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Hallo, lou y'all come on,
stand up with me. Let's just open

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our hearts for the word. Amen, be glad for the Lord. Isn't

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amazing. He's here and he wants
my pants to be straight. Thank you,

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appreciate that so much better for the
camera now, which wasn't even focused

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on my pants. Please help me, Roman, help me, the side,

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the side cuff, the side cuff. Glaurie, Father, we just

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love you. We love your word, We love what you're doing. We

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love that you're delivering us of all
fear. You're delivering us of all fear.

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We ask you look deep in our
heart's holy spirit, with your enablement,

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with the testimony of truth, the
testimony of victory. Look deep within

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our hearts. Let freedom. Let
freedom be expanded into a deeper way inside

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every one of us. This morning, we thank you for it in Jesus

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name. Everybody said, Amen,
you may be seated. Last week I

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talked about body putty. Remember then, if you were here, I introduce

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some thoughts about body putty Bondo and
it's it's uh, a little bit of

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self interest, you know, a
little bit of self interest. Probably by

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the age of twenty one, I
had had six or eight ten automobile accidents.

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So I needed bondou. So yeah, I blew up, messed up

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a lot of fenders, a lot
of cars. But I was introducing the

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thought to us that there are things
that are small that activate things that are

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big. There are larger substances,
larger bodies of things that with just a

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small activator, the whole component of
what that larger is than is released to

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do what it was set out to
do and meant to do and purpose to

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do. And body putties like that, And I'm a man's you have a

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man's sermon. A little bit of
a little bit of activator, a little

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bit of hardener catalyst can turn a
larger amount of body putty into what it's

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supposed to be. And it's that
way with epoxy. And you know,

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we talked a little bit last week
about yeast as well. A little bit

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of yeast leavens a large loaf,
a large lump of dome. And I

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was talking to you about that because
I was mentioning that faith is that way

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to grace. Grace is the embodiment
of God's supernatural power. We tapped into

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a bunch of it today and he's
here He's activated this morning, and grace

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kiss from which we get charisma and
charismatic the grace of God, the supernatural

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power of God is accessed by a
very small thing, and that's our faith.

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And really, my emphasis, my
emphasis even last week, this week

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even further, isn't so much on
us activated the grace of God though,

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though that's all part of this.
But what I wanted to what was really

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on my heart with a warning,
What was really on my heart was more

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of a warning, and I want
to get into that more again today,

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is that what we don't realize sometimes
is that a little bit of fear activates

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the curse, a little bit of
fear activated that this same principle that works

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for us to tap into the things
of God also works, though we don't

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like it to be true, it
also works to tap into the things of

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darkness. And some of the fears
that we deal with, we didn't earn

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them or deserve them. They're just
a part of our vulnerability or our package,

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and we have to stand up against
them. And God's given us his

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promise, is leading, his truth, his clarity, his sacrifice. He's

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given us literally everything that we need
in Jesus. So that we can have

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the faith to overcome. And what
I wanted to warness is about is that

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I think it's so easy to not
it's so easy to not see that a

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little bit of doubt, a little
bit of fear, a little bit of

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unbelief, a little bit of distrust
is actually opening up the demonic realm in

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a way we don't want it opened
up. And what provoked some of this

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um What what's provoked some of this
with me is stories about um uh,

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stories about the demonic realm, stories
about people being harmed in the demonic realm,

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and even just you know, various
writings and preaching, teaching books,

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whatever, where we're being counseled or
schooled to not do certain things, don't

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pray this way, don't get too
radical, don't get confronted, don't address

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demons, don't get too brash,
don't get too bold, don't no,

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no, you can't. You know
you can't do something over principalities. You

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have to be real careful about that. And then we will hear also in

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our conversations among believers, we'll also
hear another thing that gives place to a

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little bit of fear. Will hearing
people talk about the devil attacked me.

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Here, the devil attacked me.
There. The devil did this, the

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the devil, and we'll have you
heard some of that. So I'm not

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saying that's not a reality. But
what I'm saying is that maybe it's only

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a reality because there was a vulnerability. So I think what the Lord wants

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to do, he wants to remove
all of the vulnerability out of us so

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that the circumstantial reality of harm is
no longer happening, because the inward fears

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and the doubts and the questions have
been erased. They've been removed, they've

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been confronted, they've been overcome.
Are you with me? Luke? I

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had an extra verse and we didn't
add it in, But it's just it's

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where the lords sit out seventy two
of his disciples. He sent out seventy

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two disciples. They went out two
by two. He told them to heal

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the sick and to drive out demons. And when they came back, this

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is Luke chapter ten. When they
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seventy two returned with joy, and
they said, Lord, even the demons

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submit to us in your name,
And by the way, they weren't.

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They weren't counseled. Don't address this, don't confront that, don't address the

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other thing. There was nothing like
that. But they came back rejoicing,

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and then the Lord said this to
them. He clemmented, he replied,

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and he said, I saw Satan
fall like lightning from heaven. I have

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given you authority to trample on snakes
and scorpions. And he didn't mean literal

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snakes and scorpions. To trample on
snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the

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power of the enemy, and nothing
will harm you. So that has kind

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of you know that scriptures jumped out
at me. Nothing will harm you,

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And I think that that if Jesus
said it, then that's truth. But

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the reality of what we experience is
far from that declaration of truth. There

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are many believers and Christians who end
up getting harmed in their Christian experience,

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whether they're confronting demons or not.
Most of us don't even confront demons and

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get harmed, right, I mean
most Christians. I'm not talking about New

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Horizon Church Christians. Of course,
these are superior Christians here, but the

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non superior Christians that exist elsewhere those
Christians don't even don't even get engaged in

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spiritual warfare and get harmed. And
so I'm thinking, you know, what

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is the disconnect, right, what
is the disconnect between what Jesus said that

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the enemy cannot arm you, will
not harm you, won't harm you,

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and overhear the experience of getting harmed. And that's where I want to I

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want to just kind of drive this
home a little bit. Is that Satan

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is a faith god, small g
yes, but in terms of spiritual power,

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spiritual dominion, spiritual existence, spiritual
authority. He exists in a realm,

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a spirit realm, and the spirit
realm is all governed by faith,

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and fear is faith. So wherever
we don't have a bulwark of faith,

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there will be the presence of fear. And there's all there's there's many fears

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that we don't address. There's many
fears we don't we don't see them maybe

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as fears because they just affect us
with doubts or question or a lack of

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confidence or a second guessing or um. So you know, there's reasoning of

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the mind that's actually fear, but
it doesn't appear to be fear in other

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words, it's not terrifying you.
It's not making you. It's not making

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you leap on Halloween night. It's
not that kind of fear. But it's

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pushing you away from your destiny,
or pushing you away from your confidence in

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God, or it's pushing you away
from knowing who you are, or it's

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pushing you away from acting as you
are in the New Creation. It's it's

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there are things that push us away
that are essentially made up of fear.

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They're actually fear, though the reasoning
and the expression inwardly may sound more like

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doubt and distrust or wondering or indecision
or second guessing. And I think for

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these we need to identify them.
And I think for these we need to

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have we need to have a bulwark
of faith, a faith expression that puts

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us over them. And let me
let me, let me show you what

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I mean by that in March chapter
five, and they didn't look I didn't.

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I don't have this one for you, but you could look it up

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if you want to. March chapter
five in the NIV or the I'm at

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the Nasme March chapter five and verse
twenty four. A large crowd followed and

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pressed around Jesus, and a woman
was there who had been subject to bleeding

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for twelve years. She had suffered
a great deal under the care of many

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doctors and had spent all of the
of the money. She had spent everything

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on physicians, and instead of getting
better, she grew where So may have

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you seen the biblical movie thing that
spent out? Now, what's it called

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The Chosen? Thank you for helping
me. Have you've seen this? Maybe

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you've seen this episode. I don't
know you've seen it. So they do

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a good job with this. And
so here's a woman. She's she's been

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bleeding for twelve years, she's unclean, she's a cast out and a cast

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away, and you can imagine all
of the fears that would visit her and

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seek to dominate her thought life,
like, you're going to have no relationships

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the rest of your life. You'll
be lucky if you even live to fulfill

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your life. You're you're never going
to fulfill your purpose. You're gonna have

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to hide your entire life. You're
never going to be fulfilled relationally, and

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just fear after fear. Your whole
future is economic peril. I mean,

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they are all of these and Essentially, the way the enemy works is he

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brings words, reasoning thoughts against you
that that are drawing you to buy into

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them. Right, And essentially that's
the substance of fear. Is reasoning that

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contradicts God's word, God's promise,
God's fulfillment, God's calling, God's new

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creation of you, God's redemption at
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Any kind of word that brings a
contradiction to that is a word that

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is the substance of a fear,
because now you fear what God has said

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or what you desire in God won't
come to pass. And so she had

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probably you know, a hundred of
these things plaguing her mind. But what's

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interesting is she presses through the crowd. You remember the story, She presses

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through the crowd, and even that
she had to overcome fear of you're going

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to be caught, you're going to
be turned in, you're going to be

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pulled aside. She had to overcome
every kind of fear to press into Jesus.

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Right, and all of this is
going on, and it says that

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she said to herself, or this
translation, she thought to herself, King

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James I love it, She's said
to herself. And this is what I

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mean by you have to have a
bulwark of faith. What is your bulwark

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of faith that you will rehearse when
the enemy comes with something? What is

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your bulwark of faith? If you
don't have one, you have to create

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one, and you can create one
on the fly. Because you have the

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mind of Christ, you don't have
the mind of fear. Paul said that

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Timothy, you've not been given a
spirit of fear. You've been given a

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spirit of love, of power,
and of self control. That's what you've

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been given. So you can tap
in to a holy spirit when a fear

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comes, or a reason, an
expression, a thought comes. You grab

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that thing right second drinth and ten, three through five. You take it

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captive, and you examine it under
the Christ. Because you've become one with

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him. You've become one with the
superior one, one with the victorious one,

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one with the overcoming one, one
with the risen one. You are

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one with him. You are hidden, your life is hidden in Christ.

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And so you take that thought captive
and you bring it under the obedience of

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Christ. Does this line up with
what he has done? Said, called,

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proclaimed, and promised and fulfilled on
my behalf. Does this life If

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it doesn't line up with that,
then it's going to partner with fear.

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If it partners with fear, fear
is faith. Fear is that little catalyst

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that will release something greater of darkness
in your life, in your world.

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You don't want it, you don't
want any fear, and I love it.

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That the expression of the Lord toward
this little lady. She says to

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herself, if I can touch the
Him of his garment, if I can

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touch as closed, I will be
healed. And so she does that.

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Immediately her bleeding stops. She felt
in her body that she was freed from

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her suffering. At once, Jesus
realized that power virtue. The King James

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says, it's the same thought that
we were talking about last week. It's

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grace. She tapped into kiss,
she tapped into grace. She tapped into

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the power of God with her faith. There wasn't a move of the spirit,

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there wasn't a song service, there
wasn't a worship environment. Ugo was

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not on his guitar, we didn't
have drew on the keys. Sabrina wasn't

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singing to the top of her lungs. We didn't have Dennis calling us forward.

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We had none of that whatsoever.
This was a very dry environment.

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But she was saying something to herself. She had a bulwark of faith,

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and she tapped into the power of
God in the midst of a noisy crowd.

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And he turns around and he says, who touched me? And then

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he says, daughter, your faith, Daughter, your faith made you hold

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Your faith tapped him to the power. It's your faith expression in a dry

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environment where and I'm not saying,
I mean get me near a keyboard,

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and I mean the juicy or the
better right. So Ali shad like to

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prophesy when the music, when the
when the minstrel was going. So we

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know that we know the anointing flows
in a juicy environment. But we also

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know that your faith is a very
powerful bulwark. And against all of those

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fears plaguing her mind and against all
of the risks she had to take.

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This is what she continued to say
to herself. She had a bulwark of

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that which she spoke over herself.
If I can touch him, I will

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be healed. If I can touch
him, I will be healed. If

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I can touch him, I will
be healed. And in the midst of

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that environment, Jesus declares, your
faith, daughter, your faith has made

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you whole. Faith was that little
catalyst that reached in and laid hold of

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something greater. I just want to
encourage us. So I want to encourage

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us that, having come into the
new creation, that we are called to

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the faith of Jesus. We're literally
called to the faith of Jesus. Holy

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Spirit is actually enabling you with the
faith of Jesus. Holy Spirit is bearing

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witness inwardly to you of the faith
of Jesus, not only the faith in

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the Son, but in the faith
of the Son. Because when you have

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faith in the Sun, you've tapped
into the faith of the Sun. And

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that's what the Holy Spirit is leading
us into. He's leading us into a

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full mature faith. I believe there's
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Ephesians for Ephesians for read this with
me, because this is this is

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so cool to think about. Ephesians
for says the Christ himself gave the apostles

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prophets of angelists, pastors, and
teachers to equip his people for works of

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service, so that the body of
Christ may be built up. Until until

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now It doesn't say until the Rapture. It doesn't say until the Second Coming.

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It doesn't say that the Until actually
takes us to the end. We

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don't know that the Until takes us
to the end. What we know is

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the Until takes us to a glorified
body, a glorified church. The Until

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takes us to a place where the
apostle, pastor, evangelist, teacher,

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prophet. These gifts that he gave
that now he's given them, and we

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have them as offices, and they're
the embodiment of the Holy Spirit to the

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body of Christ. And so they
equip and they provoke, and they awaken,

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and they teach and they strengthen us. But it's so that we all

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come up into the fullness of the
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And Christ had the offices. Then
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we're all coming up into the fullness
of the Christ. So there's coming a

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day when we come together. The
offices won't be on the platform. The

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offices will be in you, because
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And so there will be equal expression
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as there is in the offices.
All right, are you getting what I'm

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saying at all? Are you following
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I mean like we all gathered Friday
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came somebody who has an office of
an evangelist and profit and he and he

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came and he ministered, and it
was glorious, it was powerful, it

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was wonderful, and we rally around
that. Because God is not just showing

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off through him. God is calling
us all into our true identity. There

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comes a day where we're all like
Jeremy Nelson, Because do you think Jesus

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exceeds Jeremy Nelson? Hello, then
there's coming a day where the body of

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Christ all comes up into Jesus.
Is that crazy? To equip the body

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until we all reach unity in the
faith and the knowledge of the Son of

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God. We come into unity and
the faith and unity in the knowledge of

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the Son of God, and we
become mature attaining to the whole measure of

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the fullness of Christ, attaining to
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That this is, this is the
goal, That this is what Holy

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Spirit has in mind. He doesn't
have in mind that We're just going to

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punch the clock until we go to
heaven. We're just going to punch the

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clock until the glory bell rings.
We're just going to punch the clock until

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it's time to go home. That's
not what he has in mind. What

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he has in mind is that you
develop in your faith, which means you

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must quench every fear. These two
are juxtaposed, These two are at war

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with one another, these two.
And if you let fear all of us.

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When we came to the Lord,
we got rid of a few fears,

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and all of us when we came
to Lord, we got delivered of

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a bunch of doubt and unbelief.
But unfortunately, unfortunately we hang on to

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rationalize, tolerate, and allow a
bunch of stuff the linger that should never

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linger in our lives. And we
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We don't want to contend against what
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fully. And that means we're identifying
fears. We're identifying fears and we're overcoming

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them. We're confronting them, we're
not tolerating them. I got a list

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of them. I don't know some
of them might might relate. Fear of

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failing, fear of sickness, fear
of financial loss or peril, fear of

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turmoil, fear of chaos, fear
of loss, fear of theft, fear

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of abandonment, fear of rejection,
fear of premature death, fear of ministry.

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Oh boy, there we go.
Fear of the cost of ministry,

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fear of war, fear of unfulfilled
relationships, fear of weather, fear of

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climate problems. Of course, the
earth is warming, folks. We aren't

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in the ice age anymore. It's
been warming since the ice age. Did

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you realize that we had a flood
and then after the flood there was an

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ice age? Biblical believers realize the
earth has been warming. Okay, I'll

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get off that. Fear of our
children failing and falling, fear of sharing

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our faith, fear of speaking up
or speaking out, fear of certain environments,

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being around and in certain people or
environments, fear of risk, fear

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of something new, fear of I
mean this, I could probably go on

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and on and on, and I
don't know if any of those kind of

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hits you, or if any of
those kind of hit a thought life or

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a thought pattern that wants to visit
you and harass you and limit you and

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sabotage you. But the Lord wants
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even as there's three hundred and sixty
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But what he wants you to know
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It's so powerful fear cannot be contained
in the embodiment of its discussion or

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its reason or even you know,
it's phrase or it's thought. Fear can't

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be contained in that because fear is
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body of the curse and of darkness. So when you allow a fear to

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have any place in your life,
you're giving satan place. And when you

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give Satan place, there's going to
be trouble. And the trouble is going

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to be much greater than the little
bitty thing that you were entertaining and tampering

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with and allowing to have a little
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Okay, that makes sense. Fear
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That's why there's so much in the
word about fear, and there's just there's

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so much in the word right,
And it almost seems like when you know,

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many times in the Word, when
there's instruction about not fearing, it's

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like God doesn't tell us exactly why
not too in those instances. Many times

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he just tells us how powerful it
is if we continue to believe promise of

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the Promised Land Deuteronomy six, seven
eight. All over the place, right,

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they were exhorted probably one hundred times
not to fear. But when they

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got up to the Promised Land and
they sent him the twelve spies, ten

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of the twelve came back with what
the Bible calls what Moses calls what God

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calls and evil report. But actually
all they were doing was reporting on what

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they actually saw. Do you realize
sometimes that actually what you see and what

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you report on with regard to what
you see, if it contradicts what God

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sees, then that's actually fear,
and that fear which could be understood in

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terms of doubt, unbelief, contradiction. Because what the ten came back,

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they came back and said, well, we see giants in the land.

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Yeah, the fruit looks good,
the grapes are huge, everything's huge,

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everything's great. But there's giants in
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We are not able, King James, we be not able. Right.

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Fear was the key to the breakthrough
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what they allowed when they partnered with
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slayer. Sometimes it's just what we're
looking at, right, are there giants?

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Or are we rehearsing the bulwark of
faith that our God is a giant

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slayer? Numbers fourteen. Then Moses
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whole Israelite assembly gathered there, and
Joshua son of Nune. This is after

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they heard the testimony of the Ten. Because they were like overwhelmed with this

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terrible testimony. Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jethna, who

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were among those who explored the land, tore their clothes when they heard the

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testimony of the Tin, the fearful
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to the entire Israelite assembly, the
land we pass through and explored is exceedingly

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good. If the Lord is pleased
with us, he will lead us into

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that land, a land flowing with
milk and honey, and will give it

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to us. Only do not rebel
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afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their

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protection is gone, but the Lord
is with us. Do not be afraid

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of them. A stand this morning. What are you afraid of? You

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know the story numbers chapter fourteen.
They were forgiven and numbers chapter fourteen.

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Going further in the passage, Please
don't this is the this is the this

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is what God's trying to say.
Don't equate forgiveness with empowerment. Faith accesses

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the power of God. Fear accesses
the realm of the enemy. They were

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forgiven, but because they didn't change
their hearts, they couldn't go into the

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land. If you don't know to
kick fear out and to come up against

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it, and to rise up against
it, then you could. You could

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repent on Tuesday and be back in
the same place on Friday. And you

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could repent and get forgiveness on Friday, and be back in the same place

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on the following Wednesday. And you
could repent on the following Wednesday and get

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forgiveness and repent and be back in
the same place by next Wednesday. If

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you don't know that, you don't
have to tolerate this anymore. You don't

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have to listen anymore. You can
choose the faith life. You can choose

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a mindset of faith. You can
choose to embrace the mind of Christ.

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And what happens is that if you
continue to fall all then the enemy keeps

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sabotaging your victory, and time and
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But it doesn't have to be that
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That's why it took the next generation
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because Moses cried out for them and
they were forgiven, but their hearts weren't

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changed, and so they couldn't go
in. Don't let the enemy trick you

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into thinking that forgiveness is the ultimate
expression of the maturity of Christ. Living

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a forgiven life or being forgiven,
is not the highest pinnacle of living the

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Christ life. Living the Christ life
is becoming like Him, conformed to his

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image, yielding to Him, bringing
every thought to Him, allowing the Holy

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Spirit by Christ to examine every thought, and dismissing any thought that does not

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agree with who God has made you. In Jesus. In every situation,

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a money situation, a relational situation, economic situation, world situation, a

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nation situation, a marriage situation.
In every situation, choose a faith thought

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and rehearse a bulwark of faith,
and your faith will make you hold If

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you yield to fear, if you
submit to fear, if you come into

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agreement with fear, Yes, you
have sinned. I have sinned. When

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we do that, you in fear
is sinning absolutely. But if we confess

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and bring it to him, He's
faithful and just the cleanse Us of our

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sin to wah Us of unrighteousness.
We can start over. But we start

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over with the understanding that I dominate
fear. I am alive in Christ.

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Christ is living in me. I
live by the faith of the son of

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God who gave himself for me.
I have a dominant spirit within me,

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and the Spirit of God dominates fear. I won't listen to doubt, unbelief.

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I won't listen to fear. I
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his will, his way, his
calling, his fulfillment. I won't

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listen. Holy Spirit, we received
that this morning. Come on, if

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you receive that this morning. Just
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We welcome the maturity of Christ.
This morning, Father, we welcome the

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maturity of Christ. This morning.
We welcome. We welcome within us the

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testimony of victory, the testimony of
the new Creation, the testimony of the

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resurrected life, the testimony of the
dominant One who lives within us. We

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welcome within us the truth. We
welcome the ministry and the spirit of discernment,

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to know every lie, to know
every contradiction, to know every trick

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and scheme of the enemy. And
we welcome and acknowledge that we have the

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power, the grace, and the
power to overcome every fear, to overcome

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every fear. We thank you for
it. This morning, we thank you

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for it. This morning. I'm
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Some of us have given our lives
to the Lord, some of us have

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been touched, some of us have
come back to the Lord. I'm going

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to ask the prayer team to come
this morning, and some of us just

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need to leave a fear or two
at the altar. I wouldn't invite you

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if you're newer over this in the
last six months or whatever. It's been

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to meet us at the newcomer's reception. Come back. We're going to be

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going right down the hallway into the
fellowship Hall and we'll be ready for you

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in about ten minutes. But before
we run, before we go, but

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just allow Holy Spirit to just put
a bow on what he's saying this morning.

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If you're watching online, allow the
Holy Spirit to put a bow on

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what he's saying this morning, that
our hearts would fully receive all that he

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has. Father, we thank you
for your work in our lives in Jesus

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name. And everybody said