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Authentic Imitationology #64 [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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Good morning, good morning, and good morning God. Bless you, Family
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of God. Welcome back to the Morning Devo, which you broke Sam Lopez
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adj. Sam Rock. And it's Friday, so you already know authentic imitationology.
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This is episode number sixty four. Man were on a roll authentic imitationology
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every Friday, trying to imitate the most successful person who has ever lived on
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this planet, the Lord himself, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the
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one who was born of a virgin right, who lived sinless life, perfect
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life, Amen, and died a gruesome death the sacrifice Amen, and rose
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again on the third day, the Lord Jesus himself. That's the Jesus we're
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talking about, not the Jesus of another religion, or Jesus of the Mormon,
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or the Jesus of the Islams Jesus or anything like that. We're talking
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about the biblical Jesus, historical Jesus, the Loving, Holy, righteous One,
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Amen, the only begotten son of the Living God, the Lord Jesus.
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Today we're talking about service and sacrifice. The counter cultural way that Jesus
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lived a man was so counter cultural, and every time you bring up his
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life today in our time, he's still counter cultural. Amen. And the
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world that we're living in today, this whole service and sacrifice thing is backwards,
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according to how the Word sees it, the world sees it backwards.
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How is Jesus' teaching about service and self sacrifice counter cultural? We're going to
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be in Mark chapter number eight, Versus thirty four and thirty six. This
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was the thing right here. One of the reasons why it took me so
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long to make a move and respond to the call of God over my life
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and in my life, to respond to the Gospel. Amen. And it's
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because I never could imagine or wrap my head around why would anyone die for
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me? Why would anybody want to serve me? Why would anybody want to
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sacrifice their own life for me, especially if that person was holy and righteous,
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especially if that person was the savior of the whole world. Before I
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got saved, I could not understand, or couldn't even comprehend, why would
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anybody do that for me? It took me a while, a long time
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to come to a place where I said, well, if this person Jesus,
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or if this God died for me so that way I could live,
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I owe him an opportunity, right, even though it was a selfish way
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of thinking. Amen. But that's the way I was thinking. I said,
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I owe him to him to try him out. It's just it became
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like something for me to do to make sure. I didn't want to have
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a what if for all eternity? What if this is the true, holy
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love and righteous God that died for me as well? Because I thought,
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for real, I thought he died for everybody else, all people who went
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to church at least, all people who were Catholic at least, all people
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who were religious at least. I thought God only died for them. Never
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thought in a hundred years that he died for me as well. Amen.
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So this whole service, this whole sacrifice, and all that is countercultural still
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Amen, Because the story of the Gospel, the truth of the Gospel,
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is like foreign language to a lot of people right now to this every day,
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they can't understand God's love. Why would God do that? He did
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it because he loved us and he still loves us. Amen, his own
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backwards, or it looks like it's own. Good Amen. Since Joanne,
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I see you, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome to the morning.
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Devo it's Friday, start of a weekend. Amen, and I hope
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and pray that you're blessed today. Listen, we live in a culture that
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says, live your best life, follow your heart, do you boo,
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live your truth, love yourself, whatever makes you happy. So if you
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notice the focus on the culture we're living in today, it's about self,
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self self. I say it like this, it's all about me, me,
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me, like an opera singer. But today we're going to see in
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the scriptures that that's opposing or opposite of what the Lord taught us and what
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he's teaching us and what he shows us and his own example in his own
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life. So we're talking about service and sacrifice here in the morning Devo Authentic
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Imitationlogy. It's just Friday. So we're in an episode number sixty four and
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we're going to be a mark chapter number eight, verses thirty four to thirty
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six. So if you have any questions, comments, concerns, pray requests,
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That's all glory to God. So let's go for it, and let's
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pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out. You know,
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I had a lot to pray for Amen. Yesterday we men. My grandson
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Jason turned one years old, and I'm over here thinking he was two years
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old. Excuse me my dates, names, ages and all that stuff.
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Pray for a brother. It's off, man, I don't know what's going
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on. It's age maybe, but praise God, I have a sound mind.
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Just that I forget stuff, if that makes any sense. And then
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my granddaughter, one of my granddaughters, caught pneumonia and I just found out
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yesterday. So I'm praying that she gets out of that hospital fully recovered before
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they think she will be fully recovered. In Jesus name, So help me
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pray for my grandchildren, all of them, all three of them. I
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have two girls and one boy. And I called my son yesterday and assured
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him that I was praying, and I actually prayed for him. A man,
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it's a beautiful thing that we could go to a beautiful God, a
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holy, righteous God with anything, any concern and anything that's going on with
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our lives, with our family, and prayed and so I prayed the healing
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power of the Lord Jesus. I set forth angels over there to the hospital
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room in Jesus' name, and I'm praying continuously that people around the situation,
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the men will see the move in the hand of God, and that they
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will bother their needs to a living, holy, righteous, loving God,
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a faithful God, a God who serves, and a God who sacrificed,
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sacrifices, who has already sacrificed. Father, I thank you so much for
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today. I thank you for the power of prayer. I thank you,
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Lord God, that you are still the Christ who is counter cultural. Thank
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you, Lord Jesus for what you did, how you live your perfect example.
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Thank you for saving us and rescuing us. Thank you for being the
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open door for eternal life for us as human beings, as mankind your creation.
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I speak life over every situation that life throws at us. I speak
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life. I speak peace, be still in Jesus name, over chaos,
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over distraction, over anything that tries to hinder us from the plan and purpose
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that you have for us. I speak, Lord God, your word when
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it comes to not onet thing or needing anything, but what you give us
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is more than enough. I pray prosperity, the enoughness of your word,
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enoughness of the financial breakthrough that you have for us. I pray peace to
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our bodies physically, emotionally and spiritually. I pray protection, guidance. I
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pray Lord God, health and strength in Jesus name of our bodies, with
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thanksgiving, knowing that you supply at all the breath of life elohem, the
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rouack eloheen, the power of your word to be evident in every one of
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our lives. And for those who don't believe yet, I pray, Lord
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God, Holy Spirit, that you would reveal yourself to them as well today
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right now, that they would know that there was a God who loves them,
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a God who saves, a God who rescues, a God who forgives,
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a God who loves, a God of grace, a God of mercy,
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and a God who serves, and a sacrifice for us all in Jesus
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name. I prai is by faith, Amen and Amen. So let's go
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forward sixty seconds. We'll share this side. When we come back, we'll
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dive into service and sacrifice. Service and sacrifice. Try to say that fast.
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March chapter eight, verses thirty four to thirty six. I'll be right
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back. Amen. Amen, We're back service and sacrifice today in the morning,
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devot and listen. This is a kind of cultural message. The Gospel
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will always be countercultural. A man the culture that creates their own Christ.
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If that's the thing, or creates their own God or their own version of
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Jesus. If don't like messages like this because it goes against the grain.
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But the power of God's word remains and stands against any culture, against any
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civilization, against any generation, as truth, as love, as gospel,
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as power as authority. Amen. And we stand on the word of God
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here on Soul Winners at so Winners a Cellar radio network as well. So
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we're gonna keep on preaching and keep on preaching the Gospel of Mark. We
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find it and we see it, and I know it's true. Amen,
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it's not because I believe that's true. There's evidence enough in my life and
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in the lives of millions and millions upon millions of people and historical everything.
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The evidence stacks up in favor of truth. Because this is the truth.
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Amen. So let's get this going. Let's move it on the screen.
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Amen. For those who are just listening, specially if you're lifting on cell
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our radio, that we're going to read a word for word, so that
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way you won't miss a beat. But for those who are on the live
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stream, Amen, on video, let's pop it on a screen. Amen.
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There goes authentic Comentationlogy. Try to do these Friday, the same time
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slot as the Morning Devo. Amen. This is part of the Blaze Bible
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Studies. You can catch out on any podcast platform that's available where you can
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catch a podcast, and we should be on your favorite network as well.
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Amen. So let's go for it. Service and Sacrifice, Service and Sacrifice,
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mark chapter eight. Let's start from verse number thirty four. We'll take
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it all the way to thirty six. You ready, and calling the crowd
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to him with his disciples, he said to them, and this is the
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Lord Jesus speaking. If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself,
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take up his cross, and follow me. There we go. But
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whoever would save his life will lose it. In other words, if you
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hold onto your life the way you want your life to be lived, according
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to your way of living, you will lose it. But whoever loses his
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life for my sake and the Gospels save it. But what does it profit
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a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul. That, ladies
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and gentlemen, is where we at right now, this present day. People
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are holding and clinging onto the things of this world, and they want to
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be accepted so badly, and they want to be in the crowd, the
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in crowd, so badly that they're willing to sack of themselves at the altar
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of deception, at the altar of selfishness, at the altar of just some
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I don't know what do you call it? The altar of sin or the
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They decided and remember, we have a choice to make that if we hold
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on to the life the way we wanted to be held on to. We
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decided to do that. And Jesus said, you do that, try to
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save your own life. You're gonna lose it. But the good news is
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that whoever loses his life for my sake, and it's not this is not
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a holy jeha, this is not okay, go and throw yourself off the
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bridge in Jesus name. None of that. Come against that in the name
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of Jesus the enemy. You are a liar. None of that is what
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Jesus taking about. What he's thought about is whoever loses his sacrifices his own
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life and serves the Lord a man for the sake of the Gospel will save
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their life because you're going to the savior. But what does it profit a
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man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul. In other words,
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you're gonna either choose Christ, the one who loves you, the one who
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has the abundant life and the eternal promise for your life, or you're gonna
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follow the things of this world so bad, You're going to want it so
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bad that you're going to forfeit your soul to gain the whole world and what
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the world has for you. That, ladies and gentlemen, is where we
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at. Nobody could tell me differently. If you don't see that in today's
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current culture, amen, maybe you haven't been outside in a while, or
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maybe you haven't watched the news in a while, or maybe you haven't you
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know, watched sports or anything entertainment. Just maybe you're just conscience. You
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see that every time the Gospel of Mark, we see it there. We
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see that it isn't all what Jesus said. It isn't at all what Jesus
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said about follow your heart, about love yourself, about whatever makes you happy,
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or about do you boo. That's not at all what Jesus was talking
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about. In Mark. You see that it isn't at all what Jesus said,
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and it certainly, isn't how Jesus lived men? The whole test of
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Oh is the Gospel true? Does the Bible stand up? Is the Bible
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relevant? All of those questions? Why don't you look at the gospels for
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yourself? Matthew, Mark Luke, and John Amen in the Book of Acts
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is Luke chapter two? I call it, so go for it. Look
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at the scriptures. Look at how Jesus lived a look at his miracle,
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signs and wonders. Look at the way he spoke to people. Look at
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the way he handled rejection, look at the way he treated people. Look
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at the way he forgave sins, all of that. Look at the life
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of Jesus. I think it's worth for you looking at Amen, for you
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to look at a perfect life, an example of a sinless man, an
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example of a holy man, an example of a righteous God in the form
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of a man. Why don't you do that for yourself? A man?
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The counter culture of Christ, Amen's after you and after me, trying to
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deceive us and say, ah, that can't be true. Why why can't
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it be true? Is because it's kind of cultural. I was there too.
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I was the same way my thinking was like before Christ saved my life.
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I was like, that can't be true. There's no way that somebody
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innocen is going to die for guilty people. Amen, what type of love
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is this? I has to ask myself. But Mark's Gospel is the second
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book in the New Testament. But just believed that Mark actually was around before
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you know the other gospels. It's the shortest of the four Gospels. But
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what it lacks in length, it makes up for an action. Talking about
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Mark focused more about the way Jesus lived in what he said when he described
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the teachings of Jesus. Those teachers go hand in him with the Jesus works.
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Amen, to show that he had the power and the authority to make
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the claims that he made king. Yes, but he was a servant king.
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People don't like that. What do you mean a king who serves?
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Yeah, he was a servant king, king of kings, the Lord and
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lords. Yes, the same Lord we're talking about. So Mark was focusing
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on, let's say, more on what Jesus did than on what Jesus said.
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Excuse me, I said that wrong. Earlier. What Jesus said wasn't.
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The main focus in the book of Mark is what he did Amen,
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So that makes any sense. The acts of Jesus, what he did,
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Amen, Whatever God says, whatever the Lord says, is powerful and it
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is true and it is right and it stands. But the Book of Mark
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focuses on more what he did, more than what he said. If that
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makes any sense, Amen, to demonstrate the perfect example that Jesus is and
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was at that time and it is still to this very day. Good morning,
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Sister Joys, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to the
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Morning Devo. It's Friday, Welcome to the weekend. Amen. So we're
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here on authentic imitationology this episode number sixty four. Can you believe it?
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All these sessions, God has been so good Amen. I can't imagine not
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doing these sessions. But I am so grateful that He allowed me to get
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to this point, Amen, in my life. So we learned yesterday,
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well the other day, while we were in the Last Morning Devo, we
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were learning about what God was doing in the situations that were going on.
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Let me just get to it before I messed this up. I'm talking about
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the fuel of praise, few for praise, right, And we noticed that
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God is worthy of praise, and we used an example of how our blessings
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should be used to bless others is not to hold our blessings. That's anti
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cultural too. The world says, get all you can, can all you
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get, Amen, and you know, don't really, The world says,
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don't care about the next person. You got to you gotta come up,
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and you gotta be ready, and you have to have yours for you and
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your family. Put your family first, The world says, amen. And
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if you have extra whatever, you can help out the next man. But
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of course we know that Jesus said, listen, your blessings. My blessings
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are coming from the father, right, and he loves to lavish his children
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with blessings. But those blessings need to be shared, and not for me,
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not for you. That's our few for praise. And we saw that
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last time we were together. Right. So the Jewish people at the time,
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the Jewish audience a man that they when Jesus spoke and demonstrated his what
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he said, the Jewish people, because of their culture, looked at that
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as blasphemous, like how could a man a carport to son nonetheless, be
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saying things that he'd be saying and demonstrating what he says, if he's just
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a carpenter's son, who is this Jesus. That's a question that's going on
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right now today in our society and our time and our culture. And it's
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not only with the Jewish people, the Hebrew people, is with Americans and
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with Spanish people, black people, white people, Chinese people, all cultures
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are still lacking this question. Who is this Jesus? And why do Christians
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say that he's a servant king? And why does the Lord say himself that
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he didn't come to be served, but to serve and to give his life
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as a ransom. That's anti cultural, Jesus anti cultural, a man of
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God. Amen. What he did and what he said was not going along
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with how the culture wanted him to respond, how the culture wanted him to
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speak. And he's still counter cultural. So how is Jesus teaching about service
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and self sacrifice? Counter cultural? What we serve? Jesus instead of saying
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you first, you put your life first? And he said, no,
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if you put your life first before God, you will lose it. But
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if you put your life and align that with God's life in us, we
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will find it. Amen. Counter cultural? And Jesus flipped the script and
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he did that so often in the scriptures. If you read the scriptures,
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you read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you'll see how Jesus
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responded all the time was kind of cultural. Amen. And yes, he
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respected the culture of his time. He even participated in ceremonies. He participated
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and passed over. He participated in the synagogue. Amen. But the message
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that he spoke and demonstrated was counter what they were expecting. When Jesus came
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on a donkey. They wanted him to come on a white horse, and
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they wanted him to go and overthrow the government and rule and rain as the
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mashik McGee, the Messiah. But what did he do. He went straight
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to the church, He went straight to the people and the synegod Amen.
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And he came in not on a white horse, but on a donkey,
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showing his humility. He was humble. Amen. And of course what were
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they screaming, Hossana Hassana, king you know, David, the most High
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God. How they were shouting and bringing him in through and the same people,
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not all of them, but some of the same people that were crying
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Hosanna, Hosanna in the Highest And then not too long after that, not
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all of them, but a lot of them were saying crucifying why because he
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didn't do what they wanted him to do. He didn't respond the way they
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wanted him to respond. He didn't react the way they wanted him to react.
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He didn't take over the way they wanted him to take over. No,
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because Jesus doesn't respond according to how we feel he should do it.
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He responds according to how he knows we need him to respond. He knows
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he knew then, and he knows now that he is sovereign, He's God.
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Amen. There was no confusion in the identity of Jesus. He knows,
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he knew, and he knows exactly what needs to be done a man,
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for us to live this life, for us to be saved, and
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for us to be rescued, and for us to be in this world,
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but not to be of the world. The Bible says, So it's always
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going to be a kind of cultural message. I try, you know,
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to keep everything level on these morning sessions, but I have to understand,
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even me, I have to be like, the message is not always going
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to be nice, and the message is not always going to be received.
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Why. Because the message of the Gospel. Jesus's life is teachings, his
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way, his truth, his life Kunter Cultural. There's no way I can
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make this gospel fit into the way the world wants it. Amen. It's
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my responsibility and it's impossible anyway. The gospel is going to offend somebody.
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The Gospel is going to be rejected by somebody. The Gospel is going to
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be tossed out, and the Gospels is going to be replaced by some people's
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imagination or their way of living. They're going to try to hold on to
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their life, and Jesus said, you do that, you're going to lose
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your life. But if you hold on to him and his life, you'll
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find it. Amen. There's a lot here. Mark didn't include things like
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long genealogies like Matthew did, or as many references to the law and the
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prophets like the other gospels did. Those things wouldn't have been as relevant and
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may not have even made sense to people who weren't Jewish. Gospel is different
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than the other gospels. Right. Mark wanted to show his readers who Jesus
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was and why he came because those questions right there, Amen, are so
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very important. Who is Jesus and why did he come? Amen? And
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I'm telling you that those two questions had me stuck before the Lord saved my
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life. I was like, who is this Jesus? Why is everybody talking
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about him? And why would he come to this world to rescue me?
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I couldn't make the connection. I'm telling you, a man, it was
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so anti cultural, so anti me. Amen. I didn't understand this type
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of love. And this love, Amen, is a blessed type of love.
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It's an authentic type of love. It's a real love. It's at
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a god a love. It's a God demonstrating love. God demonstrated his own
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Loved's not demonstrating the love of this world. Amen. God demonstrates his own
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love for us in this that while we were still sinners, haters of God.
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Amen. Because his message was so so anti cultural, it was not
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what we thought. A man, he still died for us. If I
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was the only one on the planet, or if you were the only one
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on the planet and there was nobody else around, Jesus would have still died
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for you and died for me right there on the spot to give us eternal
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life, Amen, to offer us forgiveness, or a man and all that
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why because he's God, He's love, Amen. And in him there is
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no shade of turning or shadow or darkness. In him is only truth,
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no lives in him, is only eternity, because he's an eternal being.
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Amen. And he sacrificed, he served and sacrificed, sacrifice and served.
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Amen. That's anti cultural, that goes against the grain of what this world
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thinks and how they want to move and how they want us to move as
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believers. So the relevance of what Jesus said and how he did things a
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man wasn't really relevant to the Jewish culture at this time. And remember the
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Bible says that Jesus came to his own and his own what, and his
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very own people rejected him. You think that this message is going to be
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received by everybody. It's so funny when I see, you know, those
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popular charismatic preachers or evangelists or anything like that, passive teacher that is so
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received by the world, and they got millions of worldly people following them.
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And when you ask people about, you know, their relationship with God,
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a lot of them say, you know what, I don't really serve God
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like that. But I follow this dude or this woman, and you heard
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of a person, I'll be like, yeah, they're Christian, right,
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yeah, I follow them. Notice that they follow them and their teachings,
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but they don't follow the teachers of the Lord Jesus Amen. So people become
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puffed up with their ministries. Oh look, in my ministry, millions of
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people are getting saved. No, millions of people might be not saved.
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They just might be following your teachings that are really relevant to the culture,
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and you're not really preaching the gospel. I know for sure that God could
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use people, and he has been he always will be using people to advance
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the Kingdom of God, and those people will become popular. But what I
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don't understand is how people are so popular with the world and yet the world
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is not getting saved by the message that they're supposedly preaching, which is the
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gospel. There should be a rejection of the gospel. Right, people could
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follow me. I don't want people to follow me, but they can,
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but I want them to follow the Lord of who I'm sharing the gospel about
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man more important. Early on in ministry, I made that mistake, and
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I thought people were following Jesus, because they were following me. And come
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to find out, a lot of people were following my word, not the
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word of God. So I had to change on the way in my approach
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on my ministry early on a man, just to make sure that people were
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getting saved and that people were not getting saved by you know what I have
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to save, but they were getting saved by the savor himself. But the
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while, God bless you, bro, God blessed. Welcome to the morning
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Devio authentic imitationology. It's Friday, so we're doing our thing over here.
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Amen. Sister Joy says, amazing grace is love? Amen? Amen,
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good teaching, Yes, it's amazing grace. How sweet the sound for God
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to save a wretch like I was. I was a wretch. Amen.
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I'm no longer a wretch. I'm no longer a sinner saved by grace.
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I am a saint that deals with sin because everybody else has sin full tendencies.
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Because we have a flesh that we deal with on a day to day
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basis. Amen, Jesus Christ did not come and save our flesh. He
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came and save our soul. Amen. And our spirit is already perfect because
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we created the image of God. So that's an amazing gospel that we have.
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Amen. And guess what, I can't prove this all to be true,
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and I don't have to. Holy Spirit, God himself will do the
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convincing and convicting. He would show up as a servant, a servant,
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and as a person who shows the ultimate sacrifice that he has already made.
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And Jesus doesn't have to go back to the cross. There was a one
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for all situation. He did it once for all, doesn't have to go
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back to the cross and do it again to try to convince people that he
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is exactly who he says he is, and he is exactly who the prophets
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all through the scriptures say he was Jesus Lord. Whether or not you believe
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it or not. But guess what, every need will bow and every time
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will confess that Jesus is Lord. So come to him willingly. Now a
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man go to Jesus willingly. He served a man. He didn't come to
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be served. He served a man us, and he sacrificed and he showed
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that, demonstrated that once and for all a man. So you could buy
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your knee now willingly. If not, you're going to buy your knee one
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day, and it's not going to be a situation that you're gonna be like
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on Bio, my knee out to be saved. You're gonna be bound your
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knee and be like, man, why did I reject this gospel, this
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message, this Lord, this savior, this God who loved me? Why
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would you do that? Amen? Is because the message of the gospel is
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counter cultural? I said, Anti, it's countercultural. How was Jesus teaching
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about service and self sacrifice counter cultural? You know it's true. Amen.
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When you speak about God, a lot of people say, oh yeah,
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I believe there's a God, a higher power, higher being out there.
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As soon as you say Jesus is that God, now you have a conversation
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goes against It flies against people's ideas. So God is good. God is
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good. Let's see, Joanne, God bless you. Joanne says, I
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just want to let my brothers and sisters know. I know they're with me,
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and I know they're praying for me. I go for my procedure today
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and I know God is with me. Amen. God has definitely been demonstrating
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his power, his love, his grace, his mercy, his healing power,
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over your life since Joanne, and of course we will be praying,
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and of course the prayer team will always be praying for you, and I
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will pray for you as well. And those who love you and honor you
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and are brothers and sisters in Christ and the Kingdom with you. We got
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you. Amen. Thank you so much for letting us know about your procedure
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today, expecting nothing but God to show up in your situation like He has
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been showing up. Amen, your testimony. So God bless you all.
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I thank you so much for hanging out with me. I hope you have
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a great weekend, the start of a new weekend. Right and man,
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do what's right, do what honors God and pleases God. Amen. Don't
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hold on to the things of this world. Let it all go, Amen,
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Because if you hold on to your own life and your own trying to
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save your own life, Jesus said, you'll lose it. But if you
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let go of that and you go and live for the Lord, Amen,
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you will find your life and life from abundance. Amen. Sister n Irie,
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God bless you. Pray for my son and me in the name of
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Jesus. I pray for sister and Irie his son and her son, and
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Jesus Name. I pray Lo God, that whatever the situation is, that
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you will be in the situation making peace and putting unity in the hearts and
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in the family, and that you, Lord God, will be sovereign in
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their life, and that you will, Lord God, lift yourself up and
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be the one who they can focus on, the one they could trust,
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and the one that they could respond to in love, because you are the
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God who loves them. In Jesus Name, Amen and Amen. So I'm
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out of here. God, bless you, God keep you, and remember
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always that God is good. Peace,