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Doctor Bartholomew Or is the

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senior pastor of Brown Missionary

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Baptist Church in South Haven, Mississippi,

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a church for all people where

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we are equipping believers,

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evangelizing sinners, and boldly

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proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus

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Christ. Despite a large church

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setting, Pastor Bartholomew Or

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works diligently to ensure that

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Brown Baptist maintains a

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family like atmosphere. Doctor

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Bartholomew Or is a humble

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yet powerful servant of God

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who loves people and is passionate

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about teaching and preaching the Word

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of God. Pastor Teacher

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Arthur Mentor podcast

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and one of the most sought after preachers

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nationally and internationally,

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and always ready to share an

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authentic, relevant and transformational

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word. Let's join Pastor

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Bartholomew Or as he takes

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us on another exciting in

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the Word of God.

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Acts Chapter two, Serm Verse fourteen.

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But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted

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up his voice and said, unto them, ye men of

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Judea, and all ye that dwell

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at Jerusalem, be this known unto you,

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and hearken to my words. For

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these are not drunken as you suppose,

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seeing it is but the third hour

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of to day. But this is that

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which was spoken by the prophet

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Joy, and it shall come to pass

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in the last day. He saith God, I will pour out

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my spirit upon all flesh. Your

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sons and your daughter shall prophesy and all

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and your young men shall see visions, and

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your old men shall dream dreams.

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Let's go skip down verse thirty six. Therefore,

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let all the house of Israel know assuredly

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that God has made that same Jesus

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whom ye have crucified, both

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Lord and Christ.

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And now when they hurt this, they were pricked

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in their heart and said, unto

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Peter and to the rest of the apostle

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men and brothers, what shall

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we do? And then Peter said

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unto them, repent and be baptize

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every one of you in the name of Jesus

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Christ for the remission of sins, and

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you shall receive the gift of the

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Holy Ghost.

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Amen.

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I want to preach to your hearts this morning from

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this subject. Your

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best sermon, your

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best sermon? How

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well can you preach? I

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mean, you know, come on, everybody probably

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at some point have played preaching.

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This past week.

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I was taking the boys to school one morning,

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and I tuned in and Bishop g the late

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Bishop G. Patterson, who was preaching,

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and he was preaching on Jonah and

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his message was just so profound. I

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mean, I've always just loved hearing him preach. And

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then it got to the hoop, pard

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And I have to be honest with you, y'all, my

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favorite hooping preacher in all the world

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is Bishop ge Patterson. I mean I

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felt like nobody just could as hoop

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as sweet as the late Bishop

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ged Patterson. So when he got to

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the hoop, like in a good preacher,

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I started hooping right along with him. And

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before I knew ed, I heard a

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sound out the back seat. Brandon,

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my youngest twelve year old, he had

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started hooping in as well. And the

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sad thing about it is is Brandon's

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hoop sounded better than my hoo. I'm

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pretty sure that all of us

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at some point probably marked some

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preachers have imitated preachers.

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I mean even parents talk about

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their young children and how

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they imitate means sometime

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and I think everybody probably got downpacked

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my you know, it

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seemed like that's the one something that the

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young folks always remember of

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my sermon. But in reality,

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Brown as believers of

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Jesus Christ. Believe it or not, every last

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one of us are preachers. Every

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last one of us have been called to proclaim

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the good news, the Gospel of

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Jesus Christ. Believe it or not, each

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one of us we are living

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sermons, and we

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are demonstrating the power

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of the Gospel.

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Of Jesus Christ.

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What I do on Sundays behind this

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pulpit is really what you do

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on a day by day basis Monday,

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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

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You might not do it behind a pulpit,

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but you're preaching sitting at the desk.

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You're preaching, working on the assembly

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line. You are preaching sitting

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there in the classroom, even

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as you are checking folks

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out in the grocery store.

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You are delivering a

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sermon. And shall I stop about to share with us

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this and that. Since discernment is

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so important in the saving

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of souls, we need to get

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it right. We need to get it right

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if folks are going to come to know

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Christ, if people are going to be

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saved. God has used

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the preaching of the Gospel.

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That's what Paul said in Romans chapter one and verse

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sixteen. I'm not ashamed of the Gospel

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of Christ, for it is the power

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of God. I'm too salvation

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to everyone that believeth

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to the jew first, and the Greek also,

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he said even in one Corinthians one in

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twenty one. For after that,

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in the wisdom of God, the world by

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wisdom knew not God.

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But it please God.

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By the foolishness of preaching

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to save them that

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believe.

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God said, I'm going to use preaching.

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I'm going to use the proclamation of the

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gospel message of Jesus Christ to

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win folks unto Jesus Christ.

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And so Peter here on the day

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of Pennic he stands

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on this day, and he is going to preach

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a sermon.

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And the sermon was.

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So effective until it cut

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through the hearts of the hearers

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and they became saved. Three

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thousand folks came crying, what

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must we do to be saved?

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And they gave their hearts to Jesus Christ. What in

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the world, how can we preach good sermons?

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How can each one of us live

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good sermons to the point where it can

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cause others to come to no Christ.

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Well, I want to just tell you what a good sermon is

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all about how it looks. And what made this sermon

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so effective was number one, it was

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clear.

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It was clear.

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Look, when it comes to the message,

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we must know it and we

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must make the message clear.

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Peter.

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Here he begins at verse sixteen.

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Do you see how he starts. He

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starts with but this is

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that which was spoken of by the

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prophet Joel.

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He started with what was right there on

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hand.

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They were all amazed after folks speaking

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that, and everybody could hear them in their

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own tongue. And Peter used that

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as just an open door

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to say, look what you're looking at.

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Now you think these folks are drunk,

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but we want you to know we're not drunk

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with wine. It's just

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it's not even nine o'clock in the morning. We're

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not drunk with wine, but we I

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feel with the Holy Spirit.

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And they used that point there because he was headed

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somewhere, and he was head up to verse

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thirty six, where he says, I want you

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to know that this same Jesus whom

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you have crucified, God

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has made him both Lord

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and Christ.

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Peter said.

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Peter's message was all about

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the gospel, the good news

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of Jesus Christ, and what a statement

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of affirmation and verse thirty six

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speaking about the deity of Christ,

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He's Lord, as well as

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the mission of Christ, the

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fact that he is Christ, the Messiah,

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the anointed one that is sent from

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God.

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He was very clear about

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his message.

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He wanted them to know that Jesus is more than

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just a baby wrapped in swattening clothes,

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lad in a manger. He's more than just a

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babe born to a version. None of all

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this. Jesus is sovereign

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and save you. He's the

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creator and he's also the converter.

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He's our father who made us,

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and at the same time, he's our elder

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brother who interceded on

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our behalf. Look, y'all, when it comes

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to the gospel message, when it comes to

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the good News of Jesus Christ, we

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need to be clear about

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the message. We need to

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know who it is that we are preaching about and

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what it is it is all about.

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What is the gospel? What is the good news of Jesus

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Christ.

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I'm glad you asked first Corinthians, Chapter

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fifteen, verses.

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One through four.

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The good news of Jesus Christ is

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the life, death,

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burial, and resurrection

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of Jesus Christ. If you want to know

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what the gospel is is it's the life of Jesus.

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Look, he lived, and he lived to set

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an example for each one of us. It's

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the death of Jesus. He died

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to pay the sin debt for

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each one of us. The burial

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of Jesus. He went into a grave,

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stay there three day, so there is no

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doubt that he did die. But it's

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the resurrection of Jesus,

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the fact that he has all power that even

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conquers. Say that and death and

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the grave, and we need to know

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the message that

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we preach. Now, this is what I like about this message.

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Do you see what Peter did there in verse sixteen.

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He looked for an open door, and

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when he saw the open door, the folks being

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amazed at those speaking

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in tongue, he used that open

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door to walk through it. And

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then he began to use the

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Old Testament the New Testament

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David to talk about and to

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prove who Jesus really

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is. He used the Old Testament prophets

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because he talked went back to Joel chapter

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two, said this is just a fulfillment

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of Joel, a partial fulfillment of Joel

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chapter two.

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The spirit being poured out.

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He even used a New Testament verse twenty

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two through twenty four. He said, look, the

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miracles that Jesus did, they

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just weren't any old miracles, but

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they were wonders. They were

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signs to point to whom

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Jesus really was. Every

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miracle that Jesus did, there was

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some significant behind

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the miracle to take two

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fish and five loaves of bread and feed

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a month to two. Look, that was really

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saying I'm the bread of life.

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Moses talked about bread, and

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Moses gave y'all bread from heaven.

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But Jesus said, I am

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the bread that can sustain and

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intact deliver you. When he opened

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blinded eyes to

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be able to take spit and to mix

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it in with dirt, make the mud pie

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and naughty blinded eyes,

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he was in, I can open even the blinded

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eyes of your spiritual heart

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to say that I'm the water of

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life, to say that I'm the

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water of life and that.

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I can give and quench you.

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Every third he says, Look, all

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of those miracles.

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Were sign of who Jesus

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is. He said. Even David pointed out

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who Jesus was. Verse twenty five through thirty

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six.

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David as a Prophet himself talked

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about that Jesus was one to die

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and was going to go into the grave. But he

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was quoting from Psalm sixteen when

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David said, you will not leave my soul

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in hell, but you're gonna bring

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me out, And that was talking about the resurrection

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of Jesus Christ.

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And this is what I like. In verse thirty two, he

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said, y'all know what.

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We're even witnesses as well, because

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we have seen him for ourselves.

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We are eye witness that God

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raised him from the dead.

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He was clear about

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the message. Brothers and sisters know

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the Gospel, know the Bible so

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well, until each one of us ought to

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be clear about who Jesus

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is, what he came to do, and

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how other folks can receive him.

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And what you ought to do is you ought to

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look for the open doors.

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That's the Holy Spirit to make you sensitive

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so that when a door open,

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you can walk in and ultimately

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lead to telling somebody about

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Jesus Christ.

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Were you talking about open door?

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Just say, for instance, somebody tell you, oh, I'm

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having such a bad day, that's

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an open door.

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That's an open door.

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And because you can hear what they are

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saying, listen to that problem. But

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before you leave, now, you ought to be able to tell him

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God, I understand what you're going through. Can I tell

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you about somebody who can help fix

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your problem.

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His name is Jesus.

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Look, somebody is having problem

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making ends meet and they don't know

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how where the next meal is.

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Gonna come from. That's just an open.

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Door for you to tell somebody

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about the fact that My God shall

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supply all of your need.

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Are called them to as rich as

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in glory. Look

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for those open doors and be ready

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to be clear about the message

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of who Jesus is.

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Let me say this too, about this being clear about

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the message and we must know it. But because

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sometimes you're gonna run across even folks

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who on the surface sound good. Ran

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across such fellows this week we started

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talking. He had been in a Christian church.

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Now he was studying with all kinds

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of folks, Muslims and everybody

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else, and he was talking and

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on the surface, you know, sometimes they talk real good.

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I believe Jesus, Yes, I

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believe Jesus this way because the Bible

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said Jesus, it's away. Muslims

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will tell you they believe in Jesus Muslims

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would tell you they believe in Jesus.

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But here's what you need to ask them. What do

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you believe that Jesus and God,

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that they are one and the

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same, Because we believe trending

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to God, to Father, God, to Son, God, the Holy

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Spirit three. But yet they are one.

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Now when folks start coming back talking about,

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well, you know what, I believe God is

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one and God it's God. No, no, no, that ain't what

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I ask you, because what Peter says

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here in verse thirty six, you need to

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know that Jesus is both Lord

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and Christ. Look, Jesus

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just ain't a good prophet.

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He's not just some messenger of God.

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He's not on the same level as

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and Elijah Muhammad or

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as somebody else. No, no, he's in

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a class all by himself because

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here is God beside him.

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There is no other. We need to tell folks.

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Look, there ain't many ways he used to get to heaven,

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y'all. Every way ain't going to heaven.

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Jesus said, I am the Way, the

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Truth, and the life.

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No man coming to the Father.

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But by me, it's

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time that we are clear about

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the message.

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It was a clear sermon. It was clear but not

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only was it clear.

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Here's the reason why it was a good sermon. It

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was challenging. It

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was challenging. And this speaks about

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the motivation of a sermon. What is the whole

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purpose of a sermon. A sermon just ain't to make you look

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good. A sermon ain't to

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put the spotlight on you. Look,

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the reason why we preach, and the reason

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why we live it out is because

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we are trying to make a change

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in somebody else. What is

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preaching preaching is the art of

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communication with the purpose

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of persuasion. I'm

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not just up here for my own exercise. I

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ain't just up there trying to sweat y'all. Look,

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we are trying to bring about a

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change in folks. Like to

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persuade folks to get it right

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with the Lord. And this is what like about Peter. He

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was challenging because he cut right

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to the chase. See, a lot of times folks are

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free to call the speed of speed. We're

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afraid to call sin sin.

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And boy, we kind of.

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Dance all around the itshe we

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tiptoed because we don't want to offend

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anybody, don't want to hurt nobody.

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Feelings, don't want to step on nobody toes

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thank you, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do that.

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Because Peter, he cut right

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to the chase. You know

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what y'all did to Jesus. That's

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why he said, verse twenty three, you crucified

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him, took him and with wicked

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hand, you crucified and slew

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him. See what he says verse thirty

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six, You crucified him. You

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that this same Jesus whom

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you have crucified.

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And so he didn't. He didn't.

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He didn't try to sugarcoat it. He wasn't trying to

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give them some little sermon. It took over their ear.

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Verse thirty eight. He said, what y'all need

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to.

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Do repair, repent,

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get right.

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With God, have a change of

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mind, a change of heart. You need

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to ask God to clean me up from

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the inside out. Repair Even

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verse four that he began to even continue

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to teach them, saying, save yourself

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from this crooked generation.

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Look, we need to preach.

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Some challenging messages.

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Don't ever be afraid to

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confront folks and to challenge

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folks when they are wrong. Peter

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cut it right to the case. Look, we got

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to call sin sin if

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somebody come to you and they are distraught

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because they are messed up. I

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want, I know you want to encourage them.

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But you know that that godly

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saw I or that they're feeling on the inside

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is from the Holy Spirit. So we

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need to let make sure that we allow the Spirit

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to have his work. They need

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to feel remorseful, because it

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is that godly remorseful that ought

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to lead to repentance and get

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in better. Now do you need to point

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out something here because verse thirty eight have

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caused a lot of controversies within the Body

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of Christ because folks don't

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know the place of baptism, and some

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folks have elevated baptism and

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made baptism an essential

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part to salvation. Let

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me tell you, some brothers and sisters, Baptism

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does not save you, and

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you don't need to be baptized in order

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to be saved. Isn't

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that what Peter says in verse thirty eight. He says,

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repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of

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Jesus Christ. A couple of things about

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that verse dare a number one. Repent is plural,

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and so what Peter was saying to them in general

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repent.

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All of us.

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Need to repent, all of us need to

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accept Jesus Christ, but be baptized

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is singular because what Peter

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was saying, look, all of us need to repent,

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but guess what in the visual lad

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after you are repented, and I

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say, then you need to follow through

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in baptism in the visual But

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baptism is not on the same level

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as repentance. Another reason

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why I believe that baptism is not on the same level

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as repentance.

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Because we are saved, y'all by faith

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alone.

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We're saved by faith alone,

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and save and faith has

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with it. Repentance is

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two sides of the same coin. Repentance

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is a turning away from saining. Faith is

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turning to Jesus Christ. Repentance is

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recognizing I'm a sinner and I need

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the Lord. Faith is saying, I believe

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in what Jesus did on the cross.

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Now, from cover to cover in

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the Bible, what you're gonna always find

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if it's talking about salvation faith,

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faith actually faith mixed

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with repentan as matter of fact, even in the Book of acs

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Alon, if you read chapter five, verse

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thirty one, Chapter ten, verse forty

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three, Chapter thirteen, verse thirty

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eight, Chapter twenty six, verse eighteen.

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All of those verses talk about salvation, but

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none of those verses mentioned baptism.

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Any cooks in the house.

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Now, when you're doing a recipe, would you

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leave out a main ingredient

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on the recipe if it was

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If it was important, guess what, every time

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you give the recipe, you would do what you

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would give all of.

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The main ingredients.

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It kind of reminds me a few

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years back, few years back, to church put out a cookbook

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and miss Mother Calamee pound

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cake was in that cookbook. And so my wife got

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up one Saturday and

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Valerie cooked bake

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Mother calames pound cake.

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Something.

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It didn't hit it, and

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and so Valerie she

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made it again. Bless

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my wife's heart. That

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day she made three cakes in one day

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because she was trying to get it right.

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Finally, she she called Mother Calum

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may Mother.

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Calib Maye, I'm just trying to get you this

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pound cake.

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Right, and it just won't get it right. Mother Calum

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mays, oh baby, I left out a pound of butter.

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I stick a butt out of that recipe.

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She wasn't gonna ever get that.

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Cake right because

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a main ingreedy and what's missing.

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So if the Bible, when you look at the Bible, if

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you do it, if it's talking about faith

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all the time, that tells us faith

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is the main ingredient for salvation.

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It was a challenging message. It was a challenging

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message. It was a clear message.

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Here's the third reason why this sermon was so effective.

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It was a convincing message.

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It was a convention send message.

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Something about this message

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that that really touched

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folks heart.

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And brought them to Jesus Christ.

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Can I tell you what I believe helped make the message

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convincing. I believe

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the messenger help

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made the message convincing.

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I believe the.

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Messenger help made the

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message convincing. What this

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says to each one of us we are

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the messenger and.

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So we must live it

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out.

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Because you say you cannot take Peter out

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of the equation.

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Peter is in the equation, Luke, Chapter

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twenty two.

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Jesus told Peter and Luke twenty two thirty

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one, Peter, Satan has

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desired to sift you as we but

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I prayed for you, and when

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you are converted, strengthen

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the brothers. Peter, right after that said

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Lord, I'm with you all the way I'm gonna

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go.

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I mean, I'll go to the grave with you.

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Jesus told Peter before the rooster

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crows, you would have denied

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them three times. Peter was so,

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oh, oh no, no, no, no, no, that's not me. And

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so when they came to arrest Jesus in

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the garden of get some of that, Peter was

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right there. He even took a swore cut

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off a man's ear.

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Peter, Peter, Peter. But but they went.

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On and arrested Jesus. And you know what happened.

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After they arrested Jesus. The Bible said,

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the disciples ran away, and

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Peter found himself blending

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in with the enemy, warm

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in his hands by the enemy's

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fine.

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And as the trial was.

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Going on, somebody looked at Peter

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and said, want you with him?

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Peter said, oh, no,

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not me.

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I don't know the fellow. I don't

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know the fella. Somebody else said, man, man, surely

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you were with him. To call you gotta leave. You

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even talked like you're with him. Peter

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said no, no, non, no, no, you got

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me. Mistake them. A third time somebody said,

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sure you was with him, and then he

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been the good Baptist that he is. He whipped the cussing.

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I don't know this man. Look, brothers

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and and sister. The rooster crow Bible

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said that Peter win and

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will better let why.

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Because he had let the Lord down.

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This is that Saint Peter, Brothers and

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sisters that and now we see Peter.

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He is no longer scared, He

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is no longer denying Jesus.

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He is no longer trying to cut folks.

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He is hot, But there's been a change

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in Peter. He is standing bold,

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he has curage, he is stemmed and feel

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whip the Holy Spirit preaching this

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message.

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Can I tell you something?

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If you want your life to be convincing,

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if you want the sermon to be convincing,

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we need to let it start within us,

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and we need to say, God, I want you to work on me.

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I want you to.

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Work on me because I want to be real

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in this thing. Look, brothers and sister,

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is your life convincing? Are

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you convincing as a believer? Or

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are you a conniving individual?

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Two face one way in front of folks,

25:06

but another way behind the folk.

25:08

Look, are you believable

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or do you send baffling messages

25:15

because you send mixed signals when

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you talk one something that live another

25:19

way. Are you persuasive in

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your living or are you just a

25:24

pretender in your living?

25:26

Are you real or are your faith?

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If you won't determine to be convincing,

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you got to be convincing. I got

25:33

to be convincing. We got to be real

25:36

about this thing. And that's why

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I stop about to tell you. We need to get it right. We

25:41

need to get it right, brothers and such, when it comes to the

25:43

message, get it right, get it right.

25:45

Concerning the message that Jesus Christ

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came one day and he died on

25:49

an old rigged crass. He had to die.

25:52

He had to shed his blood because

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without the shedding of blood there is no

25:56

remission of saying, no forgiveness.

25:58

Somebody had to die because

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the record is the wages of sin is

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death, but the gift of God is eternal

26:05

life. Look, all of us, we were born

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in sin, shaped in iniquitee. It

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should have been us hanging on the

26:12

crawl. It should have been us with our

26:14

nail in our hands. It should have been

26:16

us with crowns of throwings on our hands.

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But Jesus died

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in our stall. He was the

26:23

substitute. He took our place

26:25

on an old reggord crass. Get the message

26:28

right that he worked down

26:30

in the grave, but he just didn't stay

26:32

daddy, but ever sunning them

26:34

morning got up out of the grave with

26:36

all power in his hand. Get it right, y'all.

26:39

Don't leave off the resurrection, because the

26:41

resurrection proved he got power. What if

26:44

he got power over death, hell and

26:46

the grave. He got power over your

26:48

addiction. He got power over

26:50

your gambling addiction. He got power

26:52

over your drug addiction. He got power

26:54

over your alcoholism. He got power

26:57

over your whole mangarein.

26:58

He got power.

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He can break habits, He can

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make a change on the inside. Get

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the message right that he was hung

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up five hang.

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Ups, but oh whip Jesus,

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he can pick you up.

27:13

Turn you around, place

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your feet on solid ground.

27:17

We need to get the message right. But then we need

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to.

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Get the motivation right, y'all. And that is

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we're trying to change somebody.

27:24

We're trying to make a difference in somebody's

27:26

life. We're trying to let somebody know

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you ain't got to stay in the same shape that you're

27:31

in because If you're dumb, he

27:34

can pick you up. If you're doady,

27:37

he can clean you up. If you're

27:39

outdoors, he can bring you in. There

27:42

is no secret what God

27:45

can do, what he have done for

27:47

others. If he a dude, the same for

27:49

you. You ought to be able to tell somebody

27:52

he can make a change in

27:55

your life. Get the message right,

27:58

get the motivation right. But

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then we ought to make sure that even when it

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comes to the messenger, God,

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I want you to get me right, because

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before I can stand before somebody

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else, Lord, make me

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right, Create hitting me a

28:15

clean hog, and renew

28:17

the right spirit, restore

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unto me.

28:21

But jord of your salvation.

28:23

We ought to say, God, get me right,

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because when I stand before folks, you

28:28

ought to want to preach a sermon that's visual,

28:31

because they ought to see in you Jesus

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Christ only inside. They ought to

28:36

see it in the way you walk. They ought

28:38

to see it in the things you do. They

28:41

ought to see it in the life you live. It

28:43

ought to be visible, but

28:46

then it ought to be vocal. They

28:48

ought to hear it from your lips. Every

28:50

now and then, you ought to say something about Jesus.

28:53

You ought to not go the whole week.

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Y'all, without letting Jesus come

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out of your lips.

28:59

It ought to be for you

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ought to tell.

29:01

It in the mountain,

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tell that even in

29:07

the fire, that.

29:08

It ought to be vocal.

29:10

But then this sermon ought to be victorious

29:12

because you ought to be able to tell somebody, look

29:15

at me, He made a change

29:17

in my life. And that's all I stopped

29:19

about to tell you today they brothers and sister,

29:21

Your best sermon ain't gonna

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happen on Sunday morning.

29:26

Your best sermon ain't.

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Gonna happen when you got on your suit and

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you.

29:30

Got a Bible under your arm.

29:32

Your best sermon it's not gonna be the song

29:35

that you're seeing in the chiet on Sunday

29:37

morning.

29:38

But your best.

29:39

Sermon it's gonna be Monday

29:41

morning when you're having to referee

29:44

between two co workers.

29:46

That they had ours with each other, and you

29:48

have to.

29:48

Let them know that Jesus is a prince of peace,

29:51

and you got to love one another, be

29:53

willing to forgive one another. Your

29:56

best sermon is gonna

29:58

come winsday him the class when

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you're getn't study for the test. But

30:03

yet Saturday is sitting right next to you,

30:06

and the answers are all in clear view.

30:08

That's when the best sermon comes. When

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you refuse to cheat on the test and

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you do the right fame and say,

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Spirit, I know I

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didn't study, but give me some

30:20

answers right now.

30:22

Your best sermon ain't.

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Gonna be on Sunday, but it's

30:26

gonna be doing the week when

30:28

you're sitting in that tax office getting

30:31

ready to prepare your taxes, and

30:33

you know good and well that

30:35

Qusha wasn't in.

30:36

Your house all year. Loan, your

30:39

best.

30:39

Sermon is gonna

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come Friday.

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Night when you have to

30:44

move this and the date done

30:46

gone one step too far. That's

30:49

when the best sermon comes out. When

30:51

you can put on the bricks and say

30:53

oh no, no, we

30:55

can't go there right now, that's

30:58

when the best sermon comes. And

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so let me tell you what you ought to do if

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you want to learn how to preach goodcern man. My

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friend doctor John Wallace, he

31:07

told me he was gonna preach about the remote control.

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Had a funeral on yesterday, and

31:12

after he got through talking.

31:13

About that remote control, I told him, man, I'm gonna use

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that remote because what we ought to do

31:18

is tell the Lord. First of all,

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God, I wanna take the remote control

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out of my hand. You see, too

31:25

many of us are in control of our own life,

31:28

and some.

31:28

Of y'all are just like me with

31:30

the remote control.

31:32

Valerie, don't lack it when I have the remote control,

31:35

because I try to wash.

31:36

Two and three shoulders at the same

31:38

time.

31:39

I'm flipping over here and I'm flipping

31:41

over there, trying to catch this way

31:43

in the between. And some of us are living

31:46

like that. We are flip flopping

31:49

all over the place. But

31:51

we ought to say, Lord, I'm

31:54

giving you control. Lood,

31:58

take control and turn

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me on.

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I don't want to just be on on.

32:03

Sunday, but turn me on

32:06

Monday in.

32:07

The grocery store. Turn me

32:09

on. I want to be on

32:11

on the job. Do turn

32:14

me on. But then, God,

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I want you to mute the world. I

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want you to mute the world. I don't

32:20

want to listen.

32:21

To what Shanna is saying. I don't

32:23

want to govern my life by what meets you is

32:25

saying. But mute the world

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because I.

32:29

Want to hear you. I

32:31

want to hear you speak,

32:33

Lord, speak loud.

32:37

Mute the world.

32:39

Turn me on.

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But then tune me in because

32:43

I want to be on your channel. I

32:45

want to be on the right channel. Because

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BT ain't the right channel. MPD

32:51

ain't the right channel. Tell

32:53

me, I mean it ain't the right channel. But

32:55

g O D is the right channel. We

32:58

ought to say, God, I

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want to get tuned into you.

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Turn me in, tun

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me in.

33:07

But then, last God, I

33:09

want you to hit the volume button because

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I.

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Want you to turn me up.

33:14

Turn me up.

33:16

I wanna be loud, turn

33:19

me up. I don't wanna

33:21

be quiet. I don't wanna

33:23

be silent. Got been too

33:25

good, roll and culsa,

33:29

got be too well.

33:31

Turn me up, he turn

33:33

me up. I want to holler

33:36

for you. Shay yay,

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yeah, God.

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Yeah, take

33:57

control, take

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control, turn

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me on, mute

34:06

out the world,

34:08

tune me.

34:09

In and

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then turn me up. Because

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I want to be a sermon. I

34:17

want to preach. I

34:19

want to teach. I

34:22

want to live it. I

34:24

want folks.

34:26

To see Christ inside

34:29

of us. That ought to

34:31

be our prayer. Help me,

34:33

God, preach

34:36

my best sermon.

34:38

Help me.

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