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Don't Let Strife Dominate [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: In a family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. It's your brother Sam Lopez aka
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  Speaker 1: to go through. Thank you to all the groups that
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  Speaker 1: allow me to share this morning Devo or in front
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  Speaker 1: of your group on your group with your members. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for trusting the Word of God through this ministry.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let strife dominate. That's today's Morning Devo. The title
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  Speaker 1: don't let strife dominate? Hey man, don't let bitterness, anger,
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  Speaker 1: right arguments, don't let those things dominate your life. For
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  Speaker 1: a Christian, listen to this for a Christian. Peace, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just the absence of conflict. Peace is a fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. Thank you daily encouragement for sharing
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Devo. I see that Roman Chapter twelve, verse
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  Speaker 1: number eighteen. Peace is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You say you're born again, right, you got the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit living inside of you. But let anybody tell you, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, holy Spirit is growing inside of you as
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  Speaker 1: soon as you get saved, you don't have the whole
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. You listen, you have the whole Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God that Jesus promised to deliver all those who
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  Speaker 1: call upon his name.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. He will live lead inside of you.
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  Speaker 1: He will lead you in the right path, in the
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  Speaker 1: right way, will remind you the word and the promises
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  Speaker 1: over your life.
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  Speaker 2: He will comfort you, he will help you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He will protect you, he will guide you. You'll learn
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  Speaker 1: more from what Holy Spirit is speaking. Amen, because Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is only repeating when he hears the Father what
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  Speaker 1: he hears the Lord Jesus saying. And the word of
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  Speaker 1: God is the will of God, which you will know,
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  Speaker 1: the will of God over your life if you rely
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  Speaker 1: and trust in the Holy Spirit, God and Man. We
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  Speaker 1: just celebrated from the Timonis recording on Holy Ghosts Sunday
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  Speaker 1: Pentecost Sunday. Amen, of course, celebrating the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit that was promised by the Lord Jesus, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: was dispersed to the one hundred and twenty.
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  Speaker 2: In the Upper Room.
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  Speaker 1: According to Acts chapter one, verse eight, I believe it
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  Speaker 1: is Amen, and you see it all through Acts and
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  Speaker 1: the Acts chapter two is really the first time the
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  Speaker 1: church steps out filled with the Holy Spirit, the body
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  Speaker 1: of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We celebrated that yesterday. From the Timonis recording, it was
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  Speaker 1: called Pentecost Sunday. It's not all about our celebration of
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  Speaker 1: Pentecost Sunday. It's all about what God did through his
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  Speaker 1: Son and through the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. We have not three guys.
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  Speaker 1: We have one God, three persons, three functions of each
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  Speaker 1: part of the Holy Trinity, each person of the Holy Trinity.
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  Speaker 1: We have the Father who loves, the Son who says,
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  Speaker 1: and Holy Spirit who guys and leads.
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  Speaker 2: So we have it all according to the scriptures. Right. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Everything we need to live a righteous and godly life,
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  Speaker 1: we have it. God bless you, my bro Jonathan. It's
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  Speaker 1: good to see you all the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Devo.
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  Speaker 1: On my bro, miss you man, long time no see.
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  Speaker 1: So listen, don't let strife dominate. We're to be in
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  Speaker 1: Roman chapter twelve, verse number eighteen. Let's go for it, right.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna pray first. After we pray with shut us
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  Speaker 1: out for like sixty seconds, so as many people that
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  Speaker 1: come to our heart and mind, and you can share
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  Speaker 1: it all throughout the morning, Devo.
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  Speaker 2: If somebody comes to your mind, share it. Amen. Let's
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  Speaker 2: not just boggle this information all for ourselves. Let's not just.
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  Speaker 1: Be selfish and get all this good information from the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's word just for ourselves. Let's share us out to
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  Speaker 1: as many people as we can. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: pray requests, or anything along those lines, please don't hesitate
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  Speaker 1: to leave it on a live chat.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're listening on the radio at souling into
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  Speaker 1: with a z do org, thank you so much for listening.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you came through. I don't believe in coincidences.
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  Speaker 1: I believe and Holy goes divine appointments, Amen. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe when we read the Word of God and God
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  Speaker 1: starts speaking through us and corrects our errors and really
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  Speaker 1: teaches us the reason for the word, the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the word, Amen, the understanding of his word, that I
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  Speaker 1: believe that He's gonna move into other people's lives as well.
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  Speaker 2: This is not just for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's for all those whosoevers who call upon the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. It's for all those who have an
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  Speaker 1: ear to listen to the word of God. That's who
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  Speaker 1: this is for. But the Frank, God bless you. Is
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  Speaker 1: good to see you on the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Devo. God bless you in your family as well. So
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  Speaker 2: let's go for it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray, and like I said, after we pray, we
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  Speaker 1: shared us out for sixty seconds, and then when we
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  Speaker 1: come back we'll get into Romans chapter twelve twelve, verse
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  Speaker 1: number eighteen. Ready, Father, I thank you for the blessing
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  Speaker 1: that you have given us daily, Lord God, waking us up,
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  Speaker 1: giving us a new start, a new life, giving us hope.
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  Speaker 1: And we can trust in the living hope that lives
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  Speaker 1: within us by way of Holy Spirit, because we are
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  Speaker 1: the living sons of God and daughters of God. We
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  Speaker 1: are the children of God. All those who put their
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  Speaker 1: hearts faith trust in the Holy Spirit by.
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  Speaker 2: Way of Jesus. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for allowing us to live another day,
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  Speaker 1: to see another day, to have ears to listen, eyes
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  Speaker 1: to see in a mouth, to speak the promises of
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  Speaker 1: God over our lives and share with others. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: Lord God that strife, arguments, conflicts will not dominate our
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  Speaker 1: lives because we live a life of peace, and peace
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  Speaker 1: that we have surpasses all understanding. And it's not that
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  Speaker 1: we have the peace from this world. We have the
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  Speaker 1: peace of God because we have peace with God. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God for doing that, for allowing us a passage way,
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  Speaker 1: for allowing us full access to the throne room of grace,
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  Speaker 1: because of your promises, because of your love, your grace,
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  Speaker 1: and your mercy. I pray a hedge of protection right
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  Speaker 1: now to guidegard and protect us all the days of
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  Speaker 1: our lives. A hedge of protection and a powerful name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. I dispatch ark ween angels right now to
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  Speaker 1: annihilate the tactics of the enemy according to the power
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  Speaker 1: and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I speak
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  Speaker 1: life to our bodies physically, emotionally and spiritually, health to
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  Speaker 1: our bodies, strength to our bones, and a powerful, loving, holy,
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  Speaker 1: righteous name of Jesus. I pray it's by faith, and
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  Speaker 1: all those who agree with this prayer we say, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: sue that Amen, help me shad this out sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get right into it. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be right back, amen, and amen, we're back. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for allowing me to speak into your life
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  Speaker 1: by way of the Word of God, which is life
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  Speaker 1: giving all the time.
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  Speaker 2: But the Austin I see you, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: But the Austin Sullivan God, bless you, good morning, welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to the morn of Devo. My brother and my
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  Speaker 1: friend miss you as well. It's been a long time,
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  Speaker 1: long time no see. I pray peace and health and
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  Speaker 1: comfort over your body physically, emotionally and spiritually right now
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  Speaker 1: and powerful name of Jesus, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Honored to have you on the morning. Devo.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, let's do this, man, Let's go to this word
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  Speaker 1: coming from the word of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure we get this in our
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  Speaker 1: hearts and in our minds because a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: right now are angry. A lot of people are divided,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are living in strife. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are being dominated by their anger. But God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want that for our lives.
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  Speaker 2: He wants us to live in peace.
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  Speaker 1: But blessed all the peacemakers, Jesus said, but when you
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  Speaker 1: speak of peace, it's not something that's orderly given a man.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't receive the word of God that actually
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  Speaker 1: gives us this access to this peace that's promised in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures. So we can get this peace other than
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  Speaker 1: getting it through the Prince of peace. And we have
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  Speaker 1: the peace that surpasses all human understanding, because the peace
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  Speaker 1: that we have as children of God is the peace that.
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  Speaker 2: Came from the Father by way of Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And now we can be reminded by way of Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and we have everything we need to live a righteous
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  Speaker 1: and godly life.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But Apostle Paul says something interesting here in the scripture
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  Speaker 1: a man that we're going to see right now. He
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  Speaker 1: says in Romans, chapter number twelve, verse number eighteen, says,
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  Speaker 1: if that word powerful, if possible, as far as it
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  Speaker 1: depends on you and me, live at peace with everyone.
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  Speaker 1: If possible, live at peace, as far it depends on you,
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  Speaker 1: live at peace. How many people. We're just Christians. We're
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  Speaker 1: just people in your family. We're just your leaders in church,
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  Speaker 1: with just your authorities in government. We're just the authorities
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  Speaker 1: in your city or state. No apossible, said, if possible,
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  Speaker 1: as far as it depends on you, live at peace
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  Speaker 1: with everyone and man. And last time I checked, everyone
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  Speaker 1: means everybody. Right, everyone means everybody. When peace is gone
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  Speaker 1: and strife dominates, we're not on the right side of
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  Speaker 1: the will of God. I'd say right now, Conflict, anger, arguments, division,
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  Speaker 1: all of those things are not really going to benefit anyone.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to benefit you if you have bitterness
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  Speaker 1: in your heart and your mind. Bitterness is like cancer
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  Speaker 1: to the soul. It's not going to benefit you in
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  Speaker 1: any way that's positive, any way that's good, and it's going.
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  Speaker 2: To be outside of the will of goes.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Possile Paul who wrote this inspired by
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  Speaker 1: a Holy Spirit guy, he said, if possible, be at
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  Speaker 1: peace with everyone right.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone.
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  Speaker 1: When peace is gone and strife dominates, that means we're
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  Speaker 1: not on the right side of the will.
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  Speaker 2: Of God in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not let anger and bitterness and strife and conflict.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let those things dominate your heart. Don't let those
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  Speaker 1: things dominate your life. Don't decide and make big decisions
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  Speaker 1: based on that kind of condition. The Christian and a
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  Speaker 1: Christian's life. Peace is not just the absence of conflict.
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  Speaker 1: It is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. And it's
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  Speaker 1: also a sign of God's presence right and favor in
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  Speaker 1: any situation that you or I face.
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  Speaker 2: When peace.
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  Speaker 1: Is consistently out of your relationship, when it's always conflict, bitterness, anger, strife, right,
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  Speaker 1: the environment changes like it goes from a positive to
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  Speaker 1: the negative.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Our assignment is to be people who bridge the gap
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  Speaker 1: between the anger and the peace. Is supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: that bridge to lead people to the Prince of peace.
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  Speaker 1: But when anger, resentment, tension, confusion, conflict, Amen, when those
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  Speaker 1: things are dominating your relationship, dominating your life, dominating you
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  Speaker 1: at work, school, as a parent, as a son, as
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  Speaker 1: a child, as a grand parent, When that dominates, it's
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  Speaker 1: a sign that it might be time for you to
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  Speaker 1: step away from what you're doing, step away from those individuals,
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  Speaker 1: so that way you won't cause any more harm. I
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  Speaker 1: won't cause any more harm. But we need to see God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Paul possible. Paul, he went through a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conflict. He could have been bitter or his life.
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  Speaker 1: He could have been angry at the people who were
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  Speaker 1: rejecting the gospel message or his very own brothers, the
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  Speaker 1: very own, the very own people that he came from
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  Speaker 1: a man who were rejecting the gospel. He could have
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  Speaker 1: became angry. He could have become bitter and stay that way.
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  Speaker 1: But Paul says, if it is possible, as far as
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  Speaker 1: it depends on, you live at peace with everyone. You
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  Speaker 1: might be like Oh, man, that's that's easy. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: peaceful person. You might be a peaceful person, but everyone
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  Speaker 1: in this world, haven't you noticed, is not full of peace,
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  Speaker 1: especially not full of peace to the peace of God.
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  Speaker 1: So acknowledge that peace isn't always easy. The Bible is
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  Speaker 1: so clear, The Bible is so honest. A man of
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  Speaker 1: scriptures are honest. Peace isn't always possible, especially when it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't depend solely on us, When it doesn't depend solely
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  Speaker 1: on you or for me, even if you made every
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  Speaker 1: effort to resolve conflict and to extend grace, to extend mercy,
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  Speaker 1: but people are hostile, and hostility still persist sometimes, so
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  Speaker 1: it might be time to walk away, not in bitterness,
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  Speaker 1: but walk away in peace.
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  Speaker 2: Very possible, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you attach yourself to people who snatch your peace.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever met a person that they're always full
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  Speaker 1: of bitterness? Anger, gossip, strife, division? You hang around there
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  Speaker 1: around those people, but too long is going to affect
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  Speaker 1: your character, is going to affect the assignment that God
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  Speaker 1: has for your life at that moment, that time. A man,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you have to walk away and just have peace
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  Speaker 1: in your heart, otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: You're get to fall.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to fall into all kinds of anger, all
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  Speaker 1: kind of strife, all kind of division. Amen, walk away
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  Speaker 1: in peace. First Corinthians fourteen thirty three. Listen closely, for
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  Speaker 1: God is not a god of disorder, but of peace,
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  Speaker 1: as in all the congregations of the Lord's people, the
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The congregation of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, should be a place where you walk in and
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  Speaker 1: you feel the peace of God through the people.
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  Speaker 2: You greet it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, You're seen, You're acknowledged. Amen, You're honored. Right, you're welcomed.
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  Speaker 1: When you walk into a house of God's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: feel the peace of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I remember one time.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking for a French church and when I
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  Speaker 1: first got it, invited to my friend's church was Pentecosta
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  Speaker 1: Church in Bethleem, Pennsylvania. A man not too far from
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  Speaker 1: where we're broadcasting now, and literally there was a church
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  Speaker 1: right next door, so I was I didn't know if
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  Speaker 1: it was the church next.
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  Speaker 2: Door or the other side of the door. One door
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  Speaker 2: is literally like maybe two feet three feet away. A
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  Speaker 2: man from the other church.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the wrong door and I was not
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  Speaker 1: dressed appropriate according to church rules of the first church
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  Speaker 1: that I'm knocked on the door with Let's just say
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  Speaker 1: that I wasn't fully dressed amn in like a shirt
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  Speaker 1: and a tie or you know church clothes people color right.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little bit more casual. So when I
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  Speaker 1: knocked on that church door, the door person or the
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  Speaker 1: great greeter, instead of saying hello, how can we help you,
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  Speaker 1: the greeter looked at me up and down and say
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  Speaker 1: who are you looking for?
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel peace there. I felt judged. I felt uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel comforted. I felt uncomfortable. So I looked
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this can't be the right
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  Speaker 1: church that I was invited to. So after I was
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  Speaker 1: looked up and down and asked what can I help
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  Speaker 1: you with?
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  Speaker 2: Or what are you here for?
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  Speaker 1: Basically I said, is this so and Soul's church? And
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  Speaker 1: they were like, oh, no, that's next door, that's not
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  Speaker 1: this church. Come to find out later on that church
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  Speaker 1: side by side, this was many years ago. Hopefully God
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  Speaker 1: has put them together, hopefully as God has made them
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  Speaker 1: had them united by now that was years ago. And
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  Speaker 1: come to find out that that church was a legalistic
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  Speaker 1: church and that didn't believe and going into the House
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  Speaker 1: of God dressed any other way than you know, what
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  Speaker 1: they deemed proper, properly dressed, and they had strife amongst
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  Speaker 1: each other. They thought the other church was acting too
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  Speaker 1: worldly the church that was invited to So one church
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  Speaker 1: was a free church, another church next door was a
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  Speaker 1: church bound by the law of legalism, of legalism and
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  Speaker 1: legalistic Amen. So that experience taught me a lesson Amen,
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  Speaker 1: those people, or that at least that greeterer didn't have
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  Speaker 1: peace in her heart. Ye, strife and bitterness legalistic ways.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Legalism works in certain parts for certain people. But if
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  Speaker 1: that's the way you're going to live and have your
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  Speaker 1: church throughout, you know your its assistance.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't really have that peace, doesn't have that heart
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  Speaker 1: that God wants you to express to other people. That
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  Speaker 1: could have hurt me. I was young in the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: but not that young, so it could have hurt me.
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  Speaker 1: It could have gave me church hurt. I could have
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  Speaker 1: just walked away and not asked any questions.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And then I would have let strife dominate my life.
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  Speaker 1: I would have let bitterness dominate my life. I would
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  Speaker 1: have let anger and church hurt dominate my life. So
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  Speaker 1: God is speaking to us, said, don't let those things
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  Speaker 1: dominate your life. Let the peace of God. And if
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  Speaker 1: you see my response mattered at that moment. I could
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  Speaker 1: have went off on a lady and be like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're judging me, How could you do that?
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  Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. I just you know what.
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  Speaker 1: I walked away in peace. I said, well, this is
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  Speaker 1: obviously not the right church. Thank you for letting me
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  Speaker 1: know I knocked on the wrong door, because if that
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  Speaker 1: was the right church that I was invited to, then
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  Speaker 1: me and my brother in Christ at the time would
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  Speaker 1: have had to talk this out.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He had, he would have had to explain to me
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  Speaker 1: why would he put me in such a situation, knowing
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  Speaker 1: the way I was at the time, time, how I
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  Speaker 1: address at the time. Amen, So thank you Jesus, for
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  Speaker 1: God is not a god of disorder, but a God
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  Speaker 1: of peace. God's presence brings order in peace. How made
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  Speaker 1: you notice that when the presence of the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: in the building, in the house, Amen, peace and order
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  Speaker 1: shows up.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Some people live in chronic chaos. Some people can't
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  Speaker 2: live without chaos. Some people have to have chaos.
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  Speaker 1: They're confused, Amen, they have constant tension. Right, that might
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  Speaker 1: be an indicator that God is no longer calling you
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  Speaker 1: to remain in that situation because chaos breeds anger and bitterness.
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  Speaker 2: Bitterness breeds health problems.
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  Speaker 1: If you walk around bitter, you could actually get sick
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  Speaker 1: to your body. So something that you might be thinking,
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  Speaker 1: oh men, those people hurt me, those that church did this,
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  Speaker 1: and that pastor did this, and this person did that. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you're focusing on those things. You're letting those things dominate.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna hurt you more than it's gonna hurt the
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  Speaker 1: people that might have hurt you legitimately.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So respectfully, I would say, listen, walk in peace,
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  Speaker 2: Walk away in peace. Amen. Don't let strife dominate your life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let bitterness, confusion, anger, chaos be your life.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God has way more in store for you and for me,
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  Speaker 1: And it has to do a peace, His peace that
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  Speaker 1: surpasses all understanding. His peace, not the peace that this
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  Speaker 1: world offers, because you know, the world system offers you
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  Speaker 1: their kind of peace. But that piece is basically circumstantial peace.
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  Speaker 1: It's based on you know, how people treat you. It's
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  Speaker 1: based on if there's food in the fridge, is based
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  Speaker 1: on if you have money in your bank account. It's
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  Speaker 1: based on if you're in the in crowd, right, then
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  Speaker 1: you have the peace that they'll world offers, which is
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  Speaker 1: very very limited. But the peace that the Lord offers
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  Speaker 1: a man is unlimited peace not bound by any law,
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  Speaker 1: legalistic way, or anything like that. The peace of God
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  Speaker 1: is because we have peace with God. And now we
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  Speaker 1: have the peace of God. If you don't have peace
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  Speaker 1: with God, and how do you have peace with God,
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  Speaker 1: how do you have peace with the Father, Well, you
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  Speaker 1: have to go.
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  Speaker 2: To the Sun.
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  Speaker 1: Right In the Book of John, Jesus said, no one
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  Speaker 1: comes to the Father except through me by because he
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  Speaker 1: is the Way, He's the truth and the life. And
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  Speaker 1: that means everything that God offers a man, you will
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  Speaker 1: never find out the application of it unless you go
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what Jesus said in
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  Speaker 1: John I Think fourteen and six, Matthew ten thirteen Versus
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Chapter ten, Verses thirteen and fourteen. Jesus said, if
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  Speaker 1: the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not, let your peace return to you. And
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  Speaker 1: it goes perfectly where possible. He said, as long as
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  Speaker 1: it's you, it's it depends on you, the one who
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  Speaker 1: brings the peace.
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  Speaker 2: If the house or the place that.
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  Speaker 1: You're at doesn't want your peace, return it back to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Shake the dust off your feet when you leave that
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  Speaker 1: home or town. Right Jesus, the Lord, Our Lord, our Savior.
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  Speaker 2: It's giving us.
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  Speaker 1: Permission to move on when peace is not received. If
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  Speaker 1: the peace that I offer you a man, you don't
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  Speaker 1: receive it, thee what I'm gonna do? Force you to
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  Speaker 1: receive the peace of God. What are you going to
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  Speaker 1: do when you go to somebody with the peace of God,
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  Speaker 1: the gospel message of the Lord, and they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to receive, Are you going to try to force that
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  Speaker 1: peace upon them? No, it's impossible, doesn't even make sense.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord Jesus our Savior, Amen, is giving us permission
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  Speaker 1: to move on when peace is not received.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So you're not obligated, Thank you, Lord. I'm not obligated.
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  Speaker 1: You're not obligated to stay where your presence or your
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  Speaker 1: calling is constantly rejected.
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  Speaker 2: That's a word right there.
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  Speaker 1: Why why they're rejecting the call over your life, in
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  Speaker 1: your life, if it's benefiting the Body of Christ, Why
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  Speaker 1: are they treating you certain ways?
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  Speaker 2: Amen? Think about it. It could be well two things.
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  Speaker 1: You're being rejected or you're being resisted because of some
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  Speaker 1: things that you have to work out and they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to help you through, or they don't they don't agree
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  Speaker 1: with the calling of God over your life, which is weird, right,
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  Speaker 1: God gave you a call, God gave me a call.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. We should be supported.
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  Speaker 1: And live and be able to share that calling with
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  Speaker 1: others in your congregation, others in your community, others in life.
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  Speaker 1: So it should be supported, now rejected. So there's certain things,
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  Speaker 1: certain ways that you could know that your peace or
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  Speaker 1: the peace is gone out of your life and other
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  Speaker 1: out of others. If you have constant arguments, not arguments,
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  Speaker 1: constant arguments, Amen, were all going to argue here and there.
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  Speaker 1: But if you have constant arguments, criticism, or division, that's
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  Speaker 1: a sign that peace may be gone. Mental and emotional
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  Speaker 1: exhaustion from ongoing strife a sign that peace may be gone.
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  Speaker 1: Repeated efforts to be the one that's reconciling with others, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: or solve problems, they're all ignored. That could be a
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  Speaker 1: sign of peace being gone. You no longer feel God's
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  Speaker 1: presence or confirmation to state. That might be evidence that
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  Speaker 1: the peace is gone but this amount of time. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: this challenged your way of thinking. We were in Romans
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  Speaker 1: chapter twelve. Read the whole chapter. We camped down in
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  Speaker 1: verse number eighteen. That's where we started. Heymen, don't let
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  Speaker 1: strife dominate your life. God bless you all, God keep
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  Speaker 1: you all, and remember always that God is good.
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  Speaker 2: Peace