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Authentic Imitationology #88 [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, family, God, God bless you. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to the Morning Devo. It's Friday, so you already
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  Speaker 1: know what it is. It's authentic Fridays. He as, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll work that out when the time comes. If necessary,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do what we have to do. Today we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about parental authority on Authentic Immentationalogy.
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  Speaker 2: This is episode number eighty eight. School is right.
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  Speaker 1: Around the corner from the time of this recording, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm a parent, and I know things are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: different this year from my daughter a man as she
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  Speaker 1: goes back into you school. She's still in elementary school,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I think third or fourth grade, coming
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  Speaker 1: fourth grade. I forget times going by, so fast. But
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  Speaker 1: she's in grade school and the people, especially the boys,
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  Speaker 1: are gonna look at her differently this year because now
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  Speaker 1: she's in developmental mode and she's developing into a young lady.
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  Speaker 2: She's young.
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  Speaker 1: But parental authority is the thing today for the theme
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  Speaker 1: for today, because I believe that we have authority as
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  Speaker 1: parents over our children and we could do some things
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  Speaker 1: that are incredible according to the Word of God. So
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  Speaker 1: we had to take parental authority. We had to pray
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  Speaker 1: for our children, for the schools and everything. I had
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  Speaker 1: a list. I'm not gonna find it now, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but I printed it. That's what it is. It is
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  Speaker 1: down in my wife's office. But we'll leave that for
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  Speaker 1: another time. I want to set up a time for
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  Speaker 1: parents to get together, we pray together. I'm set up
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  Speaker 1: a call in line so we could do that together.
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  Speaker 1: I probably do that Sunday. That's a good time to
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  Speaker 1: do it. On my Sunday show at six pm every Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: I do the Kingdom Call, So I guess I'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be the theme. So welcome back for all those
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  Speaker 1: who are with me and listening and watching and amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so glad that today came and we have
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  Speaker 1: another day. Good morning's sister Joey and God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Degal.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see my sister. So listen, I had
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  Speaker 1: such a week. It's been a week. Two people passed
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  Speaker 1: on passed away, well, three people passed away that I
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  Speaker 1: know of, just this week. My aunt Doty Jenny's on
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  Speaker 1: with us. Good morning, God bless you. I' we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be praying for you as well as my aunt needs
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  Speaker 1: prayer as well for our health.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just been a week of just back to
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  Speaker 1: back news of things that we're going through. I'm suffering
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  Speaker 1: with a stiff neck. I don't know what's going on
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  Speaker 1: right here, Amen, so I have to pray that out
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  Speaker 1: as well. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: My car broke down, so we're having a week here.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. So with that said, that's why I pray. It's
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  Speaker 1: always important, Amen. We don't know what's gonna happen from
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  Speaker 1: day to day. My younger brother asked me, how's everybody doing,
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  Speaker 1: how's your day? I said, I've taken it day by day, amen,
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  Speaker 1: day by day because we never know what's going to happen. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: said that's why we pray parental authority. I wrote in
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  Speaker 1: the details that parents should impart godly wisdom. It is
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  Speaker 1: their responsibility. It's my responsibility to impart godly wisdom on
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  Speaker 1: my daughters. My son is a grown man, he has
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  Speaker 1: his own family. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I did my best.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't get the best of me when he was young,
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  Speaker 1: when he was kid, because I was out there in
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  Speaker 1: the world doing all kind of crazy stuff. And then
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  Speaker 1: when he was I think twelve years old or eight.
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  Speaker 1: I always get the math wrong. But he was young
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  Speaker 1: when I got saved, Amen, and it was like from
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  Speaker 1: one man to a new man, and he didn't really
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  Speaker 1: understand what was going on as a young kid. But
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  Speaker 1: I believe he knows now where I stand in my
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  Speaker 1: belief in the Lord. Amen. So I have another opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: as long as God has me here on this earth,
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  Speaker 1: I have another opportunity to impart golly wisdom in my
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  Speaker 1: young daughters. Amen. I have a nine year old from
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  Speaker 1: the timeless recording and a three year old from the
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  Speaker 1: time of this recording. So keep me in prayer, amen,
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  Speaker 1: as I'll pray for you and your family as well.
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  Speaker 2: We'd be in.
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  Speaker 1: First Thessalonians, Chapter number two, verses eleven and twelve. First
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  Speaker 1: Thessalonian New Testament, Chapter two, verses eleven and twelve. And
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  Speaker 1: before we pray, we have a common hand. Life is short.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what happen, anything happened. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: do what you could do today. You don't worry about tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Too many things are happening to me too, and all
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  Speaker 1: the time think about everything. Why me? Why me? Why
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  Speaker 1: my husband, why my son? I cannot stop thinking about everything.
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  Speaker 1: I am so stressed out. My chest hurts me so bad.
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  Speaker 1: So I know how it feels, especially when somebody goes
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  Speaker 1: on that so much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. Since Jamaine, I'm right with you.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw a post this morning my spiritual daughters.
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  Speaker 1: One of my spiritual daughters posts it says, instead of stressed, pray.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of being stressed, pray ay man.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we gonna do now.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, don't
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  Speaker 1: have to take to leave it on the live chat.
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  Speaker 1: And also after we pray, we'll shut us out for
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  Speaker 1: like sixty seconds, and then on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the sixty seconds we'll hit up. First Thessalonians Chatter number two,
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  Speaker 1: Verses eleven and twelve. Let's pray Father, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for today, no matter what happens. I know I had
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  Speaker 1: a rough week, and I know I'm not the only
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  Speaker 1: one that's having a rough week. But Father God, I
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  Speaker 1: asked Logan that you would continue or give us the
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  Speaker 1: comfort and peace that you have promised us and offered
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  Speaker 1: us by way of your son, the Lord Jesus. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you lo God for your love, your grace and your mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Lok God for guiding, guarding and protecting us
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  Speaker 1: and keeping us safe in this evil world and keeping
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  Speaker 1: us safe from the evil one that's really the prints
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  Speaker 1: of the air, which is the devil himself. We come
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  Speaker 1: against him. We come against anything the monded. We come
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  Speaker 1: against any distraction, any stress, any ill to our body.
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  Speaker 1: We lay hands right now on our head, right now
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus name, that you would calm the soul and
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  Speaker 1: relieve us from the stress and forgive us our sins
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  Speaker 1: and heal our bodies in Jesus name. Thank you lo
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  Speaker 1: God for your hedge of protection that you have sheltered us, me,
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  Speaker 1: my wife, our family, our ministry, our organizations that we're
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  Speaker 1: a part of. In Jesus Name, and I pray that
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  Speaker 1: same very prayer over every single person that's connected now
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  Speaker 1: and who will connect later.
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  Speaker 2: In the powerful name.
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  Speaker 1: Of Jesus, I pray for every single student that's going
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  Speaker 1: back to school, including my children. I pray for every
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  Speaker 1: single one of my grandchildren as well. In Jesus Name,
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  Speaker 1: I pray, Lord God, that you would set forth archming angels,
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  Speaker 1: ministering angels, warning angels, as you show us how we
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  Speaker 1: could take parental authority in the spiritual realm as well
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  Speaker 1: as the physical realm. And Jesus Name, I prayed. It's
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  Speaker 1: by faith, knowing that you hear these prayers and your
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  Speaker 1: answer them according to your purpose and plan for every
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  Speaker 1: one of us. In Jesus' name, and those who agree,
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  Speaker 1: we say amen and Amen, let it be.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go for it. I'll be shut this out
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  Speaker 2: for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: When I come back, we'll get right into parental authority first.
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  Speaker 1: Thessalonians chatter number two, Verses eleven and twelve. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back, a man and man, we're back. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: for it. Let's see what the Word of God has
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  Speaker 1: for us today. Amen. Fridays, I try to focus things
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  Speaker 1: differently on Fridays. Imitation authentic imitationology. Look at that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: tongue tied today this morning. Amen, my mind has been
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  Speaker 1: racing all night. I don't even think I slept. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like my body was resting, but my mind was
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  Speaker 1: going A man a thousand miles an hour. How many
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  Speaker 1: people have gone through that? Amen, So authentic imitationology. But
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  Speaker 1: I try to do is focus on imitating God, imitating
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  Speaker 1: the most successful person who has ever lived on this
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  Speaker 1: planet Earth, the Lord Jesus, and the Lord God himself.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord Jesus himself would speak to his heavenly father
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  Speaker 1: while he was here on earth physically, Amen. And he
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  Speaker 1: was relying on his father's parental authority. So we as
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  Speaker 1: well rely on the Father in heaven a man, to
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  Speaker 1: show us how to be fathers here and parents here
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  Speaker 1: on earth. And we take his we take his example,
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  Speaker 1: and we move that into our lives as parents, and
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  Speaker 1: we have parental authority.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the.
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  Speaker 1: Responsibility of the school or the church to impart godly wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: Amen on our children. The church helps in that area,
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  Speaker 1: of course.
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  Speaker 2: I love the children's ministry.
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  Speaker 1: And my church. They speak life into my daughters and
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  Speaker 1: they teach them the word of God. But it's my
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  Speaker 1: responsibility as a parent, Amen, to literally take my daughters
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  Speaker 1: and speak to them, speak life over them.
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  Speaker 2: Am I doing a great job at it?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think I can do better, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm working on it. I'm working on it, trust me.
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  Speaker 1: Parental authority is a thing, is the power of God
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  Speaker 1: in a parent to move our children into a golly lane.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have to choose for themselves as they get older.
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  Speaker 1: No one could force any one of our kids to
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  Speaker 1: be believers in Christ. I can't force my daughters. I
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  Speaker 1: can't force my son. I can't force my grandchildren to
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  Speaker 1: believe in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Not forced.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a forced thing, Amen, It's a choice that
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  Speaker 1: they will make. But if they see good examples, and
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  Speaker 1: they see people of God and parents that are trusting
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  Speaker 1: and believing in a holy, loving, righteous God, and no
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  Speaker 1: matter what happens, they still.
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  Speaker 2: Go to God in prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I hope they don't think that we're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be perfect as Christians, but they see that when
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  Speaker 1: we're going through stuff and we're struggling, or if we're
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  Speaker 1: having a bad week like I had this week, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we're still going to be at peace and rely in
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  Speaker 1: trust in Jesus, amen, and not go runn into alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: drugs and whatever else comes our way. We run to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord who is sovereign and in control of all things,
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  Speaker 1: because we know we have a heavenly father, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna be on today, a parental authority.
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  Speaker 2: Am the scripture. I stick to the script. There's no gimmicks.
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  Speaker 1: Over here on these morning DeVos. So let's go for
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  Speaker 1: Let me put on the screen. For those who are
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  Speaker 1: just listening, welcome back, thank you for lending me your.
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  Speaker 1: and it would be a blessing to have you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go for Authentic Invinationlogy just episode eighty eight.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe how many episodes of Authentic Commentationology we've done. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: God is good, He's faithful. First Thatsaloni Is Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verses eleven and twelve. Amen, for you know how we
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  Speaker 1: were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you,
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  Speaker 1: you just as a father does in dealing with his
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  Speaker 1: own children, guiding you verse twelve, to live lives of honor,
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  Speaker 1: moral courage, and personal integrity worthy of the God who
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  Speaker 1: saves you and calls you into his own kingdom and
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  Speaker 1: glory and men. So basically, Apostle Paul saying, listen, you
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  Speaker 1: saw what we were doing. You know how we move.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen and we were encouraging you. We wasn't tearing
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  Speaker 1: you down. We were trying to build you up, employing
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  Speaker 1: each one of you just as a parent does, just
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  Speaker 1: as a father does in dealing with his own children
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  Speaker 1: and men. So, spiritual children is a thing. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that that you can have spiritual children, and you can
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  Speaker 1: have spiritual parents as well, because ultimately we have a
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  Speaker 1: heavenly father. And then because of our heavenly Father, we
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  Speaker 1: know now how to love. We know how to treat
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  Speaker 1: our children, we know how to treat one another, we
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  Speaker 1: know how to be married, we know how to trust
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  Speaker 1: God through the examples that the Lord Jesus showed us
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  Speaker 1: through the scriptures. When he was here on this planet,
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  Speaker 1: he was trusting God, he was trusting the process. He
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  Speaker 1: was going forward all the way a man because he
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  Speaker 1: knew that his father had the total authority, ultimate authority,
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  Speaker 1: a man as a parent. And Jesus is the only
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  Speaker 1: begotten son of God. And now we in turn become
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  Speaker 1: as soon as we trust in Jesus, he puts his
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  Speaker 1: spirit in us. Now we become children of the Living God.
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  Speaker 2: You see that.
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  Speaker 1: So we have our father in heaven, our son who
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  Speaker 1: is the Son, his son who is the Lord and Savior.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have Holy Spirit living inside of us.
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  Speaker 1: So we are in communion with Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And this scripture is just amazing because it shows us
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  Speaker 1: that Apostle Paul was letting the people know. And that's
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  Speaker 1: all like he was letting the Christians know to listen. Man,
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  Speaker 1: we showed you, we encouraged you, we employed you as
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  Speaker 1: our father does dealing with his own children. We were
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  Speaker 1: being guid they were being guided. Right to live lives
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  Speaker 1: of rtcheedness, No, we live lives of honor. Live, No,
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  Speaker 1: to have moral courage, to have you know, a wildlife,
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  Speaker 1: no personal integrity worthy of the God who saves you
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  Speaker 1: and calls you into his own kingdom and glory. When
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  Speaker 1: we use parental authority, we are basically telling the enemy
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  Speaker 1: of our souls, stay away from our family, stay away
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  Speaker 1: from our children, because we're building our children up in
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  Speaker 1: the things of God.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll pray.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm ninety one, I believe that'll be the probably
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  Speaker 1: probably be the theme for the kingdom called this Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: Lord willingam Sunday comes from me, Amen, And as parents,
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  Speaker 1: we should come together and pray over the school year,
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  Speaker 1: over the teachers, the faculty, over every single person that's
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  Speaker 1: going in and out of those buildings.
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  Speaker 2: For our children. It's going to be a different year.
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  Speaker 2: I feel it.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a different year because kids are getting older,
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  Speaker 1: society is getting crazier, so we need to really impart
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  Speaker 1: godly wisdom in our children. And it was crazy because
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  Speaker 1: when my daughter wasn't going to first grade already, trying
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  Speaker 1: to explain to her that every kid they meet is
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  Speaker 1: not going to have a situation that she has. Every
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  Speaker 1: kid she meets are not going to believe in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: That's number one, not going to have a mother and
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  Speaker 1: a dad home at home like she has. That's number two.
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  Speaker 1: And they come in all shapes and sizes. You can't
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  Speaker 1: judge nobody. You don't know this story. Not everybody's going
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  Speaker 1: to be friendly. I tell her these things that way,
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  Speaker 1: she's not totally shocked when she gets into school and
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  Speaker 1: realizes that not everybody believes in God. Not everybody has
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  Speaker 1: a dad and a mom living together. Not everybody has
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  Speaker 1: married parents. Not everybody has God in their lives. Not
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  Speaker 1: everybody has food in their fridge. Not everybody has a
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  Speaker 1: house and a roof over their heads. Not everybody has
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  Speaker 1: new sneakers and new clothes. Not everybody could go to
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  Speaker 1: school outings because of lack of money or whatever the
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  Speaker 1: case may be.
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  Speaker 2: Not everybody has cars.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to let my daughter know show humility
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  Speaker 1: and show love and kindness to all the students, no
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  Speaker 1: matter if you know what she might think about them.
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  Speaker 1: But the young age, what nine ten, you know, she's
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  Speaker 1: getting to that age where trying my best to keep
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  Speaker 1: cool and really trying to listen to what she's saying
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  Speaker 1: and then respond accordingly. Like I said, I'm a work
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  Speaker 1: in progress, a man. I'm older now, and I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to remain patient and trying to, you know, continue to
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  Speaker 1: impart the wisdom a man the same way I impart
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  Speaker 1: wisdom through the scriptures. As we get together as mostly
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  Speaker 1: adults here on these morning DeVos. I have to I
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  Speaker 1: have to take time a man out and really impart
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  Speaker 1: this gollly wisdom into my daughters and to my spiritual children,
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  Speaker 1: my grandchildren, and even my godsons. A man, I have
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  Speaker 1: two godsns, Praise God, and I've got another god daughter. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that's the story right there. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to really reconnect, but it's difficult. I actually saw my
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  Speaker 1: goddaughter's dad not too long ago and explain the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Man, I'm trying to, you know, make this happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he excused me, says the worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: But I take being a god father seriously, man, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I say it seriously because I know it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for me to help out in situations where the parents
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  Speaker 1: might need help in those situations. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we have.
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  Speaker 1: This That was the amplified version, and I know it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot it's worthy. This version here says for you
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  Speaker 1: know that we dealt with each other, which each of you,
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  Speaker 1: as a father deals with his own children. Now that
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  Speaker 1: might look a little different for you, might a little
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  Speaker 1: be a little different for me, according to how you
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  Speaker 1: were raised. A lot of people like my dad showed
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  Speaker 1: me love, he encouraged me. He was a hard worker. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So I took those traits and I grew up like that.
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  Speaker 1: My mom used to always say, You're just like your dad.
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  Speaker 1: You look like him, you act like him. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: But he was cut short.
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  Speaker 1: His life was cut short because of some habits he
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  Speaker 1: had that weren't doing well for his body.
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  Speaker 2: And at fifteen years old, I lost him.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, wait a minute, I'm only fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: Like how do I do the rest of this stuff?
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  Speaker 1: So I had to try to figure it out. My
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  Speaker 1: oldest brother stepped in, but I was just like, my
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  Speaker 1: mind was gone. I went into a rapid spiral of
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  Speaker 1: anger and sex, drugs, alcohol, all that stuff because I
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  Speaker 1: was hurt. Right. But he did the best he could
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  Speaker 1: in the short time that he had, and to instill
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  Speaker 1: some good things in my life. I'm a hard worker,
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  Speaker 1: even though a lot of people think I don't work,
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  Speaker 1: but I do work. I'm working pretty much every day,
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  Speaker 1: and I have to try to maintain some kind of
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  Speaker 1: like schedule so I could get rest, let me go.
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  Speaker 2: I'll work twenty four to seven.
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  Speaker 1: They meant, am I receiving enough to live off of
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  Speaker 1: the ministry and off what I do with the mens
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  Speaker 1: and all all that. No, I'm trying to put things
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  Speaker 1: together to make it happen. But I learned that from
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  Speaker 1: my dad. He knew how to put things together to
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  Speaker 1: make things happen, to try his best to support his children.
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  Speaker 1: So I had an opportunity to have a loving dad
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  Speaker 1: well a little while, even though it was cut short
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  Speaker 1: when I was only fifteen when he passed. But at
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  Speaker 1: least I could say I had a dad that I knew.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of kids growing up right now that
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  Speaker 1: can't tell you, and they've grown men right now, and
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  Speaker 1: they can't.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you who their dad was.
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  Speaker 1: They never met them, amen, And that's a tough situation.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to be mindful of that as well,
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  Speaker 1: and be kinds of people and listen to people stories
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  Speaker 1: as we develop our parent parental authority, so Apostle Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: as a father deals with his own children, encouraging comforting
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  Speaker 1: and urging you to live lies worthy of God and man.
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  Speaker 1: Not a forced thing, but really giving you the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to trust God who calls you into His kingdom and glory.
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  Speaker 1: That's an amazing call, right, and amazing calls that come into
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 2: Deuteronomy Chapter six.
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  Speaker 1: Deuteronomy chapter six, verses six and seven says, these commandments
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  Speaker 1: that I give you today are to be upon your hearts,
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  Speaker 1: impress them on your children, talk about them when you
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  Speaker 1: sit at home, and when you walk along the road,
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  Speaker 1: when you lie down, and when you get up. So
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  Speaker 1: the conversation of God Jesus, the Lord as we have
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  Speaker 1: him now, that was in an old covenant, So they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the Lord Jesus walking with them at that time.
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  Speaker 1: Physically he was there, but physically he wasn't. Amen he
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  Speaker 1: was showing up certain parts of the old Covenant. You
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  Speaker 1: see you call it Christophany. I think they call it
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus shows up as the Angel of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in certain parts of the scriptures. But we have the
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  Speaker 1: physical example of the Lord Jesus and the New Covenant,
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  Speaker 1: and he showed up, and he was the perfect example
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  Speaker 1: of what to do, how to talk about the word
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  Speaker 1: of God right, how to follow the commandments. He was
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  Speaker 1: the only one that followed every single one of the
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  Speaker 1: commandments to a tea. Never broke one commandment. I can't
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  Speaker 1: say that. You can't say that, but the Lord could
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  Speaker 1: say that all day, all day, every day a man.
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  Speaker 2: He did it.
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  Speaker 1: He satisfied the law, He fulfilled the law. Amen, how
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  Speaker 1: about this one? Psalms Chapter seventy eight, Versus five, five
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  Speaker 1: and seven. Psalms Chapter number seventy eight, Verses five to seven.
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  Speaker 1: He decreed statues for Jacob and establish the law in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children so
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  Speaker 1: the next generation would know them. So if we don't
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  Speaker 1: teach our kids about the Lord, now, the next generation
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  Speaker 1: won't know because they weren't taught. So we could lose
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  Speaker 1: a generation by not imparting godly wisdom. Listen to this,
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  Speaker 1: then they would put their trust in God and will
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  Speaker 1: not forget his deeds, but will keep his commands. I
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  Speaker 1: met people, so many people that grew up in church
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  Speaker 1: and they left the church for whatever reason. They were
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  Speaker 1: heard or the world looked too pleasing. Now they're living
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  Speaker 1: in the sinful life and all that for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you get to the end of the gritty,
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  Speaker 1: they say, I grew up in church, so I know
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  Speaker 1: the commandments, I know the word, I know this, that
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  Speaker 1: and the third. So it's in them, right, It was
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  Speaker 1: in them because someone imparted godly wisdom into them, their parents,
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  Speaker 1: their pastors, mom and grandma's whoever it was, and part
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  Speaker 1: of this wisdom. So it's there. The beautiful thing about
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  Speaker 1: that is that they were raised under the commandments of God.
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  Speaker 2: They were raised with the knowledge of who God is.
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  Speaker 1: So at their worst of the worst, and I've seen
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  Speaker 1: this from my own eyes, at the worst of the worst,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them come back to church all messed up.
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  Speaker 1: But they realized one thing, knew I needed God. I
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  Speaker 1: needed to hear this word. I had to come back
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  Speaker 1: because they know out in the world they weren't doing well.
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  Speaker 1: The world was beating them up. How many people ever
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  Speaker 1: got beat up by the world system? Right, beat up
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  Speaker 1: by the devil, and just were trapped into simple evil
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  Speaker 1: desires of your flesh. Right, we battle the flesh every day,
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  Speaker 1: and our kids will battle their flesh every day. We
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  Speaker 1: can't leave them stranded not knowing what to do when
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  Speaker 1: these simple desires and urgers come up, and then they
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  Speaker 1: should be willing and able to talk to their parents.
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  Speaker 1: And we have this parental authority that we could go
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord on behalf of our children, on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of our kids, right, and then God will give you
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom he said, actual wisdom, and he will give
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  Speaker 1: it to us liberally, the wisdom of God. And then
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  Speaker 1: we could share that wisdom and part that wisdom on
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  Speaker 1: our kids, so that way they can know growing up
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  Speaker 1: about what we know, as we were learning as we
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  Speaker 1: were growing up. This whole thing about perfect parenting that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't exist. Nobody has the perfect parent method, but we
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  Speaker 1: have the perfect God who instructs us what to do
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  Speaker 1: concerning our children, how to use our parental authority. And notice,
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  Speaker 1: nowhere is it saying that we're going to be a
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  Speaker 1: perfect parent. Nowhere does it say that we have to
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  Speaker 1: force our children to believe. Doesn't say it. It says
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  Speaker 1: it's the commandment. Shoots and press them on your children,
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  Speaker 1: not force them on your children, to talk about them,
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  Speaker 1: not yell at them, see talk about them when you
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  Speaker 1: sit at home. So that's outside of the church as well.
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  Speaker 1: Don't just rely on a Sunday service or Saturday service,
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  Speaker 1: or Wednesday or Tuesday or Thursday, whenever you're in service.
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  Speaker 1: Don't just rely on the on the pastor to teach
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  Speaker 1: your kids. Don't rely on the youth pastor to teach
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  Speaker 1: your kids. Don't rely on the youth ministry. Don't just
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  Speaker 1: rely on that's the help. That's a tool, and man,
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  Speaker 1: it helps me out tremendously. Our daughters, the leader of
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  Speaker 1: our children's ministry, we literally call her when my daughter
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  Speaker 1: gets out of hand or any one of my daughters
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  Speaker 1: get us out of hand, and said, we're gonna call
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  Speaker 1: Sister Janet, and their eyes light up and they stop
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  Speaker 1: and they think about it, and then they calm down,
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  Speaker 1: right because they know that the woman of God that
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  Speaker 1: imparts this wisdom in them, they should know better. And
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  Speaker 1: she calls them out and tells them, you should know
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  Speaker 1: better because they're being taught the word of God. That
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  Speaker 1: being taught how to be kind and being taught how
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  Speaker 1: to love, that being taught how to follow God and
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  Speaker 1: trust God.
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  Speaker 2: Right, they're not being forced.
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  Speaker 1: And as parents we need to be totally responsible for
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  Speaker 1: doing the rest of the work. We have helpers, but
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  Speaker 1: as parents we need to be responsible and impart wisdom
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  Speaker 1: on our children and use our parental authority. So hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we could get together and pray for the school year.
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  Speaker 1: Pray for our children, grandchildren, Harvard, you have family members
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  Speaker 1: will pray for the school year because this year is
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  Speaker 1: going to be different. I sense it and I feel
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  Speaker 1: it right, So I thank you so much for hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with me. Take first Thessalonians chapter number two. Read
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  Speaker 1: the whole chapter for yourself. Meditate on that a man,
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  Speaker 1: and see what you get. More of what you get
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  Speaker 1: from the word right, and let me know how it
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  Speaker 1: works out as you apply it today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So God bless you all. God keep you all, and
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  Speaker 1: remember always that God is good. Peace.