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Is the Lord. I want to
read a few scriptures for you this morning

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as we start. Good to see
all. You're an awesome congregation. I'll

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bless you so fun. You having
fun. Great to be in the presence

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of the Lord and in the presence
of God's people. Yeah, Isaiah forty

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three through five, The voice of
one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the

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way of the Lord. Mix straight
in the desert, a highway for our

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God. You ever get scrunched up
on highway? Jev and Ryan went out

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to Tennessee, did a vacation,
took the kiddos, and we wish we

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could have gone with him, but
it didn't work. But they said the

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little spot from like I'm not going
to get this right totally, but maybe

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Gainesville, the Pigeon Ford or something
like that. They were going into the

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Smoky Mountain Park like little highway,
terrible traffic, tons of attractions, takes

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forever to go just a few miles. You guys been there. You guys

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went back there. Then near Knoxville. This near Knoxville too, isn't it.

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So they went to Dollywood, So
you guys went to Dollywood? Did

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you go to Dollywood? So little
bitting narrow roads. You know what it's

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like. We want to make the
road wide open, right, we wanted

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we want we want the road to
be opened. We don't want a traffic

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jam. We don't want all of
this stuff in the way we want.

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We want the If the Lord's coming
in a greater major, do we want

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to hold him back? So you
know, all of these passages about the

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Lord coming, be it his first
advent or coming in a greater measure.

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A lot of the equation of the
openness is us. A lot of it.

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A lot of it's us. We
have a role in preparing the way

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of the Lord, a highway for
our God. Every valley shall be exalted,

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every mountain and hill brought low,
crooked places made strength, rough places

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made smooth, and then the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed. This

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stuff is a lot of its first
advent focused strength. So I'm using that

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as a context simply because I really
believe that this whole season is a prep

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season for a greater manifestation of Him
in our midst and in the earth.

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And as we see darkness, this
is the promise, right Isaiah sixty.

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Darkness covers the earth, but the
Lord will arise on you. We can

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focus on the darkness, and we
can get all clogged up on the darkness,

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and you know it, it'll do. It'll make our highway crooked,

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It'll throw bumps all over the road. We'll have valleys and we'll have hills,

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and the glory of the Lord won't
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clogged up focusing on the darkness.
He wants us to focus on His glory

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and the increase of his glory in
the midst of darkness. MELOCHI was the

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last prophet to write, and then
we had a four hundred year silence,

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and then John the Baptist came.
John the Baptist was the Elijah who was

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the preparer. So Elijah was an
Old Testament prophet. He prepared the way

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for what was known as a double
portion anointing. The anointing was an outpouring

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of the Holy Spirit, and that
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Elisha was dispensed to overthrow Jezebel's stronghold
on Israel. And there's a similar thing

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that God's doing in our day and
right now I believe in Elijah call that

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we would draw near to God like
never before. And I'm just believing that.

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I mean, I'm all in on
it, and I'm believing that you're

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in on this, and it's a
preparatory thing. It's like, Okay,

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well I'm not seeing the glory right
now. Well I'm not seeing much more

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glory in right now, feeling much
more glory right But if we would believe

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the word of the Lord, a
greater glory is coming. And as the

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enemy is raised up, a standard
of God's glory and God's people is raised

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up against it. And again,
every scripture just keeps bringing us back to

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that. We keep our focus on
him, We keep our focus on him,

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we keep our focus on him,
we keep making him supreme and superior

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in our lives. So Malachi the
last prophet to write in the Old Testament,

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then we have four hundred years of
silence, and then John the bapt

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this shows up to prepare the way
for Jesus. And John the Baptist was

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the Elijah or the metaphor of Elijah
who prepared the way for Elisha. And

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here's what Malachi says, same thing, same thing we see Isaiah talking about,

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Behold, I send my messenger.
Now they had the wait four hundred

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years for this to be fulfilled,
and he will prepare the way before me.

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And the Lord whom you seek will
suddenly come to his temple, even

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the Messenger of the Covenant in whom
you delight behold, he is coming,

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says the Lord of Host. But
who can endure the day of his coming?

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And who can stand when he appears
where he's like a refiner's fire and

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like launder's soap, And he will
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silver, and he will purify and
it it goes on to say, he's

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going to purify our hearts. And
in that day he came to purify their

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hearts. And in that day on
the launch of the church, as the

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word was spoken, three thousand came
in that day and were refined and washed

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and delivered out of a dead religion
into a living one. Now that message,

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what was that message of John the
Baptist? Is there a similar message

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right now that the Holy Spirit is
saying as he draws us near? Is

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there a similar message? If there's
a prepare the way of the Lord message,

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could that message have a similar overtone
to the message of John the Baptist?

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Well, the message of John the
Baptist, or the message that prepared

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the way for the glory of the
Lord Malachi Matthew three. In those days,

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John the Baptist came preaching in the
wilderness of Judea and saying, repent

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for the Kingdom of Heaven is at
hand. I like that. He didn't

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say repent for the kingdom of trouble
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is at hand. The kingdom of
woe is you? Is it hand?

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The kingdom of heaven. The kingdom
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kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand. But it was a message

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of repentance. And Mark Mark records
the same thing. This is the beginning

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of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, and it's written

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this way the prophets. Behold,
I send my messenger before your face,

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who will prepare your way before you, the voice of one crying in the

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wilderness, Prepare the way of the
Lord, make his path straight. Yes,

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it was John the Baptist. He
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of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. I think there's a similar overtone today.

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I think there's a similar call today. There's actually a calling right now

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of repentance. Would you pray with
me? I want to pray over the

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word right now, just dive into
this more fully holy spirit. We were

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in your house, we're with your
people. We're lively stones, and we

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just pledge right now to open our
hearts fully, to hear what you have

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to say, to yield to your
wooing, to let us draw you in

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to what you have for us.
We welcome you in Jesus' name. Everybody

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said, So what's this message of
repentance all about? And what in the

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world do I have to repent of? You know, most of the time

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we think of life in terms of
the Ten Commandments. That's the way we're

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wired to think, whether we've been
highly religious or not, that's typically how

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we think of things. And so
a lot of times we check the box

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of our own conviction of sin.
We check that box by looking at the

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Ten Commandments? Are we coveting?
Not too much? Are we lying hardly?

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Any slight exaggeration here or there?
Are we committing adultery? Hopefully not?

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Hello, somebody? And so we
look at the Ten Commandments. In

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a lot of time, we're measuring
our sin quotient against the Ten Commandments,

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and based on our sin quotient,
then we determine whether or not we need

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to repent of something. But I
believe the Holy Spirit has something deeper in

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mind for us and something different in
mind for us as we think about is

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there something to repent of? And
is there something I can do that would

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prepare the way of the Lord to
come in a greater dimension in my life

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and in the church. And first
of all, I want to go to

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just the idea of sin, and
I want to touch on that for a

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moment, because the idea of sin, you know, sin, the word

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in the Greek is harmitia. And
I won't smell it because I'm just going

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to put an h here, hrm
harmatia. I won't finish it up because

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I probably don't know how. But
the idea of sin the Greek is it's

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not to transgress the law. It's
to miss the mark. It's to make

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a mistake, it's to be off
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So the idea is so much different, and when we think about our lives,

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it just doesn't take much, maybe
to set us in a direction that

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actually fulfills this word sin and the
word repent. By the way, the

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word repent it means turn back to
God. It carries the picture of turning

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one hundred and eighty degrees from doing
it your way or doing your thing,

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or promoting your way or your thing
higher than God. So repent is in

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that context we just read turn back
to God. He was calling the people

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of Israel to turn back to God. But God is always calling us to

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turn back to Him through the word
repent. But it also it has to

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do with the pent house. The
pent house is the highest house. The

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pent house is the top of the
tower. The pent house is the highest

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place. And when we think of
repent, we want to think also,

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it's not just turning back to God
or turning away from our way or our

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thoughts or our methodology, but it's
also turning back to the highest thing.

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It's recognizing God's thoughts. God's ways
are the highest, and when we turn

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to Him, he sets us again
in the highest place. So to repent

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is to return to the top,
or return to your calling, or return

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to your royalty, or return to
your identity or turn return to what he's

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called you to be. Like Ephesians
four one, because of the great blessings

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I told you about for three chapters. Because of this, I'm calling you

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to walk worthy of your calling.
This is how chapter four starts of Ephesians.

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I'm calling you to walk worthy of
your calling because I've spent three chapters

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telling you that you belong in the
highest place, that you've been raised up

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already with Christ Jesus into the highest
place. And so when we think of

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repent, don't think of it as
God putting his thumb on you or chasing

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you with the spankings stick from heaven. Think of it as God calling you

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back to the place that you really
belong in. He's calling you away from

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your lower thoughts into those higher thoughts
so that you could re establish your dwelling

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in the highest place. And when
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go outside of the the ten commandments. It's not just the ten commandments on

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the stone, right. It's much
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that. It's much broader than that. And I want to explain what I

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mean by that. When we think
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the famous picture that we have around
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like to look at it this way, that the spirit is the inner man,

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or the Holy of holies within us, and this is where the Holy

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Spirit dwells and the witness of Christ
dwells. But the soul, this is

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our mind, will, emotions,
and reasoning. The soul is that which

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is from which we live out of. We live out of our soul.

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And before we came to the Lord, we were dominated by our soul and

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the thoughts and imaginations of the soul
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Now the Holy Spirit comes and he
shines illumination on our soul, and

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he begins to speak into every area
of our lives. And then the famous

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Dwayne hierarchy of needs, not Maslow's
hierarchy of needs, but Dwayne's famous hierarchy

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of needs is health. And I'll
kind of zoom through these her finance,

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vocation, and purpose. I'm cheating
by looking at my paper. Family,

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family relationships, sexual fulfillment and romantic
fulfillment. Maturity, personal maturity. Even

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as we grow physically, we want
to grow mentally and emotionally spiritual fulfillment.

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We want the God size whole filled
within us ministry and serving. We all

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long to have a place of value
in others' lives by serving, recreation and

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rest, influence and legacy. So
those are Dwayne's hierarchy of needs. And

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if you've been to every sword life, you've heard me talk about all that.

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Now, if these are truly needs
within you, does anybody have any

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needs within them that parallel some of
these? One person in the back,

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two humans, one of them,
I can't see them, but the hand

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came up. Anything else, Okay, So so all of us, you

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know, we have little things here. And I would say that kind of

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what we could say is that the
summary of the desire within you, or

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the summary of the need within you, could be framed in the idea of

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desire. Now, if you have
a strong desire over something, the Bible

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has a King James word for that. It's called lust. Now, lust

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is not a sexual word. Lust
means strong desire. Many times we move

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it into the sexual category, and
that's what our culture has done, or

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our biblical culture has done. But
luss just means a strong desire. And

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so all of us have strong desires
in these areas. And some of the

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strong desires are different because we're wired
different, right, So for me,

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like, I've got this desire to
be a real estate tycoon. Okay,

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so I've got that one there.
I just I know this is kind of

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a secret, but I have a
heterosexual desire here. And the other heterosexual

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people in the building, Okay,
a couple, that's good. Okay.

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So I have a desire here to
be growing in many areas of life in

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terms of understanding and knowledge. And
I have a desire not to be a

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complete flop relationally or emotionally when I'm
with humans. Uh And we could cannot,

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you know, we could look at
some of these. I have a

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desire to uh go to Hawaii,
and I had a desire to go to

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Italy, and I want to go
there again. Okay, So and I

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could, you know, I could
name several of these and all of us

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could. I have a desire to
look more like Arnold when he was young,

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and to be able to lift weights
without pulling muscles at sixty five,

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God bless America, okay, and
not to be and to be not too

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embarrassed when you walk in the club
see me straining over my tin ten pound

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dumbell? All right, So I
have some desires there, right. So

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these desires are interesting because these desires
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a target of vulnerability for the enemy. Okay, so and let me just

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I'm going to read to you out
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want to help you understand a little
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my thought today is that I believe
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into a little bit of balance.
Is that all right? When we prepare

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for somebody coming to the Wolf house, and you know, it depends the

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greater and I don't mean this in
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me on the metaphor the greater these
stature of the guest, maybe the greater

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the preparation, or the greater the
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the preparation. And so Missus Wolf
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Missus Wolf might together with me as
I yield fully, help me draw

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up a good Oh yeah, help
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the things we need to do for
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any of your homes operate like this
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ours can operate. And so she
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of what would be good preparatory things
for the stature of this coming guest.

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Right, and so, but I
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need to stay on focus, right, And it's easy to have a squirrel

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show up in my inner man because
possibly a peanut suddenly comes into my peripheral

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vision. Have you ever had a
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I mean it's possible. You can
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spouse over something important and suddenly you
get a buzzing or a ding in your

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back pocket, and suddenly a peanut
has turned you into a squirrel. Right,

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And you're like, and you know, you're trying to look at this

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thing, and your spouse is like, honey, love, honey, honey

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love. Were we having a conversation? Oh yeah, I'll be right with

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you. Yeah, these little machines
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powerful peanuts on the planet, turning
you into a squirrel, drawing your attention

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away from something of more importance into
something of lesser importance. Right, And

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so this can happen at our house
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can get squirreled pretty easy, drawn
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not getting accomplished what needs to get
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guest? Are you following me?
And so I believe holy Spirit is,

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and so oftentimes my wife acts as
the Holy Spirit to re engage my focus,

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bring me back into balance, pull
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found in the garage. Oh,
that motorcycle needs started right now, and

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I'm sure the dust needs polished off
of that thing. You know, what

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are you doing? Love? Nothing? Why are you out here in the

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garage? Uh? Were you near
the motorcycle? Only walking by it?

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Love? I thought you were putting
the trim up in bedroom number three?

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I was, I was, and
I've been getting right on that. I

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was just collecting a couple of nails
and I'll be right there, my love.

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Oh yeah, well, what's that
polish your egg and armor all doing

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in your hand? What's that got
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What did you see? What armor? Role? My goodness, woman,

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Now your vision's going out on you. It's easier for us, it's

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easy for us to get distracted from
our purpose and our purpose, ultimately our

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purpose in our calling. It relates
to several things the Lord has said over

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us, Like he's said that my
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And when he said that in Matthew
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house. He was fulfilling what Isaiah
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cleansing the house the temple. But
it was metaphoric. There was a picture

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toward our house as well, because
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he was also saying that about us. At my house, my temple where

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I dwell, it's going to be
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okay. So prayer is one of
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not just prayer, because if you
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twenty one, and I looked at
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a prayer? Is a prayer?
Only? What was the word? What

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did the word mean? Here?
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It's a word that infers both worship
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who He's made us to be.
Right, It's not a sum total,

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but it's part. And so we
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to be. Even as dinnis we're
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to bring heaven to earth, because
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of Heaven on earth was all about. It was. And so we have

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these higher level callings like in Two
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who knew new righteousness, or he
who knew righteous he who nonetheless we have

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become the righteousness of God in Christ. And he he has taken upon himself

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our iniquity and then exchanged that and
given us his righteousness right. But it

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says and made us ministers of reconciliation. So then we learned something about us

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there that, oh, I'm a
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callings. Our higher calling is I'm
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Him wherever I go, I carry
his glory. I'm dwelt in by the

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Holy Spirit. I'm anointed by Holy
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carry his glory. I carry his
love. First John four seventeen and eighteen.

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As he is, so also are
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context is love. We embody love, We felt his love here this morning.

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We're we're gonna carry his love out
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sometimes, is that these desires and
let me let me read it to

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you. What happens is these desires. These are good desires, by the

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way, These are good desires,
Like like, I'm kind of excited about

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real estate, but somebody else is
excited about medical science, and somebody else

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is excited about cookies. Can you
think of anybody in the room cookie trucks?

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And when we went to play Uno
with him the other day, they

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had somebody there who is excited about
popcorn, and God has opened up a

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financial window for them with popcorn.
Crazy stuff, right, But what happens

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is the enemy can use our desire
to entice us away from our supreme purpose

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James one, thirteen through fifteen.
When tempted, no one should say God

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is tempting me, for God cannot
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tempt anyone. But each person is
tempted when they are dragged away by their

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own Now, the NIV says,
dragged away by their own the verse you're

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not staying up with me. You
gotta go faster. There you go,

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Thank you Oh what is that?
That isn't the NIV. What he got

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up there is that the King James. How do we get the King James.

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I didn't load the King James.
So I'm just trying to help me

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preach. The NIV says each person
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their own evil desire and enticed.
But evil was added into the text by

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the translators for the NIV. If
you look at the King James, the

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New American, and all the other
translations, it just says that each person

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is tempted when they are dragged away
by their own lust and enticed. And

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lust is just strong desire. So
if I have strong desire for finance through

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real estate, then somebody created something
for me that is amazing. It is

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like candy to a kid in a
candy shop. It's called Zillow. It's

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called Redfin. Oh yeah, it
might as well be butterfingers and three musketeers

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and stickers bars for Dwayne when he
was eight. Okay, So then I

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can get all wound up in this
and and what happens is I have a

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desire and it's a god given desire, and it's a desire God wants to

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fulfill by the way, but I
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I no longer have time for God. I no longer have time to pray.

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I no longer have time to be
a minister of reconciliation. I no

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longer have time to be a minister
of worship. I no longer have time

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because I'm getting all wound up in
something. And so this is where if

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we allow ourselves to get enticed by
the peanut, Now here's what happens.

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Here's how the peanut shows up.
I have this desire. Oh my goodness,

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I'm going to be a real estate
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a real estate cacoon. And I'm
going through Facebook and suddenly I come across

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it. Oh my word, tomorrow
webinar. Oh my goodness, is amazing.

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Webinar learn how to buy a thousand
apartment buildings with no money down.

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Oh, I can't wait register now
click. Oh this is going to be

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amazing. And so then I go
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that. And then from that webinar, I can purchase for only sixty nine

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to ninety five, I can purchase
ten other audio messages on how to figure

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out how to buy things with no
money down. By the way, if

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it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But these peanuts

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keep appearing, and these peanuts are
squirreling me away from my primary relationship with

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God. And it's a desire God
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I'm allowing myself through the peanuts of
enticement. Now, an enticement says,

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look over here, this is how
you're going to get there. This is

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how an enticement can be a work
of the enemy if we aren't discerning,

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if it pulls us away from our
full trust in Jesus, our devotion to

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Him, our communion with Him,
our primary purposes of worship, prayer,

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not just prayer, but pray,
prayer for the nations. You're an agent

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of Psalm too. By the way, did you know you're an agent of

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PSALMTU Psalm too. Ask me,
this is a word, this is the

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son. Ask me for the nations
as your inheritance, and I will give

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them to you. Who is he
going to ask through? This is a

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prophetic word that was revealed in the
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that there would be a worshiping company
who would ask Father for the nations

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for the son, and those nations
would be given. I feel a squirrel

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of dry throat and I need a
peanut of water. Are you still here?

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Mm hmm, I want spirit help
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read it in his context. Again. God cannot be tempted by evil,

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nor does he tempt anyone. But
each person is tempted, tempted when they're

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drawn away by their own desire and
enticed. Then after desire has conceived through

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enticement, is the context. It
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sin. Oh wait a minute,
Wait a minute. I am not dragged

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away and involved in sin. I
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lately. I have not committed a
dultry. I have not lied. I

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didn't even exaggerate. I have not
stolen from anyone. What in the world

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are you talking about? Preacher?
Drawn away out of desire into something that

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could have been healthy. But I
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It was something presented by the unclean
realm to distract me. And now

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what was meant to be a good
desire and a good focus has become sin

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for me. I'm going to miss
the I'm going to miss the fullness of

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God's intention. I'm going to miss
the bullseye to I'm going to fall short

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of something that was perfect in God
and land on something moderate in God at

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best, because I allowed myself to
get enticed away from my primary purpose,

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which is I'm a house of prayer. I'm a house of worship. I'm

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a minister of reconciliation. I'm created
in the image of Heaven and I bring

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it to earth. I'm a glory
bringer and a glory carrier. I'm a

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people restorer Glatian six one and two. He who is spiritual restores. And

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I don't have time for that anymore. I just don't have time for that

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anymore because I'm doing all these webinars
and I'm doing this, I'm doing that

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thing. Anybody hearing me in the
room, anybody relate in the room besides

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me Zillow and the red Fin guy
shopping for homes, expanding my real estate

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tycoon ism. Maybe wasting time.
Yeah, then you hang out with somebody

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that like, Wow, how'd you
get that house? Well, I was

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just praying in the spirit. One
day, I was just praying in the

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spirit or just the Holy ghostot and
I was just spent a little bit of

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time in the spirit and just meditating
on him. I just before and then

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the Holy Spirit just said, go
make an offer on such and such,

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and so I did and I got
that. And that's all you did one

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hundred for five hundred hours to buy
the one I got. We'll have that

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work out for you. Well,
it's not been a blessing, it's been

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a burden. This is actually the
way it works, is the way it

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actually works. I'm going to prove
it to you. Matthew six. Well,

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oh what time is it? Oh? My word, I honestly hadn't

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looked at the clock. I'm in
trouble. Matthew six thirty one through thirty

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four. Do not worry saying what
shall we eat? What shall we drink?

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Do not worry, Do not be
anxious, Do not do not do

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not be anxious. Do not worry. We need the band to come and

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say what should we eat, what
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For the pagans, those who don't
have a father, those who don't

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have a father, the pagans run, chase, spend their time, spend

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every moment running after those things.
But you're heavenly fither knows you need them

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now, Heavenly Father, he knows, he knows the way to bless me.

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The way I'm wired is to bless
me with the property. But he

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knows the way to bless somebody else
is with a cookie truck or somebody else

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with a medical breakthrough. Where I
met somebody the other day who has three

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hundred patents in aeroscience, three hundred
patents with Boeing. They're known throughout the

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whole world. Spare filled minister in
our region, pastor to church here for

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thirty years, three hundred patents with
Boeing, getting downloads all the time from

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the Holy Spirit about aerospace. For
the pagans run after all these things,

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and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them. But seek first the Kingdom

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and his righteousness. But seek first
his Kingdom and his righteousness, and all

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these things will be added to you
as well. Well. If I seek

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first the Kingdom in his righteousness,
I'm not again. I'm not again.

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I'm not again at my arm body, I'm never going to get to Hawaii.

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No no, no, no,
no no. What he says is

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that if we'll make and here's what
I think is bring the Lord into your

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sex life. Ah yeah, We
pray at the wolf House and include the

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Lord in our sexual expressions because we
believe that it's the gift of God.

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And you bring the Lord into your
family life and into all of your family

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inner workings, and you feel and
surround and and brood over it with prayer,

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and you bring the Lord into your
purpose, and you bring the Lord

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into your finance, and you bring
the Lord into your health, and they'll

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bring you Lord into your legacy.
And all of these are centered around him,

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and you acknowledge him as the fulfiller. And you know, if we

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just prayed over the things that we
desire, you could easily pray an hour

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a day throughout the day or at
one setting, easily if you just were

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bringing your desires to him and asking
for his leading and asking for his wisdom,

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and asking for his partnership and yielding
to his word. If you abide

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in him and he abides in you, you shall ask what you will and

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it shall be given you when you
pray whatsoever you desire. Believe you receive

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those things. I'm just quoting scripture
to you. But this has a lot

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to do. Like if we're excluding
God from this stuff, then we don't

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engage in prayer. We don't have
this beautiful relationship of communion. We've been

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learning about communion for ninety days.
We don't have this beautiful communion going on.

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But we've got a lot of independence
and we go to church, and

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that's not what we're made for.
We're not made for a lot of independence

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when we go to church. He's
fashioned us and created us for this crazy,

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loving relationship that brings us back up
to the top of the house.

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That's fun. I want to invite
you to respond this morning. I do

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believe the Holy Spirit's calling us in
the deeper fellowship, renewed times of prayer,

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potentially fasting a meal or fasting some
stuff, putting away some distraction,

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stuff that's been like a peanut to
us. You know, there's things like

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our phones. And I don't know
if this happens to you, But I'm

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just being honest, Like I can
be in the middle of I can be

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twenty minutes into prayer in my private
time, just about ready to receive a

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rama from above, and I can
get a notification thing and it's that video.

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You know, some new worship video
was just released, or you know

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a new stock price just was listed, or a new house just came up

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for sale or something. I'm like, I'll get right back to your Holy

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Spirit. What are we doing?
What are we doing when there's something so

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much more valuable, so much more
precious, In knowing Him, in seeking

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first Him, in seeking first his
kingdom, seeking first the increase of His

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kingdom, the kingdom of Heaven,
and getting downloads from Him, and receiving

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righteousness, not the gift of righteousness, but the right way of doing things.

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He wants to show us the right
way of doing things, because wherever

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there's the right way of doing things, there will be peace and joy.

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It's righteousness, peace and joy.
It's not the gift of righteousness. We

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already have that. It's the righteousness
of His doing that's imparted to us through

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communion, so then we have peace, and then it results in joy.

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And this is what He desires for
us. And all of this is preparing

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for a greater glory in our own
lives as well as in the corporate world

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of the church, and in the
Kingdom across the globe as he confronts darkness

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with the standard that he raises up
in you and me. He's confronting darkness

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through the standard that he raises up
in you and me. So just pray

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with me, Holy Spirit, show
us, show us, show me further,

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Show me further, Show us today
corporately an individually, show us.

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Show us things that need to be
removed, brought into balance, things that

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need to be taken away and shaped, things that need to be set aside,

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things where we just oh, we
ask for discernment, even discernment today

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that we won't be enticed, drawn
away out of faith, wisdom, trust,

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into folly and imbalance. The enemy
wants to draw us away in the

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imbalance. But Holy Spirit, we
just say, the ministry of discernment is

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loosed on this church, loosed on
this church, loosed on this church,

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loosed on this church. We discern
the voice of the enemy. We discern

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the enticement and the seduction of the
enemy away from wisdom, away from trust,

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away from primary purpose, primary focus. We thank you for it.

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Today we allow this word to work. Come on, say it with me.

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I allow your word to work,
Holy Spirit, and to bring me

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into the balance of the wisdom from
above. Thank you for the way you've

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wired me and the desires within me. And now I declare and agree.

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I resist foolish enticement, and I
receive discernment from you Holy Spirit, to

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continue to trust, adhere, believe, and fulfill what You've called me to

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be in Jesus' name. It's worship
as we go Church