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Morning Devotion from John: Know Your Purpose · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Listen, this is possible only because God woke me up.
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  Speaker 1: God woke you up. And he's making it possible for
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  Speaker 1: us to learn what he's saying about our purpose, which
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  Speaker 1: is so important. Jesus knew exactly. A lot of people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't know what he was doing, who he was.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a lie. The scripture literally says that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew his purpose. He knew that the father had placed
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  Speaker 1: everything into his hands. He knew everything. that he was
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  Speaker 1: the hope, that only hope that we had, and he
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  Speaker 1: knew that he came from God and that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to return to God. He knew. Where did he
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  Speaker 1: get this confidence from? He got it because he knew
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  Speaker 1: exactly what God was saying. He knew the Father because
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  Speaker 1: the Father, the Son, and the Holy One are all
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  Speaker 1: three in one. Amen? Monotheistic. I know people say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's three gods. You know, mathematically, it's impossible. Listen, if
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  Speaker 1: we could explain the triune God just like that and
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  Speaker 1: explain it away, and figure out how he did that,
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  Speaker 1: then I don't think he'll be such an amazing God, all-powerful, almighty, all-knowing,
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  Speaker 1: omnipresent God that we serve, right? Why would you think
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  Speaker 1: that you can figure out God, right? Why would anyone
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  Speaker 1: think that they could figure out God? I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's even possible, to tell you the truth. We
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  Speaker 1: don't figure out God. God has us figured out. How
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  Speaker 1: about that? Can I say that? God has us figured out.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus knew where he came from. He knew what he
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  Speaker 1: had been given. He knew where he was going. Do
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  Speaker 1: we know that? Do we know where we came from,
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  Speaker 1: our origin? Do we know what that means, where we
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  Speaker 1: came from? Now that we know where we came from,
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  Speaker 1: what does that mean to be human? What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Do we know the morality that God taught He actually
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  Speaker 1: placed morality and wrote it on our hearts. The law
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  Speaker 1: of God is written on our hearts, the Bible says. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we know our purpose now because the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: reminds us of our purpose. And we know where we're going.
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  Speaker 1: Our destination, our destiny belongs in heaven. Amen. So Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew where he came from, what he had been given,
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  Speaker 1: and where he was going. So that knowledge gave him
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  Speaker 1: confidence to serve others wholeheartedly, to serve others, even when
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  Speaker 1: the moment required... Humility, right? A lot of people are
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  Speaker 1: not showing humility anymore. I don't know why. Some people
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  Speaker 1: actually think, man, I did this for so long. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that I don't have to do this anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to do that anymore. Yes, I'm just checking
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  Speaker 1: the mic. I don't have to do this anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to do that anymore. Like there's a graduation. Like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I used to clean the toilets. I used to do evangelism.
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  Speaker 1: But now since I'm a leader, so-and-so, You know, I
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  Speaker 1: leave that to the evangelism team. I leave that to
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  Speaker 1: the cleaning team. Oh, high horses, not a good thing
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  Speaker 1: to be on in the kingdom of God. We're all
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  Speaker 1: in this together. We're all serving the holy, true, loving,
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  Speaker 1: righteous God. Amen. So there's never really a graduation when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to serving. I don't think so. I know
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  Speaker 1: some people have this hierarchy in their church systems, in
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  Speaker 1: their ministry. Amen. That's the way you want to run it.
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  Speaker 1: That's between them and the Lord. But I don't see
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  Speaker 1: where that's at. All I see is my Lord, my Savior,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ, humbling himself in the form of a
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  Speaker 1: man to serve. He said, I didn't come to be served.
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  Speaker 1: I came to serve and to give my life up
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  Speaker 1: as a ransom. The Lord said that. So who am
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  Speaker 1: I to say, you know what? I don't do that
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  Speaker 1: no more because, you know, I'll leave that to the team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm above that now. Nah, you ain't going
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  Speaker 1: to hear that from my mouth. I'm going to stay humble.
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  Speaker 1: The pride and all that stuff. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: deal with that in my life. Amen. What about you?
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to chase every opportunity either. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to chase them. Or if I don't do this,
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  Speaker 1: then nobody's going to recognize me for doing X, Y, Z.
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  Speaker 1: Don't follow that either because that's not true. Don't follow
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  Speaker 1: every crowd. I was just telling my daughter this last night.
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  Speaker 1: Don't follow. You don't have to follow everybody. Be yourself.
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  Speaker 1: God made you uniquely you. Amen. And he did it wonderfully.
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  Speaker 1: We're wonderfully made, fearfully and wonderfully made, the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't have to chase people, chase crowds. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to prove yourself to anyone. This whole thing
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  Speaker 1: about I'm going to let them know, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: show them, you know, that's like our hip-hop mentality, rap
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  Speaker 1: mentality that I grew up in, you know, very competitive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show this group. I'm going to show
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  Speaker 1: this block. I'm going to show this community. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to show this neighborhood. I'm going to show this, you know, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And you start, you know, doing your raps where you're
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  Speaker 1: prideful and, you know, it's like real arrogant and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're boasting, right? So it's like a testimony, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a boastimony, right? So you're boasting. Well, that's not the
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  Speaker 1: real purpose of your life. Even for hip hoppers, that's
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  Speaker 1: not the real purpose. The purpose is to show gifts
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  Speaker 1: and talents, amen, to make people move and dance and
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  Speaker 1: to have hope, right? It was really, hip hop was
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  Speaker 1: really a way to show people where you were from,
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  Speaker 1: what the struggle is and the solution of how to
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  Speaker 1: get out of it and to unite people together. Because
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  Speaker 1: we was all in the same community. So we were
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  Speaker 1: trying to unite people. But then when people started throwing
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  Speaker 1: money towards the community of hip hoppers, right? They said,
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  Speaker 1: if you would just do this and if you just
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  Speaker 1: do that, you see that? You see how the bait
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  Speaker 1: came with informal money? We'll give you X amount of
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  Speaker 1: money if you start talking about that other crew or
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  Speaker 1: that other neighborhood or whatever. East Coast, West Coast, or
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  Speaker 1: if you develop a way to make people follow you
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  Speaker 1: to do X, Y, Z, and we fell into that
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  Speaker 1: trap because we didn't know our purpose. Amen? And I
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  Speaker 1: was part of that, so I can't excuse myself. But now,
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  Speaker 1: when Christ shows up in your life and shows up
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  Speaker 1: in your heart, why are so many hip-hoppers right now,
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  Speaker 1: rappers right now, MCs right now, giving their hearts and
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  Speaker 1: life to the Lord Jesus? Because they finally... got their
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  Speaker 1: eyes open and realized, what am I doing? I was
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  Speaker 1: making money really exploiting my own people, my own community.
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  Speaker 1: I was promoting hate, violence, crime, sex, drugs, alcohol. All
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  Speaker 1: of that was being promoted for a couple of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Some people were making a lot of the couple of dollars, right?
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  Speaker 1: So it is a temptation to be like, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I want to come up. I want that money. Join
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  Speaker 1: the crowd. Everybody wants to come up and wants the money. Well,
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  Speaker 1: for what? What would it profit anybody to gain the
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  Speaker 1: world and lose your soul? That's the scripture right there.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't have to prove yourself to anyone. When
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  Speaker 1: you know who you are and whose you are and
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  Speaker 1: what God has called you to do, you can stay focused.
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  Speaker 1: Even when life gets distracting, you and I can stay
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  Speaker 1: focused on the true reason for why we're here, right?
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  Speaker 1: I always say, just make the main things the main things.
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  Speaker 1: The main things are going to remain the main things, amen?
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  Speaker 1: Everything else is like a sidetrack, right? So the gospel
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  Speaker 1: is a message of forgiveness, hope, redemption, salvation, right? Renewal, restoration,
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  Speaker 1: all of it as part of the gospel, right? So
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  Speaker 1: John 3.16 says, and we study that, all throughout my
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  Speaker 1: history of being a podcaster and an online preacher, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want to call me. But God so loved the world.
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  Speaker 1: He loved us so much that he sent the perfect one,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus, that whoever believes in him will not
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  Speaker 1: perish but have what? Everlasting life. So the mission of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord was to die so we could live. And
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  Speaker 1: he completed that mission to tell us that it is finished,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. He wasn't finished. The mission was finished. Now
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  Speaker 1: we can benefit off of the finished work of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ, of what he did on that cross, right?
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  Speaker 1: So the gospel is a beautiful message, and some people
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  Speaker 1: call it hate speech. Why? I don't know. They have
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  Speaker 1: their reasons. But I think it's because they don't know who,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, who Jesus is, why he was sent,
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of the Lord, and the purpose of the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know that. And they might not even know
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of their own lives. So therefore, they're confused.
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  Speaker 1: And the enemy is all up in that confusion. Like, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that. Those people are crazy. X, Y, Z. No.
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  Speaker 1: When you know who you are, you know whose you are,
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  Speaker 1: and what God called you for, right? You can stay
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  Speaker 1: focused even when life gets distracting. Jesus knew his identity.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus knew his assignment. So anybody that tells you, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't know what he was doing until he got...
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  Speaker 1: 30 years old. No, don't believe that. Jesus knew because
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  Speaker 1: he's all-knowing because he's God, but he humbled himself to
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  Speaker 1: the form of a man. In other words, Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the God-man. God came in the flesh, humbled himself to
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  Speaker 1: the form of a man named Jesus. Jesus knew his purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let anybody tell you that he didn't know who
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  Speaker 1: he was. He knew his identity. He knew his purpose.
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  Speaker 1: He knew his assignment. He understood that his authority came
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  Speaker 1: from the Father, right? And this is where people say,
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  Speaker 1: you see, you see, if his authority came from the Father,
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  Speaker 1: how could he be God? His authority came from the Father.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say what the scripture says and let Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: teach us what that means. So he got his authority
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  Speaker 1: from the Father. his mission came from god and his
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  Speaker 1: destination was to go back to god like he's out
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  Speaker 1: of here he told the disciples listen you're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: have me here all the time and guess what you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna have me here all the time you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be here all the time but when you know
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  Speaker 1: where you're going amen it's worth the fight The righteous
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  Speaker 1: fight is worth the spiritual war that we're going through.
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  Speaker 1: It's worth it because we know where we're headed. So
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  Speaker 1: some people are like, man, I'll do this to you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do that to you. And I'll be looking at
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  Speaker 1: them like, if God allows you to do that, praise God,
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  Speaker 1: because then I'm going to see the Father soon enough. Right?
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  Speaker 1: It's not really bothersome to me anymore. But if you
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  Speaker 1: don't know who God is, you don't know your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: your destiny, when someone threatens your life, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh my God, no, don't do that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: or you might respond in a way that you might
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  Speaker 1: take somebody else's life because you feel that if your
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  Speaker 1: life is gone, your whole family is going to be
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  Speaker 1: ruined or your whole, you know, if you know the purpose,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your destiny. Amen. When those things happen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: rely on God. God says he will protect us. God
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  Speaker 1: has guard us. He will lead us into truth and
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  Speaker 1: he will be with us even to the end of
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  Speaker 1: the age. God is our protector. Pray Psalm 91 over
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  Speaker 1: yourself and your family, amen, and realize how much protection
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  Speaker 1: we have. When God allows things to happen in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason He allows it, that's a God thing.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're in Christ, if you know God, if
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  Speaker 1: you're forgiven, you're born again, you're going to be in
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  Speaker 1: a great place. I mean, family will understand. Some will understand.
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  Speaker 1: Some will have the hope because the Bible says we
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  Speaker 1: don't mourn. Like when we lose a loved one, when
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  Speaker 1: we lose a loved one and that loved one knows Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: is born again. We don't mourn like the world mourns,
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  Speaker 1: that they don't have any hope. They don't have any future, destiny, anything.
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  Speaker 1: But we have hope. We have a future. We have
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  Speaker 1: a destiny. So we mourn differently, as Scripture says. We
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  Speaker 1: don't mourn like the world mourns. We mourn the way
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  Speaker 1: God shows us to mourn. We actually celebrate the life
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  Speaker 1: lived of a born-again believer in our family. What about you? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: So ask yourself, what has God placed in your hands? Right?
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  Speaker 1: What did God give you so that way you could
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  Speaker 1: give out? Well, I don't have nothing, Sam. I'm broke.
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  Speaker 1: People immediately go to their financial situation when people ask,
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  Speaker 1: what do you have? I don't have nothing. I'm broke.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's what the kingdom of God is about.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the kingdom of God is
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  Speaker 1: never in a broke state, right? When you ask yourself
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  Speaker 1: what God placed in your hands... It's not about the
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  Speaker 1: material possessions we have on earth. It's about what he
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  Speaker 1: placed in your hands supernaturally to give out to someone else. Supernaturally.
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  Speaker 1: Ask the question, where has he called you and me
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  Speaker 1: to serve? Go ahead and serve over that place. I've
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  Speaker 1: been in places serving for years. And serve to serve.
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  Speaker 1: I was even questioned one time, what are you here for?
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  Speaker 1: What's your five-year plan? If it was like a a
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  Speaker 1: job or something. And I said, well, in five years,
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  Speaker 1: I plan to be serving, whether it's here or somewhere else,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to serve the Lord. Amen. So it was
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  Speaker 1: weird that I was asked, where do you find yourself
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  Speaker 1: in five years here? Like if I was at a
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  Speaker 1: job interview or something, no, I'm going to serve the
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  Speaker 1: Lord wherever I go. How about that? And I don't
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  Speaker 1: even have to be a part of a certain church
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  Speaker 1: to serve the Lord. You don't have to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of a certain, some people only serve when they're
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  Speaker 1: in church. Some people only serve to be seen by
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  Speaker 1: the leaders of their church or their system or their
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  Speaker 1: ministry or whatever, congregation or house of worship, whatever. But
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  Speaker 1: we serve every day. If you know Jesus, you know
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  Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to serve and help other people
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  Speaker 1: get to know Jesus as well. Ask yourself, am I
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  Speaker 1: living according to his purpose or I'm simple-minded, following what
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  Speaker 1: everyone else is doing? That's the simple way out, the
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  Speaker 1: easy way out. While everybody else is doing this, I
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  Speaker 1: want to do it too. And there's a big temptation there,
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  Speaker 1: especially for the young adults right now in our communities, right?
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  Speaker 1: They're looking around, and I know the temptation. I said, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm always in church. I'm always doing this, kumbaya, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But look at all my other peers, teenagers, young adults,
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  Speaker 1: having all that fun. I want to do that too.
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  Speaker 1: And then they get lured into, God forbid, but people
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  Speaker 1: get lured into that, and then they get beat up
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  Speaker 1: with the the wild living and sin and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and then they come out, Lord willing, they'll come out, repent,
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  Speaker 1: and be like, whew, that's why I wasn't part of
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  Speaker 1: that crowd. That's why I wasn't part of that group.
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  Speaker 1: They start realizing that's not the purpose for my life. Sex, drugs, alcohol, partying,
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff, that's not it. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: find out real quick if that's what you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: I always tell young people the same thing. If that's
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  Speaker 1: what you want to do, you're going to find out
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  Speaker 1: quick that that's not going to satisfy you. It's only
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  Speaker 1: going to be a temporary fix, temporary high, temporary satisfaction,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not going to take you to the place
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  Speaker 1: where God wants to take you. And as a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, you might not see it now, but God
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  Speaker 1: is always working things out for the good, for those
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  Speaker 1: who love him and are called according to his purpose. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So just follow, believe Jesus, follow Jesus, and you'll start
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  Speaker 1: getting the benefits of of living a life that's in abundance.
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  Speaker 1: And people are going to see that in your life.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to see that in my life. And they're
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  Speaker 1: going to question, what do you do? How is it
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  Speaker 1: that you are living a certain way that is opposite
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  Speaker 1: or opposed or different than everybody else around you? And
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  Speaker 1: that's a talking piece. That's an opportunity right then and
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  Speaker 1: there to share the gospel to other people through your
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  Speaker 1: own testimony, through your own life. It doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: be spotless. It's not going to be spotless. It's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be 100% all the time. Because we have
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  Speaker 1: a fallen nature to us that we're resisting. We're fighting.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the flesh. But we also have Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: God living inside of us. The same Spirit that raised
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  Speaker 1: Jesus from the grave is living inside of every single
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  Speaker 1: whosoever who called upon the name of the Lord to
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  Speaker 1: be saved. That same Spirit lives inside of us. So
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  Speaker 1: guess what's going to happen when We're pushed to our limit.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is going to come to the rescue and
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  Speaker 1: speak for us. He's going to move through us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: No, they see the glory of the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ oozing through you and me. Amen. So when you
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  Speaker 1: know your purpose, rejection is not going to really throw
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  Speaker 1: you back. You know, I was having this conversation with
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  Speaker 1: my daughter yesterday. Rejection shouldn't really, if she thinks about it,
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't really push her back to points where she's going
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  Speaker 1: to want to do something to herself. No. No. If
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  Speaker 1: you know who you are, the problem is if we
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  Speaker 1: don't know who we are, somebody's going to try to
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  Speaker 1: tell us who we are. If we don't know the
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  Speaker 1: value that God placed in us, somebody's going to try
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  Speaker 1: to devalue us, right? It's always going to be those
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  Speaker 1: people that are going to look at you and say, man,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do this. You look a certain way. You
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  Speaker 1: don't dress like we do. So I have compassion for
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  Speaker 1: when I see my young church people who might be
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  Speaker 1: kind of like an illegalistic system. They dress a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: The girls can't wear makeup, earrings or whatever. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of have compassion for them because, no, not kind of.
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  Speaker 1: I do have compassion because I know they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be ridiculed in their schools, ridiculed at work. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to be judged. They're going to be called this X, Y, Z.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the system that they're in. And there's benefits
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  Speaker 1: to that system. It's called purity. Nobody wants to talk
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  Speaker 1: about purity anymore. I don't understand it. Why not? Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about purity. Please talk about purity to my children, please.
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  Speaker 1: And youth ministry, kids ministry. Let's get back to, let's
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  Speaker 1: look at what the world continues to throw. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same thing over and over again. And let's bring the
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  Speaker 1: message of hope, love, grace, mercy, and purity back to
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  Speaker 1: our kids. If you're doing that in your churches, amen,
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  Speaker 1: with your kids, with your youth, with your young adults,
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  Speaker 1: praise the Lord, amen. Keep on doing it. You might
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  Speaker 1: have to camp out there for a little while because
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  Speaker 1: that's what's being thrown at our young children, our young adults, teenagers,
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  Speaker 1: every single day. So when they show up in their
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  Speaker 1: skirts and everything like that, and they're modest, their peers
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  Speaker 1: are actually making fun of them, right? Because they don't,
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  Speaker 1: number one, they don't understand. Their peers don't understand. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know the value of the person. They don't know
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  Speaker 1: the value of purity. They don't know even their purpose.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know their purpose. So we have to show
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  Speaker 1: them grace, but at the same time, be confident in
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  Speaker 1: who you are and in the purpose that God has
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  Speaker 1: given you. Amen? And don't fall back into the lie
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  Speaker 1: of thinking, well, I have to change and be more
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  Speaker 1: like them. No, they have to change and be more
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  Speaker 1: like the one that is in you, the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ by way of Holy Spirit. And that's the choice.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can force it. I can't force you to believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I can't argue you into the kingdom of God. None
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff is going to work. It has to
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  Speaker 1: be love, genuine love. It has to be Holy Spirit driven.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be an opportunity that God creates to
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  Speaker 1: receive the kingdom of God in your life. So don't
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  Speaker 1: spend your whole life trying to become somebody else. You're not.
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  Speaker 1: You are to seek God, right? His righteousness, his kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: seek him. Know your assignment. Discover your assignment, right? And
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  Speaker 1: walk faithfully in that assignment. Come on. You're uniquely you.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a beautiful thing. Knowing that there's no one
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  Speaker 1: else on the whole entire planet exactly like you or
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  Speaker 1: exactly like me, right? Have fun with that, right? Acknowledge that.
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  Speaker 1: Know that. God is so creative that he did that.
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  Speaker 1: He's so creative. He's a creative God, creator God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He created all things that we see that we don't see. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He created it. Jesus, Genesis chapter one, God, Genesis chapter one, Elohim,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter one. In the beginning, God created the heavens
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  Speaker 1: and earth right there. Science hinges off of that. They
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  Speaker 1: need Time, space, and matter. And God says, I gave
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  Speaker 1: you time, space, and matter. So the science is already
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  Speaker 1: proven right there in the first verse of the book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis. So you don't need everything today. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about tomorrow, right? You just need to
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  Speaker 1: know the one who holds tomorrow and the one who
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  Speaker 1: created you for right now. Amen. And that's the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. John 13, read the whole chapter. We camped
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  Speaker 1: out of John 13, 3, got all of that out
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  Speaker 1: of that one scripture. Why? Because it's true and it
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  Speaker 1: will stand up to any culture, any time in history.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus knew that the Father had given all things into
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  Speaker 1: his hands and that he had come from God and
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  Speaker 1: was returning to God. Amen. If you're part of that plan, amen,
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  Speaker 1: God will show that completely to you right now. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Just ask him. If you don't understand, he'll give you understanding.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't leave us on abandoned islands. So I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of time, but God bless you all. God keep you all.
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  Speaker 1: And remember always, remember this, that God is good. Peace.