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328 | Throwback - The Devil Loses by a Knockout · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen and your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  We are sent into the world to tell others about Jesus. And when we go,
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  we come in the name of the Lord.
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  God sent you to the people around you. You come and conquer through the power of his name.
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  And when you do, the grandsons of heaven cheer you on.
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  Join us in this program, The Devil Loses by a Knockout, as Kim Miller of Women
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  at the Well Ministries takes us through Matthew 21, 9, which says,
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  And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried,
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  saying, Hosanna to the Son of God.
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  Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
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  Hello, and welcome to this broadcast of Women at the Well Ministries.
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  And we pick up Matthew you chapter 21 and verse 9
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  and Jesus is making his triumphant entry
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  into Jerusalem and when he makes his
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  entry into Jerusalem the multitudes had
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  gone on before him and have been crying about who
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  he is and they've been talking about who he is and when he gets to the city
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  and he enters in they say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord
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  Hosanna in the highest and the Bible tells us that that the Lord empowers us
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  to do the things that he calls us to do.
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  He equips us, he empowers us, and he leads the way.
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  And we just follow. The Bible says that if we draw close to him,
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  that he'll draw nigh unto us.
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  And so as we walk through this world, we need to just get ourselves pinned up right next to Jesus.
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  So that you couldn't even get a sheet of paper between you and him.
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  Because if you give the devil an inch, he'll take a mile.
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  And Jesus went into the city,
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  but his reputation and the story of his works and the people who had seen what
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  he had done before had already spread what was going on with Jesus.
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  And so when he comes into the city, they say to him, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
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  They knew when he came in that he had come in the name of the Lord.
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  And when you come in the name of the Lord, you can be sure that you're going
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  to win and that the battle is nothing.
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  If you remember, little David said, the battle is not mine. It belongs to whom? The Lord.
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  And when we look at this, we see that there's a blessed is he that comes in
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  the name of the Lord. He didn't come in screaming.
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  This is me, Jesus. And I'm coming in the name of the Lord.
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  No, the people saw him. And because of his works prior to that entry,
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  they knew who he was and they knew that he came in the name of the Lord.
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  And that's where I want to park for a little bit today. When you come into a
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  place where the multitudes have heard of you, what do they think of you?
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  What is your reputation with those who really know you?
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  Now, all of us have enemies in our lives that will falsely accuse us of things.
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  But the Bible says to not let our good be evil spoken of.
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  And the Bible says that we're to abstain from all appearance of evil.
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  Now, none of us within the sound of my voice and myself included can say that
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  we walk sinlessly perfectly through this world.
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  But what we can say is that because of the blood of Jesus, my sins,
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  though they were a scarlet, are white as snow. No.
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  And because of 1 John 1, 9, if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to
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  forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  Because of that repentance, I can walk away as if I've never sinned.
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  And the Lord will begin to teach me and speak to me and work with me through
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  the scriptures and through time and prayer and through godly people around me
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  to help mold me into what I should be.
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  And so as time goes on, my witness should be better and stronger and more like what Christ is.
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  And so that the people who see me often should know that I am a Christian.
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  That's a question that anybody who's met you for any length of time should never
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  have to wonder what the answer is.
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  When you leave a room, if somebody says you think that guy's a Christian,
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  something has just gone wrong with your witness.
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  Because they shouldn't wonder who it is you, sir.
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  When Jesus lives in you, you should be a little bit different.
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  And when you make a mistake, you should be convicted and you'll go back and you'll apologize.
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  And you'll go back and you'll try to make it right.
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  And you'll try to do better the next time. And you're going to have a little
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  bit more love in you and a little bit more kindness because the Lord is going
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  to be in you, working on you and working in you and through you.
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  But what would the multitude say when you came into your community,
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  into your workplace, into your school, into your family reunion?
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  If something would happen to you tonight or tomorrow or this afternoon or at
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  this very moment, and you would leave and go into eternity.
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  Would the people around you know where you're spending eternity? eternity.
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  Don't leave them guessing. Tell them, but more importantly, live it in front of them.
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  You see, the devil has no chance against God and his people.
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  And we need to live a life that is so close to the Lord that everybody around us can see.
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  And they're a little bit afraid of the power of God that is in us.
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  You know, sometimes it's hard to take ridicule. It's always hard to take ridicule.
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  Sometimes there are places that the Lord has you working for him that's difficult.
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  And it kind of goes against your flesh. But as you draw up to the Lord,
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  you got nothing to worry about because you're coming in the name of the Lord.
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  And he's never lost a battle.
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  And he's not going to start losing one now. Now, you'll be blessed by God if.
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  You come in the name of the Lord.
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  You can tell when someone's coming in the name of the Lord. You can tell when
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  God has sent somebody into a situation because they'll know what to do.
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  And you can even look at their eyes and their face and you can see they're a
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  little bit surprised they know what to do.
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  And you can kind of tell they're listening to God and God is speaking through
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  them. And they're kind of learning that whole thing while they're saying it
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  because God is speaking to them and they know it's him through them, not them through him.
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  Do you get that? We want it to be him through us.
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  We don't need to add to it, subtract from it or anything else.
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  We just need to follow and know that when we walk into a situation, what do people think?
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  Are you the person that when you walk into the situation, they're like,
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  oh, my goodness, this is bad, but it's going to get worse. Here she is.
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  Or are you the person that they walk in and they say, there she is. It's going to be okay.
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  She's got God. I'm sure she's prayed before she's done anything.
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  Are you the person who, when you come in a room, people just know you've brought
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  Jesus with you? You see, you never walk alone.
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  Because he's with you all the time. He goes before you. He goes around you. And he's inside of you.
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  And so when you walk in a room, people should see him.
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  People should know there comes Jesus.
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  Because she's going to bring him with her. He's going to bring him with him.
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  What is the reputation that you have?
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  None of us are Jesus. None of us need to claim to be him. But all of us need
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  to try to live like he asked us to live.
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  And when he came into the city of Jerusalem riding
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  on that donkey they said blessed be the
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  name of this man who comes in
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  the name of the Lord blessed be him who comes in the name of the Lord they didn't
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  ask him what's your business here they didn't ask him what's your purpose they
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  didn't ask him what's your focus they didn't ask him what's most important to
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  him nowhere in scripture have I seen that?
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  What they said was, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.
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  We have a reputation.
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  You got it. It's the only thing you truly own. Everything else is borrowed and
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  bald and some man has made it, but the only thing that is ever truly yours,
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  that you have the opportunity to guard and to keep, is your reputation.
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  And you've either got one that brings people
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  to Jesus and points them to the
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  hymn or you've got one that does
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  not and as Christians we are told to
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  be the light of the world we are told that if we
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  lift God up he'll draw all men unto him we're
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  told that his word will not go void and as
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  Christians we need to be the kind of person whose reputation
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  comes into a community into a scene into
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  a situation and they say she comes
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  he comes in the name of the
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  lord and they may not verbalize it but you know
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  it and you can feel it you never want to
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  be the person that people shudder when you come in the room because they think
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  you're going to make things worse or because you're hateful or you're mean that
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  doesn't say anything about the transforming power of god the bible says that
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  old things are passed away and all things are become new and that we're new
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  creatures in Christ Jesus.
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  Now, I'm not trying to tell you that you're never going to get angry.
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  The Bible says to be angry and sin not. I'm not going to tell you that you're
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  going to get that right every single time.
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  But I'm going to tell you that the love of God constraineth you.
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  And I'm going to tell you that Jesus loves you.
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  And because you know what it took for him to love you, because you know how
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  vile a sinner you are, and because he could love you and forgive you and continually
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  does so regardless of what you do and regardless of what you've done.
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  You can love others because God first loved you.
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  Because of that, you can walk into a place and be a little more tolerant,
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  perhaps, than someone who has not received the forgiveness of Christ because they've rejected him.
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  You see, we have to let Christ have his way in our life and work in us to mold us in what we should be.
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  The prophet Jeremiah told us that he is the potter and we are the clay.
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  And I'm so glad he doesn't throw the clay away. He just puts a little more pressure
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  on. He just works it a little harder and he patiently stays with it.
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  And someday I'm going to be beautiful and wonderfully made into what God would have me to be.
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  But until that day, he's still working on me. But the love of God constraineth me.
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  And I strive towards the prize of the high mark of the Christ.
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  And I try to be what he'd asked me to be. For in him there is peace.
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  And I want that peace for a lost and dying world.
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  We've got the victory we just got to give it out to others.
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