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The World Is Cruel · Outcast

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Welcome, Welcome everyone. Yes, welcome.
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For those that are new welcome and those that have been
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listening, thank you so much. We see, we see that more people
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are listening. So that's good.
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Great. Obviously our goal is not to no,
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no, no. No, my goal is to conquer the
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world. Guy that's.
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That's what. I'm just kidding, dude.
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I'm out. No, I don't even want it.
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No Glory to God, but I prefer to be doing something else, no?
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No, no, no, I, I get what you're saying.
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I get what you're saying. Yeah.
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We're, we're doing this for, you know.
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It is fun though. It is fun.
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I do I. I have been enjoying it a lot
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more, I'll be honest. We do get to talk about
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conversations like we said before that you know, you can't
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really have them at church because you know, everybody's
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greeting, meeting and greeting and all that stuff.
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And usually we can't have those conversations at church.
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And and if you do like, yeah, it's not the environment for
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itself. Right, right.
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Some of the topics can be challenging, so I'm not.
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Yeah, that's that's it. Yeah, absolutely.
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Absolutely. You know, So, yeah, that's
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that's that's that's not it, right?
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It's not it. Well, it's not it, huh?
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It's not it. No, like it wouldn't be it for
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me with this, you know, the podcasting.
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It's not it. That's what I meant to say.
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Like this is like something you would have chosen.
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Or what? Do you mean like what do you?
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Mean by that, Actually, you know what?
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Let me let me share a little story.
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My friends wanted to do something very similar to this,
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that when I mean not it, it's not mean it for me.
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But I think I've told it before. I'm not sure.
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You ready? Maybe we that was a motorcycle
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by the way, but maybe. Yeah, we briefly.
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So basically did I say? That maybe you we briefly
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discussed it, I don't remember. But anyways, I was in a New York
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guy. I was buying a laptop in New
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York City and my friend was dropping it off.
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So we met halfway point Mike, a friend of Mike, his name is
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Mike, met, came with my other friend and we met.
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And, you know, besides the fact of that, he brought me the
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laptop and everything. Then we started talking about
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like, yo, we should record a podcast, whatever we were going
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to call it. Like, you know, word is bond and
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stuff like that. So as you remember, we had, I
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had like 2 mics, right? Yeah, yeah.
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Remember, yeah, we were trying to do something, but, you know,
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it never panned out. They got busy and surely also I
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got busy. And to me, it was even better
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because I didn't want to deal with it, right?
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And so we started writing about the book.
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And then all of a sudden all this start happening, you know,
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naturally. And so when I say it's not it
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for me, meaning like, I just didn't want to.
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I don't want to be doing this right, Right.
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But it's fun. No, it is.
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It's it's. We get to talk about cool
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things, what in scripture and stuff like that.
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And so, you know, there are times where we do have scripts
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that are we, you know, we meditate, we have kind of ready.
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And then truthfully, some of them the Holy Spirit just puts
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in our mind and we talk about it.
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Yeah, you can call it improv, but it's just been really the
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holy. Spirit.
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Yeah, exactly. So we are thankful that you know
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more people are listening and if it ever grows, you know we guys
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can always keep us accountable in the comments.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm always. Really, really, go for it.
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I don't really care. Yeah, it doesn't bother me.
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I'm always open to correction. Yeah.
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But if that correction has to has to make sense, obviously,
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you know? Yeah.
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But you know what? Correction.
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Correction is good. We know when when they can be
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bad. It's when our emotions are
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evolved and your own perspective is involved into that
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correction. Then at that point you're just
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like. You said something about how the
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the Father disciplined us. Remember that verse?
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The Father disciplines us. Yeah, It's Yeah.
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And Scripture says like God disciplines those who he loves,
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OK. Yeah, because we're all
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believers. We we have decided to become
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slave to righteousness. Yeah, right.
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That also means there's a certain discipline that goes
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with that. And the father gives us, he
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loves us. He's going to discipline us.
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Yeah, sometimes it's going to, it's going to hurt.
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They're going to feel like trials, test your character and
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all that. So interestingly, you actually
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mentioned a verse in Luke 18. Oh yeah, Luke 18.
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There was a widow that kept going to this wicked that Christ
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was pretty much saying a story where like, you know, this widow
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would keep going to the wicked king for justice and justice and
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justice. And justice.
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And it was a king that Christ says he didn't, He did not like
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humans, like people, and also he did not honour God.
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And the King knew that too, like himself, because he said it
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himself, right, Right. But you know, the widow came.
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He's like, I need justice, I need justice.
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And then the King's like, you know what?
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Whatever I I can't with this woman anymore, I'm just going to
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give him justice. Yeah, yeah.
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You know, And then that's why Christ says to God, don't stop
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praying. Pray, pray, pray.
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Yeah, so right there here, while I'm saying this, can you find
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the verse which says to pray, pray, pray?
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Yeah, absolutely. But while, while you're finding
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that the importance of this goes for me too as well, the
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importance of prayer, meditating constantly without seizing what
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Paul says in 2nd Thessalonians. I think that means that as much
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as we would want justice, we would want do an eye for an eye,
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if you will, especially in our time.
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You know, we have lawyers, we have all attorneys.
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And I'm going to sue you because you did that to me and or no,
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I'm going to sue you because you did that to me and and so on and
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so on. And we want an eye for an eye.
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The world is kind of built that way, right?
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There are moments where justice does take place for something
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very wicked that just happened. You know, it could be something
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very terrible. And the law does it's job.
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Yeah, but not always the case. So as believers, we also have to
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give the. The other cheek.
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Yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah.
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And that could mean in many different.
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It doesn't mean like you get hit in the face and then you have to
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get to the face. Sometimes the situation, you
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maintain the integrity and you give the other chick and you ask
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for God to just take justice because you know that it's
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unfair. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But who do we think we are also to want to take justice?
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Yeah. So if you found it, you can, you
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can read. Yeah, read that little section.
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So. It's in Luke chapter 18.
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Like I'm gonna start verse 1, he says.
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Now he told them a parable on the need for them to pray always
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and not give up. There was a judge in a certain
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town who didn't fear God or respect people.
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And a widow in the town kept coming to him saying, give me
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justice against my adversary. For a while he was unwilling,
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but later he said to himself, Even though I don't fear God or
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respect people, yet this widow keeps present.
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Wait, sorry, pestering me, I will give her justice.
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Sorry. It's just that I highlight my
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thing Blue. It's sometimes hard.
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To read so pestering means like annoying.
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Yes, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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Like keeps. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, keeps coming. Oh my gosh, yeah.
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So that she don't, so that she doesn't wear me out by hearing
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persistent by her persistent coming.
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So he's like, I might as well just do it so she can stop
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coming, right? Right.
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Then the Lord said, listen to what the unjust judge says.
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Will not God granted justice to his elect who cry out to him day
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and night? Will he delay helping them?
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I tell you that he will swiftly grant them justice.
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Nevertheless, when the son of a man comes, will he find faith on
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earth? That's pretty much it.
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And then he goes on to the tax collector and the Pharisee.
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Where does it say to keep praying or?
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He says here in the beginning verse 1, he says now he told
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them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not give
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up. OK, there you go.
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So as much as we would do an eye for an eye, and as much as we
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would like to take things into the law, because the law can't
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give you a response or some results, there's just certain
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things for believers where you just have to let it go.
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Yeah, just have to let it go. We may, we may struggle with
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anger, outbursts of wrath and all these things.
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Yeah, but you always have to give the other.
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Cheek. Yeah, you.
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Know what I mean? And if you believe firmly that
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you want justice, then pray to God and let him take care of it.
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Yeah, it is the one who can. Exactly.
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Can execute that justice. No, not exactly.
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You know, so that's interesting. You know, I know praying is not
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something natural to us, especially if you want to kneel
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down and pray. We'll do it when we're in need,
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when we find ourselves in a trouble, but we won't do it when
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it's a moment of comfort, right? When we see moments of
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abundancy. And I say this for myself, you
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know, this, this is coming because I've experienced this
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before. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
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When we're comfortable and when we have abundance, when we have
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that, like, you don't want to pray.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I, you know, you always got
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to ignore that. Like, Nah, Nah.
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There's a lot we need to talk about.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So you, you find prayers so
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amazing when you're in need, you know?
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Yeah. It's like your best tool, like
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your best friend. Yeah, it's.
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Like the best thing you want to do, but you prayer should be
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whether if you have abundance or not, there's always something to
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talk about, you know, So that goes for me.
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Prayer is important. And especially in our, in the
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world we live in, man, we're believers.
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And the world is cruel. It is cruel.
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We shouldn't expect the world to accommodate us.
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Yeah. And we are thankful that the
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world knows about Christianity, gets preached around the world.
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And yeah, we've gained respect and we've gained honor.
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But in other areas, they don't have that.
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It's not everywhere, right? Right.
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Because the gospel's been spread.
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Like because nations have made their their independence or
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constitution based on biblical principles, humans are the ones
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who have changed. God is still the same.
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No, I still the same. We've changed because God,
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Christ came in interrupted. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, at that, at that moment in time.
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Exactly 100%. Everything changed.
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What? In what way that now the whole
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you, you whole continent of Europe, like literally the whole
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country of Sudan is Christian. Yeah.
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Literally the whole country, yeah.
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Yeah. And just the world has
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experienced this message and the laws and constitutions have been
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inspired by that. So we do live in a world where
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we can be respected and there, but we can never depend on that.
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The world is cruel. Yeah, they're.
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Never. They're never going to
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accommodate to us. No.
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There's going to be a time where they're going to go against us.
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Yeah, absolutely. And there's believers in China
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who want to serve God freely, but they do it hiding in secret
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because you know what I mean? So the world is cruel and it's
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OK. Yeah.
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You're gonna get smacked in the face.
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You're gonna get spit in the face.
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Maybe not literally, but figuratively speaking, that's
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gonna happen. Right, right, right.
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And you believe that's not fair? Yeah.
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It's not fair, right? That's that's unjust.
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Yeah. It is.
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It is unjust, yeah, Yes, 'cause we'll never meet eye to eye.
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Ever. Ever.
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Even if you want to, we'll never meet eye.
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To eye and politicians can say, yeah, we are on the Christian
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side, but in the end they have their own agenda.
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Yeah, they have their own agenda.
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Exactly. Exactly.
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Yeah. You know, so like the world is
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cruel, the world is unpredictable, but there's one
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thing that's super knowable and it's that we abide on under God.
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We are involved with him. We are not his children and,
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and, and because of that in such a way, he won't allow us to
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boast. Who are we to boast, right?
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We're his children. He's going to discipline us
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accordingly. And since we are this light
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insult to the world, people are not going to want that exposure.
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Exposure or seasoning, right? Not going to want it.
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No, no, no. That's fine.
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Yeah, you know what I mean. Exactly.
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Exactly. If whoever's listening, you're
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finding you. You're finding yourself that you
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want just because it's not fair how this person is treating me
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or how that person is treating me or whatever they may be, or
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you're or you're anticipating some outbursts of wrath from
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some future. How are you going to just cut
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the person off because you're anticipating a potential
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outburst of wrath? No, you have to always give the
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other chick. It's hard.
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I know it's not easy. I mean, yeah, yeah, it happens
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to me all the time. Yeah, absolutely.
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You know what I mean? I'm saying I just want to give
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people perspective. We are believers, meaning we're
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now a slave to righteousness. Yeah, absolutely.
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We're not no longer on under the bondage of sin, right?
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But we're not exempt from sin, Amen.
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We're not exempt from that, nor are we exempt from being wicked,
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right? Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly. Yeah, because we're still
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wicked. Yeah, but because we've decided
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to trust in God and believe in Him, we're under.
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We're under him. We're above Scripture.
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Yeah. Now that means Scripture is now
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our foundation. Yes, under our feet and we're
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under the light of Christ. But that doesn't mean we can
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boast. That doesn't mean we can do
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whatever we want. Yes, we are royalty, but that
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doesn't mean we behave like this spoiled brat from a king.
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No, because we're royalty, we need to act as so.
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Exactly. I mean.
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No, no, no 100%. I agree.
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We got involved in this then, you know, like when you come to
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God, guess what? Now you're part of his army, his
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Kingdom, everything. Domain is domain.
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Yeah, exactly. You entered his domain.
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So don't be looking at the person in the world that doesn't
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believe in God. Like all this person doesn't get
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correction, discipline, all this.
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No, no, no, no. God will do what he has to do to
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him. You are in the domain of God, so
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he will do what he he wants to. There's other things too, like
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in this world, things are unfair.
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Yeah. People can have questions like,
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well, if, if, if God is such a good guy, why do these things
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happen in the world? First of all, we make these
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things happen in the world. We're the one investing in
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technology. He's never once have told us to
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advance in technology. We're doing that to ourselves.
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Right, right, right. So why would you, why would he
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have to get involved on? We've done this, Yeah.
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These are our own consequences. Correct.
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Correct. OK, Humanity has a reality check
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by nature itself. Look what happened in Nepal.
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Nepal, huge avalanche rock just came off and fell onto the
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ground. And yeah, yeah, scientists were
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confused because they thought it was an earthquake, but it was
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just a rock. Falling.
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Yeah, right. Crazy.
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Look what just happened out of nowhere.
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Nature itself gives humanity a reality check.
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God doesn't have to do anything, right?
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Everything's already done by design.
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Yes, exactly. Do you know what I'm saying?
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And that's unfortunate that Adam and Eve had to get kicked out
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and now experience this, what we call dying and having the
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ability of of having the knowledge of good and bad and
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not know how to wield it. Exactly.
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Right, that's the fallen state. That's.
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What it is, that's what we're in, yeah.
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That's what it is, yeah. So as much as nature gives
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humanity a reality check, we ourselves give ourselves a
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reality check how vulnerable we are.
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We create all these massive structures and infrastructures
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of electricity and everything, and it destroys us as well.
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Yeah, absolutely. We're the ones destroying
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ourselves. And then on top of that, if
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you're a believer, God is going to give you a reality check too.
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A. 100%. Is he not allowed to?
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He's your father. Yeah, and you're a slave to
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righteousness. So that's why if pray to him,
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he's your father, he will take justice.
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Yeah, he'll take justice. To him that he will, but you
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know, there's a persistency that has to go on.
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Yeah. You know what I mean?
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So do you have any thoughts for that?
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No, no, no. It's just, if you're in God's
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domain, I just just understand that God disciplines those who
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he loves. Remember that, those who he
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loves. And don't be comparing yourself
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to to the world. Always keep in mind that the
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rain falls on the just and the unjust, on the rich and the
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poor. You know that's the world we
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live in. But if you've entered God's
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domain, it's different. It's different.
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Don't be comparing yourself to those of the world.
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Either. Yeah, so it's pretty magic.
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It's pretty much it, huh? Yeah, this is it.
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This is good. So keep in mind guys, if you
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want justice, if you think that the world has been quite cruel
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to you and somewhat injustice have been displayed in your
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life, go to God. Yes.
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He'll take care of it. Amen.
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And be persistent in that. Not just in that, but be
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persistent in prayer and all things.
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Yes, he's. Your father, he'll listen to
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you. Yeah.
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You know what I mean? Absolutely.
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He's never abandoned anyone. Nope in any.
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Way, shape or form, he's always there.
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He recognizes it because we recognize his son, and that is
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his will. The Father's will is that those
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get to believe in Him who he sent.
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Yes. Amen.
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Amen. So that's what we got for well,
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for this time, this episode that I know it's short, but although
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it is short, also remember that it is important that Christ is
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letting in Luke 18, letting his disciples known, the people
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there, the importance of being consistent and persistent.
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Yeah, in prayer not to give up. Don't give up, right?
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Why does he say don't give up? Because there's going to be a
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sense of waiting. That's fine, yeah. 100% is going
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to be a sense of waiting. Yeah, right.
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That builds character. That means waiting is not easy.
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That's teaching you patience. That means that God's way is
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hard. But it's simple.
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Yeah. All these things, right?
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Right. Why do you have to kneel down
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and pray to God? Because you can never boast all
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these things. Why do you have to do that?
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Because although we might have morality, in the end, we're
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selfish. Yeah, 100% all these.
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Things we need to be OK with that.
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Yes. So wait.
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Hold on, don't just give. Up.
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Amen. All right.
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So do you want to close it off with a frig?
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Go for it. Yeah, absolutely.
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Lord, thank you so much for allowing us to read Your word,
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guide us and lead us always into the absolute truth.
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And you are the true, just God. You are the true living God and
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we come to you, Oh Lord, for you know we are, we live in this
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flesh and our heart is deceitful.
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So who are we to? Try to bring just upon ourselves
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or you know, or to what we want to bring justice to, for we are
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wicked ourselves. But coming to you, O Lord, you
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know the perfect portion of what is just and unjust.
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Holy you are in every way. Amen.
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Amen. All right, guys, until the next
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one.