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Replaceable · Outcast

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All right. Welcome back.
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Welcome back. Thank you for those that have
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been listening and you know before we always start, we
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always pray. So Lord, thank you for allowing
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us to be here. May you guide us and lead us
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into the absolute truth and what we will speak about, may it sink
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into the heart and always Father, guide us and lead us
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always into the absolute truth. Amen.
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Amen. You know, you're when I pray
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like I yeah, I never, I never get tired of saying like, like
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guide us and lead us into the absolute truth.
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Like the absolute truth. You know what I mean?
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What is that absolute truth? It's like, it's like that truth
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that in which like. Is it not enough to say the
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truth? You know, it's just, this is a
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thing, you know, like when you read scripture, you read about
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the enemy. You know he he comes with truth
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too. Of course he does you.
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Know what I mean? So like when Jesus was being
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tempted, he, he said, you know, if you are the Son of God, turn
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these stones into bread. And then Christ responds with,
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it is written that, you know, man does not live on bread
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alone, but by the word of God. And then the enemy comes again
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and he says, oh, okay, So he brings him to a high top and
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he's like, it is also written that if you were to jump down,
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he will send angels to protect you.
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So he uses the truth, the truth he does.
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So that's why I always pray to God and say God lead us to the.
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Absolute truth. Yeah, there's a truth that will
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override a truth. Yes, correct.
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Exactly. And there's old stories in the
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Old Testament. Oh yeah, yeah, there's.
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Plenty. There's so many, but we'll talk
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about that one day. Yeah.
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It's really deep, Really, really deep.
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Yeah, it is important because we do.
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We live in a modern time and we have, you know, this thing
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called, you know, AI. Yeah.
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And we need to be weary. We need to focus.
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We need to discern. Yeah.
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We live in weird times. No, we do.
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We do Very weird times, yeah. I would say also that very
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advantageous because you know, technology can serve us now we
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we can, it can help us with a lot of things.
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Yeah, man, I because we have to do some paperwork and you know,
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we use AI to like help us. Yeah, I mean make it more.
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I'm not against AI. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But I believe that AI is moving at a rapid rate that that ethics
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is not, it's not, it's not following it.
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Yeah, it's being left behind. So right.
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That's when it's going to become tricky.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it 100%.
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It'll definitely be very tricky. So yeah, we do need to ask that
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to always lead us to the absolute truth.
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There is a greater truth, there is a truth that overrides
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another one, and absolutely there's truth is out there.
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Like for example the Buddhist do to others unto others as you
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want them to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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They use that mantra all the time.
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I know man, there's a lot of patterns.
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Yeah, in the Koran it says, actually if you read the Koran,
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says a lot of interesting things.
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Yeah, Yeah. You can take them in a grain of
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salt, but it does say that. I mean, I've read it.
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I'm currently reading it again. Yeah.
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I recommend it if you do read something like this.
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Beam very much grounded, right? Grounded, yeah.
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On the truth of Christ. But yeah, there's some things
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that it says there. But also keep in mind, you know,
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the Quran has taken stuff from scripture.
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Yes, absolutely. So, yeah, maybe that's why it
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has a lot of that. I'm like, oh, interesting.
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Yeah. But yeah, there's an importance
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to know the truth and to discern it.
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And the reason for that is, I believe the topic that you're
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going to talk about. Oh yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, to to know to to the why you should know the absolute
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truth. Yes, because of I believe what
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you're in a. No, absolutely.
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Man, you you what you brought to the table.
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Absolutely. You know why?
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Why did you? Why did you, why did you come to
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God, man? Like why?
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Why? I'll be honest, I was born, I
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wasn't born a Christian. That, that that thing is kind of
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actually backwards because I was meditating.
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Yeah. You're born into the culture in
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which your parents are involved in meeting.
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They're Christians, right? But you, you have yet to become
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a Christian, even yourself. I agree so.
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If I'm going to be really honest, like I wasn't born a
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Christian to say right? Like tech by technicality.
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No, you're right. One is not born in Christian,
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but you're you're born normal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly,
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exactly, 100%. But you said what made me come
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to God or yeah, like. What made you what made you want
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to want to come to God? Purpose could have been a
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purpose could have been like, I'm done with this or you know,
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these factors that pretty much everybody says well.
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Growing up, as I grew up, I grew up in a very conservative
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church, super conservative, very orthodox.
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Like if you ask me. And you know, they would preach
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about Christ is coming, and if you don't come, you go to hell.
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There's a lot of that preaching. Yeah, right.
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That type of preaching. At least there is some truth to
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it in a way. Yeah.
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So I grew up kind of just like fearing God because of that, not
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fearing as in reverence and respect and his awesome power
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and his all his awesomeness. Not that type of fears like like
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I did this, now I'm I'm going to hell.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I got scores of the guy I did
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this. I'm I'm cooked, I'm done, Huh.
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But growing up in high school, then in college, I thought, I
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thought for a second this is I need like any of this actually
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real. Yeah.
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So I, I, I really didn't in my, was it freshman, sophomore year,
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I did ask in a prayer, like if you give me the ability to play
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all the instruments, I'm yours. And he did.
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Right, right. There is a sense that you work
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hard and you do good and you you excel in it.
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Right. Yeah.
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But there were also an element that music just came natural to
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me, right? So that was a, an advantage to
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me. Yeah, to God.
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God help me be good at all the instruments.
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He made it happen. But then in college I started to
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veer off right? And then it was reminded to me
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that that what was given to me can be also taken away.
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Right. Interesting, but before?
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We even got to that before we got even got to that.
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The reason what Jesus. I can't believe I'm going to say
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this, but the reason why I. I my, my brain just went like,
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you're real. I haven't really spoken about it
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too deep, but it was it was an experience I had in my room.
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As you know, young guys do what they do when they're in their
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alone time, right? We can go deeper on that.
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But when I was going to do that, that's when everything just I
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just kind of freaked out. It was kind of weird, you know
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what I mean? Like such type of intervention
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like that when the windows are closed, doors are closed, a huge
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whirlwind inside the room, just like flips everything in Scott
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on my knees. And I was like, you, you are
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real. Wow.
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I had no desire to look for God. Understand what I'm saying?
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Now, this is from my experience. Everybody's going to be
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different, right? I don't know, desire.
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I wanted to just. I wanted me.
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Yeah. And when that happened, I was
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like, what? I just got on my knees and kind
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of just cried to God saying like, I'm done right?
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You are real. Yeah.
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Show me then this who you are in all of this, obviously.
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And it was then and there that I then wanted God, right?
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Right. I wanted God.
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Wow. There wasn't a situation that
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led me to God to say This is why I came to God because of this.
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No, He intervened. Yeah, yeah, I got you.
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But. Understand this, He intervened
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to me because it seemed like I needed evidence.
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Others don't need it, and they're blessed for that.
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Remember Christ said blessed are those who believe and do not
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see. Yeah.
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Right. Yeah, it does say that in
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Scripture, yeah. I wasn't one of those bunch,
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which is fine. Yeah, I need evidence.
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Right, right. And God knew the evidence or the
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type of evidence he gave was enough.
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Yeah. To know that no, I want you.
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Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
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After that I started looking for God, getting drawing near,
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closer to him, reading scripture, everything.
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And that's when God was like, remember what you prayed?
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Well that way you prayed for I gave it to you.
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I can also take it away from you and that's but he does it not
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prior to not having not caring about him right, just me giving
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him my back to him or whatever. Yeah, he now reveals this to me
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when I'm now. Yes.
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Looking for him? Interesting.
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So he reminds you again. Oscar, I can take this away.
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He did. Yeah, yeah, I remember you
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talking about. That he did.
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I don't want to go too deep on the day he did.
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Yes, he did, yeah. And I freaked out.
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Right, right, right. You know, everything you're
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saying perfectly aligns with what we're going to talk about.
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It it, yeah, it, it freaked me out.
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And then obviously anyways. But yeah.
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So you ask God. And it that wasn't just the only
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thing. I got replaced like 4 times, by
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the way. No, no, no, I spoke to his about
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with my cousin. My cousin.
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Yeah, I've told him I've been replaced like, right.
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Probably like 3-4 times, right? Right.
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Yeah, Yeah. Sucks.
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Wow. So, man, so that's exactly what
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we're going to talk about. All right?
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And then who are who? Who do you think you are before
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the eyes of God right now that's supposed to be?
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I'm just a servant man. A servant, right?
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I'm just a servant. Yeah.
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I'm here to do what he tells me to do.
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Yeah. I mean, honestly, I don't like
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talking about us all the time, But because of the examples,
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yeah. Like, I didn't want to do any of
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this. Like I No, No.
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But you're. Not but but not.
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But here we are. Here we are.
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I don't know how many episodes will be, but yeah, we but.
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I'm just I just follow I don't want to re replace again
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basically like I'm not going to disobey.
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I'm like I'm going to follow this threat and and here we are
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and I'm just a servant at the end of the day, I'm really just
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a servant, a warrior yes, because a servant, a warrior is
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a servant because they do listen to the generals.
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In the end, they do serve. So in the end that yes, but I
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can also say confidently because God has revealed this to me As
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for me in my life and how to help others in this body of
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Christ, Yeah, He has chosen me to be like a watchman kind of
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guy, right? So that's how you are in the
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eyes of God. You're like this tree, this
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piece of clay being molded by God, being grown because of God.
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You know, in order for someone to become a tree, they have had
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to receive the seed of truth in order to grow.
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Exactly. You know what I mean?
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But well, obviously that tree that produces no fruit, what
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does God do? What does he do?
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Inevitably, he just actually, if I'm not mistaken, in the book of
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Luke, the the the master says, wait, hold on, let's just yeah,
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put some compost. And.
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Let's give it a chance. If not, then we'll cut it all.
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We'll cut it off. So God is merciful.
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He's merciful, but it seems like when the tree doesn't produce
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any fruit with this, you do. Cuts it off.
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Cuts it off, throws into the fire.
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And just like how a tree gets cut down, another one can be
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planted easily. Yeah.
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So in that same way, we are also very replaceable.
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Yeah. So you know.
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King Saul. Exactly.
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We're very replaceable. God, you know, many are called,
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but few are chosen. And when you're chosen to do
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something, go do it and don't think you're some special guy or
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you're the only one, because God can replace.
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There is a sense of specialty to it.
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Because he chose you. Because there is a sense of
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like, OK, wow, this is awesome, right?
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This is interesting. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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To like be, for example, God choosing us to do this.
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It's an honor. OK, there is a sense of that.
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But if you let it get into your head and think that that you
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can't be replaced, I mean, yeah, come on.
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Not that that, not that that means you.
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Yeah. Like how you can't enter the
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Kingdom. No, no, no, definitely.
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Not you're not for the task I'm moving you.
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Exactly. Now I want you to look.
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For it's a little intense. First Kings, chapter 19.
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Tell me that one more. Time First Kings chapter 19.
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First King, chapter 19. Verse 4 to 18 and before we read
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like this is about Elijah, you know, an amazing prophet, a
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prophet that, you know, was challenged by or he challenged
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the prophets of Baal and God gave him the victory and he
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ended up slaughtering all the prophets of Baal.
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And then Jezebel came and was like, you know, I'm going to go
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kill him. And then Elijah got kind of
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discouraged and he fled, went into the wilderness.
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Angel brought him bread and and water.
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Eats. Eats, and then he comes.
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Because your your journey is. Long exactly.
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And that was the first time he didn't say anything.
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You let him go back to sleep. Then the second time the Angel
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came back and was like, you know, here's, you know, bread
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and water, you know, get up because you're the journey is
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too great for you. That's what he said to you.
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That's what the Angel said. The journey is too great.
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And implying that you're weak. Yes, yes.
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And then he goes and hides in The Cave and this is what?
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This is he, we, we. Yes.
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And this, this is where we see. After that second time, he says
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this journey is too great for you and then he goes.
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To a cave and then he goes walks 40 days, I'm pretty sure, and
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then goes into a cave. And then God is like, what are
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you doing here, Elijah? Oh, I've been too jealous for
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the Lord. And you know, it seems like you
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know, the people of Israel, they've killed all your
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prophets, and I'm the only one here.
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Go to sit. You know what I mean?
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Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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And then and then, you know, an earthquake comes and this and
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that, and then, and then Elijah comes out, you know, he like
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protects his face, goes out. And then the Lord is like, what
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are you doing here, Elijah? Oh, I've been so jealous for the
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Lord. And then, you know, the people
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of Israel have killed all your prophets and I'm the only one
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here. And then this is where God
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reminds him, OK, Go and do what you have to go do.
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And not only that, go anoint Alicia, he will take your spot.
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And also there are 7000 out there that still have not bowed
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down to bail. Reminding him you're not the
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only. You're not the only one and
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Alicia will take your spot, so don't worry.
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Do you have it in your on your laptop?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so, so the, the people that
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are listening to this, they can, they can, they can see that I'm
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not making this up. OK, so do you want me to read it
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or no? Keep going.
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Keep. Going and I, I love this story
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and I love telling people about this because #1 we see how God
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interacts when you're on, you're on his mission.
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You think God is just always going to be like, like carrying
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you like a little baby. No, no, he's going to be like,
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come on, what are you doing? Let's go move.
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Yeah, I mean he gives you the task.
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Yes. Go do it.
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It's not like you give yourself the task.
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Exactly. And then you go do and then
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expect God to change your direction.
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Exactly. Because that versus completely
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taken out. Of it.
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Oh, completely taken out of context, yes.
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I agree. That's crazy.
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You want me to read it or? Yeah, go for it.
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Go for verse 4, right? Yeah, OK, but he himself went
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day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down
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under a broom tree. Yes, he was upset, yeah.
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And he asked himself to die, yeah, and said, enough now,
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Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my father's.
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Then he lay down and fell asleep in a room chain.
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But behold, there was an Angel touching him.
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And he said to him, Rice, eat. And he looked and behold, there
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was his head, a a round loaf of bread baked on hot coal, and a
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pitcher of water. So he ate and drank and laid
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down again. But the Angel of the Lord, see,
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this is another. Yes, it was the Angel first.
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Yeah, now it's the Angel of the Lord.
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There's another being. Yes, this would be different,
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correct. Came back as Oh no, so it's the
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same guy same the same Angel. OK came back a second time and
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touched him and said arise eat because the journey is too long
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for you. So he arose and ate and drank,
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and he journey into and in strength of that food for 40
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days and 40 nights to Horeb the mountain of God.
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Then he came to The Cave and spent the night there.
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And behold, the word of the Lord came to me.
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He said, what are you doing here, Elijah?
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He said, I have been very zealous for the Lord and God,
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the God of armies, for the sons of Israel have abandoned your
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covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with
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the swords. And I am alone and left, and
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they have sought to take my life.
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So he said, Go out and stand to the mountain before the Lord.
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And behold, the Lord was passing by, and a great powerful wind
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tearing the mountains and breaking the rocks.
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Peace before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the
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wind. And after the wind there was an
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earthquake, but the Lord wasn't in the earthquake.
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And after the earthquake a fire. But the Lord was not in the
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fire. And after the fire, a sound of
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gentle blowing, a sound, a gentle blowing.
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When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in cloak and went out
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and stood in the entrance of The Cave.
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And he he behold, a voice came to him, said, What are you doing
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here, Elijah? Then he said, I have been very,
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he says, he says this a second time.
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For the zealous, for the Lord and the God of armies, for the
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sons of Israel have abandoned your covenant, turn down your
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altars, kill your prophets. So he says the same thing again,
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right? The Lord said to him, go return
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your way to the wilderness of Damascus.
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So he was on his way. He just changed erection.
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Yeah, he's supposed to go there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And when you have arrived, you shall anoint Hazal king over
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Aram. You shall also anoint Jehu the
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son of Nim Nimshki, king of Israel, and you shall anoint
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Elisha the son of Shabbat Abel Mahalo.
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These names are they prophet in your place.
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And it shall, it shall come about one who escapes the sword
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of Hazel. Jehu shall put death to to the
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one who escapes, the sort of Jehu Elisha shall put to death.
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Yet I leave 7000 in Israel all the knees that have not bowed to
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bail, and every mouth that has not kissed him.
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Interesting. Yes, so you see right there now
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Elijah was not a wicked man. No, I believe he was.
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He was a tree filled with fruit. He was a a man of God 100% but
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man, well, he. Felt devastated that someone
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that was coming after kill him. Yes, after God gave him the
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victory and everything, and God was like, all right, well.
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That blows my mind honestly. You see fire come from the sky.
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Slaughtered. And then for then, you're just
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scared of a woman. Yeah, who's asking for your
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head? A woman, yeah, is asking for
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your head. You just saw power.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. What is wrong with?
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You I know, I know. And then he, he runs away.
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And then God is like, what are you doing here, Elijah?
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And you know what? God had every right to question
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him. Like, what are you doing here?
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Like basically like she's not, I had your back.
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What are you doing here? And I fed you.
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What are you doing here? And then not only that, he's
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like, you know what? Fine.
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Alicia will take your spot. Go anoint him.
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He will, he will. He will take your spot.
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So it's not that Elijah was a wicked man.
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No, no, he was a man of God. It's just that when God has a
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mission, it's going to get done. Either you're for it or you move
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out of the way and God would just replace you.
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And it seems like he still gave them the opportunity.
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Yes, but the replacement has already been.
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Has already been placed because we're about to read something in
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Isaiah, but not right now, not right now we're we're going to
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but it describes who God is and let this verse in in this
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chapter in Isaiah. Let us sink into the heart of of
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those that hear this. But before we read Isaiah right,
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we're going to go to another interesting story.
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Everybody knows Moses, even the people in the world know Moses.
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So we're going to go to Numbers chapter 14, verse 26 to 35 in in
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this God is so upset with the people of Israel.
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He just like you said, they witnessed his power.
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They saw. That's another crazy.
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Part they saw like the sea open, they saw fire from the sky.
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They saw all these things and yet God, God, oh, he said to
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them, I promise I will give you this land that flows the milk
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and honey. I promise I'll give it to you.
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Just trust me. And they witness his power.
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Just with that alone you should be like worried like you know
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Anyways, besides that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, just. This is how God reacted because
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let me remind also the people who listen to this God hates
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doubt. He hates it.
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It's like it's it's like a like a like a splinter thing.
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He hates it. He it's almost like he just
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hates hates doubt like to like it looks like he despises it,
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especially when he shows you his power.
23:23
It's like if you like, for example, like your your
23:25
testimony a world when in all this God showing you who like a
23:30
taste of who he is. And it was a taste.
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It wasn't like a yeah, it was a, it wasn't like a whirlwind.
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Like what? Job witnesses.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Inside A room.
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Bro Yeah, yeah, exactly it. Just went up to my nostrils.
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I'm like, yeah, yeah. What you know the presence of
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God coming in and and then showing you like you ready Oscar
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and then for you to be like, Nah, I doubt in God's eyes.
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It's probably like really, but here in Numbers, you're going to
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see how God reacts to the people of Israel and remind you to
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remind the people that that read this or are hearing this, God
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replaces once again. OK, yes, right, I will.
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I will say this after, hopefully I don't forget.
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Yeah, the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron again.
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You want me to read it? Verse 26, right?
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Yeah, verse 20. Six.
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OK, yeah. 235, yeah. How long shall I put up at this
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evil, evil congregation who are grumbling against me?
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I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, which are
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they voicing against me. Say to them as I live, declares
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the Lord. Just as you have spoken in my
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hearing, so I will do to you. You, your dead bodies will fall
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in this wilderness, all your numbered men, according to your
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complete number. For 20 years old and upward you
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have grumbled against me. By no means will you come into
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the land where I swore to settle you, except for Caleb and the
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sons of Jeffune and Joshua, the sons of Noon.
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Your children, however, whom you said would become plunder.
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I will bring them in, and they will know the land in which
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you've rejected. But As for you, your dead bodies
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will fall into this wilderness, and also your sons will be
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shepherd in the wilderness for 40 days, and they will suffer
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for your unfaithfulness until your bodies perish in the
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wilderness in accordance with the number of days that you
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spied out the land. 40 days for every you shall suffer the
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punishment for your guilt. A year that is 40 years, and you
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will know my opposition. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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I certainly will do this to all this evil congregation who are
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gathered together against me. They shall be worn out in this
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wilderness, and there they shall die.
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Wow. Yeah.
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Someone will be like yo, this is a is a petty God.
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So not they won't enter, but the generation, next generation they
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will enter. They were replaced.
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They were replaced, but you said you were going to say something.
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I don't know if you remember. They were, they were replaced
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because of their unfaithfulness. That does not mean that God is
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sending them to a fire. They witnessed God's power,
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right? Right.
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They saw it, right? They believe they would probably
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unbelieve. Yeah.
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Meaning their faithfulness was unfaithfulness.
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Not that they were non believers.
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No, they saw their power. They saw, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Oh, I get what you're saying. So you're saying like there's
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this level of faith in which God expects you?
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That has to like, This is why like one of these entrepreneurs
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called Alex and Mosey, that's why he's like, forget all this
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because he then realized after everything that it is faith.
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Yeah. He's all like So what now?
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So if I have 40% faith I'm I'm not in.
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Right, right, right. So he started to.
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That kind of freaked him. Out.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which he's not.
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He's not wrong. But it's like a a story that a
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cousin of mine told me. He was saying, well, he he told
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me about how they they were dividing the bread and the fish.
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Yeah, but that was happening as they were going.
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That means that Faith had to keep going.
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Interesting. I think I've told you this
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testimony in Honduras. We were in a in a city, Yeah,
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Yeah, but the ousters of the city.
27:30
And we only ordered enough Chinese rice for the people.
27:36
And then we then realized we had one more left and and they we
27:39
all looked at each other like, yeah, we don't this is not going
27:42
to be enough. And to get Chinese where we
27:46
were, it was far right. I'm trying to explain.
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To you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I don't want to use a thread right as the rice was running
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out, the rice was multiplying. Yo, that's crazy.
27:57
Me and Sam witnessed that. Really.
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Dude, it was multiplying. My mum started tearing.
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Like what's going on? It's right.
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We just kept feeding. More kids were coming.
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That thing was just, it just kept going, really.
28:09
It just kept multiplying. Wow, out of nothingness.
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We've never seen that. Before yeah, yeah, yeah,
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absolutely. But if you keep paying attention
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to that, you could even doubt a second.
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So I said in my I literally, I said alright, let's keep going
28:22
or else we're going to doubt. Oh, so it's almost like, who's
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the one that when Jesus was walking on water, who was?
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I only said that because of me, right?
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Because I know myself. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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I was like. Let's keep going.
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Otherwise, we're gonna keep reminiscing and then we're gonna
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doubt it. So faith is a continuous thing.
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It's not just at the moment. Yeah, so I see.
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Because they were unfaithful, God will deal with them
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accordingly. Accordingly, Yeah.
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Yeah, because of that. And because of that, yeah, you
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won't make it to the land. Yeah, right.
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That. Doesn't mean they're going to go
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to hell. No, absolutely.
28:52
He's definitely going to deal with them.
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Yes, and obviously God is not. This is why they think God is
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petty. No, he's just saying you're not
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entering. Yeah, you're not entering.
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It's like, it's like Moses. He didn't even let him.
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No. Moses even asked.
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Yes. So stop bringing this matter to
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me. You're done.
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Yeah. And.
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Then he reminds him. Is Moses in hell?
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No, definitely not. He did the greatest one.
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Exactly. They were unfaithful.
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He did the worst one. Yeah.
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He broke faith between them and God.
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That's even worse. That's even worse, correct?
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And that's a really good topic to talk about, by the way.
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Yeah. So what I'm saying is like,
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because replaceable doesn't mean yeah, we don't enter into the
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Kingdom or or to heaven. No, it's just move out of the
29:33
way. Move out of the way because God
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has a mission. Yes, exactly.
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I I 100% agree, 100 percent, 100%.
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So we're going to move on, OK? People are like, oh, you know,
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God, you know, that's the Old Testament God and you know, the
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New Testament God is different. That's 100% false.
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And literally it's in the New Testament.
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You can also see, and we're about to read it right now in
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Acts chapter one, verse 15 to 26.
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We're about to read this right now, right?
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And it talks about Judas. OK.
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And you got I'm telling you that story tells it all.
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God is still the same from yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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Do you have it on your on your screen?
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Yes. So at this point Peter stood up
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among the brothers and sisters, a group of about 120 people.
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They were together and said, brothers, the Scriptures had
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been fulfilled, which is Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of
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David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who
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arrested Jesus, for he was counted amongst us, has received
30:39
his share in the ministry. Now this man acquired a field
30:43
with the price of wickedness and falling headlong, he burst open
30:48
in the middle and his intestines gushed out.
30:51
And it became known to all the residents of Jerusalem.
30:54
As a result, that field was called Hakel dama in their own
30:59
language. That is field of blood, for it
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is written in the book of Psalms.
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May His presence be made desolate, and may there be none
31:09
living in it. May another and another take His
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office. Therefore it is necessary that
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of the men who have accompanied us into time of the Lord Jesus
31:20
went in. The went in and out among us,
31:23
beginning with the baptism of John, until the day He has taken
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up from us. One of these must become a
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witness with us of his resurrection.
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So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabas, who was
31:37
also called Justus and Matthias. And they prayed and said to you,
31:44
Lord, who know the hearts of the people, show which of these two
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you have chosen to occupy this ministry.
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An apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own
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place. And they drew lots for them, and
32:04
the lot fell to Mattheus, and he was added to the 11 apostles.
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Isn't that amazing? That actually gives me an answer
32:12
to to what I actually dreamt last night, by the way.
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Really. Oh wow.
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You got to know the hearts. Yes, May God choose.
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Yeah, always. Yes, May God choose.
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But yeah, yeah, continue. Sorry.
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So even in the New Testament, God is still the same from
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yesterday, today and tomorrow. God will replace either if you
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are because you decided to go into wickedness, because Judas
32:36
had every right, had every right to repent like, had every right
32:40
to be like. How did he repent?
32:42
Oh. He would have been there.
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He would have been. He was right there.
32:44
Yeah, because you're going to tell me Peter also denied
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Christ. I mean, honestly, I don't know
32:48
who. Yeah.
32:49
Yeah, yeah, exactly. We're still focused on Judas.
32:51
Judas, OK, he was a betrayal. OK, whatever.
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But he still had access to the forgiveness in which Christ
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provided, so he could have still been with the disciples.
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Of course. But he decided to turn his own
33:02
way and was replaced. And dude, it's that's that's so
33:12
interesting bro. Now I got it to the same from
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today. No, no.
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Yesterday, today and tomorrow. So the pattern here that I that
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I'm seeing either of you are a righteous person, but decide to
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you know, like not be in for God's mission.
33:29
Or if you are a person that turns to wickedness and runs
33:31
away. Either ways, God's mission is
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God's mission. His will is his will.
33:36
It's going to get done no matter what.
33:38
Either you move out of the way or you keep moving forward.
33:42
And that bring us, that brings us to Isaiah chapter 55, verse
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10 to 11. Oh yeah, that's my favorite.
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One. Yes, that one.
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Chapter 55, yes. That one says it all in my
34:01
opinion that says says it all who God is Isaiah chapter 55
34:08
verse 10 to 11. Now we're not going to read this
34:11
other story, Acts 5, Acts chapter 5 verse 17 to 42 because
34:17
pretty long, but like you guys should go read it.
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One of the teachers of the law said something very important in
34:24
in that part he says if what they are doing, if what the
34:27
apostles are doing is from man, then it will die out.
34:31
But it is if it is from God, no one will ever get in the way and
34:36
it'll do what it does. So actually interestingly, it's
34:40
insane that you're using this because when God intervene.
34:44
This was aside from Philippians 4 which is one of my top
34:49
favorite. Right, right, right.
34:51
But before I even got to learn that, that was my favorite one,
34:53
this was my guide. Oh, really?
34:56
Yes, because I'm sometimes very logical person.
34:58
I always have to be like, yeah, yeah, you know, like loading,
35:01
rendering, right. I'm always like, and and that
35:04
was an issue for me because I was like, no, if it's like this,
35:06
it has to be like this, Yeah. And then I rented this one like
35:10
I would say top 2 after Philippians before, like after
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Philippians, right? I'm going to read it from verse
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8 actually, because it's from verse eight.
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OK, OK that. Hits go for.
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It go for it that it hits. So basically verse one through
35:22
7, he's he's like letting them know you.
35:25
You don't know who I am, right? But then eight he goes like from
35:29
my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways are my
35:33
ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher
35:36
than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours.
35:40
Wow, understand that so are my listen to that for as the
35:44
heavens are higher than the earth, right.
35:46
We don't even know that height. Yeah.
35:49
We can only we. Only know we're 60 miles off
35:52
from the stratosphere of the earth.
35:54
That's like 60 miles. Exactly.
35:56
That's that's pretty much still achievable.
35:58
Yeah. And then we have.
35:59
This talk about the heavens. Now we can then, with space, the
36:02
stars. All that, all that stuff.
36:04
Yeah, that's, that is like uncomprehensible to us, right?
36:07
We don't even have the technology.
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To your end, like reach. We we can only see, right?
36:14
That's crazy, yeah. Yeah, so he says, as the heavens
36:17
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours,
36:20
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
36:22
So as the rain and the snow come down the heaven and do not
36:26
return without watering the earth and making it produce and
36:31
sprout, and providing seed for the sore and bread to the eater,
36:35
so will my word be which goes out of my mouth and will not
36:39
return to my to my word empty, without accomplishing what I
36:43
desire and without succeeding in the purpose for which I sent it.
36:49
For you will go out with joy and be LED in peace.
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Well, yeah. Amen, bro, Amen.
36:55
So what? God says it's going to get done.
36:58
When I read that, like in 2012, thirteen, I think 2012 or 13, I
37:05
was already a person who didn't really care about many things.
37:07
That just made me not care about like not nothing.
37:11
No, it the Bible is true man. With what psalms I mean in
37:15
Proverbs it says it says that God's word strengthens your
37:18
bones. Yes.
37:19
You tough? Yeah.
37:20
Makes you tough. Yeah.
37:21
So that that is something you should take into consideration
37:23
because you think that God does what we want.
37:30
No, the the we only start to want the desires that we want
37:36
only end up being what he wants because he changes us,
37:41
transforms us. He molds us, like you said.
37:42
Yeah. Then we start to desire the
37:45
things that he want us to do. Yes.
37:47
Then that's when we we become obedient and susceptible to do
37:49
His will. Amen 100%.
37:52
Yeah, in a world in which we're told to have goals and dreams.
37:55
Yes, in our modern time. Yeah.
37:59
And before we end this too, I want to say one thing too.
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Men and women that you are, it's got, you know, for those that
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are going to get married, you are replaceable.
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And also the one that God places there, he is also replaceable.
38:16
So just keep your eyes on God. That's true.
38:19
And if they obey, they'll be right there.
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If not, don't worry, God will replace them.
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Yes, and I know that very well. All too well.
38:30
Yes, God is good man all the time, and God is also a God of
38:35
mercy and love. But don't be.
38:38
Don't be too naive either. He's also a king on a mission,
38:42
absolutely. So he will replace you if he has
38:44
to. And.
38:45
Again, that doesn't mean you lose your salvation or anything.
38:49
Just this just means like, hey, listen, just you're not doing
38:53
it. You're not doing your job.
38:54
I, I have to, I have to put someone who's going to do it.
38:57
Yes, correct. Amen.
38:59
But if you fall into wickedness, oh, that's on you.
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That's on you wherever that is. All right, so.
39:06
Before we end it too, our book will come out soon.
39:10
Who knows when, but we'll keep announcing it.
39:12
It's it's done though. Yeah, it's done.
39:14
It's just we're just waiting on the editor steps, all of those
39:17
steps. Clothing is going to be brought
39:19
out soon, and that's right. Yeah, keep forgetting these
39:22
things. And your organization is, it's
39:25
doing it's thing. And if anybody wants to donate,
39:26
shoot us an e-mail. We'll send you the link on how
39:29
to Yeah, how to give us a dollar.
39:31
Yes, give the organization 5 bucks.
39:33
Yes, it's all good. Yeah.
39:34
Yeah. And there's going to be a
39:37
medical brigade very soon. Yeah.
39:39
Yeah. So we're going to end it up.
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We're going to end it off with a prayer.
39:42
So. All right.
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Thank you, Father, for this amazing opportunity to speak
39:46
about something that's uncomfortable for many but
39:49
comfortable for us because we know what, what, what that looks
39:54
like. Or at least I can tell you that
39:55
I've experienced that several times.
39:58
But it's still wonderful even in the end to to feel being
40:02
replaced and only only then to see and witness your mercy.
40:06
It just goes to show that you're always there all the time and
40:13
give us a wisdom and understanding all the time.
40:16
Always depend on you and those who are listening to.
40:18
May their hearts be touching that they can go share this with
40:20
others as well as it's not just for us, but whoever.
40:23
If that be for two or three people who listen, that's fine
40:28
and we thank you for that. May you always have the glory
40:31
and exaltation because you are the one and only true God, the
40:35
creator of this universe, the one above all, the one who says
40:39
I am, that I am, that is whom we are at service, and we thank you
40:43
for that opportunity. Amen.
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Until the next time, guys.