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Ripple Effect · Outcast

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All right. Welcome back.
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Thank you for those that have been listening.
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Welcome back. And before we get started, we
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always pray so. All right.
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God, thank you so much once again for allowing us just to be
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here and to continue your will being in being in your will, for
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you are the one true living God, and there's no one greater than
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you. Praise your holy mighty name.
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Amen. Amen.
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All right, so today was an interesting day.
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But you know, we were meditating today and we realized something.
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And the only reason we realized it is because, and I'm, I'm
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we're talking about believers here.
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Oh yes. People from the world.
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Yeah. It's one thing, yeah, Sometimes
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believers, when they're doing God's will, while they're doing
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God's will, they make it. About themselves?
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Yeah, man. That that's true?
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Or when they disalign from God's will.
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We'll use some certain examples. And you might think that you are
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doing something correctly, but you are in.
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In other words, it's disobeying or not in His will.
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Yeah, you also make it about yourself.
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That's true. And authors get affected by it,
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Yeah. So it's like a ripple effect.
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Yeah, absolutely. And we're not speaking about
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cultural Christians or people that just check off the list on
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Sunday. We're actually talking about,
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like, real, genuine people like that follow God and are after,
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you know, God's mission. We're speaking about those
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people. Another another scenario could
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be that a believer sorry about that God is presenting them an
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opportunity and they almost like no, not almost.
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It requires obedience, level of obedience and they partially
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execute it, but partially kind of holding back.
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Yes, absolutely, that does happen a lot.
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That does definitely happen a lot.
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And, and we see even in Scripture how people, when God
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orders something, commands it, and you halfway do it, you know,
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you see God's reaction to it exactly.
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For example, like David, the Ark of the Covenant, it was told
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hold it a specific way. Yeah.
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There's there's several examples like Jonah which will go deep
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into it. Yes, yeah.
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The prophet Jeremiah giving an order to the kings and Zaciah.
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There's much more examples. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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And usually they take these scriptures and they kind of say
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like, oh, you, you have to obey God, yet they only stay within
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that. But they don't.
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They don't. They don't talk about the people
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of being affected. Yes, yeah.
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They don't, Or at least they don't see it.
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Right. Yes, yeah.
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And that's the the realization I think I believe no confidently
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believe we had that we make it so much about ourselves and what
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we're doing for God or if even if we are in disobedience right
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yeah that we neglect or you. We don't even care that others
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are being affected and whereby others we're saying believers.
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Yes, believers. Or even non believers who are
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potentially there's like a ripple effect and there's proof
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of this. Absolutely, absolutely.
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And so. What's common in a bunch of
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preachers? Who, who you share sermons,
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they, they share it in in such a way where like you gotta, you
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gotta follow God's will, right? And they use these examples,
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right? And the negative consequences of
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what happens if you don't follow God's will to that person,
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though? Absolutely they.
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Make it so much about that person.
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Yeah. But they don't talk about, they
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don't talk about the other people.
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Around, that's true, yeah. Being affected by the one who is
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disobeying. Exactly.
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Not following the will exactly. Yeah, yeah.
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No, you're right. I haven't heard really anybody
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really speak about this. But when we were meditating and
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then you brought that up, then all of a sudden all these
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stories, stuff started popping up in my head like Jonah.
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And then right now, I just remember the story of Hezekiah,
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too. Really.
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Yeah, yeah. Like he, you know, for those
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that don't know Hezekiah, he was a faithful king, trusted in God
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a lot. And he was in the sick bed and
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got, you know, the prophet Isaiah told him, you know, just
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get ready, you're going to die. And then he turns around and
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throws a fit and he's like, God, can you please spare my life?
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And then no. I'm intrigued.
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In what way? Because yeah, I didn't think of
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this story. Oh, OK.
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Yeah, no, I'm gonna get to it. I'm gonna get to it.
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So after that, God says to Isaiah, go back and tell
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Hezekiah that I will, you know, basically recover him from
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sickness. And then he does.
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But this is the problem. After he got recovered, he
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started like showing off the riches of Israel.
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OK. Yeah, later on.
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Yeah. Later on, yeah.
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And he brings other, you know, people from other nations.
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Specifically from Babylon? Yes, from that region.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. It brings them and starts
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showing off. That makes sense.
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And then Isaiah's like, what are you doing, man?
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Do you not know that in the future your people, the people
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of Israel, are going to be affected by this?
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And it has a guy who's like, well, I'll be, I'll be dead by
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then. So that's not my problem.
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That's their problem. No, actually I know you're
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paraphrasing but it but but it does say that.
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Yes, yes, exactly. And if anybody wants to read it
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is in Second Kings chapter 19. Read the whole thing, you know,
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it's very, very interesting. And and my question is how does
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it, how does it affect not him necessarily right of that moment
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of of arrogance, you could say? Oh, it definitely was arrogance.
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You see, this is the thing God said to Isaiah, you know, like
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tell Hezekiah, you know, it's he's, he's in the sick bed.
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He's done prepare. He's going to.
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It was almost like doing him a favor.
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Yes, yes, God was like, all right, this is.
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This is my. No one reads it like that
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though, but yeah, this. Right.
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And then he makes his like prayer to God.
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He's like God, you know, I've done all these amazing things
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for you. Can you spare my life for only
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15? I think it was 15 more years or
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so and God and you know, God was like, all right, well, 'cause
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you know, God is, it's his will. He can do whatever he wants.
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He's outside of all things like he can, he can do whatever he
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wants basically. So after that, you know, he goes
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back as a guy, recovers and then in, in my opinion, well, I
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don't, I don't even think this is a thought like our opinion.
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I just see that like Hezekiah, like not accepting the fact that
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God is like, oh, you're done. It's OK, you're going to come
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with me. Instead, he throws a huge fit.
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Yeah, he starts saying. God, have I not been?
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Faithful. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And then Isaiah tells him, yo, you got to repent because of
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what you did. Is it Isaiah?
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Yeah, it was. It was the prophet Isaiah.
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No way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Isaiah the prophet Isaiah says, yo, you got to repent because of
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what you just did. Israel now is going to get
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affected. And then Hezekiah is like, oh,
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man, well, I'm going to be long gone by then.
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But The thing is that. I see was like, they're being
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affected. Yeah, that's a ripple.
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Of they're going to be affected even in the future too, in the
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future, in the future, they're going to be affected.
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That's what Isaiah says. He says, well, because of what
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you did now, now Israel is going to suffer because of that,
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because of what you did, you showing off all the treasure and
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everything to the other nations they know now and they're going
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to come after us now because of you.
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So it's your fault. And Hezekiah is like, well, I'll
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be dead by then. I do.
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Yeah, he did say that. But The thing is that, you know,
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the God's like his plan was he's like, I'm going to take him with
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me. In in other words, giving Israel
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time. Yes, yes.
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Extending the time. But because Hezekiah started
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throwing a fit, justifying all the things he did for God, he's
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like, have I not done these things for you?
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Lord? He's, you know, he starts
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mentioning the things he did and the guy's like, all right, well,
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he's going to lose. He's going to so.
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It seems like if we are, if we incline to obedience, things may
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seem prolonged, but they'll be done right.
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Yes. Absolutely.
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And by right, it's not that God doesn't know.
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By right, meaning the path what we'll walk will be peaceful but
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prolonged. Yeah.
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Yeah. But our disobedience seems like
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it. If anything, it it accelerated
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it. Yeah, yeah, man, because
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clearly, clearly God was not OK with what Hezekiah.
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And it and not only did it accelerated it, it also had
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severe consequences. And then later on, you see that
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Israel suffered after that. Yeah, badly, right?
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Very badly. So impatientness, yeah.
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But see, one would say, well, they make it about Hezekiah,
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right? But you're you're talking about
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how he is affecting his future generation.
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Yes. To calm, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And amazing that you use this
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story because this happening in our modern time.
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It has happened also historically, right?
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The early church, whatever the early church meaning from the
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1st century to the 1st 300 to 500 if you will, their progress
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works so well that it set up it, it positively gave a good ripple
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effect to the future generation. But then that generation kind of
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aligning this aligning right, making it above themselves.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was also have a ripple effect
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up until this moment. Yes, where look where we are now
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like someone in social media can a Christian influencer quote UN
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quote right. He's he's so he thinks he's
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doing God's will. Maybe he is or not and doesn't
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real and he's making it about some because usually on these
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podcasts, I mean, I want to stay away from like always talking
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about ourselves. But there's some experiences
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that we learn that are humbling. Yeah, yeah, but they make it
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about themselves a little too much.
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Right, right. That that has a ripple effect to
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who's listening, right? Will potentially listen to.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Not in a positive consequence,
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if you will. And so it's interesting how it's
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happening in in the modern time through social media.
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Yeah, yeah, man. Right.
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Yeah. We really don't know the effect
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that like all the stuff that's happening right now, the social
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media trends, all this stuff, it's, it's gonna affect.
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So as believers, So what you're saying, as believers, we have to
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be very careful. Absolutely, yeah.
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If we're if, if we are in God's mission, we have to be very
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careful. That's what Paul says, you know,
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discern the perfect will of God. Yeah, you know, like James says,
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not many should be teachers. Yes, exactly.
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Or examine yourselves. Yeah, You know what I mean?
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Yeah. So stuff like that, you know,
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very important to keep in mind. Yeah.
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We make you so much about, oh, it's in the mission.
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Me, me, yeah, Yeah. And the moment you're disobeying
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or obeying, the people on the outer are being affected.
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By it, that's true. Yeah.
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So that was interesting. I didn't.
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I didn't think about it initially.
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No, you know, it's funny enough because I, this story came to my
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mind as we were coming into the podcast, right?
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And I was like, I was like, oh, wait, Hezekiah, that's a, that's
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actually a really good example. And you want to know something?
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So now that you mentioned that, right, right, right.
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So he, he says that to the, you know, if anybody's interested,
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go read it. His response was insane.
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Oh yeah, yeah. Remember Second Kings chapter
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19? Read the whole thing.
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So, so then we come Jeremiah 3839, where he speaks about the
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the what Babylon will do to Israel, the the punishment
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that's coming. In other words, the punishment
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that Israel was still going to receive was going to come no
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matter what. OK, Yeah, yeah.
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It seemed like that was inevitable.
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But when he was telling Hezekiah, I'm going to take you,
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he was prolonging that, right? Prolonging it, right?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So that didn't, they didn't have to be under bondage and and
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slavery for such a long time. It could have been a much
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shorter time, but you know what? So this is also in Second Kings
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2420. What what story is Hezekiah?
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What chapter? Hezekiah is in Second Kings
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chapter 19. OK, yeah, this is chapter Second
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Kings chapter 2014. So it's later on now.
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So Zedekiah, right? Probably one of the descendants
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of Hezekiah because he's the king of Judah.
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Oh, OK. And he's, he was being told by
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Jeremiah. I'm just paraphrasing the story.
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Yeah, yeah, he's being, he's being told by Jeremiah to
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surrender, to give up easily. Do not resist, right?
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Because the the what? Babylon.
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Babylon was coming. You couldn't stop that, right?
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God was letting. And Jeremiah was like, that's
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coming. You can't avoid that.
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That's inevitable. It's happening, right?
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Jeremiah tells the king, just give up, surrender at peace,
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don't fight it. But the king, you know, he was
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making about himself. He's being the king.
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God is with me. No way this could happen.
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He also felt the pressure of the people and Right and the
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advisors, the elders. And he was like, you know what?
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Like we got to stay in the stands.
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He tried to allied himself with Egypt.
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All of this. Yeah.
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Betrayed Babylon in every way. So Zedekiah refused.
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And when he gets caught, his kids get killed, I believe, And
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his eyes got taken out. I could be wrong, but you could,
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you could verify that in that story.
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Second, Kings 24 to 25 and Babylon invades Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem, and here is the aftermath.
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This is happening what was told to Hezekiah.
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Oh, no way. This is it right here.
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OK. This is it, right here, right?
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Because of the riches, Yes, that Jerusalem had.
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Babylon wanted them. Remember, when a king or an
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emperor wants to conquer, they're going for the gold.
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Oh yeah, absolutely. We're going for all of that.
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Yep. Because that's power.
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Yeah. You conquer the the treasure.
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That's it. Yep, it is power, yeah.
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So Babylon invaded Jerusalem. The city was destroyed and many
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people were killed. Others were taken to exile, and
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Zedekiah himself lost everything.
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The suffering of the entire nation followed the King's
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refusal to obey God's warning. Wow.
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So. Wow, yeah.
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What Zekiah did. Uh huh.
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Is was affecting them, which then is happening now in chapter
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2425, and then his disobedience, the refusal that he was having
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against Jeremiah's message be he didn't want it.
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Wow. So the whole nation suffered by
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it because of that. The whole southern part of you
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could say the land of Israel now, yeah, was taken to exile by
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exile, meaning taken away from their home man to what now is
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called Iraq. Oh wow.
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If he would have surrendered in peace, everybody in peace,
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things would have been completely different.
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Very different. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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They would have been no necessary of exile.
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They would have just taken the land, put a governor or a king
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there and they just had to be ruled.
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That's it. But.
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Because he disobeyed. Yeah.
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It turned out to be exile. Anyways, that was an inevitable
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thing. Babylon coming was an inevitable
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thing, right? Yeah.
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So you see the ripple effect, Yes.
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That the people suffer around. Absolutely.
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That don't even, you know, they don't even know what's going on.
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They're trying to do God's will, and yet here's a leader who
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here's a leader who has insight, who can get a message from God
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to close proximity and still disobeys, not knowing that that
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could affect others around. Him.
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Wow. Making it about himself.
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So that's a. The ripple effect, yeah.
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And then it's funny that it's it's literally deals with the
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kings because we're going to do King David, the one you
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mentioned, which is like one of the forefathers of Hezekiah,
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cause Hezekiah is a descendant of David.
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Right. And David, interestingly,
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becomes the like first, not first king, but he was a second
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king from Seoul. But when I mean by first
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legitimate, it was in the aspect of someone whom God had chosen.
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Saul was chosen by the people. That's true.
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I was like, whatever, yeah. But God chose David anyways.
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He does God's will. You know, a lot of mistakes that
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David did, but they were trying to get back the the ark of the
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covenant. There was a like how you said
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there was a specific way to carry the covenant and he's
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like, you know what, no, we're going to make a new car, a
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chariot. We're going to go pick it up,
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you know, all the 9 yards. Yeah, yeah.
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They go get it and they're celebrating it and feasting and
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God was like livid. Oh, very livid.
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To to all of them, and who all of them were worshipping,
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Because who was worshipping? Who's the leader?
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David David is the leader. So they're all obviously
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following his lead, not knowing that they're going to be
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affected by his mistake for not being diligent and and doing his
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research. Yeah, yeah, God kills.
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One of his friends. Yes, and.
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One of the priests, I believe. And it wasn't his like, closest
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friend. Yeah, one of his.
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Yeah, very close friends. And it was only because the
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covenant I think like fell off, right.
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And then he went. To it was tumbling and then he
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tried to like catch it. And boom, God strike them down.
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Yeah, so exactly. A lot of people use the story
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about like, oh, we shouldn't, we shouldn't let the modern world
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come into our lives because that there, there is that analogy
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there because David made a new card like the the Philistines.
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Yeah, no, that's a different conversation.
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We're talking about here how people around the leader, the
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one who's doing God's will or disobeying, are being affected.
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Absolutely right. Absolutely.
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They can be affected positively or be affected negatively.
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Yeah, when he died, David was upset and mad, but mostly upset
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and sad. And he goes, finds out why did
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this happen? And then he finds that darkness
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is supposed to be carried on their shoulders, but not only
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Kyrie. They were supposed to wash their
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hands and purify themselves. There's like, a ritual ceremony,
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right? When he finds out, he then tells
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the priest, we're going to do this.
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And then we go, yeah, When they do that, who were they listening
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to? Oh, the priest.
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Or the. Who, who, who when David came
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and and they started to do all, all the research that David did.
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Yeah. Who were they listening?
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To they were listening to God's command.
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Yeah, yeah, but who? Who read the command?
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Wasn't it David, David. Yeah.
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So you see how how much effect the leader has that be a leader
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that be someone a mentor within the Christian community,
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anything, anything an an adult elder, how how it could affect
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you and you might not even know that it's affecting you.
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And this was was completely out of negligence.
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Yeah, very true. So.
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Even out of negligence, God is still upset because he knows
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there is. I don't even know how you could
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call this like a willing ignorance like you.
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That sounds very like paradoxical.
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But you're choosing to. It's like you choose and you
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choose at the same time. It's weird but even though he
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punished them for not knowing, uh huh, he still like he will
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still keep good negative consequence even if you don't
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know because he expects you. You have a brain.
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Yeah, right. So when they do all that
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research, they get prepared and they go get it.
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Everything was good. Yeah, yeah.
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After that everything was good. Absolutely.
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And also, who's the who's the nation that took the covenant?
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I think it was a Philistines. No, it was a Philistines.
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And then there was like a bunch of plagues after that, right?
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And they were suffering, and they were.
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Like they just dropped it in someone's household.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that family household was
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getting. Blessed, right?
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Yeah. So there's a ripple effect.
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It's a ripple effect. Man.
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Yeah, man. Right.
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You see it all. So we we, we always, we always
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make it. We centre it to oh me or the
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person and being involved, but are the people outside of the
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ones being affected? By it, yeah, man, absolutely,
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totally agree. You know what I mean?
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Let me give you an example. I'm going to use me as an
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example. Not that we're going to talk
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about me, not in that way, right?
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I have a company right now, right?
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It's doing well, blah, blah, blah.
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God, that letters. God kind of reveals in a clear
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way that I can understand that He wants me to let it go, but I
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don't let it go. I let it go, but then I still
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hold it. I'm doing something else, but
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I'm still holding it, right? Right.
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Yeah. So you're like, you're like
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it's. Like like he told me, let go, I
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let go, I let go in a real sense and then gives me the other task
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but I still want to hold it. Right.
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And you can't do. That and you can't partially
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hold it because you think, you know, I don't know.
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It could. Yeah.
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At least how I would see is if I want to hold on to something
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real. Right, right.
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That I built, yes, that makes sense.
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That's meaningful to me. Yeah.
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I'm using my no imagine this happens.
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That's crazy, but that's an example.
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And if I'm in that situation and I'm trying to be with believers
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and teach them and work with them, you don't think this is
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going to affect them? Or 100?
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Going to affect this. There's a ripple effect.
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Yes. If we are all one mind, 1
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spirit, you're going to tell me there is not a connectivity
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going on? No, it's very true.
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You know what I'm? Saying true, yeah, we are one
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mind 1 spirit. That's a very good.
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Yeah, that's very true actually. Right.
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Because if we don't want money in our spirit, but there's one
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you don't think that's going to affect?
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Absolutely. Were David and everybody else
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not worshipping at the same time?
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God was livid. Yeah.
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God was very livid. Right.
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And so that was an example I'm using, right?
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God forbid I could pull through for the betterment of the body
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of Christ. Yeah, right.
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And so, yeah, that's that's that's an example that that we
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realize today. Absolutely.
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And you know, there's one more person that actually this is
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like, am I? This is one of my favorite
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stories. Jonah.
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Yeah, yeah, Jonah, the guy that got swallowed by fish, you know,
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God said to him, go tell Nineveh to go repent, otherwise I'll
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destroy them. And Jonah was like them, but
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they did a lot of bad things to my people.
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I'm not going to do that. No way.
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Let them get destroyed. Yeah.
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And then he hops on the ship on a boat, and then God brings a
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huge storm, dangerous storm that like everybody on the ship
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pretty much was panicking for their lives.
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And then Jonah was like, this is because of me.
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You guys can throw me overboard. And they did.
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They literally threw him overboard.
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And then after that, he got swallowed by a fish.
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But it's interesting because in that story we we see once again
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the ripple effect that others were literally at a very
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dangerous risk of dying because Jonah was like, I'm not going to
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go tell 'cause. He was making about.
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Himself, yes, he was too much in like how he felt and he wasn't
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and he just ignored or just no, he didn't ignore.
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No, he didn't ignore. You know what it was?
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You think he ignored? No 'cause This is why I say
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willing ignorance. I could be using the the phrase
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or I'm I'm compiling incorrectly.
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Could be, but it's almost like he knew the mercy of God if he
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told none of. Yes, yes, But he.
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Purposely like disobeyed because because he he wanted more to
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feel like God. He wants God to punish them.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Ignorant of the fact that he's
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not the only creation. Like they're not the centre of
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that planet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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If you know what I mean. And that's what I'm saying.
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Like willful ignorance. Yeah, willful.
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Yeah. And then at the end, you know,
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he sits down and then God makes a was it like a leaf grow over
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him? Yeah.
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Yeah. And then God destroys it after
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that. And he gets pissed off.
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He gets pissed off. Why did you do this?
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Like, what is it to you? I created it.
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Yeah. So he's, like, teaching him.
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Yeah. Because he sends him a on a
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mission so that Nineveh knows what God is about to do, right.
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He, he was more fixated on himself then rather than being
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fixated on what God can do for these people.
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Yeah. Which were positive effect.
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Yeah. Rather the people at the boat
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started witnessing their death in the sea, Right, Right.
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And so that was something what we wanted to talk about.
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Yeah. You know that sometimes as
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believers we have to be conscious.
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And how, how would I say it? Be considerate of your peers.
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Yeah. In, in, in your brothers and
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sisters in Christ. Absolutely.
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Be considerate to them. Yeah.
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For example, if you've been doing Godzilla, but it's no
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longer and you're continuing it, you're only going to damage it
25:54
more. You're only you're not doing any
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good. You're you're you're you're
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you're affecting it to to the negative of of it.
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Exactly 100%. It could be multiple scenarios.
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Yeah. About this.
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Yeah. And so when you when you go to
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social media, there's nothing wrong if you hear someone on
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social media speak about God, right.
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But discern, see what effect that's going to do to you?
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Yeah, You have to discern. Absolutely.
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You know what I mean? Read Romans 12/2.
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You know like do not be confirmed to this world, but by
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the renewing of the mind, so that you may know the perfect
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will of God. Yeah, absolutely so.
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That was what what God like help us realize.
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You know that this is seen in Scripture.
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Yeah, and there's plenty of more.
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I mean, Adam and Eve, come on here like.
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Look what they did. Look what they look what
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literally murked all of us. Yeah, man.
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So there is a ripple effect 100% when you're being used by God.
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Just know that like, you know, Scripture says too much more is
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given to you, much, much required of you.
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It says in Hebrews, you know, like if you had, if you had a
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taste of, you know, heavenly gifts and all this stuff and you
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go back, it is like impossible to renew your mind.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you go back to the things of
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the world. But there's there's a lot of
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like if God holds you to that standard, just know that there's
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weight. Of course there's weight.
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There's a. Lot of weight.
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And it's a good thing to have that weight because God sees you
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like, you know, he's my son. Exactly.
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You know what I mean? Like, I'm gonna hold him up to
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this. I mean, even Moses too.
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There's there's just so many, so many ripple effects.
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Yeah, absolutely. But those are some of the good
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examples that we wanted to bring up.
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And glory to God for making us realize this even more at a
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deeper level. Yeah.
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And I think, you know, I, I have to stop saying I think I believe
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confidently that whoever hears this be considerate.
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If that you were given a task divinely by God, you know it
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undoubtedly consider if you're in it partially or not.
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Yeah. Because others around can be
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affected by it and you can be setting them up for failure or
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if you're fully in, also consider the weight that you
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carry that how they're going to be affected positively.
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Their change, their lives might change.
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Yeah. Right.
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If we are the salt, that makes sense.
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Not why we are the salt. Yeah.
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Right, exactly. Other you become the salt that
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gives flavor or the salt that gets trampled.
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Yes, right, exactly. All right, guys.
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So I'm always, you know, follow us on all the platforms.
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We'd be grateful so that you can continue hearing more of these
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episodes. And we're going to close it off
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with prayer. All right, Lord, thank you so
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much for just allowing us to record here.
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May we continue. Always a Lord, in doing what is
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your will. Oh Lord, guide us and lead us,
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Father, into the absolute truth, for there is no one greater than
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you. Praise your holy mighty name.
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Amen.