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Stay the Course [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Morning, Good morning, family, God bless you. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the morn in DeVos. Your bro Sam Lopez aka DJ
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Speaker 1: sadbrox So winners with a z dot org Live dot
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Speaker 1: So Winners with a z dot org streaming on all
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Speaker 1: the social media platforms that we allowed to stream on. Amen,
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Speaker 1: with these little restrictions that we have on the network,
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Speaker 1: but it's all good. We're gonna stay the course. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna stay the course today in the morning Devo. That's
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Speaker 1: where we're at today. We're gonna be in Second Corinthians,
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Speaker 1: chapter five, verse number seventeen. Very familiar scripture with a
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Speaker 1: lot of Christians. Right, that's the first scripture, actually the
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Speaker 1: second scripture that well, it is the first scripture that
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Speaker 1: got put into my memory. Amen, so it's one of
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Speaker 1: my life scriptures. And then the second one was First Corinthians,
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Speaker 1: chapter ten, verse number thirteen. Amen, keep stay the course.
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Speaker 1: How to keep going in your faith journey? Amen. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: we need to be encouraged in our faith journey and
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Speaker 1: I will walk. Amen. Everybody is at a different pace
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Speaker 1: right now, we're unified, Amen, in christ we're on the
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Speaker 1: same narrow road. But having you notice that people are
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Speaker 1: in different paces, different places, Amen, And when we encourage
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Speaker 1: one another, we could come to a place where we'd
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Speaker 1: be like, Okay, I know I'm not exactly where I
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Speaker 1: need to be, but thank God, I'm not where I
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Speaker 1: used to be. I know I'm not exactly the person
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Speaker 1: that God is calling me to be, but thank God,
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Speaker 1: I'm not the person that I used to be. I'm
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Speaker 1: not exactly where I'm supposed to be right now, but
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Speaker 1: I thank God I'm headed in the right direction. Those
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Speaker 1: type of encouraging words, Amen. But second, corst thing shout
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Speaker 1: the five verse number seventeen solidifies the fact that we're
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Speaker 1: new creatures in Christ. I keep on having discussions with
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Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters in Christ online when they say
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Speaker 1: we'll still sinners, just sinerers. We're just this like third
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Speaker 1: And I'm challenging people to look at the scriptures and
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Speaker 1: see if that's really true. How we identifying ourselves? Are
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Speaker 1: we identifying ourselves as sinners after we're saved or before
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Speaker 1: we were saved? Amen? I know we sin but I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to challenge people's thinking. Are we identifying ourselves as
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Speaker 1: a saint or as a sinner? Amen? How to keep
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Speaker 1: going in your faith? Journey, no matter what the popular
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Speaker 1: teachers out there are telling you. One week, you know,
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Speaker 1: people are saying, Oh, you're saved, you're born again, you
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Speaker 1: redeem you're restored, And the next week, oh, your heart
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Speaker 1: is wicked, full of all kinds of deceit and you're
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Speaker 1: a sinner. Which one is it? Are we both saints
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Speaker 1: and sinners? Or are we exactly what the word says
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Speaker 1: we are after we're born again? Who are we? Who
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Speaker 1: are we identifying with? If we're identifying with Christ, Christ
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Speaker 1: never sinned, Amen, So I can't call myself a Christian sinner.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. Leave that up to the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to show you that in his word. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So let's go forward. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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Speaker 1: or any prayer requests, please don't hesitate to leave it
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Speaker 1: on a live chat. That's what we're here for. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Whether I'm live or not, you can still leave your comments, amen,
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Speaker 1: and concerns. I'm sorry, I was trying to chant my
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Speaker 1: volume here, So let's go for it. Let's pray first.
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Speaker 1: After we pray, I'll turn on the other light on
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Speaker 1: the other side of the studio, amen, because I forgot
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Speaker 1: to turn it on rushing to get this on. But
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Speaker 1: I'll fix that and when we come back, we'll get
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Speaker 1: right into stay the course. Today in the morning, DEVO,
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Speaker 1: shout out to my brother e Eric. Amen. He gave
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Speaker 1: me an early shout out on text. Amen. I'm really
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Speaker 1: grateful for that. Amen. He sends love to my beautiful
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Speaker 1: wife and nieces and my mother in law. Amen. Amen,
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Speaker 1: I got you. Let me give you a heart, my bro.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for connecting and contacting me. Please
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Speaker 1: call me. I don't know schedule. I know you have
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Speaker 1: a schedule that I can never remember. When you're working,
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Speaker 1: when you're not. Just calling me and let me know
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Speaker 1: when you're not working, when you're available to talk. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for let's pray, fathering the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: I thank you so much for today. I thank you
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Speaker 1: for right now, for this moment, right now. Yesterday's gone. Amen.
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Speaker 1: It was a challenging day, but it was a day
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Speaker 1: nonetheless that I was glad and I was rejoicing that
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Speaker 1: I'm saved and you're saved too. All those people who
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Speaker 1: are listening, whosoever calls on the name of the Lord
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Speaker 1: shall be saved. Thank you Lord for saving us. Rescuing us,
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Speaker 1: redeeming us, restoring us, giving us the born again experience.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord God for your promise of abundant living
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Speaker 1: during this side of eternity. And I pray Lord got
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Speaker 1: a hedge of protection over myself, my family, my wife,
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Speaker 1: our children, our grandchildren, our family members, relatives on both
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Speaker 1: sides of the family. I pray that over every single
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Speaker 1: person that's connected now who connect later Amen to the
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Speaker 1: Morning Devo, whether it's audio or video, I pray Lord God,
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Speaker 1: she would give them the power that give them the
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Speaker 1: authority that we already have, identify them according to your scriptures.
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Speaker 1: And now thank you Lot God, that you identify me
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Speaker 1: according to your scriptures as well. I pray Lord God
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Speaker 1: that no weapon formed against us shall prosper. But we
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Speaker 1: will move forward in victory knowing that we are on
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Speaker 1: a journey of faith and we are on the right
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Speaker 1: track according to your word. According to your scripture. You're
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Speaker 1: a lamps our feet, a light to our path. And
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Speaker 1: I thank you, Lord God for your word. You are
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Speaker 1: the Word. You are the living, breathing, holy, righteous, loving Word.
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Speaker 1: And I give you glory, honor, worship of praise today
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Speaker 1: and every day in Jesus Holy Name, we pray, and
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Speaker 1: all those who agree we say amen to that. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Sister enjoy us. Good morning, God bless you. Amen. She
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Speaker 1: sends blessings to the group as well. Thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for your blessing, and thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: coming through to the Morning Devo. You're a blessing to
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Speaker 1: my life and to my family. Brother Mike, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Morning Devo with my bro. God
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Speaker 1: bless you, Amen, and thank you for showing up my
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Speaker 1: bro and my friend. So let's go for it one minute.
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Speaker 1: Help me share this side. When we come back, we'll
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Speaker 1: get right into it. I've wrote that don't forget to
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Speaker 1: visit the website. So one is with a z dot
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Speaker 1: org and live that soone is with his z dot org.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people are showing up from live that.
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Speaker 1: So one is. But it's the chat is like not moving,
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Speaker 1: So listen, don't be afraid to engage. And then I
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Speaker 1: know it could be a little bit nerve wracking to
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Speaker 1: a lot of people to really say something on somebody's
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Speaker 1: podcast or a barber study or on the Morning Devo.
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Speaker 1: But it's all good. That's what we're here for. No
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Speaker 1: one's gonna bite a man. There's no debates here. This
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Speaker 1: is not the platform for debate. There's a platform for
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Speaker 1: devotion to get into the Word of God, and man
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Speaker 1: is to stay biblically focused, not the world the way
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Speaker 1: the world is teaching and the world displaying the Bible.
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Speaker 1: It's according to the scriptures. All I simply do is
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Speaker 1: read the scripture, encourage you to read it for yourself. Amen,
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Speaker 1: And we allow Holy Spirit to teach us. Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: really me. It's a Holy Spirit through his word. His
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Speaker 1: word is alive, active, shopping at a double edged sword.
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Speaker 1: His word is able to accomplish what the word is
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Speaker 1: a tended to accomplish in your life and in my life.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Let's put this on the
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Speaker 1: screen for those who are just listening, No worries. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna read it word for words, so that way you
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Speaker 1: won't miss a beat. Amen, And we'll continue on this morning, devo.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Stay the course. I put
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Speaker 1: this image of a lady that looks like she's determined. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We head phone was ready to go, and I just
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Speaker 1: it spoke to me. Her eyes spoke to me. The
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Speaker 1: determination is part of the deal world. You're staying the course.
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Speaker 1: We need to be stubborn with our faith. Hold on
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Speaker 1: to God no matter what people say, hold on to Christ,
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Speaker 1: no matter what people say. Amen, We're gonna stay the course.
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Speaker 1: Sister Joey, good morning. God bless you, I see you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning. Devo, my sister, my friend
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Speaker 1: brother Robberie Nwborn, God bless you. I see you, by Bro.
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Man. And I love what you're doing
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Speaker 1: with your ministry. Man, and I love it the fact
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Speaker 1: that you're out there and outreaches and continuing the journey
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Speaker 1: of faith and continue to press on no matter what. Man.
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Speaker 1: That's very aspiring me, inspiring me to me. We met
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Speaker 1: in the field a man, and I hope to meet
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Speaker 1: you the field soon. Amen to see you as well.
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Speaker 1: Stay the course, ladies and gentlemen, my brothers and my sisters,
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Speaker 1: and know those who know Christ and those who don't
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Speaker 1: know Christ. We're gonna put you on to something. The
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Speaker 1: reason why we stay in the course of course is
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Speaker 1: because of this. And second great thing is Chapter number five,
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Speaker 1: verse number seventeen. The Bible says, therefore, if anyone you
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Speaker 1: see that anyone, if anyone is in Christ, that is
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Speaker 1: grafting in, joined to Him, adopted into the family, faith
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Speaker 1: in Him as savior. He or she, He is a
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Speaker 1: new creature, reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit. Right
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Speaker 1: then and there. This is This is my argument to
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Speaker 1: all those people who said I'm just a suer saved
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Speaker 1: by grad You're no longer a sinner. You are exactly
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Speaker 1: what the Word says you are. You're a new creature,
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Speaker 1: reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit. If you're renewed
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Speaker 1: by the Holy Spirit, that means that old, wicked, deceitful
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Speaker 1: heart that you can't trust before you were saved, that
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Speaker 1: means it's gone. Holy Spirit. The old things, including your
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Speaker 1: old heart, your old mindset, your own behavior patterns, your
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Speaker 1: old way of thinking, the old things, the previous moral
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Speaker 1: and spiritual condition, all of it have passed away. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know what people are being taught, but we
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Speaker 1: need to remind ourselves who we are according to the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, according to the Word. The old things, the
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Speaker 1: previous moral and spiritual condition have passed away. Behold, new
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Speaker 1: things have come. Why Because spiritual awakening brings a new life.
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Speaker 1: The newness of Christ in your life proves to me
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Speaker 1: at least, I hope you get it that I'm not
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Speaker 1: the old Sam no more. You're not the old Robber
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Speaker 1: no more. You're not the old Joyce no more. You're
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Speaker 1: not the old Joannamore. You're not the old Eric anymore.
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Speaker 1: You're not the old person, You're not the old Mic anymore.
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Speaker 1: We are new creatures in Christ. We're going to stay
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Speaker 1: the course according to that scripture, according to the word Amen.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people keep on trying to
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Speaker 1: beat us down and say, oh, man, you're a sinner,
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Speaker 1: You're this, and you're that, calling us all kinds of
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Speaker 1: names outside of the New Covenant scriptures that call us
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Speaker 1: a world priesthood, right child of God, a saint, what else?
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Speaker 1: Mourning conquerors through Christ Jesus. I mean, I'm still, like,
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Speaker 1: I'm honestly searching for the scriptures that people are trying
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Speaker 1: to say, that's in the scriptures that still causes a
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Speaker 1: sinner after we're born again. I'm still looking for it.
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Speaker 1: I challenged someone online the other day and they sent
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Speaker 1: me Romans, some scriptures and Romans, some scriptures and Galatians,
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Speaker 1: and I was looking at the scriptures to see finally
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Speaker 1: somebody proved me wrong. And when I looked at scriptures,
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Speaker 1: one was a rebuke and the another was just apostle
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Speaker 1: Paul calling, you know, letting us know what he's dealing with.
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Speaker 1: When he says when he wants to do something good,
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Speaker 1: he continues to do the other thing. He said, it's
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Speaker 1: it's like something else is living inside of me. Something
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Speaker 1: else is living that's doing its own thing. He's talking
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Speaker 1: about the flesh, ladies and gentlemen, And I know about
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Speaker 1: the flesh. I even wrote a book about it. The
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Speaker 1: flesh is a monster. The flesh don't want no parts
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Speaker 1: of what Holy Spirit wants to do in our lives.
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Speaker 1: But that's outside. This isn't the flesh outside of Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: Last time I checked. Listen to me, clearly, last time
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Speaker 1: I check. Holy Spirit is not a person of flesh
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Speaker 1: and bones. I'm just saying, so, if Holy Spirit lives
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Speaker 1: inside of us and Holy Spirit does not sin, how
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Speaker 1: are we identifying ourselves. I'm talking about identify ourselves, not sinning.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about identifying ourselves as a sinner. After I'm
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Speaker 1: born again, when we have Holy Spirit, not Unholy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: we have Holy Spirit leaving, living, breathing inside of us,
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Speaker 1: not leaving. It's morning, and I'm really trying to stay
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Speaker 1: focused here. I'm a sayan, not a sinner. Yes you are,
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Speaker 1: brother Robert. But the thing is, people are appalled by
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Speaker 1: that statement. They always say, you mean you know sin?
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Speaker 1: The more come on, We're not saying that. I'm just
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Speaker 1: saying my identity is not a sin, and my identity
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Speaker 1: is what God calls me. My deentity is in Christ.
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Speaker 1: Christ never sin, Holy Spirit never sins, The Father never sin.
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Speaker 1: The Disciples sinned, the apostles sinned, Amen, but they repented
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Speaker 1: turned from their sin. And they will actually telling us
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Speaker 1: that we're free from the law, free from sin, We're
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Speaker 1: free from the bondages of sin. So if I'm free
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Speaker 1: from something, how could I identify as the same thing?
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Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense. What's going on is it's popular
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Speaker 1: teachers and preachers out there that are trying to bring
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Speaker 1: this combination and fear to their congregation, saying, one week
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Speaker 1: we're born again, we are morning conquerors, we're above, not below.
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Speaker 1: One week we are aspired to press forward to stay
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Speaker 1: the course. And then the next week whatever, for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: we're back in the old Covenant with an old deceitful heart,
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Speaker 1: we're wicked, we're sinners. Amen. And if you don't do this,
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Speaker 1: and if you don't do that, you're going to help?
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Speaker 1: Which one is it? Are we hell bound as born
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Speaker 1: again believers? I don't come on. So I'm really staying
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Speaker 1: the course and trying to help my brothers and sisters. Amen,
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Speaker 1: get this revelation. I know it sounds like, oh, are
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Speaker 1: you saying you're the only one with the revelation. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm saying that we all have
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Speaker 1: script the scriptures. We all should read it, amen, and
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Speaker 1: identify how God identifies Say. I'm just repeating with the
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Speaker 1: apostles disciples, what the Lord says, Holy Spirit says to
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Speaker 1: his word, all of it. Amen, I'm on all of it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I want to be
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Speaker 1: identified according to how God identifies me. State of course,
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Speaker 1: don't back up, don't back off, stand up and stand out. Amen.
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Speaker 1: These popular teachings and preachings Amen, could kind of like
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Speaker 1: derail us. And I don't think people are doing it
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Speaker 1: on purpose. I just think people say it because it
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Speaker 1: seems right. So staying the course in your faith journey
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Speaker 1: involves focusing on your identity and Christ and relying on
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Speaker 1: His strength and guidance. His strength and guidance. First of all,
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Speaker 1: his strength gives us the authority, gives us the power,
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Speaker 1: gives us the ability a man, the availability to do
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Speaker 1: the works and exploits by way of Holy Spirit. We
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Speaker 1: get the work done because of the power empowerment of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. That's number one. And the guidance Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit guide that leads us into all truth. Imagine, Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit is telling us you're a sinner. Get out of here,
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Speaker 1: you know, get out of my face. You're a sinner.
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Speaker 1: You're a sinner, You're a center. On the contrary, he
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Speaker 1: doesn't call us centers no more. I mean, I'm literally, honestly,
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Speaker 1: I look for scriptures to back other people's argument up.
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Speaker 1: I'll say, why do people still calling themselves centers? If
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Speaker 1: you're a born again why are you still calling yourself
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Speaker 1: a sinner? Oh? Yeah, because you know we fall short
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Speaker 1: of the glory. Yeah, we do fall short of the
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Speaker 1: glory of Christ. Everybody falls short of the glorious standards
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Speaker 1: of God. Why, because He's God and we're not. We
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Speaker 1: all fall short. But falling short is different than habitual sin,
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Speaker 1: only short. You know, we just can't reach the mark
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Speaker 1: of God. Are we supposed to. We're going to be
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Speaker 1: like Christ a man, and we're becoming more and more
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Speaker 1: like Christ, but we're not going to be Christ. Now.
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Speaker 1: There's actually some circles that say, yeah, we are Christ
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Speaker 1: living on this earth. I'm not there. If that's the truth,
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Speaker 1: I'm not there. I'm not there yet. I don't know
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Speaker 1: about you, I don't know about them, But I'm not
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Speaker 1: there yet. I am empowered. I am in dwelt by
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, God who's teaching. If Holy Spirit is teaching us,
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Speaker 1: that means we have a lot to learn. That we're
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Speaker 1: learning how to become, how to be, how to not sin,
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Speaker 1: how to come against temptation. We're earning this faith journey
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Speaker 1: on the way. We're learning day by day. But I
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Speaker 1: think the cheat sheet to learn quicker, or the cheat
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Speaker 1: sheet to get us to a further part of our
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Speaker 1: journey is the scriptures. To read it, to believe it,
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Speaker 1: to apply it. Amen, So just remember your identity, remember
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Speaker 1: your identity as a believer. You are a new creation
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Speaker 1: in Christ, a new creation. I think that the new
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Speaker 1: part people forget and they start reverting back to the
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Speaker 1: old ways because they don't know that they're in a
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Speaker 1: new way. If you don't know the newness of God,
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Speaker 1: you haven't experienced the newness of God. Let me talk
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Speaker 1: to people who are not believers. The newness of God
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Speaker 1: through Christ. Amen is next level. It's a greater high.
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Speaker 1: That's smoking, drinking alcohol. It's a greater high than any
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Speaker 1: kind of sexual addiction or something that pills or anything
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Speaker 1: like that is a greater high. It's a supernatural high,
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Speaker 1: meaning that you don't need to smoke, the more you
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Speaker 1: have to drink, the more you have to take pills.
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Speaker 1: Don't have to do this. That. And the third, to
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Speaker 1: experience the high Amen of a believer. Yeah, we are
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Speaker 1: high in Christ. We are drunk in the spirit Amen,
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Speaker 1: and we don't need substances. And then Robbie says Ephesian
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Speaker 1: chapter two, we could check that out too. Amen. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for the scripture, bro bro So, as
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Speaker 1: a believer, you are a new creation in Christ. Here
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Speaker 1: it is fully forgiven. Maybe that's the thing. Maybe people
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Speaker 1: don't know that you're fully forgiven. God forgave me for
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Speaker 1: a couple of things, but he's he's not gonna forgive
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Speaker 1: me for this that. And the third, No, you're fully forgiven.
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Speaker 1: I think what's going on is that Adamy keyson trying
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Speaker 1: to tell us, oh, no, you know that part, that
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Speaker 1: thing that you did yesterday, Now you're a sinner again.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know why you're going around
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Speaker 1: saying you're a Christian when you just did this, that
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Speaker 1: and the third. No, we are exactly who God says
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Speaker 1: we are. We are fully forgiven and imperfect, perfect union
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Speaker 1: with Christ. Holy Spirit is perfect. Please know that Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit is perfect. God is perfect, Jesus is perfect. The
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Speaker 1: Father is perfect, Amen, and he's dealing with our imperfections
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Speaker 1: the flesh. We have a new heart. I know I
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Speaker 1: sound like a broken record. I know I say this
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Speaker 1: all the time because a popular teaching tries to trump
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Speaker 1: the word of God, and the popular traditional teaching says
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Speaker 1: you're still a sinner saved by grace. No, we are saints.
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Speaker 1: We are the world priest. We are children of the
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Speaker 1: Living Holy Righteous God. God is our father. Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: is our teacher and comforter. Jesus is our savior. What
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Speaker 1: more do we need? And why do we keep on
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Speaker 1: reverting back to our old identity? Amen? I know the
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Speaker 1: lust of the flesh, the pride of life, the world's system.
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Speaker 1: The devil tries to tempt us into believing that we
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Speaker 1: are not new, that we are old. But we are
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Speaker 1: new according to the scriptures. We are new according to Christ,
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Speaker 1: says Amen, God, Holy Spirit, dwelt and unclean temples. We
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Speaker 1: cannot be both, Thank you Jesus. Amen, we can't be both.
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Speaker 1: We're not double minded. Boble says, a double minded man
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Speaker 1: is unstable in all his ways. And does God want
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Speaker 1: us to be unstable? Does God want us to be
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Speaker 1: on hole? Does God want us to be old? And
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Speaker 1: our flesh As a matter of fact, God tells us
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Speaker 1: in his word that the flesh wars against the spirit. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So if there's a war going on, that means we
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Speaker 1: are in a faith journey struggling in areas. Yes, but
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Speaker 1: we are redeemed, we are restored, We're new. If the
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Speaker 1: more we put the word of God in our hearts
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Speaker 1: and in our heart, and our hearts and our mind,
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Speaker 1: the more we will speak out the truth. Amen. According
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Speaker 1: to the scriptures and those other popular opinions and those
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Speaker 1: other traditional teachings will kind of like go by the wayside.
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Speaker 1: Whether Robbie says, we are no longer strangers or aliens,
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Speaker 1: but citizens and the saints of the House of God,
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Speaker 1: saints saved by grace. Amen. We were sinners absolutely. I
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Speaker 1: know I was a professional sinner back in the day.
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Speaker 1: Everyone has a testimony, right. And as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: I was so much in sin that I even know
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Speaker 1: I was sinning. I was in bondage, I was in captivity.
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Speaker 1: The cell door was locked. I couldn't say no to
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Speaker 1: sin before Christ changed my life and changed your life. Right,
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Speaker 1: we couldn't say no. But now, because we're new creatures
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Speaker 1: in Christ, the old has passed away, the chains have
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Speaker 1: been broken, the cell blocked doors have been bursted open. Amen.
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Speaker 1: A lot of Christians are sitting inside of a cell
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Speaker 1: with the door wide open because they're listening to these
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Speaker 1: old traditional teachings that are trying to bring condemnation when
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Speaker 1: the scriptures literally tell us that there is no condination
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Speaker 1: to those who are in Christ Jesus, there's no combination. Amen.
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Speaker 1: We are repented people who are said born again with
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Speaker 1: the new life, the new hearts, the new mind. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And we could get up and walk out of them
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Speaker 1: prison cells. We're free. A man who the Son says
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Speaker 1: free is free. Indeed, so I'm no longer saying I'm
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Speaker 1: a sinner saved by grace. It sounds humbling and sounds
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Speaker 1: cute and everything, but it's not biblical. And if you
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Speaker 1: want to quote Paul for what he said about his
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Speaker 1: life and his journey, Amen, you could go ahead and
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Speaker 1: vote quote Paul, Apostle Paul, Amen, and then tell me, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's for you to know. Apostle Paul was talking about himself.
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Speaker 1: Can Apostle Paul be Apostle Paul? Can Sam be Sam?
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Speaker 1: Can you be? You a man? According to the scriptures,
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Speaker 1: Jesus didn't show up and say I rescued you, I
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Speaker 1: forgave you, I saved you, but you're still a sinner,
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Speaker 1: So I don't know what you're gonna do now. He
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Speaker 1: didn't die in across to call us sinners. He died
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Speaker 1: on the cross to offer us all forgiveness of sins, past, present,
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Speaker 1: and future sins. So that way we won't have to
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Speaker 1: identify as a sinner. We don't have to don't We're
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Speaker 1: not the old person anymore. We might have habits that
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Speaker 1: God's helping us out of now. On the flip side
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Speaker 1: of all of this, if you're habitually sinning, and then
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Speaker 1: you don't repent or you say you're sorry to God,
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Speaker 1: and then you're in ministry and you keep on going
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Speaker 1: to ministry, right, and you keep on doing the same old,
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Speaker 1: same old, as if God doesn't know, as if the
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Speaker 1: light of Christ is not being dimmed in your life.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you step into a building of believers
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Speaker 1: or a community of believers, or a church or worship
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Speaker 1: building or worship house, a house of worship, you know
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Speaker 1: that there's a tremendous light upon darkness. Right, So if
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Speaker 1: you're walking around as a minister and you're in darkness,
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Speaker 1: you know other saints could see that, right, And if
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Speaker 1: you love me, let me just take me. If you
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Speaker 1: love me and you see darkness upon me, you think
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Speaker 1: if you see that I'm moving funny or awkward, please
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Speaker 1: approach me in love, Amen, and ask me some questions.
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Speaker 1: What's going on? You know? Because we love each other.
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Speaker 1: Why would we want anybody to be an habitual sin
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Speaker 1: and ministering? Why would we do that to each other? Oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's none of my business. No, it is our business.
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Speaker 1: We're brothers and sisters in Christ. We're in the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God. Amen. We got each other's back. And if
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Speaker 1: somebody doesn't take correction or rebuke in a loving way, Amen,
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Speaker 1: that person might have to revisit and check if they're
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Speaker 1: still in the faith. Amen. Because we're supposed to be approachable, lovable.
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Speaker 1: We're supposed to listen to one another, Amen, and receive
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Speaker 1: the truth of God's word. Brother Frank, good morning, God
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Speaker 1: bless you. It's good to see you on the morning.
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Speaker 1: Deal with my brother and my friend. Amen. So I'm
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Speaker 1: just encouraging you. I know it sounds like I'm a
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Speaker 1: little too much right now. Amen, But it's just that
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing this over and over again from brothers and
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Speaker 1: sisters and christ It says, Noah, we're all sinners, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we sin Look, I'm a I'm a lift driver, right.
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Speaker 1: I do lyft for my spare time, to keep money flowing, right,
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Speaker 1: for the ministry and for my family. I'm a lift driver.
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Speaker 1: So is that my identity or is it that? Or
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Speaker 1: is that what I do? Is what I do? When
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Speaker 1: people get into my card, are like how long you
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Speaker 1: been doing this? They're not saying how long are you
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Speaker 1: have you been this way? Don't ask me that. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Robbie says, that's right, bringing to the person, not the
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Speaker 1: public Amen. Amen. The person first, Amen, and then publicly.
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Speaker 1: That's the biblical way to do it. Amen. But if
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Speaker 1: you could, if you could bring up a topic amen,
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Speaker 1: that like I just did. I didn't tell you who
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Speaker 1: the person was. I just said, man, we were back
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Speaker 1: and forth in a chat. Amen. And then now it's
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Speaker 1: a topic, and I want to address the topic, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and not and not deface any person or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: I ain't sharpers are yes, yes it does. Amen. In
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Speaker 1: the Word of God is sharper than any other double
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Speaker 1: edged sword. So I'm out of here. I'm out of times.
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Speaker 1: Since the joy says amen preaching, I agree with you
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. We are new creations in Christ. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So when we agree with each other, as long as
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Speaker 1: we agree with the word, amen is established. And two more,
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Speaker 1: our awardness to the Word of God, especially when we
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Speaker 1: can testify. Right. So I'm out of time. Second Corinthians,
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Speaker 1: chapter number What did I say? Five? Amen? Read the
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Speaker 1: whole chapter for yourself. Amen. There's other verses that I
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Speaker 1: didn't get to, but it's okay. They're in the details.
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Speaker 1: They're in the notes. Amen. Of the video of the
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Speaker 1: last stream and on the podcast, go to the other
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Speaker 1: scriptures to read them out for yourself, declare them over
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Speaker 1: your life. Amen. And God will continue to help us
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Speaker 1: on our fifth journey as a new believer in Christ.
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Speaker 1: Whether you're new or whether you're seasoned, stay the course.
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Speaker 1: So thank you so much. God bless you as well.
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Speaker 1: Have a great day, brother, Robbie. God bless y'all all.
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Speaker 1: God keep you all, and remember always that God is good.
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Speaker 1: Please