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Authentic Imitationology #110 [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning family, Good morning God blessed you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. It's Friday, so you already know
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  Speaker 1: authentic imitationology this episode one hundred and ten Wow, and
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  Speaker 1: today from the time of this recording, Amen, it's Valentine's Day,
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  Speaker 1: So I figured let's stay with the theme of Valentine's
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  Speaker 1: all right. They may not even get too deep into
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's their history behind it, or anything like that, but
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  Speaker 1: I do have a question about Valentine's Would Jesus, our
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  Speaker 1: Lord celebrate Valentine's Day? They may not know it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like weird or people are like, oh, here he is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's to me, it's a question, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not afraid to ask it, and hope you're
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  Speaker 1: not afraid to ask it either, Amen. So we're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna explore that question, explore that question, Amen, through the
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  Speaker 1: lens of scripture, and try to authentically imitate a most
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  Speaker 1: successful person who has ever lived on this whole entire planet,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus. Amen, So would Jesus celebrate Valentine's Day?
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  Speaker 1: Is Valentine's Day just another commercial holiday or is there
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  Speaker 1: a deeper meaning? For Christians? We would be in Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty two, verses thirty seven to thirty nine. Matthew
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, thirty seven to thirty nine, Amen, on today's
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  Speaker 1: morning Devo authentic immentationalogy style. So 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 exactly what we're here for, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And we are here to just celebrate you, Amen, celebrate
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and to get into his word as we move
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  Speaker 1: forward in victory. Man, we walk in victory when we
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  Speaker 1: have God leading us through Holy Spirit. That's an amazing thing,
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  Speaker 1: an amazing fact, an amazing way to live your life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go forward. We're gonna pray first. After we pray,
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  Speaker 1: we'll share this out for like sixty seconds, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll get it into Would Jesus celebrate Valentine's Day according
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  Speaker 1: to the scriptures? Amen? Because we know that God is
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  Speaker 1: love right, and Jesus is God. So what does God
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  Speaker 1: have to say about love? Because I know Valentine's speaks
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  Speaker 1: a lot about love. You know that speaks a lot
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  Speaker 1: about love, But it's a different type of love that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is expressing through the scripture we're gonna read today. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: So let's pray. Father. I thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to share another day with you, to share
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  Speaker 1: your word, to be impacted by your word, to read
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  Speaker 1: your word, to apply your word, to see your word
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  Speaker 1: and action, to see your word perform what your word
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  Speaker 1: was intended to perform. For every single individual listening or
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  Speaker 1: watching right now. In Jesus Holy Name, I pray love, God, life.
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  Speaker 1: I pray lo God, Love, read them hope. I pray
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus that those who are not putting their faith,
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  Speaker 1: hope and trust in You will realize that they're missing
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  Speaker 1: something in their life and that they will make a
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  Speaker 1: decision today if they're looking for love, searching for love
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  Speaker 1: through holidays, through Valentine's through whatever situation they're searching for love,
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  Speaker 1: for love through. I pray Lord God, you reveal yourself
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  Speaker 1: to them because you are Love God. I pray Lord
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  Speaker 1: God for a hedge of protection over myself, my family,
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  Speaker 1: my wife, our children, our grandchildren, both our relatives, on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of our families. I pray that also for
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  Speaker 1: every single person on the other side of his screen
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  Speaker 1: and on the other side of this mic that you
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  Speaker 1: would guide, guard and protect them as well. And I pray,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God that we would realize who you are, what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, and what love truly is in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 1: I pray it's my faithor those who agree, we say
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  Speaker 1: amen to the Amen. Let's go forward. Help me share
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  Speaker 1: this out sixty seconds. When we come back, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: right into today more than people. I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 1: H h h wow. A lot of groups I share
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  Speaker 1: to when we're back. When Jesus celebrate Valentine's Day, You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's an appropriate question for today, being that
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  Speaker 1: as Valentine's Day, Shout outs to all the married couples
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  Speaker 1: that celebrate Valentine's for all the couples out there that
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  Speaker 1: are trying to honor God with your relationship. Shout to
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  Speaker 1: all those who are on the quest of celibacy. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you pray for those people who are waiting, Amen for
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  Speaker 1: the right person to marry and all that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are trying to honor God with their bodies physically, emotionally,
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  Speaker 1: and spiritually. And I thank God for people like that.
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  Speaker 1: That gives us hope of an example of how we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be different and how we're supposed to live
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  Speaker 1: as believers. Amen. And this sex crazed society that we're
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  Speaker 1: living in. So we actually have people who are on
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  Speaker 1: journeys to be so minded and to wait and to
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  Speaker 1: know that love only comes true, love only comes from
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Amen. And God will reward people like that
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  Speaker 1: for waiting. Amen. Hold on sight. God will reward you,
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  Speaker 1: and you will be so satisfied by who God sends
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  Speaker 1: you if that's the will of God and purpose of
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  Speaker 1: God in your life to be married, and it'll be
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  Speaker 1: worth the wait. I'm just gonna put it like that.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go for Let's see what the Word has
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  Speaker 1: for us today according to this question. Man, I said,
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  Speaker 1: let me just put it out there and see what happens,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know. I don't even I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I heard this question phrased like this before or not.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I did. Maybe I'm just on some kind of bandwagon,
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  Speaker 1: I guess because it's Valentine's But I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate question. Let's see what the Word has aymen. So again,
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  Speaker 1: it's authentic imitationlogy and Fridays we try to switch gears
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  Speaker 1: to that would Jesus celebrate Valentine's Day well Matthew twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven thirty nine. Jesus speaking, he says, you shall
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  Speaker 1: love the Lord your God with all your heart and
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  Speaker 1: with all your soul, and with all your mind. See
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  Speaker 1: that who is supposed to be loving or who should
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  Speaker 1: we be loving? Loving the Lord, the Lord your God,
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  Speaker 1: with all everything your heart, soul, and with your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You could cross reference to scripture, but Jesus is quoting
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  Speaker 1: from Deuteronomy, chapter six, verse five. This is the most
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  Speaker 1: important law right, And this is what they were asking Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: what is the most important law? And Jesus said, love
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  Speaker 1: the Lord with everything that you have. Jesus said, this
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  Speaker 1: is the first and greatest commandment. Do you think God
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  Speaker 1: has a focus on love? What do you think to
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  Speaker 1: the scripture? Honestly, this is the first and greatest commandment,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. The second is like it. You shall love
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor as yourself, that is, unselfishly, seek the best
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  Speaker 1: or higher good for others. And of course the references
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  Speaker 1: are Leviticus nineteen eighteen and Matthew nineteen nineteen. Incredible statement
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  Speaker 1: that the law said, He's the completion of yahweh. He's
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  Speaker 1: the completion of the law. He's the completion of love. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: What a statement. This cuts right through our societies, cuts
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  Speaker 1: right through the culture. This custs right through the normal
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  Speaker 1: way of thinking about love. Love the Lord, your God,
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  Speaker 1: with all your heart and with all your soul and
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  Speaker 1: with all your mind. How about that. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful way of looking at it, especially on the
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  Speaker 1: day of Romance, of a day of erotica love for
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  Speaker 1: Layo love story, gay love. Amen, we have true love
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  Speaker 1: found in the Lord. That should be excited to some people,
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  Speaker 1: because I know a lot of people are love and
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  Speaker 1: you might be looking for love and all the wrong places.
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  Speaker 1: You heard that before, right, And it's true. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you seeking love from or from where are you thinking
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  Speaker 1: love comes from? I should say. Some people think they're
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  Speaker 1: going to find love on social media or by reading
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  Speaker 1: books or by going through dating apps. It's possible. The
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  Speaker 1: dating apps is possible. I know people who have actually
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  Speaker 1: gotten married through dating apps, and I know it's a
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  Speaker 1: small percentage of that happening and it really coming to fruition.
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  Speaker 1: But the people that I know that went through dating
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  Speaker 1: apps that got married are born again believers. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: they trusted the Lord all through the process found the
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  Speaker 1: right one. Amen, And they both served the Lord. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a little different. They have the advantage. You have
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  Speaker 1: the advantage if you're born again as well. But what
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  Speaker 1: would Jesus do on Valentine's Day? Get to my notes
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  Speaker 1: before I get into more trouble here, amen, Because I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking something, I said, Nah, I better not better
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  Speaker 1: not say that. Let me just listen to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and be focused. Bible doesn't specifically this is it. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible doesn't specifically say or mentioned Valentine's Day. You know that, right.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible doesn't mention Valentine's Day. Sister Nils, I see you,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, God bless you as well. Happy Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 1: We can't consider the principles of love though that we
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  Speaker 1: just read in Matthew. Those are the principles love the most,
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  Speaker 1: the great The first and greatest commandment is to love
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  Speaker 1: our God with everything everything, heart, mind, body, soul. And
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  Speaker 1: the second is like the first, love your neighbor as
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  Speaker 1: you love yourself. So yes, the focus today is on love,
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  Speaker 1: godly love. Right, you put that first in your life,
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  Speaker 1: and then when you are in a relationship a loving relationship.
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  Speaker 1: You will know how to place where to put your heart. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Put your heart first in God and then He'll handle
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  Speaker 1: the rest. So Jesus emphasized love as central as a
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  Speaker 1: central theme of his teachings. Taught us to love God,
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  Speaker 1: he taught us to love others. I know it sounds basic,
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  Speaker 1: but think about how powerful that type of love is.
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  Speaker 1: When you're walking and that type of love. Amen, people
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  Speaker 1: say there's something different about that person, the way he loves,
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  Speaker 1: the way she loves. Yes, because we have the love
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  Speaker 1: of God living inside of us. So this love is
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  Speaker 1: not just a romantic love, not just erotica love. This
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  Speaker 1: love really has all types of love, different types of love,
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  Speaker 1: including love for friends, love for family, love for your children,
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  Speaker 1: right is a different type of love, and even love
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  Speaker 1: for your enemies. And Christians we are on that because
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  Speaker 1: we're different. We're supposed to be different, so we even
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  Speaker 1: love our enemies. Matthew five forty four is the quote
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  Speaker 1: if you want to look at it for yourself. But
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  Speaker 1: the friend, good morning, God, bless you and your family
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  Speaker 1: and everyone they on a devo. Thank you for your blessing,
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  Speaker 1: my friend and my bro thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: coming through now we know that the Lord demonstrated a
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  Speaker 1: different love. He demonstrated his own love. Boba says in
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  Speaker 1: Romans that even while we were haters of God, he
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  Speaker 1: still loved us and died for us. That's an incredible love.
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  Speaker 1: That's the next level love. People might not see that
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  Speaker 1: as love. They might see that as just a sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a sacrificial love. He demonstrated his own love,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible is specific his own love, not the
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  Speaker 1: love that we love. His own love God is love, kindness, selflessness. Right,
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  Speaker 1: he lay down his life for us, which is the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate expression of love. If you really think about it,
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  Speaker 1: there's no greater love than this. That someone will lay
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  Speaker 1: down a life for a friend, that you will lay
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  Speaker 1: your life down for a friend, that I will lay
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  Speaker 1: my life down for a friend. But Jesus laid his
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  Speaker 1: life down for all humanity. That's the ultimate demonstration of love.
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  Speaker 1: So celebrating love in any form is all good, right,
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  Speaker 1: including on Valentine's Day. You could use Valentine's Day and
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  Speaker 1: reflect the love of God, the love of God, the
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  Speaker 1: love of God that Jesus showed us. You could do
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  Speaker 1: that a man. Now, I'm not saying a go crucify
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  Speaker 1: yourself on a tree or on a cross. But I
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  Speaker 1: am saying that we have the demonstration. So having that
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  Speaker 1: in your mind when you go and show love to
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  Speaker 1: your loved ones. Amen, having the sacrifice with the Lord
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  Speaker 1: on your mind will really make you walk humbly. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you will walk different, you will talk different. You would
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  Speaker 1: be humble about your life. You will be listening more,
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  Speaker 1: and what you speak will be lifting people up, not
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  Speaker 1: beating people down, because now you're focused on the love
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  Speaker 1: of God through the demonstration of Jesus. So in essence, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus probably would not have Celebratedalalentine's Day the way we
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  Speaker 1: celebrate Valentine's Day, but the principles of love and kindness
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice that aligns with its teachings. If you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Cupid aligning with the Lord's teachings. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the love that people try to express from
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  Speaker 1: one another, flowers, gift giving, taking your special person out right,
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  Speaker 1: celebrating them, encouraging them, hugging them, telling them that you
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  Speaker 1: love them. It aligns with the principles. It aligns with
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  Speaker 1: the teachings of Jesus. If you think about it because
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  Speaker 1: when not being selfish, when I'm saying, oh, Valentine's is
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  Speaker 1: all about me, no, you're actually saying Valentine's is all
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  Speaker 1: about us. It's all about you, your family, your wife,
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  Speaker 1: your husband, your children, your grandchildren, your grandparents if they're
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  Speaker 1: still here. Amen. You could show love on Valentine's Day
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  Speaker 1: in a different way, if you have a different perspective.
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  Speaker 1: The world will do it the way the world does it.
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  Speaker 1: A man, we're not here to judge the world. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: didn't even come here to judge the world or condemn
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  Speaker 1: the world. He came to save the world by demonstrating
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  Speaker 1: his own love. That we could demonstrate God's love through
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  Speaker 1: us because we have Holy Spirit living the love of
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  Speaker 1: life living inside of us. Amen. So we have a
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  Speaker 1: good advantage of how to share a Valentine's celebration. So
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  Speaker 1: although it doesn't seem like Jesus would have celebrated Valentine's
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  Speaker 1: the way we celebrate Valentine's, but he could use this day,
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  Speaker 1: and we could use this day to align ourselves with
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  Speaker 1: the teachings and principles of God through our kindness, through
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  Speaker 1: our love, through our emotions towards one another. So as believers.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead. You could use it on Valentine's You could
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  Speaker 1: use this occasion to express love. Why not express love
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  Speaker 1: gratitude to those around us, reflecting the love of Christ
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  Speaker 1: in our relationships. Don't keep them out, Amen, don't keep
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  Speaker 1: them out animalist Amo, Yeah, listen, we could love right
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  Speaker 1: the way Jesus loves how by imitating him, imitating the
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  Speaker 1: most loving person that has ever lived on his planet, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at his life, you notice that in
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  Speaker 1: every situation he was in, apart from the times that
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  Speaker 1: he was facing the religious leaders of his time, the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees and Sadducees, because they thought they had it all
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  Speaker 1: figured out. They were real prideful, arrogant. Some of them
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  Speaker 1: came to the Lord because some of them were on
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  Speaker 1: the side, had conversations with the Lord. Amen. There's clues
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  Speaker 1: of that through the gospels. But he would speak to
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  Speaker 1: them differently, that he would speak to someone that was
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  Speaker 1: and sin, like the woman who was caught in the
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  Speaker 1: act of adultery. She was caught, and when it all
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  Speaker 1: was said and done, when Jesus said, okay, whoever is
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  Speaker 1: without sin, cast the first stone, because they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: stone her. According to the law, levitical law, the law
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  Speaker 1: of Moses. This woman was supposed to be stolen. So
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  Speaker 1: many questions pop up when I read that story in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures. That where was the guy who was with
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  Speaker 1: her in the adultery? That's number one. Number two, if
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  Speaker 1: they caught her in the act of adultrey, that means
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  Speaker 1: they were watching. Number three. No one in that crowd
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  Speaker 1: who was accusing this woman of adultery was without sin.
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  Speaker 1: So long story short, they dropped their rocks, from the
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  Speaker 1: oldest to the youngest, youngest of the oldest, of the age,
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  Speaker 1: whatever age they was, they dropped their rocks and left.
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  Speaker 1: And then when the smoke settled, when the smoke cleared
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  Speaker 1: and the dust cleared, they were all out of there.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus asks the woman, women, where are your accusers? Or daughter?
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  Speaker 1: Where are your accusers? Child? Where are your accusers? She
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  Speaker 1: looked around. I don't know. They're not around. Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: the only one without sin. He could have stoned her,
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  Speaker 1: but instead he showed the love grace, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: neither do I condemn you. Jesus says, go and sin
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  Speaker 1: no more. In other words, don't do that anymore, don't
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  Speaker 1: commit that adulter anymore. For whatever reason she was an
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  Speaker 1: adulterous where whatever reason she was caught up in that lifestyle,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus still showed love. We could demonstrate that love right now.
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  Speaker 1: So someone who is outside of the Kingdom, who thinks
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  Speaker 1: that we will never pay attention to them because of
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  Speaker 1: the way they're living, we could show love to them
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  Speaker 1: right now. We could use Valentine's Day as a way
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  Speaker 1: to share the gospel. We could be strategic as believers
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  Speaker 1: and share occasions like this that have to deal with love.
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  Speaker 1: Right the way the world sees love and the way
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God sees love, it's different, I admit,
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  Speaker 1: but we could still get in there with the conversation
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  Speaker 1: a man about love. And once we speak about love
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  Speaker 1: and we know who love is, love is a person,
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  Speaker 1: God is love. That we could come from an angle
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people probably have never thought about
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  Speaker 1: or considered the love of God in their lives, not
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  Speaker 1: just in our lives, because we're not selfish people. With
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  Speaker 1: selfless we're sharing the demonstration of God's love that's working
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  Speaker 1: out through us. It should be oozing through us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the love of God. So although you might not celebrate
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  Speaker 1: Valentines at all, or maybe you do celebrate Valentine's Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're celebrating Valentine's the way the world celebrates it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case is, God demonstrates his love through his children,
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  Speaker 1: and we have an opportunity to celebrate Valentines in a
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  Speaker 1: different perspective. We were a Matthew, Chapter number twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: Verses thirty seven and thirty nine. The greatest commandment is
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  Speaker 1: actually love love God with everything we have, and then
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  Speaker 1: love your neighbor as we love ourselves. So this is
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  Speaker 1: between a relationship with children and the father. And because
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  Speaker 1: of that relationship, now we know how to love our neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: our fellow citizens here on planet Earth. Good morning, since
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  Speaker 1: joy us, Good morning God, bless you, and thank you
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  Speaker 1: for blessing the group as well. It's good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: So we have an opportunity here a man. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I ask the question. And some people might call it clickbait.
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  Speaker 1: It's that clickbait to me, I think it's amate a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate question. Would Jesus celebrate Valentine's Day? And of course
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, like I said earlier, doesn't specifically talk about
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  Speaker 1: Valentine's and I don't really think Jesus would celebrate Valentine's
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  Speaker 1: the way we celebrate Valentine's here on America or from
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  Speaker 1: wherever country celebrate Valentine's. But he would definitely bring up
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  Speaker 1: the principles of love, because that's right up his alley.
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  Speaker 1: He is love. God is love. He demonstrated his own love.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what love is all about. A man he
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  Speaker 1: laid down his life for us, even when we were
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  Speaker 1: haters of God. He still laid down his life for us,
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  Speaker 1: offering us forgiveness, eternal life in exchange. What do we
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  Speaker 1: have to do? What is our part to play? Give
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  Speaker 1: him the glory, honor, worship, and praise. He deserves it all,
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  Speaker 1: and love him with everything we have. Listen, if you
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  Speaker 1: could have put your focus on a person before God,
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  Speaker 1: you're in idolatry, our relationship before God, idolatry your children
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  Speaker 1: before God, idolatry yourself before God, idolatry astrology before God.
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  Speaker 1: You're an idolatry, idolatry Valentine's before God as a move
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  Speaker 1: of love, you're an idolatry. So come out of that
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  Speaker 1: idolatry and come into the love of God, where you
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  Speaker 1: will sense God's presence. You would know his love, you
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  Speaker 1: would know that he's good, you would know that his
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  Speaker 1: presence is more than enough. I know there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of single people out there that are kind of like
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  Speaker 1: maybe confused about these type of occasions, these type of holidays.
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  Speaker 1: But if you trust God, look at the way he
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  Speaker 1: loves a man. I think that would satisfy your soul.
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  Speaker 1: It will satisfy your way of thinking. Amen. And if
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  Speaker 1: you focus on the love of God, any other love
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  Speaker 1: won't compare and any other love won't do. But I
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  Speaker 1: pray for all the single people out there that you
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  Speaker 1: will find the person that God has set for you
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  Speaker 1: in life if he wants you, if that's the will
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  Speaker 1: of God over your life to be married, go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and trust God with your searching because he knows exactly
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  Speaker 1: who he wants you to connect with. And thank God
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  Speaker 1: he gave me the one to connect with for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of my life as well. So I'm out of here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of time. Happy Valentine's Day. Read Matthew chapter
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  Speaker 1: number twenty two, the whole chapter. Amen. Remind us I
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  Speaker 1: referenced some other scriptures as well, But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a legitimate question a man. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people won't agree, but it's all right.
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  Speaker 1: We went through the scripture. Is most important thing a man,
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  Speaker 1: More important than the question that I asked. So God
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  Speaker 1: bless you all. Got to keep you all and remember
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  Speaker 1: always that God is good. Peace,