The Power of Jesus
December 9, 2020
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Leon Fontaine is showing people across the earth how to unleash the miraculous in their everyday lives and take Jesus to their families; friends; and communities.
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The Power of Jesus
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- -ANNOUNCER: What would youchange in your life?
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- - What if you could unleash themiraculous in your
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- everyday life?
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- - Experience freedom, live inpeace, change the world. Become
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- Spirit Contemporary. Join LeonFontaine, world renowned
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- conference speaker, seniorpastor of Canada's fastest
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- growing church, and CEO ofCanada's only Christian TV
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- station. Today, on THE SPIRITCONTEMPORARY LIFE.
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- -LEON FONTAINE: The teaching ofthe Bible is one that Jesus is
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- the King of Kings, and the Lordof Lords. And that we belong
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- to that kingdom.
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- -ANNOUNCER: In John 10:10, itsays that Jesus came to give us
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- life, and life more abundantly.So, why is there such a
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- disconnect between this biblicalpromise, and how most Christians
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- live today? Why have so manybelievers become spiritually
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- weak, and ineffective in sharingJesus' message of love? THE
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- SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY LIFE is theanswer. It's being led by Holy
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- Spirit, but in a contemporaryway. It's being Jesus, and
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- demonstrating His love in wayspeople can understand and
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- appreciate. Spirit Contemporaryis unique for everyone. It never
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- compromises the truth, and itnever makes others feel
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- uncomfortable. It's freeingyourself from religious
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- constraints, and walking freelyin God's amazing grace, for His
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- purpose. THE SPIRIT CONTEMPORARYLIFE is absolutely crucial if
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- the global church and her peopleare going to change the world.
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- - Later in the show, we'll tellyou how you can reserve your
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- copy of today's resource. Enrichyour soul, and renew your mind
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- with this timely series.
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- - And now, from Winnipeg,Canada, pastor Leon Fontaine.
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- -LEON: There's an incredibleverse about Christmas. In Isaiah
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- 9, that I want to read you, andI'm going to unpack it a little
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- bit and teach from it, becauseit is so mind-blowing, and it
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- is, so not what Christianity is.We've missed it somehow. And so
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- I want to use this portion ofscripture to maybe help you,
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- help us, kind of get back oncourse, as to why Christmas is
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- so important, and this Jesusthat Christians around the world
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- celebrate, and serve. It justbrings out something I think we
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- need to look at. So, here we go.Isaiah 9:6-7, "For a child will
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- be born to us, a son will begiven to us; and the government
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- will rest on His shoulders; andHis name will be called
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- Wonderful Counsellor, MightyGod, Eternal Father, Prince of
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- Peace. There will be no end tothe increase of His government
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- or of peace, on the throne ofDavid and over his kingdom, to
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- establish it, to uphold it withjustice and righteousness. From
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- then on and forevermore. Thezeal of the Lord of hosts will
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- accomplish this." I loveChristmas, for those of you who
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- have been around I mean, fromour house to churches, I mean, I
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- just love Christmas. I love allthe Christmas stories, fables,
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- someone nailed me one time saidwhat's all about Jesus. What's
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- Santa, the Grinch, andeverything else. And so I waxed
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- eloquent, and is said, well,even Jesus made up stories. He
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- did? I said yeah, they're calledparables. And the purpose of a
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- parable was to tell a story thatwasn't, didn't happen, it was a
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- made-up story to make a point. Isaid, so, what's your big issue?
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- With all this fairytales andstuff. Most societies use fairy
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- tales to teach points. Don'tlie, good will always win, and
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- so I said as long as you realizeJesus is the reason for the
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- season, I have no problem withall the rest of this stuff.
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- Relax, stop being so religiousand judgmental. We're
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- celebrating Jesus, but we canhave all the other fun and not
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- be someone that people seecoming to work going ooh don't
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- talk to this guy. But, Jesus. Ababy. A lot of people don't get
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- past the baby. Now, I lovebabies. Anyone hangs around me,
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- I mean, Sally and I had fivekids. She would have had more,
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- and maybe we should have, Idon't know. Now we've got grand,
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- and there's something about thisbaby when you pick him up, with
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- little toothless smile, theselittle chubby cheeks, and you
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- get to kiss him on both cheeks,and then they hit about five or
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- six months where they actuallycuddle you and they hang on to
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- you. I mean, I could go, I lovebabies. But, that's as far as
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- some people see Jesus. Is thiscute baby. And, they'll read
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- this verse, the government willrest on His shoulders, how many
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- times have you heard that verseread? It's read all the time
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- everywhere, the Christmas story,and I love it. I love the fact
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- that Jesus is a gift to us. ButI want to show you something
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- here that actually is reallyinspired me even more this
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- season as I was meditating onthis portion of scripture. It's
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- talking about a child beingborn. And it says, the
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- government will rest on Hisshoulders. Now the word
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- government isn't the onegovernment that you and I think
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- of. Because, here in Canada,when we think government, we
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- think democracy. Who are wegoing to vote for? Liberals, PC,
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- NDP. But, the word "government"here in the original means, "his
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- rule and his dominion." It says,so, the rule, and the dominion,
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- is going to rest on Jesus'shoulders. What rule? What
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- dominion? When Jesus came, a newkingdom was established. This
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- kingdom is called the Kingdom ofHis Son. The Kingdom of Light.
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- They asked Jesus, where is thiskingdom? He says, it's not a
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- kingdom you can see with yourphysical eyes. He says, it's a
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- kingdom from within. Even whenJesus walked the planet, as He
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- grew up there in Israel,occupied by an enemy country.
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- Rome was in charge. Yet, itcouldn't stop the gospel. China
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- can't stop Jesus. North Koreacan't stop the Kingdom of God.
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- It's alive and well in Russia.It's alive and well in China.
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- It's alive, there were days theyused to kill you for being a
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- Christian in some of thesecountries. And all it did was
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- make the church grow greater,grow stronger. The Kingdom of
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- God can't be stopped. And onthis kingdom, there will be no
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- end. This kingdom is going toincrease, it's going to
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- increase, it's going to getbigger, it's going to get more
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- powerful. In fact, the Biblesays, that we will disciple
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- nations. Some Christians, wellactually, a lot of Christians as
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- I travel and get kind of a more,a greater world-view of
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- Christian's ideology, theirworld-view. I'm surprised that
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- the majority of people that Ispeak with, their world-view of
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- Christianity is that we're kindof the resistance. You know,
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- when Nazi was occupying France,there was the French resistance.
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- And they would kind of, youknow, blow up little convoys,
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- and they'd attack, and maybeyou've seen movies and then
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- they'd disappear into the bushand they'd hide in the alleys,
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- and they'd try to plague thisgreat big evil group, and
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- sometimes people see the churchlike that. That the world is
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- impossible to stop, it's goingto get worse, and it's going to
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- get worse, and it's going to getmore evil. And they use a few
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- verses out of context, to paintthat picture. And so we the
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- church, we're the David of thisgreat big giant. No, get it
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- right. The Bible says, that uponthis kingdom, this rule and
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- reign of Jesus. It says, therewill be no end to the increase.
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- No end. Well, but I heard myfavourite preacher on TV say,
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- that it's going to wax worse andworse. Oh, some people will. It
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- says there's going to be a greatfalling away. It's not talking
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- about now. This is talking aboutthe time when Jesus left. And
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- what was taking place in thetimeframe that's already
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- happened. The teaching of theBible, is one that Jesus is the
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- King of Kings, and the Lord ofLords. And that we belong to
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- that Kingdom. You know, all ofus are trying to find our
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- heritage. You can go get a bloodtest now, one of my daughters
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- got a blood test, and found outthat how much native is in her,
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- now much First Nations, how muchof this. And you know, we're
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- probably Heinz 157. And, youstart looking at this, and you
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- think you're finding your roots.You think you're finding who you
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- are. Well how do you find outwho you are, in forty different
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- countries that you're from? Oh,I know you're a purebred, but.
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- I'm a mutt. The kingdom thatgives me my identity is not
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- Canada. Oh, I'm Canadian. ButI'm Heavenian first. I'm a
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- citizen of the Kingdom ofHeaven. And, amen. And although
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- I'm in a democracy here, I lovedemocracies in the physical
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- world. Jesus is not, we don'tvote on the decisions Jesus
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- makes. He is the King of Kings.And the Western world knows
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- nothing about Kingdoms. Andwe've got to understand. Now
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- what kind of a ruler, what kindof a king is He? Well, it says,
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- His name will be calledWonderful. He's not called a
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- tyrant. His name will be calledCounsellor. Why would they put
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- the word counsellor in there?Because when you've got a tyrant
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- who rules people, he rules themwith a fist of iron, and he says
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- move you move. He doesn't tellyou why. But here, the King of
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- Kings will counsel you in yourown heart. About your identity,
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- your call, your future, yourgiftings. Discovering where you
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- should be. It's not thissocialistic thing where you're
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- going to pick potatoes andyou're going to make vodka, and
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- that's it. No, no, this issomething that the King will
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- counsel with you. His presencewill heal you, He'll touch you.
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- It says He's the mighty God,he's the Eternal Father. The
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- Prince of control, no. He's thePrince of Peace. Upon His
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- shoulders, rests the government.Upon His shoulders, rests all
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- rule, and dominion, and that'swho we serve. I serve Jesus
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- before I serve Canada. I serveJesus before I serve popular
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- opinion. I serve Jesus, and if Ihave to offend, at times, I
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- won't back down from Jesus.Others, by the thousands, have
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- given their lives. All we needto worry about is a little
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- embarrassment. This Jesus, thegovernment rests on His
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- shoulders. And oh his rule, hisdominion, is wonderful,
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- peaceful. But at the same time,it's not like, it's not like
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- don't mistake God's kindness forHis weakness. One of our
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- greatest problems, in somebusinesses and countries is you
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- think to be powerful you've gotto be mean. To be powerful,
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- you've got to dictate. To bepowerful, take out anybody that
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- messes with you. But Jesus isthe servant King. He said He
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- came to serve mankind. But uponHis shoulders, rests the
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- government. The rule of thiskingdom. When you give your life
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- to Jesus, whether you areAmerican, Canadian, you know,
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- French or, I don't care, itdoesn't really matter. You enter
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- the most important citizenshipof all. The family of God. And
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- Jesus, the one we celebrate atChristmas, He's incredible. He's
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- amazing. And if your world-viewof the world is that the world
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- is so powerful and Satan's goingto become more powerful, then
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- we've got anti-Christ's andbeasts and harlots, somebody
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- took the book of Revelation, andmisunderstood it so bad, that it
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- made the devil big and Godlittle. It made the world
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- amazing and the church pathetic.It made the world the, no. The
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- church of Jesus Christ, is theonly reason this planet has not
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- imploded or exploded. We are thereason, and if ever this church
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- is gone, this world is finished.The only hope is that Jesus is
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- building His church. Jesus mustbe such an ineffective builder
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- that the church He's building ispathetic. And unable to touch
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- the world. It must be that Jesusis such as wimpy leader and
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- king, and although thegovernment and the rule and
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- reign rests on His shoulders,but to be a part of the church
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- is to be kind of, huh huh, goshgolly gee. Where are we getting
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- these ideas? The church of JesusChrist is the only reason that
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- countries are even making it,because even if it's an evil
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- leader, inside that country,it's kind of like, you know,
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- when Abraham was interceding forSodom and Gomorrah. God was
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- talking to him. Evil, evilcities. He said, but Lord if
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- there's but twenty, would youspare it? They'll spare it,
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- Abraham, for twenty. But, Lord,don't think I'm too forward, if
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- I could find ten, would youspare it for ten? God said, I'd
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- spare it for ten. I thinkAbraham made a mistake, he
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- should have went for four,three. God is so good, God is so
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- amazing, we need to understand,that this Christmas as we
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- celebrate Jesus. It's not aone-time happening, that we all
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- go Jesus, little cute baby withchubby cheeks and no teeth, and
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- He's smiling, and He's layingwith these three wise men, and
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- the camels, and there's a starabove Him. I do all that, we've
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- even got all that set up in our,it's beautiful. But I have a
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- deeper understanding. A deeperwow on the inside of me, that
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- goes 2000 years ago was thestart of a kingdom, that the
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- greatest champions on thisplanet join. Men and women,
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- warrior princesses. Men thatknow who they are in Christ.
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- Standing for something, and theonly thing that'll keep your
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- family, your kids, and yougrandkids strong, will be the
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- freedom of religion. The abilityto bring Jesus to a world that
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- is hungry. Only Jesus can meetthis deepest need that every one
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- of us thinks we get it from ourcareer, our spouse. Sex, drugs,
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- whatever it is. It's this Jesus.It says at the very last part of
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- verse 7, as it talks about Hiskingdom will always increase. I
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- want you to notice that. It'snever going to decrease. It only
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- increases, it started with 120,2000 years ago. And today it's
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- passed a billion to two billionpeople that profess Jesus as
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- their Lord, as their Saviour.The last line says, from then on
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- and forevermore, the zeal of theLord of hosts, will accomplish
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- this. Any time you see a name ofGod, you need to examine it. The
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- word, The Lord of Hosts, theword hosts means hosts of
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- armies. Excuse me? Hosts ofarmies. What armies? The angelic
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- hosts. Jesus Himself said whenthey were going to kill Him,
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- says you don't take my life. Igive it. You're going to kill
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- God? I don't think so. I laydown my life for the human race
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- that I love. Said I can call tenthousand angels, legions of
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- angels. And destroy the world.This Jesus, is now King of
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- Kings, and Lord of Lords, He'snot some little baby with no
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- power and no might. He is theKing of Kings, the Lord of
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- Lords, Revelations chapters 1and 2 shows us what He looks
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- like now, and He's not no longerthis cute little baby in a
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- manger, in swaddling clothes. Heis, is dressed in armour with
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- eyes like fire. Hair what, Imean, this incredible figure
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- that made John fall on his facebecause of the power that
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- radiated off of Jesus. And whathe looks like now. It says, He's
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- the Lord of angelic armies. TheLord of hosts. And that's what's
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- going to accomplish this. Jesusas He grew up, in his thirties
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- He died, gave His life, died onthe cross for you and I. But in
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- Matthew 16:16, He's asking Hisdisciples, twelve of His closest
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- friends, who am I? Who do peoplesay that I am? They got it
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- wrong, the eleven disciplesdidn't know, and they were
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- quoting other people. But SimonPeter answered, and he said You,
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- You're the Christ, the Son ofthe living God. Jesus said to
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- him, blessed are you SimonBarjona, because flesh and blood
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- did not reveal this to you, butmy Father who is in heaven. I
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- want you to know that, forChristians to stay strong, they
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- need a revelation of who Jesusis. You can't just come and try
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- to get fire insurance. Okay,where do I got to sign to miss
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- hell, Leon? Just say, I justwant to become a Christian. It's
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- actually, not like that. It's arelationship, it's a believing.
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- And as you choose Christ, HolySpirit reveals Him to you. And
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- it says here, blessed are youSimon Barjona because flesh and
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- blood, this was not explained toyou by flesh and blood teacher,
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- but my Father who is in heaven.And I will also say to you that
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- you are Peter, and upon thisrock, I will build my church.
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- Stop right there. Some peoplethink that Peter was the one
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- we're building the church on.And so we've got St. Peter's
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- everywhere. In every country.Most cities have a St. Peter's,
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- which is cool. I don't care whatthey call it. But that's not
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- what He's saying. We're notbuilding the church on a man,
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- Peter. We're building the churchon the revelation Peter got.
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- Which was that Jesus is theMessiah. Jesus is the Anointed
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- One. Jesus is our Lord andSaviour. That's what we build
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- our church on. And then he says,and the gates of Hades will not
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- overpower it. So to all of youend-times prognosticators who
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- love to sell books and get onTV. It says, that it's never
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- going to overpower the church.That the church of Jesus Christ,
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- which is the name of Hiskingdom, is always going to be
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- increasing. Never decreasing,increasing. And it says, and
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- then it says, and I'm going togive you the keys to the kingdom
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- of Heaven. Whatever you bind onearth, has been bound in heaven.
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- Whatever you loose on earth,shall have been loosed in
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- heaven. I don't have much moretime, but I want to plant a
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- thought in your mind. How can Isay it in a minute and
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- 27 seconds?
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- - One of the greatest reasonswhy the smartest people, no, not
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- the smartest. Why many of thesmart people on the planet who,
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- just think nonstop aboutChristianity, don't accept
- 00:20:11.025 --> 00:20:15.229
- Christianity, isn't because itdoesn't bare out. I've
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- interviewed scientists and someof the most brilliant minds on
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- the planet who are passionatelyin love with Jesus. But the one
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- governing thought that manystruggle with, is this Christian
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- doctrine that says, God is incontrol. And, God is love. Take
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- those two thoughts, and try toput them together. How many
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- women are being raped today? Howmany children are being killed,
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- molested? How many babies arestarving of hunger? Who's being
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- murdered on this planet rightnow, as we speak? And if you've
- 00:20:54.568 --> 00:20:59.874
- got any kind of brain in yourhead, you kind of go, how do
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- those two thoughts go together?God's a god of love, and God has
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- the whole world in His hands. Iwas debating with a group of
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- doctorates and seminaries, thisvery topic one day after a
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- television program. And theywere trying to say stuff like,
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- you know, God has a reason foreverything. I said that's the
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- stupidest thing I've ever heard.And they got, their eyes got
- 00:21:23.097 --> 00:21:26.200
- this big. I said, what do youtell that little three-year-old
- 00:21:26.233 --> 00:21:29.170
- baby dying of brain cancer,screaming in pain, that oh
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- there's a reason behind it. See,people who think this through,
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- choose not to accept Christ,because of the church's stance,
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- which is not even in the Bible,He's got the whole world in His
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- hands. But, that's not even averse in the Bible, it's a song.
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- Corinthians 4:4 says Satan isthe god of this world. But now,
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- when you give your life toChrist, and you come into the
- 00:21:53.794 --> 00:21:56.364
- kingdom of His dear Son, you canby faith, give your life to Him,
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- and give Him control, and speakto mountains. It literally says
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- here, that we must believe.Christianity was never called
- 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:12.446
- Christianity. You know what itwas called? It was called The
- 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:15.282
- Way. And it was the way ofbelievers. You had to believe
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- that Jesus was Lord, you had tobelieve that Jesus had died. You
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- had to personally believe thatHe would be involved in your
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- personal life. You had tobelieve that He had given you
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- authority, you power, to pray.And prayer is not a begging,
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- pleading prayer, but know how tochange the things that are going
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- on, on this planet. In Timothy,it teaches us that first of all,
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- pray for kings, and leaders.Those who are in authority. Why?
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- Because when you learn how topray, because prayer's not just
- 00:22:50.351 --> 00:22:53.421
- talking to God. That's one kindof prayer. The kind of prayer
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- that takes authority over thedominions of darkness, that
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- takes authority over disease,over early death, over all, is
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- taught in the Bible that, it hasa lot to do with what you
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- believe. How do you see Jesus?How do you see yourself? And if,
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- we see God as, He's got thewhole world in His hands, and
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- He's a God of love. You arewalking right into the trap of,
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- where so many have tried toshare their faith. God has given
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- you so much free will, that youcan choose whatever you want.
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- Even by default, if you don'tchoose Him and learn the
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- authority and the power that isin the name of Jesus, and in
- 00:23:30.658 --> 00:23:34.595
- prayer as we pray, you'll missthis whole thing about Jesus,
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- the kingdom of God will alwaysbe increasing. Our king is
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- Jesus, and He is wonderful. Heis filled with peace. He is
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- almighty. He is the authority inour world. And I want to
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- challenge you this Christmas,instead of just listening to
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- religious beliefs, instead ofjust grabbing on to things
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- you've been taught by somebody,that you, when you start to
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- think about it go that doesn'tmake sense. Go back to God's
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- Word and believe that thepresence of God will give you a
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- revelation of whoJesus truly is.
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- [Segment Music]
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- -ANNOUNCER: Are yourrelationships all you hoped and
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- dreamed? For many, that might bea difficult question to answer.
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- But the good news is, that Jesusis an expert on relationships.
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- -LEON: I have good news. Thegood news is, there is no one
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- standing between you and anamazing future. No one.
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- -ANNOUNCER: In this series,"Freedom From Judgement", Leon
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- leads you through biblicalteachings that will take you to
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- greater levels of peace,understanding, and fulfillment
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- in every relationship.
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- -LEON: When you dream aboutwhat you can do with the rest of
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- your life, God's going to takeyou further than that. Dream
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- big, He's going to take youbigger than that. Think amazing?
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- He's going to go beyond amazing,beyond what you can think,
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- ask, or imagine.
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- -ANNOUNCER: Get started on thisjourney today, and set yourself
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- free. Call now to request thisseries, and experience a greater
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- level of love, trust, and joy inall your relationships.
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- -LEON: One of the absolute keysto living this Christian life is
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- to be directed by God. So manypeople want formulas, so many
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- people want something they canfollow a step by step plan. And
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- there's lots of things in lifeyou can do that with, like
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- disciplining yourself with Biblereading. But when it comes to
- 00:25:42.456 --> 00:25:45.726
- direction from God, the Biblesays, "My sheep hear My voice."
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- And it says that He leads us byname. There is such a specific
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- guidance from God that it is byname. And so it's crucial to
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- understand, even the Romansteaches us that to be sons of
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- God that we are led by theSpirit of God. And so I wanna
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- encourage you, if you've neverfelt like you could be led by
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- God's presence, make sure youbegin to believe that and
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- confess that. Father, in thename of Jesus I pray right now.
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- That You'd put this incredibledesire inside of every person to
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- get direction from Youspecifically. That Lord, they
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- can trust You, Your Word andYour Spirit to guide them in the
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- directions to make the rightdecisions and they can have a
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- confidence in getting directionfrom You. I pray this in
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- Jesus' name, amen.
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