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How to Stay Spiritually Alert [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Amen, we're back. Listen, Let's go for it. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: right into this word.
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  Speaker 2: On a short time because of the issues I had earlier, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: And now I have to figure out how long to
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  Speaker 2: get the podcast up later the udio only version, I
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  Speaker 2: have to do some editing, so bear with me. Amen's
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  Speaker 2: sister join, I see you. Good morning, God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Morning Devo, my sister and my friends.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you. These times that we're facing to
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are bringing fear into their hearts.
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  Speaker 2: But as believers in the Lord Jesus and the knowers
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  Speaker 2: of the Way, the Truth and the Life, and hearers
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  Speaker 2: are the scriptures and applying the scriptures, we know that
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  Speaker 2: we're not supposed to have the spirit of fear. We're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be alert and stay alert. How to stay
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  Speaker 2: spiritually alert today.
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  Speaker 1: On the Morning Devo. Let me get to the scripture.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, I think this is Matthew number five, right, But
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  Speaker 2: did I say Matthew twenty five?
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me? Verse number thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get this on the screen for those who
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  Speaker 2: are just listening and on the podcast, No worries, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna read this word for word. You won't see the
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  Speaker 2: images obviously, but I'm gonna read a word for words
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  Speaker 2: so you don't miss what we're seeing on the screen.
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  Speaker 2: So let me get this up on it for on
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  Speaker 2: the screen. Here and here we go, all right? How
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  Speaker 2: to stay spiritually, legit and correct? Amen today on one
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  Speaker 2: of evil, Let's go for it. Bible says the Lord
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  Speaker 2: Jesus says, this is a quote from the Lord Matthew
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  Speaker 2: twenty five thirteen. Therefore, be on the alert, be prepared
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  Speaker 2: and ready for you do not know the day nor
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  Speaker 2: the hour when the son of man will come.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, Jesus is saying, listen, watching the mindful,
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  Speaker 2: you think, what's going on in the.
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  Speaker 1: World right now currently?
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  Speaker 2: Is the end of it? The end all, the be all?
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  Speaker 2: What we should be really focused on? What should be
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  Speaker 2: focused on? Being prepared and ready, being alert because we
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  Speaker 2: don't know the day, know the eybul when the son
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  Speaker 2: of man will come. So while people are watching the news,
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  Speaker 2: which is cool, we could watch the news. You can
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  Speaker 2: watch the current events. You can watch the world events.
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  Speaker 2: You could watch the political issues. You could watch what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in the world financially. You could go watch
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  Speaker 2: what's going on with the wars and the moves of wars,
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  Speaker 2: and you can stay focused on that as part of it,
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  Speaker 2: but we're supposed to be staying alert and being prepared
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  Speaker 2: and ready for the return of the King of Kings
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord of Lords. I know it sounds weird
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  Speaker 2: to a lot of people. Well what about this and
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  Speaker 2: what about that?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: What about what Jesus just told us? And what about
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus said and his word? What about the prophet
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  Speaker 2: sees amen in the scriptures?
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  Speaker 1: What about that? Amen?
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  Speaker 2: Where are we focused on the most and that we're
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  Speaker 2: really be telling of where we're headed in our own
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  Speaker 2: personal journey and our own personal walk and our own
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  Speaker 2: personal life while everything's happening.
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  Speaker 1: I see it, You see it. We know it.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, it's been prophesied. We as believers are the ones
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  Speaker 2: that cannot really have an excuse a man. We know
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  Speaker 2: that the end times are here. We know that we
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  Speaker 2: serve a faithful, loving, holy, righteous God. We know that
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  Speaker 2: we're not abandoned. We know that we're not alone. We
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  Speaker 2: know that we're not being put to shame. We know
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  Speaker 2: we're not being punished by God. We know that there's
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  Speaker 2: a time in a day set for all eternity of
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  Speaker 2: the time, Jesus is going to crack open that sky
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  Speaker 2: and come back, Amen. Victorious, not coming back to beg
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  Speaker 2: people to follow him, not coming back defeated, not coming
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  Speaker 2: back week, not coming back with our power, not coming
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  Speaker 2: back with our glory. He's coming back with all of that,
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  Speaker 2: the power, the glory, the majesty, King of King's, lord
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  Speaker 2: of lords. All right, He's coming back for his church.
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  Speaker 2: So are you ready? Are you alert? Are you being watchful?
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  Speaker 2: Are you being mindful? Do you know who you are
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  Speaker 2: in Christ? Do you know who Christ is in you?
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  Speaker 2: These are the things we should be focused on, according
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  Speaker 2: to the scriptures, according to what Jesus is saying.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. So believers are called to stay awake, spiritually discerned
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  Speaker 1: the times we could see what's going on, and we
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  Speaker 1: know what's going to happen after we see what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in the present time, because we have the prophetic word,
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  Speaker 1: the prophecies all through the scriptures, and Bible scholars will
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  Speaker 1: tell you right away that this is all in perfect
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  Speaker 1: alignment with what the Scriptures has spoken about.
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  Speaker 2: Has already written out, has already declared thousands of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and both by the prophets and both by the Lord
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  Speaker 2: Jesus himself right. So be monthful, stay alert, grow in
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  Speaker 2: your relationship with Christ. Because we got to be ready
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  Speaker 2: to meet the King. We got to be ready to
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  Speaker 2: embrace the King. We have to be ready to meet
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  Speaker 2: him in the air. You don't know Christ, Get to
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  Speaker 2: know him. Start today. Ask God to forgive you through
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ. He will forgive you. He will
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  Speaker 2: not turn anyone away who is sincerely going for Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: going for God, going for Truth, going for the Way,
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  Speaker 2: going for the life.
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  Speaker 1: You will come and see your life.
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  Speaker 2: Change your life, Amen, transform your life, even a part
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit God to live inside of you and for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And then you will just want to declare Him as
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  Speaker 2: personal Lord and Savior. So confess with your mouth that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus the Lord is Lord. Believe in your heart that
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  Speaker 2: God raised Jesus at the end. Excuse me on the
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  Speaker 2: third day? Amen, Which is God really raising God? Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and giving God back to us the three and one.
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  Speaker 2: The mystery of the Trinity, which is really not a mystery,
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  Speaker 2: is the scriptures from Genesis all the way through Revelation
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  Speaker 2: has the theme of the Triune God all throughout.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And I know some people don't believe that and think
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  Speaker 2: we're serving three gods, and it's it's just.
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  Speaker 1: A matter of revelation.
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  Speaker 2: When God reveals himself to you, Amen, you have no
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  Speaker 2: issues with God being the creative of the world and
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  Speaker 2: God being the recreator of the New Jerusalem, the new Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: and new Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. When he comes back at the end.
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  Speaker 2: If you believe in the beginning God created the heavens
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  Speaker 2: and the earth, you have no problem believing that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is coming back with a new heaven and a new Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you see the.
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  Speaker 2: Thread, you see the triunity of God, the Father, God,
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  Speaker 2: the Son, God.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. You see all throughout the scriptures. Amen. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have to make the Trinity up.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to, you know, force scriptures to make
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  Speaker 2: it make sense. It's all right there, from Genesis to Revelation.
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  Speaker 2: But God reveals himself to all those who are seeking
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  Speaker 2: Him diligently with their hearts, sincerely with their hearts. He
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  Speaker 2: knows when you call upon his name. I got saved
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand and one. I didn't call in the
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  Speaker 2: name of Jesus. I know people are who so then
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  Speaker 2: you're not saved. No, I've said, God, if you're real,
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  Speaker 2: come and change me, because I didn't know that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was that God that I was calling upon.
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  Speaker 1: But when you call upon.
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  Speaker 2: God with your heart, he knows who.
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  Speaker 1: You're calling out.
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  Speaker 2: He knows who your heart is thirsty or after, who
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  Speaker 2: your heart is searching for.
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  Speaker 1: He knows his name. Right.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to say, well, if you don't say
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  Speaker 2: a specific name, then God is not going to hear you.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't pray a specific way, then God. We
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  Speaker 2: can't say that God knows our heart. He meets you
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  Speaker 2: where you are, and he takes you to where he
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  Speaker 2: is and everywhere that you see in the scripture that
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  Speaker 2: God reaches out to man amen a way that he
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  Speaker 2: reaches out with grace and mercy and love and power
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  Speaker 2: and authority. He changes people, he changes hearts. We need
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  Speaker 2: to stay alert and be ready and watchful and mindful
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  Speaker 2: of the return of the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming soon.
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  Speaker 2: I know it sounds like all you Christians always saying this,
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  Speaker 2: this is the last day. Well, haven't you seen what's
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  Speaker 2: been going on in these couple of years lately? Haven't
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  Speaker 2: you seen what's going on around the world. Haven't you
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  Speaker 2: seen the signs that this word of God that we're reading,
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  Speaker 2: this word of God that we're trusting in, is coming
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  Speaker 2: to pass in perfect alignment. Like we don't have to
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  Speaker 2: force anything. Believers don't have to force anything in prophecy.
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  Speaker 2: Prophecy is, Prophecy is going to happen, regardless who believes
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  Speaker 2: in prophecy or who doesn't believe in prophecy. God's word
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  Speaker 2: is going to come to pass, whether or not you
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  Speaker 2: believe in the scriptures to be holy, in the Bible
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  Speaker 2: to be holy or not. You know, the debaters are debating.
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  Speaker 2: Let them debate, if that's what they're called to do.
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  Speaker 2: A man is a purpose for apologetics. It's a purpose
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  Speaker 2: for debating scriptures and all that other stuff and comparing religions.
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  Speaker 2: And let the people who are annointed and appointed do that.
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  Speaker 2: But as for me, in my house, weished to serve
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  Speaker 2: the Lord right, trust in the Lord, believe in God.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing is forced my Christianity, my belief in Jesus, my
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  Speaker 2: focus on the Lord, my focus on the Word, my
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  Speaker 2: application of the Word is nothing is forced, ay man,
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  Speaker 2: No one forced me to believe that Jesus is God.
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  Speaker 2: What happened in my life is that he revealed himself
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  Speaker 2: and I had a personal encounter with the living, holy, righteous,
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  Speaker 2: loving God. Now I had a good problem. It was
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  Speaker 2: a problem, though, the problem is that I call upon
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  Speaker 2: a God that I didn't know to change me, and
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  Speaker 2: he really did. And I'm like, oh, oh, so I
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  Speaker 2: was wrong. Amen, God wasn't missing. God wasn't lost. I
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  Speaker 2: was missing what God had for me, and I was lost.
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  Speaker 2: And man, you could take out how you want to take.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people say, well, that's you,
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  Speaker 2: that's your truth. You know, you hear people say these
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  Speaker 2: fancy things relativism. But that's true for you, it's not
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  Speaker 2: true for me. And there's no absolute truth. There's no
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  Speaker 2: objective truth. There's no subjective you know. People go on
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  Speaker 2: and on and they make up their own world view.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine if that's what they want to do. And
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people think they're smarter than
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  Speaker 2: God in a certain arrogant way.
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  Speaker 1: How they speak about creation, not realizing.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, if you're talking about creation, that has to be
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  Speaker 2: a creator, and that creator already he already claimed who
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  Speaker 2: that creator is, and it's God in the beginning, got created,
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  Speaker 2: that happens in the earth and we're going around saying,
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  Speaker 2: or some people are going around saying, oh, creation is
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  Speaker 2: you know, people are praying to creation. People are praying
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  Speaker 2: to the universe. People are speaking to universe. I always
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  Speaker 2: wonder if the universe speaks back, because people are I
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  Speaker 2: thought I was, you know, the mystical one. I thought
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  Speaker 2: I was the one who is you know, taking wild
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  Speaker 2: assumptions or making wild claims. Right when I first got saved,
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  Speaker 2: I said, I hope this is true, because this is
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  Speaker 2: next level thinking.
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  Speaker 1: But it is true. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Not because I'm saying it's true, is because I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at the evidence, looking at the world, how the world's responding,
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  Speaker 2: the world's system, the Kingdom of God, the Word of God,
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  Speaker 2: how that works.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at it through the lens of wow,
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  Speaker 2: through a lens of scripture. You look at what's going
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  Speaker 2: on in current events. It's undeniable that God already spoke
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  Speaker 2: this out. It's undeniable that prophecies coming to pass. It's
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  Speaker 2: undeniable that when Jesus said stay alert, be alert, right,
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  Speaker 2: in other words, don't lose focus, right, be prepared, be
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  Speaker 2: ready for you don't know. See, we are humans that
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  Speaker 2: don't know the day nor the ivor when the Son
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  Speaker 2: of Man will come. But guess what, There's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a day there's gonna be our where the Son
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  Speaker 2: of Man, Jesus, the Lord, the King of Kings, and
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  Speaker 2: Lord of lords will come. Stay alert, be alert, be prepared,
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  Speaker 2: get ready, stay ready.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe we can do that when we rely
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  Speaker 2: and trust on the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Try to live a holy life. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say try, i'm speaking I'm letting you
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  Speaker 2: know try, because if you're trying to live holy on
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  Speaker 2: your own without the power of the Holy One living
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  Speaker 2: inside of you, you to be wasting some time. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to be doing some good things right for amount
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  Speaker 2: of time. But holiness is not all about doing right
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  Speaker 2: things all the time. Holiness is about relying on the
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  Speaker 2: Holy One who lives inside of every single child of God.
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  Speaker 2: His holiness is perfect. He never rejects himself. He never
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  Speaker 2: rejects the Word, He never rejects the power of God's Word,
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  Speaker 2: never rejects Jesus, never rejects the Father. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: is trying part of the Triune God. He's the third
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  Speaker 2: person of the Holy Trinity. I know oh Sam is
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  Speaker 2: a Trinityian you could call me whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying what the word says.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,
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  Speaker 2: and there was more than one being. It was one
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  Speaker 2: being doing several things on the day of creation, according
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  Speaker 2: to how he revealed it. Right, the Holy Spirit was hovering.
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  Speaker 2: Father was speaking a man, and there was a light.
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  Speaker 2: And who showed up later on after we read Genesis
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  Speaker 2: later on and says I am the lights of the world. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's just a figure of speech. Well, he was speaking
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  Speaker 2: to people who understood what he was talking about. He
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  Speaker 2: was speaking to people who knew that he was claiming
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  Speaker 2: to be God. He was speaking to people that were
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  Speaker 2: furious and saying, who are you trying to be equal
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  Speaker 2: with God? He was speaking to the people of his
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  Speaker 2: time that understood I think more than how we're understanding
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  Speaker 2: sometimes a man. He was speaking to the religious people
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  Speaker 2: of his time. He wasn't speaking in riddles, he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: speaking in miracles. They know exactly what he was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they were angry, and that's why they called
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  Speaker 2: him a blasphemer, because he was claiming to be God.
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  Speaker 2: So Genesis says, let there be light, Jesus says, I
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  Speaker 2: am the Light.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So he was there before time, before our time. He
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  Speaker 2: was there at creation, he was there. Holy Spirit was hovering,
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  Speaker 2: Father was speaking. So I always say it. The Father
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  Speaker 2: is the one who loves us, the Son is the
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  Speaker 2: one who saved us, and Holy Spirit is the one
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  Speaker 2: who gods and protects us. I mean, we have the
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  Speaker 2: Triune God, living, breathing, Holy of Holy living inside of
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  Speaker 2: every single one of us who call upon the name
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to be saved.
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  Speaker 2: You might be saying that's far fetchless, and it's the
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  Speaker 2: word of God. Stay alert, be alert. But the one
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  Speaker 2: I see you. Good morning, God, bless you. Amen, Welcome
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  Speaker 2: back to the Morning Devo. Earlier we had some tech issues.
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  Speaker 2: My mike sound make me sound like a robot.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, But I think we got it strained out to listen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out of time. I have to edit this because
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  Speaker 1: the beginning was really bad. Amen. And it happens every
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  Speaker 1: now and then. No way I could stop it.
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  Speaker 2: When the mic starts acting crazy and I sound like
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  Speaker 2: a marshal from out of space.
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  Speaker 1: It's so weird. It's strange.
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  Speaker 2: But thank you so much for hanging out with me.
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  Speaker 2: We were in Matthew chapter number twenty five. Read the
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  Speaker 2: whole chapter for yourself Matthew twenty five and see on
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  Speaker 2: where we were going we camped out in verse number thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Believe it's in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Are called to stay awake spiritually, stay alert, stay awake
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  Speaker 2: to certain times, and.
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  Speaker 1: Don't lose focus. Man.
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  Speaker 2: So God bless you all, got to keep you all
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  Speaker 2: and remember always that God is good.
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  Speaker 1: Peace