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

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God, bless you, God, bless your family. God. Welcome back
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to the Morning Devo. Is your bro Sam Lopez aka DJ Sambrox. So
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Winners with a z Org Live. That's so, Winners with a z dot
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org went full effect right here in the studio on the Morning Devo, streaming
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now because restrictions all over the place. Now. Twitter X formally known as
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Twitter is restricting live streams unless you have a subscription. So I knew that
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was coming. People all knew that was coming. And then usually what happens
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is that other social media networks will follow suit and you have to start paying
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for your live streams. But listen, we're not there yet. Hey man.
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If we have to get there, we have to get there. But
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whatever, Hey man, we're talking about where we're going, not where we
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are now or where we were in the past. We're gonna talk about where
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we're going. We are having bound, we're having worked, aymen. According
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to that's what my scripture says, that we're heaven worked. You know,
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Jesus, you're going to heaven. And when I say no, Jesus,
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I mean it. Do you really know Jesus? Do you really know him?
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Amen? And I don't have no audio here, so I don't know
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if yeah, I should have audio check into that. But listen, let's
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go for it. We're going to be Oh there it goes. I hear
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it now. I'm we're going to be in Philippians chapter number three, verses
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thirteen to fifteen. And I'm calling this one Heaven worked. Amen on the
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morning Devo. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any
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prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat. That's what
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we're here for. And I don't know what's going on about I have a
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frog of a sudden my voice, but we're gonna get rid of that in
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Jesus' name, right, So let's go for it. If you have any
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questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, pray right now. After we
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pray, we'll share this south for like sixty seconds, and on the other
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side of those sixty seconds, we'll get right into today's morning Devo. Firse
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IT'SUS Philippians Shopping number three, verses thirteen to fifteen. Since Juanne, I
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see you, Good morning God, bless you. Welcome to the morning,
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Devo. So let's pray. After we pray, Like I said, help
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me share the south and we'll get right into it. Let me take some
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water here, drink some water before we start. So, Father God,
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thank you, Lord God for today. I thank you, Lord God for
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heaven. Thank you, Lord God that you said you are going away to
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prepare a place for us. And if it were not true you said,
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you would not have told us. Thank you, Lord God for preparing that
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place for us. Thank you, Lord God for being with us now.
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Thank you for having us experience a glimpse of heaven on earth by way of
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your Holy Spirit. Thank you for saving us and rescuing us. Thank you
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for guiding us, guarding us, protecting us, and giving us health to
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our body and strength to our bones. I pray that over myself daily,
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and I pray that over all my friends and family daily health, strength,
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protection. We're living in perilous times. Lord God, you know where we
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are, You know what we're facing, and I thank you, Lord God
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that you are facing it with us, and you are in us and leading
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us through the wilderness and the valleys, and even when we have our mountain
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time experience, mountaintop experience. You are with us when we're in a valley,
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you are with us when we're low, when we're high, You're with
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us. Amen, all through the journey. Thank you so much. Lo
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God. I pray with gratitude, knowing that if it wasn't for you and
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your grace and your mercy, where would we be? Where would I be?
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I pray, Lord God, that people's mind will be open, our
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eyes will be open, our months will continue to speak the oracles of God,
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and then we will have a listening ear to what your spirit is speaking
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today and every day moving forward. I prayed it's by faith, knowing that
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you hear our prayers and you answer them according to your purpose and plan for
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every individual life that's represented right now in Jesus' name, we pray, Amen
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and Amen. Sixty seconds. Let me share this out. When we come
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back, we'll get into Philippians chopping number three versus thirteen to fifteen. I'll
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perrate back, man, man a man, Let's go for it. Let's
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see what the word of God has for us today. We're gonna get the
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screen prepared and for those who are listening only audio only, Amen, Welcome
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back. Thank you for your listening ears, Amen, and I pray that
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this word will go through your ear gates, go to your heart and get
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you all get understanding through your mind. Amen. And not only that you
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will apply what you learn today. I try my best to apply or what
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we're speaking of, what we're learning, Amen, what the Scripture says to
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apply it. If you're not having application to this information, then you're just
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getting information like you're just getting filled with information and you're not applying what you
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learn. The Bible says you're just a hero of the word, but you're
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not a doo of the word. Let's do what the Word says to do,
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Amen, according to his purpose and plan, inspired totally by his spirit.
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Amen. Nothing to force here, nothing to really try to manipulate here.
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Amen. Let's receive what the Word has and no form of manipulation,
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no pulling up your arm or anything like that. Let's just go for it.
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Let's just respond to the call. Let's just respond to what God is
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speaking. Let's just supply his word in our lives and just see what happens.
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Because I know it's not my word that you need to take. It's
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His word that you should take. Amen. So we're going to do that
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today because we're heaven word. We're heaven bound. Amen. I wrote here.
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God does not want you trapped by your past, by the past.
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He wants you to know you are heaven bound, heaving bound. Philippians,
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chapter three thirteen to fifteen. Let me put down the screen for those who
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are just listening to no worries. I know you can't see what we're seeing,
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but I'm going to read a word for words, so that way you
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could get a grasp of what we're talking about. Heaven Word on the morning
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Devo. Let's go here. It is Philippius, chapter three thirteen or fifteen,
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Brothers and sisters. I do not consider that I have made it my
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own yet. But one thing I do, to the Apostle Paul talking to
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the Church of Philippi, one thing I do forgetting what lies behind and reaching
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forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the
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heavenly prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. I love it.
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The upward call. This is not something that and we leave here in
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this earthly realm. Now, this is a heavenly call. This is a
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heaven bound call. Heaven word call, upward call of God in Christ Jesus,
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in Christ Jesus. That thing that right there, we have to emphasize.
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Heymen, the other version that I'm reading here, that I'll read right
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now for you. Let's read it together. It says same scripture Philippies three
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thirteen to fifteen. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken
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hold of it. A man is more than what we're getting. Todate is
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more. Amen, don't ever be that person, that guy, that woman,
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that girl, that man that says, oh man, I've done it
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all, I did it all, I know it all. There's nothing else
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for me to do. Don't be that person, because then you're telling people
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or you're trying to convince yourself that you've attained it, that you're there a
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man, that you're living your best life now and you're reading books about it,
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which, by the way, I don't agree. This is not our
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best life. Now. We have a promised heaven, We have a promised
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eternal life. Amen. This right here, this right here is rehearsal,
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stress, rehearsal. Amen. We're living our lives to the best of our
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ability. According to the scriptures. We're loving one another. We love God
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first. Amen. With everything we have. We love our neighbors as we
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love ourselves. And on those commandments, Jesus said, we have taken care
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of all the commandments through Christ. In Christ. And you break one,
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you break them all right. But in Christ we are in the law.
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It's being fulfilled because God fulfilled the law through Jesus. Amen. We're not
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under the law anymore. But we live by what the commandment of Jesus is.
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And he says, the new commandment I give to you. Remember that
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don't forget those things. Man. These are very important to our walk,
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to our spirituality, to our life. Promises a God that we know,
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and we apply the promises. Amen. So we have what we need daily
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forgetting what is behind. Right, We're not going to be in our past.
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We're not going to be living that life that, oh man, I
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remember when the good old days and this, that and the third. Because
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what happens is you start looking back a lot of things that we used to
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do when we were younger, right, or a lot of things I used
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to do when I was younger. If I look back at those things,
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I might be tempted to pick those old things back up and make them a
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reality in my present time, you could look to the past and give God
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glory and honor and praise and be thankful that we're not there no more.
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Because if I was still in my past, Amen, I want to be
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right now where I'm at, sitting speaking of a loving, holy, righteous
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God that rescued me, that saved me, that restored me, that redeemed
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me, that saved my life. I would have been stuck in the past
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thinking it was all about me and man forgetting what is behind and straining toward
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what is ahead. Sometimes all you have to do is show up, show
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up to where God wants you to be, show up to what God wants
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you to do is just show up, be that person that God has called
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you to be, not forced. We don't have to make anything up to
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be a believer. All we have to do is trust in the one that's
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worth believing in, and that's the Lord Jesus. I press ontward the goal
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to win the prize for which God has called me heaven word in Christ Jesus.
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There's an upward call. Amen. This is not something like, oh
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he's a Christian, he's into religion. Poor guy, poor girl, Poor
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man, poor woman. They're brainwashed. They could have been so happier,
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so much happier, that had so much potential. The world speaks of us
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like that because they don't understand right, they're not inspired by Holy Spirit,
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they don't have Holy Spirit God living in them. So they're just trusting in
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this world's system. And I pray that if you're trusting in this world system,
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government, world system, self achievements, self help books, you're reading
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and you're denying everything that God's was saying that you're not reading the Bible because
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you think it's outdated and antiquate it that you don't think it's relevant anymore.
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I'm praying for you. I'm praying for those people because I used to be
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that person and I was going down the road that the world laid out.
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There was a lot of so called fun sin the Bible said, is pleasurable
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for a season, and when that season runs out, get ready, consequences
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are coming. And last time I checked, we're forgiven for our sins,
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but the consequences of sin remain in a lot of situations. Now, the
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totality of our sin death. You just took care of that, paid the
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sin debt, so We're not going to die in sin as a believer.
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Amen. We're going to die eventually. This body is going to die eventually
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because of the ademic curse. And Jesus came aman have redeemed us from that
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curse. So we're not cursed with the curse Malachi situation. We're not doing
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that. But we believe in the one who gives eternal life. But because
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of what happened in the garden right now, sin, death, death,
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sickness, disease, murder, all that answered into the equation. God didn't
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created because a man's disobedience that came into being, but he came. Jesus
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came as in the form of a man to redeem us from that curse.
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But all those who received him as Lord and Savior. Amen. So we
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don't necessarily die. A Christian really doesn't die. Christian just changes locations from
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this side of eternity to the other side of eternity. But this flesh,
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just bag of bones and blood, will decay. We'll go to the ground
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and decay. But our spirit, our soul, saved, our saved soul
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will live forever with Jesus. An unsaved soul will live forever apart from the
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Lord. It's just what it is. It is what it is right,
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going to scriptures, all of us who are mature should take such a view
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of things. And if some point, and if at some point or on
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some point you think differently, that too, God will make clear to you.
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Amen. So no convincing. Like I said, let God do the
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convincing. He's gonna do the convicting of sin and the convincing that we are
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in need of a savior that's a God thing by way of His Holy Spirit.
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So if you feel pressured, I have to convince the whole world.
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I have to convince my whole family. I have to convince my friend,
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my brother, my sister, and my boyfriend, my girlfriend, my husband
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and my wife, our children. We have to convince we have If we
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are putting that pressure on ourselves, then we are we are unfairly putting that
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pressure on us. That's the power of Holy Spirit God that will make things
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clear to us and to our friends and to our foes, and to believers
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and to unbelievers. He's going to make it clear that we are not done
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with yet. God's not done with us yet, and that we were forgetting
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the past us and we're living today and moving toward the goal that God has
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for us. We are heaven worked, we are heaven bound, heaven worked.
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Amen, we're moving forward in Jesus' name. We're not going to go
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back no more to the old things that didn't satisfy us in the first place.
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That's why a lot of addictions are going on. You know. An
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addiction is something that you or I were doing that were satisfying a temporary need,
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and because of the chemical called dopamine and other chemicals, our body and
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our flesh right was responding to that need. And now the chemical reaction of
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those drugs or that pornography addiction, or that eating disorder, or whatever the
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addiction was, because you're free now in Jesus name, whatever it was,
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this dopamine is chemical was calling us back to it. It's almost like the
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fast food chains. You notice that you could stay away from those fast food
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chains for months upon months, and then when you go one time, one
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visit, you'll start craving that fast food whatever it is, and you'll be
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like wondering, what's in this food that has me craving it for more of
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it after you haven't done it in a long time after you ate from there
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in a long time. I think they are chemicals in those food that alluring
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us back to go to eat that type of food again. Sin is the
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same way when it teems up with those chemicals that are stored up to feel
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good, chemical to dopamine and stored up makes you want to come back for
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more. And we're not gonna live that way. Right. We have Holy
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Spirit God in us that we have a supernatural high, a supernatural addiction to
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love and to grace and to mercy. We're addicted to God a man,
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and we're allergic to sin. We're allergic to any addiction outside of what God
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has for us, because outside of what God has for us will never satisfy
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the bank on that God will only be is the only one that could satisfy
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our soul. Satisfy our soul. So Philippins three, Chapter three. Read
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the whole chapter. But we're camping out in thirteen to fifteen with Apostle pauls
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addressing this past memories could really get you back into bitterness. Howbeutver you were
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hurt in the past and you're pondering about the past, the past, the
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past, you can get into bitterness. You can start feeling guilt about what
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you did in the past. I have this rerun in my mind every now
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and then. I'm doing better with it now, Praise God. After a
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lot of prayer, people praying for me. This one event was rewinding.
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See I say it was because it's really not there anymore. I'm just gonna
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explain what I'm saying in my mind of what happened, what I did unfortunately
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years ago, and it could have caused somebody. Somebody could have got really
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hurt. And I've been praying for years that this situation won't go as I'm
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thinking it would happen went. I used to always play my mind, playing
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my mind, playing my mind to one day asks Lord, can you remove
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that past thought? Help me remove that out of my mind? Amen?
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And until now that I'm talking about it, started to think, now,
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I haven't thought about that a while. Praise God. Why Because I'm pushing
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forward to the future, praying for that family and praying for that situation.
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Amen. But I'm moving forward to the gold because back then I was young
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without Christ, I was in a crisis without Christ, I was living an
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angry life. I was in the world system, baying and being obedient to
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pick pretty much to it. I had another master, and it was called
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Sin. Sin was my master before Christ saved me and forgave me for my
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sins. So I can't pin myself to the wall for what I did that
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was like thirty seven years ago, forty years ago. Maybe I can't pin
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myself to that. What I will do is live according to what God says,
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to forget pass what was behind and look forward to what is it had
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pressing toward the gold to win the prize for which God has called me word
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and has called you Heaven word in Christ Jesus, all of us who are
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mature should take such a view of things. Amen, so we could see
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what God is saying. Because we're maturing in the faith and the grace of
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God through Christ Jesus. This is an amazing faith that we have. This
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is not a religion, is now. I'm not gonna tell you, Okay,
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you have to do this and recite this, and look towards this guy
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in a certain way and pray a certain amount of day times a day,
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pray a certain amount of times a day. And we're not we're not instructed
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to do that was praise, pray without ceasing. The Bible says, but
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doesn't say on your knees, on your face, looking up, looking down,
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close your eyes, open your eye, doesn't say none of that.
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Those are a little details that we put on ourselves through tradition of churches and
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all that stuff. God just wants us to simply respond to what he's saying.
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He simply wants us to apply what the Word of God is speaking to
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our souls and speaking to our spirit. We have holy spirit, God that
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leads us into all truth, not into error, not into fables, not
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into lies. We could trust in the living, Holy, righteous, loving
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God that loves us so much that he wants to remind us that this is
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not it. This world is not it for us. We're foreigners passing through.
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We are farmers planting seeds of eternal life. And this is not our
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home, Jesus says, coming back with a new Heaven and a new Earth.
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So we are bound heaven word, just on a journey, loving people,
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ay Man, loving God. First, with everything we have our hard
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soul, body, mind, physically, emotionally, spiritually, be to give
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it all to God and love him for it, and then love others our
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neighbors as if we love ourselves, treat people like you want to be treated.
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There's a basic moral concept. Treat people as you want to be treated.
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Yes, we're good abuvement of people that are hard to love. Yes
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we're good abuvement of people that are angry. Yes we could a bump into
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people that hate our God and they hate Bible, they hate Jesus for whatever
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reason. But listen, that's part of the day. We see it all
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through the scriptures. People are moving that way and moving in life that way.
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They have their reasons. A man, when I was angry from fifteen
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years old all the way to thirty years old, I had my reasons.
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I had a lot of reasons, and those reasons actually turned into excuses.
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And then I started running out of excuses, and I said, wait a
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minute, time out, Why am I living like this? If there's a
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God, right, he could truly transform my life. But if there's no
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God, then I'm gonna call upon the air and look at the roof and
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the ceiling, and there's gonna be no change. God was so gracious,
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Amen, it's so loving, it's so patient with me that he heard my
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cry for help and change my life. He could do the same for you.
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And it's not a one time only, it's a day to day transformation
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until he comes back for his church. So I'm out of time. Ladies
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and gentlemen, thank you so much. Philippian chapter three. Read the whole
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chapter for yourself. We were talking about being heaven word having bound on the
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morning devo. So let me send you with a blessing. God. Bless
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you, God keep you, and remember always that God is good. Peace,