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Love Letters from God The Value of Practical Wisdom · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  To love letters. through Welcome to Love Letters
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  from God. We're going to be reading today
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  from the book of Ecclesiastes we've been talking about, then
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  reading about Solomon's life in recent programs.
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  And this particular program we're going to be reading
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  exclusively from the book of Ecclesiastes.
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  Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes toward the end of his life.
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  He had been given wisdom by God and he misused that wisdom.
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  And in the process of misusing it, that's where the book of
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  Ecclesiastes came into play. And he mentions, he mentions
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  some things that he learned along the way.
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  And that's what we're going to be reading about today.
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  So it turned to me in the book of Ecclesiastes to chapter 6.
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  We're going to read chapters 6 and 7:00 and 8:00 today.
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  There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is
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  common among men, a man to whom God has given riches and wealth
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  and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he
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  desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a
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  foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an
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  evil affliction. If a man begets 100 children and
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  lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but
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  his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no
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  burial. I say that a stillborn child is
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  better than he is, for it comes in vanity and departs in
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  darkness, and its name is covered with darkness, though it
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  has not seen the sun or known anything.
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  This has more rest than that man, even if he lives 1000 years
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  twice, but he has not seen Goodness Do not all go to one
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  place. All the labor of man is for his
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  mouth, and yet the soul is not satisfied.
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  For what more has the wise man than the fool?
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  What does the poor man have who knows how to walk before the
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  living? Better is the sight of the eyes
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  than the wandering of desire. This is also vanity and grasping
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  for the wind. Whatever one is, he's been named
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  already, for it's known that he is man, and he cannot contend
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  with him who is mightier than he.
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  Since there are many things that increase vanity, how is man any
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  better? For who knows what is good for
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  man in life? All the days of his vain life,
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  which he passes like a shadow, who can tell a man what will
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  happen after him under the sun? Notice what Solomon's talking
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  about. There is his own life.
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  You know, you go through life if you accumulate all kinds of
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  money, all kinds of goods and so on, and yet at the end of the
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  life, that's, that isn't going to do you any good at all.
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  You know, the poor man who goes through life without anything,
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  when he reaches the end of his life receives the same thing as
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  a as a rich man. Neither one of them are are any
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  better than the other. So let's read Chapter 7.
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  A good name is better than precious ointment and the day of
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  death than the day of 1's birth. Better to go to the House of
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  mourning, then go to the House of feasting, for that is the end
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  of all men, and the living will take it to heart.
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  Sorrow is better than laughter, for by a sad countenance the
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  heart is better. The heart of the wise is in the
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  House of mourning, but the heart of idols is in the House of
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  mirth. It's better to hear the rebuke
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  of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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  For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter
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  of the fool. This also is vanity.
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  Surely suppression, oppression, destroys a man's reason, and a
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  bribe debases the heart. The end of a thing is better
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  than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better
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  than the proud in spirit. Do not hasten in your spirit to
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  be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
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  Do not say why were the former days better than these, for you
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  do not inquire wisely concerning this.
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  Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and profitable to
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  those who see the sun. For wisdom is a defence, as
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  money is a defence. But the excellence of knowledge
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  is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.
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  Consider the work of God, for who can make straight what he
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  has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be
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  joyful, but in the day of adversity be consider.
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  Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, so that
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  man can find out nothing that will come after him.
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  I have seen everything in my days of vanity.
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  There is a just man who perishes in his righteousness, and there
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  is a wicked man who prolongs life in his wickedness.
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  Do not be overly righteous nor be overly wise.
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  Why should you destroy yourself? Do not be overly wicked nor be
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  foolish. Why should you die before your
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  time? It is good that you grasp this
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  and also not remove your hand from the other.
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  Excuse me? For he he who fears God will
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  escape them all. Wisdom strengthens the wise.
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  More than 10 rulers of the city. For there's not a just man on
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  earth who does good and does not sin.
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  Also, do not take to heart everything that people say, lest
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  you hear your servant cursing you for many times.
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  Also your own heart is known that even you have cursed
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  others. All this I have proved by
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  wisdom. I said I will be wise, but it
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  was far from me. As for that which is far off and
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  exceedingly deep, who could find it out?
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  I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out
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  wisdom and the reason of things, to know the wickedness of folly,
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  even a foolishness and madness. And I find more bitter than
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  death the woman whose heart is snares and Nets, whose hands are
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  fetters. He who pleases God shall escape
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  from her, but the Sinner shall be trapped by her.
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  Here's what I found, says the preacher, adding one thing to
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  the other to find out the reason which my stove still seeks.
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  But I cannot find one man among 1000.
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  I have found that a woman among all these I've not found truly
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  this only I have found that God made man upright, but they have
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  sought out many schemes. Again, notice Solomon is he's
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  kind of mixed up, you know, there isn't anything that was
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  out of his reach and he just isn't satisfied.
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  He can't seem to find satisfaction in his own wisdom.
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  Let's continue with chapter 8. Who is like a wise man who knows
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  the interpretation of a thing. A man's wisdom make his face
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  shine, and the sternness of his face is changed.
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  I say keep the King's commandment for the sake of your
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  oath to God. Do not be hasty to go from His
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  presence. Do not take your stand for an
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  evil thing. For He does whatever pleases
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  him. For the word of a king is there
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  is power. And who may say to him, What are
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  you doing? He who keeps his command with
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  experience nothing harmful. And a wise man's heart discerns
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  both time and judgement, because for every matter there is a time
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  and judgement, though the misery of man increases greatly, for he
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  does not know what will happen, so who can tell him when it will
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  occur? No one has the power over the
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  Spirit to retain the Spirit. No one has the power in the day
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  of death. There's no release from that.
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  War and wickedness will not deliver those who are given to
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  it. All of this I have seen and
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  applied my heart to every work that he's done under the sun.
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  There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own
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  hurt. Then I saw the wicked hurled who
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  had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were
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  forgotten in the city where they had so done.
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  This also is manatee, because the sentence against an evil
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  work is not executed speedily. Therefore the heart of the sons
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  of men is fully said in them to do evil.
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  Though a Sinner does evil 100 times, and his days are
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  prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those
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  who fear God, who fear before Him, that I will not be well
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  with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days which are as a
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  shadow, because he does not fear before God.
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  There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just
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  men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked.
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  Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the
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  word of the of the righteous. I said, this also is vanity, so
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  I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the
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  sun than to eat, to drink, to be merry.
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  For this will remain with him and his labor all the days of
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  his life, which God gives him under the sun.
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  And when I applied my heart to no wisdom and to see the
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  business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep
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  day or night, then I saw all the work of God that a man cannot
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  find out the work that is done under the sun.
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  For though a man laborers to discover it, yet he will not
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  find it. Moreover, there are a wise man
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  attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it.
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  And that reads chapter 8. Ecclesiastes is kind of a sad
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  book, but it illustrates the fact that the wisest of men,
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  with all of their knowledge, can't help themselves.
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  Every single one of us needs God.
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  It doesn't matter whether you're rich or whether you're poor.
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  It doesn't matter how smart you are, we all need God.
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  And in this love letter he's given us, this book of
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  Ecclesiastes tells us that Solomon, this wise of the wisest
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  of men, had to find that out in himself in his own life.
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  We pray that you and I will find that out before our life is
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  over. Shall we pray?
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  Father in Heaven, we're so thankful that you give us the
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  information we have. We pray that you'll help us to
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  recognize that you're the real source of wisdom and that we
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  will learn to read from that blessed love letter you've given
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  us and find out more of what real wisdom is.
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  And we pray this in Jesus name, Amen.
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