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Thank You Scotty awesome thank you

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worship team you guys are great didn't

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they do a great job it's going to be

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ground of applause and it was awesome we

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a bunch of us actually went to were in

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Brisbane for a couple of days at planet

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shakers conference anyone here go to

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Planet shakers conference this week and

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yeah there's a few of us we heard about

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we had about a hundred of our church go

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along to that which was great and we

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also had about 30 students from our

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school went to that as well and it was

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just absolutely brilliant and but a lot

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of our guys actually served as ashes at

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the conference as well and some of these

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guys did and then they've come back this

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morning to get some refuel with some

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pancakes at 8 a.m. and then also lead

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worship for us so I think it was just

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absolutely wonderful and it was great

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and also big thank you to everybody who

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was praying for everybody that went away

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and it's incredible guys only went away

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I was only three nights and two days and

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you might think well what can God do in

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that time well he can actually do a lot

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in that time you know better is one day

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in his courts in a thousand anywhere

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else and so it was just absolutely

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brilliant beyond next year but if you're

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visiting here today and you're here from

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you're on the Gold Coast for holidays

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when I welcome you to the beautiful Gold

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Coast hope it stays a little bit sunny

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for you over the weekend and we also as

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Scotty mentioned we have a Easter Sunday

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service Resurrection Sunday at 10 a.m.

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here we've got an Easter egg hunt

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afterwards for the kids and also will be

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at Easter United at broad water park

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lands on Sunday night joining with other

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churches from around the Gold Coast last

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year there was three and a half thousand

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people got together you know it's so

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funny you know the media and society

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might say that the church is dead but it

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is not true it is alive and kick'n and

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alive and kicking here on the Gold Coast

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and and if you don't believe it come

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along on Sunday night and and you'll see

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it'll be absolutely brilliant so bless

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you heaps and also too just another

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thing just letting you know about a

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couple of really special events coming

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up put your hand up if you're a mother

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and awesome

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audience I put you up if you want to be

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a mother put you hand up if you are a

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mother and and we've got Mother's Day

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service here on May the 12th we always

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do something special for the mums so

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please feel free to come along and also

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bring your mum or someone who's a mother

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we're going to spoil them

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that day and also I just want to let you

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know it's a really we've really got

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great favor on some of these things and

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we actually have a very special guest

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speaker coming to preach this in May is

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actually when we're doing a youth rally

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in our building on the Saturday night

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but also preaching at our church on a

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Sunday morning and his name is Nick

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virtue chore known as Nick V he's

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world-famous he's got no arms and no

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legs and he's an evangelist that his

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lives in the United States and he's on

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Oprah Winfrey and and all that sort of

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thing but it's a great soul winner and

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almost impossible to get but I had a

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phone call from a friend of mine who had

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him coming out to Australia and said he

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said Ben would you like would you like

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Nick V for a Sunday morning and I said

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yeah okay that'd be awesome and and he

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said because a particular church was

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going to have him but they decided they

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were going to have a church AGM that day

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and so Kings can have him I said praise

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God and you know so you know thank you

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to that church I won't say their name

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but you been embarrassing but you

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probably would've heard of them and up

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and so that is going to be here so on

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the 25th is a youth rally and that night

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and you you're welcome to come as long

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if you bring earplugs okay and you're

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welcome to come along on that night but

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also too on the Sunday morning here at

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Reedy Creek at 10:00 a.m. we're going to

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have him preaching here great soul

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winner great evangelist if you've got

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some friends who what I call blue moon

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Christians which is people who go to

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church once in a blue moon bring them

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along to that okay because they will

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hear the gospel they'll be touched and

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and it'll be absolutely brilliant so if

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you watch some of these so give to

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friends or family feel free to do that

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now if you got your Bibles turn with me

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to 1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians chapter

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11 1 Corinthians chapter 11 if you don't

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know where it is it's before 2nd

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Corinthians 1 Corinthians chapter 11

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verses 23 to 26 it says this for I

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receive from the Lord that which I also

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delivered to you that the Lord Jesus

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Christ on the same night in which he was

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betrayed took bread when he had given

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thanks he broke it and said take eat

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this is my body

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which is broken for you do this in

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remembrance of me in the same manner he

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also took the cup after supper saying

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this cup is the new covenant in my blood

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this too as often as you drink it in

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remembrance of me for as often as you

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eat this bread and drink this cup you

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proclaim the Lord's death till he comes

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let's pray father I just ask and pray

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that you would just help us to remember

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Lord all that you've done

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I think and praise your fruit Lord in

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Jesus name Amen

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this is quite a well-known passage of

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Scripture this was written by the

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Apostle Paul and he is talking about the

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Last Supper and he is quoting Christ at

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the Last Supper so the night before he

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actually went to the cross Jesus had a

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last supper with his disciples and he

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had what we would call the First

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Communion and in that he took the bread

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and he took the cup and he gave it to

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his disciples and he said take Eden and

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take and drink do this in remembrance of

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me when I was a kid my I was in a church

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that I was a Tongan congregation and so

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in the morning there would be an English

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service and then at night there would be

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a tolerance speaking service and that

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particular tolerance speaking service

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would be held at Wesley Uniting Church

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in the center of Melbourne and so we

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would go in there on a Sunday afternoon

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for that Tongan speaking service but I

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grew up here in Australia I am what you

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would call probably a coconut you know

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brown on the outside white on the inside

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and so I went there and I didn't know

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much Tongan the only tonglen I knew was

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probably words you wouldn't say in

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church and so and I remember I would be

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there in this service and I'd be

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completely bored out of my brain because

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I would be talking about they would be

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speaking in Tongan I didn't understand

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anything and to be honest most of the

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time me and my friends would duck I

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would go to the local pool parlor and we

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would play pool or play video games or

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something like that and so it wasn't an

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entirely memorable experience but I

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remember one time sitting there and

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Wesley Uniting Church and I noticed that

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up on the stage they had this great big

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wooden table and on one side was a loaf

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of bread and in the middle was a cup and

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on engraved in the side of the table it

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says this do in remembrance of me now I

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remember and I knew I knew enough to

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know that that was Christ who said that

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the Christ said to his disciples he said

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take the bread and drink the cup do this

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in remembrance of me and I would be

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sitting there thinking what a silly

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thing to say as if we'd forget you know

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like Jesus is saying do this remembrance

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of maze-like Jesus you know do you

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honestly think we'll forget you but

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honestly there are times when we need to

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be reminded of all the things that he

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has done for us and reminded of a number

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of things and so here in this is passage

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of Scripture I guess if you wanted a

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title this message we could call it lest

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we forget and we can talk about a few

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things here that we need to remind

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ourselves off and the perfect time to do

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it is on Good Friday when with which is

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the day after when they actually had

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that first communion to remind us of

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what Christ has done for us and you

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might have had a difficult first term

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you might have had a tough start to the

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year and you might have forgotten the

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things that you might have a head

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knowledge and an ascent of what Christ

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has done but it hasn't dropped into your

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heart maybe it's been squeezed out by

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the cares of this life and this is a

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really great time for us on Good Friday

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and the reason why it's called good is

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because it's a resurrection Sunday it

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wouldn't be a good Friday without a

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Resurrection Sunday but it's a great

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time for us to take stock and to

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remember some things about Jesus Christ

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and so today I want to talk to you about

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four things that we need to remember the

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first thing is this so it says in verse

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24 of 1 Corinthians 11 it says and when

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Jesus had given thanks he broke the

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bread and sake said take eat this is my

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body which is broken for you do this in

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remembrance of me so he's sitting at

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this table he's about to go to the cross

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the next day and he's eyeballing his

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disciples we're reading this through the

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text but he's actually looking at his

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disciples and he's prophesying about

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what's going to happen the next day and

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he is saying to them everything I'm

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about to go through

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doing for you for you the first thing

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that we need to remember at this time of

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the year as we need to remember his love

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we need to remember his love God so

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loved the world that He gave His only

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begotten Son that whosoever should

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believe in Him shall not perish but have

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everlasting life

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the whole reason why Christ died and

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went to the cross he was driven by his

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love for us as Christians I believe we

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should be more focused on his love than

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anything else there is no doubt that as

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sinners we have fallen short of the

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glory of God but the Bible says to us

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that there is a way of escape that there

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is a way for us to be made in right

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relationship and that is because of the

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cross of Jesus Christ he died and took

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the punishment for our sins that we

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might have the ability to be made right

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with God and so we need to be aware of

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more aware of anything else we actually

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need to be made aware of his love the

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Bible says these three things remain

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faith hope and love but the greatest of

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these is actually love that is why as

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Christians not only do we need to be

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reminded of his love for us but we also

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need to be the most loving people on the

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planet you know the world will try and

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call us as Christians and call us haters

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but that is not the truth because we

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serve a God of love any spirit lives on

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the inside of us and we are people who

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serve a God of love the thing is this

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though sometimes we determine God's love

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not on what Christ did for us but

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actually upon our external circumstances

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God's love is unchanging but there are

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times we go through seasons in life

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where we can actually wonder does God

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really love me because of what I'm going

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through but one of the things we need to

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remind ourselves and I think this is why

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Christ actually said keep doing this and

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remembrance of me is because we can go

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through life and we can go through some

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difficult times and some difficult

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situations and we can judge our love

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from God upon our circumstances instead

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of what we should truly judge his love

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on which is unchanging names at nature

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and the love of Jesus Christ is shed

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abroad for us died on the cross for us

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there literally his

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Christ dying on the cross was the

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ultimate sign of his love for us I've

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told you before that there are times

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when my children were younger and they

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would often judge my love for them

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depending on what I did for them and

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there'd be times I'd say things like dad

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you hate me and it's like no I don't

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hate you but it was because I wasn't

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actually giving them what they want

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I had one particular friend who was

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actually taunting his kids a little bit

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and one of them was wanting a biscuit

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from the top shelf and so grabbed the

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biscuit in here and the kid was saying I

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won't give me the biscuit give me the

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biscuit and he had it in his hand and he

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said what this one and the kids looking

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at it and going yes yes and so he who

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put supper on his back and brings it out

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again and and the kids looking at it is

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there any sons like you hate me you

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don't love me because he was looking at

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the closed hand he was judging his

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father's love depending on what his

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father would do for him but the whole

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time because his dad was cheeky his dad

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was smiling and instead of looking at

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his hand he should have been looking at

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his dad's face some of us here need to

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be reminded of his love take your eyes

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off his hand to put your eyes on his

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face Good Friday Jesus Christ died for

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you and me because He loves us the

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second thing that we need to remember it

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says in when he at verse 24 and when he

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had given thanks he broke it and said

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take eat this is my body which is broken

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for you do this and remembrance of me

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he's saying this is my body being broken

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salvation for Christ was not cheap cost

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him all cost him his whole life and his

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body was broken for you and I it wasn't

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an easy thing for Christ to go on the

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cross Bible says when he was in the

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Garden of Gethsemane and he was praying

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he was under such pressure that he was

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actually sweating drops of blood so much

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pressure so much anxiety in fact even at

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that moment he said to his heavy

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Heavenly Father it would be your will

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take this cup of suffering away from me

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I don't actually want to go through I

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don't buy there's a part of me that

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doesn't want to go through this

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why because of the sacrifice that he is

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made for us the Bible says in Hebrews

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chapter 12 verse 2 looking unto Jesus

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the author and finisher of our faith who

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for the joy set before him endured the

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cross doesn't say who for the joy set

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before him endured the cross wasn't fun

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was nasty it's one of the worst ways you

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could die but it said for the joy set

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before him what's the joy set before him

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it's us he endured the cross we need to

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remember his sacrifice as a Christian

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when you follow Christ why not

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understand the Bible says we're to be

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imitators of him it actually says in 1

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Corinthians chapter 11 verse 1 at the

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start of this chapter the apostle paul

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reminded them and he said be imitators

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of me even as I imitate Christ that as

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Christians we're to imitate Christ and

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part of that is that there are times

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when we actually make sacrifice there

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are times when we actually endure some

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suffering but we need to understand that

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he actually first endured it for us that

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he actually made a significant sacrifice

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for us he paid the price so that we

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might be might be made right with God

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it's interesting in my journaling and

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I've got a funny thing with my Bible

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journaling so what I've been doing since

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2005 is journaling one verse at a time

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and so I just read one verse and journal

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on it and write like a few sentences

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aren't that sort of thing and so with

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and so the last couple of years I've

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been in numbers and and the thing is

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with numbers there's a lot of sacrifice

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I've just read numbers chapter 7 it's

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over 90 verses one a day and every verse

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it's such and such came paid this

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sacrifice such and such came paid a

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sacrifice for sin such-and-such came

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paid a sacrifice for peace offerings

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that in the Old Testament they were

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continually needing to make sacrifice

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but the good thing is that Jesus Christ

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made the sacrifice for us so we don't

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have to do that anymore though we can

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actually have a freedom and a Liberty

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because of the sacrifice he actually

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made for us and we need to remember

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that he actually had his body and broken

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for us

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you know they've here see romantic films

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and novels and people always you know

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this kind of a thing like you know the

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greatest thing you can do show your love

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is to die for someone and you know some

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of you may have thought gee I wonder if

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anyone would die for me

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what can I tell you somebody already did

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and his name is Jesus Christ and his

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body was broken for you and we need to

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remember he sacrificed that I on Good

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Friday the third thing that we need to

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remember it says in verse 25 of 1

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Corinthians 11 says in the same manner

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he also took the cup after supper saying

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this is the cup in the New Covenant in

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my blood the New Covenant so he's saying

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I'm making a new covenant with you

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covenant means promise so I'm actually

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making new promises with you so the

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third thing we need to remember at this

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time as we need to remember his promises

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when Christ died for us when his blood

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was shed for us it opened up a whole

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world of blessing and potential for our

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lives that's why the Bible says in Psalm

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103 bless the Lord O my soul and forget

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not all his benefits there are benefits

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to being a Christian the Bible says that

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he forgives you of all your sins but not

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only that in healing of all your

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diseases not only that he redeems your

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life from the pit and from destruction

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so that your youth and so that and just

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gives you the desires of your heart so

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that your youth will be renewed like the

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Eagles there's benefits to being a

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Christian and he's a Promise Keeper and

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Jesus is saying that we need to remember

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we're doing this to remember this new

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covenant this new promise that I

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actually have for you what that tells me

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is that God is actually also a promise

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keeper on Easter Sunday I'm going to

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share a message about patterns of God's

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fulfill promises looking at Good Friday

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Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday and I

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could imagine at this time that he

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reuses at the Last Supper and he's

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saying there's a new covenant I'm going

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to make with you guys and some of them

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the penny had not dropped that the next

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day he was going to be crucified so the

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very next day the day that this day

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commemorates Good Friday was the day

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that he was actually crucified and on

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that day they were scattered on that day

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there

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dreams were shattered but they should

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have remembered the fact that he said

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I'm going to make a new covenant with

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you that actually I do have promises

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that are going to come to pass and in

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the same way as Christians we might have

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some promises that have died we might

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have some promises that look dead and

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buried but Easter reminds me that if you

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have a promise that looks dead and

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buried we serve a resurrection God who

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can bring dead things back to life and

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we need to remember his promises because

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he is a promise keeper there are

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promises over your life this promises

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over your family's life this promises

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over our city this promises over this

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church and even in times when it looks

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like it may not happen I'm here to let

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you know that he is a promise keeper and

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he can bring dead things back to life

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amen we need to remember his promises

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and the last thing that we need to

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remember he says in verse 26 he says for

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as often as you eat this bread and drink

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this cup you proclaim the Lord's death

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till he comes God is awesome everything

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he does he wants to reach the Lost

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because at the end of this he sees you

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taking communion and and by doing this

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you're proclaiming the Lord's death

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until he comes

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who are you proclaiming it - we're

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proclaiming it to other people the

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Christian faith is not supposed to be

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suppressed or put in a bowl the Bible

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says we're supposed to let our light

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shine before all men and even here at

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the end before he even goes to the cross

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he says you're going to keep proclaiming

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my death you're going to keep

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proclaiming the good news of the gospel

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wherever you go so the fourth thing we

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need to remember on Good Friday we need

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to remember his sacrifice we need to

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remember his love for us and his

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promises for us but in the midst of all

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that we need to remember the lost

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because God did not just Jesus did not

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just die for us not just for a few

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frozen Chosin the Bible says in John

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chapter 3:16 for God so loved the world

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that God wants the entire world to come

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to a saving knowledge of him

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one of the biggest one of the biggest

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things the enemy wants to do is to try

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and stifle your faith and keep it

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private and have you keep it to yourself

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and say oh well you know it's just you

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and God and society is just not

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interested in the gospel and society

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doesn't care and that sort of thing and

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you know but so just keep it to yourself

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but that's not what God's will for our

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life he says that no one lights a lamp

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and puts it under a bowl our faith is

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not supposed to be private our faith our

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faith needs to be one that proclaims and

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we're to continue to proclaim his death

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until he comes that means that every

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single one of us God wants us to be

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people to be bold who will share our

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faith to not just think of our faith as

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one that's just for us but it's also

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that God actually not only did Jesus die

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for us but he actually wants to reach a

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lost and hurting world and so often we

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have to and sometimes it's good for us

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at this time to realize that we are

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people that serve a God that people even

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if they don't even know it deep in their

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hearts what they're looking for is all

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in Jesus Christ you know it's so funny

543
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we can get a mindset like that I was

544
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recently talking to a pastor and and he

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was parsley had planted a church in the

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inner city of Brisbane and he was

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finding it really difficult and it was

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and it was shrinking and and and and he

549
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was thinking of closing it down and he

550
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was saying to guys you know what it's

551
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too hard to plant a church in the city

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of Brisbane he said you know people you

553
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know people don't live in Brisbane they

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live outside and people don't want to

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come into the city and and then inner

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city people they're not really open to

557
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the gospel as much as they are out in

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the suburbs or the Gold Coast or

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something like that and he was

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considering closing his church down but

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also just a few weeks ago I was in

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Brisbane on a Friday night and so I went

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and visited a new church in the middle

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of the city and it was packed

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filled with hundreds of people same God

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but one guy was thinking our world no

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it's not

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we're in defeat it's not it's just for

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us as long as I just keep my faith alive

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and yet others had a revelation no no no

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we're to proclaim the Lord's death until

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he comes God wants to use every single

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one of us there's a lot of people here

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you love God you've got a relationship

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with him and he's been good to you but

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there's a timidity and a fear about

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sharing your faith with other people I'm

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here to let you know that on this Good

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Friday that we are - as we remember we

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are to remember the lost as well and we

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are to proclaim the Lord's death until

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he comes amen will you remember with me

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let's keep remembering his love let's

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remember his sacrifice

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that's from memories promises and also

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let's remember the lost and maybe you

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have family members or people in your

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world that are away from God and right

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now as I'm speaking you're like you know

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I've had a revelation of God but they're

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just so far away I've seen it in my

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family I've seen it in all around the

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place and people who I thought was so

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resistant to the gospel Christ did not

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die in vain for that by his Spirit he

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drew them to him and they gave their

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lives across and so maybe you have some

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people here and they're more almost

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their faces flashing in front of your

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mind and you're saying that's who want

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you know this is someone they seem so

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hard but I want to let you know that the

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same Christ that died on the cross for

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you and for me died for them as well

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amen and also through maybe you're in

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this place and you're just visiting and

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you don't personally have a relationship

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with Christ maybe you're a blue moon

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churchgoer once in a blue moon and

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that's cool you know if you want to come

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once in a blue moon

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guess it's no problem over but if you're

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in this place and you haven't given your

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life to Christ can I tell you that not

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only did he die for the Christians

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around you but he died for you as well

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his body was broken for you and for I to

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establish a new covenant so that you

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might have relationship with him that

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you might have your sins forgiven that

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you might have you might go to eternal

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you might have spend eternity with him

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after you die and if you have not given

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you and all you have to do is respond

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all you have to do is turn and give your

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life to Him the today on Good Friday as

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we commemorate him given up his life for

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us what better day than to lay your life

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down for him in exchange and so could I

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just ask everyone to close their eyes

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and bow their heads for a moment if

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you're in this place and you don't have

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a relationship with Jesus Christ you

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haven't given your life to Christ you

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might be just visiting today you might

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be just coming with family and you're

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sensing in your heart you're saying

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today I want to give my life to Christ

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he died for me I'm going to live for him

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because that is you right where you are

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slip up your hand and say that's me this

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morning with every eye closed and every

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head bowed if you're here today in your

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scene today I want to give my life to

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Christ I don't have a relationship with

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God want to give my life to him if that

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is you won't were you a step up your

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hand and say that's me this morning I

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want to give my life to Christ or

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whatever relationship with God secondly

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maybe you're here and as I was preaching

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someone's face was being flashed in

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front of your mind someone in your world

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that does not have a relationship with

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Christ someone that is geared to you but

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you think is resistant if that is you

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right where you ask the Bible your hand

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and say that's me because we're just

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going to pray for them right now Christ

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died the Bible says for God so loved the

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world and he died for your friend and

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your family member as well and he wants

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them to come to a saving faith with him

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so let's pray for them right now father

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in the name of Jesus

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we pray for our friends and family Lord

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God you died you gave up your body her

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body was broken for us but not just us

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but for them as well and I just ask them

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pray Lord in Jesus name for all of our

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loved ones that on this Good Friday that

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don't know you I just ask and pray Lord

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that they would come to a saving faith

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that they would come to know you and I

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thank you for miracles Lord God I think

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you're gonna surprise some people Lord

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God that there are some people here are

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going to be astounded with the

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transformation in some of their friends

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and family members lord I thank you for

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even now Lord God just sending people

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around or God your spirit is moving and

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going to be drawing them to you and I

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thank you and praise you for at Lord and

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I declare and prophesy that in 12 months

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time at the next Good Friday some of

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them will be here sitting with their

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family law God having come to know you I

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thank you and I praise you for a look

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and we're going to keep proclaiming your

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death floor until your return I thank

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you and praise you for it Lord in Jesus

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name Amen amen

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Church would you stand to your feet I'm

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sorry if I was a bit excited today in

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praise God but it's Good Friday because

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there's a resurrection sunday he's alive

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amen

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and I just saw to be real close when I

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pray for you and I'd love for us to

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finish with that song raise a hallelujah

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then we would lift up a voice and be

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bold you know the Bible says that on

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Good Friday Jesus disciples were

705
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,159
scattered they went away from him but on

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this Good Friday we're not going to be

707
00:27:51,159 --> 00:27:56,280
like that we're going to be bold and

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we're going to declare his goodness amen