Bill Johnson: There was one lamb sacrificed in the old testament for an entire household so we declare “Households saved!”

i plead

the blood of jesus

and i mention my children their spouses

my grandchildren

just do that right now if you have a

family member that’s not walking with

the lord

just declare i plead the blood of jesus

over them

i remind you in case you don’t know this

there was one lamb sacrificed in the old

testament for an entire household

an entire household so we declare

households saved

in jesus name households saved

let’s share in the shed blood of jesus

right now

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go ahead and be seated we’re going to
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share in communion uh is there anyone
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who didn’t
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get uh you weren’t handed any communion
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supplies when you came in
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put your hands up high we’ve got some
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mushrooms around that will bring it to
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you keep them up high
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those of you the communion supplies
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please come we’ve got a whole bunch of
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people here
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[Music]
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don’t become weary and well doing keep
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that hand up
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let’s okay we got some more back here in
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the middle
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thanks jim thank you got some more there
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more back
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there wow wow
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[Music]
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okay wave your hand if we missed you and
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still
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[Music]
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if you get tired just lift the other
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hand there we go there’s another one
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there yep
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yep there we go all right
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i think we got everyone okay
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shh
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um we’re going to celebrating communion
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together tonight
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and we get to celebrate because
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jesus died on the cross gave up his life
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and so we get to celebrate because he
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gave his life
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so i’m going to be reading out of first
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corinthians chapter 11
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verse 23 i received from the lord
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that which i also delivered to you that
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the lord jesus
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on the same night in which he was
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betrayed
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took bread and when he had given
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thanks he broke it and said
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take east this is the body which is
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broken for you
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do this in remembrance of me
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in the same manner he also took the cup
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after supper saying
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this cup is the new covenant
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in my blood this do as often as you
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drink it
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in remembrance of me for as
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often as you eat this bread and drink
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this cup
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you proclaim or some translations say
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you
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retell the lord’s death
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till he comes so every time we
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take uh communion together we are
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retelling
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the story we are retelling the world
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i am so impacted that there there’s so
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much
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power in the gospel so much power in the
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gospel
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and in this passage it says that jesus
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was betrayed
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and in the midst of the betrayal he
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turned around and he blessed his
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disciples
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he knew that they were all going to run
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and hide
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but he still blessed them
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so tonight we’re going to celebrate
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together
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i had a very unusual
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memory come back to me just moments ago
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i remember the first time i did water
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baptism with my dad
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in the sacramento river we had about 60
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people that we baptized it was a
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wonderful wonderful event
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but when it was over i almost felt like
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i could float out of the water
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i mean what i mean by that there was
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such a sense
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of presence there was such an awareness
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of god
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through that tradition
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this is a tradition the new testament
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criticizes traditions
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but in the new testament all the
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traditions are criticized
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replaced and contradicted scripture they
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didn’t illustrate scripture
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and what we’re doing here today is
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modeling
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illustrating celebrating and it’s not
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the kind
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of tradition that scripture warns about
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because this is just rich
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there’s a couple things going on here
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that are really important to me before
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we actually
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share in this broken body and shed blood
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of jesus
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one is the public reading of scripture
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we’ve read more and we have more coming
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we we’ve read almost the entire new
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testament tonight
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and and we’ve got more um it’s not
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something that we do in our
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tradition to this extent
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and probably should paul actually gave a
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command to timothy he said don’t neglect
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the public reading of scripture don’t
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neglect the public reading of scripture
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and i feel honestly i feel from the
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public reading of scripture that same
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glory that same anointing that i felt at
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the end of water baptism
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it’s it’s a i’ve never sensed this in my
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life
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before in in this measure and it’s been
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the public reading of scripture
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after two of these services there’s this
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awareness
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of the living word of god who is present
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the living word of god who is present
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absolutely anything is possible the
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living word
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of god is present the other thing that
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has moved me so much is all the parents
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that brought
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children little kids young people
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i love it so much
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we sometimes train our children
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what’s important to us about what kinds
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of hassles we’re willing to face and
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endure
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and oftentimes bringing children around
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where they’re going to run around and
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play
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which i’m completely good with i just
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want them to be in the atmosphere
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i just want them to be in the place
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where god can touch them i’ve watched
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this for too many years
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you never know what will happen in a
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moment like this
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and i just want to honor the parents and
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the young people that came
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to an event like this because there’s
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something happening here
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where i believe god is releasing a rich
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rich
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impartation a world heritage i want you
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to stand with me now we’re going to
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share communion together
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i read something two weeks ago that
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really marked me i never thought of it
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before i should have
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it was uh written in my study bible
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comments by jack hayford one of my
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heroes and
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and personal friends
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you remember when he was jesus was beat
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with a whip
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and he endured all that suffering think
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about this
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that wasn’t necessary for him to redeem
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us
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all that needed to happen was the
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shedding of his blood
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and his death followed by resurrection
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but the suffering wasn’t necessary for
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us to be forgiven
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born again what was the suffering for
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what was this broken body that you hold
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in your hands what was it for
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jesus said it says in scripture excuse
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me
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by his stripes we are healed
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the suffering was for our healing
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the suffering was for our healing
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healing emotionally physically
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spiritually i just talked with somebody
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before the first service
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today they were healed of a brain tumor
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that caused ongoing seizures
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and there was no cure and they received
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prayer
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and they’ve been completely healed of
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all medications
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completely healed yeah medicine had
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no solution for that thing but jesus
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healed him you hold in your hands
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that which represents and for many
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traditions
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that which is actually the body of jesus
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i really don’t care
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for for me that’s the way i honor is the
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broken body of jesus
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with that kind of respect
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this is a testimony the price has been
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paid
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for anything you’re dealing with
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physically
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emotionally mentally the price has been
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paid
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jesus didn’t pay a price so that you
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could also pay a price
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it’d be like somebody buying you a car
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then you’re going down insisting on
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making payments
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jesus made the once and for all
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payment and you hold it in your hands
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i want you to pray right now for anyone
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that you know needs a miracle maybe you
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i like when i i’ve taken communion twice
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today i’ve discovered you can’t overdose
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on communion this is beautiful
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[Music]
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just declare it over yourself by the
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stripes of jesus i was healed
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say it with some faith and some
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confidence by the stripes of jesus
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i was healed you have a family member or
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friend that’s battling something
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by the stripes of jesus paul was healed
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by the stripes of jesus mark was healed
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bring their name before the lord
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we declare that over them in jesus name
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jesus also bore on his flesh on his body
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the dividing wall between jew and
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gentile which is the greatest division
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in human history that tells me
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he paid a price for unity any division
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you know of whether it’s racial whether
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it’s a marriage
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whether it’s a parent child doesn’t
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matter what it is
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jesus bore the weight of that payment
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too
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so i want you right now just to mention
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their names and just declare
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we declare the peace of god over that
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relationship right now in jesus name
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we declare the peace of god now let’s
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partake of this bread together
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the broken body of jesus
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[Music]
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thank you god
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[Music]
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you cannot over emphasize the blood
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it cannot be over ever since there is no
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forgiveness
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without the shedding of blood there is
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no remission of sin
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it is a problem that has no other cure
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there is no other cure
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only the blood of the spotless
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lamb of god jesus the christ
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only that blood could once and for all
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not just cover sin but wipe out its
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authority
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its power its consequences
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take just a moment pray for your
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immediate family
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what i like to do is i just say i plead
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the blood of jesus
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and i mention my children their spouses
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my grandchildren
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just do that right now if you have a
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family member that’s not walking with
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the lord
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just declare i plead the blood of jesus
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over them
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i remind you in case you don’t know this
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there was one lamb sacrificed in the old
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testament for an entire household
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an entire household so we declare
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households saved
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in jesus name households say
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let’s share in the shed blood of jesus
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right now
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wow wow wow
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let’s just lift up a nice shout of
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thanks and praise the lord
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[Music]
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so
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how did the father’s
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love for us
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how vast
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that he should give his
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only son