The church is an eternal organism in the earth, doing the will of God and accomplishing the purpose

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If We Are the Body
The church is an eternal organism in the earth,
doing the will of God and accomplishing the
purpose of God.

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If We Are the Body
Then Let the Fire Fall!

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• 1 Corinthians 101 Moreover, brethren, I would
  not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our
  fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
  through the sea
• 1 Corinthians 104 And did all drink the same
  spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual
  Rock that followed them and that Rock was
  Christ.

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• 1 Corinthians 106 Now these things were our
  examples, to the intent we should not lust after
  evil things, as they also lusted.
• 1 Corinthians 1011 Now all these things
  happened unto them for ensamples and they are
  written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of
  the world are come.

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The Book Of Judges
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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

We MUST embody the WORD of God We MUST embody the
IMAGE of God We MUST embody the POWER of God We
MUST embody the LIFE of God We MUST embody the
GLORY of God We MUST embody the LOVE of God We
MUST embody the LIGHT of God
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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

Luke 1248(b)- For unto whomsoever much is
given, of him shall be much required
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• A Physical Crisis

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• Luke 425 But I tell you of a truth, many
  widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when
  the heaven was shut up three years and six
  months, when great famine was throughout all the
  land
• James 517 Elias was a man subject to like
  passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that
  it might not rain and it rained not on the earth
  by the space of three years and six months.

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• A Economic Crisis

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• A Political Crisis

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King Ahab
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jezebel
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• A Moral Crisis

A Moral Crisis
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• Judges 833 And it came to pass, as soon as
  Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel
  turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim,
  and made Baalberith their god.

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• A Spiritual Crisis

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850 to one!
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850 to one!
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What is the fire of God?
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What is the fire of God?

• Gods Presence!

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What is the fire of God?

• Exodus 32 And the angel of the LORD appeared
  unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
  bush and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned
  with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

• Gods Presence!

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What is the fire of God?

• Exodus 1321 And the LORD went before them by
  day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way
  and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them
  light to go by day and night

• Gods Presence!

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What is the fire of God?

• Gods Presence.
• Gods Power!

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What is the fire of God?

• Exodus 1917-18 And Moses brought forth the
  people out of the camp to meet with God and they
  stood at the nether part of the mount. And mount
  Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
  descended upon it in fire and the smoke thereof
  ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole
  mount quaked greatly.

• Gods Power!

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What is the fire of God?

• Luke 316 John answered, saying unto them all,
  I indeed baptize you with water but one mightier
  than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am
  not worthy to unloose he shall baptize you with
  the Holy Ghost and with fire

• Gods Power!

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What is the fire of God?

• Acts 2

• Gods Power!

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What is the fire of God?

• Gods Presence.
• Gods Power!

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Where is the fire of God?
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Where is the fire of God?-Spiritual victory-
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all, All, ALL, ALL, ALL

• Acts 114 These all continued with one accord
  in prayer and supplication, with the women, and
  Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
• Acts 21 And when the day of Pentecost was
  fully come, they were all with one accord in one
  place.
• Acts 244 And all that believed were together,
  and had all things common
• Acts 431 And when they had prayed, the place
  was shaken where they were assembled together
  and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and
  they spake the word of God with boldness.
• Acts 512 And by the hands of the apostles
  were many signs and wonders wrought among the
  people (and they were all with one accord in
  Solomon's porch.

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ALL

• Ephesians 413 Till we all come in the unity
  of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of
  God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
  stature of the fulness of Christ
• 1 Corinthians 110 Now I beseech you,
  brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  that ye all speak the same thing, and that there
  be no divisions among you but that ye be
  perfectly joined together in the same mind and in
  the same judgment.

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• But if we are the bodyWhy aren't His arms
  reaching?Why aren't His hands healing?Why
  aren't His words teaching?And if we are the
  bodyWhy aren't His feet going?Why is His love
  not showing them there is a way?There is a way

Embody the WORD of God - Expository
Preaching Embody the IMAGE of God - Biblical
Discipleship Embody the POWER of God - Global
Missions Embody the LIFE of God - Exponential
Reproduction Embody the GLORY of God - Spirited
Worship Embody the LOVE of God - Sacrificial
Love Embody the LIGHT of God Christ-like
Holiness
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To have the fire of God- We must repair the
altar that is broken down-
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The altar is the place where daily

• Contrition is manifest

• Psalms 5116-17 For thou desirest not
  sacrifice else would I give it thou delightest
  not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are
  a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart, O
  God, thou wilt not despise.

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The altar is the place where daily

• Contrition is manifest

Exodus 2024-25 An altar of earth thou
shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon
thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy
sheep, and thine oxen in all places where I
record my name I will come unto thee, and I will
bless thee. And if thou wilt make me an altar of
stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone for
if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast
polluted it.
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The altar is the place where daily

• Contrition is manifest
• Connection is maximized

• Exodus 2942 This shall be a continual burnt
  offering throughout your generations at the door
  of the tabernacle of the congregation before the
  LORD where I will meet you, to speak there unto
  thee.

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The altar is the place where daily

• Contrition is manifest
• Connection is maximized
• Confession is made

• 1 John 19 If we confess our sins, He is
  faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to
  cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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The altar is the place where daily

• Contrition is manifest
• Connection is maximized
• Communion is made
• Communion is maintained

• Hebrews 1310 We have an altar, whereof they
  have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

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To have the fire of God- We must pay the price
of sacrifice-
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To have the fire of God- We must pay the price
of sacrifice-
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To have the fire of God- We must be intimately
connected to god in prayer-
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If We Are the Body
Then Let the Fire Fall!