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Chaosmas PT2 Podcast
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hello hello friend thank you so much for
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tuning in with us here at Free Life
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Chapel where we help you discover and
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live the free life in Christ my name is
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kotti and I'm so glad that you decided
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happening at your church today there's a
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phenomenal message in store just for you
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I hope you're encouraged here we are
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Christmas none of us are living a
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conflict free fre life that is not
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possible I know we all try to avoid the
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conflict we try to back up on the chaos
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we try to stiff arm all that stuff but
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it's it's just not possible life brings
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the unexpected life brings the undesired
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you have chaos in your life how many of
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you have a person in your
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life you have chaos in your life just
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just how you all are married do not look
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at your spouse look this way look this
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way how you have a job you you got a job
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okay there you go anybody got kids
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anybody live in America okay I mean
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you've got chaos anybody have a mirror
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anybody have a mirror you have chaos in
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your life I'm just telling you like like
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there's there's challenges I I I I
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create my own challenges
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sometimes and I create a bunch of mess
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in my life I stir things up and I found
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out a long time ago I need Jesus
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y'all to turn my
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chaosmos into
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Christmas Luke 2: 11 is a verse that is
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really highlighted at this time of the
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year and if you're looking for some some
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message notes it's on our app you can
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pull those
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up but Luke 2: 11 you've got you've got
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this big announcement being made by the
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by the angel that speaks and is very
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pertinent to where we are today and here
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here's what here's what the the Bible
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says in fact read it with me out loud
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use your outside voice here we go use
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your Christmas Sunday voice ready here
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we go one two three For unto you is Born
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This Day in the city of David a savior
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who is Christ the lord I I need to make
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an announcement that might shock some of
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you Christ is not Jesus his last
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name some of y'all are highly
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disappointed right now I just messed up
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all of Christmas for you now if if if if
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we were going to look at Jesus's last
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name how Jesus was referred to in his
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day he would be called Yeshua bar
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Joseph bar means son of Joseph Yeshua
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Jesus Son of Joseph that would have been
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how he was referred to in in in in in
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Jesus day as he was growing up but but
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we have we have him called
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Christ For unto you was born this day in
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the city of David a savior who is Christ
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the Lord Christ in this language is
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Christos and it comes from that it it
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it's it's a new testament term in the
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Greek that comes from an Old Testament
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language and title called
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mashiach and mesia means
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Messiah literally Christ
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Christos is referring to Messiah and the
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reason that one was the Messiah is
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because they were watch this the
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anointed
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one which is literally what Christ means
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the anointed
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one Jesus the anointed one For unto you
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is bornn this day in the city of David a
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savior who is the anointed
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one of the Lord that's who Jesus was
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Jesus the anointed one anointing what
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does that word mean growing up in church
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all my life man we heard the anointing
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preach we we threw that word around like
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we all understood what it
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meant we just kind of used it just
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almost just just real quickly but but if
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we're just going to kind of give some
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perspective to it it's it's something
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that is or someone that is set apart and
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consecrated by God endowed with a
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special power ability or purpose in fact
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we see people through the Bible that
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were considered anointed uh kings were
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anointed prophets were anointed uh
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people held anointings in the Bible and
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but all of those anointings were shadows
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and pictures and pointing to Jesus who
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would be the anointed one
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he wasn't just another anointed one he
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was the anointed one he would be the one
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who would change everything so why does
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the title of
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Christ matter we we drop this in
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christmus why does that matter why why
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highlight that because
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Christ not his last name his title it
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points to the the purpose Mission and
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power that he came with for you and
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me we talked last week how Jesus was he
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was born into a chaotic situation he
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came into chaos it's almost like chaos
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was set up waiting on him because he
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knew your life was full of chaos he came
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in chaos go listen to the podcast from
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last week I'm not going to repeat all
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that but but I I want to bring a
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perspective up for you uh about this
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title of who he is to show us the
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picture as to what he did why he came
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Luke 19:10 tells us this for the son of
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man came to seek and to
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save that which was lost now now
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Scholars will go back and forth on on
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whether this word that should be there
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or not and who is that referring to but
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I will tell you this there's a lot of
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scholarship that points and shows us
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that he didn't say for those he didn't
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just come to seek and save those who
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were lost but that wh which was lost
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which is a bigger perspective than just
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those so what would what would Jesus be
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coming to seek and to save if he's
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seeking that instead of those explain
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that to me well I would have to take you
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back because Jesus came because Adam and
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Eve screwed this thing up in the garden
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right and have you know if you'd have
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been here you and I probably would have
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screwed things up also right I mean
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there we go so I can't be too to mad at
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them because they're that's my mom and
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dad so uh there you have it it's in the
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family but I'm just saying Adam and Eve
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blew it in the garden God had set up
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Paradise for them and he said look y'all
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have it out wear it out it's going to be
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amazing just leave this alone and of
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course it's the one thing you're not
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supposed to do you might notice that
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when someone tells you not to do
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something that's the thing you want to
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do that's why your kids are so screwed
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up just like you they're just like you
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they're just like you that little
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rebellious nature you can eat anything
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here just don't touch
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that if you hadn't have said anything I
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wouldn't worried about it you put the
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you put the sign up wet paint don't
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[Applause]
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touch just got to get my finger dirty
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like what what is it about that you put
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a speed limit
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up no
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no Adam and
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Eve Adam and Eve when they Sinn they
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lost three things in the garden
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they lost their intimacy with
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God they lost their
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identity in who he made them to be and
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they lost their
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influence their
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power when they sinned and went sideways
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in the garden they lost all three their
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intimacy with God which is on Full
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display today because today we worship
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everything but God
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and everyone but
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God their
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identity they ran and hid they lost
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their confidence they lost their
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security they lost their strength they
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lost their identity now we see in our
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culture people don't know who they are
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so they got three and four social media
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profiles because they just want to be
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another person another version of who
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they are they're they're trying to
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self-identify and and reclaim the people
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are all over the place today they're
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lost do I matter do I have a purpose
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purpose there's no
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identity and their
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influence because they lost spiritual
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influence they exert abuse on other
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people and they damage and they hurt
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trying to climb a ladder that doesn't
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even exist literally we are dealing with
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issues today that happened in the
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garden and Jesus says I came to seek and
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to save all that I came to bring all
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that back under under the banner of God
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that you don't have to live tore up in
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your intimacy you can know God you can
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know who you are you're identity where
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you're not seeking people to see if
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you're okay I'm already good I hope you
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like me but if you don't I'm good and
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I'm just going to give and you can just
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walk like these kids up here like it or
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not I'm want to dance my dance like like
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it's it's good to have that kind of
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confidence on the inside and then to
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know that You' got influence that
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through Christ his power is in me his
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authority is in me and I can live my
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life strong that's exactly what Jesus
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came yes he came to restore people back
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to God but when we come back to God we
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discover identity we regain our
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influence and life gets better when we
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do it his way sir he had to come because
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chaos was
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everywhere Jesus was born into our chaos
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to restore unity and to restore order
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between God and man but now watch this
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here this is different here he didn't
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just just come to restore relationship
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he came to bring us back into
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alignment anybody ever had your car out
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of
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alignment you driving down the road and
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your car is pulling towards the ditch
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all by itself or it's pulling towards
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oncoming traffic like you got to fight
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the wheel right God says your your life
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naturally swerves towards ditches you
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are attracted to headon collisions in
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life and I want to I want to fix the
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alignment of your life that it's going
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to take some of the struggle out of your
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life so that you can enjoy this ride
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Jesus's
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mission was to restore man's peace with
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God but watch this but in order to do
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that oh some of y'all aren't going to
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like this oh yeah you got to come back
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next week all right it'll be better next
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week I promise
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you but in order to restore that and to
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fulfill that mission he had to create
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conflict
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well where's the peace we're going to
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talk about
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that Matthew chap 10:34 a verse nobody
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should read during
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Christmas some of y'all will get that
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later that's okay here here's here's
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what it says read it don't think I came
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to bring peace to the earth I came to
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bring trouble not peace thanks for
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coming have a great day let your
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shopping be merry amen
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I didn't come to bring peace but now
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wait a minute peace on Earth Good Will
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towards all men but Jesus said yeah yeah
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I I get that but I didn't come to bring
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peace I came to bring
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trouble it's good trouble but it's
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trouble this is what he did I'm I'm
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going to
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confront your
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chaos I'm going to confront your chaos
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so you can actually
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experience real peace I I need I need to
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present something that's a solution to
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the issues the things that you think
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you've got your hands on that are really
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helping your life are wrecking your life
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you're protecting and holding on to
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stuff that's gutting your joy that's you
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you you're leaking life everywhere and
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you think you're together and you think
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everybody else is the problem and you
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can't figure out why is it not working I
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should be further down the road than
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this so Jesus shows up and he says I'm
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going to I'm going to show you who I am
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I'm going to confront some things in
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your life so he tells us these things
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like I am the door why because you need
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to leave this season and get to a new
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season in your life he he says things
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like I'm the light of the world why
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because you living in darkness right now
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I know you think you partying living
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your best life you can't even see right
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now he says I am the bread of life why
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cuz you're starving to death and when
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you're starving you'll eat anything and
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just because it's available doesn't mean
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it's good for you you better be careful
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who you hang with you better be careful
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what you put your hands on oh when
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you're seeking something that you don't
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have you'll go for stuff that you never
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should he said I am the Good Shepherd
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because you've been lost and all alone
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and people are leading you astray but
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I'm your God I am the Lamb of God why
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you need someone to heal the
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relationship between heaven and you and
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put life back together Jesus came Rel
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revealing I'm all of these things
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because you need all of these things in
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your life and every one of them was
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confronting
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chaos confronting
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disorder confronting stuff that just
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wasn't aligning can anybody in the room
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with me admit that we
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present a side of us that isn't the
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reality of who we are like we present
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better than we actually are now if the
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person beside you did not raise their
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hand they really have issues because
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they can't even admit that they're like
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that they're human like the rest of
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us Jesus came starting some good trouble
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watch this watch this watch this watch
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this the
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church Free Life Chapel we
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fail if we only give
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comfort and we don't help people build
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peace
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how many know sometimes your kids need
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to be comforted they fell down hit their
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foot you know oh my oh come here come
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here come here come here and then
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sometimes they do
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things and you don't need any comforting
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right now you need some correction we
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need to read and and and and there is
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proper parenting will cause discomfort
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when done right because I love you we
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going to we're going to correct
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something course correction here we go
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that's what we do the church fails If
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all we're doing is offering Comfort back
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years ago I I I was doing something
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ridiculous stupid and I broke my
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rist I don't recommend it for anybody I
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it it it wasn't fun uh I broke my wrist
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and uh and so I had to like I I I was I
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broke it in Tennessee I'm coming back to
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Florida and when I get back the next I
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broke it over the weekend I get back
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I've got it all wrapped up I went to the
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emergency room they looked at yeah it's
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broke and so I the the doctor said um
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yeah you have to come back in about a
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week and a half I need all that swelling
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to go down before we can do anything
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with it I said do anything with
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it like can't you just kind of put
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something on that thing and you kiss it
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and then then it let it he said no the
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way you broke it we're going to have to
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set that thing I said
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splain he said it's out of place we got
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to put it back in
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place but I need the swelling to go down
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before we can get it set and then we'll
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wrap it up and kiss it and give you a
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lollipop and send you
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home I still don't remember the lollipop
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I still don't remember the lollipop to
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this day all I know is when I was in
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that office and I'm sitting there on
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that table and he has me put my elbow on
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the table I'm sitting on the table
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beside a wall the wall right here Cindy
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is sitting right there wall is beside me
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elbow here he grabs my hand with one
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grabs my hand with his hand and he
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reaches down and he puts his other hand
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right here and I'm looking at him like
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Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus he said he said
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pastor on the count of three we're going
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to go we're going to get this thing back
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in place and I oh what does he one two
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he
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lied cuz when he got to two my feet were
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climbing up that wall Jesus I mean I'm
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oh you don't
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understand and after it got done I
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should have known there was something
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wrong when he had my hand and he he
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takes this position
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[Applause]
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here he got done he said hold it right
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there like hold oh my what hold what he
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we got to get x-rays now thankfully it
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took on the first he said it's in place
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let's let's cast it up and then and yeah
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that
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part he didn't he didn't just make me
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feel good about my busted
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situation he said you're broken I I'll
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give you some morphine and a
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lollipop as long as as long as you're
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comforted that's all that matters ladies
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and gentlemen that's not all that
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matters cuz it's possible for someone to
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comfort you when they should correct
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you right true love true kindness is
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clarity about my
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situation love me enough to give me a
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truth that will show me how to get out
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of this pain in my life don't make me
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try to feel good about it show me the
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way out of it this is why the Bible
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Jesus said I didn't come to bring
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comfort and all that p no no no I came
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to cause trouble what kind of trouble
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trouble on purpose it is a truth in love
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that's going to confront your situation
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and and cause you bring you to a point
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of challenge like what will I do now
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that I realize there's another way a
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better way a higher way to live my life
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you see it's really tough because most
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people confuse comfort with peace and
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the two are not the same Comfort is
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circumstantial peace is when I am fixed
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in my heart and my mind Comfort is
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feeling driven but peace is truth driven
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comfort uses avoidance and excuses peace
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uses seeks alignment and wholeness
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Comfort it seeks support and celebration
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peace seeks truth and
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change Jesus says I'm coming to bring
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some peace but you may not like it while
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I'm getting the broken situation
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set it's going to cause more pain than
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what you want initially but you'll be
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able to use it long long term after I
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get done putting it together you see
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peace is not the absence of conflict but
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the presence of
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Hope peace doesn't mean everything is
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good in my
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life I can have a peace and be toore up
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from the floor up with situations in my
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world as long as the situation that's
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tore up is outside of me and not inside
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of me I'll be just fine I can have a
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storm on the outside
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all the sound guys just gasp right
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there I can have the storm on the
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outside but as long as I can just Stand
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My Ground and let it snow and let it
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rain and let the storm hit all around me
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but know that my feet are on a good
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foundation that everything in here is
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going to be all right that's what
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allowed the Apostle Paul to be locked up
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in prison and keep singing his songs
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that's what what allowed Daniel to be in
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a lion's den but know that God is good
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and keep trusting him that's what
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allowed Shadrach Meshach and Abednego to
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walk through a fiery furnace knowing in
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here everything is going to be all right
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I have a hope I have a peace I have
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something that violates that's bigger
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here than all the situations out here
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and you and I need to live our lives
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with that hope that peace Romans 15:13
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check this out here's what it says May
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the god of Hope fill you with all joy
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and peace as you trust in him so that
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you may overflow with hope by the power
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of the Holy Spirit he's the god of hope
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so it's our job to get your hopes up yes
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it is it's our job to get your eyes off
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the circumstance and back on God and
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when that happens all of a sudden joy
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and peace rushes in why because it shows
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you that just because things are rough
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now doesn't mean it's over it's not the
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final verdict in your life get your eyes
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down the road and I serve a God who is
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greater I serve a God who is Kinder I
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serve a God who is all powerful all
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knowing and knows my life and he's able
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to do exceeding abundantly above so it
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might be bad right now but just keep
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watching because God's about to bust a
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move in my life and everything is going
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to be all right
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this is the
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peace Jesus brought get the things
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aligned inside with God come into order
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with him and the moment you do you can
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only do that when you submit to his life
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when you surrender to his way and now
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his word becomes your focus his word
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becomes the thing you're fixed on and
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once his word the unmovable unshakable
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reality of God hits your life and God's
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word word becomes more truthful than
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what you feel in your circumstances you
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can stand your ground I don't like what
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they said and I don't like what's going
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on but God is good and I'm going to wipe
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tears and Stand My Ground because any
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moment now God's bringing me through
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that ladies and gentlemen is the peace
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Jesus came to give us that in the midst
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of chaos you can stand your ground and
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know I'm coming through everything is
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going to be fine
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those people are some strong
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people so how do you make it through a
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chaotic
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world you make it through chaos with a
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hope that produces
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peace in God you see Jesus has the power
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to change
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everything that's why his title is
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Christos the anointed
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one a power and authority and ability
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that supersedes anything you've ever
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seen or known that's why Isaiah 9:6
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calls him the Prince of Peace Prince is
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a is a is a title of authority like he
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ain't just a peaceful guy he's the ruler
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The Authority the Prince of Peace I own
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this like my house I'm I'm the one who
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disseminates he's the Prince of Peace
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and because of that we see what he does
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why Jesus was coming in fact Isaiah 61
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tells us when the Messiah when Christos
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comes here's what his power will do
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Isaiah 61 says this he will rebuild the
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ruins of Our Lives he will trade his
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Beauty for our ashes he will trade his
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joy for our grief he will trade his
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celebration for our despair as Isaiah 53
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comes along speaking of the Messiah of
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Christos the anointed one and his
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anointing he will be wounded for chaos
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of our Rebellion he will be bruised for
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the chaos of your sin and failure he
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will pay the penalty for the chaotic
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lives we've chosen to live he will be
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beaten for our sickness and for our
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disease and if the chaos was wasn't
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crazy enough Christmas steps in Jesus
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steps in the anoint Ed one steps in and
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2 Corinthians 4 Paul puts it this way
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because the Messiah because Christos
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came we get troubled but we're never
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crushed we get frustrated but we never
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quit we get persecuted but we're never
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alone we get knocked down but never
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knocked out ladies and gentlemen peace
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rules and Reigns in our hearts because
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Jesus the Christ the anointed one showed
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up and confronted us and brought us into
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alignment and we get to live with this
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today would you turn to someone tell
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them I'm still here I'm still here I'm
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still
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here turn back and tell them I don't tap
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out don't tap out don't tap out whatever
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you do whatever you do peace will hold
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you watch watch watch peace is one of
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the fruit of the spirit how do you know
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you're doing well when you've got a
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peace that doesn't make sense the Bible
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calls it a peace that passes all
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understanding I should have lost my mind
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up in here up but you're still here
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right now and you're still smiling right
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now and you're still and people don't
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understand how what are you drinking
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what you smoking you got your 420 down
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like what in the world is happening no
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no no no I I'm looking to one who is
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greater this is temporary he is eternal
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that's circumstantial my eyes and my
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heart are fixed on him let life come let
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the wind blow my God is holding
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me this is what the Prince of Peace he
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came to violate your situation he came
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to turn it around that's why he doesn't
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come and just rescue you out of it he
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allows you to get in it so you and he
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together can bring peace in the midst of
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a storm so when the wind blows stand up
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and talk back to it I'm not living this
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way it's got to change to match the
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promise that I have from my God the
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anointed one and his anointing is alive
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in my life and my best days are on the
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way
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oh when you know this you understand no
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more chaosmos only Christmas in my life
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that's how I'm living for the rest of my
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life life is
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chaos but
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Jesus is our peace yes
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sir you need peace at 15 years old
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today yes
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sir yes
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sir all the people in My
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Generation don't have a clue what it is
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to be 15 years old
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today it's a different
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world if you're
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single you better get some peace in your
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heart you will reach for stuff that you
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will regret for the rest of your
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life I know she looked good but it
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wasn't all
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that if you're married never mind never
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mind never mind let's just
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let me let me finish with
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this your life needs peace in three
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areas real quickly this is why Jesus
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came you need spiritual
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peace you need to restore your heart
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back to God the the the the separation
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of you and God that's what's causing the
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chaos the darkness the mess Jesus came
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to restore us back to God Romans chap 5
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verse1 says this read it with me we have
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peace with God because of what Jesus
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Christ Our Lord has done for us
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this is why he came to seek and to save
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that yeah this is a part of that Oneness
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with God Peace So number one spiritual
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peace number two Jesus came to restore
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emotional
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peace oh he's concerned about your
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emotions he concerned about how you
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think what you feel in life and when it
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sucks that's not okay for him when you
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feel alone and broken and no one
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understands that's not all right
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right he rushes to you he's there
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everyone walks out he steps
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in he's most wonderful at stepping into
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situations that nobody wants to be a
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part of he's not afraid of your mess
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Colossians chapter 3 verse 15 says this
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Let the Peace of Christ be in control in
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your
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heart the voices from your past have got
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to get quiet yeah the reputation that
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you're trying to outlive and run from
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Let It
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Go but watch this when we live in
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violation to God's word and God's will
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you know what happens we have conflict
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in
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here the worst conflict you'll ever have
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is not outside but
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inside you can leave them but you can't
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leave
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you and when you lay down in bed at
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night the thoughts that you
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think and the desires of your heart and
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the decisions you're
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making are they
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aligned with God his plan his word his
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will or am I opposing God
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himself and wonder why life isn't
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working am I pushing back am I stiff
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arming God
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and then wonder why he's not close to
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me you see emotional healing emotional
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restoration emotional peace with self
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happens whenever we sett in and say yes
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to him and when we say yes to him and
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just surrender anxiety leaves guilt
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leaves fear leaves anger begins to leave
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narcissism it's all about me all about
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me me me me I I I look at me look at all
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of that stuff it just
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dissipates in other words in order to
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have emotional peace we've got to live
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all the Bible just not our favorite
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parts of
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it it's not just what's highlighted it's
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the other parts too you see we highlight
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what brings us
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comfort and we skip over what gives us
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peace to find
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Comfort but Jesus says no the other
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parts are important too cuz this will
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align your life for peace so you can
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experience my comfort yes Comfort is
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important you and I need comfort of
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course we do yes we do but God help us
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if we ever get Comfort when we truly
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need
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peace the third
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area spiritual peace emotional peace and
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relational peace yeah the Bible actually
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tells us in Hebrews 12:14 this is a
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tough one swallow hard and read it out
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loud work at living in peace with with
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everyone who did your mind just run to
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Who did your mind just run to like them
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who who was that who was that like you
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don't even understand no Jesus does
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Jesus does but notice the first word
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work work work work
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work you going have to work this thing
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it ain't going to be easy somebody got
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to work on this that's why Matthew Jesus
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was preaching he said blessed are the
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peacemakers you got to make it it ain't
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just showing up
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no one's going to just Amazon you a
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surprise gift of Peace it don't work
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that way somebody's got to be the adult
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in the room someone's got to show up and
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say I've got enough peace for me and you
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too I'm working on this we're going to
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restore this I'm more adult than this
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I'm bigger than I used to be I'm
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emotionally at ease I've got Oneness
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with God that means I got enough that I
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can give you to and understand this when
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you realize how much chaos you deal with
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in your life and you realize that others
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are dealing with the same chaos you
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are it kind of reminds us we all need
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Jesus I you know in my estimation people
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at DMV need a little bit more
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just chaos is a part of
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life Jesus is
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too chaos doesn't have to run it Jesus
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will Jesus is going to bring corre
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Direction in the middle of comfort so
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that you can live with
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peace stop
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excusing and pushing back on things you
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don't
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like stop seeking Comfort instead of
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growth let's move our life forward
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that's why Jesus came he came to turn
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our chaos into Christmas would you
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please stand to your feet
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when I was in
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college I had a
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Toyota it was a little hatchback it was
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the
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ugliest gold/ yellow like I don't even
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know what color you would call it puke I
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it it was the it was the it was the it
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was the ugliest colored Toyota ver
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hatchback hatchback nothing sexy about a
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hatchback while you're in college no I
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mean it was just it was just bad and but
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you know what I had Wheels I had wheels
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so thank you very much and I was giving
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people rides so thank you only problem
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was one day the starter went
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out and back in those days we had these
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things
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called
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manual they had this things called
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clutches y'all don't even know what that
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is today you just turn the key and just
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go no no no back in the day it took a
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college degree to learn how to drive a
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car you had to push the clutch
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in put it in first gear simultaneously
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see that right there that threw half
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y'all off
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simultaneously push the gas pedal while
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you're letting off the clutch and you
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got to do it well if not you'll get
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whiplashed you'll be going to the
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chiropractor like y y'all know what I'm
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talking about y'all been
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there started when I I had to I had to
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use my I had to pop the clutch to get my
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car going
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and so I was always parking on
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Hills I'm looking for a hill I might
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have to walk three blocks but that's
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where the hill
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is and I popped that clutch for probably
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six months seven months I was popping
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clutches Come Rain Come Shine pop that
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clutch thank you Lord thank you I
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thought I thought I was getting by with
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it when I learned to pop the
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clutch until it got really old really
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quick and I realized I was tearing my
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car up yes you see eventually we all
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reach places that we stop putting
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Band-Aids on tore up
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situations and it's time to stop popping
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the clutch on your
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marriage it's time it's time to stop
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always just looking for a hill to just
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to get things going because whenever you
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get the right pieces in play Life works
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exactly how it's supposed
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to God will bring some rest back to your
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life but first you and I have to be
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confronted with I I have to admit the
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chaos before I can even make room for
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God in my life I need peace cuz I ain't
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got it and I'm saying yes to him not we
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we don't live perfect I just live in
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Pursuit and let him keep working this
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out I want us to pray today let's do
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this father we admit that we need you
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today we admit the chaos is real in our
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life it's crazy things get tore up and
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we're
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just we're we're we're living just
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popping clutches in our life and this is
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not the way it was supposed to be it's
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supposed to be smoother stronger better
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more reliable getting through
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situations today God we've got turmoil
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all around us but it's the turmoil
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that's in us it's the chaos in us that
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you came to deal with you are the Prince
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of Peace you are the one that heals it
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all you give us a hope that let us see
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beyond where we are to turn our eyes
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back on you that we're not looking at
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circumstances but we're facing you today
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God I pray that you would get the
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attention of all of my friends in this
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room all my brothers at pkci right now
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who are in a difficult scenario in their
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head their heart their life God would
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you give them a peace right there where
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they are remind them you love them and
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you're with them and it's not over and
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the same peace on the outside is the
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same peace on the inside that it's
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possible to have more peace at pyi than
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it is on the nicest island in the world
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because as long as you are ruling and
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reigning in our heart we're going to be
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fine all is good God today I pray the
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chaos out of people's lives and I pray
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you would not just Comfort us but you
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would bring a peace that would confront
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us and today help us to realize that we
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must turn it all over to you that we can
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experience the hope the peace the joy
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that only you can give thank you for
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telling us the truth thank you for not
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leaving us in and a lie thank you for
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leading us forward and not walking
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around us thank you for your conviction
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thank you for the challenge thank you
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for the sacrifice and the love we look
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to you we call on you we need you
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today would you take about 20 seconds 30
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seconds in this room and just declare to
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him God I need you in my life today I'm
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surrendering my life to you I'm giving
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it all I want you to step in and remove
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the chaos I want your peace to rule and
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reign in my
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heart let that peace pass all
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understanding doesn't make sense why I'm
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calm in this but because of you because
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of your hope I know all is going to be
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okay be with my friends and affirm that
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I pray today especially in this
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Christmas season thank you Jesus Christ
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for coming to this earth in Jesus name
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amen amen amen if you receive that today
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would you put your hands together
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