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Trusting God_s Plan [1 Hour · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Psalm thirty seven. Do not fret because of those who
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  Speaker 1: are evil, or be envious of those who do wrong,
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  Speaker 1: For like the grass, they will soon wither. Like green plants,
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  Speaker 1: they will soon die away. Trust in the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: do good. Dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
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  Speaker 1: Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you
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  Speaker 1: the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Trust in him, and he will do this. He will
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  Speaker 1: make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication
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  Speaker 1: like the noonday sun. Be still before the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: wait patiently for him. Do not fret when people succeed
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  Speaker 1: in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.
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  Speaker 1: Refrain anger and turn from wrath. Do not fret. It
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  Speaker 1: leads only to evil, for those who are evil will
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed. But those who hope in the Lord will
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  Speaker 1: inherit the land a little while, and the wicked will
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  Speaker 1: be no more. Though you look for them, they will
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  Speaker 1: not be found. But the meek will inherit the land
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy peace and prosperity. The wicked plot against the
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  Speaker 1: righteous and gnash their teeth at them. But the Lord
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  Speaker 1: laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.
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  Speaker 1: The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to
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  Speaker 1: bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose
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  Speaker 1: ways are upright. But their swords will pierce their own hearts,
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  Speaker 1: and their bows will be broken. Better the little that
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  Speaker 1: the righteous have than the wealth of many will, for
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  Speaker 1: the power of the wicked will be broken. But the
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  Speaker 1: Lord upholds the righteous. The blameless spend their days under
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's care, and their inheritance will endure forever. In
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  Speaker 1: times of disaster, they will not wither. In days of famine,
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  Speaker 1: they will enjoy plenty, But the wicked will perish. Though
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's enemies are like the flowers of the field,
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  Speaker 1: they will be consumed. They will go up in smoke.
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  Speaker 1: The wicked borrow and do not repay. But the righteous
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  Speaker 1: give generously. Those the Lord blesses will inherit the land,
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  Speaker 1: but those he curses will be destroyed. The Lord makes
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  Speaker 1: firm the steps of the one who delights in him.
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  Speaker 1: Though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the
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  Speaker 1: Lord upholds him with his hand. I was young, and
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  Speaker 1: now I am old. Yet I have never seen the
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  Speaker 1: righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always
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  Speaker 1: generous and lend freely their children will be a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Turn from evil and do good. Then you will dwell
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  Speaker 1: in the land for ever. For the Lord loves the
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  Speaker 1: just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrong Doers
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  Speaker 1: will be completely destroyed. The offspring of the wicked will perish.
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  Speaker 1: The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it
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  Speaker 1: for ever. The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and
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  Speaker 1: their tongues speak what is just the law. If their
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  Speaker 1: God is in their hearts their feet, do not slip.
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  Speaker 1: The wicked lie in wait for the righteous, intent on
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  Speaker 1: putting them to death. For the Lord will not leave
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  Speaker 1: them in the power of the wicked, or let them
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  Speaker 1: be condemned when brought to trial. Hope in the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit
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  Speaker 1: the land. When the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.
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  Speaker 1: I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like
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  Speaker 1: a luxuriant native tree, that he soon passed away and
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  Speaker 1: was no more. Though I looked for him, he could
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  Speaker 1: not be found. Consider the blameless, observe the upright. A
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  Speaker 1: future awaits those who seek peace, But all sinners will
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed. There will be no future for the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord. He
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  Speaker 1: is their stronghold. In time of trouble. The Lord helps
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  Speaker 1: them and delivers them. He delivers them from the wicked
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  Speaker 1: and saves them because they take refuge in him. Proverbs
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  Speaker 1: chapter sixteen. To humans belong the plans of the heart,
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  Speaker 1: But from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.
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  Speaker 1: All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives
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  Speaker 1: are weighed by the Lord. Commit to the Lord whatever
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  Speaker 1: you do, and he will establish your plans. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: works out everything to its proper end, even the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: For a day of disaster, the Lord detests all the
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  Speaker 1: proud of heart. Be sure of this, they will not
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  Speaker 1: go unpunished. Through love and faithfulness, sin is atoned for
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  Speaker 1: through the fear of the Lord. Evil is avoided. When
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  Speaker 1: the Lord takes pleasure in any one's way, he causes
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  Speaker 1: their enemies to make peace with them. Better a little
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  Speaker 1: with righteousness than much gain with injustice. In their hearts,
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  Speaker 1: humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
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  Speaker 1: The lips of a king speaks as an oracle, and
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  Speaker 1: his mouth does not betray justice. Honest scales and balances
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  Speaker 1: belong to the Lord. All the weights in the bag
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  Speaker 1: are of his making. Kings detest wrong doing, for a
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  Speaker 1: throne is established through righteousness. Kings take pleasure in honest lips.
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  Speaker 1: They value the one who speaks.
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  Speaker 2: What is right.
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  Speaker 1: A king's wrath is a messenger of death, but the
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  Speaker 1: wise will appease it. When a king's face brightens, it
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  Speaker 1: means life. His favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
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  Speaker 1: How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get
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  Speaker 1: in sight rather than silver. The highway of the upright
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  Speaker 1: avoids evil. Those who guard their ways preserve their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
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  Speaker 1: Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed
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  Speaker 1: than to share plunder with the broad. Whoever gives heed
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  Speaker 1: to instruction prospers, and blessed is the one who trusts
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: The wise in.
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  Speaker 1: Heart are called discerning, and gracious words promote instruction. Prudence
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  Speaker 1: is a fountain of life to the prudent, but folly
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  Speaker 1: brings punishment to fools. The hearts of the wise make
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  Speaker 1: their mouths prudent, and their lips promote instruction. Gracious words
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  Speaker 1: are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to
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  Speaker 1: the bones. There is a way that appears to be right,
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  Speaker 1: but in the end it leads to death. The appetite
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  Speaker 1: of laborers works for them. Their hunger drives them on.
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  Speaker 1: A scoundrel plots evil and on their lips. It is
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  Speaker 1: like a scorching fire. A perverse person stirs up conflict,
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  Speaker 1: and a gossip separates close friends. A violent person entices
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  Speaker 1: their neighbor and leads them down a path that is
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  Speaker 1: not good. Whoever winks with their eye is plotting perversity.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever purses their lips is bent on evil. Gray hair
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  Speaker 1: is a crown of splendor. It is attained in the
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  Speaker 1: way of righteousness. Better a patient person than a warrior,
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  Speaker 1: one with self control than one who takes a city.
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  Speaker 1: The lot is cast into the lap, but its every
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  Speaker 1: decision is from the Lord James Chapter five. Now listen,
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  Speaker 1: you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery
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  Speaker 1: that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and
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  Speaker 1: moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded.
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  Speaker 1: Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh
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  Speaker 1: like fire. You've hoarded wealth in the last days. Look
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  Speaker 1: the wages you failed to pay. The workers who mowed
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  Speaker 1: your fields are crying out against you. The cries of
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  Speaker 1: the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: You have lived on earth in luxury and self indulgence.
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  Speaker 1: You've fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have
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  Speaker 1: condemned and murdered the innocent one who was not opposing you.
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  Speaker 1: Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming.
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  Speaker 1: See how the farmer waits for the land to yield
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  Speaker 1: its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
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  Speaker 1: You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's
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  Speaker 1: coming is near. Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: or you will be judged. The judge is standing at
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  Speaker 1: the door. Brothers and sisters. As an example of patience
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  Speaker 1: in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke
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  Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord. As you know, we
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  Speaker 1: count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard
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  Speaker 1: of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally
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  Speaker 1: brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, not
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  Speaker 1: by heaven or by earth, or by anything else. All
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  Speaker 1: you need to say is a simple yes or no,
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  Speaker 1: otherwise you will be condemned. Is any one among you
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  Speaker 1: in trouble, let them pray? Is any one happy? Let
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  Speaker 1: them sing songs of praise? Is any one among you ill?
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  Speaker 1: Let them Call the elders of the church to pray
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  Speaker 1: over them and anoint them with oil in the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will
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  Speaker 1: make the sick person well. The Lord will raise them up.
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  Speaker 1: If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore, confess
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  Speaker 1: your sins to each other, and pray for each other,
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  Speaker 1: so that you may be healed. Prayer of a righteous
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  Speaker 1: person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being,
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  Speaker 1: even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would
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  Speaker 1: not rain, and it did not rain on the land
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  Speaker 1: for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and
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  Speaker 1: the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
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  Speaker 1: My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander
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  Speaker 1: from the truth, and some one should bring that person back,
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  Speaker 1: remember this. Whoever turns a sinner from the error of
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  Speaker 1: their way will save them from death. And cover over
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  Speaker 1: a multitude of sins Psalm forty. I waited patiently for
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. He turned to me and heard my cry.
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  Speaker 1: He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of
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  Speaker 1: the mud and mire. He set my feet on a
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  Speaker 1: rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He
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  Speaker 1: put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of
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  Speaker 1: praise to our God. Many will see and fear the
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  Speaker 1: Lord and put their trust in him. Blessed is the
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  Speaker 1: one who trusts in the Lord, who does not look
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  Speaker 1: to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods. Many, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: my God, are the wonders you have done the things
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  Speaker 1: you planned for us. None can compare with you. Were
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  Speaker 1: I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would
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  Speaker 1: be too many.
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  Speaker 2: To declare.
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  Speaker 1: Sacrifice and offering you did not desire. But my ears,
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  Speaker 1: you have opened burnt offerings and sin offerings you did
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  Speaker 1: not require. Then I said, here I am, I have come.
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  Speaker 1: It is written about me in the scroll. I desire
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  Speaker 1: to do your will, My God, Your law is within
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  Speaker 1: my heart. I proclaim your saving acts in the great Assembly.
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  Speaker 1: I do not seal my lips. Lord, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: I do not hide your righteousness in my heart. I
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  Speaker 1: speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do
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  Speaker 1: not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the Great assembly.
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  Speaker 1: Do not withhold your mercy from me.
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  Speaker 2: Lord.
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  Speaker 1: May your love and faithfulness always protect me for troubles
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  Speaker 1: without numbers around me. My sins have overtaken me, and
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  Speaker 1: I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of
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  Speaker 1: my head, and my heart fails within me. Be pleased
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  Speaker 1: to save me. Lord, Come quickly, Lord to help me.
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  Speaker 1: May all who want to take my life be put
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  Speaker 1: to shame and confusion. May all who desire my ruin
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  Speaker 1: be turned back in disgrace. May those who say to
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  Speaker 1: me ah ha ha ha be appalled at their own shame.
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  Speaker 1: But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad
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  Speaker 1: in you. May those who long for your saving help
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  Speaker 1: always say the Lord is great. But as for me,
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  Speaker 1: I am poor and needy. May the Lord think of me.
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  Speaker 1: You are my help and my deliverer. You are my God.
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  Speaker 1: Do not delay John chapter fifteen. I am the true vine,
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  Speaker 1: and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every
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  Speaker 1: branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch
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  Speaker 1: that does bear fruit he prums, so that it will
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  Speaker 1: be even more fruit. You are already clean because of
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  Speaker 1: the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me
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  Speaker 1: as I also remain in you. No branch can bear
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  Speaker 1: fruit by itself. It must remain in the vine. Neither
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  Speaker 1: can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I
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  Speaker 1: am the vine. You are the branches. If you remain
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  Speaker 1: in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Apart from me, you can do nothing. If you do
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  Speaker 1: not remain in me. You are like a branch that
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  Speaker 1: is thrown away and withers. Such branches are picked up,
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  Speaker 1: thrown into the fire, and burned. If you remain in
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  Speaker 1: me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish,
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  Speaker 1: and it will be done for you. This is to
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  Speaker 1: my father's glory that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves
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  Speaker 1: to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me,
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  Speaker 1: so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
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  Speaker 1: If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love,
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  Speaker 1: just as I have kept my father's commands and remain
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  Speaker 1: in his love. I have told you this so that
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  Speaker 1: my joy may be in you, and that your joy
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  Speaker 1: may be complete. My command is this, love each other,
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  Speaker 1: as I have loved you. Greater love has no one
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  Speaker 1: than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
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  Speaker 1: You are my friends. If you do what I command.
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  Speaker 1: I no longer call you servants, because a servant does
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  Speaker 1: not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends.
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  Speaker 1: For everything that I learned from my father, I have
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  Speaker 1: made known to you. You did not choose me, But
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  Speaker 1: I chose you and appointed you so that you might
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  Speaker 1: go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. And so
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  Speaker 1: but whatever you ask in my name, the Father will
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  Speaker 1: give you. This is my command. Love each other. If
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  Speaker 1: the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated
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  Speaker 1: me first. If you belonged to the world, it would
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  Speaker 1: love you as its own.
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  Speaker 2: As it is.
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  Speaker 1: You do not belong to the world. But I have
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  Speaker 1: chosen you out of the world. That is why the
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  Speaker 1: world hates you. Remember what I told you, A servant
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  Speaker 1: is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me,
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  Speaker 1: they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching,
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  Speaker 1: they will obey yours.
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  Speaker 2: Also.
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  Speaker 1: They will treat you this way because of my name,
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  Speaker 1: for they do not know the one who sent me.
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  Speaker 1: If I had not come and spoken to them, they
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  Speaker 1: would not be guilty of sin. But now they have
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  Speaker 1: no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my
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  Speaker 1: father as well. If I had not done among them
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  Speaker 1: the works no one else did, they would not be
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  Speaker 1: guilty of sin. As it is they have seen. And
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  Speaker 1: yet they have hated both me and my father. But
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  Speaker 1: this is to fulfill what is written in their law.
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  Speaker 1: They hated me without reason. When the advocate comes, whom
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  Speaker 1: I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of Truth, who goes out from the Father, he will
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  Speaker 1: testify about me. And you also must testify, for you
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  Speaker 1: have been with me from the beginning. Matthew chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went
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  Speaker 1: on from there to teach and preach in the towns
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  Speaker 1: of Galilee. When John, who was in prison, heard about
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  Speaker 1: the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples to
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  Speaker 1: ask him, are you the one who is to come,
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  Speaker 1: or should we expect some one else. Jesus replied, go
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  Speaker 1: back and report to John what you hear. And see
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  Speaker 1: the blind received sight, the lame walk, those who have
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  Speaker 1: leprosy are cleansed, the deaf here the dead are raised,
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  Speaker 1: and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. Blessed
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  Speaker 1: is anyone who does not stumble on account of me?
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  Speaker 1: As John's disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to
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  Speaker 1: the crowd about John. What did you go out into
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness to see a reed swayed by the wind?
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  Speaker 1: If not, what did you go out to see a
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  Speaker 1: man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine
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  Speaker 1: clothes are in king's palaces.
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  Speaker 2: Then what did you go out to see a prophet?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet, this
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  Speaker 1: is the one about whom it is written. I will
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  Speaker 1: send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your
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  Speaker 1: way for you.
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  Speaker 2: Truly, I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Among those born of women, there has not risen any
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  Speaker 1: one greater than John the Baptist. Yet whoever is least
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  Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. From
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  Speaker 1: the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people
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  Speaker 1: have been raiding it for all the prophets and the
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  Speaker 1: law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to
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  Speaker 1: accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever has ears, let them hear to what can I
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  Speaker 1: compare this generation. They are like children sitting in the
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  Speaker 1: market places and calling out to others. We played the
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  Speaker 1: pipe for you, and you did not dance.
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  Speaker 2: We sang a.
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  Speaker 1: Dirge and you did not moon. For John came neither
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  Speaker 1: eating nor drinking, and they say he has a dmon.
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  Speaker 1: The son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say,
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  Speaker 1: here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of
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  Speaker 1: tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is proved right by
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  Speaker 1: her deeds. Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in
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  Speaker 1: which most of his miracles had been performed because they
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  Speaker 1: did not repent. Woe to you, Correzin, Woe to you, Bethsada,
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  Speaker 1: For if the miracles that were performed in you had
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  Speaker 1: been performed entire and Sidon, they would have repented long
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  Speaker 1: ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you it
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  Speaker 1: would be more bearable for tire and Sidon on the
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  Speaker 1: day of judgment than for you and you Copernium, Will
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  Speaker 1: you be lifted to the heavens, No, you will go
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  Speaker 1: down to hades. For if the miracles that were performed
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  Speaker 1: in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have
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  Speaker 1: remained to this day. But I tell you that it
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  Speaker 1: would be more bearable for Sodom on the day of
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  Speaker 1: judgment than for you.
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  Speaker 2: At that time.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, I praise you, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth,
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  Speaker 1: because you have hidden these things from the wise and
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  Speaker 1: learned and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for
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  Speaker 1: this is what you were pleased to do. All things
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  Speaker 1: have been committed to me by my father. No one
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  Speaker 1: knows the son except the father, and no one knows
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  Speaker 1: the father except the son, and those to whom the
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  Speaker 1: son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all you
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  Speaker 1: who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
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  Speaker 1: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
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  Speaker 1: I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will
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  Speaker 1: find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy
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  Speaker 1: and my burden is light Job chapter thirty eight. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said,
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  Speaker 1: who who is this that obscures my plans with words
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  Speaker 1: without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man. I will question you,
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  Speaker 1: and you shall answer me. Where were you when I
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  Speaker 1: laid the Earth's foundation? Tell me if you understand who
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  Speaker 1: marked off its dimensions?
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  Speaker 2: Surely you know.
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  Speaker 1: Who stretched a measuring line across it on what were
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  Speaker 1: its footings?
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  Speaker 2: Said?
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  Speaker 1: Or who laid its cornerstone while the morning stars sang
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  Speaker 1: together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who shut
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  Speaker 1: up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from
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  Speaker 1: the womb? When I made the clouds its garment and
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  Speaker 1: wrapped it in thick darkness, When I fixed limits for it,
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  Speaker 1: and set its doors and bars in place, when I said,
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  Speaker 1: this far you may come, and no farther here is
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  Speaker 1: where your proud ways halt. Have you ever given orders
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  Speaker 1: to the morning or shown the dawn its place? But
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  Speaker 1: it might take the earth by the edges and shake
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  Speaker 1: the wicked out of it. The earth takes shape like
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  Speaker 1: clay under a seal. Its features stand out like those
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  Speaker 1: of a garment. The wicked are denied their light, and
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  Speaker 1: their upraised arm is broken. Have you journeyed to the
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  Speaker 1: springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of
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  Speaker 1: the deep. Have the gates of death been shown to you?
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? Have
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  Speaker 1: you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me,
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  Speaker 1: if you know all this, what is the way to
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  Speaker 1: the abode of light, And where does darkness reside? Can
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  Speaker 1: you take them to their places? Do you know the
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  Speaker 1: paths to their dwellings? Surely you know, for you were
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  Speaker 1: already born. You have lived so many years. Have you
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  Speaker 1: entered the storehouses of the snow, or seen the storehouses
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  Speaker 1: of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble,
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  Speaker 1: for days of war and battle? What is the way
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  Speaker 1: to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the
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  Speaker 1: place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
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  Speaker 1: Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain and
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  Speaker 1: a path for the thunderstorm? To water a land where
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  Speaker 1: no one lives, an uninhabited desert, to satisfy a desolate
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  Speaker 1: waste land and make it sprout with grass. Does the
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  Speaker 1: rain have a father who fathers the drops of dew,
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  Speaker 1: from whose womb comes the ice, who gives birth to
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  Speaker 1: the frost from the heavens, when the waters become hard
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  Speaker 1: as stone, when the of the deep is frozen? Can
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  Speaker 1: you bind the chains of the pliades? Can you loosen
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  Speaker 1: Orion's belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons?
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  Speaker 1: Or lead out the bear with its cubs? Do you
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  Speaker 1: know the laws of the heavens. Can you set up
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  Speaker 1: God's dominion over the earth. Can you raise your voice
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  Speaker 1: to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
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  Speaker 1: Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do
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  Speaker 1: they report to you here we are. Who gives the
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  Speaker 1: ibis wisdom, or gives the cockrel understanding? Who has the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the
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  Speaker 1: water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard
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  Speaker 1: and the clods of earth stick together? Do you hunt
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  Speaker 1: the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of
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  Speaker 1: the lions when the crouch in their dens or lie
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  Speaker 1: in wait in a thicket? Who provides food for the
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  Speaker 1: raven when it's young cry out to God and wander
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  Speaker 1: about for lack of food Two Corinthians, chapter four. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do
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  Speaker 1: not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways.
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  Speaker 1: We do not use deception, nor do we distort the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. On the contrary, By setting forth the
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  Speaker 1: truth plainly, we commend ourselves to every one's conscience in
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  Speaker 1: the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled.
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  Speaker 1: It is veiled to those who are perishing. The God
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  Speaker 1: of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so
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  Speaker 1: that they cannot see the light of the Gospel that
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  Speaker 1: displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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  Speaker 1: For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: as Lord, and ourselves as your servants, for Jesus's sake.
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  Speaker 1: For God, who said let light shine out of darkness,
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  Speaker 1: made his light shine in our hearts to give us
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  Speaker 1: the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in
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  Speaker 1: the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in
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  Speaker 1: jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power
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  Speaker 1: is from God and not from us. We are hard
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  Speaker 1: pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed but not
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  Speaker 1: in despair, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed
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  Speaker 1: in our body. For we who are alive, are always
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  Speaker 1: being given over to death for Jesus's sake, so that
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  Speaker 1: his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.
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  Speaker 1: So then death is at work in us, But life
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  Speaker 1: is at work in you. It is written I believed.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore I have spoken. Since we have that same spirit
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  Speaker 1: of faith, we also believe and therefore speak because we
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  Speaker 1: know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from
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  Speaker 1: the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present
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  Speaker 1: us with you to himself. All this is for your benefit,
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  Speaker 1: so that the grace that is reaching more and more
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  Speaker 1: people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are
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  Speaker 1: wasting away, Yet inwardly we are being renewed day by
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  Speaker 1: day for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for
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  Speaker 1: us an eternal glory that far outweighs them. So we
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  Speaker 1: fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on
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  Speaker 1: what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but
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  Speaker 1: what is unseen is eternal. Ecclesiastes, chapter eleven. Ship your
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  Speaker 1: grain across the sea. After many days, you may receive
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  Speaker 1: a return. Invest in seven ventures, yes in eight. You
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  Speaker 1: do not know what disaster may come upon the land.
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  Speaker 1: If clouds are full of water, they pour a rain
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  Speaker 1: on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south
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  Speaker 1: or to the north. In the place where it falls.
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  Speaker 1: There it will lie. Whoever watches the wind will not plant,
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  Speaker 1: whoever looks of the clouds will not reap. As you
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  Speaker 1: do not know the path of the wind, or how
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  Speaker 1: the body is formed in a mother's womb, So you
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  Speaker 1: cannot understand the work of God, the maker of all things.
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  Speaker 1: So your seed in the morning and at evening, let
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  Speaker 1: your hands not be idle, for you do not know
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  Speaker 1: which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both
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  Speaker 1: will do equally well. Light is sweet, and it pleases
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  Speaker 1: the eyes to see the sun. However many years any
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  Speaker 1: one may live, let them enjoy them more, But let
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  Speaker 1: them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many.
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  Speaker 1: Everything to come is meaningless. You who are young, be
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  Speaker 1: happy while you are young, and let your heart give
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  Speaker 1: you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the
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  Speaker 1: ways of your heart, and whatever your eyes see. But
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  Speaker 1: know that for all these things God will bring you
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  Speaker 1: into judgment. So then banish anxiety from your heart and
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  Speaker 1: cast off the troubles of your body. For youth and
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  Speaker 1: vigor are meaningless. James Chapter four. What causes fights and
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  Speaker 1: quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires? The
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  Speaker 1: battle within you. You desire but do not have, so
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  Speaker 1: you kill. You covet that you cannot get what you want,
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  Speaker 1: so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because
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  Speaker 1: you do not ask God. When you ask, you do
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  Speaker 1: not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you
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  Speaker 1: may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterer's people.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you know the friendship with the world means enemity
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  Speaker 1: against God. Therefore, any one who chooses to be a
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  Speaker 1: friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or
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  Speaker 1: do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously
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  Speaker 1: longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us,
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  Speaker 1: but he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture
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  Speaker 1: says God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble.
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  Speaker 1: Submit yourself then to God. Resist the devil and he
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  Speaker 1: will flee from you. Come nearer to God and He
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  Speaker 1: will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners,
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  Speaker 1: and purify your hearts. You double minded, grieve, mourn and wail.
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  Speaker 1: Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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  Speaker 1: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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  Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Any One
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  Speaker 1: who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them,
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  Speaker 1: speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge
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  Speaker 1: the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in
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  Speaker 1: judgment on it. There is only one law giver and judge,
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  Speaker 1: the one who is able to save and destroy. But you,
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  Speaker 1: who are you to judge your neighbor?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Listen, you who say to day or to morrow we
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  Speaker 1: will go to this or that city, spend a year there,
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  Speaker 1: carry on business and make money. Why you do not
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  Speaker 1: even know what will happen tomorrow? What is your life?
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  Speaker 1: You are a mist that appears for a little while
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  Speaker 1: and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, if it
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  Speaker 1: is the Lord's will, we will live and do this
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  Speaker 1: or that as it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes.
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  Speaker 1: All such boasting is evil. If anyone then knows the
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  Speaker 1: good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it
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  Speaker 1: is sin for them. Two Thessalonians, Chapter one, Paul, Silas
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  Speaker 1: and Timothy to the Church of the Thessalonians. In God,
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  Speaker 1: our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Grace and peace
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  Speaker 1: to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 1: and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and
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  Speaker 1: more and the love all if you have for one
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  Speaker 1: another is increasing. Therefore, among God's churches we boast about
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  Speaker 1: your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials
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  Speaker 1: you are enduring. All this is evidence that God's judgment
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  Speaker 1: is right, and as a result, you will be counted
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  Speaker 1: worthy of the Kingdom of God for which you are suffering.
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  Speaker 2: God is just.
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  Speaker 1: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you,
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  Speaker 1: and give relief to you who are troubled, and to
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  Speaker 1: us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
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  Speaker 1: He will punish those who do not know God and
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  Speaker 1: do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They
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  Speaker 1: will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord and from the glory of
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  Speaker 1: his might on the day he comes to be glorified
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  Speaker 1: in his holy people and to be marveled at among
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  Speaker 1: all those who have believed. This includes you, because you
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  Speaker 1: believed our testimony to you. With this in mind, we
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  Speaker 1: constantly pray for you, that our God may make you
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  Speaker 1: worthy of his calling, and that by his power he
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  Speaker 1: may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and
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  Speaker 1: your every deed prompted by faith. We pray this so
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  Speaker 1: that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified
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  Speaker 1: in you, and you in Him, according to the grace
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  Speaker 1: of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ, Psalm ninety five.
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  Speaker 1: Come let us sing for joy to the Lord. Let
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  Speaker 1: us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation. Let
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  Speaker 1: us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with
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  Speaker 1: music and song. For the Lord is the great God,
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  Speaker 1: the great King above all gods. In his hand are
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  Speaker 1: the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong
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  Speaker 1: to him. The sea is his, for he made it,
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  Speaker 1: and he his hands formed the dry land. Come let us
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  Speaker 1: bow down in worship. Let us kneel before the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: our maker. For he is our God, and we are
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  Speaker 1: the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.
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  Speaker 1: To day, if only you would hear his voice, do
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  Speaker 1: not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as
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  Speaker 1: you did that day at Massa, in the wilderness, where
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  Speaker 1: your ancestors tested me. They tried me though they had
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  Speaker 1: seen what I did for forty years. I was angry
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  Speaker 1: with that generation. I said, they are a people whose
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  Speaker 1: hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.
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  Speaker 1: So I declared on oath in my anger, they shall
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  Speaker 1: never enter my rest Psalm one hundred forty four. Praise
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  Speaker 1: be to the Lord, my Rock, who trains my hands
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  Speaker 1: for war, my fingers for battle. He is my loving God,
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  Speaker 1: and my fortress, my stronghold, and my deliverer, my shield
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  Speaker 1: in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me? Lord,
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  Speaker 1: what are human beings that you care for them? Mere
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  Speaker 1: mortals that you think of them? They are like a breath,
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  Speaker 1: Their days are like a fleeting shadow. Part your Heaven's Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and come down, touch the mountains so that they smoke.
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  Speaker 1: Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy. Shoot your arrows
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  Speaker 1: and wrapt them. Reach down your hand from on high,
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  Speaker 1: deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from
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  Speaker 1: the hands of foreigners, whose mouths are full of lies,
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  Speaker 1: whose right hands are deceitful. I will sing a new
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  Speaker 1: song to you, my God. On the ten stringed lyre,
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  Speaker 1: I will make music. To you, to the one who
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  Speaker 1: gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David from
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  Speaker 1: the deadly sword, deliver me, rescue me from the hands
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  Speaker 1: of foreigners, whose mouths are full of lies, whose right
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  Speaker 1: hands are deceitful. Then our sons, in their youth will
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  Speaker 1: be like well nurtured plants, and our daughters will be
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  Speaker 1: like pillars carved to adorn a palace. Our barns will
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  Speaker 1: be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will
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  Speaker 1: increase by thousands, by tens of thousands. In our fields,
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  Speaker 1: our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no
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  Speaker 1: breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of
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  Speaker 1: distress in our streets. Blessed is the people of whom
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  Speaker 1: this is true. Blessed is the people whose God is
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Galatians, chapter five. It is for freedom that
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  Speaker 1: Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do
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  Speaker 1: not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
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  Speaker 1: Mark my words, I, Paul tell you that if you
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  Speaker 1: let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value
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  Speaker 1: to you at all. Again, I declare to every man
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  Speaker 1: who lets himself be circumcised, that he is required to
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  Speaker 1: obey the whole law. You, who are trying to be
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  Speaker 1: justified by the law, have been alienated from Christ. You
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  Speaker 1: have fallen away from grace, for through the Spirit we
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  Speaker 1: eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope
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  Speaker 1: for in Christ Jesus. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
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  Speaker 1: You were running a good race. Who cut in on
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  Speaker 1: you to keep you from obeying the truth. That kind
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  Speaker 1: of persuasion does not come from the one who calls
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  Speaker 1: you a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.
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  Speaker 1: I am confident in the Lord that you will take
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  Speaker 1: no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion,
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  Speaker 1: whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty.
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  Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, If I am still preaching circumcision, why
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  Speaker 1: am I still being persecuted? In that case, the offense
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  Speaker 1: of the cross has been abolished. As for those agitators,
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  Speaker 1: I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves. You,
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  Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters, were called to be free, but
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  Speaker 1: do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh, rather
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  Speaker 1: serve one another humbly in love, for the entire law
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  Speaker 1: is fulfilled in keeping this one command. Love your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: as yourself. If you bite and devour each other, watch out,
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  Speaker 1: or you will be destroyed by each other. So I say,
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  Speaker 1: live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the
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  Speaker 1: desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is
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  Speaker 1: contrary to the spirit, and the spirit what is contrary
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  Speaker 1: to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other,
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  Speaker 1: so that you are not to do whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are led by the spirit, you are
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  Speaker 1: not under the law. The acts of the flesh are obvious,
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  Speaker 1: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy,
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  Speaker 1: fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy, drunkenness, orgies,
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  Speaker 1: and the like. I warn you, as I did before,
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  Speaker 1: that those who live like this will not inherit the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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  Speaker 1: and self control. Against such things there is no law.
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  Speaker 1: Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh
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  Speaker 1: with its passions and desires. Since we live by the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: let us keep in step with the spirit. Let us
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  Speaker 1: not become conceited, provoking and envying each other one Thessalonians,
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  Speaker 1: chapter four. As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we
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  Speaker 1: instructed you how to live in order to please God.
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  Speaker 1: As in fact you are living now. We ask you
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  Speaker 1: and urge you in the Lord Jesus, to do this
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  Speaker 1: more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you,
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  Speaker 1: by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's
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  Speaker 1: will that you should be sanctified, that you should avoid
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  Speaker 1: sexual ima morality, that each of you should learn to
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  Speaker 1: control your own body in a way that is wholly
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  Speaker 1: and honorable, not impassionate lust like the pagans who do
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  Speaker 1: not know God. And that in this matter no one
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  Speaker 1: should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins,
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  Speaker 1: as we told you and warned you before. For God
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  Speaker 1: did not call us to be impure, but to live
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  Speaker 1: a holy life. Therefore, any one who rejects this instruction
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  Speaker 1: does not reject a human being, but God, the very
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  Speaker 1: God who gives you his Holy Spirit. Now about your
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  Speaker 1: love for one another, we do not need to write
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  Speaker 1: to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God
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  Speaker 1: to love each other, and in fact you do love
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  Speaker 1: all of God's family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you,
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and
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  Speaker 1: to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life.
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  Speaker 1: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,
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  Speaker 1: just as we told you, so that your daily life
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  Speaker 1: may win the respect of outsiders, and so that you
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  Speaker 1: will not be dependent on anybody. Brothers and sisters, we
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  Speaker 1: do not want you to be uninformed about those who
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  Speaker 1: sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like
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  Speaker 1: the rest of mankind who have no hope. For we
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  Speaker 1: believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we
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  Speaker 1: believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have
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  Speaker 1: fallen asleep in him according to the Lord's word. We
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  Speaker 1: tell you that we who are still alive, who are
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  Speaker 1: left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not
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  Speaker 1: precede those who have fallen asleep, For the Lord himself
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  Speaker 1: will come down from heaven with a loud command, with
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  Speaker 1: the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call
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  Speaker 1: of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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  Speaker 1: After that, we who are still alive and alone left,
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  Speaker 1: will be caught up together with them in the clouds
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  Speaker 1: to meet the Lord in the air.
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  Speaker 2: And so we will be with the Lord for ever.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, encourage one another with these words Matthew chapter five. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus saw the crimes, he went up on a
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  Speaker 1: mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and
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  Speaker 1: he began to teach them. He said, Blessed are the
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  Speaker 1: poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for
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  Speaker 1: they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they
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  Speaker 1: will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart,
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  Speaker 1: for they will see God. Blessed are the peace makers,
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  Speaker 1: for they will be called children of God. Blessed are
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  Speaker 1: those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you,
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  Speaker 1: persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against
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  Speaker 1: you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great
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  Speaker 1: is your reward in heaven. For in the same way
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  Speaker 1: they persecuted the prophets who were before you. You are
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  Speaker 1: the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses
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  Speaker 1: its sultaness, how can it be made salty again. It
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  Speaker 1: is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown
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  Speaker 1: out and trampled under foot. You are the light of
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  Speaker 1: the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
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  Speaker 1: Neither do people light a lamp and put it under
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  Speaker 1: a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and
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  Speaker 1: it gives light to everyone in the house. In the
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  Speaker 1: same way, let your light shine before others, that they
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  Speaker 1: may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Do not think that I have come to abolish the
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  Speaker 1: Law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them,
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  Speaker 1: but to fulfill them. For truly, I tell you, until
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  Speaker 1: heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the
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  Speaker 1: least stroke of a pen, will by any means, disappear
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  Speaker 1: from the law until everything is accomplished. Therefore, anyone who
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  Speaker 1: sets aside one of the least of these commands and
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  Speaker 1: teaches others accordingly will be called least in the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these commands will
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  Speaker 1: be called great in the Kingdom of heaven. For I
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  Speaker 1: tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly
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  Speaker 1: not enter the kingdom of head heaven. You have heard
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  Speaker 1: that it was said to the people long ago, you
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  Speaker 1: shall not murder, and anyone who murders will.
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  Speaker 2: Be subject to judgment.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you that anyone who is angry with
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  Speaker 1: a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again,
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  Speaker 1: anyone who says to a brother or sister raka is
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  Speaker 1: answerable to the court. And anyone who says you fool
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  Speaker 1: will be in danger of the fire of hell. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: if you are offering your gift of the altar and there,
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  Speaker 1: remember that your brother or sister has something against you.
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  Speaker 1: Leave your gift there in front of the altar. First,
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  Speaker 1: go and be reconciled to them. Then come and offer
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  Speaker 1: your gift. Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is
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  Speaker 1: taking you to court. Do it while you're still together.
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  Speaker 1: On the way, or your adversary may hand you over
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  Speaker 1: to the judge, and the judge may hand you over
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  Speaker 1: to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
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  Speaker 2: Truly, I tell you.
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  Speaker 1: You will not get out until you have paid the
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  Speaker 1: last penny. You have heard that it was said you
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  Speaker 1: shall not commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone
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  Speaker 1: who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery
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  Speaker 1: with her in his heart. If your right eye causes
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  Speaker 1: you to stumble, gouge it out, and throw it away,
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  Speaker 1: it is better for you to lose one part of
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  Speaker 1: your body than for your whole body to be thrown
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  Speaker 1: into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble,
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  Speaker 1: cut it off, and throw it away, it is better
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  Speaker 1: for you to lose one part of your body than
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  Speaker 1: for your whole body to go into hell. It has
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  Speaker 1: been said any one who divorces his wife must give
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  Speaker 1: her a certificate of divorce. But I tell you that
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  Speaker 1: anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes
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  Speaker 1: her the victim of adultery. And anyone who marries a
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  Speaker 1: divorced woman commits adultery. Again, you have heard that it
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  Speaker 1: was said to the people long ago. Do not break
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  Speaker 1: your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the oaths you
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  Speaker 1: have made. But I tell you do not swear an
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  Speaker 1: oath at all, either by Heaven, for it is God's throne,
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  Speaker 1: or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or
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  Speaker 1: by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
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  Speaker 1: And do not swear by your head, for you cannot
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  Speaker 1: make even one hair white or black.
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  Speaker 2: All you need to.
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  Speaker 1: Say is simply yes or no. Anything beyond this comes
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  Speaker 1: from the evil one. You have heard that it was
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  Speaker 1: said I for eye and tooth for tooth. But I
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  Speaker 1: tell you do not resist an evil person. If anyone
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  Speaker 1: slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the
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  Speaker 1: other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you
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  Speaker 1: and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.
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  Speaker 1: If any one forces you to go one mile, go
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  Speaker 1: with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you,
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  Speaker 1: and do not turn away from the one who wants
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  Speaker 1: to borrow from you. You have heard that it was
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  Speaker 1: said love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I
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  Speaker 1: tell you love your enemies, and pray for those who
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  Speaker 1: persecute you, that you may be children of your father
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  Speaker 1: in heaven, He causes his son to rise on the
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  Speaker 1: evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous
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  Speaker 1: and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you,
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  Speaker 1: what reward will you get? Are not even the tax
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  Speaker 1: collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing more than others? Do not even
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  Speaker 1: pagans do that? Be perfect? Therefore, as your heavenly Father
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  Speaker 1: is perfect Romans chapter thirteen. Let every one be subject
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  Speaker 1: to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except
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  Speaker 1: that which God has established. The authorities that exist have
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  Speaker 1: been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority
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  Speaker 1: is rebelling against what God has instituted, And those who
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  Speaker 1: do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold
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  Speaker 1: no terror for those who do right, but for those
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  Speaker 1: who do wrong. Do you want to be free from
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  Speaker 1: fear of the one in authority? Then do what is
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  Speaker 1: right and you will be commended, for the one in
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  Speaker 1: authority is God's servant for your good. But if you
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  Speaker 1: do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the
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  Speaker 1: sword for no reason. They are God's servants, agents of
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  Speaker 1: wrath to bring punishment on the wrong doer. Therefore, it
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  Speaker 1: is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because
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  Speaker 1: of possible punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.
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  Speaker 1: This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities
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  Speaker 1: are God's servants who give their full time to governing.
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  Speaker 1: Give to every one what you owe them. If you
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  Speaker 1: owe taxes, pay taxes. If revenue, then revenue, If respect,
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  Speaker 1: then respect, If honor, then honor. Let no debt remain outstanding,
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  Speaker 1: accept the continuing debt.
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  Speaker 2: To love one another.
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  Speaker 1: For whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments
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  Speaker 1: you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you
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  Speaker 1: shall not steal, you shall not covet, and whatever other
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  Speaker 1: command there may be, are summed up in this one command.
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  Speaker 1: Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.
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  Speaker 1: And do this understanding the present time. The hour has
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  Speaker 1: already come for you to wake up from your slumber,
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  Speaker 1: because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
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  Speaker 1: The night is nearly over, the day is almost here.
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  Speaker 1: So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and
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  Speaker 1: put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently
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  Speaker 1: as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not
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  Speaker 1: in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not
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  Speaker 1: think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Collosions Chapter four. Masters, provide your slaves with what is
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  Speaker 1: right and fair, because you know that you also have
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  Speaker 1: a master in heaven. Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful
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  Speaker 1: and thankful, and pray for us too, that God may
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  Speaker 1: open a door for our message, so that we may
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  Speaker 1: proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
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  Speaker 1: Pray that I may proclaim it clearly as I should.
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  Speaker 1: Be wise in the way you act towards outsiders. Make
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  Speaker 1: the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always
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  Speaker 1: full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may
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  Speaker 1: know how to answer every one. Tychicus will tell you
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  Speaker 1: all the news about me. He is our dear brother,
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  Speaker 1: a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. I
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  Speaker 1: am sending him to you for the express purpose that
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  Speaker 1: you may know about our circumstances, and that he may
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  Speaker 1: encourage your hearts. He is coming with Anisimus, our faithful
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  Speaker 1: and dear brother, who is one of you. They will
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  Speaker 1: tell you everything that is happening here. My fellow prisoner,
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  Speaker 1: Aristachus sends you his greetings, as does Mark, the cousin
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  Speaker 1: of Bun. You have received instructions about him. If he
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  Speaker 1: comes to you, welcome him. Jesus, who is called Justice,
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  Speaker 1: also sends greetings. These are the only Jews among my
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  Speaker 1: fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, and they have
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  Speaker 1: proved a comfort to me. Epaphras, who is one of
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  Speaker 1: you and a servant of Christ Jesus sends greetings. He
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  Speaker 1: is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may
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  Speaker 1: stand firm in the will of God, mature and fully assured.
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  Speaker 2: I vouch for him that.
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  Speaker 1: He is working hard for you and for those at
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  Speaker 1: Laodisia and higher Apolis. Our dear friend, Luke, the Doctor
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  Speaker 1: and Demas send greetings. Give my greetings to the brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters at Laodysia, and to Nympha and the church
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  Speaker 1: in her house. After this letter has been read to you,
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  Speaker 1: see that it is also read in the church of
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  Speaker 1: the Laodysans, and that you in turn read the letter
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  Speaker 1: from Leodisia, tell Archupus, see to it that you complete
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  Speaker 1: the ministry you have received in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I paul write.
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  Speaker 1: This greeting in my own hand, remember my chains.
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  Speaker 2: Grace be with you.
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  Speaker 1: One Corinthian's Chapter thirteen. If I speak in the tongues
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  Speaker 1: of men or of angels, but do not have love,
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  Speaker 1: I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol.
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  Speaker 1: If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom
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  Speaker 1: all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a
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  Speaker 1: faith that can move mountains, but do not have love,
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  Speaker 1: I am nothing. If I give all I possess to
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  Speaker 1: the poor, and give over my body to hardship, that
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  Speaker 1: I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy,
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  Speaker 1: It does not boast. It is not proud. It does
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  Speaker 1: not on are others. It is not self seeking, It
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  Speaker 1: is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs.
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  Speaker 1: Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
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  Speaker 1: It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love
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  Speaker 1: never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease.
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  Speaker 1: Where there are tongues, they will be stilled. Where there
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  Speaker 1: is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part,
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  Speaker 1: and we prophesy in part. But when completeness comes, what
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  Speaker 1: is in part disappears.
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  Speaker 2: When I was a.
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  Speaker 1: Child, I talked like a child. I thought like a child,
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  Speaker 1: I reasoned like a child. When I became a man,
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  Speaker 1: I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now
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  Speaker 1: we see only a reflection, as in a mirror. Then
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  Speaker 1: we shall see face to face. Now I know in part.
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  Speaker 1: Then I shall know fully even as I am fully known.
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  Speaker 1: And now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But
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  Speaker 1: the greatest of these.
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  Speaker 2: Is love Psalm twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: The earth is the Lord's and everything in it, the
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  Speaker 1: world and all who live in it. For he founded
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  Speaker 1: it on the seas and established it on the waters.
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  Speaker 1: Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord, who may
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  Speaker 1: stand in his holy place, the one who has clean
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  Speaker 1: hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in
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  Speaker 1: an idol or swear by a false God, They will
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  Speaker 1: receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their Savior.
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  Speaker 1: Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who
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  Speaker 1: seek your faith, God of Jacob, lift up your heads,
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  Speaker 1: you gates, be lifted up you ancient doors, that the
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  Speaker 1: King of glory may come in. Who is this King
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  Speaker 1: of glory, the Lord Strong and Mighty, the Lord Mighty
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  Speaker 1: In battle? Lift up your heads, you gates. Lift them up,
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  Speaker 1: you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
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  Speaker 1: Who is he, This King of glory, the Lord Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: He is the King of Glory.