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Welcome to a special edition of

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Gospel Truth with Andrew Wamek, a

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teaching ministry that focuses on God's

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unconditional love and grace.

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Today, Andrew continues his teaching on who

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God is and who we

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are. Recorded live from the 2019 Grace

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and Faith Conference

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in Telford, England. You

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need to recognize that you were

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an absolute mess before Jesus

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saved you. Apart from God's

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influence in your life, you just

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don't realize how perfect God created

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us to be. And

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now, here's Andrew. So last

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night I started sharing about who

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God is. There's a lot of

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confusion and man, there's so much

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that I could share on that,

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that I didn't by any

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means cover everything at all. But I

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just gave a brief introduction that

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God is a good God. God is not

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the source of your problems. And

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even in the Old Testament where you saw

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the wrath of God poured out on people,

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that was only temporary is what Galatians chapter

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3 said until the

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seed should come, talking about Jesus.

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And Jesus has set us free

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from the wrath of God. All

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of the wrath of God

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came upon Jesus and Jesus

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bore your punishment, your sickness,

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your disease, your poverty. And

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if you can receive the truth

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and believe you can be free

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from everything that Satan is trying

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to do in your life, you

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do not have to settle for

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less than God's best. And

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so we were talking about the goodness of

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God last night. Tonight, I'm going to share

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some things that may

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not bless some of you. But

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again, the truth will make you free. And

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I'm going to be sharing

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about who we are without

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Christ. And this

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isn't only prior to salvation. This

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is also after salvation

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if you are trusting

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in yourself. And I

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tell you, this is not, most

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people don't agree with this. And I

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know you guys are awesome, appreciate you

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coming out to this conference. You're

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the cream of the crop. And

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so God bless you, but many of you

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do not believe what I'm gonna be teaching

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tonight. And I can prove

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it by the way you live. I

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can prove it. And so

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I hope this rubs you the wrong

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way. I hope that this goes against

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your selfishness and your self-esteem and

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your thinking that you are absolutely

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awesome. Because before you can fully

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appreciate what God has done, you

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gotta realize the mess that we

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were in. Look at

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this verse in Isaiah, chapter 51, verse one.

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It says, hearken to me, ye

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that follow after righteousness. How many

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out of you here are following

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after righteousness? One.

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God bless you, Duane. Boy, we got

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our work cut out. Nobody else in

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here is following after righteousness. This

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is talking about all of us. Righteousness

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is just right standing with God. For

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the believer, it's already an accomplished work

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and we've got it. But

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I mean, this ought to be what floats

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our boat. This

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ought to be what makes us excited

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is being in right standing with God.

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So ye that follow after righteousness, hearken

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unto me, ye that seek the Lord,

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look unto the rock from which you're

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ewn and to the hole of the

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pit from which you're digged. This

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means that we're supposed to look unto Jesus,

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the author and the finisher of our faith

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and see him. And that's what I was

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talking about last night, who God is and

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that God is love. But you're also supposed

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to look to the hole of the pit

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from which you were digged. You

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know what, you need to recognize that

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you are an absolute man. before

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Jesus saved you. And

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some of you are thinking, well, I really wasn't that

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bad. You're in a

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big mess because you don't

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realize what happened. You know, over in

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Luke chapter seven, this is where the

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woman came and broke the ointment

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and poured it on Jesus' feet

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and people criticized him. Judas criticized

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him and says, this should have been sold

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and given to the poor. And it goes

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on to say he didn't care about the

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poor. He was a thief and

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he wanted the money that was

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in the bag. Those who criticized

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people for receiving offerings and

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giving and things like that, you got

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that Judas complex, the same spirit that

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was on Judas. You

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know how that wound up for him. But

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Jesus said, those that have

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been forgiven little will

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love little. Those who have

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been forgiven much will love much.

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And did you know in the eyes of

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the world, I lived a holier life than

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most people. You've heard me say this before,

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but I've never said a word of profanity,

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never taken a drink of liquor, never smoked

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a cigarette. I've never even tasted coffee. And

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some people think coffee. Well, the Bible

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says you can drink any deadly thing

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and it shall not harm you. So

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you got a scripture to stand on

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for drinking coffee. I'm just saying that

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I lived a super holy life, but who wants

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to be the best sinner that ever went to

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hell? But did

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you know what? I think I have a

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greater revelation of God's

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forgiveness for me than a lot of people

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do. Not everybody, but a lot of people.

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And one of the ways that I got that is

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I was born again when I was eight years old,

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but when I was 18, I was

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in a prayer meeting and I was

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very self-righteous

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thinking I was better than everybody else. And

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I was concerned about what everybody was going

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to think about me. And I don't understand.

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exactly how this happened, why it

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happened, but God showed up in

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that prayer meeting. About

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10 o'clock on a Saturday night and

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God showed up and I saw

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the glory of God and I

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saw His holiness and I saw

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the righteousness of God and compared

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to the perfection of

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God, all of

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my righteousness was like filthy rags.

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You know that's what Isaiah said and I believe

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it was Isaiah chapter 64 and verse

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6 somewhere around there and did you

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know that the word filthy rag there

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it literally means a menstrual cloth. Your

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self-righteousness, your goodness is

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like a menstrual cloth

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and I saw the glory

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of God and in comparison I

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was filthy and dirty even though I lived

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better than a lot of other people. Compared

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to God, man I

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was vile and I thought God was

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gonna kill me and for about an

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hour and a half I turned myself

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inside out and you got to remember

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I hadn't done a lot of the

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things outwardly but Jesus revealed that if

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you lust in your heart you're guilty

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of adultery, if you've hated in your

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heart you're guilty of murder and I

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knew that and so I just started

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confessing not only the things I had

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done but I started confessing my thoughts,

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my feelings and I was naming

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names. Amen. I

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hated this person and I was naming

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names and whatever reputation I had I

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blew it. I just I

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did everything and I expected

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God to kill me and to my surprise

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instead of punishment or

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rejection I had a tangible

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love flow over me for

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four and a half months. I was caught up

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in the presence of God and

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I've never gotten over it and

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I never intend to get over it but what I'm

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saying is I may not

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have done some of the things other people

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have done, but I understand my

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relative unworthiness to

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God more than most people do,

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and I understand that I have

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been forgiven a lot. I

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was headed to hell, and there isn't a hell

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number two or a hell number three. I

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was going to hell, and I knew

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it, and because of that, that's what

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jump-started my relationship with God,

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and I really believe that that's one

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of the things that has

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kept me from ever being depressed,

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discouraged, and I get people that

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criticize me. I'm not saying

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that you're bad if you've been depressed,

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but I'm just saying that I saw

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God's love for me and his forgiveness,

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and I knew it had nothing to

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do with me. It wasn't

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my goodness. I didn't earn anything

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from God. I deserved to go

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to hell, and

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I saw that, and because of it,

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I just can't be depressed. I

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can't be discouraged. There's nothing that can

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happen to me that even

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remotely compares to the love and

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the forgiveness that God has given

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me, and because I'm focused on

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that, it just keeps me from

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going through the valleys and all of these

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things that so many preach that you have

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to do. I'm not saying

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this in love, but if you are up

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and down like a yo-yo, and you're happy

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one-minded and in-depressed, it's because you don't really

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understand what God has done for you. Matter

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of fact, it says over in 2

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Peter, he that does these things has

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forgotten that he was purged from his

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old sins, and

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I tell you, there's a lot of Christians

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that do not understand what we've been forgiven

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of, so what I want to do tonight

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is to show you the mess that you

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were in before Jesus came into your life.

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You're going to look to the pit that

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you came out of, and it's worse than

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what you realize. And

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if you're one of those that think, well, I wasn't

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so bad, all I needed was just a little little

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bit of help. My life was pretty good and Jesus

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was just the icing on the cake. I

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wonder if you truly got born again. You

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can't get born again without recognizing that you

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are a sinner and that you need help.

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The word of God is what

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God has to say about us.

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Our society today says people are

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basically good. The Bible says people

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are basically bad. You at

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your core before you were born

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again were absolutely a child

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of the devil and by nature a child

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of the devil. I'm going to give you

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some scriptures that show you that. You

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were headed to hell. You were going

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to split hell wide open if Jesus

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hadn't come and forgiven you. Here in

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Genesis chapter 6 and

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in verse 5 it

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says, and God saw the wickedness

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of man was great in the

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earth and that

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every imagination, notice every imagination

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of the thoughts of his

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heart was only evil continually.

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This was 1656 years after the fall

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of Adam. In 1600 years the human

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race had gotten to

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where every thought of their heart was

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only evil continually. There's probably some people

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right here that think well that's not

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the way it is with me. And

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you know what if you're born again

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and if God's been renewing you well

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then that's possible. But apart from God's

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influence in your life you just don't

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realize how perfect God created us to

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be. We watch murder

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and adultery and lying

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and stealing and I

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don't know what shows you have over here and

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I don't really watch that much television in the

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US but I've heard that they have programs

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about the survivor and people,

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every one of them they get into

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anger and hate and they yell at

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each other and they show these things

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about people dating and every time there's

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anger and we use that stuff for

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entertainment. evil. God

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did not endorse any of that stuff

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and we have just adopted evil that

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we don't even realize how bad it

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is. But God

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created us to live a lot bigger, a

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lot better than what most of us

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are and whether you realize that or

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not, many of the thoughts of our

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heart are evil. And look at

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the next verse, it says in verse 6, and

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it repented the Lord that he

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had made man on the earth and

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it grieved him at his heart. I

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have never read that verse that

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I don't say, Father, forgive us.

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I'm so sorry. God created us

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to be a pleasure unto him. Revelation

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chapter 4 verse 11, for his pleasure

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we are and were created. That means

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the original purpose and still God's purpose

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is so that he could love you

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and get pleasure out of you. God loves

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you the way that a parent loves a

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child and he wants to see you prosper

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and be in health. That's what it says

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in 3 John chapter 1 verse 2, Beloved,

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I wish above all things that you prosper

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and be in health even as your soul

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prospers. It grieves the Lord

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when he sees you sick. It

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grieves the Lord when he sees you poor.

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It grieves God when he sees

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you depressed and discouraged and all

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of this stuff. And I guarantee

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you this is a terrible scripture

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that God was so grieved with

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the way that his creation turned

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out it repented him that

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he even made man on the earth. But

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his great love for us, he

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sent his son. But you've got to

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recognize it, man, God didn't look at

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you and think, oh, you are so

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awesome. I can't live without you. That's

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not the way it was in Ezekiel chapter 16. The

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Lord talks about how it was when

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he chose Israel. He says it wasn't

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because you were the most beautiful. It

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wasn't because you were the brightest. He

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compared it to walking by and seeing

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a baby that had been born walking.

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wallowing in its own blood with its

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navel uncut, wallowing in the filth, in

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the dirt, and it was caked up,

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and he says, that's the way I

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found you, and I took you, and

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I cleaned you up, and I did

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all of these things for you. God

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didn't choose us because we were so

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awesome. God chose us because he is

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awesome. God is love.

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You are not lovely. And

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again, somebody, I

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resent that. You resemble

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that. I'm

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talking about you without God, and

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I'm talking about who you are

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in just yourself. We

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are all fallen from what God intended

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us to be, and God didn't choose

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us because we are lovely, but because

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he is love. In

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Jeremiah 17, verse nine, the

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heart is evil above all things

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and desperately wicked. Who can know

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it? That's what the Bible says

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about us, on our own.

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Our heart is evil. It's

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wicked. This

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isn't talking about just the rapist

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and the murderers. This is talking

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about every single person. Because of

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fear, it says in Psalms

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chapter 36, verse one, the

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transgression of the wicked says that there

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is no fear of God before his

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eyes. The way people

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are living says that they don't honor

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God. They don't respect God. And in

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Proverbs chapter 16, verse six, it says

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by mercy and truth is

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iniquity purged, and by the fear of

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God, men depart from evil. The

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fear of God can cause a

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diminishing or a controlling of some of

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these things. We may not act it

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out, but I can guarantee you, left

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to yourself, your heart

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before Christ is evil. And

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desperately wicked. and

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that is descriptive of every person that has

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lived upon this planet. There are some people

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that think, oh no, people are basically good

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and if we just gave them enough money

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and if we were to take them out

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of a poverty situation, everybody will be nice

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to each other. That's not true. I'm going

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to share some things with you tonight that

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you've never heard a sermon on before. I

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can guarantee it. And

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I'll show you what your heart

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is capable of. Look at this

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over in Ephesians chapter 2. This

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is the Apostle Paul speaking. And

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in Ephesians chapter 2, he

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says in verse 1, And you

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hath equicken'd who were dead in

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trespasses and sins. You were dead

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in trespasses and sins. You weren't

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on life support. You weren't

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just sick. You were dead. Dead.

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In verse 2 it says, And wherein

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in time pass you walked according to

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the course of this world, according

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to the prince of the

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power of the air, the spirit that

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now worketh in the children of

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disobedience. Before you got born again,

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you had a demonic spirit working

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in you. You

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may not have been what the Bible calls

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possessed, but you were influenced. You were

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controlled by the devil. Self-interest,

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self-love, self-promotion

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is demonic. Thank

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you for that thunderous silence. I'm

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saying things that people don't like. And they say,

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well, I've got to take care of myself. I've

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got to promote myself. If I don't promote me,

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who will? God, if

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you would trust Him, you

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exalting yourself and promoting yourself

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is not a godly trait.

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And yet there's most people in here. You

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just can't take it if somebody says something

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about you. You got to defend yourself and

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set the record straight. The

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Bible says vengeance is mine, thus saith

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the Lord. I will repay. When

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you defend yourself, you exempt

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yourself from God defending you.

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Man, there's a million applications I could make

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to this. How many

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times have you had your mate say

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something about you and you get in

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and defend yourself? Did you know as

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long as you are defending yourself, God

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won't. But when you shut

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up and just turn it

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over to the Lord and throw it over

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on the Lord, God will deal with your

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mate. God can get to your mate. But

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as long as you are saying all of

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these things and rebuking them, God can't get

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a word in edgewise. And if

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he was to speak to them, they

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would think, well, that's my wife that said

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this. They wouldn't recognize it

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as being God. Man, I got

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a great example of that, but in the name of

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Jesus, I'm not going to give it. I

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got to move on,

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but man, that is awesome

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stuff. Just

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real quickly. Most

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people believe that when

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Mary, you know, was told by the angel

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that she would be pregnant and give birth

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to the Messiah, that

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she immediately went and told Joseph about

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it. There's even songs written about that.

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But let me just ask you, how

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in the world are you going to

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tell your fiance that, look, I'm pregnant

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but honest. I

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haven't been unfaithful. It's the Holy Spirit that

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gave me. I

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don't think there was any way to do it.

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And according to scripture in

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Luke, when the Lord appeared

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unto Mary, it says she

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went immediately into the hill

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country to visit Elizabeth and

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found out that Elizabeth was six months pregnant. The

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angel told her that. Gabriel told her that. And

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she was with Elizabeth for three

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months until Elizabeth gave birth to

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John, and then she came back.

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and you have to put Luke's account

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and Matthew's account together, and in

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Matthew it says that she

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was found with child by

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the Holy Spirit. I don't believe

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that she told Joseph, what

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happened because how do you explain? I'm

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the only virgin in the world that is ever

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going to have a child. I

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believe she didn't say anything. She

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literally trusted God and did

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not promote herself, and Joseph found her

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with child, and then the angel of

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the Lord appeared unto Joseph in a

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dream, and told him that

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what had happened to Mary was of

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the Lord, and even gave the name

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of Jesus. And because

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Mary hadn't told him, then

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he knew that man, this had to be God.

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But if Mary would have been telling him all

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of this stuff, and he had a dream, he

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probably would have thought, Mary planted those thoughts in

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my head. I dreamed this because

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Mary said it, and the fact that

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the angel told him the same name

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that he told Mary, what a confirmation

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it was to them. But

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I'm telling you, most of us won't

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let the Holy Spirit say anything that

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we haven't already said. That's

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a big problem. Selfishness, self-promotion,

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self-defense, he says vengeance is mine,

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thus saith the Lord. He will

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repay, but we've been walking according

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to the spirit that now works

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in the children of disobedience. And

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in verse 3, this is Ephesians

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2, 3, among whom

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we also all

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had our conversation. This is saying that

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this is for every person in here.

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We all had our conversation in time

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past in the lust of our flesh,

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fulfilling the desires of the

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flesh and of the mind. Did you

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know when you just fulfill your lust,

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this is not the way that God created us

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to be. And

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I say this in love to some of you who aren't

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going to like this, but it's

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like when you pet a cat against the grain and

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all that. hair stands up the way you

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solve that is not to quit petting you

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just turn the cat around and you keep

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petting and if what I

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say rubs you the wrong way repent turn

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around and it'll go to feeling good what

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God is doing we can't just thank him enough we

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are so grateful and it all started

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here on

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today's broadcast you saw an excerpt

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from Andrew's teaching titled who God

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is and who we are recorded

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live from a 2019 grace and

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faith conference in Telford England this

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four-part teaching is available as

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a CD album DVD album

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or USB each

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of these valuable resources are available for

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a gift of any amount when you

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contact us also available

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is the entire 2019 grace

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and faith conference which includes

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all four of Andrew's sessions

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along with teachings from guest

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speakers Wendell Parr and Wayne

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Sherriff this conference was

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recorded live in Telford England and

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is available as a nine-part

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CD album DVD album or

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USB when you contact us

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you can become a grace

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partner through our website at

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awmi.net while there you can

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discover more product details and

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download additional free resources you

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can also order resources or receive prayer

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by calling our helpline at 719-635-1111 our

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helpline is open 24 hours a day

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seven days a week to write us

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use the address on your screen we

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appreciate your generosity and hope

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to hear from you today Before

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I came to Charis, I was a

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mess. I didn't know my purpose, and

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I didn't even really know who God

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was. But when I came to Charis,

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I learned who I am in Christ.

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I learned identity. I

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learned how to have a relationship with

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God, and I met Christ. And

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then, it was after first and second

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year getting a foundation. It was in

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third year that I discovered my purpose.

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I discovered my destiny, and I walk

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in my call every day now.

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I walk in relationship with God

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daily, and my life is not

24:37

the same. There's no going back.

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So come to Charis, discover your purpose,

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find your destiny, and walk in your calling.

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I'd like to encourage you to pray about

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whether or not God wants you to participate

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in our Charis Bible College. Bible

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College is powerful. We are seeing people's lives

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change, and I know that some of you

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are thinking, well, I can't come to

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Colorado. But we have extensions to literally scattered

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all over the world. And somebody

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says, but there isn't one in my area. Well,

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we've got an online course where you actually

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become a part of a class. You can work

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at your own pace, but you do have to

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complete the materials in a certain given time. We've

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got a lot of ways for you to take

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advantage of it, so please pray about it,

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and then join us at Charis Bible College. On

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March 23, 1968,

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Andrew Womack received a dramatic revelation from

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the Lord. Since then,

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Andrew's ministry has grown to reaching over

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5 billion people worldwide

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through his daily television broadcasts.

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As we continue to expand Andrew's

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vision through television, our

25:48

partners have enabled us to produce the

25:51

Gospel Truth program in Spanish. We're

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reaching new Spanish-speaking audiences with

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the message of God's unconditional

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love and grace. Andrew

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Wammack Ministries is not only reaching

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the world through television, but also

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through Carris Bible College. Andrew

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has Carris Bible College locations in

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multiple countries around the world. Our

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international Carris locations are discipling students

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with the life-changing Word of God

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in their own language. Andrew's

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teachings have been translated into

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32 different languages. Andrew

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Wammack Ministries is committed to seeing

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that every country, culture, and tongue

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come to know the saving power

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of Jesus Christ. If

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you aren't already a Grace Partner, we

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ask you to pray about becoming one

26:37

today. You can become a Grace Partner

26:39

by visiting our website at awmi.net. While

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you're there, you can learn more about all

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the things God is doing through this ministry.

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Become a partner with us today and

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help share the gospel around the world.

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I'd like to invite you to join me

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for one of our premier events during the

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whole year. That's our Summer Family Bible Conference.

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We have things for the youth. I tell

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you, they've taken the youth ministry to a

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whole new level. It is spectacular. We have

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musicals. We have teaching of the Word. It's

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going to be July the 1st through the 5th. And

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we have eating, barbecue, all kinds

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of things. It's just a whole

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family affair, July the 1st through

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the 5th, our Summer Family Bible

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Conference. I

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had been brought up in religion. Catholic.

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You have to behave. You have to be

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good. My mindset was very legalistic. I remember

27:47

actually writing a letter to God and saying when I know who I

27:49

am, I'll come see it. I'll

27:51

come see it. Not knowing her identity

27:54

and worth, Selena fell into bad relationships,

27:56

which resulted in her appearing in

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England's tabloids for having The next children

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was 48 years old. Depressed,

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suicidal and addicted to drugs.

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Selena found out through Facebook about Andrew's

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free grace and faith conference and decided

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to attend. I

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was completely set free from everything. Everything

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that was drug addiction and wanting

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to kill myself, being depressed. All

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of that just left instantly.