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Max Lucado – The Spirit as Breath: Understanding the Breath of God · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: The title of the lesson is Hayyunvina, the glory and
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  Speaker 1: mystery of the Holy Spirit. At first, I would like
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  Speaker 1: to thank you for this honor, an honor that cannot
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  Speaker 1: be described to present to you these messages. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: to Terafis, our supreme leader in this harem, for allowing
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  Speaker 1: me this honor, and also to our sheikhs. And that
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  Speaker 1: feeling still lingers in my mind when I threw my
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  Speaker 1: first dice in 1979. I'm ready for the surprise.
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  Speaker 2: I know, 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: It's a period that takes a while for Moses to
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  Speaker 1: be in the wilderness. And sometimes my dice led me
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  Speaker 1: through similar paths to that. But I remember that first
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  Speaker 1: time I gave it a full lesson, and not just
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  Speaker 1: a lesson in the Bible in a church in Miami, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: While I was sitting in the front seat waiting for
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  Speaker 1: my turn to rise, I thought, do you think these
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  Speaker 1: people are ready to listen to me? And I still
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  Speaker 1: get that idea. I don't know why you do that,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm very happy that you do. Study, topic, and
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  Speaker 1: the character of the Holy Spirit is a special feature
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  Speaker 1: above description. So, I am content to the end. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of this message, we will do what we
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  Speaker 1: have done several times during this series. We will allocate
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  Speaker 1: time for prayer, a collective prayer. We will call any
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  Speaker 1: person who needs a touch of the Holy Spirit, or
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  Speaker 1: wants to accept the Holy Spirit, to move forward and
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  Speaker 1: stand up, and I will offer that prayer. Let us
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  Speaker 1: pray now, then we will start our work. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you will excuse my tired tongue. I hope you will.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you, Lord, for this grace that you have
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  Speaker 1: granted us to be here today. We ask you to
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  Speaker 1: grant the speaker today a great grace. His sins are many.
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  Speaker 1: Help us to see Christ, Christ alone. In the name
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, we pray. And everyone in the church said, Good.
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  Speaker 1: We have not reached the name of the Lord yet.
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  Speaker 1: We were almost in the middle stage. He used to
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  Speaker 1: take us to visit the people who, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: could not go to church that morning. And the people
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  Speaker 1: who wanted to eat the Holy Qur'an. We used to
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  Speaker 1: call them the isolated because they were locked in their homes.
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  Speaker 1: It was a service for the isolated in their homes.
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  Speaker 1: We used to go to visit people in the first
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  Speaker 1: place because of age or health problems. which made them
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  Speaker 1: unable to get out. Most of our visits were held
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  Speaker 1: in a house for cleaning. This house smelled very nice.
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  Speaker 1: I still remember it to this day. It was located
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  Speaker 1: on the outskirts of our small town in western Texas. However,
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  Speaker 1: the patient began to be very happy to see the
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  Speaker 1: teacher of this holy book school and his four little students.
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  Speaker 1: Surah Al-Fatihah The donation box was about the size of
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  Speaker 1: a cigarette box, and it contained bottles and a small
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  Speaker 1: plastic bottle of juice or grape juice, and several plastic cups.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good way to punish the Sunday Mass,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it? But then the sleeping grandfather's situation happened. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why, and I don't remember why the teacher
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  Speaker 1: wasn't with us in that Mass. And so we made
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  Speaker 1: our rounds. We were only three that night. We made
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  Speaker 1: our rounds. Things went as planned until we met that
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  Speaker 1: sleeping man. He was asleep in a deep sleep, and
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't wake him up. He must have been in
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  Speaker 1: his eighties. He had his head on his back, his
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  Speaker 1: head on his forehead, and his mouth open on his nostrils.
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  Speaker 1: I know that we should have gone to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: and asked for some help. I know that we could
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  Speaker 1: have left, but I didn't want to know. But by
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  Speaker 1: God's grace, we were there in a sacred mission. I
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  Speaker 1: was commissioned to carry a group of victims. We were
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  Speaker 1: the Protestant version of the executioners. You don't give up
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  Speaker 1: on that mission, do you? His mouth was open on
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  Speaker 1: his lips. You can expect what will happen. She took
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  Speaker 1: the ragiqa. His tongue was there completely. And she put
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  Speaker 1: it on his tongue. He didn't move. The thin girl
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  Speaker 1: did not move. She remained still in her place. I
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  Speaker 1: could see her move a little. Good. That was the
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  Speaker 1: juice of the sacrifice. She spilled a cup. I looked
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  Speaker 1: at my friends and looked at me and we shook
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  Speaker 1: our shoulders. And I thought, good, I think I should
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  Speaker 1: help her pour it. She approached and spilled the contents
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  Speaker 1: of the cup. It did not move at all. It
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  Speaker 1: did not wake up at all. He announces about his
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  Speaker 1: son and then gives life. A complete life, a strong life,
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  Speaker 1: an active life, a renewed life, life itself. Isn't that
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  Speaker 1: what we need? The vast majority of people miss it.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the vast majority of Christians don't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: A study conducted on people who believe in the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I discovered that only one out of four believe that
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  Speaker 1: he is a person. 75% of those who believe in
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit simply describe him as a force, or
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  Speaker 1: a pressure, or a wave of energy. Well, it's not
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  Speaker 1: surprising that it's hard to build a relationship with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. I mean, who can be a friend of
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  Speaker 1: the electricity? The personality of the Holy Spirit is a person. Hizqial,
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  Speaker 1: and Hizqial's story can carry this title, a blow to
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  Speaker 1: the bones. To you the reason Hizqial was a radical
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  Speaker 1: prophet of the wide horizon, and he was like a
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  Speaker 1: thorn in the side of Israel in the 6th century BC.
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  Speaker 1: He used to follow them constantly, trying to get them
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  Speaker 1: away from strange idols and head towards their living. They
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  Speaker 1: did not listen. And based on that, the Babylonian nation
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  Speaker 1: attacked their wonderful city and completely destroyed it. Jerusalem was
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  Speaker 1: left in a state of ruin. It will be more
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  Speaker 1: like the fall of Washington, the capital, under the rubble.
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  Speaker 1: The capital was destroyed and the White House was burned.
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  Speaker 1: All the Hebrews, the people of Jerusalem, will go to Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: Fima tabayana annahu sab'una aaman minan nafi. Ha'ulai al-Ibraniyuna allatheena
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  Speaker 1: kanu fakhurina dhatayawmin asbahumuhattimina. Wamin makani nafihim, ilaykum a'lanuhumul musajjala
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  Speaker 1: fi sifri hasqiyal. Qalu, aizamuna yabasat wahalaka rajawna. Lakat dummarna. Ithan,
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  Speaker 1: This was a very dark chapter in the history of
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  Speaker 1: ancient Israel. Again, 587 B.C. This is the time frame here,
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  Speaker 1: six centuries before the birth of Christ. There is a
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  Speaker 1: prophet called Hasqial. And through that prophet, God spoke. And
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  Speaker 1: to you what God said to them. This is what
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  Speaker 1: God speaks. To you what I will do. I will
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  Speaker 1: take you out of this land. O son of Adam,
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  Speaker 1: do these bones live? I have a question for you.
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  Speaker 1: I did not visit the valley that Hesqial visited. But
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  Speaker 1: I sat next to a person on a plane that
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  Speaker 1: told me that his life lost all meaning. I did
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  Speaker 1: not walk in the valley of dead bones. But the
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  Speaker 1: bodies remained lifeless. There was no evidence of heart beating
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  Speaker 1: or breathing. So, Allah commanded Hasqial to make an announcement. declaration.
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  Speaker 1: Then he said to me, Prove to the soul. Prove,
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  Speaker 1: O son of Adam, and say to the soul, Thus
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  Speaker 1: said the Lord, Be gone from the four winds, O sky,
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  Speaker 1: and be gone from those who kill to live. I
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  Speaker 1: am not talking about a long beard or a long hair.
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  Speaker 1: If you want that, no problem. I am not talking
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  Speaker 1: about going to Israel. If you want that, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: I am simply talking about preparing to do what Hezqial did,
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  Speaker 1: which is to go to dry and dead places in
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  Speaker 1: your world. The story of Hasqial in the valley of
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  Speaker 1: the dead bones is dramatic to the extent that we
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  Speaker 1: may forget an amazing element in the miracle, which is
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  Speaker 1: that Hasqial called to call the spirit. The miracle happened
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  Speaker 1: because Hasqial obeyed. It was said to him to prophesy.
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  Speaker 1: And I do not know if that was a source
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  Speaker 1: of his despair or of his spirituality, but he did it.
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  Speaker 1: We invent books such as the seven secrets of the
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  Speaker 1: spirit in the spirit or ten requirements to receive the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Sacred instructions to receive the holy spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Since the beginning, we have not said that the spirit
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  Speaker 1: is not a computer that needs a software, but it
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  Speaker 1: is simply a person and a relationship that we develop.
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  Speaker 1: A relationship that we develop. Isn't this the point that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus made clear in the Old Testament? Here is our
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  Speaker 1: last point. It is a victory, and they are exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: On the Day of Resurrection, the first Sunday of the Passover,
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  Speaker 1: which makes this the first Passover of the Holy One
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  Speaker 1: at all, Jesus appeared to them in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to point with a finger or two.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, yes, you all promised that
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  Speaker 1: you would be there on Thursday. Where were you on Friday?
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  Speaker 1: I think I was going to blame them. Nothing of
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  Speaker 1: that happened with Jesus. Our precious Jesus always comes in peace.
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  Speaker 1: He always comes in peace. Peace has been granted to them.
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  Speaker 1: He said, peace be with you. He said, peace be
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  Speaker 1: with you. He said this three times in this short interaction.
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  Speaker 1: In verses 19, 20, and 26. Three times in this
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  Speaker 1: short conversation. He says, Peace be with you. But after
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  Speaker 1: he gave them peace. Look what he gives them too.
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  Speaker 1: He gives them a promise of strength. To you he is.
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  Speaker 1: As my father sent me. I send you now. After
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  Speaker 1: he said this. He breathed into them. And he said.
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  Speaker 1: Accept the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to stay close. As long as you're
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  Speaker 3: somewhere out there. That's enough for me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to hold you near me.
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  Speaker 3: Don't need promises to keep. Just the thought that you
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  Speaker 3: are breathing Somewhere in this world I see Even if
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  Speaker 3: I'm not beside you Even if you never know There's
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  Speaker 3: a quiet kind of comfort Just in knowing you still
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  Speaker 3: glow I don't need forever I just need you to exist.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to stay with me.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to feel the same.
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  Speaker 2: Just as long as.
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  Speaker 3: You're still out there calling softly through my days. You
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  Speaker 3: don't have to look my way. You don't have to
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  Speaker 3: be my home. It's enough to know you're living in
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  Speaker 3: a world I'm not alone. I won't chase you through
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  Speaker 3: the distance. Won't disturb your chosen life. I'll just keep
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  Speaker 3: you in my silence like a star that shines at night.
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  Speaker 3: Through the dark and through the blue.
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  Speaker 4: I still think of you. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 4: my home.
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  Speaker 2: It's enough to know you're living in a world I'm
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  Speaker 2: not alone.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to be your light I don't need
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  Speaker 3: to cross your mind All I need is just the
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  Speaker 3: truth That you're somewhere Still alive.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to.
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  Speaker 2: Stay with me You don't have to feel the same
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  Speaker 2: Just as long as you're still out there Calling softly
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  Speaker 2: through my days You don't have to look my way
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to be my home It's enough to
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  Speaker 2: know you're living
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  Speaker 3: In a world I'm not alone.