Sermon
23rd February - Teaching Service - Juliet Najja - The Big Picture of God's Plan
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Juliette shared all the scripture she had to share with me,
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and I went, it looks like a whole day's worth
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of study. Juliet, the Holy Spirit helped her refine. So
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let me pray, thank you, Father, I thank you for
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thank you for my dear sister. Lord God, I thank
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you that Your Lord, You've sown a seed and a
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word in our heart. Father, we pray that it would
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blossom here today, Lord, that we would grasp hold of
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the truth you want to share with us. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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Amen, Raise the Lord, allelujah. Yeah.
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My name is Juliet Naga, and I'm very grateful for
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having the opportunity to share the word of God today.
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First of all, I like to tell you both we
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are in the house and in the room and sail
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and don't lying that I'm not a professional preacher, so
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please bear with me. God use there as anyone, So
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just bear with me. So I'll share a brief history
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of the title of my message is the Big Picture
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of God's Love. And I'll start with a brief history
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of God's plan. So we know that the redempted, redempty
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plan of God began with creation, where God made the
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heavens and the earth, declaring them very good. Genesis one
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that one says, so humanity was created in God's image
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and was intended to live with imperfect fellowship with God,
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to have dominion over God's creation as stated in Genesis
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one twenty six. Now we know that Satan was alls
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at hand with his God to still kill, destroy, as
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he says in John ten ten Part A. So Satan
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came and deceived Adam and Eve, and them led to
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the fall of man as in Genesis three, and introduce
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sin and death into the world. God did not give
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upon man, and he sent Jesus Christ, our Lord and King,
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to redeem man back to God. Jesus, our Lord and
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Savior perfected and restored the redemption plan of God that
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Satan had ruined, as it's written John three sixteen. For
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God so loved the world that he sent his one
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and only begoten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall
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not perish, but will have everlasting life. The hindrance to
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God's plan John ten ten estates the thief does not
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come except to steal, kill, and destroy. Satan has a
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god to deceive, still kill, and destroy. He started from
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the beginning of creation and is still at it. So
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what is our individual contribution to the big plan of God.
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God has a plan or calling for you and me,
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as written in Jeremiah nine, verses one to forty, eleven
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to fourteen, you are in God's speak big picture. You
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and I are in God's big picture. In God's plan,
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You're bigger than you think. Many times we say we
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are nothing, we can't do this and that. But in
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God's plan, you and I are bigger than what we think.
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God is on the inside of you. If you let
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him help you shine. You are in him and he's
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in you, and only that he's invisible.
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John fifteen fifteen.
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Verse five says I am the vine, You are the branches.
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He who abides in me and I in him, bears
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much fruit, for without me you can and I think Therefore,
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as children of God, we need to find our bearings
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in God's big plan so that we can take our
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stand and bear godly fruit. In John ten ten be
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says Jesus. I. Jesus says, have come that they might
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have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
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God wants the whole world to have life and have
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it more abundantly. That's God's big plan the whole world.
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But on the other hand, Satan is that hand to
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deceive you and to steal and kill and then destroy you.
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We also look at John sixteen sorry fourteen verse six,
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which says, I'm the Way, the Truth and the Life.
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The abundant life and love of God he promises can
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only be achieved through believing, trusting, and cleaving to Jesus,
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who is the Way, the Truth, and the life. Our
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personal goals there are so many, but because of time
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we can mention a few. Firstly, we need to check
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our hearts and assess ourselves. This will help us to
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take the next step that trust God, Trust that God
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is able, and to a point where you are persuaded,
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where you as an individual, are persuaded that God indeed
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is Lord of all lords, is King of kings, He
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created the universe and everything in them. And then with
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that in mind, you consider what all the testimonies that
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we've read about in the Bible.
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For example, God spoke.
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The word and a virgin conceived and she bore a son,
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who is our Lord, Jesus Christ. We know that he
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also made a road away for the children of God.
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To cross to the promised land on a dry ground.
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The sea parted and the children crossed over on a
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promised land as he promised them. And in the very
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sea he destroyed their enemies, and they were normal. We
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also know that, so we can learn from several testimonies
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in the Bible. We know that God Jesus went about
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healing the sick, opening blind eyes, deaf ears, we barren
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women conceived. We also know that when they were about
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to burn Shadrack Missake under Bernigo, God was able to
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stop the fire from burning them. The same God stopped
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the lions from eating up Daniel in the Lions Den.
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And know that is found in Daniel, the book of
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and He's still a miracle working God. And through this
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miracles God glorified himself and the ones who were supposed
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to be dead became were given highest positions. So take
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your position, child of God. Yeah, so we need to
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be serious in heeding to allocate time for God to
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be in his presence. Then he would will guide us
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in all truth, show us what we do not know.
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Jeremiah at thirty three, verse one to three states Moreover,
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the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah second time,
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while who was still shut up in the course of prison,
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saying that says the Lord who made it, the Lord
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who formed it to establish it.
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The Lord is his name.
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Call and to me, and I'll answer you, and I
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will show you great and mighty things that you do
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not know. Yeah, sisters and brothers, fine, This verse is
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one of the keys to finding the invisible God. It
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is a spiritual blindness for us to imagine that the
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Almighty God created heaven and earth and did all these miracles,
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and that he would come to abiding us and become idle.
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It's a blindness.
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It's a spiritual blindness to think, Oh, God has saved me,
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and it's just gonna be in my body and I'm
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just gonna go to work, come home, eat, drink, and
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be merry. His purpose of coming into our lives is
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for us to be the vessels he can use to
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keep doing the things Jesus used to do while he
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was on earth, like in John fourteen twelve, which states
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most assuredly, I said to you, he who believes in me,
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the works that I do, he will do so, or
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he would do also and greater works than these. Because
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I've gone to the Father child of God. Jesus is
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looking on us to take a stand that he can
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flow through us to show the world that is God almighty.
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And here some of the ways of overcoming the devil.
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Before I go there, let's go like Joshua in chapter
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twenty four. He chose, he decided that as for me
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and my house, we will serve the Lord. So you
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can start from today to say I personally gonna serve
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the Lord no matter what sun So is doing or saying,
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I'm gonna take a stand. I and my family believe
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in God, and we're just gonna do stand and let
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God do what he's.
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Got to do.
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Okay, So here are some ways of overcoming the devil. Firstly,
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you submit to God, who is the author and finish
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over our lives. You resist the devil, and it says
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in James four seven that when you resist the devil,
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he'll flee from you.
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You just have to resist and trust God is with you.
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We have challenges of making the right choices for a
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Roman six sixteen states that sorry about this Roman six sixteen,
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Shall I just read it?
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Do not?
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It says that you do not know? Do you not
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know that whom you present yourself slave to obey. You
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are that one slave whom you obey, whether I've seen
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leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness.
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So let's choose to be.
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Obedient to God by desiring to seek and finding him
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daily so we can hear and be able to follow
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Him and not follow astrayer's voice in ignorance Revelation twelve
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eleven or so, which we know very well, he says
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that they overcame him by the blood of the lamb
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and the word of their testimony, and they did not
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love their lives and to death even and to death.
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So amidst the trials of life that we go through
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at home, at work, even at church, Yeah, let's testify
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whose we are. You have assessed yourself, then you know
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who you are, and then test fy whose you are.
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Proclaim the blood of Jesus and stand your ground and
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do not be afraid of the life challenges. Remember that
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your tongue is full of life and power because God,
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when he chose you, he put his power in you.
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He disposited it in you, and He's waiting to perfect
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the words that you proclaim and speak. So let's continue
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choosing God through it all. Remember that all that glitters
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is not gold.
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The world and its glory.
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Very places you go to and you feel amazed, they
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will not take you to heaven. They did not choose you.
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So nowhere you're supposed to be understand and take a stand.
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So I'm gonna.
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Briefly talk about the church responsibility. Looking around the world
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is rapidly going the wrong direction. As believers, Let's not
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ignore what's going on and expect that somebody else whill
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fixed the problem. Or if I ran here and there,
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maybe if I go to Israel, I run away from
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the problems of England. No, God wants us to take
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a stand so that he can turn the problems going
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on in the world into testimonies for his glory. Yeah,
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and for our joy. When the church sees that God
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is at work, it is heavy people will come.
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Yeah.
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The world is not going to change unless the children
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of God respond and allow God to take their lives
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into to use it for the kingdom. We are waiting
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for God to change the world. Yet God is waiting
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for us to take a stand and to do great exploits,
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as Jesus gave us the example. Shall I take for
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the Book of Timothy, Chapter one states I charge you therefore,
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before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge
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the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,
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preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke,
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exot with all long sufferings and teaching, for the time
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will come when they will not end you a sound doctrine,
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but according to their own desires, because they have eaching ears,
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they will haper for themselves teachers, and they will turn
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their ears away from the truth and turn to be
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aside for fables. You and I, child of God, Children
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of God, says you, be watchful in all things, endure affliction,
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and do the work of the evangelist. Fulfill your ministry.
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Do you know your ministry? God is here to show
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your ministry. Keep coming, keep listening.
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Yeah.
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The Church as a body has a responsibility to equip
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the saints, which is the Body of Christ, for ministry
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that each one may know their calling and work in
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it to fulfill God's plan for their lives. We won't
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go there, but First Corinthians twelve, verses twenty seven and
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twenty eight says that as a church we need to
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stand in the gap to repent on on behalf of
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the world, our world, our community, our families, yes, so
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that God may forgive, heal and revealed to the church
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what is causing their issues and also shows how show
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us how to see the change for the world. God
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love to come to know Him and receive salvation. We
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know the description of love, and without love, we cannot
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effectively love God and another. Therefore, it's very important for
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us to abide in God by allocating time to meet
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with Him daily in order to keep hearing what He
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is saying and be willing to obey what he says
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and be able to shine. Abiding in God is not
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a one of things. The church needs to prayerfully encourage
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the saints to seek God daily that we can shine
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as in us sixty in the darkness and around us
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the gentles who will come for the gentles to come
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to alight and the kings to the brightness of the
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rising of the Church.
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So the church.
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I will talk about the church prophecies that is Randomied
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Christian Fellowship this year for our start from last year,
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we had a word which was prophesied of our over
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Randomied Christian Fellowship and it was saying that a tsunami
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of sauls is coming. And in the new year we
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had another word that God is doing anything. Our theme
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for February has been loving our neighbors as ourself and
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it comes in quie handed with both prophecies to prepare
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us for the tsunami of souls and the new thing
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that God is doing. I believe He started doing it,
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but we need to start watching and lasking to see it.
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As a church, we need to take into consideration what
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God is saying with the awareness of what's going on
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around us. Let's evaluate our potential. You are a big person.
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God is on the inside of you. Evaluate your potential
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and the part that God wants you to play in
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your community and as a church. So let us prayer
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fully meet, call upon the Lord, and seek him to
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show us the new thing that He is doing. What
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role each one of us has to play to engage
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him to bath the new thing.
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And many more things.
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And here's what I thought the action planned for our
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preparation for the tsunami of souls and the new thing
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that God is doing. Rather than sister, it's one thing
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to believe that a tsunami of souls is coming and
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that God is doing a new thing. But it's another
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for us to lay hold of those prophecies without doing
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something about it. So I call upon your sisters and brothers,
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let's do something about it. Let's not leave it to
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the pastor, or to the minute or to the leader's team.
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We are all called to be children of God. Yes, so,
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Jeremiah says Jeremiah one, verse ten. We know that the
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whole thing from chapter verse one to ten is encouraging Jeremiah,
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don't despise yourself. But in this case, we're gonna look
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at just verse ten. Because of time, I've this dareset
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you over the nations of our kingdoms, to root out
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and to pull down, to destroy, and to throw down,
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to build and plant. We have been given the authority
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to take charge and stop the devil from derailing our
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lives and communities by using the word of God. As
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he leads us, God would turn to his word that
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we plant and proclaim, and he will perfect it. In
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Job twenty two, God says, chapter sorry, verse teny eight.
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That's Job twenty two, verse teny eight. He stays, you
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will also declare thing, and you'll be established for you. Yeah,
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you and I can declare thing that you see in
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your workplace, your neighborhood, even here in church. You declare
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it according to the word of God, and God would
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do it. He is waiting for us to speak his
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word to perfect it, and so it will shine for you.
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Prohaps eight twenty eight was so, say eighteen twenty eight
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or so says Death and life are in the power
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of the Tank, and those who love.
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It will eat his fruit.
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So, like Jeremiah, we have to identify the giants that
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we need to root out first of all. That's what
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we do. You will identify the giants. They may be
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in your body, they may be in your family, they
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may be in your neighborhood, or in the highest places,
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and then pull them down and destroy and throw them down.
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After we've done that, then we build and plant the
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seed of God, which is the Word of God. In
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this case, I'm talking about the tsunami of Sauls and
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the new Thing. We declare that the God you've declared
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a tsunami of Sauls coming. We wrote out anything that
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would deprive the tsunami from coming. Yes, And we prepare
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our hats to be ready to receive, and we call
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them forth in the name of Jesus. Yes, So that's
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one example. So we look also in Ezekiel thirty seven.
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We're not going to read it, but I would just
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have compressed it in a.
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Bit of text. It says.
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In this passage, the Bible describes the vision of the
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prophet Ezekiel. In the vision, the hand of the Lord
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brought Ezekiel to a valley full of bones. The Lord
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commanded Ezekiel to prophesigh upon the bones, and Ezekiel did
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as the bone came together and flesh and skin covered them.
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The Lord then commanded Ezekiel to prophesy to the wind,
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the breath to enter their bodies, and they came to life.
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And God describes that explains that vision, that he told Ezekiel,
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that son of Man, these bones represent the whole house
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of visual in this church. In this case the church Israel,
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the the natural Israel, the spiritual Israel, that that they
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would it would open their grades and bring them back
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to God.
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So looks look.
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Eighteen eleven says the word is the seed. Whatever we
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plant has got to be the word of God according
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to God, not our own, because our own words may
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be wrong, and we may be declaring the wrong thing.
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When we study the word, we identify with that word,
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and we saw it after we pull that rooted out
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what we think is evil, that's not right, and we
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plant the seed, the word of God, and then God
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begins to use it to turn the world around. If
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we don't route out and pull down and destroy and
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throw it down and plant has told us by Jeremiah,
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Citan will come and you will continue, you will continue
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rooting out God's principle in the society. I think we
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are beginning to see that already, Yeah, out of the
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world and then plant his own seed of evil and wickedness,
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and the end result would be continuous bad news on TV,
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in news, in news on the news, in newspapers, and
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anguish of life. So, as children of God, let's rise
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up to our feet and do what God wants us
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to do. We were saved for this reason, not to
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eat and drink, not find the best house, not finding
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the best car, although those are good and God gives them.
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But the principal thing is to find God, who made
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us for himself for his glory. And with that word,
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I had thought that we would share some declarations.
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Don't know if we got any time.
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Yeah, so we have declarations just to prepare us on
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what I'm meaning and how we can turn the word
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of God prayerfully. Please, let's declare these together a few
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of these. Yeah. So it says it is written as
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starting anything be done for them, bring with the plan
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to bring the tsunami of souls as we ask for
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grace that will you will supply and to us to
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enable us care and nature nature them in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Yeah, it's just the one, okay.
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So I have prepared a few declarations that we can
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continue doing in the week and in months if you're willing.
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It all depends on if you're willing to partner with
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God and the church. And it's gonna be shared via
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WhatsApp and other pages where we share the gospel with that.
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Sisters and brothers. I thank you for listening, and I
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hope that somehow you've picked one thing or two that
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you act on.
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Jesus name. Amen.