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It's A Must
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Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith, Message podcast
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from st. Augustine Florida.
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Now enjoyed this message. Let's turn over to Numbers.
Numbers 23 chapter mention
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Chapter 23, I'm really excited about today's message because
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the Lord dropped this in my spirit.
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Now, when I say, That there are messages that I study out,
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meaning I'm reading doing my Bible, reading different things
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and I've come across things and I get a perception, right?
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Some messages that I Minister comes up again by the perception
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that we need to cover this again.
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But then sometimes messages come, when I'm not even thinking
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about it, studying have no thought, and the Lord drops a
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concept and then at that juncture, I'm life.
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Mmm, well there's something here and when I began to unveil this
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myself this morning more, I realize this will not be one
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service. In fact it'll probably be 3.
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So again if you're going to get the totality of something then
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you're going to have to follow through in order to to receive
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all that God wants to do and what I'm talking to you today,
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as it is a must it is a must, this is not, it can be this way,
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it could be this way, maybe it. It's a must It's a must which
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means there is no other way. But this way, and I'm not
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talking about coming to the father through Jesus.
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I'm not talking about the New Birth experience.
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All right, we're talking about something else today Menorah to
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do it. Let's build a foundation
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numbers. 23:19 says, this says, God is not a man that he should
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lie. Nor a son of man that he should
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repent. Has he said, and will he not do
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it or has he spoken and will he not make it good?
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Now, there's a whole lot in this one verse and lets, you know
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what, because I'm doing three weeks, there's no telling how
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long I'll stay on one verse because I'll just go as the
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spirit leads me in each verse. First thing, I want us to look
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at, is this, as I read it, the Lord dropped this, he said, will
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say it now. So here it is repent.
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Notice that first of all, God is not a man.
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So again, you cannot equate god with anything.
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You see naturally, you cannot equate with though, he has terms
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that are associated with Humanity like father, but you
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can't look at a father and say, I've seen God Cause God the
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father is the perfect father. And all of us no matter how much
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we aspire to want to be like our heavenly father and maybe model
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it pretty well, we will not do it as well as he does period.
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So he is awesome but he's not a man that he should lie, which
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tells us is, he never lies. So again you have to take
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changer, you're mighty media and say whatever God says, is not a
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lot. And whatever he says he's gonna
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do, he's not lying. And the problem is, is we become
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kind of a custom with lying Although we're not at like we're
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lying. We do this most of the time with
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our kids. Well, and our kids will be
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talking to us about something. They want something want some?
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Okay, we'll get it. Okay, we'll go later.
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Okay, we'll do this and we'll kind of sneak statements to kind
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of, you know, get them to quit. But then we don't act on it.
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So in our children's mind dad said we go to Disney and we
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haven't gone. Dan said, he bought me a bike
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and he hasn't bought it. Dad said, he'd take me to this
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or Mom and they didn't do it. But when God says something he's
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going to do it, he's not a liar. In fact, he can't lie at all.
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It's be really important for us to hear what he's saying.
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So again, you can't go to God and go.
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I don't know about that. God can't lie.
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So if he calls you healed, Then your heel.
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You can't. He's not a liar.
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If he says you're away, then you're away.
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And the only way you're not away is because you choose to not
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believe God, it's not a god problem, then it becomes our
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problem because God can't lie. What God says he says and that's
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it. And it's our responsibility to
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do the next thing. Nor a son of man that he should
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repent. Repent means, change your
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thinking. But we've been so religiously
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brainwashed because we water down the world with the word to
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only mean ask Jesus into your heart.
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So when you die, you'll go to heaven teachings that we have
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changed repent to only have this thought process, quit doing evil
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and turn and only do good. And that's what we've relegated
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repent to when the original meaning of repent means, change
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your thinking change your thinking so he's saying he's not
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a son of man that he has to change his thinking.
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We have to change ours. I said we have to change ours
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and we'll see why we have to change our share in a minute.
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And it says has he said And will he not do it or has he spoken
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and will he not make it good? Does God do what he says?
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Yes, he does. How do we know this?
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Let's look at some scripture in Matthew and Luke 21:33.
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It says this Heaven and Earth will pass away, but Ma my words
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will, what they will, not pass away.
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They will not pass away, they will not heaven and earth.
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Will pass away before his word would pass away.
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Isaiah 55:11. Isaiah 55:11.
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He says this. So shall my word be?
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So shall my word be? So shall my word be which goes
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out from my mouth out of my mouth, it shall not return to me
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void, but it shall accomplish what I please.
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And it shall certainly do what I sent it to do.
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It will certainly do it. I've said it will certainly do
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it, so God is not a man that he should lie.
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God's word is truth. God's word will do what God
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said. He will do.
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God's word will do what he said he will do.
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Let's go to Genesis chapter 1. I said those to set context Of
Genesis 1 chapter mention
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God, scripture for us, because if we're going to learn what the
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Lord wants to get over to us today and in the next couple of
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weeks to come, then we're going to have to understand how God
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looks at the words that come out of his mouth.
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Okay, Genesis 1:26 and 27. Then God then God.
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What? Then God, what?
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So taking that in context of Isaiah 55, he said the words
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that goes out of my mouth, it shall not return to me void, but
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it will accomplish that which I please, it will certainly do as
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I sent it. So God said, what's he want to
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accomplish? Let us make man in our image,
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according to our likeness and let them rule.
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Let them have Dominion over the fish of the sea over, the birds
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of the sky, over the cattle, over all the Earth and over
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every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, God created, man
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in his own image in the image of God, he created him male and
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female, he created him. So God through his word says, I
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will have a human race that will be in my image and they will
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have dominion. God said, this.
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Who said it? God said it.
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So we'll God have a human race that will have dominion.
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Yes, he will because he said it. Because he said it, because he
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said it, because he said it. And we know according to Genesis
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that he formed man of the Dust of the earth chapter 2 and it
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says he breathed into his nostrils, the Breath of Life in
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essence, he imparted from his being his spiritual DNA.
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He he, he breathed into the nostrils of man and he became a
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Living spirit. By which the Holy Spirit could
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then communicate with him and identify him as a Son of God.
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And he created this being to have a spirit.
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We know in 1st Thessalonians 5:23, I'll probably come back to
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this and and deal with a little bit more in a later teaching,
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but he said that are Spirit soul and body would remain blameless
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until the return of of Christ. And so that identifies, that we
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are a threefold nature person. We are a spirit, we have a soul
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and we live in a body. Okay we are a spirit, we have a
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soul and we live in a body. And so God poured from his
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Spirit into this man who made a Living spirit that the Holy
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Spirit could identify with and communicate with that, then
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opened up a soul Realm by which he can now Have a gate that Soul
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round by his spirit that then would influence his physical
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body realm and his physical body did not know sickness disease,
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like nothing. It was glorified he was a being
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that was created without sin man.
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It was awesome but the Lord communicates to this beam
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because he is a free will be just like all beings that God
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creates and he says to him. In essence.
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This is the meaning of that statement.
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When the Lord says you can eat of any tree of the garden, but
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of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall not eat
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for the day. You eat, you will surely what
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die? Okay, in essence the Lord says
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prove, you love me by keeping my word.
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Jesus literally said in John chapter 15, he says, if you love
John 15 chapter mention
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me You will keep my word, you'll keep my command, you'll do what
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I say. He didn't say, if you love me,
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you'll feel it. Okay.
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If you love me, we're going to feel something.
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When we see each other, when I come in the room, you're gonna
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go, who I feel something. Many of you started pursuing the
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opposite sex because you felt something, okay?
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And many you're like, wish I wouldn't have felt that.
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I'm not saying with who you have today, but I'm sure some of you
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have some relationships. You're like, wish I want the
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felt that we shouldn't felt that at all.
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Wish. I went to follow that feeling.
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Oh, now the Lord didn't come in, the cool of the day and Adam
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goes, oh, I feel love. I just feel the love of God now.
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Oh, you don't want to hear this? Come on.
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Help me out because, man, we gonna go a little bit deeper in
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this. De OK.
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He said, if you love me, you'll keep my word.
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So, the father says now, son. I love you.
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Look what I created for you. Look the environment I put you
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in. Look how much I care for you.
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Look how much I provide it for you all.
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I need you to do is continue to maintain my word.
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There's only one thing you don't do.
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Only one. And that's don't eat of the tree
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of the knowledge of Good and Evil.
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For the day you eat of it, you will surely want Da.
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Well, we know in Genesis chapter 3, that Adam ate the fruit.
Genesis 3 chapter mention
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And the Bible says, when he ate the fruit sin entered the world
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in essence, Adam died. Now, we know, Adam did not cease
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to breathe. He didn't just fall down on the
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garden floor. And Eve didn't either.
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They were still breathing. They still could think.
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They could still feel. They could still process
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information with their mind. So, their soul was still there,
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but their Spirit died, their Spirit became separated from
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God, no longer it is, is it in the nature of God?
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And as a result of that, atom now when he fell from Dominion
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has to live his life from his soul Realm.
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Not only his soul realm. But from his body realm as well,
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meaning he began to make decisions based upon how it made
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him feel or based upon how he saw things and he knew his own
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physical limitations. So he would begin to allow what
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he thought he could or couldn't do naturally based upon
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experience which is his body Realm.
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Or the way he felt concerning his situation in essence.
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The three full nature man, although he was still a spirit,
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it was dead to God, not alive to God, and had no capacity to be
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to connect with God, are you hearing me?
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So he then must navigate life through his thinking, his mind,
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his soul realm, that was predicated.
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How he felt or his physical perceived limitations, see for
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Adam, he would not be able to say, okay I can come and pick up
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this speaker and the speaker, you know, and you know, these
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drums, all at one time and carry them on my back because you know
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what, I can't physically carry them.
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So he would not even attempt yet.
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There was a man anointed of God who could rip doors off of Of a
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Gates of the city and carry them.
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It's amazing. What happens when the spirit can
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get a hold of you? Instead of just your natural
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ability. Are you hearing me?
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So Adam was led by his soul, his mind, his emotions, his
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intellect, it dictated his choices and his physical
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strength, also dictated, it would also communicate.
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If he was tired, his body would begin to say, don't even get up,
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don't even try your don't even move, don't go there.
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It would begin to. Dictate how he lived. and even
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to today, that is how man lives Man lives in just those two
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Realms are two aspects of its being.
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They're making choices from their soul realm and from their
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body realm. Okay?
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Now, how do we know that? Why is it important that we
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identify? That Adam only operated in these
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things? Because Romans chapter 8 tells
Romans 8 chapter mention
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us how a Of God operates. How a Son of God operates, Adam
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did operate this way, but he fell from operating this way.
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Look what it says here in Romans 14 8:14 and then we'll jump down
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to verse 16. He says, for all who are being
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led by the spirit of God being led by, what the spirit of God,
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these are the sons of God for all who are being what led by,
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how they feel. How many believers do not show
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up to church on a Sunday? I'm just giving one natural
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example. Okay, we have a scripture,
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Hebrews 10:25, do not forsake the assembling of yourselves
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together as is the habit of some.
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As you see the day Drawing Near do not is that the word of God
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is Hebrews part of the Bible? I mean, do we use that verse?
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Should we use that verse? Shall we act on that verse would
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that verse Demonstrate. We love.
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God do not forsake. The assembling of yourselves
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together as is the habit of some.
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All the more as you see the day Drawing Near yet, how many
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Believers and maybe even in this room that you have woke up on a
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Sunday and your body said You're tired.
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You should just stay in today. You know, God loves you and you
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don't have to do this, religious exercise of going to church all
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the time. So you can be led by your body.
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And be justified before God or how about this one?
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I'm just not feeling like it today.
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I mean, you're not tired. You have 12 hours to sleep.
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I mean, you've done absolutely nothing.
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All weekend then laying around the house.
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I mean, you're almost bored out your mind but you just not
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feeling it. Okay, everybody wants real
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preach until you preach real. That's okay.
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That's all right. I'm fine.
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Amen. No.
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He says those who are led by well, what would the Holy Ghost?
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Say on a day that he knows he's asked the overseer of the Nobody
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Church to assemble the Saints, so that he could instruct them
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from Heaven, through the gift of Pastor, so that they can be
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equipped to do something in the planet.
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What would the Holy Ghost? Say on that day, that just stay
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in. Verse 16.
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Look at verse 16, the spirit himself.
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Testifies, with our spirit, that we are what the spirit himself.
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Testifies with, our not with our soul.
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Which tells me the Holy Spirit. Does not say well, how are you
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feeling today? Oh, you don't want to Scott,
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he's got me thinking, right? Pastor.
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You didn't even ask me how I felt.
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There's a holy spirit. Ask you how you feel.
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So, how does that make you feel? Right?
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You've seen this in and TV parodies and you sit down and
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the psychiatrist is chair to counselor and talking to you and
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give you a list of questions. So, and how does that make you
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feel? And how does that make you feel?
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You know, you just need to get in touch with your.
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I'll see you coach. You could, man, you can quote it
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like a scripture. I don't know that the spirits
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trying to get in touch with your feelings.
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I don't see anywhere in scripture, where the Holy Ghost
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says, I need to get in touch with their feelings.
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I do know where the scripture says that Jesus was tempted on
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all accounts. Like we were, which means he
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dealt with the same feelings, we dealt with, but he never let
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those feelings, dictate his actions.
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He said, I only do what the father says, because his Spirit
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has spoken to me, I'm glad that Jesus didn't have a self-help
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program after he prayed in the garden.
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Garden of Gethsemane and said, you know what?
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I don't know. Father, let this cup pass.
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Why weld about me. What about how I feel about
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this? What about this?
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Me taking on all, you know, they gonna beat me, you know, they
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gonna Scourge me. You know, I'm not to carry that
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cross. I mean, what about my help?
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Where's my care? What about how I feel about
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taking this cross on? It's a passerby you priest like
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this, because there is a way to live in the spirit that we
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rarely tap. We rarely tap, and God is like,
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looking at his church and saying, get in the spirit.
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Come on, get in the spirit church.
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Get in the spirit church, get in the spirit.
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This lets us know that when Adam ate the fruit, he could no
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longer be God's child because the spirit could not testify
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with his Spirit nor could he be led by it.
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So, the true child of God is Led.
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By the spirit. Now why is that important?
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Look at John chapter 6, just setting the foundation here.
John 6 chapter mention
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Okay, John 6:63. Not sure how far will go today.
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But let's see where we're Lord takes us the spirit.
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And Ivy says, the spirit gives so what gives life all of your
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natural programs, your natural reading your natural eating, All
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of your personal time alone. And meditation on nothingness.
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Or nature for that matter. Sitting at the beach and
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watching the oceans. Come in.
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This is so relaxing can't give you life.
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Can't give you a life. I said it cannot give you life.
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The spirit gives life. What?
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Gives life the spirit you can't find life naturally.
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You can't find life emotionally mentally.
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You can't find life. Can't find it.
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I just need you to feed me. Positive words positives, words
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will not give you life. Now listen, I just can't be
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around all these. Because it doesn't feed my
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space, you don't have space. And watch face.
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You have has death because of it doesn't have Spirit, it doesn't
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have life. Avoidance is not life.
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Get away from it. All is not life.
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I know, plenty of people who go on vacation because of the
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stress of life. Trying to unwind only to not
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unwind, but only continue to hope they could stay there
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forever. Because when they come back,
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they're not better. When they get back some are like
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I need a vacation from my vacation.
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Number one or the minute. They get back at least a
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weekend. They're ready for another
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vacation. Which tells me.
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You got nothing while you were gone.
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All you did was feed your flesh, a different way.
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What you perceived you thought, if I do this, I'll feel better.
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But there's only one way that rate that brings life.
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The spirit gives life, the flesh counts for.
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Nothing counts for what, nothing counts for nothing.
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It counts for what? Nothing counts for.
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What? Nothing.
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If I'm not letting the spirit feed me, I'm getting nothing.
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Look what he goes on to say. He says the words I have spoken
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to you. They are full of the spirit and
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life which tells me this that as a child of God, if I'm not in
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the word and have a love relationship with God's word.
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Then I am not feeding my spirit and the only life I am living is
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a sole lead life. And a soul.
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LED life is not life. A soul LED life is the same life
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you came out of there's a way that seems right but in the end
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lies. Amen.
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Now, it's funny thing because the spit his words are spirit
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and life. Why?
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This is important? Hebrews 4:12 and I love the
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passion translation of verse 12 and 13 because there's only one
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place that can get your soul realm away from your spirit
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Realm. It says for we have the Living
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Word of God which is full of energy, like a to mouth sword,
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it will even penetrate to the very core of our being where
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Soul and Spirit bone and Marrow, meat, that is the threefold
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nature, a man, Spirit soul and body.
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I am a spirit, I have a soul and I live in a body.
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And it's the word and only the word that can let you know
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whether that is soulish leading or Spirit leading.
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So, if you're not in the word, I can guarantee you, you are a
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sole lead believer. Which is the same existence that
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the loss live. And what's so horrible about
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that statement is that you actually have a nature within
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you to live differently. The world can't help it.
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They have to be led. They are stuck being led by the
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way, they feel the way. They are.
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Our processing information based upon the accumulation of their
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knowledge based upon the Paradigm of their thinking.
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They can't change it. I said they can't change it.
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Because they're stuck in a Thing Called Death.
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They're separated from God's spirit and God's word, and
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that's where life exists. And so, the combination of all
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their decision-making is based upon what they naturally can do
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with their body. And how they mentally are an
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emotionally, feel about a situation.
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And as a result of that, it governs, the way they act in
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life, can't help it. But a person that's born of God,
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their Spirit man has been made alive.
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They become a new creature in Christ, and then the third
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person of the godhead comes and lives on the inside of them and
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identifies with their Spirit. Now, you're a child of God and
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as a result of that, you have capacity to get your mind
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together, your soul realm together, it doesn't have to
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call the shots anymore, but it will always call the shots.
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If you do, not place the word as an emphasis of your life, Coming
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to church and not reading the word on your own guarantees, you
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will live a so LED life. Guarantees and God never called
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you to be led by your soul. All right, let's go on.
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It says it will penetrate to the very core of our being where
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Soul and Spirit bone and Marrow me, it interprets and reveals
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the true thoughts and secret motives of our heart.
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That's why most people don't want to read the word because
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they don't want to get around their own thinking.
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They don't have to change the way they feel about it.
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They want the entitlement of heaven without the
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responsibility of changing on the planet.
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There is not one person who can hide their thoughts from God.
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Whoo, for nothing that we do remains a secret and nothing
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created is concealed. Oh my goodness, but everything
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is exposed. And defenseless before his eyes
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to whom, we must render an account.
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You know what I love about verse 13, so much.
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Because typically, when we read that, you people have it in the
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negative sense. Huh?
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Oh my gosh, the Lord's. Just, you know, looking
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everything I'm saying, you better Because you know what
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he's doing, he's saying his faith.
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There is Faith. There is Faith there.
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What's their motive whilst our heart are?
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They believe in me at board? And if they are, the Lord says,
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I'm not a man that I should lie. That word has to come to pass in
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that person's life because I know their thoughts.
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I know their motive, I know they're being led by the spirit,
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and I'm gonna bring that thing to pass in their life and not a
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devil in hell, not a person on the planet.
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Can stop it from coming to pass because ask my child being led
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by mice. Spirit and my spirits going to
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bring life to that situation. Because they're not moved by the
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situation, they're feeling the circumstance, what's going on?
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They're actually living contrary to the way everybody else does
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because they're doing it by the spirit now and not by the soul.
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All I, thank God that I could look to my father and say, you
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know, I'm in faith. You know, I'm in faith.
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I learned a lesson from Kenneth E Hagin when he was on the bed
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of sickness, incurable heart disease.
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He was going through the word, going through the word, going
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through the word. Everybody had only one
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destination for the man and it was death.
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You're gonna die. It's a matter of time.
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It's going to come. It's coming.
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Just get ready. Get yourself ready is at least
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you know? You're right with God it's
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coming but somewhere along the line.
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He began to realize Faith could do.
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And he made this statement in prayer.
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Once he said, Lord, if you said that, I didn't believe you.
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I'd have to call you a liar and the Lord spoke to him.
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Why? Because he was listening to his
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Spirit and the Lord says you do believe, based upon what, you
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know, which let him know as a young man there must be
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something. I don't know that stopping a
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result. And within a few months of that
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particular prayer time with the father, he came across the
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scripture again that said believe you receive When you
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pray and he realized that it's not believing God can heal me is
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believing. God has healed me that I'm
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already healed. I'm not waiting on it.
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Healing as far as God's concern I am.
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And the minute that I thought from the spirit was revealed to
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him and he says that's it, then the Lord immediately spoke to
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him and said to him, well people who are well or not lying in the
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bed in the afternoon. So in essence, he was saying if
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you really believe it's done and you are, then why are you laying
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in the bed? Now his body said you're laying
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here cause you're paralyzed. From his waist down, he felt
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nothing. Completely weak.
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So, his body was still testified, you can't get out of
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bed, you can't get out of bed. But his spirit said, his word
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doesn't fail. So it says, I took my legs
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brother and said he took his legs and threw him over off the
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bed. And he said, they hit the floor,
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like a sack of potatoes. And he grabbed, hold to the bed
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post to hold onto himself. And in that action, everything
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saying you're an idiot, his mind.
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And he's emotions are saying you've blown it.
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Now you're stuck. You're gonna die laying on the
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floors that in the bed, but yet in that moment of Faith calling
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those things that be not as though they were his Spirit man,
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alive to the word and acting on that Spirit.
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He said, all of a sudden something hit the top of my head
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said something, hit me some heat power the Holy Ghost.
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And he said in it with through my body and it was like knobs
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like needle stabbing me and said it hurt so bad but it felt so
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good because I couldn't feel anything before and all of a
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sudden he was completely healed and walked out of the room.
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Hallelujah. And from that, I said, Lord if
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there's any time that I'm believing you.
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Because I know you're a man that cannot lie.
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You're not a man that you should lie and I'm believing.
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I'll look at him if I don't see result.
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I said, what don't I know right now?
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Cause if you don't think I'm believing, I'd call you a liar.
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I know that God is searching my heart and his spirit is life and
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his word will cut my soul out of the equation.
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My spirit man can't hear from heaven.
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And I don't let my soul and you don't let your soul, dictate
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your actions. Now, why is this important look
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John chapter 4 who's speaking? Who's speaking say it loud?
John 4 chapter mention
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Who's speaking? Jesus is talking, is Jesus, your
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lord? I said, is Jesus your Lord?
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Are you to obey Jesus in some things?
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And how many things so should we obey him in this statement?
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Should we obey him in the statement?
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So our Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ, who came to the
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Earth died on the cross paid the way so that our sin could be
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eradicated moved out of the way. So that we could become children
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of God through his death. Burial and Resurrection are
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King. Lord, Jesus said, but an hour is
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coming and now is when And the who true worshippers, which
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imply there's false ones. true worshipers will worship the
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father how in spirit, not just in spirit, but and Truth for
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such people. The father seeks to be his
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worshipers. Now, what type of people do the
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father seek to worship Him? Those who Worship in spirit and
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truth. That's who he seeks.
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Who's he seeking those who worship?
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How in spirit and, in truth who did the qualification here?
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Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Which tells me if you don't meet
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this requirement dad's not running you down.
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Okay. Quit trying to make the word fit
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your feeling. Quit trying to make the word fit
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your exception. Cause not today I'm not going to
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go there in detail. but for many of you in some of your Solus
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responses, God did something And you thought you were in the
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spirit, but you were not and God did not do it because of your
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soul. He did it because of the spirit
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that operates from another place.
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I'm proven scripture that God never responded to the Natural
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Cry of man. and you read all about David saying, I cried out
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to the Lord, but if you don't have context and you don't know
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why, Is he responding to a cry or is he responding to his own
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word? Man, we I've put God in a class
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that we are allowing ourselves to live a soulish life.
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And we've not even begin to tap the realm of a Spirit Led life.
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The father, only seeks this type of worshiper who worships in
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what spirit and Truth verse 12. 24.
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God is God is what what is? God spirit and those who worship
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Him. Those who worship Him could
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maybe can possibly could on Sunday for sure. when you're in
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a bad spot and everything's falling apart and you are an
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emotional Frenzy, God is spirit and those who worship Him must
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worship Him. How You cannot worship him
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another way. It is impossible to worship God
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from your soul. It's impossible to worship God
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from your soul, your soul can get involved with your spirit,
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but you cannot worship Him from your soul.
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Your soul will have a reflection of some spiritual things but you
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cannot worship Him from your soul.
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And until you learn that. You will not tap into the deeper
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things of God, even though you lie that you are. because when
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you recognize tapping into the spirit, Then how my soul
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responds will really be relevant, whether the response
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in that moment, is this Elation of Joy or whether the response
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In This Moment, is that I'm on my face and it's the presence of
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God is so thick, it won't matter.
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How I feel in that moment. Because the feeling of any
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moment could be different and I'm okay with that because I
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know I'm in the spirit, yet many only believe that they've
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touched the Hem of God. When they feel away.
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Oh, we had church today. I could feel the presence of
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God. You may have never had church
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today, your life. Because I didn't say that you
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must worship this way. He said.
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Jesus said, this is the only way you worship me.
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Think about the word worship. The word worship means, it means
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to bow to the will of another, in essence.
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True worship is obeying. The one that's in supreme
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authority, how do we know this? It's not singing, you know, we
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have relegated worship to a song.
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The slow ones. Praise is a fast one.
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Right. That's why we call it praise and
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worship, right? And so we relegated now worship
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hell. I was just worshiping the Lord
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this morning because you were singing a slow song.
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No you weren't. Oh I was just crying out with
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all my soul. So If what's happening in your
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soul realm is not by the spirit, it's irrelevant.
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Crying does not get God's attention.
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Screaming does not get his attention.
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Complaining, definitely does not get his attention.
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How do we know this? Well, let me give an example.
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God leads Israel out of Egypt, right?
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We know that those people because just based upon
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scripture, right? They can't even be born of the
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spirit of God. So they are definitely living by
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their soul Realm. Made all their decision.
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By the way they feel. By the restrictions of their
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physical ability period. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So as a result of that, he takes them through the Red Sea, get
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some Into the Wilderness. And what do they do?
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Immediately three days in, what do they do?
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What do they do? They complain because they are
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hungry. I said they're hungry.
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Okay. They're not wrong.
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Be hungry, feel yourself. I get it.
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So, the Lord does something. Now, why does he do it?
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You think he's only doing it because they're complaining.
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They're complaining prayer. Got God to answer.
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Oh. See, that's the illusion.
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That's the illusion. We do not understand training
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our spirit. The Bible is very clear, I'll
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just do it in a quick nutshell and then hopefully we'll come
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back to it next week. The Bible says that when you're
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born again, you become a babe in Christ.
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Now, let's take natural babes when you naturally had a baby
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came out of your womb. How did the baby?
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Let you know, what was hungry? It cried, right?
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And then you fed it and when you fed it, right?
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You hear what I'm saying after you fed it.
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He quit crying. There you go.
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Everything's fine. No problem.
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Okay, then when he gets hungry again, what's it do and why are
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we doing this? Come on.
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Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this?
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Why are we doing this? Come on.
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Why are we doing this? Because until they develop
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words, There's a process. There's a process.
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Bring me water. There's a process.
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Hallelujah. I said there's a process.
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God. Does for Israel because they
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cried or because he said something before, the he ever
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delivered them? Okay, this one is important to
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read your Bible. So does he feed them bread, at
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their complaint? Or does he feed them bread?
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Because he spoke to a man called Abram and said I'm going to make
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your seed like the Sands of the Sea and the stars of the sky and
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they will multiply but yet they'll come a season that they
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will be oppressed by nation and I'll pull them out.
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Of that Nation. Who said this?
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God said it, I'll pull him out of that nation and I'll bring
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them back to the land. You're looking at this land
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flowing with milk and honey. So did God answered their prayer
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because of their soulish response or did he answer it
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because he spoken because he's a, he's not a man that he should
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lie and what he told Abram he's able to do over 400 something
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years later. And we think us crying out from
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our soul Realms getting response from God, will maybe someone was
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praying and interceding in the spirit for you.
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And actually touch God and your soul had nothing to do with that
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answer prayer. But why did he give man in the
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first place to feed them? I know you've read the
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scripture. What's it say he said you know I
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gave a man or bread so that I might teach them that man shall
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not live on bread alone but out of come on.
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But out of every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God
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because my word is spirit and the spirit is life and I want to
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connect with my people only one way.
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There's only one way I can. And that is by the spirit.
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Church houses are full of soulish worship and soulish
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preaching, full of people being a tad in afire, With how you
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feel. Well, I just need someone to
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preach me. That knows how I feel.
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So, you want to live less now? Because if all they can do is
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identify with the way that you feel, then the best you can live
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as a Pharisee, tzedakah lifestyle.
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See, if all you do is live by your soul, you're going to
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produce a religion. Adams, first Soul response was
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to cover himself with leaves. This is why when Jesus showed up
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started preaching, he said this repent.
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You saw arounds jacked up. That's what he's saying.
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Repent, change it change the way you think quit processing the
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kingdom of God with your soul. Repent.
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For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
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It operates by the spirit. It operates by the spirit.
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I said it operates by the spirit.
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I said it operates by the spirit.
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I said it operates by the spirit.
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So they cried out because God gave a word to a man named Abram
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that, I'll deliver them, bring them to this place because God
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is acting on his word. I said he's acting on his work.
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Let me say it this way. God did not send Jesus because
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Humanity was crying out to God, to save him.
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God sent Jesus because God said in Genesis chapter 32 Satan are
Genesis 32 chapter mention
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the serpent. I'm gonna send my seed through
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the woman. So no matter how bad man, then I
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Lord do something to help me. Help me Lord.
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Then respond to that soul. He responded to his word, I said
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he responded to his word, he responded to a cuz his word
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spirit. And the spirit is life.
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Hallelujah. Oh, I'm so thankful for the
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spirit of God, because the spirit of God, so much more
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powerful than natural happiness self-made.
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Feelings of of, you know, feeling good about myself.
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Shaking All Things based upon my conditions.
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To get me in a place of Zen. I need a ride, a worry to letter
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to YouTube and say quit, putting Xin moments on my YouTube TV.
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Separation of church and state man-made.
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Why you pushing your religion on me?
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They can push every other religion, can't they?
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But you start talking about Jesus.
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That's another thing. But, you know, that's not the
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only time the other the Israelites Cried Out, is it they
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cried out another Tom, they said or tired.
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I just bread. We want some meat.
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Well, did God respond to that? Well, how did that end?
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They were dead. That prayer killed them.
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That tells us if I continue to engage God soulish lie and do
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not learn how to go after him spiritually.
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I'm gonna things are going to die my life.
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Wow. Aren't you glad you're saved?
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Let me end with this scripture and I'll save the rest for Next
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week, I think there's enough right now.
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I don't need to go any further. Hallelujah.
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I'm looking at how full this place is.
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I'll see how full it is next week.
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Let me just throw it out there unless you are serving somewhere
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in the church other than in here, and you're not here.
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Other than those that I know are on vacation right now.
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If you're on vacation, you might want to send me e-mail.
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I'm gonna know you listen to your soul and didn't come to
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church. Galatians 5:25 says, if we live
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by the spirit, I said if we live by the spirit, let us also what?
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Walk by the spirit. You know, how quick Believers
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are? I've asked you to come to my
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heart? Save me yet.
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They live by the soil. They walked by it.
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They are alive by the spirit but they walk by the soul.
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They live by the spirit but they lost the wall by the sport Soul.
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We were only led by the soul in our separation from God.
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The minute were born again. That doesn't meet make us
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perficient in our soul realm. It gives us capacity to develop
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our soul realm to renew our mind, so that it will side with
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the spirit. And yield to the spirit and not
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taking account, just our five senses.
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But to be able to go and say, what does he say?
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Because God is not a man that he should lie, and whatever he says
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is going to come to pass. Amen.
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And God has spoken enough General things.
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That the reason why a lot of stuff happening for our lives is
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because he's made some statements openly like no weapon
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formed against the church will prosper which means some of you
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are living a sole lead life but because God said that they
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wouldn't prosper in the church and you're technically in the
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church then its ability to prosper against you becomes more
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limiting. Not because you're crying out
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from your soul. But because Well, not lie
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against his word. And he needs you to get out of
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the soul and begin to dictate the spirit because the minute
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you begin to dictate the spirit, your life will go to a whole
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nother level because God's, he'll start running you down.
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He'll run you down. He'll be looking for you.
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He'll be looking for you. I mean how could I stay home on
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the day? He's called meet assembly.
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When he's looking for me, he's looking for me.
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He says he seeks those who worship Him in spirit and Truth.
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Which means God, the father was more excited about me being in
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church today than I was. He was more Jack that I showed
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up his child. Because he knows the power of
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his word and the power of His spirit.
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Being led by the spirit and being pressured by spirits in
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the spirit realm or two different things.
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Because pressure from the spirit realm, according to Ephesians,
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6, principalities and powers, and spiritual rulers, and dark.
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Darkness will always be an attempt to appeal to your soul.
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Today, we need to make a decision.
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I'm done with living according to how I feel.
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I'm going to grow to live by the spirit and walk by I feel like I
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want to get married. I don't care how you feel.
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Well, you know, the scripture says not good for man to be
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alone. I understand that and guess
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what? Mammals along till God brought
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So might be better for you to stay alone till give God brings
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quit looking. Just worship Him in spirit and
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in truth, because he tells us that it will seek first, his
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kingdom, and his righteousness, and all the things that the
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Gentiles seek. So, why you looking for a wife,
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why you looking for a husband? Why don't you just look to
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Jesus? And then when they show up,
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you'll know not by feeling, but by the spirit, And you don't
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have to go tell them the Lord told me, you were going to be my
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wife. Hallelujah.
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Now, you listen to the wrong Spirit realm.
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Don't put pressure on people, just sit back at a come.
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People make relationships, so complicated.
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But they are complicated in the soul.
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Their mess in the soul. They're ooh and ah, in the
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beginning and then there's running and screaming.
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Somebody comes and mine's all the resources and then goes on
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down the road. Yep.
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Got to make a decision that God's not how you feel.
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God's spirit. And if God's spirit, then he's
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not touched by the emotions of, man.
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He's moved by his word and God has said enough in scripture to
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handle every situation that no matter how soulless you are.
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He's not answering it. Because of that.
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He's only answering according to his word and the quicker.
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We learn his word and learn. Oh, learn to tap into that.
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Then the quicker, we'll overcome and every situation of life.
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And our soul will have to get in alignment with the spirit.
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And whatever that feels is whatever it needs to feel.
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