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God Dependence [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: So today we're talking about god dependence. God dependence James
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  Speaker 1: Shapta number four. We're gonna be in verses thirteen to
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  Speaker 1: fifteen today in the morning Devo God dependence. Depending on
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  Speaker 1: yourself or if I depend on myself and rely on
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  Speaker 1: my own self, it's going to be a short day,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be long nights, and it's going to be issues
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  Speaker 1: all throughout that It's already as I'm thinking about that,
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  Speaker 1: imagining that I was just independently dependent on myself, there's
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  Speaker 1: really not a lot of hope for me.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the way I see it. But when I
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  Speaker 2: depend on.
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  Speaker 1: God and put my trust and rely in him, and
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  Speaker 1: allow him to control my life, not forced control, but
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  Speaker 1: allow me to choose him, allow me to trust him,
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  Speaker 1: allow me to rely on him. The God who loves me,
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  Speaker 1: the guy who saves me, the God who rescued me,
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  Speaker 1: the Guy who transforms me, the God who hears me,
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  Speaker 1: the God who understands me, the Guy who responds to
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  Speaker 1: my prayers, who loves to show up in situations where
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  Speaker 1: we know, if it had not been forgot, then we
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  Speaker 1: will be curtains. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Heaven's armies.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about that God, God of the Scriptures, and
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  Speaker 2: I rely on him.
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  Speaker 1: Every day becomes hopeful, every day becomes joyful. Every day
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  Speaker 1: even though we're facing death to the left of us,
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  Speaker 1: to the right of us. As a parent, I can't well.
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  Speaker 1: I have experienced loss of children, but I can't get
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  Speaker 1: my mind there, and I won't want to go there
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  Speaker 1: to lose a child again, and then to wake up
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  Speaker 1: and see that someone we know and hold dear in
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  Speaker 1: our heart to be and my wife, my son is gone.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do?
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  Speaker 1: We have to just love one another through this. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of pain is happening in this world, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We need to wake up. At least I need to
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  Speaker 2: wake up. How about me? And realize how time is just.
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  Speaker 1: Flying by telling you, man, yesterday is so gone.
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  Speaker 2: Like think about it. Whatever you did yesterday is gone.
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  Speaker 1: If you did something that was not armoring God yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Today's a new day. Start to honor him today, start
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  Speaker 1: to trust him today. Depending on God daily is essential.
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  Speaker 1: Depending on God daily is necessary. Depending on God daily
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  Speaker 1: is hopeful, it is joyful. Depending on God daily is
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  Speaker 1: beneficial to your life and to my life.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of things are happening, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we need to love God with everything we have and
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  Speaker 1: love one another as we're commanded.
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  Speaker 2: By the Lord Jesus himself.
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  Speaker 1: It's in a new commandment I give to you, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: love one another as you love yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I pray for a hedge of protection
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  Speaker 1: every single day over me, myself, my family, our relatives,
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  Speaker 1: our whole tire bloodline. And I always extend that pray
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  Speaker 1: to every single person who's listening and watching, listening and watching, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because I know one day, one day, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to be here. One day you're not going to be here.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, we have work to do.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And it starts with love, the love for God
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  Speaker 2: and the love for others. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, sister join I see you God, Bless you, God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you in your family as well.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: These times, man, they're just flying by. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people say things. For granted, life is getting short. Gotta
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  Speaker 1: look for God now, Yes, just to joint, Yes, gotta
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  Speaker 1: do it. Look for God now. Boble says, look for
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  Speaker 1: God when you can find them, Like the daytime is here,
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  Speaker 1: but the night is coming.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Jesus said, like the days
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  Speaker 1: of Noah, everybody's doing their own thing, not caring about
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  Speaker 1: eternal things, and then one day it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: some type of flood in your life. I believe God
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  Speaker 1: is not going to flood the earth once again, but
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  Speaker 1: he's coming with fire. But there might be a flood
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  Speaker 1: in the individual lives and you won't be able to
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  Speaker 1: get out of that water. And the boat to safety
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  Speaker 1: is right there. It's been the doors have been opened.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what, you go towards it, it might be
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  Speaker 1: too late. The doors will be shut and then you'll
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  Speaker 1: be wiped out. It's a serious thing.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: For a morning Devo, I can't. I have to say it.
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  Speaker 1: We have to depend on God, we have to believe.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing about you have to, it's like it's
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  Speaker 1: your choice. I'm saying you have to because I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to urge you to trust God.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to encourage.
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  Speaker 1: You to live through his word, look at his word,
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  Speaker 1: to read his word and apply his word. But of
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  Speaker 1: course you can't be forced to do anything you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do. Amen. I wasn't forced to believe in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus. I don't know anyone who is forced.
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  Speaker 1: I know people who are forced to go to church.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's a different story. But even though the people who
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  Speaker 1: are forced to go to church, they might be resentful,
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  Speaker 1: they might like be why did people force me to
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  Speaker 1: do this?
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  Speaker 2: Amen? But the thing is if they.
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  Speaker 1: Were encouraged by the word preached, and if they are
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  Speaker 1: in a church that loves Jesus, that preaches Jesus his life,
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  Speaker 1: his birth, his life, death, resurrection, and they're in a good
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  Speaker 1: space where they could literally get fed the living word
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  Speaker 1: of God.
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  Speaker 2: But if they're a cult or a church that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: believe in Jesus as God, or.
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  Speaker 1: They're in some kind of circus unfortunately going on in
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  Speaker 1: their congregation, and then that forcing really than doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: But when you set up by the Lord and you're
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  Speaker 1: depending on God to speak to you and to direct
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  Speaker 1: you and to guide you the men, you're in a
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  Speaker 1: good position.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a long first part of this morning devo.
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  Speaker 1: But the love for souls man just wells up for
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  Speaker 1: me every time I hear that someone want to be
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  Speaker 1: an eternity. And the first question I always ask myself, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: were they ready?
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  Speaker 2: They ready? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: So if you're ready right now, stay ready for the
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  Speaker 1: return of the Lord. Stay ready to meet the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: because one day that's going to happen. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: all see who God is. Right, We're going to see
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  Speaker 1: it once and for all. We're going to be there
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  Speaker 1: either to be judged or to be welcomed into the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom or to be unfortunately, to be sent away from
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  Speaker 1: His presence, depending on God. James shot the four verses
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  Speaker 1: thirteen and fifteen. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: or any prayer requests, don't hesitate to leave it a
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  Speaker 1: live chat. And also we're gonna pray first. After we pray,
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  Speaker 1: we'll share this out for like sixty seconds. Help me
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  Speaker 1: share this out. Amen, God. Dependence it's a beautiful thing
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  Speaker 1: when you depend on God.
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  Speaker 2: Father. I thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: That today you woke me up and today, Lo, God,
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  Speaker 1: I asked that you will help us in this journey
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  Speaker 1: of life. Help the families who have family members, children,
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  Speaker 1: relative siblings that did not wake up just today. I
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  Speaker 1: pray low God, the peace of God that this world
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  Speaker 1: would never understand. Love of God that is permanent and
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  Speaker 1: is full of grace and mercy. Peace You give not
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  Speaker 1: like the world gives, but the peace of God to
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  Speaker 1: your son, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that over our friends and family members right.
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  Speaker 1: Now in Jesus name, those who are experienced saying mourning
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  Speaker 1: of death, pain of losing children, pain of losing relatives.
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  Speaker 2: I pray Peace, give us the comfort by way of
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  Speaker 2: Your Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Although we won't have answers all the time to why,
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  Speaker 1: but we do have answers to who be with us
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  Speaker 1: through it all, Lord God, Almighty point of peace, wonderful
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  Speaker 1: counselor God who inspires, the God who encourages, the God
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  Speaker 1: who holds our hand, and through it all Jesus to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I pray it's my faith hydro protection, health to our body,
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  Speaker 1: strength to our bones, and the powerful name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And those who agree and need this prayer, we all
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  Speaker 1: say Amen, a Amen. So let's go for it sixty
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  Speaker 1: seconds to share this out. When I come back, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get right into the scripture. I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: Please God, we're back here in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: So when it is with Iszida Org Celebrate a Network,
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  Speaker 1: which is the Lehigh Valley's number one urban gospel music station,
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  Speaker 1: Allline since two thousand and eight and over here we
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  Speaker 1: depend on God day by day. As I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where this is going to come from. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how this is going to get paid. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how this ministry is going to sustain itself and maintain.
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  Speaker 1: I just trust God and depend on God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. I don't know what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: Today, but what I do know is that today is
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  Speaker 1: offered to me by the Lord who created the day,
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  Speaker 1: who created yesterday, who creates eternity.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And he has a plan for my life and
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  Speaker 2: for your life. Depend on God. Amen. So let's get
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  Speaker 2: right into the scripture as we're running short in time.
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  Speaker 2: I just have so many things in my heart and mind.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, you get hit with this news and
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  Speaker 1: you're like man, you start thinking about the families that
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  Speaker 1: are affected by tragedy and death and start wondering, how
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  Speaker 1: are they doing?
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I have to reach out and don't know what to say,
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to do, but we're going to depend
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  Speaker 1: on God to get through things. We just don't understand
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  Speaker 1: why right that why questions shows up now generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: and so a lot of people this won't matter while
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  Speaker 1: they're going through hardship and pain. Generally speaking, we do
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  Speaker 1: have to answer to why there's evil, death, why there's sickness, disease,
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  Speaker 1: why there's violence, why there's hatred. Genesis chapter three, the
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  Speaker 1: Fall of Man. We see that in the scriptures, and
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  Speaker 1: it's God telling us how these things began. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people try to blame God for all the evil
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  Speaker 1: in the world, and they forget that there's in the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: It shows us what happened, that evil was, how evil
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  Speaker 1: was birthed, and how hatred and all that was birth
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  Speaker 1: and death was birth.
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  Speaker 2: Because technically, because.
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  Speaker 1: God is a guy who creates life, we were meant
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  Speaker 1: to die. That's why when I hear about death and
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  Speaker 1: I hear about people losing children and loved ones and relatives,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's not supposed.
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  Speaker 2: To be that way. It deeps deep down to my soul.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's not supposed to be that way.
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  Speaker 1: And I think even people who are unbelievers, who don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in the Lord I believe, they think the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: like there's something wrong about death.
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  Speaker 2: There is something wrong about death. We were not meant
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  Speaker 2: to die.
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  Speaker 1: But because God is a just god, not only a
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  Speaker 1: loving god, a holy God, but he's also a just God.
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  Speaker 1: Justice has to be dealt right for sin. When we
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  Speaker 1: sinned against a holy, loving, righteous God, and the penalty
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  Speaker 1: for that sin was death. Right serious business from when
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  Speaker 1: you're on the right part and right side and right
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  Speaker 1: standing with the Lord. Amen, guess what we don't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about or be afraid of. Guess guess what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus conquered on that cross, conquered sin and death. So
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  Speaker 1: a Christian a believe in the Lord. We literally don't die.
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  Speaker 1: We just changed locations. This body, this flesh of bones
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  Speaker 1: and blood, goes to the grounds that trumpet blows. God
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  Speaker 1: will take the ashes of our body to the king bodies,
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  Speaker 1: reform it to a heavenly body, and then we're going
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  Speaker 1: to meet him and meet him in the air and
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  Speaker 1: to judge whoever is left here on this earth, the
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  Speaker 1: angels Lord, to judge whoever's here. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't believe this, Amen, But can we read to believe
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  Speaker 1: on one thing?
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  Speaker 2: Right now?
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  Speaker 1: Today, this moment that yesterday's gone, today's the present. Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what's gonna happen. It's not even promised,
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  Speaker 1: but one day one of us, that's the average one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent of us are going to meet eternity one day.
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  Speaker 1: And if you go to eternity thinking, oh, I had
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  Speaker 1: this altogether for myself. I have money, fame, cars, houses,
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  Speaker 1: all that's not gonna matter. The eyes are shut here
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  Speaker 1: on this side of eternity, and you open your eyes
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  Speaker 1: and you see the Divine Creator and he's in front
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  Speaker 1: of you. And then what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Then? Are you going to have a debate with the Lord?
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to say, well, those Christians told me,
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  Speaker 1: but I just didn't believe, So can can you forgive me?
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  Speaker 1: At that point, I think that we have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to believe in trust and put a whope faith and
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  Speaker 1: God depend depend on God right now. It don't wait
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  Speaker 1: till it's too late to do something you could have
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  Speaker 1: done today. Settle that in your heart once af all.
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  Speaker 1: And if your answer is no, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: believe that's your answer. I have to respect your answer.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But if this is all true, and I believe it is,
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  Speaker 1: and just because I believe it's true doesn't make it true.
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  Speaker 2: What makes the thing true is the evidence.
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  Speaker 1: And where the evidence leads to the evidence of the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures leads to an Almighty, Loving, Holy, Righteous God, God
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  Speaker 1: who is just and for all those who are calling
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  Speaker 1: my God immoral. You're basing it on whose standards? I
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  Speaker 1: think you're basing it on your own standards. And your
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  Speaker 1: immorality has deceived you to a place where you feel
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  Speaker 1: that you could judge God. We all know, even atheists
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  Speaker 1: say this.
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  Speaker 2: Only God can judge me. God dependence.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go for Let me put it on the screen
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  Speaker 1: and then so we could see on what's going on
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  Speaker 1: on here and what's happening day in the morning, devote
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  Speaker 1: back here and put it on the screen for us
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  Speaker 1: to see God dependence. Jane shot the four verses thirteen
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen. I put the background like a snowy, dreary day,
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  Speaker 1: because sometimes that's what it feels like in life.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Come now, you who say today or tomorrow we will
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  Speaker 1: go into such and such a city and spend a
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  Speaker 1: year there and carry on our business.
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  Speaker 2: And make money. Right. I don't think there's anything wrong
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  Speaker 2: with those type of plans.
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  Speaker 1: Right, You get to planning things out, yet you do
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  Speaker 1: not know the least thing about what may happen tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: What is the nature of your life? That's a question
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  Speaker 1: you are really but a wisp of vapor, a puff
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  Speaker 1: of smoke, a mist that is visible for a little
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  Speaker 1: while and then disappears into thin air. Your instead to say,
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  Speaker 1: if the Lord is willing, we shall live and we
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  Speaker 1: shall do this or that thing. Wow, God set this
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  Speaker 1: day for this morning, devo for right now. The people
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  Speaker 1: who have lost loved ones and now they're facing they're
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  Speaker 1: facing this in real time, planning with somebody you love
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  Speaker 1: and then realizing that plan is not going to happen
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  Speaker 1: because the person that you love is no longer with you.
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  Speaker 2: God's letting us know, Listen, planning is okay.
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  Speaker 1: I believe planning is okay right, especially when it's ordained
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  Speaker 1: by God, especially when it's honoring God, especially when your
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  Speaker 1: plans are helping others and benefiting you and the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. I believe those plans are beautiful and wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. How many
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  Speaker 1: people could say yes, amen, like, we don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand how people think that if they go to
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  Speaker 1: a psychic that they'll get the future told to them.
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  Speaker 1: Possible that they will know something about tomorrow, but that's
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  Speaker 1: something they know, won't be the truth, something that God
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  Speaker 1: already has ordained for your life and for my life.
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  Speaker 1: So stop wasting time with psychics.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You wanna to know the future, Read the one who
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  Speaker 1: knows and holds our future. Read about the one who
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  Speaker 1: wrote out eternity already God himself. And if there's someone
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  Speaker 1: there's a prophet that you know, amen, that has the
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  Speaker 1: utterance of God on their mind in their lips and
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  Speaker 1: has a word for you, Amen, make.
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  Speaker 2: Sure that word lines up with the word of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You are instead to say, if the Lord is willing,
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  Speaker 1: I say this all the time, Love willing, Lord Willing.
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  Speaker 1: I remember I said this one time to a sister
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  Speaker 1: in Christ and she was like, she laughed and giggle.
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  Speaker 1: She said, why you say love willing all the time,
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. I just
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  Speaker 1: could hope about tomorrow. I can hope about my plans.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I could be there. I hope I can
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  Speaker 1: help a man because a lot. She was asking if
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  Speaker 1: I could do this for the church, Amen, And I said,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Willing, I'll be there, Lord Willing, I could because
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  Speaker 1: I know one hundred percent for sure that I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what tomorrow's gonna bring. I don't know anybody who
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  Speaker 1: knows what tomorrow's gonna bring. We could hope, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: have hoping in God never disappoints. I believe that one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent. We could hope in ourselves and that definitely
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  Speaker 1: will disappoint. We can help and other hope in others
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  Speaker 1: and they would eventually disappoint us. But eventually you don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And that not knowing bothers a lot of people. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, that not knowing. As a believer,
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  Speaker 1: I get accused of filling in the gap with things
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  Speaker 1: that I don't know, and I put God there, or
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  Speaker 1: people say, oh, do at reason why you believe in gods?
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  Speaker 1: Because you don't know what's gonna happen, So you put
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  Speaker 1: God there, you know, filling in the gaps. I put
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  Speaker 1: God every day in my life.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do without him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at a point where I'm like, if God doesn't
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  Speaker 1: continue to work through my life, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to do with my life. But I'm going to do
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  Speaker 1: go run back to the world or what. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: me there anyway. And then so sometimes I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the Chrach don't know what to do with me.
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  Speaker 2: The world don't want me. So I'm like, let me stick.
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  Speaker 1: To the one that I know who loves me, that
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  Speaker 1: who wants the best for me. Right, So I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll stick with God. I'll be dependent on God. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people want to be independent autonomy. Right, that's
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  Speaker 1: the thing of our culture. You don't need God. You
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  Speaker 1: could just be your own God and do what you
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  Speaker 1: want to do. They are absolutely right, you could do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: even Christians believes in Christ. The Bible says we could
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  Speaker 1: do whatever we want to do as well, but not
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  Speaker 1: everything we want to do or everything that we do
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  Speaker 1: is going to be beneficial so our own lives and
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  Speaker 1: to our family, to our friends. So I really speak life,
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  Speaker 1: man over your life, depend on God. This thing about selfism,
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  Speaker 1: this thing about I got this all together.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need no God telling me this. That.
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  Speaker 1: The third, I do with my body what I want
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  Speaker 1: to do with my body. I heard that so many
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  Speaker 1: times through the years, when young ladies.
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  Speaker 2: Saying I do what I want to do my body.
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  Speaker 2: I own my body.
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  Speaker 1: I do, And I always question that and say, when
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  Speaker 1: did you start owning your body before you were born
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  Speaker 1: or after you were born.
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  Speaker 2: It's a trick question, so I warn you.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, answer wisely, when did you own your body
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  Speaker 1: before you were born or after you were born? And
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  Speaker 1: if you're honest, if you think about that, you were like,
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  Speaker 1: that's a trick question.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Never owned yourself. I never owned myself. I had no
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  Speaker 1: clue of who my parents were going to be. I
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  Speaker 1: had no clue of who I was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: I had no clue of whatever I was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a male female, no clue that was decided by
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  Speaker 1: someone else. Right, think about it, clearly, it is a
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  Speaker 1: trick question. When people say that, they're basically saying, I
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  Speaker 1: depend on myself. I got this, not understanding that we
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  Speaker 1: just read, well, we think we got.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We're like a wisp of vapor, Amen, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: This is enough cold. Did you get birth yet? Amen? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: God gives us free will, but we need to fight
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  Speaker 1: our flesh and follow him. He is the right path. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's the right path. He's the doorway. So eternity and wait,
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  Speaker 1: yes you did congratulations?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't know? Amen? I had to get my sound effects, right?
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  Speaker 2: Do I have matter of sound effects here that I
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  Speaker 2: could do?
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  Speaker 1: The applause. Let's see. Hopefully I get this right. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I don't get this right. Man, it's my colors. I'm
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: so I'm so like out of it. Listen, that's the laughter.
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  Speaker 2: By all right.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Wow, two twenty six in the morning, early bird. Amen, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: you just made my day because I'm just hearing a
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  Speaker 1: lot about people passing and I hear about life coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't God good? Right? There's a balance going on all right.
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  Speaker 1: My brother Anthony was sending me the picture, so that's
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  Speaker 1: good news. Blessings to everybody. I'm out of time, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: Let's keep one another in prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Our family's in prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Continue to pray for me and my family, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: continue to pray for you and your family as well.
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  Speaker 2: So God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: Take the Book of James today we were in chapter
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  Speaker 1: number four.
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  Speaker 2: Read the whole chapter for yourself. God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: Got to keep you all and remember always that God
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  Speaker 1: is good.
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  Speaker 2: Be