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The Wise & Godly [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Morning, Good morning, family, God bless you. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the Morning Devo. Is your brother Sam Lopez aka DJ
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Speaker 1: Sam Rock. So Win is with a z dot org
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Speaker 1: z dot org. Amen, celebrating network, and we're live today.
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Speaker 1: It's a new morning, a new day, and a new
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Speaker 1: time to get together with the people of God and
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Speaker 1: people who are seeking truth, who are searching for love.
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Speaker 1: This is the right place to search for love, Amen,
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Speaker 1: because we're gonna look at the lover of our souls
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Speaker 1: through his word, and that's the Lord, the Wise and Golly.
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Speaker 1: Today in the Morning Devo, the Wise and Golly, this
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Speaker 1: is twenty twenty five. I hate to put dates on
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Speaker 1: these podcasts or these live streams because they're evergreen. You
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Speaker 1: could listen to this fifteen years from now, amen, and
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Speaker 1: the truth will still remain true as long as it's
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Speaker 1: based in the Word of God. But we're in this
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Speaker 1: year right, and you could be intentional. Be intentional, surround
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Speaker 1: yourself with the right people and influences, not influencers, even
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Speaker 1: though that's okay too, but influences things that influence you
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Speaker 1: and inspire you to do the right thing. When you're
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Speaker 1: around the wrong people, you'll be inspired or prompted to
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Speaker 1: do the wrong things. When you're around the right people, Amen,
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Speaker 1: the right people, you'll be inspired to do the right thing.
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Speaker 1: It's just that simple. Our nature, our human nature tends
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Speaker 1: to flow in the things that we observe the most.
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Speaker 1: So when you're driving, they say to keep your eyes
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Speaker 1: on the road, and it's kind of like, be careful
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Speaker 1: with that statement. You don't look down, you look straight.
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Speaker 1: The road is underneath, but you look straight. So it
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Speaker 1: means keep your eyes in front of you, keep your
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Speaker 1: eyes on the road a man. Use your mirrors, use
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Speaker 1: your rear view when necessary. Amen, but keep your eyes
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Speaker 1: on the road. Because whatever you stare at, whatever you
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Speaker 1: observe the most, whatever you look at the most, you'll
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Speaker 1: start steering towards that position. Amen. I don't suggest you
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Speaker 1: try that, just believe me. Amen, the wise and godly
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Speaker 1: on the morning devo. Amen, right, chusting out all the
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Speaker 1: things that I have going on here, moving all the
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Speaker 1: moving parts to make sure we're up and running. But
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Speaker 1: it's like we're good. So you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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Speaker 1: prayer requests, or anything along the lines like that. Please
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Speaker 1: don't hesitate to leave it on the live check Amen,
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Speaker 1: And keep on getting errors all my live stream software.
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Speaker 1: They gonna hear about it, right, they're gonna hear about it.
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Speaker 1: Keep on getting these errors and saying, oh, we can't record.
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Speaker 1: That's not what I'm paying for. Amen, So listen, questions, comments, concerns,
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Speaker 1: prayer requests, or anything along those lines. Please don't hesitate
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Speaker 1: to leave it on a live chat. Also, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: be sharing this out in a couple of months. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna pray first, then we'll share this out for like
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Speaker 1: sixty seconds. Think about it. Be intentional of who you're
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Speaker 1: gonna share this out with, Amen, Be intentional. Maybe don't
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Speaker 1: use these morning deedals as subs. Don't you know that
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Speaker 1: you're trying to indirectly tell somebody, Yo, you need Jesus,
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Speaker 1: you need God, even though I believe we all need
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Amen. But don't send it to a person
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Speaker 1: that you know who's hostile against the Gospel, who maybe
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Speaker 1: is Churchard, who maybe looks at me and looks at
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Speaker 1: you and say, yeah, y'all not real. Whatever. Let them,
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Speaker 1: be right, go with peace, share out with love. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Let's not try to be condemning, condescending, or you know,
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Speaker 1: don't be don't return evil for evil said, instead, return
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Speaker 1: evil with good. Amen. So let's pray. After we pray,
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Speaker 1: share it out sixty seconds. Then when we come back
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Speaker 1: after those sixty we're gonna hit up the scripture of
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Speaker 1: Proverbs thirteen, verse number twenty Proverbs thirteen and twenty. Father,
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Speaker 1: I thank you for your life giving word, I think,
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Speaker 1: thank you for the life that you have given us
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Speaker 1: right now. Thank you that you are the only one
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Speaker 1: that could satisfy our soul. And I thank you Lord God.
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Speaker 1: We could be intentional about surrounding ourselves with the right peoples,
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Speaker 1: surrounding ourselves with people who are wise and godly, surrounding
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Speaker 1: ourselves with good influences, surrounding ourselves by the hosts, surrounding
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Speaker 1: ourselves by a cloud of witnesses, I mean men with
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Speaker 1: a cloud of witnesses. Thank you for the people who
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Speaker 1: are continuously helping others to gain knowledge and understanding of
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Speaker 1: the Gospel of the Word of God. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: our teachers, leaders, pastors, apostles, prophets, evangelists. Thank you Lord God,
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Speaker 1: for what you have done in this life, what you're
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Speaker 1: doing in this world, what you're doing in the spirit,
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Speaker 1: what you're doing for the kingdom purpose the Kingdom of God.
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Speaker 1: So I pray I had your protection of all my
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Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. I had your protection over myself physically,
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Speaker 1: emotionally and spiritually, over my wife, our children, our grant children,
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Speaker 1: all our relatives, all our friends. Father God, that you
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Speaker 1: would do that. But you are kind, you are loving,
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Speaker 1: you are just, you' are holy, You are a God
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Speaker 1: of heaven and earth. And Lord God, we trust in you.
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Speaker 1: I trust in you, and I thank you for this
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Speaker 1: opportunity that you've given me to just share your word
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Speaker 1: and inspire and encourage people to get into the Word
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Speaker 1: of God for themselves, to see what will happen if
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Speaker 1: they are intentional about spending time with You and the
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Speaker 1: start of that day or maybe at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day or whatever time they want to spend time
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Speaker 1: with you, Lord God, through your work. Thank you Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit for reminding me that we're the closest thing that
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Speaker 1: we could ever be, closest to God that we could
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Speaker 1: ever be, because we have Holy Spirit living inside of us,
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Speaker 1: perfect union with Christ. Because of your Holy Spirit. So
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Speaker 1: I pray peace over the lives of every single person
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Speaker 1: that's struggling right now in a chaotic situation. Peace, be
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Speaker 1: still and know that there is a God who loves
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Speaker 1: you and Jesus Holy Name. My prayer is by faith
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Speaker 1: and those who agree with the prayer, we say Amen
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Speaker 1: to the Amen. Let's go for it. Sixty seconds something.
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Speaker 1: We share this out. When we come back, we'll get
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Speaker 1: right into it. I'll be right back, man, we're back.
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Speaker 1: Let's go for it. Ladies and gentlemen. Let's shut us
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Speaker 1: out and get to the word quickly, right so we
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Speaker 1: don't even have a little of the time here. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And I already have this error that keeps on popping
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Speaker 1: up in my mind. I'm like, why am I getting errors?
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Speaker 1: When you pay for a service where we pay, where
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Speaker 1: you're paying for platforms. Amen. And there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: moving parts that have to pay for a man that
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Speaker 1: AM willing to pay for for this ministry to go.
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Speaker 1: We don't want to see no errors across the screen. Amen,
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Speaker 1: So help me use wisdom, help me be golly when
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Speaker 1: I approach the tech team on the issue. Amen's kidding,
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Speaker 1: I mean I should be okay, as long as they're like,
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Speaker 1: you know, fixing it. Usually what happens they'll blame the
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Speaker 1: system for their error. Oh what system are you using?
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Speaker 1: Oh we have an update coming. Oh you're using this platform,
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Speaker 1: you're using that iOS using. Let's fix the problem, and
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Speaker 1: let's be wise and golly when we're Facebook issues and
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Speaker 1: Facebook problems even with their technical problems. Amen, sister Joanne,
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Speaker 1: God bless y'all see you, Good morning, Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the morning Devo. My system, my friend, let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to the word a man. Let me see
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Speaker 1: if I get this right here? Boom the wise and golly,
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Speaker 1: Amen today in the morning Devo. And like, there's another
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Speaker 1: situation here, but let's keep it moving. Proverbs, chapter thirteen,
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Speaker 1: verse number twenty. This is the verse that stuck out
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Speaker 1: to me while I was looking through the Wise and
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Speaker 1: Godly right. When I took that subject and I thought
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Speaker 1: about it, and this firse popped up. Proverbse thirteen twenty.
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Speaker 1: The Word of God says he who walks as a
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Speaker 1: companion with wise men will be wise. But the companions
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Speaker 1: of conceited dull withted fools are fools themselves and will
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Speaker 1: experience harm. So plainly you could see that guy's letting
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Speaker 1: us know. Watch you you roll with, watch you you
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Speaker 1: walk with, Watch you keep friends with, watch your surroundings.
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Speaker 1: Want to be wise, walk with wise people, right, it's
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Speaker 1: a common thing, common sense thing. But if you are
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Speaker 1: not wise and you're hanging out with people who are conceited,
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Speaker 1: you know what a conceited person is, right, They think
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Speaker 1: they got it all. It's about them. They think they
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Speaker 1: haven't made they think they have everything under control. They
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Speaker 1: think they know all their answers. They have stuff, and
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Speaker 1: they make sure they let everybody know about what they
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Speaker 1: have conceded. Dull with it. Dull, yeah, because they don't
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Speaker 1: have the light. They're shining no light. Right, they're just
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Speaker 1: being narrow minded. They're being big headed, and they're being conceited.
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Speaker 1: And that's dull to me, that's old to me, that's corny.
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Speaker 1: But if you follow in those footsteps and your companions,
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Speaker 1: your friends using them to influence you, yourself will become
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Speaker 1: a fool and you will experience harm. That's the word. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I know that might be tough for a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: like what do you mean, Well, I don't mean nothing.
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Speaker 1: The word of God means everything. Amen. The word of
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Speaker 1: God is what means everything. So follow the word, trust
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Speaker 1: the word, obey the word right. Just test the word
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Speaker 1: in your life personally to see if that's true. But
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Speaker 1: I think you already know that's true. It's something about
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Speaker 1: it's something about when you're around certain people, the vibe
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Speaker 1: right changes and you're like, man, every time I get,
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Speaker 1: you know, hang out with this person or these people,
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Speaker 1: you know, my spirit ain't right, my attitude changes, I
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Speaker 1: don't feel peace. But then when you hang out with
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Speaker 1: other people, you're like, man, I'm so inspired on so
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Speaker 1: full of faith. They're faith builders. They're building me up,
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Speaker 1: and I'm loving the company, and the vibe is different. Right.
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Speaker 1: So you could literally sense it when you're in a
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Speaker 1: group of the wrong people and a group of the
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Speaker 1: right people. Amen, you could just sense it by the
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Speaker 1: giant thing. God bless you. Bro. It's good to see
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Speaker 1: you in the morning. Devo, good morning, and God bless you.
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Speaker 1: So think about it. Man, we already know, we already
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Speaker 1: know the results. We've already been there, done that. And
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Speaker 1: if you don't know what I'm talking about, let me
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Speaker 1: give you some more. Right, your surroundings are very important
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Speaker 1: who you trust and who you hang out with very important. Right,
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Speaker 1: surround yourself with wise and godly people. So we read
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Speaker 1: Proverbs thirteen twenty. Let me give you another scripture real
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Speaker 1: quick one Corinthians fifteen and thirty three. Bible says, do
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Speaker 1: not be misled. Bad company corrupts good character. Other versions
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Speaker 1: say bad company corrupts good morals. But bad company corrupts
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Speaker 1: good character. So don't be deceived. Don't surround yourself with
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Speaker 1: a bad company and say, I'm a Christian, that's not
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Speaker 1: gonna affect me. I believe in God. It's not gonna
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Speaker 1: affect me. You continue hanging out with bad company, and
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Speaker 1: if you're not influencing them, or you're not changing the
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Speaker 1: atmosphere with the word of God, by the Word, by
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Speaker 1: the spirit, then you're just really involving yourself with people
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't be involving yourself. You're surrounding yourself with a
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Speaker 1: bad vibe. Right. You are part of the problem, not
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Speaker 1: part of the solution. So don't expect your character to
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Speaker 1: be lifted if you continue to surround yourself and be
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Speaker 1: around people who are bad company. The Bible is playing.
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Speaker 1: If they're bad company, you know you could go, serve
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Speaker 1: in love, give them a word, pray for them. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But you can't be partners with them. There's no partnership
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Speaker 1: with light and darkness. Naw, we don't do that. And
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Speaker 1: that's where people think, Oh, you think you're better than me.
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Speaker 1: That's where people start making those remarks, Oh, Sam, you
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Speaker 1: must think you're better than me. You're holier than me.
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Speaker 1: You're judging me. And they start sensing that there is
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Speaker 1: a split. There is a time to get out right.
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Speaker 1: There is a divide, and we're not doing the dividing.
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Speaker 1: The Lord by his word, the sword, the word of
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Speaker 1: God is what divides Amen. People think, oh Jesus, he's
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Speaker 1: a peacemaker. Yes, he's a peacemaker, but he came with
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Speaker 1: a sword to divide. He wants people to know that
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Speaker 1: you choose Jesus, you have life. If you reject him,
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Speaker 1: you have the life that you want. And that's not
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Speaker 1: going to equal nothing but death because the wages of
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Speaker 1: sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
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Speaker 1: life through Christ Jesus. So we have a choice. We
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Speaker 1: make decisions daily, right, So who you surround yourself with matters.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I was first saved, I was you
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Speaker 1: know in the clubs a lot, right. So when I
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Speaker 1: got said, I said the people in those clubs that
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Speaker 1: I want to get this truth. Now that I had
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Speaker 1: the truth, I was filled with the spirit or ready.
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Speaker 1: At that point, I said, let me do something. I
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Speaker 1: used to take a clipboard with me inside of the clubs.
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Speaker 1: The bouncers already knew me, and I will say, listen,
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Speaker 1: I'm not staying long because I wasn't gonna pay at
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Speaker 1: the door or anything, and so I'm not gonna stay long.
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Speaker 1: Let me go inside. They said to do what Why
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Speaker 1: you got a clip on your hand. You're taking our people.
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Speaker 1: You're trying to promote a club now taking prayer requests.
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Speaker 1: They be like prayer requests. But then the bosers looked
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Speaker 1: at me and say, hey, when you come out, talk
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Speaker 1: to I gotta talk to you. So I would go
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Speaker 1: inside the night club. People are drinking, partying, smoking, dancing, grinding,
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Speaker 1: torquing all that. Say hey, you need something for prayer.
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Speaker 1: You want me to pray for you about something, and
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Speaker 1: let me tell you man. I used to fill up
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Speaker 1: that clipboard. I used to have to bring more sheets
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Speaker 1: of paper every other time because the prayer request that
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Speaker 1: was up in that club were amazing. You had people
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Speaker 1: who were from the church in there, trapped because they
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Speaker 1: surrounded themselves with bad company now the influence to do
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Speaker 1: the things that the flesh wants them to do. Pastors
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Speaker 1: that they had their own churches, Yes, they had their
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Speaker 1: own churches, and they were saying, I know what I'm
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Speaker 1: doing is wrong, but it's hard for me to get
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Speaker 1: back on the right road. I'm lost. Pray for me.
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Speaker 1: Pastors' kids were in there. All kinds of religious people
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Speaker 1: were in there. People who were just lost were trying
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Speaker 1: to get out. They knew, they knew even under influence,
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Speaker 1: they knew that there was a difference and what I
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Speaker 1: was offering them and what they were doing currently amazing. Man,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I still had a prayer request and
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Speaker 1: then somewhere in my closet, in my desk, somewhere but amazing.
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Speaker 1: And that was just because I knew that there is
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Speaker 1: a different way now, Like God saved me, got me
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Speaker 1: out of the situation. So I ran back to the
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Speaker 1: very same people that I used to hang out with
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Speaker 1: that I was a bad influence with. I guess it
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Speaker 1: was a kind of conviction, Like man, I was promoting
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Speaker 1: what these people are actually doing. Now I'm on the
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Speaker 1: other side of things, and I'm going to promote God
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Speaker 1: to get them out of there, and I'm still doing
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Speaker 1: I never stopped doing that, amen. I stopped doing the
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Speaker 1: club thing, going in with the clipboard. I never stopped
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Speaker 1: promoting the gospel and the Kingdom message and your surroundings. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I really want people to be surrounded by the right
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Speaker 1: people so you could get the right things in your life.
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Speaker 1: We only have one life to live, do you understand that?
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Speaker 1: So based on our decisions, based on our company that
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Speaker 1: we keep, we could either go far in life when
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Speaker 1: it concerns the Kingdom, or go in just one foot
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Speaker 1: in the Kingdom. Amen. I want to be all in.
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Speaker 1: I want to be running in the course of Heaven. Amen.
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Speaker 1: I want to be all up in the Kingdom. So
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be really bothering the may a lot,
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Speaker 1: and it's not really bothering the Lord, but you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. I want to be asking a lot
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Speaker 1: of questions. So I want to know from wisdom and
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Speaker 1: from Godliness. I want to know from the Word. I
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Speaker 1: want to stick around wise people and godly people, people
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Speaker 1: who know way more than me, people who know the
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Speaker 1: scriptures way more than me. People who have experienced way
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Speaker 1: more than me. People who know the Word, who have
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Speaker 1: applied the Word in their lives way longer than I
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Speaker 1: have the wise and the golly. And it's not really
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Speaker 1: by age. They could be somebody younger than me who
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Speaker 1: knows more than me, because they've been inspired by Holy
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Speaker 1: Spirit longer. They've been saved longer. I got saved late
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Speaker 1: in life. There's people that I know that have been
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Speaker 1: saved since they were like eight or nine, and they're
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Speaker 1: strong salvation. Yes. Did they go through temptation. Do they
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Speaker 1: still go through temptation? Yes? Do they fall short sometimes yes?
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Speaker 1: But they are in love on fire. They preach the Gospel,
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Speaker 1: they know the scriptures, they apply the scriptures. They're not
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Speaker 1: ashamed of the Gospel. And they are wise, and they
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Speaker 1: carry the anoint thing of God, and they carry the
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Speaker 1: life giving message of God. And they are golly when
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Speaker 1: they use wisdom. Amen. Those are the people I like
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Speaker 1: to surround myself with. I do have unbelieving friends. Of course,
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Speaker 1: if you don't have unbelieving friends and you're a believer
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Speaker 1: and all you have is Christian friends, I don't think
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Speaker 1: you're getting the point we're supposed to go and make disciples.
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Speaker 1: The only way we could go and make disciples is
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Speaker 1: to go into the world where there's people who are
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Speaker 1: lost and give them the sauce, give them the Gospel message,
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Speaker 1: give them the truth, give them an introduction to the
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Speaker 1: way in the life. Give them the Lord Jesus, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and the way that God annoys you to do that.
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Speaker 1: We have a choice, amen, the wise and godly. And
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Speaker 1: here's of an example of a wise woman of God
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Speaker 1: and a godly person sins the choice. Good morning, God
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Speaker 1: bless you as well, and the group this beautiful blessed
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Speaker 1: morning in Jesus name, Thank you for your blessing. I
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Speaker 1: take it. Amen. So when you surround yourselves, when you
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Speaker 1: know peace, people who will inspire you and who will
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Speaker 1: encourage you, a man who speak the truth. I have
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Speaker 1: people like that in my life. I hope you have
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Speaker 1: people like that in your life. Amen. I don't always
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Speaker 1: get it right, and listen, ain't no pressure on my shoulders.
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Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna get stuff wrong, but I go
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Speaker 1: to the one that could correct me, which is the Lord.
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Speaker 1: I surround myself with people who love me that will
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Speaker 1: correct me if they see me doing something or going
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Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. Your surroundings matter, encourage and build
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Speaker 1: each other up. We spoke about these things, but I
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Speaker 1: wanted to key in on your walk. When you walk
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Speaker 1: in with the wise, you will become wise. When you
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Speaker 1: walk with fools, you yourself will be a fool, and
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Speaker 1: you will suffer harm. Why would God put suffer harm?
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Speaker 1: Because maybe you're hanging out with drunkards and you know,
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Speaker 1: beer is a broiler, wine is a mocker. The word
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Speaker 1: says because when you're hanging around with people who are
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Speaker 1: always in the bar, they tend to get into the
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Speaker 1: situation that are unhealthy that could possibly cause harm to them.
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Speaker 1: And guess what, if you're like me, if you're with somebody,
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Speaker 1: you don't leave that somebody alone when something pops off. Amen,
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Speaker 1: at least this is what I learned. Amen, you leave
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Speaker 1: go with somebody, You leave with somebody, You don't leave
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Speaker 1: nobody abandoned. The fight breaks out, then we all gotta
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Speaker 1: have to fight, you know what I'm saying. So harm
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Speaker 1: could come my way if I choose to be surrounded
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Speaker 1: in that type of environment. Why Because I'm surrounding myself
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Speaker 1: with bad company and that corrupts my good moral get
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Speaker 1: my good character, and man, I know the world says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're guilty by association. I don't know about that. A man,
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Speaker 1: I'm guilty for being a Christian and a tremendous association
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Speaker 1: with the Church and the Kingdom of God and the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the Kingdom of God, of the Word and
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Speaker 1: the Word of God. I guess I'm guilty then, and
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Speaker 1: I'm associated, but more than associated. But I know I
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Speaker 1: understand what that means. Say you hang out with a
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Speaker 1: notorious drug dealer right now, you're hanging out with them,
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Speaker 1: people are there to think, oh, he must be a
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Speaker 1: drug dealer himself, he must be a user or a pusher,
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Speaker 1: one or the other, because people look at your surroundings.
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Speaker 1: Don't get it twisted. If you think the world is
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Speaker 1: not watching the church and how we move, you're sadly mistaken.
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Speaker 1: You are deceived. You're delusional, because the world is watching us. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So if you're in leadership of any way in the
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Speaker 1: church and you're dipping with some of your friends that
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Speaker 1: are doing the opposite of what the Word of God says,
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Speaker 1: they're judging you, they're mocking you, they're playing you. Don't
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Speaker 1: think that they're your friends Actually, if no one says, hey,
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Speaker 1: go back, go back to church because you don't belong here.
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Speaker 1: If nobody's telling you that they don't care about you,
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Speaker 1: they're using you, and they know they could use you
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Speaker 1: because you're trying to fit in into a group setting
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Speaker 1: that you yourself know that you don't belong in no
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Speaker 1: companionship with darkness and light. Amen, we should be continuously
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Speaker 1: being the light of the world and the salt of
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Speaker 1: the earth. And how do you do that? You join
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Speaker 1: up with other lights and other salty people. Amen, that
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Speaker 1: have the flavor of God, that preserved the Word, that
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Speaker 1: preserve people with the Gospel. Amen, that shine the light
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Speaker 1: brightly into darkness. You should be with the people. And
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people you know, reject that,
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Speaker 1: So I get it. A lot of Christians want to
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Speaker 1: just have one foot in the world one foot in
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Speaker 1: the church because you want to fit in, You want
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Speaker 1: to be You don't want to be rejected, You want
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Speaker 1: to be accepted. The Word says that if you reject
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Speaker 1: me in front of men, that you're ashamed to present
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Speaker 1: me in front of men, I won't present you in
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Speaker 1: front of the Father, the Lord says, and that will
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Speaker 1: now be cool. Amen, So not forcefully, because I'm not
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Speaker 1: forced to do what I'm doing. I'm not forced to believe.
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Speaker 1: I'm not forced to serve the Lord. I'm not forced
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Speaker 1: to love of God. I'm not forced to believe in
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Speaker 1: his word. I just know it's true. So I'm just
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Speaker 1: following the lead of holy ghosts, Amen, and moving towards
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Speaker 1: the mark. That's the goal that's marked out for me.
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Speaker 1: You are going towards the goal that's marked out for you. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Together powerful divide it with just playing games. If we
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Speaker 1: don't unite as a body, Amen, and we divide ourselves
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Speaker 1: because of whatever issue, or you might just be, you know,
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Speaker 1: dragging yourself to church, dragging yourself to Bible study, dragging
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Speaker 1: itself to be connected, and your heart is not there, Amen,
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Speaker 1: Ask for prayer, ask for wisdom. Nobody should be judging
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Speaker 1: you based on the way you feel. We are known
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Speaker 1: by our fruit, not by our feelings. Right, So if
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Speaker 1: you feel like, man, I can't hang out with Brother
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Speaker 1: Sam or Sister Joys because my life ain't right, get
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Speaker 1: that out of your mind. You hang out with us.
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Speaker 1: We'll give you the word, Amen, and you'll start getting encouraged.
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Speaker 1: If you're hanging out with me and you leave discouraged.
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Speaker 1: I'm not doing the service of the Lord. Hang out
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Speaker 1: with me, you're gonna get the word. That's why people
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Speaker 1: keep me at at arms reach. They say, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to really hang out with Sam because you
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Speaker 1: know he's going to preach the gospel to meet sooner
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Speaker 1: or later. Amen, which is a good thing. But you
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Speaker 1: know some people are like, now, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: hear that. And I used to be one of those people.
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Speaker 1: That's why I'm speaking that. But we should be contagious Christians.
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Speaker 1: We should have a surrounding of that. When we come
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Speaker 1: into a building, we come into a place, when we
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Speaker 1: go to church. When we get into the building, church starts.
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Speaker 1: A building has no power. The people have the power.
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit doesn't occupy a building. Holy Spirit occupies a body.
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Speaker 1: Spirit doesn't live in a building. Holy Spirit lives in
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Speaker 1: a person. Men. We say a lot of things right
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Speaker 1: in church that don't make no sense. Songs worship songs
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Speaker 1: that say Holy Spirit, You're welcome here, welcome where in
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Speaker 1: the building or in your life. Amen. So I'm mindful
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Speaker 1: of what people say, I'm mindful of what people sing,
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Speaker 1: and I pray about a lot of things men. And
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Speaker 1: because if you continue to surround yourself with cliches, people
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Speaker 1: who have cliches, who sing weird worship songs, or who
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Speaker 1: act one way in church and act different outside, you
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Speaker 1: hang and surround yourself with people like that, you become
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Speaker 1: one of those people, and you'll be influenced by that.
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Speaker 1: Think not. I don't suggest you test that. I suggest
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Speaker 1: you understand where you at who you surround yourself with,
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Speaker 1: and realize what you're doing. Is it pleasing the Lord
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Speaker 1: or is it hurting the heart of God? Think about
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Speaker 1: it clearly. I'm out of time, though I hope this
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Speaker 1: is not too much. I'm not coming up too strong.
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Speaker 1: Proverbs Chapter thirteen, verse number twenty. Read the whole Proverb
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Speaker 1: thirteen chapter, the whole chapter, and if you want to
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Speaker 1: go to first come in theents fifteen and thirty three.
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Speaker 1: Read that scripture and put that right along with what
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Speaker 1: we were doing and reading today. So I bless you
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Speaker 1: all in the name of Jesus. Thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for hanging out with me for these morning DeVos. I'm
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Speaker 1: grateful that you spend some time amen with me, but
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Speaker 1: more importantly in the world, God bless you all. Got
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Speaker 1: to keep you all and remember always that God is good. Peace,