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Authentic Imitationology - 117 [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Want a family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo.
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  Speaker 2: It's Friday, so you already know I haven't done these
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  Speaker 2: Authentic Invitationologies series since the beginning of April. When I
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  Speaker 2: was looking at how long we haven't been together on
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  Speaker 2: a Friday doing authentic invitationology. So that means life happens, right,
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  Speaker 2: life continues to happen, Amen, And then you have to
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  Speaker 2: take some time and regroup and thank you Jesus for
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  Speaker 2: your grace and your mercy right all my life that
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  Speaker 2: I'm able to get back and pick up from where
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  Speaker 2: we left off. Love like Jesus today on the Morning Devo,
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  Speaker 2: Love like Jesus. One of my spiritual dads told me
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus never loved people. The Father loved people, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus saved the people and holy Spirit teachers and leads
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  Speaker 2: to people. Interesting, right, So I looked at that more deeper.
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  Speaker 2: A man that got that comment that he made just
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  Speaker 2: like me looking through the scriptures. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the reason on why he made the comment. So I
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  Speaker 2: could think this out and look through the scriptures even deeper.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. But were the love like Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: And yes, Jesus did love people, But the scriptures doesn't
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  Speaker 2: say that he loves people.
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  Speaker 1: The Father loves the people. Jesus saved the people. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And Holy Spirit taught to people and teaches to people
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  Speaker 2: and leads us right now. So imitating Jesus means aligning
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  Speaker 2: your life, character and actions with his example shown in
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  Speaker 2: the Word of God. We're going to be in Luke
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  Speaker 2: chapter six, Verses twenty seven and twenty eight. I know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people like thinking scratching I have. What
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  Speaker 2: do you mean, Jesus never loved people? Well, look through
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures. The Father loves the people. John three sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: For God, the Father so loved the world that he
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  Speaker 2: sent is only beyond son that whoever believes in him
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  Speaker 2: will not perish but have everlasting life, eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus the eternal life giver. Yes, he had a passion,
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  Speaker 2: Yes he had come past. And the scriptures that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to read today a man shows that it proves
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus had compassion and passion over the people, and
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  Speaker 2: he commanded us. The love commandment comes from the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So it's powerful when you think about it. Amen, thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much for coming through. Also, if you have
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  Speaker 2: any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for coming through. Let's pray first.
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  Speaker 2: After we pray, we share this out for like sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 2: and on the other side of those sixty seconds, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get into the scripture Luke chapter six, Versus
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven and twenty eight. Today on Authentic Invitation Knowlogy,
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  Speaker 2: this episode one hundred and seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Can you believe it? One hundred and seventeen times getting
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  Speaker 1: together on the morning Devo.
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  Speaker 2: So, Father, I thank you so much, so much for today,
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  Speaker 2: for right now, for this moment in time that we
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  Speaker 2: could share with your word, read your word, apply your word,
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  Speaker 2: and imitate who you are through your word. Because of
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  Speaker 2: your perfect example, we can now know that there is
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  Speaker 2: a perfect God that lives.
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  Speaker 1: There's a perfect God that saves.
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  Speaker 2: It's a perfect God who reaches out to us, protects
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  Speaker 2: us and guides us, and comforts us and helps us
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  Speaker 2: and teaches us all truth.
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  Speaker 1: By way of Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I pray Lord God a hedge of protection over myself,
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  Speaker 2: my wife, our children, our grandchildren, our family on both sides,
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  Speaker 2: from my wife's side and my side, from the youngest
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  Speaker 2: to the very oldest, every single person in between.
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  Speaker 1: And we also pray for our enemies and Jesus Holy Name.
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  Speaker 2: And I pray for every single person on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the screen and on the other side of
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  Speaker 2: this mic, the peace of God, the power of God,
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  Speaker 2: the protection of God.
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  Speaker 1: I set and dispatched.
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  Speaker 2: Right now Arqueen Angels, by the authority in the name
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus, to be in every place where we are,
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  Speaker 2: that the Arqueen Angels will be annihilating the tactics of
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  Speaker 2: the enemy, any demonic influence, any demonic straw holds will
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  Speaker 2: be broken right now the powerful name of the Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: and she and how much she I pray, Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: that you, by way of your holy spirit, WI can
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  Speaker 2: see to teach us how to love like you loved,
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, and like you told us love the love
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  Speaker 2: commandment that will continue to resonate and be our lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: And on this side of eternity and Jesus Holy Name
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  Speaker 2: of prayers by faith and those who agree, we say
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  Speaker 2: amen to the Amen. Let's go for it. Help me
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  Speaker 2: share this out sixty seconds and we'll be right back
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  Speaker 2: it back.
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  Speaker 1: Back.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go for it. Let's see what the word of
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  Speaker 2: God has. Let's look at it.
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  Speaker 1: For those who are listening or a podcast or listening
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  Speaker 1: live on the radio, listen, I'm going to read it
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  Speaker 1: word for words, so that way you don't lose where
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  Speaker 1: we're at and where we're going with this. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a little word of God for here the scriptures. Amen,
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  Speaker 2: read word for word, line by line. This is out
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  Speaker 2: of the I believe amplified version that I use most
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  Speaker 2: often to do these morning DeVos and to do the
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  Speaker 2: authentic imitationology series. So that's where we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: at today, and low willingness will work and I'll get
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  Speaker 2: it on the screen right now. Yes, there, it is
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  Speaker 2: authentic a meditationlogy. I try to do these every Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Every Friday, we shift gears and we try to imitate
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  Speaker 2: the most successful person who has ever lived on this
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Today, Love
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  Speaker 2: like Jesus is the title, and here's the scripture Luke,
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  Speaker 2: chapter six, verses twenty seven and twenty eight. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 2: but I say to you who hear me, and pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to my words. Very important right to pay attention
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  Speaker 2: to what the Lord is saying. Love that is, unselfishly,
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  Speaker 2: seek the best or higher good for your enemies. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: really for you enemies? Yep, you thought he was gonna
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  Speaker 2: say for your friends, for your family. No, he says,
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  Speaker 2: seek the best or higher good for your enemies. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a practice to do good to those who hate you.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, we hate you.
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  Speaker 2: Bless and show kindness to those who curse you. Pray
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  Speaker 2: for those who mistreat you. Totally flies in the face
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  Speaker 2: of our carnal way of thinking. Totally flies in the
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  Speaker 2: face of the world's system, totally flies in a face when.
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  Speaker 1: We're in a flesh.
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  Speaker 2: This word is totally kingdom, totally opposite of our natural mindset.
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  Speaker 2: This is a supernatural way of thinking. This is a
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  Speaker 2: supernatural mindset. When you think about what the Lord is saying,
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  Speaker 2: and he's saying this to us who hear him and
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  Speaker 2: pay attention to his words. Love your enemies, do good
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  Speaker 2: to those who hate you, bless and show kindness to
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  Speaker 2: those who curse you, Pray for those who mistreat you.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Loving like Jesus means we need to follow the word
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  Speaker 2: and his example. Did he not do what he says
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  Speaker 2: here and the scriptures? Matthew, Mark, Luke and John did
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  Speaker 2: he not succeed beautifully at doing all of this? It's
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  Speaker 2: not like he's just telling us something to do that
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  Speaker 2: he himself.
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  Speaker 1: Never did.
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  Speaker 2: He did it, and we see all through the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: he did it, all the way to the cross, all
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  Speaker 2: the way to the ultimate sacrifice. He did that for me,
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  Speaker 2: He did that for you, amazing and he did it perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: There's no how you call it, there's no scandal. After
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  Speaker 1: he died on that cross like no one has held.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now that Jesus is gone, let me tell you
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  Speaker 2: what happened with my little sister, Or let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you what he did and he stole from the supermarket
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. Nothing came out. Why because he
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  Speaker 2: was blameless, without spot or blemish, perfect man that living
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  Speaker 2: on earth died as a perfect sacrifice, the only acceptable
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice for the sin that the Lord Jesus Christ. He
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  Speaker 2: loved like the Father loved. So he saved the world
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  Speaker 2: that he was sent to save. And he showed us
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  Speaker 2: a perfect example of what we should be to others, even.
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  Speaker 1: To our enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Love those who hate you, Love those who are your enemies,
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  Speaker 2: love those who persecute you, love those who speak illy
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  Speaker 2: of you, love those who curse you opposite. And you
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  Speaker 2: know something, It sounds like it's out there right, But
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  Speaker 2: that's then He do that for us when we were
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  Speaker 2: haters of God. He saved us, when we hated other people,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even hated ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Loved us.
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  Speaker 2: And when we were cursing God and our thoughts and
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  Speaker 2: in our actions and our deeds, he still loved us.
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  Speaker 2: Right when we were mistreating others and maybe even mistreating ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: he still loved us. God demonstrated his own love in this.
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  Speaker 2: The Father demonstrated his own love in this, that the
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus laid down his life for us anyway, that
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  Speaker 2: he died on the cross anyway for us ultimate sacrifice,
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  Speaker 2: the Father's love, the Son's salvation, and Holy spirits teaching
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  Speaker 2: and guidance and leading. We can't miss when we're in
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  Speaker 2: the Word of God. We can't fail when we're empowered.
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  Speaker 1: By Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: We keep on loving like Jesus because Jesus showed us
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  Speaker 2: the way, the truth and the life, and only through
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  Speaker 2: him can we get to the Father who loves us.
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  Speaker 2: So imitating Jesus means aligning our lives, our character and
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  Speaker 2: actions with his example that is shown in the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God. Clearly know him personally. When you know God personally,
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  Speaker 2: you develop a relationship through prayer. You develop a relationship
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  Speaker 2: with reading the Bible and listening to the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit still speaks. This whole thing about God
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  Speaker 2: is not speaking no more. I don't know that's like
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: To me.
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit is God and he still speaks. He's speaking
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  Speaker 2: right now through his word. And if you're paying attention
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  Speaker 2: to the Word of God. He's still speaking, hey man.
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  Speaker 2: Study the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to see
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  Speaker 2: how Jesus lived, how Jesus spoke, how Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Loved and served. Love like Jesus, love God.
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  Speaker 2: With all your heart. Isn't that the greatest commandment? There
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  Speaker 2: should be no other gods before us. Love God with
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  Speaker 2: all your heart soul. And that Jesus said a new commandment.
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  Speaker 2: I give love others as you love yourself, Love your
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  Speaker 2: neighbor as you love yourself. So love like Jesus, love
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  Speaker 2: others selfishly.
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  Speaker 1: Even your enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Where we just read in Luke chapter six, twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: and twenty eight, and right there that's the challenge to
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  Speaker 2: myself and to a lot of other people, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other people that are listening or watching right now,
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  Speaker 2: say you want me to love that person.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, I ain't doing it. Well, don't do it. Then
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  Speaker 1: let Holy Spirit do it through you. Hey man.
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  Speaker 2: There's certain things in life that when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures, you say, if God doesn't help me with
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  Speaker 2: this part of the scripture, this commandment, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 2: be able.
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  Speaker 1: To do it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a reality. And you're being honest, so you
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  Speaker 2: allow Holy Spirit to do. But only Holy Spirit could
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  Speaker 2: do through your life and through my life, and he'll
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  Speaker 2: get it done. The message will come across love others, selfishly,
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  Speaker 2: show compassion to the poor. The Bible says the poor
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  Speaker 2: will always be among us. Jesus said, the poor will
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  Speaker 2: always be among us. Hurting people and outcast people. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: spoke about that in Mark chapter one versus forty and
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  Speaker 2: forty two. Live humble, man, live a humble life. This
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  Speaker 2: thing about, Oh I got this and that and third,
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  Speaker 2: that's great, you're blessed, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't hate on people who are you know, successful.
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  Speaker 2: I celebrate successful people, man, and I don't envy it.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: But if they are humble, then I can see the
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  Speaker 2: God of Heaven and Earth moving in their lives. When
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  Speaker 2: a rich person is humble, when a successful person to humble,
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  Speaker 2: it's humble, it's more appealing. They are more influential that way.
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  Speaker 2: But when a rich or successful person is arrogant and
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  Speaker 2: full of pride, then you'd be like, ouch, I know
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  Speaker 2: there's a fall coming soon, because the Bible says pride
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  Speaker 2: comes before the fall, and we don't want nobody to fall, right,
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  Speaker 2: So practice what you preach, live what you say you
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  Speaker 2: are in Christ, live it out stand for righteousness without
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  Speaker 2: condemning others. Jesus himself, God himself did not condemn us
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  Speaker 2: John chapter three.
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  Speaker 1: If you read it closely, the whole.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter, you'll see that God through Jesus didn't come to
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  Speaker 2: condemn the world. He came to save the world. And
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  Speaker 2: also on John chapter eight, verses eight to ten, eight
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  Speaker 2: to eleven, excuse me, you'll see that righteousness stands up.
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  Speaker 2: There's no combination for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And if you read John chapter eight, verses ten and eleven,
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  Speaker 2: you get a better picture of what I'm saying. I'm
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  Speaker 2: only citing the scriptures because this is a morning devo,
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  Speaker 2: right authentic of tationology, and I'm really keen on one scripture,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm giving you some more so you could go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and do your due diligence, go ahead and do
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  Speaker 2: your homework, go ahead and search and seek through the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: so that way you could get the empowerment or Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit to get more sauce from than when I'm giving you.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, stay connected to God, Stay connected right A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are walking around disconnected and saying that they.
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  Speaker 1: Are God. They're saying that they don't need Jesus, that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: I just had a conversation at a hollal spot right
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  Speaker 2: with a person who just walked up to me and
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  Speaker 2: started talking to me about God consciousness and this that
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  Speaker 2: of third and he said he was connected. We were
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  Speaker 2: connected through a frequency and he was talking. And then
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  Speaker 2: in that discussion he basically said that we are gods.
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  Speaker 2: Scripture does say ye are gods, but we are not God.
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  Speaker 2: You see that we are not God. We are gods
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  Speaker 2: over our situation's territory, our possessions. Right, God empowers us
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  Speaker 2: to do exploits. The bio says, we would do greater
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  Speaker 2: things than even the Lord Jesus did exploits pop by
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  Speaker 2: way of Holy Spirit. But we are not the God
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  Speaker 2: of having the earth. We are gods of our community.
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  Speaker 2: We are kings and queens because we belong to a
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  Speaker 2: kingdom and a king Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We are a royal priesthood. Right.
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  Speaker 2: We are righteous. We are holy because Jesus is righteous
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus is holy. We are the light of the
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  Speaker 2: world and the salt of the earth. That's what the
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  Speaker 2: scripture says. And yes, yeah, Gods forgive as He forgave us.
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  Speaker 1: Bible's clear.
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  Speaker 2: If I walk around with unforgiveness, it's really like a
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  Speaker 2: cancer to my soul. It's a poison to my own soul.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm in bondage of unforgiveness. And you can get
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  Speaker 2: stressed out by being unforgiven. You can even get physically
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  Speaker 2: sick when you hold unforgiveness in your heart. So forgive
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  Speaker 2: others as God forgave us. Make prayer and worship a
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  Speaker 2: priority when you're staying connected to God. At least any
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  Speaker 2: grudguate you have amen or show mercy to somebody. A
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  Speaker 2: man yesterday I got a powerful call from a brother
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  Speaker 2: in Christ and that it was put on his heart
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  Speaker 2: to confess and ask for forgiveness for some things that
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  Speaker 2: happened years ago. But although they happened, I guess he
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  Speaker 2: was living with it. He was harboring that in his heart,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord wanted that out. He wanted that out
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  Speaker 2: of his heart so he could have a clean slate
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  Speaker 2: with all the people that he came across. And what
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  Speaker 2: he did, and what he did was so next level powerful.
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  Speaker 2: I just kept on telling them, while God is working
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  Speaker 2: in your life, and that is so mature, that is
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  Speaker 2: so powerful. And of course the forgiveness was already there
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  Speaker 2: for years a man, but he had to speak it
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  Speaker 2: out himself to make sure for his conscience to be clear,
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  Speaker 2: so he could have a free mindset and move forward,
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  Speaker 2: not backwards. Will move forward him and his wife and
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  Speaker 2: God has been doing incredible things in their lives ever since.
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  Speaker 2: Endure hardship with faith. We all go through hard times.
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  Speaker 2: Imitate Jesus, get ready to suffer for the cause of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wants the blessings, but nobody really signs up for
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  Speaker 2: the suffering. I know I didn't sign up for the suffering.
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  Speaker 2: What about you? But suffering is part of the deal
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  Speaker 2: when you're following Christ. Jesus was the suffering servant, and
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  Speaker 2: we are going to be suffering servants as well one
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  Speaker 2: point or another in our lives. With an endure hardship.
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  Speaker 2: But do it with faith. Jesus endued suffering. Listen to
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  Speaker 2: this for a greater purpose. Not to suffer just to say,
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  Speaker 2: look I did this and that for you, and look
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  Speaker 2: what they did to me and cry and complain about it. No,
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  Speaker 2: he suffered for a hire and greater purpose. Hebrew chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 2: verses two and three. Check it out for yourself. Trust
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  Speaker 2: God in trials and resist temptation. Submit to God. Resist
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  Speaker 2: the devil. The Bible says that he will flee. But
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  Speaker 2: trust God in trials and resist temptation to want to
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  Speaker 2: do things on your own. Resist temptation to want to
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  Speaker 2: us solve things on your own. Exist sentation. So we
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  Speaker 2: want to retaliate and do something and do harm to
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  Speaker 2: someone else.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew four, Chapter four, verses one through eleven, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to read up about that as well. So these
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  Speaker 2: are al ways that we can imitate Jesus. These are
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  Speaker 2: all scripturally based ways of how we can help ourselves
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  Speaker 2: be more like the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Or we don't have to force anything. God doesn't force
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  Speaker 2: anything on us himself, So we don't have to force.
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  Speaker 1: People to believe what we believe. We don't have to
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  Speaker 1: argue with people to.
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  Speaker 2: Get a point across about our scriptures and their scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to have a big debate on who
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  Speaker 2: the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have to have a big debate over anything in a
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  Speaker 2: scripture when you're living out through your life as a believer.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: People are going to recognize the love. People going to
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  Speaker 2: recognize the grace. People are going to recognize who you serve.
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  Speaker 2: People are to rectize your humility. People are going to
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  Speaker 2: recognize that you're trying to be obedient to God's will
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  Speaker 2: in your life. People are going to speak truth and
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  Speaker 2: love when they see you. Because you're speaking truth and love.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: People are going to want to be forgiven or they're
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  Speaker 2: going to want to have a forgiving heart because they
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  Speaker 2: see you forgiving and have a forgiving heart.
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  Speaker 1: Stay connected, man, obey God's will.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, not my will, but yours be done Luke
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  Speaker 2: twenty two forty two. Seek God in all your decisions,
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  Speaker 2: even when it's hard. As as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: when it's hard, we should be seeking after God even more.
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  Speaker 2: Seek after God even more. Jesus was bold when he
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  Speaker 2: spoke right. He spoke truth, but he spoke it with
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  Speaker 2: all grace. He was full of grace and truth. John
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  Speaker 2: one fourteen. Jesus was bold when he spoke. He didn't backpedal.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't say, oh, let me think about this. No,
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  Speaker 2: he spoke the living word of God. He spoke kingdom,
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  Speaker 2: he spoke love, He spoke mercy, spoke grace, He spoke forgiveness,
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  Speaker 2: He spoke prophecy right, He spoke words of wisdom and understanding.
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  Speaker 2: He spoke eternal life to the people, whether they were
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  Speaker 2: on his side or not, whether they were friend of foe,
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  Speaker 2: whether they were for him or against him, whether they
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  Speaker 2: were blaspheming or accepting the truth of His gospel, of
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  Speaker 2: His love.
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  Speaker 1: His Grace's mercy stand for righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: See God's will in your decisions, and your decisions will
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  Speaker 2: be well thought out when you see God's counsel first,
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  Speaker 2: and of course the counsel of other brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 2: who are fire filled with the Holy Spirit. You could
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  Speaker 2: go to them and trust them and they will give
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  Speaker 2: you some time and prayer, and they will let you
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  Speaker 2: know that they're in your corner as well. And I've
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  Speaker 2: made probably a million prayer requests by now, since I've
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  Speaker 2: been saying since two thousand and one, and prayer will
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  Speaker 2: there will be a never, There will never be a
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  Speaker 2: shortage of prayer requests in my life. Man, if you
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  Speaker 2: have a prayer request, comment, concern, or anything like that,
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  Speaker 2: leave it on a life chat.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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  Speaker 2: But in the meantime, we have the Word, a powerful
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  Speaker 2: word of God that's alive, that's sharpened than any double
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  Speaker 2: edged sword. The Word of God is able to do
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  Speaker 2: exactly what the Word of God says it will do.
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  Speaker 2: So speak truth in love. I know we spoke about
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  Speaker 2: that lots of times on the Morning Devo. Because it's
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  Speaker 2: time not only to speak truth, but to speak it
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  Speaker 2: in love. And when you have love, you have a
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  Speaker 2: confidence in Christ that you know what you're saying might
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  Speaker 2: not resonate with everybody. But when you say with concern,
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  Speaker 2: when you say with compassion and passion, when you say
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  Speaker 2: with love, you get more ears that way, if you
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  Speaker 2: say it like shouting out, everybody sending people to places
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  Speaker 2: that you don't even know about, like Hell, I know
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  Speaker 2: about Hell. I just don't want to go there, right,
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  Speaker 2: definitely don't want to get in that place. But if
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  Speaker 2: you're sending people to that place, and because they don't
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  Speaker 2: believe in what you're saying, or they're not receiving the
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  Speaker 2: gospel of the way you're presenting it, you're taking it.
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  Speaker 1: Way way left.
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  Speaker 2: A man, Jesus, by way of his Holy Spirit, is
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  Speaker 2: the only one who convinces and convicts people. He'll convict
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  Speaker 2: people of their sin and convince them that God himself
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  Speaker 2: will forgive them, that Jesus will forgive them for their sin.
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  Speaker 1: That's the work of Holy Spirit. God.
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  Speaker 2: We are just to priest the gospel. The word is clear.
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  Speaker 2: Go make disciples. Priest the gospel. Baptize people in the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Father's Son and the Holy Ghost and
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. Right, Move with love, move with compassion,
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  Speaker 2: be mindful. Do what the loot scripture that we read says.
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  Speaker 2: Love your enemies, be kind to people. Right, pray for
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  Speaker 2: the enemies. Love your enemies. Pray for those who curse you. Right,
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  Speaker 2: bless those who curse you. Pray for the unlovable. Do
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  Speaker 2: what the Word says. Do what the living Word did.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus already showed us the perfect example to get this
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  Speaker 2: all done. So we are actually in the blessing of
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  Speaker 2: a finished work. And the finished work that Jesus did
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  Speaker 2: on the cross is finished. He said it is finished.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't say I am finished, because he's coming back soon,
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  Speaker 2: so he has some more to do. But he said
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  Speaker 2: the sind that is paid for him, that's finished. The
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  Speaker 2: mission that Jesus was sent to do here on this
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. He said, that's finished. So then he said,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go. I'm gonna ascend. I'm gonna go back
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  Speaker 2: to the right hand of the throne, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: send one just like me to live in every single
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  Speaker 2: person who called upon the name of the Lord, to
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  Speaker 2: be saved, to be sanctified, to be delivered, right, to
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  Speaker 2: have this eternal life, to have the abundant life that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus promised, and we're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Take it from there. Man.
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  Speaker 2: So God is faithful to his word. He's faithful to
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  Speaker 2: us as well. And we are blessed in all areas.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know if you understand that, if you'll believe in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: you're blessed every time, everywhere, everywhere you go. When you're
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  Speaker 2: going in, you're coming out, We're blessed, Jesus says. Those
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  Speaker 2: who here and pay attention to his words, love your enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Those who here and pay attention to his word, do
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  Speaker 2: good to those who hate you. Right, we don't return
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  Speaker 2: evil with evil, We return evil with good. Bless and
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  Speaker 2: show kindness to those who curse you. So this is
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  Speaker 2: a blessing, not a curse. So somebody curses out, curses
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  Speaker 2: you out, you bless them, keep it moving though sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they get violent and angry. Pray for those who mistreat you.
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  Speaker 2: How many people who been mistreated out there? Pray for them.
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  Speaker 2: Those people are hurting. It's obvious that they are angry
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  Speaker 2: and miserable. Let's pray for them that God would show
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  Speaker 2: them the grace and mercy and joy that He showed us.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm out of time. It is a Friday. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you enjoy your weekend and let's continue to move
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  Speaker 2: forward it and be authentic imitators of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So God bless you all. God keep you all, and
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  Speaker 1: remember always that God is good. Peace. Six