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Welcome everyone, we’re so glad to have you here tonight. We want to welcome all of our friends who are on the live stream with us here tonight and everyone who’s here in person in the room. And, uh, we’re looking forward to a great night together and all that God has for us. And so, uh, let’s open in prayer and we will get into worship. Father, we thank you for this time together tonight. We thank you that— for all that you’re doing in us and through us and with us and for us. And Father, we just expect great things tonight, and we come to worship you and join together in rejoicing in you, Father. And we thank you for this time.
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Amen.
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Praise God.
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I’m glad to have Brother Kevin Williams with me tonight. Glad to be here. So he, he’s going to make it sound good. And, uh, so we’re going to get into some older courses tonight, so you guys just, uh, we’re going down memory lane, so just join in with us. All right, here we go.
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Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place. Holy Spirit, thou art welcome This place,
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ah, meep, a tent, a mercy, and grace.
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Thou art welcome in this place. Lord, in thy presence there’s healing to be found. No other pow— can save, Lord, but thy holy Holy Spirit, thou art well, go in this place. Thou art well, go in this place. Let’s sing that chorus together again. Holy Spirit, thou art well, go in this place. This place is Spirit, Thou art well to. Fill all the hungry.
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Restore us, o Father, revive us again. Holy Spirit, thou art welcome in this place.
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Thou art welcome in this place.
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Holy Spirit, Our— our— this place we stream. Our— this place. Amen.
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Father of mercy and grace.
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Thou art wel— co— in this place. Thou art wel— co— in this place. You are beautiful beyond description. To wonderful comprehension Bakbuping emasenor heru. Who can fathom your infinite wisdom? Who can fathom the depth of your love? You are beautiful beyond description. Majesty in throne. The— and I stand, I stand in all of you. I stand, I stand in all of you.
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Holy God, to you all praises go. I stand in your Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus!
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All is saying again, you are beautiful,
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you are beautiful beyond description. Too wonderful for comprehension, like nothing ever seen or heard. Who can grasp your infinite wisdom? Who can fathom the depth of your love? You are beautiful beyond description. Majesty enthroned above. And I stand, I stand in awe of you. I stand, I stand in awe of you. Holy God, to you all praise is due. I stand in awe of you.
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Sing that again. Oh, I stand, I stand in awe of you. I stand, I stand in awe of you. Holy God, to you all praise is due. I stand in awe of you. Holy God, to you all praise is due. I stand in
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awe of you. Hallelujah!
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Thank you, Father, for your presence that
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is here with us.
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Thank you, Father God, for being here tonight. We give you praise and all the glory. In Jesus’ name, so be it. Hallelujah!
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Praise God!
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Pastor Kanye is coming now. With some words of encouragement. God bless you.
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Well, welcome! We are thrilled that you guys online are here and that you guys in the room are here today. Yay! Um, it is good. And so now it is offering time, and we always give an opportunity to talk about offering time because that is one of the ways that we show the Lord that we trust him. God doesn’t need our money. He doesn’t need our time. He can do it all without us. But when we show him that we trust him, we get to participate in what it is that he’s doing. And that’s the joy of life.
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And it’s coming closer to him that brings us that joy. So today’s scripture from Proverbs, from the Passion Translation, because we love the Passion Translation: Those who live to bless others will have blessings heaped upon on them. And the one who pours out his life to pour out blessings will be saturated with favor. We have got big words in this verse. We have got blessings. We have got heaped. We have got pours and we have got saturated and we have favor all in one verse.
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Amen.
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So, it is about taking what you have, pouring it out, for somebody else. And really, that is when things begin to multiply, when we take that action of pouring out what we have, pouring out our life, pouring out our talents, pouring out our provision onto others. That is when it gets multiplied and that is when the exciting things start to happen. So, as for those of you that give online, you can go online to emerginternationalchurch.org. There are instructions there. You can text to give. And we endeavor at Emerge International to be good seed. We want to be that seed— that soil— this— you are the seed, you’re giving the seed.
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We want to be the good soil that the seed goes into so that we can nourish the seed that you’ve entrusted to us, and we give it back out in a variety of different ways, from the missions that we support, from the people that we support, and directly preach into when we do our gatherings, when we do our meetings here. And so what you’re doing is actually taking part in stretching out God’s hand, his kingdom, to his children. So we thank you. Father, thank you for this opportunity to take part in what you are doing, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that you in this moment give us an opportunity to partner up with you, to walk side by side with you, and take part in what you’re doing here in the earth. And that there is joy that is had when we get to partake of what you’re doing. We love you, Lord. We praise you.
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We thank you. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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Amen. So as you’re giving tonight, we’re gonna sing a song, just ask you to join in with us, and, and let’s just, uh, acknowledge the Spirit of God that’s here tonight.
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Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. There’s a sweet, sweet spirit
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in this
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place, and I know that it’s the spirit of the Lord. There are sweetest fruits on each ba— and I know they feel the presence
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of the Lord.
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Sing it out with me. Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet Holy Spirit, sweet Heavenly— stay right here, feeling us free. With your love and for the angels we lift our hearts in without a doubt that we have been. There’s a sweet, sweet spirit. There’s a sweet, sweet spirit in this place. And I know that it’s the spirit of the— There are sweet expressions on these face— face, and I know they feel the presence
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of the— of the—
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of the— Sweet Holy Spirit, sweet Heavenly Keeper, stay right here, Father, filling us with your love.— and for these blessings we lift our hearted praise. Without a doubt we’ll know that we have been revived when we shall make this way. Without a doubt we’ll—— that we have been revived when we shall leave this
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place. Amen. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah! Glory to God! All right, well, it’s time to get into the word, and I’m excited to share with you tonight. You know, we’ve been looking at over the last few weeks, uh, what it meant to be a child of God. And I know if you’ve received Jesus I know everybody here has in this room. If you have online, then you’ve been given the right to become a child of God. Not only are you saved, forgiven, and redeemed, you have rights.
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I don’t know if you’ve thought about it in that context, but we do— as children of God, we have rights. So having rights speaks to the benefits, the advantages, the blessings, these— you, because of who you are connected to and connected with. So in John 1:16, we learned that as a child of God, we have received the gift of his fullness. And so John 1:16 says this: For out of his fullness, his abundance, we have all received, all had a share. We were all supplied with one grace after another, and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, and even favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift. Now that word fullness there means one who was filled with the presence, the power the riches of God in Christ, his abundance. So tonight we’re going to go deeper into what walking in his fullness means and what we possess as children of God. And so John 1:12— and this is slide 2, Kanye, so if you’re wondering John 1:12 in the Amplified Classic says this: But to as many as did receive and welcome him, he gave the authority, the power, the privilege, the right to become the children of God.
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That is, to those who believe in, adhere to, trust in, and rely on his name. Receiving Jesus as your Lord and Savior establishes you as saved. You’re saved, you’re forgiven, and you’re redeemed. And when we received and welcomed him, he gave us the authority, the power, the privilege, and the right to become— now let me stop
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right there.
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The word become here is significant. That word means to be or began to be, to come into existence, to exist as a state of being. Means to be made. So when we were born again, we came into existence as children of God. We were made to be and made to exist as children of God. We are not just human beings, we are also God beings. We’re recreated, born again in this image and likeness. That’s who you are— born again, recreated in his likeness and his image.
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You are a God being. You’re a child of God. You can get up every morning and look in the mirror and go I’m a child of God. I’m like God. I’m created in his image and likeness. And you’re declaring the truth. And guess what? God’s smiling and grinning, going, that’s right, that’s my kid. So this is who we are.
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This is who we were created to be. So we receive authority, power, privilege, and rights because of our position in Christ as children of God. As I said last week, because we have all of this within us, we can be or become all that God has created us to be. We have everything within us we need to be all that God created us to be. We don’t need anything else. Now, we develop it, we maximize it, we use it for his glory. But listen to this: God has formed you, he has fashioned you, he has made you to be his child. Think about that.
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Ephesians 2:10, the Amplified, says this: For we are God’s own handiwork, his workmanship, recreated in Christ Jesus, born anew, that we may do those good works which God predestined— planned beforehand— for us, taking paths which he prepared ahead of time, that we should walk in them, living the good life in which he prearranged and made ready for us to live. There was a season in my life, guys, where I prayed through the book of Ephesians every day. And I did that for over a year. And so every day I was praying, God, I want to walk in those paths you prepared for me, all that you pre-arranged and made ready. I want to be there. But what I want to emphasize here is this: the phrase recreated in Christ Jesus means we were born anew and put back into our rightful place and position. The place and position that Satan stole from us and took us out of, Jesus came and put us back into it, that proper place in this position. Now, you know, growing up and in high school and me being in music, and a lot of my friends were a lot darker in color than I am.
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So, and I remember we’d sit around the back of the— one of the rooms I was in, one of the classes I was in, we’d sit around and talk. And they would tell me all the time, “Man, did you hear so-and-so talking?” They’d been trying to diss me, man. Well, I finally one day, because of—— who I am, I love the etymology of words and where they come from and the history and all that. I looked up that word dis— you know what it means? It means to take from someone their place and position. Now, for us, it meant you ain’t what you think you are, you know. And so My point here is that’s a very accurate term. Satan dissed us in the garden. He robbed us of that place and position that God had created for us to live in.
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And so Jesus came and put us back into our rightful place and position. And here’s that place. It’s a place of all supreme power and dominion that God created for us in the beginning. Adam and Eve had all of this that we’re talking about tonight, that we talked about the last weeks, before the fall. The enemy stripped them of all that God had given mankind. And as we see here in Ephesians, the good news is Jesus restored it all to us if we simply believe in him and receive him. Boom, it just comes back to us. It’s not because we’re worthy of it, it’s not because we’ve earned it.
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Now the enemy will try to get us into that mindset too, but that’s not of God either. God says, I love you, here, this is— I created this for you. So tonight let’s look at what these four gifts that he’s given us empower us to do— to walk in as children of God. Number 1, he has given us authority. Authority is the ability or strength with which one is endued or exercises. And you’re endued with his authority, and you’re endued to exercise it. It is the power of rule whose will and command must be submitted to by the others. Jesus said, all authority has been given unto me, right? And so go forth and declare the gospel, cast out devils.
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The devil hasn’t got any power over you. The third thing is— I love this— it’s the sign of regal authority, a crown, the power to choose, the liberty of doing. And so what this is saying here is this: God has given you— he has crowned you from his throne. And that is just not an ornament, a decoration. A crown gave you an identity. When people saw your crown, they knew who you were identified with, and it meant that the authority you were functioning in and operating in was from the throne. So with this in mind, let’s look at what the Apostle Paul shares with us in Ephesians, the second chapter. Ephesians 2:6 in the Amplified Classic: And he raised us up together with him and made us sit down together, giving us joint seating with him in the heavenly sphere by virtue of our being in Christ Jesus, the Messiah, the Anointed One.
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This is where your Father God has placed and positioned you— joint seating with Jesus in the heavenly sphere. Now, whether you realize it or not, and I know we don’t see it or feel it right now, But right now, in this moment, we are seated with Jesus in the heavenlies. That’s where we are right now. Again, our authority in Christ flows from our position in Christ, and our position is Christ is seated with him in the heavenlies. So what does being joint seated with Christ look like? Well, Paul gives us the answer, the insight into that, in the first chapter of Ephesians. Let’s go there. Ephesians 1, I’m going to read 19, verses 19 through 21. I’m going to read this also from the Amplified Classic.
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Thing I like about the Amplified Classic, it gives you the def— all those Greek words and definitions I would look up, they’re just here. It gives them to you. So, and so that you can know and understand what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of his power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the work— in the work of his mighty strength, which he exerted when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his own right hand in heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, above every title that can be conferred, not only in this age and in this world but also in the age and the world which are to come. So here’s the picture. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, okay, in heavenly places. Paul said in Ephesians 2, we are joint seated with him in heavenly places at the right hand of the Father. You thought about that? That’s a great picture. That’s a great— which to meditate on.
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Guys, this is our position in Christ. But wait, there’s more. Seated with him, it goes on to say, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, above every title that can be confirmed, not only in this age and in this world but also in the age and the world which are to come. Guys, this is your place of being. You are seated at the right hand of the Father. You have more authority. You have legal authority, authority delegated to you from the highest place of authority. You are crowned as a royal member of the family of God.
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And that crown is a statement of who you are, who you represent, your identity, your rights, your privilege, your power, your authority. And with it comes the honor, the dignity, and the favor of the Most High
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God. That’s us.
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To, to be crowned And I’ve been teaching all this in our Sunday services online, uh, since the last Sunday in December. But to be crowned means this: you were encircled, surrounded, gathered by the fullness and glory of God. You’ve been given the ability and strength to steward the authority of God here on the earth. Now here’s the truth to meditate on: the enemy has no power except the power you give him. You don’t give him any influence and power in your life, he has none. Jesus has already defeated him. Praise God, we have the authority of the the Most High God.
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It’s ours.
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Now let’s look at the second gift he gave us. John 1:12 in the Amplified Classic: But to as many as did receive and welcome him, he gave the— the power, the privilege, the right to become the children of God. It is to those who believe in, adhere to, trust him, and rely on his name. The second thing it says that he gave us— he gave us authority— and then it says he gave us power. That word there in the Greek means power for performing miracles. Huh, God gave you the power to perform miracles. Wow. I remember Tanya and I were in, uh, DC seeing our daughter Marina.
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And, uh, Pastor Mark Batterson, he pastors National Community Church there in DC. We found out he was just— his church is downtown DC there, it’s just a few blocks away from our hotel. We walked over there, uh, on Sunday morning. There was a young lady who was, uh, worked in missions that was speaking that morning. Me, and she was talking about— they had been overseas on a missions trip, and they went to an island where no one had ever shared the gospel before. And to get to that island, she said, dropped us off at one island, and because of something, we, we couldn’t get there the way we needed to, so we had to wade through the ocean to get over to the next island, pulling our boats behind us, and because that’s where all their supplies were. And they got over there and spent— what kind of— was it about a month there? Yeah, about a month there, sharing the gospel and then teaching these people. Well, this one lady had this big growth down around her ankle And, um, so she wanted prayer because she’s hearing them talk about miracles and what Jesus did.
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So she wants them to pray. Well, one lady’s gotten saved, uh, okay. And she starts praying. Well, all the team is standing around going, oh, you know. And she starts praying, nothing happens. And the lady who had just gotten saved the week before goes, well, that’s not right, I’m praying again. So she lays hands on this lady and starts praying again, and that thing popped and went down and disappeared totally. And all the people from
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America were
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going, she’s looking at them going, why are you— you told me this is what would happen. So see, guys, sometimes we got to get past our mental block, we would see a whole lot more miracles if we just went, well, so we had that power within us because of what Christ— it also means power consisting in or resting upon armies, forces, or hosts. Guys, we got the power of the host of heaven within us. We have the strength and ability of God within us. John 14:12. I love this verse. This from the New King James Version: Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in me— believes in Jesus— the works that I do, he will do also, and greater works than these. I go to my father.
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Now I believe I know the answer. How many of you in here believe in Jesus? Yeah, I thought so. Then he has given you the power to do the works that he did. I don’t know if you think about that every day when when you get up, but you get up with the power to go do the works of Jesus. You can lead people to Christ, you can pray for the sick, you can agree with others and pray for direction and needs to be met, you can cast out demons. You have the power of the throne of God behind you. Remember, where are you seated? He does— we don’t have to do it, but he needs our voice here in the earth commanding the enemy to get out of the way, and that releases his power through us, and he
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does it.
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Amen. Then he goes on and says, greater works than these will you do because I go to my Father. I— greater works than these will you do. I want to share this verse with you again, because those of you who know me and heard me teach before, you, you’ve heard me talk— teach on this verse, talk about it. This is Ephesians 3:20, and what Paul is sharing with us here confirms what Jesus said in John 14:12. Ephesians 3:20 in the Amplified Classic says, now to him who by and in consequence of the action of his power that is at work within
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us— whose power?
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His power. The Lord’s power who’s at work within us is able to carry out his purpose to do super abundantly, far over and above all that we dare
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ask
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or think, infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams. Wow, those are greater things than he did. He’s still active in it, he’s just doing it through us now. I mean, if you spend time praying, meditating on that verse It gets so— takes you so far out there. Wow. His power is at work within us. By the power he gave us to be children of God, he is at work within us to carry out his purpose. Us.
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That’s what
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that verse says.
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As we yield, yield to his power, he works in us, with us, through us to carry out God’s purpose. Slide 14. Yeah, okay. I love this. Super abundantly, far over and above all that we Dare ask infinitely beyond our
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highest
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prayers, desires, thoughts. I’m expecting great things, greater things than these. Remember back in COVID, this is right before we moved to Tennessee, we were
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still there in Plano.
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Dallas. All the girls were home from college
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and
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school and everything. And one morning I told Kanye, I said, I need to go pray. I want to go spend some time with the Lord. So I’m going in our closet, our bedroom, and close the door. And guys, I go in there and close the door, and there’s— it’s kind of like being in a Ambience and the ambience. And here’s what I hear. I start worshipping and I hear this: David, I dare you to ask me for something big. I went, what?
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You’re not thinking big enough.
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I dare you to ask me for something big.
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You pray that verse
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all the
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time.
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Wow, wow, guys. Couple people here know this. Look where we are today. Look
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what God’s doing.
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The day he asked
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me to do— ask— I have no clue.
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Praise the Lord. Get up every day expecting great things. The third thing he says we have here as a child of God is privilege, and that means to grant some
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particular advantage,
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thing, benefit, or exception. Psalm 5:12 in the New King James Version says, you, oh Lord, will bless the righteous with favor. You will surround him— you get up every day with favor of God surrounding you as with a shield. It doesn’t matter what you’re going through, what the situation is, what the enemy’s trying to play against you. You’re surrounded in God’s favor.
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You’re
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privileged in that sense. To be crowned is be surrounded with all God’s goodness and glory, all of it. Ephesians 1:2-3 in the Amplified Classic says this: May grace— God’s unmerited favor— and spiritual peace— peace with God and harmony, undisturbedness— be yours. It’s ours, guys. One of the things, the way Paul said that, he was telling the Ephesians, it’s already yours. Walk in it. I pray that it’s— that you Realize this and embrace it, and it’s yours from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. May blessing, praise, laudation, and humility be to the God and Father of
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our
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Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual— given by the Holy Spirit— blessing in the heavenly realm. Every spiritual blessing and the Heavenly— Holy
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Spirit has given us.
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You are God on us. Which brings me to Corinthians 9:8. This is also from the Amplified— I love this verse. 2 Corinthians 9:8: And God is able to make all grace, every favor and earthly blessing come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances, whatever the need, be self-sufficient, possessing enough to require no aid or support, and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation. So what we see here with God’s grace and favor and privilege is— he said in Ephesians, we have every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. Then he said here that we have every earthly blessing in a— so we got it all, guys. It doesn’t matter where we— we got all of heaven, all the blessings from heavenly places, and all the blessings here in the earth. He is able to bring all of that to us if we just trust him, seek and acknowledge him as our Father and God.
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God’s favor can open doors of opportunity that no man can shut. You know how we get them shut? Our thing— letting the enemy tell us, uh, that’s not for you, you can’t do that. Yes, you can.
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You have the faith and
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the power of God. Amen. The next thing he gives us, it says there in the scripture, is a right. That word can also mean birthright, any right or benefit to which
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a person is entitled by birthright.
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Because you have the power to be a child of God, so you have Life is— you’re entitled to them. Again, you don’t have to earn it, you don’t have to deserve it, you don’t have to work for it. God just says, here, I love— it’s what belongs to you because of who you were born to. We were born to God Jehovah Jireh.
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We were
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born to Jesus Christ. A birthright or a right is something weighty, and that doesn’t mean heavy in the sense of
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it weighs a lot—
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means weighty in the sense of profound. It is weighty, it is enduring, it is kind of— wow. In Christ, believers receive their identity, their inheritance, and access to God because we’ve been reborn, born again in Christ. And life eternal, which means we get to fellowship intimately with him all— Romans 8:16 and 17, Amplified Classic, says this: the Spirit himself thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. And if we are his children, then we are his heirs also. Heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing his inheritance with him. Only we must share his suffering if we are to share his glory. Now let me share this with you.
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Because we are children of God, we
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are heirs of
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God, joined with Christ. That next phrase, to share his sufferings, is not about punishment. It’s about deep fellowship with Christ and his purpose as we reach out to a fallen world. We share the gospel with the fallen world around us. So what we suffer as believers,
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or
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as God’s children, Kōdō, kōdō, kōdō. Could be the way people respond to that. It’s not saying we got to go— we don’t have to go hang on cross and get nails driven through us and all that kind of stuff. It’s those who come against what God’s trying to offer. It also means when we suffer as believers, we’re not suffering alone. He is with us. He never leaves us, never forsakes us. It is a privilege to bear the resistance of the world.
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The enemy is trying to keep people— us away from influencing people and keep people away from us. And we bear that on his behalf because we’re a part of the family. John 16:33, Jesus assured us— this is a fun verse for me— these things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. Okay, in the world you will have tribulation. You’re gonna have— you— what? In the world
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you will have tribulation.
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This next But be of good cheer. Wait a minute, Lord, you’re telling me I’m gonna have tribulation and pain, trouble, and you want me to rejoice?
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I’ve defeated that.
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Yeah, they come again, it doesn’t
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matter.
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You’re already victorious. He has overcome, so we have
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the
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power and authority It’s our birthright. John 1:12, yeah, we’re going back to this verse we started with. But to as many as did receive and welcome him, he gave the authority, the power, the privilege, the right to
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become the children of God.
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That is those who believe and adhere to, trust him and rely
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on His name.
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Man, look at all we— so here are a few takeaways from tonight and last week. I am a child of God. God is my father. I am a member of the royal family of with God. I have an inheritance in Christ. I’m a joint heir with Jesus. I am— I’m an ambassador of the kingdom. I have received this fullness.
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I have more power, privilege, and rights here on earth and in heaven through Jesus Christ. I have access to the throne of God. I am seated with Christ at the right hand of our Father in heaven places. I am God’s chosen. He has declared me whole. R— his own special people. He claims me as his very young
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Jesus
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is the gift given to us who— and because we will, we will not perish, but we will have eternal, everlasting life with— amen. I don’t know what that does for you, but that makes me want to go out there and tell some people I met,
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dude, you were missing— do
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you realize what you’re missing out? And even to tell my brothers and sisters in the Lord, embrace it. This is ours. We’re missing out. We’ve got all this blessing, favor that God has given us, and we’re not walking, but we need to be walking. Praise God. Kevin, you blessed me just earlier, you know, yesterday, Kathy was physical issues. I prayed for You know, our— I shared this last week, I think, but our friend Kit and Heather— Heather had a huge migraine headache, and Kit walked in. She told him— he walked in, laid hands on her, and she said as
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he prayed Faded away, was gone.
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That’s the power we have, guys. When we partner with Jesus and trust him, he goes, come on, let’s do it.
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I
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believe for great things, and I
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believe we’re
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going to see them. Let’s bow our heads in prayer. Father, we thank you this time together tonight. We thank you for your word. And Father, I pray that this word gets down in us, becomes so
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real
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and so strong, that’s just been ate in us, and we get up knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing that we are children of God, that we are blessed with your authority, your power. Your right, your favor, hallelujah, and your privileges, Father. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
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you for all that you bought for us.
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And we give you praise and glory for all of it. In Jesus’ name, amen. Amen. Praise God. Pastor Kanye, do you have any anything else. All right everyone, it was great having you here with us tonight. We look forward to seeing you next week here. And remember, you can go to our site on, uh, and there’s a place here you can click and see our Sunday service.
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And we invite you to join us Sunday at 10 AM Central Time. And, uh, and I know you’ll be blessed. So God bless you, have a blessed
