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Hey, something, something's in the
water. Yeah, because I've been growing

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my beard this week to get in
the cool crowd, and I noticed two

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of the cool men in the church
shaved. There's off the surgery is,

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I guess just about the moment.
I'm trying to fit in and like be

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accepted. I want to be more
like Roman and Surgery. I want to

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fit in like rawn. Look at
that all right, some men and their

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hair. It's like a woman in
hers. How are we doing? Here's

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the Lord? You're in church?
Look at you? Wow, that's mom

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upside down. Wow. Um,
I got a couple. You know,

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we have a thousand announcements. I
don't know what's it means that we have

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an amazing church, right, So
one thing to announce is we are starting

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the Kingdom School of Transformation this fall
and so the website is actually up and

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running. So we'd love for you
to be a student in the Kingdom School

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of Transformation. This is a one
year's school that will probably morph into two,

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but it's a one year Bible school
and really Kingdom engagement school, so

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Ecclesia, Cultural Transformation, etc.
Go to the website, take a look

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at it. You'll see what's going
on. You'll see some information about the

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classes and we're partnering with Faith International
University so you can earn credits as you're

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coming through the school. So that's
something that you'll hear more about. But

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just a quick prompt because believe it
or not, September is upon us,

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so that's coming up. Also,
City Quake. How many of you A

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bunch of you were a part of
City Quake. I know we had about

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twenty two people involved in City Quakes. So just to remind all of you

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that we've moved into our eight week
after shock period and so this is where

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we're going to have continual intentional evangelism
opportunities. So that's going to be going

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on. Pastor Dennis's leading some,
Fills leading some, and Tony's leading some.

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So we're gonna have these opportunities going
on. The first one is next

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Sunday night. There'll be people joining
us from the ten other churches or the

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nine other churches that were a part
of City Quake for these as well.

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So it's going to be a lot
of fun, a lot of excitement.

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So this summer is really there's we
just finished City Quake yesterday was awakened the

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planet. And now there's a thing
going on in South Pierce or South Tacoma

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with Joan Piers. I believe that's
going to be like a tent meeting revival.

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If you can get to any of
this stuff, I applaud you.

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Just you know, we can't advertise
all that's happening. There's so much going

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on, but we want you to
know we are for all of it.

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We want the Kingdom to grow.
We want every house to grow, we

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want every church to grow. We
we just we know that God's up to

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something really good in our region.
And it's not all New Horizon, but

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it's all Kingdom. So don't feel
like, yeah, don't feel like that

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your loyalty here keeps you from going
to something else and then you can't invite

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somebody that something else or talk about
it because you've got a loyalty here and

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vice versa. Don't feel like that. We have canceled all territorialism. We've

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canceled all jealousy, canceled all fear. We we don't operate in any of

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those spears here. We want the
Kingdom to grow, we want churches to

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grow, we want everything to grow. We want evangelism everywhere. We want

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every believer sharing their faith with the
power and the love of the Gospel of

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Jesus Christ. Amen. So know
that and believe that that's the way we

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roll around here. And so you
just you know, you don't have to

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fear any of that stuff. Amen, phrase the Lord. Um. Yeah,

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we had. We saw some really
cool stuff happen, you know,

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through city quake, and it's really
just an opportunity to to get activated a

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little bit in supernatural soul winning.
So you might have heard you might have

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heard Tom's share last Sunday that it's
not really soul winning is not about a

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sales pitch, as it is just
about showing the love of God and just

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just sharing with people. Ron.
I wanted to talk about Ron's opportunity because

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the fruit that comes out of these
opportunities is really good. Ron Cater came

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the city quake, and then you
know he's meditating on runs over here with

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a hand. So I asked him
if I could share this on his behalf.

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He's meditating a little bit on everything
that's happening and the activations and and

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and you know, observing some of
this and going out on some of the

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teams and then what were you doing
in your front yard? Were you mowing

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your lawn? Were you gonna?
Huh? You were weeding. So he's

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out weeding in his front front yard
up here in Federal Way last weekend and

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he hears a boom box coming down
the street. He's probably looking for a

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low rider or something. But what
he notices is that it's actually around the

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neck of a young man. And
so the boom box is coming at him.

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And so he's like, oh,
you know, all pads, I'll

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take a little bit of time here, and and so he strikes up a

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conversation with this young man. Eventually
asked him what he could pray with him

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about, and he said he had
pain in his stomach. Didn't he had

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pain in his stomach or something?
And so Ron's like, okay, I

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can pray about that. But he
discovers that he is a young man that

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was shot three times or five three
times up at the Commons mall and huh

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fred Meyer shot at fred Meyer in
feder Way, So be careful where you

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shop. I'm thinking all of us
should switch to Safe Way because it's safe.

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It's safe. Isn't that what safe
way means? It's safe? There's

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no safe way. He's the only
safe way. Oh my word. So

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he was shot at fred Meyer three
times, and so Ron got to pray

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for him. Here's the good thing. It opened up a conversation. Ron

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followed up with more ministry and taking
food to his house and meeting his family.

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Then Wednesday night they brought him to
church. So we came to the

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midweek service, and so his life
was touched. He ended up on the

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phone talking to his family. He's
going to bring all of them to church

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next Sunday. So just you know, cool stuff. And it just all

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came out of just you know,
paying attention, uh, and just you

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know, letting the love of the
lords shine through us. All of us

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have the love of the Lord,
but sometimes we let other stuff get in

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the way, right, h And
what if Ron just would like, Okay,

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that's kind of noisy, all right, I think I'll just kind of

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keep picking my weeds and just let
that walk on by, right. I

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Mean, it's just it's just taking
time, uh, and loving somebody and

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breaking up our schedule a little bit, and then all at once, a

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family, a life has changed.
Now a family is going to be changed.

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People get transformed, just from us
elevating people sometimes, you know,

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and I'm preaching to me right now, but we just it's so powerful when

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we elevate people above our stuff,
our world, our schedule, our money,

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our to do list, when we
elevate people above that. And you

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know, the biblical the biblical way. I just looked at the clock.

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I'm out of time. The biblical
way, Dwayne, you're out of time.

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Thank you, all right. The
Biblical way is that that we let

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love push its way into other people's
lives. And when it's love that's pushed

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into other people's lives, and it's
not a hardship, it's welcomed, Amen

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the Father. We just say yes
to a bunch of that this week for

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all of us, Holy Spirit,
we know that you are going to open

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the eyes of our understanding. We're
going to see needs around us. We're

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going to see somebody with a limp. We're going to see somebody with pain.

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We're gonna come to know of a
situation. We're going to inquire of,

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and we're going to press in and
prayer. You're going to work signed

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and wonders through us, and the
love of the Lord will open the door

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for more of heaven in their lives, the hope of heaven in their lives.

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We thank you for it. We
thank you for the boldness that is

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of the spirit to walk as Jesus
in his name. We believe it in

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Jesus name. And everybody said,
I want to talk a little bit about

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I want to talk a little bit
about the grace that we can enter into

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and the grace that it's ordained that
we enter into as the New Creation.

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The New Creation life is a life
filled with grace, filled with grace,

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and we can enter into a greater
portion of it as we as we lead

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our lives with faith and not necessarily
lead our lives with goosebumps. Goosebumps follow

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faith. I'm want to dive into
this a little bit. And my proposition.

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So I've got this weird world where
my brother and I were always involved

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in auto repair and like autobody stuff, and so we would use this calm

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pound called bondo. Anybody in the
building ever heard of bondo? Okay,

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it's not like a bondage thing.
This is not spiritual bondo. You can

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buy it add auto repair stores,
and I discovered you can buy it affordably

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at Walmart and I've used it for
you know, ten or fifteen different things,

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and it's this interesting, gray gooey
compound. Valley ever seen it?

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Have you ever seen bondo? Let
me see those hands again, the Bondo

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hands. So it's this gray,
gooey compound that will do you no good

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whatsoever. It will stick to everything
and literally make a mess of everything until

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you add a catalyst to it,
and a bunch of this stuff. Once

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a catalyst is added to it,
then it becomes like super powerful, super

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useful, and you can do all
sorts of stuff with it. So I've

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fixed rotten wood with it, I
have fixed cars with it. I have

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fixed I've fixed you know, on
the last house, I did all of

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the repair of the molding and the
trim, like finished carpentry with Bondo.

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So you take a glob of it
and you just take this it's a it's

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a red hardener. It's a catalyst. You take a red hardener and you

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just put a little bit of this
catalyst into it, and all at once,

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this glob of stuff becomes super powerful
and super worthless worthful. This worthless

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stuff becomes super worth while. And
I want, I want you to see

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Grace that way. I want you
to see grace that way. Grace.

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Grace is this supernatural power of God. Grace is this this amazing thing that

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is ladent with potential. Grace is
access into heaven, and grace is heaven

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to you. And I've got a
few little notes, but but there's a

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couple of categories of what grace is. By the way that grace is like

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all over the New Testament, one
hundred and twenty four times in the New

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Testament grace has mentioned. Grace is
God's power. Grace is supernatural or God's

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spiritual power revealed. Grace is his
power made known. Grace is also we

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know it to be unmerited favor,
right, so un unearned favor, unmerited

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favor, undeserved favor. So all
at once, this you know, like

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this, this access us a power
is made known to you beyond what you

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earned or you deserved, unmerited fabor. Grace is Grace is all of that.

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I want I want to read a
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we we know grace also to be
what is considered a gift, and we

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would we would consider a grace a
gift. Let's get to Romans three twenty

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four. We are justified by His
grace as a gift that's powerful. Justified

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means that when grace is imputed to
us, when grace is granted or given

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to us, then God sees us
as if we never sinned, and it's

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a gift through the redemption that is
in Christ. Jesus want to read another

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powerful passage to you, a familiar
one, Ephesians to eight through ten.

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For it is by grace you have
been saved through faith. It is because

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it is by grace you have been
saved through faith. And this is not

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from yourselves, it is a gift
from God. So again it's talking about

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a gift. The word, the
Greek word for it, or the etymology

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of the word is chariss and from
that we get charismatic, like we are

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charismatic Christians, and it means that
we believe that all of the gifts of

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the spirit are available and given poured
out upon every Christian. So all of

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us have access to all of the
gifts of the spirit. The supernatural gifts

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of the spirit are accessible to us
as the grace of God poured out,

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made available by the grace of God, and so they're part of our salvation.

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Experience. And when we think about
salvation, I know we have the

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born again experience where you gave your
life to the Word, you entrusted him

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with your life, you opened up
your life. That's the born again experience.

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But when and so a lot of
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or six through ten, we read
it in that context. But the context

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of it is really bigger than the
born again experience. It's actually saved is

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the word sozo, and it inside
of that seed of the Word is the

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full expression of everything that you enter
into in salvation. So it's not just

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that you were born again. When
you were born again sown within you with

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the seed of eternal life and the
seed of heaven and the seed of God's

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very dna, and so coming to
Him in salvation, getting born again,

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actually you entered into the fullness of
sozo, though it isn't fully worked out

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within your life, yet that's what
you entered into. It's like the seed

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of God has been planted with in
you, and so Soza means being delivered

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out of darkness and being delivered into
your promise. It pictures both deliverance and

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the new creation and the fullness of
salvation for you, and so Ephesians two

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eight through ten. For it is
by grace you have been saved through faith.

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Everybody say through faith, and this
not yourselves. It is the gift

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of God, not by work,
so that no one can boast, for

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we are His workmanship created in Christ
Jesus, were created in Christ Jesus.

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We're not creating now. Christ Jesus
is the last atom. We are no

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longer living in the first atom.
We're created in the last atom. Christ

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Jesus is the last atom. He
is the restored man. Christ Jesus is

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the one who came to set everything
right. Christ Jesus is the one who

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came to restore everything, and he's
the fountainhead of a new creation. That's

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Christ Jesus. We're created. You
were created in the first atom. Now

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you're created in the last atom.
You're created in Christ Jesus as a new

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creature, a new creation. All
of this operates through the power of His

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grace. But I want you to
see the activator of it is your faith.

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Grace is this giant thing, like
this giant god thing that we participate

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in that has deliberables, Like there's
deliberables to your life. Like blessings and

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kindness and an abundance and provision,
and I mean, there's just so much

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that is wrapped up in the grace
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faith. For it is by grace. You have been saved through faith.

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So I want you to see,
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The grace is poured out upon you
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grace with your faith. And that's
the way it always is. The Kingdom

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and everything about the Kingdom, and
everything about the New Creation, and everything

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about living the New Creation life is
activated by your faith. The grace doesn't

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proceed, the grace follows your faith. You hear of the Christ, you

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access him by your faith. You
hear of his promises, You access it

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by faith, you hear of his
commandments, you access the power of it

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by your faith. Anything you hear
about in the Kingdom, anything you come

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to know about Him in the Kingdom, anything, because he is not only

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perfect theology, but he is the
mature picture of who you've come into and

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who you now are. Anything you
learn about, anything that's in the Word

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about him, anything anything that God
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creation, the grace for it or
the power for it. You access that

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by faith if you're waiting, if
you're waiting for it to come up on

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you, and then you'll activate your
faith. You're backwards, Okay, I'll

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try to explain it more as we
go. Second Corinthians nine eight talks about

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grace as the power of God for
living a supernatural life. It talks about

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the power of God, not just
some merited favor, but the power of

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God that shows up causing you to
abound because you exercise your faith. Second

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Corinthians nine, verse eight. And
the context here is the context. Here's

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money. And I won't get into
the context. And this is not a

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sermon on money, but the context
is money. And it's Paul talking about

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that if you so much, you
will reap much. If you sew little,

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you'll reap little. And he's talking
about and he's exhorting them, but

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I want you to sew much because
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He's able to flood your life with
a grace. But he says, I

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want you to sew according to your
faith. So this is it's an interesting

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thing. And Second Corinthians nine eight
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God is able to make all grace
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to make all grace abound to you. And he's usually when he's talking this

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way, like in the Galatians six, seven and eight, he talks the

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same way. It's usually because we're
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be challenged, and the old life, the atom life, is going to

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want to pop up and dictate what
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argue, yeah, but if you
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or if you walk that out,
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to challenge. There's a voice,
and there's reasoning, and there's imagination that

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wants to come up out of the
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the word of God and the conviction
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leading of the Holy Spirit and say, now, I don't think you should

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do that. And like in this
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oh yeah, you know, the
enemy's going to show up and challenge

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that one. Right, So he
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listen, God is able to make
all grace abound to you, so that

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having all sufficiency in all things at
all times. You may abound in every

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good work. Now when would that
grace show up? If you look at

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the context, the grace isn't going
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is this is the Corinthian Church being
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isn't going to show up before.
And it doesn't work that way for any

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of us either. It's not like, yeah, I would give something today

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if I had extra what's that coming
through the air? An envelope full of

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what is it? Let me catch
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Thank you Lord, I'll give some
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it doesn't work that way. It's
not like it's not like the grace

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comes first and then we act in
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first. We act in faith first. This is the way it always works.

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You act in faith first, and
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And you would have never known the
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But because you acted in faith,
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faith became the catalyst or the activator
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This is the way the Kingdom works. That makes sense, and this is

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the way it was going to work
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church at Corinth, I guarantee,
if you will sew your seed according to

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your faith, then God will open
up all grace, all you will abound

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in it will It will take you
into the realm of charisma. It will

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take you into the realm of His
blessing, and you will end up abounding

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at all times for every good work. Isn't that crazy? So I'm trying

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to I'm trying to help you see. The life recalled to in the New

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Creation is a life. It's a
faith life. And the grace to enter

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into everything that is part of the
New Creation, the grace, the enablement

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and the power to enter into it. It starts with your faith first.

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It doesn't start with the grace first. So that's why we do things when

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we don't feel like it, because
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we love people when it's hard or
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That's why we give when it doesn't
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because we do it by faith.
That's why we're kind when it's challenging to

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be kind, because we're kind by
faith. Because we've put the first atom

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to death, and we have declared
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our lineage, our association, our
obligation, our agreement, and our subjugation

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to first atom has been cut off
by Jesus and the Cross, and that

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we no longer live according to the
desires of that person, but we now

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live according to the desires of Christ
within us. Let me read you some

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verses real quick, Galatians to twenty. I have been crucified with Christ.

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Yeah, but I look like I'm
still here, which I what do you

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mean? I have been crucified.
I have been crucified with Christ, and

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I no longer live. Okay,
so the guy that's crucified with Christ no

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longer lives, but Christ lives in
me and the life I now live in

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the body I live by faith in
the Son of God. Oh. So

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faith allowed me to enter into a
new person who's living. And the new

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person who's living is now animating my
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So the old person is dead,
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the new person can only live and
access the power for living by faith in

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the Son. It's by faith in
the Son I live by the faith in

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the Son who loved me and gave
himself for me Roman six ones or seven?

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What shall we say? Shall we
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increase? No, says Paul,
who mentions grace eighty six times in the

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New Testament. That's not how grace
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Grace increases by faith. Now we
have this thing in Christianity where we think

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that we're covered by grace, and
so we think that we can sin because

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we're covered by grace. We use
grace as an excuse to sin. Hello,

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we use grace as an excuse to
sin because we misunderstand grace. And

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see, what we're missing is that
when I sin, I'm actually not walking

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by faith. And if I don't
walk by faith, that means I've cut

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grace off. Did you hear that
I'm actually in trouble spiritually. I can't

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sin and think that grace is going
to cover me, because to sin is

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to fall short of faith. It's
actually to distrust God and to partner with

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fear. And when I partner with
fear, I'm partnering secondly with rebellion and

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disobedience and pride, and I'm partnering
with fear because I'm afraid that if I

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follow God then i won't get what
I really want. And so actually I'm

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not being covered by grace. I'm
actually abusing the grace. That's why Hebrews

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ten says, when we continue this
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Am I making sense? Am I
making any sense at all? And so

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what shall we say? Shall we
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No, that's not how grace increases. By no means. We are

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those who have died to sin.
How can we live in it any longer?

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Or don't you know that all of
us who were baptized into Christ Jesus

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were baptized into his death. We
were therefore buried with him through baptism in

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death. That just as Christ was
raised from the dead through the glory of

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the Father, we two may live
a new life. Were called to live

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a new life, and it's a
new life of faith, it's a new

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life of believing. For if we've
been united with Him and death like this,

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we will certainly be united with Him
in a resurrection like this. So

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we are called to live a resurrected
life. I'm presenting all of this crud

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to the Lord in faith, believing
that to follow him and to follow his

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word is much better, and it
results in a resurrected life. And a

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resurrected life is a life filled with
grace, a life where grace is showing

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up all the time, power,
revelation, and undeserved favor. Can I

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make any sense Ephesians four seventeen or
twenty one. So I tell you this,

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and I insist on it in the
Lord, that you must no longer

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live as the gentiles do in the
futility of their thinking. They are darkened

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in their understanding and separated from the
life of God because of the ignorance that's

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in them due to the hardening of
their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity,

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they have given themselves over to sensuality
so as to indulge in every kind of

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impurity, and they're full of greed. But that's not the way of life

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that you learned when you heard about
Christ and were taught in him according to

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the truth that is in Jesus.
You were taught that, in regard to

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your former way of life, to
put off your old self, which is

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being corrupted by deceitful desires, and
to be made new in the attitude or

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the spirit of your mind, and
to put on the new self created to

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be like God in true righteousness and
holiness. Now that takes a pile of

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faith. It takes a pile of
faith to set aside jealousy, to set

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aside pouting, to set aside self
pity, to set aside negativity, to

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set that self aside, and to
know that to choose the way of the

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Lord will be better, higher,
and have a greater reward, and it

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will release a faith over you.
And if you until until you do that,

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you don't know the grace that will
be released. And it's possible for

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all of us to walk around as
Christians and to have fragments of grace and

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portions of grace and partial grace because
we have a grace that has given us

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according to the truth that we yield
to and walk in. But the truth

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that we refuse to yield to and
walk in, then we fail to taste

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of that grace. But instead we're
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Well how do we do that?
Well, here's what I think. I

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think that all of these Kingdom.
Principles work in the reverse as much as

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they work in the forward. In
other words, they work in darkness exactly

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like they work in the kingdom of
light. If faith, if faith in

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God, if faith in God accesses
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the enemy or doubt and fear.
By the way, did you know that

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doubt and fear and distrust? Did
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doubt, fear and distrust. Did
you know that it's not like some ambiguous

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thing that like, oh, yeah
I was just afraid, or yeah,

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well that was just fear, or
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you know, it's just it's not
something that is without power. What I

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want to say jest to you,
is that fear is actually faith. In

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darkness, fear is actually faith.
Satan's kingdom works exactly like God's does the

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kingdom of darkness. This is why
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end of time, we're going to
seize Satan. All of us are going

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to get a glimpse of Satan at
the end of all of this, and

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we're going to shake our heads and
we're going to say, what in the

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world. That's the one who made
the nation's shake. It's because we're not

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going to be impressed with his stature. We're not going to be impressed with

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his size. We're not going to
be impressed with his majesty. We're not

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going to be impressed with his strength. We're not going to be impressed with

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anything about Satan. Why because we're
the ones that give him power. He

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has no power but the power we
get him. It's the power of our

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faith. If you believe the enemy
can steal, he will steal. If

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you believe that the enemy's way is
the best way, then he will have

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you with a bondage. Whatever you
believe, whatever you believe, it's you

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and I that gives strength to the
enemy. It's you and I that give

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him the food that he needs to
be strong, or to have dominion,

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or to have power or influence over
us in our lives. It's you and

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I. So even as your faith
activates the grace of God, your faith

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in the things of darkness activate the
grace. If I could say it this

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way, please forgive me. I
don't want to offend you. Obviously,

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I'm just using this terminology so we
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But if we understand grace as the
supernatural power of God's realm, then

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your faith or your doubt, fear, and unbelief gives you access to the

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grace of darkness, to the grace
of His realm, meeting supernatural power,

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the power of darkness, the bondage
of darkness, the influence of darkness,

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releasing the power of the curse over
you, making the curse more effective.

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Why does it seem like this is
so powerful? Why does it seem like

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I can't get a breakthrough? Why
does it seem like this is like I

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can't get over the top of this. Why does it seem like this is

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Well, it is powerful because your
faith. See, your faith is much

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more than just if you've seen the
catalyst for bondo. It's just a little

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bit of red tube. It's like
yeast to bread. It's just a little

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bitty ingredient. And you're thinking,
that's just a little bitty fear, that

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fear, that's no big deal.
I don't you know, it's just a

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little bit. Don't judge me for
my fear. It's just a little bitty

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fear. Yeah, Well, it's
just a it only takes a little catalyst.

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A little catalyst mixed in causes everything
to be transformed. A little catalyst.

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Go ahead. I like it.
It's good even more, it's it's

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it's wonderful. It makes me sound
better. It's like a little catalyst.

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Any thought, reason, emotion,
or imagination, statement or confession that falls

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short of the New creation is born
of fear, and it is secured,

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helped, strengthened with rebellion, pride, or accusation. Born of fear.

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Yeah, I'm not really one to
share my faith. That could be a

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statement or an imagination. But do
we realize that is the person that died.

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Whenever I allow the old creation to
speak for me and I miss out

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on the grace of the new creation. I'm not one that gives generously.

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Well, I thought that guy died. I'm not quick to forgive well that

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one died. I don't let things. I don't let go of things easily.

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Well, that one died. I
tend to get irritated. Well,

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that one died on my own worst
credit. That one should have died.

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I'm untrusting of others. That one
should be dead. I have to see

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it to believe it. Well,
that one should be dead. It takes

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me a long time to forgive that
one should be dead. I believe in

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God, but I always like to
have a backup plan. You know,

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we could list about fifty or one
hundred other things that we believe or hold

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to, or say, or allow
or agree with as Christians that totally fall

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short of the new creation life and
the maturity we're called to in Christ Jesus.

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But we allow these things because they're
just small little things. But we

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don't realize that small little thing is
like the catalyst that ignites the kingdom of

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darkness against us, and it's sabotaging
us and hindering us and harming us,

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and it's keeping us from accessing the
grace of God because it's not the catalyst

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of faith, and the catalyst of
faith, which is not the catalysts of

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your feelings. It's not the catalyst
of circumstances. It's not the catalyst of

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what you see. The catalyst of
faith is the catalysts of agreement with God's

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word and what he says about you
and why he made you to be,

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and what he's called you to be
and what He's commanded you to do,

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and everything about God, the catalysts
of faith in that would have ignited something

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great on your behalf. It would
have ignited grace, It would have released

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supernatural power over you. But you'll
never know it in that category because you

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are not exercising your faith. Instead, you're turning this catalyst loose, this

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little daub of fear. I know
we're late. I know, I know,

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I know, I know. I
know the kids need attention to the

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barbecues burning. Stand with me.
Colossians three twelve says, Therefore, as

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God's chosen children, holy and dearly
love, clothe yourselves, Clothe yourselves with

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compassion, with kindness, with humility, with gentleness, with patience, bear

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with one another and forgive one another. And it's all about Christ. Let

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Christ's rule in your heart. He
goes on to say, let Christ's rule

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in your heart. Clothe yourselves with
Christ. Put him on, and let

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Christ's rule in your heart. But
you know what we do. You know

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what we do. We fear that
compassion will be taken advantage of, so

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we hesitate. We fear that kindness
won't be reciprocated. We fear that gentleness

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will make the message too soft.
We fear that patience will horses more time,

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and so we argue with what we're
called to. We argue with the

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new creation, and we fear and
we doubt that it will produce what God

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would bless us with. And we
even look around and see it's not working

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all that great for other believers either. Well, maybe others aren't clothing themselves

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with Christ studs. Well, Oh, Holy Spirit, we just want your

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We want sure your race and the
pathway toward it to become so powerfully clear

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to us today, Holy Spirit,
we want to be done of every fear.

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We want to rid our hearts,
our lives of every fear. Holy

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Spirit, Come on, we just
lift up your heart, your voice,

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your hands of mine, join me
as we just together, say Father,

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and lead us into wisdom. Lead
us into the wisdom room above. Lead

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us into the life of faith,
the life of faith. Let us tolerate

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no fear, no doubt, no
distrust, no unbelief, no rebellion,

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no pride. Everything you've said about
us, we agree it's true. Everything

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you've called us to, we agree
it's true. Every promise you've declared over

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us, we believe it's true.
Holy Spirit. We rise up to higher

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heights, not walking by emotion,
not walking by circumstance, not walking at

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a protection of the old person,
not walking giving resurrection to that one once

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lived, walking in and under the
new atom, walking in and under the

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Christ life, walking in and by
the Christ, the faith of the Son

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who's given himself to us. Turn
our hearts to you, and we see

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that grace doesn't lead the way.
Faith leads the way. And we choose

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the life of faith today. We
choose a heart of faith today. We

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choose a mouth of faith today,
a confession of faith today. And we

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bless you for it. In Jesus
name. Everybody said, God, bless

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your church. Let's worship as we
go today,