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Fellowship & Community [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: You want a family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome
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Speaker 1: back to the Morning DeVos.
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Speaker 1: us to go to.
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Speaker 2: Your family, your friends, your groups.
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Speaker 1: It's a blessing to have you back this week, New week,
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Speaker 1: New time. It's hot off here in the Northeast. And
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Speaker 1: of course we're gonna be praying for the families that
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Speaker 1: lost children, lost family members over in Texas.
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Speaker 2: That was a horrible situation. And like I said, day
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Speaker 2: to day, we're here today, gone tomorrow. You never know.
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Speaker 1: That's why I always encourage people to reconcile with the Lord,
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Speaker 1: to get right with God before tomorrow, like the day
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Speaker 1: of Salvation is to because we never know what's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: So my heart felt prayers go out to the families
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Speaker 1: in Texas that lost loved one or loved ones or children.
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Speaker 2: It's just a horrible situation.
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Speaker 1: Over there, and the world is broken, and people don't
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Speaker 1: realize the goodness of God because of the brokenness of
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Speaker 1: this world. But when you're broken, you and I need
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Speaker 1: to know that we need to be fixed. And the
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Speaker 1: one who fixes things, the one who gives us eternal life,
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Speaker 1: the one who puts things together for the good, is
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Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus himself. My brother, Robbie Newborn, Robert Diaz, God,
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Speaker 1: bless you, man, It's good to see you in the morning, Devo.
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Speaker 2: Blessing to you, my bros. Fellowship and community today.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about it, Fellowship and community today
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Speaker 1: in the morning, Devot.
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Speaker 2: We need each other, man.
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Speaker 1: I've been saying that, and I've known that ever since
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Speaker 1: I was a kid, that we need community. We need
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Speaker 1: to stick around, we need to stay together, we need
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Speaker 1: to be unified. We need to be concerned about what
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Speaker 1: other people are concerned with. We need to show love, support, prayer. Right,
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Speaker 1: They shared meals, prayed together, supported each other's needs, and
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Speaker 1: lived in authentic community. Who does that sound like I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna say that again? They shared meals. In other words,
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Speaker 1: they broke bread, prayed together, supported each other's needs, and
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Speaker 1: lived in authentic community. Who does that sound like? If
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Speaker 1: you know a community like that, praise God and men
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Speaker 1: stick to that community. But I'm going to be talking
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Speaker 1: about the early Church in the Book of Acts, Acts,
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Speaker 1: chapter two, verse forty four. They lived the life. Weren't perfect, right,
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Speaker 1: because they're humans, just like we are humans. But what
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Speaker 1: they did do what they were inspired by Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: to have this community, to have this fellowship and community
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Speaker 1: because they know without fellowship, they knew with our fellowship,
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Speaker 1: what are they doing?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Without unity, you have disunity, without order, you have chaos
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Speaker 1: without the Lord, you have humanism. Right, So it's amazing
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Speaker 1: when I look at it and like alive, I'd be like, wow,
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Speaker 1: I wish we could get back to some sort of
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Speaker 1: fellowship and community, Biblical fellowship and community.
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Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. Amen, So let's go for If
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Speaker 2: you have any questions, comments, concerns, pray requests, or anything
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Speaker 2: along those lines, please don't hesitate to leave it on
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Speaker 2: a live chat.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. It'd be in Acts chapter two,
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Speaker 1: verse forty four was start there, amen, and see where
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Speaker 1: the Lord leads. Amen, See what the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: God leads, because this is part of God's economy, part
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Speaker 1: of the way he wants the body to move, part
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Speaker 1: of the way that he wants us to know how
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Speaker 1: to respond to one another. Sister Joanne, I see you.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the morning Devo.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna pray first. After we pray or shut us
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Speaker 1: out for like sixty seconds, and then on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the sixty we'll get right into today's morning Devo.
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Speaker 1: Fellowship and community. Father, I thank you for today. I
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Speaker 1: pray for all the people in Texas right now, that you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, will comfort those who lost loved ones, that
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Speaker 1: you would encourage those who are seeking and searching for
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Speaker 1: people that are still not found in sexist lorg God,
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Speaker 1: that you would be the guide in light, that you
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Speaker 1: would be the hope, that you will be their love,
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Speaker 1: that you will be their comforter. I pray, Lord God
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Speaker 1: for all people in the situation that they're facing today.
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Speaker 1: I pray the peace of God which transcends all understanding.
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Speaker 1: And be upon me, my family, and be upon those
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Speaker 1: watching and listening right now in the Holy name of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, I pray that we will continue to react
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Speaker 1: and respond accordingly, that we will be prepared for what's
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Speaker 1: to come, that we will be ready.
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Speaker 2: For your return, that we will be.
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Speaker 1: Continually seeking, asking and knocking from the Kingdom's perspective according
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Speaker 1: to your word and purpose in our lives. I pray
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Speaker 1: to God that you will help us with this biblical
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Speaker 1: fellowship and community, that you would show us how that
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Speaker 1: you will continue to encourage us to be connected towards
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Speaker 1: one another, with one another in one accord in unity,
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Speaker 1: and that you will help us be the helpers to
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Speaker 1: those who need the help, and the comforters who need
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Speaker 1: to be comforted, and the glue that you want us
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Speaker 1: to be according to your word.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: So I pray lo God, the piece of God, the
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Speaker 1: protection I had, Your protection over myself, my wife, are children,
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Speaker 1: our grandchildren, a man, my son and his children and
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Speaker 1: his family, his wife as well. I pray Psalm ninety one,
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Speaker 1: and I speak that over every single person that's connecting
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Speaker 1: now or will connect later in Jesus Holy name. Prayer
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Speaker 1: is by faith in Jesus' name, and those who agree
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Speaker 1: with the prayer, we.
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Speaker 2: Say amen to that. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I'll be right back sixty seconds. How we shut this out.
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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get right into it. Fellowship
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Speaker 1: and community on the morning Devo. I'll be right back, heymen,
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Speaker 1: let's go for it.
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Speaker 2: Back.
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Speaker 1: Fellowship and community seems so Christianese, right, It seems like, man,
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Speaker 1: is that possible in the times that we're living in
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Speaker 1: right now, that we could look at the example of
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Speaker 1: the birth of the first century Church and try to
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Speaker 1: be that way and live that way and move that way.
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Speaker 1: Do you think they have a different Holy Spirit that
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Speaker 1: they were filled by and filled with? Or this is
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Speaker 1: the same Holy spirit, the same holy spirit that's spoken
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Speaker 1: about in the Old Covenant, in the New Covenant, that
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Speaker 1: was filled that filled the people in an upper room
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty and they ran out of that
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Speaker 1: room speaking in different languages, and men baptizing, laying hands
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Speaker 1: on the sick, and they were recovering, preaching the gospel,
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Speaker 1: and God himself was adding to the fold, adding to
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Speaker 1: their number. Is this a different Holy Spirit that the
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Speaker 1: Book of Acts was talking about? Or the same holy
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Speaker 1: spirit a man that united the people then and can
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Speaker 1: unite the people now, and that is uniting people now,
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Speaker 1: I should say, amen. So I know I've said it before,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of them as to the first century Church,
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Speaker 1: the way they were well. Number one, we're not the
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Speaker 1: first century on them anymore. But I understand, I understand
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Speaker 1: the meaning behind that is almost like, listen, we have
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Speaker 1: a blueprint, if we have the manual, if you have
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Speaker 1: the master plan, or why are we deviating? Why are
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Speaker 1: we trying to recreate the.
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Speaker 2: Wheel when we were? You have an example in the scriptures. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So I just want to encourage people today not to
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Speaker 1: sparkle any kind of argument or anything like that. It's
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Speaker 1: just just to look at the word, look at the scripture. Amen,
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Speaker 1: devote some time in the scripture and allow Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: to speak through the scripture. You ready, Let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: Fellowship and community, Amen. So you know, me and my
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Speaker 1: wife and my family, we're all about fellowship.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: We love to get together with other people, other families,
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Speaker 1: get to know other families, get to know other communities.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: And fellowship a fellowship when you mix it with community, Amen,
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Speaker 1: is just more powerful. Acts Chapter two, verse forty four.
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Speaker 1: And all those whoever, those people were right, who have
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Speaker 1: believed in Jesus as Savior that could speak to us now,
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Speaker 1: were together and had all things in common, considering their possessions.
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Speaker 2: To belong to the group as a whole.
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Speaker 1: And I know in these days and times, we almost
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Speaker 1: did it. I was in the ministry years ago called
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Speaker 1: the Holy Underground, and we looked at the Book of Acts.
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Speaker 1: We studied the Book of Acts, and we were right
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Speaker 1: about to sign off and agree to put all our
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Speaker 1: possessions together. But of course, you know, we got cold feet,
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Speaker 1: including myself.
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Speaker 2: And we said, nah, we can't do it right.
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Speaker 1: No one wanted to, you know, really dive into that
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Speaker 1: because it's a scary thing.
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Speaker 2: It shouldn't be.
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Speaker 1: But and now our days now, putting all our possessions
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Speaker 1: together right is no Some people might call it suspect,
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Speaker 1: but it is what the early church did.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we is plain to see.
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Speaker 1: But the wane, I see you good morning, got blessed
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Speaker 1: and he sent him blessing to everybody that's tuned in God,
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Speaker 1: bless you, bro. It's good to see you on the morning.
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Speaker 1: Devo and all those who had believed. So we're believers, right,
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Speaker 1: We believe in Jesus as Savior, were together and had
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Speaker 1: all things in common. And I believe that all things
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Speaker 1: in common part means that.
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Speaker 2: They were human. They had human need.
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Speaker 1: They need to eat, they need to drink, they need
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Speaker 1: to get things paid for. They had families, children, homes. Right,
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Speaker 1: So we're together and had all things in common. It's
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Speaker 1: still relevant like if you're a human listening or watching,
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Speaker 1: we have something in common. I'm a human too. You
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Speaker 1: have needs. I have needs to. You need fellowship. I
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Speaker 1: need fellowship too. You need community, I need community to.
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Speaker 1: You need the Lord. I need the Lord too.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: So considering their possessions to belong to the group as
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Speaker 1: a whole. So this wasn't just you know, oh man,
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Speaker 1: you got to be a member.
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Speaker 2: You have to be exclusive. This exclusive that.
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Speaker 1: No, they knew the power of fellowship. If you wanted
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Speaker 1: to follow, you should have fellowship. So it's followship and
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Speaker 1: fellowship and community. Community has that word common, community has
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Speaker 1: that word commune. Community has that word community, communion that
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Speaker 1: big word community for a believer, And we get the
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Speaker 1: understanding man and put it in its proper perspective. The
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Speaker 1: world's gonna see that we belong to the Lord, just
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Speaker 1: like the scripture says, the world's gonna know that we
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Speaker 1: follow Jesus, that we belong to the Lord. Why because
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Speaker 1: the love that we have and we share with one another.
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Speaker 1: The world doesn't see the Seppler. That's why we have
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Speaker 1: the upper hand when it comes to the love game.
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Speaker 1: We should be loving one another like Jesus loved the church, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and gave his life up for us.
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Speaker 2: And not only for us.
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Speaker 1: Jesus died once for all whosoever calls upon the name
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Speaker 1: of the Lord shall be saved. He gave us access
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Speaker 1: to this salvation. He gave us access to the promises.
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Speaker 1: He gave us access to a turn life.
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Speaker 2: He gave it access to the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And not only that, he transformed them hearts, and he
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Speaker 1: transformed the minds, and he gave us the keys to life.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: And also he calls us, you know, royal priesthood, salt
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Speaker 1: of the earth, the light of the world. Like God
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Speaker 1: gave us the goods by way of Holy Spirit. God
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Speaker 1: gave us the goods because of the sacrifice of the Lord.
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Speaker 1: And the Father loves us so much that he sent
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Speaker 1: his only begotten son to save us. This is an
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Speaker 1: amazing and amazing gospel. This is an amazing ability that
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Speaker 1: we have to have fellowship and community. You could look
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Speaker 1: at different religions and they have fellowship, they have community,
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Speaker 1: but they don't have a Savior. We have the Savior, Amen.
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Speaker 1: And that's the kicker right there. That's the big difference
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Speaker 1: between us as believers and other people that believe in
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Speaker 1: other deities of the Gods, other precepts of the principles.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: They don't have this fellowship, they don't have this community, Amen,
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Speaker 1: that we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: And that's not to boast.
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Speaker 1: That's just to show you that not all of us
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Speaker 1: are on the same level when it comes to who
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Speaker 1: we serve and how we serve, Amen, is different.
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Speaker 2: I mean there's similarities. Right.
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Speaker 1: I had our job's witnesses come to the house on
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Speaker 1: Saturday and knock on the door, and my wife looked
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Speaker 1: at me and said, you get open the door. Ass
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Speaker 1: of course, you know, I believe that we could have
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Speaker 1: intelligent discussions, that we could be cordial, and that we could.
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Speaker 2: Respect one another as image bearers of God.
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Speaker 1: But of course, you know, I always tell I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to be the most kindest person and always tidden, listen,
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna agree, but let's get to the common
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Speaker 1: ground here, right. And although at the end I always say,
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna pray with me, and they said, no,
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Speaker 1: we'll pray for you.
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Speaker 2: Is they don't pray.
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Speaker 1: With a person who's not in their society. Right, So
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Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. But I did tell them
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Speaker 1: one thing. I said, I wish I had the fellowship
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Speaker 1: and community that you guys have because you wholeheartedly believe
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Speaker 1: in what you're doing. They're knocking door to door, and
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Speaker 1: we as believers, I told them, we should be the
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Speaker 1: one as Christ followers. Knowing that Christ is Jesus, the Christ,
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Speaker 1: the God of having an earth right in the form
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Speaker 1: of a man. We know his deity. We know Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit is not a force. We know Holy Spirit as
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Speaker 1: a person, we should be the ones knocking on the doors.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: And in my territory at least, there's not a lot
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Speaker 1: of that going on. But you see them as they
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Speaker 1: have their schedules on Saturdays and they have these I
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Speaker 1: guess mapped.
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Speaker 2: Out homes to reach. They're out there.
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Speaker 1: They're out there with their billboards, they out there with
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Speaker 1: their pamphlets, they're out there with their belief system, and
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Speaker 1: they're out there. We should be out there too, right.
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Speaker 1: I know we all have lives. I have children. I'm
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Speaker 1: doing things over again. I have little children, young children,
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Speaker 1: and I know it's not as easy as it was before.
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Speaker 1: But we should be out there and how do we
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Speaker 1: share this fellowship and community?
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Speaker 2: Or we start with the body, We start with the
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Speaker 2: people we love.
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Speaker 1: We start with our families, We start with our church,
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Speaker 1: We start with the communities of believers. We start with
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Speaker 1: the people who have common things you know with each other.
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Speaker 2: You're a human. I'm a human.
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Speaker 1: And if you're not a human, Jesus Lord and your
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Speaker 1: planet or wherever you're watching phone or listening from as well.
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Speaker 1: But community and fellowship is powerful, man, especially when you're
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Speaker 1: on that frequency that belongs to the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 2: Amen. But the John, did I see you? Man? God
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Speaker 2: bless you good to see you on the morning. Devil.
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Speaker 2: Let me get to my notes real quick. I don't
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Speaker 2: have a lot.
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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of notes because this is
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Speaker 1: all on the Book of Acts. You could call this
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Speaker 1: deep fellowship in community, because when you have fellowship and community,
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Speaker 1: it's different than something that's surface.
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Speaker 2: You want to pass the surface level.
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Speaker 1: You want to really have relationships with people, man, you
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Speaker 1: want to have meaningful relationships. We want to encourage one another,
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Speaker 1: pray with one another, pray for one another.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: We want to just go out there and reach people
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Speaker 1: with the Gospel right. We want to study the scriptures,
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Speaker 1: we want to feel and sense other people's pain. We're
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Speaker 1: going to feel it if we have Holy Spirit living
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Speaker 1: inside of us. For people in the early Church, they
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Speaker 1: also devoted to God's Word. They were devoted to God's
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Speaker 1: Word and the teachings of the apostles. These morning devotions
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Speaker 1: are inspired by Holy Spirit. And I'm encouraging you. I'm
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Speaker 1: not the apostle. You could maybe people call me an apostle, whatever,
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Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is we should be devoted to
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Speaker 1: the teachings of those who came before us as long
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Speaker 1: as it is biblical right, and being devoted to the
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Speaker 1: Word of God.
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Speaker 2: That way, we can't miss.
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Speaker 1: When you're connected with the Word of God, and I'm
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Speaker 1: connected with the Word of God, we can't miss. Could
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Speaker 1: we be wrong, could we misinterpret things? Of course, But
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. If we're relying on Holy Spirit while we're reading, studying, fellowshipping, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and listening to the teachings of our leaders, filled with
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, eventually we're gonna get it.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna get this right. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But the Frank I see you, Good morning, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Miss yesterday at church, bless you and your family, and man,
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Speaker 1: my family was there. I wasn't there, but my family
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Speaker 1: was there. But thank you that you noticed that I
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Speaker 1: wasn't there.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: So God bless you wrote it's good to see you
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Speaker 1: on the morning Devo. They shared meals, prayed together, supported
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Speaker 1: each other's needs, and lived in authentic community Acts Chapter two.
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Speaker 1: It's a powerful chapter. Man, the whole Bible was powerful, right,
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Speaker 1: but topically when it comes to fellowship and community, topically
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Speaker 1: when it comes to breaking bread, community, sharing others needs.
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Speaker 1: The Bible literally says that none of them had lacked.
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Speaker 1: None of them had lacked because everybody was sharing what
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Speaker 1: they had and they devoted themselves to God's word. Also,
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Speaker 1: when you're empowered, right, when you have holy spirit and
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Speaker 1: you're empowered by Holy Spirit, I shot the one eight.
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Speaker 1: But you will receive power. That's the empowerment of the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes on you, and
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Speaker 1: you will be my witnesses. Not you're gonna be maybe
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Speaker 1: you know, can you? You will be God's witnesses when
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Speaker 1: you filled up with holy spirit. We would have a
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Speaker 1: perfect example. Me and brother Ray, a friend of mine,
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Speaker 1: a brother in Christ. We were just doing some community
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Speaker 1: work that we do right in local neighborhood in Allentown.
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Speaker 2: And there was a.
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Speaker 1: Young man, older man, well you know, middle age, maybe
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Speaker 1: a little younger than me, drunk came out to us
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Speaker 1: and was calling us names.
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Speaker 2: This time and the day he was drunk.
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Speaker 1: He was under the influence, but he was, you know,
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Speaker 1: able to communicate what he was really trying to say.
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Speaker 2: He will be serious and he will be angry, then.
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Speaker 1: He will be laughing. So yeah, it was all emotional.
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Speaker 1: So we explained to him. He wanted to what we
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Speaker 1: were doing. We explained to him what we're doing, and
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Speaker 1: then he said, nah, that's not true. Tell me what
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Speaker 1: you're really doing. Because a lot of people don't think
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Speaker 1: that there's other people out there just doing community work
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Speaker 1: trying to empower other communities. It's rare to see nowadays, right,
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Speaker 1: so when we're actually out there, people want an explanation.
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Speaker 1: Why are you doing this right? Why are you just
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Speaker 1: coming to our community and helping us. So we explained
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Speaker 1: to him. He didn't believe, but then we gave him
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Speaker 1: we were giving out ten dollar vouchers to support the
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Speaker 1: local mini markets or bodega's. We call him, and he
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Speaker 1: went in really bought the stuff. They really aren'ted a voucher,
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Speaker 1: and he came out and he was just amazed. He's like,
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Speaker 1: why are you guys doing this? I can't believe this.
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Speaker 1: And he started telling everybody I was passing the store,
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Speaker 1: you got to do this.
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Speaker 2: I just did this. But you know what happened. By
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Speaker 2: the end of the conversation, he.
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Speaker 1: Drunken has started like fading away, and it's like, there's
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Speaker 1: something about you, guys. There's something different about you, guys.
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Speaker 1: I'm feeling something different. He called it positive energy. Me
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Speaker 1: and my brother were looking at each other. We knew
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Speaker 1: the positive energy that he was feeling was the love
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Speaker 1: that we had the brother he loved that we were sharing.
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Speaker 1: And also we were listening to his story because eventually
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Speaker 1: he started telling us his story, who he was, why
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Speaker 1: he was around the neighborhood, why he was so charged
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Speaker 1: when he first saw us. And then Holy Spirit God
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Speaker 1: started working on him and he started off drunk loud,
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Speaker 1: and he ended up thanking us. That's the power of
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Just because me and my brother in Christ
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Speaker 1: were in fellowship.
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Speaker 2: And we were in community and we were in agreement.
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Speaker 1: That's an amazing It's an amazing thing to see men,
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Speaker 1: and it really encourages me to see that Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: is the one who calms the situation down.
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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit is the one who.
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Speaker 1: Could take a drunk man and make him sober in
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Speaker 1: one interaction. When they see true fellowship, when they see
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Speaker 1: true community, when they see brothers just united our faith
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Speaker 1: doing something that literally did not really have nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with the church. But we are the body. We
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Speaker 1: are the Church. So this young man, older gentlemen, probably
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Speaker 1: a little younger than me, kind of like started sensing
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Speaker 1: that we were there on purpose, right, We were there
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Speaker 1: for a plant. And I think the most powerful thing
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Speaker 1: besides the voucher that we gave him, was that we
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Speaker 1: were listening to his story. I don't know how many
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Speaker 1: people listen to his story, but we were there listening.
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Speaker 1: And man, he's from the neighborhood, so they probably know
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Speaker 1: him to be loud. But we just met him, and
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit met him where he was. But the rich child,
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Speaker 1: I see you, good morning. I was just studying the
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Speaker 1: pattern of growing in the church. The teaching of the
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Speaker 1: apostles led to increased the number of men grew to
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Speaker 1: lead in the church and community. Yes, because why they
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Speaker 1: devoted themselves to the Word and the teaching of the Word.
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Speaker 1: And from there, right, you can't miss power by Holy Spirit. Right,
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Speaker 1: can't miss the Holy Spirit is leading us all to
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Speaker 1: the truth. Amen. Thank you for that comment. And hey,
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Speaker 1: maybe you know we're always in one accord for the
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Speaker 1: most part, being brother Rich and Holy Spirit has amazed us,
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Speaker 1: has made us laugh, has encouraged us and made us cry,
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Speaker 1: has made us share things in life with Brother Rich Tyler.
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Speaker 1: If you're not following Rich Tyler, please follow him on
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Speaker 1: social media's Amen. Persistent in prayer. I'm a prayer warrior.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of prayer warriors out there. And
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Speaker 1: when you pray, you could feel the purpose of your prayer. Right,
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Speaker 1: you'd be like, I don't know why I'm praying this,
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Speaker 1: but you sensed that this purpose in the power of prayer.
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Speaker 2: Amen. Prayer was foundational in the life of the early Church.
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Speaker 1: They knew that there weren't going to be the most
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Speaker 1: popular people. They knew there was going to be some
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Speaker 1: people who didn't like their message, the gospel message, because
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Speaker 1: it was.
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Speaker 2: Different the time that the church.
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Speaker 1: Started growing the way it grew right by the number,
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Speaker 1: A lot of other regions and other people in different
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Speaker 1: religions and different faiths were looking at the Christians were like,
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Speaker 1: what is that? It was new Holy Spirit, promise, Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit empowered the promised Holy Spirit filled the people, and
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Speaker 1: they went out filled with Holy Spirit. It's a difference
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Speaker 1: between uninspired teaching and uninspired preaching. It's the difference between
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Speaker 1: inspired teaching and entire inspired preaching and inspired evangelism.
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Speaker 2: You could just see it.
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Speaker 1: Some people are forcing so like my friends, the Jehovah's
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Speaker 1: witnesses that came on Saturday knocking on my door, uninspired spirit.
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Speaker 1: Why because they believe Holy Spirit is a force, not
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Speaker 1: a person.
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Speaker 2: Right, They don't believe Jesus is God.
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Speaker 1: They put them as they actually Antichrist.
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Speaker 2: Respectfully, they don't believe who Jesus says. He is a man.
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Speaker 2: They believe who they're teachers.
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Speaker 1: Their forefathers say Jesus is and then they try to
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Speaker 1: confuse us with mistranslations and.
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Speaker 2: Ever. And I was so respectful at the hope, I was,
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Speaker 2: but I said this, you guys are an error.
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna you know, we're not gonna come to
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Speaker 1: agreement about the Lord. But let's come to agreement about
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Speaker 1: there is a God who loves us, who sent a son.
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Speaker 2: And then from there they don't believe the rest.
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Speaker 1: They don't believe the Holy Spirit, they don't believe in
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Speaker 1: the new heavens and the earth. They believe this is it. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of like growing up around them, knowing
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Speaker 1: their basic fundamentals. I just try to be kind and
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Speaker 1: I actually something was welling up for me. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. I think it was just my question
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Speaker 1: that I always asked them. And I literally bowed out
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Speaker 1: and I said, listen, I'm gonna I was gonna ask
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Speaker 1: you question is a trap. I'm gonna ask ask the question.
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Speaker 1: Plus I had to go, and also I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to get into a debate, but I said, let's just decide,
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Speaker 1: you know, to continue to speak with respect towards one another.
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Speaker 2: And we left it like that.
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Speaker 1: I said, years ago, if you'd have couple years ago,
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Speaker 1: we would have been debating, I would have been we
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Speaker 1: would have been having a sword fight with the scriptures.
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Speaker 1: But I said, I'm done with that because I noticed
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Speaker 1: that you're gonna believe what you're gonna believe. The only
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Speaker 1: one who could convince them that Jesus God is God.
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Speaker 2: Himself by way of his Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But kindness leads men and women to repentance. Kindness, so
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Speaker 1: if they were persistent in prayer asks one fourteen, they
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Speaker 1: all joined together constantly in prayer. Prayer meetings should be packed,
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Speaker 1: Prayer meetings should be powerful. Prayer meetings should gather, Prayer
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Speaker 1: meetings should encourage, Prayer meetings should inspire, and prayer meetings
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Speaker 1: should provide a.
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Speaker 2: Way of breakthrough.
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Speaker 1: When somebody has an answered prayer, sometimes it's immediate, right
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Speaker 1: there on the spot, health or whatever the situation, health, finances,
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Speaker 1: relationship issues, all that, and when people start seeing the
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Speaker 1: power prayer, those prayer meetings should be packed.
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Speaker 2: Amen. So I'm gonna continue this probably next time. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Is a lot more here, but let's be encouraged. Acts
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Speaker 1: Chapter two. We were in verse number I lost it.
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Speaker 1: Acts chapter to verse forty four. That's where we were.
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Speaker 1: Read the whole book of Acts read chapter two if
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Speaker 1: you want to start from there. But amount of time
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Speaker 1: I gotta go. Thank you so much for hanging out
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Speaker 1: with me. Amen, God bless you all. Got to keep
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Speaker 1: you all and remember always that God is good.
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Speaker 2: Peace,