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False Freedom [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: On a family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. It's a new day. Right. We will
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Speaker 1: rejoice and be glad in the day that the Lord created.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday is gone, today is right now, and tomorrow's not promised.
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Speaker 1: So let's celebrate today. Let's celebrate our freedom today, our
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Speaker 1: true freedom today. And I see a lot of people
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Speaker 1: are saying they're free, Amen. But there's something going around
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Speaker 1: that I'm calling a false freedom. It's not really a freedom, amen,
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Speaker 1: that they're celebrating. They're celebrating things that lead to death.
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Speaker 1: I see people celebrating birthdays, right, and that's great, Amen,
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Speaker 1: praise God, a new year for the life that was given. Right.
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Speaker 1: But why do I see people and including me, I
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Speaker 1: used to do this. I used to pass tense through this,
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Speaker 1: celebrate birthdays, celebrate life with things that lead to death.
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Speaker 1: Think about it, amen. And I was saying I was
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Speaker 1: free back then, before Jesus. I said, now I'm free.
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Speaker 1: I could do whatever I want to do, which is
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Speaker 1: some truth to it. You could do anything you want
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Speaker 1: to do. To Bible actually says, so that's true. But
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Speaker 1: not everything we do want to do, according to satisfying
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Speaker 1: the flesh will be beneficial to us. Amen. So I'm
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Speaker 1: calling this one false freedom. It's not just about doing wrong,
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Speaker 1: it's about applauding it, reposting it, right, double tapping it,
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Speaker 1: reposting it, laughing with it, and calling it freedom when
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Speaker 1: it's really bondage. Right. If you're free in Christ, who
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Speaker 1: the sun sets free is free. Indeed, that's true freedom.
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Speaker 1: If you're saying you're free and you're still bound, you're
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Speaker 1: still in bondage. The things that you used to do
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Speaker 1: you can't stop doing, Amen, then that's a false freedom.
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Speaker 1: Ephesians shot the five verse number eleven. Ephesians five verse
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Speaker 1: number eleven. Sister Joanne, I'm sorry, I see you. I
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Speaker 1: had to hidden behind another box here. Amen's sister Joy
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Speaker 1: and God bless you. Good morning. Thank you for coming through,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for coming back to the Morning Devo
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Speaker 1: my system, my friends. So let's go for it. If
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Speaker 1: pray first. After we pray, we'll shut us out for
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Speaker 1: like sixty seconds, and then on the other side of
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Speaker 1: those sixty seconds, we'll get right into today's Morning Devo
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Speaker 1: with the scripture for today Ephesians, chapter five, verse number eleven,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, I thank you that you set us free
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Speaker 1: because of what you did on the cross. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that when you set us free, you set
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Speaker 1: us free. Indeed, you have a purpose, you have a plan,
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Speaker 1: you have your works being done through us. Amen, and
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Speaker 1: that's a privilege. Thank you so much for saving us,
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Speaker 1: rescuing us, keeping us, and restoring us to write standing
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Speaker 1: with the Father. Because of you, Lord Jesus, I pray
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Speaker 1: a hedge of protection over our minds, over our bodies, physically,
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Speaker 1: emotionally and spiritually. In the powerful name of Jesus. I
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Speaker 1: pray it out over every single person listening and watching.
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Speaker 1: I prayed that over myself, my wife, our children, our grandchildren,
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Speaker 1: our family members from the oldest to the youngest, and
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Speaker 1: every single person in between. Touch our hearts, touch our minds,
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Speaker 1: renew us, restore us, redeem us, Save us, God, rescue us,
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Speaker 1: just as your word says, fill us with your holy spirit,
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Speaker 1: so that way we could perform works and wonders and
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Speaker 1: lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover and
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Speaker 1: call out demons, and all the scripture says that we
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Speaker 1: can do. Father God, I pray that you will encourage
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Speaker 1: us to do it without being afraid. Give us a
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Speaker 1: measure of boldness and kindness and gentleness at the same time,
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Speaker 1: and fill us with your spiritual gift that you have
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Speaker 1: given us. Low God, that you have measured out for
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Speaker 1: every single one of us. So I speak life, concern
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Speaker 1: all things living and everyone living. And I speak death
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Speaker 1: to those things that try to distract us, to try
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Speaker 1: to cause us harm, that try to take us off
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Speaker 1: our righteous path. I come against those things. I come
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Speaker 1: against this Halloween celebration month in the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: We come against the deeds of darkness right now in
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Speaker 1: the powerful name of Jesus. I thank you, Lord God
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Speaker 1: for giving us the light and to shine that light
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Speaker 1: through us, and that we could be a light to
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Speaker 1: this world and assault to this earth. And Jesus Holy Name,
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Speaker 1: I pray this's by faith, and those who agree with
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Speaker 1: the prayer, we say, Amen to the Amen. Help me
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Speaker 1: share this out sixty seconds. When we come back, we'll
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Speaker 1: get right into false freedom today on the morning, devol,
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Speaker 1: I'll be right back. All right, We're back, Amen, We're back.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being patient with me, Amen
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Speaker 1: and really coming through and voting some time with me. Amen,
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Speaker 1: for these mornings and these days that we're here. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't watch me live, and I understand Listen,
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Speaker 1: I'm not an early bird. This is a supernatural thing
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Speaker 1: in my life. Amen. You might say, oh, you're over
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Speaker 1: spiritualized and all you do is set your alarm and
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Speaker 1: wake up. But I'm a night hourl Normally, I'm a
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Speaker 1: night hour. Supernaturally, I get up early, amen, to do
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Speaker 1: these morning DeVos. Why because God is that good Amen,
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Speaker 1: and he deserves the honor of worship and praise, and
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Speaker 1: he's good man in all his ways. There's not one
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Speaker 1: day that I could say that God has failed me.
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Speaker 1: What about you? Amen, He's only, he's just, he's loving,
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Speaker 1: he's kind, and he's here Amen for us. Sometimes we
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Speaker 1: don't have because we don't ask. Because he is wise,
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Speaker 1: he is giving, he is holy, he is trustworthy. Amen.
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Speaker 1: He's able to do exactly what his word says he
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Speaker 1: would do in your life and in my life. So
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Speaker 1: don't be afraid to ask the Lord. Amen. That's what
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Speaker 1: we do. We ask of the Lord, Amen, because if
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Speaker 1: we're honest, we know we can't do nothing without him,
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Speaker 1: but with him we could do all things through Christ,
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Speaker 1: who gives us the strength to do exactly what He
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Speaker 1: wants us to do in this life with a purpose
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Speaker 1: and a plan. Amen. It's not just random. This is
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Speaker 1: a setup way of God living through us. Amen. He
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Speaker 1: established this prayer is communicating with God. Right. And the
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Speaker 1: beautiful thing about prayer is that he responds that we're
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Speaker 1: not just the only ones talking. He will speak back
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Speaker 1: to us because he's alive. He's a living, holy, righteous, loving, awesome,
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Speaker 1: just God. Amen. And he's sovereign, he's in control. So
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Speaker 1: let's go for it. Let me put this on the
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Speaker 1: screen for those who are just listening. No worries, no problems.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try my best to read a word for
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Speaker 1: words to that way you won't miss out on what
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Speaker 1: we're seeing or what we're reading. Amen. So this is
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Speaker 1: false freedom of calling this one. Amen. According to the
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Speaker 1: Book of Ephesians, chapter five, verse number eleven, the Bible says,
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Speaker 1: do not participate in the worthless and unproductive deeds of darkness,
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Speaker 1: but instead expose them by exemplifying personal integrity, moral courage,
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Speaker 1: and golly character. I believe I went through the scripture
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Speaker 1: so many times, and during my time doing these morning
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Speaker 1: debos because I see it everywhere, people celebrating deeds of darkness. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And then when the people come to expose those deeds
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Speaker 1: of darkness, the people that expose the deeds of darkness,
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Speaker 1: according to the scripture, what we're supposed to do. We're
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Speaker 1: called haters. Amen. We're called arrogant, we're called super religious,
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Speaker 1: we're called judging. And that's not the case. We're exemplifying
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Speaker 1: personal integrity, moral courage, and golly character. So I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to participate in worthless and unproductive deeds of darkness.
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Speaker 1: And I hope you don't participate in the worthless and
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Speaker 1: unproductive deeds of darkness. Just stop. Instead, show yourself approved,
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Speaker 1: pray fast, get into the word amen. Be an example
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Speaker 1: of personal integrity, meaning that when the doors are closed
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Speaker 1: and you're outside of the church building or outside from
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Speaker 1: your church friends, personal integrity is important, moral courage and
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Speaker 1: godly character. Amen. So this is the word. This is
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Speaker 1: not an opinion. This is the word of God. So
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Speaker 1: true freedom means we are filled with holy spirit, God
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Speaker 1: who empowers us to get what He wants done in
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Speaker 1: our lives and through our lives. That should be exciting
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Speaker 1: to somebody Amen. And man, it might not be exciting
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Speaker 1: to you, is exciting to me because now I know
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Speaker 1: that I have this energy, this power right, Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: God living alive, living through me. Amen. And the same
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Speaker 1: for you if you're a born again believer. This is
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Speaker 1: not just for a selected few. Many are called, few
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Speaker 1: are chosen. So the few that are chosen, right, let's
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Speaker 1: be about that life. It's not arrogant to say that
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Speaker 1: you're born again. It's not arrogant to say that you
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Speaker 1: exemplify Christ, that you are resembling, or you are empowered
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Speaker 1: by Holy Spirit to show God's character. That's not arrogant.
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Speaker 1: It's actually do the word. We just read it, Amen,
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Speaker 1: ef He's in chefter five, verse number eleven. Let me
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Speaker 1: get to my notes. Before I get I was gonna
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Speaker 1: say something a man, but Holy Spirit said hold on
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Speaker 1: to that, don't don't don't, don't rush things. Don't get
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Speaker 1: too excited, Sam. So I'm just obeying a Holy spa.
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Speaker 1: It spirit guy is amazing. So we read it. Eph'sians
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Speaker 1: five eleven. When we celebrate things that are dark, when
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Speaker 1: we celebrate sin, and we spoke about this last time,
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Speaker 1: we desensitize our own hearts. We start thinking darkness is normal,
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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, Darkness is not normal. Sin is a
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Speaker 1: disease of the soul, normalizing things and saying because we
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Speaker 1: love people and that's just the way they are, and
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Speaker 1: just walk away from it. Right, celebrated, applauded, we posted.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's love. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you're promoting true freedom by celebrating somebody else's bondage. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And I know it's not an easy conversation with people
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Speaker 1: that you truly love, family members, friends, and they're in
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Speaker 1: a lifestyle or in a simple behavior that's so destructive
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Speaker 1: that it hurts me and you to see it. But
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Speaker 1: applauding it, celebrating it is not the answer at all. Right,
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Speaker 1: you start thinking darkness is normal, and the light feels uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: People feel uncomfortable. When you shine the light of Christ
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Speaker 1: in the room, you will notice it right away. I
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Speaker 1: used to wonder, why don't these people like me? Like
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Speaker 1: they don't even talked to me. I say hi, they
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Speaker 1: just turn their back so they walk away. I used
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Speaker 1: to take that personal. I don't take that personal, nomore.
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Speaker 1: I know what's going on. What does light and darkness
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Speaker 1: have in common right, what nothing a man? When the
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Speaker 1: light shows up, darkness goes. And sometimes people are so
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Speaker 1: in the dark they get uncomfortable when the light is shown. Amen.
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Speaker 1: God calls us to be different, not better than anybody else,
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Speaker 1: but different meanings set apart, sanctified for his holy glory,
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Speaker 1: for his work, for his glory. Amen. And because of that,
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Speaker 1: we're shining the light, exposing darkness. It's like automatic. You
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Speaker 1: step in the room and you're born again. You're a believer.
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Speaker 1: You shine in the light of Christ. You start seeing
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Speaker 1: people move differently. Darkness flees, sometimes demons manifest. But for
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Speaker 1: sure people that are in darkness get together. But other
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Speaker 1: people in darkness and then point at the people of
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Speaker 1: the light and call us xyz. They're religious, they're judging us.
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Speaker 1: You see it all the time. Amen. But we're supposed
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Speaker 1: to show up and let God shine through us. Show
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Speaker 1: up and shine your light. So that means we don't
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Speaker 1: join the celebration of what's wrong. We shine the light
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Speaker 1: of what's right. In other words, we're not pointing out
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Speaker 1: the wrong all the time, like you're doing this and
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Speaker 1: you're doing that and you're going to hell for it. No,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna shine the light of what's right and who's
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Speaker 1: right and who's good, and who gets the glory and
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Speaker 1: who can set people free and give them true freedom,
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Speaker 1: not the false freedom that people are getting from this
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Speaker 1: world system, the false freedom that people are getting because
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Speaker 1: of the simple evil desires or the flesh. Flesh is
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Speaker 1: a monster. So we know that this is a spiritual fight,
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Speaker 1: not personal. I used to take this so personal. Why
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Speaker 1: this person don't talk to me no more? How come
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Speaker 1: this person don't say oh to be no more? Why
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Speaker 1: is this person ducking me? Why am I being ghosted? Amen?
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Speaker 1: I'm literally being ghosted now in real time, amen, by
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Speaker 1: someone that I love. But it's all good, Amen. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna take it personal. I just continue to pray,
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Speaker 1: shine the light on what's right, glorify God, being exemplary
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Speaker 1: of what God is doing in my heart and my
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Speaker 1: mind physically, motionally and spiritually, and as Christians, as believers,
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Speaker 1: as brothers and sisters in Christ, we should be doing
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Speaker 1: that anyway. Amen, don't take it personal. People are in darkness.
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Speaker 1: Not a lot of times. They are in bondage as
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Speaker 1: and they profess to be Christian, They're in bondished because
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Speaker 1: they don't want the light to be shown through them,
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Speaker 1: or they feel some kind of way. Maybe they feel shame,
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Speaker 1: maybe they feel guilt. Maybe they're an abusive relationship, maybe
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Speaker 1: they can't forgive, maybe they're stuck in the past. That's
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Speaker 1: why we pray. We come with a gentle spirit. Amen,
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Speaker 1: we come with kindness, love. We don't go with hatred
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Speaker 1: to try to solve an issue in someone else's life.
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Speaker 1: Good morning is the joice. I see you, God, bless you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for your blessings over the group as well. Amen,
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Speaker 1: my sister, my friend. So we don't approach people that
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Speaker 1: are in bondage with more chains and put them more
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Speaker 1: in bondage, and be careful of how you speak to
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Speaker 1: people who wan bondage, because if they don't have Christ right,
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Speaker 1: they don't know the word. Maybe they would church hurt.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they were or were or currently are in a
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Speaker 1: religion that's abusive, that's playing my games with them. Maybe
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Speaker 1: their family dynamics is not right. Maybe they're struggling with depression,
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Speaker 1: maybe they're addicted to drugs. You don't know. That's why
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Speaker 1: it's important to show people kindness and to go with
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Speaker 1: a gentle spirit and to listen to their story. When
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Speaker 1: people have the platform that they could speak a man,
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Speaker 1: they'll use that platform that might be the only platform,
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Speaker 1: that might be the only way they could actually speak
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Speaker 1: and communicate what they're really going through. So let's shine
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Speaker 1: the light on what's right and not point at what's
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Speaker 1: wrong all the time. Amen. At least maybe that's my opinion,
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Speaker 1: but I believe that's what the Scripture tells us to do.
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Speaker 1: I have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,
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Speaker 1: but rather expose them. When you expose darkness, amen, you
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Speaker 1: can shine the light on what's right. Amen. And when
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Speaker 1: people see what's right, and they see that as an example,
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Speaker 1: they see that the Lord cares, that the Lord says,
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Speaker 1: that the Lord rescues, that the Lord loves, that the
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Speaker 1: Lord forgives, sins, that the Lord could break people free
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Speaker 1: from their chains, then they will receive true freedom, not
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Speaker 1: false freedom. I know a lot of people, especially in
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Speaker 1: this generation, they don't want to hear too much preaching.
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Speaker 1: They want to see the power of God. They want
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Speaker 1: to see a real example of what God can do
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Speaker 1: in the lives of all those who call upon his
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Speaker 1: name to be saved. They don't want to see his bickering.
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Speaker 1: No more. They don't want to see his fighting no more.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to see the church divided no more.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to see pastors acting crazy on TV. No.
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Speaker 1: They want to see the trueness of what God is
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Speaker 1: doing in the lives of all those whosoevers who live
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Speaker 1: for Christ. They want to see the power of the
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Speaker 1: dounamus right. They want to see the power of God
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Speaker 1: by way of Holy Spirit. They want to be involved.
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Speaker 1: They want to show up and shine the light as well.
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Speaker 1: They want to be a part of something greater. They
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Speaker 1: want to make a difference in their community. They want
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Speaker 1: to make a difference in their family. They want to
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Speaker 1: make a difference wherever they work, wherever they go to
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Speaker 1: school at. They want to shine the light of Christ.
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Speaker 1: But they need examples. They need the older to teach
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Speaker 1: the younger Amen, so they could go and be equipped
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Speaker 1: and do the works of the Lord, the works of
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Speaker 1: the ministry. Right. That means we don't join the celebration
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Speaker 1: of what's wrong. We shine the light of what's right.
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Speaker 1: So here's something that you can ask yourself today. And
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Speaker 1: my celebrating what hurts God, my celebrating deeds of darkness,
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Speaker 1: ask yourself that question. And if you find yourself care
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Speaker 1: in that crowd, which is not hard to be wrapped
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Speaker 1: up in that type of crowd, because that crowd is popular,
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Speaker 1: and that crowd is popping, that crowd is famous. That
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Speaker 1: crowd is the in crowd. See yourself caught up in that.
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Speaker 1: Listen to your brother in Christ. Step out, step away,
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Speaker 1: get out, run, amen, and gather with some people who
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Speaker 1: are loving Christ, who are shining the light of Christ,
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Speaker 1: which is a blazing light. By the way, and get
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Speaker 1: some encouragement, get some refuge, get some prayer. Tell them,
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Speaker 1: tell the elders of the church to anoint you with oil. Amen,
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Speaker 1: and walk straight a straight path. Step out. That means repent.
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Speaker 1: Turn from that, turn from that crowd, Turn from that wickedness,
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Speaker 1: and turn to the righteousness of God. Relign yourself, and
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Speaker 1: remember God's grace is still open, so all who turn
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Speaker 1: to Him, even those that are stuck in darkness. That
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Speaker 1: they're sworn to secrecy, that they're double minded, that they're
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Speaker 1: one way in one platform and another way in another platform,
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Speaker 1: that they have hidden accounts, that they have different social
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Speaker 1: media accounts, one that shows them as born again believers
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Speaker 1: and another that shows them as righteous and unrighteous. Amen,
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Speaker 1: And that's sad. What it's the truth. We see it
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Speaker 1: all the time, but we're not going to celebrate that.
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Speaker 1: Like I won't start up. I was in a situation
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Speaker 1: the other day that I didn't know if I was
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Speaker 1: supposed to congratulate someone on something, amen, or just say
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Speaker 1: what I said. I said, God could do something amazing here,
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Speaker 1: because I know there has to be some kind of
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Speaker 1: a pensance first before we can celebrate what's happening. Right Literally,
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Speaker 1: I was like my mind was saying, oh, wow, just
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Speaker 1: congratulate the person the people, and then Holy's favorite says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're not celebrating that. But God could do something through
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Speaker 1: that situation. And God could do something in your life,
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Speaker 1: and God could do something in my life, and we
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Speaker 1: could be useful for the Kingdom of God, shining the
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Speaker 1: light on what's right, not pointing all the time with
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Speaker 1: what's wrong. I believe a lot of time people know
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Speaker 1: that they're doing something wrong, they just don't know how
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Speaker 1: to stop. I was that person, right. I knew I
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Speaker 1: was going the wrong way. I just didn't know how
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Speaker 1: to get off the train. I knew I was in
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Speaker 1: the wrong crowd. I just didn't know how to get out,
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Speaker 1: step out without offending anybody. But God would take care
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Speaker 1: of the issue. Let's stop cheering for what kills us
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Speaker 1: and start rejoicing and what gives life. I was asking
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Speaker 1: someone a question last week. I said, do you think
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Speaker 1: all people are suicidal? The person was like, what do
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Speaker 1: you mean? I said, because we do things right according
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Speaker 1: to the flesh, and those things lead to destruction. Those
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Speaker 1: things lead to death. Like I said earlier, people celebrate
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Speaker 1: life like our birthday with things that lead to death, drug, sex, alcohol,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And I start wondering, are
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Speaker 1: we all suicidal? I know that's a weird question for
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Speaker 1: Morning Devo? What are we What are we doing? Are
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Speaker 1: we shining the light on what's right? Or we're stuck
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Speaker 1: in the deeds of darkness and we're actually in bondage
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Speaker 1: and chains and everybody's celebrating us and we're becoming famous
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Speaker 1: for being in bondage. Think about it. So, I want
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Speaker 1: to know if this message is speaking to you right
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Speaker 1: If it is, share this message with somebody, because right now,
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Speaker 1: in this month, from the time of this recording, there
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Speaker 1: are witches and wallocks and demonic things happening in the atmosphere. Right,
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Speaker 1: Spiritual warfare is heightened during this month, at least in
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Speaker 1: the United States in some parts of the world. But
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Speaker 1: if this speaking, if it's speaking to you, and you're
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Speaker 1: part of that crowd of and having that dark activity
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Speaker 1: going on in your life, but it's speaking to you,
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Speaker 1: shared us with your people, share us with somebody today.
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Speaker 1: You never know whose life to change from hearing God's truth.
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Speaker 1: Whose life can change by reading the word of God? Right,
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Speaker 1: So when God speaks, don't forget what he says. Don't
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Speaker 1: forget what he said. Let God speak in your life. Right.
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Speaker 1: So there's times when we've approved, but God calls sin, right,
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Speaker 1: and I think we're all guilty that maybe we laughed
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Speaker 1: at jokes that we should have not laughed at. Maybe
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Speaker 1: we'll watch movies that we should and have watched. Maybe
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Speaker 1: we're listening to music that we shouldn't be listening to anymore.
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Speaker 1: Whatever the case is, Amen, you know that we need repent,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I know that we should stop laughing
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Speaker 1: at those type of jokes, stop watching those type of things,
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Speaker 1: and stop listening to that type of music. God will
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Speaker 1: forgive us when we do things that he's not approving. Right.
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Speaker 1: When God forgives. He'll also help us to see through
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Speaker 1: the lives of the culture to stand firm in the
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Speaker 1: truth and His truth. Because listen, this is not my truth,
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Speaker 1: this is not your truth. This is the truth of
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Speaker 1: God's Word. Amen. And that's powerful. We don't have We
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Speaker 1: don't have to continuously argue with people of what God
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Speaker 1: is doing or who God is. The truth of God's
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Speaker 1: words speaks for itself. The power of God shows up
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Speaker 1: through us when we are yielded to the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: wants to do in any given situation. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: notice that y'ad will give us the courage to live holy,
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Speaker 1: not the courage to be common enough with the common
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Speaker 1: Christian stuff. You know, the cookie cutter Christian. The Christian
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Speaker 1: that just goes to church knows how to do church well.
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Speaker 1: By the way, very impressive the way I see people
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Speaker 1: doing church. They can do church. They know what to say,
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Speaker 1: they know what to do, they know how the posture
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Speaker 1: to be in. They could read the crowd. They know
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Speaker 1: how to tap into people's emotions, they know how to manipulate,
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Speaker 1: they know how to do all of that. They know
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Speaker 1: how to do church. That's not an anoint thing. That's
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Speaker 1: actually something that's disappointing. It's not anunointh thing, it's a
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Speaker 1: false freedom. But when people show up and they do
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Speaker 1: more than church, they do life with Jesus. You get
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Speaker 1: to know the difference on the platform and off the
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Speaker 1: platform in church, or in the trenches, in the streets,
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Speaker 1: the by way and highways, a man, in the workplace,
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Speaker 1: in school. You're gonna know the difference between a church
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Speaker 1: person and a holy ghost, feel powerful, holy person of God.
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Speaker 1: Common people and common Christians. They do what they're taught
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Speaker 1: by just traditional things, church things. They know how to
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Speaker 1: move accordingly in the church body, in the church environment,
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Speaker 1: I should say, But a holy Christian set apart, you
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Speaker 1: get to see that they have a less of a
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Speaker 1: circle around them. A man, they have a circle, and
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Speaker 1: they move differently. You could just literally see it. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I want to be holy, not common. What about you?
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Speaker 1: God will give us the courage to live holy, to
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Speaker 1: love deeply and shine brightly in the world that's full
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Speaker 1: of darkness. Amen. And when we shine bright in the
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Speaker 1: world that's full of darkness, you get to see that
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Speaker 1: the lat of Christ is going to shine and expose
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Speaker 1: the dark deeds of what we're doing. Sometimes and get
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Speaker 1: us out of that, and he wants us to move
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Speaker 1: forward in victorious ways. He wants you to move forward
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Speaker 1: in a way that shines the light on what is
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Speaker 1: right and really expose darkness, just because we have the
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Speaker 1: lot of Christ shining in us. So I'm out of time.
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Speaker 1: I hope you're getting what I'm saying. Amen. If you
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Speaker 1: feel a little offended, Amen, that wasn't my doing. Amen,
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Speaker 1: that's the conviction of holy ghosts. According through Ephesians chapter five,
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Speaker 1: verse number eleven, when he says, have nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose him.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes when we speak the word, the Word of
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Speaker 1: God is speaking to us directly, and we need to
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Speaker 1: make the proper changes. Amen. So thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for hanging out with me for these morning DeVos. I'm
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Speaker 1: really grateful that you show up. Amen. Shared us with
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Speaker 1: somebody that you know, Amen, even somebody that you might
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Speaker 1: not know too well, but you might be able to
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Speaker 1: know who to share us with by way of God's
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Speaker 1: functioning through his Holy Spirit. So God bless you all.
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Speaker 1: God keep you all, and remember always that God is good. Peace,