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Evidence of the True Church [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: about evidence of the True Church, evidence of the True Church.
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Speaker 1: If something is true, that means there should be evidence
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Speaker 1: to support and back up the truth of whatever that is.
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Speaker 1: But today we're talking about the True Church, Evidence of
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Speaker 1: the True church, what you should be looking for, what
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Speaker 1: should be found in a true church, a Church of Christ,
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Speaker 1: Church of God. And then so that's where we're going
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Speaker 1: to be at today. And let me get to my
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Speaker 1: notes real quick, so I could read what I wrote.
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Speaker 1: A true church. A true church teaches and submits to
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Speaker 1: the authority of Scripture, Holy Scripture, the Bible, the Word
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Speaker 1: of God, not human traditions or opinions. If you're submitting
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Speaker 1: to human opinions, if you're submitting to traditions, and then
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Speaker 1: you might want to tweak right where you headed, because
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Speaker 1: if you're following traditions and opinions, then what room are
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Speaker 1: you leaving for the scriptures? What wom are you leaving
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Speaker 1: for the Word of God in your life as you
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Speaker 1: move forward in your journey? John chapter thirteen, verse number
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Speaker 1: thirty five. John thirteen thirty five will be there today
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Speaker 1: on today's morning devo. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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Speaker 1: any prayer requests, anything along those lines. Please there's a
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Speaker 1: live chat. Don't hesitate to leave your comment on the
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Speaker 1: live chat. Whatever you want to speak out, put it
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Speaker 1: on the live chat. I already see somebody here, Sister Joanne,
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Speaker 1: Good morning, I see you. Good morning, God, bless you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning Devo, my sister and my friends.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Let's pray first. After we pray,
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Speaker 1: we'll share this out for like sixty seconds, and on
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Speaker 1: the other side of those sixty seconds we'll get right
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Speaker 1: into evidence of the True Church. It's very important for
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Speaker 1: us to know what to look for to really verify
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Speaker 1: or to validate where you are and who you're connected
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Speaker 1: to and what community you involved in amen evidence of
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Speaker 1: the True Church today on the Morning Devo. So, Father,
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Speaker 1: I thank you that you are the Way, the Truth,
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Speaker 1: and the Life, by way of Holy Spirit, by way
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Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray, Lord God, that
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Speaker 1: you are continuously moving in our hearts and in our minds.
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Speaker 1: That Lord God, that you would grant health to our
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Speaker 1: body and strength to our bones. I pray a hedge
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Speaker 1: of protection over every single person listening and watching, including myself,
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Speaker 1: my wife, our children, man, our grandchildren, my son, his wife,
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Speaker 1: my mom, my brothers, and my sister and men and
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Speaker 1: their families as well, and every single person that's connected,
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Speaker 1: from the very youngest person to the very oldest and
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Speaker 1: every single person in between. I pray peace. I pray love,
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Speaker 1: I pray grace, I pray mercy, I pray prosperity. I
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Speaker 1: pray increase in the powerful name of Jesus. I pray,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that there will be evidence of the true, living,
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Speaker 1: organized and organism of the Church. I pray Lord Gud,
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Speaker 1: that you will continue to captivate our hearts, so that
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Speaker 1: you will continue to give us eyes to see and
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Speaker 1: ears to listen, and the mouth to speak your word,
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Speaker 1: your truth, your love. And we speak it knowing that
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Speaker 1: you are in us, working through us, and you are
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Speaker 1: above us and for us. I thank you, Lord Guy,
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Speaker 1: that you are continuously magnifying yourself, revealing yourself to all
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Speaker 1: those who are seeking truth. And I pray by faith
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Speaker 1: that we will get this message ingrained in our hearts,
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Speaker 1: and that we will apply what we learned today according
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Speaker 1: to your word and according to your mercy and your
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Speaker 1: grace and Jesus Holy Name. We pray this by faith,
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Speaker 1: and those who agree, we say amen to the amen.
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Speaker 1: Right help me share this out sixty seconds. When I
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Speaker 1: come back, we'll get right into evidence of the true Church.
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Speaker 1: John chapter number thirteen, Verse number thirty five. I'll be
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Speaker 1: right back, man, we're back. We're back. Let's go for
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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Let's see what the Word of God
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Speaker 1: has to say. Let's get this evidence of the true Church.
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Speaker 1: So that way we know, if you could recognize what's authentic,
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Speaker 1: what's true, Amen, you will also be able to recognize
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Speaker 1: what's not authentic and what's false. We shouldn't be able
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Speaker 1: to understand and know and to seek evidence.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: If something is true, there should be enough evidence to
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Speaker 1: believe in that truth. Amen. There should be evidence, not opinion,
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Speaker 1: not tradition, not justly says Amen. The authority of a
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Speaker 1: true believer is the scriptures, the word of God. The
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Speaker 1: Bible says, even the word of God is above the
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Speaker 1: name of the Lord. Amen, evidence of the True Church.
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Speaker 1: Let's get this on the screen. For those who are listening,
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Speaker 1: no worries. You're not going to see what we're seeing, obviously,
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Speaker 1: but you're going to hear word for word what we're
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Speaker 1: seeing on the screen, so that way you will not
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Speaker 1: miss a beat. Amen. So let's go for it. Where
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Speaker 1: we are are?
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Speaker 2: Is it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Let's see where we're at.
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Speaker 2: Yet, Nope, there we go, there we go, Amen, move
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Speaker 2: over here going button crazy.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for evidence of the true Church. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And there should be nothing missing when it comes to
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Speaker 1: the true Church, right. John thirteen thirty five. By this,
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Speaker 1: everyone will know that you are my disciples. This is
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Speaker 1: the Lord speaking. If you have a love, if you
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Speaker 1: have love and unselfish concern from one another, very important,
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Speaker 1: unselfish concern, love, you're being discipled. You are a disciple
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Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus. Amen. John thirteen thirty five. The
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Speaker 1: Lord says himself, by this, by what By this you
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Speaker 1: will know that you are my disciples. Amen. Notice not
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Speaker 1: a member of a church. Notice not a part of
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Speaker 1: a religion. Notice not a tradition, Notice not an opinion.
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Speaker 1: But Jesus said, by this, everyone will know that you
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Speaker 1: are My disciples. If you have love, right, because God
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Speaker 1: is love. If you have love and unselfish concern for
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Speaker 1: one another, that means we should be a part of
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Speaker 1: each other's life, encouraging one another, supporting one another, praying
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Speaker 1: for one another, right, encouraging one another going through life fellowship?
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Speaker 1: What happened to that a man in the body of Christ.
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Speaker 1: We need to be in fellowship because God is in
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Speaker 1: perfect fellowship with us by way of His Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: and He's allowing us to be in perfect relationship and
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Speaker 1: unselfish relationship with the Body of Christ, which is the
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Speaker 1: true Church. So evidence of the true Church is found
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Speaker 1: in the love from one another, so that way the
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Speaker 1: world will know. So the Lord Jesus himself wants us
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Speaker 1: to show evidence to the world that's watching that we
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Speaker 1: belong to him, that we are being discipled by a
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Speaker 1: holy spirit, and you know, by the Lord Jesus. Since
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Speaker 1: the joys I see you. Good morning, God, bless you,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for the blessings over the group as well.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming to the morning devo. My system,
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Speaker 1: my friend. Very honored to have you. So I'm just
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Speaker 1: checking to make sure my system is up and running.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's been getting glitchy lately. Amen. What we're to
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Speaker 1: look like, We're all good today, Amen, So let's go forward.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're we're at the evidence of the true Church.
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Speaker 1: Because I know there's a lot of copy cat type
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Speaker 1: of churches out there that are not really preaching the
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Speaker 1: good news about traditions and opinions and literally they have
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Speaker 1: teachings that they've adopted from their forefathers, and they that
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Speaker 1: endsu their congregation and they don't want to let go
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Speaker 1: of those teachings because they've been preached or taught so
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Speaker 1: long that they don't have the humility, they're not humble
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Speaker 1: enough to admit or to even investigate to see if
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Speaker 1: those traditions and if those opinions can stand up according
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Speaker 1: to scripture. That's a spot that I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be in, a man, and a spot hopefully that you
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Speaker 1: don't want to be in, because it's a dangerous place
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Speaker 1: to be, because then you'll be exalting or I'll be
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Speaker 1: exalting my opinion above the word of God. So the
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Speaker 1: Word of God is central to any true, believing, holy
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Speaker 1: goos filled church, right essential. How about this one one
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Speaker 1: Peter Chapter one, verse fifteen. One Peter, Chapter one, verse fifteen.
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Speaker 1: But just as he who called you is holy, so
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Speaker 1: be holy in all you do. That's the evidence of
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Speaker 1: a true church, holiness, fellowship, right devotion. How about this
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Speaker 1: one Acts Chapter two, verse forty two. They disciples, the
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Speaker 1: true church, children of God, the Assembly of God. They
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Speaker 1: devoted themselves to the apostles, teaching and to fellowship. Fellowship
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Speaker 1: is a part of it. A mean if you see
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Speaker 1: congregations or communities or organized groups just coming together when
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Speaker 1: it's time to be organized and be in safe environments.
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Speaker 1: And that's it. You're not seeing relationships be informed during
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Speaker 1: the week, then you might want to pray about where
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Speaker 1: you're at. It should be fellowship, active fellowship. Right, How
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Speaker 1: would the world know that we belong to Christ? How
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Speaker 1: would the world know that we're disciples of the Lord?
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Speaker 1: I would the world know what's the meaning of the
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Speaker 1: true church against the false church? If we don't fellowship,
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Speaker 1: we don't know one another. Amen. I can't tell you
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Speaker 1: how many times I've asked people. One day approach me
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Speaker 1: and say, hey, I go to You go to a
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Speaker 1: certain certain church. I say, yeah, I go to that church.
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Speaker 1: What church do you go to? I go to this church.
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Speaker 1: What's your pastor's name? That's what I would ask, And he goes,
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Speaker 1: you know what. They start thinking about it. In my mind,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Wow, you go to a church, but you
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Speaker 1: don't even know the pastor's name. You don't know the
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Speaker 1: leader's name. That's a little bit suspect, right, So be
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Speaker 1: mindful of where you're at. If you're connected, that could
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Speaker 1: mean that that person that doesn't that doesn't even know
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Speaker 1: the pastor's name, might be so disconnected. They might be
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Speaker 1: just going and fulfilling a duty of the week, to
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Speaker 1: be in a place, in an environment that could give change,
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Speaker 1: that could that could actually help transform a life. But
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Speaker 1: yet you're so disconnected, you're out of fellowship, and you're
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Speaker 1: not part of the true Church and Man. So that's
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Speaker 1: a very dangerous place to be. I pray for people
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Speaker 1: like that, amen. I don't mock them. I don't laugh
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Speaker 1: and say what do you mean, you know, No, I
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Speaker 1: just pray silently in front of that person and offer
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Speaker 1: them some advice or you know, whatever the Lord gives
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Speaker 1: me at that time, to try to convince them or
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Speaker 1: try to encourage them to stay connected to the Body
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Speaker 1: of Christ by way of His word, by way of fellowship,
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Speaker 1: by way of the teachings of those who lead. A
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Speaker 1: true church teaches and submits to the authority of the
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Speaker 1: Holy Scriptures, not human traditions or opinions. So based on
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Speaker 1: the evidence that we see of a true church, there
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Speaker 1: should be evidence of love, there should be evidence of fellowship,
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Speaker 1: there should be evidence of Holy Spirit. Obviously a man
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Speaker 1: Jesus should be up in the forefront. We could teach,
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Speaker 1: of course, the Old Covenant from Genesis to Malachi. We
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Speaker 1: should be teaching that absolutely, and also on top of
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Speaker 1: that teaching that should be Jesus, which is the one
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Speaker 1: who's coming back ultimately to judge the rest of the world.
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Speaker 1: We're coming back with him, Amen. He's the final resting
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Speaker 1: place of God. He is the completion of Yahweh Amen.
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Speaker 1: So I believe this is my opinion. Again, you don't
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Speaker 1: got to go. My opinion is my traditions, none, You
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Speaker 1: don't have to. But my opinion on it would be
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Speaker 1: that we should preach Jesus everywhere we go. We could
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Speaker 1: start with whatever in the Old Covenant, and we should
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Speaker 1: and always with the Lord by because he is the
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Speaker 1: completion of the prophets. He's the completion of the word. Amen.
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Speaker 1: He's the completion of the prophecies. Right, He's the completion
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Speaker 1: of the law. So we want to give people the
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Speaker 1: end result every time everywhere we go, because who's coming
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Speaker 1: back is Moses coming back? Is Isaiah coming back? Is
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Speaker 1: a logic coming back to rule and reign as king
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Speaker 1: of kings and lord of lords. Right, No, Jesus, our
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Speaker 1: king of kings and Lord of lords, is coming back.
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Speaker 1: So why would we keep that a mystery? And why
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Speaker 1: would we keep that information, and why would we deny
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Speaker 1: the evidence of the scriptures and not tell everywhere every
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Speaker 1: person that we meet, the Lord Jesus is coming back. Right,
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Speaker 1: evidence of a true church proclaims the Gospel to the
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Speaker 1: whole entire world. That's where I was going, right, Matthew
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Speaker 1: twenty eight, nineteen and twenty, Go and make disciples of
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Speaker 1: all nations. That is actually a commandment. When you see
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Speaker 1: the word go, when you see those type of words
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Speaker 1: that prompt you to go do something, I believe those
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Speaker 1: are commandments, New Testament commandments, if you want to call it, Amen,
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Speaker 1: Because God says go, doesn't say stay in your own environment,
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Speaker 1: bring people to you. He says, go and make disciples,
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Speaker 1: not bring people into a building and disciple, even though
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Speaker 1: that's effective too. But I believe if we're not going out,
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Speaker 1: then nothing, no one is going to be coming in. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again. If we're not going out,
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Speaker 1: no one is going to be coming into the buildings,
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Speaker 1: because we have to show ourselves to the world, reveal ourselves,
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Speaker 1: just like God revealed himself to me and to you.
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Speaker 1: We were looking for something, we were looking for truth,
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Speaker 1: We were looking for love. We were looking for grace,
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Speaker 1: we were looking for forgiveness, we were looking for mercy,
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Speaker 1: and then Jesus revealed themselves to us. Amen. So he
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Speaker 1: found us where we were to bring us to where
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Speaker 1: he is. So I think that's an example of what
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Speaker 1: we should be doing as a true church. The evidence
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Speaker 1: is that we should be going out to the highways
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Speaker 1: and byways from your community, my community, from your neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: your city, your state, your nation. A man go out
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Speaker 1: and make disciples of all nations. It's a mandate and
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Speaker 1: we are not only are we required to do that,
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Speaker 1: but we are empowered to do that. Amen. So I
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Speaker 1: encourage everyone to go and make disciples of all nations
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Speaker 1: according to the Great Commission. We don't need permission to
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Speaker 1: do this. We don't need to go. We could be
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Speaker 1: prayed for, we could be blessed by to do it. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But we don't have to go to our apostible prophet,
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Speaker 1: pastor teacher, evangelists to ask permission to do what God
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Speaker 1: has called us to do. We should be equipped to
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Speaker 1: go and make disciples. We should be equipped to go
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Speaker 1: to all nations. Amen. There is the job of the
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Speaker 1: leader of the church, the pastor of the church, the evangelists,
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Speaker 1: all of all the offices, is to equip the saints
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Speaker 1: to do the works of the ministry. And part of
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Speaker 1: the ministry is what we said earlier, fellowship, loving one
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Speaker 1: another and going to share the love of Christ to
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Speaker 1: all places that we go to. So every person that
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Speaker 1: we meet, right, we should resemble or we should shine
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Speaker 1: our light and not be afraid to do what God
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Speaker 1: called us to do, because He empowers us to get
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Speaker 1: what He wants done through us in this world to date.
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Speaker 1: So evangelism and discipleship go together. They're not optional, they're
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Speaker 1: not separate things, they're not levels. Evangelism and discipleship are
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Speaker 1: signs of the true church. If you see the evangelism
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Speaker 1: of the church in your community, Amen, that's an evidence
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Speaker 1: of the true Church. If you see discipleship of your
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Speaker 1: local community church a man, that's evidence of a true
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Speaker 1: church a man. Evangelism and discipleship. That's why I truly
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Speaker 1: believe that the evangelists and the pastors should be partnered
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Speaker 1: so well that both things will be happening. The preaching
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Speaker 1: and teaching and the reaching and discipling right to really
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Speaker 1: magnify what God is trying to do in the true
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Speaker 1: Church and his body. Because who's the head of the
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Speaker 1: body of Christ. Ladies and gentlemen, your leader, your pastor,
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Speaker 1: your apostle, your prophet, right, your bishop. No, it's the
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus himself. He's the head of the body. Right,
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Speaker 1: He's the head where the body. So we go according
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Speaker 1: to what the Lord, what the head of the body
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Speaker 1: is saying, and he equips us, he enables us, He
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Speaker 1: empowers us by way of his Holy Spirit to do
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Speaker 1: exactly what He wants to get done through us. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So it sounds like, oh, man, you're only talking about,
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Speaker 1: you know, what you could do, instead of what God
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Speaker 1: could do. No, God is doing his work through his children,
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Speaker 1: through his body, through his Church, right to all nations.
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Speaker 1: Jesus is not afraid to proclaim the good news to
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Speaker 1: any nation, whether they believe or not. Jesus, I was
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Speaker 1: just telling my brother in Christ yesterday we were in
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Speaker 1: a rough neighborhood of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and we were looking
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Speaker 1: at this and man, this is right ground for evangelism.
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Speaker 1: This is good ground to go reach people with the
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Speaker 1: gospel message. And I said it. I think I was
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Speaker 1: prompt about all the spirit to say I said, if
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Speaker 1: Jesus was walking right now in our area, he'd be
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Speaker 1: walking right through this place right now, telling people to
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Speaker 1: follow him, you know, shining his love, sharing his love. Amen,
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Speaker 1: to these people, Not to the people that were walking by,
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Speaker 1: driving by fancy cars and good and jewelry and clothing
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Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. No, he will be going
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Speaker 1: to those who the world has deemed to be the outcast. Remember,
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Speaker 1: if you remember clearly about what's happening when Jesus was announced,
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Speaker 1: the birth of Jesus was announced, Amen, you remember that,
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Speaker 1: I remember it. The angels presented that message first to
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Speaker 1: the shepherds, those who were like the outcast, those who
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Speaker 1: were just outside of society, outside of the norm. Right,
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Speaker 1: And what they were told first of the coming of
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Speaker 1: the Messiah, the birth of the Messiah. That's an amazing
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Speaker 1: example of what God would do in today's world right now,
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Speaker 1: where he would go, who he would approach a man first.
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Speaker 1: So that's a message for another time. The true Christian
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Speaker 1: Church is the body of believers worldwide who are saved
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Speaker 1: by grace through faith in Christ, guided by Holy Spirit. Right,
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Speaker 1: we're anchored to scripture. Amen, anchored to the scriptures and
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Speaker 1: spreading the gospel, committed to spreading the gospel we want.
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Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, you can look at the
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Speaker 1: early Church in the Book of Acts and see how
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Speaker 1: they moved. See that no one had lack right. They
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Speaker 1: shared finances, they shared food, They fellowshipped daily in each
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Speaker 1: other's homes. I know that sounds strange in our society today.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't want people come to my house.
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Speaker 1: I don't know them. I don't know these people. How
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Speaker 1: could I trust? Well, that's all by way of Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is still guiding us and teaching us and
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Speaker 1: leading us into all truth. Holy Spirit still is in
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Speaker 1: control as you allow him to control you and me
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Speaker 1: by way of his spirit. He's not going to lead
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Speaker 1: us into danger. He's not gonna lead us into sin.
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Speaker 1: He's not gonna put us to shame. No, he's only
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Speaker 1: going to lead us into all truth and fellowship. And
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Speaker 1: we have perfect communication actually with the Father with the
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Speaker 1: Son by way of Holy Spirit. Think about it. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing that God left out. There's no mystery anymore to
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Speaker 1: who the Lord truly is. There should be no mystery.
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Speaker 1: There should be more evidence than ever before of who
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Speaker 1: the true Church is the world is looking. The world
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Speaker 1: is watching. We are here, Amen, focus on that. Let
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Speaker 1: the people around you know who you are. Stop hiding
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Speaker 1: a man. I'm guilty of hiding sometimes in certain environments.
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Speaker 1: But no longer am I going to be like I
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Speaker 1: was never ashamed. But no longer will I be afraid.
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Speaker 1: I was never afraid. So I'm saying the one word,
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Speaker 1: no longer will I be hiding out. Amen, that's the
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Speaker 1: word I'm looking for. Hiding out. Showing, not showing off,
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Speaker 1: but showing who is in me and who is in
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Speaker 1: you is a blessing to a community. Right, we read
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Speaker 1: it before, when Jesus wants to show through us, Brother Manuel,
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Speaker 1: God blessed the morning, God bless you. Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: morning devo. We started off and John thirteen thirty five
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Speaker 1: when Jesus said, but just as he who called you
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Speaker 1: is holy, so be holy in all that you do.
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Speaker 1: Don't no excuse me, sorry, that was first Peter, John
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Speaker 1: thirteen thirty five. By this everyone will know. So people
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Speaker 1: need to know that we are Jesus disciples. How do
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Speaker 1: you have to quote one hundred scriptures? Do you have
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Speaker 1: to be in Bible college? Do you have to be titles?
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Speaker 1: You have to have a title. No how this is
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Speaker 1: how if you love one another man? I mean, does
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Speaker 1: that sound so difficult? I don't think so. Love it's
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Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to see in action when you see
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Speaker 1: genuine love for people. I know people whose family members
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Speaker 1: are going through cancer, and love is keeping those people alive.
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Speaker 1: You see the love of Christ through that family keeping
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Speaker 1: people alive. He who has who is led by the spirit,
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Speaker 1: are sons of God. Yes, Manuel, I agree, that's the scripture,
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Speaker 1: Brother Frank. God bless you. Good morning, my bro, Good morning,
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Speaker 1: Brother Sam. Just wanting thank you for your morning devo.
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Speaker 1: You always stay in our heart with the Lord's word.
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Speaker 1: I'm sixty two today, Happy birthday. Happy birthday to brother Frank,
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Speaker 1: sixty two today, and you know that I've been through
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Speaker 1: so much in the last five years, and I could
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Speaker 1: give my Lord thanks that I'm still alive today and
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Speaker 1: I'm sixty two today. I'll bless you. I pray blessings
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Speaker 1: for you today and every day hereafter that God will
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Speaker 1: give you more years of health and wealth and prosperity
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Speaker 1: in your marriage and and your family. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: sharing that. I didn't know I probably would get an
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Speaker 1: notification later on my Facebook account and happy birthday for
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Speaker 1: brother Frank. Thank you so much for sharing that. Proclaiming
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Speaker 1: God's word boldly, Yes, we should be proclaiming God's word boldly.
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Speaker 1: I believe one hundred percent that the word of God
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Speaker 1: stands up to any culture, to any civilization, to any time,
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Speaker 1: because his word is never changing, His word is always accurate,
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Speaker 1: his word is always powerful a man, his word is
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Speaker 1: always relevant to every single civilization, every single culture in
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Speaker 1: this whole entire world. Amen. The word of God stands Amen.
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Speaker 1: So we proclaim the true, living, holy, righteous Word of God.
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Speaker 1: Jesus said, if you love me, you will keep my commands. Yes, Amen.
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Speaker 1: And keeping something means you don't let it go. Keeping
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Speaker 1: something means they're valuable God's commandments. Jesus is the finality.
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Speaker 1: Jesus is the completion of the commandments of the law
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Speaker 1: of the Prophets. Amen. So we should really be focused
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Speaker 1: on the Lord Jesus. He did it all Amen, perfectly
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Speaker 1: without spot or Blemens. He never sinned a man. He
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Speaker 1: died and rose from the grave, proving giving evidence of
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Speaker 1: what he was establishing to be the true, living, organized
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Speaker 1: organism of the Body of Christ, the true Church. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Is the foundation that Jesus laid. He is the foundation.
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Speaker 1: Anything outside of Jesus as a foundation for the church
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Speaker 1: is not a true church. Amen. Is life onto us? Yes,
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Speaker 1: He's the lifeline. He's the life giving word. Amen. When
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Speaker 1: we apply God's word, you will see life of flowing
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Speaker 1: through you and around you. Amen. And transformation will happen.
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Speaker 1: Transformation will happen. So evidence of love and holiness. We
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Speaker 1: see that and what Jesus said in John thirteen thirty five.
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Speaker 1: Read the whole chapter for yourself. In John thirteen, love, grace,
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Speaker 1: and holy living are fruit of a real spirit filled church. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So we have evidence. We should be evidence. We should
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Speaker 1: be applying this evidence and showing this evidence to the
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Speaker 1: world who is in need, desperate need of a loving, holy,
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Speaker 1: righteous savior, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. So I'm
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Speaker 1: out of time. Read John thirteen today. If you have time, Amen,
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Speaker 1: I encourage you to do that. Read the whole chapter.
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Speaker 1: But God bless you all. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: hanging out with me for the morning. DEVO. God bless you,
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Speaker 1: God keep you and remember always that God is good.
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Speaker 1: Please