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Leon Fontaine | Your New Birthright | January 11, 2022
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- -ANNOUNCER: World-renowned speaker, CEO of Miracle
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- Channel, and Senior Pastor of one of Canada's fastest growing
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- churches, Leon Fontaine is passionate about teaching you
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- how to tap into the incredible power of Holy Spirit.
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- - Now from one of our Canadian studios, here's Leon Fontaine.
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- -LEON FONTAINE: Sometimes it's important when you look at a
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- principle of God's Word and you've been taught it, to not
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- just take it for granted but to, but to look at the guts of
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- it. Look where it came from. It's like some of you parents
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- who've, who got beautiful homes, careers, and beds and
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- food and holidays for your kids. And they just, they get
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- used to it. But they might not know the amount of work that
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- you had to gut out to get there or what it took. And it's
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- crucial that people know what things have cost because
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- otherwise you don't know how precious it is. And today I
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- want to talk about something that -, The message, I just
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- want to entitle it, "Are You Righteous?" Because I'm so
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- tired of the preaching out there that attacks people and
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- destroys them. It literally stops them from using their
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- faith. You will not get your faith to work until you
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- understand righteousness. You will not get your faith to
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- bring the kind of life, confidence, peace, joy, living
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- until you understand righteousness, or the enemy
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- will simply attack you every time and you will find your
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- faith falter. If you don't value something, you'll never
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- use it properly. Jacob and Esau is a story in the Old Testament
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- where the eldest always had a blessing prayed over him by the
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- father, by the patriarch. And it wasn't just some kind of a
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- cool thing. It was real. And it was so desired by Jacob who was
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- not the eldest. He was second born. That he wanted this birth
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- right. It was called. And Esau who was the eldest. He could
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- care less. He comes in one day from being hungry and out
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- hunting and he hasn't, didn't shoot anything. So he looks at
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- Jacob's big old pot of stew on the fire. I'm famished. I need
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- some food. He says, "No." What do you want? I buy it off you.
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- I want your birthright. Okay. Hello. And if you read the
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- story, Jacob lied and he tricked his brother and his dad
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- because he coveted this birthright. And Esau, "Yeah,
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- whatever." Did you know that because, even though he was a
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- liar and a thief, because he coveted that birthright. He's
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- in the lineage of Jesus instead of Esau. I think as believer
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- sometimes, especially those of us who are second generation
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- Christians, third generation Christians. We just take things
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- for granted. And we don't understand what is behind it.
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- You know, when Adam and Eve were in the garden and they
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- sinned against God. The Bible has a completely different
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- Adam. The Adam before then would talk with God walk in the
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- cool of the day confident. Everything going well. Now, now
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- that he is, now that he's sinned against God, a different
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- nature entered him, a nature of the enemy. And that nature is
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- one of fear. That nature is one that is, it just discouraging.
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- It's everything that I talked about in the human condition.
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- And he hid from God and he was trembling. And God's going,
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- "Adam, where are you?" And he hid himself. What happened? He
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- was fearful, inferior, hiding, worried. You know, he was
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- condemned, guilty. What's going on? A new, a new nature was
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- inside of the human race. And that nature continues today.
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- But when Jesus came, he changed all that. He literally went to
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- hell in our place, took our sin. And when God saw that
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- justice was done, the spirit of life filled Him and up He came.
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- And He is the first born, the Bible says, of being born again
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- because He took your sin. He took my sin, and He went to
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- hell. He was buried with the sinners the Bible says. And He
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- paid our punishment. He took our sin. And when He rose again
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- with new life. This new life is for you and I when we ask Him
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- for it, when we believe on Him. But then we got people who just
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- think that "Well, now that I'm born again. That's just kind
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- of, that that just means that God doesn't consider my sin.
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- I'm forgiven." It's more than forgiven. If someone rips you
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- off and they're your partner in business and this is like the
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- fifteenth time that you forgive them. Wouldn't you be a fool to
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- keep being a partner with them? Why? Because your nature hasn't
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- changed. This is, this thing about being righteous is more
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- than just a forgiveness of sins. And here's where a lot of
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- people miss it. The whole drama of redemption is consummated in
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- this. That man must be restored to perfect fellowship with the
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- Father and it's got to be done on legal grounds. The object of
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- righteousness is to give man fellowship with God, to be able
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- to walk into His presence and not hit your knees trembling
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- knowing you're about to be killed. You literally can say,
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- "Abba, Father." You know, it bug me if my kids came into my
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- presence and started to tremble and get all freaked out and
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- worried and fell on the ground and groveled at my feet. Father
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- is the new name that God has in the new covenant. In the Old
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- Testament they were servants, in the new covenant they're
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- sons. There's so much that we miss about this thing, about
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- being righteous. The public ministry of Jesus. Then He goes
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- to the cross and He's made sin. Then when He dies, He stays
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- under judgment till He's made righteous. Then He's given new
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- life. He conquers our adversary, rises from the dead,
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- and He was made sin with our sins. So we're made righteous
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- with His righteousness. This exchange took place. This
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- exchange is not just the forgiveness of sins. It is a
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- complete change of nature. I'm righteous. I've given my life
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- to Jesus Christ. When I say I'm righteous. What am I saying? Am
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- I saying I never make a mistake? No. I'm not. I'm
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- saying that my nature is righteous. And that my nature
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- is joy. My nature is peace. My nature is laughter and joy and
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- confidence in the presence of God and desiring good things.
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- That's my nature. Who are you? And that's where righteousness
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- comes in. You are in right standing with God. And when you
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- get this, and you begin to believe that you were
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- spiritually dead, and now you are righteous. Jesus came in
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- and recreated you. In Romans 4:25, it says, "Who was
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- betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and He
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- was raised to secure our justification, our acquittal,
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- making our account balance and absolving us from all guilt
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- before God." He didn't just forgive your sin. He just made
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- your past disappear. He erased it. Gone. You don't have to
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- worry anymore about the guilt and the condemnation that comes
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- from your past. Your past is gone. It is acquitted. It is
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- finished. And you have a brand new life. You have a new
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- nature. And if you do not understand the truth about your
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- new nature. You will give in to the old you who's dead and
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- gone. In Acts 13:33-35, it says, "This He has completely
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- fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus,
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- as it is written in the second psalm, You are My Son. Today I
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- have begotten You, caused You to arise, to be born, formally
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- shown You to be the Messiah by the resurrection." Now, I got
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- so many Scriptures. But as you go through the epistles, it is
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- the new covenant. And until you understand the new covenant,
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- you can't mix the old covenant. Which is your works. Should I
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- pray about healing? Have I been good enough this week? Did I do
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- anything wrong? Let me just think, did I cuss anybody out?
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- Did I give anybody the finger? Did I swear at anybody? I think
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- I'm good. I think I'm good. I think I'm good. Okay, Jesus. I
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- need to be healed. You see, you just, you're totally you never
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- going to get healed that way because you're going by your
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- works. Which is the old covenant. The new covenant
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- believes that Jesus Christ died. That every sin you ever
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- committed is been dealt with, and that you are a believer.
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- The old nature doubts automatic. The old nature is
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- condemned and guilty. The new nature is confident. The new
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- nature knows they can stand in the very presence of God. Come
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- boldly to the throne of grace and ask what you will. This
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- kind of thing is not talked about much to people. No wonder
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- we see such few miracles in the first world. And you do
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- understand something. As He is, so why are we in this world.
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- That's why we're called Christians. If we were called
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- Biblians, you could pick anybody in the Bible you wanted
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- to be like. But we're Christians. Christians. We
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- follow Christ. We are believers in Christ. When Jesus went to
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- hell in our place Colossians 1:18, says that He became the
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- first born from the dead. If Jesus took all this sin of the
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- world, He was the most sinful looking thing that ever went
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- down and buried with sinners the Bible says. Then how come
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- when it was done, and the injustice was fulfilled, and He
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- arose again with new life. He went straight into
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- the presence of God.
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- [Theme Music]
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- -ANNOUNCER: We'll be right back with more
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- from Leon Fontaine.
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- [Theme Music]
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- Do you ever feel stuck?
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- The truth is, there is no limit to the potential you have in
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- Christ. You've been given all things that pertain to life,
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- and godliness.
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- You are empowered to live an abundant life.
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- In this series by Leon Fontaine, "Live in a New
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- Dimension", you'll uncover powerful truths from God's Word
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- that reveal who you are in Christ.
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- I'd love to send you this "Live in a New Dimension". So many
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- people have said it has helped them to change, live in a whole
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- new season of victory. So get it right away. And just apply
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- it to your life, and you'll be amazed, the powerful truths
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- that are in here, you're going to see amazing changes.
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- No good thing is withheld from you. And no one has the power
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- to keep you down. Get your copy of
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- "Live in a New Dimension" today.
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- [Music]
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- [Theme Music]
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- -LEON: Understand that if Jesus is the firstborn, then
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- you and I are somewhere down that line. And it's exciting to
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- understand. John 5:24, says, "I assure you, I most solemnly I
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- tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words, who
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- listens to My message, and believes and trusts in and
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- clings to and relies on Me Who sent Me has eternal life. And
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- does not come into judgment but he has already passed over out
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- of death into life." All right. This is exciting. Did you know
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- that when you give your life to Christ, that this life comes
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- into you. And we get eternal life mixed up. We keep thinking
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- eternal life is just how long you live. But I've worked with
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- a ton of people who don't want to live. They don't want to
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- live 20 years, let alone forever. I've sat down beside
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- suicides and had to counsel with people who've tried
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- multiple times razor marks all up their arms. Eternal life?
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- They don't want to live. Eternal life is this length of
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- life and the quality of life. Eternal means forever but life
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- means the life of God. An incredible joy, an incredible
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- peace, an incredible ability to get up and to confidently know
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- that whatever this world has, I'll walk on the waves. I'll
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- walk into the face of a demon possessed man. Whatever it is,
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- He is with me. And when we understand who we are in
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- Christ, the world then gets attracted to the life that
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- we're living with Christ because we're not walking
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- around trying to be -, Some Christians are so proud of
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- their humility. Did you get that? They just think that,
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- well, humble. Yeah, well, God bless you. Would you like to
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- come to church and be like me? No, thank you. Why? Because the
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- world admires confidence. They admire someone who's -, And
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- Christians aren't immune. Like, if I'm going to talk to a brain
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- surgeon, I'm going to talk to two of them. And one is just so
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- humble. Yeah. See, well, you know, can you operate on me?
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- Like, what do you think? Oh, you know, I'm not really the
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- best and I've done some of these.But hey, I'll do my best.
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- Next. I've done lots of these, man. We're going to do. Here's,
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- let's sit down. We're going to show you how we're going to do.
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- I'll take him. When that Christians have no confidence
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- in their lives, no confidence in who they are, and where they
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- are, and where they're going, and what they're doing. And we
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- think that our fake humility is attractive to the world. We are
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- so, no wonder church is dead as buildings in the city. I'm
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- messing with, you know. In John 8:36, listen to this. "If
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- therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free
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- indeed." Do you know what that means? In reality. You're not
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- just a token free. We declare you free. You messed up thing
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- you. I know you got no peace, no joy. You got no self-worth,
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- no self-esteem but you've been declared free. That's not what
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- it's saying here, because in the Old Testament there was a
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- declared righteousness that Abraham had, but he wasn't born
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- again. So he literally wasn't righteous but it was, it was
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- accounted to him because he stood in faith. And that's a
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- whole another message. But when you look at this and you
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- understand, 2 Corinthians 5:21, "Him who knew no sin God made
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- to be sin on our behalf. That we might become the
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- righteousness of God in Him." How righteous is God? I don't
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- know how to answer that question. But that's your
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- righteousness. Why are we walking around? Why when we
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- read the Bible, why do we look at the world today and the
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- church today? We look at the Old Testament for our heroes.
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- We got giant killers. Solomon to raise countries and Moses
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- take millions of people through desert and all these incredible
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- leaders. And then today, "We're just Christians." You are made
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- in the likeness and the image of God. If you've given your
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- life to Jesus Christ, that old nature of lack and sin and
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- condemnation is not only gone. You have a new nature filled
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- with confidence and joy and peace. But even the record of
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- your sins has been expunged. Don't let the enemy dig it up.
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- I go that old saying, "When the enemy reminds you of your past,
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- ah, just remind him of his future." Why? Because there has
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- been an actual impartation into your human spirit. This is not
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- just a legal righteousness. It's not just a reckoned
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- righteousness. This is an actual impartation of the
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- presence of God into your human spirit. Now, it's important
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- that you understand. That it allows you to stand in the
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- presence of God, in the blessing of God, expecting the
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- answers of God. The release of the power of God with no sin,
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- no guilt, no inferiority. This is who we are as believers. The
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- world will scam on you. The stuff of the enemy will push at
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- you. And if you don't wash regularly, you'll stink. But if
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- you wash with the water of the Word, and just clean off the
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- depression, the pain, the giving it up and you stay with
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- the Word. The real you shines through. The real odor of who
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- you are, the skin, the hair. This is you. And he's trying to
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- tell us here. That you'll need to -, the washing of water by
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- the Word. You need to get to church on Sundays. You need to
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- find God's Word and speak it out of your mouth every day.
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- This confession of the Word is not trying to get you to become
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- something you're not. That's the problem with much of
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- Christian today. We're just speaking the Word. We're just
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- praying, reading the red and praying for power. I'm
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- changing. Okay, stop right there. You've been changed.
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- Your nature is the nature of Christ, full of confidence and
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- peace and joy and power. Stop trying to become what you're
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- not and just be who you is. And as you begin to believe what
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- God has done inside of your spirit, you will renew your
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- mind with the washing of water by the Word. And some say,
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- "Well, it's that old flesh, Leon. Oh, we've got to just,
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- we've got to butcher the flesh. We've got to die." I get it.
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- But the Bible doesn't make it sound like you make it sound.
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- It says, "Renew your mind. Make your body a living sacrifice.
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- My yoke is easy. My burden is light." Doesn't go, "Fight with
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- your flesh. Fight with your -," Really? Jesus is so weak. That
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- one human person's problems He can't deal with. No. The Word
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- of God is very clear that Jesus can present you before the
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- Father without blemish, pure. It's not talking about just
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- heaven. And man, I've just given you just a touch today of
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- this word righteous. You are not righteous because you
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- earned it. You are not righteous because you're so
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- good at it. You are righteous as a gift from the Father. And
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- you are precious. He made you, designed you. If you were to
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- get a tattoo, you need something like, "Designed in
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- heaven, made by God." Because He doesn't make junk and He
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- doesn't make mistakes. And He's placed greatness inside of you.
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- And with God on the inside of your spirit man, there is, deep
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- inside of you is joy, deep inside of you is peace. If you
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- just renew your mind in Romans 12:1 and 2, it says, "You'll
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- begin to prove the perfect will of God." If you said to me, "I
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- can lift 300 pounds." And I say, "Prove it. You've got to
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- do it." Did you know that as you renew your mind with the
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- Word of God, you begin to prove with your life, your peace,
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- your joy, prosperity, health, healing, relationships. People
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- should look at your life and be jealous. The word "bless" means
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- happy, fortunate, and to be envied. When people look at
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- you, do they envy your life? If you say, "No." Then you're not
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- really living out what you could be, because you've been
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- made awesome. You've been made wonderful. Don't let religion
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- lie to you. Don't let them give you some false sense of
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- humility. That humility is to stay poor, stay sick, bow your
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- head. Let everybody else rise up and do something. But you,
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- you know, stay humble. Humble does not mean do nothing.
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- Humble just means give God the credit. That's it. You're
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- special. If I could just communicate one thing to you.
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- If you've given your life to Christ, deep on the inside of
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- you, you radiate peace. You radiate joy. You radiate a
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- sense of confidence. Don't let an unrenewed mind stop you.
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- Wash it with the water of the Word. Meditate in God's Word.
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- Find who you are, so you can pass that off to the next
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- generation. Because you're going to pass off what you is,
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- not what you say. And God will help you because your nature
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- has been established by Jesus not your behaviour. Your
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- behaviour is important. We all want you to change. Your wife
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- want you to change. Your kids want you to change. All right?
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- Your husband want you to change. Changing is cool. But
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- changing is not what makes you who you are. It's this
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- miraculous redemption of what Jesus has done. That -, You are
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- renewed. In your spirit man is the nature of God. Believe it.
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- Get into the Word. And I'm telling you. I don't care if
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- you were taught wrong, what your daddy did, what your mommy
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- did, if you didn't have them. I don't care how messed up your
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- childhood was. You got a new Father and His name is Father
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- God. And He'll teach you the things your dad should have
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- taught you. And as you begin to get into His Word, oh, man.
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- There is such a confidence. This whole world, they put on a
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- mask. But if they have not been reborn, there is an inferiority
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- complex. There is a condemnation. There is a sense
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- of, "I'm not good enough. I could never. If I don't, if I
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- see God, I would burn up and all that." But when you give
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- your life to Christ, you are a new creation. You're not
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- counted as one. You're not reckoned as one. You don't just
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- put the colors on and wear the patch. You is a new creation.
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- Now, you got a choice. You find out who you are now because you
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- are not who you were. Find out. And in the washing of water by
- 00:23:00.327 --> 00:23:05.666
- the Word. The renewing of your mind with the truth. You will
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- explode into who God made you to be and it's so exciting. If
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- you were born again, you are righteous. Remember that. And
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- when you read the New Testament, it'll just come open
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- to you as you recognize, do you make mistakes? Do you sin? Yes.
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- Read the list of sin. For him that knoweth to do good, and
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- doeth it not, to him it is sin. So you didn't help the little
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- lady across the street. Sin. Whatever is not of faith is
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- sin. Oh, I didn't believe much yesterday. Sin. But it doesn't
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- change your nature. And as long as you understand who you are,
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- you will have victory over every sin. Sin will no longer
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- have dominion over you, the Word says, because of this new
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- nature that is yours. I don't know who I'm speaking to but
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- I'm setting somebody free. Get up and live. Get up and
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- believe. Get up and know that Jesus loves you. And as you do,
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- your whole world is going to change. Father, I pray that
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- every person that's listening to me today. Wherever they are,
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- on the screen, around the world, here in this auditorium.
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- I pray that something I've said will take root in their heart.
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- And they'll rise up with such a confidence in You, in such a
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- confidence in the redemption, the justification, the
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- sanctification, the work that have You done. Father, I pray
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- that all the religion that's been taught and of all those
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- whatever will just fall off. And I pray they're going to
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- raise up a church that's going to change a city, change the
- 00:24:45.566 --> 00:24:48.502
- nation. That Father, You're going to bless them and every
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- one of their gifted areas and wherever their careers and
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- families and marriages and health and mind and peace and
- 00:24:53.674 --> 00:24:56.810
- emotion. Father, let this new nature just rise up, and let
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- them walk through life like Jesus would have. Every head
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- bow for just a moment. If you're watching today and you
- 00:25:05.252 --> 00:25:08.088
- don't know Jesus Christ as your Saviour, as your Lord. You say,
- 00:25:08.088 --> 00:25:11.692
- "Leon, I don't know if I am born again." Then I want to
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- help you. I'm going to lead you in a powerful prayer, because
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- only you can decide you. Your Mama can't, Papa can't, pastor
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- can't, wife can't, husband can't, only you. And as you
- 00:25:22.970 --> 00:25:26.774
- heard me teach the Word, the Bible says that as you hear the
- 00:25:26.774 --> 00:25:30.878
- gospel taught, it causes faith to rise in you. So someone say,
- 00:25:30.878 --> 00:25:36.717
- "I don't have any faith." No, to hear 30 minutes of God's
- 00:25:36.717 --> 00:25:40.087
- Word, it brings faith in you to accept Christ. So now you've
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- got to make the decision. And if you'd like to be born again
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- and have the spirit of Jesus inside of you. Just say this
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- right now and mean it. Just say, Jesus, I give You my life.
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- Thank You for dying in my place and qualifying me to be in
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- God's family. I accept. Come into my heart. In Jesus' name,
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- amen and amen. Say wow! That's just a decision. That is.
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