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Self-Worth [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Good morning, Good morning family. God bless you. Welcome back to the
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Morning Devo as you Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam Rock and you're watching or
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you're listening to the Morning Devo Mondays through Fridays, five thirty a m.
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Eason Standard time, and we're here back again in full effect. God bless
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you, welcome back to the Morning Devo. Today we're going to talk about
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something I think is very important to think about and make sure that we're not
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falling into this category of selfishness. Amen, we do have self worth.
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Amen. We are intrinsically valuable to God. Amen, we have intrinsic value.
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God says we're so valuable to him and to the world and to each
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other, that he sent his only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ,
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to die for us so that way we will have a bridge between God and
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man, man and God. Amen. By what he did on the cross,
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and because of what he did and what he accomplished on the cross when
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he rose from the dead, he now gives us the promise of eternal life.
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What do we have to play a part in? What do we have
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to do we have to receive that gift of eternal life? Asking the Lord
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Jesus forgive us for our trespasses, for our sin. We sinned against a
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holy God. Because of what Adam and Eve did. Amen. They represented
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all of mankind because they were the first to be created by God, created
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in the image of God, created in the image of God. And after
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the fall of men, now we're created in the likeness of God and the
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image where image bearers of God. Because of what the original Adam and Eve
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were created, how they were created. Amen, that's another that's another discussion
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for another day. Amen. But I hope you again what I'm trying to
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say that self worth is a thing, Amen. Selfishness is a thing as
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well. A man, we do have self worth, but we're not supposed
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to be selfish. And what we know and what we have Amen, we
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have the Lord Jesus, Let's share him. Amen. We're blessed to be
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saved and born again. Amen. But this is not a religion. It's
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not a social club. Amen, to say, listen, we're in and
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you're not, and you can't get in because of xyz reasons. Amen.
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Let me just make sure I share this out really quick to the group so
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that way they know I'm live over here. On the morning Devo. Okay,
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I did it? Did I do it? So? Okay, there
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you go. Amen. So let's go for it a man. If you
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have any questions, comments, concerns, or any prayer requests, don't hesitate
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to leave it on the live check one a sister, Joanne, I see
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you. So always relying on oneself can be a dangerous trap. If you're
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always relying, he said, I mean, I don't need God, I
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don't need you, I don't need anybody. I could do this on my
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own. And that right there, ladies and gentlemen, is a dangerous trap.
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I've been there before before, and I know it's not a good ending.
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Amen. Think that I could do it all by myself, all on
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my own, without any help from any deity, without the help from any
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God. I got this as soon as as I said I got this,
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and I don't need anyone else. I fell into that dangerous trap. We're
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gonna start from Romans chapter number twelve, Verse number three, Romans twelve and
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three. Today on the morning Devo, I'm calling this one self self well
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worth? Why you say that fast? Ten times in the morning self worth?
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Amen? On the morning Devo. So again, questions comments, concerns,
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prayer requests, whether I'm live or not. Amen, I'm here and
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as soon as I see it, I got a prayer request late last night,
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Amen, and I pray right there on the spot. That's the way
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it is. Amen. So thank you so much for hanging out with your
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brother Sam. So they Sten, let's pray. After we pray, we'll
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shut us out for like sixty seconds. If you know people right now that
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are not on social media like that for whatever reason, they got good reasons
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not to be on social media. I can name a lot of good reasons
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why we shouldn't be camping out on social media every day. You can send
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them straight to live that Sole Winners with a z dot org or you can
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send them to Soul Winners with a z dot org and they'll catch us there
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as well, live and direct. Amen, me make sure the audio is
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good. Yeah, the audio seems okay. So, Father God, I
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thank you so much for today, for this day that we get a glimpse
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of your love and your grace and your mercy and what you have done for
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us so many years ago, so long ago. It could have been someone
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getting saved yesterday. And now we're going to celebrate the salvation of another soul
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snatched from the power of the Kingdom of darkness and is now involved and in
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part and for community of the Body of Christ and the Kingdom of Light.
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Thank you so much for continuingly saving us and rescuing us and giving us a
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second and third and one hundred chance. Thank you, Lo God for your
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grace and your mercy. Thank you Lo God that we do know that we
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have self worth and that we do matter, because you said we matter,
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and You've gave your very best so that way we could live our very best
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on this side of eternity. And there's more after this. Thank you Lord
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God that this right here is not the finish of it all. This is
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not our very best life here, Amen. But while we're here, we're
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filled and dwelled by your holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord God for filling
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us with your spirit. Thank you lot God for touching us and keeping us
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victorious thinking and our mind is clear. We got new eyes to see,
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a mouth to speak, ears to listen, and the spirit the spirit of
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God rorock y Elohem residing inside of us to speak the oracles of God,
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the promises of God, and to share the Gospel of the Lord Jesus,
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the good news. Thank you, Lord God for what you're doing. And
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Lord God, help us not to be selfish, to be self less,
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and to share what we have that we were freely given with others without any
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kind of compromise or hesitation. So I pray the power God, I speak
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the power God over every single person that's related to me, my household,
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my family, my wife, our children, my whole entire bloodline, my
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whole family the Lopez Galang Morales, Amen, clemente everyone in our family line.
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And I thank you, Lo God, that you will continue to do
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a work in our hearts and mind as well. Amen, in my family
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line. And I pray that over every single person that's connected now and who
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will connect later, for them and their families as well. Peace in Jesus'
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name, and love and grace and mercy and health to the body and strength
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to the bones, and the powerful name of the Lord Jesus. I prayed.
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This is by faith. Amen, and Amen, let's shut this out.
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Let me shut us out sixty seconds. When we come back on the
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other side of those sixty seconds, we'll hit our first scripture. Romans,
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Chapter twelve, Verse number three, I'll be right back. Heymen, God
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bless you. Welcome back. She Bro Sam Lopez and I just shared out
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Thank you so much for doing that. We are able to do other
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we're still here on doing what we do. Amen. So let's put it
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on the screen the morning Devo. We're talking about self wealth, and if
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you're watching, put then image of a person that's saying it's all about me.
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I'm the king here, and the person on the other side of that
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selfish person is looking at them like, what in the world You know what
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I mean? And that's the type of image I wanted to place in your
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mind right now as we're speaking about this topic of self worth. Romans,
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chapter number twelve, verse number three says it like this, For by grace
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of God given to me, I say to every one of you not to
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think more highly of himself and of his importance, see that of his importance
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and ability than he ought to think. But to think so as to have
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sound judgment, as God has apportioned to each a degree of faith and a
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purpose designed for service. Listen, it's great if you have a title apostle,
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general, apostle, bishop, pastor, teacher, evangelist, prophet,
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whatever your title is. Amen, the gifts of God that you received,
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they were given by God. And because they were given by God. We
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should be humbled by that. And we're not supposed to think that we are
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better than anybody else, but to think as ourselves with sound judgment, as
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God has a portion to each, a degree of faith, and a purpose
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designed for service. No matter how you slice it, we're all servants of
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the most High God. Amen. Bubby Watts. Good morning, Brother Sam
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thanking God for another day. Yes, thank God for another day. I
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have you on the morning to deal with with us over at YouTube. God
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bless you, so listen. We have it. The Bible says it clearly
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that we are here to serve, serve one another, serve God, worship
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Him, Amen, and not to have an idol to worship or anything like
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that. So that's our starting point. When God showed me that, I
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was like, relying on self can be a dangerous thing. If we're relying
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on ourselves and we're thinking that we're better or we're more I don't know.
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Some people think that for whatever reason, that they're more important than others,
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or they think more hoidly of themselves. That could be a dangerous trap.
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We do have self worth, absolutely, but we shouldn't be selfish and differently
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in front of certain people than we do with other people. Always relying on
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oneself can be a dangerous trap. That was Romans twelve. Three'll give you
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another one here, Amen, it's a lot I wanted to netch these two
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Second Corinthians, Chapter number one, verses eight and nine. Second Corinthians,
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Chapter number one, verses eight and nine. For we do not want you
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to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. This
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is Apostle Paul talking to the church in corinth He's talking about him and his
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peoples how they experience affliction and Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond
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our strength that we despaired of life itself verse nine. Indeed, we felt
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that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us
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rely not on our selves but on God, who raises the dead. So
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when you're going through stuff, Amen, and God allows you to go through
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that stuff, because nothing is passing God without his knowledge. He knows what's
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happening. He knows what we're gonna go through. He knows when the storm
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is coming, he knows about the storm. He knows how to get out
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of the storm. So if we're afflicted. And you're afflicted and you're experiencing
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some you know, persecution, or people are trying to hurt your reputation,
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or they're trying to shoot those evil darts at you know that things might be
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getting beyond your strength. If you're relying on yourself, you're gonna notice right
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away that I can't do this on my own. You can't do this on
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your own. So you get to feel right like if you're being sentenced to
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death sometimes, but that's there to make us rely not on our selves,
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realize that it's not about ourselves only, but on the God who raises the
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dead, on the God who rescues, on the God who protects, on
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the God who saved us. Amen. A God who humbles us, and
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a God who wants the very best for us. Not only on this side
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of eternity, but we have the promise of eternal life. So either way
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you slice the pie and man, we have it. We have it.
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Amen. Webby Watt says, I have a quick question, brother Sam.
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Do animals go to heaven? By the way, I'm not sure if I
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told you this before, but it's Sean Burne. What's up, Sean?
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Do animals go to heaven. There's mention of animals all throughout revelation. So
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that's an indication that there's animals in heaven to me, and animals, they
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don't have the soul that we have, like they don't make intelligent decisions based
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on how God designed humans. And because of that, since God's a just
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god, he knows animals can't respond to his eternal you know, questions and
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all these things. But I believe God is so just and so loving and
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that animals can be in heaven. They're mentioned all throughout the scriptures. Amen
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as symbols, Amen, as heavenly symbols, as Jesus himself coming up a
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horse. Amen. This mention of dragons, is mentioned, of doves,
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right, it is mentioned of eagles, is mentioned of pigs when the demons
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were cast into the pigs. There's mention of a lot of animals in the
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scriptures. Amen. So when it surprised me if we're in heaven, Amen,
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and giraffes and everything. Remember God created the animals in the book of
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Genesis. He created all the animals in the sea, and all the animals
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on the ground, insects, everything, he created all of it. Amen.
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So in his creation and his creative being, in his creative mind.
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I don't think he'll short change anything in heaven. As a matter of fact,
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eyes have not seen ears and have not heard yet of what we're going
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to see in heaven. Amen. The spirit you mean, I mean the
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soul of an animal, right, the only thing Jesus came to save the
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soul of animal. He came to save our souls and the spirit that was
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placed in those animals. We got to go back to Genesis how God spoke
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life into existence. So I believe animals, No, that's why. And
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when you look at animals when danger is coming, certain animals like dogs or
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cats or whatever animal you have, Amen, they sense things before we get
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it. They have instinct. Amen. When we have soul and we have
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reasoning, animals have instinct, We have something called conscience, we have holy
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spirit, We have things along those ways. So I think Amen. Because
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of the mentions all all through the scriptures, prophetically, Amen, and just
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natural mentions of animals, I believe there should be some in heaven. I
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don't think there wouldn't be. I don't think it would be a damaged part.
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That's when I met we as humans have the spirit animals don't. Amen.
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I believe there they have a spirit because God is spirit and God created
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all animals, So I believe that spirit. I just don't believe that they're
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connected to us in the same way that God connected us to Him. My
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way of Jesus and the gospel. Amen's system, Nicole, God bless you,
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good morning. I hope no mosquitoes are me either. I look at
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some animals and some insects, and I ask Gott, why are they here
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for? But God has a purpose for every single animal, including insects.
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To answer mice all that, they all have a purpose to serve a man.
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As long as they don't get in my way with their purpose. Let
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them mind their own business. I mind my own business mosquitos and beetles and
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bugs, and yeah, I'm with you, system, Nicole. I doubt
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if there'll be any pestilence in heaven, Amen, and no nuisance in heaven.
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I don't think there's gonna be anything that's going to be a nuisance to
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us, Amen. Amen. Also, sorry to make the question off topic,
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This was a question that I really wanted to ask you. Amen,
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and man, you can ask away, but you could do a study on
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that if you look at the Book of Genesis, Amen, and get a
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good study Bible and go to on the animals. Amen. It should being
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concorded to the animals. It'll give you a better description or better understanding of
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what God intended for the animals on this earth and the animals that he announced
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as heavily for the heavenly realms. Amen, in the Book of Revelation.
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But thank you for answering my question. You're welcome, bro, It's all
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good over here on the morning Devo. I'm not a Bible scholar, Amen,
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but I do have holy spirit God, and so do you if you're
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born again a man. Holy spirit. God will lead us into the right
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direction to get these answers to these questions. I don't believe God is entitled
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to answer all of our questions, Amen, but he's amazingly able to answer
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our questions Amen, no matter if they're what we consider small or big.
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Amen. God is sovereign, he's in control, he knows all things,
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Amen, and he is kind to us, and he will answer our questions.
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So no issue, no problem, no file. Amen. Put this
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on a side very quick, because I got some more sauce hit. Amen.
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I got some more juice about this topic of self work. Every human
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being is made in the image of God according to his design we see in
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Genesis one twenty seven. So God created man and his own image in the
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image of God. He created him male and female. He created them.
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Remember that was good before the fall of man. That was good. Genesis
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chapter three. Men fell. Now we're created image bearers of God because of
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the original creation. Right. But now we're created in the image of men.
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Therefore, now we have this sin nature. And then that's why Jesus
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said, you must be born again to inherited catingdom of God. So he
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doesn't leave us in the sin nature because of the fall of man. In
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Genesis chapter three, he redeems us. He gives us an opportunity to be
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redeemed and born again with a new body, new sound, a new sound
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mind, a new heart, right, a new mind, a minor Christ.
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And then we're regenerated. We're reborn. Amen. And now we're going
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back to the likeness of Jesus, the likeness of God and man. We
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have paradise taken away in Genesis chapter three and the Revelation Paradise beginning when Jesus
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comes with the new Heaven and the new Earth. So God sending his son
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to die for us shows his view of our self wealth worth. I would
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say wealth self worth. Amen. Our self worth is valid. But selfishness
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because of our self worth, can become religious. And the religion that people
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are showing when they're selfish is arrogance, right pride. They think they're better
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than everyone, and they walk right by you. They don't consider you and
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your needs or anything like that. Those are religious people who think that they
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hire like we read in a Roman chapter or was it Romans twelve three,
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that they think they're hired in people like they have this idea that I'm more
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valuable than you, Sam, or value within you. Amen. And that's
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not it. We all we have this built in serving heart that God placed
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in us. Amen. To serve others, to serve God first, to
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serve others. Amen. And it's a humbling experience. And when you humble
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yourself, God will exalt you. But if you exalt yourself, God will
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humble you. Amen. So God said, And his son is proof John
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three sixteen. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and
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only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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Right, Christians, we find significance in our relationship to God, not
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really in our relationship we're people who are following us, or we're influencing over
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or that are working for us. If you're own a business, shouldn't be
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that way. It should be that we find significance in our relationship to God,
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not in ourselves and not in others. Think about it. If we
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just validate ourselves by the amount of likes and follows we have on social media,
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we're in a sad place. We need to snap out of that.
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What happened before social media I used to live. I'm so mature in my
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age. I lived before the Internet, before social media, before Facebook,
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Meta Twitter, snap all at, I was alive. Why can you think
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about it? Before the internet, before cell phones, I was alive.
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I was from that generation. So my imagination might be a little bit more
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advanced than many that are coming up now because they have these devices that anything
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they think of a man they could tap into. We growing up the way
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we grew up, we had to use our imagination and go outside of our
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homes. There was no devices in our hands other than walkie talkie sometimes.
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You know, cell phones came way after my teenage, well not way after
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my teenage, but way after my childhood. Amen, And the Internet and
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all that stuff started coming out, and now there was a gateway just for
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information to be more quickly quickly how you call it retrieved quickly. It's a
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word for it, you know what I mean? That you could get information
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so fast. Now, it wasn't like that before from the era seventies baby
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right here, Amen, So before the Internet, before social media, befall
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that, we used our imagination and we were relying on likes and follows and
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clicks and all this other stuff that people are relying on now to validate who
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we are our self worth. Amen. So Christians find our significance and our
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relationship to God. John fifteen says, I no longer call you servants,
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because the servants a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I
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have called you friends. For everything that I learned from my father I have
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made known to you. Amen. That's the Lord Jesus, A quote straight
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from the Lord. Amen. So let us know that, listen, we're
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worth his time. A lot of people say, I don't want to bother
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God with that You're not bothering God. Amen. Now there's people think that
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I'm so busy. There's people out there think I'm so busy that I didn't
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want to bother you. Sam, You're not a bother You ain't bothering me.
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Like I said, someone took the opportunity last night and boxed me.
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Said I need prayer, and we prayed on the spot. Amen. Who
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do I think I am? If I think I don't call my secretary,
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I don't have time right now. Listen. I hope I never get to
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that point where I look at another human being who's in need of prayer and
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just throw them to the side, or throw them to somebody or sign somebody
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maybe on my online ministry that I do. I do need assistance with prayer
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requests and people going through a lot of issues and struggles in life. Amen.
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I get a ton of them every day, a man, and I'm
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trying my best to answer every single one of those texes. Amen. Well,
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that's that's serving though. We're serving, so we're coming together and we're
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serving. I do app evangelism, Amen. That's the thing. I don't
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know if I coin that term app apologetics app, but I do go on
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apps a man and I speak to real souls a man and represent for the
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Lord Jesus, and you know, give the people the Gospel message and they
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have Q and a's prayer requests, concerns on all that. The same way
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I offer that in the beginning questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests.
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I do really do that in my body life on these apps. Amen.
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So if you want to help me, I'm always in need of help in
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those areas when it comes to this app. Apologize to the app evangelism.
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There's people on there, the souls on there on those apps that need Jesus,
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and they have questions and we have the answer. We have the Lord.
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Knowing God is what makes life meaningful. If you really think about it.
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What we think is meaningful, sometimes it's not even worth the salt that
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we're putting value on it. Amen. Jesus is God, Him being God
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and our Savior and our Lord. He makes life meaningful. Knowing Him.
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Knowing God is what makes life meaningful. Jeremiah, chapter number nine, twenty
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three and twenty four. This is what the Lord says. Let not the
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wise man boast of his wisdom, or the strong man boasts of his strength,
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or the rich man boasts of his riches. But let him who boasts
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about this that he understands and knows me, that he understands and knows God,
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that I am the Lord who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on
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earth. For in these I delight, declares the Lord. Yeah, so
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let the people boast about their things, right, those things are temporary.
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What we're gonna be boasting about is the eternal God a man, and what
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he did and continues to do in our lives and the lives of others.
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Amen, and will continue to do that system of course that I agree with
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you. We are the body of Christ. We should always take the time
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to be there for one another, lift others up and pray. God uses
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us here to influence others. Yes, he does, and the love that
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He displays to us, we could demonstrate that to one another, so that
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with this dying world knows that there is a love that overcomes all hatred and
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all disunity. And we're unified because we're in a body at Christ and we're
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in union with God, so we're close to Heaven all the time. Amen.
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So thank you so much, thank you sister Nako for your comment,
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thank you so much for hanging out with me for these morning DeVos. Amen,
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I'm glad that you show up and that we're here together. And if
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you want to, if you need to watch the replay, get ahead and
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watch it. It'll be on live that sou Winness with his Zea Orgy all
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day and of course in the archives as so Winness with his Zeta Orgy to
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celebrate our network. So God bless you all, God keep you all,
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and remember always that God it's good peace.