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The Pride of Life · Faith-Feed

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Speaker 1: For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as
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Speaker 1: unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, because.
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Speaker 2: Their faith did not feed on the word. The word
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Speaker 2: of God is the life support of our faith.
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Speaker 1: We live by the word of God. Blessed be God
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Speaker 1: and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 John chapter
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Speaker 1: 2 verse 16 For all that is in the world,
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Speaker 1: the lust of the flesh and the lust of the
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Speaker 1: eyes and the pride of life. And the pride of
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Speaker 1: life is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Faith Feed episode 198. The pride of life.
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Speaker 1: The pride of life.
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Speaker 2: In life.
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Speaker 1: One of the major things that limits people, that hinders people,
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Speaker 1: that makes people to go into strife, to fight wars,
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Speaker 1: and many of such is pride, the spirit of pride.
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Speaker 1: pride is a spirit and it's one of the dead
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Speaker 1: spirits that rules the bible calls it laviathan that's a
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Speaker 1: vicious beast of the sea and says anybody who is
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Speaker 1: able to tame this laviathan because when pride creeps into
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Speaker 1: a man he's vicious he's strong he's difficult to subdue
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Speaker 1: that's why the bible says in job 40 deck thyself
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Speaker 1: with majesty that's get to the peak now if you
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Speaker 1: are able to He says in the last verse that
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Speaker 1: That means he's the ruler, he's the one in charge
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Speaker 1: of distributing those commodities of the spirit of pride. So
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Speaker 1: the question is, how do we as believers ensure that
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Speaker 1: we tame this spirit which relates to the pride of life?
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Speaker 1: Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 8.
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Speaker 2: Better is the end of a thing than the beginning.
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Speaker 1: And the patience of the spirit is better than the
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Speaker 1: proud in spirit. It's better than that man who cannot
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Speaker 1: tame Leviathan. There are three aspects of this. We will
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Speaker 1: start from the first one. 1 Timothy 3, verse 5.
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Speaker 1: For if a man know not how to rule his
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Speaker 1: own house, mark that word. If a man does not
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Speaker 1: know how to rule his house, see the word rulership.
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Speaker 1: He says, shall that man take care of the church
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Speaker 1: of God? He now says in the next verse, not
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Speaker 1: a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall
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Speaker 1: into the condemnation of the devil. See, so the first
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Speaker 1: question is, are you the one in control? The Bible said,
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Speaker 1: he that had no rule over, Proverbs 25 verse 28.
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Speaker 1: He said, he that had no rule, no rule over
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Speaker 1: his own spirit is like a city that is broken
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Speaker 1: down and is without walls. So it's important, listen to
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Speaker 1: my episode, Rule Over the Spirit, to understand how we
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Speaker 1: can gain dominion in the affairs of our spirit, that
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Speaker 1: our spirit is drawn towards.
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Speaker 2: Now, listen to this.
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Speaker 1: Whenever a man tends to fall into the pride of life,
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Speaker 1: the first thing that happens to him is that he
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Speaker 1: goes deaf. Not physical deafness, spiritual deafness. That's why when
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Speaker 1: Jesus said, hearing they will hear, but they will not watch.
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Speaker 1: Seeing they will see, but they will not perceive. The
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Speaker 1: power to hear always starts from when you have rule
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Speaker 1: over your spirit. Now, the second aspect is rule over
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Speaker 1: the heart. The knowledge of the heart. That is the
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Speaker 1: knowledge found within the borders of the heart. And inside
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Speaker 1: the borders of the heart, we find the soul, like
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Speaker 1: I explained in my last episode. Until you have rule
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Speaker 1: over your spirit, it will be difficult to determine the
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Speaker 1: knowledge that passes into, that enters your heart, that is
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Speaker 1: inside your heart. Jesus said that it is not what
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Speaker 1: enters a man that makes him unclean. It is from inside.
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Speaker 1: Mark chapter 7. Let's read from verse 18. The Bible says,
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Speaker 1: Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive
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Speaker 1: that whatsoever thing From without entereth into the man, it
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Speaker 1: cannot defile him.
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Speaker 2: Notice that.
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Speaker 1: He says, because it entereth not into his heart, but
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Speaker 1: into his belly. He now says, but from within, from within,
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Speaker 1: from within, out of the hearts. That's the word there.
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Speaker 1: Out of the heart of men proceeds evil thoughts. Now
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Speaker 1: you see the knowledge now. These are the kind of knowledge.
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Speaker 1: Evil thoughts, adulterous, fornication, murderous, wickedness, deceit, lavishness, evil eye, blasphemy, pride.
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Speaker 2: Can you see the word there? Pride, pride, pride.
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Speaker 1: So even if you're able to have rule over your spirit,
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Speaker 1: that's why we pray the prayer of God will strengthen
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Speaker 1: you by his spirit. God will grant you according to
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Speaker 1: the ritual, you're going to be strengthened by his spirit in.
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Speaker 2: Your inner man. Ephesians chapter 3.
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Speaker 1: Even if you pray that, this other aspect of fishing
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Speaker 1: out the knowledge in your soul, the units inside the house,
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Speaker 1: the house is the heart. If you're not able to
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Speaker 1: determine the knowledge, you will still fall into the spirit
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Speaker 1: of pride. That is why you can be anointed, full
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Speaker 1: of the Spirit, and still have pride of life.
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Speaker 2: God doesn't want us to have pride of life. Yes,
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Speaker 2: we all have pride.
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Speaker 1: But pride of life is a different ball game that
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Speaker 1: ensures that even if you overcome by the blood of
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Speaker 1: the Lamb, by the word of the testimony, you will
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Speaker 1: love your life to the death. Go and read that revelation.
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Speaker 1: They overcame by the blood, by Jesus, by testifying. They
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Speaker 1: said they loved. Pride is not the problem. pride of
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Speaker 1: life is the problem and they love not their lives
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Speaker 1: unto the dead see he's not saying you should desire
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Speaker 1: to die no no no no no he's saying that
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Speaker 1: you must be in a position where you defeat laviathan That.
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Speaker 2: Is the king of the children of pride.
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Speaker 1: And the only way to be in that position is
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Speaker 1: to get up to the places of influence, to the peak,
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Speaker 1: and then prove your strength. Many people are strong in
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Speaker 1: the spirit, but they allow, they permit. When the Bible
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Speaker 1: says the kingdom of God suffers over land, it says
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Speaker 1: it permits. Suffer means to permit. Wherever it mentions that.
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Speaker 1: Many people that have ruled over their spirit have permitted
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Speaker 1: pride to have power. what jurisdiction now the third aspect
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Speaker 1: of this deliverance after you are able to pick out
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Speaker 1: the knowledge within your heart is what i call possessing
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Speaker 1: the soul jesus said in your patience luke chapter 21
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Speaker 1: verse 19 in your patient okay let's read for context
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Speaker 1: let's start from 17 and ye shall be hated of
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Speaker 1: all men for my name's sake but there shall not
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Speaker 1: an hair of your head perish In your patience, possess
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Speaker 1: ye your soul.
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Speaker 2: Possess ye.
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Speaker 1: This is the final and most important part of this
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Speaker 1: aspect of dealing with Leviathan, the spirit of pride. Remember,
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Speaker 1: the first one is rule over your spirit. The second
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Speaker 1: one is knowledge of your heart. The third is possessing
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Speaker 1: your soul. Because people, many people, when they get to
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Speaker 1: this last part, they are hasty with their feet. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and that's because they haven't allowed the right knowledge to
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Speaker 1: enter their heart and dwell in their soul, in the
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Speaker 1: unit within the heart. It is that place you begin
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Speaker 1: to ask yourself questions of, why am I doing this thing?
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Speaker 1: You begin to ask yourself certain questions that reset your
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Speaker 1: mentality at that point in time. So that the pride
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Speaker 1: of life, Leviathan doesn't have his way. Many people, because
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Speaker 1: they did not learn to defeat Leviathan while going on
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Speaker 1: the road to success. When they eventually become successful, Leviathan
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Speaker 1: comes to defeat them. Deck thyself with majesty. Deck thyself
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Speaker 1: with energy. Array thyself on your way to glory, on
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Speaker 1: your way to success. You must defeat the spirit of pride.
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Speaker 1: By the time you get there, you have already possessed
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Speaker 1: your soul.
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Speaker 2: Proverbs 19 verse 2. That the soul.
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Speaker 1: Be without knowledge. The soul without knowledge. It is not good.
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Speaker 1: It is not good. That knowledge there, like I said,
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Speaker 1: is not just the knowledge in the heart. That knowledge
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Speaker 1: there depends on the knowledge that you have.
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Speaker 2: After you have dealt.
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Speaker 1: With the knowledge in your heart, you purify your heart,
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Speaker 1: the right knowledge.
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Speaker 2: Then the one that gets into.
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Speaker 1: Your soul your subconscious that one that puts your life
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Speaker 1: on autopilot that one is what he's saying here that
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Speaker 1: if you are without it it is not a good
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Speaker 1: thing then he didn't just stop there he says and
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Speaker 1: he that hasted with his that means when that thing
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Speaker 1: is lacking when that knowledge when that knowledge in the
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Speaker 1: soul is lacking he says you will be hasty you
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Speaker 1: become hasty. That's why Jesus said, in your patience. That
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Speaker 1: means patience, hasty, patience, hasty. This is what we are
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Speaker 1: talking about. That same Ecclesiastes 7, after he talks about
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Speaker 1: patience is better, patience in spirit, in spirit is better
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Speaker 1: than pride in spirit. He says what? And a hasty, hasty,
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Speaker 1: that talks about haste, in thy spirit. He said, be
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Speaker 1: not hasty in thy spirit to anger. You have to
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Speaker 1: embrace patience with the knowledge so that you do not
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Speaker 1: become hasty with your faith. And that is the major
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Speaker 1: reason why people fall. When they say God obeys the proud,
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Speaker 1: this is the end result. It's because the proud, the
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Speaker 1: children of pride, they don't have knowledge in their souls.
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Speaker 1: So they are always hasty. Hasty to rot, hasty to envy,
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Speaker 1: hasty to lie, hasty to... Pride is the king of
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Speaker 1: all other spirits, evil spirits that follows suit just because
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Speaker 1: it has to keep that status of pride. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: if it takes lying, if it takes stealing, if it
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Speaker 1: takes whatever it takes to keep up, that's what pride seeks.
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Speaker 2: So pride seeks itself.
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Speaker 1: Laviathan you must defeat him as a believer i remain
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Speaker 1: the faith campaign of christ remember be god-fearing be god-fearing
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Speaker 1: the lord commands the angels of your heart to be
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