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The True Light [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, fam. Good morning. God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo. It's been a minute. It's been
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  Speaker 1: a real hot minute, right? I think the last time
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  Speaker 1: I went live was on March 4th. March 4th was
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  Speaker 1: the last morning devotion. So here we are so many
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  Speaker 1: months later and we're here. All glory to God, man.
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  Speaker 1: And between that time, I took a time off for reflection,
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  Speaker 1: time off for family issues, personal issues, right? Getting my
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  Speaker 1: business's to where they need to be at this point. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And just working on ministry behind the scenes. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy has been attacking. That's normal. The enemy is defeated,
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  Speaker 1: but he's about his business too. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: God has shown to be faithful over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. So I can't complain about that. So the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Devo, we're back. I'm going to try to be
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  Speaker 1: live Mondays through Fridays, 5.30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm trying a couple of different things, formats and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. And we're going to work it out.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to work it out. We're going to get
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  Speaker 1: this to where it needs to be. Amen. According to
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  Speaker 1: God's word over this ministry. So Morning Diva, we're here
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to take time. We're going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of John. I'm going to start right
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  Speaker 1: there in the Book of John because I've been giving
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  Speaker 1: out the Book of John's lately, to people that I've
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  Speaker 1: been witnessing to one-to-one, been giving them the book of John.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe the Lord has been showing me through
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  Speaker 1: the book of John over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: his love, his grace, his mercy upon my life and
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  Speaker 1: upon your life. Amen. So we're going to be in
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  Speaker 1: John chapter one. So the idea that I have is
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  Speaker 1: to take, go through all the chapters of John and
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  Speaker 1: take a verse, amen, that the Lord wants us to
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  Speaker 1: learn or wants me to learn. Amen. And just share
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  Speaker 1: it out there with you. Amen. So of course, since
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  Speaker 1: this is the first day in the book of John,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be in John chapter one, verse number
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  Speaker 1: nine and 10 verses number nine and 10. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be there today on the morning Devo. So
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  Speaker 1: if you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or
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  Speaker 1: anything along those lines, please do not hesitate to leave
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  Speaker 1: it on the live chat. That's what we're here for. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, you know, we're available. Also streaming live
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  Speaker 1: on sowinnerswithazita.org. Hey, man, I'm a little rusty at it
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  Speaker 1: because I forgot to put the details. So you're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear the audio, but you're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: blank screen when it comes to the cover on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: But keep on listening. I know you're probably just waking
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  Speaker 1: up or whatever the case may be, and you're getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for work or You're coming off from work or
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  Speaker 1: you're getting your kids ready for school or the kids
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  Speaker 1: are getting ready for school or you're a teenager yourself
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  Speaker 1: or you're a young adult yourself and you're listening. So
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  Speaker 1: it's all good. If you can't watch the video, no worry,
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  Speaker 1: no problem. You can watch the video later. But in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, we're streaming audio 247 actually on Soul Winners
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  Speaker 1: with a Z.org. The Celebrator Network, the Lehigh Valley's number
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  Speaker 1: one urban gospel music station online since 2008. We're not
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  Speaker 1: new to this, amen, but I expect God to do
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  Speaker 1: new things every time we go live. So welcome back
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  Speaker 1: for all those who've been asking about the morning devo,
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  Speaker 1: who've been praying for me, who've been patient with me, amen,
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  Speaker 1: who's been encouraging me behind the scenes, amen. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much. A lot of things have been going on
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  Speaker 1: on social media. You know, we're always going to have,
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  Speaker 1: as believers in Christ, we're always going to have opposition, amen, always.
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  Speaker 1: But the great news about the opposition is is that
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  Speaker 1: you realize you're doing something right. The great news about
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  Speaker 1: opposition is that you realize that Jesus Christ is on
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  Speaker 1: your side. The great news about opposition is that you
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  Speaker 1: realize that the Lord Jesus himself had ops. So why
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't we, as true believers in the living, holy, righteous,
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  Speaker 1: loving God, have ops as well? Amen? But I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to turn the ops into opportunity. There's not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people out there that are against what the ministry
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  Speaker 1: is doing here at Celebrator Network and Soul Winners, Inc.
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot. but only takes one or two in
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  Speaker 1: a bunch to try to create a disturbance. We see
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  Speaker 1: that all over, amen, in politics and life and businesses
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  Speaker 1: and ministries and churches. There's always going to be people
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  Speaker 1: that try to divide, people that try to cause disunity.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord God, amen, Yahweh has something to say
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  Speaker 1: about that in his word, amen. But today, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to take it to the book of John. Let me
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  Speaker 1: go back to where I was a minute ago. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And let me just go to the next thing here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the book of John. Let's pray for us, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray. And after we pray, we'll share this out
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  Speaker 1: to everybody we can. Amen. I'm not going to... I
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  Speaker 1: used to put like a timer, right? A timer for
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  Speaker 1: us to share it out. I'm probably not going to
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  Speaker 1: do that as much. Amen. But let's pray. Father, in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, I thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity to return back lives and to do these
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  Speaker 1: morning devotions and to do your will and your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the time off that you allowed me
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  Speaker 1: to experience. Thank you, Lord God, for all those who've
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  Speaker 1: been praying, all those who's been concerned, all those who
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  Speaker 1: have been on my side, including yourself by way of
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  Speaker 1: your Holy Spirit, by way of your word, by way
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  Speaker 1: of your people, by way of your church, by way
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  Speaker 1: of your chosen few. Thank you, Lord God, that you
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  Speaker 1: continue to show yourself great and mighty and loving and
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  Speaker 1: full of justice and just full of hope and mercy
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  Speaker 1: and grace. Thank you so much, Lord, for what you're
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  Speaker 1: going to do today for every single person who's listening
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  Speaker 1: or watching. I pray a hedge of protection over myself,
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  Speaker 1: my family, people that are watching, them and their families
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  Speaker 1: as well as we win today. Amen. And we know
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  Speaker 1: that we win because you already won. And we thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God. In the name of Jesus, I pray this
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  Speaker 1: by faith. All those who agree, we say amen to
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  Speaker 1: the amen. So let's get into the scripture today. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go back here. You can see the rust
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  Speaker 1: is happening here in real time, but we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get to it. Amen. Here we is. It's John chapter 1,
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  Speaker 1: verses 9 to 10. The Word of God says, The
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  Speaker 1: true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into
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  Speaker 1: the world. He was in the world, and though the
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  Speaker 1: world was made through him, listen to this, the world
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  Speaker 1: was did not recognize him. Like the Lord Jesus himself
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  Speaker 1: stepped on the scene, right? Made himself available, made himself known,
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  Speaker 1: performed signs, miracles, wonders, all of that. He did all
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  Speaker 1: of that, ladies and gentlemen. But yet people still decided
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  Speaker 1: to go the other way. People still decided to go
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  Speaker 1: to the places that they should not have gone when
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  Speaker 1: it came to the true light showing up. When it
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  Speaker 1: came to the one who was giving light to everyone, male, female, right? Elderly,
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  Speaker 1: the young, kids, it didn't matter. The light, which was
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  Speaker 1: the true light, who gives life to everyone, came into
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  Speaker 1: the world. He was coming. He was in the world.
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  Speaker 1: He already got to the world. And through the world,
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  Speaker 1: he was made. And though the world was made through him,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, the world did not recognize him, right? So,
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  Speaker 1: Every morning we have a choice, right? Like this morning,
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  Speaker 1: I had a choice whether I'm going to get up,
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  Speaker 1: face the day. Amen. And it's only by the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God that I got up to face the day.
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  Speaker 1: It's only by the grace of God and the mercy
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  Speaker 1: of God that you got up to face today. But
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  Speaker 1: every morning we have a choice to make. Every morning
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  Speaker 1: we begin with a choice. Either you flip on your
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  Speaker 1: phone as soon as you wake up, right? And you
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  Speaker 1: go to social media and or to the news or
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case. Or you could choose to give God glory.
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  Speaker 1: You could choose to thank God. You could choose God first. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: So every morning brings a choice. And those choices will
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  Speaker 1: guide your day. So my question is, what will guide you?
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  Speaker 1: What guides me? Holy Spirit, God. What guides you? It
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  Speaker 1: could be something different. Not everybody, and I understand this completely,
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  Speaker 1: not everybody believes what I believe. Not everybody believes in
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  Speaker 1: the Christian God. Not everybody believes in the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: being who he said he is, being who the prophets
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  Speaker 1: prophesied him to be as Lord and Savior, as God Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that. I respect that, but amen, I think
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  Speaker 1: people are not being honest when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Script, the Scriptures, amen? When you look at the
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  Speaker 1: Scriptures and when you look at the book of John,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot deny the deity, the love, the mercy, the
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  Speaker 1: power of God. It's written, amen, and it's been written,
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  Speaker 1: and it will stay written, amen. And the beautiful thing
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  Speaker 1: about the Word of God is that the Word of
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  Speaker 1: God never changes. And I know there's people out there
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  Speaker 1: that say, you know, that the Word of God is
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  Speaker 1: not true, amen. But if you're honest and you investigate
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  Speaker 1: and you analyze scriptures and you go wholeheartedly with the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Pastor Michael Jakes, amen. It's good to
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  Speaker 1: see you here. my brother and my friend. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing. So the world, as we know it, the
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  Speaker 1: world will offer plenty of choices, right? It's like, what
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  Speaker 1: do you call that? Those choices that you have when
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  Speaker 1: you go to eat food, a buffet. The world has
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  Speaker 1: a buffet of choices, right? And the world has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of voices talking to you at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: It's like in stereo, right? When I was coming up,
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  Speaker 1: stereo was a big thing. Like, wow, you could listen
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  Speaker 1: from the left and right ear From the left and right.
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, this is great. And you can hear
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  Speaker 1: these sounds. And then panning started coming out. And then
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  Speaker 1: Dolby sounds started coming out. So you hear all these sounds.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you went to movies, you hear voices
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  Speaker 1: in the background, voices in the front, surround sound. The
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  Speaker 1: world has a lot of surround sound voices. The world
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  Speaker 1: offers plenty of voices. But these are the voices that
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  Speaker 1: the world offers by way inspired by the God of
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  Speaker 1: this world, which is the devil. Fear. And we know
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  Speaker 1: God didn't give us a spirit of fear. So where
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  Speaker 1: does fear come from? And why do people embrace fear?
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  Speaker 1: Why do people go to horror movies? Why do people
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  Speaker 1: like to scare other people? Why do other people like
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  Speaker 1: to prank other people with something that's going to make
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  Speaker 1: them scream or That's not a spirit of God. God
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  Speaker 1: did not give us the spirit of fear. But the
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  Speaker 1: world and the voices of the world offer us plenty
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  Speaker 1: of fear, offer us plenty of anxiety, offer us plenty
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  Speaker 1: of opinions, right? Like this platform that I'm on right now,
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  Speaker 1: social media, right? It's full of people's opinions. That's why
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  Speaker 1: content like this is not as popular today. as a
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  Speaker 1: content that will provide some kind of opinion on a
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  Speaker 1: certain matter, current events, about a basketball player, football player,
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  Speaker 1: somebody who plays sports, about an actor or actress, about politics,
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  Speaker 1: about religions, debates and all that. A lot of opinions
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  Speaker 1: on these type of platforms inspired by the enemy. So fear, anxiety, opinions.
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  Speaker 1: How about this? ever experienced this, I know I have. Pressure. Amen? Pressure. Success.
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  Speaker 1: That's huge. Money. That's another voice. A voice that the
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  Speaker 1: world offers. If you have X amount of money, you
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  Speaker 1: will have X amount of joy and peace and happiness.
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  Speaker 1: But when that money runs out, my question is, what happens? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: What happened to all the peace? What happened to all
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  Speaker 1: the joy? Right? So, the world offers a voice of money.
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  Speaker 1: About this, relationships. Relationships that are not really inspired by
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  Speaker 1: a loving, holy, righteous, loving God, right? When you're in
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  Speaker 1: a relationship and God is not in the center of
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  Speaker 1: that relationship, you're just doing things on your own. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be doing things on my own. If Christ is not
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of my marriage, my relationships, my friendships, amen,
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  Speaker 1: then what are we doing? Amen? What are we doing
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  Speaker 1: if Christ is not in the center of it? Social media,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even have to talk a lot about that.
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  Speaker 1: Although I'm on social media, I promise you, I pray
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  Speaker 1: to God, I've asked for strategies from the Lord how
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  Speaker 1: to get this off these platforms. I have a website,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, soulwinnerswithaz.org, streaming live right now over there
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  Speaker 1: as well. And I get thousands of people, praise the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: to visit every month. But People want to stay on
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  Speaker 1: these platforms. It's just plain and simple. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: no other way. A friend of mine has developed a
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  Speaker 1: Christian social media platform. Amen. And maybe I'll interview him
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  Speaker 1: on the radio show one day and he could explain it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And he offered it. I think it's a great idea.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic idea. But when I spoke and replied back, um,
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  Speaker 1: when he DM and, and show me what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: I went to the website. It looks beautiful. It's amazing. Amen. Um,
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  Speaker 1: His name is T.R. Burns. Go and follow him, T.R. Burns.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them that Sam mentioned him, amen. And he's
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  Speaker 1: a mogul. He does things all for the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: He has businesses, restaurants, apps. He's a mogul. His mind
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  Speaker 1: is amazing to develop these things. So when I DM'd
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  Speaker 1: him back, I said, listen, I don't even plan on
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  Speaker 1: being on social media no more. And then it's a
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  Speaker 1: full-time job, I told him, to get people off the
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  Speaker 1: major platforms to go into an independent platform. Although his
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  Speaker 1: platform is going to be clean. His platform is not
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  Speaker 1: going to be dominated by the algorithm. His platform is
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  Speaker 1: going to be open to everyone's opinions, open to everyone
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  Speaker 1: who professes the Lord Jesus or not. Amen? But his
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  Speaker 1: platform is going to be available. Maybe we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that in another day. Amen? Jesus didn't come to simply
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  Speaker 1: give us information, to give us his opinion. And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came to give us light. And I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: many times, maybe it's just me, but I hear people
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  Speaker 1: misquoting the scripture when Jesus said, I am the way,
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  Speaker 1: the truth, and the life. L-I-F-E. A lot of people say,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth, and the light. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he is the light of the world, but that scripture
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  Speaker 1: doesn't say light. It says life. Amen. But we know
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus said, I am. and the light of the world,
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  Speaker 1: which makes me think, and I'm pretty sure the Jewish
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  Speaker 1: people at the time when he said that, makes you
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  Speaker 1: think at the book of creation, Genesis, when Yahweh, when Elohim,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, said, let there be, you got it, let
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  Speaker 1: there be light. Jesus shows up on a scene. He says,
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  Speaker 1: on a scene, he says, I am the light of
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  Speaker 1: the world. You see that? Amen. What the word repeats,
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  Speaker 1: the living word repeats. So remember, Jesus said, I only
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  Speaker 1: say or do what the Lord tells me to do,
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  Speaker 1: what the Father tells me to do. Amen? Or I
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  Speaker 1: only repeat what the Father tells me to say. So
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  Speaker 1: in other words, they're in unity, perfect unity. So we
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  Speaker 1: have Elohim, God, Yahweh. We have Ruach Elohim, Spirit of God,
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. And then we have Jesus, the Son of God,
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  Speaker 1: all three. And this is what our... Muslim brothers and
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  Speaker 1: sisters accuses of having three gods. No, it's three persons,
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  Speaker 1: one God. Amen. We call it the holy triune God,
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  Speaker 1: the holy Trinity. Yes. The word Trinity is not in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, but the idea of a triune God is
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  Speaker 1: all over the scriptures. So although we can't totally understand it,
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  Speaker 1: we're not God, right? We can't explain it out fully.
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  Speaker 1: We're not God. So there's, mysteries in the scriptures that
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  Speaker 1: it will take an eternity for us to realize or
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  Speaker 1: to understand because God is that great of a God.
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  Speaker 1: If we knew everything about the Lord Jesus, if we
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  Speaker 1: knew everything about Yahweh, Elohim, El Shaddai, you know, his names,
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  Speaker 1: if we knew everything about him, then what kind of
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  Speaker 1: God would that? That would be a very limited God.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't be an ultimate God. It wouldn't be an
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  Speaker 1: almighty God. He would be a limited God, a God
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  Speaker 1: that you could just put through AI and find out
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  Speaker 1: everything about him. And we know that's not the fact.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus didn't come to give us information. Amen. What
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  Speaker 1: he spoke was actually information that gave an opportunity for transformation.
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  Speaker 1: He came to give us light. So what does light do? Amen.
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  Speaker 1: See how much time I have here. What does light do?
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, what does light do? Well, light, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: allows us to see light. reveals what darkness tries to hide.
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  Speaker 1: You notice that? So, here you are and here I
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  Speaker 1: am walking in the light. And people who are walking
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  Speaker 1: in darkness hate that light that we're walking in. Hate
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  Speaker 1: the fact that God is evident in our lives, that
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  Speaker 1: we're bearing fruit of the Spirit. Amen? And people who
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  Speaker 1: are walking in darkness, some even professing to be believers
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  Speaker 1: and Christians and supposedly have ministries and this, that, and
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  Speaker 1: the third, they hate light that's shining through you. The
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  Speaker 1: light of Christ is a blazing one, right? Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: the true light who gives light to everyone was coming
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  Speaker 1: into the world, right? That's what the word of God
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  Speaker 1: says in John chapter one, verse nine and 10. He
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  Speaker 1: was in the world and though the world was made
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  Speaker 1: through him, the world did not recognize him. Amen? The
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  Speaker 1: book of John, I believe that was John speaking. But
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  Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is, amen, the true light.
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  Speaker 1: So if The Bible's talking about a true light. There
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  Speaker 1: must be a false light, meaning that the enemy could
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  Speaker 1: come like an angel of light and present some kind
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  Speaker 1: of revelation or some kind of foreknowledge or some kind
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  Speaker 1: of wisdom and say it's from the word of God
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  Speaker 1: because he's a liar. He's a deceiver. And right now,
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  Speaker 1: we're dealing with a lot of lying, deceiving spirits. And
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  Speaker 1: it's growing rapidly. Amen. In our society, in our world,
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  Speaker 1: in church, churchdom, right? In Christendom, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: wolves in sheep's clothing and they're starting to get exposed.
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  Speaker 1: And because they're getting exposed, they hate this true light
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  Speaker 1: that's living in me and in you as true believers
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. So here's something powerful.
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  Speaker 1: What light does is light gives direction, right? Like this.
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  Speaker 1: direction when we don't know which way to go, right?
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  Speaker 1: Light brings hope in circumstances when the circumstances seem overwhelming, right?
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  Speaker 1: You've been there. I've been there. Amen. And I'm not out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not out. And I don't think you're out either,
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  Speaker 1: completely out. of these circumstances that we face. Why I
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  Speaker 1: know that and why can I say that with confidence
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  Speaker 1: is because we live in a world that's full of darkness,
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  Speaker 1: but yet we come with the light that blazes and shines.
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  Speaker 1: We can't hide. I admit, I tried to hide for years,
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  Speaker 1: like behind the scenes, trying to be way behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem was that if you have the light
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  Speaker 1: of Christ in you, when you show up and people
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  Speaker 1: just notice something different about you, Because we walk with victory.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere we walk as believers, sons and daughters of a
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  Speaker 1: living king, we bring the kingdom of God with us.
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  Speaker 1: We don't really have to say a lot, right? You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to say a lot. I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: say a lot. We just show up. Amen? Sometimes all
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  Speaker 1: you have to do is show up. So don't make
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  Speaker 1: the same mistake today of looking at the light, knowing
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  Speaker 1: it's the true light, and then go after some kind
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  Speaker 1: of false illumination, right? Jesus was in the world, yet
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  Speaker 1: the world did not recognize him. How? How, Sway? That's
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  Speaker 1: a saying in the hip-hop world. Well, it's because nobody
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  Speaker 1: was really looking. Think about it. You will find what
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for. I will find what I'm looking for. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: You ever lost your keys and you have to leave
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  Speaker 1: the house, but you don't know where your keys are?
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  Speaker 1: Now the determination... is to find those keys. Amen? That's why.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, Kevon, man? It's good to see you on
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  Speaker 1: the Morning Devo. That's why I'm up in age, right?
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  Speaker 1: I have to put the keys in the same place
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  Speaker 1: I put them every day, so when I get up
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, I know where my keys are. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's just a life hack for you, for the younger generation.
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  Speaker 1: Put your keys, or put whatever is valuable in to
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  Speaker 1: you in the same place every day. So you could
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  Speaker 1: go every day to find that thing, the keys or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is at that place every single day, point
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  Speaker 1: blank period. It will help you out. Free life hack, amen.
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  Speaker 1: Free 99 for you and for everybody that's watching and listening.
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  Speaker 1: So don't make the same mistake of not recognizing the
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  Speaker 1: true light who gives light to everyone, amen. Have you noticed,
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  Speaker 1: because I've noticed this, No matter what people, what side
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  Speaker 1: they take, what stand they take politically and religion, right?
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  Speaker 1: And whatever. There's always a truth that will stand regardless
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  Speaker 1: of my opinion, your opinion. And the truth always sheds
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  Speaker 1: light on God because God is the only true one. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So don't make the same mistake of not recognizing the
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  Speaker 1: true light, just like in the time of this writing
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  Speaker 1: in the book of John chapter one, when people didn't
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  Speaker 1: recognize who the light of the world was. Jesus the
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  Speaker 1: Christ shows up, performs miracles, signs and wonders, was born
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  Speaker 1: from a virgin, right? Lived a sinless life, not sinless,
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  Speaker 1: a sinless life, amen? Either through deed or whatever. Now
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  Speaker 1: I know about, I've heard stories of the reason why
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  Speaker 1: you don't hear about Jesus after he was 12 years
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  Speaker 1: old until he was 30, It shows back on the
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  Speaker 1: scene because he went to India and was being taught
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  Speaker 1: by the Buddha, right? People have these opinions, but the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures don't say nothing about that, right? Whatever God wanted
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  Speaker 1: to reveal in the scriptures that we're reading is what
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  Speaker 1: he knew that we needed to be revealed. Everything else
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  Speaker 1: that we're trying to import or we're trying to fix
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  Speaker 1: or trying to fill in the gaps, that's opinion of men.
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  Speaker 1: When we don't need opinion, I know I don't need
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  Speaker 1: opinion of man. I need what the word of God
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  Speaker 1: is saying. Amen. And not only read the word of
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  Speaker 1: God and know what it says, but to apply the
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  Speaker 1: word of God, to see the living, true, holy, righteous,
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  Speaker 1: loving light of God. Amen. Shine upon my life. And
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  Speaker 1: I want that for you too. So I'm running out
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  Speaker 1: of time here. Amen. And I'm having a good time
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  Speaker 1: here for his day back in a minute. So don't
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  Speaker 1: make the same mistake. Jesus may be speaking to you
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  Speaker 1: and to me through his word. As a matter of fact,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I kind of am confident that when we read the Word,
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  Speaker 1: God is speaking to us. I believe that the Scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Bible, is the only book in all of
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  Speaker 1: this universe, in all of this earth, that when you
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  Speaker 1: read it, the author shows up. Now, if you read
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the Word of God, the Bible, uninspired, meaning that you
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  Speaker 1: don't have Holy Spirit living in you, the Bible is clear.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have the Spirit of God living inside
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  Speaker 1: of you, you will not understand the spiritual things about
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  Speaker 1: His Word. So some people say, I read the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: from cover to cover and I found errors and I
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: found contradictions and it doesn't make sense and it's not real.
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  Speaker 1: How could you believe in a man-made idea? And it's simple.
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  Speaker 1: They're uninspired. When I used to read the Bible uninspired
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  Speaker 1: before Christ entered into my life, amen, before Christ transformed me,
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  Speaker 1: saved me, right? I didn't recognize the light before, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I used to read the Bible with my boy. He
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  Speaker 1: was Jehovah's Witnesses. New York City. And we used to
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  Speaker 1: read the Kingdom, whatever they call it, World Translation. And
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  Speaker 1: I used to read the Catholic Bible because I thought
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I was a Catholic back then. And we didn't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: So when we didn't understand it, we just said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: put the book down. Take a drink and start smoking
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  Speaker 1: weed because we didn't understand it. We tried to understand
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  Speaker 1: it uninspired, but it didn't work out. Amen. Yeah, I
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: talk about things like that. I'm not a regular, you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I speak mostly through testimonial. If you've seen me before,
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  Speaker 1: you know my teachings or preachings are highly testimonial. Like
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  Speaker 1: what I've gone through, I can relate to people through
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  Speaker 1: my testimony. A godly person will understand and recognize the
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  Speaker 1: true light through conviction in our hearts by way of
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Or you could even recognize the light an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity that you or I didn't expect, right? I didn't
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  Speaker 1: expect an opportunity that I'm currently involved in right now.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't expect it. You probably didn't expect it, but
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  Speaker 1: we're expecting God to do what God promised. So slow down.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. Just slow down, but don't stop. Slow down
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  Speaker 1: long enough to recognize what God is doing through his word. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's it. I think we're out of time,
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  Speaker 1: but listen, there's a lot more here. I just want
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  Speaker 1: you to ask yourself before we get off. Ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: am I following Jesus to be the light that guides
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  Speaker 1: my decisions today? Or am I allowing the world to
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  Speaker 1: set my direction? I want you to think about that question.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, thank you so much for hanging out with me.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first day back. A little rusty at
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  Speaker 1: the gadgets that I have here. I redid the studio
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. So bear with me, amen. But we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get this. all for the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm out of here. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: allowing me into your life. Like I said, amen. It's
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  Speaker 1: a great opportunity. Keep it locked at someoneiswithaz.org because the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: radio is on and there's a show that I started
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  Speaker 1: today also called Wake Up and Win with your brother
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  Speaker 1: DJ Sam Rock. So God bless you all. God keep
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  Speaker 1: you all. And remember always that God is good. Peace.