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Values and Beliefs [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Morning family, Good morning, God, bless you. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the Morning. Devote you bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam
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Speaker 1: Rock And I'm trying to get in the position of
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Speaker 1: the camera, hey man, as I moved things around in
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Speaker 1: the morning. But we're here. It's a new week, and
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Speaker 1: from the time of this recording, we're one day away
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Speaker 1: from election for our presidency and the other political seats
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Speaker 1: in our nations. So and as for some it's really tense.
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Speaker 1: Some people are stressed out, some people are excited. Some
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Speaker 1: people are gonna go vote, some people are not going
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Speaker 1: to vote. Some people want to be involved, some people
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Speaker 1: don't want to be involved. It's a case by case,
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Speaker 1: individual by individual situation and this time around, right, but
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about values and beliefs. Values and
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Speaker 1: beliefs when it comes to voting as Christ followers, should
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Speaker 1: we be involved in the process, the political process as
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Speaker 1: Christ followers? Should we vote? As Christ followers? Who should
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Speaker 1: we pick? Does it really matter? And all those things
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Speaker 1: that go through on mind right during the season, I
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Speaker 1: know it's going through my mind. Amen. But God, thank
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Speaker 1: you Jesus, he has son to say, his word has
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Speaker 1: something to say about these issues. And I believe. It
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Speaker 1: just proves and confirms to me that God is concerned
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Speaker 1: with our concerns, and he's sovereign and he's able. So
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Speaker 1: we know that God speaks, and he speaks through his worry,
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Speaker 1: speaks to his people. He speaks by way of his
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit that's inside of every single one of his children.
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Speaker 1: If that's you, and know it's me because we're born
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Speaker 1: again because of our Father who saved us and rescued us. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So we have life and life in abundance according to
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Speaker 1: his promises. Amen. Sister Joanne, I see you, Good morning,
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Welcome back to the morning. Devo, my system,
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Speaker 1: my friend, values and beliefs. How should Christians vote? Some
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Speaker 1: people like I said, I'm not even going to be
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Speaker 1: involved in the process this time around. They have voted
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Speaker 1: and passed. I've met people who are born again Christian
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Speaker 1: said they're not going to be involved. I know people
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Speaker 1: who are not going to be involved, and they have
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Speaker 1: their reasons. Amen. I have to respect their reasons. I
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Speaker 1: have to respect their values and beliefs as well. So
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Speaker 1: let's see what the Word has to say about it. Right,
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Speaker 1: We're going to be a Philippians. Chapter number three verse
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Speaker 1: twenty Philippians three and twenty. This should help us out
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Speaker 1: to get an understanding of values and beliefs according to
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Speaker 1: the Word of God. Amen, we'll start there and we'll
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Speaker 1: take it from there. Amen, get to my notes, so
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Speaker 1: that way I could get this ready as well as
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Speaker 1: I had it all ready. And sometimes it disappears and
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Speaker 1: looks like it disappeared. I'll get it back. Yep, disappeared.
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Speaker 1: I'll get it back, ladies and gentlemen, very soon, very quickly.
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Speaker 1: Let's see for it right out. Sorry, my apologies. We
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Speaker 1: should just pop up all right, So let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: You have any questions, comments, concerns, or prayer requests from
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Speaker 1: the time of this recording, if you're with us live,
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Speaker 1: can do that now. If you come later on and
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Speaker 1: watch or listen later a man, you can still leave
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Speaker 1: your question, comment, concern and requests. We know that we'll
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Speaker 1: see it, a man, and we'll respond as soon as possible.
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Speaker 1: As soon as I see it that I'll respond. I'll
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Speaker 1: try to get back to you asap. These next couple
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Speaker 1: of days are gonna be very busy for us. Tomorrow's
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Speaker 1: selection day and that's the day that's going to be
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Speaker 1: very interesting in my view, at least Amen, to see
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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Some people think their thoughts are ready
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Speaker 1: on the whole matter. Some people have't already settled in
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Speaker 1: their in their minds and heart what's gonna happen. But
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Speaker 1: we'll find out soon enough. Amen, So let's go for it.
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Speaker 1: We'll pray first. After we pray, we'll shit us out
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Speaker 1: for like sixty seconds, and then when we come back
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the sixty seconds, we'll get
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Speaker 1: right into values and beliefs. Today on the morning devo,
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Speaker 1: which brother Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam Rod, it's time
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Speaker 1: to pray, Man, We got to pray. We should be
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Speaker 1: praying daily for one another, for this country, for our nation,
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Speaker 1: for our brothers and sisters around the world that are suffering,
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Speaker 1: for the cause of Christ. Man. This is so much
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Speaker 1: to pray for. If you have time to worry, that
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Speaker 1: means you have time to pray. If you have time
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Speaker 1: to be mad, that means you have time for peace.
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Speaker 1: If we have time to be depressed, that means you
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Speaker 1: have time for joy. And Man, we always have an option.
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Speaker 1: God will give us away and show us a way
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Speaker 1: out of some bad things in life and life and
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Speaker 1: give us some good options for values and beliefs. So
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Speaker 1: Father that thank you so much. You're an amazing God. Wow,
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Speaker 1: you have been with us. You are with us right now.
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Speaker 1: You have been with us all through our lives. You
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Speaker 1: have encouraged us, You have lifted our hearts and our minds.
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Speaker 1: You have lifted our eyes unto you. And we thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lot God for being our fortress, rock, our redeemer, our salvation,
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Speaker 1: our King, our Lord, our Savior. Thank you, Lord Jesus
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Speaker 1: for what you've done already and what you continue to
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Speaker 1: do through your people, through your word by way of
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Thank you for being active and shining your
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Speaker 1: light upon any darkness that's out in this world. I pray,
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Speaker 1: Lord God that we would do the right thing as believers,
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Speaker 1: as children. Help us, Low God, be united and not divided.
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Speaker 1: Help us, Low God, to be reminded that we are
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Speaker 1: from a kingdom of God, and that we are your children,
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Speaker 1: and we are sons and daughters of a living God,
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Speaker 1: not a dead God. Thank you, Lord God for your
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit engaging us and leading us into all truth,
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Speaker 1: not into all hype, not until all social media, nott
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Speaker 1: all news media, but until all truth, and we stand out,
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Speaker 1: Lord God. And even though the world sees that we
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Speaker 1: stand out, they hate the message. Sometimes, Lord God, I
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Speaker 1: pray peace over every single person who hates the Gospel.
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Speaker 1: I pray peace, be still and know that there's a
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Speaker 1: God who loves them. God. For any system that is
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Speaker 1: against your Kingdom, Low God, that it will crumble. I
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Speaker 1: pray that those people and those systems will turn from
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Speaker 1: their wicked ways and turn to the holiness and righteousness
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Speaker 1: that you offer by way of your Holy Spirit and
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Speaker 1: your son Jesus Christ as Savior. I pray, Lord God
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Speaker 1: for this nation. I pray peace over America in the
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus. I pray for Lord God for those
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Speaker 1: who are suffering in the United States of America for
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Speaker 1: the cause of Christ. I pray Lord God, that any
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Speaker 1: single side of believers, whether they're on the left or right,
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Speaker 1: or independent, or whatever situation they find themselves in, that
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Speaker 1: they would know that You are God, that they would
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Speaker 1: know that we are one body, one faith, on one
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Speaker 1: holy nation, one priesthood, and that we are in this together.
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Speaker 1: We are in this world when we're not of this world.
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Speaker 1: So thank you, Lo God for your word. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God, that you place values and beliefs in our
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Speaker 1: hearts that will really resonate around the world and around
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Speaker 1: the nation, and that we could come together in any
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Speaker 1: situation and knowing that we're in this together, knowing that
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Speaker 1: you are author and perfective our faith, and we come
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Speaker 1: together by faith, knowing that you're real and that you're
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Speaker 1: able to do what your word says, your word would do.
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Speaker 1: Praise by faith, I had your protection over every single
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Speaker 1: voting booth or pole area and all the workers. That
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Speaker 1: there will be peace, That this transition will go, whether
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Speaker 1: it's the same or different, it will go according to
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Speaker 1: your purpose and plan for the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: And those are out there that are law enforcement that
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Speaker 1: they will be safe. People who are voting will go
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Speaker 1: and have a pleasant experience, and those who are protesting
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Speaker 1: will do it without violence. And all that that's going
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Speaker 1: to happen, it will be go. Let it go according
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Speaker 1: to your purpose and plan. And Jesus name, I praise
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Speaker 1: by faith, and all those who agree with the prayer,
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Speaker 1: we say, Amen and Amen, help me share this out
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Speaker 1: for like sixty seconds, to share this out. When we
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Speaker 1: come back, we'll get right into it. We're going to
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Speaker 1: be in Philippians, chapter number three, Verse number T twenty.
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Speaker 1: I'll be right back, man. Amen, let's go for it. Man,
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Speaker 1: this while what time are we in? These times that
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Speaker 1: we're in, they're uncertain, they're perilous, They're just times that
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Speaker 1: we're in. And I wouldn't want to be no other
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Speaker 1: place because now I could really see my faith in action.
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Speaker 1: Now you could really see your faith in action. What's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen? We don't know, But we serve a God
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Speaker 1: who knows all things, who puts all authority in place.
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Speaker 1: Right the people, he'll use the worst of them, will
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Speaker 1: use the best of them. And man, we see that
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Speaker 1: all through scriptures with the kings right nomber Canezza. We
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Speaker 1: see the Pharaoh. We see all the people who are
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Speaker 1: in high position that went against the word of God,
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Speaker 1: that went against God. Some were with God, some were
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Speaker 1: transformed by his life and it's grace and his mercy.
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Speaker 1: Other leaders in the Bible they just went rogue and
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Speaker 1: buck wild. They even tore down altars of God and
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Speaker 1: replaced them with alters of bail. So we see how God,
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Speaker 1: all through history works through any political situation or anything
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Speaker 1: like that. Amen. Last night, from the time of this recording,
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Speaker 1: I went live on the Kingdom Call and we spoke
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Speaker 1: about sha Christian's vote and how does God feel about politics? Right,
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Speaker 1: and we had interesting conversations. We went into the word Amen,
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Speaker 1: if you want to go through that maybe if that'll
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Speaker 1: help you out during this political season, and then you
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Speaker 1: can check out the replan that's golled the Kingdom Call.
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Speaker 1: So let's go for it. Let's see what happens when
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Speaker 1: we use kingdom or to exercise our freedom or our
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Speaker 1: right to vote, and let's see what happens. Do things
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Speaker 1: turn around for the good or for the bad? And man,
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Speaker 1: will people agree with us or not? Let's see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Right values and beliefs today in the morning, devote right.
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Speaker 1: The Book of Philippias, chapter number three, verse twenty says
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Speaker 1: it like this, but we are different because this is
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Speaker 1: why we're different as born again believers Christ followers. We're
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Speaker 1: different because our citizenship is in heaven. Now. I have
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Speaker 1: to stop real quick because people won't understand this, especially
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Speaker 1: if they're not born again. They'll be like, what are
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Speaker 1: you talking about? Sam. You're a citizen of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America and you're not in heaven yet, so
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Speaker 1: why would you say you're a citizen of heaven. It's
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Speaker 1: very simple. Jesus the Christ, the Lord I would, Savior God, Amen,
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Speaker 1: is allowing us to realize who we are now before
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Speaker 1: we meet him. He's given us the power authority. He's
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Speaker 1: given us love, grace, and mercy now on this side
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Speaker 1: of eternity, so we could know who we are before
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Speaker 1: we go to So by me repeating this scripture and
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Speaker 1: saying our citizenship is in heaven, it's true now and
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Speaker 1: it's true later, it's true for all eternity. So we
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Speaker 1: are saying who we are and who we are now.
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Speaker 1: So that way we're going to have to wait to
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Speaker 1: find out if that makes any sense. And from there
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Speaker 1: we eagerly await the coming of the Savior, who the Lord,
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. So with that mindset, when you go to
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Speaker 1: the polls, when you go to the voting booth, Amen,
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Speaker 1: with that mindset, remember who we are, Remember where we're from.
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Speaker 1: Remember who a citizenship, Where our citizenship is. We have
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Speaker 1: a dual citizenship in heaven. We have a seated in
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Speaker 1: heavenly places, according to the scripture, with citizenship of heaven
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Speaker 1: and of earth. Amen. So what comes first? Our allegiance
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Speaker 1: to Christ. What should be more valuable our values and
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Speaker 1: beliefs according to the scriptures? How should we vote according
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Speaker 1: to how Holy Spirit prompts us to vote? Amen, and
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Speaker 1: don't let anyone or any system, or any person or
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Speaker 1: any group change your values and beliefs based upon what
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Speaker 1: they want you to believe, believe and trust in God
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Speaker 1: His word, His Holy Spirit will guide you and lead you. Amen.
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Speaker 1: You have the right choice in your heart. God is
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Speaker 1: not going to judge any one of us based on
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Speaker 1: our political party. He's going to judge us by what
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Speaker 1: He gave us and how we put it out and
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Speaker 1: how we applied it to our day today life values
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Speaker 1: and belief It's gonna happen regardless. Amen. A voting process
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Speaker 1: is gonna happen whether or not you or I believe
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Speaker 1: in government or the political system. The world system has
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Speaker 1: its own way of doing things. They gonna do what
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Speaker 1: they do. It's gonna happen regardless whether or not you
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Speaker 1: vote or I vote. So I believe as believers we
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Speaker 1: should put a lot in cast our vote and see
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Speaker 1: what happens. See God, how God will use your vote,
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Speaker 1: your local vote. A man from whatever state you're listening
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Speaker 1: from or living in a man, will make your voice count.
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Speaker 1: See what happens when you put your voice and you'll
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Speaker 1: vote into a system that honestly is a broken system
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Speaker 1: in my opinion, a man, it's not God, Jesus, Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: It's not running the world system, the government system. It's
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Speaker 1: run by the enemy. We can see that all through
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Speaker 1: the scriptures. But we, as Christ's followers, we shine light
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Speaker 1: on the darkness. And what happens to darkness When light
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Speaker 1: shows up, darkness gotta go. So why not be a
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Speaker 1: part of such a process and see God's hand move
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Speaker 1: in this situation? Why not put your faith in action
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Speaker 1: and go to a voting poem and be like, Okay, God,
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Speaker 1: I'm here, have your will. I imagine just going to
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Speaker 1: the places that people vote and pray for people and
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Speaker 1: praying that God will cause peace to be run rapid
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Speaker 1: across the nation. We're going to confuse the government if
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Speaker 1: both sides of whether you're a democratic Republican and you're
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Speaker 1: a Christian and we're conservative, whatever we want to call itself,
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Speaker 1: and when unite, that will confuse the government, that will
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Speaker 1: confuse the world system, That will give the devil a headache. Amen,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't want us to be united, so he used
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Speaker 1: any system that he put in place to divide us.
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Speaker 1: I have to think about this strategically. Is a chess game, Amen.
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Speaker 1: Your local officials know that this is a chess game,
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Speaker 1: so we should be onto that too. We should know
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Speaker 1: that this is about building, not breaking down. If any
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Speaker 1: party is saying and promising a better nation, a better state,
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Speaker 1: a better country. Amen. And both of them are promising this,
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Speaker 1: that means we can get benefit from any side of
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Speaker 1: the coin, depending right, So put your vote in. Don't
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Speaker 1: be afraid. God's with us. Amen. He'll push us through.
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Speaker 1: He'll get us through this. Amen. And we shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: divided as brothers and sisters in Christ. Brother Frank, good morning,
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Good morning, my brother Sam. Good to
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Speaker 1: see you yesterday at church. Love you always, my brother
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Speaker 1: and your blessed family. Amen you as well, my brother,
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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's good to see you when I
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Speaker 1: see you. Amen. So that's a good thing to know.
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Speaker 1: I'm home by that, so be safe. I hope you
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Speaker 1: have a great day. This day is going to be
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Speaker 1: interesting because tomorrow we're going into a different time. Maybe
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Speaker 1: a different party will take over. If not the same party,
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Speaker 1: will be here either way. We need to be in prayer.
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Speaker 1: We need to be mindful of what's happening in our
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Speaker 1: country and our nation and our neighborhood and our state
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Speaker 1: right because it really really matters for our children. Listen,
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Speaker 1: I'm secure with my faith and hoping the Lord. Amen.
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Speaker 1: My daughters they're growing up, so they have to make
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Speaker 1: that decision on their own. They're young, very young right now.
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Speaker 1: But a man, I'm praying for the very best. I'm
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Speaker 1: already praying for my daughter's husband, both of them, their husband,
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Speaker 1: praying for their God will send them golly people and
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Speaker 1: golly friends. Amen. All through their life. I'm praying that
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Speaker 1: the will of God will be or what they want.
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Speaker 1: A man over their lives and through their lives and
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Speaker 1: this political system and this world system, politicians and all
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Speaker 1: that that make all these promises. We know that they're human,
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Speaker 1: so those promises probably won't come to pass. But when
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Speaker 1: God promises something, all those promises are aya and Amen.
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Speaker 1: So that's why I know that we should rely more
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Speaker 1: and have more faith in the Kingdom of God and
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Speaker 1: his system and his government than the government that we
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Speaker 1: serve right now in our country. But listen that doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean I really believe we should go ahead and be
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Speaker 1: a part of the process and go ahead and vote.
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Speaker 1: Vote your conscience, vote your values and beliefs. Amen. Ask
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Speaker 1: God to help you in the voting process. Who should
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Speaker 1: you vote for or what parties should you be in? Amen?
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Speaker 1: Ask God. He will let you know and you should
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Speaker 1: be secure on what God says. And don't let anybody
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Speaker 1: judge you for either way and men, and as a
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, people don't really have to know who
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Speaker 1: you go and vote for. You could be in a
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Speaker 1: political party and they think, oh, he's gonna vote all
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Speaker 1: the way through or she's gonna vote all the way
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Speaker 1: through for a party, and you don't have to do that.
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Speaker 1: Even you could be a swing voter we call him.
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Speaker 1: Some will vote certain local elections. You'll vote one party
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Speaker 1: and you vote another party depending on who the candidate.
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Speaker 1: You might know somebody that's in politics and you know
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Speaker 1: for sure that he or she is a great person
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Speaker 1: for the position. You might vote for them outside of
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Speaker 1: your party. So do what you feel like doing. Amen.
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Speaker 1: If you go to God first, I believe he'll direct
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Speaker 1: you in the right way during this voting session. So
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Speaker 1: we are in this together. Don't let the enemy separate us.
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Speaker 1: Don't let the enemy make us think that if we're
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Speaker 1: one side or the other side, that we can't walk
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Speaker 1: together because we're diamestriically opposed, and all this other stuff.
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Speaker 1: Andy man, let the world do what the world does.
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Speaker 1: They get to do what the world system is going
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Speaker 1: to do, what the world system does, regardless. But we
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Speaker 1: are here as a light or beacon of hope. Amen,
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Speaker 1: and we shouldn't back down to any of it. So
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Speaker 1: Christians have the freedom to participate in voting and engage
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Speaker 1: in the political process right if we choose to do so.
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Speaker 1: The New Testament doesn't provide any specific instructions about voting.
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Speaker 1: Right is written in a time and place where democratic
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Speaker 1: voting wasn't a part of the political system. So the
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Speaker 1: Bible really doesn't say, Okay, you have to be a democrat,
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Speaker 1: you have to be a Republican, because of the time
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Speaker 1: when it was written, there was no such thing as
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Speaker 1: both type of parties. This came way after right Constitution,
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Speaker 1: came way after the scriptures. So we have to remember that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so you can't be forced into doing something about is
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Speaker 1: not commanding you to do, even though all through this
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Speaker 1: whole season. I've heard preachers, popular preachers using their platforms
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Speaker 1: to call Christians out and say, you're commanding is to
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Speaker 1: go vote. I don't see that in the scriptures. I
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Speaker 1: don't know they could grab scriptures of Old Covenant kings
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Speaker 1: and people are positioned and say, look, there was already
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Speaker 1: a process. There was a process. The government was established
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Speaker 1: by God. We know that, or we should know that.
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Speaker 1: And he put people into place for a purpose and plan.
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Speaker 1: But remember this, God wanted to be king of the nations.
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Speaker 1: God wanted to be God over to his people. But
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Speaker 1: they said, no, we want what the nation's got. We
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Speaker 1: want a king like the other nations. So the first
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Speaker 1: king saw we see in the Old Covenant, the first king,
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Speaker 1: he started off okay, and then he went rogue buck
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Speaker 1: wild and started chasing the man of God, David, all
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Speaker 1: over the place right, and he he lost his view
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Speaker 1: and he needed a prophet, Samuel. He needed him so
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Speaker 1: much that when the prophet, King Saul needed the prophet
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Speaker 1: to hear from God so much that even when Samuel
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Speaker 1: the prophet died, he got King Saul God with a
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Speaker 1: witch of endor to go get them and resurrect them
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Speaker 1: from the dead. Isn't that crazy. So yeah, he was
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Speaker 1: in political position. He was a king, the first king
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Speaker 1: of Israel. But look what happened. He lost touch. And
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Speaker 1: I believe a lot of leaders in our political system
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Speaker 1: right now are losing touch. It could be pure pressure
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Speaker 1: from their party. It could be life that they're facing.
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Speaker 1: It could be the lack of understanding of the Word
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Speaker 1: of God. It could be the surroundings the community that
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Speaker 1: they're surrounded with, whether they're believers or not. It could
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Speaker 1: be a whole lot of things. That's why we're told
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Speaker 1: in the scripture, I know this much, to pray for
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Speaker 1: our leaders, to pray for all those who are authority.
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Speaker 1: And the Bible also says that God places all authority,
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Speaker 1: and he's not surprised by any political system. He's not surprised.
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Speaker 1: But what's going on in the United States of America
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Speaker 1: during this political season, God is not surprised. He's watching
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Speaker 1: and and he knows what he's doing. He's the ultimate
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Speaker 1: he's the ultimate defender. He knows how to play the
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Speaker 1: game of chess Amen, and He's going to cause good
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Speaker 1: for all those who love him. He's going to cause
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Speaker 1: the good to happen for all those who love him
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Speaker 1: and men, so be encouraged. I notice is a tough
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Speaker 1: season for a lot of people and men. Some people
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Speaker 1: are confused on whether or not they should vote or not,
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Speaker 1: or who to vote for. There some people are fortunately arguing,
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Speaker 1: bickering over the two people that, my honestipanages need a
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Speaker 1: lot of prayer, They need a lot of direction. Amen
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Speaker 1: can't judge them for if they believe or not. But
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Speaker 1: from their fruit we're going to see. We're going to
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Speaker 1: see from their fruit who they really are a man.
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Speaker 1: The promises that they're making all look encouraging, all look
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Speaker 1: like they're going to make things better, depending on how
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Speaker 1: you see things, right, So the joys I see you,
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Speaker 1: Good morning, God, bless you, hey man, welcome to the morning.
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Speaker 1: Devote my system, my friend. So when a Christian considers
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Speaker 1: whether or not to vote, we can reflect on our
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Speaker 1: identity in Christ first and the values that align with
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Speaker 1: the fruit of the Spirit. And whoever aligns closely or
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Speaker 1: closer to the food of the Spirit, according to scripture,
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Speaker 1: should have my vote, should have your vote? And what
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Speaker 1: is that? It's a politician or the candidate offering this love, joy, peace,
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Speaker 1: And I know they a lot of them will offer
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Speaker 1: you peace. And there's a lot to say about who's
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Speaker 1: going to cause the peace to happen. In the scripture
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Speaker 1: is patience, kindness, Kindness is huge. Right for a lot
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Speaker 1: of believers, they're not going to go towards one candidate
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Speaker 1: because the one candidate doesn't seem to be kind unkindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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Speaker 1: and self control huge. Any politicians should know that self
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Speaker 1: control should be huge in their campaign. They should have
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Speaker 1: self control man, especially their adults relations Chapter five, verses
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Speaker 1: twenty two to twenty three. You could see the food
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Speaker 1: of spirit, you could take that. Maybe that'll help you
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Speaker 1: take the Galationian Chapter five, twenty two to twenty three.
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Speaker 1: Have it open, and your bible, and your bible app
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Speaker 1: when you go to the polls and you compare. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, everything that is part of the
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Speaker 1: food of the spirit, and compare to see which candidate
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Speaker 1: offers these things or close or is closer to that
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Speaker 1: kind of system. Amen. Also, they can also consider how
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Speaker 1: their choices might reflect the love and grace of God
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Speaker 1: to others. Right, So don't be confused the world system
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Speaker 1: is not basing their ideology, or they're not basing their
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Speaker 1: campaign based on the word of God. What I am
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Speaker 1: saying is that we should approach the world system with
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Speaker 1: a view of God, so that way they can know
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Speaker 1: that we're not placing our vote based on what the
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Speaker 1: world system is doing. We're placing our vote based upon
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Speaker 1: who aligns closer to the kingdom system. Amen. Because we're
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Speaker 1: part of a kingdom and we have a king. Amen,
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Speaker 1: So we have it. First John chapter four, verses seven
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Speaker 1: and eight. I'm just citing the scripture. Don't have time
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Speaker 1: to get to all the scriptures, but go ahead and
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Speaker 1: read these scriptures. First John, chapter number four, verses seven
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Speaker 1: and eight. So ultimately, my brothers and sisters, ultimately whether
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Speaker 1: or not to vote, Ultimately it's a personal decision. I
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Speaker 1: have a brother in Christ who I love, who says
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Speaker 1: he's not going to vote, he's not going to be
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Speaker 1: part of the whole process. Amen. Love them. And I
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Speaker 1: have other brothers and sisters say if you don't vote
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Speaker 1: and you can possibly be a Christian, love them too.
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Speaker 1: Or I have some brother and to say, if you're
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Speaker 1: a Democrat, you're not a Christian. If you're Republican, you're
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Speaker 1: not a Christian, and vice versa. And they're bakery, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, we're not from this world. We're in this world,
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Speaker 1: We're not of this world right the way the scriptures say, so,
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Speaker 1: be mindful of that when we vote, vote whoever aligns
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Speaker 1: closer to fruit of the Spirit, to the Word of God,
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Speaker 1: a man that has values and beliefs that will encourage people,
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Speaker 1: not hurt people. And on both sides of the system,
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Speaker 1: because it's a world system, you're going to see a
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Speaker 1: lot of error, a lot of flaw. But when you
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Speaker 1: go to God, we don't see no error, we don't
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Speaker 1: see no flaw. We see love, we see mercy, we
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Speaker 1: see justice a man, and by those three characteristics of God,
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Speaker 1: we can move and have our vote cast man. Will
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Speaker 1: we get it right all the time? Absolutely not. Will
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Speaker 1: God get it right all the time? Yes, one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: Let's rely on the King and kings. So Christians are
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Speaker 1: free to follow their convictions on the matter, knowing that
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Speaker 1: their identity and worth are found in God and Christ alone,
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Speaker 1: not in political outcomes. And it goes back to Philippians,
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Speaker 1: chapter number three, verse number twenty. I hope this helps
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Speaker 1: you out take Philippis chapter three. Read the whole chapter
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Speaker 1: for yourself today. Amen, pray about who you're gonna vote for.
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Speaker 1: If you're gonna vote amen, and pray for one another
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Speaker 1: that during this time, during this political season, that we
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Speaker 1: won't be divided, that will be united even closer, and
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Speaker 1: the churches in the United States of America will come
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Speaker 1: to an agreement that we serve a King of kings
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Speaker 1: and Lord of lords. Don't let anybody talk you out
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Speaker 1: of that. Don't let anybody press you into doing something
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Speaker 1: that God is not telling you to do. So I
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Speaker 1: bless you all, God bless you. Thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for hanging out with me for this morning. Devote until
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Speaker 1: the next time. God bless you all. Got keep you
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Speaker 1: all and remember always that God's good. Wait, we got
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Speaker 1: one more comment from my sister nicolpic good morning, brother saying,
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Just as none of them are perfect,
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Speaker 1: neither are we. Yes, like you said, we need to
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Speaker 1: put our trust in God. He will guide us. Yes,
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Speaker 1: And don't let any world system, any world political leader,
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Speaker 1: or anything like that tell you otherwise. We have a
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Speaker 1: King of kings and the Lord of lords, a man,
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Speaker 1: and we know that we could put our trust in him.
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Speaker 1: What's gonna happen, we don't know, but he knows all things,
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Speaker 1: and he has the very best for us in mind.
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Speaker 1: So God blessed, Thank you so much. Peace,