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How to Handle Disputes [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning family, God bless you. Welcome back to the
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  Speaker 1: morning DeVos you bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam Rock
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  Speaker 1: They were talking about how to handle disputes. Amen. As Christians,
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  Speaker 1: we have disputes. Leavers have disputes. You see the world
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  Speaker 1: and the wars that are going on right those disputes
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  Speaker 1: in the world, the wars Amen are based on faulty
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  Speaker 1: ways of handling disputes. But how should Christians handle disputes? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: I should have put that in there. But how to
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  Speaker 1: handle disputes the right way, Amen is founding the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Founding the scriptures, and we have the perfect man, God man, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus telling us how to handle it. Handling a dispute
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  Speaker 1: like a Christian means responding in a way that honors God,
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  Speaker 1: bless the love of Christ, and seeks peace over pride.
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  Speaker 1: There's always peace over pride. Man over here, that's so winners. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be in. Matthew and I've spelled Matthew wrong. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy. Matthew eighteen fifteen, Amen, Matthew, Chapter eighteen, verse
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  Speaker 1: number fifteen. And you know humanity sets in when I
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  Speaker 1: see type. I see typos right away. I think God
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  Speaker 1: gave me that gift to see typos. I could change stuff. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: You could change stuff too when you see typos. Right,
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  Speaker 1: what do you have to do when you see typos?
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, You have to fix the word. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The word fixes us, and we could fix the spelling
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  Speaker 1: of the word in the natural realm. So let's go forward.
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  Speaker 1: We pray first. After we pray, we shut us out
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  Speaker 1: for like sixty seconds. Hopefully I fixed that. Amen, My apologies.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like typos in anything, anything that I do well,
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  Speaker 1: I said anything, Amen, accent go for it, Sam, So listen,
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  Speaker 1: let's go. We'll pray first. After we pray, we'll share
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  Speaker 1: this out for like sixty seconds, and then on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the sixty will come right in with
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  Speaker 1: the scripture. Amen, how to handle disputes today on the
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  Speaker 1: morning Devo. Let's pray. Father. I pray, Lord God, that
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  Speaker 1: you will help me, help us as believers, help this
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  Speaker 1: nation of believers, young old, everyone in between, to settle
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  Speaker 1: disputes in a manner that honors God. And we will
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  Speaker 1: not lift up pride, but we will lift up peace
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  Speaker 1: over pride and the holy name of Jesus. I pray
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  Speaker 1: that your will be done during the time that we
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  Speaker 1: have together all these morning DeVos, from whatever time people
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  Speaker 1: are watching or listening, that they will receive your word
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  Speaker 1: by way of your spirit, by way of your revelation,
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  Speaker 1: that we would really embrace what you're saying and how
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  Speaker 1: to handle disputes according to your will and purpose. I
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  Speaker 1: pray a head of protection over myself, my wife, our family,
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  Speaker 1: our children, our grandchildren, our both sides of the family,
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  Speaker 1: and every single person that's watching and listening. I pray peace,
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  Speaker 1: be still and know that there is a God over
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  Speaker 1: our hearts, over our minds, physically, emotionally and spiritually. And
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Lord God, that you give us health to
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  Speaker 1: our body, strength to our bones. I pray, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that we can stay focused on the perfector and author
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  Speaker 1: and the architect of peace and the Prince of peace.
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  Speaker 1: We will stay focused on you, Lord God, help us
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  Speaker 1: not to be distracted, help us to settle disputes and
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  Speaker 1: handle it with holiness, and handle it with grace and
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  Speaker 1: mercy and truth and love. I pray this's by faith,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that you hear these prayers and you answer them
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  Speaker 1: according to every single individual situation that's happening right now
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  Speaker 1: in my life, in the world's life, and every single
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  Speaker 1: person who called upon your name to be saved. We
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  Speaker 1: are rescued, we are born again, we are restored, we
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  Speaker 1: are redeemed, and we have Holy Spirit God helping us
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  Speaker 1: to how to answer the question of how to handle
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  Speaker 1: disputes and to do it well. In Jesus Holy Name,
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  Speaker 1: my prayer it's by faith, and all those agree who
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  Speaker 1: agree with this prayer, we say amen to the Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Since the joyce I see you, Good morning, God, bless
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  Speaker 1: you well. Thank you for the blessings over the group
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  Speaker 1: as well. A prayer blessing over you and your family
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  Speaker 1: as well. And Jesus Holy Name. So let's go forward
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  Speaker 1: back to the morning. Devo, my system and my friend.
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  Speaker 1: How to handle disputes. You ever had a dispute, an argument, disagreement? Amen? Yes, right,
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  Speaker 1: So this applies for everybody, whether you're a Christian or not.
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  Speaker 1: But we as believers, we have man, we have not
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  Speaker 1: a clue, we have the way to handle disputes according
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  Speaker 1: to our Lord. And I will say to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Amen, tells us plainly, if how
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  Speaker 1: to handle it, and when somebody handles it according to
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  Speaker 1: how the Lord handles it, the other side should receive
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  Speaker 1: that right. Other sides should receive that especially. I believe
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  Speaker 1: this is I believe the Lord was talking to us believers,
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  Speaker 1: especially as believers. We should be able to come to
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  Speaker 1: the table, Amen, and handle disputes the way the Lord
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  Speaker 1: wants us to handle disputes. It's amazing right that we
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  Speaker 1: are in a world that doesn't know how to handle disputes,
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of this world, where we're not all this world.
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  Speaker 1: We are in this world and the system of this world.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you don't hear me or emphasize on anything
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  Speaker 1: world system, world current events and all that. I gonna
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  Speaker 1: argue over governmental issues. I'm not why, cause it's a
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  Speaker 1: world system that's broken needs to be fixed. We have
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  Speaker 1: a kingdom. We're in a kingdom. Amen, Let's talk kingdom
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  Speaker 1: over the Kingdom of this world is not going to work.
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  Speaker 1: But the Kingdom of our God, Amen, It's perfect. The
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of our God is full of peace. And grace
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  Speaker 1: and mercy. The Kingdom of our God has all authority
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  Speaker 1: and reign because we have the King of Kings and
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of Lords governing over it. So if we
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  Speaker 1: want to debate over you know, governmental things and why
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  Speaker 1: this president of this and you know Israel all this
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  Speaker 1: other stuff that's going on around the world, we pray
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  Speaker 1: as believers, Amen, for peace, the peace of Jerusalem and
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  Speaker 1: peace of God's people, not over political issues. There's Christians
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  Speaker 1: and politics. Absolutely, Amen, that's good. But how do we
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  Speaker 1: handle disputes. Are we going to handle disputes according to
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  Speaker 1: the world's system or we're going to handle disputes according
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  Speaker 1: to the kingdom principles of God? Think about it? Is
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  Speaker 1: your choice, right, Amen, I suggest us that we handle
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  Speaker 1: it the way the Lord wants us to handle it.
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  Speaker 1: Just me. I'm just saying how to handle disputes today
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, Devo. Let's get to the scripture. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew eighteen, verse number fifteen. This is the Lord, our Lord,
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  Speaker 1: my Lord speaking. If your brother sends right, So this
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  Speaker 1: is I believe the Lord is talking unto his people.
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  Speaker 1: I believe the Lord is talking speaking universal truth, but
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  Speaker 1: he's also speaking to his people go and show him
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  Speaker 1: his fault in private, right, not on the internet. In private.
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  Speaker 1: If he listens and pays attention to you, you have
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  Speaker 1: one back of your brother. And I know for me,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm angry, if I'm upset, and you approach me
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  Speaker 1: with more nonsense, that's not going to help the situation.
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  Speaker 1: But if I'm angry and I'm upset, and if you
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  Speaker 1: approach me in private, and I listen and I pay attention,
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  Speaker 1: and what you're saying is spirit led and driven by love, grace, mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Because dispute is a dispute right, some money or something
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  Speaker 1: is not agreeing. So when we handle each other, we
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  Speaker 1: listen to each other, pay close attention to each other,
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  Speaker 1: then that's a way entruate to peace over pride, and
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  Speaker 1: we can handle the situation and win back the relationship,
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  Speaker 1: win back our brother, win back our sister, and love.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes even when we do that, we could peacefully agree
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  Speaker 1: to disagree, and that's okay too. But what's happening with
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus is saying, go to the person right
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  Speaker 1: who is in fault in private. I know the temptation
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  Speaker 1: nowadays is to go online and to do lives and
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  Speaker 1: just blast people that's the temptation. Some people do that
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  Speaker 1: because they're following the algorithm. Some people do that because
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  Speaker 1: it's bringing financial gain to their ministry online. Amen. I
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  Speaker 1: choose to bow out and not be involved in none
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  Speaker 1: of that. But some people do it like that. So
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  Speaker 1: who am I to judge. I'm just saying, if we
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  Speaker 1: handle it the way the Lord Jesus told us to
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  Speaker 1: handle the disputes, there would be a lot less internet
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  Speaker 1: thugs out there. It'd be a lot less online. You
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  Speaker 1: call it beef if you want to call it like that, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And a lot more people, although they might not see
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  Speaker 1: your video hear your podcast because they're not interested in
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  Speaker 1: peaceful things like this, interested in drama. Although you get
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  Speaker 1: less clicks, less listens, less likes, less subscribers. It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: You're following the mandate. You're following the king of king
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  Speaker 1: and lord of lords. You're following how God a man
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  Speaker 1: wants us to operate and move and be. It's more important,
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  Speaker 1: right than fame, clicks, fortune, Amen, subscribers, It's a for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be tempted a lot to just like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go live and I'm gonna say what I gotta say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it real and I'm gonna do this
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  Speaker 1: X y Z. And then the Holy Spirit God says,
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  Speaker 1: is that the right way to do it? That's is
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  Speaker 1: that how the spirit is leading me to do something?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that my emotions and that's my flesh just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get things going me. Men? So how many
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  Speaker 1: people struggle with that? I've been a very peaceful person
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  Speaker 1: since God touched my heart and my life, before Jesus
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  Speaker 1: touched my heart and my life, very angry, green light
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  Speaker 1: all the time, ready to go. Things were on site
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times. Amen. It was a process. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still being processed through the peace over pride situation. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm living out how God wants me to live. I
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  Speaker 1: believe according to his word. If I don't have his
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  Speaker 1: word as my guide, if I don't have his word
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  Speaker 1: as the way I handle disputes, I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: go right back into my old bag and take those
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  Speaker 1: things out of my old bag. Amen, it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be good for anyone. I'm old fans. Speak directly,
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  Speaker 1: Speak respectfully to the person involved, don't speak to others
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  Speaker 1: about them, Speak directly to the person involved. Sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: frustration is this people will be like I did what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord told me to do. I'm trying to handle
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  Speaker 1: this peacefully, and the other person's not receiving. The other
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  Speaker 1: person's not listening. The other person is, you know, ignoring
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  Speaker 1: that you're doing when thing's right. We're only responsible for
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  Speaker 1: how we respond, Amen. We're only responsible for how we
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  Speaker 1: respond if you do it according to how Jesus wants
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  Speaker 1: you to do it. Amen. We can follow it up
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  Speaker 1: with the scripture be at peace with the possible, Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: with all people, as long as it considers you like,
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  Speaker 1: speak the truth and love brother or sister's sins, go
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  Speaker 1: and point out their fault just between the two of you,
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  Speaker 1: right the way the Lord Jesus says. Let me get
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  Speaker 1: to that scripture that I'm trying to say, Romans twelve eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: If it is possible, as far as it depends on
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  Speaker 1: you see that live at peace with everyone. So we
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  Speaker 1: don't have a great example in the world's system for
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  Speaker 1: people living at peace with everyone, so called peaceful religions
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  Speaker 1: right out there that are not. It's not it either
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, right, We've got to be honest with
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  Speaker 1: how we're seeing things. Scripture I believe is very honest.
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  Speaker 1: Believe the scripture is like a mirah, and we see
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in a scripture and we like, are we holding
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  Speaker 1: up so what the scripture is saying? Or are we
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  Speaker 1: just doing what our flesh wants to do. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be right all the time. You want to be
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  Speaker 1: right all the time. We're going to settle this in
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  Speaker 1: different ways, right, that could be very dangerous. I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 1: if you need counsel, we should be involving wise counsel
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  Speaker 1: in all our disputes, right, involving If the situation don't change,
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  Speaker 1: bring in a mature believer, bring in maybe a church
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  Speaker 1: leader for help, bring in some one, and that could
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  Speaker 1: really rightfully divide the word, Amen, because if it ain't
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  Speaker 1: the word inside this way of handling dispute, then we're
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  Speaker 1: handling things the wrong way. Brother Frank, I see you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, God bless you. Amen. Good morning brother Sam
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  Speaker 1: and your fam, Sam and your family, Hope everything is
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  Speaker 1: well and blessed with you guys, Miss you, ay man,
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  Speaker 1: miss you as well. Amen. Everything seems to be okay
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  Speaker 1: on this end. Amen, Hopefully everything's okay. And thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for your concern and for coming through to
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  Speaker 1: the morning Devo. Seek peace and unity. People are seeking
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things, but how many people are seeking
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  Speaker 1: peace and unity? I'm busy, you're busy. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are busy. I was listening to a podcast and
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  Speaker 1: a lady she did a wordplay on the word business.
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  Speaker 1: She called it if you're a busyness owner. See that
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  Speaker 1: a bit. Not a business owner, but a busyness owner.
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  Speaker 1: She said, be careful with being busy. Then when you're
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  Speaker 1: too busy, you're not listening well, you're not understanding your position,
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  Speaker 1: your authority. You're not doing things according to how God
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  Speaker 1: wants to do. You're doing things according to how others
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  Speaker 1: are doing You ever looked at a person who maybe
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  Speaker 1: is a preacher, evangelist, prophet, apostle, a passive teacher that
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  Speaker 1: sounds literally like someone else. Because you know the person,
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  Speaker 1: you be like, why is that person talking like that?
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  Speaker 1: Then you realize that the person is heavily influenced by
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  Speaker 1: another evangelist, passive teacher, prophet apostle, right, And they said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's why, because they're really focusing on someone else's way
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  Speaker 1: and style of preaching or doing things, and they're so
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  Speaker 1: in tune with that person or that minister or that
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  Speaker 1: ministry that they starting to sound that way. You ever
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  Speaker 1: saw that that's busyness, Hey man, that's not the kingdom business.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kingdom busyness. And you're too busy focusing on
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  Speaker 1: another person's way of living instead of focusing on the
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  Speaker 1: way the Lord wants us to live. We see that
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  Speaker 1: could happen to anybody. To be honest, a man, for
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  Speaker 1: years and years, I was following an evangelist, very popular evangelist.
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  Speaker 1: He went to be with the Lord a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years back. And although I wasn't trying to sound like him,
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  Speaker 1: but he was into apologetics. He was contending for the faith.
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  Speaker 1: He would go to these big events and present the
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  Speaker 1: gospel message. Clearly he was an intellect though I'm not
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  Speaker 1: an intellect, But what I was learning from him is
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  Speaker 1: certain words, his demeanor. And I was in those spaces
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  Speaker 1: where we were debating. This is way back. We were debating,
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  Speaker 1: and I was trying my best to mimic the person
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  Speaker 1: that I was following. Amen, But it wasn't me. I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to be like somebody else. So anybody could
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  Speaker 1: fall into that. But stay focused on Jesus. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to be like somebody. I suggest you want to
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  Speaker 1: be like Jesus. I suggest you be like the one
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  Speaker 1: who came and conquered sin and death. Let you be
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  Speaker 1: like the one that is called the Prince of Peace.
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  Speaker 1: That you be like the one who is called Wonderful
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  Speaker 1: counselor that you will be like the one who gave
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  Speaker 1: us this word of how to handle disputes, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself. Ultimately we have to let God be the judge.
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  Speaker 1: You're having a dispute, disagreement, argument that could lead to
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  Speaker 1: something other than God's will. Ultimately we have to let
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  Speaker 1: God be the judge at that point. Right, do not
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  Speaker 1: take revenge, for it is written it is mine to avenge.
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  Speaker 1: I ruh will paid, says the Lord Romans twelve nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: You're not responsible for changing someone's heart. God is responsible,
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  Speaker 1: by way of His Holy Spirit, were changing somebody's heart. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So that's why if God is a judge and we
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  Speaker 1: hit out all the time, well, you can't judge me.
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  Speaker 1: Only God can judge me, and he will. But when
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  Speaker 1: we're having a dispute, a disagreement, when we're having a
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  Speaker 1: heated conversation, we're passionate, we're intense. Amen let God be
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  Speaker 1: the judge of what's being said. That's why we don't
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  Speaker 1: invite wise counsel. If the resolution doesn't come through, you know,
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  Speaker 1: according to how God wants it to come. Bring a
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  Speaker 1: mature and believer in. Bring somebody who who knows the Word,
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  Speaker 1: who's filled with the Holy Spirit God to help us
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  Speaker 1: resolve the dispute, Jesus said. But if they will not listen,
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  Speaker 1: take one or two others along. Matthew eighteen sixteen. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord knew, and he still knows that when his people
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  Speaker 1: have a dispute, if we're not doing it according to
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  Speaker 1: how He wants us do it to do it, we're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna see the problem issue, disagreement resolved according to
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  Speaker 1: His will. We're gonna He's gonna see us just fighting, arguing,
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  Speaker 1: handling disputes according to how we want to. I want
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  Speaker 1: to win, You want to win. So we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: just hash it out. We want to hash out things
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  Speaker 1: between one another. And if it's not the way God
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  Speaker 1: wants us to do it, amen, it's gonna get ugly.
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  Speaker 1: This point blank period. Forgive even if the other person
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  Speaker 1: doesn't apologize, right and imagine that that person didn't apologize
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not going to forgive him. Yeah, I went
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  Speaker 1: down that road a couple of times. Didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: What about you? Does that work out when you go
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  Speaker 1: down that way? Forgiveness is not about excusing the wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Forgiveness is about releasing the burden. Want to release yourself
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  Speaker 1: and release the burden. You feel the tension when you
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  Speaker 1: have aught against someone else, or there's a dispute going
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  Speaker 1: on and it's unresolved. You could feel the tension. Amen
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  Speaker 1: forgive as the Lord forgave you collagns. Three thirteen. That's
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  Speaker 1: an ouch moment right for those who are in dispute
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  Speaker 1: right now. It could be husband to wife, it could
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  Speaker 1: be father daughter, it could be father's son, mother's daughter,
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  Speaker 1: mother's son, family, church leadership, membership, whatever the case may be. Whatever,
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  Speaker 1: just dispute is. If you don't see, well this person,
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  Speaker 1: some better apologize. And if they don't apologize, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep it moving and we're not gonna talk to more
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  Speaker 1: that golly forgive even if they don't apologize. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we need me. I listen, man, I try to practice this.
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  Speaker 1: Quick to listen, slow to speak. I'll be listening. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be like, let me hear. Even if I'm not liking
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  Speaker 1: when I'm hearing, let me listen. Sooner or later. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when people are angry, let them talk, because sooner or
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  Speaker 1: later they're gonna speak something out that you could grab
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  Speaker 1: them like, oh that's the issue, because it might not
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  Speaker 1: be what I was thinking. Then you'll hear. Listen to understand,
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  Speaker 1: not just to reply. Say that again, Listen to understand,
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  Speaker 1: not just to reply. Don't let things escalate when people
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  Speaker 1: are feeling unheard James one, nineteen. Everyone should be quick
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  Speaker 1: to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.
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  Speaker 1: All all over the scriptures, but most importly what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said a man of how to handle disputes should be
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  Speaker 1: the way we should be operating. Matthew eighteen. Read the
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  Speaker 1: whole chapter for yourself. Amount of time I can see
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  Speaker 1: to pray for you and your family, please play. Pray
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  Speaker 1: for me and my family as we're traveling and we're
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  Speaker 1: doing things this summer and this week. God bless you
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  Speaker 1: all though. Got to keep you all and remember always
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  Speaker 1: that God is good. I'm out peace,