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Reasons to Live [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Wanning family. Good morning, God, bless you. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the morning devil. Amen, it's good to see you. A man.
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  Speaker 1: I took a day off to just to put time down.
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  Speaker 1: We celebrated twenty six years of being married to my wife. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't do anything, but we took it down. At
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  Speaker 1: least I took it down. My wife wasn't feeling well. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: To keep my wife in prayer as she recovers from
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  Speaker 1: pain in her body that we're going to annihilate in
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  Speaker 1: the power by the power of the name of Jesus, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: so she can move forward painless, pain free. Amen. To
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  Speaker 1: do the assignment that God calls her to do in
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  Speaker 1: this world, to make changes and differences in people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're called for. We're so winners for life,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's in the secular world or in Christendom. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we are determined to make differences in people's lives. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: by the power Holy Spirit. So thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for your patience, Thank you for your kindness. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for asking when I wasn't on if I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: go on. Amen. That means you're listening, and that means
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  Speaker 1: God is working in your heart and in your mind
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  Speaker 1: and you're engaged in what God has for your life,
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  Speaker 1: because I really just come here and I read the Word,
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  Speaker 1: and we devote some time in the Word to the
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  Speaker 1: Word for the Word, because we know the Word is
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  Speaker 1: true and the Word of God. I'm talking about the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: So reasons to live. Had a conversation with a young man,
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  Speaker 1: one of my spiritual sons. Actually Amen, he's going through
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  Speaker 1: some things and something was brought up. Don't want to
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  Speaker 1: mention it out of respect for the young man, but
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  Speaker 1: something was brought up. And having thinking, I have to
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  Speaker 1: be ready to give people reasons to live. There's reasons
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  Speaker 1: for us to be alive. There's reasons to live, especially
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  Speaker 1: as a born again believer. Enemy is such a liar,
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  Speaker 1: the devil is such a liar that he'll try to
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  Speaker 1: convince us that there's no reason for us to be here,
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  Speaker 1: that there's no purpose, there's no plan, and there's no
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  Speaker 1: reason for us to live. And that's a lie from
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  Speaker 1: the pit of hell, and the smells like smoke. So
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna reveal and expose that lie with the truth
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  Speaker 1: of God. Living as a Christian provides a deeper purpose
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  Speaker 1: of foundation for moral living and the promise of eternal
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  Speaker 1: life with God. We have eternal life on both ends.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, that's
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  Speaker 1: your personal Lord and Savior, you get to live for
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  Speaker 1: eternity separated from him. But if you have your trust,
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  Speaker 1: your hope and faith, put in the right Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: Jesus of the Bible. Amen, the Christ of the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the Christ, which is the God of the Christians. Amen. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: You have eternal life with God because the Lord is God.
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  Speaker 1: John three sixteen and Romans ten nine, very popular screls.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a believer, you probably heard those scriptures before.
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  Speaker 1: You probably read those scriptures before a man. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to devote some time to those scriptures today on
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  Speaker 1: the morning devo. So if you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it on the live chat.
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  Speaker 1: That is exactly what we're here for. We're here to connect,
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  Speaker 1: We're here to inspire, encourage. We're here to pray for
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  Speaker 1: one another. We're here to love one another. We're here
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  Speaker 1: to get into the Word of God. Devote some time
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  Speaker 1: first time of the day, at least for me and
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  Speaker 1: some other people that are on the East coast clock.
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  Speaker 1: This is early in the morning, and we are determined
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  Speaker 1: just to start it off with the Lord's word. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So let's pray first. After we pray, we'll shared us
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  Speaker 1: out for like sixty seconds, and then on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the sixty we'll get right into today's morning Devo.
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  Speaker 1: Reasons to live. You have a reason to be here, man,
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  Speaker 1: You have a purpose, a plan that got a perfect plan.
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  Speaker 1: Not just a plan, not just like, oh, let me
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  Speaker 1: put something together plan. No, it's a perfect plan for
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  Speaker 1: your life, for my life. Trust God and that Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So Father, I thank you, Lo God, that we have
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  Speaker 1: tremendous amount of reasons to live. But most importantly, you
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  Speaker 1: have designed us uniquely perfect for a time such as this,
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  Speaker 1: to live a life on purpose for purpose, because you
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  Speaker 1: have a perfect plan for all of us. I pray, Love, God,
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  Speaker 1: that you reveal our purpose to those people that don't
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  Speaker 1: know their purpose, that you reveal that purpose to them
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  Speaker 1: as well. A purpose that you have for us, Lo
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  Speaker 1: God is tremendous. And if you would have had told
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  Speaker 1: us what we had to go through for that purpose
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  Speaker 1: to be accomplished, we probably would not raise our hands
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  Speaker 1: to be saved. But regardless of any storm, any problem,
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  Speaker 1: any trial, any relationship, any financial issue, any illness, any sickness,
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  Speaker 1: any disease, anything along those lines. Lo God, your plan
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  Speaker 1: still stands and your plan is perfect. Help us to
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  Speaker 1: be purpose and intentional about moving according to your will
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  Speaker 1: this world that's full of all kinds of darkness and
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  Speaker 1: trouble and death and disease and all kind of political issues,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, Lo God, help us to
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  Speaker 1: stay on the righteous path. Help us to be on
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  Speaker 1: a narrow path. Help us to move forward in victory
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  Speaker 1: because we know we have you, And you said, Lo God,
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  Speaker 1: that we are more than conquerors because of you, because
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  Speaker 1: of your spirit, because of your plan, because of your love,
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  Speaker 1: your grace, your mercy. We believe it. I believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I trust in your word. I pray a hedge of
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  Speaker 1: protection over every single person that's connected to my family,
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  Speaker 1: my wife, our children, our grandchildren, my spiritual children. Guide
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  Speaker 1: guard and protect them. Every single person on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of this line, on the other side of his
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  Speaker 1: mic and on the other side of the screen, Guard
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  Speaker 1: God to protect them. Lord, by way of your holy angels,
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  Speaker 1: the host of Heaven. To move in position unto battle
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  Speaker 1: the enemy against us, that tries to attack us, that
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  Speaker 1: tries to move his way against our purpose. Come against
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  Speaker 1: that right now, the powerful name of Jesus. Health to
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  Speaker 1: the body, strength to the bones. I stretch out my
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  Speaker 1: hand according to your word, Love, God, so that people
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  Speaker 1: will be touched by your power, by your love, by
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  Speaker 1: your grace, by your mercy, because of our Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: that we have one spirit, one faith, one God, one truth,
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  Speaker 1: one church, one salvation. Thank you, Lord for your power
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  Speaker 1: and your purpose and your plan and your love and
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  Speaker 1: your salvation methods. However you do it, Lo God, I
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  Speaker 1: ask that you would do it today. And Jesus Holy Name,
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  Speaker 1: our prayer is by faith. And those who agree with
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  Speaker 1: this prayer we say amen to the amen. As we
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  Speaker 1: know God here is our prayers and responds. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back sixty seconds. Help me share this out. When
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  Speaker 1: we come back, we'll get into our first scripture, which
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  Speaker 1: is John chapter three, verse number sixteen. I'll be right back,
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  Speaker 1: and we're back. Let's go for it. Let's get righted
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  Speaker 1: to this word. I know I started a couple of
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  Speaker 1: minutes late, so let's get into it. I got two
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  Speaker 1: scriptures for today for us to meditate devote our time
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  Speaker 1: in memorize, apply, and really receive and embrace what God
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  Speaker 1: is saying to us today and every day. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, every day is the day of salvation,
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  Speaker 1: according to the scriptures, according to how God sees us
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  Speaker 1: a man, Today is the day of salvation. We're saved.
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  Speaker 1: What are we saved from? Sam You always talk about salvation,
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  Speaker 1: you Christians, always talking about what do we say from
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  Speaker 1: your saved from the wrath of God the due penalty
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  Speaker 1: that is due to us. Had Jesus not paid the debt,
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  Speaker 1: had we not asked God to for give us by
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  Speaker 1: way of Jesus, we would be still under the penalty
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  Speaker 1: of the law, the penalty of death, because we sinned
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  Speaker 1: against a holy, righteous, loving God, and that penalty is
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  Speaker 1: the wrath of God and then eternal separation from Him.
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  Speaker 1: But thank you Jesus for your grace that you found
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  Speaker 1: it in your heart to offer us, through the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: offer us eternal life. So we have reasons to live.
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  Speaker 1: We have reasons to live. So here we go reasons
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  Speaker 1: to live on the morning Devo. First Scripture, John chapter three,
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  Speaker 1: verse number sixteen. You've probably heard this. You probably saw
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  Speaker 1: this at sports events, saw the t shirts. You've heard
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  Speaker 1: this quoted time in and time out. This is the
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  Speaker 1: gospel in the nutshell. Amen. But it's so important for
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  Speaker 1: us to get this man, so important for us to
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  Speaker 1: get this deep in our hearts and realize what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here, Brother one, I see you, good morning, my
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  Speaker 1: bro God bless you see you on the morning. Devo.
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  Speaker 1: John three, verse sixteen. This is the amplified version. So
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get a little bit more sauce sprinkled in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures right for God so greatly loved and dearly
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  Speaker 1: prize the world that he even gave his one and
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  Speaker 1: only begotten son. It's the Lord Jesus, so that whoever
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  Speaker 1: the doors are wide open right now, whoever believes and
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  Speaker 1: trust in him. The difference between just believing and not
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  Speaker 1: having trust. You can't trust someone that you don't believe in.
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  Speaker 1: Believes and trust in him as what savior shall not
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  Speaker 1: perish but have eternal life spiritually. Amen. We all know
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  Speaker 1: that our body, the flesh and bones, I call it
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  Speaker 1: a bag of blood and bones, is going to perish.
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  Speaker 1: We have an expiration date, but our soul and our
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  Speaker 1: spirit lives on for all eternity. Destiny is very important
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  Speaker 1: where we go after we die. If you believe in
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  Speaker 1: treach your whole faith and trust. The Bible says here
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  Speaker 1: that if you believe and trust in Jesus, although your
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  Speaker 1: body is going to have an expiration date physically supernaturally,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to live forever. You will not perish, you
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  Speaker 1: will not be sent away, You will be with the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we have this scripture, we have the truth, we
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  Speaker 1: have the love, We have the way tooe the Father
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  Speaker 1: through the Lord Jesus, and he sent himself in the
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  Speaker 1: form of a man. Our Father sent the only begotten son,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, on a rescue mission.
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  Speaker 1: And ladies and gentlemen, let me ask you. Did he
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  Speaker 1: not complete his mission? Think about it? Did he not
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  Speaker 1: finish what he started? Because God finishes what he starts,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Amen. Good morning, Sister Joys. I see you.
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  Speaker 1: Sister joy sends blessings to the group. So that's both
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  Speaker 1: the people on sou winners with a z dot org
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  Speaker 1: the Celebrator Network live that so win is with a
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  Speaker 1: z dot org. Since the joy sends the blessing and
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  Speaker 1: we receive that blessing, bless you as well. My sister
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  Speaker 1: and my friend. Amen. Amen. Amen. Also, brother Wan sends
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  Speaker 1: blessings to everyone who's tuning in right now as well.
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  Speaker 1: So we got some amen's here because we agree. We
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  Speaker 1: are so on fire for the Lord right now. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Is because we know the truth, when we know the way,
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  Speaker 1: and we're on this path together. Amen. Romans, Chapter ten,
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  Speaker 1: verse nine. I present the scripture often when people tell
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  Speaker 1: me they don't know, they don't know how to get
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  Speaker 1: to God, they're lost. I present the scripture a lot
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  Speaker 1: and often why because if you acknowledge and confess with
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  Speaker 1: your mouth that Jesus is Lord, recognizing his power, authority
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  Speaker 1: and majesty as God, you see that and believe in
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  Speaker 1: your heart. So not only say it, but believe it
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  Speaker 1: in your heart that God raised him from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: You will be saved. It's not ah, maybe you'll be saved.
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  Speaker 1: There's a possibility, there's a chance that you will save. No,
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  Speaker 1: you will be saved because because you acknowledge and confess
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  Speaker 1: with your mouth. That's why our mouth piece is so
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  Speaker 1: very important and powerful. We have an opportunity to connect
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  Speaker 1: to the majestic power and love and grace and mercy
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  Speaker 1: of our Lord, our Savior. Our God through our mouths,
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  Speaker 1: confessing Jesus as Lord, because we're going to recognize his power,
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  Speaker 1: recognize his authority, recognize his majesty as God, his deity.
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  Speaker 1: And when we believe in our heart that God the Father,
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  Speaker 1: raised God the Son from the dead, you will be saved.
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  Speaker 1: There's reasons to live, ladies and gentlemen, and we have them.
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  Speaker 1: This is just this is just skimming the surface. Man.
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  Speaker 1: So many reasons in the scriptures why we should be alive,
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  Speaker 1: why we should live, why we should declare life not
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  Speaker 1: death while we speak life and we don't speak death.
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  Speaker 1: Number one is salvation and eternal life. Jesus Christ offers
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  Speaker 1: salvation and eternal life to those who believe in him.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know the messages for everybody. Many are called,
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  Speaker 1: but few are chosen. And the few that are chosen,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's not because God is ex people out.
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  Speaker 1: Because God knows the hearts of men, and he knows
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  Speaker 1: if you don't want him now in this temporary time,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna want them for eternity. Nobody's going to
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  Speaker 1: find themselves in heaven. Be like, how did I get here?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to be here. Some people are gonna
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  Speaker 1: find themselves in hell talking about how do I get here?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think I was going to be here because
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  Speaker 1: they did science, miracles and wonders in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But they were using the power of the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to get what they thought was from God was
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  Speaker 1: actually His power working through them for their self purposes.
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  Speaker 1: But when you have the power of God working through
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  Speaker 1: you and through me for his purposes, it's a total
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  Speaker 1: difference right there. We're not going to be like, Lord, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you know I did this, that, and the third, and
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  Speaker 1: God's gonna be like, well, I'm looking at the Lambs
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  Speaker 1: book Life. I'm looking at this book and you're not
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  Speaker 1: even in this the part for me, I never knew you,
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  Speaker 1: you work of iniquity, you sinner. That's not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the case for a believer. That's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: the case for Christian born again believer. Amen. We are
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  Speaker 1: one with God. We have perfect communion with God by
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  Speaker 1: way of his Holy Spirit, and He's not going to
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  Speaker 1: take his Holy Spirit out of his children. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: I know you see things that are kind of weird
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  Speaker 1: on Christian networks and preachers acting crazy. We're offering in
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  Speaker 1: times and all that stuff, locking doors, not letting people
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  Speaker 1: out until they raise a certain amount of money. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's compulsive disorder. The behavior of some pastors that are
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  Speaker 1: saying some outlandic stuff I'm calling Jesus. I heard a
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  Speaker 1: preacher said that Jesus didn't finish his work, that he
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  Speaker 1: made mistakes, and then people start repeating those things as
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  Speaker 1: if it's true. Right, amazing, So be mindful, be careful,
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  Speaker 1: use discerment of who you're listening to, what you're watching.
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  Speaker 1: Prosperity gospel is very tricky as well. It's almost saying
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  Speaker 1: that we should be living our best lives now. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I believe we should be living God's life now. His
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  Speaker 1: expectation is my expectation for my life. That has to
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  Speaker 1: do with money, riches, fame, Praise the Lord, guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: give me money, riches, and fame. You're going to hear
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  Speaker 1: a lot more about Jesus over more platforms that I'm
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  Speaker 1: on now. God knows my heart, Amen. So I take
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for how this ministry is running by way of
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  Speaker 1: my decisions that I make. What about you? Are you
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  Speaker 1: taking responsibility for the life you're living and the limits
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  Speaker 1: you might be putting yourself in or limits I might
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  Speaker 1: put it myself in based upon our decisions. Or is
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  Speaker 1: God doing what the social media does and he crushes
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  Speaker 1: your numbers and he restricts. Is God doing that? Is
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  Speaker 1: he for a couple of months from sharing the gospel. No,
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  Speaker 1: God's not doing that. He's lifting us up, raising us
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  Speaker 1: up to higher places. The Bible literally says that we're
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  Speaker 1: already seated in heavily places. But while we're here as
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  Speaker 1: living love letters, as farmers who are sowing seeds of
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. Let's get busy. There's no excuse. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: what God calls us to do and watch what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I made a decision a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: If I give somebody the Gospel and it rejected, they're
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  Speaker 1: not rejecting me. They're rejecting God, the Gospel of God,
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  Speaker 1: not me. So I'm learning not to take things personal,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's personal. Amen, and I feel that pain,
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  Speaker 1: and like man, this person wants to go their own way,
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  Speaker 1: not realizing that their own way is a path to destruction.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want nobody to die, the Lord said, I
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  Speaker 1: wish that none would perish, but everyone have eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing. It's a wish that the Lord himself knows
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  Speaker 1: that not everybody's gonna be saved. Unfortunately, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: people think, Oh Jesus is just a made up character
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible. Some people say the Bible is not real. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we have reasons to live. We have a foundation to live.
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  Speaker 1: We could live morally right, we could live on purpose
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  Speaker 1: because of the promises of God, and we know we
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  Speaker 1: have eternal life. The main reasons to live as a
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  Speaker 1: Christian Number one would be salvation and eternal life through
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  Speaker 1: faith in Christ. We are forgiven. All our sins are forgiven. Right,
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  Speaker 1: You're not half forgiven. Your sins are not forgiven on layaway,
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  Speaker 1: on a layweight plan. I know people don't know what
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  Speaker 1: a layweight plan is. I'm old school, but listen, your
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  Speaker 1: whole forgiven, all your sins. You're reconciled. You're made right
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  Speaker 1: with God by the power of the Gospel, through the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus and his face spirit. Second reason you should
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  Speaker 1: be wanting to live. You have a reason to live.
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  Speaker 1: You have a relationship with God Almighty. You don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people understand what that means. The Creator
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  Speaker 1: of the whole entire universe, the one who formed in
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  Speaker 1: fashioned me and you in the secret place of a
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  Speaker 1: mother's wound, the one who walked on water, the one
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  Speaker 1: who stops the storm, who calms down the storm at
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  Speaker 1: a out of word. This Christ, this Jesus, this Lord,
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  Speaker 1: this Savior, this wonderful counselor, this Prince of Peace, this
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  Speaker 1: almighty God, this all knowing God, this omnipresent God, this
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  Speaker 1: omniscient God, this God of Justice, this God of Love,
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  Speaker 1: this God of mercy, this God of grace, that says
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  Speaker 1: we have a relationship with him. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: else to tell you. We have a relationship with this powerful, loving, holy,
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  Speaker 1: righteous God. Our relationship. It's not like, oh man, he's
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  Speaker 1: up there, we're down here. We have no communication, no
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  Speaker 1: way of contacting him. He doesn't respond. That's not the
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  Speaker 1: God that we serve. That's the God of that's Allah.
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  Speaker 1: And my brother's over there in Islam, and they feel
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  Speaker 1: that they can't connect with their God, that they can
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  Speaker 1: have a relationship with their God because they're serving a
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  Speaker 1: different God, not the God of the Bible, not Yahweh God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We have the Way, the Truth, and the life Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said that they have a problem with the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: being God. That's between them and Jesus, a relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: Christianity is not just our religion like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people say, oh, that's just another religion. How do you
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  Speaker 1: know which religion is right? Why I might I speaking
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  Speaker 1: like am Italian. Amen, Christianity is not just a religion.
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  Speaker 1: It's a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Because he's
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  Speaker 1: the door. Amen, He's the path, he's the way, he's
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  Speaker 1: the truth, he's the life. He's the main reason to live.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of reasons, according to the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: to live. We have direct access to God. How how
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  Speaker 1: does that possible? Say that we have direct access to
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  Speaker 1: within invisible God. You don't see it, you don't see him.
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  Speaker 1: I see the Lord Amen, through his word. I see
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Amen, through the Church, through the body. I
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  Speaker 1: see the Lord through my children. I see the Lord
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  Speaker 1: through you. When I look at another creation of God
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  Speaker 1: creating the image of God, I'm seeing the power of
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  Speaker 1: God through people whose lives has been totally transformed and
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  Speaker 1: renewed to restory. The only thing holding me back is me.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing holding you back is you. According to
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, we're born again. We are new creation in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We have a new identity, we have a new attitude,
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  Speaker 1: we have a new life. We have a reason to live.
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  Speaker 1: We have the mind of Christ. We have the heart
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  Speaker 1: of God, and we have the voice to speak, oracles
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  Speaker 1: of God, the Word of God. Direct access to God
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  Speaker 1: in prayer, and we could experience His guidance and his
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  Speaker 1: presence weekly, just on Sundays, Wednesdays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, whenever time
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  Speaker 1: you go to church. No, you have access to God daily,
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  Speaker 1: access to His presence daily. I want to challenge people
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  Speaker 1: who say this a lot anyway. Let me quote the
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  Speaker 1: scripture where that's at, so that way you don't think
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  Speaker 1: I'm just talking James, Chapter four, verse number eight. Let
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  Speaker 1: me challenge you, and then I'll leave you with this.
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  Speaker 1: People who say, yo, bro, I need to get closer
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  Speaker 1: to God. Are you born again? Yeah? Man, I'm saved,
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  Speaker 1: but I need to get closer to God. My challenge
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  Speaker 1: is in the question for him. How can you get
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  Speaker 1: closer to God when He's already inside of you? Make
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  Speaker 1: that make sense to me? Man, I don't feel God. Well,
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  Speaker 1: did God go to sleep? Because he lives inside of you.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way I've been thinking lately, man, because I
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  Speaker 1: know we say things as believers that it sounds like wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, that's true. But if it's not in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, I'm tending to bow out to sayings and
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  Speaker 1: phrases that are not in the scriptures. That's just me
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  Speaker 1: my challenge to you in love, Amen, think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Go to those scriptures John chapter three sixteen and Romans
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  Speaker 1: chapter ten nine, Read them, memorize them, put them in action,
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  Speaker 1: apply them to your way of thinking. And I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of time here. But God bless you all. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for hanging out with me. God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: God keep you all, and remember always that God is good. Peace.