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First Thessalonians, chapter 5. Let us pray.
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Holy, holy, Holy, The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, El
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Shaddai, El Elion, the Most High God.
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You are Adonai, You are El Shaddai.
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You are the Jehovah, Rapha. Jehovah.
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Nisi. Jehovah Jireh, You're the
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banner. You're the provider.
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You are the Great Physician, the healer God.
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We thank you. For the Holy Spirit.
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We thank you. For the indwelling of the Holy
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Spirit in our lives, God stamping us and marking us as a
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deposit. For eternal life, we.
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Thank you. That we can hear from you, Lord.
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We thank you that you speak. To us, Father.
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We thank you that you. Hear us, God.
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We thank you. That you answer our prayers,
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God, we await expectantly. Today we look up and see that
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our redemption is drawing near. We see the leaves on the fig.
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Tree Father. God, we know your.
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Rewards are with you. And the.
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Spirit and the. Bride say come, we thank you God
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for all the promises that you've given us contained.
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In this 66. Book Canon from Genesis to
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Revelation. God, we.
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Thank you for. Giving us the divinely.
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Inspired words that read us. As we open it, Father, I pray
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that this word of yours will be quickened in the inner.
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Man, let it come. Alive in US, Father.
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Let it become part of our DNA. Let it become part of our mind.
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Let it become part of our senses.
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Father, I pray. In the name of.
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Jesus, that greater? Is he who is living in US than
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he who is in the world? Father, I pray for a
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supernatural zeal. God, for this time, for this
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hour, Lord, for this generation, God, I pray that you will help.
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US. To be your.
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Hands and feet. Help us to fall.
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More in love. With you, King Jesus.
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We know that everything is moving in the perfect
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accordance. With what the scriptures?
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Have. Told us of how.
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It would all look and so God, we stand firm on the.
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Truth. Lord help us to.
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Pray for our enemies. God help us to love those who
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persecute us. God help us to be.
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The. Difference makers, in this
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wicked, perverse world, God keep us.
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From being stained from. All of the things in this world.
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Blot out. All of our iniquities blot out.
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All of our. Shortcomings God, I pray.
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That you'll cover over. US, God, I pray that.
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None of the sins. That we've ever committed will
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ever be counted against. US.
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In the mighty name of. Jesus Christ, God, highlight
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your text. Today, Lord help.
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Us to hyper fixate. Upon these words today, let
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these words become. Part of our very.
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Being Lord, let them soak. In.
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Lord, let us hide. Them in our hearts.
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So that we. Might not sin against.
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You King Jesus. How Messiah, the Messiah, Lord
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of all. We love you, Father.
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I pray that you will. Rescue those.
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That are drowning. God rescue those.
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That are in. Turmoil and tumult.
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God rescue those. That are.
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Making self-imposed imprisonments.
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God, I pray. That you'll.
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Snatch them out of the. Fire.
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Put your robe upon them. Put your ring upon them.
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God, we thank you. For the perfect sacrifice.
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We thank you that you pursue. Us.
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God. We thank you.
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God that we turned around. We had enough wherewithal to
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turn around and turn towards you, a loving.
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Savior, thank you for. Rescuing us Thank you for.
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Saving us, thank you. For salvation.
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Thank you for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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Thank you. For our eternal.
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Destination. Thank you God.
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That we can start. Living it now, Lord.
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Thank you for the. Circles of influence.
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That you've given us God. Thank you.
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Lord for the Oikos. Thank you, Father, that.
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We are the called out ones. Thank you.
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God that you have. Given us every.
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Tool that. We need to reach.
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The world God, I pray. In the mighty name of Jesus.
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Christ, that we'll step in. To our bridal identity that
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we'll no longer see ourselves as victims, Lord, but that we, we
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will see ourselves as more than conquerors.
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Lord break off. Fear.
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God, break off. Fear of man, God break off
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vanity and self seeking. In the mighty name of.
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Jesus, God, I. Pray that we will be yours, and
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that we will be. In the fold and.
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That we will be. There with you and that God, we
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are the ones that you have called and that you have.
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Chosen. And predestined before the.
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Foundations of the Earth. God, I pray that we'll no longer
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squander. Our inheritance God.
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That we will not sell our birthright for a mess of
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pottage. Father, I pray that we will lay
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down all of the. Trickery and deception.
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All of the gimmickry. God, I pray.
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That we'll step. Into the.
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Reality of the angelic host all around us.
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Fighting our battles, father. We love you, King.
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Jesus, it's. All about you.
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King Jesus, it'll. Always be about you.
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King Jesus the same. Yesterday, today, and forever.
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We love you. And it's in your.
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Mighty and holy and. Precious name that I pray.
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Amen. Well, let's start in verse one,
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but of the times. And the Seasons brothers.
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You have no need that I write. Unto you so, Paul.
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Here is rekindling the. Fire that was once.
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Stoked there in Thessalonica and he's saying, remember all the
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things that I told you. About.
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Remember all the things that I taught you about and it would
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have. Been.
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Like trying to get a drink of. Water out of a.
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Fire hydrant Friends, Paul. Unleashed.
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And unloaded. And he imparted unto them these.
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Spiritual truths that are. Revealed to us.
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And they were hidden. For lots of the prophets of old.
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But now. For the church.
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God was well. Pleased to bring them out from
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behind the veil. And and to reveal.
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Them to the church, and now we can.
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See. And now we can know what his
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plans. Are for the entirety.
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Of humanity, friends from Adam. All the way until.
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New. Jerusalem, friends, we can.
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See, it all played out and there.
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When you get to the end of Revelation, there is no comma.
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It is a period. And we will be there with him
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forever. Forever and ever.
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There's not another book. There's not another story.
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There's not another. Friends.
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It is Christ Jesus. And Christ Jesus alone.
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That. Gets us there only.
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By Jesus will. We ever make it.
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To the Father. He is the way.
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The Truth and the Life and Paul. Is here and he's.
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Telling these people here. In the Thessalonian church that
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they do not need. To.
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Try and fix dates they do not need.
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To try and figure. Out the exact day that.
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Christ will come back. They just need to walk in
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obedience and they don't need. To sit and be.
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Taught by any. Others because Paul has.
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Given them. All.
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Of the things that they need. To know.
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About the second. Coming of Christ.
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And that is our. Mandate as well, friends.
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We do not. We do not need to.
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Go to Extra Biblical. Accounts and extra biblical
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commentary. To try to figure.
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Out the second coming of our Lord.
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Jesus Christ, you will be swept. Away in all kinds of mysticism.
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You'll be swept away. In all kinds of opinions of man,
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we need the Bible, friends. The Bible to interpret the
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Bible. Scripture to interpret
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Scripture. Line upon line and.
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Precept upon precept. And that is how we're going to
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make it to the end. It is not.
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By. Trusting in man friends, the
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counterfeit will be. Slid across the table.
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And if you do. Not know the.
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Accurate. True Word of God.
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Then you. Will be duped.
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Into believing all kinds of heresy, friends, And that is the
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beginning. Of the apostate church.
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And the falling away, that is the beginning.
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Of chaos. And.
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Confusion, friends, is whenever. We start to trust.
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In. The counterfeit when we.
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Start to put our. Faith and.
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Start to try to. Walk across the.
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Chasm between our sinfulness and God's holiness on the wobbly
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board. Of the counterfeit Christ.
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Friends, it is Jesus and it is Jesus alone.
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That we look towards. We fix our.
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Eyes on him and we can. Walk on water.
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And we will not sink. Verse 2 for yourselves know.
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Perfectly. That the day of the.
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Lord so. Comes as a thief.
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In the night. So that is what?
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Paul wanted them to know, and that is what God wants us to
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know. Is that Jesus will?
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Come and catch us up in the air and it'll be.
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Like a thief. In the Night and the.
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Whole world will wonder. What happened to?
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A great percentage. Of the world population being
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completely vanished in thin air, completely gone.
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And it will. Cause a lot.
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Of chaos in the. World, and that will.
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Be the beginning of the seven-year tribulation, and many
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people will try to explain it away by all kinds of
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extraterrestrial accounts and it'll.
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Be a ridiculous hoax. And it'll.
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All be orchestrated by. The man of lawlessness.
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It'll be orchestrated by. A one world leader that comes on
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the scene to try to explain. Away all of the.
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Mysterious disappearance of so many human beings on planet
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Earth and it'll. It they will try.
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He will try. To explain it away and.
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The world will fall for it. Because you can.
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See it all already? Shaping.
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Up in its mainstream, this is not some kind of.
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Backstage. This is not some kind of.
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Cultic following this is. Mainstream friends, this is in
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the. Highest levels of propaganda.
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And. You can see it all.
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Shaping up and the. Bible tells us that.
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It'll be that way. The Bible tells us that.
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It would deceive the. Elect if that was.
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Possible. This.
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Strong delusion that's coming upon the world.
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To test. All the inhabitants friends.
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Verse. 3 for when they. Shall say peace, safety.
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Then sudden destruction comes upon them.
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As travail. Upon a woman with child, and
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they shall not escape. It could not be any more plain
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friends. It's black and white and people
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gloss. Over these verses.
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And when you find people? Who find hope?
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In the word of God and they find hope in all the things that are
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happening in the world. It's because they are.
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Lining up. All of the current events with
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scripture. And they all line up perfectly,
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friends. But the people who?
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Will not get into the word of God, and they're just.
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Want to get a? Sounding board and they just
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want little snippets. And they want the short videos
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and they want to be spoon. Fed they are let.
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Off into confusion and. Chaos friends.
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And that is? Where you get.
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So many different mind frames and so many.
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Different people who believe. All kinds of.
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Heresy is because they're. Not steeped and rooted and
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grounded in God's Word, they only.
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Cherry pick verses to fit their lifestyle.
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And far be it from us. To be those.
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Who will? Not fall in love.
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With God's Word. And the Word of God became flesh
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friends and. The word of God.
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Was in the beginning and. The word of God.
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Is what we. Need more than anything,
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friends, we need. To study it more than we study
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the nightly news, we need to. Study the Word of God.
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More than we study. Our favorite author and
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publication in the series Friends.
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We need to study. It more than we love these
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little miniseries. And our.
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SOAP operas friends we need. To study.
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The word of God. More than we.
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Study academia friends. We need to study.
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The word of God. More than We study all of the
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galaxies and the stars. And all of the string theories
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and everything else friends. It's the word of.
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God, that's going to lead us home and that.
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Is what we desperately. Need to fall.
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In love with friends? And he's telling us.
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In verse three that the whole. World will be.
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Screaming peace and safety. And doesn't it look kind?
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Of like that today. Friends, can't you?
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See so many. People who are trying to.
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Cry out for this. Peace and safety.
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They're trying to. Push for this peace and safety.
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And I want you to know. Friends, that is the workings of
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the makings of the Antichrist coming onto the scene, and that
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is what he. Will propagate and that is what
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he will. Promise.
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To the world is this peace. And safety.
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And it'll come. By way of force.
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It'll come. By way of.
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Destruction, friends, and they'll have to annihilate
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certain places and groups in order to get.
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This peace and the. Safety, and it is.
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All. Trickery and deception, friends.
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But God told us that it will be that way.
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And it actually. Is God.
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Moving all of it in line with his perfect and pleasing plan
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for. All.
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Ages and he will install King Jesus on his throne in Jerusalem
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for 1000 years and that is. What we're moving towards today.
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Friends and you can. See it all.
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Shaping up and. All of the secular.
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News. Proves the Bible's reliability.
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And that is why they do not want you to read it.
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That is why they do not want you.
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To pick it up. That is why all the evil and the
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darkness and all. Of the principalities.
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Friends and all. Of.
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The demonic host they. Do not want you.
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To be knowledgeable about. What the word of God?
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Says, but they know that. The Word of God is truth.
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And they know, and so therefore they do not want you.
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Reading it because. If you were to.
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Start to read it and start to. Understand it, then you.
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Would be able to see. That everything that is
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happening in the world right now is in perfect accordance with
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the prophetic timeline. Friends, we can.
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See it? With the nation Israel, we can.
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See it, friends. With all of the.
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Global. World's superpowers.
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And what is happening? And they will all hand their
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power over to the one little horn that speaks blasphemies out
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of his mouth, and they will not escape God's judgment.
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Verse. 4 But you brothers. Are not in darkness that the
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day. Should overtake.
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You as a thief. We need to watch friends and
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pray so that we may be found. Worthy to escape.
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Friends and to stand. In the presence of.
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God Almighty. We do not need.
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To be caught off guard if you get ready.
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You don't. If you stay ready.
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You don't have to get ready, friends.
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So that is my admonition to every single person.
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Who will ever hear this? Get ready, stay ready.
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Do not. Believe the lie that.
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There is much more. Time and that the world just
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keeps going on and on, as it always has.
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That is trickery and deception. And there is.
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Such. A grave mistake and falling.
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Into the. Trap of believing.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've. Been saying that my whole life
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they've been saying that. All of.
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My life, my grandparents said it, my parents said it, and now
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it's being said now and where is this coming?
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Of the Lord that is such a. Tragic mistake, friends.
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We must stay ready. We must believe that we could
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be. The generation that.
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Finally gets to see. This catching up into the air to
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meet him friends do not. Get caught off guard.
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And do not let your lamp run out of oil.
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Five you. Are all the children of light
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and the children of the day. We are not of the night nor of
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darkness if you've been called out.
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If you belong to. Him.
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Then he exposes everything. He puts it.
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All under the magnifying glass. He brings it out and he.
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Burns away the dross. And the impurities and we can
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gird up our loins and stand in His holy presence.
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We. Do not need to.
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Hide ourselves like those. That are unforgiven.
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Like those that are. Doing all of the malicious
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things we do not need to live in.
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Shame and regret, friends. We can stand in His holy
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presence knowing that everything that we've ever done, our doing,
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or will ever. Do is completely covered over by
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the blood of Jesus Christ 6. Therefore, let us not.
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Sleep as others do, but let us. Watch and be sober.
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He tells us to watch, He tells us.
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To stay sober, friends. And this is not some kind of
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humdrum life that has no kind of excitement, friends.
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It is the most exciting thing. That you will ever.
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Do by following after. The Lord Jesus Christ because
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you don't even. Know where you're going to be
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tomorrow. He could call you.
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To the front lines he could call.
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You into an unreached people group he could call.
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You all the way around the world.
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We position ourselves. To be.
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Workers for him to put our hand to.
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The plow to go. Out into the harvest.
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Friends, it's the most. Exciting thing.
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That you will ever do with your little.
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Lifetime that you have here on planet Earth.
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Do not fall asleep. Do not.
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Be like the. Unwise virgins do not.
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Be like. Those who didn't?
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Bring any. Oil or trim their.
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Wicks. We need to be and we are called.
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To be the wise. Virgins.
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Who? Stay ready.
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Who? Stay awake and.
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Alert and we watch and we look, and our redemption is drawing
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near. And his rewards are with him. 7
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For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be
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drunk or drunk in the night. So think about it, friends.
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They try to hide all their evil deeds.
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But we can do everything that we.
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Do in the. Light because it.
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Is on the up and up it is. Scrutinized, and you will.
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Find just like Daniel. You will find when you look at
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the database. When you look at the files you
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will find. That there is integrity.
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With those who call themselves believers because they.
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Know that they are. Accountable to God.
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Almighty and everything that. We.
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Do is as if we do it. In the day.
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As if we do. It in the light nothing is
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hidden. Before God.
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Almighty's knowledge and eyes, friends. 8 But let us.
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Who are of the day be. Sober, putting on the
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breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of
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salvation. So think about it, friends.
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He's referencing and calling us. Back to the.
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Full armor of God, friends, and we need.
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To put on this breastplate. That's going to protect.
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Our heart, friends, and we know that the.
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Greatest of these is. Love and.
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We know that we. Need faith, friends?
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Faith is the conduit that we are.
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Saved by it is grace through. Faith, we need faith, and by.
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Faith we put on this full. Armor of God we put on.
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Our helmet of salvation, we remember.
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Our testimony we remember. How far we have.
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Come from, we remember. What?
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We used to be. Like and that is what makes us
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go out into the harvest. That's what makes.
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Us go out. And scatter.
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The seed because. We were once dead in our
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trespasses. We were once.
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Completely separated from him and hostile.
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With God, but God. Snatched us out of the fire, and
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there are many who are not. In this fold.
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That he's going to bring in friends. 9 For God has not
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appointed. Us to wrath.
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But to obtain. Salvation by our Lord.
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Jesus Christ. So we have an appointment,
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friends, every single person. Who has ever.
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Lived every single person. Who is living and every?
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Single person who will. Ever be born has an appointment
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and we need to know that. Jesus Christ says he.
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Paid in full. By his perfect innocent.
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Blood. All of the wrath of God, he's.
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Satisfied. At the cross of Christ.
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And that is what we need to understand this appointment.
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To. Death friends and this
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appointment to judgement friends it can.
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Be completely imputed to you. Sinner.
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It can be completely. Imputed to you.
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Jesus Christ. Perfection and innocence.
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It can be imputed to you his. Righteousness and you can stand
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before Almighty God, unafraid and unashamed.
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Because of what Jesus Christ did.
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And nothing that we have done the only thing that.
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We ever did that was. Worth anything?
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Was put our faith. In the Lord.
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Jesus Christ, He is our hope of. Salvation, 10, Who died?
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For us. That whether we wake or sleep,
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we should live together. With him so.
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Whether we are alive, which is for.
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The benefit? Of all those that we will.
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Witness to. Or whether we die and we go on
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to be. With him, forever and ever and
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ever. Either.
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Way we are in. Christ Jesus.
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And we will live together both now and.
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For all of eternity. In.
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Christ. 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify.
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One another, even as you also do so Paul was.
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Admonishing them and saying. Listen.
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Comfort yourselves. With these.
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Words make sure. These words get read, build each
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other up with all of the words of this letter.
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That I. Sent to you.
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And it is. Come to his.
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Knowledge that they are. Doing that very thing. 12 and we
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beg. You brothers.
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To know them which labor among you, and are over you in the
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Lord, and admonish. You. 13 and to esteem them very
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highly in love. For their works sake.
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And be at peace. Among yourselves.
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So here is a. Call for the congregants.
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Of a church to. Highly esteem their.
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Pastor to highly esteem. Their shepherd, that God.
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Has given them and if you cannot do that, it is.
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High time. For you to find a congregation
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that you can and that is what. He is saying.
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To them. It is not easy.
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Work. To be a minister and to be a
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pastor and to have to wrestle in the spiritual realm.
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Friends and they. Need to be highly.
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Esteemed. Because of the things that they
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do that have no tangible evidence, but they are in.
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The spiritual realm. As they wrestle for your souls.
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As they wrestle. For your eternal destination.
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Friends and they put. Themselves on the line.
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Every day and they. Open themselves up.
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To all of the spiritual attacks. That ministers are prone to
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because of. Where they are.
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Treading Friends and the. Devil will leave you alone.
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If you are self. Destructing but the moment.
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That you put your faith. And the moment that.
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You put your trust. And the moment that you turn?
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Towards a loving and. Graceful Savior.
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The enemy will ramp. Up all of his attacks trying to.
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Drag you. Away trying to.
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Get you into. Ill repute trying to.
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Get you to destroy. Your testimony so that.
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You are no good at witnessing and that.
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Your life will not look like. Any different than the?
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Rest of the world. And that is?
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The tactic of the. Enemy and we need to be on guard
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against this He cannot snatch you out of God's hands, but he
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sure can get you to make a mess out of your ministry. 14 now we.
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Exhort, you brothers. Warn them that are unruly.
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Comfort the feeble minded. Support.
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The weak Be patient. Towards all.
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Men, what a admonition from God. Towards us, the church.
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And he tells us we need to warn. Them that are unruly.
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Titus tells us to. Warn A divisive person.
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Once and then warn them again and after that have nothing to
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do with them. For you can be.
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Sure that they are warped and self.
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Condemned and then we need to comfort the feeble minded.
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These are the ones they are. Struggling with their identity.
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They are struggling. Friends, and they are.
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Wrestling back and forth between.
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All of the. Things of this world.
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And the things. Of what?
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The Bible. Says and they are.
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Feeble in their mind. And they don't actually know how
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to put it into. Practice and he.
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Tells us to comfort them and to let them know that God.
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Is and that he. Is real, and that he is.
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Rescuing and saving. Them support the weak.
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There are many who are weak. And they're weak because.
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They're not rooted and grounded in God's Word, friends.
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They're weak. Because they.
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Haven't got off. Of the spiritual milk and
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started eating the spiritual meat.
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Friends they are still. Babes in Christ.
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And we need to make. Sure, we come alongside.
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Of those. And help them to come in.
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To the maturity. That God.
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Wishes for them. And be at peace.
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Among yourselves, we. Are called to live peaceably as
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much as we possibly. Can.
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With those. All around us, love.
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Your neighbor as yourself. 14 now we.
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Exhort, you brothers warn. Them 15.
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See that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever.
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Follow that which is good. Both among yourselves and to
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all. Men vengeance is the.
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Lord God Almighty. 'S.
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We turn over people. To him.
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We go to. God and we say.
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God, you must fix this situation.
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Please do not let me be in the flesh.
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Do not let me take vengeance upon this person in my carnal
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thinking. But God, we give it over.
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To you, and we know that you will do things that are much.
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Better in the ways. That you.
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Do things God will be more. Effective.
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Than my anger and wrath. Towards this person, so we give.
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Them over. To God.
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Almighty and we allow. God to deal with.
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Them friends. We ourselves.
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Need to make sure that we. Are following after what is good
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and. That we.
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Not only are following after those things.
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For our own benefit. But also for all the people,
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all. Around us 16.
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Rejoice. Evermore, 17.
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Pray without. Ceasing 18 in everything.
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Give thanks. For this is the will of.
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God in. Christ Jesus concerning you.
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So he. Tells us to rejoice always He
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tells us to. Pray without ceasing.
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He tells us to always give. Thanks in everything, because
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that is. God's will.
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For us. And you need to.
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Know when you mix joy? And prayer it will.
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Always result. In gratitude, friends, and we
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can see. That that is God's will.
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For us, we must. Take every thought captive.
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And make it obedient. Unto Christ do not.
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Worry about anything, but pray about everything.
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We need to make sure. That this joy is.
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What marks our life? We have to choose.
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Joy, friends, and joy is not happenstance.
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Joy. Is not the things that are
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happening. To you, Joy.
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Is not happiness, friends? Joy is a choice.
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And we can have joy in the midst.
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Of all of our. Trials and all of our
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persecution friends, take joy. Have joy live.
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In the. Joy of the Lord, for today is
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the day that the. Lord has made.
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Let us. Rejoice and be glad in it,
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friends. Take it, it's yours.
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And that will result in this gratitude.
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You can. Start taking inventory.
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You can start. Looking at all the things that.
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God has blessed you with. Friends.
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Another day to. Praise Him to serve.
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Him to love, him another. Day to learn more.
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About him, friends another. Day to witness to those all.
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Around you, you can have the joy you can have.
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This. Prayerful life that happens. 24
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hours a day, seven days a week. Friends.
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And it will. Result.
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In Thanksgiving and thankfulness 19 do not quench.
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The. Spirit. 20 Despise not
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prophesying. 21. Prove.
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All things hold fast that. Which is good.
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So he's telling us. That there is a.
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Possibility that we can quench. The Holy Spirit.
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You can be. Indwelled with the Holy.
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Spirit friends, and then quench it and that.
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Is the unwise foolish? Virgins who let their.
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Lamps run out. Who let the?
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Oil run out. Who did not trim their Wicks?
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We quench the. Spirit whenever we choose the
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world over the. Things of God.
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We quench the spirit whenever. He speaks to us.
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And the still small voice. And we refuse to obey.
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We quench the. Spirit friends whenever.
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We are so carnal and worldly. That we do not.
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Step into the reality. Of the spiritual realm.
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Whenever he is trying to get us. To do the.
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Things that God. Wants us to.
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Do in our life. We can.
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Quench the spirit, friends. And he will grow.
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Silent in your life? We must.
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Keep the fire hot. We must.
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Keep the fire burning. We must let the.
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Wind of God blow through the. Camp and rekindle the fire.
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And blow upon us. Friends we need.
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The Spirit of God to. Be the.
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Overflowing, overwhelming presence in our life, friends,
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that we need that. More than we.
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Need our next breath? Father God fill.
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Us with your Holy Ghost. We do not need.
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To despise prophesying. There's a lot of.
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People who? Hide their immaturity in.
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Christ, they hide their. Refusal to get into the word of.
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God by being. False prophets.
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And they go around and they. Falsely prophecy to people.
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To make themselves seem more. Spiritual than they really.
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Are but. We need to also.
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Understand. That just as much as we need.
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To be on guard. Of false prophets.
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We do. Not need to think that every
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single prophesying from someone is false, we need.
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To be in tune. With the word of.
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God and any of the prophesying that God.
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Would have us to do. Will line up perfectly with.
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God's word there. Will not be any.
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Extra biblical. Prophesying.
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It will not be a prophesying. That goes against.
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The word of God. And that is how.
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We can prove. That prophesying is from God if
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it lines. Up with scripture but.
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How would you know? If you're not in the.
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Word of God. Prove all things friends, and we
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need to fix our minds on what is good.
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And what is wholesome and what is lovely?
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And what is pure we do not need to fix our minds on all.
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Of the secular garbage. That's coming in at an alarming
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rate, 22. Abstain.
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From all appearance of evil, it cannot be.
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Said more plainly, do. Not fall in love.
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With evil, it's going to tell us very soon.
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That God. Gives people over.
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To the reprobate. Mind and that God sends a
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powerful delusion. Because why?
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Because they. Refuse to love the truth.
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And they delighted themselves in evil.
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Do not fall in love. Do not.
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Give a foothold to. Evil friends, stop watching.
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The horror films stop. Putting all of the demonic
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things in your life and think that.
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They're just playful. They're not friends, you are
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opening a portal up and they will overcome you and their.
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Goal is to steal. Kill and.
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Destroy and it might look like fun at the outset, but it is not
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friends. And we need.
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To be. Guarded against those things
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that are evil. Don't even let anything not one
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thing, not one inkling into. Your life that has.
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Any resemblance of? Evil Friends 23 and the very.
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God of. Peace sanctify you holy.
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And I pray God, your whole spirit.
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And soul and body. Be.
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Preserved, blameless unto. The coming of our.
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Lord Jesus Christ. So you need to.
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Understand that this. Very God of.
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Peace sanctifies us completely. Holy to the utmost, friends.
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That. Is the work of.
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God in our lives. He gives us the peace of God.
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That can only come from him, It does not come from our monetary.
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Status. It does not come.
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From our geographical location, it does not come from how many.
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Arms you have amassed, it does not come from your experience.
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Or training. It comes from.
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God and God alone, and he wants. To give it to us, to the.
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Utmost to the very end where? It every crack and.
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Crevice is filled. With his presence and he prays.
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That the whole. Spirit, soul and body.
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Be preserved. This is the.
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Triune nature of God Almighty that is made in mankind.
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We we have the body just like a plant.
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We have the body. And the soul, just like an
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animal. But we also have.
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The body, the soul. And the.
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Spirit, that is. Very unique to mankind.
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We are made in his image. And we are.
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His masterpiece and the. Spirit is what goes on to live.
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Forever and ever and ever, friends.
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And it will. Live.
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Somewhere and it will either be in the presence of.
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God Almighty. Or eternally separated forever.
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And he? Desires to keep.
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Us in the perfect peace of. God until the coming.
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Of our Lord Jesus Christ. When he.
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Catches us up. In the air to meet him and where
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we will be with him forever and ever.
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Comfort each other. With those words 20. 4.
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Faithful is he that calls you, who also will do.
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It we are not banking on our own piety, we're not banking.
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On our own cleverness, we're not.
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Banking on our own. Abilities.
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We are banking upon. The solid rock, the word of God.
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And if he says that he's going to do it, then that is exactly
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what's going to happen. And we can trust it as if as if
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it's. Already happened, friends.
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He is faithful. He will not only call you to
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himself and predestined and choose.
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You, but he will also bring you. Into the fold and.
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You will be with him forevermore, and it'll be better
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than you've ever imagined it. Friends 25.
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Brothers, pray for us. We need to be.
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Praying for the spiritual leaders who are going.
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Into the darkest places. 26 Greet all the brothers.
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With a Holy kiss 27. I charge you by the Lord.
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That this epistle be read unto. All the holy brothers.
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We'll end on 28 the. Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
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be with you. Amen.
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Paul. Began and ended his.
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Very first letter that he ever. Wrote with Grace Friends.
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It is grace through. Faith that saves us.
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It is grace that we. Need and it is unmerited and you
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cannot earn it. That is what you.
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Need to understand. Is that the grace of God is.
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What we need? More than we.
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Need our own works. Anything that we can measure, it
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is grace and it is unmerited. He wanted it.
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He wanted this. Letter to be read, not just to
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be cherry. Picked.
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And this is a beautiful. Love letter.
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Friends from Genesis. To Revelation.
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And it is. A love letter.
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From the groom. To his bride.
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And far. Be it from us to just.
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Cherry. Pick.
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What we want to. Read out of it, I hope.
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That you've been blessed by this amazing.
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Chapter in God's Word. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for you. I love you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.