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God.
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Praise God.
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Thank you, jesus.
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Glory to God.
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I want to talk to you today about trusting the Lord.
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We're going to turn to Psalms 31.
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And I am going to quit leaving my notes laying around the house so my wife doesn't once again steal my message.
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So my wife doesn't once again steal my message.
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Well, you know I found this out, sister Colleen that if I don't have any notes, she still gets it.
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So I don't know how that's working.
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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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We're going to look at verse 14 and following for a little while.
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Today, praise God, I want you to come into a new level of trusting God.
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I want you to not only say I'm a believer, but I am a truster.
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See, you can believe up here.
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That's real easy to do.
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You know you can believe up here and they'll be a thousand miles away from your heart.
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But trust involves putting everything into God's hands.
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Let me tell you, let me give you a story.
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I was.
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I heard this story from a Wycliffe Bible translator living in Panama.
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We would meet a lot of these folk.
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They are amazing people, people that would give their entire life to bring the gospel in printed form to a people that didn't even have a language, a written language, they didn't even know.
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They had no concept that they could put their words down on paper and put a syntax and a logic to it.
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They didn't have that.
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The people had to go in and learn their language and then learn what it meant.
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This person went to Borneo, was working among indigenous people there that were so fierce and so warlike.
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They had no word in their vocabulary for trust.
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They didn't trust anybody.
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They didn't trust their wife.
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They didn't trust their children.
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They didn't trust their parents.
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Nobody trusted anybody.
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They didn't trust their wife.
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They didn't trust their children.
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They didn't trust their parents.
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Nobody trusted anybody.
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They didn't have the word because they didn't have the concept.
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And so the man is working on John 3.16, working trying to get a word for believe, and they didn't have any kind of word like that.
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So he's sitting with the guy that's working with him on the translation and talking to him about the concept, and the man's explaining just what I explained to you that they don't have that concept in their language.
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He said well, I want you to do something for me.
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I want you to stand up and I want you to sit down.
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The guy thought what's this guy doing.
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He thinks these guys are pretty weird, anyway.
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But you just sit down.
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The guy thought what's this guy doing?
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You know, he thinks these guys are pretty weird, anyway, you know.
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But what's he doing?
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He says now, what did you do?
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Well, you know what I did.
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I just stood up and I said okay, do it again, stand up, sit down.
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Now.
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What did you do when you sat down?
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I sat down in the chair, sit down again.
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Now what did you do?
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I just sat down in the chair, sit down again.
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What did you do?
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I put my weight in the chair.
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He said that's it right there.
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That's what I wanted to know.
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You got that concept right.
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That concept works.
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I can use that for God.
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So love the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever puts their weight into His hands, glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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I want you to learn in increasing levels in God to put your life into His hands.
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Verse 14 says this.
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But as for me, I trust in you, O Lord.
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Now watch what David says.
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Every day, I gain more respect for the prophet David.
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We don't honor him, see, we honor him a lot as king.
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We don't honor him enough as prophet, I think in many ways there was no one quite like David in the Old Testament for a relationship with God.
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He says this.
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He says I say you are my God.
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Immediately, when I read those words, I thought of Paul in Philippians.
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I thought of Paul in Philippians and my God shall supply all of your need, according to his riches and glory, by Christ Jesus, not somebody else's God, he's my God.
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David said he's not my dad's God, he's not Jesse's God, he's not my great-grandfather Obed, he's not even my or my grandfather Obed, he's not even my great-grandfather Boaz.
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And those were some respected people in Old Testament lineage, but he wasn't their God.
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He's my God, hallelujah.
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And this is the key to increased levels of trust and confidence in God.
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You've got to.
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You've got to know that he is your God, not just because you named his name in a salvation prayer Amen.
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But the essence of trust really is that you are my God, amen.
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I have a personal relationship with him, but that relationship is a relationship of revelation.
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If you say that this God, this Yahweh, this Jesus is your God, it's because he has given you a revelation of who he is and what he is steadfast about you.
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It's not enough to know that he loves you Most of Christianity.
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That's all they've got.
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Let's just love each other.
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God loves us, so let's just love each other, you know.
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That's fine, but that's not all of it.
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It can't be all of it.
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There's more to it than that.
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Hallelujah.
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You need a personal revelation.
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I need a personal revelation.
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Hallelujah, you need a personal revelation.
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I need a personal revelation.
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I need to know from his mouth and from his constant actions that he is my God and his mighty, infinite, unbelievable and unestimable power is with me all the time.
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Power is with me all the time.
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I don't have to go to God's corner grocery store and get me a bag of power when I need it, you know.
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I don't have to go pick up a dozen you know banana formed power units.
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You know.
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I don't have to go to Walmart, you know, and get me some power, and I don't have to fall on my face and beg Him for it.
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You need to know that this God and His awesome, infinite power, not only has that power available for you, but he dwells in you and all of that power that you will ever need for what you need and for what anybody else is going to draw on, you is going to get.
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Glory to God is already here.
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Matter of fact, what really is going on is that God is trying to convince you that your power is useless and his power is infinite.
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So he's willing to make you a trade.
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You lay down what you have and take up what I have and let's see where this goes.
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All right, let's live by my rules instead of your rules and let's see what happens.
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Let's live by my infinity rather than your death bound timeline and let's see what goes on.
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But see, most people want to live in Adam's world and just check on God every once in a while when they get in a fix.
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Help me, jesus.
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I had a friend he's in glory now, but he was a funny man and he was from California and he had a mother-in-law that taught him this expression.
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It was a very Catholic kind of a prayer oh Jesus, help me in this, my most desperate hour of need.
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You know that's how most people go to God for power.
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Help me in my desperate hour of need.
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It has to get desperate before they even try to find his phone number on their speed dial.
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Oh, where did it go?
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God doesn't want to be your desperate God.
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God wants to be your God.
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He doesn't want to be your, you know.
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Help me, jesus, god, amen.
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Anybody that's got bobblehead Jesus on their dashboard can do that one.
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Help me, jesus.
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He doesn't want to be that God to you.
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He wants to be your God.
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Are you hearing me?
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Glory to God.
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You need to have a personal revelation of his power.
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His power is infinite.
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There's nothing that he can't do.
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Just if you don't believe it, just take a jump into Romans, chapter one, and look up at the sky some night if you can ever see the stars through all this light pollution and just imagine that the one who created all that wants to live in you without diminishing one bit of his power, and the fact that he wants to fill several billion people doesn't diminish it either.
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You can't diminish infinity.
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You can't diminish eternal.
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Oh, glory to God.
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I'm going to bore you with something that you probably are the least bit interested in, but I stumbled across this webpage the other day of the European Space Agency.
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Who knew that they even had one.
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They've got this new telescope out in space and it's taking pictures of the universe Wonderful thing.
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So they start out with this picture of the known universe, right?
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So they start out with this picture of the known universe right for you to describe.
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It's a beautiful thing and they take, they cut this one little snippet out, just this little little piece right there just I mean, you're almost microscopic out of what this, what the universe is.
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And then they just said this is where we are right now.
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This is what we've started to take a picture of With all this technology.
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We've just kind of sectioned out this one part, and that's what we're focused on right now, and they zoomed that up.
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This is what it looks like at this magnification.
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They finally get out about as far as you can magnify the thing, which is just hundreds of thousands of times.
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I don't know how they do this.
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And there are spiral galaxies out there and there's all this kind of stuff that we see in pictures of NASA and all this kind of stuff, and all of that stuff is filling the screen.
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And then they start to zoom back back to this little snippet, and then you understand that what they've just shown you is a little snippet of this huge thing.
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And I'm going isn't my God great?
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Isn't he wonderful?
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Isn't he magnificent?
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Is there nothing too hard for my God?
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My God, my God, my God, my God, my God.
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See, you know what is the one thing that the heathens say about God that they have no right to say, but they say it more than anything else.
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What, oh, my God, they have no right to say that.
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It's blasphemy to say that if he hasn't revealed himself to bob but wait a minute romans chapter 1 says that he has revealed himself to be that mighty god to all men.
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So I guess they do have that right, see.
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See, you could start evangelizing people right on that phrase.
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Right there you could get when, next time, you hear somebody go oh, my God, oh, is he your God too?
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Hallelujah, I didn't know that.
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He's mine too.
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Matter of fact, I know his name.
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Do you know his name?
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You need to have a, you need to have a personal revelation that he's going to keep you.
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This is not, this is not you know, this is not up for question.
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See, a lot of people believe in God, but they don't really believe that he's going to take care of them.
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He's going to keep them, he's going to protect them, he's going to watch over them.
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And I ask you this question how can he keep from it if he lives inside of you, but they don't even go there.
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Not only is he going to keep you, but he's going to make a promise to you, and that promise is that he is going to continually reveal more of himself to you If you'll seek him.
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If you'll seek him, he'll be found, amen.
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And he'll just keep unveiling things about himself and there's no end to that.
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You can't possibly get enough of that.
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You're not that smart, you're not that big.
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You need him to come and live inside of that.
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You're not that smart, you're not that big, you're not.
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You need him to come and live inside of you.
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So that revelation process just gets jump-started beyond all belief, hallelujah.
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I used to tell pastors.
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I said what's the most important thing that you need to do to get ready for a sermon?
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And they'd go well.
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I need to pray, I need to fast, I need to study, I need to do all that.
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And I said no.
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I said the most important thing that you have to do to get ready for a sermon is show up, because if you don't show up, god can't show up with you.
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But if you show up and shut up, then God can preach the message.
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They didn't like that, because they like the works aspect of preaching.
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It's all about me.
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Glory to God.
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Got quiet on that one, olene.
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Praise the Lord, hallelujah.
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So you know what the most important thing is in preparation for a message?
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Well, you get the same answers.
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I got to pray, I got to fast, I got to seek God.
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I got to do it so I can get this mountain of notes and then bring them in, and then I'm going to pray, I'm going to preach the notes, I said.
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I said you know what I do and you've heard me preach hundreds of messages in your churches.
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I said you know what I do.
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I study not to get notes.
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I study to get the revelation and then I preach the revelation.
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Revelation is what we're after.
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We're after what saith the Lord?
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What does the Lord say about this?
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What is he saying to you about this?
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Well, who do you think you are?
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I am the guy that God decided he was going to live inside of, and so are you.
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I didn't ask for this.
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I'm just minding my own business one day and God fills me with the Holy Ghost.
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I didn't ask for this.
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I didn't ask for this ministry.
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I didn't ask to be sent all over the world.
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I didn't ask for this.
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I didn't ask for this ministry.
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I didn't ask to be sent all over the world.
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I didn't ask all this stuff.
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It wasn't like I was asking for a Christmas list and God just happened to bring me a bag full of goodies.
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I didn't think I was going to do all this and at the end of the day, I still haven't done all this.
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It's always been Him.
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You've heard me say this before One time.
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He tells me he says I want everything that you are, not everything.
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You have everything you are.
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He said I'll give you three days to answer me.
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About day two and a half I got back to him.
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I said okay, lord, if it's important to you, I guess it better be important to me.
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But can I ask you a question?
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Why did you phrase that question like that?
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That you wanted everything that I am?
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He said because nothing that you are accomplishes my purposes.
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Well, if that doesn't jerk your slack real fast, especially if you are a type A personality like I am and you do things, you get things done.
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I've had millions of dollars under my control.
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Hundreds of people work for me.
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I had things to do that would crumble most people and I've got them done.
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I'm an accomplished person, and God said none of that even amuses me.
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I don't need any of it.
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Glory to God, but here's one you really like.
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You need to have a personal relationship of his relentlessness to be formed in you.
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Paul said I believe it was to the church in Galatia, I'm not sure he said this he said I remain in childbirth or in pains, in the pains of bringing forth a child, until Christ be formed in you.
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You have no idea how relentless the Holy Ghost is concerning his desire, concerning His great.
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The whole point of all of this the stars, the universe, creation, this creation, the new creation all of that has one point that you be formed into the image of God.
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Now, most people in Christendom will recoil at that statement because they just say oh, that's blasphemy.
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We're sinners, we can't be formed into God.
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Amen.