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The Vision of Peace [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning family, God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the morning Devo she Broke. Sam Lopez aka DJ
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  Speaker 1: And I'm also at Celi Radio Network, the Leeha Valley's
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  Speaker 1: and eight. And the crazy thing about is that I
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  Speaker 1: So that's why I know i'nso's something God is good,
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  Speaker 1: God is faithful today. The vision of peace. I'm calling
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  Speaker 1: this one the vision of peace that we could see it. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we could get it according to the scriptures. Amen, we
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  Speaker 1: could see it's if peace is coming, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: chaos in this world political system, the world system, corruption, sin, sickness, disease, death, tsunamis, wars, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes,
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  Speaker 1: lot is going on right and every single day we're
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  Speaker 1: not sure what's gonna happen today. Like in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: we have a vision of peace, and I know that's
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  Speaker 1: why a lot of people who are not Christian they
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  Speaker 1: don't understand, man, they don't understand. And it's okay because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't understand either. Amen. And I'm getting understanding as
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting more mature in Christ, and saw you you're
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  Speaker 1: getting more mature in Christ, so you understand more. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what you know now fifteen, twenty thirty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't know what you know now, maybe even a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, a month ago. You read these scriptures, man,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll find the vision of peace during any time,
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  Speaker 1: anytime in history a man. Because God's word, God's word
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  Speaker 1: is perfect, God's word is true, God's word is timeless,
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  Speaker 1: God's word easy, eternal, and God's word satisfies. So that's
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  Speaker 1: all I'm saying. Hey Man, good morning, sister, Joanne, I
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  Speaker 1: see you. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the morning Devo, my sister and my friend. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: it's like everything is up and running. Let me know
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  Speaker 1: if the audio is okay. I'm just trying to from
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  Speaker 1: the last time we got on, I was having some
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  Speaker 1: tech issues, but it looks like things cleaned up. It
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  Speaker 1: could have been because of what went down Tuesday night
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  Speaker 1: into Wednesday, and maybe the internet was broken a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But we're here. We're here, We're here, So let me
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  Speaker 1: read my notes so that way I could get focused
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  Speaker 1: here on point amen. I was scrambling this morning to
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  Speaker 1: try to get into the studio, and I still got
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  Speaker 1: out of here a little late. So let's see where
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  Speaker 1: we're at all right. Jesus, our Lord, my Lord is good. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Joanne. Jesus teaches about what peace, love and reconciliation,
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  Speaker 1: how to get things back right with him and through
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  Speaker 1: him we could get things right to the Father. With
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  Speaker 1: the Father, it's only through Jesus, right. I know this
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  Speaker 1: is like a narrow message, but that's the way the
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  Speaker 1: gospel is. The Gospel speaks of the way, the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and the life the Lord Jesus Christ. A narrow path,
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  Speaker 1: the broadway leads to destruction. Many are on that broadway
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  Speaker 1: like everybody else is doing it, Sam, So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be on that road too. And what you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's good for you, is not good for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a religious person. All that, I've heard it
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  Speaker 1: all a man. I used to speak it all too.
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  Speaker 1: I used to say the same thing, So I know
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  Speaker 1: how it is out there. But in the narrow road
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  Speaker 1: we're taught by the Lord about peace, love, and reconciliation.
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  Speaker 1: He calls his followers to love their enemies and pray
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  Speaker 1: for those who persecute them. And listen, you think that's easy,
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  Speaker 1: Love my enemies and pray for those who persecute me.
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  Speaker 1: You think that's easy. It's not easy. But it's an
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  Speaker 1: eternal truth, and it's possible only through Holy Spirit, God
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  Speaker 1: living through us. The flesh don't want no parts of that.
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  Speaker 1: You do something to me, the flesh wants to do
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  Speaker 1: something right back to you. You say something bad to me,
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  Speaker 1: the flesh wants me to say something bad right back
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  Speaker 1: to you. So love and peace and all that. Man, well,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Devo. Love, peace,
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  Speaker 1: love or reconciliation is not a natural thing that we
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  Speaker 1: automatically get and do. It's a supernatural thing that happens
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  Speaker 1: in our hearts and our minds, and that causes us
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  Speaker 1: to love others the way God wants us to love
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  Speaker 1: and man, especially during these times where this polarization man
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  Speaker 1: of the nation because of politics and candidates and people
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  Speaker 1: taking shots at Christians, people taking shots at Republicans and Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: and people with alternate lifestyles on everybody's like on his
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  Speaker 1: hatred mode, on his secrecy of hatred. Nah, we're not
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  Speaker 1: like that now. That's believers were supposed to love our enemies,
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  Speaker 1: pray for our enemies, pray for those who persecute. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And man, Yeah, it's not easy, right, man, Well we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to my brother. It's contrary to our natural way
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  Speaker 1: of thinking, yes, but at the same time, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: this vision of peace because we have the peace maker
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  Speaker 1: living inside of us. We have the Prince of Peace
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  Speaker 1: that we serve living and breathing and resting and living
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  Speaker 1: through us. A man, that's the only way it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be possible, especially during these times. Man, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about, because we're going through some tough times.
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  Speaker 1: Romans shop to twelve, Verse number eighteen will start there. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any
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  Speaker 1: prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. We're gonna pray first. After
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  Speaker 1: we pray, we'll shut us out. We'll shut us out
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  Speaker 1: for like sixty seconds, and then when we come back
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of those sixty seconds, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: right into Excuse me, I new that's gonna happen. Today's
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  Speaker 1: morning devo based on Romans chapter number twelve, verse the
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  Speaker 1: eighteen's excuse me for the sneeze. Father, the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you that you are the Prince of peace
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, and that you give us peace because
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  Speaker 1: we have peace with the Father through the Son, through you,
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  Speaker 1: Lott God. Thank you, lor God for being with us
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  Speaker 1: daily every breath that we take. You are present every
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  Speaker 1: time we think. You are there every time God that
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  Speaker 1: we have a thought. That's whether it's pleasing to you
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  Speaker 1: or displeasing. Lord God, you are forgiving. You are considerate
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  Speaker 1: of our weakness, and then a weakness, your strength is
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  Speaker 1: made known. Thank you, Lo God, for our nation. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for our country that although there's polarization here right now, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I pray Lord God, that you will keep peace in
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  Speaker 1: the hearts and minds for all those who call upon
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  Speaker 1: your name to be saved, to be rescued, to be transformed,
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  Speaker 1: who call ourselves believers in you Christians, christ born again,
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  Speaker 1: believers of sons and daughters of a Living King. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lo God for inspiring us to stay Kingdom minded and kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: focused and focused on you, our perfect Lord, our perfect God,
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  Speaker 1: our perfect Savior. I thank you, Lord God, that you
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  Speaker 1: are with us. I pray load God, peace. I pray love, God, protection, courage.
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  Speaker 1: I pray Lord God, that you would guide us through
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  Speaker 1: these times daily Low God, that we would be hearers
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  Speaker 1: of your word and doers, not just hearers, but doers
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  Speaker 1: of your word. And that this world will see the
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  Speaker 1: difference between those who are walking in darkness and those
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  Speaker 1: who are walking in light. I pray Load God, peace
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  Speaker 1: through this nation, peace through my family, Peace with my friends,
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  Speaker 1: Peace and our neighborhood, Peace and our nation, peace and
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  Speaker 1: our states, in Jesus name, and that you were set forth,
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  Speaker 1: set forth your ark ween angels, minister angels, and warrying
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  Speaker 1: angels to annihilate the hatred that the enemy is trying
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  Speaker 1: to spew out throughout this earth. In Jesus name. I
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  Speaker 1: pray this about faith, and those who agree, we say
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  Speaker 1: amen and Amen. Help me share this out sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get right into today's morning devo.
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  Speaker 1: The vision of peace. I've read back, man, a man,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go for it. Let's see. Let's see what this
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  Speaker 1: is all about. Because piece the vision of peace right
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  Speaker 1: now these times, it's a lot of people people think
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  Speaker 1: that's impossible. How could it be that we're gonna walk
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  Speaker 1: in peace in these times that people are after each
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  Speaker 1: other's neck. It's not it doesn't make any sense right now, right,
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  Speaker 1: but we can walk in peace. I listen, we saw
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  Speaker 1: so far and this last what seven months at least,
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  Speaker 1: we saw a lot of hatred, a lot of polarization,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, a lot of disagreements within nations, within communities,
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  Speaker 1: within circles, within churches, or within the I would say
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  Speaker 1: the body of Christ, but not really, because in the
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  Speaker 1: Body of Christ it's only unity, and the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God is only unity in light there is no disorder
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  Speaker 1: or nothing like that. But I'm saying war of words
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  Speaker 1: have been going on for at least seven months of
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  Speaker 1: this past seven months of this year. So the vision
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  Speaker 1: of peace is blurry right now to a lot of people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But I was holding on to the peace maker. I
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  Speaker 1: was holding on. If you follow me, you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about peace a while because I know that
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  Speaker 1: as soon as a decision was made, whoever side would
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  Speaker 1: win in this political system, it would cause a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people to get out of line with focus on
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  Speaker 1: who and what really matters. Amen, and man, that's what
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  Speaker 1: makes us different. Of course, it's time for everything, is
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  Speaker 1: a time for everything under the sun. Yes, man, Well
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  Speaker 1: you're right, sister Joyce, good morning, God blessed you, Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: got blessed you. Praise the Lord. Yes, yes, warfare and
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  Speaker 1: the spirit is taking place, it is Amen. But we
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  Speaker 1: have the vision of peace and that's going to make
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  Speaker 1: a difference in a lot of people's lives, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people's perspectives. Like I said, literally, I saw so
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  Speaker 1: many people online having fits, crying, you know, ending friendships
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  Speaker 1: of years, fourteen year friendships, ending it over this political system.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a woman cutting her hair off and cursing
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  Speaker 1: everybody out who voted for Republican Party. And because she
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  Speaker 1: thinks now her life is over. She doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be attractive because she doesn't want to get with any man,
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  Speaker 1: and she doesn't want to get pregnant because in her
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  Speaker 1: mind and what she's been following and what she's been told,
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  Speaker 1: she said, in her mind, if she got impregnated by
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  Speaker 1: a man, then she would die because she would be
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  Speaker 1: forced to go through the pregnancy. She will be forced
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  Speaker 1: to have the child. That's how far we are in society.
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  Speaker 1: Social media is doing things dirty, man, and causing people
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  Speaker 1: to think about narratives fear mongering and to think about
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  Speaker 1: narratives that take your peace. So the vision of peace
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  Speaker 1: is very important during these times. I know it is.
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  Speaker 1: God spoke to me a man, and I know he's
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  Speaker 1: going to speak to all of us right now about
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  Speaker 1: the vision of peace, the spirit of the vision roaming
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  Speaker 1: the earth and fear. Yes, yes, you're right, we see it.
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  Speaker 1: It's sometimes we just don't want to admit it. And
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  Speaker 1: as believers were going through it too just as well.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why people think that we're untouchable with
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  Speaker 1: these things and these ideas and with these emotions. We
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  Speaker 1: have emotions. We have an incredible God who went through
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  Speaker 1: what we were going through it even worse a man.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he made it through because he's God. But he's
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  Speaker 1: shared with us a perfect example of how to go
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  Speaker 1: through what we're going through through the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what we're facing, Joanne says, I just hope
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  Speaker 1: and pray that he is the president now. I hope
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  Speaker 1: that things will change because this world is coming to
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  Speaker 1: an end. I hope he just keeps his word and
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  Speaker 1: helps us all in this country because things are coming
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  Speaker 1: really bad. Yeah, and listen, I get what you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: but be mindful that he's just a human being, a man,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a system in place. He's not a king
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  Speaker 1: a dictator like everybody thinks he's going to become. There's
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  Speaker 1: a system in place. Checks and balances are still in play.
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  Speaker 1: If he takes over the whole world, then that means
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  Speaker 1: he's the Antichrist. And guess what, Jesus is coming back.
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  Speaker 1: So on either end, we win. But we have to
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  Speaker 1: have this vision of peace and hold on to the
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  Speaker 1: vision of peace. Man Well says from a spiritual perspective,
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  Speaker 1: it's time to call things what they are. Yes, of course,
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  Speaker 1: hey man, God is clear with his vision. We need
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  Speaker 1: to be clear with our vision. Absolutely. So let's put
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  Speaker 1: this on the screen. Let's go for it. There it
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  Speaker 1: goes after I clicked the wrong button over there. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: We're facing some times and we need to get encouragement
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  Speaker 1: from the word. Romans, Chapter twelve, verse number eighteen, real,
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  Speaker 1: big and bold, if possible, listen, if possible, as far
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  Speaker 1: as it depends on who on us on you and
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  Speaker 1: on me live at peace with everyone, very very clear
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  Speaker 1: and plain. And the word if makes things neutral now
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  Speaker 1: like if possible, as far as it depends on you.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, I'm going to live at peace with everyone.
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  Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, I can force peace upon
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  Speaker 1: other people who hate this message, who hate a political party,
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  Speaker 1: who hate decision makers, who hate leaders, who hate authority,
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  Speaker 1: and who are convinced that something horrible more horrible is
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  Speaker 1: going to happen in this world based upon a political system.
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  Speaker 1: And as believers, we shouldn't be thinking that way because
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  Speaker 1: we know that we serve a king of kings and
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  Speaker 1: Lord of lords, and the Kingdom of God is not
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of this world, and no political system on
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  Speaker 1: this planet is going to be the ultimate ultimate plan
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  Speaker 1: or ultimate solution to humanity. As Christians, we know that,
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  Speaker 1: but we have to be mindful and respectful that everybody
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  Speaker 1: believes that, because not everybody's a Christian. It's very obvious. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But we get all these money DeVos and we get
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  Speaker 1: into the Word because we need of the Word daily
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  Speaker 1: to get the inspiration to move in victory, to move
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  Speaker 1: it not by the flesh. And that's why we're here amen.
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  Speaker 1: At least that's why I come on live, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sharing thoughts, sharing scriptures a man and keeping my word
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord that I will get up when we
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  Speaker 1: earlies in the morning and put him first in all things. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So in the New Testament we can see the focus
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  Speaker 1: shifts significantly from war and the fall of man and
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  Speaker 1: all that happened and famines kings and rulers that went
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  Speaker 1: buck wild. We see the first King Saul was started
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  Speaker 1: off okay, that ended up a madman chasing after a
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  Speaker 1: man of God, chasing after King David, which he was
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  Speaker 1: annoyed the king, but then it become king until later
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  Speaker 1: on chasing after him because he heard the prophecy. He
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  Speaker 1: knew the annoying thing on this man's life. And David,
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  Speaker 1: according to what God said, was a man after God's
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  Speaker 1: own heart. But yet the king of Israel. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was the first king, right, King Saul started chasing
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  Speaker 1: this man, wanted to kill him. God even gave King
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  Speaker 1: David a test or an opportunity to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: King Saul in a cave. But David knew not to
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  Speaker 1: touch God's annoy Amazing that was an act right there,
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  Speaker 1: a test right, there that King David passed. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I would have passed that test being chased
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  Speaker 1: all around by people that just want to just be
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  Speaker 1: done with me and take me off this earth. And
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  Speaker 1: then I see the leader of those people, and I
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  Speaker 1: have an opportunity to take that leader out. Yet David
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  Speaker 1: did not do it because he respected God's anointed it.
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  Speaker 1: Amen ah Man. So there's a lot there, and that
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  Speaker 1: was an act of peace, and that was an act
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  Speaker 1: of courage, that was an act of humility, Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: in that cave he could have did what his flesh
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  Speaker 1: wanted him to do, but the anoint thing of God
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  Speaker 1: over his life didn't allow him to do it. The
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ has a very important role to play
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  Speaker 1: in the earth like never before, during times like we
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  Speaker 1: are facing Yes and Manuel. Of course, David Manuel's johnson says,
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  Speaker 1: David humbled himself under the mighty hand of God. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what we should be doing as children of God,
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  Speaker 1: humbling ourselves under the mighty hand of God. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a message to say, listen, let's just go away,
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  Speaker 1: Let's just let everybody stomp on us and step all
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  Speaker 1: over us. Never it's going to be a message that's
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  Speaker 1: not the Gospel message at all. What happens is we're humble.
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  Speaker 1: People see that humility and they take it as weakness.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not weakness that we walk in. We walk
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  Speaker 1: in victory, we walk in power, we walk in authority,
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  Speaker 1: we walk in meekness. That's power of God under control. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And our lives should be different. Our lives should be different.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus teaches about peace, love, and reconciliation. He calls his
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  Speaker 1: followers to love their enemies and pray for those who
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  Speaker 1: persecute them. Right. Another scripture. I should have had this
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  Speaker 1: up in Matthew chapter five, verse forty four. Amen, Matthew
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  Speaker 1: five forty four. Let me see if I can get
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  Speaker 1: a real quick in my apologies. I thought I had
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  Speaker 1: it ready, Matthew five forty four. We get there first,
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  Speaker 1: say amen. Amen, of course I'm gonna get the prompts here.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew five forty four. Let's see what the Lord himself says, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and says it here that way. I don't think I'm
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  Speaker 1: making things up. I want to go straight to the word.
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  Speaker 1: After five point forty four, I tell you love your
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  Speaker 1: enemies and pray for those who persecute you. You see that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a thing. Jesus said it maybe sons of your
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  Speaker 1: father in heaven. He causes his son to rise on
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  Speaker 1: the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
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  Speaker 1: righteous and unrighteous. So listen, what does that mean. It
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  Speaker 1: means that we're all in this together. People may say, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a Christian, I'm not a believer, I'm an atheist,
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  Speaker 1: I'm this, I'm that. But we're all in the same
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  Speaker 1: system here, right, We're all in the same planet Earth.
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  Speaker 1: We all have three hundred and sixty five days in
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  Speaker 1: the year. We will have twenty four hours in a day.
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  Speaker 1: We all have this this system that we're following, right,
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  Speaker 1: or that we're in excuse me, not that we're following
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  Speaker 1: that we're in. So we have choice to make, and
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  Speaker 1: we make choices based upon what As a believer. The
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  Speaker 1: way I came to Christ was angry, drunken high. Other
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  Speaker 1: people come to Christ through church services. People come to
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  Speaker 1: Christ through tragedies. Other people come to Christ because God
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  Speaker 1: reveals himself to them in a miraculous way. A man
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  Speaker 1: he touches, lives, he changes hearts, he transforms minds. A
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  Speaker 1: man he renews and restores and redeems he saves. Others
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  Speaker 1: reject that because they say that's too good to be true.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way that that could be for me. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are going around saying that's not for me,
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  Speaker 1: that's not for me. I was that person. I know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. For years. It took me till
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  Speaker 1: I was thirty years old to come to a realization
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  Speaker 1: that there had to be savor, that there had to
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  Speaker 1: be a God, there had to be something more than
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  Speaker 1: what I was currently experiencing at the time, because I
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  Speaker 1: did with the world offered, and it left me empty,
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  Speaker 1: not satisfied, left me empty. You know, fast cars, fast women, drugs, sex, alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: a party life, everything that the world offered that supposedly
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  Speaker 1: would make me happy failed and the truth was revealed
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  Speaker 1: out of it. The lies of that was revealed quickly. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: even if it doesn't feel good. Manuel says, we need
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  Speaker 1: to bless our enemies, and those people will persecute us.
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  Speaker 1: Manuel Johnson says, just imagine we are believers and we
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  Speaker 1: are going through how much more you think unbelievers are
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  Speaker 1: going through without God's spirit? Much more? Yes? And that's
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  Speaker 1: the point. Jesus says, bless your enemies, pray for those
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  Speaker 1: who persecute you, love your enemies. Why because we once
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  Speaker 1: were that person. I mean, there's no other explanation. I
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  Speaker 1: can't go and judge everybody that's outside of the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Said you're going here, and you're going there, and if
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  Speaker 1: you don't do this, I can't. That's not my position, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, God doesn't force anybody into
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. So why would I go out
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  Speaker 1: there screaming and yelling and forcing people to believe my God.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the Christian way. That's not the Godly way, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the way of the Word. That's not the
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  Speaker 1: way of the Master, at least my Master, the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: We need to Love overcomes, Love presses through love overcomes
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  Speaker 1: a multitude of sins. The Bible says God is love,
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  Speaker 1: So we don't have love in us that we can't
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  Speaker 1: say we're of God because God is love. If we
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  Speaker 1: don't pray for one another, if we don't obey authority,
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  Speaker 1: if we don't humble ourselves, Amen, then it's questionable what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing, and it's questionable who we serve, and questionable.
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  Speaker 1: All of that will become in question a man questionable
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  Speaker 1: and rightfully, so the world could see the difference, and
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  Speaker 1: they need to know the difference. The Apostle Paul also
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  Speaker 1: emphasizes living at peace with everyone as much as it
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  Speaker 1: depends on us, and we read that in Romans chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 1: verse eighteen. So ultimately, the word of God points to
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  Speaker 1: a future where war will be over death over crying
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  Speaker 1: over a man, the lack over sin over The Bible
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  Speaker 1: points to the future where war will sease and peace
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  Speaker 1: will reign. In Isaiah two and four, it is prophesied
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  Speaker 1: that nations will beat their swords into plowshares and not
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  Speaker 1: learn war anymore. The vision of peace is fulfilled in
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, not the kingdom of this earth,
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  Speaker 1: not through a person who's promising peace throughout the world,
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  Speaker 1: not through the Antichrist. No, the vision of peace is
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled in the Kingdom of God, where Christ Jesus reigns
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  Speaker 1: as the Prince of Peace. Isaiah nine and six. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope you get on what I'm saying, because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of thoughts and a lot of ideas being
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  Speaker 1: hurled out there that is just not true, and man
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  Speaker 1: is not Christ like. We need to be christ Like.
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  Speaker 1: Having a relationship with God changes our life and we
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  Speaker 1: see the world differently. Okay, thank you Manuell for your comment.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm out of him, out of time. But listen,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you get into the scriptures, get into the
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  Speaker 1: world of God for yourself moments, Chapter twelve, verse number eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was right. That's where we were, that's
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  Speaker 1: where we started. Amen, go into that word. Read the
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  Speaker 1: whole chapter and God will speak to you through his word.
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  Speaker 1: So God bless you all, God keep you all, and
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  Speaker 1: remember always that God is good. Peast