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Cross Culture [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, family guy. Welcome back to
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the Morning Devo. It's your brother Sam Lopez aka DJ Sandbox, so winners
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with a Zeita RG. That's a Celeu radio network and we're streaming live there
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as well video and audio. But the audio is the very first thing you'll
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see. Just press the play button, Amen, and you see us and
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you hear us there as well. Amen. Live. That's soone is with
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a Zita RG. That's the hub where we have these Morning Devo sessions as
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well on video section and there you could also have a live chat. You
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could see the notes that I have Amen for today's Morning Devo when we're live,
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and you could take notes yourself. And there's also an interactive online Bible
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that you could see what we're reading word for word, Amen, that you
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can follow along right from that website. So I'm excited about that. So
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thank you for showing up again. Amen. This is a new day.
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Yesterday's gone and today's the present day that we have and it's actually a present
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for Amen, pun intended. So I want you to know that God is
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faithful to his word and if he promised you something, he will come through
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with that promise. Today, or we're talking about where's my notes here?
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Cross culture? Amen? And when I did this, and when I was
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looking at the image and the graphic that I did, I said, wait
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a minute, it looks like a song. It looks like a movement across
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culture, right, Amen. And we're gonna be talking about what does it
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mean to live under the cross? Amen? How do you go on living
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for Christ knowing literally knowing it's only getting worse. I know that's not such
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a good news for Morden devotion, but let's face it. The Bible's clear
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in this life we will have trials and triplation. Jesus promised that. But
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be of good cheer because he's old. Become this world Amen, with his
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love, his grace, his mercy, his authority is power a man,
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He rules and reigns right from heaven above. And the ruler of this world
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system has a temporary state. Amen. That's why he could do whatever he
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wants. Basically he's still restrained by the Lord. Amen. But this is
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gonna be old because Jesus is coming with a new heaven and a new Earth.
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So as he rereaks havoc, Amen in this world, go right ahead,
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Amen, Let's stay prayed up, Let's pray for one another. The
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enemy is trying to steal, kill, and destroy. But we are alive
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in Christ because we are the Cross culture. So how do you go on
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living for Christ knowing that it's only getting worse? Be part of the Cross
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culture before the axe falls a man and it's all over. We're gonna be
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in Hebrews, chapter eleven, verse number sixteen. If you haven't any questions,
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comments, concerns, or any prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it
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on a life chat. That's what we're here for, Amen. We're not
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here to engage in debate or you know, point at people and say you're
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a sinner, you're going to hell. Listen, I don't have any hell
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to send anybody too. Amen. I don't own that place. I don't
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want to see that place. I don't want to be there, may man,
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I don't want anybody in there. Actually, unfortunately, people get there
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by choice, not believing or maybe just rejecting the Gospel message entirely. So
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that's why there's a lot to pray for. Amen, And don't I treat
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everyone as image bearers of God, because that's who we are. We created
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and the image of God. If you're a human being, you are created
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in the image of God. If you're an alien from another plant, whatever,
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Welcome to the morning. Devo. Jesus is lord over your planet too.
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Because God created all things, things that we can't see, He's still
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created. Amen. I can't see all the galaxies. I can't see this
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so called and it's that people are talking about. Amen. But they see
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it, so they believe that it's there. Amen. But all I know
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is that God created all things seen and unseen. Good morning, Manuel Johnson,
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How are you? Good morning, God bless you. Amen and Amen.
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So listen, let's go for it. If you have any questions,
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comments, concerns, any pray requests, we're here, Amen. And let
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me just make sure we're up and running here as my tablet was dying out.
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My apologies, let me just see make sure everything's good. So we're
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gonna pray first. After we pray, we'll shut this out for like sixty
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seconds. When we come back on the other side of the sixty seconds,
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we'll make sure to get right into this morning. Devo. Amen. Sister
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Juane, I see you, you popped up on the screen. Good morning
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God, bless you. Welcome back to the morning Devo. So today we'll
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be in Hebrews, chapter number eleven, verse number sixteen. Thank you,
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Lord Jesus, that in this time, in this present day, that you
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are still God, you are still sovereign, you are still in control,
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or you're still powerful, you're still almighty, You're still a savior, our
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Savior. Thank you for rescuing us, keeping us and preparing us for the
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coming, for your coming, Lord God, the coming of the Lord,
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the Lord's day. I pray, Lord God, a hedge of protection over
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any single person right now that is in a battle, and we all are
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in a spiritual battle. I pray a hedge of protection over us. That
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you will continue to give us strength to our body, strength to our bones,
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health to our health right and a mindset that we could really really think
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this thing out called life, and that we know we're not alone, we're
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not abandoned, we're not orphaned, but we have a father in heaven who
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can trust in In Jesus name, I pray, Lord God, that you
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will continue to inspire us by way of your Holy Spirit, and that we
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will be unashamed of the gospel, the gospel message that leads men and women
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unto salvation. I pray, Lord God, that we would be across culture.
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This generation. Look, God will see the greatest move of the culture
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of God that they have never seen before. I pray that by faith,
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knowing that we're not done, and my generation is not done, the generation
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after is not done, the generation before it is not done. We are
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cross culture and we will prepare the way for others to receive this gospel message.
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And I pray, look, God, that you will put fire in
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our bones and that we will fill us with fire in our mouths so we
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could speak the truth of God with love, grace, and kindness in Jesus
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name, Amen and Amen, since the Gloria, God bless you. Welcome
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back to the morning, DeVos, because you see my sister, my friend.
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So what we're gonna do right now, We're gonna take a sixty second
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break. Help me share this out. If you know people right now that
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are not on social media, like that, no worries, send them right
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to the lake live that so Win is with a zea orgy, or even
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easier, so Win is with a zea orgy. And as they can simply
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press the play button and they hear what's going on on the morning Devo.
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So let's take sixty seconds and I'll be right back. Amen. Amen.
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That was a struggle. I had to really really go in there and start
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sharing real fast, real fast. And I looked at the clock and we're
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done, Amen with the timer. So let's go for it. Let's see
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what the Lord has for us today, Cross culture. Amen. Again.
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When I saw the graphic that that God inspired me to put up, I
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was like, it looks like a movement. It looks like an album cover,
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it looks it looks like something's about to happen, Amen, not only
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in this ministry, but by way of God's word for the people who are
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engaged and who are hopeful about the Lord's returnity and also are inspired to go
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share the gospel with as many people as possible. Why because the house is
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burning, and we see the house burning, we want to rescue people out
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of our house as much as possible. Right, So we don't want to
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hoard these blessings. We don't want to hold this gospel. We want to
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share it, Amen, and give it out to as many people as possible.
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Kevin, God, bless you, God bless you. Welcome back.
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To the morning devols. Good to see you. So listen, let me
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get this ready for the screen. Listening on the radio. Amen, no
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worries. You're not going to see obviously what we see. But I read
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it word for word, so you don't miss a beat. And when you
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do have time, Amen, So watch this then you'll see what we see
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on the screen right now. Amen. Amen. So the Ministry of Reconciliation,
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Yeah, we're all ministers of reconciliation. Once we're born again, we
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are becoming or we became ministers of reconciliation. We want to reconcile things,
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back, people back to God. Amen. He's the only one that could
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save us. He's the only one that could rescue us. He's the only
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one that could transform our lives. Amen, the Lord Jesus, by way
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of his spirit, by way of his power, by way of his love,
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his grace and his mercy. Thank you for the comment, brother Manuel.
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So let's go for it. Let me see if I can get this
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ready. I think we're ready for it. Amen. And oh man,
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man issues seeing here, but here we go right there goes cross culture Cross
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culture on the morning Devo. Amen, and a man, let's go for
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it. Hebrews, chapter number eleven, verse number sixteen. This is the
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truth. But the truth is that they were longing for a better country that
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is a heavenly one. How many people went out of here. But in
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the meantime, while we're here, Amen, let's plan seeds of life.
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Let's be hopeful, let's be helpful, let's be happy. Let's be a
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blessed nation of blessed people. Amen. And we should be the most excited
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people in this whole entire planet. And let's celebrate because we know we have
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something to celebrate about. The truth is that they were longing for a better
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country that is a heavenly one. For that reason, God is not ashamed
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of them or to be called their god, even to be surnamed their God,
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the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Make no mistake, the
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saying God that the Israelites were following is the saying God. Christians, Gentiles,
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and those who believe in God are following the God of Isaac, the
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God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To remember that it's not a different
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God. It's not three gods, it's one God. For he has prepared
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a city for them. Amen. So we are part of this promise.
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We are part of this knowing that Jesus is preparing a place. He said
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it himself, he said, if this were not true, if he were
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not going away to prepare a place for us, then he would not have
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told us this. But this is the truth. That they were longing for
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a better country. We are longing for a better country. We are longing
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for a better place. We are longing for the better promise of the New
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Covenant. Amen. For the old Covenant, the low and everything that doesn't
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work out. That's why we have a new Covenant. Amen. But as
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it is, they desire a better country. Other translations say they desire a
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better country that is a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not a shame
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to be called that God. But he has prepared for them a city.
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And this city is going to be off the charts, ladies and gentlemen.
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I don't know what to think other than God's gonna blow on minds with this
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city. Amen. City of God is going to be amazing. Amen.
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It's already amazing in the lives of every single believer out there. So we
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have the truth, we have the way to live the truth, and we
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have the life. That's the eternal life that's promised Jesus Christ. And only
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through him do we get this promise. Only through him do we get this
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going Only through him can we live a Christian life. I can't be living
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a Christian life without Holy Spirit God living the Christian life through me. There's
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no other way. Amen. Nothing I could do, nothing I could boast
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about, nothing I could say, no formula I could devise. No,
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it's all the work of Holy Spirit God moving in a believer's heart, moving
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in a believer's life, moving as a father over his children. Amen.
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The Gentiles have been ingrafted into it. That's right. Yes, we've been
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and grafted so we can hold on to the promises of Abraham. Amen.
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That Abraham is promised because we were adopted. It's something about adoption that is
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so powerful. Right when you're adopted, this paper sign is a legality.
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Amen. And you can't be unadopted. I don't think, Amen, you
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can move on from the adoption. But you have to go back to those
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papers. And I guess you have to destroy the papers or you have to
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do something else to become unadopted. But we are adopted, Amen. Our
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names are written on these papers of Life, the Book of Life, in
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the Book of Life, and we are family, regardless if we're part of
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their original is real like nation or not. Amen, we are grafting.
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And thank you man well for reminding me that not by might or power,
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but by the Spirit, the helper, Holy Spirit. Yes, thank you
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for your comments. Okay, So if you read through Hebrews chapter eleven and
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you think about these questions, how is faith defined in this chapter? Amen?
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But we have sixteen We know there is a better country, in a
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better place, Amen, that we're going to be residing in for all eternity.
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But in the meantime, on this side of eternity, we should be
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about our father's business. Right. We should be reaching the laws. We
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should be clothing the homeless. We should be feeding the homeless, fading the
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hungry. We should be helping out those who are oppressed. Amen. And
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we should be speaking the word of freedom, the word of love, the
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word of life. Amen. Activate our faith, put feet to our faith.
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People say, right, not just speak about it, but be about
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it. Not just read the word, but do the word that we read
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about. Amen. Not be just hearers of the word, doers of the
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word. I should say Amen, speak Man of God. Amen. I'm
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trying. It's trying to speak it. Lord help me. So how do
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you go on living when you know the ax is about to fall? How
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do you go on living the cross culture knowing that this society that we're living
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in is anti Christian. Not everyone, obviously, there's many of us.
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There's many people like me and many people like you that are inspired by Holy
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Spirit moving on about this world. But the message of the Gospel is not
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pleasing to those who reject it, who those who want to create idols and
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put idols in front of God. For those who want to go on living
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their own life. The message of the Gospel is gibberish to those who are
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perishing. That's what the scripture says. I'm not taking shots and anybody who
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rejects the Gospel, the Scripture says, for those who are perishing the word
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the Bible, the Gospel is gibberish to those who reject him. Amen.
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Whatever we eat or drink, we do it in the name of the Lord.
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Absolutely. Amen. Whatever God touches is bleas, and it's transformed,
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and it's restored, and it's redeemed, and it's renewed. Amen. And
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his life giving, not death giving. Amen. So we see in chapter
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eleven we were in verse sixteen. But if you read the whole chapter,
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I always suggest you read the whole chapter. For these morning DeVos, you
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ask the question, how is faith defined in this chapter? What does hope
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have to do with it? Amen, we're hoping for a better right.
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We had the law, which was our schoolmaster. None of us could fulfill
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the law except the Lord Jesus himself. Amen. And then when he shows
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up fulfilling the law. Amen. He doesn't abolish the law, he fulfills
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the law. Then he really puts end caps on it. Amen. The
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greatest commandment, love the Lord God with all your heart, strength, soul,
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of mind, everything that you have. Love them. And love your
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neighbor as you love yourself. He says. Those two commands, those two
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right there, hang out or complete the prophets right the law. Amen.
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He is the finality of the law. Jesus is the finite. We're not
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under the law of the mosaic law or the vertical law any longer. We
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have a new covenant. Amen. So if you want to drip and drab
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like tithing and stuff like that, out of the commandments and use what you
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want. Amen. You could do that if you want, but it's not
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fair because if you take one, why don't you take all the six hundred
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and thirteen? Right, we know about the ten, but they were actually
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six hundred and thirteen rabbinical codes or commandments that was created. But no,
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Jesus said these two love and has to do a lot with love, way
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more to do with love than it is two tithings and offering Amen. And
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as believers, we should be wanting to give anyway, Amen, with short
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changing by just going to the tenth and following that piece of the law without
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following the law of Christ. Love, Christ covers the whole thing. Amen,
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you're gonna want to give, you know, Christ, you couldn't want
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to give. Amen. And that ten percent is going to be nothing in
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comparison to what God puts in our heart to give and to be generous.
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So I'm not going to extract laws and say I'll take this one and I'll
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keep the you know, you could throw away the other nine and all this
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crazy stuff that's going on. No, I want the love of the Lord.
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Amen. And I believe when we have the Lord, the Lord,
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we will be the cross culture that people who are dying are looking for the
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men of God, the Woman of God, the priests or the Holy priest
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Or to rise up to the occasion and speak life into their lives. Amen,
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since the joys. Good morning, God, bless you, welcome back
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to the morning. Devo. Thank you for the word. Amen. Thank
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God for the word. Amen. I'm just a vessel, and I'm willing
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to be that vessel. Unscripted as it is, and early in the morning
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as it is. I know God is faithful to his word, and he
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will give me the words to say in the word, to speak for the
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moment a person needs this word. Amen. God will reveal this word to
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the people who are seeking truth, not seeking just happiness and fame and fortune.
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Who are seeking truth, who are diligently seeking God, they will find
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him through his word. Amen. Faith is a substance hoped for and the
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evidence of things not seen. Amen. We have evidence of our faith.
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We hope in a substance. Amen. We have good, good reason to
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believe, incredible reason to believe in this word to be true and accurate and
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powerful and relevant to our times. Amen. This is the only word,
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the Word of God. Amen. The only book the Bible. Amen,
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that when we read it, the author is present every single time by way
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of his spirit. Uninspired reading of the scriptures. I say this all the
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time won't make sense. But when you're born again, when you made it
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right with God because you're accident to forgive you, then he sends the Holy
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Spirit to live inside of you. Then when you read the scripture inspired by
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God, get ready, these words will be active in your life. Amen.
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And when you apply this word to your lives, Amen, you will
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be transformed, renew restored, redeemed, and you will go in power and
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victory and move Amen. So see that Hebrews eleven sheds light on why these
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men and these women did what they did. It's called the Hall of Faith
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chapter Hebrews eleven. So we could go on living right knowing that we have
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the victory, whether or not God sends us to another country as missionaries or
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he has to stay home. And we are missionaries. So our own home
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first, our own homeland, our own Jerusalem. Amen. So we could
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do this corporately, we could do this individually, Amen, but we can't
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do it alone. We have to do it with Holy Spirit guiding us and
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leading us. Into all truth and giving us the victory. And these times
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that we're living this culture is not like raising their hands that we want God,
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we want Christ. The culture we're living in is anti Christian, Antichrist.
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But we knew that was gonna happen. It was prophesied already through the
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prophets, through the disciples Jesus, and times are here, so we know
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that we have to be prayed up. We know we have to put the
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full armor of God on daily Amen. And we know we're not could leave
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no man behind whoever is suffering. Amen, we will go and help.
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If my brother in Christ or my sister in Christ needs help, We're going
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to help. We're not just gonna pray. Imagine someone is starving, Amen,
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and you go up to that person that's starving, physically starving, You
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say, Jesus loves you, and walk away. Do you think you did
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your job? You think you did something? No, go ahead and get
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some food and feed that person so that we could live. And then when
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it asks you, why did you help me? Why did you feed me?
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You said, I came in the name of the Lord Jesus a man
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because I'm part of the cross culture and we're unashamed of the Gospel. We're
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moving forward and we're gonna love people to the very end. Jesus is coming
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with a new Heaven and a new Earth. So this thing right here is
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rental. This is just a sequel, prequel to the sequel. Right the
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same way Abraham trusted God, we should trust God one step by the time.
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If you're seeing Genesis chapter two, you can read that on your own.
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I don't have enough time to go in there, but you read Genesis
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twenty two. We read that Abraham was instructed by God to sacrifice his only
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son Isaac. Every time I hear about this story, it is man,
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it makes me think what I have done that I don't know. To be
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honest, we submit to the lordship methodically, methodology and instructions of the Holy
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Spirit, of the fruit of the Spirit working in us and through us.
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Yes, you're preaching, my friend. So we read that Abraham was instructed
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by God to sacrifice his only son Isaac. To us, this sounds barbaric,
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right, Like, that's why a lot of people come against our God
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and call our God immoral for doing things like this. But they not understanding
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the end of it. They think that this actually I guess they never read
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the whole chapter because they think this actually went through but he was instructed to
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do that. To us it sounds barbaric, but through it all so,
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even though it broke the heart of Abraham and the heart of God, Abraham
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gathered his things and he left. So each step once I felt like a
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mile. I know, would it felt incredibly disturbing to me My ma's son,
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right, So it must have seemed like a mile. He must have
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been asking, do I really have to do this? This is really happening.
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But notice that when he before he went up to the mountain to do
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the sacrifice, he told the servants, me and my son will be back.
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And deep downside he knew, God, You're not gonna right, but
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he had to show by faith that he was willing to do what the Lord
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instructed. Right must have been asking, well, wait a minute, what
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happened to God's promise over my son? Right? But about the numerous kernels
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of the sand that you was gonna give me Lord? Right? So Abraham
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did what God wanted him to do. How could he go so far as
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to strap his only son on the altar and then raise the knife to do
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what the Lord said. Thank God that if you read this story, that
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God provided another way, and he was testing the faith of Abraham. And
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because Abraham passed that test, he was blessed beyond measure. Amen. To
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his very day. Was still talking about the story, We still talking about
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his faith. We're calling him the father of our faith. Amen. Abraham
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man Well says, obedience is better than sacrifice, absolutely, my friend.
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So in Hebrews, we learned a little of what Abraham went through, a
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little bit about other people what they went through. And if you look at
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that backgrounds, clearly you start noticing that these people who are mentioned in Hebrews
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eleven that were part of the cross culture, they're the forefathers, like our
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leaders for this cross culture right now. If you look at their lives,
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it wasn't all spotless. But God didn't speak about the faults and the issues
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they had in their life. He spoke about them according to the faith that
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was granted by him, the righteousness that was given by God to these people
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to move forward and to do what He wanted them to do. They will
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obedience. Amen. They were obedience to their very end, and that's what
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God remembers and that's what God spoke about it. Hebrews chapter eleven. A
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genealogy of the behavior of the people. Yes, so we have we call
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it the hall of faith. We have what people did for the Lord.
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Amen. And Abraham was considered the father of faith. And God was able
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to even raise Isaac from the dead in order to keep his promise right Hebrews
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eleven nineteen. The very next verse over that we're reading, very couple of
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verses over we're in sixteen. I'm sorry I said the wrong scripture before.
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We're Hebrews eleven sixteen. So let's hope for the best because we know that
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we could attach to one another's faith, and man, we can unite.
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You don't have to be from my church. I don't have to be from
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your church, but we could be from the body. And once we're attached
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to the body, we know who our head is, Jesus the Christ.
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And this cross culture is going to keep moving forward. We know that we
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have the sauce. We know that what we believe is true. We know
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that we can move by the spirit. We know we're moving by faith.
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We know that we are engaging the culture with a good message of the Lord
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Jesus Christ. So, going back to the original question, how do you
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go on living for Christ knowing it's only getting worse by faith and his word,
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by trusting in his word, by believing that he has a greater place
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for us, that he prepared a place for us years and years and years
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ago, that we're going to, Amen, and that this world is not
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going anywhere. Amen, Jesus is coming with a new heaven and new Earth.
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He's coming back to this world. Where what is this world coming through?
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The World's not coming to anything. This world that we see, this
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world's system is coming to an end. And Jesus is coming for a bride
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spotless with our blemish, a man perfect in his eyes, and he's coming
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for us, and he's coming out with old things. He's coming with a
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new thing, a new heaven, and a new Earth. So in this
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cross culture that we're creating, that we know that we're already in, Amen,
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be encouraged and be active, and be inspired, and be a man,
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be bold about your faith, and know that the cross culture is here
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and we're moving in victory. So I hope you get what I'm saying.
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Read he was chapter eleven all the way through Amen, and you will know
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about the cross culture, how it started, how it's going to end,
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and everything in between. Go and preach the gospel and go love somebody.
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Amen, in the name of Jesus. So I bless you all in the
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name of Jesus, and thank you all for listening. Thing. God bless
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you all. Got to keep you all and remember always that God is good.
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Peace m hm.