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Obey God and Forgive [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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One in family God. Welcome back to the morn in DeVos, he wrote,
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Sam Lopez, hek DJ Sam Rock and we're hearing the Morning devote And
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I was pressed for time, so I had to rush in the studio.
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But I'm here, Amen, and we're here. God is good, God
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is faithful, God is awesome, amazing, and everything that he does,
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everything he says, is true. So we have all guarantee to trust in
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his word because his word is always true, word is always real, and
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his word is always available to all those who are willing to listen to what
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he's saying, what he's doing, Amen, to see his well working in
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our lives. It's like know all the explanation about how God works things out
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for good, for the good for those who love him, other than the
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fact that he said it and he meant it and it's real. The word
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of God is true. Amen. So there's no really debate about it,
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at least in my book, because I tested and he proved himself. I
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tested the word and the word is proven. Amen. I'm sorry, I'm
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looking now. I'm just trying to get to my notes here. Amen.
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And that goes the boody else pretty good there, So let me get to
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my notes here and we'll get to the title over here as well. Amen
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to my morning devot. Today it's called obey God and forgive. Originally I
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wrote obey God and forgive them already. Amen. Let's be obedient to what
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the word says, to what God says. That's why I know, that's
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why I can't get my notes on the wrong screen. But here we go.
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Let's get to it. Amen. The question or the statement I have
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is this, and I believe it's just true statement, not just because I
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wrote it. It's because when I was writing it, I was reading it
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to myself. I was speaking to myself, my conscience, and I was
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saying, forgiveness is not easy. How many people can say Amen to some
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people, they forgive or forget and it comes natural, it comes easy.
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But for me and most people that I know, forgiveness is not easy.
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But if those in your life need forgiveness, start praying for God to make
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an opportunity for you today to forgive them. Amen. And once you do
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that, you will be in obedience to God. God looks at our obedience
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and he takes that higher than sacrifice. Amen. So Matthew, Chapter number
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six verses fourteen and fifteen. Today in the morning Devo. Matthew Chapter six,
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verses fourteen and fifteen. Obey God and forgive andmen. So the Word
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of God, the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit of God, is going
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to help us in this area when it comes to being obedient and to forgive.
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Bible's clear of what the Bible says about forgiveness part of the Gospel,
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The biggest part, one of the biggest part of the Gospels is the forgiveness
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that we receive because of what the Lord Jesus did on the cross. Because
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Jesus was obedient right, and he was obedient to the Father, he forgave
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us right. So we're supposed to forgive others as well. Me and you
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are forgiven. People say I'm not perfect, but I'm forgiven. I like
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that, Amen, But we need to step up the level of thinking there.
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Jesus, the Lord says, we are perfect, to be perfect.
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It's a commandment. Amen. I know you need to say, but we're
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only human. We're not just only human, we're children of God. The
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Lord is the only one that gives us the right to be called children of
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God. Amen. Obey God and forgive today in the morning, devil.
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If you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, don't hesitate
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to leave it on a live stream. That is what we're here for.
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Amen. We're here to communicate, engage, love up on one another.
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Amen. We're not here to judge each other. We're not here to point
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fingers. We're here to devote some time in the first part of our day
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to the Lord Jesus, to the Lord God Almighty, yahweh Amen. Forgiveness
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is not easy. But if those in your life need forgiveness, start praying
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for God to make an opportunity for you today to forget. Let's do that,
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Amen, Let's pray first. After we pray, we'll shut us out
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for like sixty seconds, and on the other side of those sixty seconds,
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we'll come back and we'll get into Matthew chapter number six, Verses fourteen and
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fifteen. Ready, Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you
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so much that you forgave us, That you forgave me, That you forgive
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all those who put their whole faith and trust in You, Lord God.
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For all those who are humble enough to admit that they need forgiveness, they
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need a Savior, we will continue to stay humble and walk in love towards
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one another, and that we will love you with everything that we have a
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man of mind, soul, by strength, everything as a living sacrifice,
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that we would know that we're forgiven and therefore we should forgive others. Thank
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you, Lord God for your word. Thank you, Lord God that you
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have commanded us to love one another as we love ourselves, and to love
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our neighbors as we love ourselves as well. Thank you, Lord God for
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your love, your grace, and your mercy, for your power. Lord
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God, that you give us to forgive, and that you give us this
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whole entire different look on forgiveness and man as a debt that you paid on
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that cross of cavalry. You forgave us our trespasses. So thank you,
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Lord God. I pray a head of protection over myself, my family,
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my whole household, my entire bloodline, in the name of Jesus, those
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who are struggling and the walk in life in my family. Lo, I
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pray faith upon their hearts and minds. Right now I pray peace upon their
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hearts and minds. Right now I pray the protection of God and the covering
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of the arquen angels that are assigned to our lives that would be fully active.
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And I pray that also for every single person that's connected now, that
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will connect later, that will listen now, that will watch later, oh
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and listen later. I pray over their lives as well, the peace of
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God in Jesus Name. And I pray, Lord God, that you will
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continue to just teach us and show us in your word on what this is
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all about. I pray this by faith, knowing that you hear these prayers
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and you answer them according to your will and purpose, which is always the
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best will for our lives and the best purpose for our lives. And Jesus
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Name, and we all say Amen and Amen. Manuel Johnson, good morning,
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God bless you. Amen, Sister Joanne, Good morning, God bless
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you. Welcome back to the morning Debo, my friends and my family and
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God. So that take sixty seconds to share this out. When we come
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back, we'll get right into it. Obey God and give let's go.
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Amen, we're back. We're back. Let's go for it. Let's see
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what the word of God says here. Amen? What did I say?
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Matthew? The Book of Matthew, chapter number six. I believe it is
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right. Let me just get to my notes and make sure this is good,
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Matthew six, fourteen and fifteen. Let's go for it again. Questions,
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comments, concerns all throughout. Amen. That's what the live chat is
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here for. If you have a question, Amen, and it's really not
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connected to what we're saying right now, you can still leave it in a
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chat and then afterwards we'll connect and we'll try to sort it out, try
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to get an answer from the Word for Amen. For sure, the Word
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of God will answer your questions. I know that for a fact. A
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man trust me when I say that I look for the answers through the scriptures.
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If I can't find an answer through you know, normal ways, I
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go to the supernatural God who knows every single thing about me and who knows
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every single answer I need to be answered. Amen, that I asked the
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question. He answers. Obedience is better than sacrifice, Yes, it is,
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according to the scriptures. Right, So God wants to see our obedience.
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Amen, And you're blessed and I'm blessed for it. For obedience because
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it's a heart issue. Right, Are we gonna trust God? Obey God?
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Are we're gonna trust the world and obey what the world is wanting us
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to do. Are we gonna trust the spirit of God or we're gonna trust
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the flesh of man. It's our choice, and we choose wisely. I
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mean, I hope you would choose wisely. Amen. Come back, Morning
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Devo live streaming. Right now, someone is with a z do orga celerated
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on thattwork. Also on the podcast platforms. It will be available right after
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this, Amen, Because the platform that I'm using doesn't allow live streamed podcasts
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any longer for whatever reason. Got to respect it. I still I'm amazed
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by the platform that I use, called Spreaker for podcasting. I believe they're
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one of the best, if not the best, podcast platform. I can't
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say the best because I haven't tried every single podcast platforms and there's a lot
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out there. But I've been with these people for a long time now and
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they serve me well. Amen, So I always would recommend Speaker for podcasting.
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So let's go for it. Let's see what we have here on the
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presenter. Amen, there you go, obey God and forgive on the Morning
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Devo. In the scripture we have today is Matthew Chapter six, fourteen and
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fifteen. For if you forgive others their trespasses, you're heavily Father would also
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forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their truspasses, neither will
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your father forgive your truspasses. Very fair, right, right, it's fair
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what the Lord is saying here, forgive others their trespasses, and then what
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happens you will also be forgiven the opposite. Right, and try this whole
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thing about Now, they did me dirty, so I'm gonna do them back
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dirty or what? But they did? It's unforgivable if you go that route,
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basically saying, God, I see what you're saying, but I'm gonna
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do my own thing. Because the Bible is clear says, but if you
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do not forgive others their truspasses, neither or neither will your father forgive your
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truspasses. Now? Is this saying that God's forgiveness depends on us forgiving others?
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Is that what this is saying? If not, what could Jesus have
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meant by today's verses? What do you think he meant by this? Do
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you mean to tell me I lose the forgiveness of God. If I don't
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forgive others, think about it, Amen, that's how important this is.
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Think about it. Clearly, what unforgiveness interferes with is the most important thing
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about forgiveness. Forgiveness requires actions along with our words. Yes, got to
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put feet to our faith. We have to put action to our forgiveness.
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Now, we just can't say it and then go about our day and unforgiveness.
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As a matter of fact, when you hold unforgiveness and grudges in your
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heart, that's like a spiritual cancer to your soul. And we don't want
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that. Amen. It's like it's like holding onto unforgiveness is like trying to
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poison someone, but you drink the poison yourself. Right, So it's not
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a good idea any which way you think about it, to hold on to
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unforgiveness. But I always say, let's just do what the word says.
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Amen. And although well, I know for sure it's not what the flesh
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wants us to do. Right, the flesh of man and the spirit of
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God, they're at war. This is always going to be at war at
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odds with each other because the Word of God is true, the Spirit of
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God is always willing the flesh is weak. So imagine that you are diagnosed
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with a terminal illness. Right, there's only one known cure. You probably
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heard this scenario before. There's only one known cure and it's only available from
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a single source. There's only one way you could get this cure. So
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they give you a prescription to accept the treatment because you know you're going to
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be cured. You granted the Christian You accept the treatment, you take it,
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and you're cured. Imagine this, but you are surprised to discover that
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this company did not charge you for the drug and has gifted you with more
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medication than you could ever need. Thinking it must be a mistake, right,
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you contact the drug company only to find out that they are extra generous
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with this miracle medicine that has cured you. They want the recipients of it
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to pass it on to others so they can be cured free of charge as
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well. So you have this illness, everybody says there's only one place you
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can get the cure. Company gives you the medication for it, and you're
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like, where's the charge and it's free, And then you contact the company
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and they tell you no, it's free. As a matter of fact,
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we to give you more of it, and we want you to share that
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with others, and we want to give want you to give away totally free.
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For some reason, you get offended. You don't want to pass it
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on because in your mind, right in your mind, the people that you
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know who are sick with the very same disease that you once suffer from,
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are undeserving of the treatment that saved your life. Instead, you don't want
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to pass it on. You decide to hoard it needlessly, hoarding it,
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denying others of the hope and denying others of the joy that they have found
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and being cured. Frustration, Right, I want you to think about that.
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It's not a perfect illustration, but it's something to think about. You
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see the point though Jesus was getting at in today's verse he was. The
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point was he says that if you forgive others for their sins, right,
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for their sins, the Father will also forgive yours. But if you don't
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forgive the sins of others, God will not forgive your sins. Right,
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you were like, wait, wait, say that again. Yeah, you
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might have thought that forgiveness and salvation were a free gift from God, and
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it is a free gift from God. But how is it a free gift
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of God just for me? It was it just for you. It's not
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for those other people that are unforgiven right now, right we're not supposed to
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pray for them no more because listen, I'm forgiven and it's all for me.
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And whatever they go to do is that's on them. So how is
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this a free gift if I could only forgive it? Well, if I
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could only receive it by forgiving others? So there isn't that promoting workspace?
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Salvation is saying that we have to do something to maintain our forgiveness. It's
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deep, I know from one in Devo, but he's under known to have
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it. So go back to the Bible. See what Jesus meant here.
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The Bible clearly states in multiple places. There's different places in the scriptures that
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speak about salvation, that speaks about forgiveness of sins as being a free gift
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of God. Romans six twenty three. We see that for the wages of
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sin is what death, but the free gift of God is what eternal life.
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In Christ. Jesus our Lord Paul says in Ephesians, chapter two,
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verses eight and nine. Well, by grace you have been saved through what
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through faith, and this not of your own doing. It is the gift
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of God, not a result of works. So that no one will be
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able to boast about this right, God's letting us know it's a free gift.
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We don't deserve it, we can't do nothing to earn it, and
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we keep on going when we see examples when Jesus was healing people and forgiving
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them during his earthly ministry, casting out demons and all that, he didn't
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heal those who could afford it, and he didn't forgive people who deserved it.
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Say that again, Jesus didn't go about healing people that could afford their
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healing to get this miracle, cure or whatever that they could have brought right,
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and he didn't for he didn't forgive people who deserved forgiveness. Rather,
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he offered healing. He offered it, still offers it. Now. That's
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the thing about the Lord. He's to say, yesterday, today, and
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forevermore. He offered healing and forgiveness free of charge to those he encountered.
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That's why it's very important. I don't want my children to follow God of
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the church that I attend. I want them to follow the God of the
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scriptures. I don't want them to be obligated to follow the God that I
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believe in. I want them to have an encounter with the true, Living,
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Holy, Righteous God for themselves, so they can know the power,
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the love, the grace, the mercy of this living God for themselves,
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and that God, the Lord Jesus Yahweh Elohem else should die right Holy Spirit,
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God Alpha and Omega, He will offer them healing and forgiveness free of
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charge. Right after that encounter, they will know that God is real in
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their own lives. So at this point, who are we, right,
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sinful humans that we are to withhold something that was given to us really from
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God. When I say sinful, I'm not saying that we're still sinners after
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salvation. I'm saying that we have a sinful nature called the flesh, and
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the broken world and a broken system and the luss of the flesh, lust
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of the eyes, pride of life, and all that that we have to
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deal with in this world. But we don't identify with what we used to
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be. We identify with who we are right now in Christ I hope that
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helps you out. So we were sick with sin before salvation, right,
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we didn't deserve forgiveness, and there's no way we could ever pay the debt
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that Jesus paid on the cross. So we know what the scripture says.
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We read some of the examples of the scriptures that talk about the free gift
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of God. Right, we know what Jesus has done for us. We
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know we can never repay Jesus for what he did on that cross. I
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hope you're not trying to repay the Lord a sin that saying listen, I
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got this. I could do this right now, right, I could do
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it on my own. I hope you're not that person, because I have
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news for you. You can do it on your own. We need God,
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you need the Father, you need the Son, you need holdly spirit
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in your life daily. He gave it to those who seeked him. Yes,
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he gave the truth to love, the grace, the mercy, the
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forgiveness, salvation for those who sought after God diligently with all their heart.
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Yes he did. Hey, word was past tense. What we used to
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be, who we were before Christ, what we used to do, and
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what we were a slave to before Christ. We were slaved to sin before
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Jesus saved our lives and transformed our lives and rescued us and empowered us by
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way of His Holy Spirit. We are not who we used to be.
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We all who God calls us. Now we move forward. We're not in
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the past and we can't go back, but we definitely have today and we
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can move forward. It's by a holy spirit and in the spirit. Yes,
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thank you so much for your comments. Manuell. So when we withhold
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what God has given us right and what He has put in our hearts,
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and we just try to hoard it for ourselves, what we're saying is that
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the gift that God freely gave us was not enough. We're looking for something
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else. Right, Manuel says, that's right, that's very important, and
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put us on the screen. That's very important to know and never forget.
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It meant when we received one and enough, which we have in Christ,
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and He saves our lives, and He has given us the antidote to the
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poisoned, to the poison of sin. We have the antidote, right,
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we have Jesus. We deem others with the same condition as ourselves. Unworthy
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of it. Right, So this is all through a man. Horizontally,
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we are all unworthy. God found us worthy a man. If he didn't
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think that we were worth it, he would not have gone I had with
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what he did on the cross once for all? Right, So are you
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likely to walk in guilt because you're thinking, like, man, this cannot
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be all for me. This has to be for me and for others.
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And if you hold on to it and you think that it's only for you,
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eventually you get to feel guilty because you get to see people to the
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left of you, to the right of you that are not born again,
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that I'm not saved and I'm not walking in victory and you have this in
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you and you're not giving it out freely. You were given freely. We
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should give right. And forgiveness is a big part of it. I can't
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be walking around or I can't be walking around. Let me just talk to
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myself. I can't be walking around in unforgiveness and looking at people as if
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they're lesser than me because I have this salvation. Yes, oh man,
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that is an ultimate gift. But I would want to share that gift.
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Trust me. I'm an evangelist. I want to share the gift of God
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to every single person that I encounter, that I meet, because somehow,
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some way, I know that if they get this forgiveness and this salvation,
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and they get this encounter with the Lord and with his word, they're going
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to live an amazing life. I'm not saying that it's free from any kind
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of pain or anything that happens in the world. But when I am saying,
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they're gonna be forgiven and walking in victory, and they're not gonna hoard
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this gift that was freely given to us, They're gonna freely forgive because they
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know they were forgiven. I forgive people because I know I was forgiven.
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And who am I to say no to a person who's asking for forgiveness.
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The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, and what we know about
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our Savior and who he is to us came to give us life, life
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in abundance. So I'm out of time. Go to Matthew chapter six.
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Read it for yourself. I know there was a lot there chapter six Versus
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fourteen and fifteen we were on, but I want you to read the whole
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chapter and listen, obey God, and forgive so God bless you all.
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Got to keep you all and remember always that God is good. Peace,