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Celebrating Sin [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 Devo. It's a new week, a new day,
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  Speaker 1: a new start. Amen, and enough is enough for all
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  Speaker 1: those who had enough the wickedness of this world.
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  Speaker 2: That means you're waking up.
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  Speaker 1: You're waking up and God is showing you that there's evil,
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  Speaker 1: suffering and all that that's going on in the world.
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  Speaker 1: There's a solution onto those issues. The solution to the
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  Speaker 1: problem of sin is the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So he's waking you up, he's nudging you, he's opening
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  Speaker 1: up your eyes, opening up your ears, opening up your
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  Speaker 1: heart of understanding. And it's because he wants to rescue us.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to save us, he wants to bedeem us.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to give us the born again experience. Today
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  Speaker 1: on the Morning Devot, we're gonna come against something that
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  Speaker 1: I see a lot on TV and some major churches
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  Speaker 1: and the mainstream churches and just places around and maybe
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  Speaker 1: even your region. You've seen this. People are celebrating sin.
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  Speaker 1: People are celebrating sin, And I'm not really focused on
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  Speaker 1: those who are celebrating sin who don't know the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see, or you're probably starting to see
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  Speaker 1: that those who proclaim or profess to be born again
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  Speaker 1: believers Christians are celebrating sin. Let it not be said
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  Speaker 1: of you, and let it not be said of me.
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  Speaker 1: Christians are called to confront sin, not to celebrate it.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is, are we more excited about the
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  Speaker 1: world's approval than God's holiness? Are you wanting to be
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  Speaker 1: just a common Christian? Meaning that you go to church,
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  Speaker 1: you do your Sunday thing, you do your during the
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  Speaker 1: week thing when your church meets up, and then you
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  Speaker 1: go back to the same old, same old, which Jesus
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  Speaker 1: gives us a new life, a born again experience, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to go back to the same old, same old.
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  Speaker 1: You ever heard a believer say answer the question of hey,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing, and the believer says, same old, same.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we're not doing that, any man, not over here,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, I'm sorry, I'm looking at the screen. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna make sure everything's up and run. Okay, we're not
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  Speaker 2: doing that.
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  Speaker 1: We celebrate holiness, righteousness, we don't celebrate sin. And those
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  Speaker 1: days for the believers that.
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  Speaker 2: Should be over now.
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  Speaker 1: If you continue to be in this sinful behavior, right whatever,
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  Speaker 1: that sinful behavior is in your life.
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  Speaker 2: You're the one that knows that you and God.
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  Speaker 1: Then my suggestion is to check to see if we're
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  Speaker 1: still in a faith, because if you're losing conviction of
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  Speaker 1: celebrating sin and you're not convicting anymore, and now you
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  Speaker 1: kind of like sin, go to church, sin, go to
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  Speaker 1: church sin, do ministry sin, do ministry sin, and get
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  Speaker 1: other people to sing with you, and then hide things
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  Speaker 1: and then swear secrecy amongst another and then do church.
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  Speaker 2: Then you might check. You might have to check to
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  Speaker 2: see if you're still in the faith. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm speaking to the man on the screen and
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  Speaker 1: behind the mic as well. I would have to check
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  Speaker 1: myself too. We're gonna be in Romans chapter one, verse
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  Speaker 1: number thirty two. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: pray requests, or anything along those lines, please do not
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  Speaker 1: hesitate to leave it on a live chat. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're here for, Amen. We're here to celebrate holiness, and
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  Speaker 1: we're here to gather together.
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  Speaker 2: We're here to communicate.
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  Speaker 1: We're here to devote some time to the Lord first
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  Speaker 1: part of the day, middle part of the day, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe the end part of the day, depending on your
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  Speaker 1: work schedule or your schedule period.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, Let's make.
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  Speaker 1: Sure we create and carve out some time to devote
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  Speaker 1: our lives and devote our behavior to the scriptures, to
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: To that way, we could be encouraged that we could
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  Speaker 1: be growing in the faith and knowledge of who the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus is in our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. So let's pray first.
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  Speaker 1: After we pray, we'll share this out for like sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: and then on the other side of those sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get right back into today's morning devo celebrating sin.
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  Speaker 1: I know for a morning devo is that even what
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  Speaker 1: are we talking about?
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing? Right?
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  Speaker 1: But God is good Amen? And he I'm a thinker
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  Speaker 1: and I'm very observant, and I just just ask God
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  Speaker 1: a lot of questions, Amen. Daily asking God questions. I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking Him for help in some areas of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I have asked asking the Lord questions and a.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful thing about our Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And I will say with Jesus Amen, he responds God,
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  Speaker 1: he has Holy Spirit living within us, right, and the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is leading us into all truth.
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  Speaker 2: There's order in God's Kingdom. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And Holy Spirit is leading us into all the truth
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  Speaker 1: of His order, and because Holy Spirit is holy right.
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  Speaker 1: He recognizes when we're celebrating things that we should not
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  Speaker 1: be celebrating. He recognizes when we're acting and behaving certain
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  Speaker 1: ways that we should not be acting or behaving because
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  Speaker 1: we're representing the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
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  Speaker 1: where Jesus represented us.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, And we need to just have our eyes open and.
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  Speaker 1: Be aware and be alert and be ready to give
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  Speaker 1: the reason for why we believe. Amen, for the hope
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  Speaker 1: that's in us. And we need to do that with
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  Speaker 1: gentleness and respect. So Father, I thank you for right
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  Speaker 1: now this moment. Thank you, Lord God for considering us today,
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  Speaker 1: for watching over us, for keeping us safe, for waking
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  Speaker 1: us up. Thank you, Lord God that even though hardships
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  Speaker 1: are here, we will endure through those hardships because we
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  Speaker 1: know the other end of those hardships. We know that
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  Speaker 1: all these things that are happening in our lives and
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  Speaker 1: around our lives and in this world will one day
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  Speaker 1: come to an end. You're coming back, and we thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Love God for your tryumph and return. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: help us to be just active in the kingdom, active
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  Speaker 1: in our faith, active in the community and our culture
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  Speaker 1: as born again believers, representatives of the Most High God,
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  Speaker 1: ambassadors for Christ, and part of what the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God is doing on this side of eternity. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lok God for encouraging us. Thank you, Lord God for
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  Speaker 1: your enthusiasm. Thank you Love God for protecting us and
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  Speaker 1: guiding us and protecting our families and our households and
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  Speaker 1: our finances and our health. Thank you, Lord Jesus, you
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  Speaker 1: are all awesome, a man in all your ways. And
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  Speaker 1: thank you Lord for providing a path of righteousness and
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  Speaker 1: for ordering our steps. I pray, Lord God, I hetersection
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  Speaker 1: our children, over our grandchildren, and every single family member
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  Speaker 1: from the very youngest to the very oldest, and every
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  Speaker 1: for every single person on the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: the powerful name of Jesus. I pray this's by faith,
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  Speaker 1: and those who agree we say amen to the Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Help me share this out sixty seconds. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into Romans, chapter number one, verse number thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back back, were back. Let's go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go for it, right, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what this person is saying, but welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the morning, Devo, whoever you are. I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: gonna put it on the screen because I'm not understanding
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  Speaker 1: what it's saying here.
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  Speaker 2: But let's go for it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it on a screen for those who
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  Speaker 1: are watching, for those who are listening.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, no worries, no problems. We'll have this red word
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  Speaker 2: for word. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Celebrating sin. We should not be doing that. But this
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  Speaker 1: is what the word of God has for us today. Romans,
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  Speaker 1: chapter one, verse thirty two says, although they know God's
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  Speaker 1: righteous decree and his judgment, it's not like this is
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  Speaker 1: knowledge or it's not like we don't understand what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Although they know God's righteous decree and his judgment that
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  Speaker 1: those who do such things deserve death according to the law. Right,
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  Speaker 1: yet they not only do them, but they even enthusiastically
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  Speaker 1: approve and tolerate others who practice them. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: that's celebrating sin. And these people are being dealt with
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  Speaker 1: through the apostle Paul, who was inspired by Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: To write down this verse.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, I'm not talking about something I'm making up,
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  Speaker 1: or behaviors that I'm trying to make up. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about something that people already know. They already know God's
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  Speaker 1: righteous decree and his judgment on these matters. But they still,
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  Speaker 1: even enthusiastically, they still approve and tolerate others who practice them.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people are doing this in our
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  Speaker 1: culture in the name of love. Right, Let's just love
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  Speaker 1: one another and tolerate one another and accept one another
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  Speaker 1: right and normalize sin. Meanwhile, a lot of people are
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  Speaker 1: raising the banner of the Lord Jesus and doing this.
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  Speaker 1: God knows about us, God knows about them. God knows
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  Speaker 1: about us that are not celebrating sin. God knows about
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  Speaker 1: them who are celebrating sin a men, Romans one thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a wake up call for myself and
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  Speaker 1: for every single other person who calls themselves Christ followers. Right,
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  Speaker 1: we are in this together, we are not alone, We're
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  Speaker 1: not abandoned. We're not shipwrecked on an island with no
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  Speaker 1: escape and no sign of a rescue coming.
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  Speaker 2: We have a rescuer, a.
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  Speaker 1: Man, we have a redeemer who's alive, and we have
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  Speaker 1: the Word on it. And this means because although you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to have a lot of comments every
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  Speaker 1: on this, I don't need to the words for itself.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Word speaks, but I do have notes celebrating. Simple
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  Speaker 1: behavior refers to the act of openly approving, promoting, or
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  Speaker 1: finding joy in actions that the Bible identifies as sin
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  Speaker 1: that the Word of God identifies as sin. So I know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing a lot of convincing arguments.
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  Speaker 2: Of why we need to mind our business.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, people say, you can't force your religion
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  Speaker 1: on anybody, or you shouldn't be forcing your religion on anyone,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm wondering what religion they're talking about, number one,
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  Speaker 1: And the forcing part. That's what always gets me thinking
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  Speaker 1: when I see debates, or when I see evangelists on
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  Speaker 1: social media on YouTube and they're just evangelizing, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to certain areas wherever they go and they're just preaching
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  Speaker 1: the gospel. And then when somebody goes up to the
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  Speaker 1: person that's preaching the gospel, they say, you should be
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  Speaker 1: forcing your religion on us. And the gospel message really
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  Speaker 1: doesn't speak about a religion. The Gospel message speaks about
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  Speaker 1: a person named Jesus and the good news about him
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  Speaker 1: and getting to know him and getting saved because of
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  Speaker 1: him a man and save from the wrath of God,
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  Speaker 1: and the good news that Jesus presents eternal life and
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  Speaker 1: offers eternal life really has nothing to do with religion.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear any religion in that? But I understand
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  Speaker 1: what people are saying. They say, well, they believe in Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: they're reading from the Bible, quoting from the Bible, so
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  Speaker 1: to them, that's a religion. And anything that's sinful in
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  Speaker 1: their lives now they're feeling conviction, which is a good thing,
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  Speaker 1: or they feel like they're being challenged, or they feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're being judged.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so what does it mean?
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  Speaker 1: Celebrating sinful behavior can include these things, public approval of immorality, right,
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  Speaker 1: sexual sin, violence, greed, things like that. I'm seeing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that increasing in our culture. At least hear
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  Speaker 1: when broadcasting in the United States, entertainment entertainment that glorifies
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  Speaker 1: evil or even mocks righteousness. I don't even have to
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  Speaker 1: go there. You see it all the time. Do you
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  Speaker 1: ever look at social media. Do you ever follow musicians
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  Speaker 1: and artists. You'll see it, social trends that call wrong right.
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  Speaker 1: And the prophet Isaiah spoke about this hundreds of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter five and verse twenty. Read it for yourself,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah five and twenty, about this personal boasting about simple lifestyles.
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  Speaker 1: You hear a lot of that boasting and rap music. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I have this, you don't have it.
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  Speaker 2: I have this amount of money. You're broke.
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  Speaker 1: I have these amount of relationships, and you're by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And they even mock people who are married to one
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  Speaker 1: woman or one man.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They mock heterosexuals, they mock the church, They mock the
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  Speaker 1: relationship between Jesus and the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He's the groom with the bride.
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  Speaker 1: People are mocking, and the Bible answers the mockery and says,
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  Speaker 1: do not be deceived. The people who are mocking God
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  Speaker 1: are being deceived. The Bible says, do not be deceived.
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  Speaker 1: God is not mocked. So we see what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 2: We read it.
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter one, thirty two. So this verse warns not
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  Speaker 1: just about doing wrong listen to this, but about applauding
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  Speaker 1: others who do wrong with you. No, And I know
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  Speaker 1: it's like a trend with the younger right, the younger generation.
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  Speaker 1: They want to do what they want to do, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not really them, right. Apostle Paul says, it's the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: It's like almost something else working within the members of
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  Speaker 1: the body or the people that say that Christians, something
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  Speaker 1: else is at work, something else is a lot, it's
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  Speaker 1: called a flesh. And some people are getting to a
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  Speaker 1: point where the flesh is so much in control that
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  Speaker 1: they're showing what they're doing, writing about it, right, parading
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  Speaker 1: around about sinful behavior, showing pictures, doing things on videos
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  Speaker 1: that kind of like sanuate or sexualize or make you think,
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  Speaker 1: why did that person just take that picture or why
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  Speaker 1: did that person just do that video. I saw something
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, and it could have been
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  Speaker 1: in my imagination. I'm trying to be you know, correct here,
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  Speaker 1: politically correct, but the video was so suggested. They were
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  Speaker 1: so suggestive that this young lady was about to do
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  Speaker 1: something sexually, just because the way the video was recorded
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  Speaker 1: in a little clip, very short a man, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking why it was going in twenty four hours it
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  Speaker 1: was a real and I'm like, we need to be
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  Speaker 1: careful with what we're doing, how we're living our behavior. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And being born again doesn't mean that it's a behavioral
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  Speaker 1: change automatically. Being born again means you have the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God living inside of you that should convict us
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  Speaker 1: of all sinful behavior, and then we'll adjust to what
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  Speaker 1: God wants us to do. By the Frank, I see you. God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you as well. God bless your family. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for blessing everybody on the morning debo, and we miss
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  Speaker 1: you as well.
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  Speaker 2: A man, thank you so much for coming through my brother,
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  Speaker 2: my friend.
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  Speaker 1: So Proverbs seventeen and fifteen, acquitting the guilty and condemning
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  Speaker 1: the innocent. The Lord detests them both. Right, God rejects
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  Speaker 1: when justice and truth are reversed, when people are calling
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  Speaker 1: good evil and evil good. You see that, and you
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  Speaker 1: see that a lot, especially nowadays. Right, it's been happening
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  Speaker 1: since the days that the scriptures were coming out and
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  Speaker 1: being released, but we know that we're seeing the increase
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  Speaker 1: of it. But as sinful behavior increases, have you seen
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  Speaker 1: the increase of people who want Jesus, who need Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who are active out there doing ministry, witnessing, evangelizing, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: preaching the gospel in the marketplace, in areas where people
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  Speaker 1: think that they're not allowed to go and preach the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen the rise of young adults who need Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who want Jesus, who want to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: what God is doing on this side of eternity. Have
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  Speaker 1: you seen the increase of parents bringing their children to church.
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  Speaker 2: You're seeing it. I'm seeing it, Amen, Because we know
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  Speaker 2: that evil.
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  Speaker 1: Is trying to take its stands, so righteousness has taken
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  Speaker 1: a higher stand because God's not shocked or surprised at
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in world. Actually, he's equipping the saints
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  Speaker 1: to go and rescue the laws, and He's putting people
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  Speaker 1: in a position to equip the saints to go do
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  Speaker 1: the works of the ministry. Your apostle, right, the prophets, Amen, evangelists,
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  Speaker 1: the pastors, the teachers, a man, all are equipping the
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  Speaker 1: saints of God's army to go and do the works
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  Speaker 1: of the ministry. When you see that happening, a man,
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing God's hand and God's work in the lives
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  Speaker 1: of every single person, all those whosoevers who called upon
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord to be saved a man.
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  Speaker 1: And it's encouraging to see, and it's refreshing to see,
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  Speaker 1: and it's exciting to see that we're part of a solution,
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  Speaker 1: not part of the problem.
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  Speaker 2: That we're not celebrating sin.
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  Speaker 1: We're celebrating righteousness, and we're holding up righteousness as the
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  Speaker 1: higher standard morality. Who says what's right and who says
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong when we know we have a more compass
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  Speaker 1: because of God's love, grace and mercy in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: and we know what's righting wrong by way of holy
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  Speaker 1: spirit of living within us. And we're convicted of something
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  Speaker 1: that we're doing wrong, and we're just helping others to
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  Speaker 1: see what we're seeing. Amen, in a gentle way and
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  Speaker 1: in a respectful way. Amen, not in yelling, shouting and
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  Speaker 1: sending people to hell. No, we don't do that. And
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  Speaker 1: we listen to people's story. We invite them to listen
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  Speaker 1: to our story and to hear the Gospel preach or
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel message as a witness to the love of
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  Speaker 1: God for them as well. Good Morning, sister Joy and
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  Speaker 1: I see you, God, bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Devo,
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  Speaker 1: my system, my friend. So we got what we need
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  Speaker 1: to live in this world. But we're also living in
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  Speaker 1: the world that's falling broken. Right, It's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: darkness in the world. So we bring the light and
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  Speaker 1: we bring the salt, because we're the light of the
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  Speaker 1: world and the salt of the earth. We bring the flavor.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And God is the.
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  Speaker 1: Savior through the Lord Jesus Christ. If he's just chop
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  Speaker 1: the five verse number eleven have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Especially
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  Speaker 1: around Halloween season, the deeds of darkness are all around masking, arraid,
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  Speaker 1: literally masking arraid, masking, masquerading sin to be celebrated in
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  Speaker 1: the form of Halloween, Halloween costumes, you know, festivals, and
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  Speaker 1: of course haunted homes and haunted houses, haunted farms. That's
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  Speaker 1: a disguise of sinfle behavior. Amen, deeds of darkness, stay
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  Speaker 1: away from that, right. God rejects those things. Christians are
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  Speaker 1: called to confront those things, not celebrate those things. We're
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  Speaker 1: confronting deeds of darkness, and so many preachers every year,
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  Speaker 1: and I've done it for you many years as well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just letting the other preachers do it, Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sharing what they're talking by Halloween, exposing the deeds
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  Speaker 1: of darkness during Halloween season. And I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are saying you're overreacting, you Christians, always thinking
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  Speaker 1: something is evil, something is dark. It's just a fun
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  Speaker 1: family celebration. It's just a fun family holiday. It's a
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  Speaker 1: way we can have fun. You know, my daughter says,
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  Speaker 1: I like to be scared, and because she's not understanding
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  Speaker 1: what fear is, she doesn't understand that we're teaching her
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  Speaker 1: that fear is a spirit and the Word of God
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  Speaker 1: says God didn't give us a spirit of fear. So
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  Speaker 1: if God is calling fear a spirit, guess what fear is, ladies.
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  Speaker 2: And gentlemen, a spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And we need to teach our young children that they
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  Speaker 1: meant and show our friends the examples of what fear
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  Speaker 1: does to someone who says they have faith. Like I've
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  Speaker 1: heard preachers say that fear cancels out faith. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how true that is, but I know fear definitely
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  Speaker 1: challenges our faith because God didn't give us a spirit
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  Speaker 1: of fear. So we're walking around with fear, right spirit
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  Speaker 1: that's trying to take us in another direction of where
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  Speaker 1: God wants us to take us. I should say it
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  Speaker 1: like that. Why is it dangerous?
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  Speaker 2: Sam?
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  Speaker 1: Why you know, celebrating sin? You know, and people are
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  Speaker 1: probably in their mind saying, well, you're calling that sin,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just calling it fun.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you judge people and say they're sinning and
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  Speaker 1: doing something wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Here it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's dangerous because it desensitizes the conscience. Sin becomes normalized.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote a book years ago. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I have it here. It's called yeah right here, I
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  Speaker 1: have it. The Enemy Strategies. The Enemy's strategy.
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  Speaker 2: Victory is yours? Right.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote this book years ago and man doing a fast.
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  Speaker 1: I was fasting and praying and God gave me this
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  Speaker 1: to write. Basically, the enemy still does the same things.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to read the back of it and
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  Speaker 1: you let me know. And I put it in Halloween
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  Speaker 1: colors on purpose. I want to read it and you
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  Speaker 1: let me know if this still is relevant.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote this.
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  Speaker 1: I think in twenty it should be a year here somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: right twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote this book.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, So there you have the three basic, time tested
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  Speaker 1: strategies of the enemy. He the enemy has mastered these
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  Speaker 1: attacks and his weapons are not to be taken lightly.
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  Speaker 1: Now that you're aware of them, let me help you
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  Speaker 1: take action steps. But okay, this doesn't say what the steps,
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  Speaker 1: what the three things are. Let me see if I
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  Speaker 1: have a quick summary of what they are, right over
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  Speaker 1: and over again, the same tactics. And then I should
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  Speaker 1: have read this before I put this up on display.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I read one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm running out of time here and you have to
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  Speaker 1: get the book. Oh, here it goes these other three
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  Speaker 1: strategic weapons. The enemy is trying to humanize God. Humanize God,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that when things happen wrong in Jesus, God Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is surprised and shocked as almost of this humanizing.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, minimize sin. And that's what we're talking about now.
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  Speaker 1: People celebrating simple behavior, they're actually minimizing the consequences of
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  Speaker 1: what's to come after you do simple behavior. And make
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  Speaker 1: man the deity, make man the moral compass. That's the
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  Speaker 1: three things the enemy always does over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: Read it. I mean it's a short read. I wrote.
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  Speaker 1: I write short books. It's my first book. I have
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  Speaker 1: another one a man. I believe in short content books
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  Speaker 1: because you could get it all in one sitting a man.
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  Speaker 2: You can take notes, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Highlight, and then apply what you're seeing and what you're
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  Speaker 1: reading in real time and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. That was my point.
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  Speaker 1: The Christian response to this issue is pray. I know
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  Speaker 1: we're saying just pray about it, as if that's the
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  Speaker 1: last resort, or if you know we're pitiful for pray. No, pray, pray, pray,
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  Speaker 1: pray for discernment. Recognize what the world is calling normal,
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  Speaker 1: and recognize what God says is simple behavior. Stand for truth,
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  Speaker 1: for grace, stand for truth. Everybody is standing for their truth.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You hear people saying, oh, that's your truth, and that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is my truth. No, there's only one truth,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the Gospel truth, God's truth, his word, his truth.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I'm coming here with nothing. God has everything. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Great morning, my brother and friends.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you brother John for coming through and spreading your
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  Speaker 1: good vibes, Amen and sharing.
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  Speaker 2: A good morning message. Thank you for coming through, my
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  Speaker 2: brother and my friend live as a light.
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  Speaker 1: Our joy comes from holiness, not coming from rebellion. It's
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  Speaker 1: not coming from you know, bad behavior, simple behaviors, coming
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  Speaker 1: from victory in Christ. Since to Jennifer, I see you,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, my sister, and my friend. I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: say my brother, my friend, my bad Now a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times that so early in the morning, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: still adjusting. But thank you so much, sister for coming through,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for your amen model repentance. Show others
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of forgiveness is beautiful. To repent, it's beautiful
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  Speaker 1: to have been forgiven, and show people that we're forgiving people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. We're transformed through the power of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So are we celebrating what God says not to or
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  Speaker 1: are we standing up for righteousness and holiness in a
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  Speaker 1: way that's gentle to others.
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  Speaker 2: And respectful to others?
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  Speaker 1: So are we more excited about the world's approval than
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  Speaker 1: God's holiness? Those are questions that I ask myself. You
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  Speaker 1: might be saying this is too early in the morning
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  Speaker 1: for allow that saying, Well, I'm a thinker. I think
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  Speaker 1: of these things literally. I ask myself these questions. I
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  Speaker 1: ask God a lot of questions. And I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people out there are part of the campus
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  Speaker 1: cell and you shouldn't questioned God. Listen, I question in
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  Speaker 1: God daily a man, and I'm still here and I
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  Speaker 1: admit it, and he shows me his truth in his
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  Speaker 1: word and I experience his transformation.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're doing the same. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter one, Verse number thirty two is where we were.
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  Speaker 1: Read the whole chapter Romans chapter one. See what God
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  Speaker 1: has to say in context and all the contexts of
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  Speaker 1: that whole chapter. Amen, So you could check me out
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  Speaker 1: make sure I'm not out of context.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If i am, you know, I'm always ready for correction,
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  Speaker 1: and I receive correction because the Bible says for those
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  Speaker 1: people who do not receive correction, they're fools. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to walk around like a fool. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of time though. But God bless you all. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for hanging out with me for this
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  Speaker 1: morning debo. God bless you all. Got to keep you
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  Speaker 1: all and remember always that God is good.
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  Speaker 2: Please,