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Episode 32 : "The Linen Belt: A Picture of Pride and God's Purpose" Scripture: Jeremiah 13:1–11 · His Hop Radio Podcast

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Speaker 4: all right, y'all, all right, well, let's uh not delay,
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Speaker 4: but let's get into it now. In chapter twelve, we're
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Speaker 4: still looking at the destruction of Judah. We still we
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Speaker 4: see the heart of God. Where even though he said
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Speaker 4: that he was going to take them out of the land,
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Speaker 4: even though he said that he was gonna call the
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Speaker 4: wild beast to come and devour the inhabitants, even though
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Speaker 4: his anger was kindled and his judgment was unavoidable, at
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Speaker 4: this point, he turns around and he says that he
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Speaker 4: was going to have mercy. He said that he was
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Speaker 4: going to bring them back into the land, and even
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Speaker 4: the inhabitants around them. He's told, He said that if
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Speaker 4: they were to observe his commandments and walking his way,
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Speaker 4: that they would be established. That there's a blessing for us.
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Speaker 4: And we could, you know, be encouraged in those scriptures
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Speaker 4: to know that God is a merciful god. He doesn't
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Speaker 4: want to judge. Judgment is not his first reaction. He
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Speaker 4: wants us to repent. He delays judgment. He is so
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Speaker 4: patient and long suffering. Amen, So what has the Lord
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Speaker 4: been patient concerning us? What area in our lives have
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Speaker 4: we been struggling to surrender over to the Lord? And
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Speaker 4: the Lord has been so long suffering and patient waiting
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Speaker 4: for us to surrender all to him. Well, guess what
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Speaker 4: today's your day today is?
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Speaker 3: Today?
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Speaker 4: That said that thing down, bring it to the altar
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Speaker 4: and leave it there and allow God to work it
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Speaker 4: out for us. Say man, hey, man, So today we're
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Speaker 4: going to see an object lesson. God loves to teach
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Speaker 4: using objects and illustrations. He is when Jesus was on
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Speaker 4: this earth and he would teach the multitudes, he would
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Speaker 4: use parables. He was an amazing storyteller. He would always
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Speaker 4: use object lessons and things like that. So people can
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Speaker 4: really get the message and understand it. And so we're
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Speaker 4: going to see that here in the Book of Jeremiah.
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Speaker 4: So we're going to start in verse one. Actually we're
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Speaker 4: gonna read it, and then we'll drop back and we'll
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Speaker 4: break it down. So verse one it says, thus the
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Speaker 4: Lord said to me, go and get yourself a linen sash. Now,
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Speaker 4: this linen sash is something like a belt. They would
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Speaker 4: wear ropes back then in the ancient days, and they
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Speaker 4: would use a sash to go around their waist or
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Speaker 4: sometimes it would come around their chest. And it was
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Speaker 4: actually very useful because when they needed to get to work.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of hard and cumberingsome to try
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Speaker 4: to work in a robe, you know, and so especially
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Speaker 4: if you're working out in the field or doing things
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Speaker 4: like that. So there was a thing that they would do.
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Speaker 4: They would call it gird up your loins. And so
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Speaker 4: they were able to take the bottom half of their robe,
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Speaker 4: fold it over, fold it between their legs, and use
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Speaker 4: the sash to tie it to keep it up so
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Speaker 4: their legs could be free, especially if they had to run.
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Speaker 4: Imagine trying to run in a long robe. You know.
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Speaker 4: The ladies relate trying to run or do things in
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Speaker 4: a long dress. It's kind of hard, it's kind of restrictive.
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Speaker 4: And so the men would gird up their loins so
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Speaker 4: that they could run, possibly go to battle or something
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Speaker 4: like that, or they had to respond quickly to something
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Speaker 4: they need to get freed up in their legs. They
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Speaker 4: would do so, and they would use a linen sash
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Speaker 4: kind of like a belt type of a thing around
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Speaker 4: their waist to do this. And so he says, and
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Speaker 4: put it on around your waist, but do not put
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Speaker 4: it in water. So he was told not to wash it,
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Speaker 4: like to allow it to get dirty, right and back
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Speaker 4: then the sash would be like a different color, almost
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Speaker 4: like an accessory, right, almost like it was like the
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Speaker 4: you can say the the beauty of the robel like
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Speaker 4: it was decorative.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
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Speaker 4: And it was kind of stylish, I guess you can
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Speaker 4: say that it's like a stylish thing to have your
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Speaker 4: sash and to have it cleaning cap. But the Lord
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Speaker 4: told him not to wash it. So I got a
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Speaker 4: sash according to the word of the Lord, and put
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Speaker 4: it around my waist. And the word of the Lord
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Speaker 4: came to me the second time saying, take the sash
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Speaker 4: that you acquired, which is around your waist, and arise,
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Speaker 4: and go to the Euphrates and hide it there in
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Speaker 4: a hole in the rock. So I went, and I
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Speaker 4: hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.
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Speaker 4: Now this is an object lesson amen, and I love
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Speaker 4: the obedient. So the prophet to carry out all the
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Speaker 4: commandments that the Lord gave him, or else we would
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Speaker 4: not have been able to read this and understand it
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Speaker 4: years later verse six. Now it came to pass, after
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Speaker 4: many days, that the Lord said to me, arise, go
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Speaker 4: to the Euphrates, and take from there the sash, which
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Speaker 4: I can manage you to hide there. Then I went
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Speaker 4: to the Euphrates and dug and I took the sash
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Speaker 4: from the place where I had hid it. And there
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Speaker 4: was the sash ruined. It was profitable for nothing, profitable
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Speaker 4: for nothing. He couldn't sell it, he couldn't really use it. It
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Speaker 4: was ruined it probably at this point he probably couldn't
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Speaker 4: even gird up his loins with it. At this point,
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Speaker 4: then the word of the Lord came to me, singing,
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Speaker 4: Thus says the Lord, in this manner, I will ruin
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Speaker 4: the pride of Judah. Now here's the object lesson and
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Speaker 4: the great pride of Jerusalem. This evil people who refuse
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Speaker 4: to hear my words, Now that's important. We cannot refuse
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Speaker 4: to hear his words. We cannot take his words lightly.
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Speaker 4: We cannot ignore his word. Amen, who follow the dictates
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Speaker 4: of their hearts. Man, now you see how evil our
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Speaker 4: hearts are. You see how much trouble we can get
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Speaker 4: into just by listening to our own hearts. A lot
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Speaker 4: of us put too much stock in our hearts. We
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Speaker 4: put too much feeling, emotion. Our hearts control us. The
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Speaker 4: world will tell you to follow your heart, But the
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Speaker 4: word of God tells us not to follow the dictates
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Speaker 4: of it. And it doesn't even say evil heart. It
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Speaker 4: just says, takets of your heart in general, and walk
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Speaker 4: after other guys, to serve them and worship them. Shall
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Speaker 4: be just like this sash, which is profitable for nothing.
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Speaker 4: For as the sash clings to the waste of a man,
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Speaker 4: so I have caused the whole house of Israel and
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Speaker 4: the whole house of Judah to cling to me, says
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Speaker 4: the Lord. Thus they may become my people for renown,
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Speaker 4: for praise, and for glory. But they would not hear. Amen. Okay,
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Speaker 4: this is good. So let's begin to break this down
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Speaker 4: a little bit now. As I said, God tells Jeremiah
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Speaker 4: to take the belt to the Euphrates River. Now, if
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Speaker 4: you have studied the Book of Revelation, you would know
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Speaker 4: how significant the Euphrates River is. This is the river
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Speaker 4: that will be dried up in the last days in
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Speaker 4: the armies of the world, we'll be able to fit
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Speaker 4: into this river. And this is where the Lord is
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Speaker 4: going to come back on a white horse with the
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Speaker 4: armies of heaven and destroy the Antichrist, the beast, and
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Speaker 4: the false prophet, and he will take over the world.
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Speaker 4: Hey man, but the Euphrates River right here in this
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Speaker 4: story is where Jeremiah was to hide this sash in
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Speaker 4: the rocks. And then sometimes later we don't know how
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Speaker 4: long it was. We don't know if it could have
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Speaker 4: been a year or six months. But God tells him
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Speaker 4: to go and retrieve it. Then Jeremiah turns and when
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Speaker 4: he finds the belt, the belt was ruined. It was unprofitable,
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Speaker 4: it was good for nothing. It was You can imagine
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Speaker 4: by the river how it could have decayed. I don't
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Speaker 4: know if you've ever been to the beach and you've
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Speaker 4: found an old you know, jacket or old clothing or
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Speaker 4: you know, we know that there's you know, fish and
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Speaker 4: birds and all kinds of stuff that is in the water,
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Speaker 4: or you know, stuff that could crawl up, product that
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Speaker 4: could eat holes in this garment. You know who knows
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Speaker 4: the you know the way that it was ruined. But
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Speaker 4: the point is is that now it is ruined as
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Speaker 4: an object lesson and it was completely useless at this point. Now,
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Speaker 4: imagine Jeremiah would wonder why God would have him destroy
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Speaker 4: something that was perfectly good. Like I said, the sash
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Speaker 4: was kind of like your style. They had different colors.
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Speaker 4: Maybe your family had a certain color, different clans maybe,
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Speaker 4: or you know, a different beauty point in your garment.
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Speaker 4: But now it is ruined, and so God was painting
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Speaker 4: a picture here. Now in verse eight and verse eleven,
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Speaker 4: you see the meaning the meaning. God explains what's going
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Speaker 4: on to Jeremiah. He says, just as the belt became ruined,
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Speaker 4: so had Judah in Israel, his people, his inheritance. God
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Speaker 4: says that his inherited people were supposed to cling to him, right,
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Speaker 4: they were supposed to bring him glory. They're supposed to
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Speaker 4: bring him honor and praise. God wanted to take them
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Speaker 4: and put them around his waist, just like this, this
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Speaker 4: sash right. In other words, what God wants to do
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Speaker 4: is he wants to keep us close to him. We
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Speaker 4: are supposed to be close. We're supposed to be walking
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Speaker 4: close with our heavenly Father on a consistent daily basis.
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Speaker 4: And how many times do we and I'm guilty of
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Speaker 4: this myself, how many times do we wake up late,
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Speaker 4: you know, late to get to the barbershop, or we
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Speaker 4: have plans for the day and we wake up like
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Speaker 4: ten minutes before we have to be there, and then
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Speaker 4: we're rushing, We're yelling at everybody in the house to
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Speaker 4: get ready, And do we take time out to be
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Speaker 4: intimate with our heavenly Father. It's kind of hard to do.
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Speaker 4: So now, it's understandable if it happens every once in
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Speaker 4: a while, you know, But if this is something that
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Speaker 4: is a pattern in our lives to where we're always rushing,
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Speaker 4: we're always late, and we're always missing our time with
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Speaker 4: our heavenly Father, that's an issue. That's something that we
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Speaker 4: got to figure that out. Like maybe we need to
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Speaker 4: prepare the night before so that we don't have to rush.
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Speaker 4: Maybe we need to put our clothes out, get them ready.
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Speaker 4: Maybe we need to get food ready, so all we
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Speaker 4: have to do is grab it on our way out.
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Speaker 4: You know, what could we do to make sure we
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Speaker 4: guard our time with our heavenly Father, our time in prayer,
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Speaker 4: our time and his word, hey man, so that we
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Speaker 4: can have this close walk with him right and not
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Speaker 4: be like Judah or Israel in this story they totally
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Speaker 4: missed it instead of walking close to him, instead of
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Speaker 4: them being close to him like a sash, like he
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Speaker 4: wanted to put them around his waist. Right. He wanted
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Speaker 4: to wear the nation as a beauty mark, as an accessory,
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Speaker 4: you know, a part of them. You can imagine how
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Speaker 4: beautiful the robe of God is. You know, the Bible
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Speaker 4: says that he's beautiful in holiness, and he wants He
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Speaker 4: wanted the nation to be a part to take part
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Speaker 4: in that. God has so much for us, He has
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Speaker 4: so many blessings for us. Just if we can press
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Speaker 4: into his presence. There's so much much there. There's joy,
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Speaker 4: unspeakable joy in his presence. There's safety, there's protection, there's rest.
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Speaker 4: A lot of us are striving on a daily basis.
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Speaker 4: A lot of us are stressed out. A lot of
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Speaker 4: us are deal with fear and jealousy. We fear the future,
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Speaker 4: we fear the economy, we fear the war in Iran.
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Speaker 4: We fear so many things. But if we only press
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Speaker 4: into his presence, we will find the benefits and the
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Speaker 4: goodness of the Lord. That this is how close he
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Speaker 4: wants us to be just like Judah. But instead they
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Speaker 4: chose a fidal to follow idols, and they became proud.
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Speaker 4: They thought it was a badge of honor to be independent,
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Speaker 4: and to be rebellious, and to be stubborn. These are
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Speaker 4: characteristics of Satan himself. Pride is what caused him to
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Speaker 4: fall from heaven. He got kicked out of heaven because
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Speaker 4: of pride. And they refused to listen. What areas in
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Speaker 4: our lives are we refusing to listen? I can understand
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Speaker 4: that there's times where we struggle, but that's it's a
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Speaker 4: difference when we refuse to listen to the Lord. We
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Speaker 4: refuse to listen to his word. Amen, And the results
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Speaker 4: of it was spiritual declay. One of the saddest verses
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Speaker 4: here is verse eleven. God says that he wanted his
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Speaker 4: people to be his own possession. That was his intent
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Speaker 4: and his desire that they would not listen if we could,
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Speaker 4: if we would only listen to the voice of God. Amen.
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Speaker 4: Now that should challenge each in every believer. God desires closeness,
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Speaker 4: not merely our word religious activity. He wants to be close.
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Speaker 4: He wants to be a part of our every day life. Amen.
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Speaker 4: So this is how we should applies. This is how
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Speaker 4: we should apply this to our lives. This is our
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Speaker 4: life application right here. Now, this is where we're going
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Speaker 4: to ask several important questions right as we finish this
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Speaker 4: section of Scripture, as we spend some time on this,
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Speaker 4: and I want to encourage you to go back and
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Speaker 4: even read this even after this podcast, ask ourselves, am
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Speaker 4: I staying close to God each and every day? Like?
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Speaker 4: What is getting in the way of your prayer life?
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Speaker 4: Is it sleeping too late to where you're you gotta
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Speaker 4: hurt and get up and rush off to work? Is
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Speaker 4: it the Internet? Is it the Xbox? Like? What habits
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Speaker 4: do you have to change so that you can give
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Speaker 4: God his rifle place? Then? As has pride solely crept
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Speaker 4: into my life? Right? So, just like the sash was
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Speaker 4: buried there and after some time it was ruined. Sin
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Speaker 4: has a way of progressingly, gradually ruining our lives. That's
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Speaker 4: a deceptive thing about sin. We can sin today and
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Speaker 4: think we're okay. We can go out and cheat on
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Speaker 4: our spouse. We can go in steal some money or
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Speaker 4: something and think we're not We don't get caught, you know,
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Speaker 4: we thinking that we're thinking that everything's okay. Right. We
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Speaker 4: can develop bad habits and behaviors for so long until
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Speaker 4: finally one day it catches up to us and we
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Speaker 4: find ourselves distant from God? Am I listening when God speaks? Hey? Man,
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Speaker 4: that's a question. Are you making that a priority? Be
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Speaker 4: right down some of the things that you hear in
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Speaker 4: your prayer time that God has spoken to you. You
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Speaker 4: has God giving you dreams or visions? And have you
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Speaker 4: gotten the interpretation? Have you applied your heart? Have you
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Speaker 4: taken it to heart? Just like we said in the
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Speaker 4: last episode, God was looking for someone not there was
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Speaker 4: now one person who took us to heart. Amen, is
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Speaker 4: my life bringing glory to God? Like I said, sin
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Speaker 4: really destroys us overnight. Decay happens gradually. It happens with
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Speaker 4: one compromise, one ignored conviction. One simple act of disobedience
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Speaker 4: can start us down that slow drift away from God.
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Speaker 4: Hey man, they say it's the small foxes that spoils
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Speaker 4: the vineyard. We have to deal with the small compromises
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Speaker 4: that we're confronted with on a daily basis. But the
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Speaker 4: good news is this God still causes people back. He
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Speaker 4: calls them back, he still loves them, he still works
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Speaker 4: with them, He still wants them to come back to himself. Amen,
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Speaker 6: it back again. My feet impossible when man is made
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Speaker 6: possible in Christ.
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Speaker 7: I'm not saying I don't like me. I see Christ
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Speaker 7: up in my mind. You no wish you no, I
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Speaker 7: feel alive. You know what we casing poor straight? The
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Speaker 7: prayer got us washing my plans with you like you
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Speaker 7: want to player. But I'm walking in this paper. If
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Speaker 7: I'm called up in that drama, got it? Tell you
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Speaker 7: think you may God looks I'm the way.
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Speaker 6: I'm going up like that look bates taseness. The Lord
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Speaker 6: is girl. Now I'm gonna take this left day it
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Speaker 6: was tack and it was peck with the stretches every place.
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Speaker 7: To me, he had got some in the guy back
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Speaker 7: in st the sick because some people love whoever's pressing.
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Speaker 6: So let's how y'all focused. Only how I left the pushing.
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Speaker 6: Thank you cloud the man.
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Speaker 7: That's why I saw about the message, found the bread
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Speaker 7: of life, and now fool like it was resting.
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Speaker 6: Welcome to the journey.
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Speaker 7: If this is your first impression, I'm a shout of
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Speaker 7: God first and plus the citizener. And then if I'm cleaning
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Speaker 7: on it all, then I don't run out of the lyrics.
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Speaker 7: They ain't no chatgey between o AA, the holy liar Rene.
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Speaker 7: If I'm leaning on his leading, suddenly within the mirror
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Speaker 7: it's a little version of Christ. Then I pray these
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Speaker 7: people your own mega plans for me, hope in the future.
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Speaker 7: He got his hand on me in the NDC. And
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Speaker 7: then when this luck with your.
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Speaker 6: Vitation, gos but Max Shire, this is in a place here.
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Speaker 6: The only thing that matters is what you're doing for Christ.
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Speaker 7: Right got to be consisted. Did not trust his hand
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Speaker 7: on minds, only the medicine. What you're doing for Christ right,
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Speaker 7: Christ right, Christ like, what you're doing for Christ. The
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Speaker 7: only thing that matters is what you're doing for Christ right.
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Speaker 7: You got to be consisted, did not trust his hand
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Speaker 7: on mine. Only the matter is what you're doing.
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Speaker 6: For Christ right, Christ right? Christ like? What you do
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Speaker 6: for Christ right? Christ right, Christ right, Christ right? The
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Speaker 6: only thing that mad is what you're doing.
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Speaker 5: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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Speaker 4: All right, all right, we are back from a break.
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Speaker 4: That's our sister kid Lee. Only thing that matters is
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Speaker 4: what you do for Christ. Come on now, hey, we
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Speaker 4: want to give a quick shout out to those in
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Speaker 4: a life chat. Shout out to our brothers Zone three,
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Speaker 4: always faithfully coming into the life Chat getting that encouragement
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Speaker 4: in a quick shout out. Also to missus his house.
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Speaker 4: She kind of hijacked the Accountability Championship yesterday. So let's
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Speaker 4: see what's Let's see we have any new challengers today.
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Speaker 4: Let's see if our brothers Zone can get his spot
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Speaker 4: back as the trivia champ. We appreciate you brother always
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Speaker 4: showing up. Check him out, man, He's got some great
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Speaker 4: music out there. Check out his Spotify link is under
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Speaker 4: Zone three z O n E three, the number three
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Speaker 4: one of the sickest Christian hip hop artists in Vegas.
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Speaker 3: And that.
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Speaker 4: With that, it is time for our accountability partner segments.
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Speaker 4: This is where discipleship happens. And it's a healthy thing
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Speaker 4: to have people in our lives that can speak into
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Speaker 4: our hearts and our minds, especially when we, as we
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Speaker 4: saw in this chapter, begin to follow the dictates of
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Speaker 4: our own hearts. Sometimes we need to be brought back
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Speaker 4: to the Word of God, and the Bible challenges us
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Speaker 4: and tells us to renew our minds, and the only
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Speaker 4: way we can do that is by the Word of God.
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Speaker 4: And it's good to have a prayer partner, someone to say, hey,
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Speaker 4: that's not the word, that's not the will of God
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Speaker 4: for your life. Hopefully you get it from your home church,
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Speaker 4: but also we would love to come alongside you as
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Speaker 4: your accountability partner. Meet us in a live chat if
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Speaker 4: you have questions or if you're dealing with some type
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Speaker 4: of issue, some type of sin, or something like that.
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Speaker 4: Sometimes it takes agreement in prayer to break those things.
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Speaker 4: The Bible says one can chase one thousand, but two
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Speaker 4: can chase ten thousand and so there's nothing wrong with
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Speaker 4: this saying hey, I need prayer, I need help, or
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Speaker 4: this or that and the other. And so that's what
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Speaker 4: we do here on the podcast, and that's one of
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Speaker 4: the functions of the live chat is our accountability partner,
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Speaker 4: and we give you daily challenges. We tell you to
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Speaker 4: call your partner, text or email or however, FaceTime them,
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Speaker 4: however you contact them and hit them up sometime this week,
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Speaker 4: and you can use this as one of your topics
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Speaker 4: to go over. And the question is is there any
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Speaker 4: area of pride or compromise as you notice in my
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Speaker 4: life that I may not see? That's a good, honest
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Speaker 4: question right there. Let me repeat it, Is there any
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Speaker 4: area of pride or compromise you've noticed in my life
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Speaker 4: that I may not see a man and be willing
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Speaker 4: to listen without becoming defensive. Right, The only way this
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Speaker 4: works is if we have integrity with ourselves. Is one
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Speaker 4: thing to lie to other people, but it's dangerous when
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Speaker 4: you're lying to yourself, right, because we ain't fooling over,
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Speaker 4: We ain't fooling God. God can see anyway, and so
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Speaker 4: it's good to just have integrity and to be honest.
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Speaker 4: God will resist a pride, but it gives grace to
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Speaker 4: the humble. It takes humility to have an accountability partner,
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Speaker 4: but guess what, it takes humility to get into the kingdom. Amen.
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Speaker 4: And then after you talk about it, and after you
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Speaker 4: listen and hear and pray together, encourage one another to
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Speaker 4: remain close to God. Right, that's his desire. He wants
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Speaker 4: And now once again it's time for trivia. So the
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Speaker 4: question is will Zone three get his spot back today? Amen?
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Speaker 4: All right, get your fingers ready, hand on over to
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Speaker 4: the life chat and the first one to answer the
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Speaker 4: question gets the answer. Well, the first one to answer
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Speaker 4: the question correctly becomes the trivia champ for today. So
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Speaker 4: here's the question, what object did God tells Jeremiah to
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Speaker 4: buy to? Where as an illustration? Let me ask you
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Speaker 4: get again, what object did God tell Jeremiah to buy to?
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Speaker 4: Where as an illustration in another clue, I'm gonna give
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Speaker 4: you he wore it around his waist. So what item
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Speaker 4: was that that he used for his object? Lesson hey
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Speaker 4: Man posted in the Life chat. And now it's time
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Speaker 4: for our community shout out. This is the time we
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Speaker 4: side of our organization. And with that, beloved, it is
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Speaker 4: time for me to get them up out of here.
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Speaker 4: It's my time here on the podcast. But I'm not
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Speaker 4: gonna go without closing remarks in, without closing out in prayer.
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Speaker 4: So actually I'm gonna I'm gonna give us a reflection
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Speaker 4: question right here, right, what area of your life has
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Speaker 4: slowly drifted away from God?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 4: I think it's a healthy thing if we can just
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Speaker 4: sit down and reflect from time to time. Right, this
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Speaker 4: is something we should be doing on a consistent basis.
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Speaker 4: What area, what area in your life have you been
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Speaker 4: not submitted to the Lord. It could be the area
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Speaker 4: of finances. It could be your tongue, It could be
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Speaker 4: the way you speak where you speak to others. It
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Speaker 4: could be an attitude. If it's sinple and God says
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Speaker 4: not to do it, then we need to be obedient. Amen,
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Speaker 4: what practical steps can you take today to draw closer
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Speaker 4: to him? Now take a few minutes this week and
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Speaker 4: pray honestly about that question and discuss it with your
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Speaker 4: accountability partner. The linen belt teaches us something we should
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Speaker 4: never forget. Our purpose is found in our relationship with God.
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Speaker 4: When we remain close to him, our lives reflect his glory. Amen.
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Speaker 4: But when pride, compromise, and disobedience create distance, we begin
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Speaker 4: to lose the purpose for which we were created. Hey, man,
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Speaker 4: the nation of Israel would have been glorious if they
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Speaker 4: would have stayed around his waist. That they just would
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Speaker 4: have listened to God. Now, God's desire has never changed.
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Speaker 4: He still wants a people who cling to him, listen
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Speaker 4: to his voice, and bring him honor through the way
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Speaker 4: that they live. So today, choose closeness over compromise. That's
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Speaker 4: a T shirt right there. Choose humility over pride and
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Speaker 4: obedience over convenience. Now remember, stay in the word, stay
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Speaker 4: close to God, and let's stay faithful to him. Amen,
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Speaker 4: let's close out in prayer. Only Father, We thank you,
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Speaker 4: Oh God. We ask Father God that you will help
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Speaker 4: us in every area for which we struggle. We ask Father, God, Lord,
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Speaker 4: that you would draw us close to you, Oh God,
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Speaker 4: that we will be around your way, So God, that
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Speaker 4: you can use us, So God as a belt, that
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Speaker 4: you can use us. So God, O Lord, that we'll
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Speaker 4: be so close to your chest, that our heart beats
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Speaker 4: will have the same rhythm. Lord, help us, Lord God,
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Speaker 4: to draw closer to you. Help us to be faith full,
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Speaker 4: help us to bring you glory. We ask, o God,
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Speaker 4: Oh Lord, that you'll help us guard our hearts against pride,
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Speaker 4: against drifting slowly away, against compromise, against anything that is
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Speaker 4: offensive to you. Oh God. We asked this in Jesus' name. Amen,
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Speaker 4: Remember it's not about us, It's all about the Christ
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Speaker 4: in us.
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Speaker 5: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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Speaker 5: is the Hiss Hop radio show.