commoners of the land as well,

604
00:48:39.040 --> 00:48:45.680
right? So that you'd have royalty and commoners, you're just your average guy and royalty all

605
00:48:45.680 --> 00:48:51.680
learning together in these monasteries under these Celtic monks, which was amazing too, right,

606
00:48:51.680 --> 00:48:57.520
because all these royalty are getting raised up, and then they go back into places. And later on,

607
00:48:57.520 --> 00:49:04.480
they release extreme favor for the Celtic missionaries, who explode out of Ireland,

608
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:11.760
all over the world. And now one of those missionaries is a guy named Columba. And he

609
00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:20.480
goes to Scotland, right? And he basically, prototypes, he basically mirrors in the 6th

610
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:26.880
century, he mirrors what Patrick saw in the 5th century in Ireland, he mirrors it in Scotland,

611
00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:33.920
he basically wins Scotland in a really similar way, wild signs and wonders and miracles. And he

612
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:39.840
establishes a monastery called, a monastery on Iona, on an island off the coast of Scotland,

613
00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:45.840
he establishes the Iona Monastery, which is a phenomenal monastery, it becomes one of the

614
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:51.360
greatest monasteries of all time, it becomes one of the greatest hubs in that part of the

615
00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:57.760
world of Christendom, it becomes one of the greatest hubs of business, trade, education,

616
00:49:57.760 --> 00:49:59.760
technology, spirituality.

617
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.240
prayer, and they are praying 24-7. It's just this crazy, amazing, open heaven, dynamic,

618
00:50:06.240 --> 00:50:12.320
supernatural wonders. And they all, like crazy, were devoted, devoted, devoted to missions,

619
00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:17.840
devoted to preaching the gospel. And so you would have them, you know, they trusted God so much. I

620
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:24.160
mean, you think that their average mercenary was just so ablaze, so on fire. This, listen,

621
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this generation that was connected, this, the generations, not just one generation, but you

622
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:36.240
know, St. Patrick, he actually lived so long. He was in ministry in Ireland for around 60 years,

623
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so he would have lived around 120 years. And he actually established, you know, like successive

624
00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:50.960
generations. He saw five generations of the people that he prayed in, right? So he saw,

625
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:58.160
he, when he retired from being the Bishop of Ireland, and he saw five successive bishops

626
00:50:58.160 --> 00:51:04.800
established in their places, okay? So people that he knew from toddlers, he knew them until they had

627
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:11.920
gray hair. He was in ministry there for 60 years. This is wild, right? And so, but the people that

628
00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:17.280
were attached to that move, they were of a different, they were of a different stock, can I

629
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:23.200
say, all right? The level of refinement of the fire of God in their hearts, and the fire of God in their

630
00:51:23.200 --> 00:51:28.080
minds, and the culture that they walked in, the truth that they walked in, the revelation that

631
00:51:28.080 --> 00:51:34.080
they walked in as their normal was an outrageous, phenomenal, look, it was a different dimension. I've

632
00:51:34.080 --> 00:51:40.080
got to say that they lived in a whole nother dimension of an open heaven that we do not

633
00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:44.560
understand. I don't understand it. I don't even pretend that I understand it, but you've got to

634
00:51:44.560 --> 00:51:50.080
understand that their normal was so dramatic, so different. You imagine a generation touched by

635
00:51:50.080 --> 00:51:56.080
these types of miracles, touched by, you know, just seeing an entire nation break open to an open

636
00:51:56.080 --> 00:52:02.720
heaven, the powers of darkness expelled, the glory of God turning up. Oh my goodness, this was

637
00:52:02.720 --> 00:52:08.480
phenomenal. So we have to understand that they lived in a different spiritual dimension to what we're

638
00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:14.240
living in. You look at the culture of our day, right? It's just infused with chaos, infused with darkness.

639
00:52:14.240 --> 00:52:20.160
Now, we have to be realistic and understand that it is most likely that some of the

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atmospheric disturbance by the principalities and powers and the spiritual rulers of darkness

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in our age, in our cultures, is actually causing a level of disruption. You know, like there's a level

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of blindness that comes on us by being a part of this culture. Well, not so with them, right? It's

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harder for us to fight and get a breakthrough in the context of an atmosphere of darkness, but in

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the context of an open heaven that these guys were raised in, it was easy for them to walk in

645
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crazy levels of revelation, and their lives were completely laid down for the gospel.

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They had these little boats, they were round boats, kind of looked like half a walnut,

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you know, cut in half and popped upside down. They were called coracles, just little boats,

648
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and one or two of these guys would jump in there and they would say, God send me wherever you want

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me to go, and they would actually be taken, right? They would just let the tides take them wherever

650
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they went, and they would just go and preach the gospel, and the island was just sending out

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missionaries, missionaries, missionaries, missionaries. They won all of Scotland for Jesus, and so much

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of it happened out of their monasteries, okay? So there's the monastery on Iona, boom, and actually

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one of the future kings of England comes and is raised in the monastery in Iona, and then he goes

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back to England, then he gives them land in this place called Lindisfarne, and they create the

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second greatest monastery there in Lindisfarne. So Lindisfarne becomes this huge monastery,

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and you've got to understand as well that these monasteries, they're places of peace and prayer,

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and they are dripping with wealth and gold. So when you had the 7th century happening, what

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happened then is the Vikings came through, right? And when the Vikings came through with their

659
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raiding parties, they came to these places which were basically an open heaven, where these people

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just in prayer and in worship, not even thinking about warfare or anything like that, they're

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dripping in wealth and gold, and they're just there in prayer and worship, and the Vikings come through,

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and this had a huge impact on the expansion of Celtic missions, it's because the Vikings

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came through, and boom, they just started, actually the two places the Vikings really

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encountered first, which set the whole Viking world ablaze with a desire to conquer Europe,

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is they actually found Iona and Lindisfarne, just little islands off the coast, no protection,

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dripping in gold, and the Vikings sacked them, killed, murdered, raped, pillaged, took all the

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gold, and went off. But you know what? Ultimately, the Celtic missionaries ended up reaching the

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Vikings as well. So you had, in that time, so from Lindisfarne, they actually reached England,

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because England previously...

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had had the Roman Empire there, then the Roman Empire withdrew and the whole of Britain went

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back to this crazy barbarian paganism, druidism. But then from Lindisfarne, they actually reached

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England and converted England to a Christian nation. So if you're wondering how did Ireland,

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Scotland, England become Christian nations, they weren't like that. They were full on crazy

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pagan druid societies. And it was the Celtic missionaries and the missions that came out of

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these monastic movements and these prayer movements that actually swept through and took

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England and took Scotland and took Ireland for the gospel. And then not just that, they went all over

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Europe. The Celtic missionaries went everywhere. They went all over Europe. They established

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monasteries right through the Alps, through Italy, through nearly every country in Europe.

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They went and they would just walk along. And often they would just walk along, 12 guys just

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walk along and they'll just go and preach the gospel and just see what would happen. And then

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because they'd had kings and queens, sorry, because they had all these kings and queens

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raised in these monasteries, they would often go places and find amazing favour and find doors open.

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Sorry, little thing going on here. So it's just phenomenal seeing that. And so what you had

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is that this strategy that St. Patrick carried is what God is burning for, right?

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What God is burning for is everything that St. Patrick was about, everything that St. Patrick

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stood for, everything that he lived out is what the burning heart of God is burning for, all right?

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This is phenomenal. Let me know if you think you would want to be a part of something like that,

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right? Let me know if this stirs up your heart. I would love to hear, you know, how do you feel

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about this? How does this cause you to feel? Does this stir up your heart? What is it like when you

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hear these testimonies? Does this light you up? For me, this lights me up. It's left me like just

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undone with a sense of awe and wonder. And oh my gosh, I've got one more verse I want to read to

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you as well, right? This is a verse that we're called to walk in, a verse that Patrick walked in.

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So let me read to you from Jeremiah 1, starting at verse 4. The word of the Lord came to me saying,

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before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart. I appointed you as

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a prophet to the nations. Alas, sovereign Lord, I said, I do not know how to speak. I am too young.

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But the Lord said to me, do not say I am too young. You must go to everyone I send you to

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and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them for I am with you and will rescue you,

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declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me,

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I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot

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and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant. How wild is this? Now I want you to

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think about what would happen if we saw people of the caliber, of the power, of the grace and the

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mantle and the anointing of St. Patrick walking the earth again, all right? He was invincible.

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He was untouchable. He brought down all the powers of darkness. He brought down all the powers of

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religion. He brought down all the powers of government. Everything bowed before him, right?

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And heaven broke open. All the powers of hell and darkness were laid waste and heaven, heaven broke

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open before him. And I'll say at this point as well, you're going to stay tuned because next weekend,

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Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we are releasing the three-day Open Heaven Intensive and this is going

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to be huge, okay? So get ready for the three-day Open Heaven Intensive. We're going to go deeper

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into how to actually accomplish this in our lives, in our towns, in our cities, in our nations.

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But listen, imagine this, if we had people of this day rising up with the anointing, with the mantle,

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with the grace of St. Patrick, where you had the capacity to bring spiritual forces to their knees,

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religious forces to their knees, governmental forces to their knees, and force every knee to

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bow to the name of Jesus and force everyone to come. And I'm not, like, just because you walk

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in the awe and the wonder of God, I'm not talking about controlling people and forcing people, but

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I'm just saying this is what happens. This is what happened to Pharaoh when the power of God was on

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such radical display. It brings world superpowers to their knees. So I want to really inspire you

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with that. I want to just, like, what would it be like, right? Because this, we have so much craziness

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chaos and darkness unfolding in our world right now. But all we need is one St. Patrick

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and we'll bring the world to its knees. Okay. One St. Patrick would bring the whole world

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to its knees. So that's something phenomenal. This is what the burning heart of God is burning

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for, burning for us to dream. Because what was St. Patrick walking in? He was just walking

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in his inheritance, the same inheritance that you have, the same inheritance that I have.

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Listen, what would happen if a hunger rose up in us to walk in our inheritance? What would happen

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if a fear of God, if an awe of God, if a love of God came upon us? And what would happen if an

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adoration came upon us like was upon them? I believe we could walk in what God has for us,

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for our generation. Now, let me tell you something that happened near the time of St. Patrick's death.

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Near the time of St. Patrick's death, he received a prophetic word. He saw a vision and in the vision

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he saw the future of Ireland. He saw the future of the world in a sense. He saw that this light

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that was burning and blazing over Ireland, this fire that was burning over Ireland, was slowly

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whittled down and slowly, slowly diminished, slowly until it would eventually become just a burning

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ember in the ground, just an ember in the ground. And he was weeping and towards his last days,

732
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he was weeping and crying out to God and just petitioning God about this. He's like, oh God,

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come on, this can't be the end of our legacy. It's sure it's not just doomed just to

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wither to nothing. But then actually what happened is at the vision, he actually received more of the

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vision and this ember that was in the ground started to be kindled to life until it raged up

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again into a full-blown inferno, just consuming fire, full-blown inferno, consuming

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Ireland again. But I believe it's not just prophetic for Ireland but for the world, right?

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That this is what God wants to do. And why couldn't this be us? Why couldn't this be you? It has to

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start with someone. It has to start somewhere. So there's a, you might be like, we could be right now

740
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in this place where we're carrying a small fire but God wants to release an inferno. And so what

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I'm suggesting that we do is like, let's position ourselves in hunger and desire to be those that

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carry this flame. So that's us for today. Massive love to you all and really, really excited about

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this tomorrow. And our last session in this chat on Love Unstoppable, our last session is

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what does love look like? Okay, so we're exploring what this can look like for us right now with the

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burning heart of God, the broken heart of God, love unstoppable, our day, our calling, our time, what

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does that look like for us? So let me pray for you and then we'll look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

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But Holy Spirit, Abba Father, while I'm undone, whoa, I'm undone, I'm undone, I'm undone

748
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by this testimony, I'm undone by these lives devoted to you, I'm undone by the power,

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I'm undone by the awe of God, I'm undone by the awe of who you are, I'm undone by the wonders

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that you have worked, the power you have displayed. Papa, we're undone by our heritage, we're undone

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by the wonder of this testimony of this mighty man, of this holy man, Saint Patrick, who won

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Ireland for Jesus and marked the whole world forever. Jesus, you know that grace that was on

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his life, Jesus, you know that fire, Jesus, what we're doing right now is we present our lives

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as living sacrifices. We come in awe of you, we come in awe of you, and we say, Papa,

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come and do it again, come and do whatever it takes. We lay down our lives, Papa,

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and we say, refine our hearts, renew our minds, send your fire, do whatever it takes, Lord,

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do whatever it takes in us, do whatever it takes in us, do whatever it takes in us to cleanse us,

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to renew us, to transform us, to awaken us, to awaken us, to awaken us to this level of destiny.

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Would you do what we've never had done before? And I'm saying, search out every part of us,

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leave no stone in our hearts unturned, leave no part of us in darkness. I'm saying, would you

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send that all-consuming fire? Would you send that all-consuming flame? Papa, what I'm saying is,

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would you send your fire on us? Would you cleanse us, that all-consuming fire of love that consumes

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everything that can be consumed, so that

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Only Christ remains. May you send that upon us in Jesus. May you release that flame. May you

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cleanse us. May you take us where we've never been before. Do it, do it, do it in us. Go deeper,

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go higher, go wider. Set a flame, set a fire in us in Jesus' name. Set us ablaze in Jesus' name.

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Amen. Wow. Love you very much family. Bless you. Have a wonderful, wonderful day. May this fire

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gripped. I'm undone. I'm gonna say goodbye, but really, really feeling marked by heaven right

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now. And I pray that that marking, that marking, that marking by the fire of God, by the awe of

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God, by the fear of God, by the reverence of God, by the wonder of God, may that marking come upon

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you. May it mark you, may it mark you like Isaiah was marked when he was encountered.

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God in Isaiah 6 in the seraphim put the, put the altar on his lips. May it may be marked by

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heaven in Jesus' name. May you never be the same. May something be awakened in you that desires

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a greater move of God than you've ever known before in Jesus' name. Wow. Amen. May you be

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marked. Love you. We'll see you tomorrow for What Does Love Look Like? It's gonna be a really

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powerful section of how we can apply everything we've been learning here. Love you. Bless you.

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Bye-bye.