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Right, Mercy and Grace
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So even speaking its authority a lot of us, I
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wish this mountain will move in the Bibles, he didn't
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say wish speak to your mountains.
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And I want all Christians will know their rights.
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But when it doesn't work for you, I want you
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to know that there is mercy.
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But his grace is sufficient.
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If he's not delivering you out there, he will deliver
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you through. When we talk about right, we talk about power,
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So right means more power to you. I'm going to
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write down here so as well, right e goals. How
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let's talk about the Christian right. Okay, very quickly, let's
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go on. But as many as received him to them,
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he gave the right to become children of God. So
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all of us have a right. Amen, we have a right.
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God gave it to us.
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Okay.
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Number two, Blessed are those who do his commandments that
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they may have the right. You probably need to remind
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yourself and the devil that we have the right. And
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he was not given to me by the Pope. It
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was given to me by Jesus. He gave me the
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right you all have a right to vote. You know,
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that's your right. Whether you want to exercise it or not,
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that's a choice. But you do have a right. You
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push your way through the spr if you wanted to know.
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But that's your right, and nobody can stop you. All right,
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let's go, let's move on. And when he had called
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his top disciples to him, he gave them power or
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the right over unclean spirits to cast them out into
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all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. You
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have the right to do this. Don't let the enemy
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lie to you, or you cannot pray for people. Know
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this is my right. God gave it to me. Let's
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move on, so Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief,
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For surely I say to you, if you have faith
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as a master, see you will say so. Even speaking
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is authority. A lot of us. I wish this mountain
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will move the Bible seat didn't say, wish speak to
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your mountains. But you won't speak if you don't have authority. Right,
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you won't speak if you didn't know that you had
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the right. In fact, I don't have a right to speak.
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You say, right, this is not the forum. This is
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not my place. No, this is your place. Is your forum.
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You're the right, Okay, move on, And as CPCs you
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have the right. As elders, you have the right. As
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the pastors. Death and life are in the power of
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the tongue. You better believe it, and those who love
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it will eat its fruit. Amen, we will eat the
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fruit of what we believe in what we say, what
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we speak.
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Behold, I give you the authority.
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While there you go again, the right to trample on
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serpents and scorpions, and over all the power the enemy,
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and nothing shall by any means hurt you love it
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most as surely I say to you, he who believes
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in me, the works that I do, he will do also,
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and greater work than this he will do. Who said
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this me? You know Jesus, you will do greater works
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than the Lord. He wants that for you, He wants
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it for me. So there's a right in the Lord.
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And towards the end he says, if you ask anything
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my name, I will do it, amazing promise. All right,
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let's move on. So what do you do with the
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right given to you? First of all, you need to
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know you have a right. The question is what do
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you do with the right, Because it's one thing about
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having a right, it's one thing about another thing about
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doing something with it. A lot of Christians don't know
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they have a right, and then when they know it,
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they don't know how to use it. So we're going
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to learn how to use it, learn how to cast
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out demons, learn how to pray for the sake Tuesday
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Hour of prayer. The reason why we keep doing is
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because we know we have the right to do it,
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you know. And when we pray, I mean if I
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didn't believe the right, you think I will dare do it.
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No, of course not.
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I believe I have the right, and I believe I
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have the right from the right, and I want to exercise.
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I got to use it because if you don't use it,
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you might lose it, you know. And that's what the
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enemy is trying to do to many Christians. Try to
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tell you that you have no right. You've got to
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tell him back, you know, away from me. Satan is
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the lord who gave me this right. I didn't even
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ask for it. He gave it to me simply on
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the premise of me believing right. As many as of
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you have received him to you. He gave the right,
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so you have the right by receiving him every morning,
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make the choice to receive him. You know, Lord, you
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know I want to follow you. You know, I receive
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you this morning, you know every morning. So right, it
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goes power and you have to exercise. So not only power,
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but you must exercise. You got to you got to exercise.
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Oh my word, you've got to exercise that power. Very important.
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So some of the troubles we are going through, actually
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we have the right to overcome it. I just want
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to say that to you right now. Okay, some of
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the things that going on with your children, you have
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the right to cast it out. You have the right
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to overcome it and bind it and you know, break it.
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You have the right. And I pray that you understand that.
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This morning as.
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CPC's you know, we will talk about talking about taking territory.
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Do you know there's a spiritual thing, right, But your
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right came from the Lord. So when you enter there,
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you know, and the Bible really says right every place
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that the soul of your foot will tread upon I
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have given it to you. It's just it's just a
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man of understanding. And then exercise it, you know, take
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hold of the land, take hold of your marriage, take
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hold of your family, take hold of your church. Amen,
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that's a right. There's a power. Just have to exercise it. Okay, Now,
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don't sell your right for temporary pleasures. You know who
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sold his right right his birthright? Yeah, and it's you know,
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I see Christians doing all the time, you know, And
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let's not do that. Next one. Next one is mercy.
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So if right is power, then mercy is to plead.
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Because can I tell you very honestly, my dear friends
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and family, that there are some days the power might
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not work as effectively. Okay, now, let's get really honest.
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You're buying. You cast out, it doesn't happen.
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You pray in Jesus' name, nothing moves, and then you
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realize that something else at work. God is not answering
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that prayer according to your right. He is moving in mercy.
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And my personal experience of this is that, you know,
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I pray for the sick and all that, and we
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do see people get healed. So one time I was
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so ill, at least I felt ill in my body.
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I actually thought I was good. I went on my
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bed and I was shivering, and I already have been
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praying for a week, if not ten days, to cast
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us out. And then there were ups and downside. They
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were like, oh it's working, oh denstally when worse. Oh
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it's working the other day than when worse. And then
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that that night when I went to bed, I only
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went to bed because I was so ill, and all
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I could say is Lord, have mercy on me, Lord
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have mercy, because I knew this was not the right issue.
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This was not a power issue. This was I needed
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God's mercy. So a lot of Christians who don't understand
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this keep binding the enemy and keep you know, praying
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for power when actually it's not a time for powers,
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the time of pleading. And I'll explain to you in
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a little while while why God allows it. Maybe let
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me do it now. He allows it because humility is
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very key in a Christian life. And sometimes when we
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start binding and casting out and all that, class all
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starts working for you very well.
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Right. You might think it's you.
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You might think that I'm all right, you might think
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that I'm okay, I've got this together, and your dependency
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on God gets less. And so there are times where
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God holds his hand. He does for our sake. He
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loves us too much to allow us to be proud.
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So I was there as like, for example, quote unquote
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a healer not being able to heal himself. Right, they
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look at Jesus, you know he delivers so many. Let
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him deliver himself. So every one of us will get
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there to a place whereby uh, there is a you know,
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sort of like an allowance by God to keep us
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looking at him, depending on him. So let me move on.
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The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him. This
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is almost my daily quote to the Lord. I caught
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it back to him. I said, the Lord takes pleasure.
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He takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those
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who hope in his mercy. So, ladies and gentlemen, hope
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is not in the right. Our hope is not in
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the power. Our hope is not in how much knowledge
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of the world we have, how much scripture we can quote,
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which Bible school we went to. Our hope it's not
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even in the name ex Church. Our hope is in
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his mercy, not even in his power.
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Mercy.
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Where is your hope? Where is your trust? What's the
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next one? But I have trusted in your mercy. I trust,
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I've trusted in your not power, mercy. Where is our trust? Finally,
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my trust is no, Lord, your mercy. Really, at the
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end of the day, thank you for the power. But
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it's your mercy that gets me through every day.
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Amen.
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So mercy is God's mercy is going to grow this church. Right,
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So have mercy on me, Oh Lord, for I am weak.
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Oh Lord, heal me for my bones, our trouble. I
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love these scriptures because it shows that even great men
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of God knew where to turn to when things weren't working.
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This is one of those things you can fall back
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on time and time again.
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If you're right it's not working, then don't keep pressing
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that button because the button will break. And then you
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get so discouraged because one was upon a time what
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cancer was here? Then suddenly you know your own family,
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my own father in law, right, and then I just
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you know, after praying for him, you know, it cast
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out the spirit of cancer or that you know, but
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I realize God allows. Why does he allow? Because he
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reminds us really, without him we are nothing. So here
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we go through the lots of mercies, you like this one.
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This one is We always use this one to say
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your mercies are new every morning. But actually this is
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how it is said in the Bible. Through the lots
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of mercies, we are not consumed. That means we will
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go through hell sometimes, but it won't be consumed because
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of his mercies because his compassions fail. Not they are
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new every morning. No, they missed this morning's new because
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yesterday it was used up.
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That's why.
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Yes, we knew because yesterday he was used. Today we
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use that again. There's more morning. But it's as shure
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that every morning we knew. One thing's a shurt. He's
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mercy every morning. Right, Great is your faithfulness. Okay, praise
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the Lord for his mercy and your survive forever.
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You know.
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This is what The army went out and they just
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continue to say, say say say, say it. And there
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the armies were defeated. Okay, three great armies against Israel.
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And I think it was King Jehoshavad who said, you know,
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I'm gone on basically, and then he just begged God's
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mercy and they were out to fight. The praisers go
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out first, and the praisers has got God's mercy, not
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even God's power. No, Lord your mercy, you know, and
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because it was God's mercy that was going to deliver
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that man.
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Let's move on. So God's mercy is not a right.
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Let's get that right. Okay.
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We talked about right at the beginning, and I want
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all Christians to know their rights.
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But when it doesn't work for you, I want you
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to know that there is mercy.
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Fall back onto mercy, all right, because His mercies are
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new every morning, and we trust in his mercy.
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Okay, is totally undeserving.
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Well else right, Sometimes that you can feel like, okay,
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I deserve because God gave it to me. He gave
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me the right, so it's deserved. Right, and deserve sometimes
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is synonymous. Right, completely his discussion. He wants to do,
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he do, he doesn't want to do, He don't know.
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You're completely at his mercy and yet fully adequate and
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impossible to repay.
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Okay.
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Next one just tells you the only way you can repay,
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if it all, is to show mercy to others. That's
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why you want to remember the servant who got so
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much mercy from his master. He forgave all his dead,
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and then he went out and then he took the
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other servant by the throat. And then the Master was
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so angry, said, you are going to pay by everything
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because I show you so much mercy, you can't show
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another person mercy.
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So the Lord doesn't want us to repay.
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But the only way we want to repay, if we
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want to repay, is to show other people mercy. Okay,
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let's move on. You know the scripture, right, so let's
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go on. But go and learn what this means. Ah,
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I design mercy, not sacrifice. The god of mercy wants
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us to also show mercy to other, to one another,
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to others.
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Yeah, he puts it even above sacrifice.
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Now, And I know yesterday we talked about sacrifice, and
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I know from even a barcelon senner he was saying,
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and sacrifice is needed, I know, to build anything, to
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build a family, to build anything good, anything great. But
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still mercy trumps and triumphs over sacrifice, because sacrifice is
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still looking at your sacrifice, man, see what I'll.
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Do this for you.
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Therefore you are blessed right, So it's still you in
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a sense, But mercy is no longer you know, wory
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is him.
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So I can do all my best at the chest.
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You don't grow.
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Okay, Lord, your mercy, your mercy, and our churches are
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all sustained by his mercy. Somebody say, amen, praise God.
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Let's move on. Okay, So mercy pleading all right? And humidity, okay, humidity.
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Why does God allow it so that we can remain humble?
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And I'm telling you are there's only good things that
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come out of humility, Only good things.
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Right.
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He resists the prout James four six. He resists the proubt,
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but gives grace to the Humber, all right. He exhalts
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the humble, He lives up the Humber. Why don't you
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want to be Humber? I want to be Humber because
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God loves me out and God that exalts me. I
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rather choose that way, right, And that way is the
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way where you don't look at yourself anymore.
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You just look at him and Lord is your discretion?
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All right? What's the next slide?
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Next line says mercy brings us out of uncomfortable situations.
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What I want you to see is it brings us
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out of it does so that day after I cried
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out to God's mercia, I think I said it. I
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don't know. I can't count, but it was probably I
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don't know, a hundred times.
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No lesson that.
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I actually said, Lord, have mercy or me lod because
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my body was like, no wasting away my bit and
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you know, you know now when your body is going
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crazy right here, why your medicine can't help.
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Lord, have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
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Lord, And I fell asleep, he saying, Lord, have mercy.
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I will got the morning totally well. So I knew,
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I know that God's mercy was at work. But God
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wanted to teach me something, Kenneth is by my mercy
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that you wake up in the morning or so you know,
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it's not your right.
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So I say, Lord, thank you for your mercy.
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And I was well, totally well, like nothing happened in
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the last eight days, you know that kind of thing.
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So I say Lord, thank you.
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I understand now, Okay, So I will grunt your mercy,
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not to my right but to your mercy every time
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and something doesn't happen. So he brings us out of mercy,
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brings you out. Okay, next one, grace. So when does
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grace kick in? When that's good? For grace you need patience,
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so right, you need power or it's expressive power. Exercise mercy,
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you plead, Grace is patience. Patience, okay, So what happens
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when mercy also does a work that mean is that
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he doesn't choose to bring you out. Then you know
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he will bring you through. He will bring you through.
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And I understand because some of us are so long
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in Christianity here, so strong in your word and in
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your faith and all that you wish that it was
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only just right and cast out the devil right. Then
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you realize life teaches you that there's other faces and
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other responses. God allows for different things in your life.
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And then so you go down to mercy. And then
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now you all understand is because you're not novices, there
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is a timer that God brings you through. I know
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with Elvin and his son Timmy. You know, of course,
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who doesn't want to lay hands and go like boom,
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he's here, all Lord, have mercy and bring him out
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after two weeks. And when I sit with Alvin, he says,
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pastor me and Jess have grown so much in walking
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with outside through this. It's very powerful, very very powerful.
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Why does God allow us to go through it? So
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let's move on. My grace is sufficient for you for
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my strength. It's made perfect weakness. Look at the top.
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But unless I should be exalted above measured by abundance
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of revelations, that's the reason why God allows it. A
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thorn in the flesh was given to me, so there
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will be thorn. Sometimes I ask God, why why do
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I still have been on this pillar? You know, let's
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just say it's a aloprinal for gout. And sometimes do hear?
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You know, Kenneth, You're blessed so many ways to be.
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You're going, you're praying for the sick people are getting
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here from cancer. I'm gonna just put us on your side.
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Don't worry about it. It's not a big deal. It's
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just to remind you, La, you're human. You need me.
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I don't. I'm not. I'm not killing you. I'm just allowing.
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And this is a message of satan Ah. I just
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told you earlier. There's an enemy that sows to see
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that right ere. They think, no, they think just to
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have a loude little pebble in your shoes always everything
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you walk the whole day.
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But He loves it because right keep your mind on God.
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Concerning this thing.
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I pleaded so that means that he went through the
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face of mercy ady, because mercy is plead, So he
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pleaded with lot three times means he has already gone
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from right. Dude, don't you think that Paul knows he's right?
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My word, how many demons he casts already? But he
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pleaded with a lot three times means that he said, Lord,
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take me out of this, Lord, take me out of this.
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Mercy gets you out, but the Lord refused to get
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him out.
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I pleaded.
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Mercy is plead, means the face of mercy also done ready.
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And now there's another level.
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My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is
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made perfect in your weakness. Therefore, most likely I would
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rather boast in my informaties that the power of Christ
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may rest upon you. Grace takes us true. And you
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know what I love is because the right what you
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end up with. When you exerist your right, you end
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up with good things. But if you're right, it's not
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enough mercy. You engage mercy, And when you engage mercy,
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you also end up with good things.
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And then if mercy doesn't work, you have to experience grace.
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And when you experience grace, you also end up with
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good things you with me.
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So what I'm trying to say, also, don't fight Taylor,
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So exercise right. Engage mercy, oh Lord, have mercy. Engage it,
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and finally grace, just experience it. Just Lord, I don't
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know what to do earlier. But your grace is sufficient
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because not all of us are have one winning stories
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all the time.
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Not all our children are listening to us all the time,
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you know. But his grace is sufficient.
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If he's not delivering you out there, he will deliver
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you through. That's what God to, what promises us. Let's
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let's move on, ya. Do I walk through? So I
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still have to walk? No value of the shadow death?
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Are some Christians? Most Christians all Christians kind of white one.
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But the Psalmist, who knows how God works, he says,
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I walk through. Amen, somebody, you need to speak into
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your stitution. I'm going to walk through this. I'm gonna
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walk through this. Whenever the Lord wants to deliver my
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child from this, he's mercy, okay. And the day he
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wants me with excise my right, I will I also
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have that. One day he might even say, now Canneth speak,
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you know, after seven years of grace and walking through
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the velly. He might he might change it back and
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said speak now, because at the time to speak the
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mountain and so so it can.
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It can also fluctuate all according to the Holy Spirit
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how He works.
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Okay, it can happen or it might be for life
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that you might have to go through this, and it's
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going to be. It's telling you now it's going to
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be okay because His grace is just experience it and
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tell you what something beauty. Something beautiful will come out
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of something ugly, because God makes beautiful all things in
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its time.
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