-
Flesh and sin die.
-
Die with Christ, that's it.
Rise with Christ.
-
That's it. Holy Spirit, come.
Holy Spirit come, set her free.
-
Die with Christ.
-
Holy Spirit, more.
-
Come with your Holy Spirit.
Fill me up.
-
Just words started coming.
-
Thank you, Lord!
-
What was I doing?
- What?
-
What was I doing?
-
What you were doing?
You were praying in tongues.
-
Does it hurt?
- No.
-
Not at all?
- No.
-
In Jesus' name,
I thank you. Amen.
-
It's done!
Hallelujah!
-
...over one month
and she is in shock.
-
It's Jesus.
-
I used to watch
these things on TV
-
and sometimes I do not believe,
but today I do believe
-
because it happens to me.
-
Pain, go now.
-
And you can do this.
Now get all up.
-
It's good, yeah?
- Yeah.
-
Thank you Father. Amen.
Try to feel it.
-
Can you feel any difference?
-
Seriously, it does not hurt anymore.
-
Wow!
-
God, I thank you for healing. Thank you,
the pain is going to go.
-
Try to feel the head.
-
No!
I don't feel no pain, bro.
-
Now the pain is gone.
Now the pain is gone, yes.
-
We, as the church today, are standing
in front of a new reformation.
-
A reformation,
where we are coming back
-
to what we read
in the Book of Acts.
-
If you look at the church today,
-
it is so different from what we read
in the Book of Acts.
-
Because we have like
2000 years of history,
-
where the church has been changed
again and again.
-
We can see that the church
in the Book of Acts was a living body.
-
It was a body of believers
who were led by the Holy Spirit.
-
The church was a movement,
a disciples' movement.
-
Christianity moved to Greece
and became a philosophy.
-
It came to Italy and
became an institution.
-
It came to Europe and
became a culture.
-
It came to America and
became a business.
-
If you take a body and make
a business out of a body
-
is that not prostitution?
-
And this is what we have done
today with the church.
-
We have prostituted the church
of Christ, the body of Christ.
-
Because of that, we need
to see a reformation,
-
where we go so much deeper.
-
Where we are talking about the doctrine,
we are talking about the Spirit,
-
and we are also talking about the whole
system, the church system.
-
Why we do church the way we do it.
-
It's time to go back to what
we read in the Book of Acts.
-
God is now bringing us
back to the beginning.
-
What a mighty God we serve.
-
What a mighty God we serve.
-
Angels bow down.
-
Heaven and earth adore Him.
-
What a mighty God we serve.
-
What a mighty God we serve.
-
Angels bow down.
-
Heaven and earth adore Him.
-
What makes the Book of Acts
the most unique book of the Bible,
-
is that the Book of Acts is
the only book in the entire Bible
-
and all of Scripture,
that shows us
-
how to actually go out
and make disciples.
-
If you read the gospels that
lead up to the Book of Acts,
-
what's interesting is,
that even though these books
-
were written at a time,
like when they were written,
-
probably about thirty years
after the cross,
-
but the time periods covered
are all before the cross.
-
So we don't see the fullness
of the Christian life there
-
because Christ hadn't yet died,
he hadn't yet been buried
-
and resurrected and sent
his Spirit.
-
So we don't see in the gospels
-
how they went out
and actually made disciples.
-
The Holy Spirit had
not yet been given
-
and plus, we didn't have
the power yet
-
to go out
and be successful doing this.
-
And I think that contributes to a lot
of the fear today
-
for those who don't
know the Holy Spirit.
-
Because Jesus told them
to go and wait.
-
He says, "When my Spirit comes,
you will receive power
-
and then you will be my witnesses."
-
It's real!
It's really real!
-
Amen, it's real!
-
Hallelujah.
- She just got healed.
-
Amazing, Jesus.
- Thank you, Jesus.
-
Look at that, she's walking.
-
I know in many churches
there is a sign
-
on the church wall where it's written,
-
'Jesus is the same yesterday,
today and forever.'
-
We, today as believers,
believe that
-
Jesus is the same
yesterday, today and forever.
-
But if He's the same,
the Holy Spirit is also the same.
-
And if the Holy Spirit is the same,
-
what we read in the Book of Acts
should also be the same.
-
By the power of Jesus Christ, she
gets healed right now.
-
This man has just healed this lady.
-
And he's overwhelmed.
-
It's done.
- It's done. It is finished.
-
It is finished, with his cry.
-
I was walking like this
because I could not move any faster.
-
What can you do now?
-
Sister, do like this.
-
I could not do this.
This I could not do.
-
And this I could not do.
-
I would've screamed up the
whole place doing that.
-
All glory be to His name.
-
In the Book of Acts we see the
very early Christians,
-
the very early
disciples of Christ.
-
They were living this
lifestyle of discipleship.
-
They were reaching people
in their homes, on the streets.
-
They met people
where they were at.
-
And the gospel was exploding
and spreading to the entire world.
-
Thousands and thousands
and thousands of people
-
came to faith in Jesus Christ
-
and were baptized
and received the Holy Spirit.
-
But at one point in church history,
we see that
-
Christianity was institutionalized and
soon became a state religion.
-
This hierarchy & institutionalized church
was following us through the reformation
-
where Luther, Calvin
and Zwingli came.
-
They were trying to reform and bring
us back to the real gospel,
-
back to the Book of Acts.
-
But they failed.
-
We still have the building.
We still have the special priesthood.
-
We still have people meeting
in special buildings,
-
on special dates, with a hierarchy
and people trying
-
to bring offerings to the church
to gain the favor of God.
-
Luther did not succeed in bringing
the church back
-
to what we read in the Book of Acts.
-
The Bible is the book of life.
-
And it doesn't become
the book of life by studying it.
-
It becomes the book of life
by living it.
-
I command the pain in this hand
to go, in Jesus' name.
-
Try to do it again.
-
It's gone.
-
What's this?
-
In Jesus' name,
right now. Amen.
-
Check it.
-
It's gone.
-
Amen.
-
Go, right now, in the name of Jesus.
Try again.
-
Bones, I command you to mend
right now in Jesus' name.
-
Try it out.
-
Is it similar to Reiki?
- No, Jesus.
-
Jesus, not Reiki.
- No, no. No energy?
-
God. No, it's not energy.
-
Thank you, Jesus.
-
What do you think about
what just happened?
-
It's cool.
- It's pretty cool?
-
We are born, put here on earth
with a purpose.
-
That is, to seek and find God.
-
The problem is that we
don't seek Him.
-
Because we don't seek Him,
we don't find Him.
-
Have you heard about Jesus?
-
We live 2015 years
after Jesus Christ.
-
God is real and He called us
to be His disciples,
-
Jesus' disciples, to go out
and show the world He is real.
-
Fifth of April, 1995, I repented.
-
I recognized I have sinned
and gave my life to Jesus
-
and a light came into my body and
I fell to the floor, and I met God.
-
When you become a born-again Christian,
the Spirit of God comes and lives in you
-
and you get to do the things Jesus did.
-
The Bible says that we should be
doers of the Word
-
and not only hearers.
-
If we only hear the Word and do not
do it, we are deceiving ourselves.
-
We are like a man
looking in a mirror
-
but as soon as we go away,
we have forgotten what we saw.
-
Sunday after Sunday there are
millions of Christians
-
who are sitting in church and
listening to the Word of God.
-
But as soon as they go away,
they have forgotten what they heard.
-
As a pastor,
in the last couple of years
-
I started to get really hungry.
I would read through the Book of Acts
-
and I became angry at the way
that I saw things happening
-
in the Book of Acts, and I didn't
see this happening
-
in my church, or in my own life,
-
or with the eldership,
or the structure of the church at all.
-
We weren't just going out
& healing people.
-
We would lay hands on people
and tell them to go home
-
and they'll get better maybe,
in the future, or maybe not.
-
But what I read in the Book of Acts
is that the Apostles
-
were going out and they
were just doing this stuff daily.
-
I really felt that
that's what I wanted.
-
So for two years I've been
hungry for this stuff,
-
believing that this is
what I was called to do,
-
but I hadn't really
been able to do it.
-
The church system has to change.
-
We have to stop being a building-focused,
Sunday service-attending institution.
-
People are sitting in churches,
year after year
-
waiting, waiting for that special minister
to come and pray for them
-
saying, now you have the anointing.
-
You can go out and you can do
this or that for God.
-
Or they are just sitting there,
hoping that someone
-
will see them,
see their talents.
-
And that is not what we see the
Bible telling us to do.
-
That is not what we see
Jesus telling us to do.
-
In 1995, I was working as a baker
and I didn't know anything about God.
-
I didn't know anything
about the Bible.
-
I was as a young boy in Denmark,
baptized in the Lutheran Church.
-
I was confirmed in the
Lutheran Church when I was fourteen.
-
But it was tradition.
It's tradition for many people today.
-
One night I looked up in the air and said,
"Come on God, are You there?
-
If You are there, come and take me.
I want to know You."
-
And a short time after,
I heard the gospel
-
and the fifth of April, 1995,
9:30 in the evening,
-
I repented
-
and I gave everything to Jesus.
-
But then I started
to come in a church.
-
And I started to become like
the people in the church.
-
And I thought it was Christianity, to
-
meet God and then come to a church
and sit there every Sunday.
-
But I got more and more frustrated.
-
Because I was like, "Come on, there must
be more than just going to a church,
-
sitting there two hours every Sunday
-
and listening to somebody preaching."
-
And at one time, I started to
just read the Book of Acts,
-
read about the first Christians,
how they were living.
-
And they didn't do the same
as I was doing.
-
They saw how lives got changed
where they came.
-
And at that time I was so frustrated,
because I had been a Christian
-
like many years.
-
But I had never healed the sick,
never cast out a demon.
-
I had never led anybody to Christ.
I had never experienced the life
-
we read about in the first church
in the Book of Acts.
-
So one day in frustration,
I was like,
-
"God, I give you everything.
I want to see this life."
-
And then I started to see this life,
more and more and more.
-
But the problem was
that in the beginning
-
there was nobody
who could disciple me.
-
There was nobody, like Jesus did
when Jesus said,
-
"Come and follow Me
and I will make you fishers of men."
-
Come and follow Me,
I will show you
-
how to heal the sick,
how to preach the gospel.
-
I will show you, train you, in how you can
be effective in the Kingdom of God.
-
Nobody did that.
-
But what is different now,
is that
-
now we are starting
to disciple people.
-
And if we take what we
have learned and give it
-
to the next generation of disciples
and they continue from there,
-
and then take that and give it
to the next generation of disciples,
-
in a very short time,
we will have disciples
-
walking around on earth,
looking exactly like Jesus,
-
doing the same things Jesus did.
Yes, even greater things
-
because He went to the Father.
-
I've prepared the best for you.
-
Yes I have prepared a place of rest.
-
I've prepared the best for you.
-
Yes I have prepared a place of rest.
-
And in that place:
Life in abundance.
-
In that promised land...
-
Now we will listen
to a friend of ours, Simon Ådahl.
-
In Swedish.
-
Sweden rules, man!
-
Father, I pray that
we will take Europe,
-
also Denmark, and Norway
and the whole world for You!
-
I became a Christian about
eleven years ago.
-
And I came into
the Swedish state church
-
from a totally
non-Christian background.
-
After a while, me and my wife,
we moved to another city
-
and we came into
a very big church there.
-
We became leaders in a big
outreach work there in church.
-
We were supposed to be an example
but I had never led anybody to Christ,
-
I had never
baptized anybody myself,
-
I had never seen anybody with my own eyes
who I prayed for getting healed.
-
I came to a point when
one night we were out
-
and there came a man to my table
actually, and he asked,
-
"Yeah, I see what you do,
I want to become a Christian.
-
How do I do it?"
-
And my reaction was,
"Okay, I pick you up tomorrow
-
and I bring you to church."
-
So I did that.
I brought him to church
-
and I brought him to the pastor
and the pastor led him to salvation.
-
But that made me react. I understood
that something was wrong,
-
'cause I read the Bible a lot, I went
to Bible school for a couple years
-
I know what the Bible said
and I was the one
-
who was supposed
to do these things.
-
I was the one who was supposed
to lay hands on the sick
-
and they will recover.
I was the one
-
who was supposed to baptize people,
and I didn't do it.
-
Something was wrong.
-
I started to think,
maybe they are lying,
-
maybe it's not true,
what people are telling me.
-
So I started to go out.
-
Every morning I woke up
and just prayed to the Lord.
-
And it was raining sometimes,
snow, bad weather,
-
I just went out because I was
really crying out to the Lord.
-
I want to know You.
I want to have the real life.
-
And one day I was at work and I was
reading a Christian newspaper.
-
There was a small note there
about a Danish man
-
who was in
a shopping mall in Sweden
-
praying for sick people
and they got healed.
-
And I was like, "What?"
I saw this kind of article before
-
but this just took my heart,
and I felt that this is God.
-
So I called him and he answered.
He was a normal man like me.
-
We spoke and I told him
about my journey
-
and he thought,
this is amazing, we should meet.
-
So I gathered a couple of friends
and we went down to him in Denmark.
-
Then he asked us,
"Why did you come to Denmark?"
-
We said,
"We want to see people get healed."
-
Then he said,
"Okay, in about fifteen minutes
-
you'll see the first person
get healed."
-
I was like, " yeah, yeah."
I could not believe this.
-
How can this be a part
of my life?
-
But we went out on the streets
and we came to a gang of people,
-
maybe about 25, 30 years old.
-
One of the girls had a problem
with her knee for many years.
-
He told me to lay my hands
on her knee
-
and command the pain to go away.
-
I almost blacked out,
I was so nervous.
-
And I had no faith, either, I think.
I said, okay I do it.
-
So I did it and she like jumped up.
"What?"
-
And she got healed.
-
And the whole crowd was like...
This rocked my world.
-
I just realized, this is true.
This is true.
-
This actually was enough for me.
-
I prayed for one person
and then I went by myself.
-
We, as Christians, are called
to make disciples.
-
Another word we have started
using is the word 'kickstarting'.
-
It's like if you have a motorbike
and you want
-
to start the engine,
you kickstart it.
-
And when that motorbike is started
you can drive all over the place.
-
In the same way, we as Christians
need to get kickstarted
-
in doing the things
Jesus has called us to.
-
When we, for example, kickstart
a Christian in healing the sick,
-
we take them out on the streets
and say, "Come and follow us."
-
And then we show them
how to do it.
-
And when they have done it one time,
they can do it again.
-
You say you have pain all over
your body, most in your legs?
-
Yeah.
And we'll pray for it; you'll see it.
-
I command all pain,
leave right now.
-
Be healed right now
in the whole body.
-
I command all pain,
leave the body right now.
-
The whole body, right now.
-
I pray for healing right now,
in the name of Jesus. Amen.
-
Just move, try to move it.
-
Try to feel it.
-
It felt good.
- It felt good, yeah?
-
But do you feel the pain now?
-
No.
- It's gone? Yeah.
-
People get surprised.
-
I command this back to be
totally restored, right now.
-
Bend over like this,
try to feel it.
-
And up again.
- For real, it is gone.
-
For real.
- What?
-
I swear.
- I am not making things up.
-
You can feel it. It just went away.
- Oh, yes. Oh, my God.
-
This is growing all over the world.
-
The last years we have seen
-
hundreds of thousands
of people getting healed.
-
By normal believers,
who get kickstarted
-
and start to go out
and heal the sick.
-
And those people now start
to lead other people to Christ.
-
So the last years we have seen
thousands of people coming to Christ.
-
And this is really powerful.
-
I came to Stockholm
and met this brother
-
and he was there with a bunch of guys,
and his wife was there, too.
-
And there we went out.
-
He first stopped
this person who had pain
-
and he placed his hand on this person,
and this person got healed.
-
And I was just like,
Wow, this is amazing!
-
This person got healed
and I was like,
-
now it's not on YouTube anymore.
-
I am not watching this on YouTube,
but now I see it in front of me.
-
It was amazing, seeing the reaction
of this person who got healed.
-
The next thing that happened was
that this lady came
-
and she had pain in her stomach.
-
This man, that was
kickstarting me was like,
-
Now it is your time to pray.
Just place your hand
-
and command the pain to go.
So I just placed my hand
-
and I was hesitating,
but I placed my hand
-
and just commanded,
"In Jesus' name, pain go."
-
I just removed my hand and suddenly,
you should have seen
-
the face of this woman.
She was like, how did you do that?
-
What?
-
Are you kidding me?
- No, we are not kidding.
-
This is true, and that is
why we do this.
-
No.
-
This is sick.
-
Jesus healed you, not me.
-
Wow, I have never been
in such a thing before,
-
and my dreams just
came true, right there.
-
This is actually
the best day of my life.
-
Being part of what I have been
longing for, for such a long time.
-
So on my way back home
I was so filled up with joy.
-
So I was sitting in the bus
going home.
-
When I arrived, I could not
just sit or just like go home.
-
I just went around in the city downtown
and I was praying for people
-
and the very same day,
and I came across these girls
-
that I prayed for and they
got healed instantly as well.
-
I was like, Wow!
-
So this is not something that happened
in Stockholm and stayed there.
-
It continues, you know.
-
Ever since then, I was
going out every day.
-
Every day I was out on the streets and
I've seen thousands getting healed.
-
It just changed me.
It changed the entire me.
-
It's, WOW!
-
Move your leg.
-
I do not feel anything.
-
It disappeared?
-
I cannot feel it.
- No.
-
I cannot feel it.
-
I cannot feel it.
-
Is it not strange?
- Yes.
-
It was Jesus who healed you.
-
Bend over and try to feel it.
-
It worked, Dennis.
- Try it. Try it.
-
How does it feel now?
- It feels perfect.
-
All pain is gone?
- All pain is totally gone.
-
I swear to God.
-
Thank you, Jesus.
-
I was not expecting what we saw,
I kinda was... this is supposed to happen.
-
I have seen it happen
in videos all the time
-
but I've never been able
to do it myself
-
and I fully expected
that this is what God does.
-
This is what He uses me for.
This is my purpose here.
-
We prayed for one girl
who had some issues with the back.
-
I think she had
some kind of surgery.
-
Pain, go right now.
Back, go in place right now,
-
in the name of Jesus.
-
I don't know if you feel
something happening.
-
Oh, snap.
- Wow, something happened.
-
She got filled with the Holy Spirit
and God met her in a radical way.
-
She was in tears.
- She fell down in front of us.
-
Fill her up.
More, more.
-
The Holy Spirit is over you,
just open your mouth.
-
Holy Spirit, more, more, more.
Fill her up.
-
You just got baptized,
filled with the Spirit.
-
He is there, He is there.
-
This is a new beginning.
It's a new beginning for you.
-
It's a new beginning.
-
God, we thank You for freedom.
God, we thank You for a new beginning.
-
Her family that was with her,
her sister-in-law and her kids,
-
were just totally at peace;
like everything's normal, and
-
people walking by,
"What's going on?"
-
And I just remember thinking,
-
This is so cool, what's happening
to this girl right now.
-
She had no idea what would
happen that day.
-
She got back up and you could
tell she was a different person.
-
God had changed her
from the inside out.
-
I'm okay, Lillia, I'm okay.
-
This is good.
- Way more than okay.
-
Way better than just okay.
-
God, He wants to be alive.
He wants to show us
-
and show who He is to us.
-
And see, this is God.
This is outside here.
-
Not in a fine church,
but God is there
-
and He wants to be part
of our life.
-
He wants to be part of your life.
-
Then we moved on from there.
-
Then we prayed for
a guy named Danny.
-
Right, first we asked for
another guy if he had any pain.
-
He said, "No."
And then Danny came.
-
Right. We asked a gentleman
on a bench if we could pray.
-
He said, "No, no, no, I'm okay."
And a guy named Danny said,
-
"Oh, my back really hurts."
- "For how long?"
-
"For ten years."
Actually it was five years
-
that this man's back hurt.
And so we said,
-
"Okay cool, well let's sit you down."
And we sat him down
-
and his one leg was longer than
the other by about half an inch.
-
Leg grow, loosen and grow
right now in the name of Jesus.
-
There it is.
- Yeah, whoa, there is movement.
-
Did you feel that?
- And it moved in your hands.
-
Something popped
when it came out.
-
Danny, try to stand up
and feel your back now.
-
That is pretty good.
- Is it gone?
-
Yeah.
- Fifteen years, and it's gone.
-
Yeah, well five.
- Oh, five years, and it's gone now.
-
What did you experience?
- I don't know, I felt it's good.
-
This is the first time
he does this.
-
That was awesome, and while
looking for more people
-
we decided to go get some ice cream.
-
We went in and you talked to
the lady behind the counter.
-
There was a woman
behind the counter
-
and she asked what we were doing,
where we were from, and
-
so we explained to her,
"Oh, we're going around and praying.
-
I am from Houston and we
are with people from all over
-
and we're praying for people
with sickness or pain."
-
She said, "Really?"
I told about Danny.
-
She said, "Oh my gosh,
I want to meet this guy."
-
I thought she meant Danny,
who got healed.
-
"I don't know where he is, sorry."
-
She said, "Whenever he comes
back to pray, you let me know."
-
In my mind, I thought,
"That was me! I'm right here."
-
So, yeah I'll come back,
just a minute.
-
And she came around the
counter and took off her shoe.
-
"It is this ankle."
She opened up
-
and I continued praying for her.
It got better and better.
-
I turn around and there
are 4 or 5 people saying,
-
"I have pain."
"Could you pray for me?"
-
How is it?
- What are you doing?
-
It wasn't me, man.
- I was in pain.
-
I'm not lying.
-
Is it gone completely?
-
Come on, jump, jump!
- I can do it now.
-
What are you doing? Jesus.
- It's Jesus.
-
Go down, go down, go down!
-
When could you do that last time?
-
In the military.
- Ten years ago?
-
Yeah, ten years ago.
- So you couldn't do this for ten years?
-
No. Every time I can't.
-
Come on!
- No, I know it feels good.
-
Sit in the chair.
See if you can do this quick as usual.
-
And then stand up.
-
If this is God, then...
I love you.
-
It is God! Ten years you have
not been able to do that.
-
No, I haven't;
I've been in pain,
-
always going to the
doctors, in & out.
-
But Jesus is the great Doctor.
He is the highest and He is there.
-
He is. Amen.
-
What is wrong with you?
- My arm.
-
You cannot lift it
higher than that? No.
-
How long have you had that?
- Like six weeks.
-
So in six weeks you have not
been able to do like this.
-
Be loosened right now
in the name of Jesus, right now.
-
You got it!
-
You got it.
It's yours, keep it.
-
Before you could get to here
and it would hurt, right?
-
Moving better, yeah?
-
It's good.
- Up with your hand!
-
Give me five.
-
You feel good?
-
Now we know what it's like.
Yeah.
-
So we get to go back to Houston
and go find parks and stores.
-
When we eat pizza somewhere...
that's not off-limits for God.
-
Yeah, it is like a redhead
growing up in Asia thinking,
-
"I feel like there has to be more
in life. Everybody is the same."
-
and then going to Ireland.
-
"There is, there really is!
There are people like me!"
-
That is how I feel, like,
"Oh, this is life, okay good."
-
That is what I wanted,
and now I can go and do that.
-
Yeah, so we are excited
to go back and I just feel like...
-
Man! My neighbors, the people, they have
no idea what is about to hit them.
-
Because I get it now, I can do this.
God, I can absolutely do this.
-
We're living in
really exciting times in Europe,
-
we're beginning to see a reenactment
of the Book of Acts in our times.
-
We're seeing that people
are going out with the gospel,
-
with the demonstration
of the Kingdom.
-
And it is often
a very clear gospel message,
-
about turning away
from one's sins, and
-
part of the package is actually
-
baptism and being filled
with the Holy Spirit.
-
So often in our church systems
they are separated.
-
But what we are seeing
more and more,
-
it's coming together
into one stream,
-
like it was in the Book of Acts.
-
So there's no waiting.
-
So when somebody repents
and expresses faith in Jesus,
-
they are taken
wherever there is water.
-
And it can be anywhere;
it can be a lake,
-
it can be in a rainwater tub,
it can be in a bath, or wherever.
-
People are baptized immediately
-
and at the same time,
also filled with the Holy Spirit.
-
The first words that
came out of Jesus' mouth, were,
-
"Repent, the Kingdom of God is near."
-
And we are called
to preach repentance today.
-
And it's like that part has been lost
in the church today.
-
We are talking about faith,
but we do not talk about repentance.
-
They are almost afraid
to talk about sin.
-
But we are called
to talk about sin.
-
We are called to preach repentance.
-
We have to say what sin is.
-
We have to say that those people
-
who continue in sin,
are going to die.
-
We have to talk about sin
before we talk about
-
that Jesus was the Lamb of God,
who came to remove our sin.
-
Because if we don't talk about sin,
what should people then do with Jesus?
-
Where are you going?
- I go with God, to heaven.
-
Why?
- Because...
-
Are you a good person?
- Yeah.
-
Have you ever lied?
- Yeah.
-
Have you ever stolen anything?
-
Downloaded something without paying?
- Yes.
-
Have you had sex outside of marriage?
-
These are three
of the ten commandments.
-
How many shall I go through?
-
It's all about how we compare
ourselves to each other.
-
Of course, if you compare yourself
to people around you,
-
you can think
you are a good person.
-
The question is not if you
think you're a good person.
-
The question is,
Are you good enough?
-
The Bible says, if you have just
done one of the sins,
-
you are guilty of them all.
-
It's not like in other things,
like it's okay if you weigh
-
and you have bad deeds
and the good...
-
It is not like that.
It is guilty or not guilty.
-
If you have once broken the law,
you are guilty of breaking the law.
-
If we talk about God,
no person can ever
-
come to God, come to heaven
by our good deeds.
-
It is not possible.
-
And I have always thought
I was a good person because,
-
yes, I have been
fighting a little too much,
-
I have been drinking too much.
I have been doing things, but...
-
this person and this person
is much worse than me.
-
So my problem was that I compared
myself to people around me,
-
instead of comparing myself
to the One
-
I am going to stand
in front of one day.
-
I believe we have to get back
to what the Bible shows us.
-
Repentance isn't so much
feeling sorry about our sins
-
and what we've done
-
and how we've violated God's Word,
in the sense of ourselves.
-
Being sorry is not true repentance.
-
It's part of it,
but it is not the full story.
-
We see Pharaoh in the Old Testament
with the Israelites in Egypt.
-
He was sorry. He proclaimed,
"Oh, I have sinned against God."
-
So he confessed his sin, but he
did not turn away from his sin.
-
Neither is it just remorse.
-
A lot of people say that,
"You see, they're really sorry;
-
they're crying
because they have true remorse."
-
Judas in the New Testament,
he had remorse.
-
He was so remorseful
that he actually committed suicide,
-
but he did not
turn away from his sin.
-
When we read the Bible, we can
see that God brackets repentance
-
with forgiveness,
-
rather than forgiveness
with faith in Jesus.
-
And I think, looking at it in
the latter part, we often think that
-
with faith in Jesus, God
automatically forgives us our sins.
-
And as you read the Bible,
you discover that's not the case.
-
Let's imagine you and me
play chess together.
-
I move, and then it's your turn.
-
I want to see you move.
-
My turn. Your turn.
-
Am I now allowed to do this?
Move one there, and one there.
-
Am I allowed to move two times?
- No.
-
Why? Because there are rules.
-
And the rules are that you move
one time, then I move one time.
-
When it comes to God,
you have sinned.
-
You have done something
that's wrong
-
and because of that,
you are divided from God.
-
You can not have fellowship with God
because of our sin.
-
Our sin causes that God
cannot have fellowship with us.
-
God is looking at you and says,
-
"I don't want to punish you,
but I am holy, so I need to do it."
-
"But at the same time, I want
to give you a chance
-
to get forgiveness
and get a relationship with Me,
-
so I sent my son, Jesus,
to die for you."
-
So it's like this.
-
You have sinned and broke
the commandments of God.
-
That's why we are living
without fellowship with God.
-
We are living our own life,
divided from God.
-
God looked down on you and said,
"I don't want to judge you,
-
I want to forgive you, so I send
my son, Jesus, to die for you."
-
Whose turn is it now?
Your turn.
-
God wants to forgive.
He wants to set you free.
-
He wants to give you a new life
and heal through you.
-
He wants to do those things,
but he says,
-
"Move, it is your turn!"
He is waiting for you to do it.
-
But as soon as you say, I repent,
and receive that forgiveness.
-
As soon as you do this,
God is like, "I'm going to forgive you."
-
It is so important
to understand,
-
because there's so many people...
I had that at one time.
-
Like you, I believed
there was a God.
-
But in my mind, in my universe,
"Okay, when it's time,
-
He will come to me.
It's up to Him.
-
He's great. He can do
it when he wants to."
-
And I moved the responsibility
from me over to Him.
-
A true deep repentance
requires action.
-
It's not just a word; it's
not just something that we think.
-
True repentance is
not only realizing
-
that you have sinned
against a holy God,
-
but that you then
confess your sins to him,
-
you are remorseful to Him,
-
and you turn away
from that sinful life
-
and you start living His life.
-
The word for repent in the Bible
is the word 'metanoia'
-
which means to 'again think'.
-
And God wants us to think again.
-
About our lives
and how we've lived.
-
If we will have a rethink about God
and how our sins affect Him,
-
then God will also have a rethink
about what he thinks about us.
-
And if you confess your sin
and get it out in the light,
-
you experience forgiveness.
-
But if you keep it close,
every time you take a step
-
toward the light,
Satan is going to say,
-
"But remember, but remember..."
- Yes, that's what he does.
-
But now it's out.
You have confessed it.
-
You have said it to me;
you have said it.
-
Be led by the Holy Spirit; maybe you
should say it to the whole world.
-
I don't know what,
but there is forgiveness.
-
People need to hear this.
There is freedom.
-
There's so many girls
going through it, so many women.
-
And they have done exactly the same,
-
carried it around,
thirty, forty, fifty years.
-
This is not where freedom is.
-
Freedom is what you
experience, right now.
-
I came today, seeking God
for the gift of tongues.
-
And for anything else in my life
that I may need deliverance from.
-
And over this weekend,
God has delivered me
-
and blessed me
with the gift of tongues,
-
and washed me with water baptism.
-
I've been living
for over thirty years
-
with shame and embarrassment,
as a secret...
-
that when I was in my twenties
-
I had an abortion.
-
And each and every day
from that day forward,
-
the devil has had his way with me.
-
So I've been seeking God, too,
as I was watching Torben's videos.
-
Telling God,
I can't do it anymore.
-
Pleading, asking,
wanting to know
-
if He had forgiveness for me.
-
And then it came that He
led me to come here this weekend.
-
And I felt led to speak with Torben,
-
that God had something to say
through him to me.
-
So, I was given the opportunity
by God to be freed.
-
Delivered from this pain.
-
Over thirty years, I am free.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you.
-
Be free.
-
...that when I was in my twenties...
God help me... He has!
-
I had an abortion
and ever since that day,
-
God has tried to
tell me it's okay,
-
but the devil just had
that greater hold on my life.
-
He just kept hanging on
and hanging in.
-
I remember the day
it happened like yesterday
-
and I feel the pain the same.
-
It's a new beginning.
It's a new start.
-
Are you ready to get
baptized to Jesus Christ
-
to wash away your sins?
- Yes.
-
So, on your own faith,
we baptize you to Jesus Christ.
-
Die with Christ.
Up with Christ.
-
Yay!
-
Free!
-
Yes!
-
Come, let's pray for you.
-
God, we thank You for Elizabeth.
God, we thank You for your freedom.
-
And when she confessed that,
-
another woman came up
and confessed the same sin.
-
And suddenly, her testimony
-
already brought life and
forgiveness to another.
-
And that woman, there,
got baptized in water
-
and she experienced that freedom.
-
Later we were at a meeting
with eighty people,
-
where she explained
how she had done that,
-
and it was sin, with the abortion,
but Jesus had forgiven her her sins.
-
When she confessed that,
and shared that testimony
-
at a meeting with eighty people,
-
out of that meeting, there came
twelve women to her afterwards
-
confessing the same.
-
And here we see the power
in confessing sins,
-
the power of baptism in water,
and what the gospel is all about.
-
"He who believes and is baptized
shall be saved," Jesus said.
-
What's really interesting
about water baptism is that...
-
I believe that through
time and tradition
-
today, we look at a sacrament
very different
-
than what the Bible shows us
a sacrament really is.
-
Often we look at a sacrament as an
outward sign of an inward reality.
-
And what's interesting
about that definition
-
is that it takes the spiritual
and the physical
-
and it completely separates
these two things.
-
And as a result,
we only see baptism
-
as something that's
just ceremonial
-
and has no connection with
anything in the spiritual realm.
-
In other words, it's
just like a confirmation
-
of something that's
already taken place in the spirit.
-
But baptism is very,
very different from that.
-
What we've discovered,
is that baptism
-
is not something
that's just sacramental,
-
as far as being an outward sign
of an inward reality.
-
We're seeing that when
you go into that water,
-
the Spirit of God is touching that.
-
And when the physical and the
spiritual connect in water baptism,
-
God does something miraculous.
-
What's interesting is that
water baptism is two things.
-
It's both a bath and a burial.
-
And to have a bath,
you have to be dirty!
-
So, what does that mean?
-
It means that a person
who's getting baptized
-
needs to acknowledge
their sins before God.
-
And in that sense, baptism
and repentance go hand in hand.
-
It's turning
and coming in faith.
-
And the requirement for baptism,
what God wants us to bring,
-
is repentance
and faith in Jesus Christ.
-
A person comes,
dead in their sins,
-
and what happens is
we take that person,
-
who's coming in his sins,
bringing proof of repentance,
-
and then we baptize him.
-
So when that person comes out,
they are brand new and clean.
-
I tell many people that we meet,
-
water baptism isn't
just a clean start off.
-
It is a brand new,
clean life to start.
-
Let it out, let it out.
More, more.
-
Glory, glory.
-
Thank you, Jesus.
-
Thank you, Jesus.
-
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
-
Thank you, Jesus.
-
Thank you, Jesus.
-
Thank you, Jesus.
-
Praise your name. Thank you, Jesus.
-
Thank you, Jesus.
-
How do you feel?
-
I was feeling like something
went out of...
-
Welling up; it's the living water
that's welling up inside of you
-
and God is releasing that
through your mouth.
-
Claudio, you are a brand new man.
- Amen.
-
You feel good?
- Yeah.
-
This is just
the beginning, Claudio.
-
This is just the beginning.
- Yes.
-
God's given you this gift now.
-
There's gonna be times where you
may not know what to pray for.
-
And now you can go
in faith and pray.
-
You know what's great about
praying in tongues is
-
that I can concentrate
on other things while praying
-
because my mind is not praying.
-
I'm just letting my mouth
move by faith.
-
And the Spirit intercedes
through us.
-
So God just used you.
-
The Spirit came in
and intercedes through you.
-
It's beautiful.
- Amen. Thanks, God.
-
Isn't God good?
- Yes.
-
He's great.
- Yes, He is.
-
I've learned something today.
-
The power of water baptism
unto Jesus.
-
It is no longer like a symbol,
like most churches might believe,
-
like I used to believe,
because that's all I knew.
-
I just thought it was something
you just go through
-
with a sprinkle or whatever.
-
But there's so much power
-
when you truly believe
what it's all about.
-
About the death, the burial,
the closure, the old man,
-
the nature is gone,
and a new man comes up.
-
As I've learned today,
do you believe
-
in Jesus as your
Lord and Savior?
-
Yes, I do.
-
Well, the old man goes under,
you die, and a new man arises.
-
And as soon as he came up
out of the water,
-
he said something left him.
-
A great weight left him and
no longer had any hold on his life.
-
And immediately he received
the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
-
And this brother was so broken,
he was sobbing.
-
He was just holding his chest.
It was so precious to see.
-
It was so precious to see
what God was doing in his life.
-
And all he could do was just weep
in the presence of God.
-
And for me, just to see
what God had...
-
He drove, I guess
three, four hours to get here
-
because this is what he wanted.
-
And that thing that was
attacking him all this time
-
no longer has power over him,
and he is free. He is totally free.
-
And I am truly thankful.
So now I have learned
-
that there is something
to water baptism,
-
there is something
to repentance,
-
there is something to having
the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
-
All three things are needed.
-
And that has truly
changed my life.
-
And now I preach that message
until the day I die.
-
Because I have experienced it,
and it was one of the most powerful
-
demonstrations of God's love
that I have ever seen.
-
The reason why I believe
we're seeing this happen now
-
is because when
that old man dies,
-
demons lose their grip
and their grab.
-
They can no longer
torment a dead man.
-
Because the old man dies.
-
And when you come
out of that water,
-
you're somebody brand new.
-
There's a new man
wearing your old clothes.
-
When Jesus was
walking here on earth,
-
He was preaching repentance.
-
And then He was teaching that
people need to be born again,
-
out of water and Spirit.
-
But He could not, at that time,
baptize people in His name.
-
He could not baptize people
with the Holy Spirit.
-
But after the cross,
when Peter stood up on Pentecost,
-
we hear the full gospel for
the first time, when Peter said,
-
"Repent, get baptized for the
forgiveness of your sins,
-
and you will receive
the Holy Spirit."
-
Okay, you kneel down and you say,
"I baptize you to Jesus Christ"
-
and make sure he goes down.
-
Die with Christ.
Up with Christ.
-
Freedom! Freedom!
Go! Go!
-
Freedom! Freedom!
-
Come! Leave! Go! Go! Go!
-
I command you, spirit go!
Right now! Come out!
-
Go! In the name of Jesus,
I command this spirit, go!
-
Leave him, right now!
-
Out! Out!
Go!
-
In the name of Jesus, I command
every demon, go, right now!
-
Go! Right now!
Come out!
-
I command this demon, go!
Go, right now!
-
Demon, go!
-
I command every demon,
leave him right now!
-
Lie, go! Come out!
More, more. Let it go!
-
I command you, demon,
in the name of Jesus, come out!
-
Get out! More!
Go! Go! Go!
-
In the name of Jesus,
I command the last thing to go!
-
Go! In the name of Jesus,
every demon, come out!
-
Right now!
Leave him! Leave him!
-
Fill him up! Fill him up! More!
Freedom! Freedom!
-
This is real.
-
Thank you.
-
This is real!
-
If you want to read a book about
this, I want to recommend a book.
-
Maybe you have heard about it.
The name of the book is the Bible.
-
This is what
we read in the Bible.
-
He got set free and then
the Holy Spirit took over.
-
It's not just a picture;
it's real.
-
And if this is real in the Bible,
what about the rest?
-
Every word is real,
from the beginning to the end.
-
Hallelujah!
-
My friend!
-
I still remember
clenching my fists,
-
and I remember
banging on the water,
-
and then I was really
yelling out loud, and then
-
there was a commotion,
something happening.
-
I didn't know it was me.
I didn't know what was happening.
-
I had my eyes closed,
and then I opened my eyes,
-
and I was in a different position
to where I was before.
-
I was looking,
and Torben was over there,
-
and I was facing this way, and
before, I was facing the other way.
-
I didn't quite understand why.
-
And then there was
some more commotion.
-
The last thing I remember
was Torben saying,
-
"Demons, get out."
-
It was peaceful then;
it just calmed down.
-
There was quietness and silence.
-
I can remember looking up
and there were loads of people
-
with all their cameras out.
-
Many people looked at me
-
and it was like
I was in a bit of a shock.
-
Like coming out of a surgery
and everyone's there.
-
In terms of how
I can explain it,
-
through my life
and my experiences,
-
there's not anything
that's close to this.
-
But the best thing I have
from my experience
-
is it's like having
a tooth taken out.
-
I knew there was
something in there
-
when this commotion was going on,
that had no right to be there.
-
It's like now that
that tooth has come out,
-
and there's nothing there.
It has come out. Gone.
-
And there's like new skin there.
-
When you have
your tooth taken out,
-
you want to get your tongue
and you want to touch it.
-
You just creep your tongue over
to where the tooth has come out,
-
to feel what it is like,
and it was like that.
-
There was something
new and young there,
-
where this tooth had been.
-
And I'm happy I'm free,
thanks to Jesus Christ.
-
As soon as people get baptized,
I start to pray for them
-
for deliverance because now
they have died with Christ,
-
they have risen up with Christ,
so now Satan has to leave them.
-
And it's really strong
to see deliverance
-
out there as part of baptism.
-
And it was so powerful.
So many people came and saw it
-
and suddenly there was a multitude
of 150, 200 people looking on.
-
Right after he got set free,
he got baptized with the Holy Spirit
-
and spoke in tongues.
It was really powerful.
-
Then we were supposed to baptize
-
the rest of his family: his son
and his daughter, and his wife.
-
When they came down in
the water, ready to get baptized,
-
God did something amazing.
-
We read in the gospels today
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that Jesus got baptized
in the river Jordan.
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We read the bit when the heavens opened
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and the Holy Spirit
came down like a dove.
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Me and Lauren,
we were just saying,
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"Shall we pray that something
like that happens today?
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That we see a sign in the sky
when we get baptized?"
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So when we got baptized,
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I was in the water
waiting to get baptized,
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and I heard people in
the crowd saying, "Look up!"
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And I turned and I looked up and
saw 'real' written in the sky.
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And it was like my prayer
had been answered
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as I was about to get baptized.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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Everybody pointed and said,
"Look, look up!"
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And up in the sky,
there had just been an airplane
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writing in the sky, 'real'.
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And it was in the same time
that I was praying for her husband
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and he got delivered,
and I had been saying,
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"This is real.
This is not a picture."
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"If this is real. Everything we
read in the Bible is real."
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And suddenly we saw it,
in the sky,
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that God had written, 'real'.
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real
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Torben, look up!
- Yeah, I have seen it.
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Yeah, I see it.
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We started to preach
the gospel afterwards
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and many more people
repented and got saved that day.
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Instead of just baptizing eight
people as we were supposed to,
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we baptized more
than thirty people.
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Because people who
saw what happened,
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saw how people
got delivered from demons,
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saw how they
received the Holy Spirit,
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they also repented
from their sins
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and came and got baptized
and experienced the same.
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The demonic world is so real.
It's very real.
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I have seen glimpses
of it in churches
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when evangelists had come,
or so-called "men of God" had come,
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people who walk in authority.
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They pray for people
and see them manifest.
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But I had never seen it happen
from my own hand.
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The first real experience I had
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and probably
the biggest experience
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is when my wife and I
baptized someone
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for the first time in our home.
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This person, she was involved in
New Age: Reiki healing,
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tarot card reading, crystals,
a lot of New Age things.
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We baptized her and if we had
just left it at that
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like a normal church service,
we would have smiled,
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given her a certificate and
had a cup of coffee afterwards.
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But we continued to
pray for her, and pray for her,
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and after about two minutes,
the demons started to manifest.
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And one after one, they manifest
and we cast them out.
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And it was the most real,
the most radical experience,
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that I've ever had.
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It opened my eyes up
to the battle. This is a fight.
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We are not just asked,
we are not told it's a good idea,
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but we are commanded by Jesus
to cast out demons.
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We're given the responsibility
to set people free in Jesus' name.
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Why is there a fight going on?
Because Satan don't like it.
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But now we are going
under water and then
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she's going to come up
and you are going to see
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a freedom. You are going to see
a freedom and a new life.
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Just kneel down.
Don't be afraid. Kneel down.
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Just kneel down.
- I cannot.
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No, you can, you can.
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In the name of Jesus,
you can, you can.
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It's a new life.
Satan is a liar. Satan is a liar.
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He has been lying
and he don't want you
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to give everything over
to Jesus Christ.
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Because when you give yourself
over, he will set you free
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and Satan is going to lose
and he don't want this.
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You can.
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My knees don't want to bend.
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Go down, in the name of Jesus.
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She wants to, but her knees
don't want to bend.
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She cannot get down.
There is a fight going on.
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In Jesus' name,
God, we thank you.
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Just go down, in the name of Jesus,
just go down.
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Down, down, just go down,
in the name of Jesus.
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In the name of Jesus.
In the name of Jesus, go down.
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Go down, go down.
In the name of Jesus, go down.
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Are you ready to get baptized
to Jesus Christ?
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So on your own faith
we baptize you to Jesus Christ.
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Just go down. Die with Christ.
Up with Christ.
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Freedom! Freedom! Satan, go!
Leave her! Leave her, right now!
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Come out! Come out!
Leave him! Go!
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Come out! Go!
Right now!
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Loose! Loose!
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Go! Go! In the name of Jesus,
I command this religious spirit,
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go, right now,
in the name of Jesus!
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Go! Last thing, go!
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Go! Go, in the name of Jesus!
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Go! Right now!
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Go! Go!
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Get out, in the name of Jesus!
Get out!
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Go! Right now! Come out!
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Every anger, every fear,
go right now, in the name of Jesus!
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Come out! Right now!
Get out! Get out now!
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Come out, right now!
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I command you, go!
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Go! Go right now!
Freedom! Right now!
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Let it go!
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I command this demon, go!
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I command this spirit to go!
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Get out! Get out! Just now!
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Go, in the name of Jesus!
Go right now, in the name of Jesus!
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Get out right now!
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Go! Go! I command every demon,
leave him right now!
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Come out!
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Go, right now in Jesus' name!
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Come out!
Come out, right now!
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Go! Go!
Go, in the name of Jesus!
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I command every spirit, leave him.
Right now! Right now! Come out!
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Get out! Get out!
Get out right now in Jesus' name.
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Come out! Come out!
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Hallelujah.
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Can you experience a freedom?
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You are free.
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How is it?
- It's great, thank you!
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Come on, a new life.
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Come on, can you see it?
I love it!
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Come on friends, can you see it?
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This is the power in baptism.
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Repent from your sins,
towards Jesus Christ.
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It is a battle.
But Satan has lost.
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Jesus is alive.
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A new life, a new life.
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Freedom.
- Yes.
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Praise the Lord.
Praise Jesus.
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Thank you that you are filling her up.
Thank you, thank you.
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Amen!
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Amen!
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You got the Holy Spirit.
- Yeah.
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He has never spoken
in tongues before now.
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Powerful!
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We have seen so many people
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got delivered from sin
in baptism.
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We have seen
schizophrenic people
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get delivered from demons
in baptism.
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We have seen people
with eating disorders
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get delivered in baptism.
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We have seen sick people
get healed in baptism.
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We have seen many people
who were not able before
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to receive the baptism
with the Holy Spirit.
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But when they
got baptized in water,
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the Holy Spirit came over them
and they started to speak in tongues.
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It is real. I tell you, it is real.
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I don't know how to explain it,
but the Spirit of God came
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and I was really baptized in the
Spirit. I really spoke in tongues.
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I'm going to pray
and you are going to help me.
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What is your name?
- Kathy.
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Kathy has anxiety and she also wants
to get baptized with the Holy Spirit.
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We just met and I talked about baptism
with the Holy Spirit and how it is.
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God,
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I believe in you.
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I believe in you, Jesus.
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I repent.
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And I ask you,
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set me free
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from every anxiety
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and come with your Holy Spirit.
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Fill me up.
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Baptize me.
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Right now.
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In the name of Jesus.
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The Bible is clear that
there is always a sign
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when people receive
the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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In the Book of Acts, chapter 8,
we can read about Philip,
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how he came to Samaria
and he preached the gospel.
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And people received the message
and they repented
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and they got baptized
in water to Jesus Christ.
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But at that time
they had not yet
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received the baptism
with the Holy Spirit.
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So when the Apostles
came, they saw
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that they have not received the
baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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So they laid their hands on them
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and they received the baptism
with the Holy Spirit.
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You don't read
right there what happened,
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but you know there was a sign.
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Why?
Because there was a guy, Simon.
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Simon, he saw how
the Holy Spirit was given
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by the hands of the apostles.
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And when he saw that,
he wanted the same power,
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that those people on which
he would lay his hands
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would also receive
the Holy Spirit.
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Now we start to speak
in tongues, when I say, "Now"
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just say the first words
and let it out.
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Now.
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Holy Spirit, freedom.
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Freedom, right now.
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Freedom, right now.
Freedom, freedom.
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Holy Spirit, freedom.
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Freedom, right now.
Come with your strength, right now.
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Strength, strength.
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Yeah, it's cool, isn't it?
I had mine done yesterday.
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He got baptized with
the Holy Spirit yesterday
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and you, today.
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I have never spoken
in tongues before.
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How? It just came?
- Yeah.
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How was that?
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That was awesome;
that's crazy amazing.
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Try to imagine that
here in the middle of the street.
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That's awesome, thank you.
Thank you so much.
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You go and tell others
now about this.
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I have always felt that if there
are two camps;
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if you go to one camp they only
talk about miracles, miracles.
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That didn't seem to make
a lot of sense to me
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for the simple reason that
if Jesus only wanted
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to help us with miracles
and healing my physical body,
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and that's all he wanted to do,
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then it kind of contradicts
this whole aspect of
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God promising to give us believers
a new body one day.
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But at the same time, if I go
to the other side of the camp
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and I say miracles are not for
today, it's only the Word of God,
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then it contradicts Scripture
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because the Scripture says that
the Word will come with power
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and He'll confirm it with power.
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So where is that middle road?
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And the middle road is found
in the Word of God,
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where there is
a balance of both;
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where we want the Word of God
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to come together
with the power of God
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and actually make a
transformation in people's lives,
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where people will truly be
convicted by the Holy Spirit,
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experience a new life,
repent, turn from sin,
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not just confess sin,
but forsake sin,
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receive the power of God,
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be baptized in water,
speak in tongues,
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and operate on a
day-to-day basis
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with the power of God in you
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or rather, in the temple,
which is us.
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For years, I just goofed
around with religion.
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Then I moved away
from it completely,
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and then there was this hunger
to come back to it.
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And as I came back, I realized
there were areas in my life
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where I was shut down
in unbelief.
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That doesn't happen for today;
that was only in Jesus' time,
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or that's only meant for a few people.
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Then I read the Bible
and it says,
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"These signs will follow
those who believe."
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And I'm saying," I am a believer,
why is it not happening?"
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And what we need is
to stir each other's faith.
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If I have a team of people
and all doing the same thing,
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I get encouraged in my faith.
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The same with you now.
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Today you have a
gift of a language.
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If you don't use that gift,
guess what will happen?
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It will fall away.
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What will happen if you
have this in you now
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and you are not going
to read your Bible?
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You will throw it all away.
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Cultivate it;
make it your lifestyle.
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Make God the center of your life
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and do what we are doing
to your friends.
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Think of anyone you know,
any one of your friends.
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Call them and tell them
what happened.
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Share your testimony
and then you pray for them.
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Believe that when you put your
hand to pray,
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I am talking with confidence. Guess
how long have I been doing this?
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Since yesterday.
- Today.
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Today is my first day healing people.
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I am praying for healing today.
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Now just imagine,
all that church junk we learned,
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and I could never do anything.
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And now with the power
of God in us,
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you can do it right now,
and actually
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look for somebody, pray for them
and you will have a healing.
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That's the power of Jesus Christ.
He is amazing!
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Come on, all come together.
Watch what's happening.
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You will see what
God is going to do.
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Is that awesome?
- Yeah.
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Who wants to come first,
who has got a problem?
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No, no, really.
- You have got blisters, right now.
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Okay.
- You have got pain in the ankle?
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No, on my foot,
I have got blisters everywhere.
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Okay.
Be healed, in Jesus' name.
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How do you feel?
Move your leg.
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Oh, my God.
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No, I don't feel anything.
- Really?
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On a scale of one to ten,
do you feel any pain?
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Only two.
- Okay, let's pray again.
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Bones, come into alignment.
Be healed, in Jesus' name.
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I don't feel anything.
That's crazy.
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It is!
Isn't Jesus awesome?
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He is amazing, isn't He?
- I love Him.
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Thank you so much.
- Are you sure?
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You are not just saying this to please me?
- No, I am being legit.
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I can actually walk.
- Fantastic. Walk and show me. Come on.
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No pain at all?
Fabulous.
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Praise Jesus, praise Him.
Who is the next?
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I have joint pains in my knee.
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Right.
- Yeah.
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How long have you had it for?
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It started about the middle of
last year and it comes and goes.
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What would you say
is the pain level now?
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Can you feel any pain?
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When I put pressure on it.
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Okay, let's pray.
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Knees, joints be healed,
in Jesus' name.
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Move it now
and see how you feel.
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Just move it around.
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That's a bit funny.
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It was there two seconds ago
and now it doesn't hurt.
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At all? Completely?
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At all. I'm putting
pressure on it.
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If I put pressure on it
normally I feel like...
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Is it completely gone?
- Yeah.
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Praise God for that.
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You know how this
healing happened?
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By the power of Jesus.
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It's Jesus that does it, not me.
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I am not any special person;
I am just a messenger.
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Anyone else has got anything?
Come on.
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I recently recovered
from a sprained ankle
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and still get pain
every now and again.
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Do you have it right now?
- A little bit.
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Move it around and see
what kind of pain you have.
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Yeah, I have got pain.
- Okay.
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Ankles, be healed,
in the name of Jesus.
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Move your ankle.
- That feels weird.
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Come on, walk a little bit.
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That's so...
- Isn't He amazing?
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I am as amazed as you,
because you know what?
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I am a new Christian.
I have just been baptized in water.
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I have just received
the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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I spoke in a foreign language,
just like the Bible says.
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Then the Bible says,
go out and heal people.
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Don't listen to the religious
denominations of Christianity.
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That's all rubbish.
That's all religion.
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True followers of Christ
do what Jesus tells us to do,
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and that's what we do.
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We are simple, ordinary people,
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just going out and
listening to what Jesus says.
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How much do you know
about the Holy Spirit?
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And baptism with the Holy Spirit?
- He intercedes for me.
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Have you heard about speaking in tongues?
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I have; I have seen it
when I was younger
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but I got really scared,
so I wasn't sure what it was,
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with very little understanding
about the Bible
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and how the Holy Spirit works.
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It was kind of hard for me
to understand, but
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in the church that I go to
I have not seen it happening yet.
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In the Book of Acts, chapter 19,
you read about Paul,
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how he came to Ephesus,
where he met some believers.
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He did not ask them
which church they attended,
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because this is not important.
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He asked them,
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"Did you receive the Holy Spirit
when you believed?"
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And those believers had not yet
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got baptized in water
in the name of Jesus Christ
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and they had not yet
received the Holy Spirit.
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So Paul, there baptized
them to Jesus Christ
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and when he then laid
the hands on them,
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they all received the Holy Spirit
and started speaking in tongues.
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Freedom. Freedom. More.
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More freedom. Freedom, right now.
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God, we thank you for your love.
We thank you for your freedom.
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Thank you Holy Spirit that you are
filling her up. You are filling her up.
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Never the same, never the same.
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How are you?
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You felt that... God...
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You have never experienced that?
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I will never be the same.
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And there in that mall,
I laid the hands on her
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and the Holy Spirit
came over her.
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She had never experienced
that before.
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She was so touched
by the Holy Spirit,
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so we decided to go outside
to talk and pray a little more.
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Outside, when I prayed for her,
a demon started to manifest.
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I command this spirit,
go right now!
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I command this,
leave her, right now!
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There is freedom.
There is freedom.
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Come out! Go!
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Freedom, right now.
Freedom, right now.
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Go!
Go, I command this spirit, go!
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Go! Go! Right now! Go!
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Leave her! Leave her!
Right now! Leave her!
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In the beginning, I did not know
exactly what I was praying for,
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but then God revealed it to me.
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He showed me a sin in her life
that she had done.
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When I told her that,
she broke down crying
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and said, "How did you know,
how did you know this?
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Can God forgive me?"
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There, outside that mall
that young girl met God.
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It was so strong.
So at one point,
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there came three guards
running out and she said,
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"Go away, go away,
I want to talk with them.
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I want to talk with them."
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And that day, that girl met God.
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Later in the afternoon, she came
and we prayed for her
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and she got baptized with the
Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues.
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It was very emotional.
And when he was praying for me,
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I have never mentioned it
to him before
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but he did tell me
that I reminded him of
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someone who was going
through the same thing.
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And that's when I knew that God
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wanted to tell me that day
that He has forgiven me.
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Even though, I didn't want
to forgive myself
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because I thought there is
no forgiveness for such thing.
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But that day, God used Torben
to let me know that
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He loves me and He forgave me
from what I have done.
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And He has allowed me
to experience that.
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I will never forget it and
I will never be the same again.
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Can you tell about yesterday
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and then what happened today?
- Yeah.
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Sorry, I'm just really happy.
I thought about it yesterday.
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It really is His way
of telling me.
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Because I was tired
of looking for answers
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and I could not
find it anywhere.
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There was always
something inside me.
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Yesterday it was finalized for me
and I am just really happy for it.
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So today I got baptized.
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I felt really great after.
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It's something that I have been
thinking of doing before
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but I thought that there are
things I have to do first
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before I can do it.
I have to talk to a pastor,
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have a couple of seminars
or something like that,
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So, on your own faith
we baptize you to Jesus Christ.
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Die with Christ.
Up with Christ.
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God, we thank you for Maria.
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We thank you for everything
you have done, God.
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Thank you for what
you did yesterday and today.
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Thank you for what you
are going to do in the future, God.
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It's so amazing, how God
really answers prayers
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and how He can give you,
in His perfect time,
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the things that you
need to learn
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and the things you need
to know about His love.
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I was actually praying
the night before I met Torben.
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I was praying that night on the
highway while I was driving.
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I was praying that I would have
this desire in my heart
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to know Him and to reach out
and just give everything to Him,
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but I didn't know
where to start.
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I felt like I've ran away so far
that... He's not there anymore.
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But yesterday He
answered my prayer
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and He made me realize
that He was there the entire time.
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He was right there, when I
was grieving, when I was depressed.
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Depression got me big.
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But I'm still here and I'm
a representation of His love.
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I really think that when
the church comes back
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to a true baptism,
the true gospel:
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Repent, turn to Christ.
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Be baptized for the
remission of your sins.
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Die with Christ
and rise with Christ
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and be filled
with the Holy Spirit.
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That would change this world.
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What we see in the Book of Acts
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is an organic, dynamic
life with God
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that is not based on hierarchy.
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It's not based on programs
or projects.
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It's people
who are following Jesus.
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As we are living the
Book of Acts,
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we are now seeing
how that plays out in life.
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And now, when we look into
that perfect mirror of God's Word,
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where it says,
"The Word became flesh."
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It's happening in our own lives.
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So it's like, we are now looking at
ourselves when we read Scripture.
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I see people
who are fed up with structure.
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I see people
who are fed up with traditions.
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I see people who will not
accept anything but the truth.
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Almost every Christian in the world
wants to see a revival.
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But my picture
of revival was like,
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some angels from heaven will come,
or a light, and everyone gets started
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and just wake up,
and then we have the revival.
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But, what we see today is that
when all Christians on this planet
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get activated, start doing
the things the Bible says
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we are going to do:
go out, heal the sick,
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preach the gospel, lead people
to Christ; then we have the revival.
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I believe that the revival has been here
since Jesus came 2000 years ago.
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I truly believe
this is the last reformation,
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the last reformation
of the church.
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This stuff is real. It's real.
You can do it.
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It's just a case
of going out there
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and start working on the street.
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We hide a lot of stuff
in the church
-
and there is a lot of
bondage in the church,
-
but we need to get out there
and be doing it, on the edge.
-
God is real and He called us to
be His disciples, Jesus' disciples,
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to go out and show
the world He is real.
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This is real.
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It is real. I tell you, it is real.
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It's real!
It's really real!
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It's really real, y'all!
-
This is real!
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If this is real in the Bible,
what about the rest?
-
Every word is real,
from the beginning to the end.
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Real.
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This is real.
We are living in the last days,
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where God is bringing His church
back to the truth,
-
back to the real life
we have been longing for.
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The real life we have been
reading about in the Book of Acts,
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where the Holy Spirit is leading.
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This is happening, and it's
happening all over the world.
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So let us keep the focus,
let us continue making disciples
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and let Jesus build His church.
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I believe it's
the last reformation
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and this is just the beginning.
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Do you still remember the word
I spoke to you?
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Do you still remember the dream
I gave to you?
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Time passes and the calendar's
filled up.
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But one is necessary,
spend time with me.
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Wake up, my people.
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Soon, I'm coming back.
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One is necessary.
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Spend time with me.
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I'm guiding you.
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If you want to be my disciple,
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you must deny yourself
and lay your own dreams down.
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Follow me, no matter
what the cost is.
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Then you will get eternal life.
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Wake up, my people.
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Soon, I'm coming back.
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One is necessary.
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Spend time with me.
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I'm guiding you.
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Do you have time for me?
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To seek my Kingdom,
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to seek my face.
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I want to speak to you.
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I want to lead you step by step.
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I'm calling you.
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Will you follow me
no matter what the cost is?
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I'm calling you. I'm calling you.
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Subtitles by: Mark Sheats, Robbert Dam,
Therese Visconti & Lourens Akkerman.