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Signs

November 20, 2020

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Pastor Robert continues the A Way in the Wilderness series with a message that God still heals and works miracles today.

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PASTOR ROBERT MORRIS:Please understand this,
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if you're a believer in Jesus,
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God will never punishyou for your sins,
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because He alreadypunished Jesus.
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He's a just God.
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He cannot punish twopeople for the same sin,
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PASTOR ROBERT MORRIS:So we're in a series called,
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"A Way in the Wilderness,"
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and what we're talking aboutis we're coming out of Isaiah35,
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which is a Messianic chapter,
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and it's telling uswhat the Messiah will do
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when the Messiah comes,but we know
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the Messiah's already come.All right?
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And this weekend, the titleof the message is “Signs,”
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that when the Messiah comes,or He has already come,
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we know, but Isaiah'stelling us when He comes,
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He'll do signs and wonders.
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He'll bring signs andwonders with Him, all right?
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So, we stoppedat Verse 4 last week,
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so this week we'regonna start at Verse 5.
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Isaiah 35:5 says, “Then the eyesof the blind shall be opened,
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and the earsof the deaf unstopped.
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Then shall the lame manleap like a deer,
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and the tongueof the mute sing for joy.”
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So, what he's sayingis the Messiah's
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gonna come withsigns and wonders.
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Now, I want youto understand something.
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It's natural for Godto be supernatural.
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That's normal for God.I'm going to say something.
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The first part of thissentence is tongue in cheek.
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If God wakes upin the morning,
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He's going to doa miracle that day.
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And obviously,He never sleeps or slumbers,
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but He just does miracles.It's normal.
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God does signs and wonders.
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Jesus did miracleswhen He was on this earth.
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But, here's what we needto know and we need to remember,
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that the Bible tellsus Jesus is the same
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yesterday, today, and forever.
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And, there were miraclesgoing on, signs and wonders,
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before Jesus ever cameto this earth.
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God was doing miracles.
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So, I have three pointsthat I want to share with you.
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Here's number one,God does signs and wonders.
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God does signs and wonders.
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And I love that word, “wonder,”
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because what I thinkit means is,
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is that you can'tfigure it out,
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you just haveto wonder about it.
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I don't know whyGod decided to say,
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but signs and wondersare all through the Bible.
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And the reasonI'm saying that to you
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is because for some of you,your mind is one
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of your greatest assets andone of your greatestliabilities,
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because you haveto figure everything out,
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and I just want you to knowyou can't figure out God.
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You just can't.
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You can learn about Himand you can get to know Him,
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but God is infinite.
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So, God doessigns and wonders.
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So, let me show youa few Scriptures
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about signs and wonders.
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Exodus 7:3 says, “And Iwill harden Pharaoh's heart,
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and multiply My signs and Mywonders in the land of Egypt.”
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Here we have the secondbook of the Bible
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and God talking aboutsigns and wonders.
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Psalm 135:9, “He sent signs andwonders into the midst of you.”
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Daniel 4:3, “How greatare His signs,
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and how mighty His wonders!”
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And then, Acts 2:22,
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“Men of Israel,hear these words:
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Jesus of Nazareth,a Man attested by God to you
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by miracles,wonders, and signs,
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which God did throughHim in your midst.”
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Acts 2:43, “Then fearcame upon every soul,
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and many wonders and signs
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were done through theapostles.”So, they keep going.
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Romans 15:18, “I will notdare to speak to you,”
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this is Paul talkingto the Romans,
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“to any of thosethings which Christ
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has not accomplished through me,in word and deed,
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to make theGentiles obedient -
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in mighty signs and wonders.”Paul did signs and wonders.
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Of course, God did themthrough him.
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Hebrews 2:4, “God alsobearing witness
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both with signs and wonders,with various miracles,
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and gifts of the Holy Spirit.”
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Now, I like this justbecause I just want to say
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that some people will saygifts of the Holy Spirit
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have passed away.
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They say miraclesand wonders have passed away,
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signs havepassed away. Okay.
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The only problem with that is,is that God has not passed away.
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So, what God doeshasn't stopped either.
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God is God.He can never stop being God.
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God is a God of the miraculous.
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So, just don't believeany theology that tries
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to tell you that Goddoesn't do miracles anymore,
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because God has to do miracles,because God's God!
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That's just God is God!That's just what God does.
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[Applause]
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So again, years ago,God just...
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I don't know what happened,
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but somehow Godput it on my heart.
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We met this familyand they couldn't conceive,
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and I prayed for and I'd beenreading in the Scripture
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about how God opens wombs,
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and I'll show you thoseScriptures in just a moment.
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And so, I just prayed that Godwould open this woman's womb,
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and she got pregnant.
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Then before you know it,there was another,
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and then another, and another.
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And so, anyway,years and years ago,
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probably around 35 or 36,because I'm not quite sure
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how old my nephew is,
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but Debbie's sisterand her husband,
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who are now members of ourchurch and wonderful people,
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but they were tryingto get pregnant.
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And so, we werestaying with them
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for a vacation or something,
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and Debbie just said, “Hey,Robert prays for ladies
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that are trying to conceive,and it's just God
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has just given himfaith in this area.
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Would you like for himto pray with you?”
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And she and her husbandboth said, "Absolutely,
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we'd love that."You know?
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And so I prayed,but while I was praying,
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I heard this statement,and I've learned
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to just say what I hear whenI pray and trust the Lord.
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And so I said, “You will havea son in less than a year.”
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Now, you think you'vegot a year there,
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but you really don't.You've got three months.
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[Laughter]
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So, the Lord has taught mewhen I prophesy something
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that the next stepis to pray earnestly,
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and so I prayed earnestly,you know, for the next fewmonths.
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But, here's the thing.
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I said, “In less than a year,you'll have a son.”
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Eleven months,two weeks later, she had a son.
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And then, she gotpregnant again very quickly,
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and then she had a daughter.
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Then she got pregnantagain very quickly,
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and their childrenwere like, first, second,
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and third grade, you know -sophomore, junior, senior.
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You know, they werethat way, just a year apart,
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and all three of their children.
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But when she got pregnantthe third time,
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she called Debbie and said,“Tell Robert to stop praying.”
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[Laughter]
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So, number one, God doessigns and wonders.
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That's just normal.That's normal for God.
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Here's number two,God heals spiritually.
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He doesn't just heal physically,He heals spiritually.
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And it's very importantfor us to know this,
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because I want to just talkto you about something.
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It said the blind are gonna see,the deaf are gonna hear,
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the lame are gonna walk,and the mute are gonna speak.
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Would it be all right if Godhealed your spiritual lives?
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And I just want to tell you,that's pretty important
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when you can open this book
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and it jumps offthe page at you,
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and you see that thisis a spiritual book
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written by a spiritual beingto spiritual beings.
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It's pretty fun, and it's funwhen you get to hear God.
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God opens your spiritualears and you can hear God
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speak somethingto your heart.
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And it's fun when God healsyour lameness in an area
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of your life and you can walkin the Spirit in that area,
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and it's fun when God loosesyour tongue when you're afraid
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to speak to people,and now you can speak to people
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and share aboutyour faith in Jesus Christ.
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And in Acts 2,when God loosed their tongues
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at the coming ofthe Holy Spirit at Pentecost,
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it says, “They heardthem speaking
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the wonderful works of Godin their own languages.”
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Are you all following me?
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So, we want Godto also do it spiritually.
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So I want to show you somethingabout this to let you know
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that if you're saved,the Messiah's done this for you.
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He's made you whole.He's made you whole.
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So, in Lukethere's a story about
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ten lepers that God healed.
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You've probablyread the story.
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And one leper,who was a Samaritan,
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the other nine were Jews,came back to say thank You.
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And then, Jesus says this.
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“Jesus answered and said,“Were there not ten cleansed?
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Where are the other nine?
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Were there not any foundwho returned to give glory
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to God except this foreigner?”
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And He said to him,“Arise, go your way.
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Your faith has,” now watch this,“made you well.”
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One version says,“made you whole.”
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Now, this “made you well”is one Greek word.
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These three words, “made youwell,”or “made you whole..."
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Now, ten of them were healed,one of them was made whole,
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made well completely -made whole,
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spirit, soul, and body.It's a Greek word.
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It's pronouncedsode-zo - sodezo.
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But, it means to be made whole -to be healed, spirit, soul,
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and body, to be made whole,to be made well.
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And, this word is inthe New Testament 110 times,
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this Greek word, “sozo.”
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93 times, though -- thinkabout this, 85% of the time.
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93 out of 110 it's translated“save” or “saved.”
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As a matter of fact, here'sone of the most famous verses,
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and this is the word “sozo.”
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“Whoever calls on the name ofthe Lord shall be made whole.”
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Okay, here's whyI'm telling you this.
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If you've calledon the name of the Lord,
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then He's alreadyopened your spiritual eyes.
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He's already openedyour spiritual ears.
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He's already healedyour lameness.
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He's already loosed your tongue.He's already done this for you.
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It's like last weekwhen I was saying
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the Messiah brings strength,
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but here's how you receive thatstrength in your everyday walk.
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Here are some thingsyou need to do. Okay.
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So, I want you to know Godhas already made you whole.
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He's already done that becauseyou came to Jesus on the cross.
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So, let me just show youa few verses on opening
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your spiritual eyes and ears.
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Jeremiah 5:21, “Here this now,
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O foolish peoplewithout understanding.”
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See, you don't understand
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if you don't haveyour spiritual eyes open.
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“Who have eyes and see not,and who have ears and hearnot.”
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Ezekiel 12:2, “Son of man,you dwell in the midst
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of a rebellious house, which haseyes to see but does not see,
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and ears to hearbut does not hear.”
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Remember, by the way, when Paul,who was called Saul before,
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on the Damascus Roadhe meets Jesus.
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He's blinded, literally,in the natural.
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But when Ananias comes andlays hands on him, Acts 9:18,
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“Immediately there fellfrom his eyes
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something like scales,and he received his sight atonce.”
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Well, he not only receivedhis physical sight,
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he received his spiritual sight.
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Because when you readthe writings of Paul,
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some of the thingsare pretty hard to understand
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is what the Bible says,and this guy began to see
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in the Spirit, and I thinkit's fantastic
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when God opensyour spiritual eyes.
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So, but Jesus talkedconstantly to His disciples
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about you have eyes,but you can't see,
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and I've preached on this
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in several differenttypes of series
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that our spiritual eyescan be opened.
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You have eyes,but you can't see.
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Now, I've thought about thisbecause ladies, to me,
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can see things many timesthat men can't see,
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and I'm not just talkingabout in the spiritual.
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They can see thingsin the spiritual,
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but sometimes they seethings in the natural.
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For instance, I will look inmy closet for a certain shirt.
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I will go through every shirtindividually, looking for it.
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And then I will sayto Debbie, “Sugar,
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I know that shirt's here,but I can't see it.”
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She walks in and says,“It's right here.”
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[Laughter]Okay.
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So, then she said to meone time, “You have eyes,
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but you can't see.”
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[Laughter]
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Okay.
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But I've decided it's notjust that she can see things,
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I think she can make thingsappear that aren't there!
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[Laughter]
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So, God not onlyheals naturally,
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God heals spiritually as well.
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So, here's number three,God opens wombs.
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Now, this is scriptural,God opens wombs.
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Now, I'm gonna show yousomething at first
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and you may wonder whyI'm showing it to you,
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but I want to explain it to you.
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If you remember, Abraham liedabout Sarah being his wife
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because he thoughtthey would kill him,
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and Abimelech, the king,took her into his harem,
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but he didn't sleep with her.
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And of course, God shows upin a dream and, you know,
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says to him, you're a dead man,you know, to Abimelech,
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and he obviouslygives Sarah back.
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But, Genesis 20:18 says,“For the Lord had closed up
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all the wombs of the houseof Abimelech because of Sarah,
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Abraham's wife.”
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Okay, so not onlydoes God open wombs,
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it says God closes wombs.
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Now, please, please,I've got to explain this.
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Well, this was for judgment,but listen to me.
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If you're a believer in Jesus,
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God would never closeyour womb for judgment -
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never, because Jesus hasalready taken your judgment.
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If you don't hear anythingthat I ever say in no matter
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how many years you attend here,please understand this.
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If you're a believer in Jesus,
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God will never punish youfor your sins,
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because He alreadypunished Jesus.
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He's a just God.
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He cannot punish two peoplefor the same sin,
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and so many times we think this.
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We're on the way to workand we get a flat tire,
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and we think, yes, yes,I didn't have my quiet time
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this morning, so --I see, God.
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You know, You're punishing mefor not having my quiet time.
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And then it starts to rainand we're like, oh, nice touch.
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That's a nice touch, God.
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[Laughter]
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Okay, you didn't get a flat tire
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because you're underthe judgment of God!
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Let me give youthe theological reason
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you got a flat tire - a nail.
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[Laughter]
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But if you're a believer,
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God is not punishing youfor your sins.
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There's no sentenceof guilt against you,
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because God said it.
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So if you've had difficultyconceiving, listen to me.
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It's nothingyou've done wrong.
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It's nothing you've done wrong.
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You've got to know that,because God doesn't do that.
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He punished Jesusfor all of our sin. Okay?
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So, but I want to showyou another place
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where He closed a womband talk about where God
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might close a womb for a season.
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I want to show it to you,1 Samuel 1:5.
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“But to Hannah he,”that's her husband,
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“would give a double portion,for he,” that's her husband,
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“loved Hannah, althoughthe Lord had closed her womb.”
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Now, He wasn't punishing Hannah,
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but the Lordhad closed her womb.
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Okay, so why would Godclose a womb?
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Well, I know some people thatcould not conceive and adopted,
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and right after theyadopted, they conceived.
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But you've got to remember,if you're a believer,
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God's workingall things for good,
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and God wanted that childraised in a Christian home.
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And so, He may haveworked those circumstances out
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for you to consider something
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you wouldn't haveeven considered.
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Are you following me?
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So, you've got to alwayslook at God according
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to His character and His nature.
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Another reason that Godmight close a womb
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for a seasonis that He was waiting --
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I'm gonna say it this way.
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He was doing a workin Hannah's heart,
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because He needed Samuelto grow up in the temple
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and learn to hear God'svoice from an early age,
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and Hannah was so gratefulshe dedicated him
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to the Lord then.See?
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So, He was doing a workin her heart during the time,
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but here's another thing.
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God needed Samuelborn at the exact time
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to anoint Davidas the king of Israel.
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See, God, He wants your childborn at exactly the right time
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to meet the right mate.
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See, there are so manyreasons that God does things,
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but they're all for our good.That's what you have to know.
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When Debbie wasin the second grade,
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at the end of the secondgrade the teacher said
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there were some areasthat she just felt like
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it'd be better if she wouldrepeat the second grade.
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It wasn't like she failed,but the teacher said
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it would be better if you would,because of these areas,
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and I don't remember whatthose areas were right now,
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so she was heldback a year. Okay.
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What you may not know,and I have to be careful
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how I say this, is Debbieis a little older than I am.
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So, 11 months and 1 week, okay?
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So, for three weeks of theyear we're the same age,
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and so it's a really funthing that I get to do
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for 11 months and 1 week.
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But I've told her severaltimes, “You know,
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when you're 100,I'll only be 99.”
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[Laughter]
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But, here's the thing.
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She was put back one class,but that was my class.
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I might not haveever met her.
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And so, what seemed likea bad thing to her at the time
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was actually Godjust arranging things
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for what He wantedto do in the future.
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It was for her goodand for my good.
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You follow me?So, God opens a womb.
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Now, let me show yousome Scriptures
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about Him opening wombs,and of course,
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we know He openedHannah's womb.
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Genesis 29:31, “When the Lordsaw that Leah was unloved,
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He opened her womb;but Rachel was barren.”
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Genesis 30:22, “Then Godremembered Rachel,
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and God listened to herand opened her womb.”
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Now, the reason I wantedto show you this part is,
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“God listened to her.”In other words, she prayed.
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You need to pray.You need to ask God.
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And, sometimes we havedifferent personalities,
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and my personalityis to kind of go for it.
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And I didn't realize this,Debbie's personality
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is not the sameas my personality,
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and when we gotmarried, I mean,
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I knew it wasa little different,
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but we started growingand learning more things
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about each other.
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So, God gave methe names of both of my sons
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before they were born.
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He actually gave methe day that James
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would be born, the exact day.
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And so, God would speakto me, and so I knew
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I would have a son named Josh,and then a son named James.
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When I thought we weregonna have a daughter,
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that was three years later,and then I started praying
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for a daughter,‘cause I wanted a daughter,
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and it was five yearsuntil we had Elaine.
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But, one of the thingsthat happened was during
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that time I said to Debbie,
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“Hey, when we prayfor a daughter,
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I mean, are youwith me on this?
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Are you agreeing?
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Do you not wantany more children?
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Do you not want” --you know.
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She said, “No, I do,and I want a daughter.”
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And then she said somethingthat I just didn't realize
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that she was thinking this way.
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She said, “I don't reallywant to pray about it,
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because if I pray aboutit I'll get my hopes up,
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and I might get disappointed.”
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And that's a very realsense that people have,
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and I want youto understand, ladies,
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it's important that you pray.It's important that you pray.
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“Make your requestsknown to God.”
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It's important.
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And I could show you many,many Scriptures,
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but I just want to show you one,Matthew 20:29-34.
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“Now as they wentout of Jericho,
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a great multitude followed Him.
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And behold, two blind mensitting by the road,
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when they heard that Jesuswas passing by, cried out,
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saying, “Have mercy on us,O Lord, Son of David!”
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Then the multitude warned themthat they should be quiet;
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but they cried outall the more, saying,
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“Have mercy on us,O Lord, Son of David!”
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So Jesus stood stilland called them, and said,”
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now listen to what He said,
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“What do you want Meto do for you?”
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They're blind!
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“Have mercy on us,Son of David.”
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But He asked them, “What doyou want Me to do for you?”
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They said to Him, “Lord,that our eyes may be opened.”
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So Jesus had compassionand touched their eyes.
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And immediately their eyesreceived sight,
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and they followed Him.”
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Jesus asked blind Bartimaeus,“What do you want Me to do?”
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Jesus asked the father -remember, the father
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whose son was demonized.
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The father said,“If you can do anything,”
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and Jesus said - in essenceHe said, if I can do anything?
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He said, “No,if you can believe,
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then all things are possible.”
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And then he madea great response,
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and it's okayto say this to God.
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“Lord, I believe;help my unbelief.”
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Jesus said to a man
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who was laying 38 years,“Do you want to be made well?”
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Why would He do this?Because it's important.
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I don't know why.I really don't know why.
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It's importantthat you ask God.
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You know, the Biblesays He knows
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what you need before you ask.
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Here's the waywe interpret that verse -
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He knows what we need,so don't ask.
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But, that's not what it says.
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He knows what you needbefore you ask -
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He wants you to ask.
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So, remember I told youabout Debbie's sister.
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Well, so, our niece, which isthe daughter of Debbie's sister,
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a year and a half agoat Thanksgiving,
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Debbie and I were sitting acrossthe table from them
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at a family Thanksgiving.
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And, they'd been prayingand wanting to have a child.
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And, I startedfeeling compassion.
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Miracles start with compassion.
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And I started asking the Lord,“Lord, do you want me
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to pray for them?Do you want me to prophesy?
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I just feel,” --and I felt like the Lord
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was speaking something to me.
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So I said to them,“I'm going to ask you a question
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and I know the answer,but it's important
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that you answer out loud.”
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I said to each,to the husband and the wife,
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I said, “Do you wantto have a child?”
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They said, “Yes.”
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And I said, “You'll be holdingyour child next Thanksgiving.”
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And this Thanksgiving,they were holding their baby.
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The baby was born October 29th,just a few weeks
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before Thanksgiving.[Applause]
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PASTOR ROBERT: Jesus askeda lame man,
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“Do you want to be made well?”
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He asked the blind man,“What do you want Me to do foryou?”
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I'm asking you today, whatdo you want God to do for you?
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God is a miracle working god.He can't change.
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Jesus is the same yesterday,today, and forever.
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You're watchingtoday for a reason -
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because God wants to doa miracle in your life.
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Maybe it's to heal youspiritually from something
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from the past that'skept you in bondage.
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Maybe it's like, as weprayed for ladies who wanted
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to have children who couldn't,
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maybe God wants to openyour womb today.
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Maybe He wantsto heal you physically.
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But I'm asking you,I'm asking you,
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what do you want Godto do for you today,
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and I want to prayfor you right now.
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Lord, I pray for my brothersand sisters in Christ.
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I pray for miracles today.
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And Lord, we're not askingbecause of selfish reasons.
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We know that in the sameway that we want to bless
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our children,You want to bless us,
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and that Youare a God of miracles.
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So, Lord, we ask You formiracles today, in Jesus' name.
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Hey, I love you guys so much.
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Thank you for watching.
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I want you to watch next time,
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because I'm gonnacontinue this series.
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I'll see you then.
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ANNOUNCER: We're so glad youjoined us for today's program
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as Pastor Robert sharesa message from his series,
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“A Way in the Wilderness.”
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Taken from the book of Isaiah,Pastor Robert explains
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how God's people forfeitedHis protection and blessings
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when they forgot about Himand went their own way.
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Isaiah prophesiedthe arrival of a Messiah
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who would make a wayin the wilderness,
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and bring a dry, barren,and desolate land
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back to life again.
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Pastor Robert shows ushow Jesus is the fulfillment
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of Isaiah's propheciesabout the coming Messiah;
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and because we have placedour hope and trust in Jesus,
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He transforms our wildernessinto a lush garden
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overflowing with abundance.
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