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Morning Devotion from Romans: The Wrath of God · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, family. Good morning. God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the morning. Devos, your bro, Sam Lopez. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: life happens. Sometimes I can't be in the studio. But
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  Speaker 1: today we're back. Amen. Today we're getting into a new book.
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  Speaker 1: Finished off in the book of Hebrews. Amen. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord prompted me to go to one of my favorite books.
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  Speaker 1: I was making sure it wasn't me and my emotions
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  Speaker 1: because I love the book of Romans. But here we are.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord led me to the book of Romans. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to be in chapter 1, verse number 18. And
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  Speaker 1: this month, and from the time it's recording, we're in
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  Speaker 1: the month of October. And a lot of fear, right,
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  Speaker 1: is being promoted. Fear of the Lord, right? Not the
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  Speaker 1: fear of the Lord, but the fear of ghouls and goblins,
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  Speaker 1: the fear of so many other things is being promoted heavily, right?
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  Speaker 1: In the month of October. Halloween, of course, being the
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  Speaker 1: theme for many people who celebrate the Day of the
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  Speaker 1: Dead or Satan's holiday, people call it, or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: So people are looking towards that fear. But what about this?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about the wrath? That, to me,
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  Speaker 1: puts fear in perspective. Not fear in my heart because
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  Speaker 1: I have a new heart, a new mind, right? Because
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  Speaker 1: I'm born again. But the fear of being judged, being
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  Speaker 1: under the wrath of an almighty, all-knowing God, the wrath
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  Speaker 1: of God. We're going to be in Romans 1, verse
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  Speaker 1: number 18. Let's pray. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for today. I thank you for the
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  Speaker 1: evidence of your grace and your mercy upon my life,
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  Speaker 1: upon my family's life. I thank you, Lord God, for
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  Speaker 1: releasing my mom out of the hospital. She was in
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  Speaker 1: there for a little bit, and you saw it. Saw
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  Speaker 1: to it that she was released. I pray, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: I have your protection over myself, over my family, over
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  Speaker 1: our children. I pray, Lord God, for my wife and
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  Speaker 1: her back. I pray that you would touch her and
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  Speaker 1: heal her and her back in the areas that she
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  Speaker 1: has pain right now in the powerful name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I pray, Lord God, even for my enemies, those who
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  Speaker 1: don't like what we do at Soul Winners, those who
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  Speaker 1: don't like me. I pray a blessing over them, Lord God.
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  Speaker 1: During these times, Lord God, we need to come together.
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  Speaker 1: and really have faith and hope and trust in you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. So I pray that you would speak during
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  Speaker 1: this morning Devo concerning the wrath of God. And I
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Lord God, that you have continually amazed and
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  Speaker 1: continually convinced and continually had my eyes open, my ears
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  Speaker 1: open to what you're doing in my life and my heart.
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  Speaker 1: I pray for every single person that's listening and watching
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  Speaker 1: right now that you grant them favor, that you would
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  Speaker 1: speak to them, shine your face upon them, and that
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  Speaker 1: they too will experience the grace, mercy, and love of God,
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  Speaker 1: and that you will guide God and protect them as well.
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  Speaker 1: In the powerful name of Jesus, I pray this by faith,
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  Speaker 1: and those who agree, we say amen to the amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, help me share this out as we get
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  Speaker 1: into this. We're going to get into Romans chapter 1,
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  Speaker 1: verse number 18. And Romans, you know, is one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite books in the scriptures, right? Especially Romans chapter 12.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite ones. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter 12 is part of the beginning of Sailor
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  Speaker 1: Radio Network's Soul Winners. You know, Romans chapter 12. When
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  Speaker 1: we get there, Lord willing, I'll have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: explain what I mean by that. Romans 1.18. For the
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  Speaker 1: wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
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  Speaker 1: and and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth by
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  Speaker 1: their wickedness. Man, oh man, listen, I could go so
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  Speaker 1: many places with this, but Lord Jesus, help me stay focused.
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  Speaker 1: Help me be an encouragement. Help us be transformed, right?
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  Speaker 1: One morning at a time before I go on tangents, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I'm right now fighting against my emotion to say
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  Speaker 1: something right now. And I'm relying on Holy Spirit to
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  Speaker 1: just speak through this. For the wrath of God is
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  Speaker 1: revealed from heaven against all ungodliness. And we see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ungodliness right now going on inside the religious
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  Speaker 1: system and outside in the kingdom of darkness, right? We
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  Speaker 1: see it and unrighteousness of men. What are they doing though?
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  Speaker 1: Why is this wrath upon them? Because they're suppressing the truth.
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  Speaker 1: What truth? I believe it's the gospel truth. How? How
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  Speaker 1: are they suppressing their truth? Well, by their wickedness, right?
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  Speaker 1: This is something that's so relevant to our time. This
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  Speaker 1: is something that's so relevant to what's happening in our
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  Speaker 1: days and our time. So for all those people who
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  Speaker 1: say the scriptures, oh, the scriptures are old and outdated
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  Speaker 1: and irrelevant, you need to really check yourself or check
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures for yourself, I should say. Amen? See if
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  Speaker 1: this is not relevant. especially in the days we're living
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  Speaker 1: in now, right? So there has to be some kind
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  Speaker 1: of understanding of the word when you get to this
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  Speaker 1: wrath part, because we know, I know, that God is
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  Speaker 1: a God of love, grace, and mercy, right? God is loving.
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  Speaker 1: God is merciful. He's patient with us. Thank you, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: for being patient with me. He's patient with us, but
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  Speaker 1: he is also, listen to this, holy and righteous, right? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Holy and righteous. He's a just God as well. So
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people want to bypass the
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  Speaker 1: justice of God. They just want His goodness. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? They know He's holy. They want His goodness.
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  Speaker 1: But they forget He's a just God. A just God.
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  Speaker 1: His wrath. God's wrath. You know, when you're born again,
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  Speaker 1: you know what we're saved from, right? We're saved From
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  Speaker 1: the wrath of God. The wrath of God. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to stay focused here. There's a lot there. His wrath
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  Speaker 1: is not an uncontrolled outburst of anger. I can't take
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  Speaker 1: this anymore. I'm out of here and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give the wrath of God to all of creation. That's
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  Speaker 1: not the God we serve. It's not an uncontrolled outburst
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  Speaker 1: of anger. It's about His righteousness, though. His righteousness and
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  Speaker 1: His response to our sin. Past, present, future. Right? His
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  Speaker 1: response to evil in this world. People say all the time, well,
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  Speaker 1: if your God is so good, why does He allow
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  Speaker 1: evil in the world? And the follow-up question that I
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  Speaker 1: have is why will He allow our evil to exist.
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  Speaker 1: It's His grace, His mercy, His sovereignty, His all-knowing ways. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: He's all-knowing. Sister Miriam, good morning. God bless you, my sister,
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  Speaker 1: my friend. It's good to see you in the morning, Devo.
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  Speaker 1: So God is loving. God is merciful. God is patient
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  Speaker 1: and full of grace. Love it, right? But He's also
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  Speaker 1: the God of wrath, Al-Ghubur, the God of war, righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: On all his ways, right? But he's controlled, right? He
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  Speaker 1: has self-control. God is all self-sufficient. Not an outburst of
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  Speaker 1: anger for no apparent reason. God is not up there
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  Speaker 1: pointing fingers at us. You did this wrong. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to put the wrath upon you. That's not the God
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  Speaker 1: we serve. So in this scripture, Romans chapter 118 is
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  Speaker 1: a reminder to us, right? That God takes sin seriously. Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: I take sin seriously, right? The flesh is always like,
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  Speaker 1: I call it the hype man for sin. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the flesh is. Holy Spirit is like my servant, my son,
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  Speaker 1: my daughter doesn't have to sin, right? Do you know
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have to sin, right? I know the
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  Speaker 1: Americanized gospel, the Americanized church system has told you, you
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  Speaker 1: have no power over sin. In the gospel, the truth
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  Speaker 1: of it is that we do have power over sin.
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  Speaker 1: When you're born again, we have Holy Spirit that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to sin. That's why, haven't you noticed, that when
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  Speaker 1: you're going to wrong way, when you're in sin, as
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  Speaker 1: a believer, it doesn't sit right. It doesn't feel good.
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  Speaker 1: Sin is pleasurable for a season to the flesh. Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit in us does not sin. So it's not pleasurable
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  Speaker 1: for Holy Spirit when we sin. Right? So Romans 118 says,
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  Speaker 1: Reminds us that God takes sin seriously when we knowingly
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  Speaker 1: and when people knowingly, like they know what they're doing,
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  Speaker 1: reject his truth knowingly. I know what you're saying, God,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to do this anyway. When you're in
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  Speaker 1: that position and you choose unrighteousness, you're going to stand
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  Speaker 1: in opposition or I could stand in opposition to his
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  Speaker 1: holy character. It's not a good representation. Of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: right there. Right? There's a battle going on daily. I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's tiring. To me, it's tiring. I think the flesh again.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is. Unbelief again. Here it is. People who
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  Speaker 1: are in disobedience. Here it is. People who reject the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: Here they are. Right? Disrespect. Out of order in the family.
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  Speaker 1: All that stuff. That thing is burdensome to me. Right?
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  Speaker 1: That thing becomes heavy sometimes. But I have to remind myself. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I have Holy Spirit guiding me. He's one. He's true.
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  Speaker 1: He's alive. He's active. The Lord God is full of grace, mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and he's righteous and he's holy and he's just. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm holding on to the justice of God, holding on
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  Speaker 1: to the righteousness of God. I'm holding on to him.
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  Speaker 1: And one day, whatever, however, and whatever is happening in
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  Speaker 1: my life and in your life, hold on to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. And he's going to see us through it, right?
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  Speaker 1: He's going to position us that we're already seated in
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  Speaker 1: heavenly places. So imagine that. We're already seated in heavenly places.
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  Speaker 1: So hold on to his love, grace, mercy, and his righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: Don't stand in opposition to his holy character. There's no
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  Speaker 1: need to do that. As believers, we're going to stay
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  Speaker 1: on the holy side. Amen? We're going to stand there.
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  Speaker 1: Sister Miriam said, man can fail us, but God never will. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he never will. I have to remind myself of this, man,
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  Speaker 1: and I have to stay self-controlled, right? Yes, I do
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  Speaker 1: get angry. Yes, I do mess up with my words. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a lot going on, right? When there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on in your life and in my life, amen,
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  Speaker 1: we still have to hold on. I choose to hold
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  Speaker 1: on to God, right? I choose to follow Jesus. He
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  Speaker 1: never forces me, and he won't force you either. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Sister Miriam, for your comment there. God's wrath
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  Speaker 1: reveals something. What does it reveal? It reveals his holiness.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. If there's a wrath of God, what
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  Speaker 1: is he doing? He's revealing from heaven his wrath over
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  Speaker 1: all wickedness, unrighteousness, especially those people who are suppressing the
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  Speaker 1: truth for their own gain. If you notice, The mega system,
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  Speaker 1: the mega church system, if you notice the leadership of
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  Speaker 1: those mega, not all, but most that I've seen, the
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  Speaker 1: popular ones, the mainstream ones, those systems are not based
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  Speaker 1: on promoting people to follow Jesus. Those systems are based
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  Speaker 1: on self-promotion and people to follow the prophet, the evangelist,
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  Speaker 1: the apostle, the pastor, teacher, right? And to me, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Wickedness, selfishness,
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  Speaker 1: selfish gain, right? So be mindful of that and be
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  Speaker 1: careful of that. God's wrath reveals His holiness. And His
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  Speaker 1: holiness reminds me and reminds you and reminds all of
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  Speaker 1: us of our need for a Savior. Our need for
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ. Our need for the Messiah, the
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  Speaker 1: Mashiach Magid. Our need for the Holy One of God,
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  Speaker 1: the begotten Son of God. Our need for His forgiveness,
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  Speaker 1: for His grace, and for His mercy. The wrath of
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  Speaker 1: God reminds me of that. I need you, God, like yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for saving me, rescuing me, changing me, transforming me,
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  Speaker 1: redeeming me, renewing my mind, right? And He does the
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  Speaker 1: same for every single one of His children today. He
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  Speaker 1: has no favorites, amen, even though I thought I was
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  Speaker 1: his favorite, but you know what I mean. He has
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  Speaker 1: no favorites. When it rains, it rains on the just
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  Speaker 1: and unjust, but there's a difference between those who are
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  Speaker 1: marked and sealed by the Holy Spirit and those who
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  Speaker 1: are not. You will know them by what? Their fruit.
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  Speaker 1: People could do a lot of this. Oh, I'm this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm that, and I'm apostle this, and I'm prophet this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm evangelist this. Yeah, I'm a pastor this, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm that. They do a lot of this. But when
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  Speaker 1: you look at their fruit, you're like, yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 1: lining up. Your words are not lining up with your life.
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  Speaker 1: And God speaks a lot about that in his scriptures. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm mindful of that. And I'm always looking in
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  Speaker 1: the mirror and saying, make sure I'm talking to myself. Sam,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you represent him well. Don't get crazy and
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  Speaker 1: don't act crazy just because you're in your emotions, your feelings,
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  Speaker 1: things are not going right in this area, in that area.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you hold tight. So what God has done
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  Speaker 1: in your life, give him glory, honor, worship, and praise. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I speak to myself. What about you? The
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  Speaker 1: good news, right, is that God doesn't desire, right, from
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  Speaker 1: what I know about God, what I studied about God,
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  Speaker 1: and how I know him through relationship. He doesn't desire
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  Speaker 1: for humanity to remain separated from him. For God so
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  Speaker 1: loved the world, the Father so loved the world, that
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  Speaker 1: he sent his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
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  Speaker 1: him shall not die, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 1: John 3.16. So that's proof and evidence to me that
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  Speaker 1: he never wanted us to remain separated from him. Since Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want Adam to make that decision. But because
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  Speaker 1: he's a God of love, he allowed Adam to make
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  Speaker 1: a choice. Right? There's a lot there. His holiness reminds
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  Speaker 1: us that we need him. His holiness reminds us that
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  Speaker 1: we need Jesus. Right? And Holy Spirit reminds us of
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  Speaker 1: all of this. Right? Not in a forceful way. That's
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  Speaker 1: why God is amazing to me, at least in the
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  Speaker 1: perspective that all these idols that people worship and all
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  Speaker 1: these false gods, those things, those false gods, those idols,
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  Speaker 1: there's rules and regulations and you have to do this.
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  Speaker 1: You have to pray a certain way. You have to
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  Speaker 1: pray a certain time. You have to blow a certain
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  Speaker 1: amount of smoke over the statues and all that. All
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  Speaker 1: that idolatry and all that stuff is forced, right? The
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  Speaker 1: younger generation will say it's cap. But my God, my Lord,
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  Speaker 1: my Savior doesn't force anything upon us. But when you
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  Speaker 1: taste the goodness of God, when you taste and see, amen,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to realize that this is all different. This
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  Speaker 1: is the true, holy, loving, righteous God, right? The good
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  Speaker 1: news is that God does not desire, does not desire
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  Speaker 1: for humanity to remain separated from him. Through Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: he has provided the way for forgiveness, right? the way
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  Speaker 1: for reconciliation, making things right with the Father, and the
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  Speaker 1: way to experience new life. The reason why when we're
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  Speaker 1: struggling in areas and then sin presents itself, the reason
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  Speaker 1: why our born-again believer doesn't really, we fight against that,
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  Speaker 1: against sin, because we're living in a new life. But
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  Speaker 1: when the old man steps up, the new man looks
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  Speaker 1: at the old man like, what the heck are you
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  Speaker 1: trying to do here? You're not taking over anymore. Sin
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  Speaker 1: has no power over us anymore. Because you realize before
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  Speaker 1: Jesus saved us, we were slaves to sin. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I was a slave to sin before Jesus released me
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  Speaker 1: from the slavery and bondage of sin. You were a
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  Speaker 1: slave to sin until Jesus released you and saved you
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  Speaker 1: from the wrath of that sin, from his wrath, and
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  Speaker 1: also he released you and now you have freedom to
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  Speaker 1: look at sin in the face and say, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to do what you want me to do. And
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  Speaker 1: the flesh hates that. That's why the flesh is always
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  Speaker 1: at war with the spirit. This is spiritual warfare 101, right?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sister Joanne. I see you. Good morning. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you, my sister, my friends. Good to see you
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  Speaker 1: on the Morning Devo. So here it is. How should
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  Speaker 1: we respond to Romans 118? Well, for me personally, I
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  Speaker 1: look at it and say, all right, the wrath of God,
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  Speaker 1: to me that It's still, I look at it and say, whoa,
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  Speaker 1: that's something really to take seriously, the wrath of God. Well,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm born again, I thank God daily for his
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  Speaker 1: mercy and grace and that we are not going to
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  Speaker 1: experience the wrath of God. If you're in Christ, there
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  Speaker 1: is no wrath coming to us. Amen? That's the good
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  Speaker 1: news right there. John Crosby, God bless you, my brother.
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh is the way. God's grace and mercy is a
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  Speaker 1: gift to us, all of us. Yes. Thank you, brother,
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  Speaker 1: for your comment and encouragement. It's good to see you. So,
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  Speaker 1: How should I respond? How should we respond to this truth?
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  Speaker 1: Because this is true. This is the gospel truth, Romans 1, 18.
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  Speaker 1: Respect God's holiness. Respect it. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: So whether or not you're bowing your knee to him
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  Speaker 1: now and rejecting the gospel and you're waving your fist
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  Speaker 1: at heaven, later on, every knee will bow and every
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  Speaker 1: tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to respect his holiness now while I still have now.
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  Speaker 1: while I still have today, while it's still day, amen,
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  Speaker 1: while we can still worship him here on this side
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  Speaker 1: of eternity, I'm going to respect God's holiness. Don't treat
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  Speaker 1: sin as something insignificant because sin was the debt that
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  Speaker 1: was paid by the Lord Jesus. He was the only
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  Speaker 1: one who could pay the sin debt, right? He was
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  Speaker 1: the perfect lamb of God to pay the sin debt.
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  Speaker 1: So don't think it's just like, ah, it's just sin.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just repent when I go to church. Ah, it's
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  Speaker 1: just sin. I'll just stop anytime I'm ready. Don't take
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  Speaker 1: sin like it's nothing. Don't take sin like that. Be
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  Speaker 1: careful with that, actually, that way of thinking. Don't treat
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  Speaker 1: sin as something insignificant. Ask God to help you recognize
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  Speaker 1: and turn away from it, right? God will give you
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  Speaker 1: that energy, if you want to call it that type
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  Speaker 1: of energy, to get out of it, right? Because we're free.
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  Speaker 1: Walking around free, not in bondage anymore. We're not slaves
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  Speaker 1: and in bondage to sin. How about this? This idea
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  Speaker 1: is walk in truth. It's amazing how walking in truth
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  Speaker 1: is so offensive to people. What do you mean you
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  Speaker 1: have the truth? That's your truth. That works for you.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work for me. People are so offended when
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  Speaker 1: you walk in the gospel truth. But go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: walk anyway. Amen. On the righteous path, on the narrow path,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and walk in righteousness and truth. Go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and do it. Don't back up now. Don't back off now.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give up now. You came this far. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: you know that God is true and God is real.
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  Speaker 1: Keep on going. Walk in truth. Don't compromise. Don't compromise God,
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  Speaker 1: his word. Right. Just to satisfy the desires of your
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  Speaker 1: sinful self or the desires of this world or the
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  Speaker 1: approval of this world. I don't need this world's approval, man.
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  Speaker 1: I've been there, done that. I was in the world, right?
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  Speaker 1: But now I'm in the world, but I'm not of
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  Speaker 1: the world no more. And a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: like that. They take that as arrogance. I take that
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  Speaker 1: as the grace and mercy of God over your life
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  Speaker 1: and over my life. Receive God's grace. I probably thank you, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: for your eternal life, because it's going to probably take
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  Speaker 1: me eternity to understand the grace of God. His grace
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  Speaker 1: is amazing, right? Through Jesus Christ, we receive forgiveness. We
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  Speaker 1: receive restoration and reconciliation to make the relationship with the
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  Speaker 1: Father back right again. To me, that's the amazing grace
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  Speaker 1: of God. And of course, share the gospel. And when
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  Speaker 1: you share the gospel, share this truth, this gospel, with love.
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  Speaker 1: In love. Because we love God, so therefore He allows
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  Speaker 1: us and teaches us how to love ourselves and love others.
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  Speaker 1: Love God first. Love yourself like your neighbor. Love others. Right?
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  Speaker 1: Instead of condemning others to, hell, you're going to hell,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing this, be careful with that. Instead of pointing
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  Speaker 1: fingers and pointing them to hell, when you point Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you point them to the one who rose again.
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  Speaker 1: Point them toward the truth. Point them towards the mercy
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  Speaker 1: and towards the salvation found in the Lord Jesus. Please
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  Speaker 1: do that because a lot of people are literally perishing
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  Speaker 1: right in front of our face without the truth. So
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  Speaker 1: to give them a chance and if you're in their
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  Speaker 1: Spear of influence to give them a chance to know Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Say something that will alert them to the fact that they're,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to do this in a loving way.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit will open your mouth to say what needs
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  Speaker 1: to be said. But you and I know they're under
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  Speaker 1: the wrath of God, right? Because they're in wickedness and sin, godliness, right?
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  Speaker 1: They're suppressing the truth. But Holy Spirit will give us
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  Speaker 1: the words to say to try to snap them out
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  Speaker 1: of that. And point them towards the one who could
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  Speaker 1: save them. So remember, God's judgment is real. We know that.
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  Speaker 1: But so is his mercy. Get that? So is his mercy.
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  Speaker 1: The same God who warns us about sin offers us,
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  Speaker 1: the same God offers us salvation through his son. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more here. I knew this was going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I'll probably have to make a part two of this.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm going to keep it moving and be obedient
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  Speaker 1: to what God told me to do during this season.
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  Speaker 1: of the Morning Devo. But I'm out of here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of time. Thank you so much for having me
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  Speaker 1: and for the listening ears on the radio station and
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  Speaker 1: for the live streamers here on the social media and
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  Speaker 1: on my YouTube and all that stuff. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to send you all for the blessing because we need
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  Speaker 1: the blessing of the Lord. Amen. So God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: God keep you all. And remember always that God is good. Peace.