Sermon
The Dangers of Worldliness and the Call to Pray With Pure Motives
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You're listening to a podcast from Victory. Worldly passions cause
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us to hate God and hurt one another. We must
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guard against them, discover more about this truth. In week
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five of our series, Gospel demonstrated.
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Anyway, we're now on the fifth leg of our series
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and the polling series. But then Gospel demonstrated, you know,
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there's a theme in the Book of James. If you
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if you look at the books of James, he talks
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about empty words that should be translated into action. He's
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talking about the thing that the tongue should be named
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the town. The tongue is like a rather the sheep.
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He's telling us. That's saying to us, as there's a
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theme in what is writing. And so if you will
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summarize this, this is just saying to us that you
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have not to have just a profession of your faith
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or you pung declaration of your faith, but you have
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the possession of your faith.
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You may it was, and tonight we will be talking
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about the enemy of God, which is worldliness.
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And so to encourage you, like to read verse in
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James chapter one, Verse one, verse four, It says, here
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for your encouragement, you adult as people, do you know that.
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Friendship with the world is enmity with God.
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Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world
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makes himself an enemy of God. Can you bow down
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your head and close your eyes Heaven? If this afternoon, Lord,
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we pray that your holy spirit will annoint us. Father God, Lord,
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that know nothing of the things that will I say
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will come from me, but it will be words that
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will be coming.
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From your heart, Lord, directly to your people.
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Father Lord, May there's words become so powerful that it
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will move them into action that it will cost change
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in their lives.
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Thank you God in Jesus name.
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Amen, Now Malijuana, friendliness with the world is enmity or
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or you're you're you're gonna be going against God.
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You see friends.
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Marque not pep either.
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Or in the same manner.
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You cannot be a friend of God and you cannot
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be a friend of the world. In fact match of
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chapter twelve, Jesus Christ speaking himself says, whoever is not
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with me is against me, and whoever does not gather
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with me scatters malijan and pull. If you're not for God,
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God is taking is assuming that you are against him. Now,
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for the last four weeks we've been discussing about the
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marks of a real Christian where Gospel is demonstrated to you.
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We're gonna do something different. We're gonna break away from that.
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We will now see the other side and put you
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on the other side, the other side that will describe
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who is a.
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Friend of the world or who will worthly.
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And so this afternoon, what I'd like to discuss to
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you is the evidence of the result of and the
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solution to worldliness. The evidence of worldliness, the result of worldness,
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and the solution to worldliness. The first evidence that we
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can come up with as we read this verse is
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the evidence of greed sabip Bible. What causes quarrels and
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what causes fights among you? Is it not this that
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your passions are at war within you? You desire and
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do not have, so you murder you Covett and Kenna obtained.
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So you fight and quarrel you do not have because
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you do not ask now. Prior to coming to ministry,
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I work for the Supreme Court as a supervisor for
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the Province of for Philippine med Jason Center.
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And to my surprise, I realized.
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The strangers ia orana or macapamilia, and so I was
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thinking about that. But Kaya manzilla began or manzilla worst makaapa.
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Then I realized, and God told me, you know, because
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people who matters you the most will hurt you the most.
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You understand who's in the important you know, Malala, And.
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Let me give you an illustration. Coming up to here.
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And way past the guards, sabinon guards, I'm doing in offense,
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pero it will pass my ear in fact, because it
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does not matter to me because we do not have
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a relationship, pera Humirayan tan no comes Ryan bro. I'm
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but doing my off I I brought with me my
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best so it matters to me. But because his reactions
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mattered to me inside manner taupo na. Because whatever you
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say to some one that loves you, whatever you comment
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to someone that matters to you, hurts or builds up
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massa oh ma incarriage musha. Now what's the cause of
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the problem. The cause of the problem is greed. Why greed,
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sabipu no Bible? Why do you fight? You fight and
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quarrel because you do not get what you want? Nineteen
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Then I'm calling now wisdom. Just know now think about this.
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James is an expert of relationship. You know why because
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he's the brother of Jesus Christ. Now think about this.
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Why it's because you want something and I want something
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and we're totally opposite with what we want, or we
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want the same thing and only one of us can
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have it. Let me illustrate it to you.
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Behind you public indeed a lang.
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If you will be honest enough, just I'm sure within
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the week normally coming in a musico marin mean renovating
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a bathroom lavatory nine So indiko and I'm come back
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now off.
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And I'm come back now offense.
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Like you too big done.
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Nineteen is because she.
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Has her own preference and I have my own preference,
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and that starts the vibe. Now it's because it's opposite
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to what we want. The second illustration is this because
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you want the same thing that each other one, but
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can only have what one can only have it whom
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you are singing here in the room, pack okay whom
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you are singing in in the room. Yeah, all right,
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praise the Lord, Okay, man getting too Alima singer is
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a par Christian. PA attend is a Bigtory Green Niels.
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That was Pa ren nando os a service in attendan
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young you announcement and Pastor, can you turn to the
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person beside you and smile? L boom and Sandy? Now
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it's so happened in adulter, Pastor? Now what will happen
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to the person that does not get to be the
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husband of the girl that they both like? Normally that
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the person will be heard? And Indian victory Green Neilson
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my laplos dio maraing do all right. So what I'm
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trying to say is this, that's the reason why you fight.
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It's greed because you.
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Wanted your way and you want things to be yours alone.
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Now what's the result of greed? Homicide? Homicide?
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The difference between homicide and murder is intention. Explain you murder,
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You murder your homicide in the intention siguru accident or
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in the process of you trying to assert what you want?
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Homicide homicide? You see, that was a.
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Angsunya sahaaga that that comes and what would be your
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most most likely comment to each other? And Mama escal.
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Is mo pang chi mayama am.
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So pina self hindi so pina. Worst is pinamo pat
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believe that magaga pattiput. And that's murder, my friends, to
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your marriage. What will it cost your marriage? Thai, that's
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killing your marriage right there. And greed will cost you
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to commit homicide? Now what's that? What's the solution? At
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the solution tab Bible you desire and do not have.
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You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel.
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You do not have because you.
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Do not ask.
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Now it continued, sabipito, you do not ask a solution
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generosity sab Bible part you ask and do not receive
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because you ask wrongly to spend it on your own passion. Friends,
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why did they say that the solution to greed that
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kills is generosity among your fathers in the room. Fathers
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in the room, okay'm cigarette casino, Okay the gar casino
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naga sabotoo generus no bia And you know why because
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that's money that is not earned. And on the other hand,
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prap and more and here you know no you in
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Prince Price Iau double cheeseburger said Mara parent. Now you
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do not ask. You do not have because you do
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not have.
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You you do not have because you do not ask.
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What is that telling you? Your generosity will not come
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from what you work for. Your generosity will come from
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a source that will never end, will come from a
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source that is able and will come from as all,
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a source that is willing. You see, friends, you understand
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and in the process, did you know that if you
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are a blessing, you are most likely blessed?
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Friends.
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It's a mindset problem because you think you're the source.
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But the source of everything that we have, the source
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of everything that we need, and the source of everything
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that will give comfort and.
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Joy to people is God. Think about it.
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That chair used to be what that chair used to be,
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used to be a tree, Your clothes used to be
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what may be a plant or anything that comes from
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an animal. Everything that you have came from what God created.
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Nothing in this earth is a product of what you
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did alone.
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N Now, if we're gonna think about it and pin respond,
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you miss move magatas in band amagawey Ai. Because of money,
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you understand, because that will give the wrong impression not
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only to the world, but that is giving God.
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The highest degree of this honor.
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Because as a Christians, all of us should leave by
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the understanding that what you have comes from God, and
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He is the source of everything that you will have.
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In the future.
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And that will empower you to what to give, because God,
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God blesses a cheerful giver. Nine And so your greed
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can be solved by what our greed can be solved
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by nothing but generosity. Changing the mindset that everything that
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we have comes from God himself. Now ebidence, that is
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some world in the title. The next evidence is pride
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And as a Bible, come now you who say today
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or tomorrow we will go into such such a town
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and spend a year there and trade and trade and
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make a profit. Yet you know you do not know
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what tomorrow will bring. What is it for your life?
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For you are a miss that appears for a little
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time then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, if the
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lords will, we will live and do this or that.
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As it is you both in your arrogance, all boastings
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is evil.
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Let me be clear to you.
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And the pu bang aye you put adding panin on
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what does God despise? God does not despise planning. In fact,
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God is a god of order, because if what's that,
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what's what's the evidence that God is a god of order?
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You are?
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You are an evidence that God is a God of order.
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Is public dad.
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Time lad putting? Then you put on order naturally. If
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there is order, there is a plan. Now.
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In fact, in the Book of Matthew, Jesus Christ himself
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says that whenever you're building, you're referring to the man
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who builds a tower.
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And you do not plan the cause, then then you
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were a fool.
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So James could not have been contradicting what Jesus Christ
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already said. But his point is this, because of your plan,
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you think that success is entirely because of what you do.
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And that's what you call arrogance. Kayabang and okay may
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pride signs pride number one. There is no small things
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for you. Everything is big pride a restaurant, patti mala
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and loginning, sag tooth, pick, lamp, permit, my lacking bag.
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Guy napalil it dad.
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I wanna tayo sum baba kaite ma lach napap bag
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it hamblen in Indian, you see another trade. Another mark
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of a proud person is this and opu my abag.
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You always find fault in others, but never in yourself.
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The way I speak today.
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Happy that was a singular plural in then don't put
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the English class to.
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Put a worship service. So what I'm trying to look namata.
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So now think think about that, you're always what if
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you're you're full of pride and marcano la criticized, bay
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Kiney criticized, Perunaki criticize, you understand and may may may
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pride celeb lagging me so.
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Lagging.
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No one wants to be near you. No one wants
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to be around you. And la male which wants many
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and the.
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Malay the.
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Kelen December Indi, December twenty five, nineteen. Indeed a male
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and tongue may pride and so is always alone. Now
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what's the result the pride and the result and pride
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suicide suicide.
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Let's look at the Bible. Yet you do not know
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what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you
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are just what a missed.
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Ah that banishes You're dying lam. Now think about this.
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Let me just challenge you.
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You know, when you're a prideval, you tend to do
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everything big black and big black and big black.
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Suicide, samos.
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Not you know what I'm trying to say to you.
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By guy, there will come to a point there where
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you will explode because no one living person and that
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person will only be what who Jesus Christ himself, God
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himself peruhind Eco now and suicide and upon solution and
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solution a humility and upullung humility. Humility is an acknowledgement
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that you need someone. Humility is an acknowledgement that you
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cannot be successful without somebody. Humility is acknowledging that everything
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that's happening to you is by God's grace. By ball instead,
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you ought to say, if the Lord's will, we will leave,
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do this or do that. In Taupumpey, humility is always
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thinking about what God thinks.
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It's always thinking about what God wants.
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In Tapue, humility is always thinking about what God wants
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and plans because he knows that without God he won't
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be successful. And the pongs have been one by all
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many the plans of man, but only God's plan will succeed.
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Kaya he is submitted to that. Thank God Salam.
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You know ten years, ten years ago, I didn't say
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we will plan the church this, that, that, that, that,
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and I will and I will put all in all
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churches my life, life sized sposure of myself. I did
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not say that because that was not my plan, because
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that was not my ambition. But I submitted to the
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will of God. And what does it do for me?
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Now? You know what, ten years from now you will
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still remember me to original.
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Why because I'm submitting to the plan of God.
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You understand.
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Behind basay is a plan.
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You understand.
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One of the things that I remember in ministry is
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one of the pastors in Victory says to me bro
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Alamo and Masu and plan.
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Their complan.
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It will be beyond your expectation, more than what you
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can think and imagine.
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And we are leaving the esteemonin that.
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And greatest regret was I it's not answering God's goal
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earlier than I should have. Not all of us will
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become pastors, but each and every one of us will
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be called for a purpose of God.
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And if you are in the purpose of God, and.
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You know, you will never be prideful because everything that
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you do will be dependent on the things that he
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does for you. You understand now finally, and is about
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na marka.
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World social injustice? Mad you, I said the long word. Uh,
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let me just illustrate to you Halma.
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Pintuan bango and in canto indigno you you perfumed.
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In canto mula.
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Tables kuti is my smooth tabos, that's full make up.
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That was paran galindan fitness, first figure, pangs universe that's
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maka I made the la tissue made damp bad taposa
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and yeah, yeah, social injustice.
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Ym your time.
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And on social injustice, it's spread judice against people that
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are not You're not like you. Nine Indi, you know
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think about this, uh said the house was but was
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owned by my wife. Is a private school, so las
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a guide young sub division. That's an id new sell
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and adres. And you see that's prejudice. Nine in what
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if You.
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Miss universe?
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In what if you manage her? Is an artista that
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you know in the movie industry. I'm very well versed
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and manager hindep artista. But because of our prejudice, you
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know what prejudice and results to prejudice and results to
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a mass murder. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, prejudice and results
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to mass murder, Babe, mass murder, Bible ball, Let's let's
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look at the Bible. By ball, you have condemned and
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murdered the righteous people person. He does not resist you.
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You know what when you are prejudiced to someone, a
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people group, when you prejudice a social class, mula serna,
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let me tell you and make it clear to you, Alt,
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you're a middle you're a middle income person, and I echo,
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young matasta social class.
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The people that you want to be with does not
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like you, and the people that wants to be with you,
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you don't like them.
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You put on social injustice nine for you to better
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understand a. Let me pu gerra something that now more
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than one hundred years now, our most brothers downstairs and bang.
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No one will answer you because no one knows. But
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I bet you it could be social injustice. But to
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the simplest form alem you put your macap it buying
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a Muslim man.
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That indeed it looked a BOUNDARYO. Indeed, are you back it?
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Because social injustice produces what mass murdering, you know, entirely
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murder a group of people that you don't want to
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be connected with Indian an Nanga social injustice church community
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that the solution to social injustice is church community. Did
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you not notice whenever you came here in church, whether
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it's victory, Greenills victory or Tias victory for it the
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answers is that tell you how old are you? What
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social cast do you?
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Are you poor?
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Are you middle income? Do you do you prepare English
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or the galog service? Nobody asks you whatever you wear
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coming to church.
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Nobody tells you you're not supposed to be where that
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in church?
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You know why because in church everyone becomes equal. Why
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because God looks at.
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Everyone equally with favor and love. Think about this.
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In the Book of Acts, the Bible says they were there,
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there were many added to their numbers that day, and Bible,
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no one is in need. You know why, because the
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early Christians are crazy about God. The early Christians are
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really on fire about God. In early early times, medical
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science as advance as we have today. Plague TV, people
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run out of the city.
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They scattered to the countryside that to heal to minister.
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You know why because they are not afraid of death.
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Because they saw Jesus rise rose to life. They saw
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Peter lay hands and people get healed and rose back
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to pink of hell because their faith is demonstrated.
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Gun.
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Now, as I close tonight, I just want to say
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to all of these things, anno result and greed and
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pride and social indances, there can only be one result.
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If you are you are for for the world, a
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friend of the world, the result is nothing but death
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and death.
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You see Marin pong instantaneously. But most people are dying
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every day without knowing, without you knowing. Turn to the
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person beside you. Every one of us is dying. Right,
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You're one less day to day than you were yesterday.
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All of us are dying.
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Mamamatakana amata in a gigg insensitive now.
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No longer can eat this taste food.
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You can no longer run because parts of your body
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is becoming insensitive.
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Then what happens when you die? You de kay?
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Did you not realize that spirit only that is what's
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happening to us if we are a friend of the
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world and.
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Insensitive? Bad guy and.
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Printers print that was well? You monitor, monitor computer insensitive,
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b t untimad uh in.
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You become insensitive.
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You understand everything now is justifiable to you. Your relationship
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without without wedding marriage. It's fine with you. Why because
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you're now dead, you are now insensitive, you are now decaying.
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In contrast, and I'll end with this Anon a man
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po angry Sultan. And when you become a friend of God,
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what happens to you? There is life that is breathed
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into you kat and born again. Your reward is eternal life.
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But that eternal life starts here on earth. Banion simply
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poisons James. Read the Bible, meditate on the message of
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the Bible, pray and do what it says. Because if
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you will do what it says, you will be blessed.
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And if you will be blessed, the people around you
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will be blessed. And when the people around you will
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be blessed, all the rest that are watching us from
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the out from the far wide places would want to
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be like us. That's influence in the life mode of
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of Moses.
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Nani.
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While a suggest Moses, why you have defeated the greatest.
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Nation on earth. Your God must be the true God.
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And so friends, what do you do if you become successful,
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if that, if the word of God, the Gospel works
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in your life.
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You go again to.
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Church and then you pray again. You read again the
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Bible and ask God, Lord, what is it now for me?
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What's another thing for me to do? You meditate and
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you do it again until you find yourself walking from
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here to Heaven. Ittopo and Christian and I do hope
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you are happy, You are excited of what kind of
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life lies ahead of you, because Christian life is a
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victorious life.
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Because the battle is not yours, the battle is God.
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