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Do you think you are the only one who has this thing figured out correctly?

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That question, of course, comes up from time to time. I’m not sure that it’s not usually asked in derision.

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I think often times that question is asked by someone who doesn’t really want to apply truth to his or her own life.

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Somehow if you shoot the messenger, you don’t have to listen to the message.

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If you say, “Well you said that with pride,” or “I don’t like how you said that,” or “You think you’re the only ones,”

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then somehow, even if there was something true being said, it seems like you can discard it.

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“If they think they know all the answers, then I don’t have to listen to what they said.” That doesn't follow. That's not logical.

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If something is truth, it’s truth.

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And what we corporately or I personally think about how many other people comprehend some certain truth or another, really is irrelevant.

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We know people in different countries and in many cities throughout the United States…

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with whom we are in good, solid, working daily relationships through electronic mail and telephone calls and visits back and forth.

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We know for a fact that there are many people around the world who have a very high vision of what God wants to do and what He is doing in their midst.

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They have contributed to our lives as we’ve hopefully contributed to theirs.

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And I expect in the days to come God will continue to bring more and more people into a dissatisfaction with things that are not His heart.

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People will begin to become jealous for the people around them…

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that are simple and honest, but--like orange trees in Alaska--are not flourishing as they could in a different environment.

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Others will become jealous for the well being of the 70% of the people in their church

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who are no more mature twenty years after they became a Christian than they were one year after conversion.

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They will become indignant about it, with zeal for the Father’s house consuming them

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and the pains of childbirth overtaking them as they wrestle to present those around them complete in Christ.

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As more and more people take responsibility to walk these issues out, not only in their own lives and families, but also with people around them,

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then I’m sure they will be contributing to our lives too.

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I would prefer to be out of the picture entirely. It’s not our desire to be a voice representing anything.

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We’ve never really wanted anything like that. We would rather mind our own business. It would be an easier way.

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You have fewer enemies if you just live "the good Christian life" and mind your own business and never make a statement about anything.

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But I and many others here and in other cities and other countries, have a zeal that all of God’s people be set free

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to be the priests they were always meant to be and to live in fellowship with the Father, Son and Holy Ghost within the body they were always meant to have.

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They deserve to have “the joints supplying as they grow up into the measure and stature of Christ.”

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That’s their inheritance. And more importantly, Jesus deserves it. It’s His inheritance, too.

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And that’s why were going to the trouble to speak up.

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Suppose everybody in this city and other cities had an even higher and loftier vision of what God wants.

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What if they were working it out and driving these things home and living them?

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What if lives were changing, and instead of the “committed 10%,” you had the 99%?

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If the fruit was there, bearing evidence of wisdom from God, I would love to be just down in the middle of the pack someplace,

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making tents for men and women of God in this city and other cities who would be doing a number on satan’s head.

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I would love that! I love what Paul wrote to the Romans about, how God would soon crush satan under their feet.

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Not just under Jesus’ feet when He comes back, but under the feet of the believers in Rome!

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May God soon crush satan under our feet. That is what I desire for this city and every other city and nation.

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