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“Character Before Calling: Timothy’s Preparation for Purpose” (Acts 16:1–5, New King James Version) · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 4: sixteen is where we're gonna pick it up today. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna go through verse one through five. We're just gonna
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  Speaker 4: break it down and bite size pieces. We're gonna look
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  Speaker 4: You are a good God. We thank you you are
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  Speaker 4: a good, good father. And we ask a God that
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  Speaker 4: this podcast in a powerful way to reach Soul's father.
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  Speaker 4: And we asked this in Jesus' name. Hey man, all right,
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  Speaker 4: all right, So, as I said, we're going to be
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  Speaker 4: in Acts chapter sixteen today. We just finished Acts chapter fifteen,
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  Speaker 4: and we looked at Paul and barnabas as they had
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  Speaker 4: a disagreement and they both separated. But these men did
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  Speaker 4: not sin. It was something that just basically happened. And
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  Speaker 4: God is still moving in the midst of them now.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter sixteen we're also going to see something powerful. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to see a young disciple. His name is Timothy,
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  Speaker 4: and of course this is the same Timothy that has
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  Speaker 4: a book named after him in the Bible. He is
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  Speaker 4: forever recorded in scripture for all generations to read. Amazing, Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: And we're also going to see a strategic decision by
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  Speaker 4: Paul the Apostle. We're going to see the balance between
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  Speaker 4: grace and wisdom and the strengthening of the early Church.
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  Speaker 4: So this episode is about preparation, reputation in spiritual maturity.
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  Speaker 4: So let's dive right into it a man and break
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  Speaker 4: it all down. So verse one, Then he came to Derby.
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  Speaker 4: Now keep in mind this is after the split. This
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  Speaker 4: is after the separation, and he has a whole new
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  Speaker 4: ministry team that he's going out with. Then the original
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  Speaker 4: team which was him and Barnabas and the people that
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  Speaker 4: came with them. Now this new team then went to
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  Speaker 4: Derby and Lystra and behold, a certain disciple was there
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  Speaker 4: named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed.
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  Speaker 4: Now that's important, right there, this Jewish woman who believed
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  Speaker 4: in the Messiah. But his father was a Greek so
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  Speaker 4: she was married to a gentile, a Greek person. Now
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  Speaker 4: what's happening is this Paul arrives in and he meets Timothy.
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  Speaker 4: Now Timothy has a believing Jewish mother, which is so powerful,
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  Speaker 4: and we're going to talk about that in a few seconds.
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  Speaker 4: Here a Greek father. But Timothy is already known as
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  Speaker 4: a disciple before Paul even meets meets him. Right, he
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  Speaker 4: is known to be a disciple. So this emphasizes the importance.
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  Speaker 4: Now listen up, parents, This emphasizes the importance of godly
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  Speaker 4: parenting and given our children a strong spiritual foundation. Now,
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  Speaker 4: he noted that Timothy's faith likely came through the influence
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  Speaker 4: of his mother and also his grandmother. Paul notices this
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  Speaker 4: if you look up two Timothy, chapter one, verse five, Right.
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  Speaker 4: But the truth is Timothy did not become strong overnight.
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  Speaker 4: He was discipled at home. Home is such a powerful
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  Speaker 4: foundation for our children. I mean, even today, think about
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  Speaker 4: the public schools. Think about back in the forties and
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  Speaker 4: fifties and sixties when the family was more structured and stronger,
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  Speaker 4: where you learn most of your education at home. See
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  Speaker 4: today we rely on the public schools. Public school teachers
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  Speaker 4: who have classes that are oversized. It's almost impossible for
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  Speaker 4: them to give every child the attention that they need
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  Speaker 4: to actually learn the material. But they're not learning this
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  Speaker 4: at home. At home most likely. You know my generation,
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  Speaker 4: we grew up under the latch they called us the
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  Speaker 4: latch key generation, where the child came home, the parents
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  Speaker 4: are out working. The child had their own key. They
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  Speaker 4: didn't have their parents to meet them at the house,
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  Speaker 4: so they're at the house for hours by themselves. They could,
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  Speaker 4: you know, watch TV, play video games, eat what they wanted.
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  Speaker 4: They basically raised themselves until the parents got home. And
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  Speaker 4: how many of us went straight to do our homework
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  Speaker 4: or did what we were supposed to do. Very few.
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  Speaker 3: Lost another one.
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  Speaker 4: So it's great to have someone meets you when you
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  Speaker 4: come home from school, to have something prepared and to
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  Speaker 4: give them structure, someone there to sit down to help
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  Speaker 4: them to do their homework or to help them with
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  Speaker 4: whatever may be on their heart. But even greater than that,
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  Speaker 4: someone to help them walk through scripture and teach them
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  Speaker 4: about God. This is what Timothy had. He had a
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  Speaker 4: strong home foundation. And look at the worst. That's train
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  Speaker 4: up the child and the way that he should go.
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  Speaker 4: And when he's older, you will not depart from the way.
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  Speaker 4: So it's very important to have a strong spiritual foundation
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  Speaker 4: in the home. Nowadays, people drop off their kids to
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  Speaker 4: Sunday school because it's free daycare for him. Right. They
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  Speaker 4: want a couple hours of they want to break or
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  Speaker 4: they want to go out and you know, have breakfast
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  Speaker 4: or something. Or they send their kids to church and
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  Speaker 4: they don't go themselves. That is a bad example.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: We need godly parents to help our children to have
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  Speaker 4: a strong and godly background. Now, before public ministry, there
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  Speaker 4: was a private foundation. Now Timothy, Timothy wasn't chasing a platform.
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  Speaker 4: What was going on in his life. He was building
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  Speaker 4: a godly character. Right. We live in a generation that
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  Speaker 4: wants influence before integrity. When you say that again, we
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  Speaker 4: live in a generation they want the platform, they want
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  Speaker 4: the fame and the fortune, but they don't want the
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  Speaker 4: integrity to sustain that type of a lifetime lifestyle. Right.
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  Speaker 4: But right here in Acts sixteen, it shows us that
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  Speaker 4: character proceeds the calling of God. And this is a
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  Speaker 4: lesson that I had to learn the hard way because
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  Speaker 4: I had a huge platform, but I was still developing
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  Speaker 4: a godly character at the same time. Love if we're
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  Speaker 4: in a place if we have that godly foundation in
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  Speaker 4: the home, or or if we're in a place where
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  Speaker 4: we're being taught the word, being trained up by a
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  Speaker 4: godly pastor who believes in the Word of God, then
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  Speaker 4: you are ahead of a lot of people out there.
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  Speaker 4: And man, because I came from a broken home and
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  Speaker 4: my foundation in church was rocky at the best. But
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  Speaker 4: I did the best I could in the call. And
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  Speaker 4: now I'm in a time in a period where I
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  Speaker 4: am developing that godly character. And the timeframe I believe
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  Speaker 4: depends on us. The more stubborn, the more disobedient, the
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  Speaker 4: more we neglect this training, it'll take longer for us
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  Speaker 4: to realize the call of God in our lives. But
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  Speaker 4: if we allow God to do the work, if we cooperate,
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  Speaker 4: if we're obedient, if we're seeking, if we are preparing,
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  Speaker 4: if we're helping God prepare us being where we need
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  Speaker 4: to be right, a life of devotion, a life of prayer,
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  Speaker 4: showing up faithfully to church, showing up where God has
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  Speaker 4: called you to come. Amen. Even being faithful to this
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  Speaker 4: podcast can help develop that godly character so that you
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  Speaker 4: can realize the call of God in your life. Amen,
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  Speaker 4: Verse two, He was well spoken of by the brethren
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  Speaker 4: who were at Listra in Lyconium Iconium. Now, notice that
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  Speaker 4: he had a reputation. Amen. Now the Greek idea implies
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  Speaker 4: Timothy witnesses affirming his consistency. Let me say that again,
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  Speaker 4: Timothy had witnesses who were affirming that this man is consistent.
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  Speaker 4: He has consistency. Now, leadership in the early Church was
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  Speaker 4: based on observable fruits. Jesus himself said, examine the fruit.
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  Speaker 4: We could tell by their fruits. Timothy was in self appointed.
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  Speaker 4: He was recognized by other people. Amen. That is rare today.
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  Speaker 4: How many people in your local church get their position
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  Speaker 4: in their ministry because other people voted for them. Other
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  Speaker 4: people recognize what was on their lives, versus people who
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  Speaker 4: are ambitious, or should we say, a selfish type of ambition.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with the godly ambition, but a self
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  Speaker 4: centered they want to promote themselves, and people like that,
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  Speaker 4: it takes longer for them to realize a call of
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  Speaker 4: God on their lives. Amen. Before God promotes you publicly,
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  Speaker 4: he establishes your testimony privately. You got to meet him
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  Speaker 4: in the private place. You gotta prepare, Hey, man, Timothy
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  Speaker 4: didn't advertise himself. Others testified about him in his care character,
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  Speaker 4: his consistency to serve the Lord. Now at this point,
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  Speaker 4: ask yourself, if believers described your spiritual life, what would
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  Speaker 4: they say about you? What would they say about me?
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  Speaker 4: Reputation matters in the Kingdom of God Amen, verse three.
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  Speaker 4: Paul wanted to have him go with him, and he
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  Speaker 4: took him and circumcised him because of the Jews. Now
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  Speaker 4: this is interesting. In the Acts fifteen just established that
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  Speaker 4: circumcision was not required for salvation. Didn't we just go
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  Speaker 4: through this whole debate, Yes, we did. So why did
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  Speaker 4: he do this? Why he take Timothy and circumcise him
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  Speaker 4: after they just contended for the faith and had a
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  Speaker 4: whole meeting, meeting in the in the Mother Church in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 4: and came out with a decision. Now here's the key
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  Speaker 4: distinction between this. This was not for salvation. He didn't
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  Speaker 4: tell Timothy, if you want to be saved, you have
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  Speaker 4: to be circumcised. No, this was a strategy. This was
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  Speaker 4: strategic on Paul's part. See, Timothy had a Jewish mother,
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  Speaker 4: so ministry to the Jews would raise questions about his background.
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  Speaker 4: So Paul removed the barrier. He wanted to be able
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  Speaker 4: to minister to the Jewish believe and this was for
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  Speaker 4: the sake of fellowship, not for the sake of salvation.
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  Speaker 4: Paul would never compromise the Gospel. I truly believe in
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  Speaker 4: his character, in his reputation, Paul was not like that.
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  Speaker 4: But he would remove unnecessary stumbling blocks. He didn't want
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  Speaker 4: people to stumble over any stumbling block if that meant
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  Speaker 4: shipwrecking your faith. Right now, that's the difference between compromising
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  Speaker 4: doctrine and adjusting your approach. We are never to compromise
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  Speaker 4: the doctrine or water down the Word of God, but
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  Speaker 4: we can adjust our approach. We don't have to be obnoxious.
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  Speaker 4: We can remove barriers. I know that there's churches out
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  Speaker 4: there today, they call them seekert friendly churches where they
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  Speaker 4: don't talk about sin. They don't preach repentance, they don't preach,
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  Speaker 4: you know, turning away from a life of sin. They
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  Speaker 4: tell you, you know, pat you on the head and
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  Speaker 4: say your sin is okay while you're on your way
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  Speaker 4: to hell. That's a church that is compromising the word. Now,
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  Speaker 4: just in your approach. You know, Paul talks about don't
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  Speaker 4: eat meat. If it causes your brother to stumble right
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  Speaker 4: different things like that, that's a loving thing to do,
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  Speaker 4: is to be concerned about the faith of others. Paul
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  Speaker 4: was flexible and non essentils but he was immovable when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to the truth. And that's what we need
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  Speaker 4: to be. We need to be immovable when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to the truth. Now, the Gospel does not change our methods.
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  Speaker 4: Can We can change our methods, but we cannot change
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  Speaker 4: the gospel one bit. There's a warning in the Bible
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  Speaker 4: who says, who takes away or adds to this gospel,
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  Speaker 4: these plagues in his book would be added to him.
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  Speaker 4: And there's some nasty plagues in the Bible. Love it.
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  Speaker 4: It ain't worth that smoke, I'm telling you. But that's
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  Speaker 4: maturity when you're able to adjust your methods. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: look at us club his hot We opened up a
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  Speaker 4: Christianity hip hop club. We didn't change the gospel. That
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  Speaker 4: was just a method to carry the gospel to our community.
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  Speaker 4: Some believers are are rigid about cultural matters instead of
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  Speaker 4: being committed to the mission. Now Paul understood this. If
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  Speaker 4: something isn't sin and it helps the gospel, do it.
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  Speaker 4: Think about Naki Nike, just do it if it's not sin,
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  Speaker 4: but it helps the gospel. Come on, let's get it done.
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  Speaker 4: Strategy is not surrendering to false teaching and false doctrine.
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  Speaker 4: A man, all right. Verse four. And as they went
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  Speaker 4: through the cities, they delivered to them the decree to keep.
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  Speaker 4: Now they are reinforcing what was decided in Jerusalem. Salvation
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  Speaker 4: is by grace. Hallelujah. Let me say that again. Salvation
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  Speaker 4: is by grace. Notice the balance timpthy was circumcised for outreach.
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  Speaker 4: Gentiles were not required to be circumcised for salvation. Now
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  Speaker 4: that's the illogical clarity. The grace of God remains intact,
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  Speaker 4: is not distorted and has not changed. Amen. Now Verse five,
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  Speaker 4: So the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased
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  Speaker 4: in number daily. Now strengthened and increased. This is we
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  Speaker 4: need to pray for our modern day church to be
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  Speaker 4: strengthened and increased. Amen, we need to add that to
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  Speaker 4: our prayer lists. Now. The Greek concept behind strengthen implies
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  Speaker 4: established a stabilized, stabilizing. If I can say the word
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  Speaker 4: or reinforcement. Healthy churches grow because they are grounded. They
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  Speaker 4: do not grow because of hype. They do not grow
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  Speaker 4: because of emotionalism. They grow because of doctrine. Amen. Growth
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  Speaker 4: that isn't rooted will collapse. Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 4: Growth that does not have a foundation in the Truth,
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  Speaker 4: that is not rooted in the Gospel is weak. It
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  Speaker 4: will collapse. But when believers are grounded in truth, growth
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  Speaker 4: becomes sustainable. It's a sustainable movement. When the truth is involved. Strengthen,
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  Speaker 4: strength will produce increase. That's just a byproduct of it.
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  Speaker 4: When you're strong, you will increase. You will attract others
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  Speaker 4: to yourself. If you want increase in your life, pursue
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  Speaker 4: strength first. Don't skip any classes right. Begin to prepare yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Begin to allow the process in your life where God
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  Speaker 4: is preparing you. It's going to take discipline, it's going
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  Speaker 4: to take commitment. Now. Character qualifies you for the call
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  Speaker 4: of God in your life. Timothy was known before he
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  Speaker 4: was chosen by Paul. He was already known in the community.
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  Speaker 4: Now strategy that supports the mission. Paul adjusted his method,
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  Speaker 4: not the message. We have to be strategic. The Bible
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  Speaker 4: says to be wise as a serpent, but as gentle
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  Speaker 4: as a dove. Sometimes he might have to change strategies.
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  Speaker 4: That's a his how nation right there, right The reputation
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  Speaker 4: also matters in heaven. The church affirmed Timothy before Paul
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  Speaker 4: selected him. What would the brethren and our sisters say
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  Speaker 4: about you if we visited your church and we started
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  Speaker 4: to interview people concerning your character and your fruit, what
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  Speaker 4: would they say? What kind of reputation do you have
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  Speaker 4: in the local body? Amen, strength will lead us to growth,
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  Speaker 4: strengthen in the faith, and they increased daily Verse five,
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  Speaker 4: They were strengthen in the faith, and they increased daily.
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  Speaker 4: Strength will affect growth. It needs to go to the gym.
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  Speaker 4: We need to exercise our faith. That's a podcast topic
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  Speaker 4: right there. How do we exercise our faith? How do
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  Speaker 4: we take our faith to the gym? And man I
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  Speaker 4: was speaking with our brother's own three after the podcast
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  Speaker 4: the other day, and he was saying that he's working out.
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  Speaker 4: He works out while he's listening to the podcast, So
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  Speaker 4: he's strengthening his body as he's strengthening his faith at
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  Speaker 4: the same time. Because remember the Bible tells us that
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  Speaker 4: faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
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  Speaker 4: We strengthen our faith the more we dig deep and
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  Speaker 4: learn the word hallelujah and apply it now. Let's get real, beloved.
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  Speaker 4: Are you chasing position without preparation? That's an accountability question
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  Speaker 4: right there, right Are you chasing position without the preparation
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  Speaker 4: for it? Are you demanding promotion without the formation? Right now?
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  Speaker 4: Ask the Holy Spirit, build my character before you expand
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  Speaker 4: my platform. Amen, I'm adding this to my prayer list. Hallelujah,
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  Speaker 4: build my character before you expand my platform. Growth in
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  Speaker 4: God's Kingdom starts internally. If you want to be strengthened
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  Speaker 4: in the faith. If you agree with me on this point,
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  Speaker 4: just pray this with me real quick. Lord, stabilize me,
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  Speaker 4: mature me, and prepare me. I commit myself to the
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  Speaker 4: process of preparation. Give me the character. Help me to
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  Speaker 4: develop the character that I need to fulfill the call
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  Speaker 4: that is on my life. I cooperate, I submit, and
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  Speaker 4: I partner with your spirit and with your word. And
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  Speaker 4: I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Time for a
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  Speaker 4: quick break.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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  Speaker 6: Keep keep going, keep keep going, keep going, keep going.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta garn I gotta garn it, I gotta guard
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  Speaker 5: I gotta. I gotta garn. I gotta enjoy garne. I
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  Speaker 5: gotta jai guard.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta d on half step because I know the
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  Speaker 1: full truth. The devil cooking, he don't know that I
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  Speaker 1: could cook to. When life give me pressure, I still
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  Speaker 1: show the good fruit. I treated it like my last weapon.
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  Speaker 1: I just pushed through. I don't believe in failure because
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  Speaker 1: I can't afford it. And if it ain't meant for me,
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  Speaker 1: then I ain't about.
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  Speaker 4: To force it.
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  Speaker 1: I think about the Bigtoria trigger, my indorp and the
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  Speaker 1: mission to important. Ain't no way I could have avoid it.
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  Speaker 4: So I gotta keep.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta kill your guard. I gotta your card. I
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  Speaker 5: got a jenior card. I gotta I gotta jenior guard.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta call. I gotta jenior guard. I gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we on time, momentum, come alive. Anytime God ride,
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  Speaker 1: it be only God vibes. I'm consistent when I try.
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  Speaker 1: It's divine. You would think we at the partner. The
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  Speaker 1: way you slide. All I feel is blessed since the
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  Speaker 1: purpose been defined. God don't ever miss. He got my
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  Speaker 1: back when I arrived. Anytime I give, I get it back.
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  Speaker 4: I pay my time.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime I slept, I come right back.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still alive.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta again, you guard, I gotta again, God, I
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  Speaker 5: gotta again, you God, I gottagain. I gotta jain.
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  Speaker 6: You call.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta, I gotta.
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  Speaker 7: This is your winning season. You have been so used
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  Speaker 7: to feeling like you're losing and not making any progress
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  Speaker 7: and being stagnant that now that you have stepped into
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  Speaker 7: the promise, you are battling with accepting what God has promised.
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  Speaker 5: You receive this message with.
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  Speaker 7: Love and an open heart and allow God to give
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  Speaker 7: you everything that He has promised you. Stop resisting the promise.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you are listening to the Light of Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: All right, up right, we are back. That was our
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  Speaker 4: brother her in the light. We keep going, and that's
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  Speaker 4: that's what we gotta do. We gotta keep going, don't
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  Speaker 4: let up, strengthen our faith and increase the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 4: God in the land. Hallelujah. I wanna give a quick
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  Speaker 4: that life. Chat. I speak it. I speak it because
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  Speaker 4: we are strong in the word on this podcast. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: There's no choice but to grow. Amen. Sometimes God doesn't
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  Speaker 4: mind when we put his word to the test. Amen, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's time for the accountability Partners segments. Amen, it's
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  Speaker 4: time to wow. Somebody's hitting me up. You guys probably
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  Speaker 4: heard that the tear mind messages up right Now, it's
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  Speaker 4: time for the accountability partner segments. This right here is
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  Speaker 4: sometimes where our bacon can be saved. Right. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 4: get crazy thoughts, crazy emotions, crazy desires in our head
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  Speaker 4: and we have to have someone faithfully in our life
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  Speaker 4: that can slap us across the face right like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: let's get that thought out your head. That is nothing
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  Speaker 4: but the enemy. You know, our flesh is not our friend.
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  Speaker 4: You know, our biggest enemy is self. The remedy for
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  Speaker 4: the self life. You know what God tells us to
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  Speaker 4: do about the self, He says, kill it, put it
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  Speaker 4: on the cross. We are supposed to die daily to ourself. Amen,
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  Speaker 4: and submit to God and submit to God's word. That's
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  Speaker 4: the whole duty of man is to fear God and
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  Speaker 4: keep his commandments. If we're not keeping his commandments, then
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  Speaker 4: we're not answering the call to our very existence. So
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  Speaker 4: So we're supposed to be brothers and sisters helping each
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  Speaker 4: a challenge in today's challenges call your accountability partner. Invite correction,
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  Speaker 4: Invite the sharpening. You know, iron sharpens iron. And here
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  Speaker 4: is the question, what area of my character still needs
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  Speaker 4: where Timothy was well spoken of? Once again, what two
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  Speaker 4: out acts. Chapter sixteen, verse one through five reminds us
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  Speaker 4: when those are aligned, the church is strengthened, and when
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