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Applying the Word of God
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You're listening to a podcast from Victory. We study the
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Word in order to apply and obey what it says.
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Explore this truth in week eight of our series Wordview.
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As we end our series. We've been here in our
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series entitled Wordview, where for the past seven weeks we've
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been talking about the Word of God that we are
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called to have a life of devotion.
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What else we talked about that.
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The Word is perfect, it does not have any error,
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it's sufficient, it's clear, and that's why as believers, all
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of us here we are willing to put our lives
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under the authority of scripture. And as we learn all
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that for the past seven weeks, today we're going to
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apply what we learn.
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The question is how.
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Do we apply the Word of God? How do we
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do what it says? And how do we study it?
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Now we know that the series has been transforming our lives.
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It's been transforming our minds against the worldview.
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Now it wants us to be transformed by the Word
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of God.
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And this is actually what we want to talk about today.
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How to apply the actual Word of God in our
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lives and our main text is found in James Chapter one,
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verse twenty one, and it says here, therefore, put away
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all filthiness and rampant wickedness, and receive with meekness the
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implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. Verse
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twenty two says, but the doers of the word, and
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not hears, only deceiving yourselves. Verse twenty three says, for
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if anyone is a hero of the word and not
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a doer, he is like a man who looks intently
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at his natural face in the mirror. For he looks
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at himself and goes away, and at once forgets what
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he looks like. Verse twenty five says, But the one
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who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty,
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and perseveres, Being no hero who forgets, but a doer
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who acts, he will be.
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Blessed in all his doings. You know, we.
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Start our scripture today, which is found in the Book
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of James. The Book of James is said to be
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the book of faith, that works. This book was actually
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written by James, the half brother of Jesus, and he
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was writing to the Jerusalem Church. This was the church
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that he was pastoring. He wrote a letter because he
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wanted to address two things. Number One, he has seen
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that they have failed to put the word of God
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into practice. And it was a root of something else.
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Why because the people during that time, although they were
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saved already, they were deceived by the world. And that's
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why he was saying that they were living a life
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with a double mind. They were double minded people. When
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we say double minded is sometimes you are for the word,
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you allow the word to speak to you. But sometimes
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there's instances in your life that you actually use the
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world as your perspective. These are experiences that we go through.
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These are the advice that people give us that we're
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not sure if it's godly or something that they've experienced
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as well. James was actually talking to double minded people.
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But you know what, Yes, it was written two thousand
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years ago or more. But the question is in our
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lives do we have a double minded life as well?
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Are there things that make us decide based on what
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the world says or is it all based on the
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Word of God. And this is how he starts it.
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In verse twenty one, he says, therefore, put away all
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filthiness and rampant wickedness.
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What does that mean?
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He was reminding his people, the people of the church,
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the leaders, just like you, guys, everyone. He was reminding
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them that what Jesus has done on the Cross has
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brought you from.
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Sin and slavery. Now you are free.
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He was reminding them of their identity in Christ. He
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was saying that you are no longer slaves of sin.
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He can actually remove that life and move forward. And
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that's why he was reminding them to put away all
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wickedness and filthiness. He was saying this to remind them
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of their true identity in Christ.
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And now he starts with.
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Saying the word receive. He said and receive in another
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translation in the n E version, it's a to receive
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is to welcome. You know, when we welcome someone that
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we invite our house, we like them to be there.
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That's why we prepare for it. Me.
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I like inviting people to our house. I like hanging
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out with people in our house. I would always invite
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people to hang out like the bagdados. We'd always go
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there goes to us now. And as I've shared with you,
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we have a twelve bedroom unit. So Cilaria would stay
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in one of the rooms and we.
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Would hang out.
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But before the visitors would go, it would actually be
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we would actually.
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Prepare for it.
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Actually go to the grocery, buy something that they like,
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we'd actually prepare it. We clean it, lean ismen. We
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make sure that when they get there wellan calead. We
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make sure that when they get there, they get there safe,
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they know where to part. We welcome them. And when
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they're there, what do we do. We entertain them. We
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talk to them, We spend time with them. We give
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our one hundred persent attention to our visitors. We welcome them,
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we receive them, same as the word of God when
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we read the word, James is saying that we welcome
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it with one hundred percent of our attention when we
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read it, when we open the Bible, we're ready to
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receive it. We want them there. It's an appointment. They
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don't just just barge in. We're ready for it.
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We want them there. We want the Word of God
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to speak to us.
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Have you been to a house now and invite kyo?
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We don't do that. Do I do that? No, I
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don't do that. When we receive people, we welcome them.
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And this is what James was talking about. We receive them,
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we welcome the Word of God and it was giving.
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Us a posture of what our hearts should be. He says,
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how do we receive them in meekness? What do you
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mean by meekness? To be meek is actually to be submissive.
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It's an act of humility. It's being humbled by the
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presence of God that when you read it, you're saying, Lord,
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I don't know what you want me to understand, but
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I want you to explain it to me. I want
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you to reveal it to me. Do we have this
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posture when we read the Word of God? Are we
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humbled enough to say, Lord, I don't know what to
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do and I need your leading. Or are we the
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type of people that, whenever we open the Bible, we say.
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Al'm kunihan.
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The bad therefore nana man wellgum pisa. How do we
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respond when we read the Word of God? Are we
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people who actually are not one hundred percent fully engaged
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to the word whenever we read it, everything that's in
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your mind is actually to be on the next task.
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At seven o'clock you open your Bible and then you
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know that by fifteen and fifteen minutes traffic will build
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Upber are.
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You fully engaged and concentrated to the Word of God?
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Are we in the mood or is it a requirement
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already for us? Sabin no me preach keasaygo every day.
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And so you have this heart where you say, Lord,
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I read my Bible five times this week, Tapa may
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wish na n kapali don't Is it becoming a requirement
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or something that we negotiate with with God?
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What is our heart? Whenever we read the Word of God?
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He says we receive or welcome in humility. Which one
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the implanted word says there the implanted word. And what
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is the implanted word? It means the implanted in the
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Greek language is in phutos, which means to be permanently
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in place. It's something that takes root, something that's it
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holds there. And when we talk about the implanted Word
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of God, because James was saying that it is rooted
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to the gospel that we know, because if we really
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know who Jesus is, we can actually accept all his teachings,
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because if he know who Jesus is, that he died
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on the cross for my sins. Now I believe that
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everything that He wants for me that will save me,
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it will be good for me. It will be something
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that will protect me with something that will be a
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blessing to me.
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And this is a covenant that God gave.
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And we see this as a prophetic gesture. In Jeremiah,
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it says in Jeremiah thirty one, it says, for this
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is the covenant that I make with the House of
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Israel after those days, declares the Lord, I will put
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my law within them, and I will write it on
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their hearts, and I will be their God, and they
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shall be my people. This was a God saying that
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he will be the one to put the word in
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our hearts. It's actually him putting it in our hearts.
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The question is are we.
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Welcoming him to do that to us actually allowing him
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to put the.
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Word of God in our hearts.
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You know, we are called to receive the Word in humility,
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and when we say humility, what we're saying is that
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whenever we read the word, we accept it.
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We don't negotiate.
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Lord and wedding step one moon Lord and Hindiito Pasa.
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Are you a person that when you see the word
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that is hard to apply, you would actually automatically look
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for someone.
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Else kid Glendato. Whenever you read.
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The word and you see that it's difficult, you find
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fault in other people from because you pugnet transition shap Galitsha.
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We receive the word in humility because it's good for us.
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That's his heart, our father's heart to us. He always
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wants to minister to us. But you know what, James
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does not end there. He was saying that to apply
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the word of God, it doesn't end with reading it,
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with studying the word. He said in verse twenty two,
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we have to be doers of the word. We have
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to do something about it. We have to apply it
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in our lives. You know, one of the last trainings
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that I've experienced when I was in the previous company,
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when I was still working in a multinational company, they
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actually sent me to Antipolo for three days with a
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few couple of people. It was a training on seven
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habits of effective people, I think by Stephen Kobe. It
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was a three day thing. We were locked in on Tipolo.
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We were allowed to go home because they wanted us
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to make sure that there were exercises in applications or
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something that you would think about and reflect about after
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the eight to five seminar and me being a very competitive.
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Person, I would always have questions.
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I would always be the Paccin Avenue facilitator. I have
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a question, I will answer. I wanted to get all
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the learnings from it. I would write down everything that
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I needed to learn. I would market but Stabilo, yellow, green, blue, blue,
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nicolam well labs I market, I underline it.
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I put a star asterisk. I wanted to learn so much.
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I read.
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I wrote down everything that I needed to learn, and
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I would actually picture the things that I wanted to apply.
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Work but efficient all. I will change this. I will
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talk to the people. We have to change this. We
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have to do this.
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The training was on a Friday, three days Wednesday to Friday.
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You know on Friday, when I went home, Oh, come
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stan Kelley, grabbe, I'm gonna I'm gonna revolutionize my work
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at Tinao Feeling Saturday, I met a few people grab
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him galingon training.
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Damn, you should see the man. I'll lend it to you.
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Sunday, gangly by Monday when he got back to working
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desk on damning Peter Mahan, dammit and shampre. As a
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Christian as we are, so I did what I needed
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to do.
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I forgot about the training.
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If you ask me if I applied one of the
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seven maybe the eighth. I don't know, but I don't
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even remember applying the one to seven. Why because it
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was actually I forgot all about it. I was eaten
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by what I needed to do. Sometimes we're like that.
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When we read the word, We're excited you want to
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do it. We're excited when we read it. When we
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when Lord grab the first time looking grabbing a scripture
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of Jesus, wept. It's something I want to apply well
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on compassion, I want to cry. And then nothing happens.
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We experience that it's hard to do. Why, Because we're
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eaten by the world. We go back to the daily grind.
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We get busy. I want to say this to you,
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but stern warning, I'm gonna say this out of love,
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and this is for all of us. You know, many
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times we have this idea that as we hear a preaching,
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the preaching will make.
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Us grow as believers.
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But reality is, if we don't apply it, we'll just
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be back to where we are.
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We won't go, we won't grow. Whenever we hear.
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A preaching and we like it, we need to do
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our part.
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We need to apply it. We need to respond to
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do our part. I like the message. Version of the scripture,
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it says that the word of God.
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For people that who do not apply it, it's as if
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it enters one ear.
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And then sits another, just passes through. Warren words.
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We said, too many Christians mark their Bibles, but their
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bibles never mark them.
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Isn't it true? Sometimes we could write down everything that
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we could do, mark it, but.
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The world would actually lie to us and deceive us
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that there are a lot more things important.
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For us to do than to apply the word of God.
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In verse twenty three, it says James was giving us
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a picture.
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Of what it is if we do not apply it. Sabitazhan.
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For if anyone is a hear of the word and
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not a doer, he.
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Is like a man who looks intently at himself natural
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face in the mirror. For he looks at himself and
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goes away at once forgets what he was like if
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you think about it back you no, no, Why was
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James talking about a mirror that when you look at
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yourself intently and then you leave and back What's it
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about that mirror? You know during this time that James
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wrote this well up upon mirror in the glass mirrors
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were made of polished metal, and when you look at
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yourself in a polished metal object, it's something that will
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not give you one hundred percent of the reflection. So
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it means you need to look at it intently.
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You need to look at yourself.
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Paramasmaliti ilungko almko but iba. When your mirror is not
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one hundred percent reflective of you, you get to look
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at it in different angles.
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We get to think about it, is this really what
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I look like?
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And the verse is that when we see something different
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or we see something not try it in our faces,
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when we see the reflection, we have to actually do
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something about it. It's tomorrow when you wake up, before
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you leave for office, muta, ohi muta you take it
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out right? We take it out why because it's not normal.
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It's not normal that you go to the office with muta.
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You have to clean your eyes. You know, this is
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what the Word of God does.
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It's actually a reflection of what we need to see,
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more than a mirror to actually show us what's wrong
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with us. When we read the word of God, we
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would actually see what we need to do to actually
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give us a reflection of the sin that we're going through,
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to actually give us a reflection of our attitude. But
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mayavan bada do we have that pride? It's a picture
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of reflecting what we need to see about ourselves. But
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the problem is we don't do it. Some of us
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can actually ignore it. You feeling moment, do migan conte
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where everyone sees it. Now there's something wrong with you,
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but for you no.
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Normal.
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This is very unfortunate when we continue to live our
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lives as if.
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There's nothing wrong with us.
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When the Word of God is clear for us to
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see that we need to change, for us to see
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that we need to do something about it, for us
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to see that we need to repent for our things,
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for us to see that we need to say sorry
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to a loved one, but we don't do it.
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We close the book.
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The Word of God is saying that we're deceiving ourselves.
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It's us who is at the losing end.
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I like what James said in the same book, Chapter four,
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verse seventeen. It says, remember it is sin to know
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what you ought to do and then not do it.
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When we learn what we need to do based on
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the word of God and we don't do it, the
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Word says, it's actually sin. How do we respond when
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God reveals things to us once we receive it in humility,
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How do we respond to his word?
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You know?
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God desires the best for us, but we all if
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we only read the word, understand it, study.
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It, but don't do it s actually.
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Rubbing ourselves of the best of what God wants us
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to experience.
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We're called to obey the word of God. Very simple.
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We have to do our part. God reveals to us truth.
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Now we need to do our part. We need to respond.
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Psalms one one nine, verse thirty says teach me, o, Lord,
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the way of your statutes, and I will keep it
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to the end. Give me understanding that I may keep
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your law and observe it with.
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All my heart.
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Lead me in the path of your commandments, for eye
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delight in it.
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You know.
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And a practical way to look at the word is
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to ask, Lord, show me what you want me to
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understand in your lass, in your words, Lord, teach me,
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give me understanding and lead me to what you want
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me to do.
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This reality.
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Maybe some of us or maybe most of us, with
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quote scriptures in the Bible, we may know a hundreds
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of scriptures. We may know a lot of things, principal
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stories from the Old Testament to the New Everything. We
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may know all that, But if you don't apply the
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word of God in our lives, won't be able to
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move forward. God won't be able to put us in
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his will. God won't be able to use us the
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way He designed us. Question that we want to ask
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each and every one of us today, or there things
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that we need to obey, or their things that we
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need to apply. You know, one of the things that
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I want to do today, which is different from most
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of our preachings, is to actually do it. Apply it,
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apply the word of God. And today we're going to
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go back practical. So what's next?
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We want to apply the word?
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But the question is how? Verse twenty five says we
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start it by looking. But the one who looks into
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the perfect law, the law of liberty, is talking about
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the scripture, the word look here that was used comes
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from the Greek word para kupto, which means to bend
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over to see something better, to find out something intellectual
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about it. It's actually not just looking in front. It's researching,
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it's reading, it's meditating, it's looking for answers. Did you
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know that your bibles, most of our Bibles would have
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pages and pages of an introduction to a book. Sometimes
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it's at the back, sometimes it happens before the book.
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But it's there. We just need to read it.
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We just need to study it to be able to
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know the leading of God.
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We need to make sure.
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That we study the word of God. We need to
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make sure that we did deep. One of the things
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that I want to share with you on the practical
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side of it is this that as you study each
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book of the Bible, how many books do we have?
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Sixty six books? We need to actually know this. And
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if you're starting your devotion tomorrow and starting a new book,
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this would be a good thing to start with. Number One,
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know the author, Know the author, know the audience. Who
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is he talking about Latin yea, What is the purpose
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of the book, and then what is the context? And
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this is what we did a while ago about James.
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Now you understand when we read the scripture. Okay, so
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let's James.
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His church and in purpose.
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Yeah, he wanted to address issues of double mindedness. What
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was the context? They were thriving church?
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He U was all that this time. We only learned
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that if we.
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Read, if we study the book, if we study the scripture,
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and if you're ready, we're gonna do something different today.
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We're gonna do road.
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Have you heard of road as a method of doing
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your devotion? So road means R? What does what do
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we mean by R?
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It's read.
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When we read the word, we have to read it fast,
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read it slow, read it silently, read it aloud in
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any meth read it in different styles, read other translations.
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After you read ESV read NIV. You know, one of
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the things that we have the privilege of having is
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free Bibles in the Internet.
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There are a lot of versions.
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There that we can actually validate from. Even the Tagalog
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Bible is available there. So we read the scripture, and
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once you read the scripture, you highlight the things that
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impact you. You highlight the thing that you feel that
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God is speaking to you with.
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What's oh, oh is observe there? When we observe.
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We look at the context. What was happening, Where were
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they when was this?
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What are the words that were used?
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Was it repeated? Is there a concluding word?
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Is there a word? Therefore? Sometimes you would hear and.
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Read words like truly, truly? Why did they repeat the word?
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We observe that there are commands. Why are their commands?
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Look for the promises we observe, and then letter A
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is ask ask questions like why why did this happen?
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Ask questions like what what is going on?
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What does it say to me in my life?
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We can ask questions, And then lastly is do how
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do we respond? We need to repent? Do we need
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to say sorry?
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This is action?
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We start doing it? Do we start learning new disciplines?
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And another way of doing something is actually prayer. When
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God leads us to.
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Prayer, it's doing it.
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It's something that is a spiritual that when God reveals something,
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we get.
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Down on our knees and we pray. We do it.
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All right, So I hope you guys are excited because
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today we're gonna actually do rude. I'm gonna give you
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a scripture for the next few minutes. Let's read it
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and then we'll try to observe, we'll try to ask questions,
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and we'll do all right.
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Are you guys ready? All right, let's.
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Read John chapter twenty verse twenty four to twenty nine.
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All right, I'm gonna give you guys time, okay, all right,
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so we'll just check something that you have observed. Can
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I hear someone to say something about what you have
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observed in the scripture? So well, I know, busy, yeah,
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Abram choose one? Yeah, all right, let's give a hand
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to the young gentleman.
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What have you observed? Are you Thomas? Yes?
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From the other disciples, yes, yes, that's good.
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They didn't believe Thomas.
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May prove they were convincing when they were convincing him. Okay,
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one more observation, all right, what's one thing that you observed?
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Thomas was not with the.
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Disciples, Yes, when they encountered Jesus he was not.
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Yes, all right, but yes, yes, one more, one more?
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One more observation from Abrams group. Yes, ma'am.
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Thomas wanted for evidence, yes, to believe. That's good. All right.
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Let's give around the lost or volunteers.
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All right, so we'll see you know, stay there loud, Okay, observation,
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This is what I wrote down. Number one almost did
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not believe the other disciples about Jesus resurrection. Maybe he
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was a person that needs to see first to believe.
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It's very obvious, right. Another observation that.
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I found is Jesus defines a blessed person and that's
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believing without seeing. So because of my observation, what did
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I conclude? That we are called by Jesus to live
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a life of faith and that faith is a life
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of faith? Is what that we don't need to see
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a life of faith. It's not seeing to believe, it's
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an other way around. We can actually believe something that
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we do not see. When we do road we write
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down all our observations, there's no limit to it. You
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can fill in the entire page for this. So now
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we should ask what's one thing that you want to ask?
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But tep of friend Silla. If you think about it,
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the burk out the time.
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But to get any.
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If I was Peter or Paul or John or Ringo whatever,
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one more question?
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Yeah, and what's the purpose? Yes?
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I know I am purpose bay that's good.
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That's good?
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And how these are the two questions that I wanted
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to get clarified. The first one is clarity of the verse.
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This is my question, how did Jesus enter the room?
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Since the verses the door was locked.
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These are the.
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Questions that we want to ask because if you don't
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understand it, we can actually look for the answer. Lord
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back at and on purpose it was locked the verses
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the door was locked, and then all of a sudden
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Jesus was around them. Why because it was no longer
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in his flesh that is pinto He just appears where
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he wants to appear. Okay, another question that I wanted
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to ask, But this time I want.
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You to get this.
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This is a reflective question that I wanted to ask,
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and this is my devotion. By the way, a few
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days ago, I really chose this to.
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Share it with you. This is my question, what are the.
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Things that I've been believing for that I've lost hope
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on because I do not see it happening, no progress.
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It was like a Thomas.
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In me guides a bin and victory group leader, go guys,
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abin and pastors that I don't believe why because there
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was an I.
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Don't see it?
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Is there things in my life that I need to
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see first to believe, so I think questions go in
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my mind, okay.
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And the last one is do all right?
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What is one thing that you want to do based
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on the scripture were.
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Young faith by the mass Manuel at yes Teva.
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It's something that will allow you to do that meaning
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it's to have that faith that even though I do
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not see it.
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Now, I will believe it.
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Or these are the two reminders that I wanted to do, sabiko,
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remind myself of the things that I'm believing for that
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it will happen by faith. Although I don't see it yet,
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I can declare it's yes an aim and in Jesus Christ,
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it's a picture of Thomas and his unbelief Nis and
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Inula and the Tartana Jesus and savage Jesus. Blessed, Peace
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be with you. Blessed are the ones who do not
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see yet believe. And this is what I want in
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my life now, Lord, Now I don't even need to
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see what I can believe. This is what I learned
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from this text. And now I began to actually write
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down the things that I needed to remind myself that Lord,
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dig maa maa magiar in Alam, it's yes and Amen,
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I was actually giving a picture of a cake that
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whenever we buy a cake, do we need.
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To see how it's big. We just know it's there.
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We just know that when we need it, when we
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buy it, it's already there.
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And a build up in faithful. But I needed to
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do my part.
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I needed to write the things down that I needed
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to believe again and lastly, dun sad, I wrote down
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to pray that God will guard my heart from unbelief.
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That I don't want to live in unbelief. That whenever
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people would ask me something and I would reply to
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them that they need to see first to believe. I
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don't want to impart that to others unbelief And it
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starts with me. And I hope you get this. That
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doing is an act of prayer as well. Doesn't mean
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that when we pray we're not doing something. We're actually
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doing something when we pray and ask God to change us.
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When we pray and ask God.
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To change our heart of stone to a heart of flesh,
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what we're saying is Lord, Digo Kyah, do your work
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in me.
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Its surrenderer our lives to the one who can do it.
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Last few reminders, some guide questions during your devotion as
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you do your road on a daily basis. Number one,
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does it reveal an attitude to change.
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Or a sin to forsake?
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Ask these questions based on the scripture that we read.
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Number two, does it reveal a specific promise to claim?
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Does it reveal an example to follow? Does it reveal
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a command to obey? In these four questions that we
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ask and even that applied, don't skate Thomas.
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A story in Jesus.
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It's number one. Does it reveal an attitude to change?
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Second one, lord attitude know of unbelief? And then second
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it reveals an example to follow the example of Jesus
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saying that to believe is not necessarily to see, but
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actually to believe that it has already happened. Ohibyon in road,
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thank you, don Selima. In verse twenty five we end
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it says we are called to study.
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The word says there.
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But the one who looks into the perfect law and
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the law of liberty. And there's a keyword here, it
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says persevere. When we persevere, we do our part, we
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meaning we do it, we fight for it.
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Here's discipline, we do it. Until the end.
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And I was thinking about an example of who that
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this might be. And I know that you've noticed social
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media being flooded of posts about Billy Grant, a nineteen
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nine year old pastor, reverend, powerful evangelist speaker, someone who
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is devoted to the Word until the end at nineteen
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nine years old, if he could actually preach at that age.
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When we persevere, the Word of God.
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Makes stronger roots in our life. The Word of God
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just overflows in us.
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When we persevere and receive the word, and when we
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apply it.
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We can actually benefit from it. We have a blessed life.
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And this is the reward, the promise, the change gives.
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In the end, he said that whoever not only hears it,
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but does it, he will be blessed.
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In his doing.
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When we apply the word of God, when we study
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it diligently, we can have a blessed marriage. When we
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apply the Word of God and study it, we can
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have actually a blessed career, blessed relationships.
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He promises that that we will be blessed. It will
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always be.
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For us, protect us, strengthen us, lead us to the
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right path. If you think about it, this is the
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heart of God, the only reason why he wants us
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to obey this.
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For you, it's really for you. It's for us to
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have a life that is full, to have a li
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life that.
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Is worthy, something that honors him, and we can enjoy
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that life. As I end, I want to share with you, Luke.
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Chapter eleven, verse twenty eight. In this verse, Jesus was
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teaching a crowd just like this, a bunch of people,
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huge number of people, teaching.
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Them what to do with their lives.
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He was preaching about the kingdom that is at hand.
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Because of the preaching that he gave.
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There's this one woman shouts, blessed is your mother who
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carried you, Sabina in verse twenty seven ale bayum patita
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in our context, by your mommy most.
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Chapter with you.
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She shouted, blessed are you among women? Sorry, Sabina, blessed
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is your mother?
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Sorry?
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It is that Sabina, blessed is your mother in verse
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twenty seven. But what did Jesus say, Versey, It says
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blessed Rather are those who hear the word of God
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and obey it. I know you want to be blessed.
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Sometimes we claim it. Lord, we are blessed people because
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we are your children. God wants that for you. He
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has given his instructions for us, spoken to us, wants
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to speak to us on a daily basis, But we
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need to do our part. The biggest part he has
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done already by dying on the cross. And this is
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our position as sons and daughters of God.
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He wants us to be blessed. How do we do that?
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We need to obey the word of God. Amen, Amen,
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Heavenly Father, Thank you that your word is clear to us.
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Thank you, Lord God, that we can declare this word
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that we are blessed. Why because we are people who
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obey your word. Thank you, Heavenly Father, that you are
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in our midst today. Lord, speak to each and every
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one of us. Lord, I declare that you're giving them courage.
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Right now.
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Some of you, my brothers and sisters, are having this
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hard time because you know that it's gonna hurt you
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if you obey God. Why because it may be a
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wrong situation, maybe a relationship that you're in that you
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shouldn't be in. But you know what God is saying
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that he will be the one to restore you. Some
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of us might be afraid to obey God. Why because
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we're not sure of what will it turn out of
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what will happen if we obey him. But you know what,
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this is my declaration for each and every one of us,
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even to myself, that when we obey the word of God,
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we know that his plans are always good, pleasing, imperfect.
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You know, when God blesses us, he does not add
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trouble to it. Well, I'm Sabbath always be good for us,
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even the time that when we obey, He knows that.
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I believe some of us are hesitant, But you know what,
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I believe God is bestowing courage to each and everyone.
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Nor thank you for your people today, Nor thank you
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that their hearts are ripe for you, Lord God. Lord,
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thank you that whenever they read the word, they will
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look into it Lord, in all angles they will study it.
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Lord. Thank you, Lord God, that you have given us
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this hunger to know you more.
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Nor thank you that as we obey you, Lord God,
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You're gonna be a father who is delighted to us
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that whenever we do something, Lord, as we obey you, Lord,
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you're gonna be a father who is so happy that
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you're gonna reward us. Lord Nord, thank you that you're
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giving us an inheritance of a children of children that
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belongs to you, Lord nor, thank you for bestowing blessings
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upon blessings upon your people.
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Lord.
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They declare that you're gonna surprise them this week. Thank you,
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Lord God, that you're gonna move in and through them.
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Lord God, Favor upon men, Lord God as they obey you.
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Favor upon transactions, Lord, Favor upon restoration of relationships. This
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we declare in Jesus' name, and everybody say.
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