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Bold for Christ [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Winning family. Good morning, God, blessed you. Welcome back to the
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Morning Devo. It's good to see you again. It's good to be here
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again on the Morning Sessions Morning DeVos Mondays through Fridays, five thirty am Eastern,
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standing time in that timeframe, Amen. I know because of social media
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stuff that's going on with the live stream, it's a little challenging, but
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it looks like one of the things of working now again, Amen, or
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Glory to God. Right. But today we're going to be talking about bold
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for Christ. And this is one of the rare times I put myself on
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the cover of the image because I think it's time for me to be bold
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for Christ. Amen. And if you think that I've been bold a man,
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praise the Lord. I think I could do a little better. I
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think I could dig in a little bit more. And I think you can
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too. With the Word of God on our side inside of us, working
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through us, Amen, we could be bold for Christ in this world that's
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always mocking Jesus, always making fun of our Christian faith. A man,
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it's time for us to be bold and kind at the same time. That's
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a recipe to really take over territories that the enemy has already tried to take
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over. We need to snatch it back. Take things back for the glory
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of God. Take things back for the Kingdom of Gods. Take things back
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for the sake of Christ and for the sake of souls. Amen. So
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that way people know that we mean business when it comes to the being bold
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for Christ, Bold for Christ. On today's morning session. Good morning,
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sister Joanne, God bless you, good morning, Welcome back to the morning
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Devo, my sister and my friend. Amen. So what fears do you
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face being a Christian today? What fears do you face? Amen? I
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would tell you mine, but I don't want to release that in the atmosphere.
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So if you don't want to release that, so the enemy could hear
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those fears and then throw it back in your face and accuse you of it
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later on, don't say a word think about it in your mind, amen,
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because what I know for sure is that the enemy can not read your
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mind. He can only understand or he can only listen to what you're speaking
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verbally out of your mouth. Amen. So what fears do you face being
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a Christian today? Would you consider yourself bold or afraid? Just be honest,
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would you consider yourself bold for Christ or free to represent why or why
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not We're gonna be and he boots. Chapter eleven, verse seven. That's
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going to be the starting scripture because I have a lot more so us aman
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for you today, for you to come to a conclusion of that in your
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own life. We're going to be reading reading about Noah, a man,
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the one who built the ark when there was no rain. He didn't even
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know about water like that. Amen. But he heard from the Lord,
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trusted God's voice, Amen, and did what the Lord called to do.
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And he was bold a man for God. So we should be both for
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God. Whether or not we understand what God is telling us on the front
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end. We know that whatever God tells us, whatever he asks us to
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do, is for the benefit of ourselves and benefit for others. So just
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trust Him and be bold and your faith be bold for Christ today in the
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morning, devot. Amen, let me just check the audio making. So
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everything's good. It sounds okay, so amen. So it seems like some
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things are back online literally Amen. For the live stream Amen. Also,
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so win is with a zeta or G or it just press plate. And
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also there's a live stream button over there at the website Celler Radio Network,
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so that way you could get there as well. So listen, let's go
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for it. Let's pray first. If you have any questions, comments,
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concerns, pray requests or anything along those lines, please don't have to take
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to leave it on a live chat. That's what we're here for, amen,
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We're here to communicate, get together and in the word, devote some
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time to the Lord. First thing of our day, amen, first part
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of our day, at least for those who are you know up right now
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with with us. If ive thirty am, amen, I know it's early.
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And man, a hour ago, I just woke up out of my
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sleep. I was like, what am I doing? And I looked at
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the time. It was for thirty in the more on it. So I
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started praying. And man, whenever that happens, whenever I just wake up
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like that, I just start praying for people and for protection and for whatever's
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going on, because I know between the hours probably of one am to four
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am or five am or whatever, there's a lot of activity going on in
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the spiritual realm. Amen. That's just the way I know. But yeah,
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if you get up sunnily like that, you just pray, Amen.
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And if someone's name comes up, you just pray immediately amen, if you
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need be and if you can connect with them and let them know you're praying
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for them. Amen. So both for Christ. So we're gonna pray first.
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After we pray, well, shut us out for like sixty seconds.
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It seems like the stream is okay. Now. All I have to do
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is share it to my group. Amen. And there are with us now
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too as well. So it looks like it's cool. So Father, thank
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you little Gud that whatever is going on in our lives today, that you
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already know about it, you care, you'll considering, and you are with
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us. I thank you, Lord God for protecting us, guiding us,
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keeping us safe from the attacks and the enemy. Although a weapon will be
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formed against us, those weapons will not prosper according to your word. I
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thank you, Look God that we have Holy Spirit God living inside of us
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to keep us in a place of boldness, keep us in a place of
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being a courageous believer of courageous Christians. Thank you, Lord God, that
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our coverage can be contagious for those who don't believe and you yet, they
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will know that we believe in a living holy, righteous, loving God,
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who prepares us for the battle, who has already run the war, who
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continues to show us more of himself daily, your self, Lord God.
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Thank you, Lord God for all of it. Thank you, Lord God
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for the good times. Thank you, Lord God for the bad times,
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because You've been with us through it all. You never leave us, you
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never forsake us. You keep us, You protect us. You give us
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health to our body, strength to our bones. Give us a sound mind
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and not a spirit of fear. You give us a spirit of boldness and
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a confident encourage and a sound mind. Thank you, Lord Jesus for what
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you're doing. I pray you head your protection over myself and every single person
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that's listening and watching right now, and who will listen and watch later on.
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I pray the boldness of Christ will fill their hearts and minds, and
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we will go into the streets, suburbs, into the urban communities and everywhere
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we are found, that we will go boldly and proclaim and declare the Gospel
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message over people's lives. We will pray for people wherever we're at. We
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will acknowledge people's stories, and we would know, Lord God, that you
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have the very best for them as well as you have for us your children.
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I thank you, Lord God for this day, and I pray Lord
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God peace be still over every situation in my life and every single life represented
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on the other side of this mic and the other side of the screen.
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And Jesus Name, I pray this by faith. To those who agree,
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we say amen and Amen. So let's go for sixty seconds. Help me
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share this out. When we come back, we'll die right into her.
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Brotherlando, God bless you, God bless you, Bro. Welcome back to
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the morn of devils to see you, my friend. So let's go for
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it, man, sixty seconds, help me share this side when we come
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back, Man, we'll get it right into Hebrews chapter eleven, verse seven.
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That's gonna be the starting point for today's morning Devo. Brother kaevon,
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God bless you, Man, God bless my brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Hey, man, God bless you too. Man, welcome back. I'll
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be right back. Woh man, it's times, sister. That minute goes
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by so fast. Doctor Anne Teller, good morning, God bless you.
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Welcome to the morning Devo and man, Sister Joys. Good morning, all
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my brothers and sisters and Jesus Christ. Happy Tuesday. Yeah, Happy Tuesday.
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God bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo. My beautiful wife,
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you need Lopez morning blessings to everyone. I bless you, babe.
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It's good to see you on the Morning Devo. Rise and shine. Right,
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So let's go for it. Let's see what the word of God has
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for us today. Today. We're calling this one bold for Christ. Amen?
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And why not? Everybody's bold about what they believe. It's not for
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us to be bold about what we believe. And I'm not saying that you
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haven't been bold with your faith. I'm just saying that let's be encouraged today
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and know that we can be bold according to what God has done in people's
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lives that didn't even know that. And from the beginning. But Jesus is
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the alpha in a mega. God knows the beginning from the end to end,
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from the beginning. So if he asks of us to do some things
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because he knows that we could do it, when He empowers us to do
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it, and we could be bold and confident and courageous to be a Christ
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follower in these days that we're amen, Because a lot of people are mocking
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Jesus, right, but we know that they're deceived because God cannot be mocked.
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Whatever a man reaps, he was, so word of man sows he
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will reap. Amen. So we know that God is good and we know
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that we could trust him and be obedient. And being obedient to Christ in
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our time of days is boldness. It's called it is called happy Tuesday,
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but it's called happy taco to this day. Yeah. Hey, if you
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want to taco on Tuesdays, go right ahead. It makes sense, right,
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We're so used to hearing taco to that's great. Listen and get the
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scream ready for those who are watching. For those who are listening, no
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worries. I'm gonna be the word for word, so you already know how
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we do on the morning. Devo. Let's go for it. We have
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here both for Christ. Let me take this out of here. Amen.
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And the Word says and Hebrews chapter eleven, verse seven, list is closely
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man, because I'm gonna we're gonna talk about Noah, because Noah was used
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by God in a tremendous way. Amen. And we can learn a lot
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from Noah and how God used Noah. Man. He was eleven seven,
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by faith, I should have highlighted that by faith, Noah being warned by
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God concerning events as yet unseen, and Reverend fear constructed an art for the
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saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir
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of the righteousness that comes by what by faith? So boldness to me is
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by faith. We don't see God physically with our eyes. We don't feel
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God physically with our bodies. Sometimes right we don't know when He's asks of
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us to do something, we don't know the end result. But we have
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faith that whatever God warns us about, whatever God is concerned about, whatever
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God knows about, whatever He wants us to construct or to build with,
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whoever He wants us to reach, we're going to be heirs of the righteousness
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that comes by faith. By being bold enough to trust in the voice of
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God, in the word of God, and put our partation of God amen.
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And that way we can know that we can have this bold, courageous,
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contagious faith that people will wonder, how in the world do these people
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continue to move forward while they're being attacked, while they're being mocked, while
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they're being shunned, while they're being shamed while they're being accused. We move
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forward by faith, just like Noah moved forward by faith while when he was
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warned by God that something that he didn't even know about was yet unseen,
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was going to happen, and reverent fear, he did it anyway. So
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there's a clue here, and there's a principle here. By this, he
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condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that by faith, faith
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in God, faith in Christ, faith in the Lord, Amen, will
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cause you to be bold for Christ. It's a principle here, Amen.
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And we don't have to be afraid. God didn't give us a spirit of
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fear. You give us spirit of power and a sound mind. Amen.
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That spirit of fear, which is a spirit, is not from God.
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Don't be fearful, man, men and women, don't be fearful. I'm
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gonna give you some more. If you look at the biblical courage of people
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who were used all throughout the scripture, and man, we're gonna concentrate on
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know it. But when you look at it, you get to notice that
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they were regular people right called by God to do supernatural things. So a
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person or ordinary person called by God to do supernatural things right, extraordinary things,
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things that we know on our own is impossible. We could not do
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it. Amen. But with God, what does the scripture say? We
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could do all things through Christ, who gives us the strength to do it.
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We could do nothing without him. Without him, but we could do
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all things with Him. So if you look at the biblical profiles encourage,
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you get to see people who showed extraordinary bravery while they were afraid in fear.
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They did it anyway. Amen, That's what the bonus that I'm talking
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about today. If you're afraid to do something, but you know God calls
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you to do it, do it and fear that fear will go away because
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God has a perfect love, and his perfect love what capture. So as
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you move forward in faith, you get to see that your fear is getting
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left behind. When you move forward by faith, you get to see that
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your faith is going to conquer your fear. It's going to overcome your fear.
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So it's either two things happening. Either your faith is going to overcome
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your fear or your fear is going to overcome your faith. Right, So
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don't be afraid, be bold in Christ, be bold for Christ. Noah.
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Noah lived during a time of extreme wickedness. I think we're at that
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time too, right, This extreme wickedness going on to my left, to
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my right, on the screens, on the mobile devices, on TV,
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and the movies. When you meet certain people, extreme wickedness is going on.
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So Noah faced extreme wickedness and perversion. I just haded to explain to
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some ladies that I was driving to a stop to their home, picked them
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up from a doctor's office, and then I was listening real lightly to gospel
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music, gospel hip hop, gospel house music, gospel reggae, all that.
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And I heard the lady say that sounds like gospel music, but I
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don't like the way the beat. I don't like the way that is that
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rap. I don't like that. So I had to explain to her.
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I said I heard it, and I was like, okay, maybe I'll
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take a shot. I'll be bold and explained, I said, you probably
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won't like the forum. But for me, I grew up in hip hop
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culture, so to me, this is therapy. To me, this therapeutic,
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and it is gospel. It's gospel rap. They're rapping overbeats that sounds
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similar to what the world is. The problem is that the enemy took the
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music that was designed to worship unto the Lord and perverted it. He's a
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perverted, He's a perversion, a man. He took what was supposed to
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be for God a man and perverted it and used it for the world system.
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So it always seems like Christians the artist and the gospel artists, the
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gospel rappers and people who do music, it seems like we're catching up or
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we're following the trend of the world. But that's a lie of the enemy.
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We're actually supposed to be the ones that were teaching the world about this
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music. But if you go into the biblical principles and you go into the
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biblical way that music was presented, you get to see that we had a
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man and the enemy took it and perverted it. So that's all. It
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was a perversion, and we see that all throughout history, and the devil
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is still a liar. Amen, Doctor Ann says, Amen, every step
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in faith, every time you take a step, he takes many steps ahead.
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We only need to take one step, yes, one step at the
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time, and you'll be closer and closer and closer to your destiny. Closer
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and closer and closer to your purpose, closer and closer and closer to what
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God has called us to do. Amen, And ultimately, ultimately we're being
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conformed to the image of Christ, beingformed. We're being like Jesus a man.
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We're being bold because He gives us the boldness by way of his Holy
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Spirit. Thank you so much for your comment. So Noah living in extreme
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wickedness and perversion Genesis sixty seven. God said that he would blot out every
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created thing from the earth because of prevailing wickedness. It's like people think that
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God doesn't see wickedness. People think that we get over. Oh, the
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grace of God. I could just ask God for forgiveness after I did x
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y Z. But he sees everything we're doing in x y Z and he's
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a just God. So because God is a just God, he's a holy
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God, a loving God, and a just God. The justice of God
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causes God Amen to judge righteously. So be careful with that. You know
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that grace that you think you're taking advantage of, because you're really not.
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He sees what we're doing. He knows us. Amen. His love endures
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forever. Grace is amazing. You're you're right, Amen. But his justice
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is coming, Amen. And he's a just God as well. We only
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need to take one step. Faith without action means fear. Take a step
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by faith and the Holy Spirit will put us closer to be conformed by God.
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Yes, teach, he sees all praise the Lord. Amen. Amen.
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Yes he does. And that's what got me out of some perversion that
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I was in. Amen. Before. While I'll say the first year,
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God got me out of a couple of things, more Amen, delivered me
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from it because I realized that God sees all things. Noah lived during a
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time of stream wickedness. God said he was going to blot out every created
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thing from the earth because of prevailing wickedness. But Noah found favor in the
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eyes of the Lord Lord Jesus. Amen, God, you find favor in
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people. Yes, he found favor in Noah Itis six' eight. You
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can read it for yourself. I'm not making this up. He was a
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righteous man, blameless. Listen to this. Blameless in his generation. There's
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no way that we can't be blameless in our generation. Amen. Blameless,
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not perfect. Understand what I'm saying. Blameless, We're being perfected by the
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perfect One. But we can also be blameless in our generation. The generation
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is wicked. We don't have to be wicked. The generation has an unholy
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spirit. We have holy spirit. The generation takes what's wrong and makes it
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right. We look at what's right, and we know what's wrong. Right,
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we'll always be right. Wrong will always be wrong, Wrong will never
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be right, and right will never be wrong. Come on, we know
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what we know, and we move according to the faith that we have in
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Christ. Not faith in faith, not faith in the idol, not faith
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in other gods, but faith in Christ and man. Joanne says, he
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knows what we think. He knows what you are gonna say before you say
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it and it comes out of your mouth. He knows everything what we're going
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to do. God is so good. Yes, he knows, and he'll
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give us the boldness. He'll give us the faith, He'll give us the
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evidence of our faith, and we'll move forward knowing that we could be bold
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for Christ and in Christ because he's working or work through us, and it's
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always going to benefit someone else. A man, he was a righteous man,
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blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. Sounds familiar. Adam
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walk with God. Remember that Genesis six and nine. So being obedient to
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God and being called by God and doing what God called you to do right
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there alone, that's being bold. Let's not overthink this. Boldness is obedience
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when you're obedient to God. In the world that we're living in right now,
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you are being bold. Amen. You're standing for truth, You're standing
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for righteousness, You're standing for holiness. Amen, and just keep on standing.
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So pretty sure it took a work right for Noah to be brave and
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to obase God command to build the arc, because imagine hearing this from God.
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I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth
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is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the
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earth. Make yourself an arc of go forwood, make rooms in the arc,
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cover it in and out with pitch. For behold, I will establish
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my covenant to promise with you, and you shall come into the arc.
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You, your son, your wife, and your son's wives with you.
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Genesis six thirteen and fourteen, Genesis six seventeen and eighteen. So Noah had
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a lot of questions, right, I'm pretty sure he had a lot of
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chris to wait arc, What are we building an art for what is an
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arc? What is an arc? Use for? Because there was no flood
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yet, Amen, understand, he was being bold listening to the voice of
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God. Walk with God, so he knows the voice of God. If
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you walk with God and you know the voice of God. If I walk
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with God, I will know the voice of God. And a stranger's voice,
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we will not follow because now we know who's speaking. Amen. And
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most of the time, Lord, when I hear the Lord's voice, he's
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speaking to me, encouraging me to do some things that I know that will
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benefit someone else, not only me, but benefit someone else. That's how
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I know it's not the enemy. The enemy will not help us bring glory
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to God. The devil will not help us bring victory for God's kingdom.
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He won't do that. He's being used, Amen, to do other things.
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And he can be used to bring you to Christ. Because he's a
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liar. He has a lie. Then he has a lie again. He's
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I got lied so much by the enemy. I said, something is wrong
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here. Amen. I started waking up. God started shaking me. Amen.
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Right after night, soon after nine to eleven happened. Amen, I
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started thinking about my eternity. I started thinking about my immortality, my mortality.
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I started thinking about God a little bit more, because that shook me
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up when I nine to eleven happened. And then I started thinking, said,
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wait a minute, somebody's lying here. Amen. So I decided to
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trust, put my whole faith in trust, trust in a God that I
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did not know at the time. Amen. So I took a bold step
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of faith and asked God to change me and transform me. That was way
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back in two thousand and one. So pretty sure Noah had a lot of
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questions, right. I'm pretty sure that he was imagining what am I doing
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here? And his family and the people that was seeing him build this arc
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were wondering the same thing, like what are you doing? Do you think
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Doubt ever crept in while the ark was under construction, Think about it.
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You think he died and said, what am I doing? I don't even
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know what I'm building. I don't even know why I'm building it. All
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I know is that God told me to build it. Hey man, they
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kept on doing it. He was mocked, He was ridiculed by others for
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being a religious nut and a doomsday prepper, and yet he did all that
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God commanded him to do Genesis six twenty two. So we see why Noah
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obeyed God. The author of Hebrews said Noah built the arc in Reverend fear
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right, and the Bible says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning
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of knowledge. Fools, the spies, wisdom and instruction. Only a fool
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will disobey the Lord God, the Lord God, or ignore his commands and
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warnings. And Noah was no fool. He was a man that was being
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courageous. He was a man that was living for a purpose. He was
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a man believing the voice of God. He was a man. Although he
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didn't understand, he kept on moving forward anyway. That's how I am.
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I'm I'm not saying I'm like Noah. I'm just saying I am. If
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I don't understand something, amen, I move forward anyway in it when I
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know it's the voice of God speaking. So move forward. Whether or not
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you understand, Amen, you hear the voice of God. Move on the
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voice. Amen, you see the word of God. Move on the word
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of God. You might not understand it all. I know. I don't
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understand it all everything that of reading the scriptures, but I do know one
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thing for sure, that my boldness comes from my faith in Christ. Your
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boldness will come from your faith in Christ. He will never leave you broke,
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busted, or discussed. He would never forsake you, who never abandon
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you. He will never put you to shame. He would never let you
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be defeated. Amen. You get the victory in Christ because Christ has the
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victory. So there's more here. Amen. I'll probably visit this again some
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other time, but I'm out of time. So God bless you all.
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God keep you all, and remember always that God is good. Peace