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Morning Devotion from Hebrews: The New Covenant · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, family. Good morning. God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. Listen, this is the last day
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  Speaker 1: of the week. Well, before the weekend, right? Friday. And
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  Speaker 1: we're back in the building, man. So, I'm happy we
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  Speaker 1: made it this far in the week, right? And God
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  Speaker 1: positions us, right? Puts us in places that we never
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  Speaker 1: thought we would be until we trusted in Him. Believed
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  Speaker 1: in His Word. Believed in Him. Amen. So we're here.
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  Speaker 1: So I hope you enjoy your day today. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good start, right? We're starting off devoting some time in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's presence. Amen. In his word, celebrating his day, right?
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  Speaker 1: The morning Devo. So listen, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: coming through and try to be here every weekday, 5.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Standard Time live. Amen. And we're here. Brother Ricky,
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  Speaker 1: I see you. Good morning. My brother, God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning Devo, my bro and my friend.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to be in Hebrews chapter number 8,
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  Speaker 1: verses 6 and 7 today. And I'm calling this one
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  Speaker 1: the new covenant. I was going to call it the
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  Speaker 1: better covenant because literally that's what the word says, the
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  Speaker 1: better covenant. But then I was thinking of somebody, some
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  Speaker 1: people that I know that were on a show on
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  Speaker 1: my network years ago and they didn't like that term.
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  Speaker 1: A better promise, a better covenant, they didn't like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought about that real quick. So I just
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  Speaker 1: put the term, the new covenant. But when you read
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  Speaker 1: the scripture, it does say it's a better promise, better covenant. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll pray during the prayer or after the prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me. Not during the prayer. After the prayer, let's
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  Speaker 1: share this out to as many people as possible. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for everyone who shares this on their own profiles,
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  Speaker 1: shares it on their group pages. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really grateful for that. And I'm humbled by that,
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  Speaker 1: that you share this out. The goal is for us
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  Speaker 1: to get into the word of God for ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: to get the gospel out to as many people as possible.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the goal is, man. It's very simple and plain.
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  Speaker 1: This is not for any kind of other motive, but
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  Speaker 1: just to get the gospel out and get the message
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  Speaker 1: of the word of God out there to as many
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  Speaker 1: people as possible. So thank you so much for helping
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  Speaker 1: that happen. So Father, I thank you so much for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the morning devotion. Thank you, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: for every single person that's listening and watching right now.
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  Speaker 1: I pray I had your protection over their hearts, their minds,
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  Speaker 1: their lives, in the powerful name of Jesus. I pray,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, that you would do a great work and
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  Speaker 1: a mighty work in the name of Jesus over their
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  Speaker 1: hearts and minds. I pray, Lord God, that you would
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  Speaker 1: continue to teach us more and more about who you
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  Speaker 1: are through your word by way of your Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I pray I had your protection over myself. My wife,
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  Speaker 1: our children, our family, our whole entire household, from the
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  Speaker 1: very youngest to the very oldest, and every single person
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  Speaker 1: in between. I pray that same protection, Psalm 91, over
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  Speaker 1: every single family that's watching, every family member, every single
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  Speaker 1: person that's watching or listening right now. I had your
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  Speaker 1: protection over them as well. I set forth your arcane
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  Speaker 1: angels right now to annihilate the tactics and plans over
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  Speaker 1: the enemy right now in Jesus' holy name. Over the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: overcoming the enemy over every single one of us that
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  Speaker 1: he tries to kill, steal, and destroy. I pray the
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  Speaker 1: power of God pushing back darkness with the marvelous light
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. I pray this by faith, knowing that you
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  Speaker 1: have given us the new covenant, that you have given
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  Speaker 1: us a better covenant, and we will see that in
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  Speaker 1: your word. In Jesus' holy name, I pray this by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Amen to the amen. If you agree, just say amen,
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  Speaker 1: and let's move forward, man. There's power in agreement, right?
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  Speaker 1: especially when we're agreeing with the word of God. That's
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  Speaker 1: the whole truth right there. Agreeing with the word is
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  Speaker 1: the power, secret sauce that we have as believers in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is that we believe and we follow. And
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  Speaker 1: the enemy can't do anything with that. Nothing. He can't
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  Speaker 1: move forward as long as we're moving forward, right? He
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  Speaker 1: can't get over. He can't get anything over us when
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  Speaker 1: we're under. the Lord Jesus Christ. That's amazing right there.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter eight, verses six and seven, the scripture is
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  Speaker 1: plain and it says, now, however, so therefore you have
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  Speaker 1: to read what's before this. Now, however, Jesus has received
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  Speaker 1: a much more excellent ministry just as the covenant he
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  Speaker 1: mediates is better and is founded on, here it goes,
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  Speaker 1: better promises. I didn't say it. The scripture says it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it. I honor it. I respect it. Verse seven.
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  Speaker 1: For if that first covenant had been without fault, no
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  Speaker 1: place would have been sought for a second. Is that
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  Speaker 1: plain enough? God is telling us, listen, if it was
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  Speaker 1: all good, then we wouldn't need a new promise. If
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  Speaker 1: it was all good, we wouldn't need the Messiah to
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  Speaker 1: come save us. If it was all good, then we
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  Speaker 1: want to need these better promises. There will be no
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  Speaker 1: place for a second covenant or a new covenant. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: But we have it. Amen? And that's all glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: We have it. Brother John, I see you. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: God bless. Welcome to the Morning Devo, my bro, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Hope your day's going well. Amen? We woke up, right?
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  Speaker 1: So that's a great start to the day, especially when
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  Speaker 1: we're getting into the Word of God. He woke us up.
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  Speaker 1: He kept us overnight. Amen? Protected us, guided us, guarded us.
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  Speaker 1: So that means he's not done with us. So let's
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  Speaker 1: be prepared for what he has for us today. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So a new or better covenant, a new covenant, the
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  Speaker 1: first covenant, if it was without fault, the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: it clearly, then he would not gave us a new covenant.
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  Speaker 1: Plain and simple. What's going on with this t-shirt, man?
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  Speaker 1: It's all like all over the place. Amen. So listen,
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  Speaker 1: if you ever try to fix something in your life,
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  Speaker 1: I try to fix a lot of things. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're trying harder to fix that, whatever it is, tell
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  Speaker 1: me how that goes sometimes. Sometimes you try so hard
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  Speaker 1: to fix something that's broken and we just can't get
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  Speaker 1: it done. So we have to call a pro who
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  Speaker 1: is known to fix what we're trying to fix that
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  Speaker 1: we can't figure out. But there's people who know how
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  Speaker 1: to fix things better than we know how to fix things. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the ultimate fixer-upper. He has fixed what was broken.
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  Speaker 1: He fixed what was wrong. He paid our sin debt.
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  Speaker 1: His sacrifice was more than enough. Once and for all.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke about that last time. But when you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to fix something, and then you realize you're falling back
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  Speaker 1: in the same old ways of brokenness. This thing that
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to fix in your life, amen, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: external or internal, remains broken when we're trying to do
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  Speaker 1: it in our own effort. Might fall even back into
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  Speaker 1: old habits if we're not careful. But sometimes we focus
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  Speaker 1: too much on changing ourselves or changing our behavior that
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  Speaker 1: we forget that God desires to transform our hearts. He's
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  Speaker 1: the mediator, right? Between God and man. He has a
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  Speaker 1: new promise for us. That's the new covenant. That's why
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  Speaker 1: the Lord came to share the kingdom gospel, right? The
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of God. He preached the kingdom of God. So
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  Speaker 1: what we had in the old covenant, evidently, although it's
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, absolutely, But it was an old
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  Speaker 1: covenant and God felt, and he did this, created a
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  Speaker 1: new covenant built on better promises. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't like this because they're like, what do you mean? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I've read it, found it on better promises. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're reading. Pastor Felix, God bless you. Good morning. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you. Welcome to the Morning Devo, my bro, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Pastor Felix says we have to let God do the
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  Speaker 1: transformation of And stop trying to be God and let
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  Speaker 1: him do the work, not us doing the work. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not that easy, right? I'm a thinker, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure things out all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: I have to remind myself, listen, my thinking is not
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  Speaker 1: like the way God thinks, right? His thoughts are not
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  Speaker 1: the same as my thoughts. But I have Holy Spirit, though.
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  Speaker 1: And as long as I align with the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: God and with the Word of God, then I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the right thinking path. Then I'm on the right track.
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  Speaker 1: then we could make things happen, right? In the right way.
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  Speaker 1: So when we read Hebrews chapter 8, verses 6 and 7,
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  Speaker 1: God's reminding us that Jesus Christ is the mediator of
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  Speaker 1: a new promise, of a new covenant, right? He established
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  Speaker 1: this new covenant, founded it on better promises. So it
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  Speaker 1: got better. Old covenant, Beautiful, right? From Genesis to what's
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  Speaker 1: the last chapter? Malachi or what's the last chapter in
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  Speaker 1: the Old Covenant? Malachi. Amen? I'm just telling myself, see
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  Speaker 1: how far you can see that I read the Old Covenant.
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  Speaker 1: I read the New Covenant. Amen. More than the Old Covenant.
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  Speaker 1: But I try to balance that out. Amen. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: see if I was right. Because you know that would
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  Speaker 1: bother me if you know me. Yes, Malachi. It's the
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  Speaker 1: last book of the Old Covenant. And theologians say that
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  Speaker 1: there was a silence, which, you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about that, but theologians say there was a silence between
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  Speaker 1: the Old Covenant and New Covenant hundreds of years. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a theologian, so I don't know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: All I know is that Malachi was the last book
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  Speaker 1: of the Old Covenant. Then we have Matthew introducing the
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  Speaker 1: genealogy of everything that happened prior And then Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: going to show up in the new covenant, which was
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  Speaker 1: established on better promises. Amen? I'm just happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: That God saw to it that he left the best
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  Speaker 1: for last because Jesus is coming back with a new
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  Speaker 1: heaven and a new earth. Right? So therefore, we're coming
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  Speaker 1: back with him. Right? And whoever's left here, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be part of the judgment. Jesus Christ is the
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  Speaker 1: judge and we're going to judge angels and the people
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  Speaker 1: who are left here with the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the,
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  Speaker 1: he's the lead. He's the line of Judah. He's the
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  Speaker 1: leader of it all. Amen. So we're not going to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, negotiating with people. We're not going to be like,
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  Speaker 1: please and begging people to change their lives. No, we
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  Speaker 1: need to change our lives today, right now. Tomorrow's not promised.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday's gone. Haven't you noticed yesterday's gone? But we have
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  Speaker 1: right now, today. Today is the day of salvation, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says. So the old covenant revealed things, right? It
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  Speaker 1: reveals God's holy standards. But it could not bring the
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  Speaker 1: complete transformation that Jesus accomplished through his sacrifice. Understand that.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the completion of Jehovah. People don't like that either,
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  Speaker 1: that statement. Jesus is the completion of the commandments. People
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  Speaker 1: don't like that either. Why people don't like these statements
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  Speaker 1: about Jesus? Because then that would mean that Jesus is God.
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  Speaker 1: That would mean that he is who he said he is.
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  Speaker 1: That means it would mean that the prophets were correct
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  Speaker 1: on this Mashiach Magid, on this prophet of this man
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  Speaker 1: that came to save the world. That he's the wonderful counselor,
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  Speaker 1: prince of peace, almighty God. A lot of religious people
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  Speaker 1: don't like that. A lot of religions don't like that.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of isms and schisms out there, they don't
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  Speaker 1: like that. Because then it proves once and for all
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  Speaker 1: that they're wrong. And Jesus said he is the way.
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  Speaker 1: There is no other way. The truth. There is no
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  Speaker 1: other truth. And the life. There is no other life
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  Speaker 1: apart from the true life in Christ Jesus. And people
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  Speaker 1: do not like that. I'm telling you. So, whether I
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  Speaker 1: like it or whether you like it or not, this
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  Speaker 1: is the gospel truth. Jesus has received a much more
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  Speaker 1: excellent ministry. Much more excellent ministry. Through Christ, listen to this,
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  Speaker 1: through Christ, we have something greater than a list of
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  Speaker 1: rules and regulations to follow. Hello? So, all the legalistic
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  Speaker 1: church's all the legalistic pastors and bishops and apostles that
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  Speaker 1: use part of this legalistic system, repent, get out of that. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing? What, we're saved by the law
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  Speaker 1: now all of a sudden? Or we're saved by grace
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  Speaker 1: and faith in Christ Jesus alone? I know it's a
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  Speaker 1: control process, a control method, that a lot of leaders
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  Speaker 1: want to use the law to control the flock. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a law over this, a law over that. They pick
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  Speaker 1: and choose the law, right? They use the tithe, which
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a law right before, but now it became a law,
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  Speaker 1: the tithe. They pick that, and then they kind of
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  Speaker 1: like forget all the other ones. They pick and choose.
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  Speaker 1: We can't do that. Let's pick Jesus. He chose us first. Amen? Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just follow Jesus, the one who completed it all,
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  Speaker 1: who was sinless, right? Who was able to forgive our sins,
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  Speaker 1: that he made claims and proved his claim to be God. Preacher,
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  Speaker 1: my brother, don't be afraid to preach it. People need
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  Speaker 1: to stand up firm in the world. That's what Pastor
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  Speaker 1: Felix says. Yeah. I mean, everybody else is coming out
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  Speaker 1: with their beliefs. Why would we be hiding ours? Why
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't we say what the word says, that we have
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  Speaker 1: a better covenant? Amen? We have something that's built on
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  Speaker 1: a better promise, better promises of God. Because Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: and had a much more excellent ministry. No one is
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  Speaker 1: like the Lord. No one compares to him. Right? No
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  Speaker 1: one is above him. Right? No one has done what
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  Speaker 1: he has done for us, which is the ultimate sacrifice. Nobody. Nobody.
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  Speaker 1: So through Christ Jesus, we have something greater. Through Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: we have a better covenant. Through Christ Jesus, we have
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. Through Christ Jesus, we have salvation through him.
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  Speaker 1: So although some religious people say, you guys idolize Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: that you guys are worshiping an idol and his name
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  Speaker 1: is Jesus. No, we're not worshiping an idol. We're worshiping
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  Speaker 1: the true, living, holy, righteous, loving God. And the perfect
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  Speaker 1: reflection of the Father is Jesus Christ. Even he said
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  Speaker 1: it himself. He said, when you see me, you see
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  Speaker 1: the Father. Amen? I think that's plain. But to those
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  Speaker 1: who don't have the Spirit of God, I understand that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean nothing to you. The gospel is gibberish, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, to those who are what? Perishing. Well, for
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  Speaker 1: those who are alive in Christ, this makes a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of sense. Thank you, Jesus, for saving us. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for opening up our eyes. Thank you for rescuing us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for positioning us for a blessing. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, that you have seated us already in heavenly places.
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  Speaker 1: So through Jesus, we have something greater. We have a
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  Speaker 1: relationship with God. We have the promise of forgiveness. We
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  Speaker 1: have the opportunity to experience and to live new life
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  Speaker 1: through his grace. There's really nothing we could do to
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  Speaker 1: earn God's favor. There's nothing we could do even by
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  Speaker 1: the law If we try to follow the law to
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  Speaker 1: the T, we're going to fail every time. But the
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  Speaker 1: Holy One that lives within every single child of God
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  Speaker 1: completed the law. And He knows exactly how the law works.
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  Speaker 1: And He knows how to rescue us from our own selves.
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  Speaker 1: And He knows how to operate through the law because
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  Speaker 1: He completed the law. As a matter of fact, He
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  Speaker 1: wrote the law. He's God. Amen. Amen. He wrote the
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  Speaker 1: law on our hearts. The law of the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: written on our hearts. And eternity is written on our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Our DNA has eternity written on it. So we know
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  Speaker 1: there's something more. When we were born, we were born
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  Speaker 1: as a sin. And when we got older, when we
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  Speaker 1: had the opportunity, when we started understanding what's right and
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong, and then we were introduced to the Savior, amen,
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  Speaker 1: Now we had the opportunity to be born again into
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  Speaker 1: righteousness and holiness by the spirit and by water to
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  Speaker 1: be born again. And now we walk in the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: principles of God. Now we are in the kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God because of what Jesus did. It's all by his grace. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The word became flesh. Yes, Ricky. The word became flesh
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  Speaker 1: and dwelt among his people and his people rejected him.
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  Speaker 1: Not everyone, obviously. He had disciples. He had followers. He
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  Speaker 1: had true followers of him. Amen. But his own people,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible said, rejected him. Our own people right now
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  Speaker 1: are rejecting us. Amen. You know, I'm a Latino Puerto Rican.
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  Speaker 1: I get rejected from my Latino Puerto Rican culture because
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  Speaker 1: I chose Christ. Some people are into other things in
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  Speaker 1: my culture now. other spiritual things, and they despise Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: They despise Christ Jesus. Why? Because they have no control
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  Speaker 1: over him. And a lot of people who don't have
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  Speaker 1: control over Jesus or other Christians, or they can't manipulate,
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  Speaker 1: they can't do their spells and witchcraft and none of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, they're angry because none of their spells and
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  Speaker 1: witchcraft work over God's people in the name of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: I come against every witchcraft every spell over my life
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  Speaker 1: and over every single life right now that's represented on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the screen or on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of this mic in the powerful name of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: we cast those spells down annihilate them and send them
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  Speaker 1: back we call for repentance for those witches and warlocks
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  Speaker 1: right now in the powerful name of Jesus repent you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna fail if you do not repent you're going to
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  Speaker 1: hell yes we say that boldly with love But we
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  Speaker 1: know that's truth. Amen. Come up out of there in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. The new covenant doesn't mean we
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  Speaker 1: can live however we want. That's what the new covenant
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  Speaker 1: is not about. It's not a ticket to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a new covenant now. God saved me. Let
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  Speaker 1: me go back and party. That's not what it's for. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: the new covenant means we no longer have to depend
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  Speaker 1: on our own strength, right? To become who God has
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  Speaker 1: called us to be. We're not doing that in our
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  Speaker 1: own strength. At least we shouldn't be trying to do
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  Speaker 1: anything on our own strength when we're becoming more and
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  Speaker 1: more like Christ Jesus, right? We can trust God. We
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  Speaker 1: can believe, we can hope in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Rely on Holy Spirit, God, and walk daily in obedience
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  Speaker 1: because Holy Spirit is helping us walk in obedience because
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  Speaker 1: of what Christ has already done for us. This is
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  Speaker 1: a done work. Sister Joanne, I see you. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo, my sister.
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  Speaker 1: So stop trying to do things on your own strength.
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  Speaker 1: Stop trying to be perfect. Stop trying to earn God's favor.
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  Speaker 1: Stop trying to be religious. Stop trying to be in
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  Speaker 1: the law system. Stop trying to put yourself back into
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  Speaker 1: a system that the Bible is telling us in Hebrews 8, 6,
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  Speaker 1: and 7, that the covenant that Jesus is mediating is
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  Speaker 1: better and is founded on better promises. Come on over
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  Speaker 1: to this side and let the religious people figure it
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  Speaker 1: out on their own because they're already rejecting the new covenant,
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  Speaker 1: and they want to stay in the old covenant. I
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  Speaker 1: know some people that literally said, we only need the father.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need the son. Said that straight to my face.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when I checked. We used to worship the
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  Speaker 1: same Lord. And for whatever reason, they got us to
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  Speaker 1: some movement that's only about the father. It's only about Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: It's only about Jehovah. They don't need the son, they said.
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  Speaker 1: They said, take the book of John out and you
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  Speaker 1: don't have any deity of Christ. which is false. You
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  Speaker 1: have revelation. You have all the gospels. You have, even
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  Speaker 1: in the old covenant, the father calling the son, God don't,
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  Speaker 1: don't play those games. Amen. If you don't want to believe,
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  Speaker 1: just tell me you don't want to believe in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And that's your decision. But don't try to say that
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  Speaker 1: we only need the father because Jesus said, then that
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  Speaker 1: would call, that would make Jesus a liar. Cause he said,
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  Speaker 1: apart from me, you can't get to the father. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus said. So, That proves that people are angry
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  Speaker 1: at Jesus, at what he said and who he is.
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  Speaker 1: For whatever reason, I don't know the reasons. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have time to get into it. But for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: people are going around saying that they only need the father.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need the son. Wow, that's amazing. You're in error. Repent.
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  Speaker 1: Get up out of there. That way of thinking. Walk
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  Speaker 1: daily in obedience because Christ Jesus sent his spirit to
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  Speaker 1: live inside of us. To help us walk in this obedience.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the good news. Your past is done. Your
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  Speaker 1: past is your past. It cannot define your future. Your
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  Speaker 1: past cannot recreate today. Right? And become your future. Your failures,
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  Speaker 1: my failures, don't have to become our identity. Right? Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I think about, man, I messed up. Then I look
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  Speaker 1: at today, I'm like, wait, when did I mess up? oh,
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  Speaker 1: that was in the past. So what am I supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do? Go back to the past and continue to
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  Speaker 1: mess up or move forward from today and move forward
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  Speaker 1: from today, right? We only have right now, this moment
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  Speaker 1: to move forward. Your failures don't have to become your identity.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus, you know, forgiveness is available. In Jesus, we
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  Speaker 1: have hope and that hope is alive. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: when you hope in God, that hope does not disappoint, right?
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  Speaker 1: Your hope is alive and a new beginning is always possible, right?
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  Speaker 1: The mercies of God follow us every day. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a new day. That means we have new mercies.
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  Speaker 1: We have new grace, right? We have the new covenant,
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  Speaker 1: which is founded on better promises. For if the first
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  Speaker 1: covenant had been without faults, No place would have been
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  Speaker 1: sought for a second, right? It's obvious that God didn't
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  Speaker 1: make no mistakes with the old covenant. The people of
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  Speaker 1: the old covenant didn't want to recognize what God was
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  Speaker 1: doing or they couldn't recognize or they would just like
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  Speaker 1: the things of the nations. They loved the idols and
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  Speaker 1: they were looking, God's people were looking at the other
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  Speaker 1: nations and like, we want that. Remember, God wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be their king and they said, nah, we want a
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  Speaker 1: king like the other nations. So then God gave them
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  Speaker 1: a king. And if you read the scriptures in the
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  Speaker 1: old covenant, I believe King Saul was the first king.
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  Speaker 1: And just see how that went. Why? Because it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: God's design. It wasn't God's idea. That was man's idea.
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  Speaker 1: And God is a God of love. So he's going
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  Speaker 1: to allow us to move and have the freedom of choice.
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  Speaker 1: We have a free will. And that's a loving God
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  Speaker 1: that allows us to have this free will. Doesn't control us.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't force control over us, I should say. He allows
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  Speaker 1: us to choose him willingly, not forcefully. Amen? So the
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  Speaker 1: good news is your past doesn't have to define your future.
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  Speaker 1: Stop trying to earn what Jesus has already made available
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  Speaker 1: through grace, right? Draw closer to him. Trust his promises.
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  Speaker 1: Trust his new covenant, which is founded on better promises,
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  Speaker 1: and allow him to transform your heart from inside out.
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  Speaker 1: So release the past. Stop allowing yesterday's mistakes to control
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  Speaker 1: today's walk with God. Very important. Remember, remind yourself, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I have a new promise and there's a new covenant.
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  Speaker 1: There's a new promise, new covenant. Continue to remind yourself
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  Speaker 1: that because it will keep you excited. It will keep
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  Speaker 1: you looking in the scriptures. It will keep you looking
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  Speaker 1: at God's promises because you know he's doing a new thing.
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  Speaker 1: Trust God's promises. Believe that his grace is greater than
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  Speaker 1: our failures. Believe And God's grace, knowing that his grace
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  Speaker 1: is better than our affairs. Walk in the newness of life.
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  Speaker 1: This is powerful. This is what no other religious people have.
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  Speaker 1: We have the newness of Christ. We have the newness
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  Speaker 1: of God. We walk in the newness. Haven't you noticed
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  Speaker 1: that Christ believers, we walk differently, we move differently, we're
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  Speaker 1: united in one purpose, one Christ, one church, one faith,
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  Speaker 1: one baptism. Amen. Amen. One Lord, and he's the head
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  Speaker 1: of the church, which is Christ Jesus, walk in the
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  Speaker 1: newness of life, right? Let's let our choices reflect the
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  Speaker 1: transformation Jesus is working within us and then move forward.
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  Speaker 1: He's not looking for perfection. He's looking for followers. He's
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  Speaker 1: looking for willing hearts. He's looking for available people, right?
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  Speaker 1: Let's be available. The new covenant is not about us
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  Speaker 1: becoming perfect. on our own efforts. The new covenant is
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  Speaker 1: about trusting the perfect work of Jesus and allowing him
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  Speaker 1: to change us day by day, right? Day by day.
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  Speaker 1: So share this with someone, remind somebody that their past
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to define them and that Jesus offers a
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  Speaker 1: new beginning, right? Just follow me, share this out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: share this encouragement out to as many people as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have a great week and weekend. Amen. And let's
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  Speaker 1: hope and trust in God's better promises. Amen. I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of time. Have a wonderful weekend to all. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Brother John. Thank you all for listening and hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with me for these morning devos. Honor and privilege, man,
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do this all these years. So
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  Speaker 1: God bless you all. God keep you all. And remember
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  Speaker 1: always that God is good. Peace.