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This program is made
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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Hello friend. Welcome to my
program. I'm Denise Renner.
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I have been waiting for you.
Have you been waiting for me?
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We've been having some amazing
times in this series called
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Expectant Hope.
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Look at it right there.
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I want you to have this 5-part video series,
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Expectant Hope: The Fire for Faith.
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You know, I told the story in one of the other episodes,
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and you can go to the archives and watch it,
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but I received a miracle in my life
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so many years ago when I was like
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12 or 13.
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I had this horrible,
horrible disease in my face,
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in my neck, and in my forehead.
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And this, these sores went
through all three layers
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of my skin and was causing
scarring in my face.
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And it was painful.
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I didn't get - as I grew older, I didn't get jobs
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because of it, because of my appearance.
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I didn't get singing opportunities
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because of my appearance.
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And this was really an
awful thing to deal with.
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And the reason I'm telling you this is
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because it was this expectant hope
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that opened the door in my heart.
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I heard the word of God.
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I heard Isaiah 53:5, that
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by his stripes we are healed.
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And you say, well, I've heard that
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before, and nothing happened.
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Well, I'd heard it too,
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but at that moment, hope came in my heart.
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I was listening to a radio preacher,
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and when he said that this
is what hope looked like:
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hope looked like this. I
said to the Lord, I said,
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you mean I can be healed?
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And that's when hope came in my heart
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and was igniting my faith.
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And I'll make a long story short,
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you can watch it on another archive,
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but of this series
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but, a couple of months later, maybe 3 months later,
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I went to bed just like
I had for 13 years with
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that horrible disease.
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And I woke up the next
morning, completely healed.
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I woke up
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and my cheeks were
clear, my neck was clear,
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my forehead was clear.
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And it was because - started with expectant hope.
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And expectant hope is
the fire for your faith.
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Oh, that's what I'm talking
to you about right now.
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And I want you to have this series
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and also my book, Unstoppable,
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because that's gonna encourage you in your faith.
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But listen to this testimony, okay?
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I want to testify about the miracles of the Lord in my life.
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In September, 2010, I
was seven months pregnant
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and my blood pressure rose to 300.
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I went blind. I fell into a coma.
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They thought that they were
gonna lose me and my child.
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And through the miracle working power
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of God today, my daughter is alive.
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Is that not wonderful?
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The miracle working power of God.
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And that's what we're talking
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to you today about. This teaching,
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I did live in a wonderful Bible school called
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Charis in the mountains of Colorado.
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And I'm gonna teach to you about how
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that we continue believing
God's miracle working
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power is there.
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So stay with me and I'm gonna be right
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back.
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It's time for big miracles
and changes in your life.
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Join Denise Renner
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and dive into the study of God's word which has great power
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to strengthen faith, inspire,
change, heal physically
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and spiritually, and most importantly,
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help you learn about the power
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of Christ Jesus living in you.
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It's time with Denise Renner.
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Then verse 48, then many
warned him to be quiet.
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Now this - many warned him to be quiet -
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it's not, oh, excuse me, Blind Bartimaeus.
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Shhhh - we love you Blind Bartimaeus.
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Shnnn. No. Blind Bartimaeus - Shut up!!!
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I've known you since you, since I was a child.
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You've been blind. You'll
be blind when I die.
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All you do is beg - you never give us anything.
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We're the ones giving to you. Blind Bartimaeus - shut up.
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Jesus isn't gonna pay
any attention to you.
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You're just screaming
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and trying to get some attention like you always do
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Blind Bartimaeus. The commentary said
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that they put him down.
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But what does Blind Bartimaeus do?
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He cried out all the more -
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Son of David - have mercy on me!!!
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crying out his little body will.
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He is not paying any
attention to what they say.
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He just screams louder.
Why did he scream louder?
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He knew. He knew.
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Just like our friends in Mark 2: he knew this.
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This was his chance.
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And he knew that he's the
only one who could heal him.
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Blind people don't get
healed. They die blind.
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What? I have a chance, I have a chance
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to see, a chance
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to be normal, to quit begging.
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He screams loud as he can.
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Okay, now look what happens.
Amazing. What happens?
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Jesus stood still,
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the faith that was in Blind Bartimaeus
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got Jesus attention
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and he commanded him to be called.
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Oh. Oh my.
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Then they called the blind
man saying to him, oh,
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be of good cheer, rise.
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He's calling you.
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These are the same people
who told him to shut up
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and that he's a nothing.
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And you know, when I read this I thought - how many times
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do we stop believing
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or we stop dreaming, or we stop expecting
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because of somebody else's opinion?
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We give up our convictions
for somebody else's opinion.
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Who's gonna change like that?
You could see they hated him.
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Now they love him.
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Good cheer. Dear brother.
He's calling you.
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Have you ever given up something
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that God put in your heart to
do for the opinion of another?
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I have,
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but not anymore.
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Amen. Amen.
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Not anymore. The dream that you have
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inside is more eternal than
the opinion that they have.
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The dream that you have on the inside,
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it's greater than the
opinion that they have.
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Amen? Amen.
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When you and Jesus hook up on that dream,
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you're gonna do amazing things.
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Amen? You're gonna do
amazing things. Yes ma'am.
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I've had so many opportunities
to stop. I'm not taking them.
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Amen. Being married to my
husband. Can you imagine?
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If you wanna compare yourself
to somebody, oh, oh my gosh.
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And we're all human, right?
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So I've definitely compared myself.
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And Jesus would say to me,
Denise, what are you going
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to say to me when I look you in the eyes?
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And I say, what did you do with my power
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and my gifts
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and my callings that I
put on the inside of you?
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Oh, will Jesus. You know,
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I just couldn't get past
my insecurities and, and oh,
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after all, I could just be Mrs.
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Rick Renner. I mean, that's wonderful. He is amazing.
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You know, everybody loves him.
I could just be next to him.
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That's okay.
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That is not going to fly.
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When we see Jesus, he's gonna say
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all that I did for you, all
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that I paid the price to
put the Holy Ghost on the
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inside of you, to never leave you
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nor forsake you, to
empower you with my spirit,
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my gifts, and my callings
that I put inside of you.
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And you did not want to give them away because you didn't
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match up to your husband.
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Are you making excuses?
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Oh, friends, this is the day
to get, get rid of excuses
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because I believe God wants
to pour his spirit out.
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And I believe he wants
to shake this place.
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And I believe he wants
to pour out his spirit.
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And I,
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and I believe that He,
like, I didn't read it in
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that last last scripture,
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but those people who
saw John skipping home,
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they said, we've never
seen anything like this.
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We've never seen anything like this.
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That power on the inside
of us, if we give it out,
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if we don't hold it in, it's gonna cause us to do things
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and somebody's gonna say -
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I've never seen anything like this.
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And they're gonna say,
I do believe in God.
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God forgive me God, I'm a
sinner. God come into my life.
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The hardest heart can be broken
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or stirred by a miracle.
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Amen.
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I know one man right now,
he's a minister of the gospel,
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but he wasn't.
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And he, he was a young
man and he didn't love God
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and he didn't care about God.
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And his father didn't care about God,
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but he saw his brother's leg grow out.
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And the young man said, I can't deny.
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I can't deny that the God
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that he serves is not the real God.
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And he's a powerful minister
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of the gospel today because of a miracle.
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I'm encouraging you students,
we've gotta get our hands out
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of our pockets and get 'em on the sick.
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Amen. We've gotta get our
hands out of our pockets
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and not hold in the power of God that's on the inside of us.
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But give it out. Amen.
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So, Blind Bartimaeus,
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he wasn't gonna stop screaming
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and he didn't care what they thought.
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And now look at verse 50:
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And throwing aside his garment,
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he rose and came to Jesus.
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The garment said, I'm blind. I'm a beggar.
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I have the right to be on the corner,
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give me your money and feel sorry for me.
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That's what his garment stood
for. Gave him the right.
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But we see Blind Bartimaeus throwing aside his garment.
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Why does Blind Bartimaeus not need his
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garment anymore?
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His garment was his identity.
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He's getting a new identity.
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He's not gonna be blind beggar Bartimaeus.
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He's going to be Bartimaeus seeing and working
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and having a job.
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That's why he threw aside his garment.
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He didn't need it anymore.
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Could he see when he threw aside his
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garment, could he see?
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Not a think so you would think -
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Hmm, something going on here. Blind Bartimaeus,
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has faith. Yeah.
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Blind Bartimaeus believes
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I'm gonna see. Can he see?
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No, but he believes he's gonna see
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because he just threw away his meal ticket,
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his identity.
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He took on the identity that
Jesus was gonna give him.
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Oh,
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Amen.
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We gotta throw off our old identity
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and put on the identity that
the word of God says we are.
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Oh, say Amen. Amen.
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We have to, if we stay
in our old identity,
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we're gonna stay in our past.
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We're gonna stay in our insecurities,
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we're gonna stay in our weaknesses.
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That's right. Amen.
And look at others
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as they move forward
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and we stand with our excuses.
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Blind Bartimaeus threw aside that garment
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and he rose and he came to Jesus.
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So Jesus answered
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and said to him, what do
you want me to do for you?
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Now students, I always,
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because I've been preaching a long time,
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and I'd read that and I'd think, Jesus, of course you know
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what he wants you to do for him.
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But Jesus asked the question - What do you want me
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to do for you?
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it out of his mouth,
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what he wanted.
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Now students, I've been studying this
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and meditating on this and,
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in my own life, I've understood
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when I haven't spent enough time with God
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to even honestly say to
him, this is what I want.
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Not - Lord, well, Lord bless me, Lord,
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thank you Lord.
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Lord, I don't believe.
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If we can have an honest prayer with God
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and say, Lord, I'm sorry, I don't believe,
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then God can work with that.
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Yes. But if we stand there
religiously and say, bless me,
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and in the back of our
mind we don't believe,
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and then we criticize
others for their belief
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or their blessing,
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it is better to just say, Lord,
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I don't believe, forgive me.
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Forgive me, Lord. Oh, he can
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Because that's a relationship.
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Just being religious and
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It's not - it's a religion. It's not.
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It's not a relationship. Yeah.
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Oh, friends, you've got needs in here.
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You've got desires in here.
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And God wants to know, what do you want?
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What do you want?
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You say, well, Lord, you know what I want?
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No, what do you really
want? What do you want?
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And he said that to Blind Bartimaeus - what do you want?
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And the blind man said to him - Rabboni,
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that I may receive my sight.
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Very unreligious, very real,
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very truthful,
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very practical, short prayer -
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Rabboni, I want to receive my sight.
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You know notice Blind Bartimaeus didn't say - Well you know
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Jesus, it's just been awful.
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I'm telling you what, being a blind man
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and being a, being a beggar,
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and then all these people
yelling at me, well, Lord,
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I just ask you to bless me.
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He didn't say that. He said,
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I want my sight.
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Remember Hebrews 4:15 and 16 or 14
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and 15 - Come boldly before the throne of grace.
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It's not a throne of faith,
it's a throne of grace
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that you may receive mercy
and help in your time of need.
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And the verse before that says
that He's not a high priest
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that cannot be touched
with our infirmities,
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but was in all points
tempted just as we are.
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He absolutely identifies with us.
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He wants us to come to him
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and say, Lord, this is what I want.
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The problem you are
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but there is an answer.
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And the bridge between the problem and that answer is faith.
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When the paralytic
man's friends were faced
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with an obstacle, they found
a new way to get to Jesus.
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When the crowd was telling
blind Bartimaeus to be quiet,
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he cried out all the more
in spite of their words.
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Just like these men
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Friend, of you love Blind Bartimaeus as much as I do?
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He's so wonderful. I love his faith.
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I love that he would not stop.
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I love that he knew exactly
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what he wanted.
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Do you know what you want from God?
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It's a really great
question because it's true.
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A lot of people, they are so unfamiliar
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with their own spirit.
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They haven't spent enough time with Jesus
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to really know, Lord, what is it?
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What is it I really want, Lord?
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Because you see, the Bible says
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that He will give you the
desires of your heart.
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Well, where do those desires
come from? It's not -
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it could be a desire to have a new car. Yes it could.
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But I'm talking about a deeper desire.
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I'm talking about a desire that's gonna fulfill your heart.
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And those desires are on the inside of you.
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And God puts up there.
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And when you and I spend
enough time with him, we start
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to realize, God, this is what I want.
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it encourages you in your prayers.
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It encourages you how
to pray it encourage you
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to wanna seek the Lord.
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And that's why I'm doing this teaching,
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because we want to learn from Blind Bartimaeus.
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We don't wanna just say - oO, that's a nice story.
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I'm glad that he had a miracle.
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No, we wanna learn what was on the
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inside of him?
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Because Jesus didn't say, I healed you
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because of my great power.
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He said,
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be it unto you according to your faith.
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He said, it's your faith
that made you whole.
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It was Blind Bartimaeus' faith in the power
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of Jesus.
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He threw aside his garment.
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He did so many things
and Jesus saw his faith.
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Do you know what you want?
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It's an important question I'm asking you.
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It's a very important question
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because God has called us
into relationship with himself
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and the Holy Spirit.
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And the Holy Spirit loves
us. He's on the inside of us.
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And in a relationship, you
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know what each other wants.
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He wants to know what you really want.
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Father, right now, I
just pray with my friend
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and that they will right now, Lord,
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as they just turn their eyes toward you
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because of the presence of the Lord
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that's in the room right
now, to ignite their faith
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and ask you what it is that they want.
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I agree with you, friend, to really know
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what it is you want.
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Because when you know what you want,
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then you can have faith for it.
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You can have faith for it,
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and your faith matters.
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It's the very powerful part
of of you on the inside
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that Jesus gave you
when you got born again.
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He gave you that faith to be born again.
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And that same faith is
the same faith that we're
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to live day by day.
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Oh, it's been my privilege
to be with you to today,
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and I I want you to stay with me 'cause
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because next time on our
next program, we are going
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to finish this series on expectant hope.
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And God is gonna do amazing
things on the inside of you.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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