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Morning Devotion from John: Not to the World · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, fam. Good morning. God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to The Morning Devo. It's your bro, Sam Lopez, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 1: Devo starts. Amen. Let me make that correction there. It's
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  Speaker 1: good to see you. It's good to have you with
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  Speaker 1: not on my platform, my podcast platform, my favorite podcast platform,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll try my best to get on that platform
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  Speaker 1: as well. So today we continue our devotion in the
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  Speaker 1: book of John, In the book of John, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be in chapter 14, verses 23 and 24. John
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  Speaker 1: 23 and 24. I'm calling this one, Not to the World.
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  Speaker 1: Not to the World. Jesus made a statement, and he
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  Speaker 1: said it was not to the world. Amen. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Brother John. I see you. Good morning. God bless you, bro.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see you in the morning, Devo. So,
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  Speaker 1: we are actually live. But, if you don't have an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to watch or to listen live, amen, no worries,
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  Speaker 1: no problems. It's going to be a replay for the
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  Speaker 1: video that is up for like a month. And those
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  Speaker 1: who subscribe on the podcast, those podcasts are evergreen. Like
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  Speaker 1: they're always there. As long as the Lord tarries, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be always there. Amen. So listen, let's go for it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pray first. Then after we pray, you can share
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  Speaker 1: this out. But most importantly, amen, we'll get right into
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. That's what we want to do
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  Speaker 1: and devote some time, set apart time, Set apart Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in your heart, the Bible says. Set apart time to
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  Speaker 1: get into his word. Amen? So let's go for it. Father,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for today, for right now, for the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity that you give us to breathe, to live, to
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  Speaker 1: see another day, to worship, praise you. Lord God, to
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  Speaker 1: get into your word. The only thing that can satisfy
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  Speaker 1: our soul is your word. Thank you, Lord God, for
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  Speaker 1: being the bread of life. Thank you, Lord God, for
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  Speaker 1: being that living water that's inside of us by way
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  Speaker 1: of your Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord Jesus, that you
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  Speaker 1: visit us every time we read your word. You are present.
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  Speaker 1: I pray the presence of God to transform us, to
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  Speaker 1: give us freedom and liberty. I pray your Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: will teach, will reach, and will develop a new standard
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  Speaker 1: in our heart and our mind accordingly. I pray, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: a hedge of protection over myself, my wife, our family,
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  Speaker 1: my daughters, my son, my grandchildren. my whole entire bloodline
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  Speaker 1: in the powerful name of Jesus. I pray that for
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  Speaker 1: every single person that's watching or listening, that you would
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  Speaker 1: bless them, protect them, guide them, guard them, them and
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  Speaker 1: their whole entire bloodline, their family, and every single person
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  Speaker 1: they come in contact with as well, that they will
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  Speaker 1: be protected and guided and guarded in the powerful name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. We set forth our queen angels to annihilate
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  Speaker 1: and break the curse off of us, to break the
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  Speaker 1: plans of the enemy off in Jesus' holy name. And
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  Speaker 1: I pray for faith, knowing that you are able to
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  Speaker 1: hear these prayers and answer them according to every single
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  Speaker 1: individual situation that's happening right now. All in the powerful
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray this by faith.
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  Speaker 1: And those who agree, we say amen to the amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go for it. Let me get this on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: For those who are watching, for those who are listening,
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  Speaker 1: no worries. We're going to read it word for word
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  Speaker 1: as the scripture says. And we're going to let Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit teach because we live in a world, right? That's
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  Speaker 1: constantly demanding for our attention. But today we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go against that and we're going to get our attention
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  Speaker 1: focused on the word of God in his word, for
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  Speaker 1: his word, because of his word. So let's go for it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So John chapter number 14, verses 23 and 24. Jesus replied.
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  Speaker 1: And if he's replying to something, that means you have
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  Speaker 1: to read above what this says. He's replying to something
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  Speaker 1: that was said. And that's why I got the title,
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  Speaker 1: Not to the World, because Jesus says something, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: read it in a minute. But in verse 14, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: verse 23 to 24, in chapter 14 of the book
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  Speaker 1: of John, Jesus replied, If anyone loves me, he will
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  Speaker 1: keep my word. That's an indicator right there. I love Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and if they're not keeping his word, then Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: you don't love me, basically. My father will love him,
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  Speaker 1: and we will come to him and make our home
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  Speaker 1: with him. Of course, him means him or her to mankind.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever does not love me does not keep my words.
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  Speaker 1: Is that clear enough, ladies and gentlemen? Jesus speaking. The
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  Speaker 1: word that you hear is not my own. But it
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  Speaker 1: is from the father who sent me. He's showing his
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  Speaker 1: unity with the father. He's showing that Jesus is saying, listen,
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  Speaker 1: me and the father are one. So my father will
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  Speaker 1: love him. And we, right, the son and the father,
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  Speaker 1: will come to him and make our home with him.
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  Speaker 1: So listen, the Lord is faithful. dropping tremendous amount of
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  Speaker 1: jewels right here in the scripture. He's replying to something
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  Speaker 1: that was said prior, right? Or asked prior. Or he
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  Speaker 1: was responding to something prior. And we're going to read
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  Speaker 1: that because it's important to read the prior. What is
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  Speaker 1: he responding to, right? Let me get the scripture up
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  Speaker 1: on my phone here. And you could do the same.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to go to John 14, 22 around
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  Speaker 1: there and we'll see why this is so important about
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  Speaker 1: this reply and in verse 22 let's read it together
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  Speaker 1: john 14 22 judas not judas iscariot but judas asked
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  Speaker 1: him asked the lord lord why are you going to
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  Speaker 1: reveal yourself to us and not to the world And
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  Speaker 1: then Jesus replied. Amen. So it's obvious the world cannot
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  Speaker 1: see the revelation that we see. Because a worldly person
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the eyes that God gives a person who
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  Speaker 1: is filled with the spirit. That's why before I got
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  Speaker 1: saved and before you got saved, when sin was present,
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  Speaker 1: when you were active and while living and all that
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  Speaker 1: other stuff, you were blind to it. We were just
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  Speaker 1: doing everything that sin offered because we were actually slaves
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  Speaker 1: to sin before Jesus. But when Jesus finds us where
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  Speaker 1: we are, fills us with his spirit, forgives us, redeems us,
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  Speaker 1: restores us, saves us from his wrath, then our eyes,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual eyes are open. And now we know. And we
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  Speaker 1: ask the question, why are you going to reveal yourself
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  Speaker 1: to us and not to the world. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: call this one, not to the world, because this message,
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  Speaker 1: although it's for everyone, Jesus said, anyone who loves me, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's for anyone. It's not exclusively for Christians, but it's
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  Speaker 1: for anyone who is willing to listen and believe. Very
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  Speaker 1: important that you not only believe, but you follow who
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  Speaker 1: you believe, and that's the Lord Jesus. So this world
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  Speaker 1: is demanding for our attention, right? But Jesus reminds us
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  Speaker 1: that true love is for him, for him, is demonstrated
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  Speaker 1: through obedience to his word. Now, people get a little
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  Speaker 1: grumpy when you start talking about obedience, right? Like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: I have to obey. I'm not obeying no one, right?
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  Speaker 1: Especially men. No, I'm not bowing the knee to no one,
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  Speaker 1: no God. It's my life. I do what I want, right?
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  Speaker 1: You heard that before. Actually, you probably used to say that.
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  Speaker 1: I know I used to say that when I was
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  Speaker 1: in the world being sucked into all kinds of sin
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  Speaker 1: and wild living and all that stuff. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: now this is my life. I'm going to make my
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  Speaker 1: own decisions. I'm going to keep it moving and all that.
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  Speaker 1: It was called selfish ambition. It was called pride. And
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  Speaker 1: it was called just being blind to the things of God. Also,
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  Speaker 1: it was called being a slave to sin back then
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  Speaker 1: before Jesus. So loving Jesus isn't just about what you
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  Speaker 1: say It isn't just about where you go every Sunday
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  Speaker 1: to worship or Saturday or Wednesdays or Thursdays or Tuesdays,
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  Speaker 1: whatever day of the week that you go to worship.
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  Speaker 1: It's not only about that. It's not only about what
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  Speaker 1: we post on social media or what we stream live
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  Speaker 1: on social media, including myself. It's not only about this. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: This is a part of an expression of my love
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord, but this is not at all. Right? Right?
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  Speaker 1: It's not even how I identify myself or how you
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  Speaker 1: identify yourself. I'm a Christian. I'm born again. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Amen. But it's not only about that.
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  Speaker 1: Loving Jesus is more. It's about allowing his word. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to this. Allowing his word to shape the way we
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  Speaker 1: live every single day. Just allow the Lord to do
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  Speaker 1: his work. through us. Amen. Don't complicate it. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: got to pray two hours. If you're doing that, please
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  Speaker 1: let me know how you're doing that. Amen. And what
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  Speaker 1: your schedule looks like during the day. That's amazing. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're doing that, praise the Lord. If you're reading
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures two hours or hour a day, Amen. Praise
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. But allow who you're praying to, the Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully the Father, Holy Spirit, and the word. Allow who
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  Speaker 1: you're praying to, whose word you're reading. Allow Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: guide you. Allow his word to shape you. Allow his
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  Speaker 1: word to mold you. Because this word is not to
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  Speaker 1: the world. Amen? It's to those who hear him, to
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  Speaker 1: those who believe. You think I'm lying? Amen? Go up
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  Speaker 1: to somebody who's an atheist or go up to somebody
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  Speaker 1: who's into Islam or go up to somebody who's a
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  Speaker 1: Buddhist or whatever and you start preaching the gospel, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to look at you like if you have two
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  Speaker 1: heads or three heads, four eyes, two noses, four ears,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to look at you real strange. Why? Because
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  Speaker 1: they're blind or they're actually... deaf to the things of God,
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  Speaker 1: unless by God's grace, they have a heart to receive
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  Speaker 1: and they have ears to listen, then they will hear
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  Speaker 1: the message of the gospel, receive that message and be saved.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a spiritual warfare for souls, right? We're
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  Speaker 1: trying to reach as many souls as possible before Jesus
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  Speaker 1: cracks open that sky. When Jesus cracks open the sky
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  Speaker 1: and makes his triumphant return to us, he's coming with
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  Speaker 1: a new heaven and new earth, but it's not to
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  Speaker 1: be preaching the gospel. It's to judge the world. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: is coming for his church and whoever is not with
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  Speaker 1: him at that time is not with him at any
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  Speaker 1: time for all eternity. Separated from God's goodness for all eternity.
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  Speaker 1: God's goodness for all eternity. Jesus makes a powerful distinction
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  Speaker 1: when he makes this statement in the scriptures. His message
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  Speaker 1: isn't based on On worldly opinions. Check that out. It's
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  Speaker 1: not based on worldly opinions. It's not based on cultural trends.
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  Speaker 1: It's not based on social media trends or wherever it's trending.
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  Speaker 1: It's not based on human approval. Because right now the
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  Speaker 1: generation is looking for approval through social media. It's gotten
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  Speaker 1: out of hand. It's not getting out of hand. It's
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  Speaker 1: out of hand. How many people, young people, old people,
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  Speaker 1: everybody in between, How many of people are going to
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  Speaker 1: social media first to make a statement about what they believe,
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  Speaker 1: what they know? They go on social media first instead
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  Speaker 1: of going to the Lord first and asking, Lord, is
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  Speaker 1: this right? Can you check my heart? Where is it
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  Speaker 1: in the Word? Show me what this Word means. We're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to study the Word to show ourselves approved, not
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  Speaker 1: to go on social media and show ourselves approved, verified, checked,
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Social media has done us dirty,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. People are identifying more with what they
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  Speaker 1: do on social media than what is being done in
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  Speaker 1: their lives, real life, tangible life. Amen. So his message
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  Speaker 1: isn't based on worldly opinions, cultural trends, human approval. His
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  Speaker 1: word comes from the Father. And if Jesus said the
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  Speaker 1: word comes from the Father, we believe that the word
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  Speaker 1: comes from the Father. Jesus is speaking the word through, amen,
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  Speaker 1: to and through. And we receive that word. And his
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit reminds us of the word. So the world
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  Speaker 1: is going to encourage us to follow our feelings. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: just follow your heart. You heard that, right? I think
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  Speaker 1: everybody heard that expression. Follow your heart. Depends on what
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  Speaker 1: heart you have. Now, if you have a heart, according
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  Speaker 1: to scriptures, that's deceitful and wicked. That's before God changes
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  Speaker 1: you and transforms and gives you a new heart. If
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  Speaker 1: you have that deceitful heart in you, don't follow it
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  Speaker 1: because it's full of deceit, all kind of sin, lies.
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  Speaker 1: It's horrible. The heart of man, unregenerated heart, untransformed heart,
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  Speaker 1: unchanged heart, a heart that's not a flesh, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be curtains for you. Brother Armando, God bless the
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  Speaker 1: chaplains in the building. Morning, my brother. God bless you
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  Speaker 1: as well. Good to see you in the morning, Devo.
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  Speaker 1: So the world says, follow your feelings. Chase popularity, right?
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  Speaker 1: That's huge on these social media streets. Popularity. Everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: to be the guru. Everybody wants to be the talking head. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I do this on these platforms, on social media, not
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  Speaker 1: because I really want to. I do it because I
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  Speaker 1: know that's where most people are at. If it was
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  Speaker 1: up to me, I would scratch the whole thing of
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  Speaker 1: social media, get everybody off the platforms, and let's join
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  Speaker 1: on a website, on live.soulwinnerswithaz.org. I keep on saying that
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  Speaker 1: because if you go there, you're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: greater experience than on social media, less distractions. It's distraction-free,
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  Speaker 1: a live interactive Bible. There's a chat there as well. Amen. Live.soulwinnerswithaz.org
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  Speaker 1: is my dream site that I want to have these interactions.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll go wherever the people are because I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to start fishing for souls. I'm fishing for souls. Jesus'
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  Speaker 1: word comes from the Father, even though the world says, nah,
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  Speaker 1: just follow your feelings, chase popularity, compromise your values, because
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  Speaker 1: you want to be accepted by the people. Don't do
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  Speaker 1: what the scripture says. Don't listen to Sam and those people,
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  Speaker 1: those Christians, because they're doing too much. Scriptures are not
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  Speaker 1: valid anymore. Their Bible has errors. You heard all the arguments, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody that says... The scripture has a lot of error.
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  Speaker 1: You know what your reply should be? You should take
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  Speaker 1: out your Bible app or take out your scriptures, your Bible,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a Bible in your hand or in
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  Speaker 1: your possession. Just ask them to show you one error.
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  Speaker 1: And if they find one or two or whatever they
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  Speaker 1: find or whatever they think is an error, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to take it out of context. I guarantee you 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Like this one in the book of Numbers. You're saying
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  Speaker 1: they tell you or they ask you, You say Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is God, and we say yes. And they'll go to Numbers,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's chapter 6. God is not a man.
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  Speaker 1: And they'll stop there. And then you look at it
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  Speaker 1: and say, well, continue to read. And they say, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's all. God is not a man. It says it
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  Speaker 1: in your Bible. So how could Jesus being a man
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  Speaker 1: be God? So we have to be mindful. People are
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  Speaker 1: cherry picking out of the scriptures. You could really make
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  Speaker 1: the Bible talk for your position. But you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to take a little from here, a little from there,
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  Speaker 1: a little from here. and put it all together like
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  Speaker 1: a buffet. It's not true. Jesus calls us to a
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  Speaker 1: different way of living. The world calls us to a
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  Speaker 1: different way of living. So Jesus is saying, live righteous.
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  Speaker 1: The world says, man, do what you want. Who cares?
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  Speaker 1: You only have one life to live is YOLO, right?
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  Speaker 1: You only live once. But the Lord says, live different.
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  Speaker 1: Follow me. Amen. Love me. Obey my commands, obey my word,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be in a better place. The best place
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  Speaker 1: you could be is in the hands of a loving, living, holy,
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  Speaker 1: righteous God. So you don't have to belong to the
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  Speaker 1: world to find fulfillment. Yes, you could find fulfillment in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Yes, we all know that. Like, why even
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  Speaker 1: lie about it? I can't tell you, get on these
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  Speaker 1: morning devils and say, you're not going to find any
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  Speaker 1: satisfaction in the world. That's a lie. You will find
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  Speaker 1: satisfaction in the world, in the world system. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: They advertise it every day. Sex, drugs, alcohol, violence, right?
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  Speaker 1: All kind of sin, you know, all kind of selfish
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  Speaker 1: pride and pride events and all that stuff. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: they're looking to satisfy your soul. They want, they know
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  Speaker 1: the world system is being driven by the devil, being
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  Speaker 1: run by the devil. Yeah, I said it. The scripture
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  Speaker 1: says it. The enemy, the devil is the prince of
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  Speaker 1: the air, right? And he's the ruler of this world,
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  Speaker 1: this temporary world. But God is sovereign over it all.
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  Speaker 1: Because who gets the final say? The devil or God?
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  Speaker 1: Who gets the final say? Who's coming back to judge
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  Speaker 1: the world? The devil? Or a religious leader from another religion? No. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the Christ, the Lord, the Lamb and the Lion, the
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  Speaker 1: Lion of Judah is coming back to judge the world. Right?
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  Speaker 1: So you don't have to belong to the world to
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  Speaker 1: find fulfillment, although the world will give you some kind
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  Speaker 1: of fulfillment. When you belong to Christ and His presence
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  Speaker 1: and is there and able and you're in God's presence,
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  Speaker 1: that's where you're going to find something greater than what
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  Speaker 1: the world offers. You're going to find that the world
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  Speaker 1: offers something that's satisfaction, that's temporary, but God through Jesus
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  Speaker 1: offers something that satisfies us for all eternity. Last time
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  Speaker 1: I checked, temporary and eternity, there's no comparison. Temporary is now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know how long we're going to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Eternity is forever times a million zillion years. Like, There's
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  Speaker 1: no number to stop eternity. You can't say, oh, eternity
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  Speaker 1: starts in 2026 and ends in whatever, 40 whatever. No,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you can't say that. Eternity is forever. So when you
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: keep his word, amen, you keep your life. when you
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: don't follow the word then you're holding on to your
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: own life and you're going to lose your life we
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: read that already the other day so when you keep
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: his word you open up your life to a deeper
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: relationship with God through the son right so we're only
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  Speaker 1: Made right with God the Father who God the Son.
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  Speaker 1: There's no other way. You can't jump over Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: be made right. That's why it's not to the world.
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  Speaker 1: It's not to the world. It's to the people who believe. Amen?
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: People who believe and follow. God's promises are amazing. His
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  Speaker 1: promise that the Father and Son will make their home
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: in us is next level. Right? That's a promise from God.
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  Speaker 1: Do you love Him? Because it's only those who love
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  Speaker 1: God that this is happening. Two and four. Right? So,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and it's not a forced thing. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: forced idea, a forced religion that, oh, you better do this.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And if you don't do this, you're out. You know,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: there's consequences to rejecting the Lord. Absolutely. Scripture says, Jesus
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: didn't come to condemn the world, but to save the world, right?
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  Speaker 1: But if you're rejecting the Savior, the Bible says you're
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: condemning yourself. Not that God is condemning. Jesus didn't come
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  Speaker 1: to condemn the world. People are confused and saying, Jesus
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: said never judge. He is the righteous judge. And we're
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: supposed to judge righteously, right? It's all about love. Yes,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: God is love. So unless you believe in God, then
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  Speaker 1: you know what the definition of love is. If you
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: don't believe in God, love is love. You're defining a
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  Speaker 1: term with a term that has no meaning outside of
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: God because God is love. So we've got to be
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: listening to how people are expressing their feelings because that's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the way they feel. But imagine living your life based
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  Speaker 1: on your feelings. Imagine if I live my life based
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: on my own feelings, bro. I wouldn't be in front
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  Speaker 1: of the screen right now. If the flesh and the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: feelings would take over, I'd be in big trouble, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so would you. So ask yourself. Ask yourself these questions.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: They're sobering questions. You don't have to answer it on
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  Speaker 1: a live chat. If you want, you can. Ask yourself,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: am I following God's word or the world's expectations? Wow.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Like the word is available for free to all of us.
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  Speaker 1: through our phones. I got free books of John's that
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I could give out and send you. It's just the
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: book of John, but I'm pretty sure I have Bibles
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: here for donation too as well. Like it's available for free,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: but how many people want to read his word? How
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: many people have his word in their homes, on their
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: phones and never go to it, right? So am I
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: following God's word or the world's expectations? And it's easy,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: especially the younger generation, to follow the world's expectations because
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: they're comparing themselves to one another through platforms that are
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: not even real. Like when you see somebody that has
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a spotless, always on point social media platform, it looks good.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: But sometimes things that look too good are not true.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: If it looks too good, I grew up with this expression.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And my parents and my family used to say, if
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: it's too good to be true, it's not true. Or
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: is it too good? If it looks too good, it's
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: probably not good at all, right? Polished. If it's too polished.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Right now we have AI. I use AI sometimes, you know,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: for certain things because it just saves me time. But
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: if it looks too perfect, I look at the AI
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and say, that's too perfect. Change it. I have to
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: jump in there and change it because I'm not perfect.
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  Speaker 1: You're not perfect, but the God that we serve is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't need AI. The Lord doesn't need AI to
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  Speaker 1: make himself perfect. The Lord doesn't need approval from this world.
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  Speaker 1: Amazingly enough, right? He wants us to follow and believe
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  Speaker 1: in him, but he doesn't need approval from the world system.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: He doesn't need anyone to validate him. God is God.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: That's a good one, right? Your daily decisions, you're making decisions, right?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I'm a driver professionally. I make hundreds of decisions while
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I'm driving, especially when I have a passenger with me.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I want to make sure I'm on point. Our lives
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: depend on it, literally. Amen? I can't avoid if there's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: going to be an accident. If God allows me to
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: get into an accident, I can't avoid it because that
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: was God-ordained. It's going to be a purpose for the accident.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: When I talk like this, people say, but why would
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: God want you to get into an accident? I'm not
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: saying that God wants me to get into an accident.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that God will allow me to get into
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: an accident for his purpose and plan, which is way further. Like, okay,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: if you have a GPS and you're driving, you have
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: some direction. But God knows the direction. He knows how
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you're going to get there, the time you're going to
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: get there, if you're going to be safely there, if
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you're going to get into an accident and getting there.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: He knows all the intel. The GPS knows where you're
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: going and trying to get you there. But if you
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: have a overview of the whole terrain from beginning to end,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you're going to see more things the higher you go. Well,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: God is the highest of the highest. He sees all things.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Way past the GPS, way past a satellite that's in
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the sky, God sees all things. So does your love
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: for Jesus show up in your daily decisions? Just ask
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: yourself that. How about this? Am I willing to obey
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: God Even when it's unpopular. Let me jump in. Yes,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: this is very unpopular. I can tell you, this message
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: of the gospel is very unpopular to the world. I
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: was in the world. I know what I'm talking about.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: People used to come to the block, talk about Jehovah's Witnesses.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: They said, you can come to Kingdom Hall. Christians used
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to come and say, you can come to church. Everybody
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: from the block is looking at them like, that sounds
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: like a good idea. but we ain't doing it. Mormons,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: we used to have fun with the Mormons. Mormons are
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: real friendly and they're bold, man. Shout out to the Mormons,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: even though I don't believe your system, but shout out
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to you. Y'all be showing up in the hood, on
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the block, wherever, with two guys, white shirt with a
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: name tag, a backpack, and y'all know y'all don't belong,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: but y'all believe in your system so much that you're
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: willing to go into the hood and get get what
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you're going to get. So shout out to the Mormons,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: but you need to repent. Turn away from that Mormonism.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Come to the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The real Jesus
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Christ of the scriptures. I'll be praying for the Mormons.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: So if you belong to God, amen, you know that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: his message is not to the world. His message is
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to his disciples because now we can hear him clearly.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: God knows that the world hears the message of the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: gospel and Here's it like fuzzy. The Bible says the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: gospel is gibberish or nonsense or foolish to those who
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: are perishing. But to those who are alive, it's power
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and it's a salvation. I'm putting scriptures together. Amen. But
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I'm out of time. Read John chapter 14, the whole chapter.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Today we camped out on verses 22, 23, and 24. Amen.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: But for greater context and make sure I'm in context,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: read the whole chapter for yourself. But I'm out of time.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for hanging out with me for
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: these morning devos. I have a great time doing this.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: This is fuel to my soul. Amen. And I hope
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: it's fuel to your soul. The word of God, not
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, but what the word of God says
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: through God's Holy Spirit. So God bless you all. Ladies
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, God keep you all. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: And remember always that God is good. Peace.