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New Eyes, New Ears, New Mouth - Part 2 | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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Speaker 1: Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We
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Speaker 1: pray that the word of God today will challenge, change
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Speaker 1: and channel.
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Speaker 2: You into your God given destiny. Now let's get started today.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about having a new mouth. With with new mouth,
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about the power of our words.
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Speaker 2: Somebody say words. If you've been into enough Chinese, your dinners,
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Speaker 2: you have, you probably have enough low song and every
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Speaker 2: low song. What do you do besides messing up the table?
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Speaker 2: You say nice things?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: What are you? Yeah? Okay and funny? You get pregnant,
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Speaker 2: ok yes, with triplets? Okay? Whatever you say, you say
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Speaker 2: nice things, right, prosperous things, good things. The power of
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Speaker 2: our words. Now, I want you to hear this properly.
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Speaker 2: I am not trying to preach a prosperity gospel faith
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Speaker 2: movement message. I'm not saying just peak things into being like, Oh,
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Speaker 2: it's not like if Anny gets pregnant, it's not because
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Speaker 2: I say it on stage. It's because Tnji and her
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Speaker 2: did the work. Faith without action is dead. So you
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Speaker 2: want life, You've got to have faith, but you also
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Speaker 2: must act a Mankenji. Okay, great, So if they do
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Speaker 2: get pregnant, I pray. They do because they really want case.
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Speaker 2: And it's not because I say it, Oh's so powerful.
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Speaker 2: It's just just many fest is just speaking to being
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Speaker 2: I wanna Poshay, it's not. It's not one of those messages.
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Speaker 2: I'm not preaching that, okay. But the Bible that speech
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Speaker 2: about our words. Okay, So don't hear it from the
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Speaker 2: perspective of like prosperity gospel speaking, name it claiming, and
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Speaker 2: you get it not from this perspective. But our words
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Speaker 2: do have power. Words have meaning. So when I ask
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Speaker 2: a question, is a child God to bad? You're forced
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Speaker 2: to think in those terms only because words have meaning.
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Speaker 2: But if you ask a different questions, you think in
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Speaker 2: different terms. Since we see how words can change meaning.
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Speaker 2: Some of us are not word people. I know someone ah,
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Speaker 2: my gift of my love. Language is not not words,
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Speaker 2: like it's key, loud suit whatever, extra service. You know,
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Speaker 2: extra service is also a word, I mean, like it's
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Speaker 2: xt of service. You have to use words to describe
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Speaker 2: the thing that you feel. Amen, words have meaning, and
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Speaker 2: we have to have intention with our words because it
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Speaker 2: has meaning, it has power. Amen, So premise there is
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Speaker 2: power in words. There is that, So we don't just
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Speaker 2: call someone names and put labels on them, or you stupid.
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Speaker 2: We don't just say that because it has meaning, it
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Speaker 2: has power. Okay. God spoke the world. He could have
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Speaker 2: drawn the world. He could have used AI, he could
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Speaker 2: have used some coding. The coding he used was his words. Amen.
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Speaker 2: God spoke the world into assistance. He said, let there
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Speaker 2: be light until today there is light. You do realize
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Speaker 2: God created light before he created the sun. He spoke
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Speaker 2: it once. Let that be light, and there's light till today.
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Speaker 2: The concept of light. So God spoke the world into assistance.
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Speaker 2: God created us in his image, so we carry his DNA.
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Speaker 2: We also speak words, and we must realize that there's
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Speaker 2: power and meaning in our words. There is power in
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Speaker 2: our words. What power The power of life and death.
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Speaker 2: And again I'm not saying just if you wish someone
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Speaker 2: to die, they'll just die. We're not preaching rich Craft here,
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Speaker 2: We're not preaching prosperity gospel. I'm just saying, there's power
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Speaker 2: of life and death in those words that you speak,
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Speaker 2: even in the words that you think. Amen, even the
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Speaker 2: words that you think have power. And with great great
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Speaker 2: power comes great responsibility. Hurt that somewhere and by the
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Speaker 2: way all of you are talking right now. We are
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Speaker 2: accountable for our words. I may not hear what you're
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Speaker 2: saying right now, but God hears every word. He's keeping
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Speaker 2: an account those words you're thinking about somebody, God knows
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Speaker 2: those words. He is kept an account. We are accountable
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Speaker 2: for our words or romans fourteen twelve. We are accountable
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Speaker 2: for every action, every word. Amen. We are accountable to
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Speaker 2: God for every word that we say or think. So
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Speaker 2: we really need to listen before we speak or type.
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Speaker 2: Keyboard warriors beware. And when we speak, we want to
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Speaker 2: speak grace and truth. Why again, Because it's power of
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Speaker 2: life and death in our words, Amen. And our words
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Speaker 2: are the overflow of our hearts. What's in our hearts
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Speaker 2: comes out through our words sometimes even when we don't
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Speaker 2: realize it. Amen. So, since our heart is a source,
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Speaker 2: our hearts needs a solution, a heart transplanted by God.
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Speaker 2: So every other day it goes back to the heart.
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Speaker 2: We'll get there by the end of this series. So
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Speaker 2: today let's address a few things. Number one. First point,
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Speaker 2: there is power in our words, and it's the power
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Speaker 2: of life and death. Amen. What is power is the
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Speaker 2: ability to do or act, capability of doing or accomplishing something.
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Speaker 2: They miss Our words have the power to accomplish things.
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Speaker 2: Our words have the power to do something, to make
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Speaker 2: something happen. Now, I don't mean just the I don't
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Speaker 2: mean like, give me an a and you get an a.
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Speaker 2: I don't just mean speaking. But when you have that words,
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Speaker 2: that concept, that meaning is in your head, it moves
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Speaker 2: you to act accordingly. Yes. And the word power in
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Speaker 2: Greek is the word dunamis, And the word dunamis is
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Speaker 2: rich and packed with meaning. He has the power to influence,
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Speaker 2: he has resources. All of this is in our words. Amen.
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Speaker 2: So the power of the words we speak is far
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Speaker 2: greater than we realize. So what I want us to
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Speaker 2: realize today. But the end of this message is that
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Speaker 2: we realize that our words really do have power, and
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Speaker 2: we need to be a bit more intentional about the
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Speaker 2: words that we choose to use. Let's look at what
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Speaker 2: Scripture has to say the power of our words. For
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Speaker 2: bad James the three, verse six and verse eight, the
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Speaker 2: tongue also is a fire. Look at how the Bible
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Speaker 2: describes our tongue. It's like a fire, and fire can
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Speaker 2: be usedul good or bad can cook your nice good steak,
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Speaker 2: or burn your house down if you don't cook the
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Speaker 2: steak properly. But the power of our words for bad?
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Speaker 2: Look at that. The tongue also is a fire, a
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Speaker 2: world of evil among the parts of the body. It
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Speaker 2: corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his
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Speaker 2: life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
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Speaker 2: But no man can tame the tongue. It is a
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Speaker 2: restless evil, full of deadly poison. This is the potential
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Speaker 2: of our tongue and our words for bad, the potential.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be this way. Next scripture was
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Speaker 2: nine eleven was nine. With their words, the godless destroy
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Speaker 2: their friends. With your words, you can destroy pe both.
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Speaker 2: What about the power of our words for good? Pros
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Speaker 2: on I five was eleven. The right words spoken at
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Speaker 2: the right time is as beautiful as gold apples in
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Speaker 2: a silver bowl. I don't know if you understand that reference.
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Speaker 2: Who has gold apples in the silver bowl? But whatever,
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Speaker 2: it just means very good. The right word at the
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Speaker 2: right time is beautiful. It's great. Pro sixteen or twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Gracious words are honeycomb, sweet to the soul, healing to
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Speaker 2: the bones. Gracious words power of our words for good
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Speaker 2: or evil. I was eighteen. The words of the reckless
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Speaker 2: peers like swords, but the tongue of the wise bring healing.
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Speaker 2: If you're reckless with your words, it can hurt. But
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Speaker 2: if your wise with your words, it can bring healing Probos.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen four. Gentle words are a tree of life. A
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Speaker 2: deceitful tongue crushes the spirit. All In summary, the power
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Speaker 2: words the tongue has the power of life and death,
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Speaker 2: and those who love it will eat it's fruit, probably
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Speaker 2: the tongue well. In the New Living Transation, it says
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Speaker 2: the tongue can bring theath for life, those who love
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Speaker 2: to talk will reap the consequences, good or bad. Of
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Speaker 2: the pastor preacher said this, words give life, words bring death.
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Speaker 2: You jus what does this mean. It means you have
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Speaker 2: never spoken a neutral word in your life. There's no
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Speaker 2: word that you use in your life that is neutral.
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Speaker 2: There's no such thing. It's either all okay. Your words
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Speaker 2: have direction to them. If your words are moving in
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Speaker 2: the life direction, there will be words of encouragement, hope, love, peace, unity, instruction, wisdom,
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Speaker 2: and correction. But if your words are moving in the
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Speaker 2: death direction, they will be words of anger, malice, slender, jealousy, gossip, division, contempt, racism, violence, judgment,
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Speaker 2: and condemnation. Your words have direction to somebody's direction. When
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Speaker 2: you hear the word talk, you ought to hear something
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Speaker 2: that is high and holy and significant and important. May
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Speaker 2: God help us never to look at talk as something
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Speaker 2: that doesn't matter. It matters. There is no neutrality in
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Speaker 2: the words that we speak or even type. It's moving
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Speaker 2: in either one direction or the other. Is our words
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Speaker 2: either move in the direction of life or interaction of death. Therefore,
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Speaker 2: our words either build or destroy. They either heal or
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Speaker 2: they kill. I pray will realize that amen, Because words
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Speaker 2: have power, words have meaning, and it's moving one direction
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Speaker 2: or the other. Which direction are your words moving in,
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Speaker 2: whether it's words that you typed, or you sing, or
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Speaker 2: you say or you think I mean? A child comes
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Speaker 2: home with I don't know bad results, Oh what do
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Speaker 2: you say? What do you say? Or a young person
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Speaker 2: in church comes to you and say, I messed up.
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Speaker 2: I made a huge mistake. I've done something I should
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Speaker 2: have done past the leader of friend. I messed up.
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Speaker 2: I should have stopped when I when I shoot, but
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Speaker 2: I didn't. I was I gave you to temptation and
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Speaker 2: I messed up. Then then we have a choice. What
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Speaker 2: do we say to that young person who messed up?
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Speaker 2: I told you so, why didn't you listen? You were
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Speaker 2: always destined to be this way. I knew you from
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Speaker 2: the room I met you. Blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 2: And that roose words is hitting one direction? Or do
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Speaker 2: you say it's okay to worry about it? That also
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Speaker 2: we're moving one direction. I just want us to be
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Speaker 2: a bit more careful and intentional and godly about our words. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Twenty October twenty twenty. Sometime back, so, my son Zion
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Speaker 2: Dan was five years old, and I can't remember the
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Speaker 2: exact situation anymore, but I remember the question because I
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Speaker 2: recorded all all these things down, some of these online,
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Speaker 2: always in some of my notes. I was a conversation
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Speaker 2: I messed up. It was daddy who messed up that day,
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Speaker 2: and I asked Sion, Sion, do you still love daddy
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Speaker 2: even though Daddy was naughty? I asked him that, Scion,
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Speaker 2: do you still love daddy even though daddy is naughty?
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Speaker 2: And then Sion said yes? And I said, well why Sion?
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Speaker 2: And then he said, because you do that, Daddy, because
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Speaker 2: even when I am naughty and when you scoll me,
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Speaker 2: you tell me that you still love me. Oh. It
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Speaker 2: was some conversation a long long time ago where he
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Speaker 2: messed up and I told him, Scion, that's wrong, that's bad.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna get punished. But I still love you, Okay.
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Speaker 2: And then fast forward he remembers, why do you still
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Speaker 2: love me, Sion, Because Daddy, you do that when I'm naughty,
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Speaker 2: when you score me, you still love me. So I
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Speaker 2: love you. Words have power, Amen. So number two. First,
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Speaker 2: we must realize there's power in ours. Number two, we
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Speaker 2: are accountable to God for every word. We are accountable.
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Speaker 2: Does this bring you any memories? This is science depiction
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Speaker 2: of next like please, Spider Man. With great power comes
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Speaker 2: great responsibility. Amen. It's not a scripture. By the way,
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Speaker 2: if you think, oh, wait, in the Bible, it's not.
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Speaker 2: It's not. It's in the Bible of Spider Man. Romans
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Speaker 2: fourteen twelve tells us, So then each of us will
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Speaker 2: give an account of ourselves to God. We will face
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Speaker 2: God and give an account of every action and every word.
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Speaker 2: Matthew twelve, verse thirty six says, on the day of judgment,
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Speaker 2: people will give account for every careless word they speak.
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Speaker 2: It's crazy nowadays with Facebook and x or Twitter and thread.
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Speaker 2: Why it's so easy, man, it's so easy to make comments.
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Speaker 2: It's so easy to like bumpom boom boom boom boom pum.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I can't believe it. Some people will
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Speaker 2: go public based on a rumor, not even very fine,
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Speaker 2: not even come firm. Do you go there and make statements.
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Speaker 2: It's crazy people do that, and we don't realize God
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Speaker 2: is going to hold us accountable even for every callless word.
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Speaker 2: So we can't say to God, oh God, I didn't
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Speaker 2: mean it every that's word, Oh God, I mean it
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Speaker 2: that way, every careless word, Oh God, I was I
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Speaker 2: was hir in emotion, I was angry and I just
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Speaker 2: I just said it. But every careless word. After this,
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Speaker 2: we all go back and check. Oh, here place with history, right,
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Speaker 2: what do you say? What they say? The past one year,
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Speaker 2: I've been very quiet. I used to post a lot more,
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Speaker 2: but I feel like, oh, accountable for every careful and
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Speaker 2: careless word. Gotta be careful. ECU says this verse twelve twelve,
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Speaker 2: Verse thirty or fourteen says that's the whole story here
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Speaker 2: now is my final conclusion. The wisest man who ever lives,
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Speaker 2: said this, Fear God and obey his commands, for this
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Speaker 2: is everyone's duty. God would judge us for everything we do,
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Speaker 2: including every secret thing, whether good or bad. What does
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Speaker 2: this mean? This means there's no conversation, no social media comments,
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Speaker 2: no text should be on auto pilot. You don't just
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Speaker 2: let it happen. You don't just let loose. You don't
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Speaker 2: just let a loose cannon. We do ask for God's guidance, wisdom,
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Speaker 2: and empowerment so that our words please him and so
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Speaker 2: that we will not have to give an account for
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Speaker 2: call us words on the day of judgment. Amen, power
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Speaker 2: of our words, the power of our words. It's not easy.
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Speaker 2: We we all, we all learn patterns. We we we
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Speaker 2: say things that we've heard before. You know our general
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Speaker 2: and say things to us now we say to the next.
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Speaker 2: But it's got to it's got to resept somewhere, Amen,
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Speaker 2: it's got to resett somewhere. It's gotta we gotta make
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Speaker 2: an intentional choice and say, you know what, because because
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Speaker 2: before our words leave our mouth, the words what's in
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Speaker 2: the mouth, And it doesn't just it's not diar real.
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Speaker 2: It's not like you cannot control. I have to learn it. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Let everything that has breath make a command on Facebook?
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Speaker 2: Oh no, sorry, by what do I read? Let everything
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Speaker 2: there's breath, curse your neighbor. Let everything that has breath
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Speaker 2: just lose. No man, Let everything's breath praise the Lord.
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Speaker 2: That's what this mouth is for. That's what that's what
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Speaker 2: our words are for, is to build and edify and
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Speaker 2: grow and develop. Amen. Amen. So I pray that as
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Speaker 2: a church as God to people we become. I don't.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes we'll mess up. Sometimes we will let lose not
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Speaker 2: to words were in anger. We will say something we
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Speaker 2: don't mean, or we don't really wanted to we didn't
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Speaker 2: really want to say, but we say anyway. But as
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Speaker 2: much as we can, we got's help with God's grace,
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Speaker 2: We've got strength upon our lives. We as got to
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Speaker 2: help us. Amen. Every day now I picked sign up
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Speaker 2: from school. He sees my car and I'm asking, hey,
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Speaker 2: what do you do well today? When I first Iday,
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Speaker 2: it's like some stranging to him, like daddy watch much
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Speaker 2: pubic dea day. He does it on purpose. He knows
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Speaker 2: he's having accents daddy, I'm having accent. I didn't do
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Speaker 2: anything well today. But I'm trying to see that's a mindset,
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Speaker 2: that's there's a like, so what they do well? Because
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Speaker 2: I don't know how Asian mind is strained to like
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Speaker 2: well means straight. A's well means like I strike lot
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Speaker 2: three or something like that. Well means that well. I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to change mindset to my words. I said, Sigon,
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Speaker 2: what do you do well today? I didn't do anything
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Speaker 2: well today? I said, well, you lost your water bottle yesterday,
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Speaker 2: you found it today. That's well, that's normal to day. No, No,
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Speaker 2: that's no normal. Normal is you keep losing your but
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Speaker 2: you go to zairepo and you go to loss in
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Speaker 2: the corner. Yeah, three authentics is science thinks he wants
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Speaker 2: brought a Minecraft sword this week, green and black in
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Speaker 2: color like green like bright green, lost, lost and fun
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Speaker 2: corner in the office. I guarantee you go this Monday,
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Speaker 2: Lost and foul is something belonging to sign? Is there?
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Speaker 2: His leftist tekndo and belt before all lost? So I said, Siey,
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Speaker 2: what do you do well today? Nothing? Daddy, you found
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Speaker 2: the bottle. That's good? Why is that good? You know
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Speaker 2: where to look, you went through us and you found
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Speaker 2: your direction. That's good. One day after the other, every
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Speaker 2: day he's like, I didn't do anything well today, did
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Speaker 2: you feel anybody? No? I didn't. That's good. I didn't
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Speaker 2: do fight today. You didn't fight. It's good. You know.
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Speaker 2: We can change the direction of someone's thoughts and change
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Speaker 2: the mood of somebody with our words. Amen. What if
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Speaker 2: we were more intentional with our words? What if it's
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Speaker 2: not just what are you late? Can it be? Is
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Speaker 2: everything okay? Same? That's the same thing basically, But the
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Speaker 2: direction of our thoughts, the direction of our feelings, the
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Speaker 2: direction I'm talking about. Direction is moving, the direction of
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Speaker 2: life or death. Amen. I don't always succeed. I feel
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Speaker 2: sometimes too. I'm a I'm horrible with my words. I
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Speaker 2: can be quite sharp with my tongue by trying to learn,
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Speaker 2: trying to learn. But we can all do it too. Amen.
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Speaker 2: So it's not prospecty goose. It's not witchcraft. It's not
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Speaker 2: saying speaking to being not the crowd thing inside, but
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Speaker 2: at the same time realizing there is power, the power
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Speaker 2: asking my son, what what what do you do? Well? Today?
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Speaker 2: The moon is very different than like, so, sion, do
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Speaker 2: you have anybody today, which was the question asked in
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Speaker 2: January febvery March, because he used to fight every single day.
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Speaker 2: Today that today that guy he always fights with. He
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Speaker 2: went to his birthday party today and when we had
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Speaker 2: to leave because I had to leave at two o'clock
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Speaker 2: to get here by three from Oakland Road, he was
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Speaker 2: crying because, Daddy, I'm missing the best part the treasure hunt.
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Speaker 2: And then he asked me, Daddy, why might you choose
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Speaker 2: to do just on Saturday. I'm like, WHOA, what a question?
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Speaker 2: How do I? How do I said? This guy? I
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Speaker 2: just said sorry, So I'm so sorry we have to go.
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Speaker 2: And this guy is the guy he used to fight
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Speaker 2: everything until the principle call me to their best friend,
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Speaker 2: to the best friend. So I used to ask every
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Speaker 2: single day, did you find this guy again? Do you
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Speaker 2: find this guy again? What's what's that's what's message is
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Speaker 2: sending him like, Oh, my daddy is trying to catch
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Speaker 2: me doing wrong again. My daddy is gonna catch me
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Speaker 2: doing wrong again, you know, just for the child church members.
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Speaker 2: Ah VJ, you laid again? Are you a vig? You
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Speaker 2: forget your part again? Now I know? Small tweak, small
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Speaker 2: tweek Wow, you hit all the parts except one. You
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Speaker 2: must have pria is really hard wit pract right, then
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Speaker 2: are you small things? Can I do? Can I ask
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Speaker 2: us to be intentional? Whole back a little bit, hold
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Speaker 2: back a little bit. Amen. So new eyes, new mouth.
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Speaker 2: Let me move to new years too, because uh, to
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Speaker 2: speak properly, we have to listen properly. This is not
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Speaker 2: this is not bicup out there anyway. This us two
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Speaker 2: years in one mouth. Listen more speak less. It's not
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Speaker 2: bicle by the way, but I suspect that's the reason
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Speaker 2: why God gave us two years one mouth. Can I
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Speaker 2: stretch this enalogy to further? There's no biblical you haven't
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Speaker 2: listened both sides because you can only speak one way,
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Speaker 2: one direction. No burricle, I don't know. It's interesting that
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Speaker 2: got us this way. Creators is one big mouth one
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Speaker 2: he didn't know he missed two years. No to hold
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Speaker 2: so to have new mouth. Actually we need to have
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Speaker 2: new years. Somebody say new years. So number three. The
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Speaker 2: next part is we need to listen before we speak,
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Speaker 2: or type listen before we speak Promotes eighteen verse teen.
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Speaker 2: Say this. Anyone who answers without listening is dumb. I'll
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Speaker 2: just paraphrase it and confuse your confused, cause like who
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Speaker 2: who told you can speak before you listen? Are you confused?
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Speaker 2: Like what possible answer could you probably give if you
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Speaker 2: haven't listened? And I mean listen, not just here air waves,
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Speaker 2: all ther waves going through your ear drums, not just that.
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Speaker 2: It's what is that person saying, not just through the words,
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Speaker 2: but everything else. So anyone who answers without listening, this
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Speaker 2: is the Bible. I love how practical and why the
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Speaker 2: Bible is. Whoever answer listen is dumb and confused promotes
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Speaker 2: everything says. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise.
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Speaker 2: If you're dumb and you keep quiet, are you wise?
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Speaker 2: When he closes his lips, he's in tellen color? Damn
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Speaker 2: the people think it's what This is the Bible. James
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Speaker 2: one nineteen says, know this, my believed brothers and sisters,
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Speaker 2: uncles and aunties. Let every person be quick to here,
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Speaker 2: slow to speak, slow to anger. Ah, you know how
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Speaker 2: you can slow to anger, be slow to speak, quick
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Speaker 2: to listen. Think about all the fights, quarl argument you
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Speaker 2: ever had, and you slow it all down, and you
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Speaker 2: think the ego through this process, it probably did you
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Speaker 2: got very round up because you spoke too soon. Actually,
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Speaker 2: if you slow down, you realize not worth it, not
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Speaker 2: worth it. Amen. Promos nineteen tens nineteen says in multitude
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Speaker 2: of words, sin is not lacking. The more you speak,
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Speaker 2: the more probability you'll say something wrong. But he who
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Speaker 2: restrains his lips is wise. Prose living was well. Whoever
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Speaker 2: the rights their neighbor has no sense, but the one
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Speaker 2: who is understanding holds yeah tongue. Listen before speaking, Amen,
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Speaker 2: Can I read this to you? The beginning of love
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Speaker 2: for other Christians and other people is learning to listen
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Speaker 2: to them. God's love for us is shown by the
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Speaker 2: fact that God not only gives us God's word, he
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Speaker 2: also lends us God's ears. We do God's work for
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Speaker 2: brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them.
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Speaker 2: So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service
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Speaker 2: is always to have to offer something when they are
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Speaker 2: together with other people. They forget that listening can be
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Speaker 2: a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic
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Speaker 2: ear and do not find it among Christians because these
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Speaker 2: Christians are talking even when they should be listening. One
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Speaker 2: of the greatest services we can do and to others
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Speaker 2: is to listen. Amen. Number four, we need to speak
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Speaker 2: with words full of grace and truth. So there's power
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Speaker 2: in our words. There's a direction in our words. There's
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Speaker 2: no neutrality in our words. Whatever you say, it goes
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Speaker 2: one direction or the other. Amen. And we are comfortable
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Speaker 2: for every word. That is why we need to listen
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Speaker 2: before we speak. And number four, we need to speak
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Speaker 2: with words full of grace and truth. Read the gospels
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Speaker 2: and you'll see that most sinners love the being around Jesus.
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Speaker 2: He spoke with truth. He spoke truth, but he spoke
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Speaker 2: them with grace. Amen. Jesus thinks just saying nice things. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: he said, oh, let the big mary themselves. Oh, if
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Speaker 2: you don't hit your father and the mother, you can
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Speaker 2: follow me. No, he spoke the truth. He speakes some
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Speaker 2: He spoke some hard truth, but people still get around
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Speaker 2: him because he spoke those truth with grace and love.
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Speaker 2: People enjoyed Jesus' company. They sought him out, They invited
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Speaker 2: him over to their homes and parties. Today, most sinners
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Speaker 2: don't want to be around Christians. Don't even no, no, no, unbelieve.
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Speaker 2: They tore off the roof to get to Jesus, and
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Speaker 2: sometimes they crawl out windows to get away from us. Now,
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Speaker 2: why is that? What did Jesus show them that we
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Speaker 2: don't normally do today? Grace? Grace? Somebody say grace. People
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Speaker 2: says that Jesus loves them even when he spoke difficult words,
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Speaker 2: and man, he was full of grace and truth. Jesus
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Speaker 2: says that the Bible says the word became fleshed and
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Speaker 2: do out among us. And we have seen his glory
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Speaker 2: and glory as of the only son from the Father,
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Speaker 2: full of grace and truth. Words from a sincere friend
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Speaker 2: are better than many kisses from an enemy. It's stayed
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Speaker 2: speaking the truth in love. We will grow to become
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Speaker 2: in every respect the mature body of him who is
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Speaker 2: the head that is Christ. We want to use words
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Speaker 2: full of grace that edify others. Let us therefore make
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Speaker 2: every effort, every effort to do what leads to peace
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Speaker 2: and to mutual and difficult I'm just looking the word
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Speaker 2: of God. Speak to you, amen, Collosions four verd. Six.
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Speaker 2: Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt,
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Speaker 2: so that you may know how to answer everyone. First
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Speaker 2: Tessilonians of the five, verse eleven. Therefore, encourage one another
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Speaker 2: and build each other up efficient four two. Do not
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Speaker 2: let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but
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Speaker 2: only what is helpful for building others up according to
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Speaker 2: their needs, that it may benefit those who listen and
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Speaker 2: do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom
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Speaker 2: you are sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid
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Speaker 2: of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slender along
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Speaker 2: with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to
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Speaker 2: one another forgiving each other, just as in Christ, God
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Speaker 2: forgave you. What if every one of us believers took
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Speaker 2: this scripture to heart and live this way, If we
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Speaker 2: truly don't let any and wholesome talk come out of
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Speaker 2: our mouth, it will radically change our conversations, our online interactions.
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Speaker 2: If we do so, we will be like Jesus full
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Speaker 2: of grace and also truth. Amen. So next, so, just
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Speaker 2: because speaking with grace is hard, that doesn't mean it's impossible.
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Speaker 2: It's heart but it's not impossible. We can do it. Amen,
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Speaker 2: we can't do it. Be wise in the way you
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Speaker 2: act toward outsiders. Make the most of every opportunity. Let
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Speaker 2: your conversation be always full of grace. Season we saw
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Speaker 2: so that you may know how to answer every one. Halleujah.
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