Welcome to Faith
Chapel, my name is
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Lynell Lamountain
the speaker and director
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of Life Ignited. Well I
thank you for joining me
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here today, our
topic is on faith.
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How unstoppable is
your faith, how unstoppable
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would you like it to
be? For by studying Hebrews
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Chapter 11 today, we
will discover how to have a
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Faith that nothing
can stop. Before we get
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started in our study
let's bow our heads and
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let's God to bless.
Father in heaven I thank you for
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being here today with
us. I pray that is we open
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your word, that
you're always spirit would,
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inspire us and power us
and lead us to an understanding
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of how to have type of
Faith and type of life.
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That nothing can stop, so
Lord we dedicate this time
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to you and to your
glory, your name we pray, Amen.
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It was a cold
Czechoslovakian morning
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September 22, 1949.
Josef Korbel and his family had
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enjoyed a peaceful
night sleep. He worked for the
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Salvation army, so
he's up early this morning
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and already
dressed in his uniform,
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ready to leave for the
hall, when he heard a knock
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at the door. He
went down and answered it
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as soon as he opened
the door; he knew he was
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in trouble. Because
standing their facing him
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were two communist
agents that the government
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had sent to find
evidence against him because
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of his Christian
convictions. His wife Erna,
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because it was so
early hadn't dressed yet,
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she was still in here
bathrobe when she walked
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into the room and just as
she did one of the communist
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agents shoved his gun
in the neck of her husband.
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He said you're under
arrest and coming with us.
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This was happening quite
frequently in Czechoslovakia
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at that time, and his wife
was wondering what was gonna
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happen to her husband.
She was wondering would
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she see him again. So
she asks the only question
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that came to her mind.
Hoping to get some clue
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as to when she would
see her husband again and
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she asked the communist
agent. She said will he be
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home for dinner? One of
them looked at her and sneered
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and said oh! He will be
home for dinner, certainly.
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And he was ten years later.
Josef Korbel was imprisoned
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for ten years kept away
from his wife and his children
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for a decade. And during
the most cruel and inhuman
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treatment the mind
can possibly imagine,
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he writes in his journal,
at times I enjoyed fantasies
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at being home, I
wondered how my dearest Erna
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was getting on with the
work, in such moments of
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Mental Escape I completely
forgot my confinement.
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Fighting against
tears, I would always pray
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O Lord please, please
protect my dear ones at home,
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strengthen us O Lord,
O Lord, how I need you,
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come to my help. Over
and over again, I painfully
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remembered my arrest,
would I be home for dinner,
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I would be home,
so very, very late,
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kept away from beloved
family, imprisoned for a decade.
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Would our faith endured
ten years of mistreatment,
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ten years of false
imprisonment, ten years
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of separation from our
family, ten years of God
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not answering our
prayer for release?
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Would we still believe in
Him, would we still trust,
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would we still be praying
at the end of those ten years?
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Our faith is a
little bit fickle isn't it,
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we're inconsistent, we're
ambivalent, we're undecided,
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we're kind a like
the fourth grade class,
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as you sent this get well
card to it's teacher who had
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surgery and was
recovering over the holidays,
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and the inside of the
card, this note was scribbled,
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it said Dear Mrs. Fisher,
your fourth grade class wishes
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you a speedy recovery
by a vote of 15 to 14.
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My Faith looks up to
you Lord until the medicines
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stops working. I trust
you Lord until the bills come
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and I don't have
any money to pay them.
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I trust you Lord
until I lose my health,
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my Faith looks up to
you, I will follow you,
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but if the trial takes
too long and if I'm too
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inconvenience and if
I'm too uncomfortable,
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well Lord the deals off,
I'm not going to do that.
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10 years think about it.
Josef Korbel was unstoppable
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those ten years because
his Faith was unstoppable.
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Would you like to
have an unstoppable Faith?
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A Faith that will get
you through, a Faith that
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you will count on and God
on count on, well the Hebrews
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11 tells us how to have
that type of unstoppable
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Faith. You see, it's an
interesting chapter to me
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because it's a laundry
list of people who have been
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hallows. It's people
with imperfect backgrounds,
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people that didn't live
sin- less lives, and yet they're
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here in this Chapter it's
a Chapter filled with people
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who have failed and
struggled and failed and
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struggled and endured.
Now, we also have in this
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Chapter a balance
between stories of things
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working out right and
things not working out right.
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Now, we can't say
they were done wrong,
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'cause when God is in
control things don't work out
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wrong, even if they
don't worked out the way
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we think they are
to be working out.
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Most of all we have
in Hebrews 11 though,
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a photo album of God's people,
who are unstoppable in their
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Faith. Now, but I can
hear what you are thinking,
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you thinking
unstoppable. Listen Lynell,
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I'm just not that
type. Ten years like Korbel,
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forget about it,
wouldn't happen, that's not me.
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I read Hebrews 11; I
have seen those guys, Noah,
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Moses, Abraham. If
I would live back in,
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there is no way my
name will be in Hebrews
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Chapter 11 today. I
know it you're just wasting
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your time, and I'm not
that type. Second thing
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I hear you say this, you
don't know my background.
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If you knew my
background you won't be wasting
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your breathe right
now, because if there is any
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possible way to fail,
I've done at all, I have a
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PHD in messing up. You
don't know my background,
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don't waste your
breathe, don't waste you time.
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Excuse me, for being
blunt, but I don't buy it,
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you are unstoppable, I
know you because, if this people
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are unstoppable,
you can be unstoppable
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and so can I. We're
gonna see right now from
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Hebrews Chapter 11,
what it takes to have on
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unstoppable Faith. I
may go through this Chapter
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fairly quickly. We're
gonna scan through it.
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So you might just
wanna sit back and relax
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and meditate on what
the Bible is teaching us
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as far as how we
can be unstoppable.
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In Hebrews 11
Verse 4 there is Abel,
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the first thing we're
gonna look at here is what type
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of background he had
and the others had because
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you think you don't have
the background but I think
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you do have the
type and the background.
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Abel what type of
person was he? He was farmer,
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he was a Shepard.
Verse 7, we find Noah,
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Noah was also a farmer
who went into the construction
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business for about 120
years. We have Abraham,
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what type was
Abraham. Abraham was a business
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man. Then we come to
Sarah what type was she.
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Sarah was a
homemaker. Joseph Verse 22,
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he was a politician, in
fact, he was a politician with a
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prison record. He was
slave with the prison record
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who in a few years
became prime minister of Egypt.
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Verse 23 we have
Moses, Moses who was a soldier
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who went to a war and
then he became a Shepard
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for his father in law of
all people. Do you realize
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that Moses didn't do any
things spiritually significant
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for 80 years? The
first 40 years in Egypt,
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did nothing spiritually
significant, then he runs
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becomes a shepherd for 40 years,
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those next 40 years in the
desert, did he do anything,
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no. 80 years I
don't know about you,
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but that gives me a
little bit of breathing room.
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I have some time on
my side. 80 years before
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Moses did any thing
spiritually significant that
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got his name put in
light, so to speak. Verse 31,
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Rahab the harlot, now
that's rather interesting
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of person that we
find in this Chapter,
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what mental and spiritual
contradictions that conjure
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up in our minds
to find her here.
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Verse 32 we have Gideon
and Barack and Jephthah,
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they were all judges, who
are in the legal profession
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and we have Samuel
who was also a Prophet
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and a diplomat and a
judge. And we come to David
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in Verse 32, David was
a poet, he was a writer,
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who through unique
turn of events became king.
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The people in
Hebrews Chapter 11 are people
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just like you and me.
They are ordinary people,
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no special type is
required to have a Faith that is
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unstoppable,
they are unstoppable,
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you can be unstoppable,
I can be unstoppable.
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We can have
unstoppable Faith for God,
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you are the type, but
that doesn't take care of the
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little situation of
well you don't know about
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my background do
you? You wouldn't waste
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anymore time of you
could see all the ways that
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I have messed up. Well
let's look at their backgrounds
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for a minute, do you
mind, because I think you're
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gonna be surprised
at what you find here.
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You think you had to
have special background
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without failure,
think again. Noah verse 7,
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now Noah is known for
building the barge that made
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it through the flood
but what people forget is
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that surely after the
flood he got drunk and was
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ashamed to
himself and to his family.
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We come down to
Abraham, Abraham had a
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character of weakness,
and you know what it was,
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he liked to lie, in fact
he lied to save his own skin,
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even when it put his
wife's life in jeopardy,
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so you could say,
now only he was a liar
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he had a streak of
cowardice in him as well.
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But let's come to Sarah,
what about her background.
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Do you know that
Sarah laughed at God?
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She was 90 years old
when she ever heard God
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tell Abraham, she
was gonna have a baby.
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Now, I think if
you're 90 years old and God
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told you, you're
gonna have a baby,
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you would start laughing
too because this lady she
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can't even bend over
and lace up her sandals
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in the morning
anymore and God said she was
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gonna have a kid, now at
she laugh at him but when
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he told her that
he heard her laughing.
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She lied him and said no I
wasn't, think about this for
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a minute, this
lady is lying to God,
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who knows everything we
can trick our spells but
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is pretty tough to
tricks somebody who knows
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everything. That
Sarah's background,
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count down to
through the Chapter and we
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see 21 year old
Jacob. Jacob had a gift,
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he had the gift of
deception and I'm telling you
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right now you would
never wanna do business
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with Jacob because if
you did, you would walk away
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with your pockets
empty. He will get you every
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single time. Moses, Moses
what about his background,
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we know he was a
murderer, he was murderer
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who try to hiding
the body in the sand,
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and when that didn't
he ran outside of Egyptian
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jurisdiction 8that's
his background. Rahab,
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the Harlot from a
background of promised
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squirting lust God
put her name in lights,
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then Samson an undisciplined
man of uncontrollable,
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indiscretions, God
put his name in lights,
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here is thing that's
strikes me as we read
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and study this
Chapter. If we were editing this
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Chapter, we wouldn't include
hardly any of these names,
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because they don't live
up to our moral standards,
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yet there in God's
photo album here in Hebrews
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Chapter 11, how they
do make it in, why do God
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include them, these
people or these types of
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backgrounds and
failures. You wanna know why;
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here is why God
included them in this Chapter.
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Because He believed, He
existed in the situation
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they were in and
they trusted Him.
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Their Faith was
unstoppable, because they
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wouldn't like go, no
matter what, it didn't matter
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to them if they had
messed up. If they didn't have
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the right background,
they would not let go.
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God said, that
honors me, I will like that,
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put his name
down, put her name down.
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They belong in my
photo album. But somehow
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we place ourselves
on this waiting list,
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we say when my
Christian experience gets
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to such a level, then I
will be a person of faith
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like Moses and Noah,
maybe like Josef Korbel.
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When that day
comes, I have arrived?
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I will be just like them.
But my question for you is,
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when that's day
going to be? What sort a
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circumstances are you
waiting for? What criteria
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will you know that,
that when it happens you have
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arrived. I'm here to tell
you that, the time to have
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unstoppable Faith, it's
not sometime in the future,
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it's today, it's
now, it's in this hour,
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this is the day that we
can be unstoppable for God.
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Stop waiting for
favorable circumstances because
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from what I can tell,
people of faith rarely,
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rarely face
favorable circumstances.
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It seems to me that
the odds are always against
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them, or always
overwhelmingly are
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against them,
because, if they work then why
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would they need Faith.
If you could work it out in
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your strength, why
would you need God's strength,
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if I can figure it out
in my own intelligence why
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do I need God's
intelligence? Stop waiting for
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favorable circumstances
because I'm here to tell you,
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they're not gonna
come. In fact when you choose
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to be unstoppable
when you choose to live as
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a person of faith
expect resistance,
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expect resistance. But
let's look at a few snap
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shots in this photo
album; let's just see what
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circumstances
were for this people.
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Let's just double
check and make sure that they
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did have insurmountable odds.
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Noah let's start with him.
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The earth had never seen
drop of rain and here he built
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a boat. The day
comes 120 years later,
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he gets into the
boat with all the animals,
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he's in the inside
playing checkers of his family.
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The other people were
on the outside wondering,
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if he forgot to takes
medication that morning.
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But he is in the boat,
now I'm here to tell you
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that the arts were
against it raining,
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when rain is in
the part of weathers.
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Well the planets
weather parrots that's Noah.
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And come down Verse 8, Abraham,
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God called Abraham to go
some place and its pretty
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much all he told him.
Didn't tell where to go,
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like in picture right
now I can see Sarah outside
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sweeping the porch and
Abraham backs the whole
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truck up to the
garage and starts letting
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boxes in the back and she says,
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honey what are you doing?
Oh! Didn't I tell you dear?
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God and I had a chat
earlier in this morning,
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Oh! Really sweetie,
what a God have to say?
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He said, well we were to
move. Really oh! Where to
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Abraham? Don't
know, he just said go.
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How would you like to
have that conversation
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with your spouse,
ha? Neighbor's drop by,
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Abraham you did got transferred?
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No, find a better job somewhere?
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No, you don't have a
job, you are not transferred,
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you're moving, do
you know where you going?
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No. Oh, good luck.
The odds are against you
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finding where you
going, when you will know
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where you going in the
first place, that's Abraham.
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But come on down and
we find, we find Moses
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Verse 29. Says by Faith
he passed over the red sea,
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picture this for a
second, you have Moses
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who's leading these
hundreds of thousands
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millions of Israelites
out of Egypt and the Red Sea
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is right before him.
Behind him, the Egyptian army
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is closing in. you
have desert on this side,
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you have mountains on that side.
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There is no way to
escape, God tells Moses
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I want you to go
through the Red Sea.
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Now, Aaron overhears
this and he has to just
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clarify what Moses
is saying, Red Sea.
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He says now Moses
you and I both know,
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you have a speech
problem and I like you to repeat
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very slowly what God
told us to do because
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I think I thought
heard you say Red Sea and
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that doesn't make
any sense Moses because
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think about this for
a minute, army is behind
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can't go there,
deserts over here we die of
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thirst can't go
there, we got the mountains,
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we got the sea, we
can't go to sea because
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we will drown. Let's
just go back to the mountains.
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We should
disband the camp because,
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common sense says
Moses every man from
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himself should go
toward the mountains,
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at least someone survive
not everybody will make it.
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But that's better
than everybody dying so run
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by God against I think
you probably didn't get it
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right. So, Moses says hold on.
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Moses runs it by
God and God says Moses
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I have got two
words for you Red Sea.
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And so Moses lifts up
his robe, he steps out,
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and dry ground
as the water parts,
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you know and I know
that the odds are against
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a sea parting on
any day of the week,
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especially that day,
but Moses obeyed and he
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walked through. Are
you in a tight place?
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Are you in a
situation where you are walled
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in by trouble, do you
impossible circumstances
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face you right now? I
think that's a great because
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God's gonna play and
escape that just makes
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you glory and bask
and the wonder of his
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strength for your life.
But what we do is we take
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water tests, we get
a community together,
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we study the depth of the water,
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we get engineers in
the room to see what type
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of bridge we need to
build to make it across
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the water. And God's
just sitting and waiting
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for us to go, so
many times our Faith is
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stopped, because we
stop it, do you wanna
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unstoppable Faith,
get moving and stay moving
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and keep moving.
One of my favorite story
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is here in Chapter
11 of book of Hebrews
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is Jericho. Joshua
takes Caesar to this big city
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of Mammoth, rock
walls that are several feet
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thick. Can you
picture right now,
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you have the Israelites
marching around the city,
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you have the
Jericholites who are on top of
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the city walls looking at
those people just marching
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around and I can
hear them saying hey,
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what do you guys
doing down there and one guy
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in the back of the line,
from the bottom of the people
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marching around shouts
up we're gonna march around
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your city for the
next seven days and then
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we're gonna blow our
trumpets and then your city
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is gonna crumbled,
you're gonna fall, we're gonna
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take you over. Jericholites
had just start laughing,
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this is nonsense I can see
them pulling up long chairs,
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taking eliminate maybe
having some potato salad
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just watching Israelites
walk around to this city.
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Now, I have shared my
fair share of Church boards
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and you probably set
on board in communities
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and I can imagine
what might have happened
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that night back at the
Israel camp. It probably went
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something like this,
Joshua could you tells again
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why we're marching
around the city seven times.
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Well, because
God said seven times,
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well we even think it
about, he was harder out
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there today then we
thought it was gonna be
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and took little
bit longer and you know
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we're little tired so
I'm thinking maybe we should
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just march around the
city four times because
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you know common
sense says. We need to have
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some energy and
strength left over so when
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those walls fall we can
ran in there and we can finish
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those people off
and take the city so.
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I move we just
marching around at four times,
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someone in the back
said say yeah second that,
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that's sounds
good to me four times.
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Joshua says no seven
times, well what about five,
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seven, six, seven
times God said marched around
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it seven times and
that's what we are going to do.
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I think that we as
believers will become a
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unstoppable and our
churches will become
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unstoppable when we
start convening sessions
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and communities and
board meetings to out vote
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God's will for
us for where we are.
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We need to get going
and follow him and keep
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going we stopped
ourselves. If you wanna have
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unstoppable Faith is the
model of our lives after these
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people. Israelites
marched around that city,
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they blow there
beguiles, the walls fell down,
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in an area a cloud
burst of sand and dust
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and they walked in and
they conquered the city,
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but I'm here tell you,
that the odds of his city
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falling are not that
great, when they're army's
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only military
strategy is to march around
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at few times and blow
beguiles. But it is not about
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you and it's not
about me, or our strategies.
00:19:04.75\00:19:08.15
It's about obeying
God's call, following his lead
00:19:09.59\00:19:12.36
and trusting that his in
the workout the impossible
00:19:13.31\00:19:14.81
for us in that situation,
that's what these peoples
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did. That's why there
in this photo album of God
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in Hebrews Chapter
11. God comes to you today
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and he says trust me,
you wanna be unstoppable
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trust me, trust
me moment by moment,
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if that's what it
takes, if you don't have enough
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to just trust me for 24
hours, do it for an hour,
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do it for a minute,
do it for 30 seconds.
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Trust me moment
by moment and follow
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my lead and you
will be unstoppable,
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here what's unstoppable
looks like in your Bibles.
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Hebrews Chapter
11, Verses 33 to 35,
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here is a picture
of unstoppable Faith.
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We start with Verse 33:
Who through Faith subdued
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kingdoms, worked
righteousness, obtained
00:19:58.66\00:20:00.59
promises, stopped
the mouths of lions.
00:20:00.62\00:20:02.57
Quenched the violence
of fire, escaped the edge
00:20:03.27\00:20:04.98
of the sword, out of
weakness were made strong,
00:20:05.01\00:20:07.22
became valiant in battle,
turned to flight the armies
00:20:07.25\00:20:10.19
of the aliens. Women
received their dead raised
00:20:10.22\00:20:12.83
back to life again.
That's what unstoppable looks
00:20:12.86\00:20:16.50
like, but
unstoppable has another picture
00:20:16.71\00:20:19.15
we just turned another
page in God's photo album here
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in Hebrews 11. He
was also what unstoppable
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looks like, we read from
Hebrews Chapter 11 Verses
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35-38, it says:
Others were tortured,
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not accepting deliverance;
that they might obtain
00:20:31.61\00:20:33.77
a better resurrection.
Still others had trial
00:20:33.80\00:20:36.27
of mockings and
scourgings, yes and of chains
00:20:36.30\00:20:38.50
and
imprisonment. They were stoned,
00:20:38.53\00:20:39.96
they were sawn in
two, were tempted,
00:20:39.99\00:20:42.01
were slain with the
sword. They wandered about
00:20:42.04\00:20:44.55
sheepskins and
goatskins being destitute,
00:20:44.58\00:20:46.65
afflicted, tormented
of whom the world was not
00:20:46.68\00:20:49.05
worthy. They wandered
in deserts and mountains,
00:20:49.08\00:20:51.40
in dens and caves of
the earth. Others who,
00:20:51.43\00:20:55.36
who are this people,
were they ones who didn't get
00:20:55.39\00:20:58.64
it right, were
they the wrong stuff,
00:20:58.67\00:21:00.83
were they the
wrong type, were they the
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backgrounds too bad for
even God salvage and use.
00:21:03.33\00:21:05.87
Could they not too
have unstoppable Faith,
00:21:05.90\00:21:08.34
the way we think
unstoppable Faith
00:21:08.37\00:21:09.85
is supposed to
work, who were they?
00:21:09.88\00:21:11.89
They were commended for
their Faith the Bible says,
00:21:12.94\00:21:15.41
they were valiant
men and women of God,
00:21:15.44\00:21:17.44
who could not be
stopped, torture could not stop
00:21:17.47\00:21:19.92
them. Imprisonment
could not stop them,
00:21:19.95\00:21:21.93
death could not stop
them. People of Faith
00:21:21.96\00:21:24.55
are unstoppable
regardless of the circumstances;
00:21:24.58\00:21:27.32
they keep going
forward for God no matter what.
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Now, there is a
secret truth about Faith,
00:21:29.99\00:21:32.85
that makes this all
make sense between things
00:21:34.30\00:21:36.98
working out right and
things not working out right
00:21:37.01\00:21:39.58
from our point of
view. A secret that I learned
00:21:39.61\00:21:41.63
a few years ago,
the hard way I think.
00:21:41.66\00:21:45.00
It was story that
happened to me during my
00:21:46.45\00:21:47.95
sophomore years at college 1986.
00:21:47.98\00:21:50.20
I walked into a boy's
dorm and the secretary said
00:21:50.23\00:21:52.88
there is a telephone
call for you. I answered,
00:21:52.91\00:21:55.32
here he said you
Lynell Lamountain, I said yes,
00:21:55.35\00:21:57.19
the brother of and I
said yes I'm. He said well
00:21:58.18\00:22:01.39
your brother is in the
hospital being prepared
00:22:01.42\00:22:03.73
for emergency
surgery. I said why,
00:22:03.76\00:22:05.47
what happened? He
said earlier this morning
00:22:05.50\00:22:07.64
he was shot twice in the back.
00:22:07.67\00:22:08.87
And his wife is now
requesting that you come
00:22:09.78\00:22:11.25
in and be with her
as he's in surgery.
00:22:11.28\00:22:13.11
I can't tell you
anything more than that,
00:22:14.08\00:22:15.35
so I got my car and I
went up to the hospital
00:22:15.38\00:22:17.55
and I can still see my
brother being wheel out
00:22:17.75\00:22:19.02
of surgery the tubes
coming out of his body
00:22:19.05\00:22:20.76
and blood draining and
the machines and he was
00:22:20.79\00:22:23.95
in ICU for three
weeks, turned out he had gone
00:22:23.98\00:22:27.32
home after worked
that morning and someone
00:22:27.35\00:22:29.07
introduce his trailer
and tried to kill him.
00:22:29.10\00:22:31.11
They said I'm gonna
kill you and I started
00:22:31.14\00:22:33.06
shooting. He
escapes, but before he did,
00:22:33.09\00:22:35.25
he had two bullet
holes in his back.
00:22:35.28\00:22:37.23
I captured the man
and they decided that,
00:22:38.81\00:22:41.13
he was criminally
insane of the time he would
00:22:41.16\00:22:43.42
tried killing my brother.
And so after a few months
00:22:43.45\00:22:45.79
they let him go. My
brother heard to the great
00:22:45.82\00:22:49.59
one and so did
we, but the man vowed,
00:22:49.62\00:22:51.64
he was going to keep
trying until he had finished
00:22:51.67\00:22:54.16
his job and done it
right and my brother
00:22:54.19\00:22:55.85
was no more. So, my
brother got his wife and
00:22:55.88\00:22:58.61
they moved, they
didn't tell anybody where
00:22:58.64\00:23:00.72
they were, I
didn't know where he was,
00:23:00.75\00:23:02.81
I didn't know how he was doing.
00:23:02.84\00:23:03.97
he missed my graduation
and made sound selfish,
00:23:04.00\00:23:07.38
he missed my
wedding which I always dream
00:23:07.41\00:23:08.93
to him being my best
man. For a 5 or 6 years,
00:23:08.96\00:23:11.79
I didn't know where he
was and during that time,
00:23:11.82\00:23:13.99
I rustled with
God, why did this guy
00:23:14.02\00:23:15.60
who tried to kill
him? How can we guy let go
00:23:15.63\00:23:17.71
and my brother, how
come he had to move away
00:23:17.74\00:23:19.83
and I don't know
where he is? God answer
00:23:19.86\00:23:22.43
these prayers. You work
things out; your Bible says
00:23:22.46\00:23:25.34
you do, how can you
not work, can get out
00:23:25.37\00:23:26.70
for me. And that
during that time that I
00:23:26.73\00:23:30.02
learned the secret,
that to me explains,
00:23:30.05\00:23:32.11
why this things seem
to work out and why thing
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seem not to work
out. And as during that
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experience of my
brother and things have worked
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out now and I know
where he is and things
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have gotten back to normal.
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But he was during
those years that this is the
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secret that God
impressed up on me about
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how to have unstoppable
Faith. If you wanna have
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unstoppable Faith
and realize this and here
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is the secret.
Faith doesn't change my
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circumstances, Faith
changes me, Faith doesn't
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always change my
circumstances, Faith won't
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always change
your circumstances.
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But Faith will
always change you,
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that's what
these people realized.
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If your Faith is tied
to circumstances working
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out the way that you
want them to be worked
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out then your Faith
will faltered and it will
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be stopped. Faith doesn't
change our circumstances,
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Faith changes me.
That's why we read about
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these people being
unstoppable because they
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looked forward to a
time that was most relevant
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to them then the
situation that they were in,
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situation they were
in didn't matter to them.
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Bible says in Hebrews
Chapter 11 Verses 13 to 16,
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it said: These all died
in faith, not having received
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the promises, but
having seen them afar off
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were assured of
them, embraced them
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and confessed that
they were strangers
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and pilgrims on the
earth. For those who say
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such things declare
plainly that they seek
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a homeland. And
truly if they had called to
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mind that country from
which they had come out,
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they would have had
opportunity to return.
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But now they
desire a better, that is,
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a heavenly country.
Therefore God is not ashamed
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to be called their
God, for He has prepared
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a city for them. Our lives
are ignited with that hope,
00:25:05.94\00:25:10.78
our lives are ignited but
the anticipation and expectation
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of a better tomorrow
and what it makes it better
00:25:13.89\00:25:16.10
is not having a fewer
problems, you're having a
00:25:16.13\00:25:18.24
blunder pictures,
will makes it better,
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is the face to face internal
satisfaction that will have
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communing with Jesus Christ
our redeemer and best friend.
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Faith doesn't what change
our circumstances but Faith
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always changes us.
That's a life, that's ignited,
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that's a life that is led
by a trust that is ignited
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and cannot be
quenched. So, today we in trust
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ourselves in our
situation to God,
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we cooperate with him
as he lead us through it.
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We take action, Faithful
action is dead the Bible says.
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So, acknowledge is in
control, so tell Him today
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whatever you're going
through. That this is sea,
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that he is gonna have to
part, this is his mountain,
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he is enough to
have you tunnel through.
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You tell him Lord I'm
putting the pressure on your
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shoulders, the
circumstances, well that's your
00:26:05.08\00:26:07.82
responsibility, I'm gonna
do what the Bible says Lord
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I'm just gonna relax
in you, I'm gonna relax
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and know that
you're God. That's our job,
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just to walk forward
to obey and to relax,
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as God lead us to
where he is taking us.
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Our role is to obey
into rest, to rest in obey.
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We have parody
straight, we have clarity we're
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unstoppable
because He is our father,
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we are His children and
He looks through His photo
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album and His wallet
whatever we might carry with
00:26:33.59\00:26:35.64
Him and He says that's
my kid, that's my child.
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They were trusting in
the situation that they were
00:26:38.18\00:26:40.74
in and that honors me
and that makes me feel
00:26:40.77\00:26:42.95
glad now I'm happy all
around the universe wherever
00:26:42.98\00:26:45.87
he goes, He takes out
His pictures and said hey
00:26:45.90\00:26:47.47
have you seen my kid.
You see the person that's,
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it's got the rise on
me and some days soon
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I mean introduce
you to them personally.
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Have you seen pride
and joy, have you seen
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the kids in my photo
album. They can't be stop,
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because I won't let
them stop, I'm in them there
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is an Old Russian
proverb it says this.
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It says, "The hammer
shatters glass but it forges
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steel." The Faith that
we have seen here in Hebrews
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Chapter 11, this is
type of Faith forges steel,
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you have what it
takes, you are that type,
00:27:23.63\00:27:25.77
your background
doesn't matter, you're steel,
00:27:25.80\00:27:29.67
steel that won't bend,
steel that won't break,
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steel that won't bust
and steel that won't melt.
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God is working his work
in you and you will prevail,
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you will win the day,
because you're unstoppable.
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You're unstoppable
because God is unstoppable
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and God is in your
heart, so trust Him, respond,
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get going and keep going and
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He will lead you through.
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