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Are You Naive, or Innocent?

September 17, 2020

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Leon Fontaine is showing people across the earth how to unleash the miraculous in their everyday lives and take Jesus to their families; friends; and communities.

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Are You Naive, or Innocent?

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-ANNOUNCER: What would youchange in your life?
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- What if you could unleash themiraculous in your
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everyday life?
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- Experience freedom, live inpeace, change the world. Become
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-LEON FONTAINE: People'sprayers, probably three quarters
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to eighty percent of theirpraying is done because of their
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poor decision making.
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-ANNOUNCER: In John 10:10, itsays that Jesus came to give us
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life, and life more abundantly.So, why is there such a
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disconnect between this biblicalpromise, and how most Christians
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live today? Why have so manybelievers become spiritually
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weak, and ineffective at sharingJesus' message of love? THE
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SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY LIFE is theanswer. It's being led by Holy
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Spirit, but in a contemporaryway. It's being Jesus and
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demonstrating His love in wayspeople can understand and
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appreciate. Spirit Contemporaryis unique for everyone. It never
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compromises the truth, and itnever makes others feel
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uncomfortable. It's freeingyourself from religious
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constraints, and walking freelyin God's amazing grace, for His
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purpose. THE SPIRIT CONTEMPORARYLIFE is absolutely crucial if
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the global church and her peopleare going to change the world.
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- Later in the show, we'll tellyou how you can reserve your
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copy of today's resource. Enrichyour soul and renew your mind
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with this timely series.
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- And now, from Winnipeg,Canada, pastor Leon Fontaine.
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-LEON: You know, when I was ayounger Christian there was a
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season of church life that maybeI was sensitive to it. But where
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you would learn the principlesof God. And oh, as a young man I
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wanted to please God. I wantedto know His Word and obey His
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Word. And so I remember justdoing everything that I could.
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And I would hear that, you know,there's verses in the Bible that
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say if you love the world, thelove of the Father is not in
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you. That to be a friend of theworld, is to be at enmity or
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hate with God. Over and over Iwould find these verses that
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talked about Satan as the god ofthis world. And so I wanted
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nothing to do with the world.And then as we began to learn
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God's Word and I began torealize as I looked the Word.
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Just a minute, just a minute. Imean, the Bible also says that
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John 3:16, "For God so loved theworld that He gave His only
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begotten Son, that whosoeverbelieveth in Him should not
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perish, but have everlastinglife." So now, I'm kind of
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confused. If I love the world,the love of the Father is not in
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me. If I become friends with theworld, then I'm hating God. Yet,
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Jesus loves the world and Hedied for the world. And so at
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one point we were so legalisticnobody could stand us, and we
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just lost any ability to reachthis world. Then as we went to
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the other side, for every mileof road is two miles of ditch.
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We began to realize, just aminute. We are salt. We are
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light. Nobody had a saltshakerfor breakfast this morning. But
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if you had eggs, you shake salton because eggs without salt is
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blah. But salt adds flavor, saltpreserves. And so we as
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believers followers of Christ.We had flavored to this world.
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We are the ones preserving thisworld. It's our prayer. Our
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stand for God. And then we arethe light of the world because
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Jesus is within us. And so as Iread this scripture I realize,
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no. The Bible says we are to bein the world but not of the
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world. And I've never met somuch as in the last number of
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years naive Christians. And sotoday I want to talk about naive
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or innocent. Now, naive means toshow a lack of experience. Naive
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is when you have lack of wisdom.Naive is when you don't make
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good decisions. Your judgmentabout how to make decisions is
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just not there. You're naive.Easily swindled. Easily tricked.
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Easily, and that's the way theenemy wants the church of Jesus
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Christ and yet we tend to evenbelieve those things about us.
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Someone said, "Well, they saidit, so I believed them." I say,
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"What do you mean? People saystuff and you just believe
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them?" Well, yes. We'reChristians. We love them. I
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said, "It's crazy to havesomebody you don't know say
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something and then just believethem. Really? Do you think so? I
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say, "Well, so you're going tojust take all your money because
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someone said they're going tomake a high return on it, and
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you're going to give it to thembecause they said they could."
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Well, no. Where you're going tojust let your kids be babysat by
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person you don't know. But theysay they love kids and they're
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good with kids. Well, no. Oh, sothen you really need to make
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sure you understand thatChristians can be naive. Some
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political leader says, "I'mgoing to do all this for you."
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Yey! It's awesome. Or someone atwork says we're going to do
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that. We need to stop being sonaive and we need to learn the
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Word of God. Or because theproblem with the church world
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today that I'm seeing. We'vestill got both ditches. We've
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got the judgmental Christians onone side that turned everybody
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off. But then we've got thenaive Christians on the other
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side. They just thinkeverything's wonderful. It
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doesn't matter how muchuniversalism you mix with this,
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or if you mix this religion withthat religion. I love Jesus and
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I love this. I love thisreligion, that religion. And
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this God and they see -, Andthey're so naive there's no
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power. There's nothing there forthe world to respect. They let
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the world determine theirdoctrine. Now, innocent is
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different. Innocent and naiveare different. Innocent is where
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you're guilt-free. Where you'rean unimpeachable. Where you're
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honest. Where you're honorable.You see, you gave Jesus your
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life. He died on the cross, paidthe price for your sins. Forgave
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you, took the curse of the law,and it's gone from your life. He
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gifted you with Hisrighteousness. Which means
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you're in right standing withGod. So you and I can live this
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life now of innocence where wedon't have to live in guilt. We
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don't live in condemnation.There's a purity and innocence
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about us because of Jesus.That's what you're trying for.
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But don't move from innocence tonaive because naive you're going
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to be taken advantage of. We'vegot to understand something.
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That we don't want to be thisreligious, judgmental people
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that so many people movedtowards. That's not an answer.
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They're unhappy. They'remiserable and they love pushing
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on everybody else. But we don'twant to be this naive Christians
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who don't even read our Bibles.We just love everybody and smile
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and whatever will be, will be.And everything going to be okay
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because we'll just pray. Youknow, I've noticed after years
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and years of pastoring thatpeople's prayer probably three
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quarters to eighty percent oftheir praying is done because of
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their poor decision making. I'mnot saying all. I'm saying that
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people make poor decisions, getinto trouble, and try to pray
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their way out, and they'renaive. There's a lack of wisdom.
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There's a lack of judgment tomake good decisions. Yet the
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Bible says you can have thewisdom of Christ. You can be
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wiser than your teachers, wiserthan people older than you,
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wiser than your enemies. So wedon't want to walk around with
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this naivety of, "Well, youknow." You need to get in the
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Word, and you need to understandhow to be a believer that loves
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people. You see, wherever yousee the word "world" in the
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Bible. There's a few differentmeanings. See, we've got God's
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created world. Take a lookaround. This gorgeous campus
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with trees and grass and thingsthat His creation mankind made.
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Buildings and, you know, Godmade the world. But then there's
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another word that world can meanand that is the people in this
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world. For God so loved theworld that He gave His only
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begotten Son, that whosoeverbelieves in Him. He's not
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talking about inanimate thingslike trees or objects. He's
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talking about the people. Soworld, the word "world" can be
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used for people. But then theBible also says not to love the
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world or the things of theworld. And He's talking about
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the god of this world. Theprince of the power of the air.
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This evil murdering, killing,stealing, attacking, you know,
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people. The enemy. He's verymuch alive on this planet. He
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doesn't have power overbelievers, okay? But he knows
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how to come in and just getpeople to believe certain things
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and embarrass them. He's alwaysgoing to be tempting you. So
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whenever you read the word"world", you need to be aware of
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that. So when the Bible says wecan be in the world, it means in
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the system of cities andgovernments and jobs and
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careers. Whether it's politicsor business or the arts or
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making movies. I mean, thepeople who follow Christ should
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be all throughout this worldbeing salt and light. But, well,
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while we are in the world makingfriends, sharing Christ, living
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our lives. We should not be ofthe world. That means picking up
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their beliefs, picking up thisspirit of the world. Which is
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really a demonic thing tryingyou to get focused on yourself.
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The apostle Paul says he wascrucified to the world. What
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does he mean by that? He meantthe demonic believing, the
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demonic system that's trying toget you to think about you,
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getting ahead for you, gettingas many pleasures as you can in
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your life, in your season, inyour time. The enemy tries to
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get us to become so selfish. Andhe's always going to be tempting
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you and I to begin to pick upthe spirit of the world. Now,
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the enemy is a tempter. He isright now trying to tempt your
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marriage off, trying to temptyou to get your finances off,
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trying to tempt yourrelationships, your career. He
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wants to kill, steal, anddestroy. But it's an interesting
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thing how he tempted Jesus.Let's take a look at it. He
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comes to Jesus to tempt Him andhe tempts Him in three areas,
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three ways. So in Matthew 4:3,it says, "When the tempter came
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to Jesus, he said, 'If thou bethe Son of God, command these
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stones to be made bread.'" Ithought, "What kind of a
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temptation is that?" Usuallywhen you talk about people being
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tempted is drug, sex, and poweror something like that. And he's
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tempting Jesus to turn stonesinto bread. What's the big deal?
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I mean, he literally rain breadin the desert. It's called
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manna, heavenly bread. Theydidn't have a way to feed the
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two million people movingtowards the promised land. So
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the Bible says they got up everymorning. They went up and they
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gathered the bread for the day.They called it manna. So He had
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no problem there. I mean, Godone time He had Moses hit a rock
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and water blew out of that rockto water two million people.
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That's three times the size ofthis city. Can you imagine? I
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mean, so God got no problem withthat. So what's the big deal? If
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Jesus is hungry turning rocksinto bread. I mean, He turned
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water into wine. He turned mudinto an eyeballs when He had a
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blind man and He packed mud inthose eyes. And it says He spit
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in the mud, put them in theguy's eyes and the guy could
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see. So He's doing all kinds. Hetakes fish and He recreates a
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couple fish and a few loavesinto thousands of fishes. What's
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the big deal? Why is this atemptation? It's what's behind
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it. And many people today, theenemy just kind of like the frog
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in the kettle. Just trying toget you to move towards the
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world, adapt their thinking. Oh,God is love. So what's the big
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deal? Why do I have to change?God should love me the way I am.
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And I know I'm supposed toaccept Him as my Saviour. But, I
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mean, yes, He loved me. And theyhave all this reasoning that the
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church picks up and we changeour doctrines because of some
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person you read writing onspiritual things and you don't
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even know who they are. Becareful. It's not so much of the
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enemy is tempting you to becomean axe murderer or a rapist.
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He's trying to move you slowlyso that your beliefs change, and
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you begin to absorb the spiritof the world. In Matthew 4:6 the
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devil's going to tempt Jesusagain. And again it's the same
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thing. What? He says, "Satansays to Jesus, 'If You are the
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Son of God, jump down from thishigh tower. For it is written,
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He's going to give His angelscharge over you, and in their
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hands they're going to bear youup, lest at any time you dash
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your foot against a stone.'"What kind of a temptation is
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this? Again, it's not sex ordrugs or addictions or power or
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to kill somebody. He's justtrying to tempt Him to have the
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angels rescue Him. Well, theangels always did. I mean,
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angels would come and ministerto Jesus. He walked on water. He
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walked through crowds that werecrazy mad trying to kill Him and
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they couldn't see Him. Jesussaid nobody touches me till I
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lay down my life. And so what'sthe big deal. And Satan was
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trying to say, "Hey, I mean,people will see you as the Son
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of God because the greatestcreate miracle." What kind of a
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temptation is this? But it'swhat's behind it all. It's what
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the enemy was trying to getJesus to do. Then the third
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temptation. Woohoo! Boy, thingsbecome aware now. Third one,
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takes Him he says, to a highspot shows Him the cities of the
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world, all the countries and hesays, "All these things I'm
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going to give You if You'll falldown and worship me." Boy, now,
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we're getting into somethinghere. You see, the love of the
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world has the lies and the evilbegin to sip into you, into your
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thinking, into your reasoning.It's going to make your love for
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God grow cold. In Revelation hestarts talking about certain
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churches back then and what hehad against them. One of them he
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said, "Man, you could do greatworks. You do great things.
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You're amazing in every wayexcept this one thing I have
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against you. You've left yourfirst love. See, as believers
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it's crucial that we understandif we don't pursue Jesus. If we
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don't seek first the kingdom ofGod. Someone asked Jesus, "Well,
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what's the most importantcommandment?" He said, "Love the
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Lord your God with all yourheart, all your mind, all your
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strength." Everything within youlove God. Why? There's something
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about loving God and pursuingthe kingdom of God. That
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vaccinates you against the worldand it trying to creep in. As
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you begin to get into His Wordand get to know Jesus. You
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become so strong. And the Biblesays that the spirit of truth is
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in you and it lights your way.And I want you to understand
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that Holy Spirit is within youas a Christian and there's a
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truth. The other thing that HolySpirit does and it's so clear
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through the Word. That as youare moving in directions, He
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lights your way. When the HolySpirit is within you and I, He
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is here to guide you as a momraising kids, to guide you as a
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dad, a grandpa, to guide you incareers. Holy Spirit is the
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spirit of truth. He lights yourway. He ignites your darkness.
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He makes you aware of whichpaths to take. And this is so
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precious. It's something theworld cannot have because they
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don't have the spirit of truth.Now, because of that if they're
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wonderful people. I've gotpeople in our families and
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out-laws and in-laws who havenever given their lives to
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Christ and chose not to. I stilllove them, hang out, go for
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lunches, coffees. We're friends.But you have to understand I
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don't let them decide mydoctrine. The way they talk. The
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way they see the world. The waythey see God. The way they see
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themselves. The way they seeeternity is flawed because they
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don't have the spirit of truthon the inside who lights your
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way, who helps you tounderstand, who brings truth
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into your life. And I want tochallenge you today. That don't
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allow the enemy to begin to getyou into a drift and slowly
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drift to the thinking the waythe world is. You watch a steady
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died of movies and TV shows. Andyou need to know if you haven't
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figured it out. There's a worldview hammering away at you, as
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to what is right, what is wrong.And after a while when you watch
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enough of this world view comingat you through your school, to
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your kids, movies, to you, inwork, in business, TV, news. You
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begin to question if you're notstrong in God's Word. And it's
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amazing how many believers canbegin to take on the thinking of
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the world. There's a fascinatingstory in Joshua 5. Joshua is
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leading the children of God.Moses led them out of Egypt. And
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forty years later, Joshua is nowleading them into the promised
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land. They're at the edge of ahuge city called Jericho. A city
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that was a fortress up on ahill, almost impossible to
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attack. And Joshua the Biblesays in Joshua 5. He looks up
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from where he was sitting oneday, and he sees a man right in
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front with a drawn sword. Now,when the sword is in the
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scabbard, it means you come inpeace. But when the sword's out,
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you, there's problems. So helooks at the guy and he goes,
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"Hey! Who are you with? Whoseside you're on? Are you with us
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or are you with them?" Meaning,you know, the giants in Jericho.
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And this man looks at him and hesays, "No!" No. What's that mean
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no? I asked you. Are you with meor are you with them? "No," the
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guy says. But here's what hesays, "No, but as Commander of
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the army of the Lord I have nowcome." What? Joshua, he knew
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what was going on. He fell onhis face to the earth that he
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worshiped. He said, "What doesthe Lord say to me His servant?"
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Now, in the next chapter goes onto giving him the battle plans
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for taking Jericho which was ascrazy as crazy could be. March
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around it once for six days.Seventh day march around it
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seven times, blow the trumpet.What? And God destroyed the
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walls and they took out thewhole city. But here's what's
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going on. See, so manyChristians today think that
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Jesus is your fairy god mother.She follows you around with a
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little wand and whatever youwant, she just gives it to you
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because it's all about you. It'sall about your desires, all
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about your pleasures. It's allabout everything going smooth
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with no problems. And that's howthey see Jesus. Jesus just
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follows me around and He looksafter me. And others, you know,
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"Well, He's my bro. He's myhomie." As though He's just one
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of the guys. No. John 10 says,My sheep know My voice and they
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follow me is what Jesus said. Itdoesn't say, "Hey, I know My
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sheep voice because I got tofollow them." No! We follow
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Jesus. Yet if we're not carefulthis new age creeps in. Well,
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it's all about you. It's allabout me. And the Bible says,
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seek first the kingdom of Godand His righteousness. And if
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you're not careful, you're goingto raise kids where it's all
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about them. Yes, parents. Hey!You know, what do you want for
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your kid? I just want them to behappy. Then a couple of years
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later as your kid doingsomething that is wrong. You
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say, "Well, you know, I don'tknow anymore. If I agree with
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the Bible on that. I mean,they're happy. So it can't be
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that bad." Okay, stop rightthere. It is not about pursuing
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happiness. Life is aboutpursuing Jesus. It's about
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following Jesus. Seeking firstthe kingdom of God where you're
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going to find your purpose. Andwhen you find Jesus and purpose,
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happiness will always be withyou. But if you pursue happiness
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which is a self-centered way ofdoing it. It's like a butterfly.
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You'll never catch it. And ifyou do, you'll never hang on to
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it long. In your life as aChristian, have you gotten to a
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place where it's all about you?Because there's nothing more
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depressing than thinking aboutyou 24 hours a day. When I get
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down, it's when I think aboutmyself day after day, week after
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week. I'm just, "Ah, get me outof here." All I can think about
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is Leon? And sometimes my braingot to wake up. Just a minute
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here. I was supposed to befollowing Jesus, His Word, His
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directions, talking with Him,listening with Him. Pursuing the
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purpose that He said. Get outand reach the lost. Eternity is
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coming. You've only got 70 to120 short years. But the people
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that you love, you're going tospend eternity with them in
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heaven. So treat your time onthis earth not as get your
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bucket list together and figureout how many more pleasures you
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can pursue. But instead say,"Jesus, I'm following Jesus. One
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step at a time. I live for themoment in His love." The enemy's
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temptation, it just get you todrift. And in life I don't think
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we notice when we drift. ButJesus says you can leave your
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first love and it's time to wakeup the mighty men, wake up the
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mighty women, and make adecision. I live for Jesus.
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People don't want to talk aboutHim. But I'm going to learn to
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bring Him into conversationswhen I can in a Spirit
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Contemporary way, not judgmentaland arrogant or condescending
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but confidently knowing that theanswer to people isn't to solve
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the problem. It's to know theproblem solver, Jesus,
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and everything changes.
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[Segment Music]
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-ANNOUNCER: Uncertainty,job loss, and health scares
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all cause fear. And all areexperienced in the physical.
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But did you know you can livebeyond your five senses?
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In this brand-new series by LeonFontaine, "Living Beyond Your
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Five Senses", learn how evenwhen your circumstances are out
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of control, with Holy Spirit youhave the power to walk by faith,
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not by sight.
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-LEON: Sense knowledge, or thisworld's knowledge, there's a lot
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of things they can't figure out.The purpose for creation.
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The purpose for live. To onlybelieve what your
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five senses say, Jesus callsthat unbelieving.
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-ANNOUNCER: In this series,Leon shares the six deadly fears
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and how to combat them, how tolive beyond your five senses,
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and how to rebuke fear andexperience the peace of God.
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Call now to request this series,and let today be the day you
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begin to live in thesupernatural.
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[Segment Music]
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-LEON: One of the greatestthings people struggle with
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today is, who am I? So manypeople are trying to get their
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DNA checked out to see ifthey've got European in them, if
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they've got Mongol in them, orthey're from Indian descent from
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India. That they want to knowand that they seem to feel a
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sense of, "I've gotta find outwho I am." And none of those
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things are your identity. It'sgood to be proud and not
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embarrassed of where you comefrom and to be excited about it,
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but your identity is in Christ.And I wanna challenge you that
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you might think, "I'm Canadian.I'm American. I'm East Indian."
00:25:06.063 --> 00:25:11.035
Or whatever word, but you areHeavenian first. You are made in
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the likeness and the image ofGod. The language that you
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speak, the color of your skin,and whoever your forefathers
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were, is not your identity. Youridentity is in Christ. You're
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made in the likeness and imageof God, designed in heaven made
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by God and that is the family.That is predominant thing that
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you need to understand. God mayuse everything else in His
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purposes in your life, language,color of skin, background, and
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He will. But your identity isJesus. Don't let anything take
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that away from you. And that iswhere you'll have a peace. That
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is where you will have astrength. Because whenever the
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enemy comes in to tempt you offcourse or to begin to make you
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feel like you are not enough.You need to know I am a child of
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God. I know that the King ofkings is on the inside of me.
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That I was born with a purposeand there's something I'm gonna
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do for Him. Father, I pray rightnow. That we would release the
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things we cling to as ouridentity, failures, even
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victories. And we would look toYou, Father, as the author, the
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finisher of our faith. We wouldlook to You, Father, as our
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Father and we would believe thethings You say about us, not the
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things that our even humanfather, or human people say
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about us. But what Your Wordsays about us and what You say
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about us. In Jesus' nameI pray, amen and amen.
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