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are you ready to open your entire
life to jesus
i mean are you really ready to get in
and put everything out before him
and say okay lord if there’s anything
i’m doing that you don’t like
oh yeah we’re going there
[Applause]
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if there’s anything i’m doing that you
don’t like
if you’ll show me and help me
i’ll be willing to
sacrifice it to have more of you
in my life you see god never takes ask
us to give up
anything if he doesn’t intend to replace
it with more of himself
amen
and the things that we cling to are the
things that make us miserable
we think it’s what we need but it’s like
a mirage
it’s like that person out in the desert
who thinks they see water and when they
get there it’s not water at all
you know we see these things oh i gotta
have that oh my god oh man i gotta have
that
and then we wonder why we still stay
miserable
i appeal to you to make a decisive
dedication so it’s a decision
that’s a dedication and bring yourself
as a living sacrifice
yes the word sacrifice is in the bible
as a living sacrifice he doesn’t want
dead sacrifices anymore he had those
under the old covenant
now he wants living sacrifices
they’re going to get out in the world
and show people what it’s really like
to have an intimate relationship with
god through christ
and what it’s really like to be full of
the life of
god okay
so you want to go there with me right
all right now
we’re going to break this up into four
segments this weekend
tonight i’m going to talk to you about
being spiritually healthy
because if your spirit is not
right none of the rest of you is ever
going to get right
and then throughout the weekend i’m
going to talk about
your body i’m not going to tell you what
meeting i’m going to do these in because
if i do you’ll decide that you don’t
want some of them
because i’m going to really just kind of
mess around in stuff that’s probably
none of my business but we’re going to
go there anyway like
eating and sleeping
and we’re just gonna cover everything
this weekend because you see god wants
us to dedicate
all of it i said he wants us to dedicate
all of it
not just some part but all of it so to
be spiritually healthy
obviously the first thing we need is to
receive christ as our savior
that’s the beginning and so
what does it mean to be born again
well you’re born again
inside your spirit is made new
god comes to live in your spirit
and you become the home of god now that
to me is just an amazing thing
and we’ll talk about that a little bit
more when we talk about the body
god lives in you as a believer
but i’m particularly fond of first john
3 9
and so we’re going to share that in
talking about
the new birth no one born of god
are born again deliberately
knowingly and habitually practices sin
now it doesn’t say he never sins
but it says you don’t habitually
knowingly purposely
live a lifestyle of sin
you can’t do that anymore if you’re
truly born again and if somebody says to
you that they’re a christian
and they’re doing that then something’s
wrong
because you get a new nature god’s
nature comes to dwell
in you you get a new heart and so you
just cannot
keep doing all the things that everybody
in the world does
can’t keep doing all kinds of ungodly
things because
and it’s not even because it’s wrong and
god doesn’t want you to do it you just
can’t do it because it’s not your nature
to keep doing it anymore
[Applause]
and so you you can’t be happy with it
now i’m not saying that you never sin of
course you sin and there may be things
that
are bondages in our lives that it takes
us a while to
get free from and you know we make
allowances for all those things
but i’m just saying that if you’re
really born again
then you can’t just live in sin
and just be happy with it
you just can’t i mean if you thought you
were miserable
in your sin before you were born again
you just get god living on the inside of
you and keep it up and see how miserable
you can get
[Applause]
amen
he cannot continue to live that kind of
life because god’s nature abides in him
now i love the way the amplified bible
puts this
his principle of life the divine sperm
remains permanently within him
and he cannot practice sinning because
he is born
or begotten of god now
now what’s this divine sperm thing now
we all know that when a woman gets
pregnant
the sperm of her husband is planted in
her womb
and she becomes pregnant with a child
now i’m real fond of this
because this is putting it about as
plain as it can be
jesus as far as looking at this
would be the son of god the divine sperm
of god
when you’re born again he comes to live
in you
he’s planted in the womb of your spirit
and i love to say it this way i’m not
trying to be
cute or weird or anything else but i
think when you’re born again
you become pregnant so to speak with
everything that god is
he’s in you joy is in you peace is in
you righteousness is in you
holiness is in you you are just
you are so full of good things
you are amazing
[Music]
and many of you don’t even know it yet
you don’t even know how amazing you are
the anointing is in you the presence of
god is in you
power is in you
i mean you’ve got what it takes
to live an amazing life and to do
amazing things but the devil doesn’t
want you to know it
so see no matter what you have and i’m
telling you you got it
if you’re born again you got it i got a
little
song that i teach people i got it i got
it
i really really got it i got it i got it
i’m not much of a singer but there you
have it
you let that jingle get in your head and
you’ll walk around and sing and i like
it
i really really got it
and that’s better than looking for it
all your life
[Applause]
see that doesn’t even work i’m looking
for it i’m looking for it
i’m really really looking forward i’m
looking forward i’m looking for it
i mean that just wears me out even
trying to sing it
but when i say i got it i got it i
really really got it
[Applause]
and see you you’ve got it
god is abiding in you and so when he
comes everything he is comes
but just like when a woman gets pregnant
she gets all excited
just like a born again
[Applause]
and but when she’s first pregnant one of
the things that people say is well you
sure don’t look pregnant
well that’s what people say to us a lot
of times when we first start serving god
while you
you don’t look any different you haven’t
changed you’re no different
but see god sees the end from the
beginning
and everything that he does comes as a
seed
come on and as you
water it with the word
this just gets so exciting as you water
it with the word
and the sun shines on you
yeah you got it and then pretty soon you
know what people say i see it
i see it i really really see it
[Applause]
and that’s what we want we don’t want to
just know we’ve got it but nobody else
believe we’ve got it
we want people to see god
working through us and that comes from
doing just what you’re doing here
tonight
that comes from spending time in the
word spending time worshiping god
spending time just in an anointed
atmosphere
and trusting that god is working in you
and changing you
from glory to glory amen give god a big
shout
[Applause]
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