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ENTERING-INTO-REST-HEBREWS-4-9 · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: I count is a great honor to be here tonight
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  Speaker 1: at this convention, Allelujah. And I want to start by
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  Speaker 1: requesting that we please rise and honor our father and
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  Speaker 1: our mother, Reverend Dr sam Aboy g God, bless you, sir,
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  Speaker 1: and our precious mother. Let's give them a big God
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  Speaker 1: bless you. Thank you for this opportunity. I don't take
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  Speaker 1: it for granted. And in a similar pain, may I
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  Speaker 1: request that we honor our father's seated here standing, and
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  Speaker 1: all who have come. I do not know all their names,
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  Speaker 1: but I honor you in the name of Jesus. Let's
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  Speaker 1: give them a big God bless you. Allelujah. Please be
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  Speaker 1: seated the Lord, bless you. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking tonight very briefly along the theme of the conference.
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  Speaker 1: I found it very interesting when I saw the theme
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  Speaker 1: because I think very deeply as I prepare my messages
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  Speaker 1: and my teachings, and I take my preparations very seriously,
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  Speaker 1: and so when I see a topic for discussion, I
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  Speaker 1: take out time to look at it very carefully and
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  Speaker 1: see that which the Spirit of the Living God can
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  Speaker 1: help me draw from my study to bless his people.
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  Speaker 1: So I trust tonight. And this is also my request
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  Speaker 1: that you lend me your rapt attention so that we
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  Speaker 1: will learn, we will grow, will be impatted maximally by
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Like you may have heard me say,
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  Speaker 1: God's method has always been his word. His method to
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  Speaker 1: lift is his word. His method to restore is his word.
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  Speaker 1: His method to redeem is his word. The boundary of
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  Speaker 1: God's commitment to the believer is his word. He cannot
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  Speaker 1: act within or outside of the jurisdiction of his word.
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  Speaker 2: That means, when the word of God is about to come, it.
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  Speaker 1: Is important that we pay attention to receive, because in
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  Speaker 1: receiving the world, we also receive the keys to our lifting,
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  Speaker 1: our breakthroughs, our deliverances, and indeed rest on every side.
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  Speaker 1: But can I start tonight by profess sign over someone
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  Speaker 1: that in the name of Jesus, the Son of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, everything that has stopped you from enjoying rest
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  Speaker 1: around about, may it give way finally this night. May
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  Speaker 1: it give way finally this night, in the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the Son of the Living God, that everything that will
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  Speaker 1: not allow you experience the fullness of.
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  Speaker 2: The glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: I decree and declare standing upon the grace on this altar.
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  Speaker 1: May it give way once and for all in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ. Is it all right if we
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  Speaker 1: pray for just one minute? Please say after me, Father
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  Speaker 1: one more time, say Father, tonight. I receive grace to hear.
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  Speaker 1: I receive grace to understand. I receive grace to obey,
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  Speaker 1: head and pray, Grace to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Grace to understand, race to obey. Someone is praying tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We receive grace, grace to hear, but beyond hearing, grace
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  Speaker 1: to understand, and beyond understanding, the grace to obey, the
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  Speaker 1: grace to obey, the grace to obey.
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  Speaker 2: For Jesus' much less name, we have prayed.
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  Speaker 1: Can we have a believing Amen, Oh, believed that above
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  Speaker 1: a Lord all gods, we lay our Christ.
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  Speaker 3: And ash sh you you be. I said, up the
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  Speaker 3: love he allround, and ship clean.
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  Speaker 4: Clean in the name of Jesus. Please be seated. Let's
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  Speaker 4: get to the world, the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Tells us in Some thirty four and verse nineteen. Psalm
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  Speaker 1: thirty four and verse nineteen. The Bible gives us a
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  Speaker 1: very interesting expression, I trust that the media will work
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It is as many are the afflictions of the righteous.
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  Speaker 1: Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Bible
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  Speaker 1: there leaves us with an assurance that the Lord delivered
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  Speaker 1: them from how many, All many are the afflictions of
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  Speaker 1: the righteous, But the Lord delivered him from them all.
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  Speaker 1: So very clearly we see it from this scripture that
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  Speaker 1: the reality of troubles, I wrote, Heah, the reality of
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  Speaker 1: calamities and.
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  Speaker 2: Despair is not new to our world.
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  Speaker 1: Our world is full of events and episodes of calamities,
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  Speaker 1: episodes of despair, and all kinds of troubles.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I think it was in John.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter sixteen and verse thirty three Jesus himself had this
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  Speaker 1: to say.
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  Speaker 2: He said, in this.
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  Speaker 1: World you will have many troubles. Jesus is speaking now,
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  Speaker 1: but he says, be of good share. I have overcome
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  Speaker 1: the world. That in this world. This is a statement
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  Speaker 1: coming from the lips of the Master himself, that in
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  Speaker 1: this world, in this life, you will have many troubles.
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  Speaker 1: But he leaves you with an assurance to be of
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  Speaker 1: good share, and he says, I have overcome the world.
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  Speaker 1: So it is not unusual for men to be troubled.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible is full of people. You see, one of
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  Speaker 1: the things I love about scripture is that it does
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  Speaker 1: not hide any time mention of life. The Bible captures victories,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible captures defeat, the Bible captures triumph, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: captures sadness, the Bible captures rejoicing. All captured within this
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  Speaker 1: Bible to give you a very balanced perspective of the
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  Speaker 1: character of God and the reality of life.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together? So it is true that troubles.
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  Speaker 1: And calamities, despair and moments of unease are not new
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  Speaker 1: to our world.
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  Speaker 2: All you have to do is to.
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  Speaker 1: Be alive for a sufficient period of time, and you
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  Speaker 1: will be forced to attest to the fact that, an
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  Speaker 1: assisted by God, your lot is almost that of calamity
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  Speaker 1: by default.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, yes, how the Bible puts it that.
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  Speaker 1: The whole world lie yet in wickedness, and for that
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  Speaker 1: reason alone, everyone is a potential candidate for pain, calamity,
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  Speaker 1: despair of any sort, except you baire yourself out.
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  Speaker 2: Through knowledge and understanding. Are we following tonight?
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  Speaker 1: People have had to go through all kinds of troubles
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  Speaker 1: in their lives. Troubles, for instance, in the area of health,
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  Speaker 1: troubles in the area of finances, troubles in the area
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  Speaker 1: of marriage and relationships, trouble in the area of career
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  Speaker 1: and their destiny pursuits.
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  Speaker 2: Our world is full of people.
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  Speaker 1: If I ask everyone here right now submit a prayer request,
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  Speaker 1: so that we pray upon everything. You are writing on
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  Speaker 1: that request is some usually something you want to get
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  Speaker 1: out of your life, or something you want to bring
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  Speaker 1: into your life.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that you have something to write is.
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  Speaker 1: An attestation to the fact that almost everyone has something
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  Speaker 1: he's trusting God to take out of his life, or
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  Speaker 1: something is trusting God.
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  Speaker 2: To bring into his life. If you're with me, shout aloud. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: People have gone through issues in their lives, in the
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  Speaker 1: area of their spiritual lives, the area of their health,
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  Speaker 1: area of their finances, their marriages, their relationships.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a few examples.
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  Speaker 1: Of men and women who went through several kinds of troubles.
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  Speaker 2: In the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: I will just give you the scriptures who are not
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  Speaker 1: going to read them for sake of time.
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  Speaker 2: Number one is a man Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: You would think because Abraham was a patracht of faith,
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  Speaker 1: he would be immune from trouble. Abraham went through all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of infertility problems, you find out from Genesis fifteen
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  Speaker 1: one to three. The Bible does not hide the fact
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  Speaker 1: that even though Abraham a great man, a friend of God,
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  Speaker 1: and yet lets us know that that man went through
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  Speaker 1: seasons over twenty five years of barrenness alongside his wife,
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  Speaker 1: to a point that he became frustrated. He was giving
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  Speaker 1: a recommendation that God would raise seed for him through another.
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  Speaker 2: From his house Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: How about the nation of Israel in Egypt, a whole
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  Speaker 1: nation can go through seasons of calamity and pain. We
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  Speaker 1: find that in Exodus chapter three, from verse seven to nine,
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  Speaker 1: when God was speaking Exodus three seven to nine, when
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  Speaker 1: God was speaking with Moses in the burning bush, it
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  Speaker 1: was God himself who said that he had heard the
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  Speaker 1: cry of his people by reason of their taskmasters, and
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  Speaker 1: that day he was aware of their sorrows. God himself
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  Speaker 1: was saying that Exodus three seven to nine, he was
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  Speaker 1: now charging Moses, giving him the mandate of a deliverer.
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  Speaker 1: But God in acknowledge the fact that his people, his
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  Speaker 1: covenant people, had gone through several years and decades of
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  Speaker 1: pain by reason of their taskmasters.
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  Speaker 2: Can I give you a third example?
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  Speaker 1: How about the famine in Samaria a whole nation.
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  Speaker 2: The famine in Samaria.
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  Speaker 1: You find that in Second Kings Chapter six, twenty five
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  Speaker 1: to thirty one. Second Kings, Chapter six, twenty five to
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. The Bible tells us that there was such
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  Speaker 1: a grevious famine in Samaria that food was so fast
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  Speaker 1: women had.
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  Speaker 2: To eat their children to survive. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure such a dimension of famine has happened
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  Speaker 1: in a world that I'm aware of, that a mother
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  Speaker 1: would look at the child, and rather than seeing a
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  Speaker 1: child that came.
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  Speaker 2: From her, she is looking at a means for survivor.
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  Speaker 1: Allelujah, the famine in some area. Can I give you
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  Speaker 1: Number four? In Ruth Chapter one, from verse one and six. Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, from verse one and six, the Bible gives
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  Speaker 1: us a very interesting rendition about two strange personalities. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: the woman called Naomi, and then her daughters in law Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: and of her, the Bible says that all of them,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of spirit came upon that family.
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  Speaker 1: They strangely were losing all the men in their lives.
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  Speaker 1: I pray for someone every pattern you have seen around
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  Speaker 1: your life and your family that is inconsistent with the
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  Speaker 1: speakings of God. By the power of the Blood, it
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  Speaker 1: will let.
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  Speaker 2: You go this night.
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  Speaker 1: It will let you go this night, in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought to comment on this.
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  Speaker 1: He lost a husband, Naomi Ruth lost her husband and
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  Speaker 1: her sons. Or lost her husband and her sons. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know the same kind of spirit was at working
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  Speaker 1: a woman in the New Testament called the Widow of Nain.
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  Speaker 1: All the men in her life, everyone who had the
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  Speaker 1: potential to support her, was taken out of her life. Allelujah.
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  Speaker 2: These were women in great sorrow.
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  Speaker 1: They had lost their systems for security and support. Many
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  Speaker 1: are the afflictions of the righteous. Can I give you
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  Speaker 1: one more? In Second King, Chapter five and verse one,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to read that the Bible talks of
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  Speaker 1: a very frivliant.
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  Speaker 2: Man, a warrior in fact, called Naman.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible calls him the captain of the host of
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  Speaker 1: the King of Syria. Look up the kind of credential
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  Speaker 1: that was credited to this man. That he he was
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  Speaker 1: a great man with his master, he was an honorable man,
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  Speaker 1: and that by reason of his intelligence and dexterity, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord had given deliverance onto Syria. And he was a
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  Speaker 1: mighty man in battle, and you would think with those
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  Speaker 1: kinds of credential he would escape trouble, the Bible says.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of all those great testimonies, but he was
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  Speaker 1: a leper. There was something in his life that was
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  Speaker 1: a cause for concern.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Bible tells us furthermore in look chapter eight.
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  Speaker 2: I found this very.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting forty one to forty five. I hope we're still together.
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  Speaker 1: Look chapter eight, from verse forty one to forty five.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read that story. I want to draw out
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  Speaker 2: something from it.
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  Speaker 1: This is a story that doubles as that of Jarios's
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  Speaker 1: daughter and then the woman with the issue of Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible says, and behold, there came a man
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  Speaker 1: named Jarios, and he was a ruler in the synagogue,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, and that he fell at the feet
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus and asked him to come into his house.
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  Speaker 1: Next verse please reading to forty five. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age,
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  Speaker 1: and she was lying there dying. And the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when it came he didn't have a chance to meet
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  Speaker 1: Jesus easily because the people thronged him. Next verse, then,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, whilce he was on his way, Jesus now.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to honor the requests.
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  Speaker 1: To get to his house, he stumbled across another woman
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  Speaker 1: with no name, named by her pain, named by her tragedy,
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  Speaker 1: named by her calamity. This woman most likely had a name,
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  Speaker 1: but her calamity so swallowed her it replaced her name.
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  Speaker 1: She was simply called the woman with the issue of
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  Speaker 1: blood twelve years.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says she had spent all her living on physicians.
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  Speaker 1: Neither could she be healed of any The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: that she came behind him and touched the border of
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  Speaker 1: his garment, and immediately her issue of blood ceased.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the point is.
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  Speaker 1: That the daughter of Jarios was twelve years old, the
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  Speaker 1: one who was dying, and this woman was twelve years
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  Speaker 1: old in her calamity, meaning the day that young girl
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  Speaker 1: was born. That was when this woman's trouble also started.
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  Speaker 1: Bought twelve years a twelve year old girl about to
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  Speaker 1: lose her life, a twelve year old woman.
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  Speaker 2: And if you were asked.
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  Speaker 1: To which one would be better to heal first, both
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  Speaker 1: of them were sympathetic to their pain.
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  Speaker 2: Would you ignore a woman who had gone through twelve
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  Speaker 2: years of pain?
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  Speaker 1: But with you ignore a little girl who has potential
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  Speaker 1: to live a great life. Trouble for you, calamities for you?
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  Speaker 1: Are we still together? The Bible makes a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: statement in Second Corinthians, chapter four and verse eight.
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  Speaker 2: Please give it to us.
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  Speaker 1: Second Corinthians four and verse eight. I usually would like
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  Speaker 1: us to read together. I hope we can. Otherwise I'll
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  Speaker 1: just read alone. Second Corinthians four and verse eight. Please
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  Speaker 1: media help us. Second Corinthians, chapter four and verse eight.
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  Speaker 1: If you can see it, please, I request that we
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  Speaker 1: read together.
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  Speaker 2: Ready, one to go. We are troubled on every side.
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  Speaker 1: Please hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. This
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  Speaker 1: is a very interesting statement. It is one thing to
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  Speaker 1: be troubled in your health, but other areas will be
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  Speaker 1: doing well. It is one thing to be troubled spiritually,
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  Speaker 1: but perhaps financially you are doing well. The Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us that it is even possible to be troubled on
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  Speaker 1: e free side.
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  Speaker 2: You know what that means?
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  Speaker 1: That there can be a problem in your finances at
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  Speaker 1: the same time a problem in your spiritual life at
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  Speaker 1: the same time a problem with your children and your marriage.
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  Speaker 1: That such possibility exists in our world. We are troubled,
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  Speaker 1: not just dimensionally, but on every side. It is that
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  Speaker 1: yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in despair.
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  Speaker 1: So men can be so troubled. It is not just
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  Speaker 1: that men can find rest on every side. They can
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  Speaker 1: also be troubled on every side. I have studied my Bible,
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  Speaker 1: by the grace of God, and in my study, the
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  Speaker 1: clearest example the individual that personified is this scripture, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, is the man Job. Job becomes for us
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  Speaker 1: a theological lesson, a description of a man who was
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  Speaker 1: troubled on every side.
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  Speaker 2: For reference, please write Job.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, thirteen to twenty two, Job Chapter one thirteen
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  Speaker 1: to twenty two, and then Job chapter two seven to nine.
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  Speaker 2: For time's sake, I'm not going to read it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just just recite for you the story. So here
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  Speaker 1: is a man the Bible says, who was the richest
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  Speaker 1: man within the east in the then world.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says he was.
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  Speaker 1: A man who she had God and assured evil. He
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  Speaker 1: had everything what you will want to call rest on
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  Speaker 1: every side. Wealth was there, children, assets, a great name,
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  Speaker 1: But then the Bible tells us that a series of
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  Speaker 1: events happened within the heavens and began to manifest back
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  Speaker 1: to back.
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  Speaker 2: All within the space of one day.
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  Speaker 1: In one day, ladies and gentlemen, the man Joe lost
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  Speaker 1: his children, lost his assets, lost his reputation, lost everything.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Bible makes a very profound statement that
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  Speaker 1: when the last person came to break the sad news,
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  Speaker 1: Joe bound.
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  Speaker 2: Himself to the ground and wash it.
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  Speaker 1: Not bound himself to the ground to cause God not
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  Speaker 1: bound himself to the ground in despair. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: he bowed himself to the ground and.
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  Speaker 2: Wash it, Allelujah.
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  Speaker 1: And then, as though that would be enough, there were
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  Speaker 1: only three things that were left after the first tragedy
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  Speaker 1: struck in Job's life. Number one was his wife, Number
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  Speaker 1: two was his relationship with God, and number three was
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  Speaker 1: his health. These were the only three things that survived
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  Speaker 1: the first attack. And then a series of events in
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  Speaker 1: chapter two would happen again, and the devil is giving
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  Speaker 1: liberty to now strike his health. Job's health was so
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  Speaker 1: was so heat that the Bible says that men would
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  Speaker 1: look at him and just passed.
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  Speaker 2: He became a man who was left for dead, troubled.
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  Speaker 1: On every side, and the only thing Job had left
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  Speaker 1: was his wife and his God. But then when I
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  Speaker 1: studied the book of Job, I am encouraged by just
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  Speaker 1: one profound statement. And you find that in Job chapter
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  Speaker 1: forty twoe, verse ten. And may that be a prophecy
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  Speaker 1: for someone tonight, in the name of Jesus, Please give
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  Speaker 1: it to us and the Lord to the captivity of Job.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness, there is a God can turn the captivity
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  Speaker 1: of men. Did you hear what I said that there
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  Speaker 1: is a God in heaven, not in the earth. There
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  Speaker 1: is a God that sits in heaven, and that he
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  Speaker 1: sustains within his power the ability to turn the captivity
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  Speaker 1: of men. Did you not read in your Bible that
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  Speaker 1: when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion is said,
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  Speaker 1: we were like damn that dream. It would be for
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  Speaker 1: someone tonight, like a dream. The way my God will
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  Speaker 1: turn around your life. I say it by prophecy it
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  Speaker 1: will do for someone like you are dreaming the way
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  Speaker 1: Thores will open, the way God will settle you, the
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  Speaker 1: way God will.
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  Speaker 2: Give you peace, The way.
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  Speaker 1: My God will arise to push back every force that
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  Speaker 1: has mocked your life.
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  Speaker 2: Please be seated.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible tells us that men, all men, can
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  Speaker 1: be troubled, not just on some sides, not just in
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  Speaker 1: certain areas, but that men can be troubled on every side.
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  Speaker 1: And it is very possible that someone came for this convention.
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  Speaker 1: In the midst of the dance, in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: the screams, in the midst of the shout, you are
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  Speaker 1: only praying for grace to survive because perhaps this year
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  Speaker 1: has been maybe your worst experience yet.
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  Speaker 2: Now I want you to please pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought to borrow from my notes and explain
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  Speaker 1: to us why believers go through tragedies. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to list it for you. Two weeks ago, I did
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  Speaker 1: a teaching back at home on deliverance over calamities, and
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  Speaker 1: I just thought to incorporate that in my notes.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was very.
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  Speaker 1: Important before before we begin to talk about entering rest,
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  Speaker 1: it's important we have a very proper foundation as to
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  Speaker 1: why believer us go through tragedies, go through calamities, and
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  Speaker 1: go through unfavorable seasons. There is a reason. There is
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  Speaker 1: an explanation to pain, there is an explanation to calamity
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  Speaker 1: and tragedy. I will least for you not necessarily having
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  Speaker 1: to explain them. And I pray in the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ that what you're about to hear will contribute
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  Speaker 1: to your confidence, because sometimes beyond pushing men to enter
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  Speaker 1: the rest, it's important.
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  Speaker 2: That we diagnose the condition properly.
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  Speaker 1: There are people who, no matter what kind of prayer
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  Speaker 1: you pray for, they will still go back into their
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  Speaker 1: pain because there are certain funda mental mistakes that they
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  Speaker 1: continue to make.
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  Speaker 2: Can we examine this for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, The first reason, according to Scripture, why people
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  Speaker 1: go through tragedies, losses, calamities is lack of discernment. Please write,
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  Speaker 1: the absence of dissignment will always lead an individual into a.
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  Speaker 2: Circle of calamities.
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  Speaker 1: Lack of discernment, lack of discernment, lack of discernment, hallelujah,
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  Speaker 1: lack of discernment most people cannot discern. I'm reminded about
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  Speaker 1: the story in Acts chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 2: When you read in the Book of Act.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve, the Bible says that Herald made up his
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  Speaker 1: mind to affect certain Jews, and in doing so John
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  Speaker 1: I mean James.
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  Speaker 2: Was held and he was beheaded.
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  Speaker 1: And when James was beheaded, the Bible says that the
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  Speaker 1: Herald saw that it pleased.
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  Speaker 2: The Jews, and now he held Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Proposing that after the Passover he would also destroy Peter.
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  Speaker 1: But the Bible says in verse five that prayers.
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  Speaker 2: Was made by the church.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together without ceasing for him? And then the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, the moment the church began to pray, I
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  Speaker 1: was not there, but I can draw out. I can
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  Speaker 1: infer their prayer. Content Lord, bring Peter out of the prison.
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  Speaker 1: Bring him out of the prison. He must not die.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says, in response to their prayer, an
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  Speaker 1: angel comes to the.
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  Speaker 2: Prison and brings deliverance onto Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Now watch this. Then the Bible tells us that Peter
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  Speaker 1: was led out and the gates began to open. Now
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  Speaker 1: he was giving the liberty. And when you read from
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven forward, the Bible says, Peter came to the
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  Speaker 1: very house. When he came to the house where the
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  Speaker 1: prayer was happening for his deliverance, he knocked the door
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  Speaker 1: and said, this is the answer to your prayer. One
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  Speaker 1: young girl opened the door and saw him and said, no,
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  Speaker 1: it must be his angel. She closed the door, and
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  Speaker 1: they kept praying Lord, deliver Peter. Lack of discernment. How
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  Speaker 1: do you pray for something and then the answer comes
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  Speaker 1: and you cannot know? Allelujah? Lack of discernment. Number two.
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  Speaker 1: The second reason why people experience losses, pain, tragedies, calamities.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote here is carelessness. Carelessness. The second reason carelessness Hebrews,
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  Speaker 1: chapter two and verse three carelessness carelessness. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?
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  Speaker 1: If you are careless and you take for granted, how
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  Speaker 1: shall we escape? I wish I had the time to
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  Speaker 1: share with you a very interesting story under this point.
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  Speaker 1: It is found in the Book of Judges, chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 1: thirty to thirty five. I prayed for my own self
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  Speaker 1: that God would help me to be free from carelessness
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  Speaker 1: when I read this.
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  Speaker 2: Scripture, a very interesting scripture.
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  Speaker 1: About a warrior called Jefta.
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  Speaker 2: Jef Ta was one of the mighty men.
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  Speaker 1: He was a warrior, and this man on his own,
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  Speaker 1: God did not ask him to make a covenant.
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  Speaker 2: He got up.
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  Speaker 1: You can see a graphic representation of carelessness. He said,
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, if you will deliver the children of Ammon
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  Speaker 1: to my hands, here is my promise. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: that opens my door as I return back, I will
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  Speaker 1: give to you sounds like spirituality. But that is careless
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  Speaker 1: and truly he had great victory, And the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when he was returning home.
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  Speaker 2: Watch this his daughter opened the door.
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  Speaker 1: The first first thing he would see what his daughter
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  Speaker 1: she had prepared instruments of music. You find that in
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty four, this young girl was out to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: her father's return. Yet the man had carelessly made a
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  Speaker 1: statement that the first thing that comes out of his
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  Speaker 1: door he would sacrifice it. There are many people today
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  Speaker 1: who have brought self inflicted causes upon themselves because of carelessness.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus and Prince for someone either
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  Speaker 1: through careless speaking, either thrue careless associations. Whatever calamity you
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  Speaker 1: may have brought upon yourself, made the God of messy tonight,
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  Speaker 1: bail you out, Made the God of messy tonight, bail
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  Speaker 1: you out in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Number three very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Why do men go through tragedies and pain, calamities and
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  Speaker 1: seasons of distress, ignorance of the loss of the kingdom, ignorance,
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  Speaker 1: ignorance of the loss of the kingdom ignorance of the
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  Speaker 1: loss of life and destiny.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah.
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  Speaker 1: An intelligent God will not design a system like this
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  Speaker 1: and allow men to free lance their way through it.
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  Speaker 1: There is an exact formula for living profitably upon the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear what I said? There is an exact
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  Speaker 1: formula for profitable living. There is also an exact formula
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  Speaker 1: for living a defeated life. You don't just live a
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  Speaker 1: defeated life. To live a defeated life, you work in
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  Speaker 1: keeping with certain principles. And to live a victorious life
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  Speaker 1: you also work in keeping with certain principles. From Well
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  Speaker 1: chapter two, twelve to seventeen. Then we also go to
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  Speaker 1: First and Wel chapter four. The Bible lets us know
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  Speaker 1: that Hoffney and Finnish has based on the principle they
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to use the fuck and to bring out
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  Speaker 1: a portion.
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  Speaker 2: Of meat, and whatever portion it brought was theirs.
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  Speaker 1: But they designed to start bringing choice portions for themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and they violated due process. Many people today have abused
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  Speaker 1: annoying things, abuse opportunities, abuse relationships.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: You may have hurt people in our worlds. Say I
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  Speaker 1: know this man, we used to be friends. I know
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  Speaker 1: this woman, we used to be classmates. The question is
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  Speaker 1: what changed? Usually abuse this honor will always close any door.
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  Speaker 1: Abuse of privileges, abuse of opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: Children have abused.
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  Speaker 1: Certain privileges that their parents created for them. Parents have
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  Speaker 1: abused certain privileges that.
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  Speaker 2: They had with all due respect.
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  Speaker 1: Even men and women of God have abused privileges. In
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  Speaker 1: the corporate world, people have abused privileges. Abuse and misuse
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  Speaker 1: will always lead to tragedy. A wise man, now of
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  Speaker 1: blessed memory, Dr. Males Munroe, would say, when the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of a thing is not known, he says, abuse of
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  Speaker 1: it is inevitable. The word abuse comes from two words
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  Speaker 1: abnormal use. Every time a thing is taken out of
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  Speaker 1: its jurisdiction of purpose, it becomes abuse. The fourth reason
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  Speaker 1: why people go through tragedies let me quickly run through
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  Speaker 1: the remaining two number five.
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  Speaker 2: The fifth reason.
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  Speaker 1: Why people go through calamities and pain and strgedies is
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  Speaker 1: as a result of demonic attacks. Demonic attacks, you cannot
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  Speaker 1: rule Satan out. There are times that you do everything right,
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  Speaker 1: but just because there is an adversary that is determined
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  Speaker 1: to twards the purposes of God in your life. Demonic
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  Speaker 1: attacks John chapter ten and verse ten. Jesus himself was teaching,
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  Speaker 1: and here's what he had to say. The thief comet
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  Speaker 1: not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy,
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  Speaker 1: he says, But I am calm that ye may have life,
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  Speaker 1: and that they may have it more abundantly. Jesus called
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  Speaker 1: Satan a thief in First Preit Touch chapter five and
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  Speaker 1: verse eight. First Preit Touch, chapter five and verse eight.
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  Speaker 1: First Bitter chapter five and verse eight. Here's what Paul Peter.
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  Speaker 2: Now was admonition us to do.
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  Speaker 1: He says, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil,
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  Speaker 1: as a roaring lion.
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  Speaker 2: He walked about.
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  Speaker 1: He walks about a bell kutta, he walks about Legos,
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  Speaker 1: he walks about Cardunacano. He works about Europe, he works
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  Speaker 1: about America. He walks about tall and from the entire earth,
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  Speaker 1: seeking whom he may divol. The diligence of Satan can
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  Speaker 1: be so inspiring. The Bible tells us that when he
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  Speaker 1: was prop by God, he said, from whence have you
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  Speaker 1: called himself? From walking tall and through the earth. That means,
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  Speaker 1: provided you are in the head one day, the possibility
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  Speaker 1: for meeting him or his representatives is one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: One day he will come around you.
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  Speaker 1: Even Jesus said, Satan, come meth to me, say it
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  Speaker 1: and cometh to me. Allelujah. What does it mean to
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  Speaker 1: have rest? I have three expressions here that I believe capture.
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  Speaker 1: The idea of rest is God speaking to someone already.
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  Speaker 1: Number One, to have rest means to have security. To
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  Speaker 1: have rest means to have security, any and all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of security. The moment it's time for you to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: the first thing you do is to lock up your doors.
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  Speaker 2: Am I right on that?
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  Speaker 1: You lock your car, you lock the main door, you
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  Speaker 1: switch off the light, and you are going to rest.
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  Speaker 1: So rest is connected to security, all kinds of security.
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  Speaker 1: Spiritual security, financial security, relational security.
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  Speaker 2: Rest means security. Number two.
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  Speaker 1: Rest means freedom from our dominion over troubles and fears.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it again.
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  Speaker 1: Rest means freedom from our dominion over freedom from our
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  Speaker 1: dominion over troubles and fears. You are said to be
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  Speaker 1: in a position of rest when you have freedom from,
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  Speaker 1: exempted from, or dominion over troubles and fears. Number three.
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  Speaker 1: As simple as this would sound, it is my most
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  Speaker 1: It is the clearest explanation of rest for me. Rest
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  Speaker 1: in one word is peace. Rest in one word is peace.
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  Speaker 1: They are so related that in our world we have
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  Speaker 1: used both words as a parting expression.
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  Speaker 2: For people who leave the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we say, rest in, not resting wisdom, not
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  Speaker 1: resting wealth, not rest in a well furnished grave. The
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  Speaker 1: only expression we can give to such a man that
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  Speaker 1: describes our idea.
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  Speaker 2: Of rest is peace.
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  Speaker 1: That means, in all you're getting, if it is minors, peace,
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  Speaker 1: you have not found rest. If you have progress without peace,
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  Speaker 1: you have not entered rest.
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  Speaker 2: Are well learning tonight?
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  Speaker 1: The question tonight, as I seek to tie up my teaching,
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  Speaker 1: is that.
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  Speaker 2: Can a believer?
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  Speaker 1: Can the believer in Christ experience rest?
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  Speaker 2: Round about? Is that possible?
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  Speaker 1: Is there such a possibility in the economy of God
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  Speaker 1: that a believer can be so fortified that the same
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  Speaker 1: way a believer is plagued with trouble on every side?
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  Speaker 1: Can a believer actually have rest on all sides?
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  Speaker 2: The answer is yes.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty four and verse one, Let me request, when
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  Speaker 1: it is projected that we shout that scripture together in unison,
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  Speaker 1: ready one to read.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 1: And Abraham was old and well stricken in age ahah
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. Someone says,
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  Speaker 1: all things, all things means your spiritual life. Say all things,
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  Speaker 1: your finances, your home, your children. Here is a man
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  Speaker 1: who represents a portrait of God's idea of a blessed man.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says, in spite of the tragedies and
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  Speaker 1: the calamities that he met somewhere in his life, it
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  Speaker 1: was just a page in his life. That at the
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  Speaker 1: end of Abraham's life he was old and well stricken
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  Speaker 1: in age. Yes it is true that he was one's
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  Speaker 1: without child, but not forever. Yes it is true that
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  Speaker 1: he was once an idol worshiper from all of the Childians,
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  Speaker 1: but it was not forever. Let me professy to someone.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever negative name may be around your life, it is
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  Speaker 1: only a page of your destiny. I speak to you
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus that my God is rewriting
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  Speaker 1: your story. My God is rewriting your story where you
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  Speaker 1: are being called barried. Barin is not the name you
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  Speaker 1: will have forever. Tellure is not the name you will
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  Speaker 1: have forever. A victim is not the name you will have,
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  Speaker 1: for they are pressed. If not the name you have forever, Allelujah,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob got to a point in its life where he
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  Speaker 1: was tired of an old name, called a cheat and
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  Speaker 1: a supplanter, and he held on to God and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I will not let you go until you bless me,
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  Speaker 1: And in blessing him, his name was changed. How about
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  Speaker 1: the man called Jabez. The Bible says the mother named
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  Speaker 1: him after her pain. Jabez got angry and he cried
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  Speaker 1: to the God of Heaven all that that would hast
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  Speaker 1: bless me, and latched my cost. When it's time to
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  Speaker 1: pray tonight, someone needs to be angry with your current
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  Speaker 1: situation and say, Lord, I did not come here tonight
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  Speaker 1: for negotiation.
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  Speaker 2: I must step.
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  Speaker 1: In to the realm of rest on every side in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ. So can the believer in
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  Speaker 1: Christ experience rest on every side?
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  Speaker 2: The answer is yes.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of the economic situation, Yes, sir, in spite
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  Speaker 1: of the onslaughts of demonic forces around families and territories. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of your delay in knowing God. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that it looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: not easy to get jobs again, Yes, sir, in spite
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that it looks like there is such
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  Speaker 1: the cardens that is bedefinitely in our world. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: the believer in Christ, not everyone. The believer in Christ
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  Speaker 1: has a superior advantage, and that in the presence of knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: you can step into rest on every side. What then,
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  Speaker 1: are the keys to entering rest? There are keys to
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  Speaker 1: entering rest.
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  Speaker 2: In this kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: The Saints excel by the use of keys. A key
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  Speaker 1: stands for access. There is the key to the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: The key to the kingdom is Jesus. There are not
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  Speaker 1: many keys. There is only one key to the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: But when you are in the kingdom, there are the
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  Speaker 1: keys off the kingdom, the principles and the mysteries by
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  Speaker 1: which the Saints reign.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says they know not, neither will they understand
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  Speaker 1: Psalm eighty to one, Verse five. They work on in darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
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  Speaker 2: Verse sixcess I have.
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  Speaker 1: Said, ye are gods, and all of you not some
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  Speaker 1: of you not men of God, businessmen, not elders, not children.
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  Speaker 1: All of you are children of the most High. Verse
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  Speaker 1: seven says, but you shall die like mein men, and
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  Speaker 1: fall like one of the princes Josia began to lament.
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  Speaker 1: In chapter four and verse six. He said, speaking by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, my people are destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Listen carefully, please, my people.
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  Speaker 1: That includes preachers, My people, that includes businessmen, My people,
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  Speaker 1: that includes people from all the six your political zones
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  Speaker 1: captured in this nation and across the nations of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: My people, And yet he says, they are destroyed for
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  Speaker 1: the lack of knowledge. For the lack of knowledge, please
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  Speaker 1: lend me your attention for the next few minutes. That
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  Speaker 1: we have haven't established the fact that calamity is the
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  Speaker 1: potential lot of all all men. Calamities, tragedies, pains, discomfort
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  Speaker 1: is the potential lot of all men by default, but
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  Speaker 1: that there is a system in Christ that men and
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  Speaker 1: women can build themselves out of tragedies and calamities and
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  Speaker 1: master the art of exerting dominion, and by that they
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  Speaker 1: establish practically in and through their lives that a man
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  Speaker 1: can have rest on every side. Key number one, What
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  Speaker 1: is the first key for anyone, whether following here this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful campground, or following by way of television from any
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  Speaker 1: nation at all, following online?
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  Speaker 2: What is my first key?
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  Speaker 1: If I want to step into the realm of rest
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  Speaker 1: round about? Are you ready that this decision to be
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  Speaker 1: spiritually minded? The first key, non negotiable key for anyone
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  Speaker 1: who desires to work in the experience of rest roundabout,
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  Speaker 1: rest on every side, is to be spiritually minded Romans
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  Speaker 1: eight six. Romans eight six, Paul was speaking, and is
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  Speaker 1: said to be cannerly minded is already death, death in
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  Speaker 1: its entirety, And then it says, but to be spiritually
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  Speaker 1: minded is life and with it peace.
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  Speaker 2: Spiritually minded.
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  Speaker 1: Spirituality involves a number of many experiences and dimensions, that
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  Speaker 1: chiefs of them been your encounter with the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You may want to write this on thats being spiritually minded.
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  Speaker 1: True spirituality starts not just with your coming to church,
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  Speaker 1: not just with your listening to a man of God,
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  Speaker 1: not just with your listening to a message. True spirituality
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  Speaker 1: starts with your encounter.
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  Speaker 2: With the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Are we still learning, still examining the first key that
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  Speaker 1: to find rest roundabout you must be spiritually minded, and
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  Speaker 1: that the pathway to becoming spiritually minded is number one,
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  Speaker 1: to have an encounter with Jesus. Matthew, Chapter eleven and
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty eight. I love Jesus. Here's what he has
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  Speaker 1: to say Matthew eleven twenty eight. Can we read it together,
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  Speaker 1: one to read? Please come on to me, all ye
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  Speaker 1: that label and a heavy leaden.
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  Speaker 2: What's the reward?
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  Speaker 5: I will give you rest, not just life. I will
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  Speaker 5: give your family rest. I will give your ministry rest.
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  Speaker 5: I will give your business rest. I will give your
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  Speaker 5: children rest. I will give your health the rest. But
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  Speaker 5: the keys come on to me, Come on to me.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us the story of a young boy
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  Speaker 1: called the prodigal Son. That boy had his share of
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  Speaker 1: the inheritance and went to live at ryotos life, and
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  Speaker 1: when he had so declined to a point that he
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  Speaker 1: was the epitomy of calamity and felure.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says he got up one day and said.
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  Speaker 1: To himself, how many hired servants as my father, and
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  Speaker 1: I am here feeding with the swine. I like the boy,
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  Speaker 1: He said, I will arise. He didn't say, my father
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  Speaker 1: will come and meet me there. The father never never
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  Speaker 1: came to meet him in the place of dicadens. I
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  Speaker 1: will arise, and I will go to my father. And
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  Speaker 1: when I say my father, I will say unto him, Father,
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  Speaker 1: I have sin against you and against heaven. I am
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  Speaker 1: not worthy to be called your son. Take me as
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  Speaker 1: one of your slaves. As soon as he got up
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  Speaker 1: and began to move, the father also left his house
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  Speaker 1: and began to move. They met somewhere at the point
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  Speaker 1: of his decision.
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  Speaker 2: And encounter with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: There are many people who want to receive from God,
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  Speaker 1: but they do not desire to be spiritual. With all
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  Speaker 1: due respect, many politicians, many businessmen, captains of industry, parents,
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  Speaker 1: young people especially, they do not desire to have an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with Jesus, but they want the fruits of encounter.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain things that cannot be received through a
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  Speaker 1: back door. Jesus said this about himself. I am the way,
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  Speaker 1: not away the way. There is a way that samn
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  Speaker 1: right onto a man, the Bible says, but other ways
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  Speaker 1: of death. But heyes, Jesus speaking, He says, I am
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  Speaker 1: the way, I am the truth, I am the Life.
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  Speaker 1: He says, no man comment to the Father except.
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  Speaker 2: Through me and encounter with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: When you encounter Jesus, you are already on your way
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  Speaker 1: to being secure.
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  Speaker 2: Proverbs eighteen ten.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter eighteen and verse ten, very powerful and profound rendition.
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  Speaker 1: He says, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: The right shous runs into it, and they are say
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord, the name of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: not the name of a man.
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  Speaker 2: The name of the Lord is a strong tower.
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  Speaker 1: There is no house on heir that you can hide
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  Speaker 1: two in away from demons. You can hide away from
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  Speaker 1: m roberts. The military can protect you against physical forces,
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  Speaker 1: but they may not be able to protect you against
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  Speaker 1: principalities and powers and rulers of darkness, age, long causes
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  Speaker 1: that are determined to reduce you to a place of shame.
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  Speaker 2: But my Bible says the name of.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord is a strong power that the writers can
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  Speaker 1: run into it and be shure that what killed my
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  Speaker 1: father will not kill me again, What killed my mother
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  Speaker 1: would not kill me again. What destroyed people from my
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  Speaker 1: lineage would not. I can redefine my possibilities when I
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  Speaker 1: run to Jesus, allelujah. You believe that, Oh God, you
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  Speaker 1: are my God, and.
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  Speaker 6: I will have a phrases oga you mya and night
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  Speaker 6: will have prazy. I will seek you with the morn.
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  Speaker 1: I have learnt to walk in your ways. Step bus
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  Speaker 1: you leave me, and I will follow you All of
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  Speaker 1: my days.
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  Speaker 2: For step by step you leave me, and.
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  Speaker 7: I will follow you all of my days.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God, you.
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  Speaker 6: Are my God, and I will ever praise you. Oh God,
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  Speaker 6: you are my God, and I will.
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  Speaker 2: Ever love you.
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  Speaker 1: I will see you with the morning I have learnt
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  Speaker 1: to walk in your ways. For step fast you leave me,
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  Speaker 1: and I will follow you all of my day. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, hear me. This business of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: is beyond church. This issue of Jesus Christ is beyond
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  Speaker 1: the pretense and the hypocrisy the form of godliness. This
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  Speaker 1: issue of Jesus must be a genuine encounter. There are
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  Speaker 1: many things you cannot think one of it is a solid,
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  Speaker 1: genuine encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: With all due.
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  Speaker 1: Respect, there are many people in church who have not
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  Speaker 1: met him. There are many people in ministry who have
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  Speaker 1: not met him. There are many people serving at various
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  Speaker 1: levels in ministries and Christian organizations who are working for
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  Speaker 1: God but not with him.
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  Speaker 2: Please listen, Please listen.
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  Speaker 1: While I watch several people dancing to the praise and
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  Speaker 1: worship powerfully. Among the many things that moved in my
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  Speaker 1: spirit was all God. I pray and hope that this
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  Speaker 1: dance is to a god, they know. I pray and
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  Speaker 1: hope that this sweating and rejoicing is to a god.
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  Speaker 2: You know because there were men in a place called.
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  Speaker 1: Athens who were doing obey sense to an unknown god.
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  Speaker 1: There are many people giving to an unknown god, singing
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  Speaker 1: to an unknown god, preaching for an unknown god, moving
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  Speaker 1: from place to place, wearing t shirts carrying the name
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  Speaker 1: of a god.
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  Speaker 2: They do not know.
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  Speaker 1: You want the rest roundabout? There are things that men
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  Speaker 1: cannot give. Rest is not found in a bank. You
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  Speaker 1: don't find rest in a university. There is no cause
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  Speaker 1: called rest. There is no chef who can cook a
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  Speaker 1: meal called rest. No, it does not exist in the
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  Speaker 1: world of men. Rest only resides with the ancient of days.
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  Speaker 2: I will give you rest. I will give you rest.
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  Speaker 1: Now watch this what discussing being spiritually minded?
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Hear me.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of my discourse, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: making an altar call, and I believe there are people here.
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  Speaker 1: You've been around the things of God for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You perhaps may have had an opportunity to serve in
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  Speaker 1: various capacities in church.
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  Speaker 2: That does not equal.
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  Speaker 1: To an encounter with God, having a Christian name, coming
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  Speaker 1: from a Christian family. As advantageous as these are, they
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  Speaker 1: do not in themselves translate to salvation. You must encounter
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  Speaker 1: the God of the Bible, the God of the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah.
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  Speaker 7: You are my God, you were my God.
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  Speaker 2: How can I call on your name and end up
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  Speaker 2: in shame?
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  Speaker 6: No way, no way. How can I sing the song
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  Speaker 6: before you and then found down before a man?
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  Speaker 7: No way, no way. Because you are.
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  Speaker 2: My God, Ladies and gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather be a failure with God than to succeed
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  Speaker 1: without you. And when I say God, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The Son of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: Because God in our world today means anything. There are
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  Speaker 1: people God means themselves. There are others God means their
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts. There are others God means they have several qualifications.
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  Speaker 1: As important as that is. My Bible says trust in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord with all your heart. Probhaps three and verse five.
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  Speaker 1: It says, lean not onto your own understanding. Verse six
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  Speaker 1: sys in all your ways, acknowledge she man, She shall
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  Speaker 1: direct your path. Verse seven says be not wise in
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  Speaker 1: your own understanding. He says, fear the Lord and depart
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  Speaker 1: turn away from evil, except the lord builty house, my boy,
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  Speaker 1: says the labor in vain that would build it, Except
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  Speaker 1: the lord watches over his city.
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  Speaker 2: Said the watchman watched, but in vain.
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  Speaker 1: That it is vain to wake up in the morning
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  Speaker 1: and to sleep late at night, only to eat the
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  Speaker 1: bread of sorrow. The Sami said, how many a day
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  Speaker 1: that rise up against me? Some three many a day
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  Speaker 1: that say where is your help? But he says, thou o, Lord, tou,
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  Speaker 1: oh Lord, thou o, Lord, you are a shield for me.
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  Speaker 1: He calls him my glory, and the leaft tarop of
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  Speaker 1: my head. The Bible says, they looked on to him,
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  Speaker 1: and their faces were lightened. You cannot look up to
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  Speaker 1: him and be in shame. When the serpents came to
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  Speaker 1: our present nation of Israel, they had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: look two directions, the brazen serpent representing the cross, or
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  Speaker 1: the one that was coming to them. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: Behind the exploits and the rest of men that we
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  Speaker 1: admire in our world today, men and women in ministry,
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  Speaker 1: champions in the kingdom, in business, in family. Behind all
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  Speaker 1: the excellence the admirable results is a passion for God.
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  Speaker 1: I've had the honor of your opportunity to meet people
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  Speaker 1: whose lives are an epitomy of excellence behind all of
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  Speaker 1: that paraphernalia. When you come to them, you find out
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  Speaker 1: that their real secret is not the intellect. Their real
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  Speaker 1: secret is not the banking skill. Their real secret is
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  Speaker 1: their love and their passion for Jesus Allelujah. In addition
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  Speaker 1: to having an encounter with Jesus, you want to become
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  Speaker 1: spiritually minded. Your prayer all times be on fire. We're
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  Speaker 1: still discussing point one. This is what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: be spiritually minded. Number one, to have an encounter with
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  Speaker 1: the Son of the Living God.
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  Speaker 2: Number two. Your prayer life.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Apostolic model that was left with the Church.
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  Speaker 2: You want to be spiritual, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Not without a healthy prayer life, adds chapter two and
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  Speaker 1: verse forty two. The Bible says, and they continued steadfastly
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  Speaker 1: in the apostles doctrine, and in fellowship, and in breaking
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  Speaker 1: or pread and in prayer. At chapter six and verse four,
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  Speaker 1: it says, but we will give ourselves continually to prayer
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  Speaker 1: and the ministry of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Look chapter eighteen and verse one.
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  Speaker 1: He expect a parable to the end that men ought
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  Speaker 1: always to pray and not to faint. First the Salonia,
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  Speaker 1: chapter five and verse seventeen, he says, pray without season.
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  Speaker 1: James chapter five and verse thirteen. Is any man afflicted,
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  Speaker 1: he says.
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  Speaker 2: Let him pray. Mark eleven and verse twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: It says, what things soever ye desire when ye pray,
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  Speaker 1: believe that thou receivest them, and thou shalt have it.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the men who will command exploits in
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  Speaker 1: their world and find rest tame life like an animal,
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  Speaker 1: are men and women who understand the mysteries of the altar.
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  Speaker 1: We must obtain grace to pray. We must obtain grace
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  Speaker 1: to pray. Prayer is not for men of God. It's
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  Speaker 1: not for pastors and apostles and evangelists.
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  Speaker 2: Please listen to me.
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  Speaker 1: Their parents and the aged another prophet, as was old,
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  Speaker 1: she still prayed. Young men, Jesus prayed. You must pray.
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  Speaker 1: We must revite prayer as a culture with understanding. A
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  Speaker 1: generation that does not pray will be a weak generation
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  Speaker 1: that will never see the power of God. I tell
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  Speaker 1: you sincerely, and I'm not just talking of need driven pray.
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  Speaker 2: Give me, give me give me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking of men who build capacity within the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Peter say, desire to sift you like Wait, it says
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  Speaker 1: what I have.
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  Speaker 2: Prayed for you.
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  Speaker 1: That's your faith fell not And when thou I've confided,
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  Speaker 1: strengthen your brethren. Show me a man of God who prays.
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  Speaker 1: I show you a victor, one who will have rest
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  Speaker 1: on every side. Show me a business man who prays.
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  Speaker 1: Show me a mother who prays, no matter how stop
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  Speaker 1: on that child is. Let the mother keep praying. One day,
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  Speaker 1: fire from heaven will look at that child, no matter
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  Speaker 1: where he is. I tell you most people do not
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: know the power in prayer. Go and read charge history
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: and see people who shifted the spiritual climate or fur
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: nations not with the power of prayer. Prayer with understanding
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: can change things, Yes it can. Elijah was a man
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  Speaker 1: of life passion, the Bible says, Yet he prayed saying
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus one more time. In the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, I obtain grace to pray. If you came
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  Speaker 1: here and your prayer life has gone down, or perhaps
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  Speaker 1: until now you have believed that anyone who is serious
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: in the prayer life must be someone who is getting
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  Speaker 1: into ministry. Please give yourself a renewed orientation. Prayer is
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: an instrument for a time survival. You cannot escape the
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: arrows that fly by day, the noise and persilences, the
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  Speaker 1: destruction that waste in noonday.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Pray for me.
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  Speaker 1: Pray for me is wonderful, but you must learn to
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  Speaker 1: fund the ambers the flames from your own altar. Dear me,
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  Speaker 1: young people, I hate to be a para of bad news,
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  Speaker 1: but let me make an honest admission. The days today
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: are very different from the days of our parents. The
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  Speaker 1: level of honesty has changed. The level of sincerity has changed.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: You will have to use the weapon of prayer to
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  Speaker 1: create your own reality, or otherwise get said to join
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  Speaker 1: a long queue that may never move.
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  Speaker 2: Away.
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  Speaker 1: Together, Sir, pray, gentlemen, pray, pray, pray, and possible. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a job yet, good news, pray. Use that
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  Speaker 1: time to pray while you are waiting. The Bible says,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: watch and pray. There is a devil who has found
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: that you will not rise. He says, say on to God,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: how terrible are that when I walk some sixty six
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  Speaker 1: and us three through the greatness of Thy power shall die?
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: Enemies submit themselves to you.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: You want to tame life, you must start out of prayer.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: Mommy, don't watch your children become umbrobers and hooligans and
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: says just the times is their days. Don't let them
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  Speaker 1: send you to the grave. No, you may not have
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  Speaker 1: the strength to find them because they are now bigger
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  Speaker 1: than you, or you.
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  Speaker 2: Can bring them to their knees to prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Father, I will not. My womb will not give back
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: to a numbrober. No, my womb will not give bad
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: to a prostitute. I cannot give back to a child
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: that will be the reason for me to die early.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: When ministre is not working, Man of God, pray, don't complain.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: There is no reward for complaining. Pray, pray.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Someone looks at you in the place of work and justys,
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  Speaker 1: I hate you. You are supposed to be the next director.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: What I hate you? You are not my tribe, You
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: are not this and you in there will only be
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: you be recording calamity upon calamity.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: Leave them in peace.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the central control room of the universe
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: and begin to pray certain things. Do you believe what
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  Speaker 1: you're hearing? Then, in addition to prayer. You must be
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: sound in scripture. Now let me submit to you. Haven't
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: encourage you to pray. Prayer in ignorance is just wasting
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: your energy. What gives power to prayer is the word
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: compliancy of your prayer.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: This we have a generation of prayer for people, but
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: most people pray amiss.
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  Speaker 1: What gives power to your prayer is its word compliancy.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond the sound of your voice, beyond your sweating and
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: rolling from left to right. If there is no word
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: compliancy to your prayer, you simply dissipated energy in futility.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: Are we together sound? In Scripture?
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  Speaker 1: As Chapter twenty and verse thirty two, he says, And now, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: I commend you onto God and to the word of
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  Speaker 1: His grace, which is able to build you up, he says,
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  Speaker 1: and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: John one one to three.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: with God, and the Word was God. The Bible says
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: the same was in the beginning with God. Verse three
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  Speaker 1: says all things were made by him the Word, all things,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: including your tomorrow, made by the Word. And without him
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: was not anything made that was made. The boundary of
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  Speaker 1: God's commitment to the believer is his word. God cannot
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  Speaker 1: be committed to the believer outside of the boundary of
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: his world.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Please listen, love and people of God.
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  Speaker 1: God only does what he says, not what you want.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: If what you want is consistent with what he says,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: then it will be done. God never never does anything
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  Speaker 1: that is outside of what he has said.
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  Speaker 2: Please give us Genesis twenty one and verse one. I
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  Speaker 2: want us to shout. It's God helping.
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  Speaker 1: Someone's spiritually minded. But discousing the case now, because rest
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  Speaker 1: roundabout is not a gift.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: Jesus said, I will give you rest.
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  Speaker 1: The word give you there does not mean you will
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  Speaker 1: not do anything, and you will just have it because
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  Speaker 1: you will be learning that. Paul was giving perspective to
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  Speaker 1: our understanding of rest. He said, deary minute, a rest
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  Speaker 1: for the people of God. Genesis twenty one and verse one.
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  Speaker 1: You see that it's good to come to church. The
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  Speaker 1: Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the cheap, best
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  Speaker 1: institution that sponsors transformation. You don't have to write jamp.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: There is no age restriction, Allelujah. All other institutions have quotas.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Once the quotera is full. Sorry for you, but the church.
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  Speaker 1: All you need to do is leave your house and
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: come and sit down. You're not paying school fe ish.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Your school fez is your humility and your.
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  Speaker 2: Meekness and your diligence.
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  Speaker 1: This is important so that government will know that the
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  Speaker 1: church is not a nuisance to civilization.
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  Speaker 2: The church is an.
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  Speaker 1: Active part of the transforming force of society.
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  Speaker 2: It is true. How did I get here?
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty one, verse one, Please let's read it together.
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  Speaker 2: Ready, one to read.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord visited Sarah as he has said. And
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  Speaker 1: the Lord did onto Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: He did not visit.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah as she wanted. No, the visitation was not based
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  Speaker 1: on her need. It was based on his word. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord visited Joshua Selman as he has said. If you
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  Speaker 1: cannot find what God has said, you will never find
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  Speaker 1: what he can do. It is what he has said
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  Speaker 1: that you will do. Show me what God has said,
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  Speaker 1: and I show you what he can do. Show me
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  Speaker 1: what God has said, and I show you what you
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  Speaker 1: will do. Did God say you will heal you? Then
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  Speaker 1: I show you that is power can heal you? Did
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  Speaker 1: God say you will lift you up? Then I show
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  Speaker 1: you that no power can keep you down? Did God
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  Speaker 1: say you can give you rest? Roundabout? Where is that
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  Speaker 1: spirit that we want to tell you? When God has said.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah?
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter one, verse three, the first three words, and
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  Speaker 1: God said, and God said, callikapo satter. And God said,
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  Speaker 1: when you find what God has said, then you find
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  Speaker 1: what his power can do. The limit of God's power
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  Speaker 1: is where his word stops. And since his word is unlimited,
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  Speaker 1: it is true that his power is on limited.
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  Speaker 2: I will learning be spiritually minded.
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  Speaker 1: Let me give you the last I have a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and I intend to take a part of it, so
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  Speaker 1: that will pray. So the decision to be spiritually minded
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  Speaker 1: becomes for us the first key to experiencing rest on
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  Speaker 1: every side.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm now explaining to.
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  Speaker 1: You the implication of being spiritually minded that number one,
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  Speaker 1: it necessitates and encounter with Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: The Son of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, that your prayer life has to be alivee
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  Speaker 1: and robust. Number three, your spiritual understanding needs to be
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  Speaker 1: heightened because according to Isaiah chapter sixty and verse it says,
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  Speaker 1: you will only arise and you will shine if and
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  Speaker 1: when your life comes. Longevity of your stay that's not
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  Speaker 1: equal to victory. The man was at the pull of
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  Speaker 1: bethesda for thirty eight years. Time did not change his situation.
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  Speaker 1: The day the light of the world came to him,
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  Speaker 1: he was ready to rise. The Bible says, but the
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  Speaker 1: people that sat in darkness have seen a great Light's
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  Speaker 1: God speaking to us.
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  Speaker 2: Let me challenge you.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, by the messes of God, that in the course
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  Speaker 1: of this convention, go and find relevant materials, materials that
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  Speaker 1: speak to the various issues of concern, whether electronically or
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  Speaker 1: by way of print. It is your responsibility under God
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  Speaker 1: to pursue truth. The Bible says, by the truth, there
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  Speaker 1: are certain currencies we used to buy the truth number
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  Speaker 1: one hunger, number two, meekness, number three, passion. These are
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  Speaker 1: the currencies that we used to buy the truth. And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, if you do find the truth, is
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  Speaker 1: a send it, not allelujah someone learning. Many believers work
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  Speaker 1: based on superstitious ideas, and with all due respect, it
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  Speaker 1: is this bankruptcy of light that has impor verished us
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  Speaker 1: as a people and as a continent. We have all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of wise sayings that are not based on scripture.
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  Speaker 1: One day, go better, no sir, No, sir, no, sir,
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  Speaker 1: You define your lot by light?
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  Speaker 2: Are we together amplified?
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty and verse one says, arise from the depression
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  Speaker 1: and the prostration that circumstances have kept you, rise to
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  Speaker 1: a new life. When I found out that the responsibility
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  Speaker 1: of understanding was mine, I've found before God that there
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  Speaker 1: will be no excuse. I hate ignorance with passion, and
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  Speaker 1: I am ever open to know the areas where I
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  Speaker 1: am ignorant in How do you know your areas of ignorance?
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  Speaker 1: The areas where darkness drives, the area where pain exists,
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  Speaker 1: The area where.
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  Speaker 2: Suffering and pain perpetually.
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  Speaker 1: Remains is the area of darkness. Such for the relevant materials.
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  Speaker 1: If it's your finances, don't keep quiet and say my
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  Speaker 1: uncle has the power to lift me, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: attending to me.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 1: The word responsible comes from the word responsive. Responsible people
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  Speaker 1: are people of action. They don't sit down and wait
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  Speaker 1: for things to happen. Why is my finance like this?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I always fighting with my husband? This marriage
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  Speaker 1: is not a course. Why are my children stop on
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  Speaker 1: not obeying me? Why does everybody hates me? It is
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  Speaker 1: not unusual to be hated but if everybody hates you,
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  Speaker 1: something is wrong with you. Because even Satan, it's not
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  Speaker 1: everybody that hates him, Allelujah, there are people who love him.
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  Speaker 2: So if everybody around you.
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  Speaker 1: Hates you, it's not just a spiritual problem. You are
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  Speaker 1: perpetually violating something. Somebody should like you enough, and all
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  Speaker 1: you need is for one person, and if that person
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  Speaker 1: is king a hazardous you become.
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  Speaker 2: The queen immediately. It didn't matter how many people hate
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  Speaker 2: that esther.
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  Speaker 1: The right person who needed to love her made her queen.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't matter how many people hate that. In Ahbayah,
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  Speaker 1: when the king loved him as a compiera, he got favor.
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  Speaker 1: Who hates you does not matter, but who likes you
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  Speaker 1: in this kingdom. I'm praying for someone the grace that
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  Speaker 1: must rest upon you and cause men to find favor
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  Speaker 1: with men. In the name of Jesus made that place
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  Speaker 1: come upon you now, Allelujah. I think I'll give one
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  Speaker 1: more than we'll pray. I'll finish up the remaining tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a good deal? So I've given you number one,
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  Speaker 1: the decision to be spiritually minded.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do number two.
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  Speaker 1: What is the second key to experiencing rest on every side.
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  Speaker 1: You must leave by faith. You must leave by faith
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  Speaker 1: Hulbert Cook, Chapter two and verse four. You also find
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  Speaker 1: that in Hebrews ten and verse thirty eight, the just
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  Speaker 1: shall leave by faith. Four times in scripture, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: repeats it almost verbatim, that the just shall leave by faith.
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  Speaker 2: The just shall leave by faith.
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  Speaker 1: First John, chapter five and verse four. First John Chapter
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  Speaker 1: five and verse four. First John Chapter five and verse four.
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  Speaker 1: For whatsoever is born of God, that includes Joshua Selman,
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever is born of God over commet the world. And
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  Speaker 1: it says, this is the victory that overcome the world.
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  Speaker 1: Help me even our faith. The man who has faith
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  Speaker 1: is an overcomer.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed.
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  Speaker 1: And in one word, ladies and gentlemen, faith is obedience.
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  Speaker 2: In one word, faith is obedience.
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  Speaker 1: No matter your definition of faith, if it does not
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  Speaker 1: capture obedience, you did not define it.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you two definitions for faith if you
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  Speaker 2: don't mind.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, faith is the confidence you have, the depth
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  Speaker 1: of conviction that you have about God, and the in
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  Speaker 1: tegrity of his word. Number one, faith is defined as
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  Speaker 1: your confidence, your conviction about God and the integrity of
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  Speaker 1: his word. The confidence and the conviction you have about
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  Speaker 1: God and the integrity of his word. Second definition, please,
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  Speaker 1: Faith is the name given to the action of obedience
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  Speaker 1: you think. Faith is the name given to the action
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  Speaker 1: of obedience you take as proof that you believe. Faith
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  Speaker 1: is the name given to the action of obedience you
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  Speaker 1: take as proof that you believe. The proof of hearing
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  Speaker 1: is accurate response if you have heard me, I know
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  Speaker 1: you have heard me, because you would respond accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Faith is defined is the name given to the action
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  Speaker 1: that you take as proof that you believe God. If
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  Speaker 1: it be down, bid me come, And he said come.
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  Speaker 1: Most believers do not know how to live by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is beyond confessing the Word, as important as that is.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is beyond agreeing with God as important as that is.
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  Speaker 1: Those are just various equations that ultimately lead to faith.
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  Speaker 1: The foundation for Bible faith is an awareness of the
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  Speaker 1: promises of God. The Bible essentially is a concise capture
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  Speaker 1: of promises, principles, and prophecies. You may want to write
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  Speaker 1: that down that every time you open your Bible, you
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  Speaker 1: are relating with three realms of realities. One promises a
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  Speaker 1: definition of God's commitment to you. Scattered from Genesis to
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  Speaker 1: revelation promises. Number two principles, the modus operandi of the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom teaches you how to live a victorious life. Then
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  Speaker 1: number three prophecies that give perspective and definition to the
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  Speaker 1: events present and the events past, and events that are
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  Speaker 1: yet to happen. So every time you lay hold on
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  Speaker 1: God's promises, then you obtain grace to obey. Until you
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  Speaker 1: know the demands to commit.
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  Speaker 2: God and then obey them, you.
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  Speaker 1: Are not working by faith. Let me repeat myself again
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  Speaker 1: for your understanding. Until you know the demands connected to
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  Speaker 1: every result. The Word of God and God is a
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  Speaker 1: compendium of infinite possibilities. But for every result you desire
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  Speaker 1: it kingdom, healing, breakthrough, prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: There is a demand.
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  Speaker 1: There is always what God says to do to commit him.
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  Speaker 1: When you find it, and you obtain grace to work
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  Speaker 1: in keeping with that instruction, then you are working by faith.
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  Speaker 2: I submit to.
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  Speaker 1: You therefore that on the strength of this definition, many
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  Speaker 1: believers are not working by faith. They are working on
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  Speaker 1: sincere assumptions. They're working on hope. They're speaking Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: believe you, but they are not working by faith. If
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  Speaker 1: I ask one of our wonderful protocol. People here.
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  Speaker 2: If I ask them to come and say, collect my bible.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever comes to collect my bible, I tell them there
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  Speaker 1: is one hundred dollars bill insight.
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  Speaker 2: That's your reward for obedience.
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  Speaker 1: If the gentleman there starts jumping and says, I'm coming,
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  Speaker 1: believe me, just a sermon.
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  Speaker 2: I trust you.
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  Speaker 1: I know you are not a liar. It is it
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  Speaker 1: on you the other day you gave all that talk.
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  Speaker 1: Does not you will never get it as wonderful as
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  Speaker 1: that is. The instruction is, whoever can take the risk
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  Speaker 1: can come someone who begin to speak from nineteen nineteen
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  Speaker 1: nineteen today, nothing happens, and another person.
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  Speaker 2: In one day will get up and obey.
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  Speaker 1: The one who obeys is the one who receives, not
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  Speaker 1: the one who knows. The Bible says, now that ye
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  Speaker 1: know these things, happy are you if you do them?
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  Speaker 1: Theuonomy chapter twenty eight, from verse one and two. And
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  Speaker 1: it shall come to pass, The Bible says, if thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt diligently happen to the voice of the Lord that God,
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  Speaker 1: to do, and to observe to do, and to observe
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  Speaker 1: to do, and to observe to do, and to observe.
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  Speaker 1: That is the character of faith. To do and to
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  Speaker 1: observe all that I command you this day. The reward
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  Speaker 1: the Lord your God will set sty on high are
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  Speaker 1: both all the nations of the earth verse two. And
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  Speaker 1: all these blessings will come upon you and will overtake you.
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  Speaker 2: You hacken to the voice of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Then you observe, and you do in the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the grace to do may be released upon you. The
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  Speaker 1: first miracle that was performed by Jesus was the turning
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  Speaker 1: of water to wine in kena of Galilee.
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  Speaker 2: You find that in John chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible lets us know that it was a feast
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  Speaker 1: just like this, and wine had finished, and shame was
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  Speaker 1: already imminent. And the Bible tells us that the disciples
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  Speaker 1: came and met Mary, the.
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  Speaker 2: Mother of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: She takes them to Jesus and says, Jesus says, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not yet my time, and she gives them a
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  Speaker 1: very profound instruction.
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  Speaker 2: In verse five. She says, whatever he says to do
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever he says to do, not think it, not wish it,
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  Speaker 1: not assume it.
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  Speaker 2: Do it. The moment doing came.
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  Speaker 1: The willingness to do came Jesus gave an instruction, and
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  Speaker 1: when you read verse ten and eleven, the Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us this beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of
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  Speaker 1: Galilee verse eleven, and manifested his glory, and the disciples
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  Speaker 1: believed on him. Rest roundabout you now say that it's
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  Speaker 1: not just a gift. It is a reward for working
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  Speaker 1: and keeping with certain principles. Let me recap one last time,
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  Speaker 1: and we pray that the key to exerting dominion over
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  Speaker 1: situations and circumstances, commanding your portion of rest on every
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  Speaker 1: side is number one.
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  Speaker 2: To be spiritually minded.
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  Speaker 1: That starts with your encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: your salvation of experience.
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  Speaker 2: Then it translates to the health of your.
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  Speaker 1: Prayer life, the health of your word study, so all
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  Speaker 1: that spiritual exercises, fasting, and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, you must learn to live by faith. To
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  Speaker 1: live by faith means to live by the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: For Jesus himself said man shall not live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that proceeded from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: That means a believer lives on two things bread and
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  Speaker 1: scriptural instructions. If you live on bread alone, you will
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  Speaker 1: be wary. Your bread will be spent. It is bread
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  Speaker 1: and scriptural instructions. Allelujah. We're going to pray tonight. I'll
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  Speaker 1: stop here and then we'll continue tomorrow. There are two
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  Speaker 1: other points that I want to show you, but allow me.
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  Speaker 1: In the next three or two minutes. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: request that we are rise to pray, and then I
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  Speaker 1: will speak over our lives. So night, and then wrap
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  Speaker 1: it for my session. Have you been blessed tonight? Please
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  Speaker 1: ripe up on your feet.
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  Speaker 7: Hm hm.
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  Speaker 2: This is the air. Ripe breathe, This.
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  Speaker 8: Is the.
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  Speaker 1: Yourly presence.
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  Speaker 2: Leaving in me.
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  Speaker 9: This is my day. This is my day. Your fair rever.
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  Speaker 2: Spoke to me.
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  Speaker 10: Nah, and that's mefore, and I'm not.
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  Speaker 7: Sway that you.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and begin to talk to the law and
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  Speaker 1: shuddently from your heart shauld I desire rest. Rest round
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  Speaker 1: about someone's praying. Men, show the very the different areas
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  Speaker 1: in your life where you are trusting him for rest,
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  Speaker 1: h m rest, rest, rest in my finances, somebody spraying,
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  Speaker 1: Rest in my family, Rest in my health. This five roids,
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  Speaker 1: this cancer, this not stract condition, this board condition this defora,
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  Speaker 1: eat it into my health.
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  Speaker 2: I desire rest roundabout.
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  Speaker 11: Spiritual rest, carryer rest, rest in the area of fruitfulness government.
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  Speaker 2: Take a minute or two. You are talking to your savior,
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  Speaker 2: your king.
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  Speaker 1: Your maker, the cauntain of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Picture Sava, Lama, yourself someone. Pray someone pray you were
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  Speaker 2: my strength when.
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  Speaker 7: I am, you are dresser, you are mine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting you, my son, keep you my listal some literal.
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  Speaker 7: Voice of your worship.
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  Speaker 3: You s.
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  Speaker 2: You are worthy to be glow with five. You are
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  Speaker 2: worthy of my teaker. You are worthy to be clone five.
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  Speaker 7: In and through my life.
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  Speaker 2: You are what.
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  Speaker 12: You Aluyah.
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  Speaker 2: Are you praying now?
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  Speaker 1: You're going to answer Lord for a fresh passion for him,
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  Speaker 1: a fresh passion for his presence. Go ahead and pray.
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  Speaker 2: If this is all you're receiving.
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  Speaker 1: This convention, it was a wise paday cry.
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  Speaker 2: Fy trench passion.
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  Speaker 1: To love you more than money, to love you more
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  Speaker 1: than titles, to love you modern career, more than ambishop.
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  Speaker 8: Someone.
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  Speaker 2: Pray. You're talking to your makeup.
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  Speaker 8: Take a minute, go to.
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  Speaker 2: To pray Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I desire to love you, not meaning nodin a Christian
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  Speaker 1: he shorge.
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  Speaker 11: Goer asking for fresh fire upon your prayer life, Fresh
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  Speaker 11: fire upon your prayer life, trash fire upon your prayer life,
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  Speaker 11: fresh passion for the study of the world, fresh passion
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  Speaker 11: for spiritrual understanding, fresh passion for the House.
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  Speaker 2: Of God, the things of God, for the end that
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  Speaker 2: you'll be spirit trully minded. Somebody is trying rest wrong
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  Speaker 2: about Yes, the world will bow down and say you
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  Speaker 2: are heavy man. We'll bow down and say you monkey.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start.
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  Speaker 8: Why peace, pa far be with you?
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  Speaker 2: Just what alle lujah? Now I want to make an
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  Speaker 2: altar call.
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  Speaker 1: You are in this place, and whilst you heard me speak,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of God began to convince.
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  Speaker 2: You that you need to make your way right with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: No man condemns you, but I call you in love
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  Speaker 1: to experience the messy of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot assume salvation.
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  Speaker 1: No salvation in Jesus Christ only comes when you come
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  Speaker 1: willingly to declare His lordship over your life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to come one to five. I want to
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  Speaker 2: leave your city. You need Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Run and come and cry before the Lord on the
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  Speaker 1: altar here. Don't wait for anyone to be the first,
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  Speaker 1: be the first to say apostle. I need Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 2: I begin to count. Now, don't wait for someone to come.
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  Speaker 2: You are the first person and pronounce.
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  Speaker 1: Someone is saying I need to re dedicate my life,
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  Speaker 1: to make my ways right with Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I begin to count.
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  Speaker 1: One, let's telebrentum as they come. Two, run to Jesus. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the world, we'll plow down and say you wanger. Every man, we'll.
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  Speaker 8: Plow down and say you waky.
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  Speaker 2: So that's U right now? Why wo we wait?
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  Speaker 8: Heep love me feel peace?
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  Speaker 2: Plates. Just wanna be with you, Just wanna be.
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  Speaker 8: King of lovely.
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  Speaker 12: Feel peace legs.
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  Speaker 2: Just wanna be with you.
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  Speaker 8: Just wannop.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, speaking about himself, said I am the Way, I
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  Speaker 1: am the Truth, and I am the Life. He says,
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  Speaker 1: no man comment to the Father except by me. What
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  Speaker 1: does it mean to be saved?
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  Speaker 2: Number one? It means to come declaring.
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  Speaker 1: Your inadiquacy, your inability to help yourself upon your strength.
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  Speaker 1: For the Bible says by the arm of Fleshall Norman prevail.
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  Speaker 1: It also says that our righteous necess as filthy rags.
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  Speaker 1: But then the Bible also declares the love of the
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  Speaker 1: Father revealed in and through the soul.
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  Speaker 2: Constitutionary sacrifice of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, what Jesus said while he was speaking with Necodimos,
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  Speaker 1: he said, for God's soul of the world, that he
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  Speaker 1: gave his one and only begotten son, that whosoever that
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  Speaker 1: blessing is for whosoever believe that on him should not perish,
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  Speaker 1: but have everlast in life. Verse seventeen says, for God
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  Speaker 1: did not send his son into the world to condemn
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  Speaker 1: the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
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  Speaker 1: You may be saying a pursue. You don't know how
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  Speaker 1: I've lived my life. You don't know how things are
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  Speaker 1: in my life today. Listen to me. Jesus is able
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  Speaker 1: to give you a new beginning right where you are. Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: it does not matter what you have done or what
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  Speaker 1: you have not done. You can be like the prodigal
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  Speaker 1: son tonight as you get up and take that step.
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  Speaker 2: The father that is waiting, Jesus is waiting.
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  Speaker 1: There is no other name on the heaven the Bible
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  Speaker 1: declares given onto men by which we must be saved.
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  Speaker 1: There must be a reninisence of genuine salvation in the
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  Speaker 1: house of God. Senduine encounters with Jesus, the Son of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God. And encounter with an angel does not
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  Speaker 1: translate to salvation, and encounter with a preacher on his
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  Speaker 1: own does not translate to salvation except the preacher brings
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  Speaker 1: a message. Those of you who are in front here
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  Speaker 1: and together as a congregation, can everyone talk to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord in one minute?
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  Speaker 2: I desire you truly.
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  Speaker 12: I needy you.
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  Speaker 7: I need every a I needy.
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  Speaker 2: Come bless me now, my Savior.
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  Speaker 7: I come to you. I need to you need.
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  Speaker 1: I need.
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  Speaker 2: Come bless me now, my Savior.
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  Speaker 1: My brothers and sisters who are kneeling before the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: listen to me. Let me have your attention for one minute.
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  Speaker 2: My time is up.
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  Speaker 1: It is the no blessed decision any man can make
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  Speaker 1: in this side of God's kingdom. And for someone who
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  Speaker 1: is watching right now here at the four square comp
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  Speaker 1: you're watching by way of television, you're watching by way of.
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  Speaker 2: Internet, this stance is no barrier. Here is your chance
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  Speaker 2: to make Jesus Lord of.
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  Speaker 1: Your life, genuinely, truthfully, void of pretense, and void of falsehood.
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  Speaker 1: For the Bible declares that as many who will come
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  Speaker 1: to him, he will in no wise cast away. May
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  Speaker 1: I request for all of you who are kneeling in front.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your bold decision. I salute your courage.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, If you are ashamed of me before men,
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  Speaker 1: I will be ashamed of you before my father.
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  Speaker 2: May I please request that you lift your.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: Right hand high above your head as a sign of surrender,
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  Speaker 1: and then please say this after me as loud and
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  Speaker 1: as cleare as you can. Are you ready, say Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are crying. Do not be ashamed of
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  Speaker 1: your tears. You are before your maker. There is nothing
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  Speaker 1: to be ashamed about. He is your father, the one
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  Speaker 1: who died for you. Say it again, Lord Jesus. Tonight
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: I have heard your word. I desire rest in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that you are the son of God. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that you died for my sain. I believe that
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  Speaker 1: you rose again for my justification. Right now I receive
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  Speaker 1: Jesus into my heart as my savior, my lord, and
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  Speaker 1: my king. I declare that the power of Saint Satan,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Hell and the Grave is broken over my life. From
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  Speaker 1: tonight and forever, I am a child of God. I
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  Speaker 1: go for whatever and back whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Keep those beautiful hands lifted and let me pray for
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  Speaker 1: you Father, in the name of Jesus, in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of your people, I stretch my hands over these precious ones.
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  Speaker 1: They have come, declaring your lordship over their lives. And
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  Speaker 1: by the authority of Scripture, I declare your sins forgiving.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: And in the name of Jesus, the Son of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, I call you bona fide recipients of the
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  Speaker 1: life of God. By the authority of Scripture, I declare
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  Speaker 1: that the power of Sain, Satan, Hell and the Grave
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  Speaker 1: is broken over your life, and the grace to leave
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  Speaker 1: a victorious Christian life is imparted upon you this moment.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, we pray.
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  Speaker 1: All right place, all of your please stand, Please stand.
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  Speaker 1: Just a quick instruction. May I request all of you
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  Speaker 1: together please move to my right. There are a group
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  Speaker 1: of counselors who will be having a word with you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's honor them as they move. Just a moment and
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  Speaker 1: you'll be back to your seat. Give them a big
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Give them a big God bless you. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Give them a big God bless you. Is that the
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  Speaker 1: best you can do. Let's encourage them as they go. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: And then, on a final note, let me declare over
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  Speaker 1: your life. May your rest tonight be full of divine encounters.
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  Speaker 1: May the Lord send his angels to visit you and
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  Speaker 1: grant you secrets for your future.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus. For those of you who
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  Speaker 2: are seeking.
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  Speaker 1: Your body, you will wake up tomorrow and not find
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: that infirmity again. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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  Speaker 1: call you blessed, and I declare that you are blessed,
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  Speaker 1: and it remains so with you.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of the Father, in the name of
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  Speaker 2: the Son, and in the name of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen, God bless you.