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The Countenance of A Friend · Faith-Feed

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  Speaker 1: For unto us was the gospel preached as well as
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  Speaker 1: one to them, or the world preached did not profit
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  Speaker 1: them because their fit did not feed on the ward.
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  Speaker 1: The word of God is the life support of our feet.
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  Speaker 2: Relieve by the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs twenty seven, verse seventeen. I your sharpenet iron. So
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  Speaker 1: a man sharpennet the countenance of his friend. So a
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  Speaker 1: man sharpens the countenance of his friend. Welcome to fate
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  Speaker 1: feed Episode one hundred and ninety The countenance of a friend,
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  Speaker 1: the countenance of a friend. There are several interpretations to
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  Speaker 1: this thing, but notice the Bible did not say whether
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  Speaker 1: the man countenance will be down or lifted, just like
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  Speaker 1: when God lifts up the lights of his counter. It
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  Speaker 1: says what the countenance is sharpened, So it can be
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  Speaker 1: sharpened negatively or it can be sharpened positively. The main
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  Speaker 1: concept is showing us that a man can be inspired
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  Speaker 1: by what and order. Eighty percent of the things people
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  Speaker 1: do in life are what are the result of their
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  Speaker 1: countenance being sharpened. Bamans the way people respond, the way
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  Speaker 1: people act, the way people react to certain situations, in
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  Speaker 1: life is because of what the environment that has been
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  Speaker 1: created by another man. People are not just hostile for
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  Speaker 1: hostile sake. People don't have pride for price sake. They
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  Speaker 1: have it because they are responding toward their environment. That's
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  Speaker 1: why it's important. The people that surround you, the people
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  Speaker 1: that you call your friends. Yes, are they people that
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  Speaker 1: when you see their call, your heart lives for joy?
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  Speaker 1: Are they people that's when you when you see their message,
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  Speaker 1: you're eager to respond to them? Are they people that
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  Speaker 1: when you see them your heart is drawn? There is
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  Speaker 1: a light part of God's countenance, and we see the
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  Speaker 1: expressions of what when God's countenance is say some Chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: reading from versta I says, offer the sacrifice of righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and put your trust. Put your trust in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And Nur says, look at this. There be many who
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  Speaker 1: say that, say, who will show us any good?
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  Speaker 2: That's people that are acting, who is going to show
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  Speaker 2: you good? Now? This is this is the reaction.
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  Speaker 1: He says, what Lord, lift up the light of thy countenance.
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  Speaker 1: That means the answer is that we are turning to
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  Speaker 1: God to lift up the lights of his countenance upon us.
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  Speaker 1: The next listen, he says, thou hast put gladness.
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  Speaker 2: So the result of the light.
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  Speaker 1: Of God's conteners coming upon it man is that there
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  Speaker 1: is an exceeding great joy in the heart of that man. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that screature that tells us in Efficient chapter three that
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  Speaker 1: what God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all
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  Speaker 1: we can as there is an understanding that comes beyond
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  Speaker 1: just the recitation.
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  Speaker 2: Of that verse.
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  Speaker 1: It says that's blackness and a hat more than the
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  Speaker 1: time that they are corner and wine increased. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not even about the corner and wine. Eh, it's an understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Now note very carefully, if you find yourself around your
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  Speaker 1: friend and you are fighting the spirit of pride competing
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  Speaker 1: with a person having so much hostility, you're having so
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  Speaker 1: much friction, friction beyond just conversation, friction beyond just communication,
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  Speaker 1: but friction as to the agenda of ambition. Between the
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  Speaker 1: booth of you, there is contention, your countenance will go down.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter thirteen invest world. The Bible shows us that
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  Speaker 1: only by pride commet contention. Only by pride that means
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  Speaker 1: by envy can commod that things by jealousy can commod
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  Speaker 1: that things by hate can commo that things contention. You
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  Speaker 1: see that contention brings strife. There are relationships, there are
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  Speaker 1: friendships that the contention brings your account, and once there
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  Speaker 1: is strife, your countenance cannot be little. Yes contention. Last
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  Speaker 1: week I did an episode on what multitude the motives
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  Speaker 1: of operations. In that episode you will get to find
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  Speaker 1: out the explanation for this pride that brings contention.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to it.
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  Speaker 1: So note there is a team line in friendship, and
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  Speaker 1: you must recognize the boundaries of those lines in order
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  Speaker 1: to preserve yourself from strife, in order to preserve yourself
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  Speaker 1: from a countenance that will be run down. From what
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  Speaker 1: a countenance that will be run down? This thing is
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  Speaker 1: not difficult. The Bible says God, God lifts up the
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  Speaker 1: light of his contenance up only. But the Bible shows
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  Speaker 1: us in some forty four that what the reason why
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  Speaker 1: a people has? He says, we got not the land
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  Speaker 1: in position by our own sword, neither did our foot
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  Speaker 1: four verstree, neither the our own both thy hand the
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  Speaker 1: low's hand, and the light of his countinance, And what
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  Speaker 1: the light of his countenance because he had a favor.
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  Speaker 1: That means if the reason why their strife is because
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  Speaker 1: that person does not is not there for your good.
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  Speaker 1: That friend is not there for your good because any
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  Speaker 1: friend who surrounds you wants to not just help you,
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  Speaker 1: wants to ensure that your countenance does not go down.
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  Speaker 1: Your countenance is not down, and it is neutral exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It is neutral.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just one sided, because like I did in
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  Speaker 1: my last episode, I balanced the equation as to the
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  Speaker 1: oppressed and the oppressors. You have to understand that you
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  Speaker 1: need to play your part to fill your own assignment
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  Speaker 1: as a friend to another friend. It is ionic that
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  Speaker 1: is sharpening iron, and even if you turn it the
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  Speaker 1: other way, it is the ion that that means listening.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: This goes way beyond what to do. It begins with
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  Speaker 1: how to do. It is mutual iron Sharpoon's ion. Ion
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  Speaker 1: was sharpon iron. So does this mean that when I'm
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  Speaker 1: down I should seek for a friend? Condor God will
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  Speaker 1: always send the right people to you at the right time,
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  Speaker 1: at the right season, and at the right moment.
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  Speaker 2: Friendship is not as a result of time. Yes, time
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  Speaker 2: has a.
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  Speaker 1: Role to play, but friendship a friend sharping a friend
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  Speaker 1: is as a result of this action world that I said,
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  Speaker 1: because God had a favor onto them. The Lord lived
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  Speaker 1: up the light of his countenance upon them because he
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  Speaker 1: had a favor onto them.
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  Speaker 2: So, if a.
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  Speaker 1: Friend does not have favor onto you, is the wrong
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  Speaker 1: friend in that seasonal in that he may not be
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  Speaker 1: a bad friend or an evil friend, but it can
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  Speaker 1: be the wrong one for that point in time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there are.
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  Speaker 1: Friends who still closer than brother, the Bible show us,
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  Speaker 1: but there are times that what God sends a friend
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  Speaker 1: at what at a particular point in time. So the
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  Speaker 1: best way toward sharping your countenances when you are down
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  Speaker 1: is to show up for people when they are down. See,
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  Speaker 1: if you want random fable, you must be able to
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  Speaker 1: deliver random favor to people.
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  Speaker 2: Yet whatever you saw, you must rip.
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  Speaker 1: And as a believer, we reap a hundred photo Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we reap a hundred folds. Not because of an entitlement, no,
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  Speaker 1: but because the parable of the solar shows us that
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  Speaker 1: we have passed the test of what God's have been
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  Speaker 1: established in our hearts as individuals.
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  Speaker 2: So when we.
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  Speaker 1: Are standing up for a friend, it doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: all is well with us. But even when we are
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  Speaker 1: carrying pains, we stand up for them. Why because we
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  Speaker 1: do not care the cares of the world. Remember cares
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  Speaker 1: of the world. We do not care about what we
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  Speaker 1: are going to. We do not place what we are
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  Speaker 1: going to above that with a friend at that time.
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  Speaker 1: Remember I said time season charts that time. So if
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  Speaker 1: you can stand up for somebody that at a period
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  Speaker 1: at a time, God will ensured that you are always surrounded.
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  Speaker 2: With people who what will light your countenance.
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  Speaker 1: The major reason why people give up in life is
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  Speaker 1: related to this. They don't have anyone to sharpen their countenance.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have anyone to lighting up their countenance. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have anyone to encourage them. They don't have anyone
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  Speaker 1: to stand up for them. They don't have anyone at
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  Speaker 1: that point. Understanding is about that moment, because there are phases,
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  Speaker 1: there are seasons in people's life that if you miss,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot go back. You cannot you cannot pull the
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  Speaker 1: hand of the clock back. Exactly, Jesus is stay in
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  Speaker 1: these goods, American. If you do not do, don't blame
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  Speaker 1: anybody first Dissdonians chapter five, verse eleven. Wherefore comfort yourselves
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  Speaker 1: together and edify one another, even as also you do
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  Speaker 1: he Brews chapter ten, verse twenty four. And let us
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  Speaker 1: consider one another to provoke on to love and to
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  Speaker 1: good works, and to what would fear up. That's provocation,
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  Speaker 1: and anything that provokes affects the countenance. If you want
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  Speaker 1: somebody to smile, give the personal gifts that lights up
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  Speaker 1: the persons contenence. If you want somebody to be happy
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  Speaker 1: with you, help the person do something without.
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  Speaker 2: The person efidence. You will see the persist continence lightly.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly what God saw in David wor goes
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  Speaker 1: so in so work go so in several people in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Why because they did.
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  Speaker 1: Things what that lighted up gods cant And finally, note,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: You can't stand for everybody, but you can stand for somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I repeat, you cannot stand for everybody, but you can
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  Speaker 1: work stand for somebody. And that's what God is looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Stand for people in different seasons. Very important. I remain
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  Speaker 1: the faith campaign of Christ. Remember God fident, be God fided.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord commands the angels of your want us to
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  Speaker 1: be said, do Lord lived up the lights of his
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  Speaker 1: countenance upon you.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be God Father of our.
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  Speaker 3: Lord, Jesus Christ King, brought to you by the faith
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  Speaker 3: campaign of Christ, keeping the faith of Christ in the
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  Speaker 3: community of believers. Global, global,