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From Temptation to Peace · The Bread of Life with JJ

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome everyone.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome.
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SPEAKER_00: Listening back, coming back to Bread of Life.
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SPEAKER_00: This is our episode ten.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope this spiritual message, honestly, I really do.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope it fills your temple with godly satisfaction.
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SPEAKER_00: I know the Lord has led me today to prepare for you this bread of life with, again, his extreme passion and love.
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SPEAKER_00: Understanding in it.
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SPEAKER_00: And I know it's time for us all to drink from the well of the living water, the living water that only he can provide.
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SPEAKER_00: Because I know once you drink and eat of it, you will not thirst or hunger anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: You will be filled with his spiritual morsels.
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SPEAKER_00: And I thank God that he speaks through me at this moment, because it's for his glory.
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SPEAKER_00: And I want you all to remember that it's about faith in God.
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SPEAKER_00: Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God, reading the true word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: This title of the message for today and this daily bread is Temptation to Peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Something we must remember this as well is that the just shall live by faith.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't want you to stop remembering that.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you can't, please bow your heads before I join in prayer.
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SPEAKER_00: And then we'll get into the word of the day.
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SPEAKER_00: So, Heavenly Father, I thank you for this moment.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for those that are listening.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for choosing me to speak your word.
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SPEAKER_00: Your true bread, Lord, that comes forth from you.
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SPEAKER_00: That will be provided, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: And I pray that it is for those that are listening and those that need to hear and take heed to your word.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray that their heart is receptive and their mind is open to your truth and to what you have for them to hear today.
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SPEAKER_00: And I thank you for using me in this moment.
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SPEAKER_00: Let your will be done.
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SPEAKER_00: It's in Jesus' name I pray these things.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm grateful for everybody joining me today.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to get into the word.
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SPEAKER_00: The word of the day.
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SPEAKER_00: I have a couple of them.
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SPEAKER_00: It's really amazing how it happens.
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SPEAKER_00: Where when I'm reading these words, it reflects, it correlates back to like what I'm doing with the title of the message, and every word is that exactly, or a portion of it.
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SPEAKER_00: The Lord is amazing, very amazing and interesting how he works.
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SPEAKER_00: And I love that about him.
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SPEAKER_00: He works different in all of our lives, but that's like that's pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_00: So what we're going to talk about today, one of many things is the purification of our faith.
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SPEAKER_00: And with that, I'm going to read this to you.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, like a master sculptor.
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SPEAKER_00: God carefully chisels away anything in us that doesn't reflect his character.
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SPEAKER_00: To read Hebrews 11, 32 through 40.
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SPEAKER_00: As the word says, most of us would love to have the heroic faith of the saints mentioned in Hebrews 11.
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SPEAKER_00: It's exciting to read about the great victories and accomplishments of those who relied upon the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: But the descriptions in verses 36 to 38, well, those are another matter, if we're being honest.
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SPEAKER_00: And during the process God uses to develop this kind of trust is less attractive.
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SPEAKER_00: Picture the Lord as a master sculptor standing before a block of marble, beautiful marble.
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SPEAKER_00: Pretend that that slab is you.
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SPEAKER_00: Envisioning the hidden work of art within the rock.
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SPEAKER_00: He lovingly and carefully chips away at everything that does not fit the masterpiece he's creating.
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SPEAKER_00: One of the first areas the Lord deals with is your character.
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SPEAKER_00: His goal is to shape you into the image of his son.
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SPEAKER_00: And his chisel lays before bare roots of sin and selfishness.
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SPEAKER_00: So when anything or anyone becomes more important to us than the Lord, then we have an idol in our life.
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SPEAKER_00: And to protect us, God sometimes uses adversity to strip away everything we have relied upon so that we are clinging only to Him.
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SPEAKER_00: The chisel hurts.
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SPEAKER_00: It sometimes feels as if God is taking away everything we hold dear.
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SPEAKER_00: But if we trust Him and yield to His shaping tool of adversity, our faith will be purified and strengthened through the challenging times.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's James 1, 2 through 4.
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SPEAKER_00: Even reading Judges is good too.
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SPEAKER_00: You can learn about Samson.
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SPEAKER_00: Another great man of God.
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SPEAKER_00: The next scripture I want to read in verse to you is going to be from Psalms 50, verse 15.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, Call upon me in the days of trouble, and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
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SPEAKER_00: So when you are sitting in the depths of your fear, distress, and temptation, temptation, raise your head and look up.
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SPEAKER_00: God is not to be found in the depths of your misery, but rather outside of you, above, in the heights of his sanctuary where he dwells.
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SPEAKER_00: He is waiting for you to look up to him and appeal for help so that he can come to your assistance.
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SPEAKER_00: Call to him and you will experience his help, his overwhelming, loving help.
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SPEAKER_00: That is such a matter and strength that we have to understand.
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SPEAKER_00: That we have to appeal to and use.
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SPEAKER_00: And when we talk about temptation and peace, we're going to talk about the sins, talk about the guilt, talk about how we deal with the attacks that come at us that we don't see or don't understand why.
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SPEAKER_00: Or maybe it's the choices we have made and near the consequences thereof.
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SPEAKER_00: But I want you to understand this the struggle with our guilt.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's because through Jesus we can live without guilt, free from weight and past mistakes.
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SPEAKER_00: 1 John 1, 5 through 9 says this.
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SPEAKER_00: But if we walk in the light as he himself is a light, we have fellowship with one another.
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SPEAKER_00: And the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all sin.
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SPEAKER_00: If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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SPEAKER_00: But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, righteous to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's 1 John 1, 5 through 9.
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SPEAKER_00: Psalm 32, 5 says, If I acknowledge my sin to you, my God, Yahweh, right?
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SPEAKER_00: My iniquity I did not hide.
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SPEAKER_00: I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the guilt of my sin.
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SPEAKER_00: And lastly, Romans 8:1 says, Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: For some of us, guilt is a constant companion.
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SPEAKER_00: We live under the weight of our past mistakes and fear of future wrongdoing.
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SPEAKER_00: Even if we try to move forward, self-reproach tags along.
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SPEAKER_00: Guilt that results from breaking biblical or man-made laws is legitimate.
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SPEAKER_00: When we transgress, the Holy Spirit points out what is wrong and how to correct it.
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SPEAKER_00: Then, in response to our confession, God offers us forgiveness and cleansing from guilt every single time.
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SPEAKER_00: Just what I read you with Psalm 32.5.
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SPEAKER_00: But some guilty feelings we experience are false.
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SPEAKER_00: Where do they originate?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, there are several answers to that.
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SPEAKER_00: It can originate through lies and accusations the enemy seeks to replace inner peace with turmoil and joy with discouragement.
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SPEAKER_00: Legalism, too, it can be a source of guilt.
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SPEAKER_00: God's word establishes the way that we are to live.
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SPEAKER_00: Some Christians and churches impose additional rules.
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SPEAKER_00: Childhood experiences can also bring out the negative emotion of guilt.
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SPEAKER_00: Whether this stems from the aftermath of traumatic events or the feeling that we didn't meet parental experiences or expectations that can prompt us to judge ourselves harshly.
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SPEAKER_00: Romans 8:1 tells us that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: In Christ Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: If you struggle with false guilt, ask the Lord to help you remember who you are in Him.
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SPEAKER_00: You have to remember that.
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SPEAKER_00: You have to know who you are.
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SPEAKER_00: It goes with identity without anything.
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SPEAKER_00: I know that for a fact.
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SPEAKER_00: You cannot forget who you are, who you where you came from, like regardless of your past mistakes, regardless of your sins, regardless of the things that you do or have done, or sometimes continue to do, that does not define who you are at all.
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SPEAKER_00: You have a God, a father, a Lord that has died for you and has put himself in place for you and mediates for you because he loved you.
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SPEAKER_00: We love him because he first loved us.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember that?
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SPEAKER_00: He gave himself up for us as a great leader would do.
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SPEAKER_00: As a great leader would do.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why, like, when we go through these trials and situations and temptations in life, we have to we have to understand like where our place is in that.
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SPEAKER_00: And if we're gonna give in, we're gonna do things that disrespect God, or are we going to fight the good fight?
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SPEAKER_00: And and recognize things for what they are and say no.
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SPEAKER_00: Day by day.
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SPEAKER_00: It's about that, the loyalty, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So you gotta ask yourself this.
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SPEAKER_00: When was the last time you found yourself feeling vulnerable?
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SPEAKER_00: So we talk about temptation, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And vulnerability.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, remember the time when you had so much temptation was so strong that you thought to yourself that you couldn't handle it, or you found yourself very puzzled of why you're being tempted.
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SPEAKER_00: Found yourself thinking the same old temptations you face over and over again.
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SPEAKER_00: And some of them are alluring, enticing, inviting.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you tell yourself, How can I resist this?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm letting you know, man, this is the devil's line.
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SPEAKER_00: That's one of the ways how he talks and talks to you and talks to us.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you find yourself facing something that you really had to struggle with, turning away from turmoil, saying no to.
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SPEAKER_00: You feel great pressure and walking away.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't know what to do, whether you want to or not, or maybe stay with it or walk away.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know what your final thoughts are.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you start telling yourself this, like, well, well, God understands this.
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SPEAKER_00: He'll he understands, he knows, he knows me, man.
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SPEAKER_00: He knows what I'm going through.
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SPEAKER_00: You yield to it, whatever that temptation is.
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SPEAKER_00: Telling yourself, oh, he understands, he'll approve of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Thinking of all kinds of things.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, the truth is, if you're alive, right, in this life, you're gonna get tempted.
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SPEAKER_00: We're living in a day where it's everywhere, everywhere you go.
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SPEAKER_00: Whether you hear it on the radio, television, TV, social media, uh, signs when you're driving on the freeway, everywhere you go, people you run into, temptations everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: And everybody in this sensual age that we're living in, they respond to it in different ways.
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SPEAKER_00: They yield to it, they fight against it and survive, or they fight against it and they yield into it.
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SPEAKER_00: And then they have an excuse that tells them, you know, it's because how I'm feeling.
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SPEAKER_00: And God needs to understand that.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know, it's just not fair because everybody doesn't feel what I'm feeling, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And he starts saying things like that on and on and on.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, the truth is that the beginning of the world, sin took place, right?
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SPEAKER_00: There was temptation found with Adam and Eve, and it hasn't changed.
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SPEAKER_00: Satan got through Eve, telling her how fast it was, how fantastic it was going to be to have a better this or a better that, that you'll be like God, right?
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SPEAKER_00: That you won't die.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, it's the same way today.
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SPEAKER_00: Just different elements are involved.
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SPEAKER_00: So you find yourself in certain positions, you're thinking, realizing, trying to understand where this is coming from, wondering how and why, especially those that are walking in the faith or walking in the things in the Lord, like you don't understand why those things are being allowed.
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SPEAKER_00: And I know sometimes exactly when it comes, it comes either for your tests and trials, or it's gonna come exactly when you're the weakest, when you're the tiredest, when you're the most vulnerable and drained.
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SPEAKER_00: The devil knows what point exactly how to get to you and your attention.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, the battle's in the mind, and that's how he'll attack you with his temptations.
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SPEAKER_00: Thinking to yourself or telling you, you gotta have one of those when you see somebody driving by something or walking with a special lady or a man in your life, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Or a person in that person's life, and you're like, dang, man, I want to have that.
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SPEAKER_00: I want what she has, I want what he has, I want that, this and that.
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SPEAKER_00: So those things are coming and manifesting and festering into your brain, and you start saying, Oh, I deserve it.
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SPEAKER_00: And nobody's perfect.
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SPEAKER_00: I know God loves me and He'll forgive me.
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SPEAKER_00: And on and on to go, you start talking to yourself and telling that stuff, positioning yourself to that over and over again.
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm telling you right now, as you talk yourself into those things, those things take place and they manifest.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, the wages of sin is death.
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SPEAKER_00: You're going to miss out on God's best in your life.
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SPEAKER_00: I can guarantee that.
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SPEAKER_00: So the books that are so important to read, I want you all to remember this.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, if you can hear me out, it's it's I used to say this to other people too when I talk to them.
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SPEAKER_00: It's called God's Electric Power Company.
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SPEAKER_00: I remember hearing that from a pastor back in the day.
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SPEAKER_00: A good pastor.
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SPEAKER_00: And uh I remember him saying, study these scriptures, you know, the New Testament, God's Electric Power Company.
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SPEAKER_00: That's Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians.
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SPEAKER_00: And throw and further back all the way, read it all the way to Revelation.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's a beautiful thing because, like, again, like in Ephesians, it's it's important because it talks about a believer's will and what we have a result of knowing Christ as our Savior.
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SPEAKER_00: That's like the first you know, couple chapters, and then the beginning of the like first couple, two, three chapters, then the beginning, like the fourth and fifth chapter, it's it's about our walk, the way we should walk, the way that we need to follow the Lord Jesus and how we need to live and in our Christian household and how we what he will accept how we one should be when they know Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: And when we come to the last chapter, we see that there's a battlefield.
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SPEAKER_00: As I'm talking about, remember the battle in your mind, right?
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SPEAKER_00: There was a battlefield, and the battle of the mind is in to change and renew your mind.
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SPEAKER_00: That's in Romans, but right here in Ephesians, this battlefield is with Satan.
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SPEAKER_00: You may be strong in yourself, he said, but be strong in the Lord and the strength of his might.
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SPEAKER_00: We need to put on the full armor of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Ask that.
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SPEAKER_00: That's Ephesians 6, right?
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SPEAKER_00: But so that you'll be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
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SPEAKER_00: For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness in the world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.
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SPEAKER_00: All of us in this life are going to face some type of temptation.
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SPEAKER_00: So when you think about it, you've got to ask yourself these questions.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about what the strongest temptation you face in your life today.
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SPEAKER_00: And that I mean in your daily life, not just, you know, on a particular day, but like day to day with your life, what you're going through with the strongest temptations.
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SPEAKER_00: What do you think it is?
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SPEAKER_00: And why do you think the devil has used that to tempt you?
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SPEAKER_00: You turn away from God, or is your your walk is a different path, or do you ignore God's warnings?
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SPEAKER_00: If you do that, then you ignore his blessings.
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SPEAKER_00: God's blessings, he wants to give to us.
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SPEAKER_00: He wants to give things to us, to overcome things in life, to show his glory.
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SPEAKER_00: But I want you to understand what a satanic attack is, though, because we all deal with it.
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SPEAKER_00: And honestly, honestly, a satanic attack is a deliberate attack that goes against your spirit, your soul, and your body, or all three.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a deliberate, willful assault by Satan upon an individual who, with purpose of them doing harm.
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SPEAKER_00: He wants to do harm to you either in your spirit, your soul, and your body, or all three.
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SPEAKER_00: Anytime, anywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: Satan knows exactly when and where to hit you the weakest at the weakest point.
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SPEAKER_00: He knows exactly when to trip us up and how.
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SPEAKER_00: He wants to move your mind off spiritual things, put your mind onto earthly things and sensual things that deny God and the worshiping of the Lord God and that gets glory to him, that's due to him.
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SPEAKER_00: The devil does not want you worshiping God.
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SPEAKER_00: He wants to get you a plate full of stuff that turns you away from God.
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SPEAKER_00: Because that's his purpose.
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SPEAKER_00: He is here to destroy you.
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SPEAKER_00: Destruction.
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SPEAKER_00: Destroy relationship to God, destroy interest, destroy, destroy, destroy.
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SPEAKER_00: That is the goal.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So those listening understand that.
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SPEAKER_00: Satan knows about the truth and what you're listening to, but you need to keep moving in that direction.
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SPEAKER_00: Regardless of all of us facing temptations in our life, everybody has something they can be tempted by.
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SPEAKER_00: Having victory over them is what matters.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, Satan's goal is to turn you away from God.
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SPEAKER_00: Telling you that you don't have time to read the Bible, you don't have time to pray, you're too busy with certain things in this life.
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SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
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SPEAKER_00: God's goal is to draw you close to him.
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SPEAKER_00: To make a covenant and a relationship that is so deep that all you could do is yearn and need him and want him.
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SPEAKER_00: Understand that.
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SPEAKER_00: So if it's gonna uh if he's gonna allow certain things to take place in your life, because I know that's been in my life, where I had to be shaken to the core of my soul to understand who's in charge, which is God, and to walk my life out with fear and respect.
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SPEAKER_00: And to know that I've been created for a purpose that's great beyond my imagination.
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SPEAKER_00: And to stay focused on spiritual things.
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SPEAKER_00: Because if I walk in the spirit, then I will deny the things of the flesh.
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SPEAKER_00: If my mind, my perspective is not worried about working 40 or 60 hours a week and thinking, hey man, I make all this money.
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SPEAKER_00: I deserve this and that and the other, and I'm going to spend this and that and the other and forget about God.
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SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not why I'm here.
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SPEAKER_00: There's nothing wrong with planning and reaching your goals.
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SPEAKER_00: But the devil is always going to try to work against you.
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SPEAKER_00: Try to let you know that you're not working up to your life expectations and things.
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SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
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SPEAKER_00: When you're trying to save money or you're trying to invest in certain things, then oh no, you need to go and spend it because, hey man, you're going through it.
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever the strategies are, it's complex, but you have to understand this.
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SPEAKER_00: The devil is a strategist.
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SPEAKER_00: His first step is to deceive you, to lie to us.
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SPEAKER_00: If you believe a lie, then you've taken the first step and absolute defeat.
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SPEAKER_00: And oftentimes when people stand against, they'll take the truth of God and they'll twist it around to make it benefit them, you can't do that.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've heard many times people always said, man, you don't know my situation.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, God knows your situation.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't know how long I've been suffering, man.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, God knows.
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SPEAKER_00: And you come up with all sorts of excuses.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, God's heard them all.
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SPEAKER_00: And you can't afford to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: Like you can't, you have no excuse to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: The devil will come in any which way, that's his job.
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SPEAKER_00: So be prepared for that.
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SPEAKER_00: God has the best life for us for every believer, every one of us that believes in him.
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SPEAKER_00: Believe that.
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SPEAKER_00: The devil's trying to divide us as believers.
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SPEAKER_00: Disagreeing, having the nation be divided, families divided.
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SPEAKER_00: That's his job, man.
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SPEAKER_00: Separate.
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SPEAKER_00: We cannot let that happen.
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SPEAKER_00: We cannot let chaos happen.
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SPEAKER_00: Gotta have love.
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SPEAKER_00: Gotta understand our enemy, he's a deceiver, a destroyer.
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SPEAKER_00: That's his purpose.
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SPEAKER_00: Wants to destroy our families and destroy our marriages, destroy our life.
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SPEAKER_00: And that one thing starts if you can get in your mind and play those tricks on you and make you think things.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why I said it's so important to have this confidence to know who you are and the foundation of Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: To speak a word against him, but to also understand this.
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SPEAKER_00: 1 Corinthians 10 13.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what Paul says.
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SPEAKER_00: Everybody ought to know this.
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SPEAKER_00: No temptation, no temptation has taken you to accept and has tried you, except that it's common to man.
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SPEAKER_00: Common to man.
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SPEAKER_00: God is faithful, though, who will not allow you to be tempted more than you're able to bear.
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SPEAKER_00: But with temptation, we'll make a way to escape so you can bear it.
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SPEAKER_00: We have a promise from God.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to do those things.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to give in to things that are against God.
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SPEAKER_00: You may want to do it.
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SPEAKER_00: I may want it more than anything else, but I don't have to.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't have to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: I gotta make a right choice.
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SPEAKER_00: We will or we're not.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about the people that have been so tempted in things in life and they're being destroyed.
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SPEAKER_00: The self-destruction, the divine destructions, the the nation, whether it's church, family, the things that are going on in our country, man, Satan is busy.
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SPEAKER_00: So when you feel tempted, what do you do?
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SPEAKER_00: What's your first response?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, the first thing should be is know who you are and pray to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: And understand where it's coming from.
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SPEAKER_00: And understand it does not belong in your life.
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SPEAKER_00: And you choose to reject it.
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SPEAKER_00: You have a choice.
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SPEAKER_00: That's who God is.
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SPEAKER_00: He's given you free will.
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SPEAKER_00: A believer, definitely, you should know the choice and have it and make the right one.
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SPEAKER_00: We have a fallen nature, which I understand that.
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SPEAKER_00: And Satan comes out of everywhere, trying to bring his overpowering events and strength, bringing life presentations, things that want to get us away from the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: The way you've been living, having strikes against you over and over again, easily slipping into things.
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SPEAKER_00: When you're a child of God, it can seem that way.
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SPEAKER_00: But he, Christ is your savior, the platform of strength.
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SPEAKER_00: You have the Holy Spirit within you.
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SPEAKER_00: The identity that you're facing is who you are in Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not sin.
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SPEAKER_00: It does not fit your life.
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SPEAKER_00: It is not what God has intended for you.
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SPEAKER_00: God does not want destruction in your life.
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SPEAKER_00: Temptation and sin can only bring about nothing but evil and not good.
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SPEAKER_00: So having the Holy Spirit that matters.
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SPEAKER_00: The word of God is your greatest offense against the devil.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, because you don't have to choose sin.
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SPEAKER_00: If you have the Holy Spirit living within you, then the promise of the Holy Spirit, what does he do?
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SPEAKER_00: He makes you aware of temptation, he reminds you.
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SPEAKER_00: In Scripture, something that he's already done, he'll do whatever he has to remind you.
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SPEAKER_00: The account will give you victory.
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SPEAKER_00: He reminds you, do not give in, do not yield.
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SPEAKER_00: The choice you make, you can blame it on other people, my mom, my father, sister, brother, friends, families, blah, blah, blah, etc.
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not the issue.
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SPEAKER_00: If you want to keep living in sin, all you have to do is close the book of the Bible, the good book that God has given you, and not open it as you should.
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SPEAKER_00: You can't do that.
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SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit is instructing inside of you to help you interpret that word, to help you get to a scripture, put God first.
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SPEAKER_00: So if sin is how you work, and then death will be your paycheck.
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SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, we all face temptations.
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SPEAKER_00: How do you handle them?
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SPEAKER_00: I think God understands that is not our excuse or expectation to live in a sin.
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SPEAKER_00: God wants the best for us.
28:06
SPEAKER_00: Again, he came down here to understand that.
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SPEAKER_00: He understands what we go through.
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SPEAKER_00: The Christian experiences that mean that you'll never sin against God.
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SPEAKER_00: At some point in time in our life, we do these things.
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SPEAKER_00: We know what to do, though.
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SPEAKER_00: In other words, you just give up and say, Well, I've tried a little Christian life and so forget it.
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SPEAKER_00: That doesn't go.
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SPEAKER_00: We're not doing that.
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SPEAKER_00: Understand the apostle Paul never claimed perfection.
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SPEAKER_00: The only person who can claim that is Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: A true believer, when you're tempted, you turn to God.
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SPEAKER_00: You say, like, Lord, here's what I'm facing.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't want this in my life.
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SPEAKER_00: I feel this or feel that, so help me.
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SPEAKER_00: Help me, Jesus, help me.
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever it takes.
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SPEAKER_00: And then if you yield into any ways, you ask God to forgive you, to strengthen you, to make you aware of that life in your life.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's an area of weakness that you should deal with.
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SPEAKER_00: And thank you and move on.
28:58
SPEAKER_00: So I know there's so many areas in our life that we are weak.
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SPEAKER_00: Whether it's gossiping, overeating, spending your money on things you shouldn't, lack of faithfulness to one another, whatever it might be, God knows it.
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SPEAKER_00: You never have to come to him and say, you know, let me remind you of something.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, he knows your weakness.
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SPEAKER_00: He knows your weakness.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of families, a lot of people in this life that are destroyed because of the lack of knowing that and understanding that and accepting the fact that God loves them, anyways.
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SPEAKER_00: And we get tempted, whether you're a teenager or a parent.
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SPEAKER_00: People go to jail, they're tempted to steal.
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SPEAKER_00: And those that do, they can justifiedly say, you know, I don't have it.
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SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I'm gonna take what I want.
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SPEAKER_00: You can go down the list of everything in the sin of the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: We can have all excuses for it, but it's not acceptable to God.
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SPEAKER_00: You can't just sit there and say, I just can't help myself and I just need it.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have it.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're walking in this walk, you must confess these sins and change, regardless of the nature of your sin, confess it.
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SPEAKER_00: Because the Lord's in the Bible says he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins.
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SPEAKER_00: Why?
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SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus is my savior and yield to him, he's the Lord of my life.
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SPEAKER_00: And if there's a point of failure in your life, well, only I'm asking God to forgive me on that.
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SPEAKER_00: Not the basis of I deserve it, but on the basis that Jesus said the blood atoned for my sin.
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SPEAKER_00: And I and the Lord has shown me attacks, temptations, strategies, the clarity to how to overcome them, how to evaluate them, and how to evaluate things that are in my life.
30:39
SPEAKER_00: I want to produce more fruit in my life, in my walk.
30:42
SPEAKER_00: And then one of the main ones that I want to produce is peace.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Peace to me is so crucial.
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SPEAKER_00: Love, of course, is number one and joy.
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SPEAKER_00: But peace, my goodness, I need that.
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SPEAKER_00: Peace is so important, especially when you want to change your circumstances in your life and you can't.
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SPEAKER_00: Is it possible to have real true peace when things aren't so certain, uncertain?
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SPEAKER_00: When you feel sometimes such pain in your body or in your emotions, and things seem to not be able to deal with them, or I can't straighten them out.
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SPEAKER_00: How can I have peace during those times?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, in a word, Jesus was in the upper room with his disciples, and Peter just argued with Jesus about washing his feet, and Judas had gone out to betray him.
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SPEAKER_00: And he was talking to them about the fact that he was going to leave them and the fact that he was going to be crucified.
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SPEAKER_00: None of them.
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SPEAKER_00: None of them.
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SPEAKER_00: And none of that made sense to them whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_00: And then on top of all that, here's what he said let not your heart be troubled.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sure he didn't say it quite that way, but he said, Jesus said, regardless of people think it's ridiculous, he said that it in the midst of all that, like, do not let your heart be troubled.
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SPEAKER_00: John 14 talks about that.
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SPEAKER_00: This is one of the verses.
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SPEAKER_00: If it doesn't make sense to you, understand the midst of everything.
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SPEAKER_00: It was a very difficult time for Jesus when he made this statement.
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SPEAKER_00: And he was saying, let not your heart be troubled.
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SPEAKER_00: He said, If you believe in God, you also believe in me.
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SPEAKER_00: I also believe in me.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't let your heart be troubled no longer because they're already troubled.
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SPEAKER_00: One of you, he said, is going to betray me.
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SPEAKER_00: That was troubling.
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SPEAKER_00: Peter argued with him, Jesus, about washing his feet, and that was troubling.
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SPEAKER_00: And going on and on.
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SPEAKER_00: Everything that he said to them was very troubling.
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SPEAKER_00: And he said, Let not your heart be troubled.
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SPEAKER_00: What he meant is that let your heart be troubled no longer.
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SPEAKER_00: You believe in God, believe in me.
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SPEAKER_00: So was it a matter of encouraging them?
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SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit shows that.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't let your heart be troubled.
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SPEAKER_00: Because I will show you the way to live.
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SPEAKER_00: All of us have faced some difficulties at times in our lives and situations and circumstances that we thought, God, where are you?
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SPEAKER_00: If you're there, why?
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SPEAKER_00: Why don't you hear my prayers?
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SPEAKER_00: Why don't you provide what I need?
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SPEAKER_00: Why don't you heal my body right now?
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SPEAKER_00: Why don't you change my relationship?
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SPEAKER_00: Why don't you bring him or her back into my life?
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SPEAKER_00: We've all been there some time and other.
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SPEAKER_00: When we talk about peace, talk about continuing peace, not ups and downs, peace today, not much on peace tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about ongoing peace.
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SPEAKER_00: A peace that is so deep, so tranquil.
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SPEAKER_00: It levels out that deepness inside you, security between you and God that gives you peace that Paul describes, and be anxious for nothing and all these things.
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SPEAKER_00: He said, rather be by prayer and supplication, make your request known to God.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's what happened.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's what happens, he says, the peace of God.
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SPEAKER_00: What's your past is all human understanding will encircle you, will garrison, protect you, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: He talked about the peace that we don't understand.
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SPEAKER_00: He talked about the peace that guards from anxiety and worry and fretting and caring.
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SPEAKER_00: I think about that over and over in my life, in my past, in all these years, moments of my life where everything in my life I felt was threatened.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't know what to do, who to turn to.
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SPEAKER_00: Life and everything was threatened.
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SPEAKER_00: I do not, I don't, man, deep down in my soul, I need to, I know I need to trust God though.
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SPEAKER_00: Because He has a plan for everything.
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SPEAKER_00: He has a plan for me.
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SPEAKER_00: And I have to remember that scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: I had to know, that's why staying in the word is so important to know.
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SPEAKER_00: Jeremiah 29, it reminds me that the Lord has a plan, He knows the plans he has for me.
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SPEAKER_00: Telling me everything, reading Psalm 91, speaking these, whatever I need to over my circumstances, even the days I was homeless, on the streets.
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SPEAKER_00: Now just remember that.
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SPEAKER_00: If I abide under the shadow of Almighty, he's going to cover and protect me.
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SPEAKER_00: He's going to lift me up.
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SPEAKER_00: He's not going to let me stumble.
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SPEAKER_00: He's going to protect and keep me.
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SPEAKER_00: He's going to provide for me because he loves me.
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SPEAKER_00: That holds true in my life.
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SPEAKER_00: And those listening, it holds true to your life.
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SPEAKER_00: We must trust in God.
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SPEAKER_00: We must confess and understand our sins and turn away from those sins.
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SPEAKER_00: No matter the temptations, no matter the circumstances or the circumstances that are telling us what we can or cannot do, whether it's going to work out or not, we got to have faith and trust and know that the Lord is going to work it out.
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SPEAKER_00: It's going to be for his glory and for our good.
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SPEAKER_00: We need to be patient and filled with his peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Peace that surpasses all understanding.
35:45
SPEAKER_00: He said you have not, because you asked not.
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SPEAKER_00: Ask for peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Ask for wisdom.
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SPEAKER_00: The Lord will give.
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SPEAKER_00: You got to guard that.
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SPEAKER_00: Speak back about the battle that you deal with and the attacks.
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SPEAKER_00: Speak it back, the word, the word of God over your circumstances and situations.
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SPEAKER_00: You may not see the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, but we're being made in some valleys or climbing of the mountains right now.
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SPEAKER_00: But realize this everything is temporary in this life, and it's for a reason.
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SPEAKER_00: The Lord has ordered your steps.
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SPEAKER_00: And we must seek that daily and overcome the distractions.
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SPEAKER_00: Consecrate ourselves on the word.
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SPEAKER_00: Confess our word.
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SPEAKER_00: Focus.
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SPEAKER_00: Focus on what he's saying.
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SPEAKER_00: Spending time with him alone.
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever it may be, he must be priority.
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SPEAKER_00: Because honestly, people, look at his love.
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SPEAKER_00: He loved us first.
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SPEAKER_00: It's so crazy to wrap our infinite minds behind this kind of love and his amazing mercies that are new every day.
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SPEAKER_00: But he wants the best for our lives.
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SPEAKER_00: And whatever we deal with, we need to give it to him.
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SPEAKER_00: Leave it to him.
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SPEAKER_00: Let him handle the rest.
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SPEAKER_00: Leave the consequences up to him, like I said before.
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SPEAKER_00: No greater love than the Lord has for us.
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SPEAKER_00: Understand this.
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SPEAKER_00: Take heed and hold on to that.
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SPEAKER_00: Walk it out day by day with his strength and not yours.
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SPEAKER_00: Be humble.
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SPEAKER_00: Humble yourselves in front of your God, the true living God.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeshua, Yahweh.
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SPEAKER_00: The only way that you're going to get peace is honestly getting rid of the things that you hold on to that cause you to be taken away from the Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Be real and be truthful.
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SPEAKER_00: Confess your ways and your and and what you need from the Lord more than ever every day.
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SPEAKER_00: Seek his word.
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SPEAKER_00: Listen to him in a quiet time.
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SPEAKER_00: Let him speak to you and tell you things, even things you just don't even understand.
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't even make sense to you.
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter.
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SPEAKER_00: You can't put yourself on the cross, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like you take yourself off of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Understand it's Jesus, and he did it all, and like whatever he's telling you to do, even when things don't make sense, you have to do it.
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SPEAKER_00: And be strong in it.
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SPEAKER_00: And ask him to give you strength.
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SPEAKER_00: Swallow your pride and humble yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: Confess, consecrate, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Be confident in that.
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SPEAKER_00: He's not sitting here like some mystery and doesn't want to tell you nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: He loves you.
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SPEAKER_00: But there's some things that kind of block us out of things that don't belong that he doesn't want in our lives.
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SPEAKER_00: And he's going to work on that daily.
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SPEAKER_00: New day, new mercies.
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SPEAKER_00: Enjoy your life.
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SPEAKER_00: Be grateful for that.
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SPEAKER_00: Understand the Lord and seek him and have a relationship.
39:04
SPEAKER_00: You gotta, the only way you can have a relationship with something or somebody, as I've said before, is like you spend time with them and you're intimate with them.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know how they are.
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SPEAKER_00: And how they treat you.
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SPEAKER_00: The Lord is so amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: I have so many blessings in my life because of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Whether the ups and downs, the frustrations I deal with the day-to-day, the thoughts that come in my mind of how I'm gonna handle this, how am I take care of that?
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SPEAKER_00: I gotta fix this, I gotta do this at home, I gotta do this now.
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SPEAKER_00: Man, there's so much stuff that goes on that try to distract you and get you frustrated.
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SPEAKER_00: But Lord, one day at a time, you will handle.
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SPEAKER_00: Prioritize, I ask them like to prioritize the things in my mind, in my heart that don't overwhelm me.
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SPEAKER_00: I take it day by day, write it out, whatever I gotta do.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray for it.
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SPEAKER_00: Please handle it and make a way, whether it's finances or whether it's the peace that I need, dealing with the people, whatever it is, planning, whatever I have to do, put God first in it.
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SPEAKER_00: He definitely will see you through.
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SPEAKER_00: So before I go, I'd like to extend this prayer.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to, those that need to know the Lord or don't know Jesus, I want you to say, like, Lord, I pray for you right now.
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SPEAKER_00: I want you to say, Lord, like, come into my heart and into my life.
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SPEAKER_00: Make me new, cleanse me of all unrighteousness.
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SPEAKER_00: Forgive me of my sins.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray to follow you and serve you.
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SPEAKER_00: Teach me how to be, how I should be for you all the days of my life.
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SPEAKER_00: Rescue me.
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SPEAKER_00: Save me.
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SPEAKER_00: So I can be a blessing and a vessel to those in my life that I love to save, to help save them.
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SPEAKER_00: Whoever I speak to, for you do it all.
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SPEAKER_00: You do it all.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: It's in your name I ask these things to be.
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unknown: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: And again, if you need prayer, if you need a word of encouragement or anything in that nature that the Lord has prompted you on your heart, whatever I can do or what we can do, please reach out.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a bread of life with JJ.gmail.com.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the bread of life with JJ.
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SPEAKER_00: At gmail.com.
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SPEAKER_00: And again, those that are listening, thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: Grateful for you.
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SPEAKER_00: I pray that the Lord's face shines upon you wherever you go.
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SPEAKER_00: And that he gives you peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus loves you.
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SPEAKER_00: God bless you.