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Praise | January 8, 2017

January 8, 2017

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Matt & Laurie Crouch host 'The Four Pillars of TBN' with Robert Morris, Leon Fontaine, Joseph Prince and Joel & Victoria Osteen

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Praise | January 8, 2017

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- MALE NARRATOR: A NEW YEAR
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DAWNS WITH ITS OPPORTUNITY TO
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LIVE A LIFE FULL OF GOD'S
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BLESSING.
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AS WE LIVE BY THE TRUTHS OF HIS
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WORD, HE PROMISES TO BE WITH US
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AND OFFERS EACH OF US JOY
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UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF GRACE.
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IT'S THE KIND OF LIFE WE COULD
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NEVER HAVE IMAGINED.
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GOD'S WORD IS A CONSTANT
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REMINDER OF HIS FAITHFULNESS.
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IT LEADS US ON A PATH TO A
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- MATT CROUCH: THE MESSAGE WE
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WANT TO GO TO THE GLOBAL
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NETWORKS OF TBN AND TO OUR
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AUDIENCE IS THAT THEY CAN LIVE A
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BLESSED LIFE, THAT THEY CAN DO
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THAT IN A SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY
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WAY, THAT ULTIMATELY, THEY WILL
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BE EMPOWERED BY THE GOSPEL OF
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GRACE SO THAT THEY CAN LIVE A
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HOPE-FILLED LIFE.
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THAT IS WHAT WE WANT TO MESSAGE
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OUT TO THE NETWORKS OF TBN AND
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- NARRATOR: IN THE EARLY DAYS
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OF THE CHURCH, SIMON PETER,
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CONSIDERED A PILLAR AMONG THE
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LEADERS, SPOKE CONFIDENTLY ON
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THE DAY OF PENTECOST, EMPOWERED
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BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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IN OUR DAY, MEN OF GOD HAVE
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RISEN TO SPEAK TO THIS
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- JOSEPH PRINCE: THE LORD IS
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YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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YOU DON'T HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER?
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BUT, HEY!
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THE LORD IS YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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AND THE MORE YOU BELIEVE THAT,
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WHEN YOU BELIEVE RIGHT, YOU WILL
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- ROBERT MORRIS: I REALLY
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BELIEVE AS CHILDREN OF GOD,
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THAT'S WHERE WE ARE.
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AND WHEN WE GROW UP IN THE
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KINGDOM, WE GET MORE EXCITED
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ABOUT GIVING THAN WE DO ABOUT
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GETTING, AND THAT'S A BLESSED
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- LEON FONTAINE: BEING
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CONTEMPORARY INVOLVES LOOKING AT
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THE WORLD THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE'S
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EYES.
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AND THE HOLY SPIRIT HELPS YOU TO
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- JOEL OSTEEN: WHEN YOU'RE
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ANCHORED TO HOPE, YOU MAY HAVE
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NEGATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT
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YOU'RE NOT WORRIED.
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YOU KNOW GOD IS FIGHTING YOUR
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BATTLES.
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YOU MAY NOT SEE HOW YOUR DREAM
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CAN COME TO PASS, BUT YOU DON'T
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GIVE UP.
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YOU KNOW GOD IS BEHIND THE
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SCENES, ARRANGING THINGS IN YOUR
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- NARRATOR: "I AM WRITING YOU
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THESE THINGS SO THAT, IF I AM
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DELAYED, YOU WILL KNOW HOW EACH
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ONE MUST CONDUCT HIMSELF IN
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GOD'S HOUSEHOLD, WHICH IS THE
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CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, THE
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PILLAR AND FOUNDATION OF THE
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TRUTH."
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- NARRATOR: INSPIRED BY THESE
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WORDS, YOU TOO CAN LIVE A LIFE
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EMPOWERED BY THE LIVING GOD.
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THESE PRINCIPLES COULD BECOME
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- MATT: WELCOME TO 2017.
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THE "PRAISE" PROGRAM COMES TO
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YOU FROM RIGHT HERE IN
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COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS.
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WHEREVER YOU'RE WATCHING AROUND
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THE WORLD,
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WE WELCOME YOU.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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WE'RE GONNA BE TALKIN' ABOUT
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I THINK, SUPER-IMPORTANT.
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- LAURIE CROUCH: WE JUST
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THOUGHT THAT IT WAS SO IMPORTANT
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THAT EVEN YOU AND I KIND OF TALK
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ABOUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO THIS
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NETWORK AND WHAT'S IMPORTANT, I
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THINK, TO EVERYBODY'S LIVES, AND
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THE PILLAR OF, YOU KNOW, GOD'S
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WORD IS THE FOUNDATION OF
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EVERYTHING.
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- MATT: IF THE TRUTH BEING
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SPOKEN OF IS THE PILLAR, WE WERE
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STARTING TO THEN-- WELL, LET'S
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TALK ABOUT 2017 AND WHERE
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TRINITY BROADCASTING-- WHAT IS
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THE THRUST FOR THE PROGRAMMING
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THIS YEAR?
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WHAT IS THE THRUST?
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WHAT ARE WE WANTING TO HELP THE
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BODY OF CHRIST KNOW AND
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UNDERSTAND?
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TWO OF THOSE REPRESENTATIVES ARE
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SITTING RIGHT HERE ON THE SET:
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PASTOR ROBERT MORRIS OF GATEWAY
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CHURCH AND PASTOR LEON FONTAINE
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OF THE SPRINGS CHURCH AND THE
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MIRACLE CHANNEL IN CANADA, RIGHT
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THERE IN CALGARY, ALBERTA,
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CANADA.
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WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY
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IS THE BLESSED LIFE.
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WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY,
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SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY LIFE.
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SO, PASTOR ROBERT MORRIS, FIRST
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OF ALL, A GREETING TO 2017 TO
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THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING, AND THEN
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I GOT A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR
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- ROBERT MORRIS: YEAH, I DO
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WANNA SAY HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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AND, YOU KNOW, THE WORD "HAPPY,"
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AND I'LL GET A LITTLE
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THEOLOGICAL, BUT IT'S GOOD.
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- MATT: GOOD!
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- ROBERT: AND THAT IS THAT THE
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WORD "BLESSED" IN THE BIBLE IS
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THE GREEK WORD IN THE NEW
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TESTAMENT, "MAKARIOS," AND IT
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COULD BE TRANSLATED, "HAPPY."
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"HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO ARE POOR IN
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SPIRIT."
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"HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO
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ARE MEEK."
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"HAPPY" ARE THOSE.
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AND SO "BLESSED," HAVE A HAPPY
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- ROBERT: I WANT YOU TO CATCH
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IT THAT GOD IS YOUR SOURCE, THAT
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YOU CANNOT OUT-GIVE GOD, AND
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THAT IT IS MORE THAN FINANCIAL
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BLESSINGS, THAT GOD WANTS TO
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BLESS YOU, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR
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MARRIAGE, YOUR HEALTH, YOUR
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BUSINESS, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS.
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HE WANTS YOU TO LIVE THE BLESSED
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- MATT: PASTOR LEON, GREETING.
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- LEON FONTAINE: YEAH, 2017, I
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MEAN,
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IT'S GONNA BE THE BEST YEAR
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YOU'VE EVER HAD.
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JUST MAKE SURE AND PUT JESUS
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FIRST, AND LET'S LIVE OUT
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- MATT: OKAY.
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WE STARTED WITH 1 TIMOTHY,
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YOUR TAKE ON THAT, PASTOR?
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- ROBERT: WELL, PAUL IS TALKIN'
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TO TIMOTHY, TIMOTHY BEIN' A
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SPIRITUAL SON, AND HE'S SETTING
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UP GUIDELINES FOR THE CHURCH.
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THAT CHAPTER STARTS WITH SAYING
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THE QUALIFICATIONS OF ELDERS
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AND THE QUALIFICATIONS OF
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DEACONS SHOULD BE.
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AND HE'S SAYING THE REASON THIS
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IS IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE WE'RE
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TALKIN' ABOUT THE CHURCH.
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WE'RE TALKIN' ABOUT THE BODY OF
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CHRIST ON THIS EARTH.
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AND, OF COURSE, THE WORD OF GOD
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IN JESUS IS THE FOUNDATION WHICH
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EVERYTHING IS BUILT, BUT EVERY
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FOUNDATION HAS SOME PILLARS.
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AND SO THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYIN'
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IS THAT THE CHURCH THEN IS BUILT
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ON THE PILLARS OF GOD'S WORD.
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AND IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO
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ME WHEN YOU WERE SHARING HOW GOD
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HAS GIVEN YOU SOME PILLARS TO
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MAKE SURE TRINITY BROADCASTING
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NETWORK IS OBVIOUSLY BUILT ON
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THE WORD OF GOD, AND IT HAS BEEN
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FOR MANY YEARS, BUT WHAT ARE THE
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PILLARS THAT YOU WANNA FOCUS ON,
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AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE FOUR
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PILLARS THAT GOD'S GIVEN YOU.
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- MATT: LEON, YOUR THOUGHTS ON
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PAUL'S LETTER TO TIMOTHY AND
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WHAT WE'RE REALLY, KIND OF,
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STARTING OUT THIS YEAR WITH.
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- LEON: YOU KNOW, IT'S
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INTERESTING.
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AS PILLARS, THEY'RE THE
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FOUNDATION.
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THEY'RE THE BOTTOM THAT
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EVERYTHING IS BUILT UP ON.
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AND THE VERY SUCCESS OF
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SOMETHING WILL DESTROY IT IF THE
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PILLARS AREN'T SOUND, IF THEY
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AREN'T LAID RIGHT.
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IT'S IMPORTANT WHAT THOSE
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PILLARS ARE 'CAUSE, IF YOU BUILD
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ON SOMETHING THAT'S FAULTY,
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IT'LL BE DESTROYED.
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AND SO I AGREE WITH ROBERT.
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YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
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PILLARS THAT YOU GUYS WERE
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TALKING ABOUT, WE KNOW GOD'S
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WORD IS CRUCIAL.
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IN A DAY WHERE EVERYTHING IS
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CHANGING, WE NEED TO HAVE A
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CONSTANT, AND WE KNOW GOD'S WORD
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IS TRUE.
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METHODS ARE GOING TO CHANGE, AND
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WE NEED TO BE VERY AWARE OF
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THAT, BUT THE MESSAGE OF THE
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- LEON: YOU SHOULD BE DAILY
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DOING THE THINGS THAT CAUSE THE
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PRESENCE OF GOD TO BE RELEASED
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IN YOUR LIFE 'CAUSE GOD'S
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PRESENCE, FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE,
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HAS BEEN COMMANDED UPON YOU.
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THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD HAVE
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BEEN COMMANDED UPON YOU.
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HE'S NOT WITHHOLDING ANYTHING.
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SO NOW YOU MUST SIMPLY BELIEVE,
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GET IN AGREEMENT WITH ALL OF
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THESE PROMISES THAT ARE YOURS.
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AND THEN HE'S GIVEN US WISDOM,
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BUT WISDOM IS SOMETHING YOU GROW
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- MATT: IF YOU JUST TUNED IN,
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IT IS NOW 2017.
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OKAY?
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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FIRST OF ALL,
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WE WELCOME YOU WHEREVER
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YOU'RE WATCHING AROUND THE
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WORLD.
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THIS IS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
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WEATHER'S GREAT.
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IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
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LOVE IT.
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AND I CAN'T-- SERIOUSLY, I CAN'T
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THINK OF AN EASIER PROGRAM TO
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HOST IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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THAN TO HAVE JOEL AND VICTORIA
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OSTEEN AND JOSEPH PRINCE ON THE
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SAME SET AT THE SAME TIME AND
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NOT HAVIN' TO WAKE UP TO IT BUT
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TO HAVE IT RIGHT HERE, RIGHT
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NOW: HOPE AND GRACE.
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WE'RE GONNA DIG INTO THIS, AND
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WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS
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ADDITIONALLY SET THE STAGE FOR
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2017.
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WE, LAURIE AND I, REALLY, THIS
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YEAR, BEGINS CHRISTIAN
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TELEVISION KIND OF IN ITS FULL
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SECOND GENERATION.
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BOTH OF MY PARENTS-- THIS IS THE
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FIRST NEW YEAR THAT LAURIE AND I
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HAVE EXPERIENCED WHERE MY FOLKS,
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THE FOUNDERS OF TRINITY
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BROADCASTING, SOME-44 YEARS AGO
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NOW, ARE BOTH IN HEAVEN.
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MY MOM'S REDECORATING HEAVEN,
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I'M SURE.
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[LAUGHTER]
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- LAURIE: YOU KNOW IT!
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- MATT: AND IT'S TURNING PINK
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AND GOLD AND, YOU KNOW.
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- LAURIE: I THINK IT WAS
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ALREADY PINK FOR HER!
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- MATT: YEAH!
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AND ALL THE ANGELS HAVE FALSE
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EYELASHES AND-- OKAY, ALL THAT.
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[LAUGHTER]
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ALL RIGHT.
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AND SO--
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- LAURIE: SHE JUST MADE IT MORE
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BEAUTIFUL IF THAT'S POSSIBLE!
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- MATT: GOT IT!
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OKAY.
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AND SO WHAT WE WANTED TO DO--
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- JOSEPH PRINCE: EVERYTHING IS
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REAL IN HEAVEN.
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- MATT: YEAH.
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[LAUGHTER]
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- MATT: YEAH!
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[LAUGHTER]
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- JOSEPH: SHE'S GOT BEAUTIFUL
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LASHES NOW!
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FOREVER YOUNG.
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- MATT: OKAY.
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SO 2017, WE WERE, YOU KNOW,
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BASICALLY WANTING TO START THIS
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NEW YEAR OFF AND IDENTIFY SOME
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OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY HAVE
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CHANGED LAURIE AND ME, OKAY?
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FIRST OF ALL, HOPE HAS CHANGED A
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GENERATION.
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YOU KNOW, I WAS SITTIN' HERE,
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THINKIN' OF THIS EARLIER TODAY
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THAT JOEL REALLY DOES REPRESENT
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KIND OF THE ROBERT SCHULLER,
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NORMAN VINCENT PEALE OF OUR
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GENERATION.
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- JOEL OSTEEN: WHEN YOU'RE
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ANCHORED TO HOPE, YOU MAY HAVE
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NEGATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT
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YOU KNOW GOD IS FIGHTING YOUR
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BATTLES.
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YOU MAY NOT SEE HOW YOUR DREAM
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CAN COME TO PASS, BUT YOU DON'T
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GIVE UP.
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YOU KNOW GOD IS BEHIND THE
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SCENES, ARRANGING THINGS IN YOUR
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FAVOR.
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YOU MAY GO THROUGH A BAD BREAK,
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BUT YOU DON'T GET BITTER.
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YOU KNOW "WEEPING ENDURES FOR A
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NIGHT, BUT JOY IS COMIN' IN THE
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- MATT: LET ME JUST EXPLAIN
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SOMETHIN' TO YOU.
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THERE ARE 20 MILLION PEOPLE ARE
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WATCHING JOEL OSTEEN'S BROADCAST
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EVERY WEEK-- 20 MILLION.
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AND STATS ARE TELLING US THAT
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ABOUT HALF OF THEM DO NOT
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UNDERSTAND WHAT BEING A
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CHRISTIAN IS.
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THEY'RE LEARNING IT BECAUSE OF
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JOEL'S MINISTRY.
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THAT'S A PILLAR OF WHAT WE
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BELIEVE IS MAKING UP TBN.
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[APPLAUSE]
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AND WHEN YOU HAVE HOPE AND THEN
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YOU MOVE TO GRACE,
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HOW-- WE'LL GET INTO THIS A
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LITTLE BIT LATER, BUT HOW GRACE
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EVER FELT LIKE A NEW TEACHING--
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I MEAN, THE GOSPEL OF GRACE IS
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THE REASON WE'RE ALL HERE.
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AND THE IDEA THAT THAT SOMEHOW
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BECAME A NEW THING OR SOMETHING
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IS JUST PHENOMENALLY WEIRD, BUT
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MAYBE YOU CAN EXPLAIN THAT,
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MAYBE YOU CAN'T, BUT HOPE AND
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GRACE ARE CERTAINLY A PILLAR.
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AND REPRESENTED IN THIS
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BROADCAST, LEON FONTAINE--
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IT'S JUST AN AMAZING SPIRIT
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CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT THAT WE
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BELIEVE IN, AND IT'S REALLY
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CHANGED US.
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AND ROBERT MORRIS'S "THE
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BLESSED LIFE," WE BELIEVE THAT
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GOD'S BLESSINGS ARE SO THAT WE
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CAN BE A BLESSING.
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AND SO WE'RE STARTING OFF YEAR
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2017...
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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...2017 WITH BASICALLY
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INTRODUCING SOME VERY, VERY
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IMPORTANT SUBJECTS THAT HAVE
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BASICALLY CHANGED LAURIE AND ME,
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AND WE WANTED TO REPRESENT WHO
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WE ARE.
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SO, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU,
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JOEL AND VICTORIA.
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THANK YOU, JOSEPH, FOR HELPING
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DEFINE WHAT WE WANT OUR
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GENERATION TO BE LOOKED--
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WHAT WE WANT IT TO BE,
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AND WHAT WE WANT-- YOU'RE
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HELPING US NAME IT; YOU'RE
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HELPING US PUT WORDS TO IT.
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AND SO, I'M JUST-- FIRST OF ALL,
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FROM LAURIE AND ME, THANK YOU
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VERY MUCH.
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- JOEL: THANK YOU.
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- MATT: THANK YOU FOR BEIN'
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HERE.
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OKAY.
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[APPLAUSE]
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LET ME ASK, YOU KNOW,
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NOW THAT WE KIND OF GET
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THE CONTEXT OF WHAT WE'RE
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TALKIN' ABOUT TONIGHT IN THESE
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FIRST FOUR PROGRAMS OF THE NEW
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YEAR-- YOUR THOUGHTS, BABY?
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- LAURIE: OH, MAN!
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I TELL YOU WHAT!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, FIRST OF ALL!
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
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IN THE STUDIO!
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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
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YOU KNOW, HOPE AND GRACE,
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I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE NOTHING.
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WE ARE NOTHING.
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WE ARE LIFELESS WITHOUT HOPE AND
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GRACE IN OUR LIFE.
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AND IF WE CAN-- YOU KNOW, WE
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KIND OF, WITH THE CHANGES AND
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ALL IN OUR FAMILY, AND MOM AND
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DAD BOTH BEIN' IN HEAVEN, YOU
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KIND OF LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND
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GO, "WELL, YOU KNOW, I GUESS
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THAT'S OUR PLATFORM NOW," AND SO
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WHAT-- WHO DO WE WANT ON THE
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PLATFORM AND TO BE ABLE TO SHARE
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GOD'S BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE OF HIS
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GREAT LOVE FOR YOU AND HOW MUCH
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HE LOVES YOU.
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AND I LOVE HOW JOSEPH ALWAYS
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TALKS TO US SAYING, "THE ONLY
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WAY THAT WE CAN LOVE GOD,
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REALLY, IS TO REALIZE HOW MUCH
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- JOSEPH: THERE IS A REVOLUTION
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GOING ON, THE GRACE REVOLUTION.
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IF YOU HEAR PEOPLE, YOU KNOW,
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COMING AGAINST GRACE AND ALL
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THAT, LET ME TELL YOU THAT THEIR
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VOICES ARE GETTING SMALLER AND
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SMALLER, AND THE VOICES OF GRACE
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ARE GETTING STRONGER AND
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STRONGER.
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WHY?
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IF THIS IS OF MAN, IT'LL BE
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OVERTURNED IN A NUMBER OF YEARS.
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CORRECT?
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BUT YEARS HAVE COME AND GONE,
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AND GOD'S COVENANT IS STRONGER.
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WHY?
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BECAUSE GRACE IS ALL ABOUT
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JESUS.
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IT'S ALL ABOUT THE LORD JESUS.
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- NARRATOR: HERE AT THE
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BEGINNING OF 2017, THE TRINITY
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BROADCASTING FAMILY OF NETWORKS
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INTRODUCE FOUR PILLARS OF TRUTH:
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THE BLESSED LIFE, GRACE, SPIRIT
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CONTEMPORARY, AND HOPE.
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WHEN YOU DELIGHT IN THE LORD,
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YOU CAN HAVE A TRULY BLESSED
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LIFE.
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IT IS ONE OF THE PILLARS FOR
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- MATT: WE SIT WITH AN
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EXPECTATION THAT 2017 IS GOING
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TO BE A LIFE-CHANGING YEAR
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FOR YOU,
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AND WE WELCOME YOU WHEREVER
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YOU'RE WATCHING AROUND THE
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WORLD.
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JUST, KIND OF, THE INTRODUCTORY
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COURSE TO A BLESSED LIFE.
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- ROBERT: WELL, THE WORD
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"GIVING"-- AND LAURIE SAID IT SO
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"WE DON'T GIVE TO GET.
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WE GET TO GIVE."
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THAT IS JUST FANTASTIC AND--
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[LAUGHTER]
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- ROBERT: WELL...
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- LAURIE: THAT WAS VERY KIND!
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- ROBERT: I'M NOT SURE I EVER
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SAID IT THAT ELOQUENTLY!
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BUT I WILL FROM NOW ON, AND
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IT'LL BE IN THE NEXT BOOK SO--
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BUT WE REALLY DO GET TO GIVE,
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AND I LIKE TO SAY WE ARE THE
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MOST LIKE GOD WHEN WE GIVE, AND
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SO MANY TIMES PEOPLE DON'T THINK
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ABOUT THAT.
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YOU KNOW, THE SUBJECT OF THE
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BIBLE IS GOD.
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I WAS ASKIN' A BIBLE COLLEGE
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CLASS A WHILE BACK, YOU KNOW,
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"WHAT'S THE SUBJECT OF THE
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AND THIS PRETTY LITTLE GIRL
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SAID, "WE ARE."
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I SAID, "NO, HONEY, YOU'RE
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GONNA REALIZE, AS YOU GET
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A LITTLE OLDER, THE WORLD DOES
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NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU."
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BUT WE'RE THE OBJECT OF
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THE BIBLE.
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WE ARE THE OBJECT, BUT GOD'S THE
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SUBJECT, OBVIOUSLY.
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BUT WHAT'S THE VERB OR THE
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ACTION OF THE BIBLE?
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AND SOME WOULD SAY "LOVE," BUT
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I'D LIKE TO SUBMIT THE WORD
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"GIVE."
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AND HERE'S THE REASON WHY.
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THE MOST FAMOUS VERSE IN THE
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BIBLE: "FOR GOD SO LOVED...THAT
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HE GAVE."
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IF GOD HADN'T GIVEN,
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WE'D STILL BE LOST IF HE HAD
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JUST LOVED AND NOT GIVEN.
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SO WE'RE HERE TODAY EVEN TALKING
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BECAUSE GOD GAVE HIS SON.
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WE'RE HERE BECAUSE JESUS GAVE
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HIS LIFE.
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WE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE GAVE OUR
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LIVES TO GOD, AND WE GAVE OUR
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TIME TODAY TO BE ABLE TO
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MINISTER TO PEOPLE AND HELP
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PEOPLE.
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SO IT'S ALL ABOUT GIVING, AND
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THAT'S WHAT I WANNA BE ABLE TO
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SHARE WITH PEOPLE.
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WE ARE NOT ONLY THE MOST LIKE
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GOD, WE'RE THE HAPPIEST WHEN WE
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GIVE.
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IF YOU THINK ABOUT CHRISTMAS,
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EVEN THE WORLD GETS IT RIGHT
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THAT CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT GIVING,
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NOT ABOUT GETTING.
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YOU KNOW, YOU SIT THERE AT
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CHRISTMAS AND YOU OPEN PRESENTS.
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AND AS YOU'RE YOUNG, WHAT YOU'RE
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GETTING IS THE MOST EXCITING
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THING TO YOU, BUT AS YOU GET
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OLDER AND YOU BEGIN TO MATURE,
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WHAT YOU'RE GIVING IS THE MOST
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EXCITING THING TO YOU.
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AND I REALLY BELIEVE, AS
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CHILDREN OF GOD, THAT'S WHERE WE
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ARE.
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WHEN WE GROW UP IN THE KINGDOM,
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WE GET MORE EXCITED ABOUT GIVING
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THAN WE DO ABOUT GETTING, AND
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- FEMALE NARRATOR: "IN
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EVERYTHING I DID, I SHOWED YOU
00:16:36.140 --> 00:16:37.050
THAT BY THIS KIND OF HARD WORK
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WE MUST HELP THE WEAK,
00:16:37.260 --> 00:16:40.130
REMEMBERING THE WORDS OF THE
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LORD JESUS HIMSELF: 'IT IS MORE
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BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO
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- ROBERT: I THINK GOD CARES
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ABOUT EVERY AREA OF OUR LIFE,
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INCLUDING OUR FINANCES.
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JESUS TOLD 38 PARABLES.
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SIXTEEN OF THOSE PARABLES HAVE
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TO DO WITH FINANCES AND MATERIAL
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POSSESSIONS, AND THEN JESUS
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MAKES AN INCREDIBLE STATEMENT,
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AND THAT STATEMENT IS THAT
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"WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE
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YOUR HEART WILL BE ALSO."
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AND I'VE HEARD THAT EVEN
00:17:07.030 --> 00:17:08.170
MISQUOTED THAT PEOPLE SAY,
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YOU KNOW,
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"WHERE YOUR HEART IS, THERE YOUR
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TREASURE WILL BE."
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NO, JESUS DIDN'T SAY THAT.
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WHAT HE'S SAYING IS YOUR HEART
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FOLLOWS YOUR TREASURE.
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AND SO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
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THAT GOD IS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT
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OUR MATERIAL NEEDS.
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HE'S CONCERNED LIKE A GOOD
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FATHER WILL BE.
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HE'S A GREAT FATHER, AND HE IS
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CONCERNED THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH
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NOT ONLY TO LIVE ON AND TO
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PROVIDE FOR OUR FAMILY, BUT HE
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WANTS US TO GET IN ON THE JOY OF
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GIVING.
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SO GOD ACTUALLY PROVIDES FOR OUR
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NEEDS AND GIVES US A LITTLE MORE
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SO WE CAN EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF
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GIVING, WHICH IS WHAT GOD DOES
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ALL THE TIME.
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HE GIVES US GRACE, HE GIVES US
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MERCY, AND HE GIVES US
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- ROBERT: THE WAY OUR FINANCES
00:17:53.210 --> 00:17:54.130
ARE BLESSED-- WE'VE SEEN THIS
00:17:54.130 --> 00:17:55.280
OVER AND OVER AGAIN-- IS WE
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BRING THE FIRST 10% TO THE HOUSE
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OF GOD.
00:18:00.070 --> 00:18:03.070
EVEN HEBREWS BACKS IT UP, NEW
00:18:03.070 --> 00:18:03.290
TESTAMENT, THAT JESUS HIMSELF
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RECEIVES AND BLESSES OUR
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FINANCES.
00:18:07.260 --> 00:18:09.180
SO YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE FIRST--
00:18:09.180 --> 00:18:11.000
SEE, I KNOW SOME PEOPLE WHO GIVE
00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:12.070
A LITTLE HERE AND GIVE A LITTLE
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THERE, BUT THEY DON'T BRING THE
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FIRST 10% TO THE HOUSE OF GOD.
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LISTEN TO ME.
00:18:17.130 --> 00:18:18.250
THEIR FINANCES ARE NOT BLESSED,
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AND THEY WILL NEVER MULTIPLY
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BECAUSE ONLY JESUS CAN BLESS
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THEM.
00:18:23.050 --> 00:18:25.120
SEE, THINK ABOUT THIS: WHAT IF
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THE DISCIPLES HAD GIVEN AWAY,
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GIVEN OUT THE TWO FISH AND THE
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FIVE LOAVES BEFORE JESUS BLESSED
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IT?
00:18:34.110 --> 00:18:37.110
I'M GON' SAY THAT AGAIN BECAUSE
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THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
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WHAT IF THEY HAD JUST STARTED
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GIVING IT AWAY, AND JESUS HAD
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NOT BLESSED IT?
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WOULD IT EVER HAVE MULTIPLIED?
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NO.
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SO BLESS AND GIVE.
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IT'S THE SAME WAY WHEN YOU GIVE
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A LITTLE HERE, A LITTLE THERE,
00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:48.070
BUT YOU DON'T BRING THE FIRST
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10% TO THE HOUSE OF GOD.
00:18:49.180 --> 00:18:52.180
IT DOES NOT HAVE THE BLESSING OF
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- NARRATOR: "'BRING THE WHOLE
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TITHE INTO THE STOREHOUSE, SO
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THAT THERE MAY BE FOOD IN MY
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HOUSE, AND TEST ME NOW IN THIS,'
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SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, 'IF I
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WILL NOT OPEN FOR YOU THE
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WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR OUT
00:19:03.060 --> 00:19:05.130
FOR YOU A BLESSING UNTIL IT
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- ROBERT: THERE'S A MESSAGE
00:19:10.040 --> 00:19:10.240
TODAY THAT WE CALL THE
00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:11.280
PROSPERITY MESSAGE.
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IT'S BASICALLY, "GIVE AND YOU'LL
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GET," "GIVE AND YOU'LL GET,"
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AND, YOU KNOW, "GOD WANTS TO
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BLESS EVERYONE WITH LOTS OF
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MONEY AND A MERCEDES AND A
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ROLEX."
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AND THE PROBLEM WITH THAT
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MESSAGE IS THAT IT ACTUALLY
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WORKS SELFISHNESS AND GREED INTO
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YOUR LIFE INSTEAD OF OUT OF YOUR
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LIFE, AND THE PROBLEM WITH THAT
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- MATT: AT SOME POINT,
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SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE,
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PROSPERITY-GIVING MESSAGE DID GO
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WRONG.
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IS THAT TRUE?
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- ROBERT: ABSOLUTELY TRUE,
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ABSOLUTELY.
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- MATT: SO THAT PEOPLE WILL
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UNDERSTAND THAT WE KNOW THE
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PLEASE DESCRIBE HOW
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IT WENT WRONG SO THAT WE CAN
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MAKE SURE EVERYONE GETS THAT
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WE'RE SAYING SOMETHING NEW.
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WE'RE NOT POLISHING THE OLD
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MOUND OF TEACHING AND TRYING TO
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WE'RE STARTING WITH A NEW
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MESSAGE WITH A NEW MOTIVE, OKAY?
00:20:14.280 --> 00:20:16.220
SO MAKE SURE THEY KNOW YOU KNOW
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THAT IT DID GO WRONG AND WHAT
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HAPPENED.
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LUKE 6:38, AS WE SAID BEFORE,
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"GIVE, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO
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YOU," HAS BEEN PREACHED AS THE
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MOTIVE FOR GIVING INSTEAD OF THE
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AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
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IN OTHER WORDS, "GIVE, AND
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YOU'LL GET,"
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"GIVE, AND YOU'LL GET,"
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AND THAT BECAME OUR MOTIVE
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FOR GIVING INSTEAD OF "GIVE
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BECAUSE YOU WANNA HELP SOMEONE."
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YOU GO BACK TO VERSE 30, AND
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JESUS IS TALKIN' ABOUT "GIVE TO
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EVERYONE WHO ASKS OF YA."
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AND IF THEY WANT YOUR COAT,
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GIVE 'EM YOUR SHIRT TOO,
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AND LOAN TO PEOPLE,
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AND DON'T EXPECT ANYTHING BACK.
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WELL, THAT SOUNDS LIKE "GIVING,"
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YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOAN AND SAY,
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"DON'T PAY ME BACK THOUGH."
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"DON'T EVER PAY ME BACK."
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THAT'S A GIFT.
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SO HE'S GOING TO THE MOTIVE.
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SO THE HEART, WHAT GOD WANTS TO
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BLESS, IS A MATURING CHILD, A
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CHILD WHO'S GROWING UP IN THE
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LORD, AND HE'S NOT GIVING FOR A
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SELFISH REASON.
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HE'S GIVING BECAUSE HE REALLY
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WANTS TO HELP SOMEONE, AND HE'S
00:21:16.250 --> 00:21:18.050
SAYING, "IF I DON'T EVER GET
00:21:18.050 --> 00:21:18.250
ANYTHING BACK FROM THIS, I'M
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OKAY WITH THAT."
00:21:19.150 --> 00:21:21.250
AND I THINK GOD LOOKS DOWN AND
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SAYS, "BACK THE DUMP TRUCK UP!
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I'VE NEVER HEARD ROBERT MORRIS
00:21:24.060 --> 00:21:26.040
TALK LIKE THIS.
00:21:26.040 --> 00:21:27.250
ROBERT MORRIS GREW UP SELFISH,
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AND HE WAS ALL CONCERNED ABOUT
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HIMSELF, AND NOW HE'S SAYIN', 'I
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DON'T WANT ANYTHING BACK, GOD.
00:21:31.180 --> 00:21:33.000
I JUST WANNA HELP THIS PERSON.'
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BRING THE DUMP TRUCK!"
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AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE LORD HAS
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BLESSED GATEWAY CHURCH.
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WE GIVE ABOUT A MILLION AND A
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HALF DOLLARS A MONTH TO
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MISSIONS.
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I MEAN, THAT WAS UNHEARD OF
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YEARS AGO, AND THERE ARE
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PROBABLY LOTS OF CHURCHES THAT
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GET TO DO THAT, BUT OVER $20
00:21:49.190 --> 00:21:51.110
MILLION A YEAR TO MISSIONS-- I
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THINK ONE OF THE REASONS IS
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BECAUSE GOD GAVE ME HUNDREDS OF
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DOLLARS, YEARS AGO, AND I WAS A
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GOOD STEWARD WITH IT.
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I WAS CHANNELING IT, FUNNELING
00:22:01.100 --> 00:22:02.080
IT TO PEOPLE WHO NEEDED IT AND
00:22:02.080 --> 00:22:04.050
TO GET THE GOSPEL OUT.
00:22:04.050 --> 00:22:06.130
AND THEN, SO HE SAID, "OKAY.
00:22:06.130 --> 00:22:07.070
HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL TO HUNDREDS.
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LET ME GIVE HIM THOUSANDS," AND
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THEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, AND
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NOW MILLIONS.
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MAYBE ONE DAY WE CAN GIVE $100
00:22:13.070 --> 00:22:13.280
MILLION A YEAR.
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I DON'T KNOW.
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BUT WHAT GOD IS LOOKING FOR, IF
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YOU THINK ABOUT IT, OVER HERE
00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:19.290
WOULD BE ALL OF THE NEEDS: ALL
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THE CHURCHES THAT NEED TO BE
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BUILT, ALL OF THE POOR PEOPLE
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THAT NEED TO BE HELPED, ALL THE
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PEOPLE THAT HAVE NEVER HEARD THE
00:22:27.090 --> 00:22:28.130
GOSPEL, ALL THE NEEDS.
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OVER HERE IS GOD WITH ALL THE
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RESOURCES.
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HE'S GOT 'EM ALL.
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THERE'S NOT ONE HE DOESN'T HAVE,
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YOU KNOW.
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HE'S GOT 'EM ALL.
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BUT WHAT'S IN BETWEEN?
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I AM.
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I'M IN BETWEEN.
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SO HE'S TRYING TO, BECAUSE HE
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WORKS THROUGH PEOPLE, HE'S
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TRYING TO GET THE RESOURCES, THE
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GOSPEL, TO THESE PEOPLE OVER
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HERE, BUT I'M THE ONE IN
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BETWEEN.
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SO HE'LL GIVE ME A LITTLE AND
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SEE WHAT I DO WITH IT.
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AND IF I'M FAITHFUL WITH A
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LITTLE, THEN HE'LL GIVE ME MORE.
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AND THE DIFFERENCE IN THE
00:22:54.100 --> 00:22:57.050
PROSPERITY GOSPEL MESSAGE IS GOD
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IS GIVING IT TO YOU BECAUSE HE
00:22:58.250 --> 00:23:01.040
WANTS TO BLESS YOU RATHER THAN
00:23:01.040 --> 00:23:02.270
HE WANTS YOU TO BE A BLESSING.
00:23:02.270 --> 00:23:05.130
AND I DO WANNA SAY, AS A GOOD
00:23:05.130 --> 00:23:06.290
FATHER, I LIKE TO GIVE MY KIDS
00:23:06.290 --> 00:23:08.280
GIFTS, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE
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MY CHILDREN-- AND THEY ARE-- I'D
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LIKE-- I WANNA SEE 'EM TO BE
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GIVERS AND NOT JUST, "GIVE ME
00:23:14.230 --> 00:23:17.160
MORE, DAD," "GIVE ME MORE, DAD,"
00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:18.270
"GIVE ME MORE, DAD."
00:23:18.270 --> 00:23:20.090
I WANT THEM TO BE GOOD
00:23:20.090 --> 00:23:21.010
STEWARDS AND GIVERS.
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AND WHEN GOD SEES A GOOD STEWARD
00:23:23.020 --> 00:23:24.070
AND A GIVER, THERE IS NO LIMIT
00:23:24.070 --> 00:23:25.060
TO HOW HE'LL BLESS THAT PERSON
00:23:25.060 --> 00:23:28.020
SO THAT PERSON CAN BE A
00:23:28.020 --> 00:23:28.250
- ROBERT: WELL, TWO THINGS THAT
00:23:36.230 --> 00:23:37.150
I WOULD TELL ANY PERSON THAT IS
00:23:37.150 --> 00:23:39.000
TRYING TO LIVE THE BLESSED LIFE
00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.030
BUT THEIR FINANCES ARE STILL IN
00:23:40.030 --> 00:23:40.250
A MESS, ONE GUY CAME TO ME AND
00:23:40.250 --> 00:23:43.080
SAID, "YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T WORK
00:23:43.080 --> 00:23:44.000
FOR EVERYONE.
00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:45.260
THE BLESSED LIFE DOESN'T WORK
00:23:45.260 --> 00:23:46.170
FOR EVERYONE."
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AND I SAID,
00:23:47.220 --> 00:23:48.080
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"
00:23:48.080 --> 00:23:48.240
HE SAID, "WELL, I'M GETTING, AND
00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:49.160
I'M GETTING-- I'M GIVING, AND
00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:50.260
I'M NOT GETTING ANYTHING BACK."
00:23:50.260 --> 00:23:53.130
I SAID, "WAIT A MINUTE."
00:23:53.130 --> 00:23:54.010
THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE
00:23:54.010 --> 00:23:54.220
BOOK IS TO "GIVE TO GIVE,"
00:23:54.220 --> 00:23:55.110
NOT "GIVE TO GET."
00:23:55.110 --> 00:23:55.260
SO LET'S ALSO TALK ABOUT
00:23:55.260 --> 00:23:57.230
WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON.
00:23:57.230 --> 00:23:58.120
HE SAID, "WELL, MY FINANCES ARE
00:23:58.120 --> 00:23:59.200
ALSO IN A MESS."
00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:00.060
I SAID, "WELL, HOLD ON.
00:24:00.060 --> 00:24:01.110
THE BOOK'S REALLY ABOUT GIVING,
00:24:01.110 --> 00:24:03.070
BUT ARE YOU BUYING THINGS ON
00:24:03.070 --> 00:24:04.110
CREDIT CARD?
00:24:04.110 --> 00:24:06.220
ARE YOU LIVING ABOVE YOUR MEANS?
00:24:06.220 --> 00:24:07.140
I MEAN, WHAT FINANCIAL
00:24:07.140 --> 00:24:09.100
PRINCIPLES DO YOU HAVE IN PLACE?
00:24:09.100 --> 00:24:10.200
ARE YOU ON A BUDGET?"
00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:11.070
AND NONE OF THOSE WERE IN PLACE
00:24:11.070 --> 00:24:13.100
IN HIS LIFE.
00:24:13.100 --> 00:24:15.030
SO I WANNA SHARE WITH PEOPLE
00:24:15.030 --> 00:24:16.120
THAT IT'S MORE THAN JUST GIVING.
00:24:16.120 --> 00:24:17.040
IT'S ALSO ABOUT BEING A GOOD
00:24:17.130 --> 00:24:20.130
- NARRATOR: "EACH OF YOU SHOULD
00:24:25.280 --> 00:24:26.200
USE WHATEVER GIFT YOU HAVE
00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:27.140
RECEIVED TO SERVE OTHERS, AS
00:24:27.140 --> 00:24:28.210
FAITHFUL STEWARDS OF GOD'S GRACE
00:24:28.210 --> 00:24:29.240
00:24:33.090 --> 00:24:34.260
- ROBERT: SO I SAID,
00:24:34.260 --> 00:24:35.140
"WELL, LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME
00:24:35.140 --> 00:24:36.060
TO DO?"
00:24:36.060 --> 00:24:36.160
BACK THEN, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO
00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:37.180
DO.
00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:38.040
AND HE TOLD ME THREE THINGS, SO
00:24:38.040 --> 00:24:38.260
I'M GONNA TELL YOU THE THREE
00:24:38.260 --> 00:24:39.160
THINGS HE TOLD ME.
00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:40.060
HE SAID, "NUMBER ONE, GET OUT OF
00:24:40.060 --> 00:24:41.030
DEBT."
00:24:41.030 --> 00:24:43.240
NOW, THIS MEANS DIFFERENT
00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:44.130
THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
00:24:44.130 --> 00:24:45.210
DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT
00:24:45.210 --> 00:24:46.150
CONVICTIONS, OKAY?
00:24:46.150 --> 00:24:48.240
FOR US, WE COULD STILL HAVE A
00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:50.000
MORTGAGE, BUT WE WERE NOT TO
00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:51.250
BORROW FOR DEPRECIATING ITEMS,
00:24:51.250 --> 00:24:54.150
ONLY APPRECIATING ITEMS LIKE A
00:24:54.150 --> 00:24:55.220
MORTGAGE ON A HOME.
00:24:55.220 --> 00:24:56.100
SO WE HAVE A MORTGAGE THIS DAY,
00:24:56.100 --> 00:24:57.270
AND WE HAVE HAD A MORTGAGE, BUT
00:24:57.270 --> 00:24:59.260
WE PUT IT ON A 15-YEAR NOTE, AND
00:24:59.260 --> 00:25:01.150
WE DO OUR BEST TO PAY IT OFF,
00:25:01.150 --> 00:25:02.280
EACH MONTH, OKAY.
00:25:02.280 --> 00:25:05.150
SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW
00:25:05.150 --> 00:25:06.050
BECAUSE, WHEN I SAY THAT, I
00:25:06.050 --> 00:25:06.250
DON'T WANT YOU TO-- I WANT YOU
00:25:06.250 --> 00:25:08.290
TO LET THE LORD APPLY IT TO YOU
00:25:08.290 --> 00:25:10.240
HOW HE APPLIES IT TO YOU, OKAY?
00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:12.170
SO, NUMBER ONE, HE SAID, "GET
00:25:12.170 --> 00:25:14.000
OUT OF DEBT."
00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:15.000
SO, FOR US, THE FIRST THING THAT
00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:16.180
WE NEEDED TO DO, WE HAD THIS
00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:17.230
CAR THAT WAS TOO BIG FOR US.
00:25:17.230 --> 00:25:20.060
THE PAYMENT WAS TOO BIG, AND SO
00:25:20.060 --> 00:25:21.120
WE SOLD THAT CAR, AND WE BOUGHT
00:25:21.120 --> 00:25:22.290
A CAR FOR CASH: $750.
00:25:22.290 --> 00:25:25.230
THAT WAS ALL WE COULD AFFORD.
00:25:25.230 --> 00:25:28.030
SO WE BOUGHT A CAR FOR $750, BUT
00:25:28.030 --> 00:25:30.170
YOU GOTTA HEAR ME.
00:25:30.170 --> 00:25:32.090
WE ACTUALLY LOVED THAT CAR.
00:25:32.090 --> 00:25:34.210
I MEAN, WE LOVED IT BECAUSE WE
00:25:34.210 --> 00:25:36.020
WERE GETTING OUR FINANCES IN
00:25:36.020 --> 00:25:36.220
ORDER.
00:25:36.220 --> 00:25:38.070
WE LOVED THAT CAR.
00:25:38.070 --> 00:25:39.000
WE PRAYED OVER IT.
00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:40.250
WE ANOINTED IT WITH OIL...
00:25:40.250 --> 00:25:42.060
ABOUT A QUART A WEEK AND...
00:25:42.060 --> 00:25:43.290
[LAUGHTER]
00:25:43.290 --> 00:25:46.140
AND WE DROVE THAT CAR.
00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:47.110
OKAY.
00:25:47.110 --> 00:25:48.090
SECOND THING THE LORD SAID TO ME
00:25:48.090 --> 00:25:49.010
WAS "DON'T MANIPULATE."
00:25:49.010 --> 00:25:50.080
"DON'T MANIPULATE."
00:25:50.080 --> 00:25:52.230
NOW, I WAS IN MINISTRY,
00:25:52.230 --> 00:25:53.110
BUT A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE
00:25:53.110 --> 00:25:55.020
MANIPULATE FOR MONEY.
00:25:55.020 --> 00:25:56.270
AND GOD NEVER BLESSES
00:25:56.270 --> 00:25:57.140
MANIPULATION.
00:25:57.140 --> 00:25:58.210
"MANIPULATION" COMES FROM A ROOT
00:25:58.210 --> 00:26:00.120
WORD THAT MEANS "WITCHCRAFT."
00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:03.160
SO YOU CANNOT MANIPULATE.
00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:04.160
YOU CAN'T DROP HINTS AND EXPECT
00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.270
GOD TO PROVIDE FOR YOU.
00:26:06.270 --> 00:26:09.180
AND SO, FOR ME, I SAID, "WELL,
00:26:09.180 --> 00:26:10.090
LORD, HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT?"
00:26:10.090 --> 00:26:11.070
HE SAID, "WELL, WHEN SOMEONE
00:26:11.070 --> 00:26:12.240
ASKS YOU TO COME SPEAK, THEY
00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:14.050
SAY, 'WHAT ARE YOUR FINANCIAL
00:26:14.050 --> 00:26:14.260
REQUIREMENTS FOR COMING?'
00:26:14.260 --> 00:26:16.230
AND YOU SAY, 'PAY OUR EXPENSES
00:26:16.230 --> 00:26:18.040
AND GIVE US AN OFFERING.'"
00:26:18.040 --> 00:26:20.050
AND SOME OF MY FRIENDS
00:26:20.050 --> 00:26:20.250
WOULD ACTUALLY SAY,
00:26:20.250 --> 00:26:21.150
"PAY OUR EXPENSES,
00:26:21.150 --> 00:26:23.170
GIVE US AN OFFERING, AND THE
00:26:23.170 --> 00:26:24.200
OFFERING HAS TO BE A MINIMUM
00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:26.030
OF--" I NEVER EVEN SAID THAT.
00:26:26.030 --> 00:26:28.100
I JUST SAID, "WHATEVER, JUST PAY
00:26:28.100 --> 00:26:29.020
OUR EXPENSES AND GIVE US AN
00:26:29.020 --> 00:26:29.220
OFFERING."
00:26:29.220 --> 00:26:30.080
HERE'S WHAT THE LORD SAID TO ME.
00:26:30.080 --> 00:26:31.100
HE SAID, "FROM NOW ON, YOU SAY,
00:26:31.100 --> 00:26:32.090
'I HAVE NO FINANCIAL
00:26:32.090 --> 00:26:33.160
REQUIREMENTS FOR COMING.'"
00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:35.210
BY THE WAY, THIS WAS ABOUT 30
00:26:35.210 --> 00:26:36.120
YEARS AGO,
00:26:36.120 --> 00:26:37.120
AND I STILL DO THAT TO THIS
00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:38.020
DAY.
00:26:38.020 --> 00:26:39.080
I HAVE NO FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS
00:26:39.080 --> 00:26:40.000
FOR COMING.
00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:42.240
AND THE LORD SAID TO ME, "I
00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:43.200
WANNA TEACH YOU WHO YOUR
00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:44.280
PROVIDER IS, THAT IT'S NOT HOW
00:26:45.170 --> 00:26:48.170
YOU ARRANGE THINGS.
00:26:48.170 --> 00:26:49.100
IT'S ME.
00:26:49.100 --> 00:26:51.170
NOW, AGAIN, OTHER PEOPLE, YOU
00:26:51.170 --> 00:26:52.080
CAN DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY.
00:26:52.080 --> 00:26:53.100
DON'T PUT THIS ON YOU.
00:26:53.100 --> 00:26:54.240
LET THE LORD SPEAK TO YOU WHAT
00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:55.150
HE WANTS YOU.
00:26:55.150 --> 00:26:56.120
SO THIS GUY CALLS ME.
00:26:56.120 --> 00:26:56.290
I WILL NEVER FORGET.
00:26:56.290 --> 00:26:58.090
FIRST GUY CALLS AND SAYS,
00:26:58.090 --> 00:26:59.240
"ROBERT, CAN YOU COME AND
00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:01.100
SPEAK?"
00:27:01.100 --> 00:27:02.130
I SAID, "YES.
00:27:02.130 --> 00:27:02.280
WE WORKED OUT A DAY.
00:27:02.280 --> 00:27:04.150
HE SAID, "WHAT ARE YOUR
00:27:04.150 --> 00:27:05.030
FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
00:27:05.030 --> 00:27:05.220
COMING?"
00:27:05.220 --> 00:27:06.020
I SAID, "I HAVE NO FINANCIAL
00:27:06.020 --> 00:27:06.220
REQUIREMENTS FOR COMING."
00:27:06.220 --> 00:27:08.130
AND I REMEMBER HE SAID,
00:27:08.130 --> 00:27:09.130
"WELL, THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE I
00:27:09.130 --> 00:27:10.280
DON'T EVEN THINK WE CAN PAY
00:27:10.280 --> 00:27:12.050
YOUR GAS."
00:27:12.050 --> 00:27:14.220
NOW, HE DIDN'T SAY,
00:27:14.220 --> 00:27:15.180
"PAY YOUR EXPENSES."
00:27:15.180 --> 00:27:16.110
HE SAID, "PAY YOUR GAS."
00:27:16.110 --> 00:27:17.270
LET ME TELL YOU WHY THAT'S
00:27:17.270 --> 00:27:18.160
IMPORTANT.
00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:19.140
WE GET IN THAT $750 CAR.
00:27:19.140 --> 00:27:20.150
WE START DRIVING.
00:27:20.190 --> 00:27:23.190
IT WAS TO OKLAHOMA.
00:27:23.190 --> 00:27:24.090
WE START DRIVING TO OKLAHOMA.
00:27:24.090 --> 00:27:25.000
I STOPPED TO FILL THE CAR UP
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:26.030
WITH GAS.
00:27:26.030 --> 00:27:27.210
I WENT IN TO PAY FOR IT, AND THE
00:27:27.210 --> 00:27:28.280
LADY SAID TO ME, "IT'S TAKEN
00:27:28.280 --> 00:27:29.220
CARE OF."
00:27:29.220 --> 00:27:31.120
I SAID, "WHAT DO YOU
00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:31.280
MEAN, 'IT'S TAKEN CARE OF'?"
00:27:31.280 --> 00:27:33.020
SHE SAID, "BECAUSE WHEN YOU
00:27:33.020 --> 00:27:33.220
PULLED IN, GOD TOLD ME THAT I
00:27:33.220 --> 00:27:34.200
WAS TO FILL YOUR CAR UP WITH
00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:35.100
GAS."
00:27:35.100 --> 00:27:37.110
AND I WENT OUT, AND I GOT
00:27:37.110 --> 00:27:38.150
IN THE CAR, AND I SAID, "LORD, I
00:27:38.150 --> 00:27:39.180
SURE LIKE DOIN' IT BETTER YOUR
00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:40.090
WAY THAN MY WAY."
00:27:40.090 --> 00:27:41.200
[LAUGHTER]
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.160
- ROBERT: AND HERE'S THE THIRD
00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:44.080
THING THE LORD SAID TO ME:
00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:45.000
"GIVE."
00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.110
SO HE SAID, "GET OUT OF
00:27:47.110 --> 00:27:48.140
DEBT," "DON'T MANIPULATE,"
00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:49.080
"GIVE."
00:27:49.080 --> 00:27:52.030
NOW, I HAVE TO TELL YA
00:27:52.030 --> 00:27:52.270
WHAT HAPPENED.
00:27:52.270 --> 00:27:54.120
I SAID TO THE LORD, I SAID,
00:27:54.120 --> 00:27:55.190
"LORD, I DO GIVE.
00:27:55.190 --> 00:27:57.140
I TITHE."
00:27:57.140 --> 00:27:59.030
NOW, PLEASE DON'T GET
00:27:59.030 --> 00:27:59.230
OFFENDED BY THIS.
00:27:59.230 --> 00:28:00.230
THIS IS JUST THE IMPRESSION
00:28:00.230 --> 00:28:03.220
THAT I GOT IN MY SPIRIT WHEN
00:28:03.220 --> 00:28:04.120
I SAID THAT.
00:28:04.120 --> 00:28:05.070
I SAID, "LORD, I DO GIVE.
00:28:05.070 --> 00:28:05.260
I TITHE."
00:28:05.260 --> 00:28:07.250
I FELT LIKE THE LORD WENT,
00:28:07.250 --> 00:28:08.140
"HA, HA, HA, HA."
00:28:08.260 --> 00:28:11.260
I MEAN, THAT REALLY--
00:28:11.260 --> 00:28:12.210
I MEAN, I KIND OF FELT LIKE IT
00:28:12.210 --> 00:28:13.210
WAS LIKE, "HA, HA, HA, IDIOT."
00:28:13.210 --> 00:28:14.230
YOU KNOW, I MEAN,
00:28:14.230 --> 00:28:15.280
THAT'S WHAT I FELT.
00:28:15.280 --> 00:28:17.170
[LAUGHTER]
00:28:17.170 --> 00:28:18.030
I'M LIKE, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN,
00:28:18.030 --> 00:28:18.230
LORD?
00:28:18.230 --> 00:28:19.050
I DO.
00:28:19.050 --> 00:28:20.000
I GIVE 10%."
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:21.100
HE SAID, "YOU DON'T GIVE 10%.
00:28:21.100 --> 00:28:22.110
YOU RETURN 10%."
00:28:22.110 --> 00:28:24.190
HE SAID, "THE 10% IS MINE."
00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:27.200
AND WHEN YOU READ THE LANGUAGE
00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:28.190
IN THE BIBLE, IF YOU DON'T
00:28:28.190 --> 00:28:29.220
RETURN IT, THEN YOU'VE
00:28:29.220 --> 00:28:31.250
STOLEN IT.
00:28:31.250 --> 00:28:32.170
THAT'S THE LANGUAGE.
00:28:32.170 --> 00:28:34.200
I CAN SHOW IT TO YA IN JOSHUA
00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:36.110
AND IN MALACHI: "ROBBED" AND
00:28:36.110 --> 00:28:38.010
"STOLEN."
00:28:38.010 --> 00:28:39.280
THOSE ARE THE TWO WORDS
00:28:39.280 --> 00:28:40.170
GOD USES.
00:28:40.170 --> 00:28:43.020
HE USED THAT.
00:28:43.020 --> 00:28:44.210
SO I SAID, "WELL, LORD, WHAT DO
00:28:44.210 --> 00:28:45.240
YOU MEAN, 'GIVE'?"
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.200
HE SAID, "I MEAN 'GIVE' OVER AND
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:49.120
ABOVE THE TITHE.
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.000
THAT'S WHEN YOU GIVE."
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:53.260
AND I ASKED HIM THREE
00:28:53.260 --> 00:28:54.150
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
00:28:54.150 --> 00:28:55.110
I SAID, "WELL, LORD, HOW WILL I
00:28:55.110 --> 00:28:56.120
KNOW WHEN TO GIVE?
00:28:56.120 --> 00:28:57.100
HOW WILL I KNOW WHERE TO GIVE,
00:28:57.100 --> 00:28:58.140
AND HOW WILL I KNOW HOW MUCH TO
00:28:58.140 --> 00:28:59.060
GIVE?"
00:28:59.060 --> 00:29:00.170
AREN'T THOSE IMPORTANT
00:29:00.170 --> 00:29:01.060
QUESTIONS?
00:29:01.060 --> 00:29:02.060
LISTEN TO HIS VERY SIMPLE
00:29:02.060 --> 00:29:03.030
ANSWER.
00:29:03.030 --> 00:29:03.270
HERE'S WHAT HE SAID: "I'LL TELL
00:29:03.270 --> 00:29:04.210
YA.
00:29:04.210 --> 00:29:05.150
I'LL TELL YA.
00:29:05.150 --> 00:29:07.130
MY PEOPLE HEAR MY VOICE.
00:29:07.130 --> 00:29:08.060
MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE."
00:29:08.060 --> 00:29:09.280
- MALE NARRATOR: "BLESSED ARE
00:29:09.280 --> 00:29:11.270
THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY WILL
00:29:11.270 --> 00:29:12.290
SEE GOD."
00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:17.190
- ROBERT: I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT
00:29:17.190 --> 00:29:19.140
THE NEW DIRECTION FOR TBN, AND
00:29:19.140 --> 00:29:20.260
IT'S NOT SO MUCH A NEW DIRECTION
00:29:20.260 --> 00:29:23.040
IN PRINCIPLE, BUT IT IS IN
00:29:24.130 --> 00:29:27.130
I BELIEVE WHEN PAUL AND JAN
00:29:31.040 --> 00:29:31.240
STARTED THE NETWORK, THEY WERE
00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:32.150
ASKING PEOPLE TO GIVE BECAUSE
00:29:32.150 --> 00:29:33.060
THEY HAD A VISION OF CHRISTIAN
00:29:33.060 --> 00:29:33.270
TELEVISION BEING IN EVERY HOME,
00:29:33.270 --> 00:29:35.200
ALL ACROSS THE WORLD, AND
00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:36.250
PUTTING THE GOSPEL OUT.
00:29:36.250 --> 00:29:39.210
AND THEN IT SEEMED LIKE, OVER
00:29:39.210 --> 00:29:40.120
THE YEARS, THAT THE FOCUS BEGAN
00:29:40.120 --> 00:29:42.100
TO BE ON TELETHONS AND RAISING
00:29:42.100 --> 00:29:43.230
MONEY.
00:29:43.230 --> 00:29:45.180
AND SO, WHEN THE PEOPLE WE WERE
00:29:45.180 --> 00:29:47.100
TRYING TO REACH TUNED IN, THEY
00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:48.120
JUST SAW US ASKING FOR MONEY.
00:29:49.130 --> 00:29:52.130
AND THE NEW DIRECTION OF MATT
00:29:52.130 --> 00:29:53.040
AND LAURIE TO SAY, "WE'RE GONNA
00:29:53.040 --> 00:29:55.110
FOCUS ON GIVING TO GIVE AND ON
00:29:55.110 --> 00:29:56.260
LIVING A BLESSED LIFE TO BE A
00:29:56.260 --> 00:29:58.280
BLESSING," I THINK GOD IS SO
00:29:58.280 --> 00:30:01.150
PLEASED WITH THAT NEW DIRECTION,
00:30:01.150 --> 00:30:03.000
AND I'M EXCITED THAT THE BLESSED
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:04.280
LIFE IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE
00:30:04.280 --> 00:30:05.250
- NARRATOR: HERE AT THE
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:12.080
BEGINNING OF 2017, THE TRINITY
00:30:12.080 --> 00:30:13.020
BROADCASTING FAMILY OF NETWORKS
00:30:13.020 --> 00:30:14.230
INTRODUCE FOUR PILLARS OF TRUTH:
00:30:14.230 --> 00:30:17.190
THE BLESSED LIFE,
00:30:19.210 --> 00:30:22.210
GRACE,
00:30:22.210 --> 00:30:23.240
SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY,
00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:24.150
AND HOPE.
00:30:24.220 --> 00:30:27.220
YOU CAN APPROACH THE THRONE OF
00:30:27.220 --> 00:30:28.130
THE LIVING GOD WITH CONFIDENCE
00:30:28.130 --> 00:30:29.070
AND DISCOVER HIS AMAZING GRACE.
00:30:30.110 --> 00:30:33.110
TODAY HE OFFERS EVERY ONE OF US
00:30:33.110 --> 00:30:34.280
- MATT: GRACE.
00:30:44.210 --> 00:30:45.060
THE GOSPEL OF GRACE.
00:30:45.060 --> 00:30:45.220
YOU KNOW ITS IMPACT ON PEOPLE,
00:30:45.220 --> 00:30:46.230
AND YOU KNOW THE MANDATE ON US
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:52.160
TO MAKE SURE THE GOSPEL OF GRACE
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:54.110
GETS OUT AND CHANGES PEOPLE.
00:30:55.180 --> 00:30:58.180
YOU REPRESENT THAT, AND YOU'RE
00:30:58.180 --> 00:31:00.170
HELPING US PUT WORDS TO IT.
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:04.160
WHEN I READ YOUR BOOK,
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:05.030
"DESTINED TO REIGN," MANY YEARS
00:31:05.030 --> 00:31:06.030
AGO, I FELT LIKE YOU WERE
00:31:06.030 --> 00:31:08.140
PUTTING WORDS ON A PAGE THAT I
00:31:08.140 --> 00:31:10.100
HAD ONLY BEEN ABLE TO, MAYBE,
00:31:10.100 --> 00:31:12.200
KNOW OR UNDERSTAND ON THE
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:14.010
INSIDE.
00:31:14.010 --> 00:31:16.030
I WOULD'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO
00:31:16.030 --> 00:31:16.280
ARTICULATE THIS UNDERSTANDING.
00:31:18.180 --> 00:31:21.180
- JOSEPH: YES, I THINK THAT THE
00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:22.160
LORD IS RESTORING THIS GOSPEL,
00:31:22.250 --> 00:31:25.250
THE GOSPEL THAT HIS SON DIED TO
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.000
MAKE AVAILABLE TO US.
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:31.270
AND YOU KNOW THAT GOD WOULD HAVE
00:31:31.270 --> 00:31:33.000
HIS WAY, YOU KNOW?
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:34.140
AND ANYONE THAT LINES THEMSELF
00:31:34.140 --> 00:31:36.290
UP WITH A VISION THAT GOD HAS,
00:31:36.290 --> 00:31:38.040
ALL RIGHT, WITH THE GOSPEL OF
00:31:38.040 --> 00:31:39.260
GRACE, WILL BE BLESSED, WILL BE
00:31:41.090 --> 00:31:44.090
RESOURCED, WILL BE SUPPLIED,
00:31:44.090 --> 00:31:44.290
WILL BE ANOINTED, WILL BE
00:31:44.290 --> 00:31:45.230
FAVORED, AND I SEE THAT.
00:31:45.230 --> 00:31:47.070
I'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN, YOU KNOW?
00:31:47.070 --> 00:31:48.220
I NEVER HAVE TO MANIPULATE
00:31:48.220 --> 00:31:49.110
MYSELF OR POSITION MYSELF, AND
00:31:49.110 --> 00:31:50.280
JOEL WILL SAY THE SAME THING,
00:31:50.280 --> 00:31:52.200
YOU KNOW?
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:54.170
BUT THE MOMENT YOU LINE YOURSELF
00:31:54.170 --> 00:31:55.090
UP WITH GOD'S VISION, EVERYTHING
00:31:55.090 --> 00:31:56.010
JUST PROSPERS, YOU KNOW?
00:31:56.010 --> 00:31:57.200
AND I THINK THAT, ON THE OTHER
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:59.250
HAND, IF YOU COME AGAINST THE
00:31:59.250 --> 00:32:02.100
PURPOSE OF GOD, LIKE, IN
00:32:02.100 --> 00:32:04.100
"I MARVEL, I'M SHOCKED THAT YOU
00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:11.220
ARE SO SOON REMOVED FROM HIM,
00:32:11.220 --> 00:32:12.170
WHO CALLED YOU INTO THE GRACE OF
00:32:12.170 --> 00:32:13.090
- MATT: WOW.
00:32:17.070 --> 00:32:17.200
- JOSEPH: NOW, IN ORDER FOR HIM
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:18.120
TO COMPARE LIKE THAT, "GOD
00:32:18.120 --> 00:32:19.200
CALLED YOU TO THE GRACE OF
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:20.180
CHRIST, TO ANOTHER GOSPEL," THAT
00:32:23.050 --> 00:32:26.050
MEANS THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL IS THE
00:32:26.050 --> 00:32:27.040
GRACE OF CHRIST.
00:32:27.040 --> 00:32:27.290
ALL RIGHT?
00:32:27.290 --> 00:32:28.210
AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
00:32:28.210 --> 00:32:29.090
GALATIANS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING TO
00:32:29.090 --> 00:32:30.010
A LOT OF PEOPLE NOW.
00:32:30.010 --> 00:32:30.280
THEY HAVE DEPARTED FROM GRACE,
00:32:30.280 --> 00:32:32.000
THINKING THAT GRACE IS A STRANGE
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:32.280
DOCTRINE WHEN ACTUALLY GRACE IS
00:32:32.280 --> 00:32:33.240
THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL.
00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:35.230
- MATT: WOW.
00:32:35.230 --> 00:32:37.050
- JOSEPH: AND THEY ARE
00:32:37.050 --> 00:32:39.060
DEPARTING INTO A DIFFERENT
00:32:39.060 --> 00:32:39.280
GOSPEL.
00:32:39.280 --> 00:32:42.050
BUT NOW THEY'RE CALLING "GRACE"
00:32:42.050 --> 00:32:42.270
A DIFFERENT GOSPEL.
00:32:42.270 --> 00:32:44.040
SEE HOW THE DEVIL HAS PUT UP
00:32:44.040 --> 00:32:45.060
HEDGES AGAINST GRACE, AGAINST
00:32:45.060 --> 00:32:45.270
HOPE?
00:32:45.270 --> 00:32:46.180
ANYTIME SOMEONE PREACHES GRACE
00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:47.090
AND HOPE, IT'S LIKE, "OH,
00:32:47.090 --> 00:32:48.010
THEY'RE GIVING PEOPLE LICENSE TO
00:32:48.010 --> 00:32:48.290
SIN."
00:32:48.290 --> 00:32:51.050
ACTUALLY, THE BIBLE DOESN'T SAY
00:32:51.050 --> 00:32:51.270
THAT GRACE IS LICENSE TO SIN.
00:32:51.270 --> 00:32:53.070
IT SAYS THAT GRACE WILL TEACH US
00:32:53.070 --> 00:32:54.150
TO DENY UNGODLINESS.
00:32:54.150 --> 00:32:55.280
NOW, I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT, "AMEN,
00:32:55.280 --> 00:32:57.110
BROTHER, YOU GOTTA TEACH PEOPLE
00:32:57.110 --> 00:32:58.220
TO DENY UNGODLY--" NO, GRACE
00:32:58.220 --> 00:33:00.130
WILL TEACH US TO DENY IT.
00:33:00.130 --> 00:33:01.020
- LAURIE: YEAH.
00:33:01.020 --> 00:33:02.070
- JOSEPH: TEACH PEOPLE GRACE,
00:33:02.070 --> 00:33:02.280
AND GRACE WILL TEACH THEM FROM
00:33:02.280 --> 00:33:03.190
WITHIN.
00:33:03.190 --> 00:33:04.270
- MATT: BEAUTIFUL.
00:33:04.270 --> 00:33:06.000
- JOSEPH: GRACE WILL TRANSFORM
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.230
THEM.
00:33:06.230 --> 00:33:07.110
IT'S NOT "BEHAVIOR
00:33:07.110 --> 00:33:08.000
MODIFICATION."
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:08.210
IT'S INWARD
00:33:08.210 --> 00:33:09.070
TRANSFORMATION.
00:33:09.070 --> 00:33:10.110
- MATT: BEAUTIFUL!
00:33:10.110 --> 00:33:10.290
WOO!
00:33:10.290 --> 00:33:11.190
- FEMALE NARRATOR: "BUT GROW IN
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:15.160
THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:16.070
- JOSEPH: WHEN YOU GOT SAVED,
00:33:19.230 --> 00:33:20.140
YOU ARE ETERNALLY SAVED.
00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:21.020
YOU SEE, PEOPLE SIN BECAUSE THEY
00:33:21.020 --> 00:33:23.160
ARE SINNERS.
00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:25.150
THEY DON'T BECOME SINNERS
00:33:25.150 --> 00:33:27.040
BECAUSE THEY SIN.
00:33:27.040 --> 00:33:29.080
THE BIBLE SAYS, "BY ONE MAN'S
00:33:29.080 --> 00:33:31.090
DISOBEDIENCE WE ARE ALL MADE
00:33:31.090 --> 00:33:32.140
SINNERS."
00:33:32.190 --> 00:33:35.190
AMEN?
00:33:35.190 --> 00:33:37.140
BY THE SAME TOKEN, BY THE
00:33:37.140 --> 00:33:38.030
OBEDIENCE OF ONE MAN,
00:33:38.250 --> 00:33:41.250
HALLELUJAH, WE ARE ALL MADE
00:33:41.250 --> 00:33:42.160
RIGHTEOUS!
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.000
- MATT: YOU COULD'VE PREACHED
00:33:50.190 --> 00:33:51.100
COLOSSIANS, AND YOU COULD'VE
00:33:51.100 --> 00:33:53.070
WORKED YOUR WAY THROUGH BUT
00:33:53.070 --> 00:33:55.010
YOU--
00:33:55.010 --> 00:33:55.140
- JOSEPH: AND I DO!
00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:56.000
[LAUGHTER]
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:57.210
- MATT: -- YOU CHOSE, THOUGH,
00:33:57.210 --> 00:33:58.210
TO ALWAYS FIND THE GOSPEL OF
00:33:58.210 --> 00:34:00.190
GRACE INSIDE OF THE SCRIPTURE.
00:34:00.220 --> 00:34:03.220
SO WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?
00:34:04.050 --> 00:34:07.050
- JOSEPH: I THINK PART OF IT'S
00:34:07.050 --> 00:34:07.270
YOU'RE LOOKING AT A MAN WHO
00:34:11.010 --> 00:34:11.210
REALLY BELIEVES LIKE, YOU KNOW,
00:34:11.210 --> 00:34:12.240
TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD, YOU NEED
00:34:12.240 --> 00:34:13.160
SOMEHOW IT DIDN'T BOTHER MOST
00:34:16.290 --> 00:34:17.200
PEOPLE, BUT IT BOTHERED ME AS A
00:34:17.200 --> 00:34:18.120
17-YEAR-OLD-- I DON'T KNOW WHY,
00:34:18.120 --> 00:34:20.270
BUT WHEN I HEARD THE TEACHING
00:34:20.270 --> 00:34:22.230
FOR THE FIRST TIME, "UNLESS YOU
00:34:22.230 --> 00:34:24.070
CONFESS EVERY SIN, YOU'RE OUT OF
00:34:24.070 --> 00:34:25.250
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD."
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.000
AND, YOU KNOW, BACK IN
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:30.180
SINGAPORE, WE HAVE TO SERVE
00:34:30.180 --> 00:34:32.150
OUR NATIONAL SERVICE IN
00:34:32.150 --> 00:34:33.040
THE ARMY.
00:34:33.040 --> 00:34:34.170
EVERY 17-YEAR-OLD HAS TO GO
00:34:34.170 --> 00:34:35.070
THERE.
00:34:35.070 --> 00:34:36.110
I NEEDED GOD'S INTERVENTION.
00:34:36.110 --> 00:34:37.010
I NEEDED HIS FAVOR.
00:34:37.010 --> 00:34:37.170
I NEEDED HIS HELP IN THE ARMY.
00:34:37.170 --> 00:34:38.170
SO I'LL BE RUNNING, AND THE
00:34:38.170 --> 00:34:40.270
INSTRUCTORS WILL BE USING
00:34:40.270 --> 00:34:42.040
PROFANITIES AND ALL THAT, AND I
00:34:42.040 --> 00:34:43.200
GET ANGRY, AND I GET BITTER, AND
00:34:43.200 --> 00:34:44.210
I SAID, "OH, NO, I'M OUT OF
00:34:44.210 --> 00:34:45.200
FELLOWSHIP."
00:34:45.200 --> 00:34:47.190
SO I START CONFESSING WHILE
00:34:47.190 --> 00:34:48.090
I'M HOLDING MY M16, RUNNING.
00:34:48.090 --> 00:34:50.070
I'LL BE SAYING, "NO, LORD,
00:34:50.070 --> 00:34:51.230
FORGIVE ME FOR HAVING THAT
00:34:51.230 --> 00:34:53.010
RESENTMENT AGAINST--" I'M
00:34:53.010 --> 00:34:55.290
CONFESSING MY SINS ALL THE TIME.
00:34:55.290 --> 00:34:56.210
- MATT: ALL THE TIME.
00:34:56.210 --> 00:34:57.100
- JOSEPH: IF I'M TALKING TO
00:34:57.100 --> 00:34:58.090
YOU, AND I FELT LIKE I'M--
00:34:58.090 --> 00:35:00.060
I NEED TO STOP IN FRONT OF YOU
00:35:00.060 --> 00:35:01.050
AND GO LIKE THIS...
00:35:01.050 --> 00:35:01.210
[WHISPERING] ...CONFESSING MY
00:35:01.210 --> 00:35:02.120
SINS.
00:35:02.120 --> 00:35:03.290
I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS DOESN'T
00:35:03.290 --> 00:35:04.220
BOTHER MOST PEOPLE, BUT IT'S
00:35:04.220 --> 00:35:06.050
SORT OF LIKE THIS NEED TO BE
00:35:06.050 --> 00:35:06.250
RIGHT WITH GOD.
00:35:06.250 --> 00:35:08.010
I WAS IN A NEVER-ENDING CYCLE OF
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.000
DEPRESSION AND, YOU KNOW, ALL
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:13.240
WANTING TO BE RIGHT WITH GOD
00:35:13.240 --> 00:35:15.030
UNTIL ONE DAY, YOU KNOW, IT ALL
00:35:15.030 --> 00:35:16.230
CAME TO AN END.
00:35:16.230 --> 00:35:18.260
I THOUGHT I WOULD LOSE MY MIND.
00:35:18.260 --> 00:35:19.190
I NEARLY DID, YOU KNOW?
00:35:19.190 --> 00:35:20.290
OF COURSE, SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE
00:35:20.290 --> 00:35:21.220
THAT I'VE GONE THAT POINT
00:35:21.220 --> 00:35:22.130
ALREADY, YOU KNOW?
00:35:22.130 --> 00:35:24.080
[LAUGHTER]
00:35:24.080 --> 00:35:24.290
WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME THING.
00:35:24.290 --> 00:35:25.190
BUT I REMEMBER WHEN GOD OPENED
00:35:25.190 --> 00:35:27.220
MY EYES TO THE FACT THAT
00:35:27.220 --> 00:35:29.110
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS A GIFT THAT WAS
00:35:29.110 --> 00:35:32.030
PURCHASED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.
00:35:32.260 --> 00:35:35.260
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS PERCEIVED MANY
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:39.000
A TIMES AS RIGHT-DOING, ALL
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:40.000
RIGHT?
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:41.070
BUT IN THE SCRIPTURES, IN THE
00:35:41.070 --> 00:35:42.240
NEW TESTAMENT, RIGHTEOUSNESS IS
00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:43.220
A GIFT.
00:35:43.220 --> 00:35:45.000
AND THE BIBLE SAYS IN ROMANS
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:46.140
5:17, THAT "BY ONE MAN'S OFFENSE
00:35:46.140 --> 00:35:49.020
DEATH REIGNED BY ONE, MUCH MORE
00:35:49.020 --> 00:35:51.070
THOSE WHO RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF
00:35:51.070 --> 00:35:51.280
GRACE AND THE GIFT OF
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:54.170
RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL REIGN IN
00:35:54.170 --> 00:35:55.150
LIFE."
00:35:55.150 --> 00:35:56.130
SO THESE WERE THE TWO
00:35:56.130 --> 00:35:57.230
THINGS THAT GOD-- YOU KNOW?
00:35:57.230 --> 00:35:58.130
AND I LEARNED THAT FROM THE WORD
00:35:58.130 --> 00:35:59.220
OF FAITH, ACTUALLY, THE FIRST
00:35:59.220 --> 00:36:01.010
TIME I GOT HOLD OF THAT VERSE.
00:36:01.010 --> 00:36:01.220
YOUR DAD WAS PART OF IT, YOUR
00:36:01.220 --> 00:36:03.200
DAD AND BROTHER HAGIN AND ALL
00:36:03.200 --> 00:36:04.110
THE REST, AND IT WAS RIGHT IN
00:36:04.110 --> 00:36:06.210
FRONT OF ME ALWAYS, ROMANS 5:17.
00:36:06.210 --> 00:36:09.150
THESE TWO GIFTS, IF YOU HAVE
00:36:09.150 --> 00:36:11.050
THESE TWO GIFTS, ABUNDANCE OF
00:36:11.050 --> 00:36:12.080
GRACE-- YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
00:36:12.080 --> 00:36:13.230
PEOPLE SAY, "YOU PREACH TOO MUCH
00:36:13.230 --> 00:36:14.210
ON GRACE."
00:36:14.210 --> 00:36:15.080
WELL, WE NEED AN ABUNDANCE OF
00:36:15.080 --> 00:36:16.210
GRACE TO REIGN IN LIFE.
00:36:16.210 --> 00:36:18.250
SO ABUNDANCE OF GRACE AND THE
00:36:18.250 --> 00:36:20.140
GIFT, NOT THE REWARD, THE GIFT
00:36:20.140 --> 00:36:21.080
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:36:23.030 --> 00:36:26.030
ALL RIGHT?
00:36:26.030 --> 00:36:27.060
IF YOU ACCEPT THIS, YOU WILL
00:36:27.060 --> 00:36:27.260
REIGN IN LIFE.
00:36:27.260 --> 00:36:28.130
SO I REALIZE THAT, "WAIT A
00:36:28.130 --> 00:36:29.020
MINUTE, YOU KNOW?
00:36:29.020 --> 00:36:29.190
WHAT IS THE GIFT OF
00:36:29.190 --> 00:36:30.180
RIGHTEOUSNESS?"
00:36:30.180 --> 00:36:31.040
I WAS SHARING WITH THE PASTORS
00:36:31.040 --> 00:36:32.210
THIS MORNING THAT, YOU KNOW,
00:36:33.160 --> 00:36:36.160
EVEN FOR AMERICA, REGARDLESS OF
00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:37.080
WHO RUNS AMERICA, THE BIBLE SAYS
00:36:37.080 --> 00:36:38.010
"RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION,"
00:36:42.120 --> 00:36:44.010
NOT THE ONES RUNNING IT.
00:36:44.010 --> 00:36:44.190
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:36:44.190 --> 00:36:46.100
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GOD IS A
00:36:46.100 --> 00:36:47.010
SO IT'S THE BELIEVERS, ALL
00:36:49.190 --> 00:36:50.080
RIGHT?
00:36:50.080 --> 00:36:50.170
THE MORE WE PREACH THE GOSPEL
00:36:50.170 --> 00:36:51.080
LIKE TBN IS DOING,
00:36:51.080 --> 00:36:52.110
THE MORE PEOPLE ARE SAVED,
00:36:52.110 --> 00:36:54.170
RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL EXALT
00:36:54.170 --> 00:36:55.050
THIS NATION.
00:36:55.050 --> 00:36:56.020
IT'S FOR THE LACK OF THE
00:36:56.020 --> 00:36:58.090
PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL, YOU
00:36:58.090 --> 00:36:59.040
KNOW?
00:36:59.040 --> 00:36:59.200
WHOEVER WE PUT IN, YOU KNOW, IN
00:36:59.200 --> 00:37:00.140
THE WHITE HOUSE OR WHATEVER,
00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:01.260
THAT'S SIGNIFICANT, BUT I
00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:03.000
BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO GET BACK
00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:04.190
TO THE GOSPEL, AND THE GOSPEL IS
00:37:04.190 --> 00:37:06.030
THE GOSPEL OF GRACE.
00:37:07.040 --> 00:37:10.040
PAUL CALLS IT "THE GOSPEL OF
00:37:10.040 --> 00:37:10.240
GRACE," "THE GOSPEL OF PEACE."
00:37:10.240 --> 00:37:12.230
THERE'S NO OTHER TERM FOR IT.
00:37:12.230 --> 00:37:14.030
SO WHEN I FIRST DISCOVERED THIS
00:37:14.030 --> 00:37:15.060
AS A TEENAGER, YOU KNOW, IT
00:37:15.060 --> 00:37:16.180
- NARRATOR: "I BECAME A SERVANT
00:37:22.230 --> 00:37:23.150
OF THIS GOSPEL BY THE GIFT OF
00:37:23.150 --> 00:37:24.060
GOD'S GRACE GIVEN ME THROUGH THE
00:37:24.060 --> 00:37:24.280
- MATT: PASTOR ROBERT, LOOK, I
00:37:30.290 --> 00:37:31.210
DON'T KNOW HOW IN GOD'S GREEN
00:37:31.210 --> 00:37:34.180
EARTH THE MESSAGE OF GRACE FELT
00:37:38.010 --> 00:37:41.010
NEW BECAUSE IT IS THE FOUNDATION
00:37:41.010 --> 00:37:42.250
OF EVERYTHING, BUT SOMEHOW WE
00:37:42.250 --> 00:37:45.190
ARE HEARING THAT AS MINISTRIES
00:37:45.190 --> 00:37:48.180
ARE WRITING BOOKS.
00:37:49.140 --> 00:37:52.140
AND MAX LUCADO WROTE A BOOK ON
00:37:52.140 --> 00:37:53.050
GRACE AND JOSEPH PRINCE AND
00:37:53.050 --> 00:37:54.240
OTHERS THAT ARE IN OUR SPHERE
00:37:54.240 --> 00:37:57.200
AND ON CHRISTIAN TV AND A PART
00:37:57.200 --> 00:37:59.200
OF THE TRINITY FAMILY, THAT IT'S
00:37:59.200 --> 00:38:02.060
SOMEHOW-- THE MESSAGE OF GRACE
00:38:02.210 --> 00:38:05.210
SEEMS NEW, OKAY?
00:38:05.210 --> 00:38:08.090
I'M NOT SURE ANYONE CAN ANSWER
00:38:08.090 --> 00:38:09.000
THAT, BUT ULTIMATELY THE
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:09.180
IMPORTANCE OF THE OLD, OLD STORY
00:38:10.030 --> 00:38:13.030
OF AMAZING GRACE, PLEASE.
00:38:13.030 --> 00:38:15.030
- ROBERT: WELL, GRACE IS THE
00:38:15.030 --> 00:38:17.270
FOUNDATION, AND WE REALLY GOT
00:38:17.270 --> 00:38:18.240
AWAY FROM IT IN THE BODY OF
00:38:18.240 --> 00:38:19.140
CHRIST.
00:38:19.140 --> 00:38:20.030
THAT'S WHY IT SEEMS NEW.
00:38:20.030 --> 00:38:21.180
WE BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT WHAT
00:38:21.180 --> 00:38:23.070
GRACE DOES RATHER THAN WHAT
00:38:23.070 --> 00:38:24.160
GRACE IS, THAT GRACE EMPOWERS US
00:38:24.160 --> 00:38:26.230
TO LIVE A HOLY LIFE.
00:38:26.230 --> 00:38:29.080
AND IT DOES, BUT WHEN YOU THINK
00:38:29.080 --> 00:38:30.000
ABOUT THAT, THEN WHEN YOU DON'T
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.010
LIVE THE HOLY LIFE, THEN YOU
00:38:32.010 --> 00:38:33.200
FEEL BAD.
00:38:33.200 --> 00:38:35.010
YOU FEEL HORRIBLE.
00:38:35.010 --> 00:38:35.170
SO GRACE DOES A LOT OF THINGS
00:38:35.170 --> 00:38:38.130
FOR US, BUT WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT
00:38:38.130 --> 00:38:40.120
IT IS, AND IT IS THE UNMERITED,
00:38:40.120 --> 00:38:43.120
UNDESERVED FAVOR OF GOD.
00:38:44.030 --> 00:38:47.030
THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS ME TO LIVE A
00:38:47.030 --> 00:38:48.190
BETTER LIFE TO-- YOU KNOW, WHEN
00:38:48.190 --> 00:38:50.260
YOU THINK ABOUT EVEN THE LAW,
00:38:50.260 --> 00:38:53.040
AND WE THINK, "WELL, I'M NOT
00:38:53.040 --> 00:38:55.240
GUILTY OF THAT," BUT JESUS
00:38:55.240 --> 00:38:57.120
TAKES, LIKE, ADULTERY, AND HE
00:38:57.120 --> 00:38:58.250
PUTS IT DOWN TO YOUR THOUGHTS.
00:38:58.250 --> 00:39:00.090
YOU KNOW, STEALING COULD BE
00:39:00.090 --> 00:39:01.140
STEALING TIME FROM YOUR
00:39:01.140 --> 00:39:02.110
EMPLOYER.
00:39:02.110 --> 00:39:03.170
COVETING COULD JUST BE, AGAIN,
00:39:03.170 --> 00:39:04.280
THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:06.090
HOUSE COMPARED TO YOUR
00:39:06.090 --> 00:39:07.090
NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE OR YOUR
00:39:07.090 --> 00:39:07.280
FRIEND'S NEW HOUSE OR WHATEVER.
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:09.280
"SO I CAN'T LIVE UP TO IT.
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:12.030
I JUST CAN'T DO IT."
00:39:12.030 --> 00:39:13.220
AND WHAT GRACE SAYS TO ME IS,
00:39:13.220 --> 00:39:15.040
"I KNOW YOU CAN'T LIVE UP
00:39:15.040 --> 00:39:16.150
TO IT, AND I ACCEPT YOU JUST
00:39:16.150 --> 00:39:17.140
LIKE YOU ARE,
00:39:17.140 --> 00:39:19.150
AND, YES, I'LL HELP YOU WORK ON
00:39:19.150 --> 00:39:21.030
THESE AREAS.
00:39:21.030 --> 00:39:21.200
BUT EVEN WHEN YOU FALL, YOU'RE
00:39:21.200 --> 00:39:23.150
COMPLETELY FORGIVEN.
00:39:23.150 --> 00:39:25.110
YOU'RE COMPLETELY LOVED."
00:39:25.110 --> 00:39:27.080
AND THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING
00:39:27.080 --> 00:39:28.160
NOW WITH JOSEPH AND OTHERS
00:39:28.160 --> 00:39:30.110
IS THEY'RE SAYING,
00:39:30.110 --> 00:39:31.130
"NO, LET'S BACK UP FOR A
00:39:31.130 --> 00:39:32.010
MINUTE.
00:39:32.010 --> 00:39:33.200
BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT WHAT GRACE
00:39:33.200 --> 00:39:34.230
DOES, LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT
00:39:34.230 --> 00:39:35.130
GRACE IS--" AND YOU TALK ABOUT
00:39:35.130 --> 00:39:37.150
GIVIN' SOMEBODY HOPE.
00:39:37.150 --> 00:39:38.050
THAT GIVES US ALL HOPE THAT GOD
00:39:38.050 --> 00:39:40.120
ACCEPTS ME UNCONDITIONALLY, AND
00:39:40.120 --> 00:39:42.250
JESUS PAID THE FULL PRICE FOR ME
00:39:42.290 --> 00:39:45.290
- NARRATOR: "I AM ASTONISHED
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:50.190
THAT YOU ARE SO QUICKLY
00:39:50.190 --> 00:39:51.140
DESERTING THE ONE WHO CALLED YOU
00:39:51.140 --> 00:39:52.170
TO LIVE IN THE GRACE OF CHRIST
00:39:52.170 --> 00:39:53.250
AND ARE TURNING TO A DIFFERENT
00:39:53.250 --> 00:39:55.030
- JOSEPH: YOU KNOW, SOMEHOW OUR
00:40:01.020 --> 00:40:01.260
THINKING HAS BEEN SO WARPED,
00:40:01.260 --> 00:40:02.160
THAT WE ARE THINKING IN LINE
00:40:02.160 --> 00:40:05.070
WHERE THE DEVIL WANTS.
00:40:05.070 --> 00:40:07.170
YOU KNOW, HE'S PUT HEDGES
00:40:07.170 --> 00:40:08.060
AGAINST HOPE, AGAINST GRACE SO
00:40:08.060 --> 00:40:09.270
MUCH SO THAT, IF ANYONE PREACH
00:40:09.270 --> 00:40:10.180
IT, YOUR NAME WILL BE DRAGGED
00:40:10.180 --> 00:40:11.200
YOU'LL BE-- BECAUSE PEOPLE
00:40:16.170 --> 00:40:17.060
CANNOT BELIEVE, "IS GOD THAT
00:40:17.060 --> 00:40:17.280
GOOD?"
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:19.120
- MATT: WOW.
00:40:19.120 --> 00:40:20.220
- JOSEPH: BUT YOU THINK ABOUT
00:40:20.220 --> 00:40:21.280
IT, YOU LOOK AT SCRIPTURE.
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:22.260
FOR EXAMPLE, THE APOSTLE PETER,
00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:24.120
WHEN ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES HE
00:40:24.120 --> 00:40:25.230
MET JESUS, RIGHT, JESUS SAYS,
00:40:25.230 --> 00:40:27.060
"LET'S GO FISHING."
00:40:27.060 --> 00:40:28.160
HE GAVE HIM A NET-BREAKING,
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:31.180
BOAT-SINKING LOAD OF FISHES.
00:40:31.180 --> 00:40:34.100
WHAT HAPPENED TO PETER?
00:40:34.100 --> 00:40:34.280
HE FELL AT HIS FEET AND SAID,
00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:35.190
"DEPART FROM ME.
00:40:35.190 --> 00:40:37.220
I'M A SINFUL MAN."
00:40:37.220 --> 00:40:39.130
NO LAWS WERE GIVEN.
00:40:39.130 --> 00:40:41.160
JESUS DIDN'T TELL HIM WHAT'S
00:40:41.160 --> 00:40:43.070
WRONG WITH HIM, DIDN'T POINT OUT
00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:43.290
HIS SINS...JUST BLESSED HIM,
00:40:43.290 --> 00:40:45.030
RIGHT?
00:40:45.030 --> 00:40:46.290
BUT WHAT WAS THE SENSE THAT HE
00:40:46.290 --> 00:40:48.100
HAD?
00:40:48.100 --> 00:40:49.260
WHAT WAS THE SENSE?
00:40:49.260 --> 00:40:51.040
THE LOVE OF JESUS?
00:40:51.040 --> 00:40:52.270
NO, HE FEARED THE LORD BECAUSE
00:40:52.270 --> 00:40:54.100
OF HIS SIN: "DEPART FROM ME.
00:40:54.100 --> 00:40:55.140
I'M A SINFUL MAN."
00:40:55.140 --> 00:40:57.070
DO WE NEED TO TEACH PEOPLE
00:40:57.070 --> 00:40:58.050
THE FEAR OF GOD?
00:40:58.050 --> 00:41:00.240
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT
00:41:00.240 --> 00:41:01.140
HAPPENED TO ANYONE IN THE BIBLE
00:41:01.140 --> 00:41:02.210
WHEN A HEAVENLY BEING APPEARS IN
00:41:02.210 --> 00:41:05.110
THEIR BEDROOM, THEIR FIRST
00:41:05.110 --> 00:41:06.070
REACTION IS WHAT?
00:41:06.070 --> 00:41:07.050
FEAR.
00:41:07.050 --> 00:41:08.160
IN FACT, EVEN AN ANGEL, RIGHT?
00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:09.070
AN ANGEL OF HEAVEN WOULD SAY,
00:41:09.070 --> 00:41:11.010
"FEAR NOT."
00:41:11.010 --> 00:41:12.160
NOW, IF GOD APPEARS
00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:14.070
IN THE MOST WICKED SINNER, YOU
00:41:14.070 --> 00:41:16.090
KNOW, IN TOWN, IN HIS BEDROOM
00:41:16.090 --> 00:41:18.110
TONIGHT, WHAT DO YOU RECKON HIS
00:41:18.110 --> 00:41:20.080
FIRST REACTION WILL BE?
00:41:20.080 --> 00:41:22.020
[SINGING A CAPPELLA]
00:41:22.020 --> 00:41:22.190
THY LOVING KINDNESS...
00:41:22.190 --> 00:41:24.040
[LAUGHTER]
00:41:24.040 --> 00:41:24.280
- JOSEPH: I RECKON NOT!
00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:27.080
I THINK HIS FIRST REACTION WILL
00:41:27.080 --> 00:41:28.000
BE FEAR.
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:28.290
"DEPART FROM ME.
00:41:28.290 --> 00:41:29.130
I'M A SINFUL MAN."
00:41:29.130 --> 00:41:30.260
WE DON'T HAVE TO TEACH PEOPLE
00:41:30.260 --> 00:41:31.170
FEAR OF GOD.
00:41:31.170 --> 00:41:34.140
THEY INSTINCTIVELY-- THE REASON
00:41:34.140 --> 00:41:36.050
THEY DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE GOD,
00:41:36.050 --> 00:41:37.200
BECAUSE THEY FEAR GOD.
00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:38.140
- MATT: WOW.
00:41:38.140 --> 00:41:39.250
- JOSEPH: BUT WHAT WE NEED TO
00:41:39.250 --> 00:41:42.040
TEACH PEOPLE IS THE LOVE OF GOD,
00:41:42.040 --> 00:41:42.270
THE LOVE OF GOD FOR THEM.
00:41:42.270 --> 00:41:43.250
[APPLAUSE]
00:41:43.250 --> 00:41:45.230
NOW, THAT TAKES THE
00:41:45.230 --> 00:41:47.010
HOLY SPIRIT.
00:41:47.010 --> 00:41:47.260
THAT TAKES THE ANOINTING OF GOD
00:41:47.260 --> 00:41:48.290
BECAUSE PETER, 3 & 1/2 YEARS
00:41:48.290 --> 00:41:51.080
AFTER JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD,
00:41:51.080 --> 00:41:53.110
REMEMBER THAT?
00:41:53.110 --> 00:41:55.050
NOW, HE'S WALKED WITH THE LORD,
00:41:55.050 --> 00:41:56.200
AND HE DENIED KNOWING THE LORD
00:41:56.200 --> 00:41:57.150
THREE TIMES.
00:41:57.150 --> 00:41:59.060
SO 1 WEEK AFTER JESUS ROSE FROM
00:41:59.060 --> 00:42:01.110
THE DEAD, JESUS WAS WALKING BY
00:42:01.110 --> 00:42:02.100
THE BEACH, AND THEY WERE FISHING
00:42:02.180 --> 00:42:05.180
ALL NIGHT.
00:42:05.180 --> 00:42:07.140
THEY CAUGHT NOTHING.
00:42:07.140 --> 00:42:09.050
AND THEN JESUS SAYS, "CAST YOUR
00:42:09.050 --> 00:42:10.080
NET ON THE RIGHT SIDE."
00:42:10.080 --> 00:42:12.030
NOW, JOHN WAS THE FIRST
00:42:12.030 --> 00:42:13.140
ONE TO REALIZE THAT
00:42:13.140 --> 00:42:14.060
IT WAS JESUS.
00:42:14.060 --> 00:42:15.220
WHAT HAPPENED TO PETER?
00:42:15.220 --> 00:42:16.230
WHAT DID PETER DO?
00:42:16.230 --> 00:42:18.030
HE JUMPED INTO THE WATER TO GO
00:42:18.030 --> 00:42:18.240
TO JESUS.
00:42:19.250 --> 00:42:22.250
NOW, WHAT MOTIVATED HIM TO DO
00:42:22.250 --> 00:42:23.180
THAT?
00:42:23.180 --> 00:42:25.030
IT WAS A REVELATION OF HIS LOVE
00:42:25.030 --> 00:42:26.000
BECAUSE, PRIOR TO THIS, JESUS
00:42:26.120 --> 00:42:29.120
HAD A SECRET MEETING, NOT
00:42:29.120 --> 00:42:30.240
REVEALED IN THE SCRIPTURE, BUT
00:42:30.240 --> 00:42:33.160
THE BIBLE SAYS THE ANGEL SAYS,
00:42:33.160 --> 00:42:34.230
"GO AND TELL--" PETER HAD A
00:42:34.230 --> 00:42:35.250
MEETING WITH JESUS.
00:42:35.250 --> 00:42:36.280
JESUS RESTORED HIM ALREADY.
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:38.130
SO HERE WHEN HE SAW JESUS, IF HE
00:42:38.130 --> 00:42:40.240
HAD THE FEAR OF GOD, HE'LL JUMP
00:42:40.240 --> 00:42:43.000
THE OTHER WAY--
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.020
- MATT: YEAH.
00:42:45.020 --> 00:42:46.100
- JOSEPH: -- THE OTHER SIDE OF
00:42:46.100 --> 00:42:47.030
THE BOAT.
00:42:47.030 --> 00:42:48.050
BUT HE JUMPED TOWARDS THE LORD
00:42:48.050 --> 00:42:50.180
BECAUSE, THIS TIME, HE HAS GROWN
00:42:50.180 --> 00:42:51.130
IN THE LORD.
00:42:51.130 --> 00:42:52.230
AND WHAT'S THE SENSE ABOUT THE
00:42:52.230 --> 00:42:53.220
LORD?
00:42:53.220 --> 00:42:54.200
HIS LOVE.
00:42:54.200 --> 00:42:56.260
SO THE MARK, THE MAIN
00:42:56.260 --> 00:42:59.250
CHARACTERISTIC OF SOMEONE WHO IS
00:42:59.250 --> 00:43:02.130
GROWING IN THE LORD IS THAT HE'S
00:43:02.130 --> 00:43:03.200
MORE CONSCIOUS OF THE LORD'S
00:43:03.200 --> 00:43:04.160
LOVE FOR HIM.
00:43:04.160 --> 00:43:06.210
AND WE THINK WE HAVE IT UPSIDE--
00:43:06.210 --> 00:43:09.120
YOU KNOW, IN REVERSE.
00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:11.250
WE THINK THAT, "WELL, LOVE AND
00:43:11.250 --> 00:43:12.160
GRACE, THAT'S GOOD.
00:43:12.160 --> 00:43:14.180
THAT'S GOOD, AMEN.
00:43:14.180 --> 00:43:15.220
I DON'T DENY THAT, BUT WE'LL
00:43:15.220 --> 00:43:17.020
TEACH PEOPLE THE FEAR OF GOD!
00:43:17.020 --> 00:43:18.040
WE'RE GONNA PUT THE FEAR--" NO,
00:43:18.040 --> 00:43:20.040
WE ARE ACTUALLY REVERSING THE
00:43:20.040 --> 00:43:20.290
ENTIRE THING.
00:43:20.290 --> 00:43:23.050
EVEN THE SINNER TODAY,
00:43:23.050 --> 00:43:24.220
INSTINCTIVELY THEY KNOW-- IF
00:43:24.220 --> 00:43:26.170
THEY KNOW GOD EXISTED, THEY
00:43:26.170 --> 00:43:28.070
DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH GOD
00:43:28.070 --> 00:43:29.150
BECAUSE THEY FEAR HIM.
00:43:29.150 --> 00:43:30.280
WE DON'T NEED TO TEACH THE FEAR
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:32.230
OF GOD, BUT WE NEED TO TEACH
00:43:32.230 --> 00:43:34.090
PEOPLE THE LOVE OF GOD.
00:43:34.090 --> 00:43:35.020
- MATT: THANK YOU, LORD!
00:43:35.020 --> 00:43:36.090
- JOSEPH: AND WHAT JOEL DOES
00:43:36.090 --> 00:43:37.080
AND WHAT I DO IS THAT WE ARE
00:43:37.080 --> 00:43:38.140
TELLING PEOPLE, "GOD LOVES YOU.
00:43:38.140 --> 00:43:39.060
GOD IS FOR YOU.
00:43:39.060 --> 00:43:40.090
GOD IS NOT AGAINST YOU.
00:43:40.090 --> 00:43:41.050
HE WANTS TO HELP YOU."
00:43:41.050 --> 00:43:42.050
[APPLAUSE]
00:43:42.050 --> 00:43:45.050
AND I BELIEVE THAT,
00:43:45.050 --> 00:43:46.230
YOU KNOW, THE HOLY SPIRIT IS
00:43:46.230 --> 00:43:49.010
ANOINTING ANY MINISTRY THAT
00:43:49.010 --> 00:43:51.140
WANTS TO PROCLAIM THE LOVE OF
00:43:51.140 --> 00:43:53.070
GOD BECAUSE WE DON'T HEAR IT
00:43:53.070 --> 00:43:54.040
ENOUGH.
00:43:54.040 --> 00:43:55.170
AND IT'S THE "PERFECT LOVE THAT
00:43:55.170 --> 00:43:56.090
CASTS OUT FEAR," AND HOW DO WE
00:43:56.090 --> 00:43:57.050
DO IT?
00:43:57.050 --> 00:43:57.240
MANY A TIMES, WE PUT IT AS
00:43:57.240 --> 00:43:59.140
MAN-CENTERED, WHERE PERFECT LOVE
00:43:59.140 --> 00:44:00.240
IS WHEN YOU LOVE PERFECTLY.
00:44:00.240 --> 00:44:02.220
NOBODY CAN LOVE PERFECTLY.
00:44:02.220 --> 00:44:04.020
PERFECT LOVE IS HIS LOVE FOR US!
00:44:04.020 --> 00:44:05.090
- MATT: WOW!
00:44:05.090 --> 00:44:06.060
- JOSEPH: THIS IS LOVE, NOT
00:44:06.060 --> 00:44:08.090
THAT WE LOVE GOD BUT THAT HE
00:44:08.090 --> 00:44:09.170
LOVED US.
00:44:09.170 --> 00:44:11.120
- MATT: BEAUTIFUL!
00:44:11.120 --> 00:44:12.250
[APPLAUSE]
00:44:12.250 --> 00:44:13.150
- JOSEPH: NO, WAIT A MINUTE.
00:44:13.150 --> 00:44:15.090
THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT, THE
00:44:15.090 --> 00:44:16.190
GREATEST OF ALL THE LAW, THE
00:44:16.190 --> 00:44:17.160
GREATEST OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS
00:44:17.160 --> 00:44:18.140
IS "THOU SHALT LOVE GOD WITH ALL
00:44:18.140 --> 00:44:19.140
YOUR HEART, ALL YOUR SOUL, ALL
00:44:19.140 --> 00:44:20.120
YOUR MIND, ALL YOUR STRENGTH."
00:44:20.120 --> 00:44:23.050
NOW, JESUS SAID THAT, BUT HE WAS
00:44:23.050 --> 00:44:24.250
RESPONDING TO A QUESTION THAT
00:44:24.250 --> 00:44:27.080
ONE OF THE PHARISEES ASKED:
00:44:27.080 --> 00:44:29.190
"WHAT IS THE GREATEST OF ALL THE
00:44:29.190 --> 00:44:30.110
COMMANDMENTS?"
00:44:30.110 --> 00:44:32.110
SO HE WASN'T SAYING THAT THIS IS
00:44:32.110 --> 00:44:34.030
HOW YOU GO, BUT HE'S-- NO ONE
00:44:34.030 --> 00:44:35.050
CAN DO THAT.
00:44:35.050 --> 00:44:35.220
NO ONE CAN LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF
00:44:35.220 --> 00:44:36.160
YOUR HEART, ALL OF YOUR SOUL,
00:44:36.160 --> 00:44:37.070
ALL OF YOUR MIND.
00:44:37.070 --> 00:44:38.100
HAS ANYONE DONE THAT?
00:44:38.100 --> 00:44:38.270
NO ONE.
00:44:38.270 --> 00:44:39.110
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, EVEN DAVID
00:44:39.110 --> 00:44:40.030
FAILED.
00:44:40.030 --> 00:44:41.270
THERE'S ONLY ONE WHO DID IT:
00:44:41.270 --> 00:44:42.170
JESUS.
00:44:42.170 --> 00:44:43.230
- MATT: BEAUTIFUL.
00:44:43.230 --> 00:44:44.160
- JOSEPH: AND IT'S EASY FOR
00:44:44.160 --> 00:44:45.060
PEOPLE TO BE HEALED, TO RECEIVE
00:44:45.060 --> 00:44:47.020
MIRACLES EVEN, WHEN THEY KNOW
00:44:47.020 --> 00:44:48.130
GOD LOVES THEM.
00:44:48.130 --> 00:44:50.190
WE USED TO TEACH "FAITH WORKS BY
00:44:50.190 --> 00:44:51.210
LOVE; THAT LOVE IS OUR LOVE.
00:44:52.010 --> 00:44:55.010
IF YOU LOVE PERFECTLY, YOUR
00:44:55.010 --> 00:44:55.210
FAITH WILL WORK."
00:44:55.210 --> 00:44:56.140
NO, FRIEND.
00:44:56.140 --> 00:44:57.010
THE CONTEXT IS THIS: YOUR FAITH
00:44:57.010 --> 00:44:58.140
WILL WORK BY "AGAPE," HIS LOVE
00:44:58.140 --> 00:45:00.180
FOR YOU.
00:45:00.180 --> 00:45:02.100
WHEN YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH HE
00:45:02.100 --> 00:45:03.000
LOVES YOU, "BANG," YOUR FAITH
00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:04.060
WILL WORK UNCONSCIOUSLY,
00:45:04.060 --> 00:45:04.240
EFFORTLESSLY.
00:45:04.240 --> 00:45:07.010
AMEN!
00:45:07.010 --> 00:45:08.270
- MATT: THE MESSAGE OF GRACE
00:45:17.030 --> 00:45:19.140
SEEMS LIKE IT SHOULD'VE NEVER
00:45:19.140 --> 00:45:20.050
GONE OUT OF OUR, YOU KNOW, OUT
00:45:20.050 --> 00:45:23.050
OF OUR VERNACULAR, BUT THE
00:45:23.050 --> 00:45:24.180
GOSPEL OF GRACE, AS IT'S KIND OF
00:45:24.180 --> 00:45:27.150
RESURFACING, THE IMPORTANCE OF
00:45:27.150 --> 00:45:29.180
- LEON: I LOVE WHAT ROBERT
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:34.280
SAID, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK
00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:35.190
ABOUT-- IF I LOOK AT YOU AND I
00:45:35.190 --> 00:45:36.100
SAY, "HEY, MATT, I'M GONNA DO
00:45:36.100 --> 00:45:37.010
YOU A FAVOR."
00:45:37.010 --> 00:45:38.030
THE FIRST THING THAT COMES
00:45:38.030 --> 00:45:39.030
TO YOUR MIND IS..."WHAT?"
00:45:41.080 --> 00:45:44.080
AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT GRACE, HIS
00:45:44.080 --> 00:45:45.000
UNMERITED FAVOR, I LOVE TALKING
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:45.260
TO PEOPLE ABOUT IT.
00:45:45.260 --> 00:45:46.180
I SAY, "WELL, WHAT IS THE FAVOR
00:45:46.180 --> 00:45:47.210
THAT HE GAVE US?"
00:45:47.260 --> 00:45:50.260
AND IT'S ACTUALLY HIS ABILITY.
00:45:50.260 --> 00:45:51.170
AND SO GRACE-- YOU KNOW, WE
00:45:51.170 --> 00:45:53.290
SOMETIMES GET IT MIXED UP WITH
00:45:53.290 --> 00:45:55.060
MERCY, BUT GRACE IS HIS ABILITY
00:45:55.060 --> 00:45:56.150
THAT COMES TO US IN AN
00:45:56.280 --> 00:45:59.280
UNMERITED-- AS AN UNMERITED
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.070
AND AS ROBERT WAS SAYING, I
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:05.180
MEAN, YOU'VE GOT HIS POWER TO
00:46:05.180 --> 00:46:06.100
LIVE MORALLY RIGHT.
00:46:06.100 --> 00:46:09.000
YOU'VE GOT HIS POWER TO MAKE
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:09.200
YOUR MARRIAGE WORK.
00:46:09.200 --> 00:46:10.200
YOU HAVE HIS ABILITY AS A FREE
00:46:10.200 --> 00:46:11.110
GIFT.
00:46:11.110 --> 00:46:12.170
YOU DON'T HAVE TO EARN IT.
00:46:12.170 --> 00:46:13.160
YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A
00:46:13.160 --> 00:46:14.110
WAY TO GO GET IT.
00:46:14.110 --> 00:46:15.170
IT'S A GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
00:46:15.170 --> 00:46:17.100
THIS AMAZING GRACE ON OUR LIVES,
00:46:17.100 --> 00:46:20.010
AND WHAT'S BEAUTIFUL ABOUT-- AND
00:46:20.010 --> 00:46:21.140
I LOVE THE RESURRECTION OF THIS
00:46:21.140 --> 00:46:23.020
TRUTH IN SO MANY LIVES-- IS
00:46:23.020 --> 00:46:24.140
BECAUSE RELIGION HAS A WAY OF
00:46:24.200 --> 00:46:27.200
DESTROYING AND BREAKING PEOPLE
00:46:27.200 --> 00:46:30.040
DOWN, BUT WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT
00:46:30.040 --> 00:46:31.260
JESUS DID IT ALL, YOU KNOW, WHEN
00:46:31.260 --> 00:46:34.190
I CONTINUE TO TEACH OR STUDY ON
00:46:34.190 --> 00:46:36.190
THE TOPIC OF GRACE, YOU KNOW, I
00:46:36.190 --> 00:46:38.120
JUST CONTINUE TO FEEL THIS
00:46:38.120 --> 00:46:39.150
DEEPER LOVE FOR JESUS.
00:46:39.150 --> 00:46:41.240
I WANNA JUST SIT THERE AND JUST
00:46:41.240 --> 00:46:42.160
TEAR UP AND SAY, "OH, I LOVE YOU
00:46:42.160 --> 00:46:44.160
SO MUCH FOR HOW EASY YOU MADE
00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:46.130
- MALE NARRATOR: "FROM HIS
00:46:52.010 --> 00:46:52.210
FULLNESS WE HAVE ALL RECEIVED
00:46:52.210 --> 00:46:53.120
- JOSEPH: I'M AMUSED SOMETIMES
00:46:56.190 --> 00:46:57.110
WHEN I HEAR PEOPLE SAYING THAT
00:46:57.110 --> 00:46:58.020
"OH, I'M NOT INTO THIS GRACE
00:46:58.020 --> 00:46:58.220
TEACHING."
00:46:58.220 --> 00:47:01.020
IT'S NOT A GRACE TEACHING.
00:47:01.020 --> 00:47:03.020
IT IS THE GOSPEL!
00:47:03.020 --> 00:47:04.020
- LAURIE: RIGHT.
00:47:04.020 --> 00:47:04.180
- MATT: WOW.
00:47:04.180 --> 00:47:05.100
- JOSEPH: GRACE IS JUST A
00:47:05.100 --> 00:47:06.000
REDISCOVERY OF THE GOSPEL.
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.120
IT'S AS IF IT'S BEEN HIDDEN FOR,
00:47:08.120 --> 00:47:09.040
YOU KNOW, FOR SOME TIME, AND ON
00:47:09.040 --> 00:47:10.130
MY PART, I FEEL MY ROLE IS JUST
00:47:10.130 --> 00:47:13.110
TO PICK IT UP AND JUST DUST OFF
00:47:13.110 --> 00:47:14.030
LIKE KING JOSIAH FOUND THE LAW
00:47:17.170 --> 00:47:18.080
OF THE LORD, YOU KNOW, AFTER
00:47:18.080 --> 00:47:19.030
WE ARE JUST DUSTING OFF AND
00:47:23.140 --> 00:47:24.040
LOOKING AT WHAT THE REAL GOSPEL
00:47:24.040 --> 00:47:24.260
IS ALL ABOUT AND TELLING THE
00:47:24.260 --> 00:47:25.160
THE BIBLE SAYS IN TITUS THAT
00:47:29.260 --> 00:47:30.160
"THE GRACE OF GOD HAS APPEARED,
00:47:30.160 --> 00:47:31.080
BECOME VISIBLE TO ALL MEN."
00:47:31.080 --> 00:47:32.260
THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGS
00:47:37.080 --> 00:47:37.280
SALVATION HAS APPEARED TO
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:38.170
ALL MEN, HAS BECOME VISIBLE.
00:47:38.170 --> 00:47:39.280
THAT TELLS US GRACE IS NOT A
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:40.210
DOCTRINE.
00:47:40.210 --> 00:47:42.020
GRACE IS THE PERSON OF OUR LORD
00:47:42.020 --> 00:47:42.290
JESUS CHRIST.
00:47:43.190 --> 00:47:46.190
AND THERE ARE NEW VOICES THAT
00:47:46.190 --> 00:47:47.100
WANT TO REDEFINE GRACE THAT'S
00:47:47.100 --> 00:47:49.220
NOT BASED ON SCRIPTURE.
00:47:49.220 --> 00:47:50.190
SCRIPTURE DEFINES "GRACE" LIKE
00:47:50.190 --> 00:47:51.120
"IF IT BE OF WORKS," IN
00:47:54.240 --> 00:47:55.120
THE BOOK OF ROMANS, "IF IT BE OF
00:47:55.120 --> 00:47:56.040
WORKS, IT'S NO MORE OF GRACE."
00:47:56.040 --> 00:47:56.250
IF IT BE OF GRACE, IT'S NO MORE
00:47:56.250 --> 00:47:58.160
OF WORKS.
00:47:58.160 --> 00:48:01.080
OTHERWISE, WORKS IS NO MORE
00:48:01.080 --> 00:48:02.030
WORKS, GRACE IS NO MORE GRACE,
00:48:02.030 --> 00:48:02.250
SO GRACE IS THE OPPOSITE OF
00:48:06.110 --> 00:48:07.010
WORKS.
00:48:07.010 --> 00:48:07.180
NOW, WE NEED WORKS IN OUR LIFE,
00:48:07.180 --> 00:48:09.130
BUT MANY A TIMES WE DON'T
00:48:09.130 --> 00:48:11.080
REALIZE THAT WE BECOME HOLY BY
00:48:11.080 --> 00:48:12.050
ACCIDENT.
00:48:12.050 --> 00:48:14.100
WHEN YOUR MIND IS FULL OF HOPE,
00:48:14.100 --> 00:48:16.060
YOUR HEART IS FULL OF FAITH,
00:48:16.060 --> 00:48:18.250
THOSE ARE ACTUALLY
00:48:18.250 --> 00:48:21.140
CHARACTERISTICS OF HOLINESS.
00:48:21.140 --> 00:48:23.150
AND WHEN JESUS LOOKED AT THE
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:27.000
SEVEN CHURCHES-- AND I KNOW THAT
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.020
THIS SESSION MIGHT NOT BE FOR
00:48:29.020 --> 00:48:30.070
THE SEVEN CHURCHES, BUT I JUST
00:48:30.070 --> 00:48:31.230
WANNA TELL YOU THE FIRST CHURCH
00:48:31.230 --> 00:48:32.230
THAT HE LOOKED AT-- AND HE WAS
00:48:32.230 --> 00:48:34.000
ASSESSING THE CHURCH LIKE A
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.050
MANAGER WOULD ASSESS HIS
00:48:35.050 --> 00:48:36.010
EMPLOYEES--
00:48:36.250 --> 00:48:39.250
IT'S NOT A METHOD OF SALVATION.
00:48:39.250 --> 00:48:40.290
IT'S A METHOD OF MINISTRY.
00:48:40.290 --> 00:48:42.220
IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THE
00:48:42.220 --> 00:48:43.240
CANDLESTICK IS THE CHURCH, THE
00:48:43.240 --> 00:48:45.000
LOCAL CHURCH.
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:47.040
YOU KNOW, JOHN SAW SEVEN GOLDEN
00:48:47.040 --> 00:48:49.260
LAMPSTANDS, SEVEN MENORAHS.
00:48:49.260 --> 00:48:52.010
THE SEVEN MENORAHS ARE THE SEVEN
00:48:55.190 --> 00:48:56.110
CHURCHES IN ASIA MINOR AT THE
00:48:56.110 --> 00:48:57.160
TIME.
00:48:57.160 --> 00:49:00.140
SO LET'S USE THAT ANALOGY, ALL
00:49:00.140 --> 00:49:01.150
RIGHT?
00:49:01.150 --> 00:49:03.090
HE WAS LOOKING AT THE CHURCH AND
00:49:03.090 --> 00:49:04.010
SAYS, "IF YOU DON'T REPENT, YOU
00:49:04.010 --> 00:49:04.230
DON'T CHANGE YOUR MIND, I'LL
00:49:04.230 --> 00:49:05.130
REMOVE YOUR CANDLESTICK."
00:49:05.130 --> 00:49:06.190
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:49:06.190 --> 00:49:07.210
YOUR CHURCH SHUTS DOWN.
00:49:07.210 --> 00:49:08.280
- MATT: WOW.
00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:09.230
- JOSEPH: BUT THE PEOPLE THAT
00:49:09.230 --> 00:49:10.150
ARE SAVED WILL GO SOMEWHERE
00:49:10.150 --> 00:49:11.050
NOW, THAT, IN A FORM, IS A
00:49:14.170 --> 00:49:15.060
CHASTISEMENT, RIGHT?
00:49:15.060 --> 00:49:15.220
THE LORD IS ASSESSING THE
00:49:15.220 --> 00:49:16.140
PASTORS.
00:49:16.140 --> 00:49:18.110
HE'S TALKING TO THE PASTOR OF
00:49:18.110 --> 00:49:19.100
THE CHURCH, THE ANGEL OF THE
00:49:19.100 --> 00:49:20.000
JESUS SAID TO THE FIRST CHURCH
00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:22.190
OF EPHESUS, LOOK AT THAT, "I
00:49:22.190 --> 00:49:23.160
KNOW YOUR WORKS, YOUR LABOR,
00:49:23.160 --> 00:49:24.200
YOUR PATIENCE."
00:49:24.200 --> 00:49:27.200
NOTICE THE ORDER.
00:49:27.200 --> 00:49:29.170
"I KNOW YOUR WORKS, YOUR LABOR,
00:49:29.170 --> 00:49:31.030
YOUR PATIENCE."
00:49:31.030 --> 00:49:33.120
NOW, FOR MOST OF US,
00:49:33.120 --> 00:49:33.280
THIS CHURCH HAS WORKS, THEY HAVE
00:49:37.100 --> 00:49:38.020
LABOR, AND THEY HAVE
00:49:38.020 --> 00:49:38.250
PERSEVERANCE," RIGHT?
00:49:38.250 --> 00:49:41.180
BUT NOTICE WHAT'S MISSING HERE.
00:49:41.180 --> 00:49:44.100
IT'S AN INDICTMENT.
00:49:44.100 --> 00:49:46.070
BECAUSE LOOK AT THE ORDER:
00:49:46.070 --> 00:49:47.110
WORKS, LABOR, AND PATIENCE.
00:49:47.110 --> 00:49:48.010
NOW, LET'S LOOK AT
00:49:48.010 --> 00:49:49.090
PAUL SAYS, "...REMEMBERING
00:49:51.220 --> 00:49:52.110
WITHOUT CEASING YOUR WORK OF
00:49:52.110 --> 00:49:53.010
FAITH, LABOR OF LOVE, AND
00:49:53.010 --> 00:49:54.290
- MATT: HOLY SMOKES!
00:50:00.110 --> 00:50:01.220
- JOSEPH: SO WHAT IS MISSING IS
00:50:01.220 --> 00:50:02.140
FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE.
00:50:02.140 --> 00:50:03.060
"AND NOW ABIDES FAITH, HOPE, AND
00:50:03.060 --> 00:50:04.210
LOVE."
00:50:04.210 --> 00:50:05.100
SO WHAT JOEL DOES AND MY
00:50:05.100 --> 00:50:06.140
MINISTRY IS THAT WE'RE
00:50:06.140 --> 00:50:08.170
EMPHASIZING FAITH, HOPE, AND
00:50:08.170 --> 00:50:09.070
LOVE.
00:50:09.070 --> 00:50:12.000
THE PREVIOUS GENERATION, YOUR
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:12.260
FATHER, YOUR FATHER, EMPHASIZED
00:50:12.260 --> 00:50:15.060
FAITH BECAUSE GOD WAS RESTORING
00:50:15.060 --> 00:50:17.020
FAITH TO THE BODY OF CHRIST.
00:50:17.020 --> 00:50:19.290
AND NOW WE HAVE HOPE, AND WE
00:50:19.290 --> 00:50:20.190
HAVE LOVE BEING RESTORED.
00:50:21.150 --> 00:50:24.150
NOW, ISN'T THIS TRUE HOLINESS?
00:50:24.150 --> 00:50:26.130
BECAUSE YOU CAN BE DOING THE
00:50:26.130 --> 00:50:27.030
RIGHT THINGS FOR THE WRONG
00:50:27.030 --> 00:50:27.260
REASONS.
00:50:27.260 --> 00:50:28.110
WHAT THE LORD WANTS IS NOT JUST
00:50:28.110 --> 00:50:30.000
WORK, BUT WORK OF FAITH; NOT
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:31.220
JUST LABOR, BUT LABOR OF LOVE;
00:50:31.220 --> 00:50:33.190
NOT JUST PERSEVERANCE, BUT
00:50:33.190 --> 00:50:35.260
PERSEVERANCE OF HOPE BECAUSE YOU
00:50:35.260 --> 00:50:37.190
HAVE A POSITIVE EXPECTATION OF
00:50:37.190 --> 00:50:39.030
GOOD IN YOUR FUTURE.
00:50:39.030 --> 00:50:41.240
- LAURIE: OH, THAT'S GOOD!
00:50:41.240 --> 00:50:42.140
- MATT: BEAUTIFUL!
00:50:42.140 --> 00:50:43.120
[APPLAUSE]
00:50:43.120 --> 00:50:44.210
- JOSEPH: AND NOW ABIDES FAITH,
00:50:44.210 --> 00:50:45.150
- NARRATOR: HERE AT THE
00:50:51.030 --> 00:50:52.000
BEGINNING OF 2017, THE TRINITY
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:53.110
BROADCASTING FAMILY OF NETWORKS
00:50:53.110 --> 00:50:54.030
INTRODUCE FOUR PILLARS OF TRUTH:
00:50:54.170 --> 00:50:57.170
THE BLESSED LIFE, GRACE, SPIRIT
00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:01.020
CONTEMPORARY, AND HOPE.
00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:05.280
YOU CAN LIVE EMPOWERED BY THE
00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:07.030
SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD.
00:51:07.030 --> 00:51:09.220
THE HOLY SPIRIT ENABLES YOU TO
00:51:09.220 --> 00:51:11.070
ACCOMPLISH GREAT WORKS, BLESSING
00:51:11.070 --> 00:51:12.200
THE WORLD AROUND YOU.
00:51:12.210 --> 00:51:15.210
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEXT
00:51:15.210 --> 00:51:16.220
PILLAR FOR LIFE: SPIRIT
00:51:16.220 --> 00:51:18.050
- MATT: LEON, JUST A
00:51:23.110 --> 00:51:23.290
INTRODUCTORY COURSE, KIND OF, TO
00:51:23.290 --> 00:51:24.220
THE PILLAR OF BEING SPIRIT
00:51:24.220 --> 00:51:26.140
- LEON: YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HEAR
00:51:32.250 --> 00:51:33.170
ABOUT JESUS, THE BIBLE SAYS,
00:51:33.170 --> 00:51:34.120
"JESUS, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS
00:51:34.120 --> 00:51:35.040
SET BEFORE HIM, HE ENDURED THE
00:51:35.040 --> 00:51:36.070
CROSS," YOU KNOW, DOT, DOT, DOT,
00:51:36.070 --> 00:51:38.210
BUT WHEN JESUS DIED FOR US,
00:51:42.040 --> 00:51:42.240
THERE'S SOMETHING THAT HE SAW
00:51:42.240 --> 00:51:43.150
WHEN HE SAID, "GO AND DO WHAT I
00:51:43.150 --> 00:51:44.110
DO AND GREATER THINGS."
00:51:44.110 --> 00:51:46.230
AND SO HE REALLY WAS LOOKING
00:51:46.230 --> 00:51:48.280
AT A-- I WANNA PUT IT THIS
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:50.060
WAY, LIKE, A RACE OF
00:51:50.060 --> 00:51:51.080
SUPER-PEOPLE, PEOPLE WHO
00:51:51.080 --> 00:51:53.190
KNEW JESUS AND WHO HOLY SPIRIT
00:51:53.260 --> 00:51:56.260
EMPOWERED THEM, NOT TO BE A
00:51:56.260 --> 00:51:58.280
SUBCULTURE, NOT TO BE A CRAZY
00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:00.210
CULTURE, NOT TO BE-- TO TURN
00:52:00.210 --> 00:52:02.270
BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY ALIVE
00:52:07.210 --> 00:52:08.130
LIKE JESUS WAS--
00:52:08.130 --> 00:52:09.010
GREW IN FAVOR WITH GOD,
00:52:09.010 --> 00:52:11.040
AND JESUS GREW IN FAVOR WITH
00:52:11.040 --> 00:52:11.240
AND WHEN YOU STUDY THE EPISTLES
00:52:14.270 --> 00:52:15.190
AND THE BOOK OF ACTS, SO MANY
00:52:15.190 --> 00:52:16.100
PEOPLE REALIZE THESE WERE ALL
00:52:16.100 --> 00:52:17.010
ITINERANT MINISTERS, THE
00:52:17.010 --> 00:52:17.190
APOSTLES.
00:52:17.190 --> 00:52:20.000
THEY TRAVELED.
00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:20.280
AND SO WE TEND TO THINK THAT
00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:21.280
EVERY CHRISTIAN HAS TO RUN
00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:23.040
AROUND PREACHIN' AT PEOPLE.
00:52:23.040 --> 00:52:24.260
AND WE DON'T REALLY HAVE, OTHER
00:52:24.260 --> 00:52:26.010
THAN THE PRINCIPLES, WHICH ARE
00:52:26.010 --> 00:52:27.070
GORGEOUS, WHAT DOES A LAWYER DO?
00:52:27.070 --> 00:52:28.230
WHAT DOES A MOM DO WHEN SHE
00:52:28.230 --> 00:52:30.140
PRAYS FOR PEOPLE?
00:52:30.140 --> 00:52:32.060
AND SO THE SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY
00:52:32.060 --> 00:52:33.130
LIFE IS LOOKING AT EVERY PERSON
00:52:33.130 --> 00:52:35.280
ON THE PLANET WHO KNOWS CHRIST
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:37.260
AND THAT WE NEED TO BE
00:52:37.260 --> 00:52:39.240
SPIRITUALLY ALIVE, EMPOWERED BY
00:52:39.240 --> 00:52:40.270
HOLY SPIRIT WHERE, WHETHER IT'S
00:52:40.270 --> 00:52:42.280
HIS PEACE EMANATING FROM US,
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:45.080
WHETHER IT'S THE JOY IN THE
00:52:45.080 --> 00:52:47.030
MIDST OF SITUATIONS, AND THE
00:52:47.030 --> 00:52:48.070
MIRACULOUS THAT FLOWS IN OUR
00:52:48.070 --> 00:52:50.010
LIVES, BUT NOT PREACHERS WHERE
00:52:50.010 --> 00:52:51.150
WE'RE IN CHURCH, AND WE'VE GOT
00:52:51.150 --> 00:52:53.170
THE BEAUTIFUL CHOIR, AND "HE
00:52:53.170 --> 00:52:54.200
TOUCHED ME" IS PLAYING.
00:52:54.200 --> 00:52:56.020
AND WE DO THAT IN OUR CHURCH,
00:52:56.020 --> 00:52:57.290
BUT MOMS DON'T GET THAT, AND
00:52:57.290 --> 00:52:59.050
THAT BOARD MEMBER PRAYING WITH A
00:52:59.050 --> 00:53:00.200
SICK PARTNER IN THE COMPANY
00:53:00.200 --> 00:53:02.190
DOESN'T GET THAT.
00:53:02.190 --> 00:53:04.070
IT'S JUST THE SILENCE.
00:53:04.070 --> 00:53:05.270
AS A PARAMEDIC, I DIDN'T GET
00:53:05.270 --> 00:53:07.050
THAT.
00:53:07.050 --> 00:53:08.020
IT WAS JUST THE CRIES OF THE
00:53:08.020 --> 00:53:08.220
WOUNDED, THE SOUNDS OF SIRENS,
00:53:08.220 --> 00:53:10.050
POLICE BARKING ORDERS, AND ME
00:53:10.050 --> 00:53:12.010
PRAYING WITH SOMEBODY AND
00:53:12.010 --> 00:53:13.160
BELIEVING FOR MIRACLES.
00:53:13.160 --> 00:53:16.070
HE SAW SOMETHING THAT I DON'T
00:53:16.070 --> 00:53:17.180
THINK THE CHURCH SEES YET.
00:53:17.180 --> 00:53:19.190
WE SEE IT WHEN WE USE THE WORD
00:53:19.190 --> 00:53:20.110
"MEEK."
00:53:20.110 --> 00:53:22.050
IT'S NOT A PATHETIC, WIMPY,
00:53:22.050 --> 00:53:22.250
GROUP OF LITTLE PEOPLE.
00:53:22.250 --> 00:53:25.090
EVEN THE WORD "MEEK," YOU KNOW,
00:53:25.090 --> 00:53:26.290
I THINK IT'S THE WORD "PRAUS" IS
00:53:26.290 --> 00:53:28.050
WHAT THE GREEKS CALLED THEIR
00:53:28.050 --> 00:53:28.290
WAR HORSES, COMPLETELY OBEDIENT
00:53:28.290 --> 00:53:30.170
TO THE RIDER.
00:53:30.170 --> 00:53:33.010
YOU KNOW, THEY WERE JUST
00:53:33.010 --> 00:53:33.190
COMPLETELY SUBMISSIVE AND
00:53:33.190 --> 00:53:35.200
OBEDIENT TO THE RIDER BUT
00:53:35.200 --> 00:53:37.220
UNBELIEVABLY POWERFUL IN
00:53:37.220 --> 00:53:38.170
WARFARE, STRAIGHT INTO THE
00:53:38.170 --> 00:53:40.220
LANCES AND THE SPEARS.
00:53:40.220 --> 00:53:42.100
THERE'S SOMETHING THAT, WHERE I
00:53:42.100 --> 00:53:43.200
BELIEVE THE BODY OF CHRIST NEEDS
00:53:43.200 --> 00:53:44.120
TO SEE IN 2017, AND IT'S A NEW
00:53:44.120 --> 00:53:45.130
LOOK AT CHRISTIANS, NOT
00:53:45.130 --> 00:53:47.200
PATHETIC, WIMPY, LITTLE
00:53:47.230 --> 00:53:50.230
BELIEVERS WAITING FOR JESUS TO
00:53:50.230 --> 00:53:52.060
RESCUE US FROM THIS WORLD OF
00:53:52.060 --> 00:53:53.240
WOE, BUT PHENOMENAL LEADERS,
00:53:53.240 --> 00:53:54.280
GREATER THAN ANYTHING THE OLD
00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:57.260
TESTAMENT HAD, IN THIS NEW
00:53:57.260 --> 00:54:00.120
TESTAMENT, IN THE ARTS AND
00:54:00.120 --> 00:54:01.290
BUSINESS, AND IN LEADING
00:54:01.290 --> 00:54:03.200
COUNTRIES, AND ALL THESE AREAS
00:54:03.200 --> 00:54:05.130
OF MEDICINE, ET CETERA.
00:54:05.130 --> 00:54:07.080
WE'RE GONNA SEE AN ENTIRE GROUP
00:54:07.080 --> 00:54:08.270
OF LEADERS RISE UP IN THE
00:54:08.270 --> 00:54:11.010
EVERYDAY LIFE.
00:54:11.010 --> 00:54:13.020
WE'RE EQUIPPING THEM FOR THE
00:54:13.020 --> 00:54:13.220
WORK OF THE MINISTRY INSTEAD OF
00:54:13.220 --> 00:54:14.280
US DOING IT.
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:16.180
- LEON: YOU SHOULD BE DAILY
00:54:22.250 --> 00:54:23.150
DOING THE THINGS THAT CAUSE THE
00:54:23.150 --> 00:54:24.270
PRESENCE OF GOD TO BE RELEASED
00:54:24.270 --> 00:54:26.080
IN YOUR LIFE 'CAUSE GOD'S
00:54:26.080 --> 00:54:28.120
PRESENCE, FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE,
00:54:28.120 --> 00:54:30.040
HAS BEEN COMMANDED UPON YOU.
00:54:30.040 --> 00:54:32.250
THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD HAVE
00:54:32.250 --> 00:54:34.050
BEEN COMMANDED UPON YOU.
00:54:34.050 --> 00:54:36.120
- LEON: WHEN YOU ASK SOMEBODY,
00:54:40.080 --> 00:54:41.030
"WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?"
00:54:41.030 --> 00:54:43.080
IT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
00:54:43.080 --> 00:54:44.280
I WAS RAISED IN A WONDERFUL
00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:46.200
CHRISTIAN HOME, PARENTS BOTH
00:54:46.200 --> 00:54:48.030
PASTORS, AND IN A SMALL TOWN
00:54:48.030 --> 00:54:51.030
WHERE I WAS BEATEN UP REGULARLY
00:54:51.030 --> 00:54:52.120
AND RIDICULED FOR BEING A
00:54:52.120 --> 00:54:53.230
CHRISTIAN, AND WITHOUT REALIZING
00:54:53.230 --> 00:54:56.120
IT, DEVELOPED THIS, LIKE,
00:54:56.120 --> 00:54:57.250
"CHRISTIANS ARE JUST, KIND OF,
00:54:57.250 --> 00:54:59.030
THE LOWEST LITTLE SCARED MICE
00:54:59.030 --> 00:55:00.240
RUNNING AROUND."
00:55:00.240 --> 00:55:03.050
AND THEN, AS I BEGAN TO GET
00:55:03.050 --> 00:55:04.130
INTO GOD'S WORD AND MY HEROES
00:55:04.130 --> 00:55:07.040
WERE LIKE DAVID RUN THROUGH
00:55:07.040 --> 00:55:08.140
A TROOP, LEAP OVER A
00:55:08.140 --> 00:55:09.130
WALL, MY HEROES WERE MOSES.
00:55:09.130 --> 00:55:10.170
I HAVE A JEWISH FRIEND, SANDY
00:55:10.170 --> 00:55:12.040
KULKIN, WHO SAYS, "ANYBODY WHO
00:55:12.040 --> 00:55:13.180
CAN LEAD 2 MILLION JEWS ANYWHERE
00:55:13.180 --> 00:55:14.230
IS A GENIUS!"
00:55:14.230 --> 00:55:16.010
[LAUGHTER]
00:55:16.010 --> 00:55:17.150
AND, I MEAN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT
00:55:17.150 --> 00:55:18.100
THESE INCREDIBLE HEROES,
00:55:18.100 --> 00:55:21.020
AND THEN YOU COME TO THE
00:55:21.020 --> 00:55:21.200
NEW TESTAMENT, AND YOU SEE MEN
00:55:21.200 --> 00:55:23.110
THAT WERE GONNA DIE, AND THEY
00:55:23.110 --> 00:55:24.180
KNEW IT, FOR THE CAUSE OF
00:55:24.180 --> 00:55:26.100
CHRIST, AND THEN WE COME TO
00:55:26.100 --> 00:55:27.130
TODAY... AND WE KIND OF GO,
00:55:27.130 --> 00:55:29.050
"WHAT IS GOIN' ON?"
00:55:29.050 --> 00:55:30.290
AND I KNEW THAT I WANTED TO BE A
00:55:30.290 --> 00:55:32.240
CHRISTIAN, BUT I WANTED TO BE
00:55:32.240 --> 00:55:34.170
LIKE THE NAVY SEAL WHEN IT CAME
00:55:34.170 --> 00:55:35.090
TO THE BATTLE, AND I WANTED TO
00:55:36.010 --> 00:55:39.010
BE THE MOST AMAZING LOVER WHEN
00:55:39.010 --> 00:55:41.000
IT CAME TO MY WIFE.
00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:43.080
I WANTED TO HAVE TEARS IN MY
00:55:43.080 --> 00:55:43.290
EYES WHEN I LOOKED AT MY KIDS
00:55:43.290 --> 00:55:45.040
AND MY GRANDBABIES, BUT I WANTED
00:55:45.040 --> 00:55:47.100
TO BE LIKE ONE OF MY FAVORITE
00:55:47.100 --> 00:55:48.010
MOVIES WAS-- OH, I FORGET THAT
00:55:48.010 --> 00:55:49.160
MEL GIBSON ONE WHERE WE WERE
00:55:49.160 --> 00:55:50.130
TALKIN' ABOUT THE--
00:55:50.130 --> 00:55:51.250
- MATT: "BRAVEHEART."
00:55:51.250 --> 00:55:52.250
- LEON: "THE PATRIOT"--
00:55:52.250 --> 00:55:53.280
- MATT: "PATRIOT"?
00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:54.250
- LEON: -- WHERE HE'S A DAD OF
00:55:54.250 --> 00:55:55.220
ALL THESE KIDS, AND YOU DON'T
00:55:55.220 --> 00:55:56.240
MESS WITH THIS GUY!
00:55:56.240 --> 00:55:59.140
HE WAS SO IN LOVE WITH HIS KIDS,
00:55:59.140 --> 00:56:00.080
BUT HE WAS THE MOST-- NOT
00:56:00.080 --> 00:56:00.270
WHEN I LOOK AT A CHRISTIAN
00:56:04.120 --> 00:56:05.070
TODAY, I DON'T WANNA BE THIS
00:56:05.070 --> 00:56:05.270
MEEK LITTLE PATHETIC THING
00:56:05.270 --> 00:56:07.080
RUNNING AROUND, "I'M A
00:56:07.080 --> 00:56:08.080
CHRISTIAN.
00:56:08.080 --> 00:56:09.230
WOULD YOU COME TO CHURCH WITH
00:56:09.230 --> 00:56:10.140
ME?"
00:56:10.140 --> 00:56:11.220
BUT WHEN I LOOK AT JESUS, I
00:56:11.220 --> 00:56:12.270
DON'T LOOK AT A BABY IN A
00:56:12.270 --> 00:56:13.160
MANGER.
00:56:13.160 --> 00:56:14.270
I DON'T-- WHEN I LOOK AT JESUS,
00:56:14.270 --> 00:56:16.000
I DON'T LOOK AT A GUY IN A DRESS
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:16.240
WITH FLIP-FLOPS AND LONG,
00:56:16.240 --> 00:56:18.000
WHEN I LOOK AT JESUS, IT'S
00:56:21.060 --> 00:56:21.250
REVELATIONS 1 AND 2, THE KING OF
00:56:21.250 --> 00:56:22.170
KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS!
00:56:22.170 --> 00:56:24.180
AND WE ARE HIS FAMILY.
00:56:24.180 --> 00:56:27.070
WE ARE-- HE'S THE FIRSTBORN.
00:56:27.070 --> 00:56:28.030
WE'RE THE FAMILY, SO WE
00:56:28.030 --> 00:56:29.250
LITERALLY OUGHT TO BE ON THIS
00:56:29.250 --> 00:56:31.080
PLANET, EQUIPPING AND DISCIPLING
00:56:31.080 --> 00:56:33.060
NATIONS IN EVERY AREA.
00:56:33.060 --> 00:56:35.210
IT'S TO BE SPIRITUALLY ALIVE
00:56:35.210 --> 00:56:37.260
WITH HOLY SPIRIT FLOWING THROUGH
00:56:37.260 --> 00:56:39.210
US TILL WE ARE-- SORRY!
00:56:39.210 --> 00:56:41.290
-- SUPER-PEOPLE, AND THEN, AT
00:56:41.290 --> 00:56:43.290
THE SAME TIME, THAT THERE IS
00:56:43.290 --> 00:56:46.030
THIS CONTEMPORARY ABILITY THAT
00:56:46.030 --> 00:56:47.270
WE RESPECT AND HONOR AND CAN
00:56:47.270 --> 00:56:50.210
FLOW IN A CULTURE THAT IS
00:56:50.210 --> 00:56:52.090
ANTI-US, BUT WE CAN MOVE RIGHT
00:56:52.090 --> 00:56:54.070
INTO THAT CULTURE LIKE JESUS DID
00:56:54.070 --> 00:56:56.030
AND BE LIGHT AND BE SALT.
00:56:56.030 --> 00:56:58.200
IT IS-- TO ME, IT IS THE WAY
00:56:58.200 --> 00:56:59.210
CHRISTIANITY IS AND SHOULD BE.
00:56:59.210 --> 00:57:01.180
IT'S THE WAY JESUS WAS.
00:57:01.180 --> 00:57:03.250
IT'S THE WAY THE APOSTLE PAUL
00:57:03.250 --> 00:57:04.290
WAS.
00:57:04.290 --> 00:57:06.020
- FEMALE NARRATOR: "AND JESUS
00:57:08.180 --> 00:57:09.090
GREW IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND
00:57:09.090 --> 00:57:10.010
- LEON: IF YOU REALLY WANNA
00:57:15.220 --> 00:57:16.120
SUCCEED IN THIS LIFE, YOU HAVE
00:57:16.120 --> 00:57:18.170
TO BE LIKE JESUS, WHO "GREW IN
00:57:18.170 --> 00:57:20.060
FAVOR WITH GOD AND GREW IN FAVOR
00:57:20.060 --> 00:57:21.230
WITH MAN."
00:57:23.210 --> 00:57:26.210
SO IF YOU ARE IN THE DITCH
00:57:26.210 --> 00:57:28.000
ON ONE SIDE, FOR EVERY MILE
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:29.050
OF ROAD IS 2 MILES OF DITCH.
00:57:29.050 --> 00:57:32.000
WE HAVE PEOPLE ON THE ONE SIDE
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:33.090
WHO ARE SO SPIRITUAL.
00:57:33.090 --> 00:57:34.070
THEY PRAY ABOUT IT.
00:57:34.070 --> 00:57:35.120
THEY'RE PRAYING FOR THEIR KIDS
00:57:35.120 --> 00:57:37.220
TO GET SAVED, PRAYING FOR THEIR
00:57:37.220 --> 00:57:39.090
BUSINESS TO INCREASE, PRAYING
00:57:39.090 --> 00:57:40.170
THAT THEY COULD START TITHING,
00:57:40.170 --> 00:57:42.130
PRAYING FOR STUFF.
00:57:42.130 --> 00:57:45.100
AND THEN, ON THE PRACTICAL SIDE,
00:57:45.100 --> 00:57:46.180
WHERE YOU'VE BETTER LEARN TO BE
00:57:46.180 --> 00:57:48.050
CONTEMPORARY AND MAKE THAT
00:57:48.050 --> 00:57:48.240
BUSINESS WORK IN THE REAL WORLD,
00:57:48.240 --> 00:57:51.130
ARE YOU A PROBLEM-SOLVER, OR DO
00:57:51.130 --> 00:57:54.100
YOU JUST PRAY ABOUT EVERY
00:57:54.100 --> 00:57:55.130
PROBLEM?
00:57:55.130 --> 00:57:57.270
- LEON: AS BELIEVERS, GOD HAS
00:58:04.200 --> 00:58:05.230
EMPOWERED ALL OF US TO HELP
00:58:05.230 --> 00:58:06.270
PEOPLE, REACH OUT TO PEOPLE,
00:58:06.270 --> 00:58:08.110
WHETHER YOU'RE IN THE CHURCH
00:58:08.110 --> 00:58:10.090
HALLWAYS OR PRAYING WITH
00:58:10.090 --> 00:58:11.080
SOMEONE.
00:58:11.080 --> 00:58:13.240
ACTUALLY, PASTORS DON'T HAVE A
00:58:13.240 --> 00:58:14.150
GREATER ANOINTING.
00:58:14.150 --> 00:58:16.270
THEY DON'T HAVE MORE OF JESUS.
00:58:16.270 --> 00:58:18.290
WE ARE ALL MINISTERS OF THE
00:58:18.290 --> 00:58:20.140
GOSPEL.
00:58:20.140 --> 00:58:22.120
AND SO SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY
00:58:22.120 --> 00:58:23.260
REALLY DOES-- IT BEGINS TO EQUIP
00:58:23.260 --> 00:58:25.140
PEOPLE AND TEACH THEM THAT THE
00:58:25.140 --> 00:58:27.170
PASTORS ARE THE COACHES.
00:58:27.170 --> 00:58:30.110
AND WHEN, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE IT IS
00:58:30.110 --> 00:58:32.010
THIS BIG LAITY-CLERGY GAP: "I'M
00:58:32.010 --> 00:58:33.100
THE CLERGY.
00:58:33.100 --> 00:58:34.210
I'M THE PROFESSIONAL.
00:58:34.210 --> 00:58:36.050
YOU'RE THE ROOKIE.
00:58:36.050 --> 00:58:37.070
YOU'RE THE LAITY."
00:58:37.070 --> 00:58:37.230
AND THIS CLERGY-LAITY GAP HAS
00:58:37.230 --> 00:58:39.000
GOTTEN HUGE UNTIL THEY FINALLY
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.040
JUST ALLOWED THE CLERGY TO DO
00:58:41.040 --> 00:58:42.090
ALL OF THE WORK OF THE
00:58:42.090 --> 00:58:44.070
MINISTRY RATHER THAN TO
00:58:44.070 --> 00:58:45.070
EQUIP AND COACH THEM IN IT.
00:58:45.070 --> 00:58:46.270
AND SO WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO HEAR
00:58:46.270 --> 00:58:47.240
THIS TEACHING, THE SPIRIT
00:58:47.240 --> 00:58:49.190
CONTEMPORARY LOOK AT THE
00:58:49.190 --> 00:58:51.050
FIVEFOLD MINISTRY OR THE
00:58:51.050 --> 00:58:54.040
COACHES, YOU ARE THE GIFTED
00:58:54.040 --> 00:58:55.240
PHENOMENALLY AMAZING PLAYERS.
00:58:55.240 --> 00:58:57.010
I THINK THAT JUST THAT SWITCH
00:58:57.060 --> 00:59:00.080
BEGINS TO MAKE THEM GO, "WOW,
00:59:00.080 --> 00:59:01.230
- MALE NARRATOR: "FOR GOD HAS
00:59:06.120 --> 00:59:07.030
NOT GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF
00:59:07.030 --> 00:59:08.060
TIMIDITY, BUT OF POWER, LOVE,
00:59:08.060 --> 00:59:08.270
- MATT: WHEN WE THINK OF THE
00:59:13.080 --> 00:59:13.290
IMAGERY OF THE OLD-FASHIONED,
00:59:13.290 --> 00:59:16.090
SPIRIT-LED LIFE THAT WOULD'VE
00:59:16.090 --> 00:59:19.020
BEEN IN MY GRANDPARENTS'
00:59:19.020 --> 00:59:20.180
GENERATION, IT WAS KIND OF THE
00:59:20.180 --> 00:59:22.160
"SWING FROM THE CHANDELIER" KIND
00:59:22.160 --> 00:59:25.050
OF A DYNAMIC, AND THAT WOULD'VE
00:59:25.050 --> 00:59:28.040
BEEN HOLY SPIRIT-LED, OKAY?
00:59:28.040 --> 00:59:30.210
SO HOW DO WE TAKE WHAT WE'RE
00:59:30.210 --> 00:59:32.180
TALKING ABOUT AND TRANSITION TO
00:59:32.180 --> 00:59:33.220
LIVE OUT A DYNAMIC,
00:59:36.260 --> 00:59:39.260
SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE IN A VERY
00:59:39.260 --> 00:59:41.130
CONTEMPORARY WAY?
00:59:41.130 --> 00:59:43.040
WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY LOOK
00:59:43.040 --> 00:59:43.240
- LEON: WHEN I TRAIN PASTORS
00:59:45.290 --> 00:59:46.200
AROUND THE WORLD AND WE BEGIN TO
00:59:46.200 --> 00:59:47.120
TALK ABOUT THE THINGS OF THE
00:59:47.120 --> 00:59:48.020
I USUALLY GET THIS PULLBACK
00:59:51.210 --> 00:59:52.110
BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THE
00:59:52.110 --> 00:59:53.010
HOLY SPIRIT TO MAKE THEM DO
00:59:53.010 --> 00:59:53.210
CRAZY, STUPID THINGS.
00:59:53.210 --> 00:59:55.210
AND SO I TELL THEM THIS STORY,
00:59:55.210 --> 00:59:57.280
AND THE STORY HAS BEEN THE MOST
00:59:57.280 --> 00:59:59.190
POWERFUL WAY I KNOW TO CUT
00:59:59.190 --> 01:00:00.080
THROUGH A LOT OF DOCTRINE.
01:00:00.080 --> 01:00:02.130
I SAID, "IF I WAS IN A SERVICE
01:00:02.130 --> 01:00:03.110
AND THE FRONT ROW HAD SOME
01:00:03.110 --> 01:00:05.090
PEOPLE, AND I GAVE THEM EACH A
01:00:05.090 --> 01:00:06.180
QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS, TO
01:00:06.180 --> 01:00:08.160
THE FIRST WOMAN, SHE HAS A CHILD
01:00:08.160 --> 01:00:10.140
WHO'S-- A DISEASE THAT IS
01:00:10.140 --> 01:00:11.220
KILLING THEM.
01:00:11.220 --> 01:00:13.140
THERE'S NO ANSWER IN AMERICAN
01:00:13.140 --> 01:00:15.040
MEDICINE, BUT GERMANY HAS A
01:00:15.040 --> 01:00:16.140
CLINIC THAT IS VERY SUCCESSFUL.
01:00:16.140 --> 01:00:18.280
NOT ACCEPTED HERE.
01:00:18.280 --> 01:00:20.100
SHE CAN'T AFFORD TO GO.
01:00:20.100 --> 01:00:21.070
I HAND HER A QUARTER OF A
01:00:21.070 --> 01:00:22.230
MILLION DOLLARS, AND SHE BEGINS
01:00:22.230 --> 01:00:25.010
TO GRAB HER STOMACH AND COLLAPSE
01:00:25.010 --> 01:00:27.010
ON THE FLOOR, I MEAN, WEEPING
01:00:27.010 --> 01:00:29.220
AND SOBBING BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT
01:00:29.220 --> 01:00:30.190
AND THEN I TURN TO THE NEXT GUY
01:00:37.110 --> 01:00:38.030
WHO'S LOSIN' THE FAMILY
01:00:38.030 --> 01:00:39.080
BUSINESS, AND HE JUST NEEDED THE
01:00:39.080 --> 01:00:40.000
MONEY TO TRANSITION THROUGH A
01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:40.210
COUPLE OF MONTHS WITH HIS STAFF
01:00:40.210 --> 01:00:41.130
AND PAYROLL.
01:00:41.130 --> 01:00:42.060
AND I HAND HIM A QUARTER OF A
01:00:42.060 --> 01:00:43.040
MILLION DOLLARS, AND HE'S BEEN
01:00:43.040 --> 01:00:44.260
STRESSED TO THE MAX, AND THAT
01:00:44.260 --> 01:00:45.170
MAN JUST SITS THERE, AND HE GOES
01:00:45.170 --> 01:00:46.140
HE JUST STARES INTO SPACE, AND
01:00:50.160 --> 01:00:51.070
YOU CAN GO LIKE THIS AND TALK TO
01:00:51.070 --> 01:00:51.290
HIM, AND HE'S IGNORING YOU.
01:00:51.290 --> 01:00:53.020
AND THE NEXT PERSON THAT I GIVE
01:00:53.020 --> 01:00:54.100
THIS MONEY IS LOSING THEIR HOME,
01:00:54.100 --> 01:00:55.150
AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE
01:00:55.150 --> 01:00:56.070
THEY'RE GONNA GO WITH THIS.
01:00:56.070 --> 01:00:57.110
SINGLE MOM OR A SINGLE DAD AND
01:00:57.110 --> 01:00:59.060
TWO KIDS, AND I HAND 'EM A
01:00:59.060 --> 01:01:00.240
QUARTER OF A MILLION, AND IT'S A
01:01:00.240 --> 01:01:02.030
DOWN PAYMENT OR WHAT THEY CAN DO
01:01:02.030 --> 01:01:02.280
TO GET THE PLACE.
01:01:02.280 --> 01:01:04.210
AND HE STANDS ON A CHAIR AND
01:01:04.210 --> 01:01:06.140
WHOOPS IT AND SHAKES HIS COAT
01:01:06.140 --> 01:01:07.120
AROUND LIKE THIS.
01:01:07.120 --> 01:01:09.080
AND I TELL THE PASTORS, "DID THE
01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:10.100
HOLY SPIRIT DO THAT TO THOSE
01:01:10.100 --> 01:01:11.160
THREE PEOPLE?"
01:01:12.090 --> 01:01:15.090
AND YOU CAN SEE 'EM KIND OF GO,
01:01:15.090 --> 01:01:16.010
"UH..."
01:01:16.010 --> 01:01:16.260
I SAID, "HE DIDN'T.
01:01:16.260 --> 01:01:18.040
IT'S THEIR REACTION TO THE
01:01:18.040 --> 01:01:18.230
BLESSING OF GOD."
01:01:18.240 --> 01:01:21.240
AND SO THERE ARE TIMES IN CHURCH
01:01:21.240 --> 01:01:23.190
WHEN I'VE SEEN PEOPLE DO WILD,
01:01:23.200 --> 01:01:26.200
CRAZY THINGS, AND I JUST CALM
01:01:26.200 --> 01:01:27.120
THE PEOPLE DOWN AND SAY,
01:01:27.120 --> 01:01:28.230
"FOLKS, WHEN PEOPLE ARE TOUCHED
01:01:28.230 --> 01:01:30.180
BY GOD,
01:01:30.180 --> 01:01:32.060
WE DON'T KNOW THAT THE
01:01:32.060 --> 01:01:33.120
REACTION'S GONNA BE.
01:01:33.120 --> 01:01:36.030
IT'S NOT HOLY SPIRIT DOING THIS
01:01:36.030 --> 01:01:36.250
TO THEM.
01:01:36.250 --> 01:01:37.070
IT'S THEIR REACTION TO THE
01:01:37.070 --> 01:01:39.020
HEALING, THE BLESSING, THE
01:01:39.020 --> 01:01:39.270
TOUCH."
01:01:39.270 --> 01:01:42.270
AND SO THAT-- IT SETS PEOPLE
01:01:42.270 --> 01:01:43.170
FREE BECAUSE, IN MY WORLD
01:01:43.170 --> 01:01:44.190
AS A PASTOR AND A FORMER
01:01:44.290 --> 01:01:47.290
PARAMEDIC, I MEAN, I'VE SEEN SO
01:01:47.290 --> 01:01:48.210
MANY MIRACLES, AND I SHARED IN
01:01:48.210 --> 01:01:49.120
THE BOOK,
01:01:49.120 --> 01:01:50.290
"THE SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY LIFE,"
01:01:50.290 --> 01:01:52.120
BUT, I MEAN, FROM THE RAISING
01:01:52.120 --> 01:01:53.230
OF THE DEAD, TO GOD TOUCHING ME,
01:01:53.230 --> 01:01:55.010
TO BEING IN THE LOWEST OF LOWS
01:01:55.010 --> 01:01:57.000
WHEN I'VE LOST THE THINGS THAT
01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:58.090
ARE CLOSE TO ME,
01:01:58.090 --> 01:02:00.140
WHEN GOD TOUCHED ME AND SET ME
01:02:00.140 --> 01:02:01.050
FREE AND ALL, I'VE NEVER DONE
01:02:01.050 --> 01:02:02.210
ANYTHING CRAZY.
01:02:02.210 --> 01:02:04.140
PROBABLY WEEPING IS PROBABLY
01:02:04.140 --> 01:02:05.250
THE-- I MEAN, JUST A GOOD OLE
01:02:05.250 --> 01:02:07.050
CRY IS PROBABLY THE MOST I'VE
01:02:07.050 --> 01:02:09.000
DONE, AND, YET, I'VE SEEN
01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:09.190
MIRACLES LIKE PROBABLY A LOT OF
01:02:09.190 --> 01:02:11.140
PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SEEN, AND I'VE
01:02:11.140 --> 01:02:12.260
SEEN GOD USE ME IN WAYS THAT--
01:02:12.260 --> 01:02:14.050
AND I'VE NEVER EVER-- AND I'VE
01:02:14.050 --> 01:02:15.230
NEVER BEEN AFRAID OF IT BECAUSE
01:02:15.230 --> 01:02:16.270
HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT THE ONE THAT
01:02:16.270 --> 01:02:18.090
CONTROLS ME.
01:02:18.090 --> 01:02:19.180
HE'S MY HELPER.
01:02:19.180 --> 01:02:21.010
IF YOU'RE GONNA DO A JOB AND
01:02:21.010 --> 01:02:22.150
IT'S YOUR JOB, AND YOU SAY,
01:02:22.150 --> 01:02:23.200
"LEON, HELP ME.
01:02:23.200 --> 01:02:24.290
I'M LOOKING TO YOU FOR
01:02:24.290 --> 01:02:26.280
DIRECTION.
01:02:26.280 --> 01:02:27.150
WHERE DO I LIFT?
01:02:27.150 --> 01:02:27.290
WHERE DO I PUT MY HANDS?
01:02:27.290 --> 01:02:28.170
WHEN YOU SAY, 'GO,' COUNT TO
01:02:28.170 --> 01:02:29.070
THREE.
01:02:29.070 --> 01:02:31.000
WE'LL LIFT IT TOGETHER."
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:31.260
HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR HELPER, OUR
01:02:31.260 --> 01:02:32.170
ADVOCATE, OUR COMFORTER.
01:02:32.170 --> 01:02:34.190
HE'S CALLED ALONGSIDE OF US TO
01:02:34.190 --> 01:02:35.110
HELP.
01:02:35.110 --> 01:02:37.270
AND SO WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO
01:02:37.270 --> 01:02:38.170
REALIZE THAT THE GIFTS OF THE
01:02:38.170 --> 01:02:40.020
SPIRIT, THE MIRACULOUS THINGS OF
01:02:40.020 --> 01:02:41.060
THE SPIRIT, HIM GIVING US WORDS
01:02:41.060 --> 01:02:42.240
OF WISDOM AND WAYS TO HANDLE
01:02:42.240 --> 01:02:44.010
THINGS, THAT HE IS LITERALLY
01:02:44.010 --> 01:02:45.200
WAITING FOR US.
01:02:45.200 --> 01:02:47.260
HE'LL GUIDE US, AND HE'LL DIRECT
01:02:47.260 --> 01:02:48.180
US, BUT HE'S WAITING FOR US TO
01:02:48.180 --> 01:02:49.120
STEP OUT.
01:02:49.120 --> 01:02:51.020
AND HE'S THE MOST SPIRIT
01:02:51.020 --> 01:02:52.060
CONTEMPORARY FORCE ON THE
01:02:52.060 --> 01:02:53.130
PLANET.
01:02:53.130 --> 01:02:54.110
SPIRITUALLY, WE ARE TO BE ALIVE.
01:02:54.110 --> 01:02:56.160
WE CAN ACCESS HIS PEACE ANYTIME
01:02:56.160 --> 01:02:57.250
WE WANT.
01:02:57.250 --> 01:02:59.110
WE CAN ACCESS HIS JOY ANYTIME WE
01:02:59.110 --> 01:03:00.080
WANT.
01:03:00.080 --> 01:03:01.240
WE CAN ACCESS HEALING WHENEVER
01:03:01.240 --> 01:03:02.150
WE WANT.
01:03:02.150 --> 01:03:03.030
WE CAN ACCESS EVEN THE GIFTS OF
01:03:03.030 --> 01:03:03.290
THE SPIRIT.
01:03:03.290 --> 01:03:05.180
PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, THAT'S AS THE
01:03:05.180 --> 01:03:06.100
SPIRIT WILLS, LEON."
01:03:06.100 --> 01:03:07.230
WELL, LISTEN.
01:03:07.230 --> 01:03:09.000
IF-- THE BIBLE SAYS, "DESIRE TO
01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:09.220
USE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT PURSUE
01:03:09.220 --> 01:03:11.130
LOVE."
01:03:11.130 --> 01:03:13.010
SO IF I'VE GOT A SITUATION,
01:03:13.010 --> 01:03:15.020
AND THEN I GO, "OH, I
01:03:15.020 --> 01:03:15.190
SURE HOPE THE GIFTS WOULD BE IN
01:03:15.190 --> 01:03:16.260
OPERATION NOW,"
01:03:16.260 --> 01:03:18.240
AND THE HOLY SPIRIT GOES,
01:03:18.240 --> 01:03:19.230
"OH, NOT TODAY."
01:03:19.230 --> 01:03:20.150
[LAUGHTER]
01:03:20.150 --> 01:03:21.120
NO!
01:03:21.120 --> 01:03:21.260
IT'S NOT WHETHER OR NOT HE'S
01:03:21.260 --> 01:03:23.040
GONNA MOVE.
01:03:23.040 --> 01:03:23.240
IT'S JUST HE PROBABLY KNOWS THE
01:03:23.240 --> 01:03:25.110
BEST WAY TO MOVE.
01:03:25.110 --> 01:03:28.010
MAYBE THAT PERSON CAN BE HEALED
01:03:28.010 --> 01:03:28.230
WITH A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE THAT
01:03:28.230 --> 01:03:29.290
ENDS ALL THE CRAZY FEAR THAT'S
01:03:29.290 --> 01:03:32.070
DESTROYING THAT STOMACH AND THE
01:03:32.070 --> 01:03:33.070
BOWELS.
01:03:33.070 --> 01:03:34.280
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
01:03:34.280 --> 01:03:36.070
HE CAN HEAL YOU WITH A WORD OF
01:03:36.070 --> 01:03:37.130
KNOWLEDGE, WITH A WORD OF
01:03:37.130 --> 01:03:38.020
WISDOM, WITH THE GIFTS OF
01:03:38.020 --> 01:03:39.000
HEALINGS OR WITH A-- LIKE, SO
01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:39.260
WHEN WE BEGIN TO WORK WITH
01:03:39.260 --> 01:03:40.150
HOLY SPIRIT, WE BECOME THESE
01:03:40.150 --> 01:03:41.070
SUPER-PEOPLE.
01:03:41.070 --> 01:03:43.060
NOW, I'M USING HEALING ISSUES,
01:03:43.060 --> 01:03:44.120
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MOM WITH, YOU
01:03:44.120 --> 01:03:45.270
KNOW, THAT TEENAGER, AND GOD
01:03:45.270 --> 01:03:48.240
BEGINS TO GUIDE HER AS TO WHAT
01:03:48.240 --> 01:03:49.290
FRIENDS TO LET IN THE HOUSE AND
01:03:49.290 --> 01:03:50.270
WHAT TO SHUT DOWN, AND WHEN
01:03:50.270 --> 01:03:52.070
SHE'S MISSING ONE DAY, EVEN
01:03:52.070 --> 01:03:53.200
WHERE TO GO AND TO WHICH BAR TO
01:03:53.200 --> 01:03:55.100
PICK HER UP AND SAY, "SWEETIE,
01:03:55.100 --> 01:03:56.220
YOU'RE COMING WITH ME."
01:03:56.220 --> 01:03:57.150
I'VE SEEN THAT.
01:03:57.150 --> 01:03:59.010
WHETHER IT'S A MAN WHO'S BUYING
01:03:59.010 --> 01:03:59.230
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, AND HE GETS
01:03:59.230 --> 01:04:01.170
INTO THE BOARDROOM WITH THE
01:04:01.170 --> 01:04:02.180
LAWYERS AND THE TEAM, AND GOD
01:04:02.180 --> 01:04:04.020
SHOWS HIM HOW TO MAKE THAT SALE,
01:04:04.150 --> 01:04:07.150
AND HE USES WORDS THAT BRING IN
01:04:07.150 --> 01:04:09.200
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
01:04:09.200 --> 01:04:11.050
SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY IS-- REALLY,
01:04:11.050 --> 01:04:14.010
IT'S NOT NEW.
01:04:14.010 --> 01:04:16.050
IT'S JUST WE'RE PUTTING A
01:04:16.050 --> 01:04:16.250
VERNACULAR TO IT.
01:04:16.250 --> 01:04:17.290
WE'RE PUTTING WORDS TO IT
01:04:17.290 --> 01:04:19.090
BECAUSE THE CHRISTIANS,
01:04:19.090 --> 01:04:20.230
ESPECIALLY RELIGIOUS CHRISTIANS,
01:04:20.230 --> 01:04:22.100
ARE THE FIRST ONES, WHEN YOU
01:04:22.100 --> 01:04:23.190
CHANGE A METHODOLOGY, THEY BEGIN
01:04:23.190 --> 01:04:24.210
TO SCREAM, "COMPROMISE!"
01:04:24.210 --> 01:04:27.190
BECAUSE YOU'RE-- THEY'RE DOING
01:04:27.190 --> 01:04:29.220
SOMETHING THAT'S OUT OF THEIR
01:04:29.220 --> 01:04:30.140
COMFORT ZONE.
01:04:30.140 --> 01:04:31.260
BUT, OH, MY, IF WE COULD
01:04:31.260 --> 01:04:33.000
RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY EMERGING
01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:35.020
GENERATION WILL HAVE NEW
01:04:35.020 --> 01:04:36.100
PROBLEMS, THEY WILL HAVE NEW
01:04:36.100 --> 01:04:37.180
ISSUES, THEY WILL HAVE NEW
01:04:37.180 --> 01:04:39.020
QUESTIONS, THEY'LL EVEN HAVE A
01:04:39.020 --> 01:04:40.290
NEW CULTURE FOR THAT GENERATION
01:04:40.290 --> 01:04:42.170
THAT THE GOSPEL IS AMAZING AT
01:04:42.170 --> 01:04:45.060
FITTING AND GOING TO THAT
01:04:45.060 --> 01:04:47.120
- LEON: WHEN WE SAY "SPIRIT
01:04:52.240 --> 01:04:53.160
CONTEMPORARY," WE ARE SAYING,
01:04:53.160 --> 01:04:55.050
"YOU'D BETTER FIGURE OUT HAVING
01:04:55.050 --> 01:04:55.270
FAVOR WITH GOD, KNOWING HIS
01:04:55.270 --> 01:04:57.280
WORD, UNDERSTANDING DEMONIC
01:04:57.280 --> 01:05:00.120
ATTACKS, HOW THEY WORK, HOW HE
01:05:00.120 --> 01:05:01.250
DOESN'T WORK, AND YOU BETTER BE
01:05:01.250 --> 01:05:03.050
CONTEMPORARY.
01:05:03.050 --> 01:05:05.060
HOW DO YOU GET A BUSINESS GOING
01:05:05.060 --> 01:05:05.280
IN WINNIPEG?
01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:07.220
HOW DO YOU GET A BUSINESS GOING
01:05:07.220 --> 01:05:08.140
IN DELHI?
01:05:08.140 --> 01:05:10.180
OR IF YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER COMPANY
01:05:10.180 --> 01:05:11.100
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, HOW DO YOU
01:05:11.100 --> 01:05:12.120
REACH THIS KIND OF PEOPLE?
01:05:12.120 --> 01:05:13.010
HOW DO YOU SELL THESE PRODUCTS?
01:05:13.010 --> 01:05:14.230
THESE ARE ALL CONTEMPORARY,
01:05:14.230 --> 01:05:16.240
PRACTICAL ISSUES, AND CHRISTIANS
01:05:17.010 --> 01:05:20.010
CAN BE SO SPIRITUALLY MINDED,
01:05:20.010 --> 01:05:21.210
- FEMALE NARRATOR: "NOW IT IS
01:05:29.010 --> 01:05:29.220
GOD WHO ESTABLISHES BOTH US AND
01:05:29.220 --> 01:05:30.140
YOU IN CHRIST.
01:05:30.140 --> 01:05:32.120
HE ANOINTED US, PLACED HIS SEAL
01:05:32.120 --> 01:05:33.040
ON US, AND PUT HIS SPIRIT IN OUR
01:05:33.040 --> 01:05:34.050
HEARTS AS A PLEDGE OF WHAT IS TO
01:05:34.050 --> 01:05:35.160
- LEON: WHEN I LOOK AT BEING
01:05:40.020 --> 01:05:40.230
SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY, WHICH IS
01:05:40.230 --> 01:05:41.140
THE ABILITY TO IMPACT NATIONS,
01:05:41.140 --> 01:05:43.050
THE ABILITY TO IMPACT THE
01:05:43.050 --> 01:05:44.140
BUSINESS WORLD, THE ARTS,
01:05:45.100 --> 01:05:48.100
ET CETERA, IT LOOKS LIKE WHAT
01:05:48.100 --> 01:05:49.190
JESUS SAYS, AND THAT IS THAT WE
01:05:49.190 --> 01:05:51.130
ARE TO DISCIPLE NATIONS.
01:05:51.130 --> 01:05:52.010
CHRISTIANS DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER
01:05:52.010 --> 01:05:55.010
WHEN WE JUST SCREAM, "OBEY THE
01:05:55.010 --> 01:05:56.050
CHRISTIANS HAVE AN ANSWER WHEN
01:05:59.180 --> 01:06:00.110
WE SHOW THEM WHAT IT IS LIKE
01:06:00.110 --> 01:06:01.010
TO BE A PRIME MINISTER,
01:06:01.010 --> 01:06:03.090
A PRESIDENT WHO CAN HAVE POWER
01:06:03.090 --> 01:06:05.090
BUT NOT BE TAKEN IN BY IT.
01:06:05.090 --> 01:06:07.170
WHEN I LOOK AHEAD AND I SEE WHAT
01:06:07.170 --> 01:06:10.140
I BELIEVE JESUS IS LOOKING FOR,
01:06:10.140 --> 01:06:11.260
IT WOULD BE US IN EVERY AREA OF
01:06:11.260 --> 01:06:14.190
SOCIETY, BEING THE HEAD AND NOT
01:06:14.190 --> 01:06:17.130
THE TAIL, BEING ABOVE AND NOT
01:06:17.130 --> 01:06:18.110
BENEATH, THAT EVERY WEAPON
01:06:18.200 --> 01:06:21.200
FORMED AGAINST US DOESN'T
01:06:21.200 --> 01:06:22.190
PROSPER.
01:06:22.190 --> 01:06:23.040
PAUL PRAYED THAT WICKED AND EVIL
01:06:23.040 --> 01:06:24.210
MEN WOULDN'T PROSPER AGAINST HIM
01:06:24.210 --> 01:06:25.290
'CAUSE ALL MEN DON'T HAVE FAITH.
01:06:25.290 --> 01:06:27.210
SO IN A WORLD FILLED WITH
01:06:27.210 --> 01:06:29.080
OPPOSITION THAT WE'RE-- WHEN WE
01:06:29.080 --> 01:06:31.020
OPEN OUR MOUTH, EVEN IN OUR
01:06:31.020 --> 01:06:31.270
DEBATES THAT ARE NECESSARY, HE
01:06:31.270 --> 01:06:33.130
FILLS IT: THE BRILLIANCE, THE
01:06:33.130 --> 01:06:34.270
POWER, THE SUPERNATURAL
01:06:34.270 --> 01:06:37.060
GIFTEDNESS THAT IS ON THE
01:06:37.060 --> 01:06:39.050
EVERYDAY-- NOT JUST ON THE
01:06:39.050 --> 01:06:40.090
PASTORS AND THE PREACHERS AND
01:06:40.090 --> 01:06:41.160
THE TV EVANGELISTS, BUT WE ARE
01:06:41.160 --> 01:06:43.130
GONNA SEE BUSINESSMEN RISE UP
01:06:43.130 --> 01:06:44.270
WHO ARE GONNA KNOW THE WORD AS
01:06:44.270 --> 01:06:45.180
GOOD AS PASTORS.
01:06:45.180 --> 01:06:48.030
WE'RE GONNA SEE PEOPLE RISE UP
01:06:48.030 --> 01:06:49.060
IN THE ARTS THAT ARE GONNA BE SO
01:06:49.060 --> 01:06:50.060
GIFTED THAT THEY'RE IN AWE OF
01:06:50.060 --> 01:06:51.010
THIS GIFTING, BUT THERE'S SUCH A
01:06:51.010 --> 01:06:53.140
STRENGTH OF CHARACTER.
01:06:53.140 --> 01:06:55.150
HOLY SPIRIT IS THE MOST
01:06:55.150 --> 01:06:56.030
CONTEMPORARY FORCE ON THE
01:06:56.030 --> 01:06:57.120
PLANET.
01:06:57.120 --> 01:06:58.170
WHEN I LOOK FORWARD TO THE
01:06:58.170 --> 01:07:00.030
FUTURE WITH MY KIDS AND MY
01:07:00.030 --> 01:07:01.030
GRANDKIDS, I'M SO EXCITED 'CAUSE
01:07:01.030 --> 01:07:03.030
THEY'RE GETTING IT BETTER THAN I
01:07:03.030 --> 01:07:03.250
01:07:07.150 --> 01:07:09.010
- MALE NARRATOR: HERE AT THE
01:07:09.010 --> 01:07:09.220
BEGINNING OF 2017, THE TRINITY
01:07:09.220 --> 01:07:10.170
BROADCASTING FAMILY OF NETWORKS
01:07:10.170 --> 01:07:12.140
INTRODUCE FOUR PILLARS OF TRUTH:
01:07:12.140 --> 01:07:15.030
THE BLESSED LIFE, GRACE, SPIRIT
01:07:15.030 --> 01:07:16.170
CONTEMPORARY, AND HOPE.
01:07:19.240 --> 01:07:22.240
GOD WONDROUSLY SHOWS US HIS
01:07:22.240 --> 01:07:24.200
NEVER-ENDING LOVE.
01:07:24.200 --> 01:07:26.240
"HE DELIGHTS IN THOSE WHO FEAR
01:07:26.240 --> 01:07:28.100
HIM."
01:07:28.100 --> 01:07:30.260
"IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN
01:07:30.260 --> 01:07:31.230
BE AGAINST US?"
01:07:31.230 --> 01:07:34.090
HOPE IS THE NEXT PILLAR FOR
01:07:34.090 --> 01:07:35.200
- MATT: JOEL, THE IDEA OF
01:07:40.090 --> 01:07:41.100
WAKING UP TO HOPE, WHY IS THAT A
01:07:41.100 --> 01:07:44.000
- JOEL: YOU KNOW, MATT, I THINK
01:07:45.200 --> 01:07:46.290
IT'S IMPORTANT.
01:07:46.290 --> 01:07:47.140
HOW WE START THE DAY, MANY
01:07:47.140 --> 01:07:48.210
TIMES, DETERMINES WHAT KIND OF
01:07:48.210 --> 01:07:49.120
DAY WE'RE GOING TO HAVE.
01:07:49.120 --> 01:07:51.160
AND I THINK IT'S EASY SOMETIMES
01:07:51.160 --> 01:07:52.080
TO, YOU KNOW, JUST START THE DAY
01:07:52.080 --> 01:07:53.080
AND JUST, "I DON'T FEEL LIKE
01:07:56.100 --> 01:07:57.000
GOIN' TO WORK," AND "I GOT THESE
01:07:57.000 --> 01:07:57.220
PROBLEMS."
01:07:57.220 --> 01:07:58.190
BUT, YOU KNOW, YOUR LIFE IS
01:07:58.190 --> 01:07:59.090
GONNA FOLLOW YOUR THOUGHTS,
01:07:59.090 --> 01:08:00.030
SO I THINK IT'S SO IMPORTANT
01:08:00.030 --> 01:08:01.100
TO GET UP WITH THAT GRATEFUL
01:08:01.100 --> 01:08:03.110
ATTITUDE AND SAY, "GOD,
01:08:03.110 --> 01:08:04.110
I WANNA THANK YA FOR ANOTHER
01:08:04.110 --> 01:08:05.010
DAY," AND JUST, YOU KNOW, GET
01:08:05.010 --> 01:08:06.120
YOUR-- IF YOU GET YOUR MIND
01:08:06.120 --> 01:08:08.000
GOIN' IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION,
01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:08.210
I'VE LEARNED YOUR LIFE WILL GO
01:08:08.210 --> 01:08:09.240
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
01:08:09.240 --> 01:08:11.160
SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, RIGHT
01:08:11.160 --> 01:08:12.270
AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE
01:08:12.270 --> 01:08:14.030
DAY, JUST TO SET THE TONE, AND,
01:08:14.030 --> 01:08:15.000
YOU KNOW, NO BETTER WAY TO SET
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:16.110
IT THAN TO BE HOPE-FILLED.
01:08:16.110 --> 01:08:18.130
I WAS THINKIN' ABOUT THIS
01:08:18.130 --> 01:08:19.080
IT SAYS, YOU KNOW, IT SAYS, "THE
01:08:22.290 --> 01:08:23.240
PATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS GETS
01:08:23.240 --> 01:08:24.130
BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER."
01:08:24.130 --> 01:08:25.010
YOU KNOW,
01:08:25.010 --> 01:08:25.230
I BELIEVE GOD WANTS US TO
01:08:25.230 --> 01:08:26.120
GO FURTHER AND FURTHER, GET
01:08:26.120 --> 01:08:27.080
BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER, NOT GET
01:08:27.080 --> 01:08:27.290
BUT 2017 CAN JUST BE A NEW
01:08:30.110 --> 01:08:31.000
BEGINNING FOR US ALL,
01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:31.170
A NEW DAY OF VICTORY.
01:08:31.170 --> 01:08:32.200
AND SO LET'S TAKE THE LIMITS OFF
01:08:32.200 --> 01:08:34.080
OF GOD AND BELIEVE IN SOME GREAT
01:08:34.080 --> 01:08:35.000
THINGS IN 2017, OKAY?
01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:37.010
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
01:08:37.010 --> 01:08:38.230
- VICTORIA OSTEEN: YOU KNOW, WE
01:08:38.230 --> 01:08:39.150
ARE SO BLESSED IN THIS COUNTRY
01:08:39.150 --> 01:08:42.040
TO BE ABLE TO WAKE UP AND TURN
01:08:42.040 --> 01:08:42.250
TO BE ABLE TO WAKE UP TO HOPE,
01:08:46.090 --> 01:08:47.000
AND TO GRACE.
01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:48.040
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU CAN HAVE
01:08:50.140 --> 01:08:51.060
SO MUCH, YOU CAN TAKE IT FOR
01:08:51.060 --> 01:08:52.010
GRANTED.
01:08:52.010 --> 01:08:54.080
AND I JUST THINK THAT STARTING
01:08:54.080 --> 01:08:56.050
OFF AT THE NEW YEAR, IT'S A TIME
01:08:56.050 --> 01:08:56.270
TO BE GRATEFUL.
01:08:56.270 --> 01:08:57.110
IT'S A TIME TO COUNT OUR
01:08:57.110 --> 01:08:58.060
BLESSINGS, NOT TO JUST TAKE
01:08:58.060 --> 01:08:59.070
THINGS FOR GRANTED, BUT TO
01:08:59.070 --> 01:09:00.170
REALLY SAY, "HEY, YOU KNOW, THIS
01:09:00.170 --> 01:09:02.140
IS A LUXURY TO BE ABLE TO TURN
01:09:02.190 --> 01:09:05.190
ON THE TV AND REMIND MYSELF THAT
01:09:05.190 --> 01:09:07.200
THERE IS HOPE, THAT I'VE GOT A
01:09:07.200 --> 01:09:10.190
FUTURE, YOU KNOW, THAT IF I'LL
01:09:10.190 --> 01:09:11.100
KEEP PRESSIN' ON, THAT GOD'LL
01:09:11.100 --> 01:09:13.080
GET ME TO WHERE I NEED TO BE.
01:09:13.080 --> 01:09:16.020
YOU KNOW, NOT EVERY DAY IS THE
01:09:16.020 --> 01:09:16.230
PERFECT DAY, BUT EVERY DAY IS A
01:09:16.230 --> 01:09:18.050
GOOD DAY WHEN YOU HAVE GOD IN
01:09:18.050 --> 01:09:18.280
IT.
01:09:18.280 --> 01:09:20.130
SO I LOVE THAT!
01:09:20.130 --> 01:09:21.090
- MATT: OKAY!
01:09:21.090 --> 01:09:22.000
- FEMALE NARRATOR: "NOW MAY THE
01:09:27.070 --> 01:09:27.290
GOD OF HOPE FILL YOU WITH ALL
01:09:27.290 --> 01:09:28.200
JOY AND PEACE AS YOU BELIEVE IN
01:09:28.200 --> 01:09:30.150
HIM, SO THAT YOU MAY OVERFLOW
01:09:30.150 --> 01:09:31.240
WITH HOPE BY THE POWER OF THE
01:09:31.240 --> 01:09:33.060
- MATT: PASTOR ROBERT, I JUST
01:09:39.080 --> 01:09:39.290
WANTED TO ASK YOUR THOUGHTS ON
01:09:39.290 --> 01:09:41.030
THE OTHER PILLARS OF HOPE.
01:09:41.030 --> 01:09:41.220
WHAT-- WHY HOPE?
01:09:43.130 --> 01:09:46.130
WHY DO WE NEED IT?
01:09:46.130 --> 01:09:46.290
WHAT IS IT ACTIVATING, AND THE
01:09:46.290 --> 01:09:48.170
- ROBERT: WELL, HOPE IS
01:09:53.220 --> 01:09:54.100
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
01:09:54.100 --> 01:09:54.290
IT'S SOMETHING GOD PUT IN US.
01:09:54.290 --> 01:09:55.270
ROMANS TELLS US, "HOPE DOES NOT
01:09:55.270 --> 01:09:56.190
SO WOULD YOU THINK ABOUT--
01:10:00.080 --> 01:10:01.050
I LOVE GRAMMAR, AS YOU KNOW--
01:10:01.050 --> 01:10:02.160
AND YOU'VE ME HEARD SAY THAT--
01:10:02.160 --> 01:10:04.270
AND WORDS, I LIKE TO
01:10:04.270 --> 01:10:05.140
BREAK 'EM DOWN.
01:10:05.140 --> 01:10:06.140
"DISAPPOINT" IS A-- IT'S AGAINST
01:10:06.140 --> 01:10:09.120
"APPOINTMENT," AND GOD HAS
01:10:09.120 --> 01:10:12.110
APPOINTED US-- LIKE A MISSED
01:10:12.110 --> 01:10:13.120
APPOINTMENT, MIS-APPOINT
01:10:13.120 --> 01:10:15.020
SOMETHING.
01:10:15.020 --> 01:10:17.130
SO HOPE DOESN'T DISAPPOINT US.
01:10:17.130 --> 01:10:18.120
WE CAN LIVE WITH THAT JOY OF THE
01:10:18.120 --> 01:10:19.040
THEN YOU'VE GOT THE OLD
01:10:22.090 --> 01:10:23.120
TESTAMENT SAYING, "HOPE DEFERRED
01:10:23.120 --> 01:10:24.040
MAKES THE HEART SICK."
01:10:24.040 --> 01:10:25.090
SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND
01:10:25.090 --> 01:10:26.020
SO GOD BUILT HOPE IN US.
01:10:29.110 --> 01:10:30.150
JUST A BRIEF THING ON THAT, OUR
01:10:30.150 --> 01:10:31.220
SOCIETY TODAY DOESN'T HAVE MUCH
01:10:31.220 --> 01:10:33.130
HOPE.
01:10:33.130 --> 01:10:35.020
AND THE REASON WE DON'T, ONE OF
01:10:35.020 --> 01:10:36.260
THE REASONS IS BECAUSE WE BUY SO
01:10:36.260 --> 01:10:37.180
MUCH ON CREDIT.
01:10:37.180 --> 01:10:39.240
AND SO INSTEAD OF HOPING THAT
01:10:39.240 --> 01:10:40.150
"ONE DAY, I'LL BE ABLE TO DO
01:10:40.150 --> 01:10:42.130
THIS," WE JUST GO DOWN AND BUY
01:10:42.130 --> 01:10:43.040
IT, AND THEN PAY IT OFF.
01:10:43.040 --> 01:10:45.160
SO WE ARE A HOPE-DEFERRED
01:10:45.160 --> 01:10:46.130
SOCIETY.
01:10:47.010 --> 01:10:50.010
SO WHEN JOEL OSTEEN STANDS UP IN
01:10:50.010 --> 01:10:50.230
SUCH A GREAT WAY AND HE TELLS US
01:10:50.230 --> 01:10:52.080
ABOUT HOPE, THAT'S WHAT'S
01:10:52.080 --> 01:10:54.020
RESONATING WITH 20 MILLION
01:10:54.020 --> 01:10:54.290
I WAS WITH JOEL ONE TIME AT THE
01:10:58.050 --> 01:10:58.270
CHURCH, SPEAKING, AND AT THAT
01:10:58.270 --> 01:11:00.230
TIME-- AND IT MAY HAVE CHANGED--
01:11:00.230 --> 01:11:01.220
ABOUT 100.000 PEOPLE A MONTH
01:11:01.220 --> 01:11:04.110
WERE ACCEPTING CHRIST.
01:11:04.180 --> 01:11:07.180
AND I'D HEARD THE SAME THING
01:11:07.180 --> 01:11:08.140
THAT, OH, HALF THE PEOPLE THAT
01:11:08.140 --> 01:11:09.140
WATCH HIM DON'T KNOW CHRIST.
01:11:09.140 --> 01:11:12.030
AND THE WORLD NEEDS THE MESSAGE
01:11:12.030 --> 01:11:12.250
OF HOPE.
01:11:12.250 --> 01:11:14.060
SO FOR THAT TO BE A PILLAR OF
01:11:14.060 --> 01:11:14.270
TBN IS EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY
01:11:14.270 --> 01:11:16.020
BECAUSE WHEN WE LOOK AROUND,
01:11:21.040 --> 01:11:21.240
WE CAN SEE A LOT OF THINGS NOT
01:11:21.240 --> 01:11:22.150
TO BE HOPEFUL ABOUT,
01:11:22.150 --> 01:11:23.110
01:11:27.270 --> 01:11:28.170
- MALE NARRATOR: "WE HAVE THIS
01:11:28.170 --> 01:11:29.090
HOPE AS AN ANCHOR FOR THE SOUL,
01:11:29.090 --> 01:11:30.010
- JOEL: AN ANCHOR IS SOMETHIN'
01:11:34.290 --> 01:11:35.210
THAT HOLDS A BOAT IN PLACE.
01:11:35.210 --> 01:11:37.250
ONCE THE CAPTAIN ARRIVES AT HIS
01:11:37.250 --> 01:11:38.170
DESTINATION, HE PUTS THE ANCHOR
01:11:38.170 --> 01:11:39.280
DOWN.
01:11:39.280 --> 01:11:41.270
THAT WAY, HE WON'T DRIFT AND END
01:11:41.270 --> 01:11:43.230
UP IN PLACES THAT HE DOESN'T
01:11:43.230 --> 01:11:44.170
WANNA BE.
01:11:45.070 --> 01:11:48.070
WHEN THE BOAT IS ANCHORED, IT
01:11:48.070 --> 01:11:48.280
MAY MOVE A LITTLE BIT WITH THE
01:11:48.280 --> 01:11:51.260
WAVES, THE WIND, BUT THE CAPTAIN
01:11:51.260 --> 01:11:52.180
IS NOT WORRIED.
01:11:52.180 --> 01:11:54.060
HE CAN RELAX.
01:11:54.060 --> 01:11:55.100
HE KNOWS THE ANCHOR IS DOWN.
01:11:55.100 --> 01:11:56.000
AND THE SCRIPTURE TELLS US,
01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:58.200
"HOPE IS THE ANCHOR OF OUR
01:11:58.200 --> 01:11:59.200
SOUL."
01:12:00.110 --> 01:12:03.110
WHAT'S GOIN' TO KEEP YOUR
01:12:03.110 --> 01:12:04.000
SOUL IN THE RIGHT PLACE, WHAT'S
01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:06.200
GOING TO CAUSE YOU TO OVERCOME
01:12:06.200 --> 01:12:08.090
OBSTACLES, REACH YOUR DREAMS, IS
01:12:08.090 --> 01:12:09.180
WHEN YOU ARE ANCHORED TO HOPE.
01:12:09.250 --> 01:12:12.250
THAT MEANS NO MATTER WHAT YOU
01:12:12.250 --> 01:12:14.130
FACE, NO MATTER HOW BIG THE
01:12:14.130 --> 01:12:15.260
DIFFICULTY, NO MATTER HOW LONG
01:12:15.260 --> 01:12:18.080
IT'S TAKING, YOU KNOW GOD IS
01:12:18.080 --> 01:12:20.160
STILL ON THE THRONE, YOU KNOW
01:12:20.160 --> 01:12:22.200
HIS PLANS FOR YOU ARE FOR GOOD,
01:12:22.200 --> 01:12:24.220
THAT HE'S BIGGER THAN ANY
01:12:24.220 --> 01:12:25.110
CHALLENGE.
01:12:25.110 --> 01:12:28.020
AND WHEN YOU'RE ANCHORED TO THIS
01:12:28.020 --> 01:12:29.110
HOPE, NOTHING MOVES YOU.
01:12:29.110 --> 01:12:31.000
THE WINDS, THE WAVES, THE STORMS
01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:32.280
MAY COME.
01:12:32.280 --> 01:12:34.020
YOU'RE NOT WORRIED.
01:12:34.020 --> 01:12:35.180
YOU HAVE YOUR ANCHOR DOWN.
01:12:35.180 --> 01:12:37.260
YOU RECEIVE A BAD MEDICAL
01:12:37.260 --> 01:12:38.170
REPORT.
01:12:38.170 --> 01:12:39.210
A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD BE UPSET,
01:12:39.210 --> 01:12:40.130
NEGATIVE.
01:12:40.130 --> 01:12:41.250
NOT YOU.
01:12:41.250 --> 01:12:43.140
YOU'RE ANCHORED TO HOPE.
01:12:43.140 --> 01:12:44.260
"I KNOW GOD IS RESTORIN' HEALTH
01:12:44.260 --> 01:12:46.060
BACK UNTO ME."
01:12:46.120 --> 01:12:49.120
YOU GO THROUGH A LOSS,
01:12:49.120 --> 01:12:49.290
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
01:12:49.290 --> 01:12:52.030
YOUR EMOTIONS ARE PULLIN' YA
01:12:52.030 --> 01:12:52.230
TOWARD DISCOURAGEMENT, TOWARD
01:12:52.230 --> 01:12:53.150
BITTERNESS, BUT SOMETHING'S
01:12:53.150 --> 01:12:55.240
HOLDIN' YOU BACK.
01:12:55.240 --> 01:12:57.130
YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN IT, BUT DOWN
01:12:57.130 --> 01:12:58.120
IN HERE, YOU HEAR A VOICE
01:12:58.120 --> 01:13:00.250
SAYIN', "EVERYTHING'S GOIN' TO
01:13:00.250 --> 01:13:01.230
BE ALL RIGHT.
01:13:01.230 --> 01:13:03.020
GOD HAS BEAUTY FOR THESE ASHES."
01:13:03.020 --> 01:13:04.250
THAT'S THE ANCHOR OF HOPE.
01:13:04.250 --> 01:13:07.220
01:13:07.230 --> 01:13:10.230
- MATT: JOEL, LET'S GET INTO
01:13:10.230 --> 01:13:13.060
REALLY, KIND OF, THE GUTS OF WHY
01:13:14.190 --> 01:13:17.190
YOUR MESSAGE IS HELPING SHAPE,
01:13:20.140 --> 01:13:23.140
YOU KNOW, REALLY, THE SECOND
01:13:23.140 --> 01:13:26.010
GENERATION OF CHRISTIAN
01:13:26.010 --> 01:13:27.170
TELEVISION?
01:13:27.170 --> 01:13:29.180
WE'RE JUST-- WE'RE SO-- BY THE
01:13:29.180 --> 01:13:31.100
WAY, YOU REALIZE WE'RE SITTIN'
01:13:31.100 --> 01:13:32.190
IN THE STUDIO WITH JOEL AND
01:13:32.190 --> 01:13:33.090
JOSEPH, RIGHT?
01:13:33.090 --> 01:13:35.000
YOU GET THAT, RIGHT?
01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:35.180
COME ON!
01:13:35.180 --> 01:13:37.260
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
01:13:37.260 --> 01:13:38.250
GO AHEAD!
01:13:38.250 --> 01:13:40.230
- JOEL: WELL, MATT, LET ME SEE.
01:13:40.230 --> 01:13:41.220
WE'RE SO BLESSED TO BE WITH YOU
01:13:41.220 --> 01:13:43.180
GUYS AND TO SEE THE NEXT
01:13:43.180 --> 01:13:44.090
GENERATION STEPPIN' UP, SO WE
01:13:44.090 --> 01:13:46.210
JUST HONOR WHAT YOU GUYS ARE
01:13:46.210 --> 01:13:47.110
DOIN'.
01:13:47.110 --> 01:13:49.200
AND YOU'RE TALKIN' ABOUT YOUR
01:13:49.200 --> 01:13:50.110
MOM AND DAD.
01:13:50.110 --> 01:13:50.230
IT ALWAYS MAKES ME THINK BACK
01:13:50.230 --> 01:13:51.140
BECAUSE I KNOW I'M REAPIN' A LOT
01:13:51.140 --> 01:13:53.200
OF THE SEEDS THAT MY PARENTS
01:13:53.200 --> 01:13:55.010
HAVE SOWN ALL THOSE YEARS, YOU
01:13:55.010 --> 01:13:56.040
KNOW, 40 YEARS THERE AT LAKEWOOD
01:13:56.040 --> 01:13:57.020
IN HOUSTON.
01:13:57.020 --> 01:13:58.260
BUT, YOU KNOW, I GUESS MY THING,
01:13:58.260 --> 01:14:01.060
MATT, IS I GO BACK TO I NEVER
01:14:01.060 --> 01:14:01.270
DREAMED I WOULD BE DOIN' THIS.
01:14:01.270 --> 01:14:02.270
AND SO, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE
01:14:02.270 --> 01:14:03.270
YEARS BEHIND THE SCENES, GOD WAS
01:14:03.270 --> 01:14:05.110
GETTING ME PREPARED, BUT, YOU
01:14:05.110 --> 01:14:06.170
KNOW, WHEN I DID TAKE OVER FROM
01:14:06.170 --> 01:14:08.100
MY PARENTS, SOME PEOPLE SAID,
01:14:08.100 --> 01:14:10.170
"WELL, WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO BE
01:14:10.170 --> 01:14:11.090
VERY HOPEFUL, VERY POSITIVE
01:14:11.090 --> 01:14:12.140
AND--" BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT?
01:14:12.140 --> 01:14:13.260
IT'S JUST WHO I WAS TO BEGIN
01:14:13.260 --> 01:14:15.120
WITH, SO NOTHIN' REALLY CHANGED
01:14:15.120 --> 01:14:16.150
FOR ME.
01:14:16.150 --> 01:14:18.290
THIS IS JUST WHAT CAME UP OUT OF
01:14:18.290 --> 01:14:19.260
ME.
01:14:19.260 --> 01:14:21.080
AND I THINK WHERE IT RESONATES
01:14:21.080 --> 01:14:22.020
WITH PEOPLE IS I DON'T HAVE TO
01:14:22.020 --> 01:14:23.230
TELL YOU, BUT LIFE HAS A WAY OF
01:14:23.230 --> 01:14:24.230
PUSHIN' US ALL DOWN.
01:14:24.230 --> 01:14:26.290
YOU KNOW, WE ALL GO THROUGH, YOU
01:14:26.290 --> 01:14:27.210
KNOW, JUST LIFE, HEALTH,
01:14:27.210 --> 01:14:30.000
RELATIONSHIP ISSUES, FINANCIAL
01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:31.160
ISSUES, AND IT SEEMS LIKE, MATT,
01:14:31.160 --> 01:14:34.030
THAT, WHEN THE MORE I TELL
01:14:34.030 --> 01:14:35.100
PEOPLE THAT, "YOU KNOW WHAT?
01:14:35.100 --> 01:14:36.110
YOU CAN RISE HIGHER; YOU CAN
01:14:36.110 --> 01:14:37.260
OVERCOME THAT ADDICTION; YOU CAN
01:14:37.260 --> 01:14:38.260
FULFILL YOUR DREAMS," YOU KNOW,
01:14:38.260 --> 01:14:40.150
IT SPEAKS TO WHAT'S REALLY ON
01:14:40.150 --> 01:14:41.260
THE INSIDE OF EACH ONE OF US
01:14:41.260 --> 01:14:42.160
'CAUSE GOD WANTS US TO RISE
01:14:42.160 --> 01:14:44.060
HIGHER AND TO OVERCOME.
01:14:44.060 --> 01:14:45.030
SO, I DON'T KNOW.
01:14:45.030 --> 01:14:46.290
IT'S JUST, AGAIN, I STAND HERE
01:14:46.290 --> 01:14:48.250
AMAZED AT WHERE GOD'S TAKEN US,
01:14:48.250 --> 01:14:50.190
BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S A SIMPLE
01:14:50.190 --> 01:14:53.100
MESSAGE, BUT I GO BACK TO THIS:
01:14:53.100 --> 01:14:54.140
YOU KNOW, THE SCRIPTURE SAYS,
01:14:54.140 --> 01:14:57.010
"FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF
01:14:57.010 --> 01:14:57.200
THINGS HOPED FOR," AND YOU CAN'T
01:14:57.200 --> 01:14:59.000
HAVE FAITH IF YOU DON'T FIRST
01:14:59.000 --> 01:14:59.220
HAVE HOPE.
01:14:59.220 --> 01:15:02.240
- JOEL: ARE YOU DRIFTING TODAY,
01:15:02.240 --> 01:15:04.120
WORRIED, NEGATIVE, IN SELF-PITY?
01:15:04.120 --> 01:15:05.040
WHY DON'T YOU PUT YOUR ANCHOR
01:15:05.040 --> 01:15:06.030
BACK DOWN.
01:15:06.030 --> 01:15:07.280
WHY DON'T YOU GET YOUR HOPES
01:15:07.280 --> 01:15:08.180
BACK UP?
01:15:08.180 --> 01:15:10.120
JUST BECAUSE THE PROMISE HASN'T
01:15:10.120 --> 01:15:12.140
HAPPENED YET DOESN'T MEAN IT'S
01:15:12.140 --> 01:15:13.050
NOT GOIN' TO HAPPEN.
01:15:13.050 --> 01:15:16.010
YOU MAY HAVE HAD SOME BAD BREAKS
01:15:16.010 --> 01:15:16.230
LIKE JOSEPH.
01:15:16.230 --> 01:15:18.190
THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NOT
01:15:18.190 --> 01:15:19.090
GOING TO FULFILL YOUR PURPOSE.
01:15:19.090 --> 01:15:21.200
GOD WOULDN'T HAVE ALLOWED IT IF
01:15:21.200 --> 01:15:23.000
HE WASN'T GOING TO USE IT FOR
01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:24.000
YOUR GOOD.
01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:26.250
SHAKE OFF THE DISCOURAGEMENT,
01:15:26.250 --> 01:15:28.020
THE SELF-PITY.
01:15:28.020 --> 01:15:29.130
WHAT GOD STARTED IN YOUR LIFE,
01:15:29.130 --> 01:15:30.270
HE'S STILL GOING TO BRING TO
01:15:30.270 --> 01:15:32.240
PASS.
01:15:32.240 --> 01:15:35.190
01:15:35.190 --> 01:15:37.280
- JOEL: I FEEL LIKE THAT, YOU
01:15:37.280 --> 01:15:40.040
KNOW, WHAT WE'RE CALLED TO DO,
01:15:40.040 --> 01:15:40.250
VICTORIA AND I, THAT IS, IS TO,
01:15:40.250 --> 01:15:43.000
YOU KNOW, THROW THAT WIDE NET OF
01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:44.050
HOPE AND LET PEOPLE KNOW, YOU
01:15:44.050 --> 01:15:45.160
KNOW, LIKE YOU WERE SAYIN',
01:15:45.160 --> 01:15:46.270
LAURIE, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT GOD
01:15:46.270 --> 01:15:47.190
WANTS YOU TO RISE HIGHER, AND I
01:15:47.190 --> 01:15:49.080
THINK, JUST, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE
01:15:49.080 --> 01:15:50.120
PUSHED DOWN, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
01:15:50.120 --> 01:15:52.010
I BELIEVE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO PUSH
01:15:52.010 --> 01:15:52.230
PEOPLE UP AND PUSH 'EM INTO
01:15:52.230 --> 01:15:54.150
THEIR DESTINY, SO THAT'S WHAT
01:15:54.150 --> 01:15:55.100
OUR MINISTRY'S ABOUT.
01:15:55.100 --> 01:15:56.250
[APPLAUSE]
01:15:56.250 --> 01:15:57.260
- MATT: BEAUTIFUL.
01:15:57.260 --> 01:15:59.030
- VICTORIA: YEAH, AND, YOU
01:16:03.080 --> 01:16:03.280
KNOW, THE BIBLE ALSO TALKS ABOUT
01:16:03.280 --> 01:16:04.200
HOPE BEIN' AN ANCHOR.
01:16:04.200 --> 01:16:05.070
IT'S AN ANCHOR FOR OUR SOUL.
01:16:05.070 --> 01:16:07.000
AND IF YOU CAN GIVE PEOPLE HOPE,
01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:07.220
YOU KNOW, IT ANCHORS THEM TO
01:16:07.220 --> 01:16:08.180
SOMETHIN'.
01:16:08.180 --> 01:16:11.160
IT CAUSES THE TRUST AND THE
01:16:11.160 --> 01:16:13.140
FAITH TO BE ABLE TO BE PRODUCED
01:16:13.140 --> 01:16:14.060
THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS IN THIS
01:16:17.270 --> 01:16:18.190
LIFE THAT ARE TRYING TO GET US
01:16:18.190 --> 01:16:19.100
OFF COURSE.
01:16:19.100 --> 01:16:20.170
THERE'S SO MUCH DOUBT.
01:16:20.170 --> 01:16:21.160
THERE'S SO MUCH, JUST, UNBELIEF
01:16:21.160 --> 01:16:22.190
EVERYWHERE WE LOOK THAT WE HAVE
01:16:22.190 --> 01:16:24.230
TO BE ANCHORED TO THIS HOPE IN
01:16:24.230 --> 01:16:26.020
JESUS CHRIST.
01:16:26.150 --> 01:16:29.150
AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S CURRENTS
01:16:29.150 --> 01:16:30.250
ALL THE TIME, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S
01:16:30.250 --> 01:16:32.110
LIKE I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A
01:16:32.110 --> 01:16:34.060
LITTLE GIRL, AND I WOULD GO RUN
01:16:34.060 --> 01:16:34.290
OUT INTO THE WATER FROM THE
01:16:34.290 --> 01:16:37.000
BEACH AND BE PLAYIN' AROUND IN
01:16:37.000 --> 01:16:38.150
THE WATER, AND BEFORE I KNEW IT,
01:16:38.150 --> 01:16:39.250
I'D LOOK BACK UP ON THE BEACH,
01:16:39.250 --> 01:16:41.130
AND I COULDN'T FIND WHERE MY
01:16:41.130 --> 01:16:42.180
PARENTS WERE, WHERE THE TOWELS
01:16:42.180 --> 01:16:44.250
WERE, BECAUSE THE CURRENTS HAD
01:16:44.250 --> 01:16:46.060
CAUSED ME TO DRIFT WAY DOWN THE
01:16:46.100 --> 01:16:49.100
BEACH, AND I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE
01:16:49.100 --> 01:16:50.080
IT.
01:16:50.080 --> 01:16:52.030
AND I THINK IF WE'RE NOT
01:16:52.030 --> 01:16:52.230
CAREFUL, THE CURRENTS OF LIFE,
01:16:52.230 --> 01:16:54.040
THINGS, CIRCUMSTANCES WILL GET
01:16:54.040 --> 01:16:55.030
US TO DRIFT OFF COURSE, AND
01:16:55.030 --> 01:16:56.130
THAT'S WHY WE CAN COME BACK TO
01:16:56.130 --> 01:16:58.050
CENTER WITH JESUS CHRIST, NO
01:16:58.050 --> 01:17:00.290
MATTER WHAT'S GOIN' ON IN YOUR
01:17:00.290 --> 01:17:01.290
LIFE, WHETHER IT'S AN ILLNESS,
01:17:01.290 --> 01:17:02.200
WHETHER IT'S FINANCIAL PROBLEMS,
01:17:02.200 --> 01:17:05.150
WHETHER IT'S RELATIONSHIPS
01:17:05.150 --> 01:17:06.120
PROBLEMS.
01:17:06.120 --> 01:17:08.170
IF YOU CAN JUST COME BACK AND
01:17:08.170 --> 01:17:09.090
ANCHOR YOURSELF TO JESUS CHRIST,
01:17:09.090 --> 01:17:11.180
HE'LL POINT YOU IN THE RIGHT
01:17:11.180 --> 01:17:13.050
DIRECTION, AND I THINK THAT'S
01:17:13.050 --> 01:17:14.000
WHAT WE TRY TO DO EVERY SINGLE
01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:14.210
DAY.
01:17:14.210 --> 01:17:15.290
WE'RE NOT SAYIN' THERE AREN'T
01:17:15.290 --> 01:17:17.010
PROBLEMS.
01:17:17.010 --> 01:17:18.250
WE'RE NOT SAYIN' THAT LIFE ISN'T
01:17:18.250 --> 01:17:19.250
REAL.
01:17:19.250 --> 01:17:20.270
WE'RE SAYIN', "FIND THIS HOPE IN
01:17:20.270 --> 01:17:21.190
JESUS CHRIST, AND THINGS CAN
01:17:21.190 --> 01:17:22.150
TURN AROUND, AND THEY CAN GET
01:17:22.150 --> 01:17:23.190
01:17:26.250 --> 01:17:28.210
- FEMALE NARRATOR: "FOR I AM
01:17:28.210 --> 01:17:29.120
CONFIDENT OF THIS VERY THING,
01:17:29.120 --> 01:17:30.150
THAT HE WHO BEGAN A GOOD WORK IN
01:17:30.150 --> 01:17:32.100
YOU WILL PERFECT IT UNTIL THE
01:17:32.100 --> 01:17:33.130
01:17:37.290 --> 01:17:39.220
- JOEL: WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF
01:17:39.220 --> 01:17:40.280
NEGATIVE, WORRIED, NOT THINKIN'
01:17:40.280 --> 01:17:42.190
IT'S GOIN' TO WORK OUT,
01:17:42.190 --> 01:17:44.080
RECOGNIZE WHAT'S HAPPENED.
01:17:44.080 --> 01:17:46.020
YOU PULLED YOUR ANCHOR UP.
01:17:46.020 --> 01:17:48.020
THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU CAN PUT IT
01:17:48.020 --> 01:17:49.040
BACK DOWN.
01:17:49.040 --> 01:17:51.120
INSTEAD ON DWELLIN' ON THOSE
01:17:51.120 --> 01:17:52.160
NEGATIVE THOUGHTS-- YOU'LL NEVER
01:17:52.160 --> 01:17:53.270
GET WELL, NEVER BREAK THE
01:17:53.270 --> 01:17:55.110
ADDICTION, NEVER MEET THE RIGHT
01:17:55.110 --> 01:17:57.110
PERSON-- TURN IT AROUND:
01:17:57.110 --> 01:17:58.250
"FATHER, THANK YOU THAT THE
01:17:58.250 --> 01:18:01.080
ANSWER'S ALREADY ON THE WAY.
01:18:01.080 --> 01:18:02.190
THANK YOU THAT HEALING'S COMIN',
01:18:02.190 --> 01:18:04.070
PROMOTION'S COMING, THE RIGHT
01:18:04.070 --> 01:18:05.190
PEOPLE ARE COMING.
01:18:05.190 --> 01:18:07.070
THANK YOU THAT FAVOR IS IN MY
01:18:07.070 --> 01:18:07.290
FUTURE.
01:18:07.290 --> 01:18:09.240
THAT'S HOW YOU STAY ANCHORED TO
01:18:09.240 --> 01:18:10.160
HOPE.
01:18:16.060 --> 01:18:19.060
[APPLAUSE]
01:18:19.060 --> 01:18:21.010
- MATT: I WANNA ASK YOU A
01:18:21.010 --> 01:18:21.200
QUESTION.
01:18:21.200 --> 01:18:23.000
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE
01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:25.130
THAT REFER TO JOEL AS "THAT
01:18:25.130 --> 01:18:26.030
SMILING PREACHER," OKAY?
01:18:26.030 --> 01:18:27.250
[LAUGHTER]
01:18:27.250 --> 01:18:30.100
- VICTORIA: I LIKE IT!
01:18:30.100 --> 01:18:31.120
- MATT: SMILE REAL BIG FOR US!
01:18:31.120 --> 01:18:32.120
THERE YOU GO!
01:18:32.120 --> 01:18:33.040
- JOEL: IT'S WHAT I GOT!
01:18:33.040 --> 01:18:34.260
[LAUGHTER]
01:18:34.260 --> 01:18:37.210
- MATT: AND SO SOMETIMES THEY
01:18:37.210 --> 01:18:39.040
WOULD SAY, "WELL, YOU KNOW, IF I
01:18:41.050 --> 01:18:44.050
HAD A BIG CHURCH," AND A THIS
01:18:44.050 --> 01:18:46.150
AND A THAT, "AND IF I HAD ALL
01:18:46.150 --> 01:18:47.230
THE," YOU KNOW, "IF I HAD A NICE
01:18:47.230 --> 01:18:48.250
SUIT AND A TIE AND ALL THAT--"
01:18:48.250 --> 01:18:50.200
THAT YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND,
01:18:52.170 --> 01:18:55.170
YOU KNOW, THE TYPE OF TROUBLES.
01:18:55.170 --> 01:18:57.190
HOW DO YOU ANSWER THAT, AND
01:18:57.190 --> 01:19:00.020
WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE TO SOMEBODY
01:19:00.020 --> 01:19:02.010
THAT JUST THINKS THAT YOU JUST
01:19:02.010 --> 01:19:03.080
COULDN'T POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND THE
01:19:03.080 --> 01:19:04.020
REAL HARDSHIPS OF LIFE?
01:19:04.020 --> 01:19:06.240
- JOEL: WELL, I THINK, MATT,
01:19:06.240 --> 01:19:07.290
EVERYBODY, MOST PEOPLE KNOW THAT
01:19:07.290 --> 01:19:08.260
EVERY PERSON HAS CHALLENGES.
01:19:08.260 --> 01:19:09.170
NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, YOU FACE
01:19:09.170 --> 01:19:10.240
THOSE DIFFICULTIES.
01:19:10.240 --> 01:19:13.010
AND I THINK VICTORIA SAID IT
01:19:13.010 --> 01:19:13.210
CLEARLY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HAVIN'
01:19:13.210 --> 01:19:16.130
HOPE DOESN'T MEAN THAT EVERY DAY
01:19:16.130 --> 01:19:17.050
IS GONNA BE PERFECT AND YOU'RE
01:19:17.050 --> 01:19:18.180
NEVER GONNA HAVE CHALLENGES, BUT
01:19:18.180 --> 01:19:19.100
IT'S COMIN' BACK TO THAT PLACE
01:19:19.100 --> 01:19:20.080
OF PEACE TO SAY, "GOD, I KNOW
01:19:20.080 --> 01:19:22.030
YOU'RE STILL ON THE THRONE.
01:19:22.030 --> 01:19:22.230
I KNOW YOU'RE IN CONTROL OF MY
01:19:22.230 --> 01:19:24.090
LIFE."
01:19:24.090 --> 01:19:26.250
AND I THINK PART OF IT,
01:19:26.250 --> 01:19:27.230
TOO, YOU KNOW, THEY GIVE ME A
01:19:27.230 --> 01:19:28.140
HARD TIME BECAUSE I DO SMILE A
01:19:28.140 --> 01:19:29.150
LOT, BUT I'M HAPPY, YOU KNOW?
01:19:29.150 --> 01:19:30.060
I'D RATHER BE HAPPY THAN SAD,
01:19:30.060 --> 01:19:30.270
BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S NOT
01:19:30.270 --> 01:19:33.080
BEIN' THAT YOU'RE LAUGHIN' EVERY
01:19:33.080 --> 01:19:34.040
DAY 'CAUSE PEOPLE GO THROUGH
01:19:34.040 --> 01:19:35.090
REAL THINGS: CANCER AND
01:19:35.090 --> 01:19:36.210
TRAGEDIES, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
01:19:36.210 --> 01:19:37.220
BUT YOU CAN HAVE-- WHEN YOU HAVE
01:19:37.220 --> 01:19:39.110
YOUR TRUST IN JESUS, YOU CAN
01:19:39.110 --> 01:19:40.250
HAVE THIS CONTENTMENT ON THE
01:19:40.250 --> 01:19:43.140
INSIDE THAT-- AND YOU LIVE OUT
01:19:43.140 --> 01:19:44.280
OF A PLACE OF PEACE, AND YOU
01:19:44.280 --> 01:19:46.080
DON'T FIGHT EVERYTHING THAT
01:19:46.080 --> 01:19:47.230
DOESN'T GO YOUR WAY 'CAUSE, YOU
01:19:47.230 --> 01:19:49.140
KNOW, YOU REALIZE THAT, YOU
01:19:49.140 --> 01:19:50.070
KNOW, THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, "THE
01:19:50.070 --> 01:19:51.260
STEPS OF A GOOD PERSON ARE
01:19:51.260 --> 01:19:52.260
ORDERED BY THE LORD," WHERE
01:19:52.260 --> 01:19:55.080
SOMETIMES WE'RE ORDERED INTO
01:19:55.080 --> 01:19:56.090
THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT,
01:19:56.090 --> 01:19:57.210
AND WE MAY NOT EVEN UNDERSTAND
01:19:57.210 --> 01:19:58.180
IT.
01:19:58.180 --> 01:19:59.050
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT, AS
01:19:59.050 --> 01:19:59.250
PASTORS, WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH,
01:19:59.250 --> 01:20:00.270
YOU KNOW, MANY TIMES THAT-- YOU
01:20:00.270 --> 01:20:02.220
KNOW, WE DEAL WITH PEOPLE ALL
01:20:02.220 --> 01:20:04.020
THE TIME THERE IN HOUSTON 'CAUSE
01:20:04.020 --> 01:20:05.270
THERE'S A BIG MEDICAL CENTER.
01:20:05.270 --> 01:20:07.040
THEY BRING THEIR LITTLE KIDS
01:20:07.040 --> 01:20:07.240
DOWN THAT HAVE CANCER.
01:20:07.240 --> 01:20:08.200
I CAN'T EXPLAIN ALL THAT, BUT I
01:20:08.200 --> 01:20:10.040
CAN SAY THAT GOD HAS YOU IN THE
01:20:10.040 --> 01:20:11.090
AND THE SCRIPTURE SAYS GOD'S
01:20:14.090 --> 01:20:14.290
ARMED US WITH STRENGTH FOR EVERY
01:20:14.290 --> 01:20:15.210
BATTLE, AND SO I THINK IT'S JUST
01:20:15.210 --> 01:20:16.140
COMIN' BACK TO IT'S A CHOICE
01:20:16.140 --> 01:20:18.080
THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE EVERY DAY
01:20:18.080 --> 01:20:19.290
TO EITHER LET LIFE FRUSTRATE US
01:20:19.290 --> 01:20:21.150
AND GET UPSET 'CAUSE "MY CHURCH
01:20:21.150 --> 01:20:23.070
OR "I GOT THIS PROBLEM AT WORK,"
01:20:26.040 --> 01:20:26.260
OR "TRAFFIC IS BAD,"
01:20:26.260 --> 01:20:27.120
OR WE CAN COME BACK AND SAY,
01:20:27.120 --> 01:20:28.020
"GOD, I BELIEVE YOU'RE IN
01:20:28.020 --> 01:20:28.240
CONTROL, THAT YOU'RE
01:20:28.240 --> 01:20:30.130
DIRECTIN' MY STEPS."
01:20:30.130 --> 01:20:32.120
AND, SEE, I'VE LEARNED THIS
01:20:32.120 --> 01:20:33.020
TOO THAT--
01:20:33.020 --> 01:20:34.120
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
01:20:34.120 --> 01:20:35.090
-- YOU KNOW, I THINK SOMETHIN'
01:20:35.090 --> 01:20:36.120
IMPORTANT IS SOMETIMES THE
01:20:36.120 --> 01:20:37.260
LONGER I LIVE-- AND I'M STILL
01:20:37.260 --> 01:20:38.230
YOUNG--
01:20:38.230 --> 01:20:40.040
[LAUGHTER]
01:20:40.040 --> 01:20:40.220
-- THE LONGER I LIVE, THE MORE I
01:20:40.220 --> 01:20:41.250
REALIZE, YOU KNOW, TO TRUST THAT
01:20:41.250 --> 01:20:43.220
GOD IS IN CONTROL OF EVERY
01:20:43.220 --> 01:20:44.190
SITUATION 'CAUSE WE TEND TO
01:20:44.190 --> 01:20:46.090
FIGHT IT, YOU KNOW, WE TEND TO
01:20:46.090 --> 01:20:48.010
FIGHT THE TRAFFIC AND FIGHT
01:20:48.010 --> 01:20:49.000
THINGS THAT WE DON'T LIKE.
01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:50.030
BUT I'VE LEARNED THIS: IF YOU
01:20:50.030 --> 01:20:51.140
DON'T GET HAPPY WHERE YA ARE,
01:20:51.140 --> 01:20:52.130
YOU PROBABLY WON'T GET TO WHERE
01:20:52.130 --> 01:20:53.290
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE.
01:20:53.290 --> 01:20:56.220
SEE, YOU GOTTA COME BACK--
01:20:56.220 --> 01:20:57.110
-- YOU KNOW, LIVE OUT A PLACE
01:20:59.250 --> 01:21:00.180
OF PEACE, OUT OF A PLACE OF
01:21:00.180 --> 01:21:02.270
TRUST, OUT OF A PLACE OF FAITH,
01:21:02.270 --> 01:21:04.010
KNOWIN' THAT GOD'S TIMING
01:21:04.010 --> 01:21:04.260
IS PERFECT.
01:21:04.260 --> 01:21:05.130
AND EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, I'M A
01:21:05.130 --> 01:21:06.100
BIG BELIEVER IN PRAYIN' BOLD
01:21:06.100 --> 01:21:07.250
PRAYERS AND BEIN' FOR YOUR
01:21:07.250 --> 01:21:09.070
DREAMS AND ASKING GOD FOR THE
01:21:09.070 --> 01:21:10.200
BUT THE BALANCE OF IT IS YOU
01:21:14.280 --> 01:21:15.180
GOTTA SAY, "WELL, GOD, THIS IS
01:21:15.180 --> 01:21:16.090
WHAT I'M BELIEVIN' FOR, BUT,
01:21:16.090 --> 01:21:17.030
GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR
01:21:17.030 --> 01:21:17.280
- NARRATOR: "THE LORD DELIGHTS
01:21:21.140 --> 01:21:22.060
IN THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, WHO PUT
01:21:22.060 --> 01:21:22.270
THEIR HOPE IN HIS UNFAILING
01:21:22.270 --> 01:21:23.170
01:21:26.080 --> 01:21:28.050
- MATT: LEON, JUST A THOUGHT OF
01:21:28.050 --> 01:21:28.270
HOPE IN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE,
01:21:28.270 --> 01:21:30.200
THIS PILLAR THAT WE'VE
01:21:30.200 --> 01:21:31.230
RECOGNIZED, YOUR THOUGHTS ON
01:21:31.230 --> 01:21:33.060
HOPE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IT.
01:21:33.060 --> 01:21:34.200
- LEON: YOU KNOW, FAITH IS IN
01:21:34.200 --> 01:21:37.060
THE NOW, AND SO ANYTIME WE'RE
01:21:37.060 --> 01:21:38.280
BELIEVING GOD FOR SOMETHING,
01:21:38.280 --> 01:21:39.180
HOPE IS IN THE FUTURE,
01:21:42.270 --> 01:21:43.140
WHEN YOU LOOK AHEAD AND SAY,
01:21:43.140 --> 01:21:44.290
"IS THERE HOPE FOR MY KIDS
01:21:44.290 --> 01:21:45.280
WHEN THEY'RE TEENAGERS?
01:21:45.280 --> 01:21:46.270
IS THERE GONNA BE HOPE, YOU
01:21:46.270 --> 01:21:48.060
KNOW, IN THE YEARS THAT ARE
01:21:48.060 --> 01:21:49.160
AHEAD WITH, YOU KNOW, ALL THE
01:21:49.160 --> 01:21:50.240
DIFFERENT THINGS?"
01:21:50.240 --> 01:21:51.250
AND IT'S SO TRUE THAT HOPE IS
01:21:51.250 --> 01:21:53.120
THIS CONFIDENT EXPECTATION.
01:21:53.120 --> 01:21:56.120
AND WE NEED TO HAVE THAT
01:21:56.120 --> 01:21:58.140
REGARDLESS OF WHO BECOMES, YOU
01:21:58.140 --> 01:22:00.080
KNOW, THE PRESIDENT.
01:22:00.080 --> 01:22:01.160
REGARDLESS OF WHAT GOES ON, THIS
01:22:01.160 --> 01:22:03.010
HOPE, IT'S THE ANCHOR TO OUR
01:22:03.010 --> 01:22:05.050
SOUL THAT HE'LL NEVER LET US
01:22:05.050 --> 01:22:07.100
DOWN, REGARDLESS OF WHERE
01:22:07.100 --> 01:22:08.250
TRIBUTARIES MAY COME OR GO, THAT
01:22:08.250 --> 01:22:10.260
THIS HOPE, IT JUST SECURES US.
01:22:11.100 --> 01:22:14.100
IT ANCHORS US AS WE BELIEVE GOD
01:22:14.100 --> 01:22:16.100
EACH DAY FOR THE MIRACLES THAT
01:22:16.100 --> 01:22:17.250
- JOEL: IT'S TIME TO CUT THOSE
01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:27.000
ANCHORS AND COME OVER INTO HOPE.
01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:29.130
GOD DID NOT BREATHE HIS LIFE
01:22:29.130 --> 01:22:31.080
INTO YOU, CROWN YOU WITH
01:22:31.080 --> 01:22:33.150
FAVOR, GIVE YA A ROYAL ROBE SO
01:22:33.150 --> 01:22:34.060
YOU COULD GO AROUND ANCHORED TO
01:22:34.060 --> 01:22:36.240
BITTERNESS, ANCHORED TO DOUBT,
01:22:36.240 --> 01:22:39.200
ANCHORED TO WORRY.
01:22:39.200 --> 01:22:40.250
HE CREATED YOU TO BE ANCHORED TO
01:22:40.250 --> 01:22:42.160
HOPE, TO GO OUT EACH DAY,
01:22:42.160 --> 01:22:44.190
EXPECTING HIS GOODNESS, KNOWIN'
01:22:44.190 --> 01:22:47.060
THAT THE DAYS AHEAD ARE GREATER
01:22:47.060 --> 01:22:48.280
- MATT: JOEL, IT'S A BRAND-NEW
01:22:56.100 --> 01:22:57.020
YEAR, 2017.
01:22:57.020 --> 01:22:58.150
WOULD YOU JUST BLESS THE PEOPLE,
01:22:58.150 --> 01:22:59.070
NOT ONLY IN THIS STUDIO BUT
01:22:59.070 --> 01:23:00.070
WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD?
01:23:00.070 --> 01:23:02.040
- JOEL: YEAH, I'D LOVE TO.
01:23:02.040 --> 01:23:02.240
LORD, WE JUST THANK YA FOR THE
01:23:02.240 --> 01:23:04.020
OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE WITH OUR
01:23:04.020 --> 01:23:05.060
FRIENDS AND PASTORS AND OTHERS
01:23:05.060 --> 01:23:07.030
THAT ARE WATCHIN'.
01:23:07.030 --> 01:23:09.040
LORD, WE BELIEVE YOU GOT EACH
01:23:09.040 --> 01:23:09.250
ONE OF US IN THE PALM OF YOUR
01:23:09.250 --> 01:23:10.190
HAND.
01:23:10.190 --> 01:23:12.100
AND, LORD, AS I JUST TALKED
01:23:12.100 --> 01:23:13.000
ABOUT, WE BELIEVE THAT WE'RE
01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:14.080
PEOPLE OF DESTINY, NOT AVERAGE,
01:23:14.080 --> 01:23:15.100
WE'RE NOT MEDIOCRE.
01:23:15.100 --> 01:23:17.100
WE'RE CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH
01:23:17.100 --> 01:23:18.060
GOD.
01:23:18.060 --> 01:23:19.210
SO, FATHER, TONIGHT, WE PUT OUR
01:23:19.210 --> 01:23:20.270
SHOULDERS BACK.
01:23:20.270 --> 01:23:22.040
WE HOLD OUR HEAD UP HIGH.
01:23:22.040 --> 01:23:23.040
WE KNOW WHO WE ARE, AND WE KNOW
01:23:23.040 --> 01:23:24.240
WHOSE WE ARE.
01:23:24.240 --> 01:23:26.090
LORD, THOSE THAT ARE GOIN'
01:23:26.090 --> 01:23:27.190
THROUGH TOUGH TIMES, YOU SAID
01:23:27.190 --> 01:23:28.250
YOU'D BE CLOSE TO THOSE THAT ARE
01:23:28.250 --> 01:23:30.040
HURTING.
01:23:30.040 --> 01:23:31.090
SO, FATHER, I JUST ASK THAT YOU
01:23:31.090 --> 01:23:33.130
LET THEM FEEL YOUR PRESENCE AND
01:23:33.130 --> 01:23:34.180
YOUR POWER RIGHT NOW IN A NEW
01:23:34.180 --> 01:23:35.090
WAY, THAT YOU WOULD COMFORT
01:23:35.090 --> 01:23:37.010
THOSE THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH
01:23:37.010 --> 01:23:37.210
LOSS AND, LORD, THOSE THAT ARE
01:23:37.210 --> 01:23:39.250
IN UNFAIR SITUATIONS.
01:23:39.250 --> 01:23:42.030
WE JUST THANK YA THAT TONIGHT
01:23:42.030 --> 01:23:42.260
THE TIDE OF THE BATTLE IS
01:23:42.260 --> 01:23:44.160
BEGINNING TO TURN IN THEIR
01:23:44.160 --> 01:23:45.240
FAVOR, THAT EVERY FORCE THAT'S
01:23:45.240 --> 01:23:48.090
TRYIN' TO STOP THEM WOULD BE
01:23:48.090 --> 01:23:49.240
BROKEN IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
01:23:49.240 --> 01:23:50.200
THE DEPRESSION, THE ANXIETY, THE
01:23:50.200 --> 01:23:51.220
FEAR, THE LEGAL PROBLEMS,
01:23:51.220 --> 01:23:53.250
WHATEVER IT MAY BE, LORD, WE
01:23:53.250 --> 01:23:55.030
KNOW YOU'RE BIGGER THAN ANYTHING
01:23:55.030 --> 01:23:56.230
THAT WE'RE FACING.
01:23:56.230 --> 01:23:58.030
SO WE SPEAK STRENGTH AND HEALING
01:23:58.030 --> 01:23:59.200
AND WHOLENESS, FAVOR, BLESSINGS,
01:23:59.200 --> 01:24:01.210
JUST PEACE IN A NEW WAY TO YOU
01:24:01.210 --> 01:24:04.190
AND YOUR FAMILY.
01:24:04.190 --> 01:24:06.190
AND, LORD, I THANK YOU, IN 2017,
01:24:06.190 --> 01:24:07.220
WE'LL SEE CHAINS FALL OFF OF US
01:24:07.220 --> 01:24:10.130
THAT HAVE HELD US BACK, AND,
01:24:10.130 --> 01:24:11.070
LORD, THAT YOU'LL OPEN UP DOORS
01:24:11.070 --> 01:24:12.250
THAT NO MAN CAN SHUT, THAT
01:24:12.250 --> 01:24:14.180
YOU'LL GET US TO WHERE WE'RE
01:24:14.180 --> 01:24:15.210
SUPPOSED TO BE.
01:24:15.210 --> 01:24:17.260
LORD, WE JUST COMMIT THIS, OUR
01:24:17.260 --> 01:24:19.010
LIFE, OUR FAMILY, OUR FUTURE.
01:24:19.010 --> 01:24:20.270
AS WE START THE NEW YEAR OFF, WE
01:24:20.270 --> 01:24:22.090
COMMIT IT INTO YOUR HANDS.
01:24:22.090 --> 01:24:23.280
WE SAY YOU'RE OUR LORD, OUR GOD,
01:24:23.280 --> 01:24:26.020
AND OUR SAVIOR.
01:24:26.020 --> 01:24:27.120
MAKE US AND MOLD US INTO WHO YOU
01:24:27.120 --> 01:24:28.060
WANT US TO BE.
01:24:28.060 --> 01:24:30.010
LORD, OPEN THE RIGHT DOORS.
01:24:30.010 --> 01:24:31.170
CLOSE THE WRONG DOORS.
01:24:31.170 --> 01:24:33.060
BRING THE RIGHT PEOPLE ACROSS
01:24:33.060 --> 01:24:34.240
OUR PATH, AND, LORD, WEED OUT
01:24:34.240 --> 01:24:35.250
THOSE THAT SHOULD NOT BE THERE.
01:24:35.250 --> 01:24:37.050
I THANK YA, LORD, THAT WE HAVE
01:24:37.050 --> 01:24:39.050
THE WISDOM TO MAKE GOOD
01:24:39.050 --> 01:24:39.260
DECISIONS THIS YEAR.
01:24:39.260 --> 01:24:41.160
AND WE JUST DECLARE FOR ALL OF
01:24:41.160 --> 01:24:42.100
US THAT WE ARE BLESSED, WE ARE
01:24:42.100 --> 01:24:45.050
PROSPEROUS, WE ARE REDEEMED,
01:24:45.050 --> 01:24:47.290
FORGIVEN, TALENTED, CREATIVE,
01:24:47.290 --> 01:24:50.120
DISCIPLINED, FOCUSED, CONFIDENT,
01:24:50.120 --> 01:24:53.120
SECURE, PREPARED, QUALIFIED,
01:24:54.260 --> 01:24:57.260
MOTIVATED, EQUIPPED, EMPOWERED,
01:24:57.270 --> 01:25:00.290
ANOINTED, ACCEPTED, AND
01:25:00.290 --> 01:25:02.250
APPROVED.
01:25:02.250 --> 01:25:05.070
LORD, I THANK YA THAT WE'RE NOT
01:25:05.070 --> 01:25:05.290
VICTIMS, BUT WE ARE VICTORS, IN
01:25:05.290 --> 01:25:06.250
JESUS' NAME.
01:25:06.250 --> 01:25:09.210
AMEN AND AMEN.
01:25:09.210 --> 01:25:10.120
GOD BLESS YA VERY MUCH.
01:25:10.120 --> 01:25:11.070
[APPLAUSE]
01:25:11.070 --> 01:25:13.020
- LAURIE: GOOD, GOOD, GOOD,
01:25:13.020 --> 01:25:13.290
- MATT: AND, JOSEPH, I--
01:25:17.230 --> 01:25:18.120
[APPLAUSE]
01:25:18.120 --> 01:25:20.200
-- YOU KNOW, THERE'S
01:25:20.200 --> 01:25:21.060
JUST NO WAY I CAN LET 2017
01:25:21.130 --> 01:25:24.130
BEGIN, HAVING YOU FLOWN ALL THE
01:25:24.130 --> 01:25:25.220
AND NOT JUST HAVE YOU BLESS
01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:30.200
THE PEOPLE.
01:25:30.200 --> 01:25:32.020
YOU KNOW, THE MESSAGE OF GRACE,
01:25:32.020 --> 01:25:32.240
JUST PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE THAT
01:25:32.240 --> 01:25:34.010
ARE VIEWING AROUND THE WORLD,
01:25:34.010 --> 01:25:35.040
PLEASE.
01:25:35.040 --> 01:25:35.270
- JOSEPH: SURE.
01:25:36.140 --> 01:25:39.140
I THINK JOEL HAS COVERED 120% OF
01:25:39.140 --> 01:25:40.160
THE PRAYER ALREADY!
01:25:40.160 --> 01:25:41.050
[LAUGHTER]
01:25:41.050 --> 01:25:42.260
- MATT: YEAH!
01:25:42.260 --> 01:25:43.130
- JOSEPH: BUT, YOU KNOW, THE
01:25:43.130 --> 01:25:44.220
BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD SAYS, "PRAY
01:25:44.220 --> 01:25:46.160
THIS PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE, AND
01:25:46.160 --> 01:25:49.060
I'LL PUT MY NAME ON THEM AND
01:25:49.060 --> 01:25:49.280
BLESS THEM."
01:25:50.000 --> 01:25:53.000
I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS STILL
01:25:53.000 --> 01:25:53.200
VALID TODAY TO THE MANY
01:25:53.200 --> 01:25:54.180
HIGH PRIESTS, I MEAN
01:25:54.180 --> 01:25:55.090
OUR LORD JESUS,
01:25:55.090 --> 01:25:57.070
AND I BELIEVE THAT WHEREVER
01:25:57.070 --> 01:25:58.210
YOU'RE WATCHING THIS, MAYBE
01:25:58.210 --> 01:25:59.150
YOU'RE SUFFERING FROM SOME
01:25:59.150 --> 01:26:00.210
CONDITION IN YOUR BODY AND ALL
01:26:00.210 --> 01:26:01.120
THAT.
01:26:01.120 --> 01:26:01.250
IT'S NOT HARD TO RECEIVE HEALING
01:26:01.250 --> 01:26:03.050
WHEN YOU KNOW GOD LOVES YOU.
01:26:03.050 --> 01:26:05.000
YOU DON'T HAVE TO EARN IT.
01:26:05.000 --> 01:26:06.140
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DESERVE IT.
01:26:06.140 --> 01:26:07.290
JUST RECEIVE IT RIGHT NOW.
01:26:07.290 --> 01:26:09.220
IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I BELIEVE
01:26:09.220 --> 01:26:10.140
THAT HEALINGS IS EXPLODING IN
01:26:10.140 --> 01:26:12.110
PEOPLE'S BODIES RIGHT NOW, IN
01:26:12.110 --> 01:26:13.020
THE NAME OF JESUS, JUST BECAUSE
01:26:13.020 --> 01:26:14.230
GOD LOVES YOU AND BECAUSE HE
01:26:14.230 --> 01:26:15.130
SENT HIS SON TO CARRY THAT
01:26:15.130 --> 01:26:16.090
DISEASE THAT YOU'RE BEARING
01:26:16.090 --> 01:26:17.220
RIGHT NOW.
01:26:17.220 --> 01:26:20.180
SEE THAT DISEASE ON THE BODY OF
01:26:20.180 --> 01:26:22.130
CHRIST, AND BE FREE IN THE NAME
01:26:22.130 --> 01:26:23.100
OF JESUS.
01:26:23.100 --> 01:26:26.080
BE HEALED IN THE NAME OF THE
01:26:26.080 --> 01:26:27.100
LORD JESUS CHRIST.
01:26:27.100 --> 01:26:29.140
I PRONOUNCE YOU WHOLE, WELL, AND
01:26:30.050 --> 01:26:33.050
HEALED FROM THE CROWN OF YOUR
01:26:33.050 --> 01:26:34.120
HEAD TO THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET
01:26:34.120 --> 01:26:36.280
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.
01:26:36.280 --> 01:26:38.230
PLEASE WRITE TO US AND LET US
01:26:38.230 --> 01:26:39.240
KNOW WHAT GOD HAS DONE.
01:26:39.240 --> 01:26:40.160
AMEN!
01:26:40.160 --> 01:26:42.040
- MATT: AND ONE FINAL THING--
01:26:43.160 --> 01:26:46.160
[APPLAUSE]
01:26:46.160 --> 01:26:48.250
-- THE BEGINNING OF A NEW YEAR,
01:26:48.250 --> 01:26:49.270
2017, WOULD BE A GREAT TIME
01:26:49.270 --> 01:26:51.090
FOR SOMEBODY TO ACCEPT JESUS,
01:26:51.090 --> 01:26:52.290
GET THIS, KIND OF,
01:26:52.290 --> 01:26:54.220
STARTED THE RIGHT WAY.
01:26:54.220 --> 01:26:56.030
PLEASE, SIR.
01:26:56.030 --> 01:26:57.040
- JOSEPH: AMEN.
01:26:57.040 --> 01:26:58.190
THERE IS SALVATION IN NO OTHER
01:26:58.190 --> 01:26:59.210
NAME BUT THE NAME OF JESUS.
01:26:59.210 --> 01:27:00.280
IT'S NOT JUST THE NAME, GOD.
01:27:00.280 --> 01:27:02.020
IT IS JESUS.
01:27:02.020 --> 01:27:04.050
- MATT: COME ON, NOW!
01:27:04.050 --> 01:27:05.190
- JOSEPH: THE WORD SAYS AT THE
01:27:05.190 --> 01:27:06.220
NAME OF JESUS, EVERY KNEE BOWS.
01:27:06.220 --> 01:27:07.230
FRIEND, HE LOVE YOU.
01:27:07.230 --> 01:27:09.230
GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON TO
01:27:09.230 --> 01:27:10.220
CONDEMN.
01:27:10.220 --> 01:27:12.060
HE SENT HIS SON TO SAVE, AND
01:27:12.060 --> 01:27:12.280
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT JESUS DID.
01:27:12.280 --> 01:27:15.120
ALL YOUR SINS WERE BORNE AWAY IN
01:27:15.120 --> 01:27:17.210
THE BODY OF CHRIST ALREADY.
01:27:17.210 --> 01:27:18.280
YOU JUST NEED TO RECEIVE IT,
01:27:18.280 --> 01:27:20.160
BELIEVE IT, AND SEE YOURSELF
01:27:20.160 --> 01:27:22.050
COMPLETELY SAVED.
01:27:22.050 --> 01:27:24.080
RIGHT NOW, PRAY THIS PRAYER WITH
01:27:24.080 --> 01:27:25.180
ME.
01:27:25.180 --> 01:27:26.080
SAY, "HEAVENLY FATHER, IN THE
01:27:26.080 --> 01:27:27.240
NAME OF JESUS, I THANK YOU THAT
01:27:27.240 --> 01:27:30.030
JESUS CHRIST IS MY LORD AND MY
01:27:30.230 --> 01:27:33.230
SAVIOR, AND I BELIEVE YOU HAVE
01:27:37.020 --> 01:27:40.020
RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD.
01:27:41.030 --> 01:27:44.030
THAT SAME BODY THAT BORE MY SINS
01:27:44.030 --> 01:27:46.190
ROSE WITHOUT THEM.
01:27:46.220 --> 01:27:49.220
IT'S A FINISHED WORK.
01:27:49.220 --> 01:27:52.210
MY SINS HAVE BEEN PUT AWAY.
01:27:53.040 --> 01:27:56.040
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD OF MY LIFE.
01:27:56.040 --> 01:27:56.260
AMEN.
01:27:56.260 --> 01:27:59.110
- MATT: AMEN!
01:27:59.110 --> 01:27:59.270
- JOSEPH: AMEN!
01:27:59.270 --> 01:28:00.260
- MATT: AMEN!
01:28:00.260 --> 01:28:01.090
- LAURIE: WOW!
01:28:01.090 --> 01:28:01.260
- MATT: YEAH!
01:28:01.260 --> 01:28:02.170
WOW!
01:28:02.170 --> 01:28:03.100
[APPLAUSE]
01:28:03.100 --> 01:28:04.210
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
01:28:04.210 --> 01:28:06.040
COME ON, NOW!
01:28:06.040 --> 01:28:06.180
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
01:28:09.150 --> 01:28:12.150
AND I WAS GONNA SAY I WANNA
01:28:12.180 --> 01:28:15.180
GIVE FINAL THOUGHTS TO JOSEPH,
01:28:15.180 --> 01:28:17.200
BUT I DIDN'T WANNA BE HERE
01:28:17.200 --> 01:28:18.210
ANOTHER HOUR!
01:28:18.210 --> 01:28:19.160
SO WE LOVE YOU JOSEPH!
01:28:19.160 --> 01:28:21.060
ALL THE WAY FROM SINGAPORE!
01:28:21.060 --> 01:28:22.180
JOEL AND VICTORIA, I LOVE YOU
01:28:22.180 --> 01:28:23.230
GUYS!
01:28:23.240 --> 01:28:26.240
HOPE AND GRACE.
01:28:26.240 --> 01:28:27.260
"WAKE UP TO HOPE," AND GRACE,
01:28:27.260 --> 01:28:28.170
7 A.M. EASTERN AND PACIFIC,
01:28:28.170 --> 01:28:31.020
RIGHT HERE ON TBN,
01:28:31.020 --> 01:28:32.160
TWO OF THE PILLARS OF
01:28:32.160 --> 01:28:33.030
THE CONTENT FOR 2017.
01:28:33.030 --> 01:28:36.000
TO THIS AUDIENCE, THANK YOU FOR
01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:36.220
BEING HERE.
01:28:36.220 --> 01:28:37.090
SMILE, EVERYBODY!
01:28:37.090 --> 01:28:39.020
WAVE TO YOUR MAMAS AND YOUR
01:28:39.020 --> 01:28:39.220
DADDIES AND...
01:28:39.220 --> 01:28:42.010
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
01:28:42.010 --> 01:28:42.200
...YOUR AUNTS AND YOUR UNCLES!
01:28:42.200 --> 01:28:43.190
WE'LL SEE YA NEXT TIME!
01:28:43.190 --> 01:28:44.070

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