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DONT look DOWN LOOK UP GOD IS WITH YOU
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For allowing us to be his today. Hey man, in
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his wonderful, awesome presence, let us go ahead and pray. Man,
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Sister Lane, if you would hold.
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Those doors.
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Shut, the doors a praise him. That's another thing they
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brought up in there too, By the way, y'all, I
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had to check them on that one. Father, God, we
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come right now in the name of Jesus. We come God,
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giving you glory today. We come in no shape form
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of fashion today, God, but only for your glory and
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your praise. Understanding that you the only audience in the house.
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We come God to perform for you, Father, that you
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will find good pleasure in us today. God, come to
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learn of you God, to hear words that will rebuke us,
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a word that are encourage us, a word.
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That keep us on the straight and narrow.
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Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you for your
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loving kindness and your mercy. God, you care so much
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about us. God, we give you glory. We give you
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praise and honor that is due unto the God. Thanking
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you always, God for all that you do. Blessing those
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that are here today and those that are on their way,
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and even those that are listening. By Airy God in
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the name of Jesus, help us, Holy Spirit. Use me today,
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God in a mighty way, God, use these lips of
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clay in this tongue that you have created. God in
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the name of Jesus, to speak a word to your
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people today, a word God that will help them to
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stay close to Your God, or a word that will
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draw them even nearer today, God in the name of Jesus,
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nearer than they were yesterday. Father, in the precious name
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of Jesus. Thank your God, Thank you God, Thank you Lord,
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Thank you, Thank your God for rebuking the devil for
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our sake.
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God filling his house in.
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All your temples around the world with your spirit in
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the name of Jesus, in every temple that provided it's
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in the temple today fell them to overflowing. Father in
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the name of Jesus, in your house today, give a
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word to your preachers to speak, because you have declared
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that we are your voice in the earth. So give
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us a word from you to speak. Not a word
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of our own opinion, not a word of what we think,
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but your word, Your word and only your word, God,
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that's true God and powerful Father, to change folk. God,
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and let that word turn around the backslide and save
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the sin of God and strengthen the saints that are
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continually to hold on in the name of Jesus will
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always give you glory and give you praise. Do unto
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the God and honor in Jesus' name, we praise. Thank God,
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Amen and Amen. Thank you God, Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, hallelujah,
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Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, thank you Jesus, Thank
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you Jesus. That's your holy name.
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God. If you would turn with me to the Book.
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Of Psalms and the twenty third division of Psalms, and
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we're going to start. I hope you got your Bibles today.
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There's a couple of books we're gonna a few books
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we're gonna encounter for this message. Amen, in the Book
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of Psalms and the twenty third division and around about
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versus four and five in the Bible. And you get there, saymen,
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everybody out to know what Psalms twenty three is. Amen.
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The Lord is my shepherd, right, Amen. But we're gonna
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start at verse four. If you're not there, say wait
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on me. Psalm twenty three division and verse four. Yay,
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though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
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Even though I'm walking through the valley of the shadow
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of death, I will fear no evil. For Thy art
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with me, Thy rod, and thy staff they comfort me.
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Thy prepareth a table before me in the presence of
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my enemy. Thy annun at my head with all and
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my cup run it over, if you would go with
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me to the Book of Isaiah, chapter forty three. The
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Book of Isaiah in chapter forty three and starting at
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verse one, and the Bible says, but now doth say
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it the Lord now that created THEE O Jacob, and
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he that formed THEE O Israel. Fear not, for I
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have redeemed THEE. I have called THEE by thy name,
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Thy art mind. When thy passes through the waters, I
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will be with THEE, and through the rivers they shall
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not overflow THEE. When thy walkest through the fire, thy
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shall not be burned. Neither shall the flame kindle up
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on THEE. The flame ain't even going to escort you.
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For I am the Lord, thy God, the Holy One
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of Israel, thy Savior. I give Egypt for thy ransom,
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Ethiopia and Siba for THEE, since thy waste precious in
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my sight, since I was precious in my sight. Thy
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hast been honorable, and I have loved me. Therefore, will
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I give men for THEE and people for thy life.
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Fear not. If I am with THEE, I will bring
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Thy seed from the east and gather THEE from the west.
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Turn with me to the Book of Matthews, chapter twenty eight,
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starting in verse nineteen in the Bible says twenty eight nineteen,
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go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in
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the name of the Father and of the Son and
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of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever.
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I have commanded you, nothing else. And lo I am
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with you always, even until the end of the world. Amen. Amen,
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you've got a handclap of praise. God is good. Amen.
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God is good. He's worthy, He's worthy. You may be seated.
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We're going to talk about don't look up. I mean
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we're going to talk about don't look down. Look up.
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God is still with you. Don't look down, look up.
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God is still with you. When we look at the
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Book of Psalms, Division twenty three, it expresses clearly the
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role of God. It's clear what God's role is. The
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Lord is my shepherd, Is that clear? Is that clear?
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Even though you walk through the valley of the shadow
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of the Lord is with you? Is that clear? So?
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The twenty third Psalm expressly expresses clearly the role of
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God as a protector and a provider in life. The
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Lord is my shepherd. I shall not wan't. He's your
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protector and your provider in life.
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The Lord is also.
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Compared to a shepherd, and the believer is to understand
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that He is the sheep. So he's the shepherd to
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the sheep, as well as God being a host and
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the believer as a great as a guest. In the
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division of Psalms, God is a host and we are guests.
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Hey man, So we look at at the Psalms. We're
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gonna look not look down, but look up because God
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will never leave us. And as you listen to the
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verses out of the Book of Psalms Isaiah and Matthews,
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we understand that God never leaves us. He's with us
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in the fire, He's with us in the when we're
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walking through the waters, He's in us and our trials
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and tribulations. Are you with me? God never leaves us? Amen?
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There is a poem that says.
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It's called footprint.
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Amen.
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I just want to I saw it like this at home.
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Tell us her to come in, Come in baby, right
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here in the middle here, come in by. I want
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you all to look at this, because right here is trouble, trials,
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tribulations from this bench to this bench, trouble, trials and tribulations.
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And the Summer says there were two footprints.
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God will never leave you, North think you.
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But when he got to the trouble and the tribulation,
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all he saw was one set of footprint going across
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the trials and tribulations. That's because when he got to
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the trials and tribulation, the only one set, because it
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was Jesus set of footprints. Because at this point he
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was carrying you. He'll never leave you. You wonder sometimes
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how you made it through because He carried you through.
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Hey man.
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So I just want to say to you this morning.
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You're never alone. All I want to get across to
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you today is as a child of God, it does
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not matter what you're going through. It does not matter
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how many bad wins are blowing in your life. It
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don't matter. You have a promise amen from God, that
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you are never alone. Now that promise does not mean
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much when it comes from the lips of humans. They
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might tell you I never leave you, brother, I met
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you back night and day. They would tell you, man,
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I'm with you till the end, no matter what wild horses,
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man couldn't drive me away. But all it takes are
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you with me? Is one little misunderstanding.
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That's all it takes.
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I w you do thick and thin, But all it
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takes is a little misunderstanding, and they out of here.
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But God will never leave you, nor will he ever
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forsake you. Some people may say to you, I'm with you,
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like when we said back in the days when we
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were growing up, you my friend, right or wrong. But
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if you go to jail, I will stay at home.
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You my friend through the thick and the thin. But
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when things get thick, they always thind out. But when
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you have the promise from the Lord, you have to
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remember what Baalim said in the Book of Numbers. God
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is not a man that he should lie know the
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son of Man that he should repent, because if God
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said it, he shit, he'll do it.
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Amen.
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If God said it, he's going to bring.
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It the past.
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It doesn't matter how hopeless it seems, or how impossible
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it seems, we already begin to understand that God's power
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is innumerble. Amen, somebody, Amen, somebody. So if it seems impossible,
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God can't lie. He works in the rim of impossibility.
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He works where we can't go. He works where we
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can't work. We in situations that seems impossible, we feel
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like we all along. But God is in the midst
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of it all. It don't matter what you're in because
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in this day and time, it seems as though people
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feel like they they're cast as out Amen, and what
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they are going through, they feel like that.
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They're going through it.
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All by themselves and nobody cares. And so many folks
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today are living frustrated lies, mainly rich folks. Aymen, But
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we think rich folks don't go through now because they
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got all this money, but they go through. Michael Jackson
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was miserable when he was a bigionnaire, and there are
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many more. There's one in prison right now that's a
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big in that he's really miserable, and others. Money don't
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make you happy, Amen, It don't give you the piece
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you think are the joy. Even so many folks today
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are living frustrated lives, folks feeling lonely, young folks who have.
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Hardly even gotten started in life.
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And yet they are feeling precious of them. A lot
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of pressures, that's why they're committing all these crimes. And
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their pressures have caused them to believe that nobody and
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no one even cares. But I'm here to tell you, Amen,
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I'm here to tell you it doesn't matter what you
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are in, what you are going through, no matter how
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many human facts have turned away from you. Amen, whatever
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you're going through, if you belong to Him, are you
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with me? If you belong to If right there I said,
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if you belong to him, you are never alone. Amen.
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You see Jesus.
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Then ever going to be alone from the Father. That
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was his problem in the garden of bensended me. That
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was his problem with the cross, because when the sin
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he came upon him, God had to turn his face
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from him. He was alone. But God yet was still
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within him, But he was He fell alone. They met somebody.
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God will never leave you, nor forsake you. You leave him,
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sin separates you from him, Amen. And even then he
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still may have stole his grace and mercy upon you. Amen.
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It don't matter what the world thinks, it's what God says.
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Amen. That's the only thing counts in the end, and
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in the.
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Beginning, Jesus said, if you teach them to observe all
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things whatsoever I command you.
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You don't have to wear it.
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Friends may turn their backs on you, but I'll be
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with you. Even when your friends turn their backs on you. Heymen,
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your family may put you out, but I'll be with you.
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And you know, some of the young preachers today, they.
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Up against a lot. They're up against a lot.
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Especially the biggest thing they up against and the most
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powerful thing they up against. You'll just wonder what it
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is with you. I'm gonna tell you what it is.
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It's the truth. That's the biggest thing they up against.
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Is the truth. They got there up against telling the
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truth of the Word of God, and not these lies
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that these other folks standing behind the poor pitch trying
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to tell you to keep you entertained and keep you
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peeling out your pocket. They up against the truths aymen,
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they got a lot on their shoulder. They're gonna have
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to know that God is with them, because they're going
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to be They're gonna have the Minister of the Word
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of God to the world that is going in another direction.
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I was telling them the other day in the barbership.
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I said, these things that have been minister, that have
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been lies, have been deeply rooted for ten twenty thirty
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forty years. They've been deeply rooted in people, and the
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truth is hard to break it up in them that
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the lies they've been told. Amen.
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But God will never leave you in a lie.
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Amen. So these young ministers today they up against the
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truth of the word to tell society that's been going
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in the wrong direction, our society that really don't want
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to hear the word. And I'm not just talking about
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the folks on the outside. I'm talking about the folks
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inside of God. In the House of God. Hey man,
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you got a lot of folks who want to go
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through the praise. But when you get through with the praise,
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they are through. They through, when the choiet and the
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praise team, the praise team gets through singing and building
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up their emotions, they danced and ran all over the church.
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And now it's time for the truth of God's word
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to come forth. When the praise is through, they cool.
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They don't want the truth of the word and didn't
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believe that God ain't God. Ain't God ain't doing enough
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for him. God ain't with me God. They don't never
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leave you, nor does the other us sake you. We
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leave him. Amen, and Lord have mercy. Don't let the
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preacher get into how they are supposed to live. Just
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tell them what they're gonna get while they live the
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blessings of God.
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Don't tell them how to live.
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But see, they don't realize they only praise that God wants.
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The only praise that God honors is praised that comes
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from lips expressing.
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A perfect heart.
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He don't care about folks running and jumping and going
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all through all this dramatic stuff, hey man, and don't
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even intend to live a life that's pleasing in his
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sight when they get through.
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And this is the truth that folks are not.
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Ready to accept, but rather not if they're ready or not.
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Here it is here, it is Jesus. Let them know.
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As he said earlier, I'm sending you in the midst
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of wolves, but I want you to know, even when
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the wolves are growling, even when the snakes are hissing,
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even when you are preaching the gospel that's unpopular to
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your hero you are never alone. Gone and witness Dick Gone,
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Witness sisters, you are never alone. And sometimes the very
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people who would push you out there, they say, honey,
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don't you know the Lord has called you? And there
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are a lot of folks out there like that, A
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lot of folks out there that have been pushed out there, gone, preacher, gone,
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a vengels. God ain't called you, none of those positions.
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They don't push you out there, and you just went.
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And there's a lot of folks after they've been pushed
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out there, and when they get out there, the pusher
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turns their back on it. They don't just turn it
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back on you. They start talking about you behind your
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back too. But the Lord said, if I send you,
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it don't matter what goes on.
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I'm with you.
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If I send you, I'm with you, and I'm gonna
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be with you when times are good, and I'm gonna
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be with you when times are going bad. And believe
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it or not, the Lord never intended that only people
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with licenses he is what we're getting me. Can I
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teach today? Can I teach? The Lord never intended that
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only people with licenses and conditionals are people that have
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been ordained would carry his word. He never intended for
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all of that. Every person who embraces Jesus Christ as Lord,
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his word is with you everyone, and ye shall be witnesses.
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Hey man, lawyers don't win cases.
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That says, dude.
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You might not have a license, but you can be
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a witness. You might not have been ordained, but you
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can be a witness. Hey man, somebody, it doesn't It
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does not matter if you're male or female.
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You can be a witness.
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We got this perception all messed up.
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We've been perceiving the wrong thing.
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You don't have to be a preacher to minister the
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word of God to nobody. You don't have to stand
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behind the poor pit to preach a word of God.
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They got it mixed up. You don't have to have
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this podium and stand in a poor pit. The poor
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pit is spiritual anyway, You poor pick can be out
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there and you out that witness in the word of God,
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and you don't have to be afraid, and you don't
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have to be ashamed, and you don't have to be
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a wi to witness the word of God because the
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powers don't back you up. God is gonna be with you.
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You don't have to be ashamed of the Gospel of
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Jesus Christ. I tell it all in the barbershop, in
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the stores, on the job, in the house, to the neighbors.
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I'm a witness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You
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might have been ordained, but you can be a witness.
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Hey man, you don't have to stand in a poor
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pit to be a witness. You can sit down in
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the break room, on your job, wherever you are. You
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can be a witness. And the Lord says, while you
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are being a witness, it may not look like nobody's
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listening to what you are saying. It may not look
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like everybody is trying to may it may look like
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everybody even.
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Trying to slander you.
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While you are talking about Jesus. And they'll do it.
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I've seen it.
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But I hear the Lord when he says, if you
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can only open a spiritual eye, you can see that
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when you are talking about me, there, I am with you.
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I'm with you talking. I'm with you while you're telling them,
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And so I'm telling you. Go ahead on tell the
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story because I'm with you. Don't worry about the crossed eyes,
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the angry faces. Don't worry about the doubt us and
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the unbeliever us. You don't pour up on one end.
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Heaven is having a party. Just tell it. Just tell
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the story, Jesus said, Just tell it because I'm with you.
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If you don't think nobody's with you, I'm with you.
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Just tell it. And you know when you go into
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the courtroom, it's not the lawyer who is going to
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be the best. The best are the prosecuting attorney, are
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the defense attorney. And it's not the lawyer that wins
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the case. I just told you. You know who really
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wins the case. It's the witness. Whoever got the best
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witness is gonna win that case. Unless they got some
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funny stuff going on. You might not even have a
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lawyer that's worth of dying like I had one time.
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You might not have a lawyer worth or dying.
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But if you.
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Got some good witnesses, I'm here to tell you you
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can win the case. Do I have any witnesses in here?
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Do we have any witnesses in here? But gone and
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tell him I'm a witness for him. If you're a
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witness for him, you God his promised that he's gonna
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be with you in your witnesses not only is He
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with you when you are embracing the gospel are elaborating
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on it of Jesus Christ. But look at Isaiah forty three.
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I'm going to Isaiah forty three. First one, it tells
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us I'm going to be with you even when you
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are in trouble. As the Lord said, he said, fear not.
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And if you are in here today and you're facing
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something that you're uncertain of the outcome, he says, I'm
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with you.
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See, we understand.
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That uncertainties always brings fear. If the doctor says, if
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you done been to the doctor, and he said, well,
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I need you to come in so I can talk
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to you about that, and you mine goes to saying
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why he can't just tell they on the phone it
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must be serious uncertainty. And then sometimes when they that happens,
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fear gonna creep in. Because uncertainties always brings fear. That's
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why people are more afraid in the dark than they
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are in the light. Aymen, See, the situation is no
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different in your house in the day than it is
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in the night. It's the same in the days it
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is in the night. But it's just something about the
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night when it get dark and you home alone, and
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when you're home alone, those little pops and those little
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selling cracks and creeps that you that that that that
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that don't mean anything in the daytime, but at time
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it becomes unsettling.
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Because you don't know if it means Did you hear that.
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It don't mean nothing in the daytime, but let it
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happen to night. Did you hear that sound like somebody
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in there says, go in the charge.
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And see you? Is somebody in there?
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The same person in there in the daytime, is the
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same person in that nighttime? Nobody? But at nighttime it's
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just unsettling, and you feel like somebody's walking around in
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the other room somewhere because you hear the house creak,
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a little bit, a settle, a little bit. Uncertainty is
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brings fear and a cloud of darkness always breathe uncertainty.
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But I hear the Lord saying, you're facing that test
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and you're uncertain about the outcome.
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But I want you to know something.
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I hear the Lord saying, fear not because I'm with you. You're
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never alone, or you might see what's going on, and
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you might not even see what's going on. In the
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future of your life. But you remember what he said
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in Jeremiah. Huh. He said I see a future for you.
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That's what he said. He said, I see a future
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for you. You may not see what's on going on
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in the future, but God said, I see the future
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for you. And if you pay attention to God, you
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can see the future for you too, if you want
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of his You can see the future for you because
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you know the promises of God. And when you know
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the promises of God, you can see a future.
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It's not uncertain anymore.
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But when you allow yourself to get into darkness, you
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can't see straight and you come to understand that you
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all alone, and God ain't with me because it's so
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dark in here. But even when God is with you
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in the darkness, that's still like He illuminates the darkness.
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So the Lord says, fear not, I'm with you. Don't
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worry about the future. I got you. You don't know
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what the future hold, But God says, yeah, I can't
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tell you. What God says, y'all not gonna believe it.
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I'm gonna tell it anyway. You might not see what's
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going on in the future. You don't know what the
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future holds. But does anybody in here know If you
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don't know what the future holds, does anybody know who
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holds the future? Huh? You might not know what the
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future hope, But does anybody know who holds the future?
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If you know the hand that holds the future, and
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you know that he is your creator, not only is
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he your creator, he's your father, and he's the one
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that holds the future. Amen. The Simon says, like a
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father piti its his children, so the Lord pities them
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that fear him. If you have the father, the son
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or a daughter relationship with him, you may not know
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what's going on in the future. But I know the
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one that holds the future. And I know you probably
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know the story about the young man who was on
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this train. I don't know if you ever heard this
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story was about a young man, young boy. Rather see,
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he holds God holds the future. So you ain't got
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to worry about the Amen, because God already told you
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what's gonna happen for you in the future if you
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want to hear. Amen. So we're not afraid in this
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dispensation of time because we know who holds the future.
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And since we know who holds the future.
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And since we know the one that holds the future
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will never leave us alone. He'll always be with us
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through the thick and the thin, through the fire, He's
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gonna be with us while we're afraid of what the
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future may hold. Huh, let me tell you this story.
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It was a little boy on the train and the
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train was going at a very high speed. You've been
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in a car where somebody's going at high speed, you're
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just like, you just need to slow down. But see,
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you can't get all the way up to the engineer
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who's flying on this train rolling down the tracks. Amen, somebody,
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he's going at a very high speed, going.
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Around the mountains and stuff.
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That's enough skiit. You're going around the mountain and you're
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looking out the window of the train, look way down.
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There ain't no rails. Train rolling, hey, man, going around
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the mountains, and it's going over these narrow bridges, and
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people looking at and people looking down and seeing that
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all it would take is just for that car. Y'all
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takes this one little car or tiled over the whole
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train going down, and they know what that means. It
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would mean something death. But here's a little boy running
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up and down the aisles of the train, making people
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unnerves because he just went They want him. You know,
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when you see stuff like that, you just want everybody
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to be still. Sit down, you know, like back in
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the day and something. Even today, when it's thundering and
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lightning outside and folk over your house, you need to
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sit down somewhere and be quiet. They turn out of
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the TV all the lights and just sat there and
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be still. Sit down, boy, be still. You hear that
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thunder and lightning out there. They scad you running around
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playing and climbing and there's thundering lightning. They are nerved.
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The train flying around the mountains going through over narrow
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Bridge bridge. That narrow train is big, and the little
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boy just running up and down the eyes.
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Of the train.
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They was unnerved by him. They said something is wrong.
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The folk said that engineer, he's going too fast. Little boy,
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you need to sit down. Aren't you scagged? No, little
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boy said, I'm not scared. Well, don't you know at
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the fast feed of this engineer is gone. If something
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could have happened and everybody on this train could be killed.
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But the little boy said, no, I'm not scared.
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Why are you not scared, he said, because my daddy
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is the engineer. He said, my daddy is the engineer,
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and my daddy knows that I'm back here. See, my
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daddy is driving this train, and my daddy know I'm
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back here. So my daddy know I'm gonna be protected
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whatever may happen, because my daddy is the driver of
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the train and my daddy's with me. So I'm relaxed.
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They've scared of them. Why you ain't scared because my
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daddy the engineer, and my daddy know I'm back here.
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He know when you're about to go through the trials
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and tribulations. Hey man, somebody, don't you know whatever's going
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on in your life? He said, you can call him.
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You're gonna just have to say father. I lift my
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head in the deed. You can say Daddy. You can
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get down to the heartfelt of it. Alba alba.
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That means daddy. See see see.
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Father can be anybody. All you gotta do is have
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a good sperm, a good sperm count and you can
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father a chap. But Dadda takes care of them. You
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know what I'm saying. There's a many of them can
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father them, but they ain't taking care of them. But Daddy,
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Daddy don't take care of you. Don't you know My
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dadda is driving this train. Daddy gonna take care of you.
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Miny can father, But Daddy, whatever's going on, Daddy got you.
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Whatever going on, you don't have to even reason, and
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you don't have to have a reason to even be afraid.
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Because of Daddy, certain things happened in people's children laughing.
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Now, I'm gonna call my daddy.
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Well, Daddy gonna take care of me. Huh. My dad
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is the engineer, and he knows that I'm on board.
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And I wish all of y'all would just say fear enough,
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because my daddy driving his train. David said he was
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down there in the Valley of the Shadows of Death,
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but he knew the Lord was with him. And I
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want you to know that you may be down in
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the valley, but I heard the Lord say, I'm with
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you even when you're in the valley. I'm with you.
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I'm with you when you can't pay your bills.
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I'm with you when you're sick, and sickness attacks your
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body and it looks like it don't want to turn
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you a loose huh. Have you ever been there sickness?
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Look like I just don't want to let you go,
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he says. I'm with you. I'm with you when you're
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facing an appointment at the courthouse. I'm with you, when
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the tests that they took, I'm being analyzed. I'm with you.
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When your name is hanging out there on the highway
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and they slammed in you. I'm with you. And man, somebody,
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you may be in the valley, but he's with you.
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Hey, man, even in the valley, he's with you.
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In the valley, and in the shadow of death, this
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is what theolode just said.
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David says in the.
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Valley, in the shadow of them. Amen. And the Theolosians
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will say, and the and the historians says that they
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are not all. But they ain't sure. The Theolosians and
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the historians, they ain't really sure who wrote Psalms twenty three,
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I said the theologians and the historians. Amen, they are
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not sure who is the author. All they know that
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is a man who has been in trouble. But we
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believe it was the psalm of David. Aymen, See, all
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they know about the psalm is a man who had
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been in trouble, and God was with him. But we
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know it to be David. And David being a shepherd
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leading his sheep and all was having and always having
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to fight with animals that would attack his sheep. And
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he stood up before King Saul and said, one night,
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when I was keeping my sheep, a bear came out.
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He said, a bear came out of the woods. And
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then after the bear, a lion came out. But I
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took the bear and killed him with my hands, and
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I took the lion and killed him too.
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Because the Lord.
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Was with him. So most people believe that Psalm's twenty
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three is a psalm of David that one night when
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he laid his sheep amen out into the grasing land.
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To grays and up on the mountain.
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The moon was high above and lit up the night,
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and up on that mountain was a mountain lion way
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up on the mountain, And when the moon lit the
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night up, the moon hit the hit the lion that
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was on top of the mountain, and there was there
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was a reflection of the moon that the light cast,
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and that shadow from the lion went down in the valley.
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Are you listening, And when the shadow of the lion
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from the moon went down in the valley, and as
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David is leading his sheep, he sees the shadow, knowing
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that the lions represent death. But I heard David saying,
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I'm in the valley and the shadow is death. But
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I friend no evil, because the Lord is with me.
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I see the shadow of death from the lion, but
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the Lord is with me. I ain't worried about the
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lion because I know that my God will take care
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of the lion, because he told me already that he
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is my shepherd and I shall not walk. He is
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my protector, he is my provider. He is the one
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that never leaves me, nor for sakes me. I'm not
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worried about this trouble, because why God is with me. See,
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when you have a relationship with God and you know
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he's with you, what is there to fear? When you
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understand that he'll never leave you nor for sake you,
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what is there to fear. I don't care what the
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court case is. If God step in that court room,
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there's nothing an affair. I heard the song.
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I heard the the writer say that God can turn
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the head of the king like the rivers are flowing
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wild in any direction.
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That he wants to. So if he turns the head
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of the Judge in the direction of you, and for
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your faith and for the favor that He bestows upon you,
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the judge gonna do with God, tell him to do
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for you. If God speaks to your problem, your situation,
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God causes it to flow in the direction of his command. Amen,
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because he said to you, fear not, I'll never leave
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you north for sake you.
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You're never alone.
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You're never alone. God is always there. So God is
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telling the saints of God today, don't look down. Look up.
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God is still with you.
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Hey, man, give God some praise in this house.
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I don't care if it feels lonely. I don't care
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if it looks lonely. God is still with you. Don't worry.
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If people leave you, don't worry. If they don't want
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to help you, don't worry because God will never leave you.
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God is your help in trouble times. The Summer says,
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I look to the heels, so you got to look
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up to with cometh my help. The Bible says, Oh,
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good things come from up above. Amen.
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Tell the Lord thank you.