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How do you endure hardship? [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning family, Good morning, God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: So listen, let's go for it. I try to get
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  Speaker 2: a struggle because normally.
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  Speaker 1: On my night owl. And if you know me, you
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  Speaker 1: already know, Amen, that this is all.
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  Speaker 2: This is all holy spirit work, Amen, waking up early
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  Speaker 2: and doing the and then I'm hoping that you're getting
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  Speaker 2: something out of this positive. I hope Lord that the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is continually I'm teaching you and helping you through.
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  Speaker 2: And so today I decided to talk about how do
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  Speaker 2: you endure hardships?
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  Speaker 1: How do you endure hardships?
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing so many things going on in my life,
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  Speaker 2: and my friend's life, my family's life, my brothers and
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  Speaker 2: sisters in Christ. We are enduring and hardships, things that
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  Speaker 2: happen in life unexpectedly. Nobody raises their hand and men
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  Speaker 2: for these hardships, right. Nobody wakes up and be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I want to I want to experience a hardship today.
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  Speaker 2: How do you endure that? I don't have no clue
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  Speaker 2: of how a person who doesn't have God in their
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  Speaker 2: lives goes through hardships?
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  Speaker 1: Like what do they do? Where's their hope? What's the alternative? Amen?
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  Speaker 2: Because with God, things are hard in this life. But
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  Speaker 2: thank you Jesus that this world is temporary. This life
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  Speaker 2: that we're living is temporary. We can make right decisions
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  Speaker 2: based on the Word of God, Holy Spirit God and
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  Speaker 2: work through and endure hardships and we have hope on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of that. But a person who doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have the Lord, a person who doesn't believe in God,
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  Speaker 2: a person who doesn't have direction according to the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: what do they do? But today, let's really back, how
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  Speaker 2: do you, my friend, my brother and sister in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: how do you endure hardships like let's keep it right there.
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  Speaker 2: But the job that I see you, bro, God bless
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  Speaker 2: you is good morning. It's good to see you on
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  Speaker 2: the morning, Devo, God bless you, my friend and my bro.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where we're at today, and this.
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  Speaker 1: Is what I wrote.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote, hardship with faith is the difference needed to
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  Speaker 2: see the greater purpose, because I know when you're going
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  Speaker 2: through something, at least for me, when I'm going through
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  Speaker 2: something that's hard in life, sometimes I don't see the
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  Speaker 2: greater purpose. Like I'll be like, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying everything to do what's right, and I still
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  Speaker 2: get hit by XYZ. Right, how many people know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about? Matthew Chapter four, verses one to eleven.
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  Speaker 2: So we got a lot to read, eleven verses to read.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: But that's where I felt led to go and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: we can get it done today. If any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 2: or pray requests, please don't have to take to it,
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  Speaker 2: even on a live chat. That's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 2: Also at live that's so one is with a z
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  Speaker 1: You can head over there now.
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  Speaker 2: A man, it's all good with streaming live is there
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  Speaker 2: as well, So let's go for Let's pray first. After
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  Speaker 2: we prayer, shit us out for like sixty seconds. Then
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  Speaker 2: when we come back from the other side of those
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  Speaker 2: sixty seconds, we'll get right into We got a lot
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  Speaker 2: to read today, amen, But God's good. I think we
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  Speaker 2: could get it done with the little time that.
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  Speaker 1: We have left. Ben, So let's pray.
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  Speaker 2: Father, in the powerful name of Jesus, thank you so much,
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  Speaker 2: and that you have been with us through thick and thin,
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  Speaker 2: day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, second
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  Speaker 2: by second.
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  Speaker 1: You are with us.
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  Speaker 2: You are involved in every single detail of our lives,
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  Speaker 2: especially when we're enduring hardships, especially when things are not
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  Speaker 2: going right, especially when we're experiencing heartbreak, especially when we're
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  Speaker 2: losing loved ones, especially when we're seeing the world around
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  Speaker 2: us just crumbling right in front of our eyes. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for being with us, working through us, and working
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  Speaker 2: in us. Thank you for your power of love, your grace,
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  Speaker 2: and your mercy, your forgiveness. I pray low God right now,
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  Speaker 2: a hedge of protection over every single one of my
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Low God, that you would continue to remind
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  Speaker 2: us that you are with us, that you would never
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  Speaker 2: leave us nor forsake us. That you are God of
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  Speaker 2: your promise or God of your word, and that we
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  Speaker 2: can trust in you. We obey your commandments, as we
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  Speaker 2: obey your word, as we move forward in victory, knowing
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  Speaker 2: that you are able to work with us and through
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  Speaker 2: us by your power and by your holy spirit.
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  Speaker 1: So I speak life.
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  Speaker 2: I come against anything that tries to bring death to
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  Speaker 2: our minds, death to our bodies physically, emotional and spiritually.
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  Speaker 2: And I set forth and dispatch arky n angels right
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  Speaker 2: now to annihilate the tactics and plans of the enemy
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  Speaker 2: over our lives today. And the powerful name of Jesus
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  Speaker 2: by his authority, I pray it's by faith, knowing that
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  Speaker 2: he God, the Lord Jesus, is able to do exactly
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  Speaker 2: what his word would do for every single individual that's
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  Speaker 2: listening and.
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  Speaker 1: Watching right now.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus holy name, I pray it's by faith. Those
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  Speaker 2: who agree, we say amen to the Amen the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Help me share this out.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back. We'll get right into it Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number four, verses one to eleven. So we got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to read and a little bit of time,
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  Speaker 1: but I think we could do it. Amen. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: for it. Aymen and man, we're back.
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of groups that I share out with,
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  Speaker 2: but I have and I see you, bro, God, bless
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  Speaker 2: you man.
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  Speaker 1: It's to see you in the morning. Devo. Blessings to
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  Speaker 1: you as well, my friend and my bro. Amen, let's
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  Speaker 1: go for it.
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  Speaker 2: As we celebrated from the time it is recording, we
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  Speaker 2: celebrated our.
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  Speaker 1: Moms on Mother's Day. Amen. I reached out to my mom.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know she canna pick up the phone. But
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  Speaker 1: God is good. Amen, She's faithful.
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  Speaker 2: He's faithful to her in her life as well as
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  Speaker 2: bless you, Mom, I love.
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  Speaker 1: You if you're watching or listening. Also to my wife,
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  Speaker 1: which is to me.
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  Speaker 2: An amazing woman of God who went through so much,
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  Speaker 2: and she endured through a lot men and hardships, child
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  Speaker 2: bearing and all that that happened.
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  Speaker 1: In our lives. But how do you endure hardships and
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  Speaker 1: happy mothers?
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  Speaker 2: Sow the moms out there as well, and for all
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  Speaker 2: those who have lost their mom. I know this is
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  Speaker 2: a hard day, Amen, it was a hard weekend. It
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  Speaker 2: was a hard day to celebrate mothers and men. But
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  Speaker 2: we have memories of my moms.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm blessed that have my mom's still here with us,
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  Speaker 2: and some others have their moms, but happy moms stay
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  Speaker 2: to all those who love, who have grandmoms, who have
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  Speaker 2: moms still here or in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: We play pay honor, you know, given honor to the
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  Speaker 2: moms out there, So God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Man, there's a lot to
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  Speaker 1: cover here. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking about I said, wait, I'm religious and
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  Speaker 2: think that I have to stick to one scripture men,
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  Speaker 2: because then I'm not really listening to it. Holly goes
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  Speaker 2: the same, so he wanted me to read these verses.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to read it in Matthew chapter four.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows, well, I shouldn't say everybody. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: people know where we're going with Matthew Chapter four in
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  Speaker 2: the very very first part, but we're gonna just read it.
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  Speaker 1: Some people don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this is the first time you ever read the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: read the scriptures, or heard the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever wherever you are in your walk I believe God's
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  Speaker 2: gonna meet you and meet me right where we are
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  Speaker 2: in our spiritual walk.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Yo, he never fails, man, he shows up all the time.
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  Speaker 2: God is faithful to his word and to us. So
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  Speaker 2: let me get this on the screen, amen, and here
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  Speaker 2: we go. How do you endure hardship? And of course
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  Speaker 2: you see the chains and the rusty chains across amongst
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  Speaker 2: the rusty chains they meant on the morning, devo. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go for it a lot to read. Hopefully you can
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  Speaker 2: see that, Amen. And we could read this together. Matthew four,
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  Speaker 2: verses one to eleven. Then Jesus was led by the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is real. Devil is real. Jesus was real, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and he is real. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So you could also read the references there. Luke Chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: verses one to thirteen. After he had gone without food
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  Speaker 2: for forty days and forty nights, he became hungry. Right,
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  Speaker 2: it's Bibles clear, and the Bible is relevant. You don't
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  Speaker 2: go with food for all that time, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be hungry. And the tempter came and said to him,
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  Speaker 2: just like the tempter came in the garden, trying to
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  Speaker 2: speak lies over God's word. And the temper came and
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  Speaker 2: said to him, if you are the son of God,
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  Speaker 2: command that these stones become bred. Who was hungry, But
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  Speaker 2: es reply, it is written and forever remains written. And
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  Speaker 2: shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
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  Speaker 2: that comes out of the mouth of God. Hey follow
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  Speaker 2: follow this good. Then the devil took him into the
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  Speaker 2: Holy City Jerusalem and placed him on the pinnacle, highest
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  Speaker 2: point of the temple, and he said mockingly to him,
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  Speaker 2: if you are the son of God, throw yourself down,
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  Speaker 2: for it is written. He will command his angels concerning
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  Speaker 2: you to serve, care for, protect and watch over you,
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  Speaker 2: and they will lift you up on their hands, so
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  Speaker 2: that you will not strike your foot against the stone.
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  Speaker 2: Because he was referencing, so I'm ninety one verse number eleven. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: he's such a liar. The devil was a lied, using
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  Speaker 2: and referencing scripture to tempt the Lord Jesus. Jesus said
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  Speaker 2: to him, on the other hand, it is written and
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  Speaker 2: forever remains written. You shall not test the Lord your God. Again,
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  Speaker 2: the devil took him up on the very high mountain
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  Speaker 2: and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and
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  Speaker 2: the glory, splendor, the magnificence and excellence of them. And
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  Speaker 2: he said to him, all these things I will give
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  Speaker 2: you if you fall down, if you fall down and
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  Speaker 2: worship me, Never that, right, never that. Then Jesus said
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  Speaker 2: to him, go away, Satan, for it is written and
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  Speaker 2: forever remains written. You shall worship the Lord, your God
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  Speaker 2: and serve him.
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  Speaker 1: Only. Then the devil left him, and angels came and
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  Speaker 1: ministered to him, bringing him food and serving him. Wow. Powerful, right.
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  Speaker 2: So every time I read the temptation of the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: I realized that the Word of God says that God
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  Speaker 2: cannot be tempted. So this is Jesus, the man being tempted.
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  Speaker 2: Duty of God was never tempted.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. And remember, the devil was not even sure if
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was the son of man.
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  Speaker 2: That's why he said, if you are the son of man,
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  Speaker 2: if you are the son of man, if you are
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  Speaker 2: you know who you say you are, then do this.
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  Speaker 2: That and the third didn't work, didn't work for the devil.
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  Speaker 2: At that point, Jesus was weak and hungry. Still, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: won the battle. He won it through the word of God.
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  Speaker 2: This was a tremendous hardship. But remember, if you back
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit, if you were like read the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: you'll notice that this happened right after Jesus was filled
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  Speaker 2: with Holy Spirit, or right after God spoke through Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit to the Lord Jesus. And then Holy Spirit God
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  Speaker 2: led the Lord Jesus to the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Right. He didn't go there with his chest. I said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's get this going.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go ahead and get tempted by the devil.
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  Speaker 2: He was led by the Spirit of God into the
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  Speaker 2: wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Why to show
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  Speaker 2: us today that there is no weapon that the enemy
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  Speaker 2: could do to wage against us, or to try to
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  Speaker 2: use to throw off off the course that God has
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 1: Even in our weakest moments. The Lord still prevails.
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  Speaker 2: Even in our weakest times, God still is the victorious one.
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  Speaker 2: To do that in your life, you could do that.
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  Speaker 2: You could do that for all those hoomsoevers who called
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  Speaker 2: upon the name of the Lord Jesus to be saved.
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  Speaker 2: We are saved and being saved, even through the temptations,
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  Speaker 2: even through trials, even through rough times. The Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is with us and his word still remains. And I
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  Speaker 2: like what the scripture says in the amplified version that
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  Speaker 2: the word remains. Amen, it is written and always will
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  Speaker 2: be written. Right, it is written, and that word always
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  Speaker 2: will remain. It is written, and that word will be
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  Speaker 2: forever we endure. At least I endure through hardships. Now
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  Speaker 2: that Christ has been in my life, that I just
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  Speaker 2: got transformed by His power since two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 2: When hardships come, I run onto the scriptures, I run
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  Speaker 2: to the Word. I hide under the powerful wings of
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  Speaker 2: an almighty Father, almighty God, trusting in Jesus and being
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  Speaker 2: led by Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will lead you
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  Speaker 2: through places.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit is not using the wilderness in your life
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  Speaker 2: and in my life to cause you the fall. Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit will use the wilderness in our lives, the hardships
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  Speaker 2: in our lives to teach us lessons and to show
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  Speaker 2: us how to endure, and to also remind us who
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  Speaker 2: we are in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Never a time that you were gonna do you notice
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  Speaker 2: in scriptures, through the Disciples, through the Lord, even through
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  Speaker 2: our lives, that Jesus will be like, Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: leave you here, or Holy Spirit will say I'll leave
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  Speaker 2: you here and you figure it out on your own.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me when that, when has that ever happened in
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  Speaker 2: your life in your journey with Christ, that he abandons you,
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  Speaker 2: and that he says, okay, go ahead, go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: figure it out yourself. That's not the loving Father, Lord
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  Speaker 2: king right. That's not the father God that we serve,
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  Speaker 2: that leads us just abandoned, leaves us just guessing, leads
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  Speaker 2: us with our hope. That's not the guy that we serve.
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  Speaker 2: The guy that we serve is a God of all hope, comfort,
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  Speaker 2: and he's with us step by step in the journey.
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  Speaker 2: Us endorsed suffering for a greater purpose. We were meant
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  Speaker 2: not to die. We were meant to live forever. But
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  Speaker 2: since Genesis chapter three happened, God, being a just God,
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  Speaker 2: had to make something happened that would show that he
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  Speaker 2: is sovereign over even the fall of man. What he
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  Speaker 2: did was he sent his self himself in a form
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  Speaker 2: of a man. But before that, he spoke to the prophets,
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  Speaker 2: form science, miracles, wonders let the Israelites out of captivity.
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  Speaker 2: And it should have been a short distance or a
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  Speaker 2: short time that they would have got into the promised land,
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  Speaker 2: but because of stubbornness, hard hearts, doubts, lack of faith,
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  Speaker 2: because of routine and familiar reality. They even said at
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  Speaker 2: one point, man, we were better off in bondage.
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  Speaker 1: We were better off in Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: We know the story that it took them forty years
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness, forty years running around the same mountain,
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  Speaker 2: forty years just out there loss when they had the
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  Speaker 2: Father leading them, when they had the fire at night,
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  Speaker 2: in the cloud by.
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  Speaker 1: Day, and man, they weren't getting it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we don't get it. But God's got a mercy
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  Speaker 2: and grace, and He's patient with us. Man, they connected
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  Speaker 2: to God, endure hardship with faith, trust God and trials,
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  Speaker 2: and resist temptation.
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  Speaker 1: We see it in the story and the scriptures. When
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself was being tempted by the devil.
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  Speaker 2: What did Jesus do, They cry and say, I can't
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  Speaker 2: take this no more. Did he run to the Father
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  Speaker 2: and say, Father, please help me, I can't do this
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  Speaker 2: no more? Did he did he fight the devil like
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  Speaker 2: literally fight the devil hand in hand combat.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: He used the word, which is he was the living Word.
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  Speaker 2: He is the living Word of God, and the Word
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  Speaker 2: was all up in this whole scenario. The word of God,
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  Speaker 2: which we can trust, the Word of God delivers. The
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  Speaker 2: word of God says, The word of God forgives. The
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  Speaker 2: Word of God loves. The Word of God shows mercy,
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  Speaker 2: The word of God shows grace. The Word of God endures,
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  Speaker 2: forever remains forever, just like the translation set Amen, let
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  Speaker 2: me see the verbiage when he says, it is written
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  Speaker 2: and forever remains written.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. It is written. The Word of God
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  Speaker 1: is written and forever remains written. The Word of God
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  Speaker 1: will not be erased.
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  Speaker 2: You could the technology could try to take it off
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  Speaker 2: the tablets, off the phones. Digital Bibles can be changed,
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  Speaker 2: altered and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But the written word of God will never be changed,
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  Speaker 1: forever eternal.
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  Speaker 2: That's why the Word of God, the Bible, stands up
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  Speaker 2: in any renovation.
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  Speaker 1: For all time, it has been scrutinized. I think the
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  Speaker 1: Bible is the most scrutinized book in all of history,
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  Speaker 1: and yet it still remains intact. And there's not a
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  Speaker 1: smart person out there, or smart enough person out there
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  Speaker 1: to figure, oh, well, this can't be true. Because XYZ.
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  Speaker 1: They come up with.
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  Speaker 2: These little ideas of why they feel because no facts
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 1: They feel that the scriptures are not reliable anymore. And
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  Speaker 1: every single time there is a debate concerning that God
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  Speaker 1: will send a man or a woman of God to
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  Speaker 1: say no, that's not true. And this is why, and
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  Speaker 1: we have plenty of reasons to believe why God is real.
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  Speaker 1: His word is true.
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  Speaker 2: A man Jesus existed, He went to a cross, died
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  Speaker 2: and rose again. So many historical facts artifacts, People are
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  Speaker 2: finding stuff all the time of proving that Jesus was alive,
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  Speaker 2: he was real, he walked among the people a man,
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  Speaker 2: not only just through this, but historical facts, because we
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  Speaker 2: have a historical Jesus, Biblical Jesus, prophesied Jesus, a man.
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  Speaker 1: He's spoken in all religions. Everyone knows the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: in all religions. They know about him. Some deny that
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  Speaker 1: he existed.
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  Speaker 2: But when they go through hard times, who are they
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  Speaker 2: trusting as a believer, as a son of God, as
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  Speaker 2: a child of God. When I go through hardships, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: I trust in the Word. I trust in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I endure, Amen. And we endure it till
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  Speaker 2: the end. God wants us to go to the full
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  Speaker 2: length of life. He has a plan marked out. His
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  Speaker 2: plan is perfect, a man for my life and for
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  Speaker 2: your life. His plan is perfect. It's purpose for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's perfect, His plans perfect. We can endure because God
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  Speaker 2: endure it. We can endure because the Lord endure it.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And we can do this because He empowers us to
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  Speaker 2: get it done by way of His Holy Spirit. Stay
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  Speaker 2: connected to God. Endure hardship with faith, trust God in trials,
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  Speaker 2: resist temptation. The Bible says that if we submit to
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  Speaker 2: God right, submit to God, then we resist the devil.
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  Speaker 2: Because if we don't submit to God, there's no way
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  Speaker 2: to resist the devil. But when we submit to God
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  Speaker 2: resists the devil. And what, just like we saw in
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  Speaker 2: Matthew in this verse these verses.
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  Speaker 1: Devil will flee.
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  Speaker 2: He has to go. Can not stand up against the
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  Speaker 2: powerful word of God. Hates the name of Jesus, he
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  Speaker 2: hates God's creation, he hates a Christian, he hates a
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  Speaker 2: Christ's follower, he hates us all.
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  Speaker 1: But when we bring the word.
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  Speaker 2: And present that word through hardships. That's why it's powerful
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  Speaker 2: to speak life over yourself. It's powerful to pray over yourself,
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  Speaker 2: anoint yourself, wherever you, wherever your flesh is trying to
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  Speaker 2: take over, anoint that part of your body a man,
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  Speaker 2: your mind, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, wherever a man. If
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  Speaker 2: you're into some kind of sexual addiction, a man, anoint
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  Speaker 2: the body parts that are trying to take over. In
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  Speaker 2: the f us, people say, well, that's that seems weird. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: we have stories when Jesus in the scriptures where Jesus
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  Speaker 2: used spit and dirt and put it on people's eyes
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  Speaker 2: that were blind. Anointed that blind eyes, and what happened
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  Speaker 2: that blind people would see. I mean, let's do how
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  Speaker 2: Let's do things the way God did things.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I know it sounds weird when I tell people to
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  Speaker 2: annoint yourself, you know, with oil, do this, that and
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  Speaker 2: the third? Why why am I saying that? Because I
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  Speaker 2: see Jesus he did it for others. Amen, So we
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  Speaker 2: could do it for others greater exploits. The Bible says
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  Speaker 2: we would do than what Jesus did.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: We're just following suit trust in God. Yes, sometimes it
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  Speaker 2: looks weird, but in the world system, everything to them
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  Speaker 2: that we do is weird. But for Christ's follow what
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  Speaker 2: we do is not weird. What we do is anointed,
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  Speaker 2: what we do is powerful. What we do is we
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  Speaker 2: do it by faith, not by sight. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: to follow the how do you call it the norm
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  Speaker 2: of this world system, because we're not part of this
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  Speaker 2: world system.
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  Speaker 1: We are in this.
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  Speaker 2: World, but we're not of this world. We are pilgrims,
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  Speaker 2: We are royal priesthood. We are people who sold seeds
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  Speaker 2: of eternal life all through the earth. Every time we
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  Speaker 2: show up, the Kingdom of God shows up. Do you
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  Speaker 2: realize that when we're going through hardships, people are really
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  Speaker 2: watching and focusing on those who call themselves believers in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: When we're going through a hard time, they're really focused
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  Speaker 2: and they're watching every step.
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  Speaker 1: They're watching what we say, to listen to what we say.
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  Speaker 2: They're watching our movements because they say, let's see what
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  Speaker 2: the difference is between when they, the ones that don't believe,
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  Speaker 2: go through hardships, and when we, the ones who say
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  Speaker 2: we believe, go through hardships. That should be a different
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  Speaker 2: way that we move. Amen, and by way of God's Word,
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, God and all the community of Christ, the
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  Speaker 2: Body of Christ, we endure and we endure hardships through
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  Speaker 2: the end through the end. Amen, So the question remains,
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  Speaker 2: how do you do a hardships? Hardship with faith is
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  Speaker 2: the difference we needed to see the greater purpose, and
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  Speaker 2: the greater purpose is to show others the love of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the faithfulness of God in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: And then when we get to the other side, Man,
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  Speaker 1: we're good. We're good because we did everything according to
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures. Brother Frank, I see you. God bless you
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  Speaker 1: as well your family. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Need to pray for one Class. He's been in the
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  Speaker 2: hospital since. Yes, yes, he's been prayed for already. My brother,
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  Speaker 2: A man will continue to pray for him for his life,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm believing God will have the best part of
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  Speaker 2: that story and we will see him soon.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: He could testify God's faithfulness and goodness even through his
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  Speaker 2: hardships in life and his family in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Thank you so much, Brother Frank for sharing that,
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  Speaker 1: and we will continue to continue to pray for brother
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  Speaker 1: in One Class.
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  Speaker 2: So God bless you all. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: hanging out with me. Matthew chapter four. Read the whole
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  Speaker 2: chapter if you have time today, Amen, and let's see
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  Speaker 2: what the Lord will do with that word in our
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  Speaker 2: lives in Jesus name. God bless you all, God keep
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  Speaker 2: you all, and remember always that God is good.
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  Speaker 1: Peace,