Sermon
From Clauda To Malta - Bro Nathanael Howell 10-20-2024
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Oh, God has done nothing at this point the man
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or you.
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Man, I did feel like singing. I want this is
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a little different con you man, uh work, you have
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to run somebody to hold the baby and stuck up
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and God or anything else is just a story to
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be here. Any hYP you have a yeah d home,
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sing little songs you ever been on my heart that
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I've been ever shaken. Maybe get the stores that you
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like your any you feel like doing m laffy sueze
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when you're upon the mountain town and you talk to
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sin like you never a ul the din the shame,
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and you're down in the pull the door space were
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you never alone?
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Pull the God all the man he still Godi in
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the land, it seems the.
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Do you make the godden the time? He's still got
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the time.
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Oh, the God of the Day's still God.
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Who we talk of faith, Well we're uppon the barron
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who the talk consoling.
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The love sidy is bad.
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For this down he in the lane.
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The travel ampt you, Jane shot will last when your
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pain really put the tail.
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Oh, the God of the man, he's still Gody in
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the band thinks he made the.
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Garden time.
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Well, he's still got in the bad time in the
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garden the day.
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It's stillbody.
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Will.
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Life feels so easy when you're appalled the mountains and
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you got be son.
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Like you never on.
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Ull the dim pain change when you're day the all
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the doll use space, or you are never.
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Long well the God on the mail till we're pretty
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still got in the val.
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With things go. I'm for my God and he made
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him ride well, the God.
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Timber in the God of the day.
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He'st God.
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Thank you, Amen, you serve God.
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Glad that he's serving the God that's've been got in
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every situation.
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He man.
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I think my God, he and I found myself.
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In some situations before, Yes, a man that without the
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hand of God, they man, I would have been.
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In worst sheep, they were horrible sheep and man. But
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thank God, he man, he's always there. Amen. Acts shopping
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number twenty seven.
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Tonight is where my heart is, where the Lord is
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at Mean, let me while you're finding that, let me say,
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I'm so thankful for this.
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Opportunity to be here. And then with all of you,
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I think I'm pastorate.
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Man. What a role model, What a message. I was
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joking with Brother Jesse Wednesday, night, said I was, amen,
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it's not good to be envious. I told him, just
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kidding around, said I'm a little bit envious of you.
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And then, uh, who you had to preach behind? Versus
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who I got to preach behind? And it wasn't that
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a wonderful message this morning for every Christian? And for
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every Christian they man to even stop him. Look at themselves.
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They may realizing that they can't let the devil or
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do what God's doing, and they live and want to
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listen to a song.
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We're gonna look at as chef.
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At number twenty seven, start around verse number fourteen into
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the year, and we're gonna be skipping through this to
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grant the context of the burning here, and then we'll
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give them to the message. And when fourteen said, but
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not long after there arose against it a tim pitch
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and tempestuous when called your rocodon.
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Amen. Now we'll read on through fifteen to sixteen.
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And when the ship was caught and could not bear
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up into the wind, we let her drive, and running
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under a certain island which is called Clauda. We had
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much work to come by the boat, if you want
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to remember that name right there. And man, sometimes things
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in the word of God. And you wonder, Amen, are
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they just there and man, they give you details? Or
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is there a reason that's there? And and then God
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opened my understanding, and it really impressed me to look
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into that.
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And we'll it mean, get the context here in a minute.
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Reading verse number twenty nine, the Bible said, then, fearing
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lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast forth.
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They cast four.
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Anchors out of the stern and wish for the deed.
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So they cast four anchors out of the back of
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the boat. They've been to flower down and holder. Amen.
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Now let's read verse number twenty eight, verse number one.
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And when they were escaped, then they knew that the
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island was called Lalita.
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A man stressed your hand tow them and ask God
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to help us.
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Tonight it got load worse you could race from any
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bless us.
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Lord, thank you for all that you're God, God, thank
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you reach one that's here. We thank you for the.
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Prentice of the lordless me God, Lord, We thank you
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Lord for the message and the word of God.
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Lord, but ask that you would open it to us.
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God, Oh, with our understanding, we need the anointing, We
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need the word of God.
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The prin they we need the word of God to
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go forth and strengthen power and not be turnboid. Lord,
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would you have your way of this service. Let me
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say nothing more and.
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Nothing less than you would have me said to God
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about my mouth. Let me speak only god words, fitly spoken.
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God.
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If jose this thing, we must seek you and ask
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me for craition. Glord by you and for all you've done.
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And well, thank you for the church, said gone.
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I thank God again for this opportunity. And many like
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to bear with me. The devil likes the likes the
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message my bois. See, man, he ain't yet did. I'll
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fight through it anyways.
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Amen, but one of these days you will.
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But amen, sure enough, Pastor insmate the preaching. He man,
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I started sneezing violently and man like eight times in
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a row like right after it, they man, then just
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from there down.
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With my science and Amen. So we're gonna get through
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this as y'all help us tonight.
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And Man, I was at work, amen, and I had
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a message on my heart, and I had a thought
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that was running through my mind.
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And then I woke up.
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And sometimes the Lord will do that, and I love
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that when he gives me something to muse on for
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the day.
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Man, But you all are anybody that that's had that happen.
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When you're aware of the d ay, Man, if you
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let it slip and then five minutes later.
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You won't remember what it was.
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And I say, man, that's a that's a problem on us,
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that's not a problem on God's already.
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You should have knowed you down somewhere where you could
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refer back to it. Well, I had a busy, a
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busy morning, start off, really busy.
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But when I hit, when I.
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Hit the ground, my fee hit the ground out of
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my suburb, and they meant headed towards built at Number
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one where my office is there.
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The words propped him too my head and they wished
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for the day, and and and and raven.
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When God gives me something in that manner, I generally
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end up preaching in a short while after that. And
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I know when God has given me a message. I've
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been preaching for a little while now, eight or nine
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years now, I think, and I knew God had spoke
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to me, and I slipped my mind and I said, Lord,
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I know that was you, And I just turned a
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still small voice. Well, and I keep a Bible on
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my desk. A man, I don't know if you keep
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a bible there at your work place. It's a great testimony.
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And say, hey, I'm a Christian, I'm that bible. I
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keep my Bible right there. Amen, it's at the corner
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of my desk. They all coming this way. I put
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it right where they got a seat. I don't bury
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it under the papers and all of that. And so
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I had it right there in the corner, and a little, still,
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small voice said to me, will open your bible and
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I'll give it back to you. You may think that's crazy,
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but I promise you.
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Amen.
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I lined to you.
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Amen.
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The minute I opened my Bible again, God whispered them
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in that little phrasing to my heart.
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Amen.
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And it was the birth of this sermon here and
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in our textas a well known narrative of the Bible,
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maybe the longest lasting documented storm in the Bible outside
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of that that brother Noah would have to face.
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Amen, this storm of your Rockladdan here that they find themself.
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And there's many Amen, things that lead up to this,
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And I amen, I feel.
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I can preach for five hours on all of this
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that's founded.
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In the chapter number twenty seven.
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I had to decipher through it, and then I'll confess
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to you what Pastor kind of told us earlier.
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Amen.
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I wrote this sermon at once and had I rewrote
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one in a while. Amen, when I knew Amen, I
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missed the context of what God Amen was speaking. But
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if I can, Amen tell any of you young preachers anything. Amen,
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if you get to the end of your notes and
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you ain't and you feel like, Amen, it ain't got
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what God initially spoke to you at the beginning.
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Amen.
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If you let something sidetrack the thought God gave you
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a man, it's best to restart.
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I can tell you from experience of preaching the sermon. Amen,
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only once in my life have I ever done it?
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And I've shared it with my brothers.
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Amen, have I ever Amen, went to the poop it
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and felt like when I left, I missed it.
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And let me tell you a man that put me
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through a man of training.
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That I don't ever want to go through again.
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And I've never thinks to God, I'm ever they been
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made that mistake again, God will let me go to
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the school of hard knocks.
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So I had to rewrite this again, Amen, and make
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sure that I captured.
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What God had told me here. And there are many
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storms to reference in the Bible.
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There's there's a.
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Lot of a lot of content here that we can
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draw from.
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Many storms are well known, and many people of renowned
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finding themselves in storms. They men find themselves in storms
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under different circumstances.
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And then you had people like Peter and Joe that found.
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Themselves in a storm, and they were living a good life, mayben,
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they were living.
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Abuve reproach, and the storm seemingly found the and Amen,
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Peter was a man. They been sent by God, Amen.
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Into the storm and truly, and then in live sometimes
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we are sent amen into a time of testing.
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Amen.
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And Joe himself also sent in time into a storm
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as a time of testing. And then maybe not the
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pelting and the beating of the rain, and then Totoe suffered,
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but he was a physical and a spiritual storm.
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Amen. And I'm not saying tonight someone, Amen.
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You're you're on the boat physically. Amen, So amen, help
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me here. It's a spiritual thing, Amen. Some things are
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spiritual in context. And then so Jonah though would find
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himself in a storm, Now his storm was because of his.
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Sins and something here at the beginning I want to.
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Stress to you is a storm serves a purpose, and
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this storm purpose seemingly was to make tola reconsider his
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response to God.
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Amen.
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And Tolah was a stubborn man.
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Jolia was someone in the the Bayer saw a scott
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of Ponta left out.
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Of parting rebellion, and the Berta gets consturrected, given to
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him specifically of it.
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But Toniato is all the way God a man what
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he wanted to do.
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Now I want to preach a little bit about Jolah.
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Later eventsal keep this in mind. Shown us storm wants
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to help him reconsider his response. Right now, Apostle Paul
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is now a man on his in the middle of
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his fourth documented storm, and the word of.
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God he is handed towards his fourth shipwreck.
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Apostle Paul had already been through Amen, three shipwrecks, three
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storms found enough to record ship He is now in
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the midst of a fourth storm, and he has handed
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Amen to.
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Wards a fourth shipwreck. I mean, I can't find to
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think of anyone in the Bible but chose the storm.
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Remember some of these examples did end up. May man
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eat a storm because of choices they made, and the
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others because of choices.
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The seasons to down around him, the truly human in
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the real star because of your choice.
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You don't choose the story. You choose your will, You
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choose your desire. Hey, you won't out the wind? Well,
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God help us tonight.
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And then Paul would be joined by a group of
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soldiers under Julius's command. They been known as the band
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of the Augustus Band. They mean, I believe in thirty seven.
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If my numbers take it up, and if there were
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two hundred three storing sixteen souls that.
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Ended up in a storm because of.
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Someone's choice, oh God, Now their direction would take them
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to wards it of the universe, number seven, and they
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would fight severe winds and lose much time. And and
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then they would dock at Fairhaven there at crete and mean, but.
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Not not launched there because of what appeared to.
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Be a man a place that was not conducive or
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commodious for them to launch and burst them at twelve.
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You can read a little bit about that Leaven. Let's
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see what the word says.
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And because the haven was not commodious the winter in
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they been the most part advice to depart them also.
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If by any means they may attained.
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For Nisia and their winter, which is a haven of Kreta,
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and lie the world of.
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Southwest and northwest.
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And then so now, amen, greace God, they're trying to
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move on up the road.
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After the advisements, they met up.
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The apostle Paul and said, I perceive, and then this
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is gonna be a bad idea.
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And sometimes the preacher and your life to say, I
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for see this is gonna be a bad idea.
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I bet this is gonna be a shipwreck.
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Amen, Ada, come well God that we'll call anyway, And
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now listen to the.
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Man of God.
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I know this may be something you've already heard.
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They're with you a many while I preached you up
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what d and it laid on my heart they been
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Surely the Ptarney couldn't be wrong them. Surely the experts
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couldn't be wrong Sully by him, and ideas aren't that bad?
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Are But when your ideas of man, you're a suffriger
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keep him from the world of daughter preached by the preacher.
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You already heard it. They went for starting winds.
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That's appear rad that's in your forecast, and you decide.
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To go the wrong way, but you me a shipwrack. Amen.
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They didn't want to go for it right, Oh God,
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you read that. It said, for he was where.
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We got people to come to church and to kill
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the past. Right, going far, I just think going and
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I just didn't abide by the word of God. God
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gonna help us Christ and ask God and then to
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bless us. I've already felt his presence. And then they say, Lord, we're.
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Not going far. And then we just want to make
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it to Phanisia. And then sometimes we say we ain't
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going far. But friend, one step away from the will
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of God, we'll put you in a storm. Well, they said,
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I'm just going up the road a little ways. And man,
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I'm just doing it.
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Man, finding a better place to winner. I'm finding a
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better place to abide. Okay, I think.
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Light it off.
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For said.
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The right, I gonna do way out I got if
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I next him. Now you're at Fred.
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Now they got a toast.
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Now they lie.
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I hold my heart of a one day the minister,
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one of them, not the leader. They number sholing. The
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majority of experts couldn't be wrong.
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And then the shift cap and signed against Paul. They
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done all their soul signing against Paula. They don't matter
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what they say, what God is some.
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Matters they were, assuming they obtained their purpose, they'd loose
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from pere Haven and verse thirteen.
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They been in the verse fourteen. Let's read that.
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But not long after there a rose against it, a
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tumpestuous wind.
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Call your rocadna. How far did they give up the road?
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How long did they make it? Brother Hillab they said?
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But not long do they kill run off for a
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long time. You think you're not older for news of
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an old but you won't even make it out. You
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won't even make it not long now. Now I need
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to see this. Not every storm is a judgment, and
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not every storm is just a test.
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They didn't what those of you that are probably in
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a storm of judgment, like you say it's just a test.
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They've been with those with you with all his hearts
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in the test. Wonder he's a judgment.
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Let me say that again, amen, those of you in
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a storm of judgment her life to chalk it up
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to just a test, it's not.
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A just to test.
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Sometimes sometimes it's tall trying to put you back in alignment.
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With his word and trying to check you.
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The storm songs are purpose. These men depur from hell,
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tear haven, not believe in the words of.
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The Man of God, and discrediting the warning you freakful
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wind for me and not a chola left for it,
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willingly choosing, and then the.
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Goal directly against the real of God. And then how
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many make ship record their faith by falling prey. The
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man of the same laughs in chutchment a man first
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team with a woman nineteen said, and then a verse
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of scripture the top of how and then some had
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a faith, and some had good conscience, but then there
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was some that put it away, and they made shipwreck up.
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If you can't do it with a good content, then.
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I don't put your good content, Araya.
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Put it away in Contuchier, and you can't. I've been
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doing a the Java and put content, and I hear
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they just stop it up. What do you make ship
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crack up? Then you can't do it at the hosm
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and not feel curding and DeFi of it.
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They're goin to stop.
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There are a people that have a sound boat and
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half pasted for a good bias. But because they put
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their good conscience away payment spiritual shipwreck. We could end
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up in a storm to call them a lack of
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response to the words of warning.
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We can also get yanked into a storm because of
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the choices of our company.
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But the storm has a purpose and the lift reburse
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number eighteen, and then I know I'm laying a foundations
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to trying to get somewhere tonight. We being exceedingly cast
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with a tempest. The next day they lighten the ship,
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and then now they begin to lose the extra burden.
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I mean, if your storm is not made you and
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did not make you.
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Lay aside the weights and the sins in your life,
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and then the storm has not been effective. They mean,
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if you were coming out the other side of the
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storm saying I weathered it and then in the Thaniel's
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own power, and then I was successful and Nathaniel's on power,
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may man, and I didn't lose anything in the storm
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of judgment. They man, I'm still the Faniel, stubborn, rebellious,
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the Faniel out there.
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That I'm not praying, I'm not stubborn.
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I'm saying, if this is you, and then I'm being gracious,
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You'm not calling some man's here. And then if this
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is you and the storm hasn't changed you. The storm
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has it made you pray hard?
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The store ain't made you here yourself to God and
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be a prophet of God. Had I not tacked on you?
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And if it hasn't affected you, but there were only
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me a greater storm.
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They begin to lose that burden. They begin to lay
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up the ways in the sands. They've been praised God, God.
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They mean in neither and when neither sun nor stars
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in many days appeared as no sponse, tempests laid on.
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Us, all hoped that we should be saved.
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With them taken away, they find themselves in a bad
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situation because ancient mariners, they man, I believe us in
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term there they man would use the sun they mean,
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to tell the time, and would also use the stars
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to find direction. Right they then, So now these people,
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they men are here on the on the sea, a
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part of the Mediterranean Sea. But they have been more
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specifically called out.
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They've been by the writer Luke. Here they been to
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kind of give you a better they've been idea where
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they're at. They been. So they're here on the sea.
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You they mean that they've lost they've been an ability
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they been to tell and then what new day is.
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And then so from them there and we just didn't.
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They went to and mean a thing there in Saint
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Augustine that explained all of this, And it's really fascinating
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the nautical way. And then the ancient ones used to
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have been plot their course and they would track when
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they hit the noon day to know and then they
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would use the stars to tell which where they were going.
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Really fascinating stuff here.
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But these men find.
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Themselves in a fix because they can't tell.
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Where they're at.
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And when you sealed your conscious to the point, you
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can't tell where you're at.
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When you sealed your.
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Check up to the point that tells you no rolling
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the powers through the part to you're in a deskment stay.
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You've had it a ship respiritory, you played aside, but
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theod conscious and I'm now dashing now the die. The
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bibles full of those, they would say, with a hard iron,
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and the Prince God, you need that.
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Checking your life. This is a state, amen, a bad
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state to be in. They meant to have let your
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spiritual sense they man to leave you. They meant to
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go above and beyond the check. Amen, you may need
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a revival of conscience.
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Sho. Amen, But it's been that way so long. I've
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lost hope of being saved.
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They had lost direction, they had lost the light the man,
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and now they're saying, I don't even know if I'm savable,
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Oh God, and man, I hope.
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No one here tonight is.
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Saying the devil theymen have stole your faith and you
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can't overcome anymore. Amen, and you've lost your hope of salvation. Amen,
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my friend, there's still hope.
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And when on to get to that in.
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A minute, an when I need to paint a clear
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picture of the parable God showed me here in the
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world of God.
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They've been the.
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Curtain current car or Christians. They meant to take life
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and lacks of days of car They been to sit
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insigh and in the reason don't.
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Real and able realize and they met every choice they
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they will lead.
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They meant to say sheltering hen or a store that
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is a correcting story.
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That we have been. Choice will lead to one or
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two things. They been God being pleased with you or
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displeased with you.
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And if he still loves you up and he's displeased
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with you, then he will hal They now a response
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and it.
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Will be u a chasing up for those who love it.
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He will chase a repet him at some time. That
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takes a start to get you to wake up and
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realize you better listen to the preacher. Next time, you
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better take it serio.
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Phrase God, God, there was one man had been through
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the storms before him, and he knew the remedy was prayer.
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Now, let me remind you, hey, man, let me remind
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you of Jonah who found deliverance right.
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Now Jonah, chapter number two and verse number two. The
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Bible said, Aye. Jonah said, ay, oh God, that some
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people would be able to leave and in the houses
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of worship across the marathon, and say.
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I cried. I cried by reason of my affliction unto
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the Lord, and he heard me. Now what made him cry?
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He tells you, by reason? What is affliction? Stubborn?
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Jodah b in a best of that's all.
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They was trust and.
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Recklessly endangered others. But without repentance, he was stolen overboard.
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Do you understand what I'm saying?
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Without repentence, he was willing to be God for the pillow. No,
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you're just obeyed, and.
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There's people not concerned with the fact. Man that they're
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lack of opinions to.
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God and that they could stand upon him and pay
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the consequences that Jonah, amen, by the mercies of God,
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was subjected to something up that made him reconsider his experience,
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because storm did.
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And that's Friday.
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If you're in a story, it should make you reconsider.
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Here is fun to God.
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But Jonah had to get in the place even where
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affliction wouldn't make him reconsider.
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And he said, Amen, what time of afflicting all you
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all knowing you're aware, but to hear the man that
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went through it describe him for the wood? He said,
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out of the belly of hell.
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Cried high, Oh, God an the gold. One had to
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put some on him and been in a belly of hell.
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Experience to make your way realize they man? Was he
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out of the belly of hell? Cried aye? And now
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hurts my voice. Oh there's a promise there. Remember there's
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also a scary check to those they member that still
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or burned, they remember by what they're going through.
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Amen, you are to bear with me while I get
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through this, because this is what God gave me. When
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I got said, I kind of see it as a
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parable when I've often made it known that the men
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sometimes when I read the Word of God, even in
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my mind and does have taken out of context. But
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they may have my imagination and all that may take
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me down a different trail. Amen, see y'all bear read me.
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I read verse number sixteen for a purpose and running
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under a certain island which is called Cloda. We had
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much work to come by the boot and I've read
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this and then checked to wonder. Amen, it's just just
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one of those names dropped in the Word of God.
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It's just just one of.
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Those appearances they man up an island that that Amen
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doesn't have SIGNI significance. A man, it's just the detailed
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ridings Amen of the prolific author Luke.
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A man, it's he details such a wonderful way.
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They meant to understand the happenings that happen in Luke's live.
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Amen, and let me tell you my title here.
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I mean, I'm here to preaches someone from Cloda to Malta.
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They man, if don't bear with me while we get
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through this. They mean Cloda Amen means broken or lamentable.
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Now lamentable in the arcade meaning means full, full of
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or expressing great sorrow or grief. So here they find
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themselves in a terrible storm, in a horrible stake.
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Amen. But the ship they mean that they are bored,
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They been gold by, they be in a place.
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This very name means an expression of sorrow.
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Amen, in grief. Amen. And truly we are bored, the
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great ship of Zion. Amen, And we are all apart
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the men up the glorious bride of Christ. Amen. But
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here amen, the they been in bed in recent weeks
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we fell. They've been the old ship of Zion.
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Let me just put it to you like this, they've
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been breathed by the island of Plauda.
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And give some of those that are in a storm a.
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Chance to repeal, to a chance to read. They men,
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you have a whole church. They go by it, and
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those who they go steal me. Since me lay out
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on the floor and travail they been.
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But Amen, there was many on the ship of the Jesse.
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And then I find no account of the expressing sorrow
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for disc.
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Obedience, or that they've been talking with God, or their
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breath of the how they had vexed him and went
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against his mea may, but I.
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Wondered at not is the somewhat in the middle of
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the storm.
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That's where anything call them expression and been sorrow up
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for breaking God's hard maybe to bind themselves. And then
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on the other side, this didn't come out of the book.
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And I mean, sure, now you've been telling them, then
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I'll have to tell you that out there a little ways.
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But I really feel this the servance pacific or someone,
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And then.
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I didn't And then get this out of the commentary.
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This is for somebody.
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Here's an you've been wishing maybe for the day and
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hoping for his pastor would say yes, o endshine aymen
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in your life again and in wishing for the day
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that you would feel they man out connection with God
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like you've once had again.
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And then by ha, you done your part.
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And then when the church Amen, and holding goes, tongues
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and interpretation go forth. Andy man, do you render you
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as an individual? Or do you get focused on what
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the ship's doing? And then because what the ship's doing
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is good enough, and then what the old gospel they
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been shipping is doing isn't good enough for you, This
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isn't good enough for me.
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Maybe it has to be a personal experience with you
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and God.
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Amen, you have to get to a place, aymen, where
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you humble yourself down.
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Amen, and you visit, amen, a place of bucking mass. Amen.
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Here I've already said, the Church has experienced this time
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and time and again here lately. And then but you
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continue in the storm because you have Amen, having rendered
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your heart. And then you wish for the day and
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the stability of Malta.
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Amen.
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But it will fit a man.
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First take a trip to come Clada, a man a
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trip to Calvary, if you will.
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Now.
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Verse number one of chapter number twenty eight talks about
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an island called Melita. And then in ancient times this
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is also referred to as Malta.
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And man, now the meaning of Malta. Amen. There were sailors.
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Back in that day that they say, name this island Melita,
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and then Melita comes Amen from this word Malta and
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Malta means the refuge. And you will not make it
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to Malta. I'm telling you tonight. Until you go to
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a place of brokenness.
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You will not make it. And then to the grace
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of God, until you first find the.
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Place to say, Lord, I've disappointed you, I want against
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your warm I've been.
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Stubborn, I want you the man of God. I mean
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with pet.
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Stumper, stubber stone, storm store mat you sell Clora.
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Never take the sick cu Ho, never eat at I
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hope I if you will ever come out the other
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side of the storm.
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And I'm coming to a close already, deny you mean God,
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you may I pray, Man you're listening to me, You
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may I pray you're taking the warnings of God seriously.
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I mean, one man said, and an apostle Paul boarded
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the ship a prisoner, they meant, but he left to
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the captain.
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And in your life it then when you don't take
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the preacher seriously, God can put you through.
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Some things to make him the captain of your shift.
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They mean to make his words they may make you stereootical.
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And then there's some men amen in the words of
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God through the minister. Wouldn't even make them move their
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surjected path one centimeter maybe, But those that they may
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find refuge for their families, their children, and their wives.
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They been for generations and generation.
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To those that take the word of God seriously and
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then finding themselves literally and consistent storms.
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You can wish for the day all you want. You
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can wish for the shower. All you want. You can
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wish for the outport of God in your life all
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you want.
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But sometime to take the trip to Calvin, sometime you
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had to do your first once over again. Oh God,
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it wouldn't be spiritual, but we could box some people
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over the head to not trying to get carried away.
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Oh God, if you hope to find refuse to. I
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could I get a pano player in a single. I
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don't feel like you're ready. I don't feel like I'm
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oh man getting more message across the ghurse number sixteen.
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They sailed by a nondescript island. The men probably never
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looked into it. Men by many, and this is repentance.
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There are many that sail through churches and men in
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the island. I'm not printed in the majority of Bethel.
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You know that, Amen, Let me take a moment to
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say that. And then Bethia was a wonderful God of Christ,
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a mean but Jonah was an individual that needed mercy, and.
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Men in Jonah and men God found the need they mean.
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To reach for women. And if you, amen, failed to
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put the priority on Florida. And let me say, and
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then what I'm saying with that if you fail to
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put the emphasis on Calvary in your life and of
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repentance with God, you will not find the refuge of
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the righteous. Because the strong tower is a strong tower
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for who righteous, who can run in it and be
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safe in the storm they're righteous.
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So is it safe to say, in the storms of
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life you may not find a refuge until you're righteous.
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It's safe to say. And it's scary to think the
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men that many have not put an emphasis on their
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righteousness with God.
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The pastor talked so wonderfully recently about and in separation
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from the world and sanctification in reality actually being a
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separation to God. And if you're in this place in
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your life, if you've yet to concentrate, concentrate.
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Concent create.
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O help us, Lord and man your live to God,
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the man it's going to take that from you. Create.
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Let me take a moment just and I know I've
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talked a lot about names, but when it's in the
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Word of God, and I don't feel like I'm taking
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it out of contest context. The devil is going to
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fight us here. Create means carnal or flesh. There are
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many people that set sail the sea of life from
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a carnal and fleshlook towards and it is those things
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in their life that drive them out on the sea
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of rebellion without God by their side. And if you're
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doing it your way, and then you're destined Amen, for
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a jooning experience and in your life. And it doesn't
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take the storm, it can take severe affliction.
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I have a burden.
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I'm not trying to beat nobody over the head, just
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trying to share with you.
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And in the facts in the Gospel, pastor often says
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we should learn from history. And then the Bible is
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you're roadmap to heaven if you don't take the stories
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and the Bible and apply them to your life.
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Amen. You know how God can call storms in your life.
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They been unforeseen accidents, Amen, things that happen in your home,
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and then things that happen on your job, things that
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happen with your finances.
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I know I'm shooting in the.
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Dark here tonight, and man, could I get a play
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in church right now? I feel God has given me
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a parable out of this book of the Bible. Too
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often we push into the storms. Too too often we
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are pushed into the storm because we let flesh govern us.
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And the only way to see daylight and experience refuge
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again is to be broken. The ship can stop again
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tonight at Clora and Calvary, but you personally must visit it.
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There were two hundred threescore and sixteen men.
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And there was Duke and Paul, and I believe they
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may have had a third man if they're looking at that.
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So three at the max and two at the least
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out of a ship full knew they need to turn.
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And there may be two or three tonight. And I'm
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not already said, I'm not preaching the bathone, but there's
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two or three tonight that there's a claud late.
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No, there's a Calvy experience. And you know you don't
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have refuge at night.
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You know, you don't have refuge on the job when
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you're doing things you shouldn't be. You know, you don't
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have peace with God like you should, even as they're
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an honest heart that would come. These altars are open,
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and then you will have to be broken, and you
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will have to express a personal expression, and then there
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are steps to salvation, I mean, and you've got to
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talk with God. And then once you come, and then
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someone that feels like Amen, they want to make sure. Amen,
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the storms they're going through is and Amen, the judgment
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of God. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. Have
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been someone that says, Lord, I just want Lord of you.
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I want to God find the safetyn and a refuge
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and then the storms of life and I trying to
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make this clear come to all of us.
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And then when there's different purches torposes, they come to us. Amens, stand.
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Stand tonight if you will, let's come and tray as
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the singer start sending.
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A man Melita. Also, no one has all to the
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place of refuge. God wants to walk with God wants
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to talk with you.
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God is trying to eat your toe. But you must
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stop for the lowly, non the script undorified.
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Place him port.
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Why is it you look past children? Why don't you
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look past him? In pretented to God? If you have
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disappointed God, then you must ask. Sometimes you must do
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your first October and there's no way around it. Spread
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and nigh to trust.
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Gods of the balls fall to man.
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Sometimes it takes sometimes a child.
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Sometimes it takes to get about.
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Songer did Sometimes it change.
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The pas. I'll face the mountain. I'll never faced before,
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and that's why I'm calling gone. You know.
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I knew it's been a while.
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Lord, please hear my fer. I need you like I
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never have before.
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Sometimes it takes sometimes the trust city. Sometimes it takes
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a day.
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To be a bold.
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Because it's so strong.
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But that trust me stime days to trust you mean.
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For give me Jesus a botica come true? Would ever life?
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Oh about this, I will admit it is wrong. Into
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you mind me a nerd and rock shall the same.
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It's some time to change a manta.
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Sometimes scene.
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Sometimes Dechaine says, to get a.
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Whole store so strong you might have trus. Sometime it takes.
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Now before give me Jesus.
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I thought I could come true well in a lock
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it my way.
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Oh but this I will admit if it's brought me
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to my knees A need you, Lord.
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And I'm not a shame to say, it's some time
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to taste and now sometime sometime to take as the ga.
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To paint a boll.
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You love so strong.
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That truble.
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Some time it takes to.
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To trust belay me. Some time it changed sometimes, see
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some time it takes, beautiful, let me you love the
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soul small dad, the time.
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It takes a man.
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Trust the man, and.
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No face mounted. Never man would face before. That's why
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I'm call him. You do it's still ow you please
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hear about the rear.
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I mean you like I never had.
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Sometimes it taps.
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True.
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Some time it turns day to get me you love.
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So that's you're wrong, you know, love try.
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Sometimes it changes.
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To trust you man, O forgive me. Jesus thought I
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couldn't tell true would in life be, But this I
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will admit if it has growed me to my knees
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a medal, and I'm no shame say. Sometimes it takes
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an sometimes the trael will see. Sometimes it takes a day.
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To get a gold me you love the sun mistronger.
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He would troll me.
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It's time to change tonight.
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S f.
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Time time to change today, to get old me.
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You would not have time to change to be.
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Beforegive me.
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Jesus, I thought I could come true whatever life my life.
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But this I will admit.
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It has brought me to my days.
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I mean your Lord and Shape said, some time to
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taste mad, sometimes a true see. Sometimes it taste to.
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Day the gate of all me. That so thats wrong