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Integrity takes Commitment [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Good morning, family, Good morning, welcome back to the Morning Devo.
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  My website is down right now. I don't know why, but that's why
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  I'm running late here trying to figure out. I thought it was an easy
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  fix, but it's not. I gotta get more into it. But we're
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  here, amen, So it's gonna be a short one. We have a
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  couple of minutes left here on the Morning Devo cause I started so late,
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  so we have like fifteen minutes left. But let's go for it. Man.
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  If you have any questions, comments, concerns, any prayer requests,
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  don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat. We're on the social media
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  and then soon today Lord willing, you'll be able to go to the website.
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  So win is with a z Org and check out the replay and check
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  out everything that goes on too four seven on the celebrating network. So integrity
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  takes commitment, and I know people test people's integrity all the time. Your
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  integrity is being tested. My integrity is being tested by people who don't buy
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  into the whole born again believer situation, the born again believer experience. They
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  think that although we're not perfect, we are being perfected and I'm real careful
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  when I say that, because in the view of God, we are perfect.
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  We're made in his image. God's image is perfect. Right, but
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  we suffer with something called sin. We struggle, I should say, with
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  something called sin right and the sin nature, which I don't think we have
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  anymore once we're born again, right, and when I'm reading the scriptures to
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  say, we have a new nature, divine nature of Christ. But we
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  still have brokenness because of this broken world. So we deal with broken people.
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  We'll be able to broken system, an evil system. We deal with
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  the flesh. So therefore there's still a struggle going on to the Lord.
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  Jesus comes back and finalizes the deal right with us because of his grace and
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  his mercy. So we have that. So integrity takes commitment to day in
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  morning devo. Keeping your integrity takes commitment to doing what is right. And
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  morality. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, Morality is nothing to be played with.
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  Morality is a thing. There's always something that's right, and there's always
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  something that's wrong. There's always something that's good, there's always something that's evil.
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  There's always light and it's always darkness. Right, there's always the flesh.
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  There's always this spirit. So listen, we have a choice to play
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  make and we have a part to play in this game of life. Amen,
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  and we win. Though according to Titus chapter two, Versus six and
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  eight, we're gonna be in tightest two six to eight on today's morning DEVO
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  Again, if you're on with me. We have the websites down right now
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  at the moment of the time of this recording for whatever reason. But we'll
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  get there after this. Amen. And before I leave the studio today,
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  I'm committed to get that site back up. So listen, let's go for
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  it. Let us go for it. Let's pray first. After we pray,
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  we'll shut us out for like sixty seconds, and when we come back
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  after those sixty seconds, we'll get into Titus chapter two, Versus six to
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  eight. And this one is called integrity takes commitment. You could do this.
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  I can do this. We're empowered by Holy Spirit God. If you
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  don't have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, what are you waiting for?
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  Get into a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I know
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  there's been a tremendous amount of baptisms going on in California from what I'm listening
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  to what I'm hearing on the news. You want to hear it on public
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  news or mainstream news, but there's news media outlets that are reporting thousands upon
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  thousands of baptisms going on all for the glory of God, the Kingdom of
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  God, in the name of Jesus in California. So it's strange that all
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  of us sudden that is a wave of another denomination. They're not even Christians,
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  right, let's call it what it is, Latter day Saints there.
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  Now they have these videos of streaming, trending all over social media talking about
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  what you like to be baptized. Right, So that's what I mean.
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  There's always a counterfeit. There's always the real thing, and then there's always
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  a counterfeit. I well, they can't really get mad at me, because
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  I don't think they're allowed to get mad or debate or whatever like that.
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  But I said it because it's strange that you see the Christians getting baptized,
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  baptizing people in the name of the Lord Jesus, and now all of a
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  sudden, this counterfeit, whatever organization whatever you want to call them, now
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  they're trending videos on social media talking about would you like to be baptized?
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  Right, So we got to be careful. We have to be people of
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  integrity. We have to be people of commitment and discernment. Please use discernment,
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  not everybody. Because I was looking at it says something is strange.
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  But then I sort of badges right on them. And you know, friendly
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  people, they do good deeds, they're sincere about what they believe in.
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  But unfortunately they're not talking about the same Jesus, not talking about the same
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  Jesus of Nazareth that we as believers in Christ are talking about. So therefore
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  it's a different God they're serving. It's very simple. So, Father God,
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  thank you, Lord God for this day, and thank you, Lord
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  God, that you are the perfect example of a man of integrity. The
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  Lord Jesus God, you are sovereign, you are in control, you are
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  loving, you are faithful, you are so engaged in the lives of all
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  those who call upon your name. You saved us, you rescued us.
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  So, Lord God, commitment should be a given to you. You deserve
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  all the glory, the honor, to worship, the praise because you deserve
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  it, because you are King, and you are Lord, and you are
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  Savior, and you are omnipresent. You're all powerful, Yet your gentle spirit
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  is kind to those who call upon your name. Thank you, Lord God,
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  for the protection of your people all around the world. Lord God who
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  call upon your name, Thank you for protecting this household, this studio,
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  my family, my wife, our children. Thank you, Lord God for
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  the protection on the bloodlines my wife's side and my side, and every single
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  person that's connected who will connect later, who's connected now. Prayer protection over
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  them as well, in the name of Jesus. And we dispatch arkmen angels
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  right now to annihilate the tactics of the enemy over your ministry, over my
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  ministry, over your family, my family, and every single persons connected to
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  you and connected to me, in the powerful name of Jesus. We pray
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  this by faith, knowing that we are able able to do exactly what the
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  Lord calls us to do in Jesus name. Amen and Amen, my apologies.
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  I see some people up here that I didn't see because I have this
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  thing covered. Good morning, Sister June, Good morning God blas as you.
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  Good morning Sister Joyce, God bless you. Welcome back. To the
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  Morning Devo and brother Nando, God bless you as well, and Franke Gonzalez,
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  God bless you, bh bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devals
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  because you see all of you use here, Amen and again. At the
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  time of this recording. Right now, my website is down. I have
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  to get it back running. That's what happens when you're running ministry and you're
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  proclaiming the Lord Jesus and you're you're speaking the gospel message, putting it out
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  there, spreading it among the nations, you will get the cyber attacks.
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  It's part of the deal, right, But we win all the time because
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  the Lord Jesus wins. So I'll be right back thet's second minute to share
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  this out. When we come back, we'll get right into Titus chapter two
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  Versus six to eight. I'll be right back and men, we're back.
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  We're back. So many groups that I'm in all glory to God, not
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  complaining. I just wish there was an app that you could share all your
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  groups at one time as you just click a button and it'll just start sharing
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  to all the groups. That would be so amazing. So hint developers out
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  there, app developers that's a feature that I think has sought out for people
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  like me who are running online ministries or online lives by themselves, without the
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  time that everybody else has to share this live while it's live. And man,
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  I'm still waiting for an email from my programming team, a tech team,
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  and I didn't get one yet, so and then they must be not
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  available right now. I want to determine today to get my site up.
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  Man, waking up and to see that your site is missing is not cool.
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  It's not cool at all, right, So let's go for it.
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  Integrity takes commitment, and maybe that's what's being tested right now in real time,
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  my integrity. So I don't want to spaz out on the phone or
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  on a live chat with these people. But whatever it takes, right,
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  whatever it takes to get this back up, but we do it with integrity
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  and kindness and love. I don't cash out my Christianity when something is not
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  going my way, and you shouldn't either. And man, I know people
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  get on your nerves and get on my nerds. I know things don't go
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  smoothly as they should, and sometimes things shouldn't be so difficult as some people
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  make it. For us as believers especially, But we have to know where
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  people are coming from. Listen to their story and you'll realize that sometimes they
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  don't even mean to be that the way they are, but that's just the
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  way it is. Amen. Integrity takes commitment. Try this chapter two six
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  to eight. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self controlled. So
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  the younger are being told by the older to be self controlled. Show yourself
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  in all respects, to be a model of good works, and in your
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  teaching show integrity. There goes dignity and sound speech that cannot be condemned,
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  so that an opponent may be put to shame having nothing evil to say about
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  us. So all of that deals with integrity. If you got a good
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  reputation, fight for that reputation. Don't let it go. Don't let your
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  guard down with anybody or because of any thing, because of any situation.
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  And if you do show that you're weak in certain areas and it pops up
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  in a conversation or an action, that's why we have a lord who saves,
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  a lord who forgives a man. And you should be in a community
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  of believers that will lift you up and I beat you down when you're going
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  through some things, right, lift each other up. Likewise, urge the
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  younger men to be self controlled. If the older men are doing their thing
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  in Christ. Like I'm an older guy, and I show the younger guy
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  to do and be and to perform that I really perform, but just to
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  be themselves in Christ, then we're on the winning side. We're doing our
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  job. And women as well, the older woman should be showing the younger
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  woman what it means through experience to live this life out with integrity, show
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  yourself in all respects right to be a model of good works. And then
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  your teaching show integrity, dignity and sound speech. Right. This whole thing
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  about preachers that the pulpit cursing and acting wild and tworking and all this other
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  stuff, that's rubbish. That's scarbage, man, We all know what that
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  is. That's a show. And because they have people following them, so
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  many people, they get arrogant, they get puffed up with pride and all
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  that. That's not sound teaching, right, that's not showing integrity, that's
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  not dignity, that's not sound speech. And they will be condemned. They
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  condemned themselves. So when the opponent rises up against those type of people,
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  there's gonna be a lot of evil to talk about them. But if you're
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  in an opposite end, on the winning and on the right end of this
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  scripture, we're gonna be self controlled. We're gonna show respect, we're gonna
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  have good works, we're gonna have good teaching. We're gonna show integrity and
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  dignity and sound speech. So that way, when your opponents arise, and
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  you know, we're all gonna have the opponents, we call them haters,
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  we call them, you know, naysayers, the people who ridicule and make
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  fun of us. They're gonna be put to shame because they're not gonna have
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  nothing evil to say about us. That's why the Boble says, we're gonna
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  be blameless, right, we should be blameless according to what Christ has done
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  in our lives. Hey man, you ain't gonna blame me for somebody falling
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  apart. You ain't gonna blame me for somebody turning up and twerking and doing
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  all kinds of stuff out there. And they said, O, well,
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  Sam told me to do it. Now. It shouldn't be like that.
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  Shouldn't be like somebody telling people that they told you. They said that you
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  told them to do it. I should say, do something crazy out of
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  pocket just because it was fun or just because you thought it was the right
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  thing to do at the time or at the moment. That's why we have
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  to guard our hearts at all times and be people of integrity. And it's
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  a dying world. Man. They need to know about the life that we
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  have. They need to know about the Lord that we have that we follow.
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  So we're not following our natural heart. We're following our supernatural heart.
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  Because God replaced the heart. He replaced our heart with the heart that he
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  has. We replaced our desires with desires that he has. We think differently
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  because now we have the mind of Christ. So we have a new way
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  of thinking. Romans, chapter twelve. We have a new heart a man.
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  God took the heart of man and replaced it with the heart of God.
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  How do you do that? How does that happen? We have to
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  have a personal relationship with him and him alone, because he knows how to
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  get that done. This is not just information. This is information that can
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  transform your life. So this is information, transformation, transformational information. However
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  you want to put it. The Word of God is the word that's alive
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  or living and active. The Word of God is the one who wrote it
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  out, and we can live it out because he applied the power to get
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  it done. Holy spirit. Right integrity tastes commitment. It's not just a
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  walk in the park. You don't just get up one day and you're like,
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  oh, I'm all good now, so you know, I don't have
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  to worry about nothing. Now. That's not the way it works, right,
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  And segrety put into practice sometimes will bring you persecution, but during that
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  persecution, you're still being a man or a woman of integrity. Don't let
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  your guard down. Be careful with how you approach people. Be careful of
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  how people approach you and me. Amen, And let's keep things in the
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  open. No secrets, no hidden stuff, Keep things in the open.
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  That way, you could speak out in the open and you could be a
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  part of what God's plan is on this earth, out in the open,
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  out in the public square. We don't have to be Christians hiding in our
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  own little buildings, right and just doing our worship, censors and all that,
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  And it's beautifu there and then outside we don't know how to respond.
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  We don't know how to react, we don't know how to be and people
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  of integrity because now we're outside of our protected zones, right, we're outside
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  of our element, were outside of our performances or whatever you want to call
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  it. Let's be people of integrity inside the building of God and outside the
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  building of God. That's what people want to see as most anyway. They
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  want to see how we respond, how we react outside of the temple of
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  God, outside of the house of worship, outside of the House of God,
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  because they don't want to go there anyway. So once we present ourselves
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  outside to them, to the people who are in need and desperation, who
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  are searching for truth, and we show up as people of integrity as they
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  see that we love one another outside of that establishment, that controlled environment,
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  then we got them. Then we got them interested, and then we got
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  them hooked on the line of eternal life for the glory of God with fishers
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  of men, right, people of integrity. Proverbs twenty eight six says better
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  a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
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  So, like I said before, we're blameless. Can't blame us for
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  this, that and the third because we're people that take commitment and integrity.
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  Integrity takes commitment. Good morning, Elist, Brianna, Elist God bless you.
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  Welcome to the morning Devo. Listen, I was late start, I
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  ran out of time right now check the replay. So win is with a
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  z Org is the main site, but it's down right now. So I'm
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  going to be spending some time right now trying to get that back up asat.
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  So pray for me. Pray that I'll keep my integrity if I have
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  to communicate with my tech team, just that I'll be kind, Amen,
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  because it's I'm a little upset right now because I'm like, what happened to
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  my website is just disappeared. But Amen, we're still here. We're still
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  doing our thing. So bless you all, God, bless you all.
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  Got keep you all. Read te this chapter two, the whole chapter for
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  yourself today as a way of devoting some time to the Lord. Amen,
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  and I'll be back some Lord willing God bless you. Got to keep you
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  and remember always that God is good. Peace.