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Book of Jeremiah — Episode 19 "Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice" Jeremiah 7:20–27 (NKJV) · His Hop Radio Podcast

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Speaker 3: verse by verse study through the Book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah
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Speaker 3: is a powerful book in the Old Testament. One of
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Speaker 3: the major prophets is they would say. Now in today's message,
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Speaker 3: God reminds Judah that he never desired empty religious rituals.
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Speaker 3: He disconnected from these empty rituals, or you can say
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Speaker 3: religious activities, and they came from a heart of disobedience.
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Speaker 3: God desires has always been a relationship with people built
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Speaker 3: on faith, trust and obedience. We can do all our
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Speaker 3: religious activity in our hearts could be far from him.
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Speaker 3: We could be chasing after sin. Now, as we go
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Speaker 3: through these episodes, while we go through these books, in
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Speaker 3: these chapters, we need to examine ourselves. What do we
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Speaker 3: love the most? What are we more passionate about? Do
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Speaker 3: we love to drink? Do we love our sin. Do
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Speaker 3: it the girls? Do we love this world system? And
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Speaker 3: then we just get up and go to church and
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Speaker 3: our life never changes. That's what God is talking about.
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Speaker 3: If we love God, we will have a different relationship
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Speaker 3: with sin. We would hate it, and we will seek
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Speaker 3: to do things that please Him so that He can
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Speaker 3: feel comfortable in our lives. Amen. He wants to dwell
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Speaker 3: with us. So today's message is obedience is better than sacrifice.
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Speaker 3: the narrow path. It's not easy. Sometimes a lot of
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Speaker 3: us just buy default right by our fleshly desires, whant
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Speaker 3: to get off this path, but you need someone that
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Speaker 3: can speak into your life and say no, that path
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Speaker 3: will lead to death, that path will lead to destruction.
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Speaker 3: lift up the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and
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Speaker 3: in your name we pray Amen. All right, We're gonna
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Speaker 3: cover verse twenty down to verse twenty seven today and
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Speaker 3: we are almost finished with chapter seven. Now, Jeremiah is
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Speaker 3: a long book. The Lord willing, we will cover the
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Speaker 3: entire book. If you want to look at our archives
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Speaker 3: covered a couple of books on this podcast. We started
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Speaker 3: pattern seems to be Old Testament, New Testament. Old Testament
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Speaker 3: All right, start in verse twenty, as we always do.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna read it and then break it down, go
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Speaker 3: over my notes, all the good stuff here. We're gonna
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Speaker 3: do it verse by verse, chapter by chapter. Study. I'm
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Speaker 3: coming at you through the New King James. There is
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Speaker 3: a version that I use if you want to follow along.
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Speaker 3: Verse twenty. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, behold my anger,
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Speaker 3: and my fury will be poured out on this place,
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Speaker 3: oh man, on man, and on beast, on the trees
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Speaker 3: of the field, in on the fruit of the ground,
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Speaker 3: and it will burn and not be quenched.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 3: This is whoo. This is powerful. This is a powerful verse.
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Speaker 5: It looks like you lost another one.
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Speaker 3: Amen. Now, even though God's fury and wrath was revealed
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Speaker 3: in the Old Testament, there's different stories that we read
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Speaker 3: through the Old Testament where you read about the fury
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Speaker 3: of God and his wrath. We saw it with the
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Speaker 3: flood of Noah, how God judged the entire world. We
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Speaker 3: also saw this in the city of Sodom Ingamora, where
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Speaker 3: a fire and brimstone was reigned upon the city. God
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Speaker 3: can just destroy a city in a second. That is
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Speaker 3: not hard for him to do. That's why we need
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Speaker 3: to always reverence God, have a holy fear and respect
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Speaker 3: and a reverence for a holy God. The Bible said,
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Speaker 3: it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
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Speaker 3: the living God, a terrifying thing. And man, a lot
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Speaker 3: of people only want to look in touch and teach
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Speaker 3: about the love of God. But what about the fury
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Speaker 3: of God? Now? Also in the New Testament we read
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Speaker 3: a verse it says that my fury will come up
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Speaker 3: on my face when the nations surround Israel, when the
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Speaker 3: nations go against Israel to judge that nation led by Russia,
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Speaker 3: and a lot of confederate Islamic nations will follow Russia.
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Speaker 3: This is gonna happen in the future, and Beloved, it
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Speaker 3: could be closer than we really think. A lot of
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Speaker 3: Bible commentators consider this to be World War three. But
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Speaker 3: the scary part about it is where is the United
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Speaker 3: States of America. The United States has always been an
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Speaker 3: ally to Israel, and we've always been a deterrent to
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Speaker 3: the other nations of the world. They will not invade
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Speaker 3: Israel because Israel had us to back them up. Now
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Speaker 3: it's not like they need us, don't get me wrong.
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Speaker 3: They have Almighty God. And that's what this verse is
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Speaker 3: talking about. It's in Isaiah chapter fifty eight, I believe.
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Speaker 3: If that's not it, look it up. But it's the
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Speaker 3: invasion of the Northern King into Israel. And in that
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Speaker 3: prophecy it says his fury will rise up on his face.
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Speaker 3: So we don't want to test this side of God
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Speaker 3: and man. We don't want to live a life of
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Speaker 3: sin and provoke him to wrath a man or go
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Speaker 3: against his word, because God is a warrior king. And
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Speaker 3: so we see his fury right here in the Old
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Speaker 3: Testament against the nation of Judah. Now God continues to
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Speaker 3: warn them about it, and that's an awesome thing about God.
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Speaker 3: He'll give us warning after warning. Now the judgment came
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Speaker 3: upon Judah, it would affect every aspect of life because
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Speaker 3: sin has infected every part of society. His judgment was
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Speaker 3: so thorough. Now persistent rebellion eventually produces consequences that affect
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Speaker 3: entire communities, not just individuals. We have family now. Sin
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Speaker 3: is never isolated right. Our families can be affected by it.
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Speaker 3: Our choices impact our churches in our communities, and our
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Speaker 3: choices can even impact future generations. That's why God takes
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Speaker 3: it so seriously. When he judges. He judged. He judged
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Speaker 3: the grass, the beasts, the animals, everything. Sin can destroy
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Speaker 3: and affect every area of a community. People really don't
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Speaker 3: understand it. People don't understand what they're really dealing with
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Speaker 3: when they give their lives over to evil. Verse twenty
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Speaker 3: one and twenty three says the Lord of Hosts, the
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Speaker 3: God of Israel, add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices
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Speaker 3: and eat meat. For I did not speak to your
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Speaker 3: fathers or command them in the day that I brought
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Speaker 3: them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings
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Speaker 3: or sacrifices. But this is what I commanded them, saying,
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Speaker 3: obey my voice, and I will be your God, and
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Speaker 3: you shall be my people and walk in all the
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Speaker 3: ways that I have commanded you, that it may be
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Speaker 3: well with you. Hallelujah. Now God is not saying sacrifices
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Speaker 3: were never commanded. Here his emphasis. He's emphasizing priorities right now.
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Speaker 3: And that's a great thing for us. Us to do
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Speaker 3: is to always examine the priorities of our lives. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Before sacrifices came relationship, before rituals came obedience, before ceremonies
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Speaker 3: came covenant. God's primary desire has always been obedience from
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Speaker 3: a loving heart rather than a mechanical religious activity. Let
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Speaker 3: me say that again. God's primary desire has always been
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Speaker 3: obedience from a loving heart rather than mechanical religious activities. Now,
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Speaker 3: God doesn't need our religious performances. He wants our hearts. Amen,
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Speaker 3: let that fall into your spirit. The first thing God
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Speaker 3: asked of Israel was obedience. The first thing he asked
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Speaker 3: of us today is obedience. That's the first thing his
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Speaker 3: first requirement. He's not asking for perfection, He is asking
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Speaker 3: us for obedience. We need to add this to our list.
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Speaker 3: We need to ask for an obedient spirit and an
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Speaker 3: obedient heart. That God will take this rebellious heart out
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Speaker 3: of us and replace it with an obedient heart. And man,
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Speaker 3: we can't do this without him. Verse twenty four. Get
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Speaker 3: they did not obey or incline their ear, but follow
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Speaker 3: the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts and
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Speaker 3: went backward and not forward. Now, the dictate of an
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Speaker 3: evil heart, that is the definition of evil. We think
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Speaker 3: God understands. We think because it's us in our own heart.
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Speaker 3: We have a habit of excusing our own sin. But
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Speaker 3: when we see our sin on other people, we want
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Speaker 3: to condemn them. Right. That's why in the family, when
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Speaker 3: a child takes on the sin of the parent, the
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Speaker 3: child and that parent don't get along. Have you heard
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Speaker 3: them say, Oh, this child is way too much like me,
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Speaker 3: and I struggle with this child. That's because that child
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Speaker 3: may have picked up on the parent's sin. Amen. Now
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Speaker 3: people refuse to listen. Instead of moving forward to forward spirituality,
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Speaker 3: they moved backwards. They followed their own hearts rather than
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Speaker 3: God's word. Belove it. That is a mistake. That's why
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Speaker 3: we need to renew our minds. That's why we need
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Speaker 3: to be on our word daily and not follow the
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Speaker 3: dictates of our evil hearts. But make sure we are
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Speaker 3: following the word of God. When we want to be
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Speaker 3: angry or bitter or upset. The Bible says, be angry,
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Speaker 3: but sin not. Make sure we forgive, make sure we
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Speaker 3: get that out of our hearts and our out of
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Speaker 3: our minds. Amen. My prayer lately is Lord, your way
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Speaker 3: is better than my way. Your will not mine. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Now we have to guard against popular idea sympathy following
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Speaker 3: our hearts. The Bible tea teach you that our hearts
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Speaker 3: need God's guidance because they can be deceptive. Let me
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Speaker 3: say that again. Our hearts are We need God to
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Speaker 3: guide our hearts because our hearts is very deceptive. The
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Speaker 3: Bible says our hearts are desperately evil. Who can know them?
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Speaker 3: But family culture today will tell us to follow your heart.
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Speaker 3: God says, follow me. There is a huge difference. Our
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Speaker 3: hearts change, but God's truth will never change. That is
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Speaker 3: the worst thing we can do is follow our hearts.
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Speaker 3: And what are we told even growing up right watching
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Speaker 3: Disney movies? Is you know I remember growing up? You know,
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Speaker 3: follow your heart like it's a noble thing. And our
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Speaker 3: hearts will lead us astray if we are not care
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Speaker 3: for blooding. Amen. That is a lie that's being told
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Speaker 3: even to our children. Follow your heart and people will
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Speaker 3: make it. They'll give you a badge. They make you
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Speaker 3: think it's freedom or you're doing something noble when you're
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Speaker 3: following your own evil desires. Twenty since since the day
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Speaker 3: that your father's came out of the land of Egypt,
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Speaker 3: until this day, I have even sent to you all
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Speaker 3: my servants to prophets daily, rising up early in sending them.
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Speaker 3: Yet they did not obey me or incline their but
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Speaker 3: stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers. Now
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Speaker 3: God reminds them of his incredible patience for generations. He
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Speaker 3: sent profit after profit, warning after warning, invitation after invitation,
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Speaker 3: Yet the people continually refused. God's repeated warnings demonstrate his mercy.
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Speaker 3: Let me repeat that, God's repeated warnings demonstrates his mercy.
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Speaker 3: Every prophet was another opportunity to repent. The entire nation
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Speaker 3: could have avoided this destruction. Right. But this passage right
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Speaker 3: here feels the heart of God. God doesn't enjoy judgment.
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Speaker 3: He desires restoration. Amen. He kept reaching out because he
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Speaker 3: wanted his people back. He didn't want his people to
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Speaker 3: be destroyed. He didn't want to destroy the city. He
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Speaker 3: did not want to destroy Jerusalem.
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Speaker 2: It looks like you lost another one.
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Speaker 3: Therefore, you will speak all these words to them, but
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Speaker 3: they will not obey you. You shall also call to them,
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Speaker 3: but they will not answer you. Now, this is why
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Speaker 3: they called Jeremiah the weeping prophet. He did not have
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Speaker 3: that one convert He did not win that one disciple,
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Speaker 3: not one person heeded his warnings, not one person to
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Speaker 3: ported his ministry. He had to stand alone against the
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Speaker 3: nation and against an army of false prophets. But I
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Speaker 3: got great respect for Jeremiah because he stayed the course. Amen.
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Speaker 3: God strengthened him in this if you read it, Jeremiah
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Speaker 3: went through a lot. He've been to prison. Kind of
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Speaker 3: reminds me similar to the apostle Paul what he went through. Sometimes, Beloved,
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Speaker 3: we have to pay a huge price to serve our
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Speaker 3: Master and our king, but it is worth it. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Now God tells Jerusalem something difficult. The people are not
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Speaker 3: going to listen. Yet Jeremiah must still preach. Success is
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Speaker 3: not measured by people response. Remember that there was a
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Speaker 3: lot of times at the club that we did concerts
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Speaker 3: and the chairs were empty. I mean, artists would pay
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Speaker 3: their own flight ticket, Artists put up their own money
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Speaker 3: to invest in our community to come to minister and
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Speaker 3: love on our community. We had artists from all over
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Speaker 3: the world that book. Flights came to Las Vegas to
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Speaker 3: come and minister small and great and nothing but red chairs.
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Speaker 3: Our chairs were red at the time. And I would
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Speaker 3: look and I would struggle with this. But this first
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Speaker 3: verse right here actually encourages me. It's not about the
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Speaker 3: results the response to people. People still knew that a
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Speaker 3: gospel hip hop concert took place. We were still making
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Speaker 3: impact in the spiritual realm, whether people believed it or not.
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Speaker 3: So success in the Kingdom does not depend on people's response.
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Speaker 3: Success is measured by our faithfulness. We did not stop.
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Speaker 3: We would have kept going even till this day if
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Speaker 3: it wasn't for a financial difficulty. We didn't care about
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Speaker 3: the crowds. We had a model saying from eight to
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Speaker 3: eighty we don't care if eight people came or eight
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Speaker 3: million people, eighty million people came. We were still gonna
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Speaker 3: be faithful. Amen. Our responsibility is faithfulness to God's calling,
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Speaker 3: not controlling the outcome of it. We cannot control how
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Speaker 3: people respond to our ministry. Now, this is encouraging for
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Speaker 3: everyone who shares their faith with parents, pastors, teachers, mentors, witnesses.
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Speaker 3: Your job is to share the truth. Only God can
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Speaker 3: change your heart. All we have to do is keep faithful.
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Speaker 3: So hopefully this episode encourages parents, godly parents and pastors
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Speaker 3: and teachers and mentors, witnesses, And this actually encouraging myself
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Speaker 3: because I would love to see multitudes of people in
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Speaker 3: the life chat. I would love to see a lot
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Speaker 3: of people in our community pouring division. I would love
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Speaker 3: to see pastors and churches get behind us. I would
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Speaker 3: love to see people recognizing the value of a Christian
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Speaker 3: club in the community and how impactful it could be
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Speaker 3: and how it could truly bless a church and bless
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Speaker 3: a nation. But I have to really, I have to
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Speaker 3: leave the results to my heavenly Father, and my job
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Speaker 3: is to be faithful to where he called me. Amen.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's take a break.
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Speaker 5: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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Speaker 5: is the His Hop radio show, Chad.
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Speaker 4: Of the Most.
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Speaker 2: I know my worth so that he because they did
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Speaker 2: here on words, so that hate won't work. More won't work,
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Speaker 2: won't work, more won't work, and I hate won't work.
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Speaker 2: More won't work, won't won't work, won't work.
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Speaker 4: And I hate won't work.
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Speaker 2: All the lives and the dirt they be throwing on
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Speaker 2: my name can be mad. They the issue would the same,
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Speaker 2: all that dirt, but I left it out a stad
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Speaker 2: glory to the most. How I let the be bang
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Speaker 2: y'all is the only one I feel. They've been trying
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Speaker 2: to cancel me still here, they've been trying to black ball.
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Speaker 2: I'm still here. Give it all there, y'all. Watch the
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Speaker 2: words disappinted. Tell them to be paying.
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Speaker 4: For the kingdom very near.
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Speaker 2: If I fall in sin my hate, it's probably chill.
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Speaker 2: This is a lot, but go in and out of
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Speaker 2: the years. But I'm going straight into the light like
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Speaker 2: a dead Give it like the Christ there and watch
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Speaker 2: how we change. Have my own plans, but the Father
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Speaker 2: rearranged it. All My haters linked up me more than
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Speaker 2: who they came with, taking b to three fourteen, being
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Speaker 2: found playing this child at the most, I know my worth.
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Speaker 4: So that hate won't work. Ain't be surprised because they did.
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Speaker 2: Here on worse, so that hey won't work on won't work,
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Speaker 2: won't work, won't work, And I hate won't work, won't
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Speaker 2: won't work, won't won't work, won't work.
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Speaker 4: At that hate won't work, people switch sides.
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Speaker 2: It's okay, I understand, I don't really won't fake friends.
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Speaker 2: You mad because you're a different person on the ground,
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Speaker 2: and I'm really who I say I am.
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Speaker 4: Hate to run on.
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Speaker 2: Your parade and rulling all your plans, I really godshall
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Speaker 2: so you never had a chance, all the lots of
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Speaker 2: slander to convince all your fans. I don't at least
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Speaker 2: I don't have no blood on my hands. I know
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Speaker 2: I win because I'm want a winning team. It's a
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Speaker 2: bishop to a rook. What's a road to the king.
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Speaker 2: The traditions over all his commands is a thing. What
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Speaker 2: these shoe was saying matter fifteen. Yeah, okay, get it.
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Speaker 4: In my lis make you mad because the wickedness you
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Speaker 4: live it in. Don't take it personal. It's my child.
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Speaker 2: Keep it business then, and if you were finish, used
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Speaker 2: to switch it in chide. At the most, I know
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Speaker 2: my worth, so that hey won't hate be surprised because
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Speaker 3: trivia time, here is a question who was the prophet
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Speaker 3: we're talking about different profits in the Old Testament. Since
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Speaker 3: As we know, David committed adult you with Bathsheba and
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Speaker 3: This will keep sin out of your life. Amen, hallelujah. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: If you know my story, to take a little time,
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Speaker 3: so hold on. It'll be worth it if you know
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Speaker 3: my story. My testimony, my background has been I came
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Speaker 3: from an abusive home. My mom was verbally, emotionally and
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Speaker 3: physically abusive to me and my siblings. Not to blame her,
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Speaker 3: we believe that she had some type of mental illness,
41:24
Speaker 3: but growing up it was crazy. You know, it's hard
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Speaker 3: for children to understand that, especially at a young and
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Speaker 3: a tender age. But the point is, and I for forgiven.
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Speaker 3: I have closure. I had forgiven my mother. We just
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Speaker 3: went back to go see her a couple of months ago,
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago actually, and God has given
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Speaker 3: me closure on that. I struggled for years from the abuse.
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Speaker 3: But God is a healer. But part of my testimony
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Speaker 3: is I would draw to escape the abuse. I would
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Speaker 3: draw and I could create my own world. I would
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Speaker 3: read books and one of my favorite characters was Garfield.
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Speaker 3: I used to order his books from school, and I
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Speaker 3: would just read them over and over again. And I
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Speaker 3: remember as I would look at the character, I would
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Speaker 3: look at the background. I would look at his bedroom
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Speaker 3: or things like that, and just imagine, you know, walking
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Speaker 3: down the hallway to the next room, or walking through
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Speaker 3: the house, or there would be a scene where they
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Speaker 3: would show the outside of the house, and I would
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Speaker 3: imagine myself walking through the neighborhood and walking down the
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Speaker 3: street and just jumping into that world. And so I
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Speaker 3: would do it to escape the abuse that I would
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Speaker 3: experience at the time. And so also what I would
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Speaker 3: do is I would draw my own characters. Have three
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Speaker 3: childhood characters that I used to do. They were called Reggie, Freddie,
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Speaker 3: and Fussles. They were like little my wife calls them
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Speaker 3: little monsters, but they were not. I never really considered monsters.
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Speaker 3: But they were like little puffballs with eyes on them
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Speaker 3: and feet. And it came from one of our classes.
43:31
Speaker 3: I think I was back in kindergartner first grade, and
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Speaker 3: me and two other of my friends we got them
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Speaker 3: and we just made like a whole story out of them.
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Speaker 3: We would play with them, and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: I created books a couple of books, and I made
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Speaker 3: stories out of them, and these were like my pride
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Speaker 3: and joy. I used to I love these books. I
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Speaker 3: would just read them, and you know, when things would
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Speaker 3: get hard and abuse of a whatever and difficult at
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Speaker 3: in the you know, reality, I would escape to these
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Speaker 3: books that I wrote as a child, and I would
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Speaker 3: share this with my wife. Man, it's like I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to hold back tears right now. I shared this I
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Speaker 3: aspect with my wife that my grandmother threw them away
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Speaker 3: one day and I found them in the trash. I
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Speaker 3: saved them. I saved my books in the trash and
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Speaker 3: I held one to them. And so when I turned
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Speaker 3: twelve years old, I, you know, it just got too crazy.
44:40
Speaker 3: I was bigger and older, bigger, you know, I could
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Speaker 3: fight back a little bit, and I ran away from
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Speaker 3: my mom. She tried to beat me one day, but
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Speaker 3: I left you and my stepdad at the time had
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Speaker 3: separated from my mom, so I went to go move
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Speaker 3: in with him. And then I had a desire to
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Speaker 3: move with my biological father, so I contacted him and
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Speaker 3: we moved to Vegas, and I've been in Vegas the
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Speaker 3: whole rest of the time with my biological dad, and
45:18
Speaker 3: so my books made it all the way to Vegas, right,
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Speaker 3: But then I had a crazy experience with my step mom.
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Speaker 3: My stepmom was abusive as well. I mean, she wasn't
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Speaker 3: like hitting on us, but she, you know, my step
45:34
Speaker 3: family at the time where in opposition towards us. You know,
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Speaker 3: my stepmom didn't like the fact that where you know,
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Speaker 3: my dad took us in. I guess it was just
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Speaker 3: them this whole time, and you know, she would call
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Speaker 3: our mom crazy and this and that and the other.
45:52
Speaker 3: She just didn't like it. And so she ended up
45:55
Speaker 3: finding these books and she threw them away. Now the
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Speaker 3: books didn't survive that go around. I was not able
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Speaker 3: to rescue them. I was not able to save my
46:08
Speaker 3: books because you know, go figure. You know now in
46:13
Speaker 3: my teenage years and things are still crazy, and so
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Speaker 3: I still needed those books to escape that world. But
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Speaker 3: I have friends. I had a friend in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 3: We used to go and draw together. So it wasn't
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Speaker 3: like I stopped drawing. It was just those childhood characters
46:33
Speaker 3: just didn't survive for trip to Vegas, and so I
46:37
Speaker 3: shared it with my wife and I even drew the
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Speaker 3: characters for her. But this amazing woman did because she's
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Speaker 3: an author. God has told her and prophesied to her
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Speaker 3: that she would write books. She has a lot of
46:53
Speaker 3: books to produce, but she has not completed a book yet.
46:58
Speaker 3: And I'm like, just complete a book. She writes and writes,
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Speaker 3: and she takes notes and then she puts books here,
47:05
Speaker 3: you know, notes here. It's like sometimes I walk in
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Speaker 3: the room. We got piled up paper and paper all
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Speaker 3: over the place, like I don't even know how she
47:12
Speaker 3: organizes it. But these are her books. And she's got
47:16
Speaker 3: a lot that she's working on, but she hasn't published
47:18
Speaker 3: one yet. Guess what, y'all, She went and published on
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Speaker 3: my childhood characters and presented this book to me. We
47:28
Speaker 3: went to the park yesterday. I had no idea. She
47:32
Speaker 3: took a video of my first reaction, but she brought
47:37
Speaker 3: my childhood characters back to life. The book is called
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Speaker 3: let Me Get It on Amazon, The Lost Dreamers, And
47:48
Speaker 3: so she's got Reggie, Freddie and Fussels my characters in
47:52
Speaker 3: the book. It looks slightly different from how I say
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Speaker 3: jaw them, but it's all good. And you know what,
48:01
Speaker 3: you can actually purchase the book on Amazon. She published
48:04
Speaker 3: these books. They're Enkindle and they're on Amazon called The
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Speaker 3: Lost Dreamers by and Inspired Wife as the author. That's
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Speaker 3: how she listed herself on this because she wants to
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Speaker 3: encourage me to write more books. So beloved, my childhood
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Speaker 3: characters are coming back. They have been resurrected. My step
48:31
Speaker 3: mom destroyed them, but my wife brought them back. And
48:39
Speaker 3: I am speechless. I don't know what to say, and
48:45
Speaker 3: so I want to encourage. I'm gonna promote. I'm gonna
48:47
Speaker 3: put these books on our app in the buy and
48:50
Speaker 3: sell section, but right now you can look it up
48:53
Speaker 3: on Amazon, The Lost Dreamers by an Inspired Wife. I'm
48:58
Speaker 3: going to share the on social media and all my groups,
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Speaker 3: but you are the first ones to get the exclusive
49:07
Speaker 3: information and you know the story behind it. And my
49:10
Speaker 3: family don't even know. I'm gonna contact my sisters and
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Speaker 3: my brothers, my cousins because they all knew. Once they
49:17
Speaker 3: see this, they're gonna know what this is about. But
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Speaker 3: these are my characters from my childhood. So bab, I'm speechless.
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Speaker 3: You not put too much trust in your own heart, beloved,
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Speaker 3: regardless of public opinion, even though they rejected Jeremiah and
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Speaker 3: to it. The city, and I said I was gonna
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Speaker 3: reference this earlier in the podcast, the city was burnt completely.
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Speaker 3: They burnt the grass, the animals, the buildings, the trees.
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Speaker 3: Why would God severely judge the nation like that? Why
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Speaker 3: would everything be burned? As we said earlier, sin affects
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Speaker 3: every area. But the point I wanted to make is
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Speaker 3: there's some videos out there that of archaeologists who were
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Speaker 3: this city was burnt, there should be evidence. They layers
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Speaker 3: be trifled with. Beloved, his word will come to pass.
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Speaker 3: Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for your patience, and
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Speaker 3: we thank you for your mercy. Help us listen when
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Speaker 3: you speak. Lord, teach us to obey your voice and
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Speaker 3: trust your words above our own feelings, above the dictates
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Speaker 3: of our own hearts. Lord, give us hearts that desire
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Speaker 3: relationship over religion. Oh God, help us remain faithful to
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Speaker 3: your calling. Help us Lord to and graft the word
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Speaker 3: for the ing. Grafted word is able to save our souls.
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Speaker 3: Oh God, give us the mind of Christ as we
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Speaker 3: seek you and pursue you each and every day. Guy
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Speaker 3: says in Jesus' name, Amen, Remember it's not about us,
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Speaker 3: It's all about the Christ and us. God bless.
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