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Releasing the Burden [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning family, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: It's another session today. We're talking about releasing the releasing
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  Speaker 1: the burden today in the Morning Devo, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be doing today. We're gonna release any
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  Speaker 1: burdens that we have against one another. Maybe you feel
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  Speaker 1: the burden of unforgiveness. Maybe you feel a burden of
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  Speaker 1: someone told you apology not accepted. That's a bad situation, right,
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  Speaker 1: You're like, Man, I apologize and somebody on the other
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  Speaker 1: side said, apology not accept it. We have to learn
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  Speaker 1: how to release those types of burdens. Amen, So that
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  Speaker 1: way we could go forward in victory, living a life
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  Speaker 1: of wholeness, living a life and freedom, living a life
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  Speaker 1: of holiness and righteousness. Amen. So to be made right
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  Speaker 1: with God, Amen, we have to be made righteous by
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  Speaker 1: the Son. Right, Jesus said to himself. No man could
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  Speaker 1: get to the Father except through who through him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Releasing the burden. Forgiveness is not about excusing the wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It's about releasing the burden. Right. I could have wronged you, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll forgive me. But it doesn't mean that you're
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  Speaker 1: ignoring or that you're excusing the wrong. It's about you
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  Speaker 1: releasing the burden. Because I know if I hold and
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  Speaker 1: harbor unforgiveness in my heart, I'm literally I'm literally putting
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  Speaker 1: myself in bondage. I'm literally placing myself in a prison
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  Speaker 1: of unforgiveness. And that's not a good place to be,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not the burdens we should be carrying, right,
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  Speaker 1: we need to learn how to release the burdens today
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  Speaker 1: in the morning Deva. We're gonna try to do that, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: through the word of God, not through what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Through the power of God's words. This to Joanne, I
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  Speaker 1: see you. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the morning Devo. My sister and my friend, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in Collajions, chapter number three, verse number thirteen. Collajans,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verse number thirteen. To get your Bibles ready,
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  Speaker 1: your phone. Amen. So let's go for it. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: pray for After we pray, we shed us out for
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  Speaker 1: be ready and stay ready for the return of the
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  Speaker 1: King of Kings and the Lord of Lords this time.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't noticed, man, we are living in some
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  Speaker 1: perilous times, uncertain times. But we know for sure that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus is coming back soon. We know that, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We could feel it, We could sense it. We see
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  Speaker 1: prophecy being fulfilled in real time right in front of
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  Speaker 1: our eyes. So open up your eyes, watch and pray
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  Speaker 1: and see what's going on on this world, in this world,
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  Speaker 1: on this planet. Amen, But be concerned. We're releasing the
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  Speaker 1: burden forgiving. It's not about excusing the wrongs that were
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  Speaker 1: done to you, the wrongs that were done to me,
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  Speaker 1: But it's about releasing the burdens. Father, I thank you
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  Speaker 1: that you have forgiven us. The most important forgiveness that
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  Speaker 1: we could ever receive is from you, Lord Jesus. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for offering everyone forgiveness. Thank you for demonstrating your
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  Speaker 1: own love and this that while I was still a sinner,
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  Speaker 1: you still die for me, and you die for the
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  Speaker 1: whole world once for all those who will come to you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God asking for forgiveness will be forgiven. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God for your love, your grace, your mercy. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you God for protecting us, guiding us, and positioning us
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  Speaker 1: in a place of a blessing. Thank you, Lord God
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  Speaker 1: for continually strengthening and giving us what we need to
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  Speaker 1: live the holy righteous life on this side of eternity
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  Speaker 1: in preparation for the other side of eternity with you forever.
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  Speaker 1: So I pray Lord God, peace. I pray power of
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  Speaker 1: your word to continue to move us in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that your Holy Spirit will invade and will
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  Speaker 1: engulf and when we have an encounter today right now
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  Speaker 1: with the spirit of God, Holy Spirit, and we will
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  Speaker 1: know that you are the true, living, holy, righteous, loving
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  Speaker 1: God that we've been searching for all our lives. I pray,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God for the fact that you have seen everything
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  Speaker 1: that's happening right now, You've seen it before it happened,
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  Speaker 1: and we trust in you. We'll put obedience in you,
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  Speaker 1: put our praise and trust in you, and we know
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  Speaker 1: that we can move forward knowing that You are with us,
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  Speaker 1: in us and working through us. In Jesus Holy Name,
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  Speaker 1: my prayers. By favoring all those will agree with the prayer,
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  Speaker 1: we say amen to that. Amen. So let's keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: But the one I see you, Good morning, God, bless
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  Speaker 1: you and everyone that's tuning in. Thank you for the blessing.
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  Speaker 1: My bro. It's good to see you on the Morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Sixty seconds. Help me share
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  Speaker 1: this out. When we come back, we'll get right into Collisions,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number three, Verse number thirteen. I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go for it, releasing the burdens today on the
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  Speaker 1: you will miss a beat releasing the burden today on
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  Speaker 1: the morning Devo, let me get this going on the
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  Speaker 1: screen and boom now, Amen, we have it, re leasing
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  Speaker 1: the burden. Amen. And these are some tough times, so
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to hold on to burdens as well
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  Speaker 1: as seeing what's going on in our world and our
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  Speaker 1: nation and our country and our city and our neighborhoods
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  Speaker 1: and our families. Amen, we have that going on. And
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  Speaker 1: then if you have burdens of unforgiveness, if you have
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  Speaker 1: burdens of this world, maybe somebody doesn't want to accept
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  Speaker 1: your apology, maybe somebody doesn't want to apologize, whatever the
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  Speaker 1: case the case may be, we need to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to release those type of burdens or else we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be facing those burdens and facing the things of
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  Speaker 1: everyday life in this world, and we don't need the
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  Speaker 1: extra baggage. I'm pretty sure people will agree with me
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  Speaker 1: on that and say, amen, Collaja, Chapter three, verse thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: bear with each other and forgive one another. If any
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  Speaker 1: of you has a grievance against someone, forgive as the
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  Speaker 1: Lord forgave you. That's interesting. If I don't forgive somebody,
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  Speaker 1: then I'm not grateful that God forgave me. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way I see it, Amen, And not only you know
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  Speaker 1: how people say I'm tolerating this person, I don't really
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  Speaker 1: like this person. Well, that means you're bearing, but taking
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  Speaker 1: a step further. Not only tolerate somebody, listen to somebody's story.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of hurt people hurting people. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things going on that we don't know. So
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  Speaker 1: instead of being judgmental, bear with each other and forgive
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  Speaker 1: one another. If any of you has grievance against someone, right,
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  Speaker 1: there's always gonna be some kind of tension between human beings.
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  Speaker 1: We all have souls, and if your soul is not
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  Speaker 1: saved by the Lord, Amen, you have an unsaved soul,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be carrying a lot of baggage, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of burdens. Amen. I know because I wasn't always saved,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you wasn't always saved. You know how
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  Speaker 1: God came into your heart, into your life and started
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  Speaker 1: releasing you from these burdens and taking away the pain
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  Speaker 1: and showing you a new way and releasing you from
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  Speaker 1: addictions and all that other stuff that the world was
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  Speaker 1: throwing at us and that we were eating it up,
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  Speaker 1: and our flesh was all in control, and we will
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  Speaker 1: bondage to sin. But now when Jesus comes into your heart,
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  Speaker 1: into your life, you're free, and he's helping you release
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  Speaker 1: the burden. He's helping you live a life in freedom
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  Speaker 1: because who the Son sets free is free. Indeed, so
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  Speaker 1: we have what we need and we are following the right, true, holy, righteous,
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  Speaker 1: loving God. Amen. So trust that and believe that God
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  Speaker 1: is helping us to release the burden. Amen, to release
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  Speaker 1: the burden. Very powerful to know that you could live
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  Speaker 1: a life in freedom because God has freed you. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people go around saying I have
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  Speaker 1: to die to myself. Listen, and Jesus dies, so that
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  Speaker 1: way you could live in him, not die in him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: To live is Christ, to die is gained. The scripture
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  Speaker 1: says Jesus wants this whole. He wants to set an
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  Speaker 1: example for the world to see a transformed life a man.
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  Speaker 1: So God to the flesh. The war between the flesh
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  Speaker 1: and spirit is until the Lord Jesus comes back. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's a war. The flesh wants to go one way.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit says, no, go the other way. Who are we
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  Speaker 1: going to give into We're gonna give into the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God and us, or we gonna give into the
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  Speaker 1: flesh that's literally outside of us. Once you're born again,
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  Speaker 1: it's an inside job. God is helping us release the burden.
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  Speaker 1: God is helping us stay free. God is helping our
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  Speaker 1: mind physically, emotionally and spiritually. Thank God is helping us
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  Speaker 1: speak the word that we need to speak over our
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  Speaker 1: lives and into other people's life. God is allowing us
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  Speaker 1: to forgive. God is allowing us to apologize. God is
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  Speaker 1: allowing us to do whatever He wants to do through us.
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  Speaker 1: But we have to be consistent. We have to be kind,
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  Speaker 1: we have to be close, we have to be clean,
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  Speaker 1: we have to be clear, we have to have clarity
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  Speaker 1: a man. All of that that God gives us. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we have it, and we have the Spirit of godless
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  Speaker 1: to that. So that means we have the fruit of
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, which deals with its kindness, right, long suffering,
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  Speaker 1: and peace and self control. All of it because none
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  Speaker 1: of them, I know, I didn't say them all. But
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  Speaker 1: we have it all because Jesus sent us one just
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  Speaker 1: like him to live inside of us, to live with
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  Speaker 1: us on this side of eternity, and to walk with
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  Speaker 1: us day by day. There's not a day that goes
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  Speaker 1: by that Holy Spirit is not in us as believers,
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  Speaker 1: as children of God. I'm not saying the image bearers
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  Speaker 1: of God. Right, we are all image bearers of God,
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  Speaker 1: but only Jesus gives us the right to be called
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  Speaker 1: children of God. It's a big difference, man, So forgive
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  Speaker 1: even if they don't apologize. That's that's a tough pill
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  Speaker 1: to swallow. Like, Man, I'm trying to ask this person
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  Speaker 1: or ask these people to forgive me and they refuse
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  Speaker 1: to apology, they refuse my apologies, or you're saying they
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  Speaker 1: owe me an apology and they refuse to apologize, whatever
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  Speaker 1: the case you might be facing. Amen, forgets. It's not
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  Speaker 1: about excusing them wrong. If it's wrong, it's wrong. If
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  Speaker 1: it's right, it's right. If it's wrong, it will never
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  Speaker 1: be right. If it's right, it would never be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: These are absolute truths. These are things that happen in
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  Speaker 1: our life that we know for sure that happen. We're
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  Speaker 1: not going around doing this escapism or denying everything that's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the world in our lives. No, we're
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  Speaker 1: not excusing them wrong. We're just trying to do what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord asks and requires of us to do. According
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  Speaker 1: to a scripture. We're forgiving people because people are forgiven
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  Speaker 1: by the Lord. I'm forgiven, forgiven by the Lord. You're
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  Speaker 1: forgiven by the Lord if you're asking to forgive you. So, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be arrogant of us to not forgive others, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: even if they don't accept, even if they are the
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  Speaker 1: ones that should be apologizing a man, Let's take the
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  Speaker 1: first step in love and in the word, inspired by
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, to make a move in that direction. Why,
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  Speaker 1: because we know we have the God of Love living
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  Speaker 1: inside of us. Amen. Imagine holding a grudge all your
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  Speaker 1: life and you call yourself a believer, a Christian born again.
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  Speaker 1: You're holding a grudge against somebody for your whole life,
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  Speaker 1: and then when your life is up, you get to
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  Speaker 1: the you know, to the Lord. However that happens, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: How God meets us and he says, what did you
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  Speaker 1: do with that unforgiveness? Did you bring it here? Right?
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a weird conversation. Yeah, God, I didn't forgive.
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  Speaker 1: So the scripture is clear, if you don't forgive, you
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  Speaker 1: will not be forgiven. God forgave us, So we need
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  Speaker 1: to forgive others. Amen. I don't know how more clear
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  Speaker 1: that could be in the scriptures, but it is there, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and we have to deal with it. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: could choose not to deal with it. You could choose
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  Speaker 1: to say, no, I'm not I'm not doing that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not I'm right and they're wrong. I'm not gonna forgive them.
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  Speaker 1: Just think about it, pray about it. Amen. Seek the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures on that, that type of pasture, that type of attitude,
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  Speaker 1: and see what God has to say about that. I
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  Speaker 1: believe we have a indicator right now in Collages chapter three,
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  Speaker 1: verse thirteen, and that we forgive as the Lord has
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  Speaker 1: forgiven us. Amen. So I've been on this for almost
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  Speaker 1: all week. Right forgiveness, being quick to listen, slow to speak,
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  Speaker 1: speak love and truth. Amen. If you have a situation
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  Speaker 1: going on with another person, goes to that person privately first. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I've been on this. God has put this on my heart. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: for my life, for the church, for my relationships, for
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  Speaker 1: my organization that I'm part of, my business everywhere everywhere
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  Speaker 1: I go. I try to keep this in order because
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  Speaker 1: right now there's a lot of chaos going on, and
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  Speaker 1: people are my daughter. Keep saying, are we going to
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  Speaker 1: ahead into World War three? Were Gona? I said, do
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  Speaker 1: you see war around here? Amen? She says no. I said,
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  Speaker 1: so as long as you don't see the war, come
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  Speaker 1: into your grounds, come into your home. Amen, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be at peace. Be at peace a man. We spoke
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  Speaker 1: about peace too, seek peace and unity if possible, find
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  Speaker 1: common ground and agreed to move forward in peace. I
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  Speaker 1: know those wars going on in the Middle East. I
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  Speaker 1: know there's possibilities of us being intact on our home ground.
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  Speaker 1: There's possibilities of riots, all this type of stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: going on. But be in peace. Can you imagine people
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  Speaker 1: of peace showing up to a war. What will happen
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  Speaker 1: some people that are there, You'll be annihilated. They'll do this,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll do that. I think if we go into
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  Speaker 1: the power of God's peace, Amen, ain't nothing going to
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  Speaker 1: happen to us? Only when God allows things to happen
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  Speaker 1: in those ways will they happen. As a child of God, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you need to stand in a posture and believe that
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  Speaker 1: we're protected, guid that guarded. We have an ark we angel,
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  Speaker 1: ministering angel that's assigned to us all through our life, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And one angel, according to the scriptures, can wipe out
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  Speaker 1: a whole nation. There's an angel in the Old Covenant
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  Speaker 1: that God the Father literally had to say, okay, stop,
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  Speaker 1: enough is enough. One angel wiping out a whole nation.
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  Speaker 1: So imagine a trap of angels, Amen, imagine us showing up,
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  Speaker 1: were sending angels to flight by the thousands. What will happen.
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  Speaker 1: But we have to be in peace. We have to
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  Speaker 1: be meek, We have to have that power under control
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  Speaker 1: by way of Holy Spirit and forgive and walking kindness
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  Speaker 1: and peace. When you're kind to somebody, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: blows them away. You ever try that. Just be kind
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  Speaker 1: to somebody today and see what happens. Their eyes a
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  Speaker 1: lot of like, Wow, this person's kind, this person is
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  Speaker 1: actually listening to me, this person's actually valuing me for
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  Speaker 1: the time Amen, that we're spending together. Speak words of
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  Speaker 1: truth and love, kindness, peace, right. Speak words that would unify,
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  Speaker 1: not words that would divide. And see what happens. Your
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  Speaker 1: life will change, the other person's life will change. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And there'll be questions that will have to answer to,
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  Speaker 1: that will be asked that you will have to answer.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna want to know how you live in that
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  Speaker 1: way because this world doesn't offer peace the way the
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  Speaker 1: peace of God offers us the peace. That's why the
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  Speaker 1: scripture says, God gives us the peace that the world
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  Speaker 1: cannot understand, comprehend. They don't understand it. So when you
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  Speaker 1: show peace and love according to how God wants to
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  Speaker 1: show it, people are blown away by that. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: get ready for questions because they'll be like, why are
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  Speaker 1: you that the way you are? Weren't you two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: five years ago, ten years ago a whole different person?
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  Speaker 1: And your answer is yes, I was a whole, entirely
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  Speaker 1: different person and now being transformed. And maybe you could
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  Speaker 1: share your testimony, maybe share a story or how God
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  Speaker 1: change your life from where it used to be to
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  Speaker 1: where you're headed now. Amen, It'll be a beautiful conversation.
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  Speaker 1: If the person is willing to listen, that's the whole
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  Speaker 1: topper to it. If the person is ready to listen,
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  Speaker 1: let God be the judge. Listen. You're not responsible. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not responsible for changing someone's heart. That's the work of
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, that's the word of God, the work of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When I was born again, when God met me where
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  Speaker 1: I was, who was responsible for the transformation God was
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  Speaker 1: and what did he do? He transformed my heart, my
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  Speaker 1: life started thinking differently right away, started speaking differently. Right away.
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  Speaker 1: Old habits were like I was being released from them.
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  Speaker 1: Deliverance happened a whole lot of stuff. And gradually, as
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  Speaker 1: I moved on and continue to grow and grace, I
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  Speaker 1: had to get into this word. Man. If I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in the Word, then I was just having a religious experience.
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  Speaker 1: But I was tired of religious experiences. I had spiritual
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  Speaker 1: experiences before Jesus changed my life. What about you? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: You want the Word of God living and breathing through you.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I always some people apply the word of
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  Speaker 1: God in real time in your life and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Is not your word or my word that's on the line.
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  Speaker 1: Is God's word that's on the line, and He will
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  Speaker 1: fulfill his word through your life. Trust him, obey him,
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  Speaker 1: be courteous, be kind, be in peace with everyone. Forgive
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  Speaker 1: as God forgive you, if God forgive me. Amen, these
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  Speaker 1: are kingdom principles. We're talking kingdom right now. The world's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be like, yeah, okay, that sounds good. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: if you can do it. We can do it without
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. That's the whole purpose of being born again.
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  Speaker 1: You're born again into the spirit. You're born again by
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  Speaker 1: spirit of baptism. You're born again by the word. God
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  Speaker 1: is using you. You're expressing Him, demonstrating Him everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to always get it right, but He
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  Speaker 1: will always get it right. That's the thing. So sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you ever got so angry, said man, I better not
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  Speaker 1: say nothing. That's a good place to be. Let God
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  Speaker 1: speak you. Amen. When you're that angry and you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to say, and you know that they owe
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  Speaker 1: you an apology and they're not given into that, let
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  Speaker 1: the Word speak through you. Amen. Silence is an amazing thing.
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  Speaker 1: Silence is a sign of wisdom on when you're over
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  Speaker 1: there trying to get things done right. Bless you, Dotty, advance,
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  Speaker 1: pay for me. I guess this, Priests, pay for me
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  Speaker 1: and my marriage. Dottie Fortney. Father the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: pray for sister Dotty for a marriage in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever she's facing in her marriage. Lor God, let the
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  Speaker 1: peace of God that transcends all understanding being their marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Let Lord God kindness, Let Lord God forgiveness be there.
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  Speaker 1: Let Lord God, your love, your grace, and your mercy
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  Speaker 1: be evident in her marriage. In Jesus name, we all
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  Speaker 1: say Amen, Amen, welcome to the morning, Devo my friend.
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  Speaker 1: So forgive even if they don't apologize. Be quick to listen,
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  Speaker 1: slow to speak, speak truth and love. When I first
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  Speaker 1: got saved, man, I was just speaking truth. Really no
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  Speaker 1: love in there. It was really judg mental. It was
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  Speaker 1: arrogance right. I was zealous, man. I wanted everybody to
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  Speaker 1: get saved. I started with my family, my friends, and
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  Speaker 1: it was too much. It was too much like I
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  Speaker 1: was literally judging people. But what they didn't know. And
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  Speaker 1: the crazy thing about it is I was once there.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know either. And when people come and preach
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  Speaker 1: the gospel to me, I was like, no, I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need that. So why would I expect the
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  Speaker 1: same people that I used to hang out with, the
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  Speaker 1: same people and my family that didn't know Christ. Why
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  Speaker 1: would I expect them to suddenly get this truth because
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  Speaker 1: I was saying it. No, it had to be the
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  Speaker 1: work of the Holy Spirit. So God took me from
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  Speaker 1: that and he said, listen, sit down under some good teachers.
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  Speaker 1: Sit down under some men of God. That been saved
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  Speaker 1: longer than you've been alive. And he made that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen's set it up. I wasn't looking for it. It happened.
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  Speaker 1: I was working on this job that used to work
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  Speaker 1: and I was in the locker room of one of
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  Speaker 1: the factories that I used to deliver uniforms to and
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  Speaker 1: this older gentleman just came on to me and says,
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  Speaker 1: you look like X Y Z, And like, I said,
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  Speaker 1: what he looks? Tell me? And I said, come on.
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  Speaker 1: We have these weekly men's groups and a diner that
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  Speaker 1: was actually near where I was living. It was an
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  Speaker 1: amazing God set it up, and I said, okay, I'll go.
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  Speaker 1: When I went, there were a whole bunch of older men,
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  Speaker 1: but they were giving me wisdom, understanding. They were giving
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  Speaker 1: me the word amen. And the waitresses knew me. Some
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  Speaker 1: of the waitresses there knew me, and they says, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing hanging out with all these old
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  Speaker 1: old heads. I was like, man, I'm receiving again. Filled up, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting taught by men of God that have been
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  Speaker 1: saved at that point, literally longer than I've been alive.
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  Speaker 1: It was an amazing experience. Man. I thank God for that.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't looking for it, but he knew what I
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  Speaker 1: needed and then left. I learned and I calm myself down.
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  Speaker 1: I started preaching differently. I started evangelizing differently. I started
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  Speaker 1: sharing my testimony differently. It had to deal with more
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  Speaker 1: of kindness, more of peace, more of love, not more
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  Speaker 1: of pointing fingers and telling people either you don't, either
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  Speaker 1: you turn or you burn, or either you receive Jesus
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  Speaker 1: or you're going to hell. Like that's truth, but that's
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  Speaker 1: not love. We need to be in truth and love. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So going back to forgive as the Lord forgave you,
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  Speaker 1: just think about that. I know I've I'm married over
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  Speaker 1: twenty six years. We've had arguments. I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people want to water it down and say we
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  Speaker 1: have intense conversations. Whatever the case may be. Me and
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  Speaker 1: my wife had argues, arguments, Amen. And if we approach
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  Speaker 1: it in a way that I'm wrong all the time
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  Speaker 1: that or she's wrong all the time, that's not gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: We're not excusing them wrong. We're just bearing with one another,
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  Speaker 1: right according to the scriptures. Let me get there again.
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  Speaker 1: Bear with each other. We're bearing with each other. We're
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  Speaker 1: forgiving each other. Right, if we have anything against each other,
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  Speaker 1: why because we know that God Jesus has forgiven us.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way around it. Man, I could be one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent right. And if I don't have the attitude
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  Speaker 1: of forgiveness, I'm just I'm in my feelings, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: my flesh, and that's not a good place to be.
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  Speaker 1: And man, I want to be able to release the
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  Speaker 1: burdens of unforgiveness. What about you. We can't do this alone.
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  Speaker 1: We can't do it without the power of God. You
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  Speaker 1: might have one hundred reasons why you're not gonna apologize.
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  Speaker 1: You might have a hundred reasons of why you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna forgive that person in your life, or that person
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  Speaker 1: that wronged you, or that relative maybe back in the
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  Speaker 1: day that did you a wrong. Right, A lot of
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: people are dealing with a lot of stuff. It's called
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  Speaker 1: baggage and burdens that we're carrying. And we're not meant
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  Speaker 1: to carry that any longer. And then we have enough
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  Speaker 1: going on, right, We have bills that pay, we have
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  Speaker 1: families to feed, we have work, we have the issues
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  Speaker 1: in our minds daily. Right, we have wars going on
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  Speaker 1: in the world, don't worry, though. The Bibles literally tell us,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry, don't be anxious boy anything, or worry about anything,
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  Speaker 1: but pray about everything. So we have what we need.
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  Speaker 1: And man, so I hope I'm being a source of encouragement.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to take anybody's burden lightly. I know
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. I got a lot going on, right,
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  Speaker 1: you got a lot going on. But together with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, God living through us and allowing
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  Speaker 1: him to speak through us, allowing him to teach us
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  Speaker 1: and guide us into all truth, we're not gonna lose.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna win. And it's gonna be opposite of what
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  Speaker 1: the world's gonna tell us. They were like, if that
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  Speaker 1: person did you dirty, You do that person dirty? That
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  Speaker 1: person cheating on you, You cheating on that person. If
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  Speaker 1: that person stole from you, you steal from them. The
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  Speaker 1: world says, eye for an eye. They're still trapped in
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  Speaker 1: the old ways of the law. Amen, and they think
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  Speaker 1: they're justified by being that way. Right, But God says,
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  Speaker 1: through the Lord Jesus, Jesus would tell the Pharisees of
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  Speaker 1: his time, the religious people of his time, you heard
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  Speaker 1: it said this way but I say boom. So we
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  Speaker 1: have the fulfillment of the prophecies. We have the fulfillment
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  Speaker 1: of the law. The Lord Jesus living inside of us,
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  Speaker 1: his children, his body. Amen, by way of Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And Holy Spirit moves differently than the way the world moves.
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  Speaker 1: There's the spirit of this age, and the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is a father of lies and is a
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  Speaker 1: father of truth. Amen. It's all going on on one time.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not careful. We're going to try to battle
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  Speaker 1: all the burdens on our own, carry the burdens all
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  Speaker 1: the time. We need to release the burdens. God wants
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  Speaker 1: us to release these burdens of unforgiveness. He wants us
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  Speaker 1: to be kind, gentle, He wants us to be listeners. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we need to be quick to listen, slow to speak,
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  Speaker 1: we need slow to anger. Amen, all of it. You
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  Speaker 1: got to be like man. That's a lot. Well. With God,
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  Speaker 1: all things are possible. Without him, nothing's possible. We have
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  Speaker 1: his spirit, so let's shine his spirit. The Bible actually
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  Speaker 1: says that we're the hope of glory. The hope of
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  Speaker 1: this world is found in the believers in this world.
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  Speaker 1: We're in this world. We're just not of this world. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm out of time. Hope you're encourage man forgive
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  Speaker 1: even if they don't apologize. Why Because God forgave us,
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  Speaker 1: so we know how it feels to be forgiven. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: So we should know how to forgive. That's all I'm saying. Claus.
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  Speaker 1: In chapter three, we camp down to verse thirteen. We
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  Speaker 1: the whole chapter for yourself, and see what God has
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  Speaker 1: for you and how He's gonna speak that word to
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  Speaker 1: you as well. So God bless you all, God keep
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  Speaker 1: you all, and remember always I've got is good peace