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459 | The Master Says, “Come” · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  Are you ready? God says things are ready and bids you come.
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  He is telling you that all has been prepared for you to do His work. All you must do is come.
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  He has invited you to share in His work. He is enabling you to do the work He has called you to do.
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  If you continue to read these scriptures, you will see that the people who were
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  given the invitation to come and sit at His table had many excuses.
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  The end result was that they missed the opportunity to meet with Him and thereby
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  were not allowed to share in the supper with their Lord.
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  Join us in this program, The Master Says Come, as Kim Miller of Woman at the
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  Well Ministries takes us through Luke 14, 17, which says, And sent his servant
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  at suppertime to say to them that were bidden,
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  Come, for all things are now ready.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious to Heavenly Father, Lord, I just pray that you would
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  open our hearts and our minds at this moment. And Lord, I pray that you would speak through me.
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  And I pray, Lord, that something would be said or done that would draw each
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  and every one of us closer to you.
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  And I pray, Lord, that you would remove me from the message and that you would
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  just get your words out, that we may draw closer to you,
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  Lord, and that may we realize that all things are ready, that we have to come
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  to you and we have to receive the free gift that you have for each of us,
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  that gift of salvation, Lord, that leads to a home not made with hands eternal into the heavens.
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  I prayed your heavenly father that you would help us
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  to see that we need to come to you lord to
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  the table to feast upon your word the feast in
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  your presence lord that we may be all that you'd have
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  us to be lord i love you and i praise you and
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  i thank you in jesus name and all of god's people said amen
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  this entire chapter of luke
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  14 has parables about
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  the great supper and what we
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  see in this particular one is that the the servant has made a a great great
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  supper and he has had many come
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  and he has his servant to go out and get people to come in to the supper.
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  And as the servant goes out, he asks many, many people to come to the supper.
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  And various sundry reasons are given back to the servant as to why they're not coming.
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  And so the servant comes back and he says that he has done as he's commanded,
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  yet there is still room at the table.
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  And the lord said unto the servant go out
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  into the highways and hedges and compel them
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  to come in that my house may be
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  filled and when you think about what he's
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  saying in this particular parable jesus is
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  very clearly showing us that everything that we need to taste of the great supper
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  of him and to be in his presence and to fellowship with him and to have eternal life, it's ready.
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  We who know the Lord know this for a fact.
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  We understand that Jesus laid his life down on the cross of Calvary,
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  that we may accept him, that his blood was shed to cover our sins and that his
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  body was broken for us and that he died.
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  And on the third day he rose again and he was victorious over hell, death, and the grave.
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  And we realize that he has prepared the way and he is the way.
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  In this parable, we are at that point.
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  The supper's ready. He says, come.
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  What we find is that not only do we have unbelievers who don't come to Christ
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  or come to the table to be fed of his goodness, his blessings,
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  his bounty, and his grace and his mercy.
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  But we have people who claim to be Christians who do not find themselves feasting at the Lord's table.
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  And I'm not talking about the Lord's table as in the communion that we have
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  periodically at our churches.
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  I'm talking about the food that the Lord has for each and every believer.
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  I remember as a kid that there was this postcard that was in my Sunday school
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  room that said seven days without food makes one week.
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  W-E-A-K.
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  And the point they were making was if only time you're fed is on Sundays when
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  you come to church, then you're going to be a weak Christian.
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  In this particular parable what
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  we see is that when the servant goes
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  out to explain the goodness of the
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  supper that is before them everybody's got
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  some other reason than to come to the table
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  to be fed and i find in my own life
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  and in the life of others during conversations that we
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  can find so many other things to do
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  than to spend time in the word of god or
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  to spend time in prayer or to spend time doing
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  what he's called us to do we can find dozens of
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  reasons why we can't do it sometimes it's
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  just simple poor planning peter went
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  a fishing but he didn't go fishing every sunday but it's
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  interesting how people can find a reason every week not
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  to go to church it seems interesting to
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  me that we can read newspapers and articles and we
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  can read facebook book for hours on end and we
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  can read all kinds of different magazines
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  but we have a hard time picking up the word
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  of god and reading it now i'm
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  just old-fashioned enough to love and believe holding the word of god in my.
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  Hand is like holding the hand of god i think it's fabulous that churches have
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  these powerpoint things and they put them up on the screen and people who have
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  trouble seeing their Bible or whatever can see it up on the screen.
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  But I don't think that's a substitute for me walking through the doors, holding the Word of God.
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  The Bible says that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
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  holding the hand of God as I walk through the church, sit down,
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  unfold it, put it on my lap, and follow along with what the preacher has to say.
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  I think that's a wonderful thing to do. And I think when I walk out of my house holding my Bible,
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  that's a testimony i think when i get out of
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  my car holding my bible that's a testimony but i cannot tell you the number
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  of people who haven't dusted their shelves enough to see where the bible even
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  is and when they pull the bible out there's dust on it and they'll say to me
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  oh i they they have they have that on the powerpoint at church well that's fabulous but what about.
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  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, and Saturday.
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  And that's going on the idea that you went to church on Wednesday.
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  The Word of God is meant to be digested, to be studied.
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  It's a study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to
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  be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.
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  The Master says, come.
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  The Bible says in Psalm 23 that he prepared a table in the presence of his enemies.
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  He has prepared a table for you. A table of truth. A table of grace.
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  A table of mercy.
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  The answers to your every need. He has supplied a supper to fill you so that
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  the devil cannot touch you.
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  The Bible says that if you resist the devil, the devil will resist you. He'll flee.
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  The Bible says that in the name and the presence of Jesus, the devil must go.
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  So if I am sitting reading his word or I am praying with him,
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  there's no place for the devil there.
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  And I promise you, you don't want to be there. That's a place of peace.
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  Why don't we spend more time there? These people had excuses.
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  They didn't realize, I don't think, what they were missing.
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  I don't think they understood the amazing supper that had been prepared.
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  And so he says to the servant, go a little deeper.
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  Go a little further. Fill my table.
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  You see, if you don't partake, somebody else will.
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  You see, I see this as a picture of Jesus not giving up. He went for the ninety-nine
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  were safe, and he went for the one.
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  He continually draws, and he continually asks, and he continually invites,
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  and no one, no one is excluded.
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  I bring to your attention that when they had the five loaves and a few fishes,
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  and they broke them, and they fed the multitudes, that when everybody had had
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  their fill, he sent them through to pick up the scraps.
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  He didn't need the scraps to feed anybody. He had just fed a multitude of people
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  with a few fishes and a few loaves.
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  He picked out the scraps, I believe, so that we would see everybody matters.
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  And when he tells this servant to keep going until you fill my table,
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  keep going until you fill my table, he's giving us a picture that we need to
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  let everybody we know know who Christ is.
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  We need to invite everybody we know to the supper that Christ lays before us.
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  We need to come because it's ready in the scriptures before this he talks about
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  when you make a supper you need to invite the poor and the needy and the ones
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  who can't recompense you because you want to give to them something not that
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  you're giving that you might get,
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  because he says when you give to the others you know that they're going to give something to you,
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  And so he says, when you go out there, you're just giving of yourselves.
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  From the goodness of your heart. And your goodness of your heart comes from
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  the love of God, which has been imputed into you through the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
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  And you can love everybody because of the love that God gives you.
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  You can reach out to everybody because Jesus reached out to you.
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  He says, come. He's clear.
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  He says, come.
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  For all things are ready. Are you coming?
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  What's keeping you from the table? What's keeping you from eternal salvation?
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  If you're listening to this message and you have not given your heart to Jesus
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  Christ, what excuse are you making? None of them are valid.
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  And none of them were going to stand in the day of judgment.
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  Because unless he sees the blood, he will pass over you.
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  But today is the day of salvation. And now is the accepted time.
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  You have the opportunity to give your heart and life to Jesus Christ and come
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  to the table and be fed, and you'll truly be satisfied.
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  The world will never satisfy you. You can't get enough alcohol.
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  You can't get enough drugs. You won't be able to get enough evil,
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  and gambling won't be able to keep you happy, and you won't be able to get enough lascivious living.
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  There won't be enough out there to satisfy you, and you will not be happy.
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  But when you come to the table and you give Jesus your life and you feast in
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  his word and you follow after him,
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  you'll be satisfied and you'll be full and you'll come and you will leave a changed person.
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  Jesus loves you, this I know, and he's the only thing that is the answer for your every need.
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  He and he alone satisfies and he bids you come.
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