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2nd Corinthians Chapter 11 Let us pray.
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Our Father who is in heaven, holy is your name, your Kingdom
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come, and your will be done here on this earth just as it is
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there in heaven. Lord, I pray for Our Daily Bread
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today. Lord, I pray that you will
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forgive us of all of our trespasses.
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Help us to forgive those who trespass against us.
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Lord, keep us from the tempter, keep us from the accuser of the
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brethren. Lord, let us not be LED off, got
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into dismay and discouragement, discontentment.
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Help us not to relegate ourselves to the debase levels
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of carnality. God, we war against the flesh
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today. We war against all the
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principalities, God, and all the demonic strongholds, God, we RIP
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them down in the name of Jesus. We exalt that holy name, Yeshua
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I Messiah, over all circumstances, over all
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emotions, God Over the disease that's riddled our bodies, God
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over all brokenness in this world.
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We lift that name high above every other name, every other
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entity, every other thought, every other person place.
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Thank God Almighty, it is Yeshua that we exalt higher than any
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other principality, higher than any government, higher than the
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universe, higher than any fear mongering, any kind of
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propaganda. We lift that name higher than
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all of the false science and all of the false thinkings.
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God, cleanse this land. Cleanse the earth.
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Father, I pray that you will make every wrong thing right.
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God, I pray for those that have been martyred.
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God, I pray for all the innocent unborn.
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God, I pray that you, Lord, will make every wrong thing right.
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God, I pray against all of the destruction of the unborn
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fetuses. God, I pray against all of the
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powers of Satan. God, in the name of Jesus Christ
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we RIP and tear down every single demonic spirit that is
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trying to come up against and possess mankind or bind them and
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cast them into the judgment that you have a waiting for.
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Those evil tormented spirits cast them into the herd of swine
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today, God, let them run off the Cliff and be drowned in the name
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of Jesus Christ. It's the name above all names.
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We thank you Father for another day to come and worship You in
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spirit and truth. Thank you, God, for allowing us
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to come up and see You, Father, to come up and to be here,
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Father in the throne room, Lord, the sea of glass mingle with
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fire. God, the rainbow, Lord the
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Seraphim covering their mouth and their eyes.
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God, you are holy, holy. Holy is the Lord God Almighty,
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who was, who is and is to come. We thank you there was only one
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found worthy to open the scroll. We thank you, God, for all the
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promises contained in this book, and we hold them dearly and
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tightly. God, we bind them on our hands.
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God, we bind them on our foreheads.
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Father, we walk and live in the reality of the promises God, and
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we count them as already have happened.
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We've count them as if they have already come to fruition.
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We count them as our inheritance, every promise.
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Father, we thank you for them and we love you.
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We admire you, we adore you, King Jesus, eyes like fire and
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hair like wool, the voice of the many waters.
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We thank you God, King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, faithful,
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righteous and true. We love you, Lord Maranatha,
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come the Spirit and the bride say, come send Jesus Christ holy
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and precious name that I pray, Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one would to God.
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You bear with me a little in my folly, and indeed bear with me.
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So he's going to talk a little bit about godly jealousy.
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And we know that our God is a jealous God, and we will have no
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other gods before him. We cannot serve both God and
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Mammon, and we RIP and tear down all idol worship.
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We take it out in the streets and burn it, and we cannot
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cohabitate with Christ and Belial.
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Friends. 2 For I am jealous over you, with godly jealousy, For I
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have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you
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as a chaste virgin to Christ. We've got to keep our lamps full
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and our Wicks trimmed, friends, We need to be the wise virgins,
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and we await our bridegroom. Friends, I pray in the name of
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Jesus that you're not distracted.
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I pray in the name of Jesus that you are not whoring and lusting
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after other gods and idols. And he's saying that he is
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jealous for his bride and he will have a spotless bride.
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And that is what Paul desires for the Corinthians to
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understand their bridal identity.
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Friends 3 But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled
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Eve through his subtlety, so your mind should be corrupted
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from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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We're going to get a warning against false teachers here, and
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we're going to see how they worm and weave and beguile their way
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into the congregation. And they start off with all
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these little false doctrines and false teachings and heresies
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which lead to the apostasy. And we need to consecrate
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ourselves. Friends, it is the simple
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gospel, but we complicate it. It is the complete authority of
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God's Word, but we call it into question.
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Far be it from us to ever turn away from the simple gospel and
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the complete authority of God's Word.
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For. For if he that comes preaching
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another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive
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another spirit which you have not received, or another gospel
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which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.
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So listen, friends, it is the Bible that is the lifeline unto
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salvation and unto eternity, Friends, nothing added and
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nothing subtracted. And that is the grave
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responsibility that we have, friends, is to not allow any
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other Jesus, any other doctrine, any other spirit into the purity
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that God has called us in from Genesis to Revelation.
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And you need to understand that when people say, have you read
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this or read that? And it is not in the word of
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God, just stiff arm it, friends, it is, it is a distraction.
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And we can look at the history as just that.
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It is just historical. It is not divinely inspired.
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But when we are talking about the word of God, it is God
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breathe. It is alive and active, friends,
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and you don't read it, it's reading you.
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And it gives us all of our complete authority, all of our
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complete doctrine and theology is within the confines of the
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word of God. Friends and everything
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externally, everything extra biblical friends is not useful
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for the salvation of others. It is man's opinion and that is
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it. 5 For I suppose I was not wit behind the very chiefest
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apostles. So Paul is saying, listen, I
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know that I was chosen afterwards.
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I know that I wasn't actually three years in the gestation
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period where I got to see and actually live with and minister
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to our Lord Jesus Christ. I know I was just called on the
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road to Damascus. 6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in
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knowledge. But we have been third,
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thoroughly, thoroughly made manifest among you in all
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things. So Paul saying, check the track
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record. Look, look at the missionary
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journeys I've been on in the churches that have been planted.
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You can see my Apostolic authority based upon all of the
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fruit 7 Have I committed an offense in a basing myself that
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you might be exalted because I have preached to you the gospel
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of God freely. He's saying I took no money, I
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supported myself and that means that I'm somehow a lesser
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apostle. AI robbed other churches taking
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wages of them to do you service. Paul here is saying that he was
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not worried about how he was going to support himself and all
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he was worried about was propagating the gospel of our
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Lord Jesus Christ. And he wasn't in it for the
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money. He wasn't in it for the position
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and for any kind of recognition. All he cared about was exalting
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Jesus Christ. None.
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And when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to
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no man for that which was lacking to me.
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The brothers which came from Macedonia supplied.
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And in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome
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unto you, and so will I keep myself.
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He's saying. I will continue to support
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myself. I will not be the one with my
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hand held out asking you for anything.
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If you want to give, give to the poor in Jerusalem.
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But do not worry, I am well acquainted with lack and I have
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contentment in that lack. I do not need for the things of
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this world. I have everything I need in
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Christ Jesus. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall
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stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaea.
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So he's saying, if I boast, I boast in Christ, and no man can
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stop me from boasting in Christ. 11 Wherefore, because I love you
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not, God knows it. He's saying, Do you think that I
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don't love you? He knows that I do. 12 But what
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I do that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them,
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which desire occasion that wherein they glory they may be
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found even as we. So he's saying that he desires
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for many to support themselves and not to be those who are
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peddling the gospel for profit. 13 For such are false apostles,
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deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of
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Christ. So here he's going to go off the
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rails a little bit and he's going to leave his piety and
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he's going to actually debase himself into tearing down and
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speaking about these false apostles as he needed to.
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Friends, he tried so hard to keep his mind and his head
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screwed on straight. But here you can see Paul and
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his vehement disgust of the false teachers and those that
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have wormed their way into the congregations and they're
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leading the silly off into these little fables and he's going to
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talk about it. 14 And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed
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into an Angel of light. You need to understand that he,
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that Satan masquerades himself as an Angel of light and he can
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take on these forms of beauty. And we get LED off really
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quickly, friends, when we take our eyes off of Christ and we
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put our eyes on the world, it's going to take you in places that
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you're not prepared to go. And it sure looks beautiful at
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the set at the beginning. But as you go on along, you will
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realize that his entire tactics is to steal, kill and destroy.
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And he will destroy your life. He will destroy your marriage.
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He will destroy the relationships you have with your
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children. He will destroy your testimony.
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He will destroy the very health inside your bones.
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He will destroy your mind. He will kill all of the
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fruitfulness in your life. Do not marvel whenever Satan
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masquerades himself as an Angel of light.
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We do not need to be conformed to this world, but we need to be
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transformed by the renewing of our mind.
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And you can see here that Satan transforms himself into an Angel
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of light, and we need to be on guard, friends, of all the
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deceptive tactics of our enemy. 15 Therefore it is no great
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thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
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righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
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This is the garbage doctrine that you see arise within the
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church that tell us that there is the Word of God plus
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something else, or that the Word of God is outdated or written
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for that particular time and it's not relevant to our day.
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Or that there is some kind of new teaching, new gospel, new
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revelation. Far be it from us to fall for
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all of the garbage teaching of these garbage religious entities
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who try to drag us away into satanic worship.
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It is God's Word, and it is God's Word alone that we stand
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upon. 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool, if otherwise,
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yet as a fool, receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
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So Paul here is unwilling to boast, but he feels that he
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needs to in order to get them back in line. 17 That which I
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speak, if if speak it not after the Lord, but as it were
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foolishly in this confidence of boasting.
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So he's saying he's going to step out of character a little
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bit. He has kept his wit about him
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for so long, and he's dealt with them on such levels of a
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gentleman, and he has kept his tongue.
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And here he's going to unloose his collar a little bit.
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He's going to take the gloves off for a little while and he's
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going to actually show them what he thinks about all of the
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disgusting practices of the satanic revolt within the
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church. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will
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glory also. 19 For you suffer fools gladly, seeing yourselves
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are wise. 20 For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, and
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if a man devour you, and if a man take of you, if a man exalts
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himself, if a man strike you on the face.
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He's talking about all these cult leaders.
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He's talking about all of the ones who come in masquerading
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themselves as as a minister of light.
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And they are actually empowered by Satan and people receive them
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and they fall at their feet and they want to be lorded over.
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And Paul is saying how despicable it is whenever we
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allow this kind of activity within the church, friends, it
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is apostasy, and it is repulsive to the nostrils of a holy God.
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21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been
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weak. Howbeit wherein so ever any is
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bold. I speak foolishly.
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I am bold also. So he's saying, Listen, you will
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give yourself away to these cultic leaders who are twisting
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the word of God because of their charisma, but when I come to you
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plain in speech, speaking to you the plain things of God that are
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marked out in his word, you reject me. 22 Are they Hebrews?
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So am I. Are they Israelites?
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So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham?
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So am I. So he's giving them his
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genealogy and he's saying anything that they try to say
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that they are. I am as well.
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And Paul was a learning man and he was able to go back and
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search all the Old Testament. He actually had context friends
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and these false teachers and false leaders and these satanic
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ministers were trying to propagate themselves within the
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church, the early church, and Paul was saying don't listen to
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them. 23 are they ministers of Christ?
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I speak as a fool. I am more and labor's more
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abundant in stripes above measure in prisons, more
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frequent in deaths often. So Paul is giving his
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credentials here. He's giving his references here.
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He's going to pull up his shirt and show them the stripes that
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he has on his back, and he's going to tell them that it is by
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hardship the the Corinthians were founded and that they need
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not be LED astray by some beguiling of a satanic minister.
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24 of the Jews five times received thy 40 stripes, save
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one. So five times he received 39
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lashes across his back. And he bore the scars of it,
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friends. And the church was founded upon
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these scars. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was
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stoned, three times suffered shipwreck.
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A night and a day I've been in the deep. 26 In journeys often
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in perils of waters, and perils of robbers, and perils of my own
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countrymen, and perils by the heathen, in perils in the city,
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and perils in the wilderness, and perils in the sea, and in
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perils amongst false brothers. So he knew what it was like to
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be haunted down and persecuted. He knew what it was like to feel
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the pain and to feel the blood trickle down.
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He knew what it was like to be hungry and cold.
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Friends. And he's telling the
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Corinthians, do not just look at the suit and tie.
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Do not just look at the stained glass window in the pews.
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Do not just look at the pulpit and the steeple.
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Do not look at the limousine in the private jets.
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Do not look at the mansions in the outward appearance.
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But God sees the heart of man 27 in weariness and painfulness, in
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watchings, often in hunger and thirst, in fastings, often in
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cold and nakedness, 28 beside those things that are without
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that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
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So you can see the churches came alongside of him and the
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churches supported him, and the churches wanted Paul to win.
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They wanted Paul to be able to go into his missionary journeys.
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And Paul counted the costs before he ever went.
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And Christ had already showed him the things that he would
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suffer. 29 Who is weak? And I am not weak.
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Who is offended and I burn not. He's saying, listen, I'm still a
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human, I still feel the same things that you do, but I die to
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self daily. I take up my cross daily, I
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charge the hill daily, I count the cost daily, and I'm willing
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to be spilled out 30 if I must. Needs glory, I will Glory of the
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things which concern my infirmities.
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He's saying I do not boast in my strength and boldness because it
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is in my weakness that God is made strong. 31 The God and
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Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed forevermore,
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knows that I lied. Not.
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Paul didn't need to say that, but he wanted these Corinthians
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to know that he's coming at them full force.
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He is transparent, real and raw. He is not trying to twist their
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emotions. He's not trying to play upon
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their emotions. Paul here is telling them the
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reality and the gravity of his ministry. 32 In Damascus the
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governor under Aretas the king, kept the city of the Damasins
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with a Garrison desirous to apprehend me.
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We'll end on 33 And through a window in a basket.
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I was let down by the wall and escaped his hands.
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Listen, friends, when you are accurately in tune and attached
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to our Lord Jesus Christ, he'll let you down in a basket through
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a wall, and you'll escape the hands of the enemy.
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And Paul here wanted them to understand that the moment he
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gave his life to the Lord Jesus Christ and surrender to the
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calling, there was already a bounty placed upon his head.
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And when you and I came into the fold, the enemy stopped leaving
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us alone, and he turned his attention to us.
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Because you are dangerous, friends, You are wholly
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dangerous. And I pray today that you step
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in to your role that God has for you.
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You are a soldier for Christ. You go into the darkest places.
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You need not fear. You need not shrink back, you
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need not be a coward. But we are bold for Christ,
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willing to be spilled out daily. If you want the enemy to leave
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you alone, you just go back to your old carnal ways and you
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will self destruct. But when you are a minister for
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Christ, when you are doing the work of the Lord, do not be
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surprised. Whenever you are attacked
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spiritually, when you start battling things that you've
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never had to deal with before, don't be surprised.
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Count the cost before you ever come to Him.
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I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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I know I sure have. God is so good.
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Jesus is exalted and God wins in the end.
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Friends, don't forget it. It's not a cat and mouse game
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with God and the devil. It's not a big gigantic chess
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game that they are just moving the pieces around trying to
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figure out how to escape and evade each other.
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God's not pacing back and forth in heaven trying to figure out
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his next move. He's not scratching his head
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saying I didn't see that coming. God is omnipotent and sovereign,
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and everything's moving in exact accordance to what the Holy
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Scriptures have revealed to us, friends.
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But it is ignorance of the Word of God that plagues the church.
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And I'm glad that you have taken this faith journey with me, and
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I'm glad that you're here, and I'm glad that you are getting
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rooted and grounded in the Word of God.
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It is our lifeline, friends. You will not be put to dismay
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and discouraged and depressed and anxious if you'll get rooted
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and grounded in the Holy Scriptures and allow them to
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become alive inside of you, friends.
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Allow them to become your thought processes.
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Allow them to be your DNA that flows through your veins.
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The blood of Christ, friends, the mind of Christ, the words of
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Christ. Let your prayers be a pleasing
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aroma unto God. Today.
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I love you. So does God, so does our Lord
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Jesus be empowered and filled with the Holy Ghost.
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Today I'm praying for you. I'm praying hard for you.
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Today I'm praying that the enemy scared, shaking in his boots
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because of the mark that's been placed on your life in the
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ministry and the calling that God is calling you into today.
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Tell every single person you meet about Christ and what He's
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done for you. Share your testimony with
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somebody today. Your testimony is just three
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chairs. What was your life like before?
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What happened when you met Christ and what is your life
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like now? You can give a 2 minute
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testimony anywhere that you are, in the bank, in the grocery
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store, in the cab, in the workplace, while you're on the
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line, while you're on the phone waiting.
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You can tell somebody about what Christ has done for you and
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it'll be edifying for your own self to hear your own self.
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Tell that to somebody. God bless you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.