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Well, well, well.
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Praise the Lord.
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Glory to God.
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Let's turn to the first chapter of the book of John.
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We are going to continue this message that we started last week concerning that Jesus was sent to his own.
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The Bible says there were some of his own that did not receive him, but there were others that did.
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We talked a lot about the importance did not receive him, but there were others that did.
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We talked a lot about the importance of not only believing but also receiving.
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The church is full of people who are believers.
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Amen.
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Because if you don't believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God, amen.
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There are some fringe groups out there that call themselves Christians that probably don't believe that, but by and large, everyone will claim that they believe that they're believers.
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Amen.
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By definition, that's what a Christian is is a believer, but they also have to be if they're going to move into the things of the Holy Ghost and into a higher level of obedience in God.
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They have to be receivers as well as believers.
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Amen.
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The Bible says that it's for receivers that the promise comes, that they are going to be made sons and daughters of God to as many as received him, not as believed in him, but as received him, he gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe upon his name, hallelujah.
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Now see, this goes right back to the eighth chapter of the book of Romans.
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Because there's a curious thing in the book of Romans that around verse 26 in that area where it says this that we know this that all things work together for the good of them that love the Lord and who are called according to his purpose.
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Now, that word called means that they are given a mission.
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Okay, like they're called, they're summoned, they're brought forth to be given a mission.
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Then Paul goes on to say this if they are called, if they are given a holy mission from God, then they are foreknown by God.
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If they're foreknown by God, then they're predestinated by God.
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We've talked about this so many times, I'm not going to go back over it, but the point I want to raise is this Then, all of a sudden, he said if you're predestinated, you're also called.
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Well, wait, why do we repeat called?
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They were already called.
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Why do we repeat called?
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Because that word called is a different calling.
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That word called is called by name.
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So the first called means that you've been given a mission that is both foreknown and predestinated.
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But in order to answer the call of that mission, you have to be called a different name, amen.
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You have to be given a name.
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You have to be given the name that is above all names.
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You have to be given a name.
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You have to be given the name that is above all names.
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You have to be given a name that includes a title, and that title is a son or a daughter of God.
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So we're talking about this formation that God works through us to bring us to a point where we can walk as justified people.
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We've talked about this at length, that we are not sinners saved by grace.
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We may have been that once, but we are certainly not that now.
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We are justified sons and daughters of God.
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Amen.
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We don't measure ourselves according to sin consciousness.
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We measure ourselves according to sin consciousness.
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We measure ourselves according to righteousness consciousness.
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What that means in a nutshell is that you're not worried about how many sins you can confess, so you don't go to hell.
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You're concerned about confessing the fact that you are not fully formed yet, but you're on your way and you're going to get there, and confession is what we do before God to shorten that gap between who Jesus is and who we are made to be.
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So far, amen.
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Does everybody get this?
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Go over to God.
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If you're still looking around, if you're still in the in a world where you're looking to count up sins so that you can confess them, amen, you're sin conscious and there's a lot of churches out there that will major in that and keep you in that kind of consciousness to keep you moving in to a realm where you walk as a justified saint who is a son or daughter of God, who is not measured by sin but measured by righteousness.
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You're not hearing me.
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What measures you is what defines you, amen.
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And if you're measured by sin, then you are a sinner saved by grace.
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But if you are measured by righteousness, you are not.
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Again, you are not in that standard.
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You're in a different standard.
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You are measured by righteousness.
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You are not in that standard.
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You're in a different standard.
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You are measured by the righteousness that Christ is.
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Amen.
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And if there's anything to confess, it's going to be that I'm not formed fully yet, but I will be, bless God, because the Bible says so.
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I'm not going to wait to heaven for that formation to get well on its way.
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I've said this before, but it seems good to the Holy Ghost to say it again.
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Some people are just going to be shocked when they get translated.
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Other people will not be.
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Some people, when they die and they get translated into another realm, they're just going to be.
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What's this?
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You know it's going to be so different for them they're not going to be able to believe that they're even there.
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But for other people who have been being made holy by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of God's testimony, by all these things that work in you when you step over, it's just going to be like taking another step, amen, which is exactly the kind of thing that was foretold by Enoch.
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He just took one more step and there he was.
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Glory to God, hallelujah, well, praise the Lord.
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Those are the things we've been talking about.
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Let's look at verse 15.
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We'll talk about something else today.
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Glory to God.
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Verse 15 says this that John bore witness of him.
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Now, in verse five or verse six, it says there was a man sent from God, whose name was John, that came as a witness to bear witness to the light.
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Now, this John bore witness of Jesus.
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He didn't bear witness to himself.
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He bore witness to Jesus and he said, and he cried out, saying this is he whom I said, he who comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me.
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What John is saying here is that he's testifying to the eternality of Jesus.
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He is saying that the one who comes after me, that is he's everlasting.
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He is just going to keep on coming and keep on coming and keep on coming.
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He is after me.
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That is he's everlasting.
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He is just going to keep on coming and keep on coming and keep on coming.
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He is after me.
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I came, but he is after me.
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He is preferred before me.
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I'm in this now.
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John says I'm in this now, amen, but there's one who is coming that is going to continue after me.
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He is preferred before me before this moment of time that I'm in, amen, and he was before me.
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So what does that?
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What does that all mean?
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That means that this Jesus, amen, is both everlasting on the side of future.
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He is in this eternal now that is called is, and he has always been in what is this eternal past?
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So there is no time when Jesus has not been Amen.
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He was before John came, he is after John came and now he's standing right in front of John, so he's in the same time as John is.
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You don't have a clue?
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This is like a bunch of gobbledygook, until you understand that John is talking about the Son of God.
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He's not talking about some guy that just showed up to get dunked in the River Jordan like all the rest of the people that had been coming to be baptized by John.
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He is not that guy.
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This is God in the flesh.
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Oh, you're not hearing me.
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John was sent from God.
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This does not say that.
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It says that John was sent from God.
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Now, if John is sent from God, amen, then John is of a special class.
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He is in that class that Romans 8, 26, 27, 28 talks about.
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He was called for a holy purpose, amen.
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He was foreknown, he was predestinated and he was given a name.
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Zacharias said.
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They asked Zacharias, what's this boy's name going to be?
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He said give me a tablet.
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They brought him a tablet.
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He wrote down on the tablet his name shall be called John, amen.
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And when his name was called John, his tongue was loosed Amen.
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He was given a name.
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He was given a name that was not of his.
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He was given the name of Zacharias.
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He wasn't given the name of his uncle, he wasn't given the name of his grandfather, he wasn't given the name of somebody back in time.
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He was given the name that was given to him by the angel to call this boy, and his name was John, because he had been given a name.
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Oh, glory to God, hallelujah.
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This John says this he was caught.
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I'm saying all that to say this that this John was sent by God to identify the Son of God in all flesh.
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You know how many people came to John to be baptized?
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The Bible says that the whole of Jerusalem came out into the wilderness to be baptized by John.
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Are you hearing what the Bible says?
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I'm not making any of this up.
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This is what the Bible says.
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The Bible says that they came out by the multiplied, thousands upon thousands upon thousands, to hear John speak and to be baptized by him.
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Of all of those multiple tens of thousands of people, it was up to John to identify the Christ.
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That was his job.
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As soon as he did that job, he says this I must decrease, he must increase.
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So my job, I'm done.
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I've done what I came to do.
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I'm, you know, I'm toast.
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I raised up some disciples.
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I gave Jesus my disciples.
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I identified him.
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I called him out when the Holy Ghost came down upon him.
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I identified that that was God, the Holy Ghost.
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I did everything I was supposed to do.
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Now what I'm trying to tell you is that he was so prepared for that that when Mary showed up and Jesus was in her womb and John the Baptist was in the womb of Elizabeth, the spirit of John the Baptist caused that baby to leap.
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The baby didn't leap on its own accord.
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You know the flesh and blood that was John the Baptist didn't do a backflip in Elizabeth's womb just because baby Jesus showed up.
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This was a spirit to spirit knowing, and the spirit of John the Baptist recognized the spirit of Jesus because he was programmed to do that.
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He couldn't help himself.
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Don't worry to God, are you following me?
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He couldn't help himself.
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He was made to do that.
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So when Jesus showed up as a baby, he said hallelujah.
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I wasn't expecting to do this for another 30 years, but here we are.
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You know he may not have ever seen him again, but when he saw him he remembered.
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He remembered all of the things that happened before he got here.
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He remembered what had happened when he was in the womb, and now he was in a position to identify the Son of God as the Messiah to Israel, as the Messiah to Israel, but as the baptizer and the Holy Ghost to you.
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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.
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This is who Jesus is.
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He is the before, he is the now, he is the after, amen.
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And it's also who John is.
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He was a man who was what Sent from God.
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He was back there in the before time.
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He entered into this time in our timeline, amen.
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But I'm here to tell you he's somewhere in real, close to the throne of God, occupying a place that will forever be his Amen.
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Because Jesus said of all the men that were born of women, there has none risen greater than John the Baptist.
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That's a heavy title.
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I said that's a heavy title.
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I mean you're talking David, you're talking Daniel, you're talking you know.
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You're talking Moses, Abraham, isaac, jacob, noah, enoch.
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I mean we're talking some heavy hitters here.
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And Jesus, of his own mouth, said there is no prophet, none born of woman is greater than John the Baptist.
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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But the thing is that I want you to see is that if Jesus is this and John the Baptist is this, then.
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We are this, amen.
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Just because it's Jesus and just because it's John the Baptist doesn't mean it's not you on the Baptist, doesn't mean it's not you.
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You are that before.
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You are that now.
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You are that.
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See, we are real big about the now and the everlasting, but we don't talk much about the before.
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But we're in the same thing.
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The reason that it took and stuck with us when it didn't take and stick with others, is that we have a before that we draw on Now.
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You may not know this, but your spirit knows this.
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Your spirit knows, amen, that you were in God before you got here.
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And because you know that, amen, when you find this thing called Jesus, amen, you stick to him and he sticks to you and you don't go running away and you don't go looking for something else.
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Amen, you stick to it.
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Why?
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Because this is what you were called to do.
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This is what you were foreknown to do.
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This is what you were predestinated to do.
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This is what you were called to do.
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This is what you were foreknown to do.
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This is what you were predestinated to do.
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This is what you've been given a name to do.
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Oh, hallelujah, praise God.
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It's who Jesus is, it's who John the Baptist was and it's who we are.
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Glory to God.
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We are of this special people, hallelujah.
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The Bible calls us the elect, the elect of God.
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We are of this special people, hallelujah.
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The Bible calls us the elect, the elect of God.
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Hallelujah, praise God.
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Let's talk about verse 16.
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And this is where we're going to spend a chunk of time today.
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Verse 16 says and of his fullness.
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We have all received.
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Now, who is?
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All of us, the ones who received him.
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He was sent to his own.
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His own received him not, but as many as received him.
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He gave the power to become the sons of God.
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Okay, those?
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He gave something to him.
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To them, he gave them his fullness.
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Now, this is where religion misses it.
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We're going to talk all throughout the day today about the difference between a relationship of revelation and a sparsity, if you will, of religion, of how they take away from the fullness of Christ Amen, when he clearly said to those that received him, he gave his fullness.
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Everybody say fullness.
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How much is fullness?
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Everything, amen.
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So everything that Jesus was, he gave to you.
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Okay, now, what is everything that Jesus was?
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He was before, he is now and he will be forever.
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Amen.
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So right there I'm talking in the same context.
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One verse away, jesus tells us, the Holy Ghost tells us who this Jesus is, and then says to those that received him he gave that fullness.
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See, I'm not making this stuff up, I'm just asking you to put the two verses together in the context that the Holy Ghost breathed them.
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Amen.
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He said he was, he is and is to come, amen.
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And then he says this I'm going to give you that fullness.
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What does he say?
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He says I'm going to give you eternity.
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Now, why is this important?
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Because everything that is of God that comes to you comes out of eternity.
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You comes out of eternity.
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Everything, every good and perfect gift cometh down from the Father of lights to his children, and in that Father of lights there is no variableness or shadow of turning.
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He's not going to change.
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What's that mean?
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It means that whatever good thing he's going to bring to you, he's bringing out of his eternity, which cannot change, because in eternity there's no time.
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Time is the element that makes things change.