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Unleashed to Live a Life Worthy of Your Calling - Eld Michael Wuni
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In you, Christ Jesus, you alone, I look to imitating your ways.
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In all my ways. I'll follow you and I must move.
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You, Christ Jesus, you are all I look to, imitating your hands in
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all my ways. I'll follow you and I will
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smooth what's an example I have Christ Jesus, I love you rely on
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your Lord depend on look to you my own at.
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Times the circumstances of life, what we go through makes us
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forget about the fact that we are children of God and we do
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our friends as if we live on our own.
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This morning the Lord is reminding us of the need of the
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importance for us to live as a responsible children of God.
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I want you to open your mouth and speak to God this morning.
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How responsible are you, Jesus, as a child of God?
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How responsible am I as a child of God?
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Is the challenges of life taking me away?
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Are the challenges of life making me forget about the fact
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that I have been purchased by the blood of Christ?
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How responsible am I? How responsible are you?
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Open your mouth and speak to God.
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This Lord Almighty, pray converting myself in the name of
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Jesus. Oh Lord of this morning we come
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before your process one more time.
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Save me from eternal condemnation.
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We are today for living the life.
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Therefore, Lord, they are responding as Your word has come
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unto us. We are all marked to the
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responsibilities Lord for it is holy is you.
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I was Speaking of life Lord Almighty.
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I was responsible Lord to carry out for it is only in you that
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we can have redemption of Jesus. I pray therefore this morning we
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return back unto you Jesus and we pray that I will be able to
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overcome that your grace, I'll be able to Lord will abound this
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man responsibility. Spirit divide by each terrified
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till the end used to your Jesus. As we see there is the light the
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war on nature revive to till again until all Jesus be seen.
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Let's death beauty of Jesus we see in me what draws compassion
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with you reasoning. Oh not spirit divide.
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I need terrified to death beauty.
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Of Jesus we see. Shall we happily receive our
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sins? Oh da.
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Spear in the. Just as we are, O Lord, your
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presence, we have come. We pray in the name of Jesus
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that your grace will abound for us this morning in Jesus mighty
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name, Amen. Praise the Lord.
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We want to thank God for the gift of life and I want to
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specially welcome each and everyone of you.
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In fact, greet your neighbor and tell him or her you are welcome,
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you are welcome. God richly bless you.
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I also specially want to thank God for the life of our brother
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Joshua. Joshua Tremen.
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Joshua, be on your feet. He's been away for some time
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now, and he's back. Shall we welcome him?
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We shall. God richly bless you.
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Amen. Yeah.
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If you don't understand why I welcome Joshua when you close,
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come and see me. But it's very important as a
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member of God's church and as a child of God, whenever you
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belong to the Church of God or the family of God, you must
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always make yourself relevant. I mean, I said as a child of
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God, you must always make yourself relevant.
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If I look at the ones he said beside you and tell him or him,
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make yourself relevant. Amen.
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One thing you should understand is that when you come to church,
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God speaks to us through numerous ways.
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There are some of us, we are in the church, but we are not
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relevant. Even if you don't come, no one
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knows you didn't come. And even if you come, and even
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if you come, praise the Lord. But this morning I want to
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encourage someone as a child of God, make yourself relevant, but
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you only be relevant when you allow the Spirit of God to lead
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you. Amen.
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Amen. Even if you are not happy with
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me, so long as I am preaching the word of God, I am OK.
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I'm not here to please anyone, but please, brothers and sisters
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in Christ, God has purchased us through the blood of Jesus
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Christ. And so now that we have become
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people of God, children of God, we all, not ourselves again, we
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have become the people of God. We have become the people of
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God, which stands for the church.
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And so as a people of God, what it means is that you are an
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ambassador of God. And as an ambassador, whenever
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you are sent to go and represent your government, wherever you
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go, you stand for the interest of your government.
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Praise the Lord. So when you go anywhere and you
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become irrelevant, what it means is that you have totally failed.
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Praise the Lord. So this morning, I pray that God
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will give us the grace, the ability to be relevant wherever
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we go, wherever we find ourselves, even in our homes, in
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our churches, in our various workplaces, and in every
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institution we find ourselves. Amen.
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I want to speak on the theme of the year.
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Unleash to live a life worthy of your calling.
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Unleashed to live a life worthy of your calling.
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When you read a book of Genesis which talks about creation after
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God has created everything and then he decided to create man in
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his own image and in his own. Like the Bible is saying that
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God created Adam and then God created Eve to God created Eve
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to come and support Adam. And so when you read Bible is
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saying that after God has created man, God handed over
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creation unto man. And after God had handed
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creation unto man, God has man to take care of his creation.
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So what it means is that God gave man the ability, the power
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in other ways. Man became the ambassador of
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God. Man was to stand in for God and
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take care of his creation. But one thing we need to take
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notice that when God handed over His creation unto man, God gave
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instructions unto man. So what it means is that as an
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ambassador you cannot work or you cannot do things on your
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own. You work with instructions,
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praise the Lord. And the Bible is saying that God
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instructed man to not touch the tree which was in the middle of
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the garden, aside that man was giving them free will to touch
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and to enjoy any other thing. So yeah, one of the things we
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can see is that God gave man his will, praise the Lord.
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So what it means that whenever you become an ambassador of God,
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whenever you become a representative of God, even
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though you are working with instructions, you also have your
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own will, praise the Lord, and it is your own will that leads
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you on the kind of choices you make you.
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You may choose to abide by the instructions attached to your
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calling, or you can also choose to leave contrary to the
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instructions. And you could see that any
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person who always works with the instruction attached to his
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calling at the end of the day is promoted.
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Praise the Lord. As our Bible is saying that when
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God gave man his free will, man decided to go contrary to the
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will of God in other ways. Man decided to choose to eat of
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the forbidding tree, and the Bible is saying that as a result
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of that, man fell. As a result of that, man died.
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Amen. So one of the lessons we can
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learn here is that every choice man makes, every choice man
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makes has its own consequences. Every choice man makes has its
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own consequences. Every choice you make, every
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choice I make, has its own consequences.
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If it is true, then it means that every choice man makes is
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very, very important, praise the Lord.
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And as a result of the choice of Adam and Eve, the Bible is
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saying that one of the consequences that has come or
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that it has brought on to us is eternal condemnation, death.
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That's why you read a New Testament which says that for
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all have seen. What did I see?
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That is the consequence of a choice that was made by man.
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Praise the Lord. That is the power of choice.
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So the kind of choice man makes may not maybe end up on you, but
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it may even go after generations to come.
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If it is so, then as people of God, as children of God, we need
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to be very mindful of the kind of choices we make.
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Amen. Amen.
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Choices has its own consequences.
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What it also means is that the kind of choice man makes may
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bring him life, and it can also bring him death.
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The kind of choice man makes may bring you life or death.
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Amen. I'm reading from Deuteronomy
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chapter 30 verse 15 to 20. Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 15
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to 20. See, I said before you today,
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life and prosperity, death and destruction.
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For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to work in
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obedience to him and to keep his commands decrease and loss.
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Then you will leave an increase and the Lord your God will bless
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you in the land you are entering to possess.
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But if you, if your heart turns away and you are not obedient
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and you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship
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them, declare to you this day that you will certainly be
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destroyed. You will not live long in the
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land you are crossing to Jordan to enter and possess this day.
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I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I
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have set before you life and death, blessings and kisses.
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Now choose life so that you and your children may live and that
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you may love the Lord your God. Listen to His voice and hold
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fast to Him. For the Lord is your life, and
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He will give you many years in the land He swore to give your
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father's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Amen.
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Can you please repeat this after me?
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For the Lord is your life, and He will give you many years in
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the land he swore, Amen. So this scripture that is after
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God has sent Moses to go and deliver the people of Israel
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from Egypt. The Bible is saying that after
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God has sent Moses, Moses went through a lot of challenges.
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In fact, it wasn't easy for Moses to lead the people of
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Israel after God himself has chosen Moses to go and deliver
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the people of Israel from the hands of Pharaoh.
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The Bible is saying that the people to whom Moses was sent to
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resisted him in many ways. But because Moses was the
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prophet of God, was the representative of God, God gave
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his word to his people through Moses.
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And so it got to a point. God was speaking to the people
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of Israel through Moses and drawing their attention to the
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fact that they have their will. God has given them their will,
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praise the Lord. And then Moses went further, and
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then he was trying to let them understand the fact that the
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will God has given unto them. They must make good choice of it
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or they must use their will wisely.
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And so the 15th saying, I sat before you today, life and
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prosperity, death and destruction, And as people of
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God, as children of God who have been saved through the blood of
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Jesus Christ, the same thing applies to us.
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Yes, we have been saved. Yes, He has purchased us with
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His blood, but He has given us our free will.
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Praise the Lord. But the intention of God for
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saving us is for us to inherit eternal life.
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The reason why God did not leave us to remain in the Kingdom of
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darkness, God did not leave us to abide in the abyss of hell,
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is because His original intention for man is for Him to
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inherit eternal life. And so now that God has served
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us through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, God has given
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us back our will just as His. He gave the will to Adam and
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Eve, but as a result of the kind of choice they made, the
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consequence they faced and brought eternal death unto man.
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Praise the Lord, now that you have become a child of God.
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God has given us the free will. But it is very important for us
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to know the reason why God created man, the reason why God
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saved man. The reason why God saved man is
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in order for man to inherit his glory is in order for man to
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come back to the original plan of God, which is to inherit the
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Kingdom of God. But you see what's happened in
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the Garden of Eden was that man decided to disobey the
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instruction of God. So what it means that whenever
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man fails to disobey the instruction of God, it is a
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choice you have made. And whenever man decides to obey
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the instruction of God, it is a choice that you have made.
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But God is expecting that as a child of God, we will or you
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will obey. I will obey His commands, His
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instructions, whether it is favorable or not.
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When it happens this way, then what it means is that we are
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adhering to the instructions, which is attached to our
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colleague. Praise the Lord.
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And what was this was saying that for?
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I command you today to love the Lord your God, to work in
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obedience to Him. The people who have been saved
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from the hands of Pharaoh, do not forget that these people
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were under oppression. They were maltreated, and then
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God through Moses saved them. Now they have their freedom, now
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they have their liberty. They were no more under
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oppression. And then as Moses was leading
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them, God was speaking through Moses unto them and telling them
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of the need, the importance, commanding them to love the Lord
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their God. I want to believe that probably
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they were failing to love the Lord and they were not being
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obedient to the voice of God. And that is why God through
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Moses was reminding them, was telling them of the need and the
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importance. So that means that you cannot be
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a child of God, you cannot be an ambassador of God, you cannot be
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a Christian who does not love God and who does not obey the
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voice of God. At times when we talk about the
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love for God, some people think it is all about what we say.
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But true love is seen through our actions.
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Praise the Lord, there are some people who have good vibes.
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One, you need to convince a lady that you love her.
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The kind of words you put together, when you hear it, you
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melt. That is not the kind of love we
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are talking about. And moreover, we need to
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understand that the God we are serving, the Bible is saying
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that He is all knowing. As I stand here, if I love God,
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he knows. As you sit there, if you love
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God He knows I cannot tell and even if I should tell I will
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based on what I see. And it is not everything we see
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that is real and genuine but our God Bible says He is all
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knowing. And I pray this morning that you
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love the Lord your God with all your hearts.
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And if you love him, he should be seen through your actions,
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you should be seen through your deeds, you should be seen
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through your speech, praise the Lord.
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And in fact, this morning, as we have come to the presence of
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God, what kind of hearts, what kind of mind have we come before
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him with? I have been talking about this
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thing all the time. The love for God, the love for
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God compels you to do things for God.
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The love for God compels you to do things for God.
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Praise the Lord. So if you get to the point that
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nothing compels you, then Amen. That's to work in obedience to
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Him and to keep His commands. Decrease and loss.
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Then you will increase. Then you will leave an increase,
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then you will leave an increase. So you could see that God has
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made provision for us if we want to leave, if we want to
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increase. God is expecting that we will
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love Him and that we will obey His commands.
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Failure to that, I don't expect anything.
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At times we come to church, we come to the presence of God and
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we pray, Oh God bless me, Oh God, increase me.
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Oh God, let me live long. Meanwhile you don't love the
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Lord, meanwhile you don't obey the word of God.
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But God has made provision for us.
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It's just if you want to live long, if you want to increase,
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then love me. If you want to increase, if you
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want to live long, then obey my comments.
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So brother, anything contrary to this, don't expect the results.
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Amen. God has made the provision for
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us and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are
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entering to possess, but your heart stays away and we are not
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obedient and you are drawn away to bow down to other ghosts and
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worship them. So do not forget the Lord was
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leading them to the promised land as the Lord is leading us
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also into heaven until he was reminding them.
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He was telling them of the of the need and the importance of
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them to love Him and to also obey His commands so that they
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will leave an increase. And then he was saying that the
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opposite, that their hearts turns away and not obedience.
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You are drawn away or you, yes, you are drawn away to bow down
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to other gods. So what it means that anytime we
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fail to love the Lord, anytime we fail to obey the voice of
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God, the instructions of God, the commands of God, what it
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means is that our hearts are drawn away.
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What it means is that we bow down to other gods and worship
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them. Praise the Lord.
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This is serious. So if you are, if you don't take
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care, you may be bowing down to other gods, you may be
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worshipping other gods unknowingly.
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But the Bible is saying that the moment you fail to love Him, the
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moment you fail to obey His commands, what it means is that
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you are doing the contrary, which is bowing down to other
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gods and worshipping them. What means that your heart is
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drawn away from Him. And this morning it is my prayer
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that the Lord will be gracious unto us.
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You will not live long in the land you are crossing to.
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You not live long to the land you are crossing the Jordan to
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enter and possess this day. I call the heavens and the earth
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as witnesses against you that I have searched before you, life
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and death, brothers and sisters in the Lord.
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As the Lord has saved us, as the Lord has saved us, the Lord has
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given us our free will. You have to make a decision for
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yourself. If you inherit eternal life,
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it's in your hands. If you inherit eternal
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condemnation, it's in your hands.
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Praise the Lord. But Moses went further and then
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he advised them, Now choose life so that you and your children
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may live. So what it means is that any
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decision you take is not about you only, but it even affects
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your children. So if you choose death, death
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will come after your children and your children's children.
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And if you choose life, life will come after you, your
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children, and your children children.
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So what means that the kind of choice we make, the kind of
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decision we take is very, very critical, even though we have
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been purchased by the blood of Christ, Amen.
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Amen. When you come to the New
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Testament, it makes it clear. It makes it clear that it is God
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who calls just like God himself chose the people of Israel unto
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himself, and as because He had established a covenant with the
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great grandfather Abraham, after so many years, God kept His
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covenant with them. We who are the New Testament
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believers, the Bible makes us understand that until God calls
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you, you cannot come unto him. Hello, until God calls you, you
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cannot come unto him. So this morning as you are
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seated here, I want you to believe in your spirit and in
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your soul that it is God who has called you.
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Praise the Lord. At times we walk without
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confidence because we don't know who has called us.
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But if you have the belief and the faith that it is God who has
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called me, it is God who has called you, it even affect the
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way you work. You are able to work boldly, you
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are able to work courageously because you believe within your
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spirit and your soul that it is God who has called you.
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And that is the reason why you have become a child of God.
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What a privilege. It is not everyone that God
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calls. So for you to have the
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opportunity for you to be called by God, praise the Lord.
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Shall we read from John chapter 6 verse 41 downwards?
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I'm reading from the NIV. At this the Jews there began to
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grumble about him, because he said, I am the bread that came
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down from heaven. They said, Is this not Jesus the
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son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
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How can he now say I came down from heaven?
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Stop grumbling among yourselves, Jesus answered.
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No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,
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and I will raise them up at the last day.
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It is written in the prophets. They will all be taught by God.
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Everyone who has heard the Father and learn from Him comes
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to me. No one has seen the Father
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except the one who is from God. Only he has seen the Father.
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Very truly. I tell you, the one who believes
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has eternal life. I am the bread of life.
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Your ancestors ate the manner in the wilderness, yet they died.
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But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone
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may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came
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down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will
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live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I
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will give for the life of the world.
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Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves.
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How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
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Jesus said to them very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the
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flesh of the Son of man and eat his blood, you have no life in
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you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
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my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last
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day. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
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my blood remains in me and I in them.
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Just as the living Father sent me, and I leave because of the
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Father, so the one who fees on me will leave because of me.
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This is the bread that came down from heaven.
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Your ancestors ate mana and died, but whoever fees on the
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bread will live forever. He said this while teaching in
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the synagogue of Capeno. Amen.
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But my interest is in the verse 44.
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No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,
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and I'll raise them up at the last day.
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Do not forget that the intention of God is that man will live
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eternally. And so Jesus is saying that it
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is he who draws all the Father, draws people on to him, and any
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person who comes on to him, he will live forever, praise the
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Lord. But the reason why I added the
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others is for us to understand because today is loss of our
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Sunday. Do not forget that when God was
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leading the people of Israel through Moses and got to a point
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that God provided manner unto them and then Jesus is reminding
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them that their ancestors the 8 manner, yet they died, praise
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the Lord. And then he was comparing
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himself to the manner or the bread, the eggs, and then he is
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saying that he also came from heaven.
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Anyone who eats of him answered then Jesus had not died, but
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Jesus was telling them what was to happen, praise the Lord and
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so he said anyone who eats will live.
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Let me read it again. How can this man give us his
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flesh to eat? Jesus said to them, very truly,
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I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and
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drink his blood, you have no life in you, Praise the Lord.
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So if you are sitting here this morning, there are some people,
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yes, they have accepted Jesus Christ, yes, they have been
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baptized, but because they live in sin, they don't partake in
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the Lord Supper. The Bible is saying that if you
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do not, if you do not eat, I'll see me.
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I'm fetching of Francos. Unless you eat the flesh of the
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Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
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So when you come and accept the Lord Jesus, when you are
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baptized and you don't eat the lost Supper, you don't eat the
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bread, you don't eat the you don't drink the blood, you have
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no life in you. So what it means is that
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partaking of the Lost Supper, it is very, very important in the
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life of the believer. The reason why Jesus has saved
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us is for us to have eternal life, life in abundance.
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So accepting the Lord Jesus Christ brings life, and Jesus is
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saying that if you do not eat, if you do not drink, you have no
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life in you. So what it means is that
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anything that prevents the believer from partaking the law
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Supper, you need to deal with it until then.
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Yes, you might have accepted him, you might have been
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baptized by you have no life. Praise the Lord, ask your
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neighbor, do you have life? Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
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my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last
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day. So what happens to those who
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don't eat? May the Lord help us this
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morning. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks
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my blood remains in me and I eat them.
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So what happens to those who don't eat and drink?
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I
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eat them. So whoever does not eat my flesh
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and does not drink my blood, what happens to them?
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I'm not saying it is the Bible. So if you are here, you don't
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eat, you don't drink, then you should know and Bible is saying
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that you are not in him and he's not in you.
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So you will be in the church. And you say I love God, I, I, I,
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I worship God, yet you are wasting your time.
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Praise the Lord this morning. May the Lord be gracious unto us
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because of time. I'm reading from Ephesians
Ephesians 4 chapter mention
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chapter 4 verse one as a prisoner for the Lord.
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Then I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have
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received. The author of these words is
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Apostle Paul. If you should study the life of
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Apostle Paul and Bible says that he is someone who fought the
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people of God and then when he repented, when he encountered
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the light of God and he repented.
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The Bible is saying that he changed from his old ways and
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now began to walk in newness of life.
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And in the newness of life he loved the Lord his God and he
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obeyed all the commands he gave him.
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If you read when Saul had an encounter with the light, Bible
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is saying that when the light strike him down and then he
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screamed, Who are you Lord? And then the conversation went
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on and then the Lord instructed him to go.
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And Bible is saying that he obeyed the voice of the Lord.
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So, brethren, as people of God, when we come to the saving
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knowledge of Christ, we need to obey the voice of God.
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Until we obey the voice of God, we cannot love him.
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Until we obey the voice of God, we cannot worship him, praise
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the Lord. And so after Paul has a soul who
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has become Paul has worked with God and God has used him to do
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great things, to accomplish many things, Paul came to himself and
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then he was saying that that is what we just read as a prisoner
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for the Lord. Then I urge you to live a life
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worthy of the quality you have received.
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So here Paul recognized that it is a call that he received and
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has responded to it. And then he is saying that, or
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he has come to the point of understanding, acknowledging
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that when you receive this call, you become a prisoner of Christ.
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Hello. When you receive the call of
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God, I've already made you to understand that until God calls
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you, you cannot come on to it. And not that God has called you
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and you have become a child of God.
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When Paul is saying that when you receive this call, you
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become a prisoner for him. How many of us are prisoners for
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Christ? The other time I think spoke
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about a prisoner and then he made us to understand who is a
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prisoner? How is that someone is a
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prisoner? It means your life does not
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belong to you. Again, you don't have the
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freedom to live your life the way you want.
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You are forced to do things contrary to your will, praise
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the Lord. So as a prisoner of Christ, what
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it means is that at times you wish to have something.
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You wish to have something, but because you're a prisoner of
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Christ, you are compelled, just like someone when you are in the
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world, what may be when you are in the world, you are a
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womanizer. Unless you don't see a lady, you
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sleep with her, and then you come to the serving knowledge of
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Christ, and then you see a lady so that things are there, their
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vibes and everything. But when you become a child of
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God, because you have now become a prisoner of Christ, you are
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compelled to do away with those things.
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Maybe when you are in the world, you used to drink.
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When you become a child of God, as a prisoner of Christ, you
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have the freedom, you have the liberty, You can decide to
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drink. But because you recognize that I
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own not myself, I belong to God, I have AI have become a prisoner
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of Christ. You do away with those things,
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praise the Lord. Maybe when you are in the world
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you are corrupt when you come to the saving knowledge of Christ.
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Yes, you were once corrupt, but now that you have become a
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prisoner of Christ, you have to do away with those things.
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And that is what shows that now you live under the instruction.
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Now you live for God. Until then you are not a
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prisoner of Christ. So what Paul was trying to say
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is that we have the liberty to live our lives anyhow.
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But because of the call he received, and he has responded
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to it, he has subjected himself to the will of the Master.
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And because he has subjected himself, he has become a
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prisoner. So when you received a call and
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you fail to subject yourself, you cannot be a prisoner.
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How well have you subjected yourself to the call you have
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received? So what I want you to understand
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this morning is that as a child of God, your will does not
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belong to you. The reason why I will have to
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wake up early in the morning and come to church even though my
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sleep is not enough for me is because I don't owe myself as a
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prisoner. You have to wake up on time, but
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when you owe yourself, you wake up the time you want.
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Praise the Lord. The reason why one the other
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that I can see was saying that when you go to the prison, they
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don't get the food of their choice and even the kind of food
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they give them. You have no choice.
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If you don't eat, you die. So as a prisoner of Christ, you
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don't choose what you want to eat.
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May the Lord help us this morning.
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I pray that we all come to the point of understanding that
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because of the blood of Christ we have become prisoners of
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Christ. Because we have been saved by
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Him and we have become children of God.
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We are prisoners of Christ. Until you get this understanding
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and you come to this level, all our worship will be full of
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hypocrisy. And that is the reason why maybe
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as an elder I'm saying it is no good to drink.
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Yet when I close, I'll go and drink.
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I'll look left, I will look right and I drink.
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It is no good to commit fornication as an elder.
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I am. I'm a member.
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Why would an elder, why would a member do that?
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He has not got to the point of understanding that he is a
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prisoner of Christ. He has not subjected himself to
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the calling he has received. And so when you are in a church
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and you are living a double life, you are living a
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hypocritical life. You should know that it's
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because you have not subjected yourself to the calling you have
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received for the calling you have received.
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All right, but you have decided. So it's a matter of decision.
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You have decided not to subject yourself to the call you have
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received. How well have you subjected
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yourself to the call you have received?
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The scripture makes sense to understand that we have the
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right to do everything, but as children of God we don't deserve
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to do everything. The other time I was telling
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someone, where do the people dress anyhow?
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And as children of God, we also at times dress anyhow.
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So when you come and you bring the wetly person here and you
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bring the Christian here, you can't even differentiate who is
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the wetly person and who is the Christian.
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But as a child of God, as an ambassador of Christ, where do
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you stand? People should see, even from
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your appearance, who you are. As a child of God, how do you
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live your life? I remember I went to a funeral
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and I met some of my classmates and then they were going to
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drink. They were calling themselves no,
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because I'm quite wage. I don't know.
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And so forth. Why is he saying you live your
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life for people to move to see the enemies are quite sorry for?
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Oh yeah, massive. Oh yeah.
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Oh. How?
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I love you and those people one day raise their hands, you could
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see that tears are coming. And so when you are sitting
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here, you look at the person appear as you see that this
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person, he loves God. So knowing you're correct, that
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is why I'm saying that it is God the all knowing One who knows
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the heart of men. We can only talk about what we
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see, but the one who sees beyond the physical.
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I mean, maybe let me read this and I'll bring my message to a
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close. First Thessalonians chapter 4-1
1 Thessalonians 4 chapter mention
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to 8. As for the other matters,
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brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in
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order to please God, as in fact you are living now.
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We ask you and aunt you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and
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more, for you know what instructions we give you by the
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authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's will that you should
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be sanctified. It is God's will that you should
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be certified, that you should avoid sexual immorality.
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Please listen carefully. I'm reading the tray.
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It is cause will that you should be sanctified.
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So when Bible say it is God's will, what it means is that God
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is expecting that. God is expecting that.
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It is God's will that you should be sanctified, that you should
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avoid sexual immorality, that each of you should learn to
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control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not
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in passionates last like the pagans who do not know God.
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And that's in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage
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of a brother or a sister. The Lord will punish all those
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who commit such sins as we told you and warn you before.
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For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
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Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject
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a human being, but God, the very God who gives you His Holy
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Spirit. Amen.
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So it is the expectation of God that we will live a holy life.
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Hello. So if when the people are
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committing fornication and friends adultery, God is
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expecting that we will leave contrary.
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So maybe you are here this morning you have been committing
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fornication. No one sees you, maybe even you
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just you are just coming from you are just coming from one.
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No one has seen you. But this morning the word of God
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is telling us, is admonishing us, that God is expecting that
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we will do away with these things.
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The expectation of God is that as people of God, as children of
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God, we will live a holy and pure life.
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Amen. And then he's saying that anyone
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who reject these instructions, anyone who lives his life
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anyhow, does not reject a human being, but God.
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So yes, you have accepted him. You have been baptized by, if
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you live your life anyhow, you should know that you have
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rejected God. So what it means is that you can
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be in the church and reject God and you be in the church, you
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die. We will say you are a member and
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we will bury you. Prepare for us.
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We will say you are going to heaven.
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But he who knows everything, may the Lord help us.
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Then Galatians chapter 121. Then I went to Syria and
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Sicilia. I was personally unknown to the
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churches of Judea that are in Christ.
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They only heard the reports. The man who formally persecuted
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us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.
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And they praised God because of me, praise the Lord.
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So this is Saul who has now become Paul.
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And the Bible is saying that as a result of what he did after he
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had an encounter with the light of God, after he he repented,
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after he became born again because of the life he lived,
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because of the faith he kept, the Bible is saying that.
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And they praise God because of him.
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So what it means is that because of you, because of me, people
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should be able to praise God. But when people are not able to
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praise God because of you and because of me, what it means is
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that we have failed God. This morning.
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May the Lord be gracious unto us.
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Amen. Shall we be on our feet and just
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bow down your head and contemplates on the word you
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have heard this morning? Living a life worthy of your
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calling? Living a life worthy of your
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calling. Living a life worthy of your
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calling. What kind of life do you live?
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Do you truly love God? Do you obey the commands of God?
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What kind of choices do you make?
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Are the choices of the choices you make, are they the ones that
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brings you life or that brings you death?
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Just contemplates and the word of God you have heard this
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morning just as.
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I am your present. As I can.
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With. An unveiling.
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Face gives he out your glory. Transform me to Christ your Son.
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I can. Oh my God, please open your
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eyes. Project the lyrics for us.
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Can you please repeat after me? Just as I am, just as I am your
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presence, I come, Your presence. I come with an unveiling face,
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with an unveiling face, gazing at your glory, gazing at your
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glory, transforming to Christ your Son, transforming to Christ
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your Son, I come, Oh my God bless.
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Me. I come, Oh my God bless.
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We have to understand that the call we have received, when you
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receive this call and you come, all you have to do is to gaze at
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Him. The moment you take your eyes
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off him, you fail. And this morning we want to, no
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matter the kind of situation we find ourselves, we want to turn
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our eyes back on him. We want to gaze at him.
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If you gaze at him hanging on the tree, hanging on the cross,
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you shall be saved. As as I heard your prayers, as I
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come, we tie all. Billy, please.
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Gazing at your glory, transforming to Christ your son.
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I come. Oh my God, bless you.
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Yeah, I come. Oh my God.
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Let's dance as I am your prayer. Oh my God, most at times we
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come. To the presence of God, but
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many. Of us live hypocritical.
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Lives with their mind that my bastard does not know, My elder
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does not know, my brother does not know, my sister does not
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know. Forgetting that the one who has
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called us, he knows you this morning if you can.
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Just raise up your two hands. We want to surrender ourselves
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unto him that you'll be. Gracious unto us.
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The intention of God for calling you, for calling me, is for us
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to inherit eternal life, some of us for months.
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For yes, we don't. Partake the Lost Supper and it
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does not mean anything to us. Yet we come to church and we
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call ourselves people of God, children of God.
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Some of us, we live our lives anyhow.
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Transforming to Christ your. Son.
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I can't. Oh my God, let's talk of you can
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change. My life.
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I yes, says my soul on fire yard to do you as I thought.
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You can't. Change my life I.
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Said my soul on fire yard. To do Lord, you are the one.
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I need. Cause me to Lord.
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Bring. Me to my knees, you are my
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knees. The God cause me to see, Hold me
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in your eyes, bring me to your broom and feed me with your
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Larry's eyes. That's our job.
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You can't change my life and say I soul on fire to do your That's
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our job. You can't change my life.
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I. Lima.
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Lehi mahi.
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He. Touch me.
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Anytime the word of God comes, it is for a.
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Purpose this morning as we stand before the presence of God, I
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just want you to cry unto him for a touch.
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The touch of God is enough to bring transformation into our
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lives. This morning we are praying for
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a touch of God. The touch of God that is able to
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bring transformation. The touch of God that is able to
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bring renewal. Touch me, oh Lord.
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Touch me. Yeah, yeah, Touch me.
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Just. 1. I.
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So. That I may know your way.
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So so that I may know your way so that I may.
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Know. Your way, soon as I do, revive
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me. Oh Lord, let us be.
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Reach me me so that I know your ways.
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Just be silenced in the presence of God.
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As you do self retrospection, how well do you love the Lord?
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Are the things you confess. Contrary to their life.
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And contrary to the kind of life you are living.
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How well do you love the Lord? How well do you obey the
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commands of the Lord? Do you live a hypocritical life?
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How sincere are you to yourself? How do you value the salvation
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you have received? Just contemplate on all these
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things, even as you sit on the feet of the Master, the one who
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is able. To wash us through his weight.
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The one who is able to cleanse us through his weight.
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Lord, this morning may you open our eyes so that we will see
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you, so that we will know your way.
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The.