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Unrepentant [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Speaker 1: Good morning, family, God, Welcome back to the Morning Devo's
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Speaker 1: So we still hear all glory to God by the
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Speaker 1: grace of God. Amen. And He's trustworthy his word. When
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Speaker 1: he speaks a word over your life. Just trust that word,
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Speaker 1: Activate that word, respond to that word, pray, seek, knock, ask.
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Speaker 1: Everything that God has for you is good. But what
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Speaker 1: this world offers is not good. Amen, It's not always good.
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Speaker 1: Some people get a temporary time of pleasure, a temporary
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Speaker 1: time of happiness, a temporary time of good results, financial
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Speaker 1: breakthroughs temporarily. But when you're in the Kingdom of God,
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Speaker 1: everything's eternal. So let's wait the options here. Do you
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Speaker 1: want eternal things good? You want temporary things good? Think
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Speaker 1: about it. Amen. So we're here in the Morning Devo,
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Speaker 1: and today we're gonna be talking about I have a
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Speaker 1: question that I've been asking people lately brothers and sisters
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Speaker 1: in Christ and some other people. The question is, will
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Speaker 1: God for give an unrepented nation? In other words, will
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Speaker 1: God forgive a nation that never repented? Does God do that?
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be a Second Peter, chapter number three, verse nine,
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Speaker 1: Second Peter, Chapter three, verse number nine. Today in the morning, devo,
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Speaker 1: Will God forgive an unrepented nation? And for some reason,
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Speaker 1: I don't know why, but it seems like my titles
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Speaker 1: when you're on these social media platforms, when you're doing
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Speaker 1: that are being made. Evidently a man, something changed on
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Speaker 1: social media networks that it doesn't allow you to put
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Speaker 1: the title anymore, just the description. But I'll be looking
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Speaker 1: into that. You know how your brother gets when I
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Speaker 1: see something not right? Amen? So will God forgive an
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Speaker 1: unrepented nation? I'm calling this one unrepentant a man. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to what that means in a couple of minutes.
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Speaker 1: So you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests. Don't
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Speaker 1: it's a live chat there. There's an interactive Bible right
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Speaker 1: the scriptures. Amen. And man, I'm glad you're here. Let's
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Speaker 1: move forward. Let's move forward and victory knowing that God
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Speaker 1: is in us and working through us. Amen. Every day
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Speaker 1: we're being transformed, and every day we're being renewed and
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Speaker 1: restored and redeemed and men, and we're becoming more and
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Speaker 1: more like our Lord Jesus. That's the ultimate goal, right
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Speaker 1: to please God and to do his will. So let's
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Speaker 1: pray first. After we pray, we'll shut us out for
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Speaker 1: like sixty seconds. Help me out, Help me share this
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Speaker 1: out to as many people as possible. As a matter
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Speaker 1: of fact, let me share this to the group to
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Speaker 1: let the group know I'm still here. Amen, And we
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Speaker 1: could move from there and we'll pray. Let me get
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Speaker 1: to it here we go all right, and now the
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Speaker 1: group knows that we're live. So Father out, Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for your life, giving word, your life giving
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Speaker 1: the gospel. Thank you, Lord God for keeping us, molding us,
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Speaker 1: transforming us, renewing us, restoring us, guiding us, guarding us,
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Speaker 1: protecting us, giving us everything we need to live this
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Speaker 1: life out and guidling this and righteousness. Thank you, Lord
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Speaker 1: God that you have never abandoned us, and your intention
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Speaker 1: is never to abandon your children, but to give us
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Speaker 1: life and life in abundance. Thank you, Lord God for
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Speaker 1: guarding and guiding and protecting me and my family and
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Speaker 1: every single family that's represented on the other side of
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Speaker 1: this screen and on the other side of this might
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Speaker 1: touch their hearts, touch their lives. We're new, giving them
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Speaker 1: a new start if they need a new starting, areas
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Speaker 1: and relationships and finances and their health whatever it has
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Speaker 1: them bound. Lood God, that you were setting free from
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Speaker 1: that of those shackles and bounds, and that you will
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Speaker 1: continue to know. Let them know that when you are there,
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Speaker 1: when the spirit of the Lord is in the building
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Speaker 1: and its present, there's liberty in this freedom. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord God for your word. Thank you Lord God, that
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Speaker 1: we could repent, and we could turn from our wickedness
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Speaker 1: and turn to your righteousness and know that we are forgiven,
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Speaker 1: and we can move forward in eternal life and eternal
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Speaker 1: matters and things that really matter to our lives and
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Speaker 1: to our families. So I pray peace be still over
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Speaker 1: every single person that's going through anxiety, depression, or that's
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Speaker 1: worrying or in fear. Pray peace be still over their lives.
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Speaker 1: I pray Holy Spirit, that you will move in their
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Speaker 1: hearts and minds as you move in my heart and
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Speaker 1: mind as well, And that the spirit of the Lord
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Speaker 1: will reign in every situation in our lives, and that
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Speaker 1: we will be united as a united kingdom, a united front,
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Speaker 1: a united body, and we'll move forward in victory knowing
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Speaker 1: that you are our Lord and our savior and our
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Speaker 1: ultimate King of king and Lord of Lords. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, Thank you so much for what you do
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Speaker 1: and what you continue to do in our hearts and
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Speaker 1: our minds. As we move forward in Jesus name, praise
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Speaker 1: by faith and all those who agree, we say amen
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Speaker 1: to the Amen. Sister Joanne, I see you, good morning, God,
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Speaker 1: bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo. Hopefully this
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Speaker 1: week will be a week of inspiration, a week of power,
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Speaker 1: a week of authority, a week of prayer, a week
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Speaker 1: of answer prayer, a week of praise, a week of worship. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So we can move forward, moving forward towards the end
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Speaker 1: of this year. So let's go forward sixty seconds. Help
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Speaker 1: me share this out. When we come back, we'll get
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Speaker 1: right into Second Peter. What did I say, Second Peter,
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Speaker 1: Chapter number three and verse number nine. I'll be very
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Speaker 1: back right. Let's go for it. Let's see what the
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Speaker 1: word of God has as I learned, I was trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out how to put that title on my
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Speaker 1: on my description. But listen to the title is called
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Speaker 1: are repented? Today in the morning Devot, We're gonna move
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Speaker 1: in word and man and see what God has to say.
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Speaker 1: Like in America where I'm broadcasting from did America, I
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Speaker 1: will repent for the past. And I know we like
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Speaker 1: to quote the scripture that if God hears our prayers,
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Speaker 1: he will heal our land. I'm paraphrasing if we humble
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Speaker 1: ourselves and pray that God would heal our land. But
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Speaker 1: is that a promise for a arm repentent nation, or
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Speaker 1: is that just something that we're wishing and hoping that
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Speaker 1: that word will cover us. Well, it's an interesting question.
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Speaker 1: I I think a lot. Amen. If you don't know me,
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Speaker 1: you know I'm a thinker. If you do know me,
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Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna think. If you don't know me,
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Speaker 1: now you know I'm a thinker. I think a lot.
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Speaker 1: I question a lot of things. Amen. And I'm very observant.
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Speaker 1: And I watch I watch it. I pray, like the
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Speaker 1: scripture says, Amen, and I come to these these places
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Speaker 1: in my walk that like, can God forgive and unrepented nation? Man, Well,
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Speaker 1: let's start with ourselves before we go to the nation,
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Speaker 1: and start with our own lives. Amen, I'm gonna see
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Speaker 1: what the apostle Peter has to say about it. Sister Joys,
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Speaker 1: good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the Morning Devo,
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Speaker 1: my sister and my friend. It's good to you. Let's
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Speaker 1: see let's get this on the screen. For those who
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Speaker 1: are just listening, welcome back. And those who are listening
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Speaker 1: twenty seconds. You're name an email address so I can
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Speaker 1: get in contact with you off the matrix, outside of
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Speaker 1: social media and these platforms. Amen, So unrepentant, that's what
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Speaker 1: we're calling this. And unrepentant means that you're not remonseful,
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Speaker 1: that you're not sorry for what you've did and what
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Speaker 1: you've done wrong, and you're unrepentant. You're not remonseful. You
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Speaker 1: continue to do the same things over and over again,
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Speaker 1: as if there is no God, as if there is
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Speaker 1: no judgment, as if there is no morality, as if
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Speaker 1: there is no direction, no purpose. But God has morality
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Speaker 1: on lock, he has a purpose on lock. He has
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Speaker 1: a morality, our purpose, our destiny, a man. He's ready
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Speaker 1: to forgive a nation, a person, a family, a life,
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Speaker 1: but we have to repent. So if you stay in
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Speaker 1: an unrepented state of life, you're not going to receive
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Speaker 1: the will of God over your life. You're not going
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Speaker 1: to receive the forgiveness because you're not asking to be forgiven.
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Speaker 1: Think about it. Will God forgive and unrepentant nation, Let's
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Speaker 1: go let's see what the word has here, Second Peter,
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Speaker 1: chapter number three, and this is verse number second Peter three,
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Speaker 1: Verse number nine. The Bible says the Lord does not
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Speaker 1: delay as though he were unable to act, and is
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Speaker 1: not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but
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Speaker 1: is extraordinarily patient towards you, not wishing for any to perish,
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Speaker 1: but for all to come to repentance. In other words,
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Speaker 1: people be like, why would God allow this? That? And
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Speaker 1: the third? I know you heard it. I've heard that
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Speaker 1: a thousand times. I respect the question, But the other
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Speaker 1: question on the other side before we even answer that,
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Speaker 1: Why does God allow this? And why God? Why doesn't
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Speaker 1: God wipe us all out? Why doesn't God just start
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Speaker 1: all over again? Why does God keep us alive? Why
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Speaker 1: does God keep the nations that are hurling insults blasphem
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Speaker 1: his name, that are for securing his children? Why do
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Speaker 1: those nations still stand? Instead of asking why God allows
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Speaker 1: evil or death and pain, or why does he have
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Speaker 1: so much grace? You ever thought about that? Well, some
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Speaker 1: people think he's unable to ask. Some people think that
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Speaker 1: he's slow about his promises. Some people think that he's
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Speaker 1: not going to show up. Some people will don't even
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Speaker 1: think he's real or what the word says. God's patient
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Speaker 1: towards me and you. He doesn't wish for any of
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Speaker 1: us to perish. He wishes that all will come to repentance.
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Speaker 1: Because once you come to repentance, Amen, you find a
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Speaker 1: forgiveness of Christ. And then you're made right with God
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Speaker 1: because of the Son. You have the peace with God.
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Speaker 1: Because you have the peace with the Son. Amen. And
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Speaker 1: you have to come to a place that you're going
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Speaker 1: to repent. If you don't repent, if a nation doesn't repent,
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Speaker 1: a person doesn't repent, a family doesn't repent, we're not
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Speaker 1: going to get the goods that God wants to give us. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So it's about forgiveness. It's about turning from the wickedness
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Speaker 1: that we are so accustomed to living. Sometimes in this world,
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Speaker 1: especially the world system, that we never come to a
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Speaker 1: place of repentance, and that's a horrible place. I don't
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Speaker 1: want anybody then to live their life like that. Why
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Speaker 1: would anybody live in an unforgiven state? Why would anybody
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Speaker 1: live without a purpose? Why would anybody want to live
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Speaker 1: if they don't know who they are in Christ, who
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Speaker 1: they are their purpose? What's morality, what's the meaning of life,
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Speaker 1: and what's the destiny after we leave this place called earth.
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Speaker 1: So the concept of forgiveness is all up in this message.
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Speaker 1: Right For a nation that doesn't repent, there is no
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Speaker 1: concept in their hearts or their minds for forgiveness. The
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Speaker 1: New Testament of forgiveness is primarily discussed in the context
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Speaker 1: of individual like, one on one individual faith in Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: So you're here a preacher, you're healing evangelist like me saying,
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Speaker 1: come to the Lord, ask them to forgive you. Go
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Speaker 1: to the Lord, ask them to forgive you, and He
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Speaker 1: will forgive you, and He'll give you His spirit to
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Speaker 1: live inside of you, to live out a Christian honoring
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Speaker 1: the Father of Life. Amen. In other words, you're going
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Speaker 1: to be forgiven for your past, and God will take
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Speaker 1: that past, wipe it clean. Amen. And from that point
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Speaker 1: on you'll live a free life in Christ, a free
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Speaker 1: life through the spirit of God. Holy Spirit, God will
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Speaker 1: guide you. So forgiveness is discussed in the context of
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Speaker 1: individual faith in Jesus Christ. Now listen to this. Each
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Speaker 1: person is invited to receive forgiveness. How through belief in
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Speaker 1: Jesus and his finished work not unfinished work. His finished
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Speaker 1: work on the Cross. You can see that Acts chapter ten,
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Speaker 1: verse forty three. I'll just cite the verses Acts chapter ten,
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Speaker 1: verse forty three and Ephesians Chapter one, verse number seven.
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Speaker 1: Check it out for yourself when you have time. So
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Speaker 1: when it comes to nations, When it comes to nations,
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Speaker 1: the New Testament New Covenant does not specifically address the
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Speaker 1: idea of God forgiving entire nations in the same way
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Speaker 1: God forgives individuals. To think about it, what nation that
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Speaker 1: you have ever seen in your lifetime, or in the
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Speaker 1: history of the world, or in the Bible that has
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Speaker 1: totally been forgiven all? Wait, ah, wait, what nation? You
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Speaker 1: can see? Some nations that God did of re bibles
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Speaker 1: and turned hearts back to the Father. Amen Joonah, for instance,
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Speaker 1: he didn't want to He was running from God. He
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Speaker 1: didn't want to do what God told him to do.
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Speaker 1: He said, I'm not going to go preaching that wicked nation.
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Speaker 1: Try to run for God gets swallowed up by a
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Speaker 1: big fish. A man that ends up over to where
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Speaker 1: God told him to go in the first place, preaches
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Speaker 1: and there was a big, tremendous revival of repentance. The
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Speaker 1: people in that nation of Nineveh were repenting a man,
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Speaker 1: and then God moved in Ninevah and the hearts of
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Speaker 1: people were changed. But did God forgive the whole nation?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Go check it out for yourself. It's interesting, right,
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Speaker 1: So instead of thinking about the whole nation a man,
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Speaker 1: which is where you live, where you're from, your country, Right,
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Speaker 1: It'll be a amazing to see a spark in America
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Speaker 1: just be rising up like a repentance. That would be
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Speaker 1: an amazing sight to see. I mean, I want to
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Speaker 1: see it in my lifetime. What about you? So forgive
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Speaker 1: me for looking that way, and I want to make
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Speaker 1: sure the other things is running. But individually, I think
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Speaker 1: that's where it's at. When people talk about revival, I
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Speaker 1: think they're turning about individuals that are feeling the power,
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Speaker 1: sensing the power, responding to the power and authority of
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Speaker 1: God's word and repenting and turning towards His righteousness and
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Speaker 1: turning away from their wickedness. That's a revival. There's a
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Speaker 1: revival happening right now. Amen. Some people say in an
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Speaker 1: area of the country, forgot where this passes from, that
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Speaker 1: this is a revival actually happens untelevised it's unnoticed, unrecognized.
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Speaker 1: But a lot of millennials, a lot of young people,
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Speaker 1: young adults are swamping this pastor I'll get I'll get
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Speaker 1: you the information in the inbox and the chat later. Amen,
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Speaker 1: And is sweeping the nation and a lot of people
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Speaker 1: are not talking about it. But when you talk about
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Speaker 1: a nation, Amen, you have to think about it. What
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Speaker 1: nation right has ever been fully forgiven by God? Because
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's the idea here. The ideas that
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Speaker 1: God will want to change you and change me individually.
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Speaker 1: And then when he can change like the man of
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Speaker 1: the house, the family usually lines up with what God
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Speaker 1: is doing. If a man fails the house, the family
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Speaker 1: usually fails, I mean from my findings in the scripture.
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Speaker 1: But when God builds up a man and builds up
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Speaker 1: a woman to lead their family a man, there is repentance.
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Speaker 1: First of all from the parents. They repent it turned
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Speaker 1: to the Lord. They're safe, they're born again. Now they're
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Speaker 1: looking at their children, offspring, relatives, and they're preaching the
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Speaker 1: same message of repentance to their family, to their kids,
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Speaker 1: to their relatives, to their neighborhood, to their neighbors, and
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Speaker 1: to their city, to their state, and then eventually it
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Speaker 1: go through the nations. Amen. I think that's how God
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Speaker 1: gets people to discover who he is through other people
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Speaker 1: who've experienced who God is in their own lives. Right,
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Speaker 1: we don't make things up and be like, let me
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Speaker 1: just say this to get people to look at me
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Speaker 1: every time I come up out here. Man, First of all,
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Speaker 1: it's early in the morning for me, a man, from
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Speaker 1: the time it's recording when I'm going live. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to really grab too much attention. I don't get
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Speaker 1: a lot of attention. I don't want a lot of attention.
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Speaker 1: I want to turn people to discover the scriptures for themselves.
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Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to be without these scriptures and
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Speaker 1: their life and their heart to miss out on what
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Speaker 1: God is truly saying in their lives. So when it
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Speaker 1: comes to nations, the New Testament does not specifically address
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Speaker 1: the idea of God forgiving entire nations in the same
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Speaker 1: way it does individuals. The focus is on the message
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Speaker 1: of reconciliation and the call for all people, regardless of nationality,
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Speaker 1: to turn to God through Christ. Second Corinthians, Chapter five,
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Speaker 1: A man, verson, I don't know what this thing is
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Speaker 1: talking about. Second Corinthians, chapter number five, Verses nineteen and twenty. Right,
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Speaker 1: you can see that in that scripture right there, in
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Speaker 1: those scriptures in verse number seventeen, the oldest that you
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Speaker 1: become a new creature in Christ. I'm paraphrasing. Go check
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Speaker 1: it out for yourself. And He wants that for every
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Speaker 1: individual that here is his message, the Gospel message. He
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Speaker 1: wants them to be renewed. He wants them to be
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Speaker 1: reminded of who God is and who God can be
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Speaker 1: in your life and my life. God in us Us
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Speaker 1: in Christ, an amazing union. There is no other religious
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Speaker 1: idea or religion or religious leader that can do what
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Speaker 1: God has done through his son, Jesus Christ, reconciliation, making
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Speaker 1: things back right, making things right with the Father through
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Speaker 1: the Son. And because that happens in your life and
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Speaker 1: in my life, we receive Holy Spirit God to live
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Speaker 1: inside of us, the hope of glory. The Bible says,
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Speaker 1: without Holy Spirit in this earth a man, this earth
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Speaker 1: is going to burn up quick. But since we're here,
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Speaker 1: we're holding back amen destruction. We're holding back total evil.
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Speaker 1: We're holding back of the devil and his fallen angels.
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Speaker 1: We're holding back things that should be happening, but are
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Speaker 1: not happening because Holy Spirit is living inside of us.
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Speaker 1: So we are a nation of God, Amen, not a
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Speaker 1: nation of this world. We're a holy priesthood. We're the
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Speaker 1: righteous ones are called out ones. Amen. We are the
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Speaker 1: salt and light of this earth. We are the redeemed.
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Speaker 1: We have a purpose, and God has a plan. And
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Speaker 1: when we go into his will a man, the will
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Speaker 1: of the Father, we'll go through the sun and be
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Speaker 1: reminded to us and the commandments will go to us
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Speaker 1: by way of Holy Spirit. We don't lose in this
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Speaker 1: battle of life. Manuel, God bless you. Good morning, Imitators
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Speaker 1: of Christ. Yes, we have to imitate what the Lord did. Amen,
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Speaker 1: imitate God, Amen all the time. Yes, Judy Barretto Matos,
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Amen. Yes, good morning. Welcome to the morning,
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Speaker 1: Devo the indwelling Holy Spirit. Man Will says, Yes. The
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Speaker 1: emphasis is on personal repentance, personal repentance and faith as
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Speaker 1: the means to receive forgiveness and answer into a relationship,
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Speaker 1: not a religion. Enter into a relationship with God, not
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Speaker 1: enter into religion about God or about a deity, or
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Speaker 1: about a God or a I do know this world
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Speaker 1: has too many idols. We don't serve idols. We don't
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Speaker 1: worship idols, never praise in no statues. Right, don't have
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Speaker 1: to wear chains for protection and bracelets and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: None of that. What we do is we have a
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Speaker 1: relationship with God himself. Amen through the sun. Good morning,
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Speaker 1: my brother Mike, Good morning, God bless you, bro good morning.
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Speaker 1: It's good to see in the morning. Devo. Manuel says,
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Speaker 1: in a wicked world, we are the lights in the earth,
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Speaker 1: in Christ, Jesus, in Christ, Jesus, very key word. We're
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Speaker 1: in Christ. So we shine this blazing light. Because the
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Speaker 1: light of Christ is a blazing light. We shine that
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Speaker 1: light in darkness. Right. The Old Testament contains instances where
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Speaker 1: God dealt with nations collectively. And this is where a
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Speaker 1: lot of people get tripped up. They say, why would
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Speaker 1: God order his people to wipe out nations? And an
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Speaker 1: old coveny you see nations getting wiped out, as if
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Speaker 1: God woke up one day and then the next day
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Speaker 1: he told his people wipe his nation out, as if
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Speaker 1: it didn't take one hundred, two hundred and three hundred
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Speaker 1: four hundred years of people acting crazy and chaos happening,
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Speaker 1: and then God responded to that chaos when he heard
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Speaker 1: the cries of his people. He responds, why is it
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Speaker 1: when God responds to nations that are in wickedness and
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Speaker 1: in all kinds of vile things happening in those nations?
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Speaker 1: And God responds and does something, Why is it that
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Speaker 1: people say, well, then God's not just God? How could
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Speaker 1: God do that? Why would God do this? And why
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Speaker 1: do we question God when the nations don't want him?
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Speaker 1: So he was responding to their wish. They don't want God,
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Speaker 1: so he gives them up to the idols and to
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Speaker 1: the nations, and they self destruct, or he'll move in
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Speaker 1: those nations. But in the Old Covenant's instances where God
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Speaker 1: dealt with nations collectively, such as Israel, the New Testament
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Speaker 1: shifts the focus to the individual response to the gospel.
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Speaker 1: In the Old Covenant, you see God dealing with nations prophets.
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Speaker 1: He's using prophets to tell the nation, listen, you better
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Speaker 1: turn away from that, you better turn away from this,
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Speaker 1: don't mix with those people. People, don't mix with that,
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Speaker 1: don't deal with these people. And what happens the people
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Speaker 1: of Isabel at the time in an Old Covenant and
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Speaker 1: men they started doing everything all a lot of things
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Speaker 1: that God told them not to do, and therefore they
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Speaker 1: get the results of living in an armor penton state.
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Speaker 1: They're not without remorse, without any care, no fear of
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Right. What happens, Well, they get into a
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Speaker 1: lot of trouble. We call it beef over here, right,
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Speaker 1: It gets a lot of beef, a lot of trouble. Amen,
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Speaker 1: And yeah, their immorality. So God doesn't want none of
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Speaker 1: that for us. God wants us to shift our focus
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Speaker 1: and look at our individual life and respond to what
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Speaker 1: God is saying, the call for each person to recognize
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Speaker 1: their need for a savior and to receive the forgiveness
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Speaker 1: offered through Jesus Christ. Acts Chapter twenty six. I'm just
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Speaker 1: going to quote the scriptures because you know, is a
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Speaker 1: morning devo. I can't get deep into all these scriptures,
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Speaker 1: but you could quote chapter twenty six, Verses seventeen and eighteen.
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Speaker 1: So the bottom line is this, ladies and gentlemen. Ultimately,
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Speaker 1: God's desire, his heart is for all people to come
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Speaker 1: to repentance and faith, experiencing His grace and forgiveness. And
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Speaker 1: that's where we came to Second Peter, Chapter number three,
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Speaker 1: Verse number nine, when God says, listen, I'm not slow
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Speaker 1: with my promises. I know what's going on. Amen. God
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Speaker 1: doesn't wish that anyone perished first and foremost, because He
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Speaker 1: created life for us to live, not for us to die.
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Speaker 1: When someone dies. That's why we all feel differently. We
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Speaker 1: all feel a certain way. It's not supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: We have that instinct in our hearts. We know when
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Speaker 1: somebody dies it's never supposed to be that way. That's
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Speaker 1: why it hurts people going through mourning. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of pain, there's a lot of unbelief, there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of questions when someone dies because we know, deep down
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Speaker 1: in our own hearts it was never supposed to be
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Speaker 1: that way. So God says he wished that numb perish,
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Speaker 1: But everyone repent and come to the same knowledge of
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Speaker 1: who he is. So the goal is the gospel, the message.
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Speaker 1: Everyone can be reached to another person. Each one reached one.
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Speaker 1: I used to hear priests, right Amen. Manuel says, they're
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Speaker 1: doing all kinds of things without repentance, and repentance is key, right.
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Speaker 1: I never met a person who's born again that didn't
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Speaker 1: first repent. Right. First, you have to stop all the
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Speaker 1: wickedness in your life. Stop what you're doing, turn from
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Speaker 1: that wickedness and make it like a one eight and
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Speaker 1: turn to the righteousness of God. When you repent, you
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Speaker 1: will see your life changed because you're going to the
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Speaker 1: one who could forgive you. When the individuals do that,
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Speaker 1: and it starts growing in your community, starts growing in
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Speaker 1: your family, starts growing in a city, starts growing in
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Speaker 1: a state, you're going to see the nations come to
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Speaker 1: repentance as well. It's like Christianity. It should be contagious.
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Speaker 1: We should be the contagion in a good way, of course,
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Speaker 1: because Christianity had its root. It was never a religion.
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Speaker 1: It was about a relationship with Jesus. Because that's why
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Speaker 1: when in the Book of Acts, when one hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty won the Upper Room, when they received the Holy
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Speaker 1: Ghost and fire the tongues, they came out of there
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Speaker 1: in the afternoon, speaking in different languages, and the people
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Speaker 1: looked at them, saying, you guys drunk or something, And
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Speaker 1: the apostle was like, of course not. It's like, not
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Speaker 1: even in nighttime, not even the evening. It's brought daylight.
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Speaker 1: We're not drunk. And they were speaking in different tongues
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Speaker 1: of different dialects, and the people at the time, they
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Speaker 1: were like, how was it that these uneducated people know
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Speaker 1: my native tongue? But weren't they with Jesus? Those Christians,
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Speaker 1: those christ followers, they called us Christians. It was a
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Speaker 1: derogatory statement. They were insulting us, they were making fun
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Speaker 1: of us. So at the root of Christianity, it wasn't
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Speaker 1: never about religion. It was never about you know, speaking
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Speaker 1: in tongues, and it was about our relationship with Jesus.
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Speaker 1: They recognize that those people, those one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 1: that were now in the streets preaching the gospel, people
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Speaker 1: agett saved left and right, had a relationship with Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Repentance a spiritual relationship. Yes, so everybody, everyone can be
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Speaker 1: saved through the Gospel and through individual belief that forgiveness
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Speaker 1: is a thing that we could receive. And then a
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Speaker 1: nation can be in repentance, unrepentent nation. I truly don't
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Speaker 1: believe that God will forgive an unrepentent nation, but He'll
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Speaker 1: forgive a repented nation, a repented people. That's all I
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Speaker 1: have for you. I hope you go into the scriptures
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Speaker 1: for yourself, go into two. Peter Chatter number three. Read
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Speaker 1: the whole chapter for yourself, but amount of time I
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Speaker 1: got to get out of here. But God bless you all,
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Speaker 1: God keep you all, and remember always that God is good. Peace,