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Ambition Is A Sin · Outcast

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Welcome back. Yeah.
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Welcome back everybody. Thank you for listening and
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And you know, before we start, we always start with a prayer,
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of course. So God, thank you so much for
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just allowing us to be here, guide us and lead us into the
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absolute truth. And may this podcast reach those
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old Lord. Amen.
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Amen. OK.
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So what we have for today, I mean, for those listening, you
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comes out. And So what we have for you
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today or tonight, should I say, we're going to talk.
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About ambition. Yes, ambition, probably
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something that, oh man, it's especially for men.
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You know, women too. No, of course women too, but you
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know, well, I don't know if maybe it's because my social
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media feedback is just mostly men like, you know, stuff for.
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Men, you'd be surprised. There's a lot of really women
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out there entrepreneurial. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they
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absolutely had. No, I've seen, I've met some
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women that I guess you can say have that healthy
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entrepreneurial mindset and I've seen some of that.
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I'm like, all right, it's too much.
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What do you mean? Like it's almost like they want
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to take the role of the man as well on top of that.
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Yeah, I know. I'm like masculine energy.
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Right, right. But I've seen some women that
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have entrepreneur mindset, but they still know the role that
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they're a mom, they're they're a woman.
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But besides all that, the word ambition, it's literally like a
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word, an action that we see all the time, everyday.
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Especially where we live. Yeah, absolutely.
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And the opportunities that we have here and everything, yeah,
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now. We're almost like set up to it,
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yeah. Exactly, exactly.
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From like chat from, like, you know, preschool all the way to
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high school. What do you want to be when you
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grow up? It's always about ambition,
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always. And it blows my mind to when I
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hear Christians talk about their ambition and I'm almost like so.
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I know that feeling all too well.
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Oh, about ambition. Oh, especially you.
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You, you're a business owner, so I can imagine ambition like
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always trying to seep in every day, right?
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Well, I mean, it's never, I mean it always, how do I say this?
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It always wasn't as a business owner because I own, I'm a
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contractor now, but even in the music scene.
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Oh, and the music scene too. How is that ambition different
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from article contracting? Well, because as a business
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owner, you're still striving for the game.
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Yeah. You know, trying to improvise,
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how to make, you know, more money and all that stuff.
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And the music is the same. You want to be the best, right?
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Right. You want to prove yourself,
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right? There is a business side of it
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too as well, in the music. In the music scene, especially
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if you're on your own, you still need to know certain things
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about business in the music world.
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Yeah. How things work and stuff like
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that. Networking is the same thing in
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this, in the music, in the music world, right?
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The thing is that in the, in, in that world, you also meet rich
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people who sponsor these events and these venues where you get
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to play the music and you get to meet famous people and stuff
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like that. Or you at least in the proximity
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of it. Yeah.
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And so these musicians go hardcore with the hope that they
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would play for a celebrity. Right.
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Right as as close as I, I was, I met the a Co director of Alicia
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Keys and randomly too. Quite honestly, I wasn't even
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networking. I was just random.
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I was, I was in the Guitar Center and I was just I was
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playing keys and then he just heard how I was how I was
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playing. Then I was like, oh, it's not my
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main instrument. I play the sax and he's like,
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oh, the same content, stuff like that.
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And I was like, what? Oh really too.
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I was just like, she's like you. It's so it's so weird you
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haven't bumped into Alicia Keys cause Paramus, apparently she
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has some place around over there.
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She's a rich town. Oh yeah.
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And apparently she randomly pops up in and out.
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That's it, yeah. Anyways, but yeah, you that is
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as as close as I got to in the secular world.
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Yeah. Another thing too, I auditioned
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to play for MSNBC, one of the news channels, network channels,
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and I auditioned, I got it, but I got like intervened.
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Oh yeah, yeah. How do I feel?
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Annoying. Very annoying.
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Yeah. Yeah, it was very annoying.
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Right, right. So you saw this pattern of.
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Isn't him intervening constantly right?
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I got it. We were going to play in the
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live show, basically an opening band for something, and I got
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it. But then something happened in
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church because I'm a APK, meaning pastor kid.
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And I was kind of conflicted because I felt like I was
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between the sword and a wall and know what to do.
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And my parents actually no go. I'm like, it was, it blew my
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mind. I'm like, because remember, you
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know, they want the they want you to achieve great things.
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Yeah, especially if you're in America, being from immigrant
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parents, right, You know? Yeah, yeah, I was.
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Like what do I do? And I prayed and I got the
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answer no. No, right?
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Yeah, multiple times. Really.
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Again, I don't know if I've gone deep, but just an example.
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I don't want to spend too much on this, but basically I've
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always wanted to do things for God, so I would, with my
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ambition, dictate what to do with God.
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So every single time you said? And I was always like, so that
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would always put me always in a, in a, in a place of partial
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disobedience, right. I would miss out on something
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much more cooler that he probably had for me.
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And I just, I wanted to do my own thing.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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You always wanted to involve yourself.
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So I know that all too well, especially when you want to
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dictate what to do for God with your ambition.
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Absolutely. It doesn't work that way.
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Anyone that tries to receive their own ambition and saying
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like, oh, I'm gonna do this for God, are you really now?
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Yeah. Do you?
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Do you know the intentions of your heart?
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And then there was another time. I'm sorry to interrupt.
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Yeah. Then I really know the
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intentions of your heart. Exactly.
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Then before all of this, you know, the park has a non profit
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book, all that stuff. I was working on an app.
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Yeah. Reach out to a friend who does
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coding. I'm not going to say her name,
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obviously, but she was helping me out because I had this idea.
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Again, remember ideas so that that entrepreneurial thing was
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always there because even in the music scene, you have to
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exercise that as well. It doesn't matter in what area
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of expertise, you're always going to explore
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entrepreneurship. Yeah, absolutely.
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To A to a certain extent in regards to creativity, putting
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yourself out there, taking risks and all that stuff.
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Yeah, right. No, anything that you do like,
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like for example, like all these projects that God has for us,
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you know, ambition can seep in if we're not careful, of course,
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you know. And so basically this whole
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topic that we're talking about is ambition.
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Ambition is a sin. It, it is a sin.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now any anytime.
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Others would would say otherwise.
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Oh yeah, others would like, you know, I know some people come
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out with books about this stuff, but I say ambition is a sin.
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Anything inevitably ends up. Inevitably, yes.
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To, to, to sin. Yes, sinful acts, Absolutely.
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Absolutely. At any point that ambition
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starts to override, you are going to turn your back away
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from God 100%. Well, how it how it starts to
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happen is you start to say no, I'm doing this for you, God.
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Yeah. At first it doesn't seem
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harmful. Right.
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But along the way, you start to justify yourself to why you're
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doing it. Yeah.
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Proving yourself why this is the Kingdom.
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Yeah. Or why wouldn't God bless you,
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Right? I mean, come on.
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We're thinking about this because we're Americans.
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We're here in America. Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean.
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Exactly. Versus someone in India was a
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Christian. Do you think they're thinking
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this way? No.
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You suddenly get water or food. You're praising God.
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Right. So, yeah, and.
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Then we're over here thinking like if we have this amount of
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our in our account, oh God, you are good.
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You are great. Yeah.
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You know what is a fortunate thing is that if you it's it's.
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It's foolproof. If you put an existential amount
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of work, there should be no reason why at some point you
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shouldn't see some success. Yeah, that's logical.
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It's. Logical.
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Exactly. So that's a good point that you
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made. And have we spoken about this
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before? There are those like blessings
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that are artificial and there are those blessings that are
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organic. Yeah, I.
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Don't know if we've gone so deep into that, but yeah.
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Right. So like an artificial blessing
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would be like, let's just say I get fired from my job and I go
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apply for like 50 different I, I apply for 50 different jobs.
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At least one of them are going to come through.
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You know what? I.
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Mean no more than. You know what I mean?
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So obviously that's going to be an artificial blessing.
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It's a. System.
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It's already system. It's systemized exactly.
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It's the same as true as if like we know like at least I know
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what to do to to take this, if you will this.
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Podcast to the next. Level I know exactly what Oh
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yeah yeah and I can just reach out to my cousin be like yo
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let's do this you know what I. Mean no.
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Everything I remember, I remember you.
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You were explaining to me how we can grow this.
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Podcast Trust me. And it sounds awesome.
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It sounds legit because it's possible, Yeah, you know, but.
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It's not organic. It's not.
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It's very artificial because it's already there.
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Yes. Right, it's systematized.
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Right, right. Yeah.
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But here we are organically. Yes.
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To those who listen. Will listen exactly.
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So that's what you mean, right? Absolutely no, no, no.
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Absolutely. Like, like everything we do, you
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know right here. Like the podcasts, the book, the
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organization, and the clothing, right?
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Everything that we're doing, I want to do it very organically,
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impatient, like very patiently, because I know that these
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things, I know they're sacred and they're something very pure.
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And honestly, I even want to say like holy because I meant
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something that fell into our hands organically.
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I would never want to put like pesticides or stuff like that to
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make this thing grow, you know what I mean?
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Unless. Unless along the way God in in a
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way permits it. Yeah, makes it known.
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Makes it known. OK, Absolutely.
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But yeah, I do understand what you mean.
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No, no, yeah, yeah. Like, like we can literally go
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out of our way. Like when you explain to me how
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to grow this podcast, we can literally go whatever way,
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invest our money into this and then, boom, make it grow
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quickly, easily, very easily. But then where's the faith in
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that? Where's the beauty?
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In that means we're trusting on our ability to do things, which,
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again, not necessarily a bad thing.
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There is an ability that you attain after you do a couple
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things multiple times. Yeah, it becomes a skill.
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It does. That's logical.
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It's right. Right.
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Right. It's when you then decide to put
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yourself at the forefront rather than letting God control.
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Absolutely. That's what I'm trying.
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To say absolutely, like I've seen Christians do marketing on
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Instagram and then they're like, they're like, I forgot what's
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his name. There's like a Kingdom Kingdom.
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I'm sorry about that. There's like a Kingdom summit or
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something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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He's like, he's like, stop the video.
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This is a supernatural calling. I'm like, no, man, come on.
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You just promoted your advertising.
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When they do that. Yeah.
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Come on bro, like that's crazy. Yeah, right.
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Let's be. Real if I was to do that, I'm a
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I'm literally be honest the guy. This is an ad all right.
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Like exactly this is what I'm doing.
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Yeah, man. I literally would never say this
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is supernatural calling. No, I'm just gonna say listen, I
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write. Throughout my studies I found
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gaps on regards to learning scripture.
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I just made a course to help you guys out.
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Yeah, and it costs as much. As much and with this much
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amount of money, I'm going to give some to nonprofit.
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You know, you just. And I have to leave it to that.
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I have to, I have to leave it to them to give me the benefit of
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the doubt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because.
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There's some believers out there scamming and there's some
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believers who are genuine, who are genuine.
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I'm not going to take that away from some believers.
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No, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a chaotic world.
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It's a swampy world. It is.
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It really is and it's so sad. We, we got to the point, we get
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to the point that when, let's say a nonprofit comes to a
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church, right, right. They have to convince the
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audience. That's another one that.
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Isn't that isn't that crazy? You have to convince a bunch of
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believers to help poor people like.
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Really, you have to go through a huge story.
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Like a huge story. Just to just to donate 5 bucks.
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If you don't want to donate, don't donate, don't donate.
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If you're going to donate, donate, right.
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It's like, I don't know, that's another thing too.
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Like if, if I was given that, I presume, like, All right, guys,
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I'm here. We're all believers here.
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We know our duty. Yep.
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These people need help. Here's a cure code.
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If you want to donate. It would greatly help us.
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And if you guys ever want progress on what we're doing,
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shoot us an e-mail. We'll send you a video.
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Yeah, whatever. There you go.
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That's it. Simple.
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I don't understand. Yeah, you have to convince you.
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Have to do like some huge storyline.
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Exactly. Kind of like a a sad story.
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And. You know, touch your heart.
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Yeah, yeah, man. Like, come on.
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To a believer. To a believer, to a believer,
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that's crazy. Wow.
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No, it's true. It's very true what it says,
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man. Now right there is this there is
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this Bible verse, OK, that maybe some people listening to this
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are going to be like, oh wait, but what about that verse that
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it says in like Psalms 3734 where God will give you like
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what is in your heart, he will give you like the desires of
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your. Heart.
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Yeah, that's in Psalm 37 verse. 4 there's 34 or 4.
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No. Chapter 37, Verse 4.
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Oh, OK. And I just looked for it when
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you were mentioning that, and I'm going to read it first.
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Just a verse. Four.
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OK, right. Because I don't want to spend
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too much time here, I would say, but delight yourself in the Lord
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keyword delight and he will give you the desires of your heart,
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right? The keyword I can delight at
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face value here. You you take it like you think
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He's going to give you everything you want.
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Right at face, Yeah. Face value.
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Yeah, exactly. But let's read what verse one
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says. Do not get upset because of evil
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doers. OK, you will do it.
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Sometimes we complain about the justice.
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Why does that person get to do that?
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Blah blah blah. Do not envy.
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Be envious of wrongdoers. As a business owner, do you know
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how much wicked stuff other entrepreneurs do?
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Yeah, get up there. Yeah, it can get really
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bothersome. Like I'm like.
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Come on, man. Oh yeah, it can get very dirty
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in there. Yeah, and then.
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But then here comes verse 2. For they will wither quickly
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like grass and decay like green plants.
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OK, so there's a you see the speed at which they go?
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Yeah, doesn't. There's no firmness.
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Right, right, right, right. And the decay, OK, so then verse
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2 says trust in the Lord. Here's another keyword.
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Trust in the Lord and do good. OK, Live in the land and
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cultivate faithfulness. OK, So it's, you know, to
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cultivate, right? To process.
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Right, right, right. It's a process, right?
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Yes, cultivating faithfulness is a process.
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It's like, it's like, you know, you're not going to be faithful
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100% all the time. It's a cultivation, so it's a
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process. You're moving forward. 100% then
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it says delight yourself in the Lord.
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So in this process of cultivating your faithfulness,
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the assumption is that you've already gone through a process.
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You now know how to delight yourself in God because of that
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cultivation that's been going on in faithfulness, and He will now
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give you the desires of the heart.
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Now are the desires of your heart the same?
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You walking and thinking in the Spirit versus walking and
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thinking in the flesh. Are those desires the same?
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No, they're 2 completely different things. 2 completely
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different things. Because it sounds like that
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person that when God gives them the desires of their heart is
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because they're literally walking and thinking in the
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Spirit, right? That's what it sounds like.
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It sounds like a faithful believer, one that pushes and
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pushes and pushes and washes the rope daily, and it's not
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thinking about the things of the world.
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But also understands the difference between walking and
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thinking in the spirit. Yeah, versus walking and
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thinking in the flesh. 100%. This person now knows the
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difference. Yeah, between it's conscious and
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subconscious, right? I don't want to go too deep,
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right? You never know, Maybe this
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episode could be Part 2. But then here we go on verse 5.
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Commit your way to the Lord, right?
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Yeah. Trust also in Him and He will do
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it. He will bring out your
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righteousness as the light right?
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That means your salt. They will know you by your
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fruits. Yep, OK.
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He will bring OK and your judgement as noonday judgement
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in this case, feedback, constructive criticism.
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Right. Absolutely.
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No, no, I totally get what you're saying.
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Yeah, You know what? I mean, so if you just read
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verse 4, he's going to give me everything I want, right?
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But if you read it all together, that's not what it's really
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saying. No, it's not.
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It's not what I mean. That literally sounds like
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someone walking faithfully and moving forward in the faith.
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So he has that cultivation of faithfulness is what Paul says.
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Let this be your ambition. Stay quiet.
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Yes. So you're moving on to 1st
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through the oceans, right? Four, one through 12, right.
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Say that again first through the oceans for chapter 4, verse one
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through 12, right? Right.
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Where it literally talks about like where Paul literally says
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make this your ambition. What is it first two?
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Illusions. I'm sorry, First Illusions
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chapter 4, verse 1 to 12. Right.
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OK, keep going. So it literally says like, make
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this your ambition to be quiet, not getting involved in the
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noise of the world. In other words, like minding
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your own business and working with your own hands, right,
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Right. Make this your ambition, living
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a quiet life. Right, right.
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So yeah, it says here in verse 11.
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I'll read from verse nine. Yeah, yeah.
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Go for now as to the love of brothers and sisters, you have
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no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are
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taught by God to love one another, right?
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That seems to be a common sense thing.
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Once you're under grace. Yeah, yeah.
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For indeed you practice it towards all the brothers and
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sisters who are in Macedonia, right, Which is somewhere around
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Albania now these days. But we urge you, brothers and
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sisters to excel even more, right they we're encouraged to
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push further and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life.
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OK. Attend to your own business.
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Right. Uh huh.
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And work with your hands, Amen, Just as instructed to you, so
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that you will behave properly toward outsiders.
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That's the righteousness that come out, whatever Psalm says.
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Oh yeah, the righteousness guy will.
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Show you righteousness. Right, right.
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OK, those fruits, absolutely. And not be in any need.
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OK, so you need to understand that back then, right?
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You're either a slave or you were free.
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Right. That's how it was back then,
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yeah. If you were a slave, that meant
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you worked for someone who had money, you were in high status,
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or you worked for someone in was a politician, right?
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Meaning you didn't have to worry about working to eat or sleep.
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Everything was provided for you, right?
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You had to work for them. Right, right.
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Basically, it's the W2 modern time.
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Those who were free were either farmers, they were merchants,
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they sold, they traded rich people in high status owning
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property or politicians. Those of that were free, right?
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They had to do something in order to sell something.
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Does that mean to to have an enterprise, a huge business?
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No, right? Now, if God blesses you, uh huh,
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that's because he's doing it. Yes.
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Not you. Absolutely.
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He's he's blessing the fruit of you.
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And I believe. Not because you are in the
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pursuit of that. Right, right, right.
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And that takes a lot of maturity.
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Yes, yeah, and not at the speed you think that will.
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Happen exactly 100%. No, 100% I believe.
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Yeah, I believe what you're saying.
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So also first John, right? The first John White.
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Like just John 2. Where it talks about do not love
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the world or have your eyes on the things of the world, what is
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it? First, John, What 2.
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Yeah, it's chapter 2. It starts at verse 15, First
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John chapter 2, verse 15. Do not love the world, do not
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love the world, nor the things in the world, right?
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Not talking about the planet. If anyone loves the world, the
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love of the Father is not in him.
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For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the
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lust of the eyes and the bull's full of pride of life is not
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from the Father but from but is from the world.
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The world is passing away and also it's lust but the one who
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does the will of God. OK, the desires of your heart
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are now aligned to what? To God, right?
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To his will. To his will.
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So of course he's going to make that happen.
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Right. Amen.
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Absolutely. And continues to live.
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Forever. Yeah, so.
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Why continue to live forever? Who is to say that this our
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descendants will continue? Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly,
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because the scripture does say if it is from God, it won't die
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out, but it will continue. Yeah, because in our you saw
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boastful pride of life in our modern time.
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Dude, we're so egocentric. Yeah, this society, it's like
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it's about me. I'm going to do the best.
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I'm going to lock in. This is what they say.
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Yeah. Which in truth, there is a truth
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to it. Be focused, do the task and
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everything will. But everything leads to pride.
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It leads to our pride, absolutely.
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So we go, Trent. Exactly so.
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I can do better than him. Exactly.
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Oh no, I can do better. Than him, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Even among believers, we fight amongst each other too.
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It's like as if we were not in the team or if we're not in the
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same army, you know what I mean? We're always fighting against
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each other. Is that what it?
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Is now. First Timothy Chapter 2, right?
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You know, Paul does say, I think, yeah, Paul is saying to
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to Timothy, right? In that part he's talking about
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like how when a soldier is in battle, he does not return, he
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goes and fights, right? Was it to?
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To what? Second Timothy chapter 2 it's
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I'm pretty sure it's at 4:00, but you start with verse one.
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You, therefore, my Son, be strong in the grace that is in
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Christ Jesus. The things that you have heard
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from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these
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faithful people who will be able to teach others, also suffer
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hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ, of Jesus.
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And he reminds him, no soldier in active service entangles
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himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may
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please the one who enlisted him, so that he may please the one
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who enlisted who enlisted you. And if someone likewise competes
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as an athlete, he is not crowned a victor unless he competes
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according to the rules. The hard working farmer ought to
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be the first to receive his share of the crops.
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Consider what I say. The Lord will give you
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understanding and everything. Amen.
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Yeah. Of course.
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So there's so much more. Oh, there's.
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So much more, There's so much more and we would like to
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continue, and perhaps we will. There's a Part 2 to this, so we
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should know that God's will. It's interesting.
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Yes. Find out what God God's will is
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for you, even if it's something you did not plan for.
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Absolutely. For or thought you wanted
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because it was it's what he wants, OK, And we're going to
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leave it as that, yes, for tonight.
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Think of that. Think of that because we're
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talking about ambition, right? And we're not trying to kind of
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teach you, Hey, listen, you can have ambition and kind of like
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mold it and then and see how you can fit this into no.
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So we're not talking about that. No, we're not talking about
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that. One day we can get deep, deep
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into to why we're doing what we're doing.
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But stay with this tonight. Think about what does God want
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for you? He does say in Scripture.
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Paul says in script and and and I believe in one of his epistols
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or Ephesians, I think chapter 1. I hope that your eyes, the eyes
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of your heart, are awakened. Oh yes, Ephesians chapter 1 I
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think 18 verse 18 on second yes. So meditate on that.
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Even we meditate, we we also will always meditate on this.
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We will always be doing His will, not ours.
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Yes, and it literally says discern.
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Discern so that you may know the perfect will of God.
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Of course, of course, and as much as I could have great ideas
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for this and all that, one day I'll be able to implement them.
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But not right now. Yes, exactly.
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Exactly. So as we wrap up, we're going to
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finish with a prayer. And you know what?
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Keep in mind for Part 2, yes, in regards to ambition, right?
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Absolutely. Thank you, Father, for this
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opportunity to speak about what that Christian suffers with on a
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day-to-day, trying to figure out what it means to be a believer
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in the world and not to be sucked in by the world.
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And although everybody might criticize that the church might
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be getting liberal, but it's the world that keeps just getting
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more modern and modern every time.
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And forgive us for our trespasses and for our sins,
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that we forgive others as well. And that you paid this penalty
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and you gave the Holy Spirit as a down payment, as a hope and
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promise of what you did. And we ask your Father that you
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illuminate our minds, give us the wisdom and understanding.
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And those listening to this podcast also bless them and may
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they also spread the word and, and of the things that we speak
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that you bring here to the table of this bread that you help us
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always break bread with those who listen.
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Thank you, Father and Amen. All right, everybody.
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So wait for the next one, which is interesting that we didn't
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think it would end up to being Part 2, right?
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Yeah. And so there's there's so much
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more good stuff coming. So until the next time guys,
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always remember to subscribe like the notification so that
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you know when the episode comes out and till the next one.