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LRH: Order in Our Conversation - 6
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Do you want to build your faith?
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Do you desire to have a true encounter with God
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through his Word? Then listen to Lorgus ramer I with
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Reverend Doctor Joseph Baubin, head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy.
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God richly loves you.
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Welcome to the logo streamer are with God savant Reverend
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Doctor Joseph Being, head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Commercy.
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And now to today's message.
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Go to a one ver's a before we take our sis,
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let's go let's spoke of the law shall or depart
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out of my mouth, that I shall meditate in it.
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To day right that I may observe to do according
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to all that is written in it.
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Or then I will make.
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My way prospers, and then I am half of success
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a man. God bless you, Oh only welcome to the
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presence of God. And we will continue with our discourses
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on how we can bring order to our conversation. Amen,
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what we've been trying to do, get a diagnosis of
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our problem if we even admit or confess that there
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is a problem with our conversations. Because admittedly, if you
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don't see any problem with the way you talk, the
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way you communicate with your conversations with other people, then
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there's only be a problem taking the even like the
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pills or the bitter pills or remedies that are needed
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to fix us. And that's the conundrume of many a believer.
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And as far as I'm consented and my understanding of
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of the scriptures, if there's no problem, then we don't
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even need to get on again in the first place.
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Because the remedies that are going to be applied, you know,
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to fix us, they are supernatural remedies. If you can't
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fix yourself, then go ahead and fix yourself. But you
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can't fix yourself. And that is why for you and
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I who are humble enough to admit that we can't
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fix ourselves, so we come back to our creator and
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our God who created us, whose innovative products we are,
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so that he can fix us. Amen, Because without him
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coming in on site, there's not going to be the
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application of the necessary remedies that can fix us. And
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it's say, and God desires to fix us holistically. Amen.
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So God is not going to fix our conversations and
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this month and then maybe next year before fixing another
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part of the deranged men that we recognize. I hope
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you get it. The application of the medicines by God.
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They are for holistic fixing of the deranged mind. Amen.
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Every aspect of our being needs affectioning. And you and
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I who have come to God at a point in time,
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we assessed our lives and then admitted that there is
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a problem. Amen. So I'm just trying to see how
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best we can get it in simple terms so that
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we can wrap our minds around it and then go
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for the cures that God has prescribed in this way,
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so bringing order into our conversations. Point number one, is
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there anything wrong you as we sit here? Is there
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anything wrong with your conversation? Because if there's nothing wrong,
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then I'm afraid you're not going to do anything. Amen.
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And a lot of us in church, and this is
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in church, everybody everybody says their bonny again because it's
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only and again people who should be in church. But
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that's very simplistic, because that is not it. You know.
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So a lot of us are in church, but then
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we don't think that there's anything wrong with us. We
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have not done that self evaluation. You know. We we
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we we we look around. That's the problem. We are
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looking around. So sometimes we look around and then look
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at even our pastors or our leaders, and then we
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put them on our scale, on scale of Jackman's say,
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it's no better than me. I'm just like him, you know, yes,
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and all the other vices that sometimes we look out
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for in order to say that this person is not
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truly born again. Their leaders are pastors, they are doing it,
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you know. So that's that's the conundroom. Know, many of us,
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I grew up in churches and congregations said where nothing
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is being done. The old man is accepted, you said,
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the sayner's prayer. God has done it. Just continue living
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your life and then when Jesus comes again, we will look.
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We will look, we will look at what is going
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to happen, you know. But then God, I'm afraid the
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Bible story is so clear that God is not going
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to be judging us on a collective basis. He's not
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going to lump the church and see how this chapel
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who might has said, come, no, it's going to call
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us individuals. I don't know whether it's going to use
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alphabetic order, you know, but the judgment day is going
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to be individuals, you know. So let us not be
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looking out how some other spiritually much sure, we are
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the ones doing the evaluation, and we are the ones
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targeting ourselves that this person is spiritually mature. You know,
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this person as this title, this person should be closer
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to God, the way he prays when he's leading the prayer.
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If there's anybody who's close to God, he should be
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the number one person. And this is how he communicates.
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And so when I look at me, I always lay
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my conversations with please and I'm sorry and all that,
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you know, so I should be better off. And therefore,
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and by the standards that I am using, I don't
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have a problem with my speech, with my conversation, indeed
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with my behavior in the Kingdom of God, there's nothing wrong,
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you know. So anything wrong the self evaluation. And I'm
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afraid you see that the problem too is that the
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self evaluation it can be tilted towards bias, as I'm saying, amen,
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But a proper self evaluation cannot ignore the authority of
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the word of God. Am I coming through with this one?
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So that even our self evaluation of ourselves, it has
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to be based on the authority of the web of God.
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You know. So the problem now is that if that
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initial evaluation God has made it clear, abandoned the claar,
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all have sinned and have short falling short of the
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standards of God. And he says that even a wah
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righteous deeds, they are as filthy rats before him. Do
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we agree to this universal charge of guilt before God?
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Because that is the key, initial, key step that is
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going to bring if you like, the Holy Spirit coming
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in to take center state. When we admit that I
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have the problem, I can't fix myself. I must invite
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the Holy Spirit, just as they say the child is universal.
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All men have sain, all men need fixing. How by
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admitting that there's something wrong with me, by accepting the
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pardon that God is offered based on the merits of
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the death of Jesus Christ on the crow. He died
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for us, so that those who live shall no longer
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live onto themselves, but onto Him that die for them.
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You're not going to be able to understand and appreciate
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some of these scriptures when the Holy Spirit is not there.
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So that initia step is so key, this universal child.
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Are you a sinner where you born as sinner at
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the poor at the core of your hearts? And like
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we said, what defines us is our fault life? Can
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we evaluate our thought life in the and I agree
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that I agree with God my thought life it is
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all you know, as the Bible will say later on,
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it is all yeared towards saying and wrongdoing and rebellion
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and all that. Amen, Halen Louiah. So once we agree
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with that initial one and we say God, I need fixing,
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and the Holy Spirit comes in now as you am
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back as you agree and them back on the new project.
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Now the Holy Spirit is going to take you to
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Should I use the word to the nooks and crannies
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of your life and bring out a lot more cap
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webs that needs fixing, all the other areas that needs fixing,
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so that there's the image of God, the likeness of
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God can begin to best forth out of our lives.
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I I hope you are getting it, Amen. So we
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are trying to get to the bottom of whye. Sometimes
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we find people in church, let me use the word
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their initial profession of it was sincere and tending, but
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then afterwards that's it. Nothing is happening today. And the
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divisions that we are having in church, Amen, it's all
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from the conversation, the disagreements, the scattering of the church,
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the cliches that we form and all that. But sometimes
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we want to agree that sometimes most of these people
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and they are born again, and that's what defines the
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kind of Christian. They are not admitting that there's something
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thoroughly wrong with me and that God has promised that
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He will fix me, and I must am back on
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the new Man project. Like we said, the Book of
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Collosians is all is telling us put off and put
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on by a lot of us. We are not putting off,
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we are not ready to put off. Amen. And it's
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not helping our congregation. It's not helping you know God.
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For God to see a healthy church or in a
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healthy church consists of healthy individuals so that the power
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of God can explode in our mess. And I'm saying
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that it is all because sometimes the self evaluation that
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we do, the chaistic that we do, it's not right
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we compare ourselves to leaders this other at bishop, this
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other bishop, this other title believer, this other one that
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working and Mira clod and working believer, you know, without
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resorting once again to the authority of the word of God. Amen.
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And that is why we are evaluating ourselves on the
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wrong scale. Amen. So how we're going to be able
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to evaluate ourselves on the right scale and that one
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to Unfortunately, we can't bypass the simplicity and the order
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that God has put in his word. Amen. He must
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be born again. And then remember he said, he said
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by faith, Without faith, no one can please God. And
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then that come to God. Number one, they must believe
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that he is. And number two is a rewarder of
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them that diligently seeking He exists. As what who is
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that God? To you? He is our creator? Amen. Right
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after the Adam and Eve saying anywhere you know, walked
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out of the guardian of Edith, we find the same
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problem with the two children. Abel Abel said, after self evaluashing,
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Abel agreed with the verdict of God. I am a sinner.
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What qualified Abel has a righteous pace? And the Bible
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says by faith, by faith he crept to God by faith,
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He offered the right sacrifices and the right sacrifices of
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slain animal that Abel was doing. What was saying was
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more or less agreeing with God's verdict that I am
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unworthy of it. If I need to approach you, I
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need to come through the blood sacrifices that God has
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prescribed for us to be able to have fellowship and
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friendship with Him. And once again we keep on saying,
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without that having a very good friendship with God, you
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can't have a good friendship with the people of God. Amen.
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The relationship with God must be strong enough for us
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to draw the reserves that we need to love these
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people and to be able to coexist as a fellowship.
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So when your relationship with God, the thing that draws
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us too closer to God, the thing that enables us
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to hear from God as a believer, bond again, but
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you are not doing it. I'm afraid you are not
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going to be able to draw closer to God for
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him to open the cab webs. There's no goal areas
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in your life where you don't want anybody to go
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that is causing the friction in your relationships. Amen, very
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very very important, that we understand. So we are asking us.
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So the first thing that we say, you should be
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you're and is is there anything wrong with my life?
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Is there anything wrong with my conversation, the way I talk? Amen?
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The best person is God. Amen. This is sometimes the
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problem is that when we're anytime that we men, we
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start doing it to help and sometimes too. I mean,
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God speaks to us. Yes, through the authority of the script,
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but he speaks to us. God can communicate to us.
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Do any means we said, the Holy Word is there?
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The Holy Spirit is there, deep impressions of the heart,
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spirit feel Counselors commonly say providence. God can speak. But
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the problem sometimes we have is that when men come,
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oh you are judging me, go and remove the plank
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in your eyes. Just said it. Because when we look
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at each other, we find out that when we were all,
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like James said, he said, none of us. It's perfect.
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So we find the situation where everybody says that my
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friends stay in your corner. Okay, no problem me. I'm
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staying in my corner. I don't have a problem by
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you that you say you are also staying in your corner.
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Can you approach God that one we will not't do
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it because immediately you start approaching God, you don't find
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it difficult crime when people rebuke it, because you will
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now understand that God could use or would use, and
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that spirit feel counselas to speak into your life. So
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when somebody says that, oh, your lung wage and your
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conversation are not nice, you will take it in good faith.
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After we need to fix it. Amen. So people come
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to church and says, oh, no, I've set the sinner's prayer.
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I'm fine, stay in your corner. God says, don't judge anybody.
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Go and remove the blank in your eyes before you
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come and so, and immediately you do that, then we
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are cutting ourselves off the grace. The grace remed is
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that I needed to fix us. Amen. So we can't
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help each other. I own sharpnet. Everybody is supposed to
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stay in his corner. But the thing it doesn't work
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that way. God uses name to correct us, to speak
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to us, to chastise us. So we find a situation
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where now the church, the pastest, a lot of pastes
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can review me. I review I correct because I draw
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my authority from the world, and I'm afraid not to
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say what God wants me to see. Amen, a hallelujah.
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I know I must admit it some nice sometimes when
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I I said, hey, what did I say? I just
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I just give myself off because I have decided that
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I want to be the friend of God number one
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before the friend of men. Amen. Get it. That's how
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it wears God face everything, God face. If you decide
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that you'll be a friend of men, first the men,
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they will disappoint you. They'll go. So stay close to God,
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befriend God, draw the grace and the resources that God
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supplies from his presence. And then we add well positioned
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now to dispense it towards men. Amen, even the apostle
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Jim James, James who was writing we read James chapter
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three hours. We were ready too to see the problem
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that we have. You know what's admitting that we are
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not all perfect. John will also admit the same thing,
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that there's no man that says not. But then there's
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a certain grace that the Gospel leverages to those that
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have come and want to be fixed. Amen. He says
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that you will find your dad. You will never be
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in the position where you are continually sinning, sin, confessing, confessed.
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He says, no, you can't do that. Why the Holy
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Spirit and his word of correction it Amen. The design
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for fixing us demands cooperation with the Holy Spirit. That's
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why we say he will enroll you in the school
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of the Spirit, because it's all going to be the
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application of the Word of God. Hallelujah. Amen. So Abel said, yes,
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I have a problem and cooperate it with God. That's
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how come Jesus says that he was the first prophet.
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He was a righteous man, the first prophet. Now if
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you contrast him to King Kay said, no, I don't
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have a problem. I'm a victim of myself less circumstances.
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Have you heard it before? This is the way I
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was created. I'm not responsible. It is Papa Adam. I
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used toll blaming Adam, And for how long will you
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be blaming him? Oh? As for me, I was born
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into this dysfunctional family. That's how we hold our conversation.
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You take me off, But as for me, I know
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that God accepts me. Look, it's no sentiment val you
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and you are not growing stunted bood. You can't bind,
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you can't pray, you can't worship, you can't smile, that's
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that I'm talking about the joy of the Lord. It's
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a strength. Amen. When you see a defeated believer, you
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know when you are in change. You know, we see
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the change, the liberation. The joy is absent. Hallelujah. It's
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all because we are not cooperating. Cocaine said, I'm blameless.
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I'm a victim. I refuse to be blamed. And we
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saw even you saw his conversation with God, am I
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my brother's keeper? When God, your creator, asks you can
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come here, where is your brother? He said, Hey, Brother,
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am I my brother's keeper? Leave me alone no longer,
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no doubt he he made a demn And also don't
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make sens I understand that he made it his brother
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because he allows Satan to take untrue of its life.
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Halen Lujiah, Amen. And so the problem we have been
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saying it that that conversation that they had, and that
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also tells us, you know that Adam and Eve had
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with with the serpent or Satan masquerading as the sepen
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around the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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and the damage it had. It also tells us the
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kind of people who should be holding conversations with Amen,
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the kind of conversations that we because there's a spirit behind.
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So it's a win win situation. If you just allow
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yourself to be governed by the principles of the web
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of God, that's how we're going to be fixed. Amen,
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Halen Louiah. Now, so let's go on. So if yes,
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now we I want to assume that all of us, yeah,
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we are not towing the line of k We are
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agreeing that there's a problem with our conversation. Amen, So
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let's go on. If then we are admitting that there's
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work to do to correct it. And then the first
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point that I want to make that nobody can do
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it for you. You must take frontline position. Amen. Those of
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us will still blame Adam. The Bible says that they
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shall not be that word. The father shall eat sad grapes,
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and then the children's teeth be set on. Each man
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shall be what responsible for his own sake, Amen. And
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all these are in the word. So Adam will be
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judged differently as an individual. Yes, we hate the majority
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of the blame on him. But now God has putting
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the remedies. What are we doing about it? Amen? So
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we must take frontline position. You and I must be
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active and look for the remedy. Number three must recognize
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that you can't fix it on your own. But we
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are agreeing that God can't fix it. And it all starts.
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We once again the bone again, experience it lays the
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groundwag for the remed is to be applied. The bone again,
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the bone again, Harlene Louiah. Amen. In March chapter seven,
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when Jesus was speaking to Or in the Salmon on
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the Mound, can we quickly look at it? Semon on
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the Mound seven seventeen to twenty, look at it? Even so,
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every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree
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bears bad fruit. Healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor
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can a disease tree bear good fruit. Every three that
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does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown
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into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. Amen,
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I hope you are getting it. So you can't now
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get this. You can be born again for a long
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time and never you. Now you have decided that ask
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for me the new Man project. I will never embark
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on it. You die. Amen. The fruit God Jesus is
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saying that we must fix the tree so that now
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the tree can bear so God goes to the root
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of the problem. Amen. So if we don't cooperate with
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him so that we can fix the root of the problem,
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the tree has to be fixed so that the fruits. Amen,
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and then the one in is there. He says that
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every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut
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down and thrown into the fire. Once upon a time
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some of us who were born again, But how many
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years ago. You can't do the one and do the
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other and refuse to do the other. You can't get
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born again and not sign up for the new man projects,
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say a big a man. We need to get some
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of these truths well else if in your born again,
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that's what Jesus is saying that for how long it
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will cut you down? Because here saving time, you're not
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cooperating and there's not you're not seeing any fruiting. How
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long are you going to get born again? As you
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lie there and you're not, You're refusing to get roots,
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you are refusing to be wored, you are refusing to
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grow up, you are refusing to mature. When you are
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lying down idle, it will decay and you're rot and
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the farmer has every right to cut you off. Amen.
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He says, a healthy three cannot bad bad fruit, nor
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can a disease to re bad good fruit. So Jesus
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wants us to tackle the tree itself, the foundation. Hallelujah, Amen,
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so so that we can pick it up from there.
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So we are saying, the bone again and then the
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new Man. You can't pick one and leave the other
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one follows after the other, or else should I use
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the word you're born again becomes nuw and void because
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at the point in time it will have to be
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cut off. Amen. But once you are born again, then invariably,
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as we are saying, you don't even get to decide
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whether it's you sign up for the new Man project.
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He will do that he may. But the bone again
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is so key, get it because it is you that
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assesses that I need God and God exists. It's always
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it's not just emotional thing. It's based on a setting.
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If you like understanding knowledge and understanding God exists, there
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that can must believe that God is. And he said,
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rewarder of them that diligently seeking I assess my life.
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I am under conviction. I realize that I don't like
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my life. I want my life to be fixed, and
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that is why I march to the cross and then
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respond to the invitation to come for a fixing. Amen. Amen.
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And so now that I've come, and then the one
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who is going to fix me is that we are
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going to go through a certain process. Number One, I'm
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going to seal you with my Holy Spirit. And when
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my Holy Spirit comes, it's going to bring you to
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you into your life to burn your life all resources,
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every resource that you need. So we can't do that fixing.
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It is never the case that God will fix you,
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and it will fix you passive you. Amen. That's why
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we say you must take frontline position. God can fix
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passive you. He needs your will and your engagement with
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your will, your cooperation. Amen. When it fixes every part,
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like we always say, theory and practice, you will bring
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the practice to make sure that the thing is well,
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has been fixed, and then we'll move on to the
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next place that next fix it. Amen.
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This broadcast was probably sponsored by the Friends and Partners
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