Sermon
A burning burden- Bro Thomas Sterrett 2-18-2024
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So thankful for the blood of Jesus, that mercy, Oh that touched me,
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brother, rot brother, Thankful for this opportunity I've always humbled. I
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take this serious stand behind the seeker desk and do this for Pastor how I
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hadn't talked to anybody, and actually trying to keep my family from knowing I
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was gonna be preaching. My wife saw them and made it away a little
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bit. But I've had a burden for several weeks. I've had the cabbage
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vestal wore in mind, and just all these overreaches, all these ministries.
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I'm blessed by the homeless Outreach, the nursing Home ministry, the Spreaker Ministry,
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and I'm going forgets. There's all these ministries are that are being done.
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It's a serious thing to reach the loss. I'm going to read this
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little quote. I thought this was good. Okay, you know one name
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is Samuel Chadwick eighteen sixty and nineteen thirty two. He wrote, why does
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the church stay indoors to have a theology that dwindled into a philosophy in which
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there is no thrilled faith, no care of doom, no concern for songs?
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Unbelief has put out the fires of passion and worldliness, garlands the altar
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of sacrifice with the corvardly glitter of unreality. And there was another one.
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I had William Booth's oldest daughter. He said, there is a love constraining
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me to go and seek the loss. I yield old Lord by all to
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thee to save at any cost. And I'm thankful for those of time's pass
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I'm thankful for saints of God, pillars in the church. I'm thankful for
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those of labor. And I'm gonna kind of hit on this. I like
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this fires of passion. Bear with me. Here we're gonna be turned into
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We'll be turned into a loop. Let's turn the axpers nineteen from verse fifteen,
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and then we're going to be going to sixteen verses twenty two to thirty
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one. When he stands for the reading of the word Acts nineteen and verse
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fifteen in this evil's spear, It answered and said, Jesus I know,
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and Paul I know, But who are you turning to Luke sixteen twenty two
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to one. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried
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by the angels into Aprim's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried,
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and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and
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see if the Abraham afar off and laughs in his bosom. And he cried
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and said, Father, Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus
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that he may dip the tip of his finger and water and cool my tongue,
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or I'm tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, son, remember
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that thou has in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil
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things. And now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside
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all these things between us and you, there is a great gulf fixed,
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so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot either they've passed to
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us that would come from this. Then he said, I pray thee therefore,
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father, that thou would send him to my father's house by five brethren,
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that he may testify unto them, least they also come into this place
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of poor men. And Abraham said, unto him. Abraham said, unto
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him, they have Moses in the prophets to hear them. And he said,
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nay, Father Abraham, But if thou wilt if one went unto them
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from the dead, they will repent, And he said unto him, if
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they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded. Though
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one rose from the dead, Your heavenly Father, God, I thank you,
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Lord. I pray for your annoying, your helpful God, the perfect
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God, that you used us encourage us, and God even help and your
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will all reached the Boss and to be a witness and a testifier. We
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give you all the glory and Jesus Christians man amen. As I was praying
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about this title, it changed. The Lord changed it on me about halfway
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through my study. And the title of this message and you'll see it later
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on as Ilaa Foundation here is. But who are you? But as as
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I say that, I want to talk about, do we have a burning
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burden for the loss? And I know many of you do. I know
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many of you are out on these outreaches and even in your place of employment,
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even with your family members and neighbors and different ones of witnessing and testified
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and being enlightened to them. And I was looking there in Jeremiah in verse
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twenty and ninety said then and I said, I will not make mention of
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him or speak is any more in his name. But his word was in
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my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones. And I
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was weary with a forbearian and I could not stay. And sometimes I wonder
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do we have that burning, that burning, that that that burning for our
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family. Jeremiah twenty and twenty nine says, is not my word life as
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a fire, Amen, said the Lord. That's what the Lord says.
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It's not my word like a fire, and like a hammer that breaketh the
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rock in pieces. Amen. God's word does not return void. There is
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power not in the blood of Jesus, but in the in the word of
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in the word of Christ, word of God. And we and I know
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we think about that double edged Lord. That's where the word of God is
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quick and powerful and sharper than any too. Ex Lord, Peace and even
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person given to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of
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the joints and of tomorrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the
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intents of the heart. And then that word should that word doesn't return,
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Boyd, that word that sanctifies cleanses us, the truth that sends us free
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it's the word that sanctifies, that truth that sanctifies. There in first Pterre
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three and fifteen says, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and
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be ready always to give an answer. We have the Lord God burden in
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our heart. Are we always ready to give an answer? I mean,
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he told Timothy to breach the word in season and out of season when you
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ain't ready. You know, you gotta be ready to give an answer.
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You know. I want to encouraging preachers. You know, you never know,
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pastor how can call you up in a minute, You never know,
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I mean, And we gotta be ready, as my wife was. He
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found out last night out on the streets. She had a Catholic naysayer finding
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discredit the Old Testament dispread at the churchy or she let him have it.
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But no, I'm thankful she was trying of leading my way, which that
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would have I would have tore into him. But thank god, he was
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more merciful than I was, and she was, and she give him the
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word, And I'm thankful for that. And we always we gotta be ready
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because they're gonna be naysayers. Maybe it'll be an atheist, maybe it'll be
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a Jehovah witness. Maybe it'll be whoever. But if they're not living and
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they're preaching them a cursed gospel out there, there's the Devil's got so many
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workers to seeven, so many people, so many different ways, and even
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the world. And I know I've preached this on the street. They don't
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want people to know the good news. They really know. They don't know
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what I'm saying. That they lose their business, they lose all kind of
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things. But I'm thankful that we need to. And first Peter there he
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says, but sactify the Lord God in your hearts, and be always,
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be ready always to give an answer to every man that asked you the reason
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of the hope, that it's in you with meekness and fear. Amen.
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We serve the Lord with fear fear, and that's how a lot of them
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are gained through as Je talks about there in verses twenty through twenty three.
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But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on the most holy faith, amen,
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or we need to be savedified. We need to be building up our
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most holy faith, praying in the Holy nose, keeping ourselves in the love
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of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord's Jesus Christ, and to
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eat conal life. And then I love those songs this morning, I love
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all songs that those two were really just we don't want to be too late
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to pray, and we want to live on in eternity. Amen, I'm
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thankful for that, and the lesson the visitation Breda Wallas. I forbid to
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have the desolation and the destruction. That's not God's will. God's not willing
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that any should pay. He cares about each and everyone, and I'm kidding.
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Somewhere he says, for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ and to
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eternal life. And some have compassion, making a difference. Another saved with
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fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garments fathered by
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the flesh. And second Thessalonians one eight nine, it says, in flaming
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fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the
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Gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ, he shall be punished with everlasting destruction from
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the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power that flaming fire.
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You don't have a burning burden, lost family, lost coworkers and others
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are gonna be in a burning fire, burning burden so that they don't have
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a going to the burning fire. And unfortunately, you know that it's gonna
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be up to them multimately. I mean we could have uh now, I
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know the effectual fervent where the righteous avelus much and and and I know that
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we should be fervent in spirit. Yeah, but and and like those two
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Kendle sticks there and revelations, it said fire proceedings out there. Now your
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words the fire, and that's in our bones. You know, there's a
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good fire, there's a bad fire, there's a consequential fire. And I
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want that holy ghost fire. So when I'm out there, will listening to
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somebody that's his words are not fire words. And man, that annoying.
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We need that holy ghost annoying, that holy ghost fire annoying. But where
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is that fervent love? And that burning burdens our heart burning? And and
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uh and I begin to think that it was being said earlier day, Brother
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Walliston's him wrong. You know, God knows us he was talking about you
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know, even Peter, I don't know us. Peter knew that Jesus knew
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you. You know we a lot of time we don't think God knows.
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Nothing's hid from God, not even the things done in the secret. But
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God loves us. He's not willing that we should perish, and we don't
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want We definitely don't want to stress his mercy. We don't want to tempt
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him. We want to be in obedience to the will of God. And
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uh, I know Pastor always mentions to know them that labor. You know,
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God knows who's laboring. God knows. One of one of my prayers
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is to be like Joe, as I considered my servant. Joe. Can
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God brag on us? I want him to be able to brag now,
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not that I'm nobody. I know I'm nobody, and I'm not trying to.
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I know God resisted the proud. I always want to be humble,
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but but to be pleasing to die. The sister move many times says to
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please him that God can trust me and know that I don't know that God
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forbid if I lost ten of my children or five. Recently, I got
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a message on my answering. It was one of my daughters. I hadn't
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heard from him about three years. It was from a physician and you know
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I've had Traarents asked me, you know how well, how can you go
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to heaven known your child burning? And tell? And that time I didn't
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have an answer. I know it says the Bible says, will have no
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more rememberance, because Guy's gonna wipe away those tears. He turned the way
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longer, and a little spectrum the daker that we live here on nurse and
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we gotta get this right in that little bacon. And there wasn't no answer.
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And my mother up in the Indian she did a like a wellness cat
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answer on the phone, answered the doors, called the police. Yeah,
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the thoughts right in your mind. And I'm trusting in God, say like
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my children and all my children. Another little picture that Grace screw me.
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When she was real little, she drew fishers of the met and me and
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mom and dad, all the brothers and sisters on there. She had you
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on there twice saying I don't know why, and she thought there was another
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one. Okay, No, that encourages me. I had to keep that
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hanging up, and I know that God is able to save it. Everything
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turned out all right. She apparently left went with a friend and everything is
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in a kid. I thank God for that. I know that he's able.
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Yeah, and but I do remember a time when when as a young
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Christian, and that and I begin to pass out hospital tracks, h and
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this, you'll try out to be afraid of people. I appreciate brother as
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another ministry. I forgot passed out tracks, and I know there's other ministries.
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And the Lord give me a dream the night before where I saw two
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people lived like they were going to help. They were they ignited to mustard
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and the burning, and they were screaming and they were melting, and the
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horrible dream. I could not I could not go back to sleep after that.
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And it was before the flood there in Martinsville, and I went to
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the gas station and there was a Safeeness there. He's all big, pop
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a guy in golf and black and he was scared. I mean he's scared
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to attend it before line to quit them by the gas and stuff and the
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check out line, and they were all afraid. And I'm like, oh
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wow, And I'd already paid for my gas and I'm sitting at the pump
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and they were walking out. The Lord said, I want to speak to
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him. I was impressed. It on my heart. I don't want to
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do it. And I said, order and that's all, walking out and
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said I'm sorry I walked out. I said, lorder, go back here
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and I'll speak to me. That's what I am, or had the way
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through anything. He went right back to his flunk, gathered myself and I
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went to witness to this young man. And and he was just a young
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man. Just from the outside he looked all scary. But underneath all that
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makeup, underneath all them piercing, underneath that that black hood and everything dark
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and sinister, was a young innocent child. And uh, I had the
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opportunity. I had him some tracks and witness to him. And I thank
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god that I didn't mess out on that, because you know, he could
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have went in a very bad way. And he took he took the heart
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and received everything I said, and and and I told him, you know
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this, this witnessing to him, but that aside every person that we talked
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to, and sometimes and I've made the mistake where I've not got that opportunity
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you a second time. And and just you know, guilt and shame because
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I didn't because I thought maybe I should have. I could have but I
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didn't want to. So we gotta be careful and and and we need to
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be burning. There needs to be more of a burning burden. I'm more
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of a burden. Sometimes people burn if they've got a burden. So we
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there's a there needs to be a burden. And but just knowing those that
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labor, you know, God he knows who job is. He just has
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to considered myself at job well. And I want to hear enter in thou
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good and faithful service. Yeah, And as he told the prophet Jeremiah,
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he said, before I formed thee in the valley, I knew thee.
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Amen. The names of these children mean stuff. You know that God knows
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all of you little babies that are that are here, that are not here,
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and He fearfully, wonderfully made them. And he knows that God forbid
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a mother forgive him. He says, I'll not forget m And they're in
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Isaiah. He talks about who whom shah Sin and who will go for us?
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And Isaiah, you know, he said, I'll go. And one
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of the things that I've been praying about these past three weeks is and the
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Lord's been dealing with me and helping me with understandings. They have ears,
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but they don't hear, and they have eyes and they don't see. And
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sometimes we read that and we we don't really overlook it. Wait till you
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find the hundreds and hundreds. And I can't imagine the heart of God,
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the billions of people. There's a billion of people on this planet. I
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know that Jehovah witnesses only things from these one hundred and forty four thousand are
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going to heaven alone. The billions of generations before. There's a number in
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Heaven that cannot be numbered. But I also know that Hell is the larger
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itself daily. But these souls, and you know that a lot of times
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they don't listen to you or they don't see to understand that God puts up
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with that every day. You talk about someone that has his head outstretched all
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the day long to rebellious and gain same people. Now, most people shake
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the dust from their feet the first time that is looked at them wrong.
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You know that person looks scary, or that person looks perverted. I'm checking
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my desk right now. They're gone, they're toasts. We don't know that
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such for some of you, God, I know of some LGBTQ people that
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are saved. And and there's a there's one young man that I know that
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he used to be a one and he's annoyed. Look, God, he's
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kind of I've heard him preach. I'm like, wow, I love that,
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you know. But so God can save anybody. He can save the
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murderers and the thieves, and the robbers and the idolog ors. He can
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save anybody, anywhere, anytime, any place. Amen. So they just
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dealing with, you know, those that don't have ears and know them here
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and eyes that don't see. But you know what he told Isaiah, and
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tell them anywhere. God knows. He gives them ears to hear. God
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knows he gave them eyes and see. And it doesn't matter how stony her
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heart is. God can take that stony heart out and give him a heart
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of flesh. And they have put them in the right spear in the right
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time. That's a shame that they didn't hear that legion or they you know
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that they didn't want nothing to do with Jesus. And there's a couple of
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places in the in the Gospel where it says he upgraded himself. One place
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he did miracles they didn't want nothing to do with him, And then in
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another place they wouldn't hear it, and he left because they repented not And
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how God would like to gather them his chicks underneath his wings. Now,
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Jesus cried out, he'd grown within himself trying to reach these Jewish people,
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trying to reach the loss. And sometimes we're gonna suffer persecution. Sometimes we're
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gonna we're gonna see the hall Satans and the fingers flying, and the then
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the horrible gestures and the words, and and we'll hear all kind of ungodly
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things. But we still gotta show love. I mean, I pray that
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God gave me that perfect love that I fell off the witness, even if
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they ain't me. You know, I'm used to a lot of this,
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a lot of these things, but just over the years, it kind of,
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you know, gets me no wonder. You know, God, I'm
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gonna keep on being. I'm gonna keep on working Lord as long as I
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live and breathe. And sometimes I just partder, you know. And everyone
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is man, I know, somehow praised God their testimonies. I've seen the
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root of other people's labors, and I've seen people come to me and even
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had a memory of photo memory post up where it got my vand back in
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February four years ago, and I dedicated it to God. And every day
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it doesn't cease, no matter the bucker's little off tires of war, no
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matter how bad it folks. When people see the Word of God, Amen,
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no matter how old we get, we can bring forth fruit in our
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old age. Amen. That word is still going out these signs that you
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made. I've never forgotten that since the very first Cabbage Festival, the Word
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will not return. Boy, those words have been encouraged me those gospel tracks,
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and I'm gonna I'm gonna share with one of my favorite ones, just
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a little bit of it. It's pretty long one, but one that has
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encouraged me on not only in the track ministry, but as an evangelist that
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tries to read soul. But only does God know who we are, but
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the devil does too. But who are you? He says, Jesus,
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I know all I know, but who are they? And they're in June.
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I believe it's one of nine where Michael the Archangels going against the devil
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about Moses' body. The devil knows when and when I wake up with them
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one, I want to hear the devil saying, oh no, And I
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hope he hears that about all of us. You know. Oh there's pastor
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how he hates him the most. You know, when when when you're doing
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something for God, God takes notice, the devil takes nonus. And man,
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why people can't I don't understand why they won't hear the word of God.
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There's a there's a battle going on over souls and over the loss.
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The God is watching, and he's looking down from above and something that sometimes
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many times will preach, and he's watching right now, he's looking down in
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the service. I believe he's already blessed in his service. I've been blessed
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and helped already. And the teaching and the s and and he's looking.
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Now, let's looking for that one sinner to repent being it out on the
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streets or at the altar, nobody gets adulter. There's heaven, there's rejoicing
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going around on a the throne of God. He's able to rejoice it.
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It is a life of death situation only the present, but for all eternity.
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And then we're gonna live on either in heaven or hell. That's how
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seriousness is. And I was thinking about some of these others. You're gonna
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turn here back into Acts chapter eighteen m HM, Versus four four. But
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we definitely want to have a heard in a still. You don't want to
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be, you know, like the lukewarm church. I don't want further of
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be lukewarm. Doctor. Did I know he says he topped cold or hot.
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I'd rather be hot on fire. That's eighteen Verses twenty four through twenty
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eight. And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent
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man and mighty in the scriptures, came to Effesus. This man was instructed
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in the way of the Lord. What's his day next? And being rving
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in the spirit Amen, he spake and taught how eighteenth taught diligently, and
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the thing the things of the Lord. Knowing only the Baptism of John.
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He began to speak only man in a synagogue, And when a quilla of
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Prisula had heard, they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way
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of God more perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass into Yea,
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the Brethren wrote exhorting the disciples to receive him, who when he was come,
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he helped them much and in which had believed through grace. And this
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here in verse twenty eight, for he mightily convinced the Jews, and that
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publicly showing the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. Amen, don't we want to
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be doing things more perfectly, more boldly, more digitus diligently. Amen turned
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to another place here and acts. We just recently heard about this man.
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Ironically, the Lord stopped me from going somewhere yesterday. I'm telling Brother Gord,
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I've been very busy, and that obsessed me because I want to be
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busy about my father's business. I know I have to work, but at
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the same time, I'm want to go to Fort Myers, and I felt
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like the Lord said no. And I found out why. I ended up
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talking to a man named Stephen. And here as we read about Stephen,
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what was Stephen and Versus Chapters Hacts six, verses would just beat verses eight
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and ten. Stephen got as standing ovations. He pleased to Jesus and now
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from God, and Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders
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and miracles among the people and in verse ten, and they were not able
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to resist the wisdom and the spirit by when He's faith raise God. Wouldn't
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that be nice if they couldn't resist. I like to dregs to the all.
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I know that's not how it works. But God can do it.
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God can give them that conviction. God can save them. Amen. I
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pray that none that God give the lost conviction. But let them God not
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be able to resist the conviction and the wisdom and the hunger of salvation.
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Give them years to hear and eyes to see. Amen. And but just
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to have that burden, to have that full of faith and power and not
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being able to resist. And for the sake of time, I won't be
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too much longer, but I wanted to read this tract has been an encouragements
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by Pilgrim. Has anybody read and Crippled Tom. It's a really good gospel
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tractor pill in craft society makes if you're an e vagialism or witnessing. It's
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about him. I'm gonna make a long story short. But he was a
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young man that was crippled from birth and his mother and father. His mother
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taught him how to read and write, but he ended up losing his mom
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and his dad and the only one that would take care of him. He
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grew up and looks like London way back in the day, and he had
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a granny that took care of him, but she was addicted to gin,
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like an alcohol. So he had a room in the upper room, interested
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in that in the upper room was where he was bedroom. And he didn't
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have much time to live, and he sacrificed what little food that he got.
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If you imagine if you had an alcohol parent or know that, you
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know a lot of that money doesn't get to be spent on food and assessines
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and let Christian. Back in this day, I don't sure if they had
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let Christian or not. Food was definitely scarce, and h he sacrificed his
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let me let me go on here. He uh, he had one friend,
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just one friend. We talked about somebody lonely and suffering. And his
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friend came by and he had a healing that he was going to give him
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because he was leading but coming back to London, and he wanted a Bible.
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He said, if I'm gonna die alone, I want he said,
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I've heard enough about Jesus. He said, I want to read the Bible
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and know who Christ is. And so his friend ended up buying him a
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Bible with those Brandy wouldn't do it. His friend volume want and left him.
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And as he began to read and study, and he ended up learning
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more in the world, and a lot of people know because he had all
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that time. But he'd bringing the Bible in and out, and he began
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to sacrifice his milk that he would drink for paper, and he took little
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pieces of paper and he wrote scriptions on it, and he wrote on there
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that whoever whoever passed by the and he'd give him scripture. And he dropped
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them out the window. And that's how that's how he witnessed. That's how
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he shared the Gospel. And an old preacher, man or minister an next
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a backslid one and one landed on his hat, and he went up and
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he visited this boy. He got under conviction and he went out and he
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started a mission because of what that little boy dropped out the window. And
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three months later that little boy died. His friend, I guess, came
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back and he got his Bible and in the Bible said this holy book may
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be as a great friend to someone else as it has been to me.
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And it made a deep impression on that youth they gave himself, and he
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went into the foreign fields. And man, you just don't know how that
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word can cause ripples and multiply an increase. God can give the increase,
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even he can save a soul through a track. And I'm not doing this
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very much justice. But in the end it says in the back of the
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track says he's gonna read this this little part here, but this young man,
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and sometimes I read his that you don't care. But it is a
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very hard touching and warning. It says, tholes of sad and merry hearts
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are wanting the ministry of love that we might render. Shall we then take
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our ease, enjoy our pleasure, or indulge, indulge in our luxuries.
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Millions of dark united souls and crying out for the light. They continue to
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growth in the darkness, while many of us who profess to love Christ live
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self centered and self indulgent and self indulgent lives today without the help of the
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world. The Christian Church could easily send enough missionaries out to evangelize the world,
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but the dark block it won't stains its fair name. Oh, that
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the spirit of God would, by his mighty power, cleanse away all the
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slossfulness the word we've been hearing, all that unreality and so compliancy from our
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lives. For following Christ means self sacrifice, and there's no such thing.
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I love this as holiness without it, we need holiness and that self sacrifice.
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If a dye, lad and suffering and destitution could joyfully deny himself the
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little sip of milk which cooled his parts lips and partly fed his weary body,
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surely it is possible for us to do more. Who then, is
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willing to consecrate his service this day? Unto the Lord, I SIPs product
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was puty nine to five. Yes, if you will. And as I
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close this message, and I know a while, a long time ago,
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I used a illustration and it's near my heart right here, the burden for
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the loss. And I know it's a burden for you, your family,
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your lost family. And I don't know if you remember this, but I
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have little hearts now these could represent little souls, and these hearts that are
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in my pocket, my children and my coworkers, they're my lost family.
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They're your lost family, go to pass something out. And I know that
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you've got lost family. And there's people that we work with got grandchildren.
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H I don't know how many. I haven't m M, yeah, that's
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see. But how many people in our family that are lost when we think
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there's no home with God, nothing's impossible. I know that God is able
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to save to the uttermost. God is able to do more fundantly than we
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could ever do. He comparis the hearts, the minds. He can bring
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and take the stony heart out. He can heal, he can deliver,
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he can redeem, he can restore Heray's God, if you're a Christian in
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here right now, he give you a testimony how many miracles? How many
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times did he save you from a life in that situation, from a car
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wreck, from an accident at work, maybe from a fire your house man
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might have almost caught on fire, maybe a pregnancy maybe how many? How
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many testimons? And and we had the answer of hope within us. I
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mean, we've got the cure, right are we? Are we able to
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test the fire and witness to others? Are we able to pass out a
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docible craft? I mean, I didn't know the Bible back then, but
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I couldn't not sit still. I went and knocked on people's door, and
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they probably thought I was crazy at door slammed in my face. Is that
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I'm thankful for those doors they were slaves, because that this baby wanted to
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hit the next door and the next door. Yeah, And then I got
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what else could I do? Lord, I don't say this to boast old
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church asked me to do this. I'm thankful that Jesus will save my soul
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give me the desire to mail out letters. I wrote a little note says
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to whom this may concern? Do you know who? Jesus said? I
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wrote thousands of them. I only got one response with a negative response,
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whereas God, I don't know what ever happened to him. Maybe and sometimes
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they would get returned. Man, Yeah, I stick another stamp, want
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it, remail it out. I don't know if you know of a They
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had color envelopes the homemark they were discounting, and I bought stamps that were
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commemorative stamps. I tried to make that letter look super nice that I wanted
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to open that and find that gospel track. But what are we willing to
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do? Are we willing to make some phone calls my people to the convince
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you are we willing to pass out a gospel track. It ain't all about
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preaching, is it, Brother Jordan. We can pass out tracks. We
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can just talk to somebody and out some food. Have an ear to listen.
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But God is able to ye know, He's able to help us.
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I'm thankful for when my son was working downtown, he couldn't stand the preachers.
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They went down there withness preaching. He's going to hear the gospel.
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I thank God that God said him. And you don't know who God can
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send you your lost family member. They may not hear this person. They
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might listen to this one, may not listen to Brother Rick. They might
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listen to Brother Rocat. Well, somebody might listen to Brother Rocat. Might
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listen to Brother Rick. Maybe they'll listen to it. Maybe they'll see the
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brother Titus holding the street side and Sister Faith from one of these little babies
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got a little sign. And I remember Sister Hammond's husband and he touched my
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heart. And seeing the blind man out there holding the sign, I was
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wanting to hear him preach. Kind of kind of encourageing. I think he
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knew his time was up. When I came back the next year, he
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was already gone. He touched my heart. These sisters are sitting in being
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in a wheelchair. Maybe they just sitting on a school seeing old saying a
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young child. You don't know who's gonna reach that person. They might take
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a child, they might take an elder saint to reach a young lost child.
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But I'm thankful that God can reach and it's important to reach out to
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the loss. God uses us as much as we've done it until then we've
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done it under him or not done we've got him. I don't want ever
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be guilty of not reaching somebody that could have been reached, and maybe you
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was that last opportunity. I don't want blood on my hands. I remember
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one time the Lord give me a vision and here in the church about having
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blood on my hands. That's an awful feeling quation if the Lord give it
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to you. But I'm thankful. And as we stand in the close here,
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I still got many look at this many many more so I thought i'd
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brought out. Can never run out. There's billions of people in this world,
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and the grace of God has appeared unto every one of them, and
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they're in Matthew twenty four, Lord healthy finding. It talks about the end's
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not gonna come until everyone everyone there ain't none of this predestination nonsense. That
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word He's only gonna save the Queu of the times. People need to quit
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taken out scripture out of context of removing scripture, Bible mint one. God
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meant what he said and said what he meant, and that's why he give
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us the written word, and it all matters, the Old Testament and the
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New Testament. I don't want to preach no a cursed gospel, hey man,
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I want to I want to be right with the Lord. There is
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a scripture. I can't find it out to him, but it talks about
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until everyone has heard the scription, heard the gospel, then shall the income
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here it is thank you by gust Matthew twenty four and fourteen. In this
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gospel, the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world we're witness, into
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all nations, and then shall the income. Nobody's gonna have us an excuse,
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say, well, what about this little country in the middle of nowhere?
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Way wait wait, wait, wait, way back there where nobody can
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reach. If God has got to sit an angel or go there himself.
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There's not gonna be a soul. They're not gonna hear the gospel, not
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a single soul. So as we come and and pray fervently with a burden,
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Let's remember savage festival. Let's remember these ministries, a spreaker ministry,
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the homeless, a nursing home where you all these churches and other guys.
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He'd be worthy and you lie lifetime, remember one another neighbor. Nothing's leasing
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the world else. There's so many I read chosen that walls on bow.
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Let's just prayful the godson fourth more laborers. The laborers are few, just
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walls. Nothing is impossible when you lock down. It's pretty how lli been
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worthy stress? So many requests. We're even one we don't know about.
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The God has hers every labor. Let's pray sleeping by the wood. Theater
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is choose the wong bow so ChEls you just walk so word to walk down
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the how he would be worth it, every struggle, he would be worth
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it, every my a lot timebabliev seethy all be raised, just warm moss,
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the creatures olive, the singers our time, the churches we know it's
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news. He gets my some discouries from very hello. But we must see
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terment to keep a single cause. If just Walm more So we're to outgas
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the he would be worth it every struggle. He would be worth it,
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everyvin, a lot time of paper, see the holy if he raised just
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walk b so so preachers keep preaching and singers go sing le man keep sherry
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that Jesus, Jesus is key the aangelss our gathering. There's around the throng,
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and they'll start read Josse for just one more so. If just war
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more So were to all gas the of e would be worthy struggle. He
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would be worth a lot of time. The labor see worthy all me raised,
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just the warn more so, if just warn more so, where do
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you out down? It would be worth every struggle. He would be worth
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every bard, laptime, labor, speedy, all be raised, just worn
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more so soup