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Great Commission - Walking by Faith or Sight | Elder Wong Kien Yiak
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You're listening to a message to go from axt church. We hope this message
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will light up your day if you have a Bible with you, which you
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turn to Matthew chapter twenty eight. All right, you know I'm going with
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this scripture relief. I ask you to tend to met to twenty eight.
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But metro trainy eight, you know, I'm so going to try to do
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like a devotion training. It was sixteen with you all, and let's see
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how the Lord will leaders. Okay, Metro trainy eight was sixteen. Then
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the eleven eleven disciples went away into galley to the mountain which Jesus has appointed
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for them. It's very nice to see the mountaintop. Very nice at the
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mountaintop experience. Right, you get fresh air, lovely scenery. You know,
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you get to see everything the world is like on top of the on
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top of the world experience. We love it. But how many of you
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know that. You know, Jesus did not ask us to pitch a tent
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on the mountaintop. He did not ask us like this is the place you
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will sort of settle down, and therefore you will built your house on top
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of the hill. Well that is nice. You know having Jesus up there,
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meeting up with Jesus like going away for kem All right, Well it's
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good and everything like. But God has never encouraged us. This is the
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place I want you to settle down to fellowship with me continuously, just worship
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me and dismounted. God this morning wants to remind us again that I have
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an assignment for everyone here. He says here in verse seventeen, when the
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disciples saw Jesus. When the disciples saw Jesus, they worship him. That's
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what everybody, every believer needs to do when we see Jesus. What do
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we do? We worship? How many we love worship service? You love
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the worship part of the service. Songs minister to our hearts, lift up
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our burdens. We get encouragement and hope to songs that we sing. Well,
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worship is good and everything like that. But how many of you know
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that worship itself it's not the end goal. It's not the end goal of
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the believer, because if it's the end of believer, you will not get
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worse eighteen or worse nineteen and was twenty. God this morning was to encourage
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again, Well, it's good to worship. But worship must lead to transformation.
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Worship must lead to transformation. Say again, worship must lead to wear.
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That's right, Worship must lead to transformation because if you're not transform then
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worship it's all about you. If you're not transforming God presence, worship is
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all about you. What I could get from the Lord? What number shry
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by? I know I'm saying this right now in the Christian community, but
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I also do know that a Lord Christian community is who by numbers? Right,
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there's between you and a lot. Okay, But here's the thing.
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If I'm not transformed, that everything's about you. What I can get from
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today's service, what I can get from let's say, espresso every time,
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you just go in there because it's about you. The food, it's about
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you. You go to homes, you look at the meal there. Ah,
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this home is always a really good one. I was speaking at ADM
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service. I was telling them that those of the youth for a complaining that
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older people homes are boring. And now I say that one thing I know
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that anybody who is not a youth anymore, who is at the words you're
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looking at out and adult homes, their homes are never bankrupt one, never
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running deathsit. Campus homes are always in there sit one every campus sorry campus
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homeley to say see until now until give to normal strain to say anymore already
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please held appreciate right because it I oh, friends, because the home leaders
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like, oh, I'll pay for you, I'll pay for you. I
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would no more I need to pay a doubt. I know one thing for
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sure that the table is always feel with foot one. I went to a
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PC home PC one friends. Excess, y'all talk quiet, excess of course
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one the vegetables am all. That's why so selling people that come on.
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It cannot be. It cannot be just because people are older that they are
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the words that expression and the zeal diminishes. See. Worship must always need
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to transformation. If you're not transformed, now, when would you be transformed?
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Because the Bible said, although the eleven disciples worship God, there's there's
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two words that some doubted wish mean to say that some other people are like
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the worst taken up in worship. Some of them are like, cannot be
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this one cannot be Jesus. It's like some of us here today, this
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one cannot be the word of love for me because I'm here, I want
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to brit shoe and eldest talking about mission. I'm here, I'm looking for
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a life. But the eldest talking about mission. I'm here, I need
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healing. Elder's talking about mission. Some will doubt the Bible, says those
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who doubt. Why if you look at second Courrintius five, verse seven,
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second Courritis five ver Severn, Let's see what the scripture you have to say.
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Second Courritius five, verse Severn said, we are called to walk by,
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come on, we are called to walk by. Come on. We
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are called to walk by, not by sight. So therefore, friends,
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why do we doubt? We doubt because our eyes is off the Lord and
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onto the physical. Our eyes is off the Lord, off the Lord.
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Let me, you're not looking at the lot anymore. We are looking at
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the round it. That's why I can hear when people tell me that,
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oh, this homes is not not not tentpati servies. Okay, I've quantified
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this because everywhere I go I'm going to use example. I'm just talking about
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my homes. No, I'm not talking about your homes. I'm talking about
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eight am homes right now. So when I go when I go to,
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When I go to, I'm talking about homes. No kidding, but first
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I've heard. I've been in church since they were I've known. Some people
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said, how do you want me to talk to this person no older than
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me by twenty years old? Why am I gonna talk to them about soup?
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At least? I said, if you don't know want to talk about,
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always talk about food because food is our common language. But anyway,
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they said, what I'm gonna talk to them about? That's so boring law
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They go in rounds. What do you do? What do you study?
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Oh? Very good, future friends. It cannot be because if we want
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to really the world is that. If you cannot look by sight, then
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we're always going to choose things that pleases us. True or not, this
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home is not? Or if Graham's Grahams home must be really excited because he's
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so fun to be with John, someone who's always going to score. You
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actually do discipleship. Then we pick according to what we like in a flesh.
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That's why we doubt, because when Jesus appeared differently than what we expect
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him to, appeal with doubt. When Jesus doesn't come to this very moment.
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When you pray with doubt, we doubt because we cannot see a brick
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tue right now. It cannot be friends. That youth and the doubt cannot
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mix together and do our great hopes. Someone say, a man, it
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cannot be friends when we age. After all, our expression begin to the
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world is drying out, and just say, oh, I'm slightly older right
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now. So therefore my expression has been no. Who says so, friends,
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Come on, I will speak to youth right now. One day you
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get to our age. I know Johnson when he was a campus student,
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he looks so young. I thought he was a youth. I was reaching
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out to him saying that I'm looking at out ready still young. But here's
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the thing, friends, if we're gonna go by sight, we're not gonna
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get a big to turn with me right now, right to John chapter twenty.
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Wow, John, chapter twenty, I hope you're getting something off from
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this, John chapter twenty worse. Let me see a worse sixteen, you
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know, let me see a worse. Let me I gotta turn the John
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John twenty. First, I'm going with for a worse nineteen worse one nineteen
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one night, Okay, John, Chapter twenty was nineteen. The same day
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evening being the first day of the week, the doors were shut, the
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disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews. Jesus appeared. This is Jesus
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appearing to them after the resurrection. Now Jesus came and stood in the midst
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and seeing them, Peace be with you, friends. I want you to
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know something. This peace that Jesus speaks about really ministers everyone had because it's
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not the peace that comes from how much you have, the possession you have,
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or the knowledge you have. It comes from the word of God.
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It's a perfect peace. It cast us out of fear. First, you
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and I need to know. When God speaks something in my frist, it
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ministers to our hearts. One. It's it's beyond what we could imagine when
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God appears to them. First, you got to understand this. This is
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Jesus who was weep bruce half on the cross that took him off to try
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to bury him. And all they heard was Jesus came out from the tomb.
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They have not seen Jesus yet, and jive and Jesus a pit to
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them, even to us right now, we'll be afraid and Jesus know what
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we go through, he says to everyone. Right now, peace be with
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you, friends. You and I need to grab hold of this truth that
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no matter what we go through in our life, Jesus saying, peace be
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with you, because a lot of times we are in situation whereby it robs
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us of our peace. The moment you get medical report. Don't you think
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we focus on the medical report, then our future the moment, don't let's
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or even go so far, friends, because I know a lot of people
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here only go to take medical report when we are asked to, forced to,
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or we feel something wrong with our body. Buying new clothes, all
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sudden you're the size should be wearing for the past five years, and the
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anymore you're looking in the in the changing room, looking at the excess you
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cannot even baton the last one. You're asking yourself, maybe I should lose
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weight. Thereforeever that day, right all you could think of that, I
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think I need to lose weight because I can't fit anymore. We focus on
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things, friends, that doesn't give us peace. When performance appraiser is deal,
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everybody gets something. You get something, but it's lesser per see,
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I did equal work, Friends, when Jesus speaks to us, it give
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us perfect peace in the midst of the storm. We need to know this
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truth because there are days in our life that's coming. Everybody, it's going
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to rob us from the peace. When you are in the operation theater all
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by yourself, you need to know that Jesus is saying to your peace be
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with you. When you're in the exam hole all by yourself. You don't
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know how to answer. Friends, I've been there, do not know how
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to answer the examt question. You need to know that God said you peace
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be with you in the midst of that lawyer that you're sitting in front of
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trying to work out and negotiation. Peace be with you because God is going
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to always going to bring us to a place where might we depend more on
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him. It says it was strengthy. Then when he said this, he
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showed them his hands. Friends, Jesus began to reveal himself even more,
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show them the palm, should them discuss and show them decides. He wants
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to reassure every disciples that was there, it's really him right. So therefore,
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let me introduce your character called Thomas. What's twenty four Thomas? If
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your name here is Thomas. Please don't be offended because I'm reading from the
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Bible, right, so if I'm referencing Thomas, Okay, I'm referencing from
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the Bible. Okay, now now what's tenty four? Now? Thomas called
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the tree one of the twelfh was not with them when Jesus came. Thomas
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to me from the Bible. Here speaks about every believer I've met. Because
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it worse Training four said Thomas was not there when Jesus appeared, it says
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in most training. Five. Other disciples therefore said to him, we have
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seen the Lord. We have saw the scars on his palm, felt the
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sex of his body. We have experienced Jesus for ourselves. I won't let
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you know that Jesus is real. Like most believer I know, they go
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like, yeah, that's you, that is you. Like we have taught
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people in church, come for homes. Homes is exciting, it's great.
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Come and joining a small group, that's you, couple. Church, church
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is exciting. In church, you will never yawn, right, No,
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so I have yawning. I'm funny to say. This is what Thomas said
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to Jesus. Okay, this is what Thomas said, the disciples already to
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Jesus Verse twenty five. Other disciples therefore said to him, we have seen
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the Lord. And this is what Thomas answered. Unless I see in his
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hands the print, first condition, I must see the prince first. I
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must see his print. I must see his print. Therefore I believe no
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need that not only see the I must therefore put rou the print first condition.
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Not seeing enough, I got to feel it for myself. And that's
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why sometimes when we ask people to serve, where we ask people go for
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missus. Unless a lot speaks to me in true Malayian kinney, I will
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now believe my name has to appear somehow. I I must connect. I
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must ask the impossible. Therefore, I only can believe unless God showed to
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be my bank account increased by tomorrow, give me this deal. There only
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I serve it cannot be friends because Thomas was like that. Thomas said that
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unless I see his hands the print, put my finger into the print,
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put my hand to his side. Then only I believe how many how many
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people? Right now? You know I always asking. Unless it's a lot,
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show up now and speak to me personally, I would now believe that's
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why the takeup is very low globally for missions. The Lord had to speak
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to me very clearly. The Lord has to speak to me very clearly.
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Then only I believe, friends, is what Thomas as. I must see
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his hands. I must see the scars. No, I must see the
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scars right and I need to put to the scars. I need to put
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to his side picture right now, all of you here, right now,
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Jesus, you are Jesus. You're ministry through the child of Disciples. Right
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now, you are Jesus and you can want disciples? Is that really you?
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Lord? Come on, show me your hands, then I believe.
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Not only show me hands, No, I got to feel whether this would
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is real or not. I got to feel your sights because I heard that
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you were at the site. Here it's almost like this. I want all
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of you all to tell your mom right now, are you really my mother?
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How do I know you're reading my mother? How do I know you're
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really my mom? Unless I know that you went to all that labor pains.
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I know if anyone of your ask your mom right now, are you
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really my mom? I can guarantee you you'll be up here. It you
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really you get slapped all. Notice that the worst things that your health will
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be taken away. You'll be like your mom. Forgive me. This is
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what Thomas asked as a three conditions. And too many believers right now are
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like Thomas, God, you got to give me three signs and then only
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I believe showing if I do on me is not enough. I got to
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feel your hands to see where it is real or not. Maybe you draw
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it, maybe cosmetic, you draw on your palmner like bleeding like that.
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No, the ass asks with the sights, and that's what happened. That's
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why we never had the brick too, because all the time we are walking
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by sight. All the time in our Christian faith, we have been walking
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by sight. All these homes are other homes. Are got more food your
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homes. It's always fright Rice. It cannot be friends, come on church.
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It cannot be just because today which she plays elliot, I should borrowing
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when I know fass all. It cannot be because if it goes go by
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side, that's why everything goes downhill. Every time you look at your age
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on your passport, wow, two more years to fifty, two more years
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to fifty. Wow, what have I been doing my life. Every time
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you look at your age, you go and get more depressed. Don't look
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by side every time you see your boss like work, how boss are you
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pre law? Come on it? So, therefore, friends second quarters five
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or seven say, therefore we are not to walk by side by by faith,
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Thomas asked for a side. And this is what Jesus did. Jesus,
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you know why he went to He was whipped, he was bruised,
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he was spent upon, and all of a sudden, Thomas, any front
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of Jesus, are you the real Jesus? You get the imagine right now?
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Right? You went through so much everything. Let's say mom went through
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so much to give birth to us, and the sun asking are you my
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mom? Of course you'll get wet, of course gets coding. Of course,
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who told you I'm not your mom? This is what Jesus said to
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Thomas. Okay, Jesus did not reject Thomas. If you were Jesus,
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you will weet your disciples really right, not come on right now, Come
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on right now. If your sun would ask you are you my mom?
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Most Mammy will actually give a long lecture, right not at least you'll give
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because you went through so much you care with for nine months, the pain
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and everything like that. But this is what Jesus said to Thomas in Worse
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twenty six, And the ad disciples appeared inside again that Thomas was. Then
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Jesus came the door it amiss, it stood in a miss and say peace
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to you. He did not zero in on Thomas and say, Thomas,
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I heard what you ask of me, that disciple. Jesus did not say
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to Thomas that I heard you asked me for my science. You know,
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I went to for you, not I got spelled, I got wecked,
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I did all. I went to all that for you. You're asking me
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whether I'm Jesus not. Most time we reject people like that because they take
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us for grunted for all right. But Jesus said to Thomas, peace be
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with you friends, You and I this morning, friends, no matter what
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your went true, matter what doubt that you have, I want to let
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you know that Jesus is saying to you that peace to be with you shows
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the acceptance of love. Jesus know what everyone's journey is, he says to
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Thomas, And this is my hands, this is my sight. Fel it
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for yourself. But even after that feel even after showing my friends if the
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after revealing to Thomas is what Jesus said to him in Worse twenty seven,
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he said, the top us, reach your finger here, look at my
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hands, reach your hands here, put it at my sights. The last
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words to not be unbelieving but belief. Do not be unbelieving but beliefs.
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After you experience everything, you can still not believe. On you know,
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you just heard an amazing testimony. Someone cancer, Marca went down, Someone's
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cancer Marcael went down. Your faith should be like whoa. Your face should
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be like yay, but instay like unless I experience it for myself, I
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would not believe. Unless experience it for myself, I won't believe. It
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cannot be friends. Your faithness the words that rejoice. If God can do
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it for Elaine, God can do it for my life. That's how it
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is friends, when we come together. When you hear a testimony of faith,
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issue the words stirs on to believe. But Thomas, even after doing
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all that, feeling Jesus, that's why you said to say, do not
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be unbelieving but belief. You can experience amazing priess and worship amazing preaching.
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In fact, you have all the Bible version in your house, you should
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not believe it's true. You should not believe because believing the Bible says Jesus
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said that blessed adults who have not seen yet belief, just like Jesus the
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minister to Thomas, blessed adols who have not seen yet believe. Therefore,
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friends, right now, Savil might be thinking, yeah, although you know,
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great preaching, but you know, if you're only knew, tend to
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tis a visa it's a bit more adoptish. Now, let's excuse the word
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towards a doubt right now. Just have used a lot of fuss. Someone
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you know really like gets us going by. Now it's like you start slow
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them after the second songs and almost worshiped rely them praying between the after my
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most my more last song. Then that's it so different though I grew up
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in this shit back then, when people are younger and light that we can
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jump. Now now it's like older, like everyone seems to be at right
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now we go like a doubt series the senior fellowship. After that, then
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there's like then at the place the way it's more lively. This is like
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m First, it cannot be friends. Come on, we don't go by
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side. Doesn't mean I got normal head, doesn't mean I'm getting old,
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I think. So it cannot be friends. That just because things are different
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now that our passion changes, cannot be because if we're going to be led
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by sight, then what happens is that then Malayian no Hoper. Malaysian no
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Hoper have been entertaining a lot of conversations to be asked to me, Yeah,
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why don't you migrate? Why don't you migrate? If you need to
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migrate, we can make a ration for you my grade. I can help
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you, make a ration for you. I make a ration for you,
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my grate. I said, why do I need to my grade? I'm
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caught. I'm born in Malaysia. I'm most worried will die here. This
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is my country and that's God called me. I won't leave and this is
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a good land. We have to see to the lands of faith. It
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cannot be if this land is really the word it says. If this land
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doesn't have any hope, then the Bible says that you are the light and
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salt of the earth. Therefore, let your lights shine before men. And
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what happens body the Christianity here is this that? Or those who are serving
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are called more committer Christian. Those are not serving I just called Christian.
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The Bible says in Mettic chapter five, Year of the Light, there's no
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such thing as more committer light less committer light. There is no demon switch
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in the light. Friends, there is no demon switch in the light.
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Sorry, I'm just going okay, I'm just very passionate about this topic.
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There is no demons stitch, but a lot of Christian. The word is
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that the first show is a commuter Christian, that the commitment just goes down
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the road. The last show is this Christian. There's no such The Bible
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not say that the light therefore there's a demo site right now the intensity get
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turns on me? You like it? No, I don't off on the
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light switch either your lights on or its off. And many times if you
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end to think the thought, there's a demon suite. That's why our faith
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gets challenged. Why do we doubt? I tell you why we doubt redoubt
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only because we've been so lies by Satan. Yeah. God created a very
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powerful couple in Genesis chapter three, chapter one, Adam and Eve when Satan
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came to Eva eva us alone. And this is what happens when you're alone
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all the time. As since Dragmes the one come to church. Not really,
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and this is what happens. Satan will come and soul lies. The
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God really said this. How can you believe? Are you sure not?
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They say a healing fake cancer market job doesn't mean heal. If it was
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you, you'll be praising God. Come on, if if you were going
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chow, then you'll be praising God every change progress, you'll be lip big
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and praising God. But just because it's not you, it cannot be lah
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dropped one year, I can guarantee you one must go up again. One
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See see where Satan's going with this conversation? Yeah, they say, you
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give unto the law of God, will multiply back to you. I yeah,
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only a few people on you. And see where Satan is taking your
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thoughts to serve? Are the only one your time? On you? One?
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The only one your time? When they after they use you, they
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chew your side, use by they put your cold storage. All these secular
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talks of put your friends. There's no cool storage in extras because our eco
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is very warm. Sorry, lame joke. But that's true. That's what
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Satan six to do. The one is that I isolate you, catch you
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when you're alone and respot to you. Don't serve. I should. They
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got really tell you to serve. They got really say this to you.
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It can be that God let you to this company right and your work over
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time? Friends, what's wrong with all time? It can be friends,
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God let you know place and there you are dub thing can win the time.
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God let me to you. God let me you to me. Problems
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the time? God, where are you are? It can be that God
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cannot help me to look at marriage in your marriage conflicts, Frans is what
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I'm trying to sell. That was this morning, that if you're going to
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continue to go by sight, you'll not see a big True. That's why
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it met after all the experience. Some doubt that Jesus gave a very specific
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instruction go. Why do we need to go? It is because in going
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you get to experience the Holy Spirit. In going you get to experience the
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Holy Spirit. Many times, a lot of people ask for more power in
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worship songs, more power, more live, right, But what's the point
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of more if it's only for ourselves. Think about it. What's the point
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of God pouring up more power in a congregation? May don't go out because
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I realize power is resteductive. One urma urma nice. You when you're in
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power, you want more. One when you when you look at a better
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couple, grayer, you want more. On right, everything we want more
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except the fast around or sesia that want to be done more. But everything
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else you want more one, more power, more influenced, more lights,
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more followers. You get the trios. Well, finally you got one thousand
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million lighting your tweets. But if it's just more like their friends, that's
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why God fighting. If I had to pot something, If you're not going
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to be channeling into someone else, there's a going is very important. There's
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like it follows back to Genesis ship to twelve. I will bless you and
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you'll be a blessing. I'll bless you and you'll be a blessing. But
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a lot of people just focus our first part. God bless me, God
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bless me, Thank you Lord, thank you Jesus. Then where's the other
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second part? Then where's the second part? Because if our faith is going
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to grow, we have to go. If you want to grow your faith.
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You have to go, because in going, the Bible says you get
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experienced. So go therefore and make disciples of all nation. It did not
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give you, it gives a very specific blue print. Here as I bring
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the smashes to close the next fifteen minutes, God's asking us a big disciple.
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This is why I want to challenge your over us. Here. You
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see these empty chairs around you. A pressure souls needs to sit at this
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chest. If you're going to go by sight on your this chest so empty,
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l this so big, cannot feel friends, we started the church.
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Joy knows this. She walked up in a service whereby there's only three big
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sized gentlemen there one round table. She can walk in, but she can
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she find you had to walk up because there's only one exit door. I
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thought, by God's grace, to God's divine intervention. But she stayed.
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She and the sisters stayed. Some psycho girl, these two ladies, or
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they stayed. I remember the first time when we had a barbecue night.
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Joy volunteered and the sister, we will cook, we will marring it the
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chicken. The chicken turn out to be the words that she followed through the
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word, we are salt of the earth. Everybody that took a bite off
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a bit gets reminder of Chapter five. We are salt of the earth.
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It's a good reminder that we are salt. Subsequently, we have to wash
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every chicken because too salty. I'm sharing all this you because I tell you
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why. If you're gonna go by sight, there a lot of things,
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even a personal life, you're not going to achieve it, never, never
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going to achieve it. Because if you want everything to be perfect, then
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only you move very hard. If a company is perfect, they won't hire
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you because you are You are abnormally in equation. But if and if you
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understand the principle of God by faith, when you go into any place to
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transform and change, things would now be the same. I got to believe,
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friends, the homes wherever I get planted cannot be boring. I got
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to believe that serving a long precious people cannot be dow. I gotta believe,
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as I age, that my energy, my passion fall cannot be diminish.
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I gotta believe that you know, we have great people in our church
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and not just boring. I gotta believe, friends, that to the lens
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of faith that we have the best youth ministry and taste ministry. You've miss.
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Ministry is not based on how you dress, because when I was asked
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to do youth ministry, I died by the grace. I was just studying.
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I just had dinner with Ellie and Christavelle. I was just studying Ellie
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that no I got. I remember picking up go for an event. The
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mom was so worried. The mom was in front of the door. She
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got into my car. The mom was looking at who is this ball,
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gentleman, big size picking up my daughter for a church event. I was
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saying, thank God, your mom did not stop me for going to church.
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For it. You got to believe that God now will meet the mistake
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one. So therefore, friends, are you going to work by faith or
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by sight? So I got to just finish up one more point where you
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all. Then I'll close and pray. The reason why we are called to
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participate in missions is because you and I, You and I are given a
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mandate to go and not to stay. To go and not to stay to
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go and not to stay. As believers, we are called to be live
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and solved the earth. And therefore, friends, many times We are not
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called to be full time missionary. God has never asked you to be a
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full time missionary unless He specifically caught you. But obviously I called to be
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witness for Christ. So ill be what the old missions means has to be
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full time missions has to be uncomfortable. Missions meeds to go to a place.
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We are toilets without without egghorn, which just means there's no no hot
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water. It can be because if all that is stopping you from missions,
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if all they're stopping you from missions, you think about it, what God
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say, Actually go in Melbourne, X menman to serve there for three months.
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Then you then your story cheating. But how do you must understand ext
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chu high? First of all we complain no, no toilets, no no,
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no proper baiting, no hot water. Then God said, no,
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I didn't ask you go to or Austly as you go Melbourne, well you
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still go. How do you must understand exchange you expensive a ticket, expensive,
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even all that is provided for? Well used still go? Because going
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has never been about what was prepared. Going has always been about the heart.
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With this, I'm going to close and challenge of us here the reason
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why why we don't respond. It is because with doubt, and with doubt,
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because we don't see things to how Jesus saw things. When Jesus saw
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the multitudes, the Bible says he was moving compassion. When Jesus saw the
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multitudes, he was moved with compassion. When you see people? What comes
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to your heart? When you see people? What comes your heart? When
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you see a girl people? What comes your heart? But they deserve the
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gospel. They don't deserve the gospel. They deserve your attention. They don't
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deserve your attention. When you see people? What what comes to your heart?
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No point? I design always think of wantage of people. When you
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see people, what the words? What stirs within your heart? The Bible
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says, when Jesus saw the maltitude, he was moving compassion. He likened
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them like ship without a shepherd left for slaughter. It can be friends that
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you and I are moved by a big church. I'm not getting big chest,
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but you're moved by the exterior. But we're not moving compassion people.
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I was asked one time, why did I start a certain homes far away
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where it travels for one hour gem I just said this. I saw good
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people that takes about one and a half hours to get to homes. The
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homes in the area. Just go ahead and start a one has to pay
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a sacrifice. That's it. Did it for ten years because say bring it
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into the chapter close. But it's that in the obedience, friends, it's
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what goes after? What do you see? Friends? Oh? No,
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this server because every time I come at there's more than sufficient homes. Then
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no need. Every time I come with so many people, shake my hand
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myself enough one to give because this is such a big chest. Right,
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I just tiponne can be friends. When God saw the multitude, he was
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moved with compassion. When we saw this place, we will move by faith
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that this will be our ground for X number of years. We don't know
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how long we're gonna have this place, but we truly know that if God
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ask us to go, will go. We're not where a sentiment up about
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places. One you go out to say, will stay? What do you
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see, friends? What do you see? Why don't we goes? Because
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we don't see through the eyes of Jesus. That's why we doubt. When
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Peter was asked of water, the moment his eyes got of Jesus, out
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of the wave he begins to sing, and that's what God is speaking to
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us this morning. He wants us to see through the length of faith everything
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that you do. It can be at your business place or so. It
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is so hard, It is so hard. Where is your faith? Where
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is your faith? We are called to speak to mouths, not confessed problems.
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Where is your faith? Extra It can be that older people has less
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of zeal. If you for us only the expression of zeal, then we
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missed the point. It can be that the moment you reach a certain asia,
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we can put our faith on sima. There's so much more. Installed
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A lady came up for am survey. She was in the sixties. Her
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one prayers is God, please use me more, because I do not want
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to exist without being fully used by the Lord. I do want to leave
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these places there was fully maximized by the Lord. It can be, friends,
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see how passions I am. It can be. As I close right
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now, I pray that you allow God to speak into your heart. Really,
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our life here it's so precious. We really do not know what tomorrow.
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May hope it's true, but you have today, and that's why it's
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so important that today, if we hear the words of the Lord. Do
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not harden your hearts today. If we hear the words of Lord, do
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I say that, maybe I'll respond tomorrow. Don't be like Thomas I say
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that, God, I know you are speaking to me about faith. Therefore
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you got to show me these signs then on. Yeah, I believe,
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even after God show you everything, do you still believe? You hear testimony
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after testimony, do you still believe? What more do you? What more
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do you want Jesus to proof? Do you think about it? What more
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must he do to convince you that He is your personal lot and savior?
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What more must He showed to you right in your own journey, right that
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she is the author of your faith. We hope you've been blessed by this
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