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What is a Man Of God? · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: There's ten thousand times more going on inside the head
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  Speaker 1: of a man than you have any idea. He's carrying
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  Speaker 1: burdens that you don't have a clue about, and he
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to express him, and he don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to do about it. And he figures if he
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  Speaker 1: puts it out there and communicates it, he's just going
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  Speaker 1: to be shot down, called a full called wheat. So
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  Speaker 1: he carries inside and you have no clue the burdens
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  Speaker 1: and the hell that most men are carrying inside and
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  Speaker 1: not even showing you.
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  Speaker 2: There is a headship in the family, and I am
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  Speaker 2: to be the head of my home. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: that I everything revolves around me. My headship serves one
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  Speaker 2: purpose that I lead my home for the benefit of
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  Speaker 2: my wife and children, no matter how costly it is
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  Speaker 2: to me. My headship is sacrificial. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: things about being a true man, if we look at
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  Speaker 2: the model of Christ, it is self giving and self sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: It's always look at what Christ did. He gave himself
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  Speaker 2: and gave himself, and gave himself until there was nothing
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  Speaker 2: left to give. That is my responsibility to my wife
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  Speaker 2: and my children. Also, I think that young men need
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  Speaker 2: to grow in character number one, and the primary characteristic
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  Speaker 2: should be love, which is self giving. This is not
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  Speaker 2: about me. If I would say the greatest cause of
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  Speaker 2: weakness among young men today is self absorption instead of
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  Speaker 2: sacrificial love and service, serving giving, and stop looking in
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  Speaker 2: the mirror and stop being self absorbed self giving.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that very strongly.
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  Speaker 3: I believe.
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  Speaker 1: I believe if you spend your whole life to yourself
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  Speaker 1: for yourself, you have no purpose.
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  Speaker 4: Of being here.
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  Speaker 1: This planet is not in any way better for you
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  Speaker 1: having been here. That's what a good man is to me.
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  Speaker 1: I think we are. I think a real man is
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  Speaker 1: born to serve, and serve means provide for those that
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  Speaker 1: are in your sphere of you. To provide for it
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  Speaker 1: means to protect. It means to encourage. It means to
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  Speaker 1: teach and to train whatever's necessary to make the world
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  Speaker 1: a little better because he passed through. And that's how
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  Speaker 1: I'll approach life, is that when people come across my path,
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  Speaker 1: I try to leave their life a little better than
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  Speaker 1: when I found it.
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  Speaker 3: Being a godly man means that you give and you serve,
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  Speaker 3: and you sacrifice, and you provide, and you protect and
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  Speaker 3: you take responsibility for the good of those other people
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  Speaker 3: that are living.
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  Speaker 5: In your house.
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  Speaker 3: That's what godly men do. So, man, that's what I
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  Speaker 3: want to challenge you to do.
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  Speaker 6: To love Jesus more than anything.
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  Speaker 3: Else in life. To love your wife.
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  Speaker 6: Like Jesus loved his church, and you give yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Up for that woman, no matter what it means.
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  Speaker 6: You give your life over to deciphering those kids and
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  Speaker 6: pouring your lives into them and showing them what it
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  Speaker 6: means to follow your Lord and Savior. And if you
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  Speaker 6: will do that, there is a great probability that all
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  Speaker 6: those people in your house are going to follow you.
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  Speaker 6: Be godly men.
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  Speaker 3: Boys are what society off It says, are men. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Boys are all about them, their pride, their ego, their influence,
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  Speaker 3: their power, their money, and it's just selfishness, pure selfishness.
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  Speaker 3: And so life is still all about you. I would
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  Speaker 3: say you need to grow out of boyhood and embrace manhood.
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  Speaker 7: This is Jefferson Bethkey. This is what differentiates boys from men.
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  Speaker 7: Boys are ruled by their passions, lusts, dreams, people's praise
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  Speaker 7: or critique, money, and so on. Becoming a man requires
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  Speaker 7: developing mastery over those things by channeling their energy towards
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  Speaker 7: a specific focus that doesn't destroy but produces. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 7: is the day diference between boys and men. Boys use
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  Speaker 7: their strength, use their vibrancy for themselves. They don't work
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  Speaker 7: to cultivate. They don't work to shape and mold and
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  Speaker 7: build something that doesn't in the end destroy, But they
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  Speaker 7: build actually that which brings life. So that's work it.
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  Speaker 7: Jeff Cook says it this way. The more I make
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  Speaker 7: my life, my well being, my enlightenment, and my success primary,
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  Speaker 7: the farther I step from reality. Thus, the hell bound
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  Speaker 7: do not travel downward. They travel inward, cocooning themselves behind
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  Speaker 7: a mass of vanity, personal rights, religiosity, and defensiveness. Listen,
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  Speaker 7: obsession with self is the defining mark of a disintegrating soul. Brothers,
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  Speaker 7: I'm trying to call you out of this.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus was a man's man.
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  Speaker 5: Jesus was a man that understood that I'm here not
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  Speaker 5: just for my own good. Men were created not to
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  Speaker 5: be consumers, but to be people that bring provision, protection,
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  Speaker 5: all of these things, all these things that are good.
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  Speaker 5: And what you have is a new generation of people
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  Speaker 5: that they just look to take take what's.
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  Speaker 3: In it for me. Can I have more?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 5: They're born to be a blessing to the world, born
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  Speaker 5: to be a resource to people, to empower them to
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  Speaker 5: build something great for God.
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  Speaker 7: That you can be a.
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  Speaker 5: Blessing to the world around you as we look at
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  Speaker 5: God's word, The Bible says this. I want you to
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  Speaker 5: see this scripture. In one Corinthian sixteen, it says, be alert,
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  Speaker 5: stand firm in the faith. I like this verse it says,
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  Speaker 5: I act like a man. Be strong. Your every action
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  Speaker 5: must be done with love. But when you do things
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  Speaker 5: in your family, you do it with love. You need
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  Speaker 5: to do it in love.
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  Speaker 9: And oftentimes we kind of have paid Jesus in this
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  Speaker 9: sort of like effeminine way. But Jesus was a man
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  Speaker 9: in all the best ways. Jesus was kind with broken
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  Speaker 9: and hurting people, and he was aggressive with unholy spirits.
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  Speaker 9: We have a tendency to flip it. We have a
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  Speaker 9: tendency to be aggressive with people who need our kindness,
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  Speaker 9: and we're overly accommodating to unholy spirits. And you need
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  Speaker 9: to be aggressive with unholy spirits and kind and tender
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  Speaker 9: towards your wife and your children and the people that
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  Speaker 9: are around you. Jesus, what the kind of man women
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  Speaker 9: felt safe around. Jesus is the ultimate man, the image
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  Speaker 9: of God, and as men, we can be confident that
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  Speaker 9: his version of masculinity is the one and the only
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  Speaker 9: one that we should emulate. Now, I'm saying this to
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  Speaker 9: somebody right now. So for the guy who feels like
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  Speaker 9: less than a man, you can still be God's man,
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  Speaker 9: tough and tender, strong and sensitive, loving and leading, faithful
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  Speaker 9: to Jesus and those in your life. Here's how I
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  Speaker 9: would say it is.
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  Speaker 8: I would just simply say that a real man is
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  Speaker 8: strength submitted under his control, strength submitted under the lordship
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  Speaker 8: of King Jesus.
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  Speaker 5: Men, it's not about willpower, natural willpower, natural strength. It's
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  Speaker 5: about being a man of God that knows how to pray.
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  Speaker 5: It's about being a man that's going to lead your
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  Speaker 5: family with folded hens into the things of God, to say, God,
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  Speaker 5: I have a reliance on you, that you have a
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  Speaker 5: responsibility to pray and seek him.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 5: In John fifteen, Jesus said like this, He said, remain
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  Speaker 5: in me, and I will remain in you.
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  Speaker 3: And if you remain in me, what did he say?
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  Speaker 4: He said, you'll bear much fruit.
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  Speaker 3: According to the scriptures.
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  Speaker 4: When God came up with the idea of you and
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  Speaker 4: made you a man, he called you to be a prophet,
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  Speaker 4: a priest, a serviant king, a provider, and a protector.
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  Speaker 3: And no man should ever.
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  Speaker 4: Apologize for a God's idea when he came up with
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  Speaker 4: the idea of you, and anybody that calls manhood toxic
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  Speaker 4: has no understanding of who God is and what he
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  Speaker 4: created us to be. And an attack on gender is
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  Speaker 4: an attack on the character and nature of God. But
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  Speaker 4: the reality is is that regardless of what our culture
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  Speaker 4: says about manhood, God has called us to be a man.
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  Speaker 4: You want to stand firm and act like men. It
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  Speaker 4: begins by bending your knee to Jesus and saying, I
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  Speaker 4: can't do it without you. The three most dangerous words
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  Speaker 4: of grown can say is I got this, Because the
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  Speaker 4: beginning of the Gospel is bro we ain't got this.
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  Speaker 4: We need someone to do for us. What we cannot
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  Speaker 4: do for ourselves.
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  Speaker 10: Is that courageous men don't bend to culture but to
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  Speaker 10: God's word. Courageous men never bend to culture, but to
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  Speaker 10: God's word. Let me make you a promise. Let me
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  Speaker 10: make you a promise as a Christian man. Over time,
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  Speaker 10: this culture will try to get you to bend away
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  Speaker 10: from God's word into doing what our world wants. We
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  Speaker 10: need more courageous, godly men that don't bend to culture.
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  Speaker 10: They bend to God's word. They have developed such a
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  Speaker 10: habit of prayer that no matter what comes their way,
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  Speaker 10: they are grounded in their faith, and that even when
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  Speaker 10: they feel fear, they saddle up and they keep stepping forward.
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  Speaker 5: There has been this tearing down of the family that
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  Speaker 5: if the enemy can tear down the core of what
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  Speaker 5: a family is meant to be, then it will cause
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  Speaker 5: destruction to come.
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  Speaker 6: Upon a land.
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  Speaker 5: If you're not going to stand up and take the
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  Speaker 5: god given authority that God has placed on your life
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  Speaker 5: and to lead people in love, the devil will be
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  Speaker 5: happy to do it for you.
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  Speaker 1: This country is only as strong as the churches. The
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  Speaker 1: churches are only as strong as the families that make
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  Speaker 1: up those churches. Those families are only as strong as
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  Speaker 1: a marriage is that those families are built on, And
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  Speaker 1: those marriages are only as strong and good as the
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  Speaker 1: man that God built the marriages on. As goes the man,
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  Speaker 1: so goes the marriage, and goes the marriage, so goes
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  Speaker 1: the family. As goes the family, so goes the churches.
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  Speaker 1: As goes the churches, so goes the country. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: built on the husband and the father
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  Speaker 5: Accompani