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Lifestyle & Purpose [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: On a family. Good morning, God bless you, welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo as you Bro Sam Lopez aka
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Speaker 1: So God bless you to all the groups that allow
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Speaker 1: me to share this Morning Devo on your groups as well.
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Speaker 1: Today's topic for this new week, for this new start,
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Speaker 1: for this new day is lifestyle and purpose. Lifestyle and purpose.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people think because they're born again, that's
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Speaker 1: their ticket out of hell, and they're right, there's truth
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Speaker 1: to that, but it's not about just having a ticket.
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Speaker 1: Salvation is not just a ticket to heaven, right, It
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Speaker 1: transforms how you live today. Salvation transforms your life. Jesus,
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Speaker 1: the one who saves us, transforms us. The one who
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Speaker 1: gave us eternal life, wants us to live an abundant
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Speaker 1: life today. So there's a transformation, not just information that
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Speaker 1: we receive and not just a ticket to heaven. It
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Speaker 1: transforms how you live today. So because of it, you
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Speaker 1: begin to desire holiness. You don't want to be a
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Speaker 1: common Christian just like common, like just do the abcs
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Speaker 1: of Christianity, just go with the flow of what your
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Speaker 1: church or what your community is doing. No, you don't
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Speaker 1: want to be common. You want to be holy, and
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Speaker 1: you begin to desire holiness, to love others deeply and
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Speaker 1: to serve with purpose. Ephesians, Chapter two, verse number ten.
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Speaker 1: A man is where we're going to devote some time
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Speaker 1: to the Lord and this word. Amen. So thank you
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Speaker 1: for showing up. And this is a great start for
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Speaker 1: anybody's day. When you put God first in your day,
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Speaker 1: I believe that lines up everything else to prosper you
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Speaker 1: and to prosper me. Amen. Life is still going hit
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Speaker 1: regardless of this time with the Lord. But it's so
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Speaker 1: assuring and it's so comforting knowing that when you go
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Speaker 1: through something that's hard in your life, you're not alone.
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Speaker 1: You have the living, loving, holy Righteous One living within
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Speaker 1: you by way of Holy Spirit. And although I might
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Speaker 1: want the storm to go away, or you you might
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Speaker 1: want the storm to go away. All the hardship and
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Speaker 1: difficulties of life, the persecution, the death, the illness, the sickness,
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Speaker 1: we all don't want that. When it happens, it's so
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Speaker 1: assuring and comforting, and that we could rest in the love,
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Speaker 1: the grace, and the mercy, and then the knowledge of
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Speaker 1: who God is in our lives in real time. So
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Speaker 1: that's a lifestyle and purpose. There's a change of our
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Speaker 1: lifestyle and purpose. I'll get to that later. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: pray first. After we pray, we'll shut us out for
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Speaker 1: like sixty seconds, and then on the other side of
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Speaker 1: those sixty seconds, we'll get right into Ephesians, chapter number two,
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Speaker 1: verse number ten. Are you ready? If I have any questions, comments, concerns,
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Speaker 1: and prayer requests, the live chat is open. So Father,
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Speaker 1: I thank you that you have transformed, renewed, redeemed, restored,
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Speaker 1: and given us the born again experience for those all
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Speaker 1: those who will whoever is who called upon the name
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Speaker 1: of the Lord to be saved. We are born again,
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Speaker 1: we are active in the body of Christ. We are
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Speaker 1: alive and the Kingdom of God. We're not in darkness anymore.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord Jesus that you took us out of
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Speaker 1: that darkness and brought us into your marvelous light. I
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Speaker 1: pray Lo God, a hedge of protection, physical protection, mental protection,
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Speaker 1: spiritual protection over our lives right now, including myself, my wife,
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Speaker 1: our children, our grandchildren, our son, a man of his
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Speaker 1: children which is my grandchildren, his wife, every single person
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Speaker 1: that's connected to our ministry, to our bloodline, to our
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Speaker 1: family members from the very youngest to the very oldest,
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Speaker 1: and every single person in between. And I pray the
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Speaker 1: same hedge of protection over every single person that's listening
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Speaker 1: and watching right now. And the powerful name of Yashi
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Speaker 1: Wahama shik Jesus to Christ, the Messiah, the machic McGee,
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Speaker 1: I think one of God. I pray this by faith
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Speaker 1: knowing that you are able to do a Psalm ninety
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Speaker 1: one work in our lives according to your scriptures and
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Speaker 1: your purpose and plan. Thank you for a new life,
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Speaker 1: and thank you, Lo God for us having purpose in
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Speaker 1: this life that we're living and meaning and we know
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Speaker 1: LogD that we will desire what you desire, and we
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Speaker 1: exchange our fleshly desire for holy desire that you have
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Speaker 1: given us in the powerful name of Jesus. I prayed
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Speaker 1: it's by faith and all those who agree, we say
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Speaker 1: Amen to the Amen. So help me share this out.
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Speaker 1: And then when we share this out, when we come
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Speaker 1: back sixty seconds later, we'll get back into this morning
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Speaker 1: Devo right lifestyle and purpose. On the morning Deva, I'll
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Speaker 1: write back thank you so much for all those who
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Speaker 1: helped me share this out. Man, it really matters. Thank
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Speaker 1: you again to all the groups that allow me to
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Speaker 1: share this in your group as well. Amen. Wow, stay connected.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on that God knows. The purpose
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Speaker 1: and plan for your life is one hundred percent complete
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Speaker 1: and perfect. Or you have to do sometimes, like I
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Speaker 1: always says, just show up and God does amazing works
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Speaker 1: in your life. Shout out to Word on the way
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Speaker 1: for putting on from the time of this this recording, Amen,
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Speaker 1: yesterday was day one of four nights of Hope. Amen,
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Speaker 1: and me and my daughter we showed up, Amen, and
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Speaker 1: we saw the Lord move that ministry. Amen of two
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Speaker 1: I'm saying her last name, Amen, and I'm so just
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Speaker 1: grateful for the connection. They're also available for you to
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Speaker 1: Section is called Word on the Way. It's amazing how
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Speaker 1: So check them out. And if you're in the Lehigh
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Speaker 1: media It's called Word on the Way for Night of Hope.
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Speaker 1: To shout out to my sisters over there. Amen. So
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Speaker 1: sister joining, I see you, good morning, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning. Devo's good to see you,
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Speaker 1: my sister and my friend Man. Well, God bless you
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Speaker 1: as well. God bless you, my brother. It's good to
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Speaker 1: see you in the morning Devo as well. Amen. So
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ask for a prayer requests pray for me,
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Speaker 1: because I'll be waking up one thirty, two thirty, three
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Speaker 1: thirty sometimes in the morning it's out of a sound
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Speaker 1: sleep and just waking up happening more and more. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it's restlessness, maybe it's I don't know what it is,
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Speaker 1: but I get up and usually I don't get up
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Speaker 1: and walking around the house to check. But I've been
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Speaker 1: doing that a mixture of staying up praying and another
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Speaker 1: mixture of getting up physically and walking around the home
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Speaker 1: to check to see if everything and everybody's okay. Man,
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Speaker 1: don't know what that's all about. What I'm humble enough
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Speaker 1: to ask for prayer? Amen? If you get revelation of
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Speaker 1: God speaks to you accordingly, So what that might mean,
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Speaker 1: just let a brother know. That's all Amen. I'm just
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Speaker 1: sharing because I know sharing is caring. And also, if
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Speaker 1: you care for my brother and sister of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: will you care for me? Amen? You'll pray for me
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Speaker 1: as I pray for you often. Amen. So let's go
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Speaker 1: the word of God, lifestyle and purpose. Let me get
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Speaker 1: the scream ready for those who are watching, for those
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Speaker 1: who are just listening. No worries, no problems, I promise
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Speaker 1: you're going to read this word for word the way
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Speaker 1: we see it on the screen, but let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: Lifestyle and purpose, the Bible says in Ephesians chapter two,
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Speaker 1: verse number ten, for we are His God's workmanship, his
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Speaker 1: own master work, a work of art created in Christ Jesus,
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Speaker 1: reborn from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used
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Speaker 1: for good works which God prepared for us beforehand, taking
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Speaker 1: past which he set that we're being preordained to do.
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Speaker 1: What we're doing in the Kingdom of God. That's exciting
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Speaker 1: to know. And God knows the outcome. And we give
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Speaker 1: God all the outcome, Amen, So that we would walk
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Speaker 1: in them, living the good life which He pre arranged
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Speaker 1: and made ready for us. You could also cross reference
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Speaker 1: this to Romans chapter one, verse number twenty. We are
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Speaker 1: His workmanship. Once you and I realize that God has
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Speaker 1: everything planned out for our lives, we can trust him.
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Speaker 1: We could love him, support him, submit to him, surrender
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Speaker 1: our lives. A man resist the devil, and the devil
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Speaker 1: will flee. Were created in Christ Jesus right we born
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Speaker 1: from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used for
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Speaker 1: good works which God prepared for us beforehand, taking past
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Speaker 1: which he set. So if you're on the righteous path
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Speaker 1: of God, you're on the right path, Amen. And cross
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Speaker 1: reference that with Romans one twenty and man, you got
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Speaker 1: to get a fantastic revelation of God's purpose for your life. Amen.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people have asked that question, what's the
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Speaker 1: sorry about that? What's the purpose amen? For our lives? Right?
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Speaker 1: What's the reason we're here? Well? God has that reason, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and he preordained, He prepared and pre arranged our situation
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Speaker 1: as long as we're in his will. If you're outside
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Speaker 1: of God's will, then you're basically on your own. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I was on my own before Christ came and rescued me.
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Speaker 1: What about you? And I was doing what I wanted
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Speaker 1: to do, which wasn't really beneficial to my life and
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Speaker 1: to others around me. It wasn't Amen. Manuel says, we
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Speaker 1: buy that restlessness spirit. Yes, thank you for the Manuel.
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Speaker 1: Might be restlessness, that's what it might be. Or you know,
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Speaker 1: just my mind racing and thinking about the next day
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Speaker 1: before the next day comes could be it too. We
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Speaker 1: are God's glory, Yes, I like that, and we also
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Speaker 1: carry the glory of God. Thank you Manuel for your comments,
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Speaker 1: very grateful for that, my brother and my friend. So
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Speaker 1: the lifestyle and purpose that God has for us, let's
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Speaker 1: get back into it. Because to me, to be honest,
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Speaker 1: nothing else really matters if you're not living in the
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Speaker 1: will and purpose that God has for you and that
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Speaker 1: God has for me. What are we doing, a man,
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Speaker 1: We're just watching the days of the calendar just fly by,
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Speaker 1: and we have no purpose, we have no plan, We're
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Speaker 1: doing nothing other than just existing. I'm alive in Christ.
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Speaker 1: You're alive in Christ if you're born again. So let's
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Speaker 1: activate what we know, wisdom, understanding the purpose, and let's
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Speaker 1: go out there and share what we know with someone
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Speaker 1: who desperately needs the word of life, the word of
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Speaker 1: truth in their lives today. Amen. Manuel says, that's right.
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Speaker 1: God created us to do his will according to his
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Speaker 1: word by the spirit. Line it all up, brother Manuel,
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Speaker 1: let us know, Amen, that's a good lineup of events
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Speaker 1: created us. God is the creator. Amen, to do whose
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Speaker 1: will our will? Know? To do his will according to
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Speaker 1: whose word? My word? No, according to his word by
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Speaker 1: the spirit. Come on, that's good right there, Dana Beltzing,
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God bless you. Welcome to the morning. Devo.
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Speaker 1: So listen. When you have a changed and transformed heart,
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Speaker 1: you're going to have a change and transformed lifestyle, and
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Speaker 1: you know the purpose behind it. When someone is saved,
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Speaker 1: their way of living is no longer centered, centered on self,
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Speaker 1: no longer sent are on sin or even in the world,
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Speaker 1: but on Christ. Salvation doesn't just change your status before God.
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Speaker 1: It transforms your heart, mind and actions. Think about it.
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Speaker 1: God changed us. He saved us, not to be the
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Speaker 1: same that we were before we were saved, but to
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Speaker 1: be different, to be transformed, renewed, redeemed. Now the pressure
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Speaker 1: that people put on themselves because people, I hear this
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Speaker 1: a lot, it's so hard, meaning a Christians, so hard
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Speaker 1: following the Lord, which the Bible says completely opposite. The
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Speaker 1: Bible says that God's yoke is easy and his ways
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Speaker 1: to follow him is not hard. Hey, man, think about it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know the saying, I know what people
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Speaker 1: are saying, like, man, it's you know, it's hard. It's
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Speaker 1: the flesh doesn't give up our old evil sinfle desires.
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Speaker 1: But God's joke is easy a man, his burdens are light,
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Speaker 1: the scripture says, so it's not hard to follow Jesus.
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Speaker 1: The flesh is making things hard er to go in
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Speaker 1: the way that God wants us to go. Our old evil,
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Speaker 1: sinful desires and deliverance ministries. I don't know why I'm
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Speaker 1: saying this when you see them all over social media,
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Speaker 1: on TV and on YouTube delivering people from demons right
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Speaker 1: casting out demons, and those people are professing Christians. A
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Speaker 1: lot of them that say they have a demon. I
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Speaker 1: think that's not a demon. I think the flesh amen
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Speaker 1: like ninety percent of those deliverance services. In my humble opinion,
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Speaker 1: it's not really casting out demons out of Christians. It's
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Speaker 1: really helping Christians realize their whole faith trust in Jesus,
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Speaker 1: and they're wrestling with their own flesh. Some of them
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Speaker 1: are being overcome by the flesh way more than they
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Speaker 1: overcome a man. That has to be a fight, the
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Speaker 1: good fight of faith, the Word says, and we're fighting
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Speaker 1: against not against flesh and blood a man. And yes,
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Speaker 1: we have the power to cast out demons in the
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus. But I'm mindful. I don't know about
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Speaker 1: the other deliverance ministries out there, but I'm mindful that
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Speaker 1: if I cast out a demon in the powerful name
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, I'm trying to get to that person quickly
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Speaker 1: for them to get them to understand that they have
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Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit of God who lives
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Speaker 1: within them to resist, submit to God, resist the devil,
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Speaker 1: and the devil will flee. And there's no occupancy between
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit and a demon at the same time. Now,
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Speaker 1: if they're not born again, it makes sense why they
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Speaker 1: were bound by a demon. And once you cast those
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Speaker 1: demons out, if the person's not saved, the Bible says
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Speaker 1: that the house will be clean. But if they don't
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Speaker 1: have the Spirit of God living inside them, then several
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Speaker 1: more demons and it'll be worse, be worse off for those people. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So I'm mindful of that. So if you are in
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Speaker 1: the deliverance ministry, you're casting out demons, the very next
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Speaker 1: assignment should be to get those people into a position
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Speaker 1: that they could get into a loving relationship with the
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Speaker 1: Almighty God by way of Holy Spirit. They need to repent,
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Speaker 1: turn from their wicked ways, and turn to the righteous One. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So that way, by the time those demons try to
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Speaker 1: come and attack again, they'll be like, oh wow, we
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Speaker 1: can't get back in that person because Holy Spirit lives
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Speaker 1: within them. You get what I'm saying. Brother Frank, good morning,
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Speaker 1: my brother, God bless you and your family as well,
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Speaker 1: and everybody on the morning Devo. Thank you for the blessing.
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Speaker 1: Thank thanks for showing up my brother, and my friend
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Speaker 1: for the friend. Amen. So we're going to have a
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Speaker 1: new desire. And once we're born again, once we're trusting,
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Speaker 1: hoping and having faith from the Lord, we're gonna have
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Speaker 1: new desires and that desires you to be to please God.
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Speaker 1: So before salvation right, life revolved around our personal desires.
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Speaker 1: We're very prideful, we have worldly attitudes, and we were
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Speaker 1: approving everything that the world wanted to do. Once you're
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Speaker 1: born again, the Holy Spirit places a desire within you
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Speaker 1: to honor God. And not only just to speak that
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Speaker 1: you just to say that you honor God, but even
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Speaker 1: in your thoughts, even in through your words, and even
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Speaker 1: through your deeds, You're gonna want to honor God everywhere
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Speaker 1: you go. You're not gonna want to be a closet Christian.
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna want to be a private eye professing believer.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna want to preach the Gospels, sometimes not using words.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to always use words when you're showing
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Speaker 1: up and being a born again believer when you're in
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Speaker 1: a supermarket. You don't have to go down to ours
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Speaker 1: the supermarket and saying, you know, preaching and supporting scriptures.
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Speaker 1: You can if that's your calling to do, but you
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Speaker 1: don't have to. Just be kind of people, just be loving,
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Speaker 1: and just be intentionally listening to people when they speak
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Speaker 1: to you. Eye contact love people, show them that there's
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Speaker 1: a new way of life when you're born again, and
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Speaker 1: when they ask you the question, hey, why are you
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Speaker 1: like that? Then that opens up the conversation to witness
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Speaker 1: to others about the gospel message that when you heard
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Speaker 1: it and when I heard it and we went to
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Speaker 1: Jesus changed our lives and we have a lifestyle and
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Speaker 1: purpose now that's worth living. Amen. Brand Well says, that's right.
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Speaker 1: We fight not against flesh and blood, but spirit and
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Speaker 1: principality and powers and rulers of darkness. Yes. So if
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Speaker 1: you think that Halloween and Man is just about fun
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Speaker 1: and gains, excuse me, pumpkins and family time a man
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Speaker 1: and it's all fun and games. Nah, that's about darkness.
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Speaker 1: And we don't team up with darkness. We team up
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Speaker 1: with lights. Amen. So my thing and will always be
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Speaker 1: until the Lord comes back. If you're a born again
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Speaker 1: believer and you're celebrating Halloween, pray yourself, write, pray yourself lights,
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Speaker 1: and pray yourself out of those traditional things that lead
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Speaker 1: people into dark places and disguising yourself as a family activity.
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Speaker 1: Trust me, I know, so Alsia. Good morning, God, bless you,
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God, bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Devo,
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Speaker 1: my sister and my friend. I hope you have a
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Speaker 1: blessed day. A man actors actions or as actor actions
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Speaker 1: man well said the fruit of the spirit. Yes, we
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Speaker 1: don't need to impress the world. We need to bear fruit.
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Speaker 1: And once the world sees the fruit bearing person of God,
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Speaker 1: the fruit bearing brother and sister in Christ, the fruit
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Speaker 1: bearing man or woman of God, they going to want
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Speaker 1: to find out where we get this fruit from. And
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Speaker 1: that's another conversation that leads people to the glorious gospel
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Speaker 1: message of God. Amen. So, whether we at home, whether
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Speaker 1: you're away on vacation, whether you're at work running your business,
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Speaker 1: taking the kids to school, whether you're a teacher a student, Amen,
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Speaker 1: wherever we are, we make it our aim to please
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Right to please the Lord. Why not? This
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Speaker 1: world don't care about anybody else, accept themselves. The world
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Speaker 1: is full of pride, selfishness. The world system is bent,
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Speaker 1: hell bent, and the world system is only concerned about itself.
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Speaker 1: So when you see someone that's in the world's system
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Speaker 1: and they're lost and they're broken, usually everything that you
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Speaker 1: hear them say is going to be about them. Amen.
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Speaker 1: When you bump into a believer who loves Jesus, nine
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Speaker 1: out of ten times it'll be like, I want to
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Speaker 1: help somebody else. And people who are seeking truth or
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Speaker 1: seeking God, they have traits of goodness because they're looking
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Speaker 1: for something outside of this world system. You get it.
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Speaker 1: So we have seekers, we have believers, you have unbelievers.
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Speaker 1: You have people in the light, people in the dark.
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Speaker 1: You have the kingdoms of this world and the kingdom
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Speaker 1: of God. Amen. There's always two options is yes, there's
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Speaker 1: no there's light, there's dark, there's right, there's wrong, there's evil,
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Speaker 1: there's good. Man. It keeps on going. God gives us options.
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Speaker 1: There's always a two way option. Amen. We know who
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Speaker 1: we are because God shows us who we are. We
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Speaker 1: know what we're capable, we know our potential because God
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Speaker 1: tells us our potential in life, and we just follow. Yes,
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Speaker 1: holidays are pagan. A pagan holiday and one of them
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Speaker 1: is Halloween, and Amen. And I could go down a
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Speaker 1: rabbit trail and say Christmas, Easter and all those other
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Speaker 1: holidays have pagan things involved in it. That's why it's
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Speaker 1: so important to know the scriptures, so important to follow Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Amen through these holidays. As long as you're following the Lord, Amen,
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Speaker 1: you will get out of some traditions that God didn't
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Speaker 1: put there, right, You would get out of some ritualistic,
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Speaker 1: ceremonial traditions that God is not pleased with. But when
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Speaker 1: you're following Jesus and your eyes on the Lord, Amen,
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Speaker 1: you could come through those holiday seasons knowing that you
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Speaker 1: have a good conscience right, and you could bear witness
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Speaker 1: of God's power and holiness. Man Well wrote, Therefore, whatever
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Speaker 1: we eat or drink, we do it unto the Lord, Amen,
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Speaker 1: not unto idols. Yes, thank you, brother. So when we're
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Speaker 1: born again, when believers, when we're active believers in the
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Speaker 1: Kingdom of God, and we're moving forward in the scriptural way, Amen,
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Speaker 1: not in a selfish way. We are turning from sin
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Speaker 1: to holiness. People are real judgmental, right, So I say
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Speaker 1: I'm a believer, I say I'm a Christian, and if
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Speaker 1: someone sees me sinning or doing something out of order,
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Speaker 1: they'd immediately judge that right and rightfully so. But the
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Speaker 1: pressure is not for me to hold on to that judgment.
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Speaker 1: The pressure is not for you to hold on to
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Speaker 1: that judgment or hold on to that sin. What we
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Speaker 1: do is we cast our burdens right, the sins and
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Speaker 1: all that we go through in life. We could take
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Speaker 1: it to the feet of Jesus Amen, and ask him
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Speaker 1: to help us through returning from sin to holding it. So,
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Speaker 1: salvation doesn't make you perfect overnight, right. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people won't preach that, teach that, or mention that to
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Speaker 1: a believer. Salvation doesn't make you perfect overnight, but it
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Speaker 1: begins a process called sanctification, being set apart for God.
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Speaker 1: And once you're setting yourself apart for God, you're going
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Speaker 1: to realize those old sinful ways are starting to lose
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Speaker 1: grip on us. Right man, I used to always do that,
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Speaker 1: and you'll find out months, years, weeks later that hey,
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Speaker 1: that thing doesn't really get to me as it used
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Speaker 1: to anymore. That's the sanctification. That's God setting us apart
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Speaker 1: from Christ. Amen. And I shouldn't even put this here,
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Speaker 1: that's a bot or something else. But anyway, let's see
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Speaker 1: the old habits and destructive patterns lose their grip. That's
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Speaker 1: what I was trying to get at. Lose their grip. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And once those old patterns lose their grip, God reshapes
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Speaker 1: our character and our lifestyle becomes different and our purpose
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Speaker 1: becomes clearer. Amount of time, though, Amen, go back and
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Speaker 1: read Ephesians chapter number two, verse number ten, and then
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Speaker 1: read the whole chapter for context. Amen. Amount of time,
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Speaker 1: But thank you so much for listening and watching. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And I know that God's gonna move and do some
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Speaker 1: incredible things in your life today when you activate what
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Speaker 1: you know according to His word, his power, his authority,
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Speaker 1: his love, his grace and his mercy. So God bless
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Speaker 1: you all, God keep you all, and remember always that
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Speaker 1: God is good. He's