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The Word Of God Rules | Elder Rosalind Ang
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You're listening to a message to go from AX Church. We hope this message
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will light up your day. I have been reading the Book of Joshua.
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How many of you have read the Book of Joshua before? Do you like
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the book? Yeah? It's a very very encouraging book. And I just
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sense, prophetically, prophetically, as a church, we are entering into new
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season, new ground. Amen. Yeah, okay, so I wanna bring
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back the joy of salvation. Amen. We are entering a sense that we
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are entering into, um, you know, a new season, new ground
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that we are taking. And you know how Book of Josha starts right,
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Moses is dead, yes, right, the all is gone right, and
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there's a new leadership and his name is Joshua and he's supposed to bring the
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children of God into the Promise. Like, do you want to enter the
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Promised Land? Yeah? Do you think you're there already? Yes? Some
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convinced? Are some of you? Like? What is the Promised Land?
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What does it look like? Asked the us those who are there already?
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Okay, what does it look like? What's the Promised Land? But um,
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you know, in a sense, it's it's taking territory for God.
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It's taking territory in your life that is under the subject of the Kingdom of
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darkness? Do you know what I'm saying? Do you know that right now,
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as we are living right now, there is a battle? Do you
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know that? Hey, you're thinking like Noah, my Christian militia very safe
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right there is no war? Um, you know, just a side track.
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Elopin Hole just came back from his mission trip to Xmanmr. Whoa yeah,
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and he's back safely, praised God. Do you know that Myanmar is
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a warton country? Every now and then they hear bombings. Yeah, That's
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that's how real it is. The military can go around putting churches on fire
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and destroy houses and chase you out of your house because you're a Christian.
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That is real war. Or we are not living in that physical war,
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but we are living in a spiritual war. We're living in an emotional war.
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We are living in an intellectual war right now. Do you know that
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you're a war because some of us, right we just like I don't know,
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ma, so I just live my life as it is. But I
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want to tell you right now that we are fighting a very real war and
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many of us are sadly losing. We are using to the enemy because we
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do not know God's word. And so do you know that In see the
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thing about Joshua, he was conquering new land. Yes, scary or not
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to go into a new land. I don't know some of you entering into
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a new season. I feels it's very scary. I don't know what to
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expect. I don't know people who they are. Like you know, I
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don't know whether they like me or not. I don't know if I like
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them or not. Right, entering into a new land is always scary,
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and that's why God gives Joshua this command. Let's read from Joshua chapter one,
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right, verse seven. It says, this, only be strong and
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very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which
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Moses, my servant commanded. You do not turn from it to the right
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hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go extra you
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want a prosper amen verse This book of the Law shall not depart from your
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mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may
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observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you
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will make your way prosperous, then you will have good success. Have I
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not commanded you be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid nor
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be dismayed. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
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Amen. Do you believe that? Do you believe that God is with you
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wherever you go? Amen? Receive that. Receive that into your spirit.
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I don't know your circumstances. I don't know what you're going through, but
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I know God is with you. And many times that's enough, right,
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Because we we have a temptation to want to know everything before we trust God.
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But God says, no, trust me first, and then I will
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show you. That's what faith is. Right. Faith is believing without seeing.
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Human nature is show me first, then I believe. Right. Very
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opposite. So are we living with eyes of faith or are we living with
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eyes or facts to show me? The facts prove to me first? Or
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faith? I trust in you, God, I trust in your word?
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Right? And I And I was as I was meditating on this the word
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you see there is a condition to our success. Yes, what is the
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condition? Trust the Lord? Yes? Let's look at verse seven and eight,
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Verse eight in specific, the answer is there an open book test?
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For you, guys, what is the condition for you to be prosperous and
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successful? Meditate on the word of God day and night. You know,
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many a few weeks ago, as I was meditated, I was praying.
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I was like God, you know sometimes we live very conflicted lives. Right,
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It's like, yes, there is all this laws and rules that God
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has commanded us, and we need to obey it. Yes, we need
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to obey it. And yet there's also this power. It says no,
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but you cannot do anything to earn your salvation. Correct. And God,
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show me this picture and is this your salvation? Right? The assurance of
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your salvation, it's only by the work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
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Amen. No one else can do it for you, not even yourself.
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Do we get that clear? The assurance of our salvation as we believe put
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our faith in Jesus Christ, and that he died on the cross for us
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out our sins, and we are forgiven and now we can live a new
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life to God. That's only that's done. It is finished, and it
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is God's work. Amen. So nothing you do, nothing you don't do,
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can change that fact. Yes, Jesus died and rose again two thousand
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years ago, and that's why we are here today. The faith is still
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alive. But then our faith is that foundation. Correct, our salvation is
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that foundation. We cannot do anything but but God told me very specifically.
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But if you want to live your life on earth, there's two choices.
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You choose life or you choose death. You obey or you disobey, you
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will receive the blessings and all the curses. Yes, are you tracking with
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me? Old Testament it's there, and you think that it's not true.
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In the New Testament it is as well. Obey God, Obey God,
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obey God. If you disobey, then there are consequences. Do you know
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that as Christians? Right, we are safe in the Lord. I ask
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you to jump off from the fourth building for flaw of this building. Do
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you think you'll survive or not? There are consequences? Right. You might
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say I'm the son of God, I'm a son of got. Any of
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you jumped out right, you will still fall and break your neck. Correct,
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So our identity, our salvation in God. That's done and stilk.
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But we still have a choice to make daily whether we choose life or death.
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Amen. Every day, it's a choice. Every day, it's a
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choice to walk in obedience or disobedience. So you know, and I'm thinking,
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Wow, God, this is the truth? Is um how I want
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to live my life? And I pray that that will be your guiding light
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in how you choose to live your life right the Book of the the So
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there's a condition to success. There's a condition also to failure. The success
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is when you how will you make your way prosperous and successful? According to
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the Book of Joshua, what does it say when you meditate on the law?
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The Book of the Law, when once a year, day and night?
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Hello, have you been doing it? Yes? Okay, let's be
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honest, Ah, how many of us are meditating on the world of God
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day and night? Not easy? Right? Okay? It's light at ona.
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When you regard to it right, you will you'll be an outron.
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Trust me. Every day I regard to it, you'll be an outron.
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But it's okay. It's good for us. Engaging with God's word right has
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been one of the most challenging but also the most rewarding part of my life.
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Every day, every day I look forward to go into God's ward and
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say, God, what is it that you want to talk to me today.
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Yeah. I cannot overstress the importance of meditating on God's law day and
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night, day and night, day and night, because how if we don't
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meditate on the word of God? What are we meditating on? What?
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Social media? News, report, Instagram, Twitter, everything else except the
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word of God? And you wonder I know why I'm feeling so Sadah,
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Well, if you're so negative, of course, Uh, you're allowing all
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the negative stuff into your head, right, So, so who's who's that
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fault here? Right? It's not that my personality is broken or something is
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wrong with me. It's what I've allowed into my mind. My mind gate
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is so important, guys, it's so so important. I cannot stress how
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important it is for us to God what's happening here? Because it is as
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a man thinketh so is he? So if you're well, I know you're
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thinking. Well, if you are not so well, then there is some
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renewing that we need to do. Amen. If you're not feeling like you
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can rejoice right now? I think there's some renewing that needs to be done
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in our minds. All right, So meditate on God's law day and night,
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day and night and What is this book of Law that Joshua was referring
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to. Do you know what's what when it says the Book of the Law,
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what is that? Words of God? Which words of God? Let's
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be specific, the Torah? What is in the Torah? Name me the
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five books in the Torah? Oh? Not very true. I encourage you
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to open your Bible. Go to the table of contents and look at the
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first five books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers and due Toronomy. Well
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done, Okay, this is Jewish class one oh one? Do you know
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that for Joshua and the people of Israel, what kind of Bible did they
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have? Do you think they had this Bible? No? Right, they
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had scrolls, and it's all not bound in one book. In fact,
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they had five books. And it is this Book of the Law that they
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meditated day and night, you know, throughout the year, once they finished
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reading Genesis all all the way. Hot. Okay, let me ask on
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this question, how many of you have ever finished the first five books of
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the Bible? Can I see your hands? Wow? Okay? One?
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Two? Hey, be proud, be proud, Come on, lift out
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your hands. I want to see. Okay, about thirty percent of you
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good. The rest of us the seventy Um. There needs to be some
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studying to be done. Okay, Um, do you know that this book
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of the law Um is something that okay, let me ask you this question.
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What was Jesus's Bible? Anyone know? Hey, Jesus did Bible study?
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You know? Did you know that Jesus studied the Bible? What?
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What? What version of the Bible did he study? Answers? There where
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the Torah? Jesus read the Torah because it was his scripture. Now,
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if we claimed to be followers of Jesus, right, yes, then we
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need to read what he reads of right now. I hope that's an encouragement
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for you to want to read more of God's word and to understand what it
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is. Do you know that when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, right
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after fasting for forty days, the devil comes to him and attacks him.
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And the devil comes and attacks you every day. What did Jesus use to
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fend off these attacks of the enemy the word of God? And do you
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know three times the devil says, oh you are hungry, right Jesus forty
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days? Ready? Now you command these stones to turn into bread. And
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what did Jesus say, What did Jesus say, you shall not live on
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bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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Where did he get that? Deuteronomy? He what Deuteronomy? Yes, Jesus
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quoted Deuteronomy second command? Second challenge? What what did the devil tell him?
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Well, I bring you up to this high point in the temple right
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and you know what it's like. Can you imagine your on Tokios tower now,
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yes, a lot of people looking at you right now on Tokios tower.
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And the devil commanded told him like, oh, if you are the
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son of God testing your identity, if you claim that you are a daughter
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of God, Princess of God, Prince of God, then throw yourself down,
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because God already say he would command his angels to catch you. But
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what did Jesus say, you shall not tem the Lord? Where from Deuteronomy?
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And the and the same goes for the third challenge? So can you
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see how important Deuteronomy is? And that's why I studied Deuteronomy because I want
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to know what Jesus studied. I want to be as good, not as
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Goola, but I want to see the things right. My personal mantra now
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is if Jesus did it, then I want to do it. If Jesus
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read that, then I want to read it. If Jesus acted in a
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certain way, then I want to be like him. I want to respond
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like, do you know why? Because you were supposed to be more like
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him? Yes, that's it. If you say you are a follower of
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Christ, you are a student of Christ, then you will study the life
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of Jesus. You will study how did he get his power, his authority
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to do everything that he did? And you realize it was because he spent
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time with his father, He spent time praying, He sought the Lord.
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You know the song that we're saying earlier. I thought the Lord, and
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he heard and he answered. And every time I seek the lot in the
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morning, I find the answer is here. How many of you do that
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that when you are faced with a challenge, the first response is what does
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God words? Say? We're very good with let's google first, right,
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Yes, let's google first. Or let's go and ask my parents first,
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or let's go and ask the guru's first, or the experts first. But
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how many of us actually say, what does God's safest. What does God's
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safest I'm feeling angry with this person? What does God God's words say?
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Do not let the sun go down while you're still angry? Right, So,
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so why do we not go to God when when we claim he has
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all the answers? Do you believe that God has all the answers? Do
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you believe that God has all the answers? Speak that to yourself. I
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believe because if you believe, then you will act in accordance to your belief.
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See, the thing is right. Your action tells me what you believe.
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Don't tell me what you believe. Don't just profess what you believe.
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Or I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe that he's the son of God.
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I just believe all this. Right, But he has no impact on
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your life. Then your belief is just in your hate. It's like a
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philosophy. It's like a good philosophy, right, But if it does not
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translate into how you live your life, then he has no power, no
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power. You might have a form of religion, but no power. How
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many Christians here feel like you don't have the power of God. Like when
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people look at you, I'm like, whoa that man or that woman is
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operating in the power of God. Why not. It's because we can have
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a form of religion. We can show up in church. We can give,
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we can't serve. We can preach. I'm talking to myself. I
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can preach a powerful message. But if I go back and talk back to
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my husband or to my children, then there's there's no power of God in
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my life. I can mistreat, you know, my colleagues, or talk
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down to my ordinates. Then I'm a hypocrite. Yes, one hand,
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I look so polished outside, but inside it's all bones and rust and things
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that you hide. When when you put up your life before the latter in
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this light, in the light of God, right, what would you see?
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What would God see? Oh? God see when he examine you under
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the microscope, Like you know, we cannot see. I cannot see what's
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going on for you insight, right, I cannot see what's going on in
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your mind, in your heart. But God will lift you up and he
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will examine you under the light of his word, and he will say,
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oh wow, so this is where you are. God knows you might fool
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everyone else, but you can't fool yourself. And you can't fool God true.
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HT checker, HT check, it's a hot one. I want to
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read to you from Deuteronomy chapter four and again. This is just emphasizing again
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on just the word of God, the Word of God, the Word of
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God. You know, the reason why we are weak Christians is because we
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do not know the Word of God for ourselves. And I want to say
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that in my encounter in my ministry and counseling with different ones over the years,
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I realized that Christians don't have a good cross of God's word for yourself.
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You cannot live on a forty minute preaching on a Sunday, you cannot.
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I'm telling you you are starving yourself. You are starving your spirit.
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Man. This is an old message, right, and you've probably heard me
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say it so many times. But I see that is the exact reason why
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Christians do not overcome, because we overcome by the word of God. Right,
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we could overcome our situations by the word of God. So if you
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don't have the Word of God, then I must preach this to you.
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Guys. You need to take the word of God for yourself. Really,
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nothing else, no guru, no wisdom, no degree, no university degree
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or PhD is going to help you accept the word of God. You know,
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I asked this at the eight am this morning. Do you love God?
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Oh? Wow, let's do that again. Do you love God,
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then you must love God's word. God's word must be central of your life.
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Nothing else. God's word. First thing in the morning. What do
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you input into your mind? Your phone? Right? Right? The phone
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is a it's a good and it is a bad thing. Right. It
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enables us to do a lot of things, but it also distracts us like
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crazy. Yeah, think about it. How much time do you spend on
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your social media? How much time do you spend trying to engage God's word
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for yourself? What's the proportion ninety ten, ninety ten or nine ninety ten?
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Then good lad, you're tiding your time unto the Lord. But many
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of us don't even hit that. No, true, true, I'm speaking
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the truth. So we need if we want to stand strong, we want
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to stand strong as believers, we need to put God's with in our heads,
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in our minds, in our hearts, and guard it like nothing else.
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Don't let it leak out from you and be tainted by the world.
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Keep God's worth in your heart. Amen. Amen. So let's read from
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Deuteronomy chapter four. I'm gonna read to you versus four versus one to ten.
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Now, a little bit of context about why Deuteronomy it's called the second
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Lord. Duter role is second law is normals dunnomy due to roll normals second
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Lord. This was a second reminder to the children of Israel. Why did
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they need a second reminder? Do you know why? Why? Because they
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broke the first law? Yes? Correct? What else? Why do you
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think you know? Sometimes you read the Bible? Real God, you're very
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chunk here? You say really one time? What you say again? Why
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do you need to repeat it? A parents' parents? Here? I see
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our parents here? How many times you have to repeat your children? Go
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ahead, babe? Huh? Pick up your clothes? How many times?
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Many times? Because why? As children you're very forgetful? As children,
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we can be rebellious. I'm talking to children here. If you're all children,
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right, that means all of us lah rebellious because we don't take it
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as good The first commanment not good enough. But basically, why there was
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a need for the second time of going through the whole log and how many
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of you actually find it very difficult. Go to read Old Testament like Liberticus
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and numbers whose favorite book? Anyone favorite book God? Wow? No,
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no, no, no no. It's like no, no, no,
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no, I'm just stretching my neck. It's challenging to read these books.
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But the more I read it with the context of trying to say, God,
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what are you trying to say here? The more I see who God
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is. Do you know that when you read the Bible right, it's not
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about you know God. It's not about just your circumstances or your situations.
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I know, I say the answers are all in the world of God,
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right. But the reason why we engage with the Word of God is because
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we want to engage God himself. We want to know Him. That is
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our entire life's purpose. Can I sum up for you, those of you
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who are searching for your life's purpose, and anyone asking what is the purpose
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of my life? Can I give it to you right now? Is to
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know Him? To know God. And when you know Him, you will
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worship Him, and you will serve him. See the things right, You
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will not serve him and you will not worship him when you don't know him.
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Do you see that there is a sequence there. You need to know
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him first before you will worship him and serve him. I don't know where
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you are right now. Maybe we're on all spectrum. Right, It's like
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I don't know even I don't even know God. Some of you you're new
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here. It's okay. I'm telling you. I wanted to share with you
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this God that I know, my personal God, and he is so good,
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so powerful. Know him before you worship him and serve him. Amen.
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That is to some of our entire life's purpose. What. Yes,
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And when you know this as your anchor, nothing else matters. Job a
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job B job See, doesn't matter, cit a cit b. God,
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You you send me where I'm supposed to be. I'm just here to serve
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humor. Right, So it doesn't matter whether I'm in prison like Joseph,
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or I'm serving in Portiva's house as a servant, or i am the ruler
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over the entire Egypt. It doesn't matter where I am. I'm serving you.
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That's the that's the underlying key to our purpose in life. Amen.
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Right, And so see, I haven't read it, um. Yeah,
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I wanted to give it the context of this um and just a quick one
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is that. Um, This was a time when Moses was handing over the
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leadership to the to Joshua. Yes, could Moses enter the Promised Land?
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Did Moses entered the Promise Land? No? Why? Why they go and
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compare and reo Bible. Okay, the answers are there. But basically he
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disobeyed God. He angered God, and God says, okay, because of
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this, you will not be able to enter the promise. You can see
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it, Oh God, it quite quite teaser, God, God says,
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you can go off to this mountain. You can see see a look see
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it, look see, but you cannot enter because of your disobedience. But
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anyway, Um, the Book of Deuteronomy was written one week before Moses died.
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Huh, can you imagine next week, your next Sunday. You know
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that you're supposed to be with a lot ready, right, what would you
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do it this week? Think about it? And this is what Moses did.
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He's like, Okay, next week, I'm gonna breathe my last And
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that's why I need to give this law again to a new generation. Right,
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this is not a repeat to the same generation. What happened to the
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old generation? They died in the wilderness. All of them died. So
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this new generation that he's speaking to right now, can you imagine if I
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Moses right now, right like he's talking right now, you know, and
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someone's recording it Deuteronomy and he's talking to this generation. He's said, you
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guys were like little bits of kids. You know, when your parents walk
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through the Red Sea, you probably can't even remember what you ate because you
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were so young. But now that your parents are gone, this new generation,
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I need to give you God's laws again so that you may be careful
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to observe it. Do you know, do you understand the context of Deuteronomy?
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Now? Why it's so important for this narration to accept God's word for
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themselves? Because God doesn't have grandchildren, right, God only has children,
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and every one of us need to enter into the covenant with God for ourselves,
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right. And so that's why Moses gave the children of Israel now the
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young ones that have grown up, and says, this is the charge for
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you. So let's read from chapter four, verses one to ten. He
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says, now, oh Israel, or now subang Jayatan thirty listen to the
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statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe that you may live and
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go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving
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you. You should not add to the word which I command you, nor
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take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God,
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which I command you. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at
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Baa Pure. For the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the
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men who followed Baal of Pure. But you who held fast to the Lord
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your God are alive today. Amen, every one of you. Surely I
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have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my God commanded me,
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that you should act according to them in the language you go to possess.
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Therefore, be careful to observe them, for this is your wisdom and
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your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes
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and say, surely, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
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For what great nation is there that God that has got so near to it,
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as the Lord our God is to us for whatever reason we may call
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upon him. And what great nation is there that there is such statutes and
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righteous judgments as are all in this law which I set before you this day,
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only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget
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the things your eyes have seen, lest they depart from your heart all the
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days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren,
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especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord, your God in horror,
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when the Lord said to me, gather the people to me, and I
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will let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all
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day, all the days they live on the earth, and that they may
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teach their children. Amen. Amen, this is the word of God.
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Receive that now. Just from this ten verses, I capture five big themes,
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right, five points that I think will be useful for us to live.
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Right. Okay, let me ask you one thing. How many of
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you right think that you are more of a lawbreaker or law follower? Can
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I see law follower? Okay? That the rest of you that didn't put
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out your hands means your lawbreaker? Is it? Yes? Thank you?
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This morning? Also, someone was very honest. Story way, I see
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any of your lawbreaker? Waw the hand go out so fast? And some
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of us might might live our lives thinking, Hey, rules are made to
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be broken, right, that's our philosophy. In life, rules are made
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to be broken. But no, there's a reason why God gives us loss.
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Right if you go out right now, summit, and then you're driving
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on the route, and then today today is a free law day. Okay,
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you just drive however you want. Can so you want to drive on
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the right side. So ken only find means life? Okay, I better
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speed up. Basically, if you drive however where you want, what's gonna
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happen chaos? So rule number one Principle number one, God's laws are given
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to you to give you life. God's laws are there to give you life.
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Amen. It says that inverse one, it says, listen to the
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state statutes and judgments that I teach you to observe that you may live.
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God is giving you all these commandments so we can live. Sometimes we have
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such an adverse reaction? Will God say these? God say that everything that
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God, you're trying to be a party pooper, right, Why are you
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trying to, you know, make my life so difficult? Six thirteen laws
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in the Old Testament? How many laws in the New Testament? How many
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laws in the New Testament? Sixty two? Ten scholars have themat one thousand
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and fifty. Huh woah? How can more laws in the New Testament?
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When I thought Jesus said, just love God one? But do you know
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that there were so many other teachings? How many do you know? More
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importantly, how many do you live by? Because if you want to live,
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then we obey. Amen. So I encourage you to read your Bible.
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If you want to know what's the one thousand, five hundred, one
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thousand and fifty laws and commands of God, read your Bible because I wouldn't
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have time to teach you, but the Holy Spirit will teach you. Amen.
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God's law would give you life. I want to share a quick I
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think this is an important story, so just bear with me a little bit.
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I'm reading this book now. It is called Exposing the Spiritual Roots of
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Disease, Who Change Right. At first I had the book on my table.
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Then I'm like, no time to read it. But once I started
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read and I'm like, oh my gosh, whoa, these are the keys.
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The writer is a doctor, and he's a practicing medical doctor, and
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he has in his life of practice he has seen that any percent of diseases
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and sickness is caused by a spiritual root. There's a spiritual root to it.
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Right, science can show you that, yeah, there is, you
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know, because your hormones are not secreting well, you know genetically there's something.
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So he says eighty percent. He didn't say a hundred percent. He
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says any percent of every disease, cancer, kidney failure, heart problem,
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heart attack, stress, chronic stress, even mental illness is caused by a
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spiritual root. And so in his work, in his ministry, they have
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something called a being health like a camp like a retreat. And people come
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and you know what he uses to heal them? Do you know what he
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uses to heal them? Or not? Sorry? Prayer some of it?
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Yes, this this is the key to healing cancer, heart disease, blood
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pressure, high BP, schizophrenia. One of the um so in his testament
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in his book right, he shipped um that he thought because everything starts in
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the mind. Everything starts in your brain. What you think, what you
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process? Right? So you know, it's like whatever information we allow here,
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we process process. It's your apula correct right now? It people what
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garbage out? Law? Correct? Simple truth. If you put God's word
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in, then God's words comes out. From your life. And God's what
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gives you life, God's what gives you health. And so there's one story,
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um he he shared about this man um and and so part of mental
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illness, what what causes is one of the spiritual root is fear. Spirit
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of fear. There's a lot of fear in them, right, um and
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and they they they live under um you know thoughts of like nobody loves me,
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nobody cares about me. That the kind of fear, right, I
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cannot do enough. Uh. And so one one one of the attendants that
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went for his seminar said, wow, you know, I had one um
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brother who was mentally ill. He committed suicide already, and I have another
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one, but he is so crazy that I don't even want to go near
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him. I don't know what he's saying, right, And and so this
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doctor was just saying, do you know that this there's a spirit of fear?
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And but what what does God's what say about fear? What does god
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God's would say about fear? A man who said that well done, perfect
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love cast out all fear. So so he went to this doctor and say,
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so are you saying that if I love my brother he will be okay
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again in his mind, the doctor just said, don't trust me, trust
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in God's word. That's it. No prayer, he just said, you
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believed in God's word or not after you then he just left it. One
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and a half years later, at another conference, this man drove all the
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way from one state to a state in the states in US, and he
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came to his said, man, I have to tell you this testimony.
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I drove all the way I don't know how many hours just to tell you
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this testimony. My brother is healed and he is well now. And and
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so the doctor's like, what what happened? Right? He says, I
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decided to trust God and trust in this word that says perfect love, cast
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off fear. And what he started doing was every Saturday he went to see
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this brother. He spent about three hours just being with him, loving him,
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no judgment, no saying you gotta put yourself together. It come on,
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you know, get your life, get your f together. Worst thing
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to say to someone who's already challenged. He just loved this brother, spend
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time with him. After one year of every Saturday giving love to this person,
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to his brother, he's off his medication, he is sound, he
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has a full time job, he's about to get married. Amazing, and
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you think what the word of God is just like good to hear on a
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Sunday and that's about it. Wow. I want to challenge you. Would
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you take God's work literally and applied to your life and you will see change
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like never before. A man, I just want to leave that with you.
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There are other things about God's law, but I just want to say
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God's law, his commands give you life. Do you accept that? Don't
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take my word for it, take God's word. Take him for his word,
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and you begin to see all these things that you practice. Right.
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God has not given us a spirit of fear, but off love, power
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and sound mind. So every time the devil comes to you and you're feeling
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fearful, you're like, stop it. This is nonsense. This is a
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lie of the enemy. And what the efficient says. The word of God
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is like the sword. Yes, the word of God. It's a sword
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that you have. Guys, we are in a battle. You are not
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defenseless. God has given us everything we need to fight the devil. I'm
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so angry at the devil, you know, because it's raw you of your
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joy. He's robbed you of your life. He's robbed you of your health
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and your loved ones as well. So Christians, you need to take up
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the battlah. You need to take up the sort of God for yourself.
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And every time the enemy comes and lies that you are you're not good enough,
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what do you do? You take this and you say, nah,
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devil, God says, I'm the beloved child of God. Hey, I'm
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the priest of God. God has chosen me. I'm beloved. See Philippin's
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aside. I said, you are the beloved of God. Who are you
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allow the devil to tell you otherwise? Who are you listening too? Who
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are you listening to God's voice or the Devil's voice? Who's louder? Who
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are you believing? Hey? Man, I don't know how to stop here,
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really want to. I want all of us to live victorious lives.
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Amen. And we have it within us. We have what it takes within
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us because God has not left us offhanse. Remember who do we have?
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