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Unwanted Promises [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, God, bless you family, God.
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Welcome back to the morning, Devo. She Brough, Sam Lopez,
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Brother Lando, I see you, Good morning, God bless you as well.
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Good morning, Welcome back to the morning Devo. It's another day,
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a new days, so we're gonna be glad and rejoice about it. Today.
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I'm going to talk about things that we don't want to know that the
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scriptures say in the scriptures. In other words, I don't want their promises.
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I've never seen anybody with a T shirt or with a hoodie or a
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hat with this verse on them. It's a promise that Jesus made to us
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a man, and Jesus being God himself. Yeah, when he says the
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thing, it is a thing, and he promises you something, the promise
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is gonna come to pass, good or bad. A lot of people don't
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want to talk about the bad promises. What do you mean bad promises?
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I thought God was all good. God is all good. He's just,
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he's holy, he's righteous, he's loving, he's kind, he's merciful,
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he's great. And he's also a guy who warns us about things that are
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going to happen. And that gives us the ability to trust in him or
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not to trust him. That gives the the ability to put on faith in
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him and hope in him or not or put a hope in ourselves. What
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do you think? So I want the promises? Let me explain. Well,
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let me ask a question. Do you like all the promises of God
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in the scriptures? Do you like it? Be honest? You don't have
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to, you know, answer it here and expose yourself like that. But
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I'm going to give you a quick answer and the truth for answer. I
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don't. I don't like all the promises in the Word of God. Some
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people that's terrosy. No, That's how I have my opinion on the promises.
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Amen, this promise that were going to read about today, Like I
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said, you do not have to see it on a bumper sticker. You're
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not going to see it on a T shirt. And if you do,
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somebody has some explaining to do. The person who's wearing of this promise on
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them has some explaining to do. So do you like all the promises of
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God? And my sippliances, I don't. We're gonna be in John sixteen,
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verse number thirty three. What I love about the scripture? The scriptures.
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Honest, the scripture doesn't hold back any punches. If it's in there,
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we read it, we'll deal with it. Holy Spirit will teach us,
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Goddess and Guardess all the way through from point A until point Z.
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He will get us to the point where we know what we know and we
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know who we know through the power of God's Spirit. Amen. So that's
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what it gonna be today. John chapter sixteen, verse thirty three. If
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you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or anything along
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those lines, please don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat. That's
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what we're here for. Good morning to my wife Ni Lopez. I have
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no idea why she woke up at three thirty in the morning and still not
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upstairs, but praise God. Amen, thank you so much for listening and
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watching. So listen, let's go forward. Do you like all the promises
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of God? John chapter sixteen, verse thirty three. Jesus says something that
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to this very day, I'm like, man, he was so right.
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He's so God, and his promises are true. Amen, And this is
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an unwanted promise. That's what I'm calling this today in the morning debo.
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And don't be discouraged. I don't ever want you to be discouraged. I
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just want you to see what Jesus said, and we're going to repeat what
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he said, and we're going to learn from what he said. Amen,
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Because he's the living word. He's not the dead word. He's not the
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word that returns void. He's the living word of God. And when Jesus
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says the thing, he means a thing and is for a purpose and a
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plan greater than could we could ever imagine or think or dream. Amen.
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He's the Emperor of Ephesians, chapter three, verse twenty. So, Father,
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I thank you that although we might not want these promises in your word,
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but those promises stand, and the Bible says your word says that all
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your promises are yea and Amen. So I pray, Lord God, that
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we would look at your promise and we would realize that it's the best promise
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you have ever made for us, according to your purpose and plan for us
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individually, that all your promises have a purpose and a reason, and that
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whether we're want those promises that come to pass or we don't, whether they're
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want their promises or unwanted promises, I thank you for them. All all
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the promises of God in your word. I pray, Lord God, peace
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over myself, my mind, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Peace over my
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family, my marriage, our children, our whole bloodlines, from my wife's
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side and my side, from the very youngest family member to the very oldest.
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That peace will be still. Know that you are God and your promises
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are the best promises we could ever imagined to have. I pray that over
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myself and everybody watching and listening at the sound of my voice on the other
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side of the screen, on the other side of this mic, I pray
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peace to them as well. In Jesus Holy Name. So, Lord God,
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I pray that you would teach us what this promise means by waving Holy
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Spirit, and what are the consequences of not taking heed to your warning?
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And why is these are these promises here for us to see and to know.
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So I pray peace. I pray wisdom understanding. I pray Holy Spirit
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ark ween angels, ministangers, warring angels to annihilate the tactics of the enemy
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and any distractions in Jesus Name, Amen and Amen. So let's go for
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it. Let's take sixty second time out to share this help me share this
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out. I got to share it to my group. I forgot to do
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that. And as we share this out, after the sixty seconds comes back.
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Amen. When we come back, will dive right into John chapter sixteen,
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verse number thirty three. Amen, you're ready, I'm ready. Let's
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go for it. S Amen, don't realize that I got more groups that
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have joined the network, have joined the podcast, so praise God. So
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there's more groups to share with. Amen. That's why it's good. And
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I ask you, ladies and gentlemen to help me share this out as well,
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so that way we can get this out to as many people as possible.
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And thank you for all the groups and all the people that are sharing
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this out and helping me spread this morning devotion. Thank you so much.
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I'm really grateful for that. Since the joyous good morning, God bless you.
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Welcome back to the Morning Devo. It's good to see you, my
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system, my friend. So let's go for it. We're going to be
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in John chapter sixteen, verse thirty three. This is a quote directly from
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our Lord and our Master, our Savior. Amen, of the King of
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Kings and the Lord of Lords. This is what Jesus said, and most
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importantly, Amen, this is what he promised. Amen. And if you're
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a lot, that will come to pass according to His purpose and reasoning behind
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it. Amen. I always tell people listen, understand everything in the scriptures.
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But I do know that God has understanding for us ready and prepared for
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us to know. If he reveals a thing, he will show us what
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he's revealing, how he's revealing it, individually, corporately. And you know,
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and if we stand united in this word, and we trust and obey
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and have faith in the power of God's word, that we will be in
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a better place than we were yesterday. Amen. And we will have a
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destiny for the future, for eternal life with him as long as we have
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faith, hope, trust in him, hold on to him, hold on
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to his promises, because all his promises will come to pass. So,
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if God's promised you, God has promised you something in the past, get
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ready. He never forgot that promise over your life and over my life is
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coming to pass. Amen. So unwanted promises, can you imagine that?
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Can you imagine anything that's unwanted in the scriptures? Well, I'm going to
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challenge you today with this scripture John chapter sixteen, Verse thirty three. This
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is the Lord Jesus speaking. I have said these things to you, you
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that in me you may have peace. Okay, so I kind of like
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play word games with you in the question. Hey man, this is an
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unwanted promise, but not really. I want the peace that God has for
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me. I want the peace that God has for you. I have said
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these things to you that in me, in Christ, you may have peace,
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because in the world you will have what tribulation. See that. So
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the Prince of Peace is letting us know in him we have peace. He's
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also letting us know in this world. It is a promise. In the
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world you will have tribulation, trouble, drama, chaos. But take heart.
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Other versions say be of good cheer because I have overcome the world.
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Jesus said, the world's system took care to send that evil. All of
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that. Jesus said, I give you peace in those times that you're in
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the world and you're having tribulation. It's a promise in the world you will
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have It doesn't say maybe a couple of you know, maybe it depends or
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anything. No, it says you will have tribulation, you will have tribulation.
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I will have tribulation and troubles, but be of good cheer, take
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heart, and have overcome the world. So if Jesus would not have it
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said that we have peace in Him, this promise will be unwanted. It's
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a promise from God. Jesus spoke it. I want this promise to come
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to pass in my life, the first part and the second part, because
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the first part, if we don't know what trouble is, we won't need
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peace. That's number one. If you don't know what evil is, you
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won't know what good is. You won't need good. Right, if you
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don't know what problems are, you wouldn't be grateful for solutions. Jesus said,
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I have said these things to you that in Me, in Christ,
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in a relation, not in a religion, not in a certain church or
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denomination, not doing just good deeds, not just having faith without works.
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In Christ, you will have peace. That's a promise. And the other
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side of the promise is in the world you will have tribulation. So there's
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two things going on. According to what I see what Jesus is saying here,
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there's a peace that you have from Him, and the world doesn't promise
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that the world promises trouble, tribulation, drama, chaos. Amen, have
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you noticed that the world is broken? It was never supposed to be this
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heart. I tell people when people are facing death, or when it's death
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in my family or in a family or friend's family. I said, I
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always tell people, it's never. It wasn't never supposed to be this way,
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wasn't supposed to be this heart a man. The original intent of God
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was for us to live forever. But Genesis chapter three shows up right the
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enemy of our souls, the serpent, the deceiver, shows up in the
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perfect situation, the perfect garden, and he manipulates and he deceives Eve to
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believe that she could disobey God and be like him at the same time.
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And then that's the fall of man created a need for a redeemer. And
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the argument is knew everything. Why would he allow Eve to be deceived?
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And he already knew he was that God is all knowing God, he's all
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over loving God, he's all holy guy, he's all righteous God. Amen.
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So he had a plan before that happened. It's evident that he had
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a plan. The fall of man created a need for a redeemer, and
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that redeemer is the Lord Jesus. It was never supposed to be this hard.
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Have you ever said these words to yourself? Man? Like, why
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is this going on? Why is this happening? Why are we going through
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so much pain and trouble and chaos? I've been there, have you?
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We all have different problems, amen, and we all have problems in our
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relationships. Sometimes it could be messy. Right. Parenting it doesn't come with
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a handbook, amen, even though there's training and this, that and the
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third and it's counseling and it's people who write books about parent thing. But
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every child is different, so we have to go with the flow of every
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child. My two daughters are totally different. So we can have just a
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handbook and one size fits all type of thing. Relationships, parenting, jobs,
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money, money demands, money issues. In this world, we will
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have trials and tribulations. It's to promise. On top of all the other
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stress of Martin day living, social media distractions, all that we have a
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lot of other people are facing per secution for their faith. We have a
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brother and sister in Christ right now. You have a brother and sister in
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Christ right now. On the other side of the world somewhere that's getting persecuted
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for their faith in Christ, even up to death, because they refuse to
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bow suan idol. They refuse to bow to religion, and they have a
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union with Christ and they will not say no that they don't have a fellowship,
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they don't have a relationship with Christ. And because of that, they're
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being persecuted. A men over here in America, we're just chose to shut
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up and go away. Other parts of the world, they're being shut up
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or you will die. Amen. So we have problems. It chooes as
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trials. Still, others are facing persecution for their faith in Christ that ranges
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from losing their jobs to losing their lives. So what's really supposed to be
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Was it really supposed to be this difficult? Is this promise from Jesus something
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that he just uttered because he felt like it or did he know something a
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little bit about something something? God knows all things? Amen? He said
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this. He said this because in the beginning Genesis one and two perfect situation,
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everything was good. Then we read that God created the heavens and the
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earth. There was beauty and peace, there was harmony and rest and fellowship.
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With God, everything was alive, everything was perfect, and there was
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no death. It was perfection. But then in Genesis chapter three, sin
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entered the world. People say, well, God created sin. God created
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sin enter the world through the fall of man disobedience. Amen. So we
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got to speak what the Word speaks, not make something up, make arguments
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that fall short of any kind of scriptural integrity. Amen. The Bible says
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what the Bible says. The word of God stands. The Word of God
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is true. So if you want to make something up and put something in
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there, that's on you. But if the scripture doesn't say, it's I'm
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not going to repeat a certain thing that the scripture don't say, it's a
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waste of my time, and it's a waste of your time. We have
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the word, let's read it right, Let's ask God to help us understand
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it, and let's believe in it and walk in it and work the word
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out. Let the Word of God work out itself in our hearts and our
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minds, sind them to the world through the Serpent's deception and Adam and Eve's
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disobedience. Immediately following me. After that, we see that the consequences of
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sin make life a whole lot more complicated for everybody. Listen, I wasn't
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there. You weren't there when Adam and Eve had the situation with the serpent.
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But because of that disobedience, since they represent them all mankind, we
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now are challenged with the consequences of what they did back in the garden the
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veden. Is that fair? I think it is the men. They're mankind.
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They're representing us. If I represent somebody right and I act a fool,
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my representation is going to reflect on the people I'm representing. It's just
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that simple. Amen. So if you see me acting crazy and I'm representing
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Jesus, then you might have an idea that, well, if he's representing
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that God that he serves that way, then that God must be off.
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That's the way humans think. But in all actuality, the consequences that we're
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suffering from, or that we're experiencing, is from the fall of Adam and
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Eve, Amen, to this very day. But there's good news about that
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because Jesus said, you must be born again. So we're born in Adam
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right and Sin right, but we could be born again, and then Jesus,
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since he already dealt with the sin that he could take care of all
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the other stuff and that we have going on in our lives. So immediately
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following that, we see that the consequences of sin make life a whole lot
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more complicated for everybody. For the woman, pain taught during childbirth right increased.
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It conflicts any way of thinking that you have, because it says in
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a scripture that now the woman will give have pain during childbirth. For the
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man, providing food for the family became backbreaking work. Right as the ground
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became cursed. Man wasn't cursed. The ground was cursed because the ground.
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Remember, the ground was already All Adam had to do was till the ground.
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Everything was already grown. If you read the scriptures closely, in the
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beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He created everything. He
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shows up as creator, God, provider, God, Spirit of God.
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Amen. He shows up those three ways first in the creation story, right,
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and he created everything before he created man. He created everything that man
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would ever need. Then he created the man, and then he created one
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suitable for the man, Eve. So all they had to do was take
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care of it was already growing. It was already there, beautiful, right.
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But because of the fall of man. Now a man has to provide
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food for the family with work sweat from the brow. Right, worst of
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all human beings become mortal. Became mortal as death enter the world because there
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was no death before the fall of man. I hope you understand what I'm
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talking about. Before the fall of man, there was no sickness, disease,
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death. Right, God's original intent was God's original tent. In the
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beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, created everything that man would
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ever need, mankind would ever need. Everything was already there. Amen.
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All we had to do was till the ground. All we had to do
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was take care of what God already had given us. But the devil was
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a deceiver. He's a liar. He lies since the beginning, the Bible
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says. So because of all of that, we became mortal as death into
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the world. So even though it was never supposed to be that hard or
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this hard, it is this hard. So in today's verse, Jesus told
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us to expect to expect it. It's to promise expect tribulation. The NIV
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translation says, to expect trouble. How many people say that there's trouble in
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your life, or trouble is coming, or trouble is around the corner,
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or you've been through trouble. We all could raise our hands to say yes
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Amen, because it's part of life. For the people who say that our
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scriptures are irrelevant, they're a bunch of liars. They're lying to themselves,
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deceiving yourself. You mean to tell me that you have no trouble, no
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trial, no tribulation. Jesus promised that in the world, right, he
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promised that in this world, but in him, he also promised, in
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him, you have peace. That's why Christians, believers, in Christ,
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Christ's followers, we could have the worst of time, the worst of days,
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and still have this inner peace. And people realize and they recognize that
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inner peace and say, how are these people after all the persecution, death,
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trial, trouble, tribulation, let down's failure, how are they still
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walking around thanking God and peace? Because we're in Christ. We're in this
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world, but we're not of this world. Because we're in Christ. So
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we're part of a kingdom that never dies, a kingdom that's always alive and
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lit up in light, kingdom has always has peace, a kingdom of kindness,
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a kingdom of mercy, a kingdom of grace, a kingdom of God
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and man. We're a part of that kingdom. And this kingdom of this
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world doesn't have the peace that God offers through Jesus. So yes, in
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this world we will have trials, troubles, tribulation, but in Christ we
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have peace. Those are promises from our Lord. Speak it out, read
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it right. Don't believe the lie of the enemy saying, oh, it's
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always going to be chaos for your life. You're never gonna have peace.
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You never got experience peace while he's lying, because Jesus just said that in
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Christ, in Him, we have peace. So trouble, temptation, trials,
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tribulations, trauma, you could call those like the terrible teas a man,
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all those things are unwanted promises, right for any human if you're honest,
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you don't want that. Who wants trials, tribulations? Who wants to
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be tested all the times? Who wants to be tested all the times?
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Who wants to go through trauma all the time? Who wants to go through
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trials all the time? Those are the terrible teas, whatever you want to
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call them. The world is full of them. Whatever the case, whatever
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type of trouble, whatever type of pain, let down, failure, temptation,
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all that the world offers, and actually the world paints it like it's
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something nice, something beautiful. The world tells us that what's wrong is right,
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and what's right is wrong. The world tells us that sin is the
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thing to be doing because everybody else is doing it. And the world tells
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you that there is no God. The world tells you that there is no
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consequence for sin. The world tells you that you could do whatever you want
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with whoever you want, get all you can can, all you get,
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and all that the world caters to the flesh. God wants to fill us
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with his spirit in Christ's peace in the world trouble. So listen to this,
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so we have the peace of God in a troubled world. People who
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don't have Christ Jesus in their life, they have trouble, trials, temptation,
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tribulations, trauma, and without Christ, they're in a crisis. They
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have no peace, and from that they're going to experience things that they will
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never want experience. And that's gonna be There's gonna be no hope for a
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hopeless person that has no hope in Christ, they won't have no peace,
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they will have no hope, they will have no future to look forward to.
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That's why you have a say, Ah, once you die, we're
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just out of here because they don't have no hope. There's no hope at
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the end of their life. Amen. But we're in Christ. Amen,
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we have hope in eternal life, for eternal life because we have Jesus and
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the peace of God. So we'll go through really hard things. I've been
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through hard things. Probably we'll go through harder things in the future. Amen.
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But I have the peace of God, and so do you if you're
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in Christ Jesus. So we have to persevere, have to endure great suffering.
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It's coming. Jesus promised it. But he also promised peace in Him.
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I love it. It's not peace in the religion. It's not peace
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in a system. It's not peace in a certain denomination, it's not peace
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in a certain church. It's peace in Christ. In Him. He said,
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come to me. He didn't say go over there, go over there
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and worship over there where. He said, worship Him in spirit and in
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truth, and in Christ we have peace. We would experience pain and loss
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and death and on that a man. It's an unwanted promise. I don't
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I hate death. People could tell you I'm torn every time we lose a
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loved one. I don't know if I should celebrate the life or more and
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to death. I think it's both. We mourn, we mourn, and
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we celebrate. If the person is in Christ, we celebrate the life and
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we don't mourn like the world mourns. If a person dies without Christ,
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we all should be mourning for that soul that's going to have an eternal life
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set apart from the goodness of God. And that's a sad thing. That's
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a sad One of the saddest funerals I've ever been to is going to funerals
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of people that reject the God, that didn't have Christ in their hearts and
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their minds and their lives, and they die, and then what There's no
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turning back from that. Amen. I know a lot of people don't believe
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what we believe, but listen, if you don't believe what we believe,
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investigate the claims of Jesus. See what Jesus spoke, Go read what Jesus
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said in the scriptures, and make a rational Please make a decision for yourself.
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Stop following the naysayers, amen, and follow the Christ that's in the
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scriptures, Amen, the Christ that brings life, and then you make the
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decision from there. Don't cut yourself short following people who are just miserable anyway.
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They're in the world. They do what they do because they don't know
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anything else to do. They don't know what good is. And you're following
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them, and you're just gonna be more miserable, and you're gonna be more
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impacted by what they're saying. I challenge you right now, stop following them
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and go to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Read the scriptures
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for yourself and make a decision for yourself whether or not Jesus is telling the
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truth or he's lying. Amen. But Jesus isn't any old friend that we
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could just go up to and be like, Okay, we have problems and
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boohoo. He's the son of the Living God. He's di vine, he's
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all powerful, he's all knowing, he's all present. He's the savior of
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the world. He's the snake crusher Genesis chapter three, verse fifteen. He's
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the overcomer, he's the restorer in Christ. We can have peace from his
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warning, from his warning to expect tribulation, because it gives us healthy expectations
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in Him. We have peace in this world. We will have trouble.
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I don't know about you, but knowing what to expect is far better than
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the fear of the unknown. Amen. And we'll probably revisit this another time
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amount of time. But go to John chapter number sixteen. Read the whole
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chapter for yourself. Realize that this priment, although it might be unwanted on
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the one end, but you cann't want the peace of God totally on the
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first part of this scripture. Amen. So God bless you all, got
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to keep you all and remember always that God is good. Please,