(Theme Song) Jesus is worthy...
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oh yes, he's worthy...
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worthy of all...
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(Music) PB:
Ezekiel is assigned by
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God to preach to
these dry, dead bones.
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But you know what?
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As Ezekiel begins to speak
the Word, revival takes place.
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As Ezekiel begins to
speak the Word, reanimation
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takes place.
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But not only reanimation,
because as he spoke the Word,
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reanimation became
the reassembling of life.
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For it's not nearly
enough to reanimate life,
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but life that has
been dismembered has
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to be reunited.
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So now God says, I will give
you the reassembling of life,
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and at that moment, God
begins to reverse the process
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of decomposition.
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He says, Preach the Word.
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And as Ezekiel began to
preach the Word, look at
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decomposition reverse itself.
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God says, breath
will enter the life.
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Tendons will fill the bones.
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Flesh will come
upon the tendons.
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And then skin will
come upon the flesh.
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That is the
reversal of the process
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of decomposition, for
when one dies, breath leaves
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the body, the flesh
begins to deteriorate, the skin
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and flesh begin to
decompose, the tendons begin
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to disintegrate, and
then there is nothing left
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but bare skeletal remains.
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God says, my Word, sharper
than any two-edged sword, can
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reanimate and reassemble life.
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Let me be clear tonight.
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It is our duty to preach to
all men, despairing of no one.
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We are to sow beside all
waters, we are to preach in
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season and out of season.
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Preach it when it's not
even popular, because you can't
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be popular and
prophetic at the same time.
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When it's two people, we
are to preach just as hard as if
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it were two thousand
people, because God said,
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wherever there are two or
three gathered in the midst, I
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shall be in the midst of them.
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God can quicken the
dead, God can raise life
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up among the dead.
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God is the
Resurrection and the Life.
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God is the Alpha and the Omega.
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God is the
Beginning and the End.
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God is the First and the Last.
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All we've got to do
is preach God's truth
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in God's strength.
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God is sovereign.
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God will quicken whom he will,
when he will, where he will,
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and how he will.
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Ezekiel begins to preach.
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I'm getting a little
happy right about now.
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Ezekiel begins to preach, and
when Ezekiel begins to preach,
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the Bible says
revival begins to take place.
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And you all know what happens
when revival takes place.
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The preacher gets to preaching.
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The choir gets to singing.
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The organist gets to playing.
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The Holy Ghost gets to moving.
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The people get to shouting.
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Prayer warriors start praying.
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Demons start trembling.
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Souls stop sinning.
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Gossipers stop gossiping.
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Politicians stop politicizing.
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Ezekiel begins to
preach to dry, dead bones.
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And in the bones, the
Bible says, revival takes place.
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And they begin to fix
themselves together, and
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clothe themselves in flesh.
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Ezekiel begins to see
that, yes, there's still
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a God who sits high,
but he looks down low.
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And so now Ezekiel
begins to get a little happy.
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Ezekiel begins to
stomp his feet a little bit.
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Ezekiel begins to lift
his hands a little bit.
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Ezekiel begins to whoop and
holler a little bit, because
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he's thanking God for dry bones.
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Because his valley, his
revival, let him see God
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perform orthopedic surgery.
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Then let the ankle bone be
connected to the leg bone, the
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leg bone be connected to
the knee bone, the knee bone be
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connected to the hip bone,
the hip bone be connected to the
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back bone, the back bone
be connected to the shoulder
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bone, the shoulder bone be
connected to the neck bone,
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the neck bone be connected
to the head bone, and oh,
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dry bones!
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Hear the Word of the Lord.
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I am a witness that preaching
the Word of God will stir up
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and wake up dry bones.
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Thank God for his Word.
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I've asked myself many times,
how can people come to church,
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hear the Word and
leave the same way?
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Is it because they got
the reanimation and the
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reassembling?
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But see, that's not
the end of the process.
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Because when you read the Word
of God, it says to us in verse
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8 that these people, although
they now had shape and form,
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they still had
no breath in them.
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Ezekiel had a measure
of success in preaching.
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A measure of success in
preaching to the bones, and a
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wonderful success
it appeared to be.
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The bones came together.
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Bone to bone.
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But the Bible says that
there was no breath in them.
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Ezekiel had done his work
in the preaching, but there was
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still something
else that was needed.
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Ezekiel must now prophesy
to the wind to breathe on the
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slain and make them live.
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When Ezekiel does this,
the Bible says that the wind
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comes, and there
stands up an exceeding great
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army of living wind.
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And that's just like some of us.
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Many of us hear the
Word to give us information
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on how to live.
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Enough of us get the
Word to get inspiration to
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reassemble life.
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But without the indwelling
presence of the Holy Ghost
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that restores life,
life is meaningless.
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Some of us look
alive, but we're dead.
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Some of us are playing games
with God, jiving with life,
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but that's all right.
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The day will come, keep on
living, as the old folks say,
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"Live long enough," and
you will find yourself in a
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valley, and you'll say,
not only must I reanimate and
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reassemble the Word of
God, but I need a Word that
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can restore life.
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Life only comes
from God's Holy Ghost.
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Let me be clear to the
preachers out there, elders,
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teachers, deacons,
teachers in Sabbath School,
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let me be clear.
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The most
soul-stirring preaching will not
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create life.
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Ezekiel has to still
prophesy to the wind.
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He had to prophesy to the
Holy Ghost that he would breathe
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life into those dry, dead bones.
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The wind here is the garden,
it's the power of light, as is
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typical of the Spirit of God.
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The word of God says in
Genesis 2:07, it teaches that
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God formed man of the dust
of ground, breathed into his
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nostrils the breath of
life, man became a living soul.
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Dust plus breath
equal living soul.
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Man didn't come from
monkey, man came from God.
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God says, don't just
speak the word, Ezekiel.
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Now I want you to speak
and prophesy to the wind.
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I want you to speak to that
which is alive and animate it.
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And I want you to
speak to the invisible and
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watch the invisible and
the incomprehensible move into
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that which is no
more than a corpse.
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And move that corpse to a
moving, living body, into a
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spirit-breathing person.
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The Bible says, Ezekiel stood
up, lifted up his head back
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and spoke to the wind
and said, Wind, from the four
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corners of the earth.
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And the wind, the Bible
says, began to rock God's spirit
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around the bones, just
like Ezekiel had walked backward
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and forward from the bones.
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The way that Ezekiel had
walked from side to side and
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surveyed the remains.
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Now the winds would
follow the same footprint
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patterning of Ezekiel.
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They would blow from
the north, the south, the
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east and the west.
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They would envelope that which
was dead and now you can begin
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to see the chest expand,
the lungs begin to move, and the
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hands begin to take shape
at the reassembling and now
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the revitalization of life.
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That's what the Spirit
of God, hallelujah, does.
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It makes that which
was dead alive again.
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Preaching the word
doesn't slowly generate.
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Preaching doesn't only
give life, only God gives life.
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Only God woke
you up this morning.
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The alarm clock
didn't do it. God did it.
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Only God can sustain your life.
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The doctor didn't do it.
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God did it.
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God is life.
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All life begins in
God and flows from God.
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All life lives
through God and by God.
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He is the life of life.
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He is the giver of life.
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He is the sustainer of life.
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He is the way to life.
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He is the way of life.
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He is the way for life.
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He is the way in life.
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And he's a joy for my life.
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God says, Ezekiel, the revival
you have just witnessed in
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the valley is a picture
of my people, a picture of my
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people who are despairing.
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A picture of my
people who are dismembered.
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A picture of my
people who are dead.
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A picture of my
people who have an erroneous
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interpretation of who I am.
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For they believe that I'm
a God who is localized in one
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place, but they have forgotten
that I am not only the God of
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Abraham at Mount
Mariah, but I'm the God of Moses
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at Mount Sinai.
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The God of Isaac by the well,
the God of Jacob by Bethel.
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I'm not localized to any place.
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I'm the sovereign Lord.
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I'm omnipresent.
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I'm everywhere
all at the same time.
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Wherever you are, I am.
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Wherever you go,
I've already been.
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But the question is,
can these bones live?
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They can if hope
is rebirthed in them.
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Some of us here
today, we need a little hope.
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Anybody need a little hope?
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We need that which will
give us the invigoration to
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continue on when
everything around us seems
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to be against us.
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You need a little hope.
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That's how you live life.
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You live your life
hoping your way through.
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Let me be clear.
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I hope my way through life.
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I can remember preaching once,
and this lady said, "Son, you
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hoped me today." As an
educated young preacher,
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I thought I needed to correct
her with her English and tell
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her that what she meant to
say was that I helped you today.
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She said, "No, son,
if you had helped me I
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would have told you.
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I said you hoped me.
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You hoped me today." And
that was the word of God, just
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every now and then, it
hopes us, hopes us into new
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possibilities, hopes us
into new perspectives, hopes us
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into new dynamics, hopes us
into new energy, hopes us into
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meaningful
purpose for existence.
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The word of God hopes us.
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Verse 11, the interpretation.
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This is the house of Israel
and they're saying that our
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bones are dried up, our
hope is lost, we are cut off.
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But God says, these bones
can live, you can live again.
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I don't know who I'm preaching
to tonight, but maybe the
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worst of life has gotten
the worst of you, but you
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can live again.
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Maybe life has
gotten the worst of you,
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but you can live again.
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Maybe you've got sickness
running through your body,
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but you can live again.
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Maybe you don't have a
dime to your name, but you can
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live again.
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Maybe your children have run
away from the Lord, but train
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up a child in the way
he should go and when he is
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old he will not depart from it.
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You can hope again.
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So, Pastor Byrd,
how can I hope again?
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I'm so glad you asked.
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The answer: prophesy.
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Everybody say prophesy.
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And so Ezekiel picks up in
verse 12 where he left off in
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verses 4 and 5.
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He says in verse 12, prophesy.
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Say to them, thus
saith the Lord God.
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I will open up your graves,
call you to come up out of
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your graves and bring
you to the land of Israel.
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Number one, God
says I'm a resurrection.
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I'm going to
give you resurrection.
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I'm going to give you
hope through resurrection.
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This is the resurrection
of those who are despaired,
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dismembered and disappointed,
dead and disillusioned and
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those who have been exiled
is a picture of those of us who
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need a hope from God that
whatever graves we might be
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in, God's going to lift us up.
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And the grave he's speaking of
is that he's going to lift the
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chains of death.
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Get thou away from you.
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And God says, I'm
going to resurrect your life.
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You know he can do it because
God is not only a God who
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works on the area of
impossible, but God, Yahweh,
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knows how to weave
his way out of a grave.
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Whatever looks like it
has God bound can't keep
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God down too long.
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It's just long enough for
us to see the picture that it
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looks impossible.
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And God says, keep on looking,
because I'm the God that can
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show you it can open up.
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Oh, I wish had time.
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Let me say it anyhow.
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I don't get down
here all the time.
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If you're
looking for a nickname,
00:14:57.46\00:14:59.33
call God, the God that opens up.
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He opened up the Red Sea.
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He opened up Sarah's womb.
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He opened up Hannah's womb.
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He opened up
jail doors for Peter.
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He opened up Philippian
doors for Paul and Silas.
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But on the third appointed
day, after he was crucified on
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Friday, lay resting in
the grave on the Sabbath, the
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Bible says on the third
appointed day the grave doors
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opened up, tomb
doors opened up for Jesus.
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He's the God of the open.
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And let me tell you something.
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God can open up
the doors in your life.
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God gives resurrection
and resurrection always gives
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hope or possibility.
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For when you look at
resurrection, resurrection
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says that God
laughs at death's face.
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Whenever you find yourself
in a situation that looks as
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hopeless, purposeless
and meaningless, remember,
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we have a God who
will open things up.
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We have a God of resurrection.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Because after every
crucifixion there must be a
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resurrection.
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God can give new life.
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He's a new life giver.
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He says in verse 13, I
will open up the grave and bring
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you out of death.
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Then he says in verse 14, I
will put my spirit in you and
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you shall live and I shall
place you in your own land.
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Hah, hallelujah, somebody,
let me stop right there.
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Not only is there
resurrection, but there's
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also reunion.
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I said not only resurrection,
but there's also reunion.
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You all don't hear
what I'm saying, somebody?
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Oh, when we get to heaven, I'm
going to be excited to see God
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Jesus, but when we get to
heaven, my Bible says, for the
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Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with
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a voice of the archangel, and
the trump of God and the dead
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in Christ shall rise first.
00:17:06.53\00:17:07.90
There's going to be union and
reunion, hallelujah, somebody.
00:17:07.90\00:17:10.06
I see a scene.
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If God had turned his back
on the Hebrew children, but God
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wanted his people to see
that he cannot be localized.
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He cannot be domesticated.
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God is saying, you cannot
dictate to me the way you want
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me to operate for exile
was not Babylonian power,
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but it was my power.
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You're not in Babylon for
exilic purposes because they
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overthrew my country, but I
allowed them to overthrow you
00:17:37.70\00:17:40.86
so that exile could
become your discipline.
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I better pause there for a
moment because there are some
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of us in here tonight who
are living in our own exile.
00:17:48.83\00:17:56.13
Let me talk to my colleagues.
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Give you some hope.
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Some of us, we are away
from all hopeful possibilities.
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You're in a district, maybe
10 people, 20 people, 30 people,
00:18:03.33\00:18:10.60
no money, no people, no
resources, but you're there,
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not because God is not
faithful, but maybe you're
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there because God is faithful.
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Because God, I've learned
in my life, that God allows
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certain things to come our way
to prove to us again and again
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that he's the one who can
get us out of what we find
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ourselves in.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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You better understand, the
blessings of God are not on
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places, the
blessings of God are on people.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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For they got themselves
into exile long before Babylonia
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had come and taken them.
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They had abandoned God.
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They had estranged
themselves from God.
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They had become
unfaithful to God.
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And God says, I've got
to straighten my people out
00:18:56.16\00:18:59.13
with the hand of discipline.
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And sometimes I've
learned in my life that God will
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discipline us just for the
purpose to get the best out of
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us of what he
has put inside of us.
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God says, I will
reunion you back to your land.
00:19:10.23\00:19:16.40
And as I have promised you, I
have not forgotten my covenant
00:19:16.40\00:19:20.40
promise that I made to
your forefathers and forebears.
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I know where your land is.
00:19:23.80\00:19:25.50
I still have the title deed.
00:19:25.50\00:19:28.10
Even though the symbol
has been destroyed, remember
00:19:28.10\00:19:31.80
I am the holy temple.
00:19:31.80\00:19:33.00
You don't need brick and
mortar, you can go out to any
00:19:33.00\00:19:36.66
place, the desert place,
the wilderness place, and call
00:19:36.66\00:19:40.56
on my name.
00:19:40.56\00:19:42.16
I am just as much God
on the outside as I am
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God on the inside.
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I can be worshipped not
only in the temple but also
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on the terrain.
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God says, I'm going to bring
you back home to a place just
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flowing with milk and honey.
00:19:57.23\00:19:58.40
I'll take you back to the land
where your forefathers used to
00:19:58.40\00:20:01.63
pray to me, build their
altars and dig their wells.
00:20:01.63\00:20:04.76
I'm going to bring you
back to the place where your
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homestead was.
00:20:07.30\00:20:08.66
He says, I'll resurrect
you, I'll reunion you, and then
00:20:08.66\00:20:10.96
there's restoration.
00:20:10.96\00:20:13.00
And restoration is this,
verse 14, that until my spirit
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reigns in you, you
cannot be my people.
00:20:17.20\00:20:22.00
Church, too many of us
are living on what Henry David
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Thoreau calls the quiet edge
of desperation, because we're
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trying to live and accomplish
God's work without being
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empowered by the presence
and the restoring presence
00:20:36.00\00:20:40.23
of the Holy Ghost.
00:20:40.23\00:20:41.73
You can't be alive if you
don't have the Holy Ghost.
00:20:41.73\00:20:45.26
The only way you are
God's child is you have to have
00:20:45.26\00:20:48.70
the Spirit of God.
00:20:48.70\00:20:50.00
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
00:20:50.00\00:20:52.00
The Spirit of God is what
equips us, enables us, and
00:20:52.00\00:20:54.66
empowers us.
00:20:54.66\00:20:56.70
God's people will always be
in exile even if they go back to
00:20:56.70\00:21:01.06
their land if they don't have
the presence of the Holy Ghost
00:21:01.06\00:21:04.26
dwelling in their lives.
00:21:04.26\00:21:05.70
That's why some folk can be
in exile, and like Maya Angelou
00:21:05.70\00:21:13.06
says, I know why
the caged bird sings.
00:21:13.06\00:21:17.50
The caged bird sings not
because it's in a cage, but
00:21:17.50\00:21:21.36
because the spirit in the cage
cannot be bound by the cage.
00:21:21.36\00:21:24.86
Too many church folk
can't sing, can't smile, can't
00:21:24.86\00:21:34.03
rejoice, can't praise God
because they're looking at the
00:21:34.03\00:21:40.76
cage and not the
liberation of the spirit.
00:21:40.76\00:21:45.76
But in the name of
Jesus, I'm looking at what
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the Spirit of God is
getting ready to do in
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somebody's life.
00:21:52.30\00:21:53.66
Too many people only rejoice
when that which is in you has
00:21:53.66\00:21:57.70
been brought to life again.
00:21:57.70\00:21:59.50
But God needs people
who are on fire for him.
00:21:59.50\00:22:06.03
God needs people
who will be stirred up.
00:22:06.03\00:22:09.70
God needs people who are
looking for revival, for he
00:22:09.70\00:22:14.63
who has no fire in
himself cannot warm others up.
00:22:14.63\00:22:19.30
So, if the sleeping folk would
wake up, if the lukewarm folk
00:22:19.30\00:22:25.70
would fire up, if the
disgruntled folk would sweeten
00:22:25.70\00:22:29.73
up, if the discouraged
folk would cheer up, if the
00:22:29.73\00:22:33.80
depressed folk would look up,
if the discontented folk would
00:22:33.80\00:22:37.36
lighten up, if the cutthroat
folk would build up, and if
00:22:37.36\00:22:40.83
the gossiping folk would shut
up, then the work of God could
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be finished in God's world.
00:22:48.76\00:22:50.60
Come on, say Amen.
00:22:50.60\00:22:53.73
God says, I'll resurrect you.
00:22:53.73\00:22:56.36
I'll reunion you.
00:22:56.36\00:22:59.23
I'll restore you.
00:22:59.23\00:23:01.36
And then he says in verse
14, then you will know that I am
00:23:01.36\00:23:06.96
the Lord God,
Yahweh, Jehovah, Sovereign.
00:23:06.96\00:23:18.60
Let me tell you all something,
the only reason that God takes
00:23:18.60\00:23:23.70
us through life's processes is
that when we leave God's house
00:23:23.70\00:23:28.10
we will know who God is.
00:23:28.10\00:23:31.00
God says, you have
forgotten who I am.
00:23:31.00\00:23:34.93
And so I need to give you
a history lesson of who I am.
00:23:34.93\00:23:38.53
So God closes up this text
and says in verse 14, then shall
00:23:38.53\00:23:42.76
ye know that I am the Lord.
00:23:42.76\00:23:49.20
I have spoken it, I have
performed it, in other words,
00:23:49.20\00:23:56.86
I am that I am.
00:23:56.86\00:23:58.73
He says, that who
I am, I am that I am.
00:23:58.73\00:24:01.70
I am everything you
need. I am your brains.
00:24:01.70\00:24:07.93
I am your water.
00:24:07.93\00:24:09.80
I am your shelter.
00:24:09.80\00:24:11.20
I am your shield.
00:24:11.20\00:24:12.60
I am your buckler.
00:24:12.60\00:24:14.16
I am that I am.
00:24:14.16\00:24:15.46
I am Adonai.
00:24:15.46\00:24:17.83
I am Lord of every lord, for
one day every knee is going to
00:24:17.83\00:24:21.63
bow, every tongue is
going to confess that Jesus
00:24:21.63\00:24:25.33
Christ is Lord.
00:24:25.33\00:24:26.66
I am God Almighty.
00:24:26.66\00:24:28.80
I am Elohim, the
plurality of my own deity.
00:24:28.80\00:24:31.66
I am El Elyon, the
God of the mountain.
00:24:31.66\00:24:37.50
But if that's too far for you,
God says, I can come to where
00:24:37.50\00:24:40.33
you are.
00:24:40.33\00:24:41.63
He says, I am Jehovah Jireh.
00:24:41.63\00:24:44.03
When you need a
sacrifice then I will provide.
00:24:44.03\00:24:46.73
I am Jehovah Shalom.
00:24:46.73\00:24:48.30
When you can't sleep
at night, I am your peace.
00:24:48.30\00:24:51.23
I am Jehovah Rapha, when
your body is wracking with pain,
00:24:51.23\00:24:54.76
I'll be your healer.
00:24:54.76\00:24:56.66
I am Jehovah Nissi,
when you're fighting life's
00:24:56.66\00:25:02.66
battles, I'll lift up banners.
00:25:02.66\00:25:04.56
We've already won.
00:25:04.56\00:25:06.10
Don't wait until the
battle is over, shout now.
00:25:06.10\00:25:09.70
Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:25:09.70\00:25:12.66
If that's too far
for you, God says I'll be
00:25:12.66\00:25:15.90
your leaning post.
00:25:15.90\00:25:17.20
Any old folks know
about the leaning post?
00:25:17.20\00:25:19.76
In times of trouble,
some of you grew up in
00:25:19.76\00:25:21.93
houses like that.
00:25:21.93\00:25:23.10
When mom and daddy say,
he'll be your leaning post in
00:25:23.10\00:25:27.86
time of trouble.
00:25:27.86\00:25:30.10
When you're getting your
old age, he says I'll be your
00:25:30.10\00:25:32.73
walking cane.
00:25:32.73\00:25:33.80
In your lowly, midnight hour,
I'll be your company Keeper.
00:25:33.80\00:25:35.83
When your eyes are filled
with tears, I'll wipe the tears
00:25:35.83\00:25:38.60
from your eyes.
00:25:38.60\00:25:39.90
When your heart gets heavy,
I'll be your burden bearer.
00:25:39.90\00:25:42.03
A heavy load sharer.
00:25:42.03\00:25:44.16
A mind fixer.
00:25:44.16\00:25:45.06
A heart regulator.
00:25:45.06\00:25:46.26
A will out of no will.
00:25:46.26\00:25:47.93
A problem solver.
00:25:47.93\00:25:49.73
Do I have a
witness in this place?
00:25:49.73\00:25:51.56
He says, I am that I am.
00:25:51.56\00:25:52.40
Old dry bones!
00:25:52.40\00:25:54.10
Hear the word of the Lord.
00:25:54.10\00:26:00.40
Too many of us are in the
salvation train, but too many
00:26:00.40\00:26:03.36
of us are in the sleeper.
00:26:03.36\00:26:04.83
Old dry bones.
00:26:04.83\00:26:06.53
Hear the word of the Lord.
00:26:06.53\00:26:08.36
Oh, come magnify the Lord with
me and let us exult his name
00:26:08.36\00:26:11.60
together.
00:26:11.60\00:26:13.60
Oh, taste and see
that the Lord is good.
00:26:13.60\00:26:15.76
His mercy endures forever.
00:26:15.76\00:26:16.70
Praise God from
whom all blessings flow.
00:26:16.70\00:26:19.86
Bless the Lord, oh my
soul, and all that is within me,
00:26:19.86\00:26:24.86
bless his holy name.
00:26:24.86\00:26:29.56
May the Lord
bless you is my prayer.
00:26:29.56\00:26:34.10
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