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Authentic Imitationology - 127 [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: I wanted family. Good morning, God blessed you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the morning Devo. Which of Bro Sam Lopez aka
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  Speaker 1: Dj Sam Rock. So one is with a z dot
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  Speaker 1: org live. That someone is with a z dot org
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  Speaker 1: and streaming on social media platforms that allow this stream
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  Speaker 1: to go through today's Friday. So we switch gears and
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  Speaker 1: we get into imitation knowlogy, authentic imitationlogy, Amen, where we
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  Speaker 1: try our hardest and our best to imitate the most
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  Speaker 1: successful person who has ever lived on this planet, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ himself.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling this one Jesus Connect. We have a connect, amen,
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  Speaker 1: and our connection to heaven is the Lord Jesus. Jesus Connect.
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  Speaker 1: When we stay connected to the Lord, Amen, we are
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  Speaker 1: doing good. We're doing fine, we are well, we are good.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is going to go according to the plan and
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  Speaker 1: purpose and will of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I have this across my screens. Try,
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  Speaker 1: but it's good.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Jesus Connect.
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  Speaker 1: Abiding, abiding in God is staying connected to the vine,
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  Speaker 1: connected to the vine, the tree of life connected to
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  Speaker 1: the vine, the fruit connected to the vine, Amen, which
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  Speaker 1: is Jesus. And that connection, that connection right there becomes
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  Speaker 1: your shield against sin. Jesus never sinned connected to him, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: so you'll sin less man.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus connect is the way to go.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus connect is the abiding part of where the word
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  Speaker 1: says that we abide, we remain in him, and He
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  Speaker 1: remains in us.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: John fifteen, John, Chapter fifteen, Verses four and five. Today
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  Speaker 1: on Authentic Imitationology, this is episode one hundred and twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: That means one hundred and twenty seven times, at least
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven times. We got together on Fridays, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and we started to learn how to imitate the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ through his word, Amen, through his perfect example.
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  Speaker 1: And that's because we have the Jesus connect. We are connected,
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  Speaker 1: we are abiding, we are remaining. He is remaining in us.
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  Speaker 1: We are remaining in him. Don't let go of your
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  Speaker 1: connection to God. Don't let go to your connection with
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus. So if you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: pray requests, or anything along those lines, please do not
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  Speaker 1: hesitate to leave your comment on the live chat.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're here for. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We get together, we speak, we talk, we read the word. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we pray for one another. And we engage with one another. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: share this out to a lot of people so that
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  Speaker 1: way they could get engaged as well. And we also
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  Speaker 1: have a large podcast platform, and thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for being on that platform. If you haven't subscribed to
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  Speaker 1: our YouTube channel or to our podcast, please go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and do that today and you'll be blessed for it,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be blessed to have you subscribed. And also
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  Speaker 1: if you're not on our email list or on our
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  Speaker 1: text list, amen, please get on that as well, so
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  Speaker 1: that way, you know, we could grow this together. We
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  Speaker 1: could grow in the grace and the knowledge of who
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is together, and we will be authentic imitators of
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  Speaker 1: who Jesus is in our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. So let's pray first.
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  Speaker 1: After we pray, we'll shed us out for like sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: and then on the other side of those sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get right back into this morning Devo. Amen, this
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  Speaker 1: morning Devo as we move forward. So let's go forward. Father,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you that we have the ultimate powerful connection,
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  Speaker 1: that we have the abiding, living, holy, righteous One living
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  Speaker 1: within our bodies physically, emotionally and spiritually. Thank you, Lord
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  Speaker 1: God for saving us, rescuing us keeping us, staying with us,
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  Speaker 1: that you have a perfect plan and perfect, perfect purpose
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  Speaker 1: for our lives. I pray, Lord God, that this Jesus
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  Speaker 1: connect will never never ever go away. And I think,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, that your promises in your word for this
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  Speaker 1: connection it's always yes and amen, that you will never
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  Speaker 1: leave us nor forsake us, that you will be with
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  Speaker 1: us even to the end of the age. So I
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  Speaker 1: speak life, I thank you, Lord God, for everything that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing continuously in the lives of everyone, all those
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  Speaker 1: whosoevers who call upon.
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  Speaker 2: Your name to be saved.
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  Speaker 1: I pray, Lord God, a hedge of protection, a mighty
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  Speaker 1: hadge of protection against the evil one in this world,
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  Speaker 1: against the evil ones that are trying to put harm,
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  Speaker 1: or trying to destroy, or trying to distract. I pray
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  Speaker 1: that over myself, my wife, our children, my grandchildren, our grandchildren,
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  Speaker 1: our family members, our siblings, our everyone, Lord God, from
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  Speaker 1: the very youngest to the very oldest, and every single
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  Speaker 1: person in between, a hedge of protection in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, whether they're in school, work, whether they're home,
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  Speaker 1: wherever they find themselves, we dispatch ark ween angels right
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  Speaker 1: now to every single individual place.
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  Speaker 2: They will be just rescue.
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  Speaker 1: That they will be protected, goded, and guarded by your
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  Speaker 1: holy angels. I pray this over myself and over every
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  Speaker 1: single person that's listening or watching right now, in the
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  Speaker 1: powerful name of Jesus. I pray this by faith, and
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  Speaker 1: thank you Lord God that we have this Jesus connection
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus Holy Name. I pray it's by faith. And
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  Speaker 1: all those who agree, we say Amen to the Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Help me share this out sixty seconds. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get right into today's morning Devo. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: be in the Book of John chapter fifteen, verses four
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  Speaker 1: and five.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right back. We're back. We're back. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, my love, my systems freezing up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. So listen, let's go for it. Let's look
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  Speaker 1: at what the Word of God says, and let's apply
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  Speaker 1: what we learned today.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It does us well when we not only know the
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  Speaker 1: word or read the word or hear the word, but
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  Speaker 1: when we do and we'll be applying what we know,
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  Speaker 1: Amen to be true. That's how we see the power
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  Speaker 1: of God. That's how we see the authority of God's word.
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  Speaker 1: That's how we see if this is.
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  Speaker 2: Real or not.
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  Speaker 1: When you apply God's word, amen, not a google's word,
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  Speaker 1: not my word, not your word, but the word.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And when you start doing that, you realize, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I should have been doing this so much longer.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I should have been doing this all the time. But
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  Speaker 1: God is graceful, God is merciful. God has patience with us.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So he's not going to hold us and say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago I called you and you're just coming now.
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  Speaker 2: God is not that type of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be patient with us, and patient with you and
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  Speaker 1: patient with me. And you'll start noticing, noticing his grace
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  Speaker 1: more and more as you apply his word more and
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  Speaker 1: more in your life, Amen, and through your life. So
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  Speaker 1: let me get this on the screen here, Amen, authentic
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  Speaker 1: imentationology for those who are just listening from Cellar Radio Network.
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  Speaker 1: So when is with a z RG or the podcast
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  Speaker 1: audio only, no worries are going to read this word
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  Speaker 1: for word.
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  Speaker 2: I know you don't see what's on the screen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus connect and the Word of God says in the
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  Speaker 1: Book of John, chapter fifteen, verses four and five. This
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  Speaker 1: is the living word of God speaking the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: himself we're quoting what the Lord himself has said. Lord says,
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  Speaker 1: remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just
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  Speaker 1: as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining
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  Speaker 1: in the vine, neither can you bear fruit producing evidence
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  Speaker 1: of your faith. We have evidence of our faith. Our
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  Speaker 1: faith is backed by factual evidence. Amen, unless you remain
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  Speaker 1: in me. So, in other words, Jesus says, if you're
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  Speaker 1: not a Me, you're not gonna get these benefits.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna bear good fruit if you're not remaining
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  Speaker 1: if you're not abiding in Christ Jesus. Okay, why Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: I am the vine, You are the branches. The one
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  Speaker 1: who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit.
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  Speaker 1: For otherwise, apart from me, Jesus saying that it's cut
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  Speaker 1: off from vital union with me, you can do nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Every sobering scripture exciting as well, though, and the promises
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  Speaker 1: all up in here that we will produce fruit when
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  Speaker 1: we remain in the fruit bearer. If we're connected to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, Amen, we will remain in him, and we
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  Speaker 1: could do all things through Christ. But if we're apart
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  Speaker 1: from Him, if we're cut off from our vital union
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  Speaker 1: with him.
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  Speaker 2: We're not gonna be able to do nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why a lot of people who say they
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  Speaker 1: believe are frustrated because they say their believers.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not connected. Isn't that crazy?
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  Speaker 1: They're not connected to the everyone who they say they
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  Speaker 1: believe in. They didn't even know his word and don't
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  Speaker 1: reader's word.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They're not active in ministry. They're not giving the Lord
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  Speaker 1: a chance in their lives. Amen, Joan Roy, Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Welcome to the morning Devo, my friend, sister, Joanne,
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  Speaker 1: I see you. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the morning Devo, my sister and my friend. You're an
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  Speaker 1: amazing woman of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Good morning to you as well, Joan Roy.
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  Speaker 1: So listen, if we're not connected to the one who
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  Speaker 1: we say we're connected too, we're really not connected. People
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  Speaker 1: are going to know that you're not bearing fruit. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, oh I'm this, I'm that, and the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and this, there's no fruit bearing good fruit bearing.
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  Speaker 2: There's your answer right there. Amen. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: go further.
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  Speaker 1: For those who are curious, Amen, about you know who's
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  Speaker 1: who and what's what we can tell by the fruit.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If you're bearing good fruit, then you're you're in the vine.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, because God doesn't bear bad fruit. And when
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  Speaker 1: you connect it and you remain in the Lord, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: things change in your life. Things change around your life,
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  Speaker 1: and people sometimes they'll notice it and they'll think what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, or they'll stay away from you. I have
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  Speaker 1: people that keep me at arm's length. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: to they don't want to really really get involved with me.
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  Speaker 1: And just because I'm focused on the finished work of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus, just because I'm focused on my faith,
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  Speaker 1: it's because I'm stubborn with my faith. I don't let
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  Speaker 1: go to the world. I don't let go to the vine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't let go to the Lord. I don't let
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  Speaker 1: go of the Lord. I keep holding his hand. And
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  Speaker 1: people don't like that. For whatever reason. It could be
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  Speaker 1: intimidating to some people. A man, it could be because
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  Speaker 1: they don't think this is real, and or it could
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  Speaker 1: be that they think I'm arrogant or prideful. Because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people think that believers in the Lord are
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  Speaker 1: going around acting like we're better than everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's not the case.
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  Speaker 1: We are actually humble supposed to be humble, right, and
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  Speaker 1: we're able and available to help every single person that
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  Speaker 1: needs help.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not trying to be served. We are actually
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  Speaker 1: serving true believers in Christ. And the ones that are
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  Speaker 1: more powerful than the Kingdom are the ones who serve
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  Speaker 1: more in the kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kingdom value, that's the kingdom principle of it all.
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  Speaker 2: We're not like the world.
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  Speaker 1: System that says you have to climb up this whatever ladder,
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  Speaker 1: corporate ladder where you have to do X, y Z
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  Speaker 1: to be known, or you have to chase after certain
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  Speaker 1: individuals to get ahead.
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  Speaker 2: In the game. That's the world system. We are in
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God. We don't do what the world does.
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  Speaker 1: So abiding in Christ, Amen, is one of the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful truths. Why because shielding yourself isn't just resisting, it's
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  Speaker 1: staying connected to the source of life. We stay connected
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  Speaker 1: to the source of our shield. Right, we're burying the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the Lord Jesus Christ, a man in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: But the man, Well, I see you, Man, God bless you,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, welcome back to the morning. Deal with my
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  Speaker 1: brow and my friend, but the one God blessed. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming through. Thank you for the blessing,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you that you are acknowledging everybody that's tuned
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  Speaker 1: in God.
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  Speaker 2: Bless you, my brow and my friend. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we are abiding in Christ. But does abiding mean amen?
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  Speaker 1: I probably touched on it earlier. But let's see, a
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  Speaker 1: biding means that we have a daily connection, not just
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  Speaker 1: a one time connection when we made a prayer or
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  Speaker 1: when we were at the altar.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, or or when we got baptized. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's not really a biden. Abiding is daily connection. Spending
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  Speaker 1: time with God. And I'm not going to say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get closer to God. If you're born again,
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  Speaker 1: God can't be any closer, right, He's lives by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Of His Holy Spirit within us.
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  Speaker 1: Spending time with God in prayer, spending time in the Word,
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  Speaker 1: Devoting some time a man in the word of God
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  Speaker 1: the first part of your day, last part of the day,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle part of your day, a man devote
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  Speaker 1: some time, carve some time out if it's schedule, to
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  Speaker 1: get into God's Word, and the Word of God will
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  Speaker 1: get into you and get into me. Think of it
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  Speaker 1: like a branch during life from the vine. Doesn't disconnect
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  Speaker 1: and then reconnect, it stays attached. I have a tree
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  Speaker 1: in the back that the it's old, right, and the
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  Speaker 1: branches are always falling down. And the other day a
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  Speaker 1: large branch, large piece fell off the tree that it's
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  Speaker 1: even noticeable in the tree. But man, that thing was
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  Speaker 1: so heavy, so big. Had to take that and drag
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  Speaker 1: it across the yard a little bit to get it.
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  Speaker 2: Out the way.
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  Speaker 1: That branch will no longer bear fruit, That branch will
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  Speaker 1: no longer survive without being connected to the tree that
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  Speaker 1: was giving that branch life. Right, It's a piece of
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  Speaker 1: the life of that tree. And as a body of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: we need each other. We need every single member of
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  Speaker 1: the Body of Christ to be alive. Once you disconnect
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, Amen, you need to notice that you
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  Speaker 1: don't have the same way of living. Amen, and your
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  Speaker 1: life won't be the same because you're not connected to
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  Speaker 1: the body. You're not connected to the tree, you're not
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  Speaker 1: connected to the vine.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: In Christ Jesus, Manuel says, the road we are traveling
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  Speaker 1: down is very narrow, yes, and sometimes it gets lonely.
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  Speaker 1: I was confessing this assist the Lord, and she was shocked.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I get lonely a lot. Amen, not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. I have people around me. I have
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  Speaker 1: a wife for family, I have brothers in Christ, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: sisters in Christ, but not a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of people are around me. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: that makes any sense. Amen. This is a narrow road.
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  Speaker 1: This is a road less travel, least travel, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it gets lonely. But I have to remind myself that
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  Speaker 1: I have holy spirit. I have a wife that loves
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as well. I have a family that loves the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I have a church family that loves the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: So I gotta get out of.
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  Speaker 1: My own shell sometimes and just make myself available call people,
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  Speaker 1: text people, Amen, and make sure that they're okay.
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  Speaker 2: And in the.
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  Speaker 1: Meantime, I think I'll get more response from the people
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  Speaker 1: who I love. We will know them by their fruit. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: Brother Manuel. When we're daily connected, we're gonna do something
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  Speaker 1: that the world hates. We're gonna stay connected to the
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  Speaker 1: one who is the ultimate lover of our soul. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna stay connected to the Lord Jesus. We're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: disconnect one week and recon that that doesn't work a man,
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  Speaker 1: and I think people think that that's the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just disconnect go clubing, go out and just have
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  Speaker 1: a good time, drink, smoke and have random relationships with people,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll connect reconnect later. Careful with that. There's
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  Speaker 1: no reconnect. There's no disconnect and connect. This is not
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  Speaker 1: like a cable company that if you don't pay the
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  Speaker 1: bill right, they're gonna disconnect your service or disrupt your service.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like a cell phone bill. No, this is
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  Speaker 1: the Body of Christ. We're members of the Living Holy
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  Speaker 1: Righteous One, and the Lord Jesus is the head and
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  Speaker 1: we're the body. We stay connected because without the head, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the body cannot function. So if you if you're one
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  Speaker 1: of those people, a man, be careful. If you think that,
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  Speaker 1: oh I could disconnect and reconnect, the Holy Spirit will
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  Speaker 1: leave and come back and all this other stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: not biblical. Be careful with that. I'm gonna be praying
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  Speaker 1: for you. Stay connected. Don't think that you could disconnect
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  Speaker 1: and reconnect any time you want. That's a dangerous way
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  Speaker 1: of living, man, And I'll be praying if that's the
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  Speaker 1: way you think.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. It's important to spend time with God daily. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, of course, we.
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  Speaker 1: Spend time with God daily together, and we spend time
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  Speaker 1: daily in our individual lives. Right without him, what's good
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  Speaker 1: without God? Like, what's good besides God?
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I came to a conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, nothing really good about me, but there's someone good
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  Speaker 1: in me that oozes out of me and.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that without him guiding me and leading me.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, I'm gonna be in big.
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  Speaker 1: Trouble if I let my own thought life and my
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  Speaker 1: own thought patterns run my day. Amen, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: running into spaces that shouldn't be running into. So God
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  Speaker 1: is full of grace and mercy. Dependence is not about.
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  Speaker 2: Performance, and people need to get that in their spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I depend on God. Amen. I don't have to do
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  Speaker 2: X y Z to let.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody know that I depend on God. It shows, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: It shows in my life, it shows in your life
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  Speaker 1: as a.
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  Speaker 2: Born again believer.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Shielding yourself from sin isn't about will power. I
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  Speaker 1: said this last time. It's about surrender. And we're not
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  Speaker 1: surrendering to the things of this world. We're surrendering to
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  Speaker 1: the life giving work, finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We have the finished work of the Lord, and we
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  Speaker 1: have the applied work of the Lord. The finished work
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  Speaker 1: is all his promises.
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  Speaker 2: What he said.
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  Speaker 1: We're forgiving Amen, we're redeemed, we're restored, we're born again.
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  Speaker 1: That's because of the finished work of Christ. The applied
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  Speaker 1: work of Christ is that we're growing in grace, knowledge
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  Speaker 1: and wisdom, understanding. We're in the Word. We're learning Amen
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  Speaker 1: to live righteous lives. We're learning how and training how
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  Speaker 1: to renounce evil. That's the applied work of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So we have it all, man, we have it all.
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  Speaker 1: There's no other system out here, and no other religious
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  Speaker 1: system out here that has But who we have. We
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  Speaker 1: have the Lord Jesus. People and other systems talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus as a prophet. They talk about Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as a good man, a good person. They talk
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  Speaker 1: about Lord Jesus as the archage of Michael. But we
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  Speaker 1: have the true, living, holy, righteous Word of God, a
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  Speaker 1: living and breathing word that announced the Lord Jesus as
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  Speaker 1: the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the Jesus we're talking about. We're not talking about
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the Mormons. We're not talking about the Jesus and
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  Speaker 1: the Koran. We're not talking about the Jesus and Buddhism.
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  Speaker 1: We're not talking about the Jesus and Jehovah witness systems.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about the Jesus who is true, living, holy, righteous,
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  Speaker 1: full of grace, mercy, all powerful, wonderful counselor Prince of peace,
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  Speaker 1: all mighty God. We're talking about that Jesus that's found
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  Speaker 1: in his scriptures, Amen, not in the scriptures of others.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: How about this, We're supposed to be aware, walking around
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  Speaker 1: sober and aware.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I caution people who like to smoke and
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  Speaker 1: drink still and their believers. Anything that alters your mindset
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  Speaker 1: a man is not good. Anything that causes you to
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  Speaker 1: go in some kind of mysticism is not good. Anything
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  Speaker 1: that distracts you and causes you to lose focus on
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  Speaker 1: the purpose in your life is not good. Stay away
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  Speaker 1: from anything that's going to try to hinder your progress
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  Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of God. And drugs and alcohol is
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  Speaker 1: really not a good friend to a believer in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So we are continually aware of what's going on walking
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  Speaker 1: through your day with the mindset of Jesus is with
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  Speaker 1: me here right now. The Lord Jesus is with me
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  Speaker 1: everywhere I go. You can say that right now to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Is with me. You can say that to yourself, with
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  Speaker 2: me or with you.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere you go, Amen, whether at work, whether you're at school,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're home, you carry the presence of the Holy, Loving,
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  Speaker 1: Righteous God wherever you go, wherever I go, we bring
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God heavens. You notice that when something
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  Speaker 1: happens and is an emergency and the brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: of Christ show up, that the atmosphere changes because we're
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  Speaker 1: going to the place to bring Heaven with us. The
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God comes with us.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The prayers of the Righteous aveileth much. That's why when
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  Speaker 1: something bad happens, I call upon the brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. And when I ask for prayer, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and serious I ask for prayer. Amen, for those who
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  Speaker 1: are attached to Divine, to those who remain in the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord remains in them when we pray. When we
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  Speaker 1: get together, Amen, the whole situation changes.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And God responds to the prayers of his children.
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  Speaker 2: He's an amazing father. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joanne said, every morning before I wake up, I
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  Speaker 1: pray to the Lord for me, my husband, my family,
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  Speaker 1: and other people that be with us at all time
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  Speaker 1: till the time we leave our house to the time
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  Speaker 1: we come home.
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  Speaker 2: God is so good and he's with us. I love
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  Speaker 2: him so much. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, same here, Amen. I gotta step up my prayer
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  Speaker 1: game together with my wife because I used to pray
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  Speaker 1: with my wife before I left home or before she left.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get back to that. But absolutely, I
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  Speaker 1: pray for my family every single day. I pray while
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  Speaker 1: I'm driving, Amen, because there's so much going on right
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  Speaker 1: in the world and I'm like, well, if I don't pray, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking. I think I feel personally, I'm leaving myself
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  Speaker 1: open to things that shouldn't happen because I'm not connecting
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  Speaker 1: and staying remaining and being aware and being mindful of
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  Speaker 1: being watchful.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I'm not practicing what I preach. I'm not having
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  Speaker 2: this daily connection with the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We have a Jesus connect so let's use it. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for your comment. And on the live chat,
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joey, WHOA something just went down here and then
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  Speaker 1: abiding in the Lord. Man, you could say, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you could say that you hide in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna mind saying that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm ninety one kind of like says that we
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  Speaker 1: are hiding in Christ in God, Amen, because we're shielding
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  Speaker 1: ourselves from the sins that are external and we're abiding
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  Speaker 1: in Christ where there is no sin. Internal Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: does not sin.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But we have a sinful nature that wants to wake
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  Speaker 1: up sinning right, and the world really is like a
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  Speaker 1: magnet to the old man in us. Amen, pray without ceasing, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: sir man, Well, we pray without ceasing. There's never a
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  Speaker 1: moment in my life that I look up and say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, there's nothing to pray for, so I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: Never ever, there's always something to pray about and meant
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  Speaker 1: to pray for, to pray about, to pray over other families,
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  Speaker 1: to pray over my family, to pray over our finances,
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  Speaker 1: over relationships, over our church, always something to pray for.
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  Speaker 1: So praying without ceasing, I don't think it's a hard thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a hard commandment.
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  Speaker 2: A man.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that's the power of God working through us.
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  Speaker 1: It's the attachment we have, is that Jesus connect that
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  Speaker 1: continually reminds us to pray.
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  Speaker 2: There's really no reason not to pray.
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  Speaker 1: So when you abide in Christ, it changes your desires.
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  Speaker 1: When you remain in the Lord, it changes your desires.
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  Speaker 2: The closer you and me.
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  Speaker 1: Are to Jesus, the less appealing sin becomes. You can
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  Speaker 1: look at Psalm thirty seven, verse number four and check
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  Speaker 1: out what that means.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The more you're connected to the Righteous One, the more
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  Speaker 1: on righteousness gets corny in your life. Sin is not
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  Speaker 1: as pleasing as it used to be before you were saved,
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  Speaker 1: before I were saved. As a matter of fact, before
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  Speaker 1: we were saved, we didn't even know we were sinning.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why it felt so normal, so natural for
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  Speaker 1: us to do X y Z, because we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: anyone living within us that was holy. Now we have
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  Speaker 1: the Holy One living within us. He who dwells in
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  Speaker 1: a secret place of the most High shall abide in
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  Speaker 1: the shadow of the Almighty. Thank you for that. Quoting
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  Speaker 1: the scripture, I believe that's so ninety one. Thank you man. Well, Amen, So.
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  Speaker 2: We have what we need.
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  Speaker 1: We don't always get what we want, but when we
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  Speaker 1: have this Jesus, connect we get what we need.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Connecting abiding gives us power, the spirit, supply, strength, strength
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  Speaker 1: to resist temptation Galatians five sixteen. Amen, And I'm running
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  Speaker 1: out of time here. There's a little bit more here, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: But connect with me.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I have a prayer guide for you when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to shielding your faith that I can send you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Just connect with me and I'll send that out
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. So I'm out of here. I hope you have
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  Speaker 1: a great weekend. Hopefully I'll have a good weekend too.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Got a ministry event tomorrow. Keep me in prayer, and.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you so much for hanging out with me
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  Speaker 1: for these morning DeVos. So for everybody out there, God
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  Speaker 1: bless you all. God keep you all, and remember always
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  Speaker 1: that God is good.
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  Speaker 2: Peace.