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Why Most Christians Lack Power
May 3, 2026 · 58 min
Pastor Jeff unpacks five barriers that keep believers from walking in the spiritual power God has for them. Through Acts 19, he shows how incomplete truth, fading love, fake authority, hidden sin, and spiritual compromise can block the abundant life Jesus Christ promised.
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Pastor Jeff Schwarzentraub serves as president of Pastor Jeff Ministries, a national and global ministry designed to equip believers and challenge them to take
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In this video 0:00 Overcoming Incomplete Truth16:07 Speak Boldly from First Love28:16 Reject Fake Spiritual Authority40:47 Fully Repent for True Freedom49:36 Confront Culture with Gospel Power
Overcoming Incomplete Truth 0:00 Well, good morning. Would you help me welcome all of our brave campuses this morning? So great to worship with all of you. I wanna remind you, I said last week, but in case you weren't here last0:12 week, would love you to sign up for the last stand. Seth Gruber and his team will be here. There'll be speakers from all over the country. They've extended we're the only church they've done this for. They've given us a0:23 code and that QR code, if you use the password that they have for you, it's not just 20 percent off. It's 50 percent off for you to come. It'll be worth your time even if you can't be there the whole time, totally0:35 understand, but would encourage you to sign up and be a part of this. It's gonna be special in the life of our church. And with that, let's continue our worship this morning as we go before the Lord and get ready to hear0:45 his living and his active word among us. Would you pray with me? Our father in heaven, we do give you glory, honor, and praise for who you are. And Lord, we gather as your saints in your house here this morning to give0:55 you all the honor, glory, and praise that you so rightly deserve. Lord, it does well for our soul when we gather with your people. It does well for our soul when we worship your name. And, Lord, it does well for our soul1:07 when we hear your word. Because, Lord, we as a people believe that every time your word is faithfully and accurately proclaimed that it is you who are speaking. So our prayer this morning is speak Lord for we are ready
1:18 to hear. And so now for all those who have gathered who desire to hear the Lord Jesus Christ speak directly to you, who will believe what he tells you, and who will by faith put into practice what he shows you, Will you
1:30 agree with me very loudly this morning by saying the word, amen. Amen. Many Christians believe that God is holding something back from
1:42 you. When in reality there's a blockage between you and God. Many people read the word, especially when we read the book of acts and they say, Yeah. That was great that God could work like that back then, or That's
1:53 interesting that he could use disciples like that back then. Why is he work like that today? What what's what's the problem? Maybe God's holding out on me. The
2:05 Bible says God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The the same God we read about, the same God I am proclaiming, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Lord Jesus Christ, the same God of
2:17 the Bible is the same God that's available to us today. So then why is it that so many Christians lack power?
2:31 Greatest glories of the gospel and the mystery of the gospel, what we didn't understand is that when we trust Jesus Christ, the spirit of God, the third person of the Trinity, God himself comes to indwell
2:43 us. He lives inside of us. Where do you get the power you need from God? Where is he as a believer? Within you. And so why is it that so many people that say,
2:54 well, I love God. I'm just struggling. I I I just can't seem to share my faith or this same habitual sin I can't get over. I I just can't seem to get Perhaps it's not because God's withholding from you. Perhaps there's
3:06 something you're withholding from him. And this morning, we wanna take a look at why Christians lack power, why so many Christians lack power. And to do that, we're gonna be in Acts chapter 19 this morning.
3:18 Acts chapter 19, and I wanna encourage you, to turn there. And and when you turn there, you'll realize that as we were concluding last week's message in Acts chapter 18, Paul had finished his,
3:30 second missionary journey and then there was a talk about Apollos and him learning a better way. And this is Paul, while this is going on, is really starting his third
3:42 missionary journey. And today, as we talk about why most Christians lack power, I'm gonna give you 5 reasons for that. Now, as you hear these reasons, you can build a list, but perhaps
3:55 4 of the 5 you're doing pretty well in, but there's 1 that you're saying, that's my blockage. The key is not that you remember every point that I make. The key is that you allow the holy spirit to apply these 5 points
4:06 into your life. There may be points where you're nodding and saying, that's true. I used to struggle with that. I don't anymore because I'm doing that. It could be that all 5 of them are areas where you're like, that's
4:16 me. And however the spirit speaks to you this morning is how I want you to hear his word because God's word is living and active. He wants to tell you today why it could be that you're lacking power in your
4:27 life. Acts chapter 19 starting in verse 1. It says, it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus and found some disciples. You
4:39 remember that Paul had been in Ephesus for a short period of time, and now he's going back. He said to them, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And they said to him, No.
4:51 We have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit. And he said, Into what then were you baptized? And they said, Into John's
5:03 baptism. So Paul's telling them like, Have you received the Holy Spirit? Like, No, we didn't even know there was a Holy Spirit. We didn't even know a Holy Spirit existed. Like, what are you even talking about? So Paul
5:13 asked him, well, when you were baptized, who were you baptized into? Were you baptized into Jesus? They said, no. You know, we were baptized with with a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. It was
5:25 what John the Baptist was teaching. John the Baptist was teaching to be baptized and repent, be baptized because the Messiah is coming. At this point in time, the Messiah has
5:37 already come. Jesus, God in flesh, has come. He's fulfilled the law. He's died on the cross. He's risen from the dead. So he's asking them into what baptism? They said into John's baptism. We heard John
5:49 the Baptist. We believe that a messiah was coming. We believe that God is coming. We knew that we're sinful and that God was coming to deliver us from our sin, so we were getting ready for him to
6:00 come. That's what we were baptized into. So we don't have the Holy Spirit. We're we're waiting on what God's going to do. And Paul said, John baptized with a baptism of repentance,
6:12 telling people to believe in him who was coming after him, that is in Jesus. He was saying, what John the Baptist was talking about was the 1 that was coming after him who was
6:24 stronger than him, whose thongs of his sandal he was not even worthy to untie. His name is Jesus. Let me tell you about Jesus. Jesus has come. Let me tell you about him. He's God in flesh. He was born of a
6:36 virgin. He's the promised Messiah. He's of the line of David. He fulfilled the law. He died on the cross in your place for all your sins, but he's not dead. He's alive. 3 days later, he
6:48 rose from the dead just like he said he was going to do. And if you believe in him through repenting and believing in Jesus, the Holy Spirit of God will come and indwell you and live with you forever.
7:00 That's what Paul was telling them. He said, You didn't get the whole gospel. And this is 1 of the reasons why some Christians lack power and it's this, that they settle for incomplete truth.
7:12 They settle for in incomplete truth. These were disciples of John the Baptist, but they were settling for incomplete truth. You can even be in a church that preaches Jesus and settle for incomplete truth. You can be in a
7:23 church that preaches repentance and faith in Jesus alone and falsely believe that because you go to a church like that and falsely believe because, well, I'm I'm not at really odds with that.
7:35 I guess I'm a Christian then just because I happen to be here. Without actually having placed your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Or perhaps you're here and your mom and dad are solid believers and you've
7:47 always gone to church so you just kind of assume, I guess I'm a believer too. I don't really have any problem with it. But for every single individual, they must come to a place where you recognize I'm dead in my sins
7:59 and I deserve hell because God is holy and I'm not. And if he sent me to hell, he's completely just in doing that, But I don't wanna go there, and I know Jesus is the only way that I can
8:10 be saved. And I wanna turn my life over to Christ and have Christ save me. And I wanna give him all my allegiance, and I no longer wanna worship other ideas, other people, other systems. I wanna
8:22 worship the Lord Jesus Christ only. And the Bible says when you turn from your sin and you turn to Christ, you are born again. You're a new creation. Old things have passed away, and behold, all things have made new. And
8:34 that's what Paul was telling them. And notice what happens when he tells them that message. Verse 5. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Now you saw earlier, they were
8:46 baptized in verse 3 into John. They were baptized into John. John told us to repent because the Messiah is coming, so we did it. We don't know the Messiah. We we don't know who he is, but maybe 1 day we'll find out.
8:57 Paul's like, let me tell you who he is. And he's come, And they hear that, and they wanna be baptized into who? Jesus Christ. That's why after you come to faith, your first step of obedience is
9:09 getting baptized. Even if you were baptized as an infant, even if you were baptized as a little kid, even if you were baptized early in your life, but you didn't even understand what it meant, you just did it because
9:18 that's what your church did, when you fully come to faith in Jesus Christ and you surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ, you are baptized as an outward sign of what you truly believe on the inside that the Holy
9:29 Spirit of God has now taken over your life. Amen? So that's what happens. They get saved. What's the next step? They're getting baptized. And notice this in verse 6. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the
9:41 Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying. There were in all about 12 men. So do you need to lay hands on people to get
9:53 them give them the Holy Spirit? Do you need to speak in tongues to have the Holy Spirit? Do you need to prophesy to have the Holy Spirit? The Bible would say no. In first Corinthians, Paul even asked, do all do not speak
10:04 in tongues, do they? Like, of course they don't. Not everybody speaks in different tongues. You don't have to speak in tongues to have evidence of the Holy Spirit in your life. The Bible makes that abundantly clear. You
10:15 don't have to prophesy. You say, well, what was going on here? God was using this as a transitional moment to use Paul's authority to lay his hands and pray on them for them to experience a change has been
10:27 made and this Holy Spirit is real. If you're asking the question, do I have the Holy Spirit in my life? Here's the way I would answer it. If you've repented of your sin and trusted Jesus Christ alone, you
10:39 have the Holy Spirit in your life. Romans chapter 8 in verse 9 says it very clearly this way. He says, If indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, but if anyone does not have the
10:51 spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. If you do not have the Holy Spirit in your life, you do not belong to Jesus. The evidence that you have the Holy Spirit in your life is that you've
11:02 repented and believed that Jesus is the Christ. The evidence that you have the Holy Spirit in your life is that you placed your faith and trust and allegiance in him alone. And experientially, the way that you'll
11:14 experience the Holy Spirit in your life is you will have greater love for God and greater love for other people that you wouldn't have loved before. I mean that's the evidence of the Holy Spirit in your life. Things will
11:24 begin to change. Your attitudes will change, your behaviors will change, your desires will change. When you sin, you can still sin the same sins that you
11:35 sinned when you weren't a believer, but when you sin them as a believer, it'll hurt. There'll be conviction of those things. Like, I'm not enjoying this anymore. This didn't feel right. This felt
11:47 wrong. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is in you saying, we don't do this. Because what's the Holy Spirit's number 1 ministry? The Holy Spirit's number 1 ministry is not to give you tingles.
11:59 It's not to have you speak in tongues. It's not just to get a word from the Lord. It's to make Jesus Christ magnified. It's to glorify Jesus. His whole ministry was to make Jesus look good. If
12:11 he's on the inside of you, what's his ministry? To make Jesus look really good in and through you so that whatever you do when people see you as a man, woman, boy, or girl, they would say, Wow,
12:24 I see Christ in them. Because what's the Holy Spirit's job? To make Jesus look good. That's why when Jesus said, If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. Why?
12:35 Because what Jesus was saying, if you want what I want, the Holy Spirit will help you accomplish that. If your prayers are, make Jesus look good through me, if your prayers are,
12:46 align my life completely with Jesus, the Holy Spirit says, I love doing that. I love showing you that way. Right? But what we have oftentimes in the church is incomplete
12:58 belief. We we're asking the question sometimes when we come to church, what is the very least amount that I can do because I don't love God and still go to heaven? Now we don't say it out loud
13:10 like that, but that's really what we're saying. We're trying to find a church or a place that doesn't push us, doesn't ask too much of us, tells good stories so we feel good about ourselves, maybe even have good coffee
13:20 or good LED walls or whatever so that we can feel good when we go there, but please don't push me because when I feel conviction, I don't like that. Right? And so we falsely believe because we've
13:32 been inoculated with enough of the gospel that we have it so that when the real thing comes, we reject it. Right, we have incomplete belief, and incomplete belief leads to incomplete power. If you wanna experience
13:44 the power of Christ, you need the fullness of Christ in your life. How do you get the fullness of Christ in your life? By giving Jesus Christ your allegiance and your worship and serving only, only him. And the Bible
13:55 tells us what will happen. I mean, at the beginning of this book that we read in Acts, he says, but you will be my witnesses when the spirit of God comes upon you. I mean, you'll have the the power of God. Let me just
14:07 read the verse. Acts chapter 1 and verse 8, because the disciples were wondering when all these things were gonna happen. And he says, not for you to know the times, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has
14:17 come upon you. You should be my witnesses in both Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest parts of the earth. Well, what's God's power for? To make Jesus look good. What does God give you power
14:28 for? To accomplish his mission. So when your life aligns with Jesus, I want you to look good, and I wanna be used in your fulfillment of the great commission. Will you give me power to do the very things you've asked me
14:38 to do? The Holy Spirit says, I've been waiting. Let's go. Because the Holy Spirit always abides at the voice of Jesus. You see it all the way in the beginning of our Bible. In the beginning, God created the heavens and
14:49 the earth. What do you see in verse 2? That the spirit of God was hovering on the waters. What was he hovering on the waters for? Because he's waiting for the Lord to speak. Let there be. And then the holy spirit's like,
14:57 I'll do whatever you say. Let there be light. Boom. Light. I mean, that's what the holy spirit does. The holy spirit responds to the word of Jesus. That's his job. That's
15:08 what fires him up. See, many of us live our lives, like, you know, when our cell phones are at 1 percent. Like, we know that there's something we can do, but we gotta go sparingly because I only
15:20 got this much power and I can't make a call and I can't do anything because if I do, I'm gonna run out. Right? And the reason that we feel that way and the reason we experience that is because we don't wanna go all
15:32 in with Jesus. You know, when we go all in with Jesus, he immediately reboots, he immediately recharges, he immediately says, Oh, you ready? Okay, I'm ready too because I've been ready. I haven't been holding out on you,
15:44 but you've been holding out on me. And what you discover is you can't experience the fullness of Christ when you only have incomplete truth. And here's the reality, once
15:56 the truth is clear, something else should happen in in your heart. Let me give you a second reason why most Christians lack power. The first is they settle for incomplete truth. The second is this, they stop speaking
16:05 boldly about Jesus. They stop speaking boldly about Jesus. Notice this. After this took place, verse 8, and he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out
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16:16 boldly for 3 months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God. This was Paul's natural way of going about it. We read it in every single city that he went
16:28 into. He went and he reasoned with them. He spoke boldly, he persuaded them. But when they were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the
16:40 disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannias, which was a lecture hall. So he's now gonna leave the synagogue and go to a lecture hall because the synagogue doesn't wanna hear any more about
16:52 Jesus, and notice how long he was there. This took place for 2 years so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. So Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and a half.
17:04 He's gonna stay in Ephesus for 2 years. Now, here's what I want you to see. You say, well, what does it mean to speak boldly? Let's just talk about that for a minute. Boldness is not being obnoxious.
17:15 Boldness is not about coercing people. Boldness is not about being somebody where people would see and be like, what a jerk. That's not boldness. From the Greek word, which means freedom
17:27 or openness or confidence or fearlessness or speaking without restraint. In other words, I'm gonna tell you about Jesus because Jesus is most important to me. That's what speaking with boldness
17:39 means. Now let me tell you if you're not talking about Jesus, why you're not talking about Jesus. Because if you don't understand the why, you can't fix it. K?
17:51 Here's the why. Because you don't love them enough. That's the why. You talk the most about what you love. Everybody does.
18:04 There are people in our town that talk about the Broncos and the Avs, Not really the Rockies, but, you know, other team. I mean, they talk about it because it's where their heart is. There's people that talk about
18:15 theater. There's people that talk about their vacations. There's people that talk about their bank account. There's people that talk about relationships. Why do they talk about all those things? Because it's where their
18:24 heart is. If you're not talking about Jesus, it's not, well, you better go talk about Jesus. Okay. My pastor told me, so I'm gonna go talk about that's not how it works. It's because you don't love
18:36 him enough. Because if you really recognize, you were on your way to hell for all eternity, and this Jesus left heaven and put on flesh for all eternity, and he left his father, and he came down and
18:48 he served to the point of being spit upon, mocked, beaten, and all the different things that happened to him up until the point he was crucified dead, rose from the grave. And even after he did that, people were
18:59 still refusing to believe in him, But he did it so that you could have new life and you could live with him forever, and he could present you faultless before his father. Someday, in spite of all the
19:11 bad you've done, Jesus is gonna take you as a born again believer and say, This is Jeff. He's awesome. I love him. He's perfect. If you can't get excited about that, you don't know
19:23 who the Jesus is that you're serving. Right? Amen? And I'm not just making this up. Because if you turn to the book of Revelation,
19:36 and we've talked through this book. You can see it online, but he addresses 7 different churches in chapters 2 and 3. Guess who the first church is that he addresses? Ephesus. Some years later, this
19:47 church that was flourishing. Some years later, this church that loved Jesus. In Revelation chapter 2 and verse 4, he says, but this I have against you that you lost your first love.
20:01 You can always tell what people love by what they talk about. You can tell when somebody's ready to get married because they can't stop talking about the person that they're dating, and they can't stop spending time with
20:12 them, and they can't stop telling, oh, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, because they're consumed with that. Amen? Fans talk about their team. Sometimes we see new believers when they first come to Christ,
20:24 they can't stop talking about Jesus, but then we give them so much religion that over time, they're like, yeah, I already know all that. And they've lost their first love. If the gospel gets old to you,
20:36 please go back and read the New Testament because the gospel should never get old. I mean, for all eternity, the gospel's not gonna get old. I mean, we're gonna look at each other in heaven 10000000000 years from now and
20:45 pinch ourselves, like, Can you believe we're here? Like, I can't even believe he would let somebody like you in. And you're gonna be like, I was thinking the same thing about you. I mean, can you believe I mean, it's
20:55 amazing what God is willing to do for us, and it should never get old. It's the most miraculous story that could has ever been told and ever will be told. So speak bold about Jesus.
21:07 Paul tells us in second Corinthians chapter 5 and 4 14. He says, for the love of Christ controls us. Can I tell you why you lose your first love? Because you forget that
21:19 ministry is relationship. Ministry is about relationships. I mean, think about Jesus, how he sums up everything, the greatest teacher that ever lived and ever will live. He says in Matthew chapter
21:31 22 verses 37 and following, he said, when he's asked the greatest commandment of the law, he says, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest
21:42 and foremost commandment. The second is like it. You should love your neighbor as yourself. On these 2 commandments depend the whole law and the prophets. He said, If you wanna sum up the entirety of my teaching,
21:53 love God and love other people. He even said in John 13, This is a commandment that I give you, a new commandment that you love 1 another just as I have loved you. So what's this love? It's love
22:05 with the Father, it's a love relationship with God that translates into the way that we love everybody we come into contact with. It's all relationship. We turn it into religion,
22:18 We turned it into a thing that we do. We turned it into a place that we've gotta be. We turned it into behaviors we gotta change. Why are you changing those behaviors? Why are you gathering in this place?
22:30 Because we love God and wanna be formed by him so we can love other people. And when Christianity moves from relationship to duty, you lose your first love
22:41 because then you start going through the motions, and then there's really not that much of a need to study the Bible because I've already studied the Bible. I've already read through it so many times. I can tell you
22:49 about all 66 books. I don't need prayer. I do it all the time. Why would I ever come to first Tuesday? I pray on my own. But if it's about relationship and prayer and the ministry of the word are the way
23:01 that I can grow closest to Jesus, and I want that relationship, then I'm gonna pursue those things. And I'm gonna gather in service on Sunday because I wanna pursue him with other
23:13 people that are wanting to pursue him. Because I know my heart changes when I pursue. And I also know that when I pursue him and the closer I get to him, in the light of his holiness and who he
23:25 is, he begins to show me things about me that still aren't put together yet. That while positionally I'm perfect, practically I'm not. And he's still working on me. And if I'll
23:36 allow him to continue to change me, guess what? The way I treat other people is more like Jesus would treat them. And it's this ongoing process until I meet him face to face because it's all about relationship.
23:49 If you wanna know how much someone loves God, you can tell how much someone loves God by the way they treat other people. Because how can you say you love God whom you haven't seen when you can't even love your brother
24:01 whom you have seen? God says, You're a liar. Because if you can love the God that you don't see, then you certainly can love the people that he died for. Amen? And so it's all
24:13 relationship. So when you hear me from the pulpit saying you need to speak more boldly about Jesus, I'm not saying be more religious and obnoxious. I'm saying would you fall more in love with him so that what comes
24:25 out of your heart is how much you desire God? I mean, have you taken time, like, this week or in the last month or in just to write down the things in your life that you're thankful for that God's done without you
24:37 even knowing about it, and all of a sudden you start recognizing it, if you try that exercise, it'll take a lot longer than you think it will. And the more you see what God is doing and has
24:49 done and what he's forgiven and what he's growing you in, and you're thanking him for it, and you're praying to him, and you're giving thanks in all your circumstances, God's gonna grow you. Why? Because it's about
24:59 relationship. Can I just tell you this? Because I feel like I need to say this. If you don't have a quiet time with the Lord, you don't spend daily time with the Lord, if you don't get away to spend time with the Lord,
25:08 or if Bible studies become boring, or prayer, I just can't do it, then you're going in with the wrong motivation. You're going in with a, oh, I have to. My pastor told me to spend some time. That won't work. It won't
25:20 work if you're dating somebody, and it won't work with Jesus. K? You go in because, God, I wanna get to know you. God, and I don't even know that I feel like getting to know you today because my attention
25:32 is in some other place than you and I know it doesn't need to be. Lord, would you help me? Would you show me more of you today? Because I wanna fall more in love with you, because because I
25:44 just want your work to be done in and through me. And if your desire is the love of Christ, if your desire is to know how much he loves you, he'll be happy to show you, and you'll be delighted
25:56 to receive it. And the more delighted you are to receive it, the more you're gonna wanna tell other people. I do not stand up here and preach because it's my job. I love Jesus, I really do. I'm
26:08 looking forward to meeting him face to face. Don't know when it's gonna happen, but I know it'll be the best day of my entire life. I can't wait to see him. I love him. I know how much he's done in my life. I know how
26:17 much he's continuing to do. So 1 of the reasons that we like power is we stopped speaking boldly about Jesus, and the reason we stopped speaking boldly about Jesus is that we don't love him as much anymore.
26:29 And here's what happens when love fades. People start replacing relationship with appearance. What happens in a marriage when love fades and people aren't willing to
26:41 work on Christ at the center of their marriage and loving 1 another, then you just have the appearance of being married. Then you try to pretend what married people should do, and then you kinda fake it to everybody
26:51 else. When you don't love your job, you don't walk in and tell your boss, I hate you and this job. You fake it. You fake it. You pretend that you love your boss. You pretend that
27:02 you love your job. You do all the things. When you don't love Jesus, you do the same thing. Maybe you still come to church. Maybe you still give money, maybe you're still in a cadre, maybe you still go through the
27:14 motions of all those things, but your heart's far from it. And what Jesus is looking to do is revive your heart, because if your heart is revived everything else will fall back into place, amen? When I say you are loved
27:25 at the end of the service, I'm not just making something up because it's a cute and clever statement. You are loved. You are so loved that Jesus Christ left heaven for you, that he died on
27:37 the cross for you, that he rose from the dead for you in hopes that you would respond through repentance and belief in him and come into favor with him. And even if you don't, he still loves you. Even if he
27:49 can't have you, even if he has to send you away to hell because he can't have your sinful condition, he does it out of love. He does it out of he's a loving God is love. It's not something he
28:01 does, it's something that his character is. So speak boldly about Jesus, stay in the truth, don't have replace relationship with just appearance,
28:13 because here's the third reason why most Christians lack power, and it's this, they fake spiritual authority. They fake spiritual authority. When you don't have the Lord living fully in your life, you'llShow more
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