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Morning Devotion from Hebrews: God Sees Everything · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: God bless you, family. God bless you. Good morning. Welcome
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Speaker 1: back to The Morning Devo. It's your bro, Sam Lopez, a.k.a.
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Speaker 1: DJ Sam Rock. And you're listening or watching right now
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Speaker 1: to a pre-recorded version of The Morning Devo. The reason
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Speaker 1: why I decided to pre-record this is because today, from
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Speaker 1: the time of this recording, it's going to be a Monday.
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Speaker 1: And it's Indigenous Peoples Day, also known as Columbus Day.
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Speaker 1: And I decided to take some time off to get
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Speaker 1: some rest, to catch up with some rest. that I need.
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Speaker 1: It's been a long weekend. Amen. All glory to God.
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Speaker 1: I was able to see my grandchildren. I was able
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Speaker 1: to take my kids to go see my son and
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Speaker 1: his family. And then I had the opportunity to hang
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Speaker 1: out with my younger brother and his daughter and his
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Speaker 1: wife and celebrate her birthday. So I had a long weekend.
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Speaker 1: So I figured, let me use wisdom and not try
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Speaker 1: to overdo myself and try to, you know, put, rush things.
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Speaker 1: I don't like to rush none of this stuff. So
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Speaker 1: let me pre-record this, amen, for the radio and for
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Speaker 1: So if I don't respond right away to the live
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Speaker 1: So we're going to be continuing in the book of Hebrews.
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Speaker 1: We're in chapter four. This is verse number 13. I'm
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Speaker 1: calling this one, God Sees Everything. Believe that. Amen. As
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, that fact really rescued me or
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Speaker 1: delivered me from some things that I thought I was
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Speaker 1: doing a secret. And so I saw scriptures like this
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Speaker 1: that we're going to read in a moment that God
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Speaker 1: sees everything. Deliverance came about when I realized that, wow, God,
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Speaker 1: you see this? And boom, nothing is hidden from the
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Speaker 1: eyes of God. So let's pray. And during the prayer
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Speaker 1: Let's pray. Father, I thank you so much for the
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Speaker 1: opportunity that you give us to be a part of
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Speaker 1: what you're doing on this side of eternity. Father God,
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Speaker 1: I pray that you, Lord God, will get the glory,
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Speaker 1: the honor, the worship, the praise, everything that you have,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, for us. You reveal it to us, Lord God.
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Speaker 1: Lord God, help us see what you see. Help us
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Speaker 1: know what you're trying to teach us. Help us understand.
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Speaker 1: Give us a greater measure of faith. Give us a
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Speaker 1: greater measure of wisdom. You said ask for wisdom and
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Speaker 1: you will willfully, and you will plentifully give it to us.
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Speaker 1: So we're asking for wisdom. I pray a hedge of
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Speaker 1: protection over myself physically, emotionally, and spiritually, over myself, our children,
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Speaker 1: my family, our grandchildren, my wife, my whole entire bloodline
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Speaker 1: in Jesus' holy name. And I pray the same hedge
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Speaker 1: of protection, our queen angels dispatch right now over every
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Speaker 1: single person that's listening and watching. If we're friends or not,
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Speaker 1: I pray a hedge of protection over you as well.
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Speaker 1: that God will shine his light upon us, and that
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Speaker 1: he will have mercy and grace upon us daily so
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Speaker 1: we could focus on who he is, what he's doing,
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Speaker 1: and what we could do and be useful for his
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Speaker 1: kingdom purpose. In Jesus' holy name, I pray this by faith.
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Speaker 1: And all those who agree, we say amen to the amen.
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Speaker 1: Let's get right into it, ladies and gentlemen. Scripture today
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Speaker 1: is Hebrews chapter 4, verse number 13. And again, I'm
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Speaker 1: calling this one, God sees everything. And so a lot
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Speaker 1: of people, this could scare you. But for me, that's
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Speaker 1: not scary. It used to be scary to me because
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Speaker 1: I was like, man, that means God sees X, Y, Z.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't a guilt thing anymore until I realized
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Speaker 1: that that's a good thing. That God sees what's going
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Speaker 1: on so he can help me of what I'm doing
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Speaker 1: that he knows is not of him. He can help
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Speaker 1: me through it. And he can do the same for you.
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Speaker 1: Hebrews 4.13 says, Nothing in all creation is hidden from
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Speaker 1: God's sight. Everything is is uncovered and exposed before the
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Speaker 1: eyes of him to whom we must give account. Now,
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Speaker 1: people are already saying, well, I don't have to give
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Speaker 1: an account to God. I don't believe in him. As
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Speaker 1: if your unbelief cancels the fact that Jesus is Lord.
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Speaker 1: As if your unbelief cancels the fact that Jesus is
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Speaker 1: God Almighty. Or that there's a Father in heaven who
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Speaker 1: sees all things. Or that there's a Holy Spirit living
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Speaker 1: within the children of God throughout the earth who sees
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Speaker 1: all things. So all of us are going to give
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Speaker 1: an account. We must give an account according to what
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Speaker 1: the scriptures are telling us right there in front of us.
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Speaker 1: So none of us are immune to the word of God, right?
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Speaker 1: God knows all things. He sees all things and he's
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Speaker 1: merciful and graceful on all of us. We're living in
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Speaker 1: the grace era. I say this all the time because
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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, it seems like people are getting away
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Speaker 1: with murder practically, right? People think they're getting away with
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Speaker 1: things that nobody knows, nobody sees, and they continue moving
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Speaker 1: like if nothing is wrong, as if nothing is happening.
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Speaker 1: But they forget that there's a God who sees all things.
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Speaker 1: We just read it. We forget that God knows every
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Speaker 1: single thought. He knows our intentions of our heart. He
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Speaker 1: knows what's going on in the dark. He knows what's
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Speaker 1: going on in the light. He knows our ideas, all
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Speaker 1: of it. So people are going around saying, well, nobody knows,
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Speaker 1: and that's false. God knows all things. You think you're
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Speaker 1: doing something in secret, but you're really not. Everything's made
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Speaker 1: bare in the eyes of God. So have you ever
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Speaker 1: done something in secret? Right? I know I have done
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Speaker 1: a lot of things in secret, thinking that nobody would
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Speaker 1: ever find out this is between me and you. It's
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Speaker 1: on the low. It's on the down low. Have you
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Speaker 1: ever thought that way? Well, listen to this. God sees everything.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe you hid your struggles behind a smile. And
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Speaker 1: I understand that I've been in that place before. I'm struggling.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to smile though, because X, Y, Z is
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Speaker 1: in front of me or whoever's in front of me.
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Speaker 1: And I don't want to, you know, shock them that
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Speaker 1: I go through issues too. Or as a man, a
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Speaker 1: lot of like females think that men don't have emotions
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Speaker 1: or feelings. We do have them, but we handle them differently.
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Speaker 1: I think like a man. I don't think like a woman, right?
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Speaker 1: So maybe you hid your struggles behind a smile. Maybe
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Speaker 1: you kept your thoughts to yourself. And sometimes that's a
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Speaker 1: good thing. I keep my thoughts to myself purposefully because
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Speaker 1: I know if I think about something, think about something,
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Speaker 1: think about something, eventually it will come out of my
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Speaker 1: mouth or I'll act on something I'm thinking about. So
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Speaker 1: I keep my thoughts private and I hold them and
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Speaker 1: I try to make them obedient to the Lord, to Christ,
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Speaker 1: the way the scripture says. Hold these thoughts captive. So
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Speaker 1: maybe you're hiding behind a smile. Maybe you're keeping your
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Speaker 1: thoughts to yourself. Or maybe you made choices when you
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Speaker 1: thought nobody was watching. But those choices you know and
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Speaker 1: I know were not pleasing to the Lord. Well, here's
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Speaker 1: the truth. God sees everything. Amen? God sees it all.
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Speaker 1: He sees everything. And it's okay that He sees everything.
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Speaker 1: I know, like I said, years ago this used to
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Speaker 1: scare me. I was like, man. He sees that and
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Speaker 1: I'm still alive. His grace. He sees that and I'm
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Speaker 1: not getting punished. His mercy. He sees that and he's
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Speaker 1: not hating. No, he's a God of love. So I
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Speaker 1: had to adjust. Me, personally, I started adjusting the things
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Speaker 1: that I was doing in the dark so that way,
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Speaker 1: you know, I could more faithfully be a servant of
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Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus. How about you? Nothing is hidden from
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Speaker 1: his eyes. which is a good thing. He sees your actions.
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Speaker 1: He sees my actions. He hears our words, right? You
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Speaker 1: ever try to bite your tongue, but the word came
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Speaker 1: out anyway, or you spoke under your breath, like acting
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Speaker 1: like nobody hears. Well, maybe I didn't hear, or maybe
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Speaker 1: the people that you were speaking under your breath towards
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Speaker 1: didn't hear you, but God heard you. He hears your words.
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Speaker 1: He knows the intentions of our hearts, right? So you
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Speaker 1: know how the saying goes, you can fool some of
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Speaker 1: the people some of the time, but you can't fool me.
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Speaker 1: God took it up a notch. You can fool people
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Speaker 1: some of the time, but you can never fool God.
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Speaker 1: We can never fool God, right? We can never fool him.
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Speaker 1: He knows the real you. He knows the real me,
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Speaker 1: the real ones, not the ones that we try to manufacture.
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Speaker 1: When I'm on these morning devos, it's not always a
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Speaker 1: good day. When I'm on these morning devos, I don't
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Speaker 1: always get it right. I stutter. I make mistakes. But
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Speaker 1: I don't edit my videos because I'm not looking. If
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Speaker 1: God is not looking for perfection, I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: be looking for perfection, right? He's looking for willingness, availability.
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Speaker 1: He's not looking actually for leaders. He's looking for followers.
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Speaker 1: Christ the Lord said for us to go and make disciples,
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Speaker 1: baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and
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Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. And his promise is that he will
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Speaker 1: be with us even to the end of the age.
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Speaker 1: So he doesn't want people just leading people. He wants
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Speaker 1: followers that he could be useful, that we could be
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Speaker 1: useful by way of Holy Spirit. And Holy Spirit will
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Speaker 1: be doing the convicting and the convincing and the saving
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Speaker 1: and the leading to all truth part. We just have
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Speaker 1: to be available. He's not looking for perfect people. He's
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Speaker 1: looking for followers. He's not looking for perfect leaders. He's
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Speaker 1: looking for followers, right? We could do this because he
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Speaker 1: gives us everything we need to live a righteous and
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Speaker 1: godly life. So nothing is hidden from his eyes. He sees,
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Speaker 1: he hears, and knows. the intentions of our heart. Can't
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Speaker 1: fool him. He knows the real us, not just the
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Speaker 1: person that we show up to be around people in
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Speaker 1: this world. Don't let this truth make you afraid of God, though. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we know this to be true. Hebrews chapter 4, 13,
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Speaker 1: we saw it. Nothing in all creation is hidden from
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Speaker 1: God's sight. Don't let that truth, because it is true,
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Speaker 1: the gospel truth, the word of truth, the word of life, amen,
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Speaker 1: is biblical, is scriptural, but don't let that make you
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Speaker 1: afraid of God. Like, oh my God, I got to
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Speaker 1: run away from the Lord. Here he comes. I'm afraid.
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Speaker 1: I got to hide. No, that's not what this means.
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Speaker 1: It's not what this is for. Amen? Let it draw
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Speaker 1: you closer. Knowing that he sees all things, let that
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Speaker 1: draw you closer to him. The author... and perfecter of
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Speaker 1: our faith, the Lord Jesus. God sees. He sees everything.
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Speaker 1: He sees our struggles. He sees our weaknesses. He sees
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Speaker 1: our tears. He sees our temptations, right? And even the
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Speaker 1: battles that nobody else understands. You ever been in a battle?
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Speaker 1: Tell somebody about that battle that you're facing and they
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Speaker 1: just don't understand. Why? Because they're not in that battle
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Speaker 1: or maybe they never experienced that type of battle, so
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Speaker 1: they don't understand. It's okay. It's okay. Give those people
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Speaker 1: some grace. Let them off the hook. Because sometimes I
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Speaker 1: used to be like, how come these people don't see
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Speaker 1: what I see? How come they don't feel what I feel?
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Speaker 1: But it's because it's not for them, right? I was
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Speaker 1: going through those things. I'm struggling with X, Y, Z, right?
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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get some help over here. But
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Speaker 1: I've learned to go to God first. He would send
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Speaker 1: the other people to surround me during and through the battle.
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Speaker 1: The whole idea is not to give up. The whole
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Speaker 1: idea is to fight the good fight of faith. Show
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Speaker 1: yourself approved. Read the words. Study the words. Show yourself
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Speaker 1: approved and move forward by faith, knowing that God is
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Speaker 1: with us even to the end of the age because
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Speaker 1: it's his promise. He knows where we fall short, right?
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Speaker 1: The Bible says that we all fall short of the
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Speaker 1: glorious standards of God. We all fall short, but the
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Speaker 1: gift of God is life through Christ Jesus. I know
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Speaker 1: I'm scrambling up the scriptures, paraphrasing it, but he knows
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Speaker 1: that we all fall short, but he's with us. Even
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Speaker 1: in those weak points of our lives, he's with us.
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Speaker 1: So don't be afraid of God, like afraid, like I
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Speaker 1: got to run now because here comes the presence of
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Speaker 1: the Lord. No, embrace his presence because where his presence is,
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Speaker 1: the Bible says there's freedom, there's liberty, there's deliverance, there's salvation.
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Speaker 1: There's grace, there's mercy, there's love, there's victory, right? So
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Speaker 1: don't be afraid and run away. Run to him, right?
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Speaker 1: Run to him and say, God, you know everything about
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Speaker 1: me anyway, so I'm going to be honest right now
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Speaker 1: and run to him and see what happens in your life.
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Speaker 1: Your life is going to radically transform. Your life is
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Speaker 1: going to change. He invites you to come to him
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Speaker 1: in repentance and in faith. It's an invitation, open invitation,
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Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. Whosoever calls on the name
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Speaker 1: of the Lord shall be what? Saved. So today, stop pretending. Me,
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Speaker 1: one of my pepys are fake people, man. Don't tell
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Speaker 1: nobody I said that. If you say you're about something,
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Speaker 1: be about whatever you're about. If you don't want no
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Speaker 1: parts of God, the church, the faith, I respect that
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Speaker 1: more than a person who says, I'm all about the faith.
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Speaker 1: I'm all about being a Christ follower. And yet their
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Speaker 1: lives say something totally different. right? I try my best
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Speaker 1: to guard myself from being one of those people, right?
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Speaker 1: Because anybody could fall into that kind of area if
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Speaker 1: we're not mindful or watchful. The Bible says, be alert
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Speaker 1: and pray. Watch and pray, right? Be alert. Why? Because
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Speaker 1: we have an imitating God, an imitator. He roars around
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Speaker 1: like a lion. I got to change this chair, bro.
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Speaker 1: This chair creaks. He roars like a roaring lion trying
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Speaker 1: to devour who? The weak people who he's devouring are
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Speaker 1: people who are not willing to fight the good fight
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Speaker 1: of faith. The devil is defeated. This is not God
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Speaker 1: versus the devil. It's not Jesus versus the devil. No,
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Speaker 1: the devil is defeated. His plots and plans are destroyed, right?
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Speaker 1: He doesn't have the power of death anymore. Jesus has
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Speaker 1: the power of life and death. Amen? Destroy all the
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Speaker 1: wicked deeds of the dark places and dark devils, right?
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Speaker 1: He destroyed all of that. Now we have the victory
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Speaker 1: in that as well. We are partakers in the nature
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Speaker 1: of God, right? So today, stop pretending and start surrendering.
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Speaker 1: Repeat that. Stop pretending and start surrendering. Be honest with God.
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Speaker 1: He knows about us anyway. He knows all the dirt.
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Speaker 1: I've been telling on myself for years on these morning devos.
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Speaker 1: You probably never noticed. Or if you're just tuning in now,
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Speaker 1: just met me online, praise God. You could check out
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Speaker 1: my morning devos from the archives on the YouTube page.
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Speaker 1: Or you could go to my podcast channel and there's
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Speaker 1: years and years of podcasts. I've been telling on myself
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Speaker 1: because I know for sure I'm not alone in this.
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Speaker 1: I know I have weaknesses. I shared my weaknesses. I
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Speaker 1: don't share too much of my thought life because I
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Speaker 1: don't want to imply or make you think about some
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Speaker 1: things that I deal with in my thinking that you
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Speaker 1: never thought about and now you're thinking about it so
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Speaker 1: it could be not a good thing. So I try
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Speaker 1: to use wisdom and share just as much as the
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Speaker 1: Lord wants me to share. So I really rely on
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit every time I get on these morning devos.
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Speaker 1: So stop pretending. Start surrendering. Be honest with God about
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Speaker 1: your weaknesses. Confess your sins. The Bible says confess your
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Speaker 1: sins one to another, but confess your sins to the
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Speaker 1: Lord first. And be careful who you confess your sins to,
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Speaker 1: like people. Some people, they'll hear your confession, and then
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Speaker 1: it'll bite you in the end. Or they might want
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Speaker 1: to join in your sinful confession, right? But take it
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Speaker 1: to the Lord first. He's pure. He's loving. He's holy.
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Speaker 1: He's righteous. He's forgiving. He's merciful. He's our Savior. He's
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Speaker 1: our Lord. He's our King. He's our Master. He's the Ruler.
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Speaker 1: He won't treat us like a person would treat us.
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Speaker 1: Confess your sins to the Lord Jesus. He understands us.
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Speaker 1: He knows us more than anybody. He knows where we
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Speaker 1: fall short. He knows our heart. So, Knowing all of that,
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Speaker 1: that God sees everything, He knows everything, still go to Him. Why?
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Speaker 1: Because He transforms our hearts. He allows the Word of God,
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Speaker 1: which is His Word, to transform our lives and our heart.
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Speaker 1: So remember, the God who sees everything, very important, the
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Speaker 1: God who sees everything is also the God who offers mercy.
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Speaker 1: He's also the God who offers forgiveness. He's also the
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Speaker 1: God of grace, through Jesus Christ. See that? Jesus Christ
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Speaker 1: is faith. Jesus Christ is grace. Jesus Christ is mercy.
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is the completion of Jehovah. Amen? He's the
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Speaker 1: one who's coming back with the new heaven and the
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Speaker 1: new earth. And He knows all about you. He knows
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Speaker 1: all about me. And He's still coming back anyway. The
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Speaker 1: Bible goes far enough to say, further to say, That
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Speaker 1: even while I was still a hater, even while you
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Speaker 1: were still a hater, right, of God, he still died
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Speaker 1: for us, right? What an amazing sacrifice. Knowing that our
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Speaker 1: allegiance wasn't to him, he still died for us. So
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Speaker 1: that way we can have eternal life. There's no one
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Speaker 1: like the Lord. Nobody. So God sees everything and offers
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Speaker 1: us everything good. regardless of what he sees, regardless of
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Speaker 1: what he knows. Our part is to repent, turn to him,
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Speaker 1: admit that we're sinners, believe in his word, then confess
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Speaker 1: Jesus as Christ, as Lord and Savior. So if God
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Speaker 1: sees everything, ask yourself this question, because I ask this
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Speaker 1: question a lot too. If God sees everything, because we
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Speaker 1: already know nothing is hidden in the sight of God,
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Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter 4, 13, what are Can we conceal or
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Speaker 1: what are we trying to hide from God? What are
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Speaker 1: we trying to hide from his presence? Because he's omnipresent.
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Speaker 1: He's all-knowing, all-powerful, right? What are we trying to conceal?
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Speaker 1: What are we trying to hide from God? And this
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Speaker 1: is where I got deliverance early in my walk. I
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Speaker 1: was doing things in the dark still after I was saved.
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Speaker 1: And I found out that he saw what I was
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Speaker 1: doing in the dark because of his word says that
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Speaker 1: nothing is hidden. Nothing in all creation is hidden from
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Speaker 1: God's sight. So it brought me deliverance because that's the
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Speaker 1: way God moved in my heart and my life at
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Speaker 1: that moment. I was like that, delivered. But because of that,
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Speaker 1: ask yourself, what are you holding back from him today?
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Speaker 1: What is it that you think that nobody else knows about? Now,
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Speaker 1: you could keep secrets from me. I could keep secrets
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Speaker 1: from you, but we can't keep secrets from the Lord.
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Speaker 1: He knows everything. And it's not like he's nosy. It's
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Speaker 1: not like he's like, oh, I heard what you said,
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Speaker 1: or I hear your thoughts, I see your thoughts. He's
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Speaker 1: not mocking us. He's not confusing us. He's not the
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Speaker 1: God of confusion. He's not mocking. He's just letting us
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Speaker 1: know his power and authority is so huge and next level,
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Speaker 1: and he's still willing to be with us. He's still
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Speaker 1: willing to forgive us. He's still willing to save us.
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Speaker 1: He's still willing to work with us, man. So, you
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Speaker 1: can find peace knowing that He knows all things. You
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Speaker 1: can find peace knowing that He sees all things. In
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Speaker 1: His presence, when you are in the presence of God,
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Speaker 1: You will also find the truth of God and you
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Speaker 1: will find the freedom and the liberty that's found when
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Speaker 1: his spirit is present. So this is not a message.
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Speaker 1: I don't think God wrote this out in the scriptures
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Speaker 1: to make us run and be afraid of him. I
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Speaker 1: believe he wrote these down in the scriptures for us
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Speaker 1: to go towards him in a way that's more honoring
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Speaker 1: and respectful. We need to reverence God, fear the Lord,
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Speaker 1: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
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Speaker 1: I think the Bible says. But it's not the type
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Speaker 1: of fear that we might be thinking like, oh, here
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Speaker 1: he comes. I'm out. Imagine having an earthly father, right?
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Speaker 1: I had an earthly father. He passed away when I
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Speaker 1: was still a teenager. And I still have that pain
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Speaker 1: and hurt. But I'm hopeful that I will see him
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Speaker 1: again in the kingdom of God in heaven. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: imagine he was always in my life just doing things
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Speaker 1: that made me afraid of him. We would have never
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Speaker 1: had such a close relationship as we had because I
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Speaker 1: wanted to be with my dad. I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: run from him. So how much more is our father
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Speaker 1: in heaven wanting to have a relationship with his children,
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Speaker 1: wanting to have a relationship with creation? Do you think
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Speaker 1: he really wants us to run away from him or
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Speaker 1: run towards him? Is he a loving father or is
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Speaker 1: he a hating father? Is he a graceful, merciful God
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Speaker 1: or is he a God who wants to punish and
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Speaker 1: put us to shame? right? He's a God of love, grace,
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Speaker 1: and mercy, and of truth, and of justice, right? So,
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Speaker 1: we're supposed to reverence Him, respect His authority, power, because listen,
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Speaker 1: He could annihilate us anytime He wants to. He could
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Speaker 1: take us out of this earth anytime, but because of
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Speaker 1: His long, and long, and long, and adoring love, right?
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Speaker 1: He's waiting for the right time, His kairos moment, His
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Speaker 1: kairos time, the perfect moment for us to be placed
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Speaker 1: in His and the glory of God to us for
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Speaker 1: stay or to go. He gives and he takes away.
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Speaker 1: The same God who delivered Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, right?
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Speaker 1: The same God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the same
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Speaker 1: God that we have. The same spirit that rose Jesus
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Speaker 1: from the grave is the same spirit in us as
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Speaker 1: believers in Christ. Now you might be saying, well, I'm
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Speaker 1: not a believer. That doesn't apply to me. Well, you're right.
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Speaker 1: The promises of God won't really apply to you if
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Speaker 1: you're rejecting his promises and If you're in unbelief, doubt, right?
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Speaker 1: Or you don't trust in the Lord. Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 1: Maybe his promises, you think you don't need them. But
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Speaker 1: once you're in the kingdom of God, you realize, wow,
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Speaker 1: we don't deserve the promises. Not like we don't need them.
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Speaker 1: We don't even deserve them. But he offers them anyway
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Speaker 1: because he sees everything. And everything that he sees, he
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Speaker 1: knows is a need for us to turn to him,
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Speaker 1: for us to complete our lives. We need the completer
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Speaker 1: of our lives. And that's the God Almighty, the Lord Jesus,
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit God. We need him. Can't hide from his presence,
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Speaker 1: but you could definitely find peace in his presence. Amen?
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Speaker 1: So don't run from God. If you're one of those
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Speaker 1: people who say, I'm out of here because I do
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Speaker 1: too much and I'm not perfect. Well, God's not looking
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Speaker 1: for perfect people. He's not looking for perfect followers or
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Speaker 1: perfect leaders. As a matter of fact, I don't think
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Speaker 1: God is looking for leaders anymore. I think God is
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Speaker 1: looking for followers. If you read the scriptures, I don't
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Speaker 1: think he was ever looking for leaders. He sent people.
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Speaker 1: He anointed people, right? He sent his prophets, and that
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Speaker 1: didn't really work out too good because the people were
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Speaker 1: still rejecting the prophecies. So he showed up in the
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Speaker 1: form of a man named Jesus. Amen? He said, the prophets,
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Speaker 1: you didn't believe the prophets, so I'm going to come
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Speaker 1: myself and be among my own people, the Bible says.
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Speaker 1: And the Bible says that his own people rejected him.
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Speaker 1: A lot of them didn't recognize who he was, the Messiah,
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Speaker 1: the Messiah, and they rejected him. And today, unfortunately, people
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Speaker 1: still reject the Lord Jesus Christ. But not on this
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Speaker 1: side of town, man. Over here, Soul Winners, and over here,
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Speaker 1: Morning Devo, we accept, we love, we cherish, we honor,
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Speaker 1: we reverence, right? We obey. We have faith in the living, loving, holy,
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Speaker 1: righteous God through the Lord Jesus Christ. And also, we
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Speaker 1: have the Holy Spirit God living in us, Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: of God living in us, reminding us of all this truth.
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Speaker 1: And we also realize and understand now that nothing is
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Speaker 1: hidden in the sight of God. So live honestly before God.
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Speaker 1: He knows about us anyway. He knows what we did
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Speaker 1: in the dark. As a matter of fact, in my
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Speaker 1: darkest days, my darkest day in 2001, He actually found
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Speaker 1: me in my darkness and took me out of my
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Speaker 1: darkness and brought me into His marvelous light. He found
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Speaker 1: me where I was, and now he's taking me to
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Speaker 1: where he is. He could do the same exact thing
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Speaker 1: for you right now. You might be thinking, not for me.
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Speaker 1: Not for me. You might have been like me back
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Speaker 1: in the day. Oh, Jesus didn't die for me. He
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Speaker 1: died for those people in the church. I always used
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Speaker 1: to say that. Then one day, I called God out.
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Speaker 1: I didn't call on Jesus because I didn't know the
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Speaker 1: proper protocol. I was drunk and high when I called
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Speaker 1: out to God. I said, God, whoever you are, if
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Speaker 1: you're real or not, I'm not trying to go to
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Speaker 1: no church. I don't need no preacher. Why don't you
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Speaker 1: come and have an encounter with me and change me? Right?
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Speaker 1: Change me. That's where I was. Amen? And I don't
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Speaker 1: know why I just turned up. Right? So listen. Be
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Speaker 1: honest with God because nothing is hidden from Him. What
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Speaker 1: you conceal from people is already known to God. Believe that.
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Speaker 1: And Bring it into His light and let Him change you.
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Speaker 1: Like this is not a forced thing. Let God change you.
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Speaker 1: Let Him use you. Let Him be who He says
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Speaker 1: He is in your life and in my life. And
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Speaker 1: once we see that it's because of everything that He
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Speaker 1: knows and He still can use us, that'll humble you.
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Speaker 1: I know it humbles me all the time. I say, wait,
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Speaker 1: you know all about me and yet you still love
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Speaker 1: me and you still want to use me? Yeah, because
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Speaker 1: he's a loving God. He's a holy God. He's a
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Speaker 1: just God. As a matter of fact, because he knows
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Speaker 1: everything and sees everything, he's just directing us in a
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Speaker 1: path that we should be going on anyway because I
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Speaker 1: can't see past this computer screen. He sees before me.
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Speaker 1: He sees after me. He sees after you. He sees everything.
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Speaker 1: You know how you have the 30-foot, 30,000-foot view, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, what do you call those things? Satellites that
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Speaker 1: can see and help you Navigate with your navigator, with
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Speaker 1: your navigation system. Well, God sees the whole world in
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Speaker 1: real time and he sees the future and he's pinpoint
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Speaker 1: accurate every single time. The all-knowing God, that great of
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Speaker 1: a God, amen, sees everything and yet still uses what
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Speaker 1: he sees. Knowing what he knows about me and knowing
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Speaker 1: what he knows about you, he can still forgive. He
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Speaker 1: can still use us. He can still show us favor.
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Speaker 1: He could still work us, work through the Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: could work through us. Amen. And he's the all-knowing, all-seeing God.
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Speaker 1: So believe that, respect that, be honest with God, stop pretending,
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Speaker 1: start surrendering, right? Realize who God truly is in your
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Speaker 1: life personally. Read the scriptures, Hebrews chapter four. I suggest
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Speaker 1: you read the whole chapter. We camped out in verse
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Speaker 1: number 13 and we extracted all of that. A lot
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Speaker 1: of information, but if it's not a transformative message, Bible
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Speaker 1: study or morning devotion, we just wasted time. But I
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Speaker 1: know for sure, every time I read the scriptures and
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Speaker 1: I apply the scriptures, there's a transformation, there's a change.
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Speaker 1: It might be little to some, some might not recognize it,
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Speaker 1: but hey, if it's not for you, it's not for you.
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Speaker 1: But for me, I need the word. Without the word,
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Speaker 1: I'm curtains, right? So I'm trying to feed the spirit
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Speaker 1: of God, feed the spirit of God that he gave me, right?
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Speaker 1: I'm being fed by Holy Spirit, trying to feed my
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Speaker 1: spirit Because I don't want no parts of the flesh.
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Speaker 1: The flesh, when you give it too much to eat,
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Speaker 1: the flesh, when you pay too much attention to it,
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Speaker 1: it'll shift your desires. And you will no longer be
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Speaker 1: focused on the author and perfecter of our faith. You'll
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Speaker 1: start focusing more on these worldly things. The lust of
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Speaker 1: the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life.
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Speaker 1: What else? The devil, the world system, right? Demonic attack,
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Speaker 1: demonic influence, all those people out there that are attacking
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Speaker 1: their brethren, slanderers, gossipers. haters, those people out there that
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Speaker 1: are saying they're Christian and they're doing all these things
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Speaker 1: that are actually opposing the scriptures of how we're supposed
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Speaker 1: to be with one another. Yeah, those things could be distractions.
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Speaker 1: But sow to the spirit of God and you will
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Speaker 1: reap the spiritual things of God. But if you sow
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Speaker 1: to the flesh, you will reap the things of the flesh.
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Speaker 1: So listen, I know how the flesh operates, right? We
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Speaker 1: all know how the flesh operates. Let's walk in the
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Speaker 1: spirit of God, the God who sees everything responds to
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Speaker 1: everything that he sees, amen, is the God that we
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Speaker 1: serve and that I believe in at least. Hopefully, you'll
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Speaker 1: believe in him too. But I'm out of time. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for hanging out with me. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for your patience. Amen. Today, as I did some things
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Speaker 1: a little different today. Amen. As soon as I see
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Speaker 1: your comments, questions, concerns, prayer requests, I'll get right back
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Speaker 1: bless you all. God keep you all. And remember always
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Speaker 1: that God is good. Peace.