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Morning Devotion from John: One with the Father · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Morning family good morning god bless you welcome back to
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Speaker 1: So let's start in the morning, Devo, with a prayer. Today,
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Speaker 1: we're calling this one, One with the Father. One with
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Speaker 1: the Father. We're going to be in John chapter 10,
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Speaker 1: verses 37 and 38. Are you ready? Let's pray. Father,
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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus the Christ, I thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for right now, for this opportunity today, this
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Speaker 1: moment that we're having right now, this encounter with you,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. I speak life. I speak hope. I speak faith.
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Speaker 1: I speak victory. I speak protection over every single person,
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Speaker 1: including myself, me, my wife, my family, our children, our
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Speaker 1: whole entire bloodlines from both sides that you, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: will cover us, complete us, continue to fill us with
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Speaker 1: your spirit, continue to fill us with a great measure
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Speaker 1: of faith for today. I pray that over every single
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Speaker 1: person that's listening or watching right now in the powerful
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus. that Lord God, you will continue to
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Speaker 1: be the perfect living example of perfection that we can
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Speaker 1: see on this side of eternity, hoping to see you
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Speaker 1: again in the next part of eternity. I pray, Lord God,
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Speaker 1: that you will be continuously glorified and magnified. Your will
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Speaker 1: and your purpose will be evident, clear to us that
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Speaker 1: we will know how to live this life out in
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Speaker 1: godliness and righteousness. Thank you, Lord God, that you give
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Speaker 1: us everything that we need to live a life in
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Speaker 1: abundance on this side of eternity. I pray this by faith,
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Speaker 1: knowing that you hear our prayers and you answer our
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Speaker 1: prayers according to your will and your perfect purpose for
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Speaker 1: our lives. So Lord God, I speak everything forward that
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Speaker 1: you have today in a victorious way by faith. Also,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, I take this opportunity to pray for my
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Speaker 1: nephew right now. Lord God, um, that has been AWOL
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Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. I pray peace over his heart,
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Speaker 1: his life, protection over him right now in the powerful
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus. And I ask, Lord God, that you
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Speaker 1: would have mercy on him and that you have grace
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Speaker 1: upon his life and that he will be returned or
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Speaker 1: he will come back to the family. Lord God, and
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Speaker 1: although this is personal and private, I pray this by
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Speaker 1: faith and attach my faith with all those who have
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Speaker 1: faith in you, knowing that you are able and willing
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Speaker 1: to do what must be done according to your will
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Speaker 1: and purpose. In Jesus' holy name, I pray this by faith.
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Speaker 1: And all those who agree, we say amen to the amen.
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Speaker 1: Let's get into the scriptures. John chapter 10, 37 and 38.
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Speaker 1: You can share this out with as many people as
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Speaker 1: possible during the morning Devo. Even after we're live, amen,
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Speaker 1: share this out to as many people as possible. And
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Speaker 1: that'll help us really give the gospel out to more
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Speaker 1: people than we could ever imagine. We may never know
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Speaker 1: how many people get into this gospel. We never know
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Speaker 1: how many people we reach with the gospel. But we
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Speaker 1: can know that we had a part to play in
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Speaker 1: God's purpose and God's plan for all of his people. Right?
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Speaker 1: For all his people. He completes us. He knows us.
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Speaker 1: And he's willing to work with us daily. Amen? So
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Speaker 1: let's go to the scripture here. John chapter 10, verses
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Speaker 1: 37 and 38. Jesus said, I am not doing the
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Speaker 1: works of my father. If I am not doing the
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Speaker 1: works of my father, then do not believe me. So
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Speaker 1: Jesus himself is saying, listen, if I'm not it, if
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Speaker 1: I'm not doing the works of my father, then do
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Speaker 1: not believe me. But if I am doing them, even
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Speaker 1: though you do not believe me, believe the works so
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Speaker 1: that you may know and understand that the Father is
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Speaker 1: in me, and I am in the Father. See that?
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Speaker 1: Jesus is making it clear. He says, okay, you don't
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Speaker 1: have to believe me, especially if I'm not doing the
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Speaker 1: works of my Father. Very clear, right? There's no way
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Speaker 1: of you or me saying, well, Jesus never claimed to
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Speaker 1: be God. Jesus never claimed to be one with the Father.
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Speaker 1: Jesus never claimed to be doing the works of his Father.
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Speaker 1: We can't say that. We see it right here. And
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Speaker 1: he's also telling the people, listen, you don't want to
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Speaker 1: believe me. Go ahead. That's your choice. But you see
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Speaker 1: the works that I'm doing. You see who I'm doing
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Speaker 1: this work in, like whose name I'm doing it in
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Speaker 1: and whose power I'm doing it in. You see that, right?
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Speaker 1: It's because he wants us to understand that him and
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Speaker 1: the Father are one. Right? One with the Father, I'm
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Speaker 1: calling this one. This is an amazing scripture because Jesus
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Speaker 1: is presenting himself as one, not a part of the Father.
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Speaker 1: He's saying, I'm one with the Father. Hope you can
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Speaker 1: see that clearly in the scripture. Amen? So you have
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Speaker 1: to have the Holy Ghost. to understand what Jesus is saying.
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Speaker 1: Because if you just read this uninspired, you'd be like, well,
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Speaker 1: I don't see anywhere where he's saying he's God. Like
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Speaker 1: people will literally tell me and tell you, well, where
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Speaker 1: does it say in the Bible, in the New Testament,
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Speaker 1: Old Testament, that Jesus is God? And you read scriptures
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Speaker 1: like this, and by way of Holy Spirit, we know
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Speaker 1: exactly what the Lord is trying to say here. But uninspired, right?
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Speaker 1: If you don't have the Holy Spirit in you, the working,
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Speaker 1: living Holy Spirit in you, this would be hard. for
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Speaker 1: a lot of people to catch. And I understand that
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Speaker 1: because I was one of those people before Christ, right?
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Speaker 1: And you were one of those people before Christ who
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Speaker 1: these scriptures would just fly over our heads. And we
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Speaker 1: had no idea what Jesus was actually trying to say.
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Speaker 1: So Jesus wasn't asking people to believe in him. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't asking people to believe in him based on what
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Speaker 1: he said, right? Because it would have been simple. Oh,
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Speaker 1: Just believe what I'm saying, right? He could have been like, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: like a lot of preachers today, they're kind of like
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Speaker 1: Han artists and manipulators. A lot of preachers are manipulating,
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Speaker 1: using the scripture to manipulate me and to manipulate you
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Speaker 1: or try to manipulate us. He wasn't that person. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't asking people to believe him simply because of what
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Speaker 1: he said. He literally pointed them to the works he
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Speaker 1: was doing, works that revealed his relationship with the Father. Reveal, revelation.
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Speaker 1: Jesus was revealing himself as doing the works of the Father.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't no pie-in-the-sky idea. It wasn't a concept. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't a construct. No, he was doing the works of
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Speaker 1: the Father. Jesus said, The Father is in me, and
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Speaker 1: I am in the Father. In other words, they were inseparable.
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Speaker 1: You see Jesus, right, and his works. You've seen the
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Speaker 1: Father and the Father's works. Although Jesus is not the Father,
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Speaker 1: the Father is not the Son, Holy Spirit is not,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're all three individual, but all one. Now,
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Speaker 1: ask me to mathematically explain that. I can't. Ask me
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Speaker 1: to simplify the idea of the holy triune God. I
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Speaker 1: can't simplify it. It's a God concept. It's a God idea.
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Speaker 1: It's a God thing. Amen. So if you don't have
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit in you, continue to try to understand yourself.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to work. Holy Spirit will reveal the truth.
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit will reveal the triune God. Holy Spirit will
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Speaker 1: reveal these words of truth to be true in your
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Speaker 1: life and in my life. So there's a lesson, so
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Speaker 1: many lessons that we could get from this, right? Ask
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Speaker 1: yourself a question. What does your life reveal about the
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Speaker 1: God that you say and I say we follow? So
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Speaker 1: we say we follow the Lord Jesus. What does our
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Speaker 1: life reveal about that? And I'm not saying in a
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Speaker 1: perfect way. We live in a world that's broken. There's
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Speaker 1: going to be a lot of brokenness. We live in
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Speaker 1: a world that's fallen, so there's going to be a
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Speaker 1: lot of challenges and temptations. I'm not saying, oh, you
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Speaker 1: have to be perfect. You say you're a Christian, you
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Speaker 1: believe in Jesus, you have to follow him perfectly. That's impossible.
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Speaker 1: Jesus knows that. God knows that right holy spirit definitely
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Speaker 1: reminds us that if it wasn't for the perfecting work
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Speaker 1: and the finishing work of the lord jesus christ in
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Speaker 1: our lives we wouldn't have a chance but with holy
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Speaker 1: spirit in us living through us we have a chance
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Speaker 1: not only a chance we could live a life of
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Speaker 1: godliness But what does your life reveal about the God
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Speaker 1: you say you follow? Right? People are not always going
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Speaker 1: to listen to what I'm saying. People are not always
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Speaker 1: going to listen to what you say about your faith.
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Speaker 1: But they will definitely 100% notice how you live it out. Right? Okay?
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Speaker 1: They might see you mess up, but they want to
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Speaker 1: see how are you going to jump back in the game.
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Speaker 1: How are you going to get back up? Right? You
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Speaker 1: might be, you know, in a wrong crowd one day.
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Speaker 1: And because you're surrounded by the wrong crowd, the Bible says,
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Speaker 1: if you surround yourself, I'm paraphrasing, if you surround yourself
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Speaker 1: with the wrong people, you might be doing the wrong things. Right? Paraphrasing.
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Speaker 1: You see it in the scriptures. You know, bad company
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Speaker 1: corrupts good morals, the Bible says. So we have to
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Speaker 1: watch who we're with. You know, watch what we're following,
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Speaker 1: who we're following. It doesn't mean that you can't be
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Speaker 1: with people that are not believers. I mean, Jesus was
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Speaker 1: among unbelievers a lot, right? But he didn't do what
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Speaker 1: unbelievers were doing. He was surrounded by bad company. But
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Speaker 1: since he was God, the God man, his morality was
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Speaker 1: not corrupted, right? His works were continually from God. He
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Speaker 1: is the perfect reflection of the Father. Amen. So I'm
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Speaker 1: not talking about that. Jesus was surrounded by sinners, yet
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Speaker 1: Jesus himself never sinned. But when it comes to us,
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Speaker 1: what are we showing people? We say we serve the Lord,
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Speaker 1: and I think this is the reason why a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are afraid to come forward with their faith,
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Speaker 1: because we all know that we're not going to get
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Speaker 1: it right all the time. People really take that to heart, like,
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Speaker 1: I can't be a hypocrite. I used to say that too,
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Speaker 1: when people used to introduce me to the gospel and
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Speaker 1: He said, no, I'm not going to do that. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to be a hypocrite. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be going to church and then leaving the church and
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Speaker 1: doing the same old, same old. That's because at that
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Speaker 1: point in my life, I didn't understand that it wasn't
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Speaker 1: what I was actually able to do. It was about
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Speaker 1: what Holy Spirit God was able to do in my
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Speaker 1: life and through my life. And he could do the
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Speaker 1: same thing in your life and through your life as well.
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Speaker 1: He can move. So when you walk in love, forgive
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Speaker 1: when it's difficult. When you show grace, when you serve others,
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Speaker 1: when you stand for truth, and when you trust God
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Speaker 1: during the most difficult seasons of your life, your life
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Speaker 1: will start becoming a testimony, a testimony of what God
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Speaker 1: can do in anybody who says yes to him, right?
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Speaker 1: You start developing a testimony. People will start looking at
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Speaker 1: your life and be like, well, Sam don't always get
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Speaker 1: it right. He's not perfect for sure. He doesn't have
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Speaker 1: a perfect marriage, a perfect family. He's not a perfect husband.
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Speaker 1: He's not a perfect father. He's not a perfect brother.
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Speaker 1: He's not a perfect son. But something about Sam continues
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Speaker 1: to reveal what God can do in a life of
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Speaker 1: a person who just said yes. Simple. You don't have
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Speaker 1: to put all this pressure on yourself and say, man,
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Speaker 1: I got to get this right 100% all the time.
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Speaker 1: That's too much. You'll be doing way too much to
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Speaker 1: try to be a perfect born-again believer. What we need
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Speaker 1: to do sometimes is just show up, testify of who
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Speaker 1: God is in our hearts and our life, testify of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: how he saved us, how he rescued us, and people
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Speaker 1: will see the change in your life. They'll notice the
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Speaker 1: bad things, but they'll notice the good things too, right?
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Speaker 1: Sister Velvet, I see you. God bless you. It's good
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Speaker 1: to see you in the morning, my sister, my friend.
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Speaker 1: So stay connected to the Father. No matter what you're
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Speaker 1: going through, right? Stay connected. Hold on to the promises
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Speaker 1: of God over your life and over my life. He's
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Speaker 1: not done with us yet. His promises are all good.
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Speaker 1: His promises are all yea and amen. So you don't
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Speaker 1: have to prove yourself to anyone. I always say this. Listen,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to prove yourself to me. When people
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Speaker 1: are trying to, you know, hand me a business card saying,
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Speaker 1: I'm apostle this, I'm bishop that, and this, that, and
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Speaker 1: the third. And I run this church and this ministry.
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Speaker 1: So they're trying to show all the accolades. And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: what is your name again? Right? Like when we introduce ourselves,
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Speaker 1: we don't have to introduce what we do. We should
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Speaker 1: just introduce ourselves of who we are. Start with your name, right?
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Speaker 1: You don't have to prove yourself to anyone. If Jesus
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Speaker 1: lives inside of you and Jesus lives inside of me,
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Speaker 1: we're going to know that somewhere along the line, amen,
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Speaker 1: He's going to be glorified in our hearts and our lives,
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Speaker 1: through our lives and what we say, what we do.
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Speaker 1: And also because we live in a fallen, broken world
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Speaker 1: and we're dealing all battling the flesh. We all have
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Speaker 1: the flesh and the flesh is always at war with
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Speaker 1: the spirit. We know there's going to be times of
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Speaker 1: mess ups. But thank God for his grace and his
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Speaker 1: mercy that when we mess up, he could take that
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Speaker 1: mess and turn it into a message for others to
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Speaker 1: see that although We might not always get it right,
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Speaker 1: but there's one who lives inside of us who always
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Speaker 1: gets it right. There's one who lives inside of us
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Speaker 1: that doesn't sin, that doesn't lie, that doesn't fail. We
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Speaker 1: have someone who lives inside of us that leads people
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Speaker 1: and leads us into all truth. So if you continue
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Speaker 1: to hold on to the Lord, continue to seek truth,
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Speaker 1: continue to seek love and strive in the things of God,
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Speaker 1: we're going to get to a place where people could
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Speaker 1: testify about us. And they will be our witness or
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Speaker 1: witness that God is doing something amazing in a life
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Speaker 1: that says yes to him, right? So when Jesus said
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Speaker 1: he's one with the Father, and if Jesus sent us
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit God, that's one with the Father, amen? We
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Speaker 1: eventually will become one with the Father. Although people might
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Speaker 1: think that's progressive Christianity, what I just said, that eventually
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Speaker 1: this will happen. I'm just saying that when God sets
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Speaker 1: us apart, and he sanctifies us, right? He's doing a
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Speaker 1: work in our hearts and our lives daily. It's not
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Speaker 1: a one and done situation that you pray a prayer,
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Speaker 1: you say you're born again, and that's it. No, it's
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Speaker 1: an actual progress that's going on. God is transforming us,
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Speaker 1: renewing us, restoring us. He gave us a new mind
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Speaker 1: and a new heart. We don't have that desperately wicked
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Speaker 1: heart anymore when we're born again. What we're dealing with
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Speaker 1: that seems like we still have that same heart. It's
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Speaker 1: not the heart. It's not the mind. It's the flesh.
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Speaker 1: Our own sinful, evil desires, the Bible says, I think
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Speaker 1: in the book of James, that leads us away or
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Speaker 1: we stray away from the God who loves us. So
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Speaker 1: stay connected to the Father and let your life speak, right?
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Speaker 1: Not just by word or deed, just let your life speak.
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Speaker 1: When your life starts speaking louder than your actions, amen?
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Speaker 1: Or when your actions are speaking louder than What you say,
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Speaker 1: I should say. People will understand what the Lord is
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Speaker 1: doing in your life individually. I was watching a couple
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Speaker 1: of men before I got saved for like two, three
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Speaker 1: years almost. And I was just watching their lives because
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Speaker 1: they kept on preaching the gospel to me. Listen, you
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Speaker 1: got to follow Jesus. So I said, other than what
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Speaker 1: they were saying, let me sit back and watch their lives.
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Speaker 1: Their lives were impressive enough to me to see that
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Speaker 1: they were walking differently. They weren't doing the same old,
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Speaker 1: same old like every other person was doing. They weren't
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Speaker 1: doing the religious things that every other religious person was doing.
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Speaker 1: They were actually living the life that they were claiming
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Speaker 1: to me that they were living. Although there was areas
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Speaker 1: that were not 100% that I've seen, but that wasn't
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Speaker 1: enough for me to say, oh, they're not real. They're
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Speaker 1: not real born-again brothers. These brothers were real enough in
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Speaker 1: my life to... Have me think, because they were being
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Speaker 1: used by God, to have me think of the possibility
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Speaker 1: of me becoming a son of the living God. Amen?
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Speaker 1: And you probably know people like that, too. God bless,
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Speaker 1: Brother Maurice. It's good to see you on the Morning Diva.
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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, my bro and my friend. So,
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Speaker 1: if someone only watched your life today, what would they
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Speaker 1: learn about you? Or what would they learn about God
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Speaker 1: in you? well, what would they learn about God? If
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Speaker 1: someone was watching you and me today, what would they
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Speaker 1: learn about God, right? And this is not to put
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Speaker 1: like a guilt trip on us and say, well, it
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Speaker 1: depends on how we're living and that's how they'll see God.
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Speaker 1: Not necessarily. But we have these little pockets of life
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Speaker 1: and these little moments that we meet people. And if
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Speaker 1: you just show kindness, if you just smile, if you
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Speaker 1: just listen sometimes, You have eye contact when you're speaking
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Speaker 1: to somebody. Those little meetings, amen, might be opportunities for
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Speaker 1: people to see the love of God expressed through the
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Speaker 1: man or woman of God, right? The child of God
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Speaker 1: can show the love of God, the mercy of God,
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Speaker 1: the grace of God in those little pockets of time
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Speaker 1: that God allows us to share. Sometimes we don't even
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Speaker 1: have to say that we're born-again believers. We could just
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Speaker 1: walk into a community, walk into a retail store, walk
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Speaker 1: into the grocery store, something like that, and just be
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Speaker 1: who God called you to be. It's not that difficult.
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Speaker 1: We don't have to act a part. We just have
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Speaker 1: to be a part of who we're a part of.
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Speaker 1: We're a part of the kingdom of God, and we
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Speaker 1: are one with the Father because Jesus lives in us
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Speaker 1: by way of Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is
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Speaker 1: one with the Father. Jesus is one with the Father, right?
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Speaker 1: So we have everything we need to testify of who
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Speaker 1: we serve. Think about it. It's not a work that
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Speaker 1: we could try to polish up. I'm real skeptical about
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Speaker 1: a polished gospel in a polished church or polished ministry
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Speaker 1: that everything's lined up so perfectly, that challenges my thinking
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Speaker 1: because I'm like, what world are they living in? Are
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Speaker 1: they living in this world or are they living in
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Speaker 1: some other world that I don't know about that everything
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Speaker 1: has to be perfect? Church chairs have to be measured perfectly.
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Speaker 1: This has to be done perfectly. Only a certain group
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Speaker 1: of people can minister in that church because those are
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Speaker 1: the supposedly called out ones for that. You know what
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Speaker 1: I mean? If it's too polished, it looks to me
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Speaker 1: like it's AI, right? Because AI looks too polished. AI,
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Speaker 1: the music especially, sounds too good. Now we can really
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Speaker 1: tell that's AI. It sounds too good. So the same
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Speaker 1: as people that I see that are trying to be
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Speaker 1: too perfect, I'm not buying that. Sunday after Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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Speaker 1: whenever they minister, they show up and it's like their
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Speaker 1: life is 100% perfect. When I meet people like that,
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Speaker 1: first of all, I'm not convinced that no one is
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Speaker 1: 100% every time. But they're saying they are and I
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Speaker 1: don't know why. It's like they're trying to prove something
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Speaker 1: to people and that's not it. But when you meet
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Speaker 1: genuine leaders, pastors, apostles, when you meet genuine prophets, when
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Speaker 1: you meet genuine evangelists and teachers of the Word of God,
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Speaker 1: they'll tell you themselves, listen, I don't have it all together,
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Speaker 1: but what I do have is the Lord who has
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Speaker 1: it all together. And that Lord, that Father, that Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit lives within me. Right? And then we take it
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Speaker 1: from there. The most impressive people that I have met
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Speaker 1: so far in my Christian walk are people who allow
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Speaker 1: themselves to be used by God. Right? It's like Wow.
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Speaker 1: When they preach the word, they're on point. Then when
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Speaker 1: they start making commentary, it could be like me. I
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Speaker 1: start making commentary, I could slide off or drift off
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Speaker 1: a little bit and go my own way. It happens
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Speaker 1: to anyone. So to safeguard myself and people who do
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Speaker 1: this safeguard themselves by sticking to the scriptures, reading the
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Speaker 1: word of God, letting Holy Spirit teach through his word. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So that way we can't miss. You want to learn
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Speaker 1: how to pray the way God wants us to pray?
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Speaker 1: Read his word and pray his word back. Right? You
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Speaker 1: can't miss. But of course, by way of Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: he'll give us what to say. He'll show us how
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Speaker 1: to say it, how to do it. Amen? If we
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Speaker 1: follow the lead of Holy Spirit, he promises us to
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Speaker 1: lead us into all truth. Not to all tradition, not
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Speaker 1: to all religion, but to all truth. Jesus says, don't
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Speaker 1: believe me If I'm not doing the works of my father,
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Speaker 1: don't believe me. Like who other than Jesus would say this?
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Speaker 1: What other religion or what other spiritual leader can say
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Speaker 1: what Jesus just said? No. A lot of religions out
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Speaker 1: there saying, follow the guru, follow the prophet, follow these
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Speaker 1: people because they get it right all the time. Jesus
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Speaker 1: himself said, if I'm not doing the works of my father,
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Speaker 1: then do not believe in me. You see that? Jesus
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Speaker 1: is so confident in who he is that he's even
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Speaker 1: telling the people, if you don't see me doing the
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Speaker 1: works of God, then don't follow. Plain and simple. It's
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Speaker 1: just like that. But he says, if you see me
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Speaker 1: doing them, the works of the Father, even though you
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Speaker 1: don't believe in me, that I'm the Messiah, this is
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Speaker 1: what Jesus is telling the people, believe in the works. Why?
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Speaker 1: So that you may know, not only know, but know
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Speaker 1: and understand that That the Father is in me and
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Speaker 1: I am in the Father. He's showing the oneness of
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Speaker 1: who he is with Yahweh. Right? I can't say that,
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Speaker 1: but Jesus can. He's showing, well, I could possibly say,
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Speaker 1: if you see me acting crazy, don't follow my craziness.
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Speaker 1: Follow the gospel message that I preached for years. Don't follow,
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Speaker 1: like if I start moving different in the wrong direction,
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Speaker 1: don't follow me. Amen? But when Jesus says it, it
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Speaker 1: holds way more weight than when I'm saying it. You
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Speaker 1: get what I'm saying? And you can say that to
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Speaker 1: people too. Listen, when you see me messing up, don't
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Speaker 1: think that's because God is messing up. That's only because
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Speaker 1: I'm a human and I'm messing up. Right? Just read
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Speaker 1: the scriptures, point people to the Lord Jesus, point people
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Speaker 1: to his word, and you won't miss because God doesn't
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Speaker 1: fail us. Jesus never failed us. Holy Spirit is always
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Speaker 1: telling the truth. So we need to be followers of
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Speaker 1: the Lord, believers and followers, and point people to the
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. You will never miss when we point
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Speaker 1: people to the one who is almighty, all-knowing, omnipresent, full
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Speaker 1: of justice, grace, and mercy, and the God who loves
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Speaker 1: because he is love. You won't miss. Now it's up
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Speaker 1: to the person that you're sharing this with or you're
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Speaker 1: directing to the Lord It's up to them whether or
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Speaker 1: not they're going to receive that as true or not,
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Speaker 1: whether they're going to believe in Jesus or not, or
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Speaker 1: they receive or reject Jesus. That's up to them. But
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Speaker 1: our part to play is to show that Jesus is
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Speaker 1: one with the Father and the Father is one with him.
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Speaker 1: So therefore, Jesus is the perfect representation of who God
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Speaker 1: is when he came in the form of a man,
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Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ. God the Father didn't create God
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Speaker 1: the Son. God the Father sent his only begotten Son
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Speaker 1: to this world So that whoever believes in him should
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Speaker 1: not perish but have everlasting life. John chapter 3 verse 16.
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Speaker 1: We see that, right? There's a lot more here. But,
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Speaker 1: you know, I shared a declaration right before I went
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Speaker 1: live here. And the declaration that we can make today
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Speaker 1: is I am connected to God through the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: Declare that. How are you connected? How are you Christians
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Speaker 1: thinking today? We're saying, why do Christians say that you
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Speaker 1: guys know God and you're connected to the Father? Because
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Speaker 1: Jesus said it. I am connected to God through Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: My words and actions will reflect the Father's love, will
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Speaker 1: reflect the Father's truth and character. I will let my life,
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Speaker 1: this is a declaration, I will let my life be
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Speaker 1: a testimony of who He is. It's the letting part
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Speaker 1: that sticks out to me. Let God be God in
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Speaker 1: your life and in my life. Let God work through you.
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Speaker 1: Let God work through me, right? And you'll see the
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Speaker 1: difference of the will that you have and that I have.
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Speaker 1: Once we allow God to do his thing, willfully allow
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Speaker 1: God to do his thing. Because you notice God never
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Speaker 1: will force you to have his way through you or
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Speaker 1: through me. He wants us to allow him to work
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Speaker 1: through us That way we can experience and others will
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Speaker 1: see and experience the works of the Father through us.
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Speaker 1: Jesus said, if I'm not doing the works of my Father,
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Speaker 1: then do not believe in me. To me, that's next level.
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Speaker 1: That's next level confidence. He's like, what you see is
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Speaker 1: what you get. I'm not doing the works of God.
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Speaker 1: Don't believe me. But he says, if I am doing them,
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Speaker 1: even though you don't believe me, believe the works of
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Speaker 1: Believe the works, the signs, the miracles, the wonders, the
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Speaker 1: prophetic word, the completion of Moses' law. When you see
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Speaker 1: the perfection in Jesus, then you're going to have to
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Speaker 1: be honest with yourself and say, is he the Messiah?
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Speaker 1: Is he the Christ? Is he the God-man that everyone's
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Speaker 1: been talking about for centuries? Right? After a while, you're
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Speaker 1: going to run out of excuses. If you're honest, you're
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Speaker 1: going to be like, yes, he is exactly who he
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Speaker 1: says he is. He's the Lord Jesus Christ. the Mashiach McGee,
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Speaker 1: the anointed one. Amen. The completion of the law. And
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Speaker 1: he's the ultimate judge. And he's coming back with new
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Speaker 1: heaven and new earth. But today he wants to save
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Speaker 1: you and give you a born again experience. But I'm
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Speaker 1: out of time. I hope you have a powerful, wonderful weekend.
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Speaker 1: From the time of this recording, it's Friday. So the
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Speaker 1: weekend is upon us. God bless you all. I hope
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Speaker 1: you're blessed today. I hope you resemble the Lord Jesus
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Speaker 1: Christ today. Don't put a lot of pressure on yourself
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Speaker 1: to do that. God bless you all. God keep you all.
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Speaker 1: And remember always that God is good. Peace.