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FIVE VITAL SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL RETROGRESSION · Apostle Joshua Selman

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Speaker 1: So this morning, I like you to rise up on
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your feet with a joy in our hearts and sound
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ovation to receive to the microphone the ministry of Apostle
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Josha Selma give you up for Jesus.
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Speaker 2: Allelujah, praise the name of the Lord. Good morning, everybody.
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Thank you so much. It's always an honor to be
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a blessing to God's people, and I truly want to
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honor this humble and great, wonderful man of God, Reverend
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Doctor Couldna let's honor him.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, sir, You're truly are appreciate you,
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and I also.
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Speaker 2: Want to appreciate every man of God here, every woman
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of God, every minister.
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Speaker 3: Everyone who has come.
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Speaker 2: Will have a very brief session this morning, and I
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know and I trust that our lives will never be
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the same.
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Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 2: Is it all right if we pray in one minute
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asking the Lord to give us and encounter this morning.
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You can lift your voice from wherever you are and
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ask the Lord to give.
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Speaker 3: You and encounter even by his spirit. Go ahead and pray.
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Let it be from the depth of your heart.
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Speaker 2: The Bible declares that everyone that asked received, everyone that
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asked received, Everyone that asked received.
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Speaker 3: Father. We pray that you will speak to our hearts.
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Speaker 2: So deeply this morning, and I pray that in this
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conference we will never be the same. We have come
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with hearts opened, we have come with hearts hungry, and
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we ask that you will help us even to the glory.
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Speaker 3: Of the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 2: For in Jesus' name, I pray God bless you, and
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please you may be seated. My assignment this morning, as
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I begin my session with us, is to stare our hearts.
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I am convinced, and I believe that this is also.
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Speaker 3: True from Scripture that no matter what else goes right.
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Speaker 2: In your life, if your spiritual life and your passion
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for the things of God is dying or dead, then
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there is absolutely nothing left. It is my considered opinion,
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and it is consistent with scripture that the true measure
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of a man's worth is not just the material acquisitions.
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It is not just the intellectual achievements. It is not
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just the you know, all of the accomplishments. Those things
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only find the accredence and they find meaning when your
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state with God.
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Speaker 3: Is fine. Are we together?
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Speaker 2: We're going to look at two scriptures and then I'll
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begin to share. One is First Corinthians thirteen and verse eleven, First.
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Speaker 3: Corinthians thir team and verse eleven. First Corinthians thirteen and.
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Speaker 2: Verse eleven, where we have a projected okay, let me
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just turn.
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Speaker 3: Okay. It said, when I was a child, too, I
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talked like a child.
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Speaker 2: I taught like a child, I reasoned like a child.
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It says when I became a man, I put the
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ways of childhood behind me.
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Speaker 3: That's an ivy king.
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Speaker 2: James would say that he laid aside all of these
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childish things. So here he's showing us that it is
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possible for a believer to transced from a child to
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an adult, even spiritually speaking. And this is very important
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because many believers. They are two conditions that this teaching seeks.
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Speaker 3: To address this morning.
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Speaker 2: Number one, it is for the believer who may have
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refused to contend for growth and increase spiritually.
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Speaker 3: A possibility exists that a man can remain stunted and
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not content for growth spiritually.
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Speaker 2: The second category of people are those who, for whatever reason,
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they have found themselves plunging the way of backsliding and
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spiritual depression.
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Speaker 3: For both people, there is.
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Speaker 2: A message for you this morning efficients Chapter five, second
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scripture and verse fourteen, Efficient five and verse fourteen efficients
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Chapter five and verse fourteen. If we can have KJV,
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that will be fine. Efficients five and verse fourteen. He says,
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wherefore his awake, dow that sleepest and rise from the dead,
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and Christ shall give thee light. So he's awaken someone
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who is already asleep in a state of spiritual slumber.
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Jesus was teaching, and he told us that tragedies always
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happened when men sleep?
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Speaker 3: Is that true?
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Speaker 2: He said that in a parable that one came and
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planted wait, and then while men slept, he said that
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the enemy came and also planted tears among the wat
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There are many believers who because of the reality of
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the times that we live in, it seems as though
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most people view God today to be a necessary luggage
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that they have to carry on their path to finding fulfillment,
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on their path to be coming relevant. So God and
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the things of the Kingdom for many people is like
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a necessary luggage, and it ought not to be so.
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And there are many who started well with God. And
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then because of the pursuit for things, it may not.
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Speaker 3: Be evil things.
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Speaker 2: Just the pursuit for maybe education, family life, and so
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on and so forth. Just found out that they continue
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to neglect the things of God until right now they're
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in a state of spiritual tragedy.
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Speaker 3: I want to.
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Speaker 2: Start by discussing the issue of backsliding and retrogression. There
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is a possibility in a believer's life that you can
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lose your fire, you can lose your vigor, you can
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lose your passion.
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Speaker 3: Is that true?
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Speaker 2: The Bible is full of men who started well and
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at the end of their lives it was as though
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they had lost.
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Speaker 3: Their values, they had lost everything.
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Speaker 2: I think we should start with that and then would
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do a little discussion on growth within the times that
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we have been my passion to challenge the Body of Christ,
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particularly over our spiritual states. More than just helping believe
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us understand the things of the Kingdom and understand the
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ways of the Kingdom, It is first important that our
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relationships with God be intact. Any discussion on Kingdom truths,
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the mysteries of the Kingdom is absolutely useless.
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Speaker 3: If our state of heart with God is faulty. Is
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that true? There are a few signs.
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Speaker 2: Medically speaking, when you come to a doctor and you
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begin to complain I have this, and that the doctor
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would usually want to use signs and symptoms. It will
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help in diagnosing what is wrong with the patient.
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Speaker 3: Is that true?
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Speaker 2: For instance, if you come to octaw and you say,
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I've been running temperature, I'm having headache, I've been feeling cold,
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I've been vomiting paints in my bones, he can easily
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use those signs and it may be fair to begin
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to diagnose that probably you have a fever. Now, there
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are signs that show a healthy spiritual life. You can't
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just say I'm healthy spiritually arbitterarly. There are exact signs
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that you can use and indices to know that an
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individual spiritual life is buoyant and healthy and vibrant. You
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can also see signs that show that something is wrong
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with your spiritual life. Can we examine a few signs?
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The Bible is very clear as to the fact that
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if the believer is not stable spiritually, if something begins
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to affect your spiritual life, you can know that you
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are retrogressing spiritually, and the goal is not to condemn you.
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The goal is to open your eyes so that you
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will quickly repent and realign your ways. We're going to
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consider at least five signs vital signs. Vital signs that
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shows spiritual retrogression. The moment you see any or all
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these signs in your life, spiritually speaking, the life of
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your spouse, the life of your children. Know that there
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is danger as far as your spiritual life is concerned.
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Are we ready? Vital sign number one a significant deviation
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from your love for the Lord and the things of
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this world. The first sign that there is something wrong
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with your spiritual life is when there is a significant
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deviation from your love for God, your passion for God,
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and the things that have to do with the Kingdom.
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One of the ways that you know that a person
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loves the Lord and is passionate about God is that
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that love and that passion.
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Speaker 3: In fact, the proof of love is pursued.
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Speaker 2: The degree to which you are able to press into
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the things of God with joy. It was the Samis
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that said, I was glad when they said, unto me,
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let us go to the House of the Lord. The
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moment the concept, the idea of God and the things
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of God begin to inconvenience you, it is a vital
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sign that something is wrong with your spiritual life. Passion
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for church, passion for prayer, passion for the.
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Speaker 3: World of God.
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Speaker 2: Anything that has to do with God seems to be
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an interruption, and you may passively do it just to
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fulfill the ritual of religion.
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Speaker 3: Something is wrong.
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Speaker 2: As I'm saying this right now, the holygoes is opening
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the eyes of some of us to say that this
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is what I've been trying to tell you.
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Speaker 3: I've been trying to show you in dreams.
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Speaker 2: I've been trying to show you through the teachings of
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your pastor that something is wrong with your spiritual life.
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Speaker 3: Passion for God.
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Speaker 2: People come to charge and in ten minutes they are tired,
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and then you end the service and they can stand
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for two hours in front of a carting. So it's
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not that they were really tired. It is a proof
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of spiritual slumber. I hope we are learning already vital
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sign number one a significant deviation from your love for
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the Lord. There are believers who who only open their
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Bibles on Sunday and bless God for technology. Right now,
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there are people who don't even know where their bibles are.
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You would think this is very basic and elementary, except
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that it is that carelessness that has led to the
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continual dicadence of many believers. How do you know you
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are losing the fire from for God? I'm still on
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point one, because you see, love for God is like energy.
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Speaker 3: You can't say.
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Speaker 2: I don't love God and then I don't love anything else.
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It is either the whole energy is invested towards God
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or something else may be stealing it. At every given
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point in your life, there must be something that is
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still in your passion. So it is either your love
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for God or the cheers of this world. Remember Apostle
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John told us this. It says love not the world,
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not the things that are in the world. It says,
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if any man loves the world, the love of the
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Father is not in him. It's as simple and honest
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as that. The moment you begin to have an obsession
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and addiction for the cares of this world, something is
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already wrong with your passion for the things of God.
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Speaker 3: Let me hurry up. Number two.
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Speaker 2: What is the second vital sign of spiritual retrogression? Self
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centered living as against Christ's centered living. The second vital
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sign is you become the God of your own destiny self.
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Speaker 3: Can I tell you this?
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Speaker 2: Most believers think the only thing to be corrected in
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a believer's life is seen. Sin is the primary issue,
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but not the only issue to be corrected. You can
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correct the issue of sin, but if you leave the
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issue of self, that believer is still in trouble. It
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takes correcting both the sin issue and the self issue
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to bring the believer to a point of victory. There
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are many believers by the grace of God. God has
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helped them to deal with the sin issue, which is
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a major issue, but not the only issue. If your
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vehicle has a problem, say your tire pressure has a problem,
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you don't have fuel in your car, are well together,
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your headlamps have there all are problems, but not to
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the same degree. You can manage and drive in the
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daytime without a headline. You can manage and drive even
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when your tire is not properly.
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Speaker 3: Gauged, but you can't drive without foil. Is that true?
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Speaker 2: So with respect to the programs or the problems in
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that car, your focus can be putting fuel in the car,
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But if the car is now fell then you ignore
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the remaining ones. When your tire is flat, you still
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will not be able to move. Even though you have
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solved the fuel problem. Many a focused on the sin problem,
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which is a serious problem, by the way, and after
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dealing with it, now they believe they are normal living
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in sin.
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Speaker 3: But self. You know what self means.
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Speaker 2: Self is a desire to be the God of your
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own destiny.
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Speaker 3: It is a dangerous issue. In fact, the.
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Speaker 2: Primary assignment listen carefully, the primary assignment of the Holy
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Spirit in a believer's life. When you give your life
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to Jesus Christ, it brings you to a point where
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Christ is enthroned in your life. Christ enthroned in a
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believers life is what Paul calls death in Galatians to twenty.
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It says I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live.
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Yet not I that leaves are you saying now? But
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Christ that lives in me? And it says the life
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that I live in the flesh, that is the body
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I live by the faith of the Son of God.
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Many believers are still self centered. You know what it
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means to be self centered provided I benefit from it.
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I don't care whether Jesus is glorified. I don't care
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whether anybody is blessed. If everybody dies and I do
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well while rising, so be it. You see this happen
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even among believers. Yet the Bible says, let this mind
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be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus Philippians,
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Chapter two, from verse five, that there was a disposition
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that Jesus had, that even though he was God and
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did not claiming to be robbery, he humbled himself the
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moment there is an obsession to glorify self, Apostle Joshua Selman,
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an obsession to glorify self. This is where most of
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the trouble among believers come from. Titles, reputation, all of
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these things, they are wonderful, but they are largely expressions
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of self. The moment Jesus becomes enthroned in your life,
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can I tell you will have only one singular motivation
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to see Jesus high, glorified and revealed.
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Speaker 3: In and through your life. That's it.
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Speaker 2: That anything that does not directly lead to the revelation
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of Jesus and the glorification of the same is not
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your interest at all. This is what it means to
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be Christ's conscious. To be Christ's conscious does not mean
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to be a good preacher, or just to go to
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church or to participate in spiritual activities. You can do
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all of those things, and yet you are full of yourself.
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Speaker 3: I can stand to preach.
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Speaker 2: And even though I'm preaching well, the whole idea is
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to become the center of the focus, not that Jesus
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be revealed.
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Speaker 3: Are we learning?
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Speaker 2: Many believers have not been taught how to give up self.
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Do you know how difficult it is to give up self?
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To give up self means to take your reputation like
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the woman with the Alabasta box, take your pride, your
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achievements and everything I'm point like a drink or free
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and say, Lord, I am nothing without you that for
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as long as I live, it is Jesus who will
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be seen.
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Speaker 3: In and through my life. All I want.
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Speaker 2: Is for you for you to be love referred, for
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you to believe.
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Speaker 4: All I want.
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Speaker 2: Is for for you to beg lovefer.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 2: That you are retrogressing spiritually when Jesus Christ, the revelation
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of Him no longer becomes the pivote behind what you
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are doing.
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Speaker 3: There are many people who give.
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Speaker 2: But the purpose is not to see the purposes of
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Jesus Christ advanced. I can give us an exchange to
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make a name. I can preach just for you to
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hear good preaching from a man of God. Can I
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tell you the ultimate leadmost test that gives weight to
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your spiritual activity. It's not the activity itself, it is
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the motivation behind that activity. You can do something so powerful,
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and yet in the realm of the spirit it does
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not carry any weight because the motivation was never to
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see Jesus glorified. I can come and sing here, But
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in that singing it is not just for you to
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hear the song to be blessed. It is for you
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to acknowledge such display of music prowess. I can come
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and preach just for you to see it a sound
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doctrinal and theological exegesis. To the degree that you are
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those ministerial accolades. Can I tell you many of us,
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if not all of us, at one point or the other,
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have been guilty of the obsession to see self glorified.
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And when you come before you see in conferences like
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this is a time of deep reflection and repentance. You
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don't come and say, okay, I'm trying. No no, no, no no.
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You have to be opened before God. There's nothing to
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be embarrassed about. That's what His presence is supposed to do.
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Speaker 3: Are weay together.
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Speaker 2: There were many people who were doing well spiritually until
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the God jobs, until they're married, until the God political positions,
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and God becomes an interruption to you, as though you
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were using Him as a ladder to climb. And now
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that you are comfortable, Jesus, you and your nonsense to
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leave me the day I'm in trouble.
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Speaker 3: I can't call you self centered living. It has to
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be about me.
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Speaker 2: If this committing church is not about me, if I'm
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not the epicenter, who's scattered, If this choir is not
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about me, who's scattered?
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Speaker 3: If this preaching is not about me.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you one of my greatest prayers is not
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to be a great man of God known all over
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the world. No that in and through my life Jesus
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can be seen. When John came, John got it right
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before he messed up. Later on he said, I may
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I'm that I may decrease John three thirty one. I
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believe that he may increase. Now that's powerful. Can I
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be honest with you? If you decrease so that Jesus
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increases in your life in a strange way, you will
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never go out of relevance. I always give this example
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for those of you who follow the ministry, please, I
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want you to look at this podium. Everyone, please let
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me have your attention. Look at this podium. Did you
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know that my Bible is resting? This section of the
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podium is really where my attention is. But can you
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ignore the bars that hold this? But that is not
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that is not the point of focus? Is that true?
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But it's impossible to put your gas here and ignore
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the bad that is holding it. This bad that is
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holding it is you. You are the one lifting Jesus.
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He is the central focus. But it's impossible to see
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Jesus and leave you out of the picture.
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Speaker 3: Believed and believed and.
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Speaker 6: Believe for you really, so don't sit down this morning,
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sen apostle.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a sinner. By God's grace, I've solved that problem.
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We are talking of self here is can I can
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I remember Jesus when I look at you? Let me
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tell you how you know that self is dead. The
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more they look at you, the more they forget about you,
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and another image is projected through you. When you look
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at the mirror, you don't focus on the glass. The
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mirror is so is so dedicated to its work. When
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you look at it. You see what the mirror reflects.
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The mirror has never been under pressure to make you say,
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are you aware that I'm plated with gold? The wrong
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as a singular assignment to reflect the image.
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Speaker 3: My one desire.
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Speaker 7: Is that you be praised, That you be praised, That
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you be praised.
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Speaker 3: It's my one desire that you be prayed, that you
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be prayed. How do you know that you are alive
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to yourself?
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Speaker 2: The language of me, my eye, my children, my car,
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my achievement.
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Speaker 3: Uh huh, that is the language of self.
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Speaker 2: The Bible says a man can receive nothing, accept it
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is given to him from a book.
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Speaker 3: Have you read that in your Bible? We have to
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obtain grace from God.
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Speaker 2: This obsession to one to be the face behind achievements. Now,
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don't get me wrong, It is God's desire to lift us,
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but we have to be careful. Many have made this
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mistake to their tragedy. Vital sign number two self centered living.
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I say against Christ's centered living many times when I
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finish meetings and my phone is full of all kinds
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of text messages apostle Joshua Sellman, you're this man, You're
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blah blah. And people say all kinds of things in
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the whole of this Africa. By saying, and sometimes I
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lift up the text before God, I said, deliver me
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from this evil.
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Speaker 3: I mean it. I'm not saying that people are bad,
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They're since here. But can I tell.
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Speaker 2: You people can clap you to your grief. It's not
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only persecution that kills or not can kill too. They
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can bring you. You read about God generals, and you
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will read about people who they were doing well. There
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is a healthy applaud there's a healthy way to acknowledge.
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Speaker 3: God in you.
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Speaker 2: But there is a way that becomes idolatry. And anything
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that stands the way of God, he fights it, even
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if it's Him that gave you. Judge is quiet. You
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came for a conference. Glory be to the name of
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the Lord. This is how believers are proved. This is
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how it works. Fight out Sign number two. As I'm
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speaking like this in all honesty, you look at your
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life and you can see that in truth, I'm guilty
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of this. I came from a background where nobody seemed
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to have recognized our growth, and chances are excellent that
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that temptation is welling up within me.
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Speaker 3: Do you know not every closed door is demonic.
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Speaker 2: There are doors is God himself that close because of
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his love for you. Because if he opens that door
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for you in that unrenewed state, that door will kill
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you from day one.
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Speaker 3: There are doors that is not demons that close.
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Speaker 2: God closes it as an act of his love so
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that you will listen to a message like this. When
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you hear a message like this and your heart is
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ever committed to see him glorified, then you can open
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the door. Years say God, the Lord told me something.
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Many of you may have heard me say it in
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my teachings. He said, son, if you will let men
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see me, there is nothing I will not give you.
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Speaker 3: That is it. If you will let men see me
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take the stage. Lord have your way. Don't say just listen,
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just a fair sol I am nothing more.
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Speaker 8: When you're done, will you please take the glory.
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Speaker 3: I'm sadis fine just to see you glory fine?
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Speaker 2: Such a powerful song. It's easier song than leaved.
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Speaker 3: When you're done. You know what it means to be
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a celebrity. Please take the glory. I'm sad.
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Speaker 2: He's fine to see you hi, and leave tat up.
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Speaker 3: You are shining in the light of your glory.
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Speaker 2: Pour out your power and love as we sing, Holy, Holy.
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Speaker 3: Holy, We'll see you.
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Speaker 6: I leave terror.
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Speaker 3: You are shining in the line of your glovery. Pour
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out your power.
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Speaker 2: And love as we sing Holy, Holy, Holy. Someone will
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let me tell you there is no door that God
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cannot open. The issue is He has fletted your life
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and he has seen if I promote this man to
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a beyond narrow realm, the casualty that will come from
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this obsession to see self glorified will even lead this
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guy to backsliding. He may even lose his salvation. God
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wastes men and allocates liftings to men.
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Speaker 3: There are men of God.
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Speaker 2: No matter how they first, they will never be able
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to rise beyond certain spiritual states because God has flected
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them and He has seen that if I trust this
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man with this kind of prophetic power, that when you
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speak things happen, and your anger problem is not dealt with,
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you will kill people in one week with that annointing.
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Are we learning now? I hope you're not offended. Vital
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sign number three. If all we do this morning is
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just the vital signs, I think where doctor Jesus is
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diagnossos and many of us have seen that everything he's
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saying he is right. Vital sign Number three signs of
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spiritual retrogression.
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Speaker 3: That's what I'm dealing with.
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Speaker 2: Number three, consistent ever increasing compromise of your values and
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godly standards. That is the third vital sign of spiritual retrogression.
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Write it down, please, consistent command ever in increasing compromise
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of your values and your godly standards. Consistent every increasing
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compromise of your values and godly standards.
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Speaker 3: These are signs of spiritual retrogression.
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Speaker 2: Do you know the first time Abraham gave Lot in
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Genesis thirteen, Abraham gave Lot an opportunity to choose a
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place where he would go because they were fighting. Lot,
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the Bible says, went and set to near Sodom. Someone
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said near Sodom. One more time, saying near Sodom. He
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didn't enter Sodom. His first point of stay was near Sodom.
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By the time Abraham will go to rescue Lot. Where
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did he find Lot at the heart of Sodom? All
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set and needs to do to destroy you is to
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keep you near what he wants to destroy you. And
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he leaves you there near a wrong company, near wrong information.
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And he leaves you there and it begins to buy
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you into it. Can I tell you, when you like
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today what you hated yesterday?
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Speaker 3: That was evil? You're in trouble already, are we together?
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Speaker 2: Ever increasing consistent, ever increasing compromise of your values and
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godly standards. There are people who would never wake up
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in the money and start their deal without prayer and devotion.
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But right now it doesn't matter. Two months you've not
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opened your Bible, no prayer. You just forgive yourself and
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sweep it under the carpet the moment you begin to
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compromise on your values. In the office, they used to
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share money and you sad, no problem, I'm there. But
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because of the economy, now you felt stupid for just
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allowing money to pass you like that. And I won't
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be foolish like this again. I'm retiring in two years.
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I wouldn't after all, this all our money is the
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national cake.
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Speaker 3: This is what leads a.
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Speaker 2: Lot of believers into some of these things. Now, please
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don't get me wrong, I'm not condemning. We know that
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this is something that is only the grace of God
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that can help you.
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Speaker 3: Man. I hope you understand that. But the truth is
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still the truth. Ever increasing there are ministers.
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Speaker 2: So when they started ministry, they made up their mind
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that money will never be my drive, and some of
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all these things will never be my drive until the
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day they kept you in a five star hotel.
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Speaker 3: Ah, and he.
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Speaker 2: Said, so life come, there is a possibility of life
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at this level. Can I tell you this is the
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reason why the prayer of messy is a prayer that
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you need to pray every day. There are many times
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many of us think it's easy to overcome certain things.
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Speaker 3: Is because you've not experienced it.
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Speaker 2: Compromise of your values, compromise of your godly standards. I
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don't drink, but my best friend is a drunkard. Yes, ordam,
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keep watching. The day you are testy and there's nothing
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else to drink, you will be shocked and surprised at.
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Speaker 3: What you will do. What will happen to you? Are
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we learning? I'm sorry?
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Speaker 2: I hope I'm not offending you sincere apologies. How many
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of your values and your standards have you compromise thus far?
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Speaker 3: There is a desperate call to return?
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Speaker 2: Are we together? Desperate call to return? Promise is a
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very dangerous thing. It has a subtle way of destruction.
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It does not destroy in one day. Compromise destroys because
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of the accumulation and repetition of those compromise steps. You
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told the lie and you end a million mill from
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the lie. The memory of that one million will give
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you the freedom to lie easier the next time. It
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won't be hard at the second time as it was
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the first. Again, you see it now until the day
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you find out that true compromise, you've.
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Speaker 3: Raised hundred million.
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Speaker 2: Now the day life comes to collect back that hundred million,
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it will come and you will.
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Speaker 3: Give it back with interest. I will learning.
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Speaker 2: Can I tell you this by this teaching, many of
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us have to trust God for grace and use this
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year twenty twenty to say the name of Jesus Christ.
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The associations, the practices, the people, and the com me
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of friends that will not encourage my consistency. There's no
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such thing as where schoolmates were primary school mats.
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Speaker 3: With anybody who becomes.
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Speaker 2: A basis for compromising on your value, you don't have
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to hate them, but they deserve to be kept aside.
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Speaker 3: If it is.
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Speaker 2: That mountain you are climbing in the spirit, you have
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to have the courage to shad of certain people. It's
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that this one thing I do forgetting the things that
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are behind.
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Speaker 3: I press. It didn't say I move. I press. That
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means there are resistances. Let's hurry up. Number four vital
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sign Number four? Are we learning?
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Speaker 2: What is the fourth vital sign of spiritual retrogression? Decline
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in your spiritual convictions? A decline in your spiritual convictions.
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I don't even know if I believe this prayer again,
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this prayer in kite thing is not working the moment.
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There is a decline in your spiritual convictions. Lift up
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your hands, let me speak over your life. And ah, please,
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when my Landlord was almost killing me, that was even
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the day you prophesy three times and nothing happened. Once
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there is a decline, you begin to mock prophecy.
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Speaker 3: You mock the world of God. Are we together?
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Speaker 2: Worship is going on, and they say, in this presence
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of worship, God is able to change people's lives.
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Speaker 3: And you're just watching, and in your mind you are saying.
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Speaker 2: Noisemakers finish singing a lesson than a wrap up this service?
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Speaker 3: Do you know there is a way that the light
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of God your heart can.
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Speaker 2: Be so close towards spiritual things that what used to
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make sense no longer makes sense. They preach on giving
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as one of the principles that connects you to increase.
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You just laugh while they're saying it, and they say, oh, there,
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I pity these people.
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Speaker 3: I've been given since nineteen ninety.
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Speaker 2: God should come and show me what benefit have gotten
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from it. These are vital signs of spiritual retrogression. When
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you begin to mock the truth, when the truth no
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longer makes sense, it's a sign that a level of
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canality would have eaten you up. You are no longer spiritual,
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have you said? People who laugh at anything God evangelism
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they laugh, what is there with winning souls?
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Speaker 3: How are we going show?
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Speaker 2: And then they bring one or two occasions and now
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use it to mean that.
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Speaker 3: That thing is failed.
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Speaker 2: For instance, you can say evangelism and they say, how
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many people in the church are really serious with God?
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And they begin another debate, my wicked landlord? Is he
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not the one sitting there and he's a member of
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that church? And they use those things as excuses, you know,
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when people's convictions are dwindling because they find one or
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two legitimate case. The body of Christ is not a
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perfect place. God is still building his charge. So it
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doesn't mean that just because there are one or two cases,
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you generalize. I use it as an excuse to deal
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with something that the problem is with you the passon.
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But you're only using an occasion to vent out your
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spiritual dicadence. There are many people who would not give.
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So when they're talking about say, for instance, God forbid,
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but that just an example. Oh a pastors toll some money,
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they say, huh, you see them. It's not about what
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the pastor's told. It's about their willingness to give. They're
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looking for a story that will legitimize their refusal to give.
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Decline in spiritual convictions.
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Speaker 3: Don't let my love grow cold.
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Speaker 8: I'm crying out like the fire. Okay, I need your day, surplease.
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I'm crying now. Light the fire again. Don't let my
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love grow cold. I am crying light the fire, Hugain.
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I need your deed, Surplease.
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Speaker 3: I'm cri in not listen for some of us. God
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is speaking to you.
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Speaker 2: You need to go back to the things you once
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believed that brought power for you with God. You once
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believed in fasting, you once believed in prayer, you once
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believed in the communion of the saints. You once believed
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in prayer, you once believed in the study of God's word,
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you once submitted to the world of God as the
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absolute of already over your life. It's calling you this morning.
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It's time to return.
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Speaker 3: For many of us right now, business connections are better
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than the favor of God.
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Speaker 2: For many of us, right now, human manipulations are better.
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Speaker 3: Return return decline.
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Speaker 2: In spiritual convictions, it says, how shall we escape if
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we neglect so great salvation? I believe that without the
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ministry of the world, and without prayer, there is absolutely
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nothing my life can do that will count. I believe
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that outside of the mercy of God, there is absolutely
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nothing I can become. Can I tell you go back
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home and write down your beliefs? What do you really believe?
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Be certain about the things that you believe. Look Chapter one,
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let's read the first four verses. Please help us media,
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we find somewhere to pray.
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Speaker 3: Now. It's God challenge in us this morning. Look Chapter one.
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Speaker 2: For as much as many have taken in hand to
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set forth in order a declaration of those things which
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are most surely believed among us, did you see it?
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Speaker 3: There?
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Speaker 2: There are things that must be most surely believed among
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believers as a spiritual family like this, there are things
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that must be You may and you about other things.
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I don't believe this one. But there are things that
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if you do not believe, you are not a Christian.
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You must believe in the incarnation of Jesus. You must
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believe that he walked upon the earth. You must believe
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in his seedlessness. You must believe that he died and
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he resurrected. You must believe that he's today enthroned us,
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Law and Christ. These are the things that must be
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most surely believed among us. We're reading to verse four,
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verse two now, even as they delivered them onto us,
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which from the beginning where eyewitnesses and ministers of the
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world three instead, it seemed good to me also, haven't
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had perfect understanding of all things from the very first
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to write onto thee in order most.
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Speaker 3: Excellently of us.
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Speaker 2: Why verse four, that thou might test not the certainty
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of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. I don't
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just want you to believe them. I want you to
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be persuaded that the thing I believe is true is
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not just because my pastors said it.
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Speaker 3: It's not just because a man of God.
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Speaker 2: There are many believers who intrinsically do not believe the
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truths they have heard. They only believe the man who
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said it, but they don't believe it. They have not
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believed firsting as a personal revelation. They have not believed
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giving as a personal revelation. They have not believed prayer
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as a personal revelation. They just have confidence in the
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one who preached it, and their belief is just in
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loyalty to the preacher, not connection to that truth. We
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must cry that God will help us. How do I
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know that you have been convicted over a truth? Number One,
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you practice it. Number two, you cannot be quiet about it.
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It's impossible to be quiet about something you truly believe.
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Speaker 3: Sooner or later it will sleep out of you.
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Speaker 2: If you believe the world of God, even when you
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are justing and playing so consciously.
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Speaker 3: Scripture will come out.
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Speaker 2: If you believe in prayer, even if you are acting
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and playing with your children subconsciously, is prayer that will
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come out.
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Speaker 3: Whatever comes out of you is what was in you first.
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Speaker 2: If you really believe in evangelism and you have a
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jealuism only happens when the church has an evangelism, then
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you don't believe it. You are only loyal to a
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corporate thing the church is doing. If you only first
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when there is a corporate first, you don't believe in
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first thing. If you only give when there is a
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corporate demand, maybe a project in church, and they challenge
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people to give, you don't believe in giving. Can I
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tell you this, everything you truly believe in. You believe
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in eating. That's why you eat, whether you're alone or not.
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You don't need supervision. You believe in bathing.
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Speaker 3: Is that true? That's why you can go and take
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your bath.
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Speaker 2: Whether you don't need supervision, the moment you need to
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be supervised so that you do it is not yet
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your conviction. But I know whom I have believed, and
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I am persuaded.
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Speaker 3: Are you ready for the last one?
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Speaker 2: The last vital sign that shows spiritual retrogression, A decline
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in your passion for the House of God, a decline
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in your passion for the House of God, a decline
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in your passion for.
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Speaker 3: The House of God. Can I tell you this?
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Speaker 2: The House of God and your passion for the corporate
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gathering of believers is a very valid measure of your
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spiritual fire and your health. In twenty twenty, when the
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pandemic was at its height in many nations of the world,
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they declared sit at home for over how many months?
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Speaker 3: About three months? Am I right on?
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Speaker 2: That?
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Speaker 3: For many people that those three.
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Speaker 2: Months was the worst spiritual moment of their lives, because
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when they recalled people back, they were no longer Christians.
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You can easily laugh at Peter for being with Jesus
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for three years and running away from Jesus in seventy
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two hours. But here we are fed four members in
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a church for ten years, and simply because an occasion
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necessitated sitting at home for three months, many people we
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are no longer Christians again. All right, you can now
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return to church Workfor you love your finances. That's why
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you love the ATM. Do you eat the ATM? But
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the ATM stores your money, and because of that, you
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still have that passion to stand before the ATM because
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you know something in the ATM. It is not really
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the ATM. But at least I should say you, if
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you really have money, you account. Is that true? You
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should frequent the ATM? Is that true? Just an example?
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Speaker 3: Now, when you run away from the house of God.
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Speaker 2: It is big because something within you has told you
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there is no blessing in the house of God.
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Speaker 3: Some one thirty three.
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Speaker 2: Behold how good and pleasant it is when brethren dwell
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together in unity? It says, It is like the oil
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that comes upon the head of Eron. Is that true
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that it comes to his bed, down to his skirts?
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He says, there in that gathering the Lord had commanded
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the blessing. Can I tell you this, No matter how
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spiritual you are, there are certain things you will never
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get on your own.
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Speaker 3: It is in the house of God, it says.
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Speaker 2: When I came into the tabernacle, then understood eye, there
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are certain levels of spiritual understanding you can never have
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when you are alone. Let me tell you one of
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the ways the devil destroys people. One of the ways
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the devil destroys people is to cut you away from
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the larger body of believers and leave you alone. When
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you are alone, you will now strike you in a
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way that there's nobody you do not have that corporate covering. Again, listen,
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how many of you have seen chackole burning. Maybe you're
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burning something outside on a cold night, red hod chackle
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You know what happens. Pick one, as red as it is,
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Just pick one and drop it. What begins to happen
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to it? Don't off the fire, Just pick one and
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drop it alone. What happens. You did not pour water
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on the chack hole, just pick it out. That means
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the fire was burning, not just because of the individual
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strength of that chackle. The ability to be together is what.
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Speaker 3: Kept the fire.
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Speaker 2: How many of you have come to church week and
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discourage and as soon as you arrive, the song.
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Speaker 3: That was raised here just minis that to your spirit?
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Speaker 2: It was as if the Holy ghoes just spoke to
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the worshippers, and the announcement one joke that someone other
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people were laughing for you were crying because that joke
51:03
was the answer to the prayer. All these things happen
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in church, and then comes the message fire on the altar.
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By the time you are sharing the grace, you are equipped,
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You are saying certain you come back again and see
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what I'm able to do. The reason why many of
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our children are becoming issues of concern is because many
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parents give them education, but they did not give them
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passion for.
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Speaker 3: The House of God. They went to school, they have
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phones with all kinds of.
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Speaker 2: Applications, but you talk about anything that has to do
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with the House of God. Even if they come, they
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frowned their faces and hang around the door, browsing and discussing,
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discovering new apps the moment they hear the grace of
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our lodges was Christ. Let me encourage you. No body
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under your roof should serve other God. They should leave
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your roof to serve another God. Provided you are under
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my roof. The God who gave me the food you
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are eating is the one.
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Speaker 3: Who serve together. Do you agree on that.
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Speaker 2: Don't allow people to come and stay under your roof
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and bring all kinds of opinions. And I'm not talking
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of people who just came and visited. You are You
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are the God who is giving me favor. You are
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benefiting from me, the God who answers my prayer. You
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are a a You are a recipient of that.
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Speaker 3: As for me and my house.
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Speaker 2: Because God, who hold you accountable for everyone who is
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under your roof who declines spiritually quick recap vital signs
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of spiritual retrogression. Number one significant deviation from your love
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for the Lord and the things of the Kingdom. Number
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two self centered living as against Christ's centered living.
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Speaker 3: The law for self self glorification.
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Speaker 2: Number three consistent ever increasing compromise of your values and
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godly standards. Number four a decline in your spiritual convictions.
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Number five a decline in your passion for the House
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of God, A decline in your passion for the House
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of God. When churches were sharing pliatives the moment, people
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were aware that was not preaching that was going on there,
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but that there was bags of rice and beans and
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gary and hindom. There were people who were not members,
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people who had no business being around churches. They came
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and they were patiently waiting with leather bags. Others even
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already put their bags in their pockets, so that there's
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no excuse.
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Speaker 3: You can't say, well we get back, I have it.
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Speaker 2: You just give me because most people listen. So they
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had the passion for the House of God because they
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had that pliatives who were being shared. But when it
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has to do with the spiritual nourishment, listen to what
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Jesus said that man lives based on two things. He
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lives on food and he lives on words. You don't
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live on food alone. Man shall not live by bread alone.
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But by every word. If the only thing you are
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receiving is physical food, you will still not live well.
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There are certain words that must feed your spirit. Are
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we learning this morning? Why am I teaching this? Because
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if you want it to be a new term for
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you in your life and your destiny, you have to
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re examine your current state.
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Speaker 3: Is that true?
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Speaker 2: You cannot go forward without identifying where you are and
55:15
doing an honest appraiser on your life. Conferences like this
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also double as moments of retreats, times when there is.
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Speaker 3: An honest God suches our hearts.
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Speaker 2: The psalms who say, touch my heart and try my thoughts,
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it says, to know if there is any wicked way
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in me, then lead me to the way of a lasting.
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For some of us, based on these vital science we
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have five over five?
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Speaker 3: Am I right?
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Speaker 2: Everything I mentioned you may be a victim of This
55:50
is a matting script that even if you have one
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over five, there is something wrong.
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Speaker 3: For some of us. It is deviation from your love
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for God.
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Speaker 2: You have to return, like he said to the seven
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churches in Revelation, returning to your first love. Your first
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love was not contracts, Your first love was not real estate,
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Your first love was not a federal government job. Your
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first love was Jesus, and he's crying that you return,
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and then the desire to see Jesus glorified. Then for
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some of us, we need to carefully examine all the
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compromises we have allowed to happen.
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Speaker 3: In our lives. Don't postpone it till tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Some of you, after this service, you need to send
56:46
certain text messages to people. Thank you so much, but
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I'm in a season in my life where I'm re
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examining my values, and I sincerely apologize this. Our friendship
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may not hold as it has been. Again, I thank
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you for your understanding in advance. God bless you, and
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not feel guilty because you are on your way going forward.
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Speaker 3: Love, you say, command relationship is not m hm mm
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hmm mm hmm.
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Speaker 2: You must make up your mind. It has to be
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Jesus enthroned.
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Speaker 4: Now one to the one upon the throne.
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Speaker 3: We raise a sun. We raise Sun for God and
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God alone. Haley wea haleya. Now one to.
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Speaker 2: The lamb upon the throne we raise, Sir, We raise
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a sign.
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Speaker 3: Over the nations of dear hally hall.
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Speaker 9: Very only one name, very some, only one name.
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Speaker 2: With power to save, Oh, dic, I believe he has
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power to save.
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Speaker 7: Verys only one name, very soly, one name.
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Speaker 2: With power to say, with power to say. Neither is
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their salvation in any other. For there is no name
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under heaven given on to men by which we must
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be saved.
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Speaker 3: Can I tell you this. Kings will rise and kings
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will fall. Governments will come and governments will go.
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Speaker 2: I don't care what political party. People will get jobs,
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and people will retire. Young people will become parents, and
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they will become grandparents. There is only one thing that
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does not change the reign of His Majesty seated upon
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the phone.
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Speaker 3: Every other thing will change.
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Speaker 2: Every parent today was once a baby. Every grandfather was
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once a parent.
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Speaker 3: Crown named King, Kings, crown him Lord of lords, wonderful
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counselor the Mighty.
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Speaker 5: He may well, God is we, and he shall raid,
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he shall win.
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Speaker 3: He shall read for.
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Speaker 2: Aven, not the government, not your keys.
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Speaker 10: He shall end, he shall rise, he shall read for a.
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Speaker 3: We're about to pray.
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Speaker 2: The Lord sent me here this morning to wake us
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up and to challenge us. It is not a call
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to condemnation, but it's a call to a greater press.
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Speaker 3: For spiritual things.
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Speaker 2: No matter what you earn, no matter who you are,
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no matter what you have, the ultimate index for measuring
1:01:30
your progress in life it's your relationship with Jesus.
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Speaker 3: Take it down from him, please and done. There is
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just one thing, the man. Did I do my best
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to leave for truth? Did I leave my life for you?
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When it's all been said and.
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Speaker 9: Done, all my treasures will mean.
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Speaker 2: Only one I've done for Love's.
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Speaker 8: Free word will stand the test of time.
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Speaker 3: Listen to me.
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Speaker 2: I hate to be the bureau of bad news, but
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let me announce to you that if Christ tarries, whether
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you like it or not, one day this life will
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be wrapped on no matter how younger, no matter how old.
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This heath has been a house that has hosted many people.
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Many of them have gone. Some of them left legacies
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of shame and pain as a result of rejecting Jesus.
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Some of them left legacies of honor. Some never had
1:02:58
the privilege of going to school, Some never had the
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privilege of becoming great people.
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Speaker 3: But if all I have is Jesus, I've got something
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more than God. I will tell it to the world.
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Jesus is small than God.
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Speaker 9: If all I have is Jesus, I've got something more
1:03:24
than God. I will tell it to my world. Jesus
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is small.
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Speaker 2: That at the end of your life, your bank account
1:03:40
does not follow you. I'm not discouraging productivity. I'm challenging
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and reprioritizing our passion. Nobody will go to heaven as
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a couple. Nobody will go to heaven as a cego.
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Nobody will go to heaven as an apostle, or a
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prophet or a reverend. Ah our designers, as wonderful as
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they are good.
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Speaker 3: She love it one.
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Speaker 2: Thank God for them. They remain in the wardrobe as
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we go. Even your Bible will not follow you. It
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is only what is in your heart that goes with you.
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This is a call this morning to re examine our
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lives because for many of us, the way we have
1:04:22
been living, we are not living circumspectly. We have major
1:04:26
on minors and minor on majors. Every other thing finds
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its relevance when Christ is at the center of what
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you are doing.
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Speaker 3: We are going to pray.
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Speaker 2: And this prayer is not a general prayer, it's a
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personal prayer. Within the time I have left, I will
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just give us five minutes. I don't know how you're
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going to cry before the Lord this morning, but it
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is going to be a complete surrender before Jesus. There
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is nothing to be ashamed of. While I'm speaking right now,
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the Holy Ghost is speaking to you, showing you from
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this list vital signs of spiritual retrogression.
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Speaker 3: Is telling you.
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Speaker 2: This is what I've been showing you in dreams the
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other day when I sent somebody to talk to you.
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This was what I was trying to say. Since you
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did not understand it, I now brought you to this conference.
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Can I tell you what besides a man who hears
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the chastening of the Lord and does not break down
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with repentance, we are he for.
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Speaker 9: You come and what you do.
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Speaker 2: We are here for you, come and what you do.
1:05:54
Sadaha Sun.
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Speaker 9: You saw you do what you do. We need a move,
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this says.
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Speaker 2: See. Let me tell you this. When I go before God,
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I don't go as MG. I'll be stupid to do that.
1:06:21
When I go before God, I don't thank God for
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the things that people say about Joshua Selmer.
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Speaker 3: Let his name be glorified for it.
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Speaker 2: But when I go before my God and my Maker,
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I rolled before him.
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Speaker 3: And said Lord your boys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah again, it is by your messy that I am kept.
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And if you withdraw your messy from my life for
1:06:41
one minute, I will be a catastrophe multiplied. So this
1:06:46
is the kind of attitude that receives the attention of God.
1:06:52
Sometimes this our arrow guns before God is the reason
1:06:55
why we don't receive anything.
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Speaker 3: Let that man not think you will receive any thing
1:07:00
from the Lord.
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Speaker 8: I'm coming back to the herd of worship. When it's
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all about you. It's all about you, Jesus, I'm.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, Lord for the thing made when it's all about you.
1:07:25
It's all about you now.
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Speaker 2: In the next five minutes, I don't know whether you
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will lie down, whether you.
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Speaker 3: Will stand up. I leave you with your Creator for
1:07:36
the next five minutes.
1:07:38
Speaker 2: Let there be an outbreak of a genuine spirit of repentance,
1:07:43
a genuine manifestation of brokenness before God. Kay before your maker,
1:07:53
pras Kita theater, show me messy, God of Heaven, arise
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like the my tea God that you are.
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Speaker 3: Please cry before him.
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Speaker 2: Forget about who is by your left hand right. This
1:08:12
is before your makeup.
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Speaker 3: High cast the highestroality.
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Speaker 2: I am mandone before keep praying your royal magesty.
1:08:34
Speaker 3: I cast my crown before.
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Speaker 9: The highesro Reality, I am undone before.
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Speaker 2: Your glorious magouy truly cast my crown before.
1:08:58
Speaker 3: The highest row.
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Speaker 2: Hell, I am mander before your glorious matches. Steek, I
1:09:12
cast my heart before your glorious Margoteak, I am mandone before.
1:09:26
Speaker 11: Your glorious match. Steek, go ahead and pray such my
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heart to a card. Purify my motives. Restore me back
1:09:38
to your presence. It is a cast, not away your
1:09:41
presence from me. Cast me not away from your presence.
1:09:44
Take not your spirit from me.
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Speaker 2: Restore, restore, restore some of you. Pray, restop back the
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joy of my salvation.
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Speaker 3: Lord.
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Speaker 2: It was not like this from the nineteen eighty, nineteen
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eighty to nineteen ninety, it.
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Speaker 3: Was not like this.
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Speaker 2: Let's part that fellowship. Restore that fellowship. Restore that fellowship.
1:10:13
Restore my prayer life, Restore my ward life. Restore my
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passion for the House of God. Restore my passion for you.
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Please pray five more minutes.
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Speaker 3: Take over, take over.
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Speaker 12: I have come to the end of myself. Take Over,
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take over, I have come to the end of myself.
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Speaker 3: Halleluvia. Halleluia. I have come to the end of myself.
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Speaker 2: Hallelujah, halleluvia.
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Speaker 3: I have come to the end myself. Take over, take over.
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Speaker 2: I have come to the end my self. Please pray.
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There are some of you. By now you would have
1:11:16
been a mighty vessel.
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Speaker 3: In the hand of God.
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Speaker 2: There are nations that are dying because the grass that
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should come upon your life, your retrogression is making all
1:11:27
that's go to hell. Find that flame back again. Not
1:11:35
I'm ready in twenty twenty two. I am ready there
1:11:39
at this conference. We can start again. We can start again.
1:11:44
We can start again, Oh God of Heaven, we can
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start again. The prodigal son said, how many hyat savants
1:11:53
does my father have?
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Speaker 3: And I am here fitting with the swide?
1:11:57
Speaker 2: Is is that I will arise and I will go
1:12:00
to my father. I will say, Father, I have sin
1:12:03
against you and against Heaven. I am not wanted to
1:12:06
be called your son. Take me as one of your slaves.
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Someone pray. You are not praying as a couple. You
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are not praying as a parent. You are praying as
1:12:25
one who has been purchased by the blood of Jesus.
1:12:29
Speaker 3: Give me a new beginning, a call.
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Speaker 2: The Sami is creating me a clean heart to renew
1:12:38
a right spirit within me. Pray, pray one more minute.
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Speaker 3: Someone is great.
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Speaker 2: It's time to win that love destiny one sand for all.
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And many fathers said, who have not stood up to
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their spiritual responsibility. You've stood up to your financial responsibility,
1:13:44
to parenting responsibility, but perhaps not your spiritual responsibility.
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Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus Christ, while still in that position.
1:14:47
Speaker 2: Of soul searching and genuine repentance, whoever will come to him,
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the Bible says he will in no wise castaway. Now
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there are people in this place this morning, even if
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it is just one person, I know that there are
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people repenting, everybody included me, all of us together who
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are crying before him.
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Speaker 3: But hear me, there are specific people here right now.
1:15:22
Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit is speaking to you and saying, as
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it is you've been completely connected from this Jesus' agenda.
1:15:34
You need to make your ways right. You need to
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be born again. You see moments like this, nobody will
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force you. It is between you and the God of
1:15:45
your salvation. Before I pray and speak over your life.
1:15:50
By the way, please invite everybody you can find to
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come tonight and all through this conference, you can see
1:15:59
what people here have missed because of lack of discernment.
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Some of your worlds who are here right now, the
1:16:06
Holy Gooes is speaking to you. You know, somebody, you know,
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this is the kind of meeting they need. What they
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need is not counseling. What they need is brokenness before God.
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But for this morning, I know that there's someone here
1:16:22
who is saying Jesus, like the prodigal son, I'm ready
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to come.
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Speaker 3: Back home wherever you are.
1:16:28
Speaker 2: Please let this not be an emotional thing. This is
1:16:31
a serious thing. You're here any of the overflow. I
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want to count three. I want to leave your seat
1:16:41
and come and stand right here. I want to lead
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you through that prayer.
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Speaker 3: One. You can win that war.
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Speaker 2: This morning.
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Speaker 7: Wha.
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Speaker 3: I am ready to hand.
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Speaker 2: Over everything to Jesus, genuinely, not just some emotional touche thing, genuinely.
1:17:21
Speaker 4: For the way of the Lord. It's the way halve Wee's.
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I choose the way of the law for the way
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of the law.
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Speaker 3: It's the way half Wee's hus.
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Speaker 2: Now, for those of you in frontiers, some of you
1:17:52
are crying. Don't be ashamed of your tears. This is
1:17:55
a family. God is giving us a new beginning. You're
1:17:59
on your needs, many of you. I want you to
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pray this prayer after me. You don't have to look
1:18:04
at me. Jesus is the most important person here, but
1:18:09
I want you to pray it from the depth of
1:18:11
your heart. You are not reciting a poet. Mean what
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you are saying. Please say I've told me. Wherever you are,
1:18:18
Say Lord Jesus, this morning I have heard your word.
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Speaker 3: I need you like never before.
1:18:30
Speaker 2: I come before you with genuine repentance. I ask you
1:18:37
to forgive my sins. Jesus have messy on me. I
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declare that from today and forever, you are my savior.
1:18:52
Speaker 3: You are my Lord, You are my king.
1:18:57
Speaker 2: Say Lord Jesus, receive eternal life into my spirit. And
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I declare that from tonight I am a child of God.
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Speaker 3: I go forward ever and backward never.
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Speaker 2: The power of saying satan hell and the grave is
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broken over my life. I am a child of God
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and I work in victory in Jesus' name. I pray
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now before I pray for you. Watch this, all of you,
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please look at me. May I have your attention. I
1:19:39
believe that there are counselor someone advises me. Okay, now
1:19:43
there's a father here, and I will plead that you
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just stand up, and all of you in concert, and
1:19:50
the counselors who have a word with you a minute
1:19:53
or two and you quickly come back the Lord bless you.
1:19:56
Please stand up this way, all of you less celebrate
1:19:58
them as they go. Please give them a big God
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bless you for the courage to.
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Speaker 3: Have honored this altar call.
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Speaker 2: It's not the best you can do for them. Allelujah,
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praise the name of the Lord. Our time is up tonight.
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Please lend my voice with a reverend and plead with
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you that you do well to do the work of
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an evangelist and invite someone telling Jesus is changing lives here.
1:20:37
Hopefully tonight I will have the time to pray for
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the sick and just speak over our lives. But I
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think this was most important this morning. We need to
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clean up a lot of things and be in a
1:20:47
position receiving miracles. Without your heart condition aright, will only
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be a waste of time.
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Speaker 3: Have we been blessed? Father? We honor you for this morning.
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We thank you for your word.
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Speaker 2: May we not only be hear us but do us
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even by the spirit of God, we obtain the grace
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to live the name of Jesus, we thank you because
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these adjustments remain permanent in our lives. To you be
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all the glory for in Jesus' name, we pray, Amen
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and Amen.
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Speaker 3: God bless you.