Sermon
Youth Service (full service) 7-28-2023
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There's something special somebody else's opening, Amena that you can't figure out what all
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the fuss is about. Hope, Tonight we're focused on what we should be
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focused on. Him and Gordon Moat sings a song and Pastor Priest, your
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message probably a message that changed my life. Don't let me miss the glory
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and in services like this, Amen, we can get busy and distracted and
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miss completely what God's trying to do in our mid statements. If you would,
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let's try to stay focused here tonight. Amen, Let's stand us God
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to help us. Amen in this service. God, we thank you for
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your mercy, your grace. Lord, thank you so much for reaching everyone
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that's here. God truly is a blessing and a privilege. Lord, to
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be in your presence. We're asking God that you would come by in a
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special way, Lord and moving work in every heart every life. God,
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come by and minister, Lord, touch and help God, Lord and north
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the ministers, to musicians, the singers. God, we ask that you
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would bind every hinderance and distraction. And Jesus Holy Name, we're asking of
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Grand I'm believing in faith, Old God, for your glory and your honor
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in Jesus name, Praise God. Amen and amen, our musician singers has
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come around to night, Amen and worship the Lord, Praise God, page
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please not share this play the girls post say staying say r what to
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say to stay? Never I will they ever how free to watch never said
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the fast fas only ever stay stay. Please bring my hey sixty sweep for
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the sec I houses this supposing this spl sir, your brother, where's your
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blood? All this time? Brow time, crons, no blame to let
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your cross the broom, stay mind, the mind to burn, the plan
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to stay. Friends if they were gone to the day today, they say,
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I'm talking take your power. Your hour was user that time over to
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const I was traveling. Let me whirl same sid wos my goal from you
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that you got to say, I talk plosser pass the body past my side
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past and not my way to the boa the bird the births your birthday,
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the birthd Hind told yea praise the Lord. You can be seated if you
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feel like it. I sure appreciate the spear of the Lord that we feel
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in this place. He's here to help if someone needs help, and I
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know we do, Oh we gotta. I remember in the Bible it said
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I think it was God told Moses, use what is in thy hand.
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I believe it was him, if I'm not mistaken, and that that that
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goes for all of us. Whatever God has given us, we use for
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what, for His glory, for his honor, for his praise. I
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appreciate this, you, sir us. I felt the spirit of the Lord
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very strong in here tonight. He's present, and I'm think him for it.
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You get my ushers to come forward. We're gonna take up an offering
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for for these brethren that I believe have studied and prayed about this service.
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I really believe that, uh, that God has has spoken of their hearts.
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I trust, I trust that they have really sought God about it.
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I believe they have, or that they take it seriously. So let's let's
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let's bless them. Let let's let the Lord have his way. Whatever you
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feel like given. If God's given yourself that don't if God's spoke in the
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heart it gives something that don't fail to do it, because you'll just be
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hurting yourself. But I believe it. I believe it was improvb somewhere.
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Uh, he said Solomon. Solomon said, Uh, I believe it was
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Solomon and said, cast your bread upon the water, and after many days
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it will come back to you. And uh, this is a this is
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a one way you can cast your bread upon the water. I believe that.
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I really believe that you can give to God and that God will give
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back. I've seen it too many times. You can doubt it if you
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feel like it and you say, oh, he's just he's just saying something
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that he's heard all his life because he grew up in church. Yeah.
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I did grow up in church, and I have heard it all my life.
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Yeah, thank God, I have heard it all my life. But
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I've seen it to be true. I've seen the hand of God come down
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whenever whenever it looked like things we're not gonna work out, and I've seen
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God move because some people gave to God. I thank God for everything he
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does. I'm gonna hush right here. Let's let's go to the Lord in
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prayer, and let's let's pray over this offer and give what you feel in
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the heart. Dear God, be thank you for this night and this service
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that you've blessed us with God, this service that you've given us the chance
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to worship you and to praise you God, in our giving and in our
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giving of praise, in our giving of states, in our kidding of monetary
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means. God, we asked if you would help us to glorify you in
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everything that we do and sane in every way that we act. We asked
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that we would glorify you in the money that we're given, in the praise
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that we offered. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen,
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Amen, some fine, he's sspard for a friend for the best. Please
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alive. Feels like you're wasting so much wrong what is but you're still lasting.
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Feels like your life will go and you will give. I don't know
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talk you could be time you could not make that. I don't know.
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Time that you come by somebody to have to your last, your knees and
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your eyes. Somebody you get the free the world you're gonna give wastion.
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So first time one of the bad, but you're still lasted. Fill My
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God will thank you. I don't go talk you, I you don't time,
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you don't I don't have me case my God as well, to said
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me to he said, the said said it ain't over, says, so
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it ain't a going you. I I don't know, don't I thought?
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I said, bay, somebody, I see to your USh as to the
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place and the world. She be uting still like your listen, so that
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time what is ned, still like your will, and you will hold you
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your Amen. They know to the fat ladies scenes they say, I've heard
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that before. I mean, it also ain't over till Jesus says it's over.
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Y'all believe that. Amen. Y'all know there's there's a lot of people
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against Amen, what we're doing here tonight. There's a lot of people against
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the youth of this generation. Amen. They like to paint their lives out
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as to be us the fairy tale of a Disney Amen movement. Do you
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know they do? They act like we're the ones living a rough life.
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We're the ones deprived, Amen, We're the ones that are suffering and missing
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out. Amen. But I like what Amen's been said before. Yeah,
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I'm missing out on some things. I mean I'm missing out on a jail
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time stay. I mean I'm missing out on my dad having to pick me
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up in the middle of the night because he paid bonds. They've been picking
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me up from prison. There's a lot of things, Amen, we're missing
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out on and acts. Chopping number fourteen and verse number two, Amen talked
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about the unbelieving Jews that stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil affected
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against the brethren. Said Amen, And there's a lot of people will try
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to affect your mind with evil things. Amen. But we know, Amen,
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when it's all said and done, we're gonna be living on the right
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side and Amen of the law. Phrase God don't leave out. Amen.
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We're on the right side of the law. Amen. We're so thankful for
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the presence of the Lord tonight. Amen. If there does come a time
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in your life, Amen, some of the young people will know what I'm
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talking about, and some will yet to know. Amen. Where you've lived
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your whole life under your parents' rules. Amen. And then there'll come a
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time when there's a line drawn in the sand and we decide what am I
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gonna do? Amen, And that is one of the most important decisions of
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our life. Amen. The Bible talked about Joshua, and I believe also
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Moses drew a line in the sins that choose you this day whom you'll serve.
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In that same passage, they're Acts fourteen that said some were with Apostle
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Paul and some were against them. Amen. But I know tonight we've got
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a lot of church. Amen, church people here. I believe we're more
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than church people, more than religious people. I mean, I believe we're
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children of God. Thank you, musicians. Amen. So we're children of
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God, then we should be people that are amen hearers and doers. Amen.
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We should be people without have an ear to hear what the Spirit would
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say to the church tonight. Amen. So we would expect us to give
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our undivided attention. Amen to these ministers, Amen, tonight for the Josh,
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if you'd get ready. Amen. We want the Lord to have his
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way. Amen. We want them to preach whatever's on their heart. Amen.
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We're not in a hurry tonight. Amen. We do this once a
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month, Amen, and praise God. We're spending our fridays a lot of
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other ways, and men, a lot of us stay out a little later
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than we normally do. Amen. So why to becut God short? Amen,
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Let's not cut Gods shot. Come on, brother Josh, Amen,
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preach to us. We miss our pastor. Amen, a pastor's wife,
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and all those are out. Amen, Let's get it and have church.
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Amen. First of all, I want to think m HM Songs one verse
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one. Unless it is the man that walketh not in the council of the
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ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat
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of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
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and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And this scripture was
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on my heart earlier today I had wrote something else down, and while we
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were out advertising for pastor, this scripture came to mind, and I was
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like, I remember measuring memorizing that for Sunday school. And the Lord spoke
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to me this. We are not to walk with the ungoling, more sick
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with them, because a good man's ways are corrupted. If we but we
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hang around with the wrong crowd, we ain't gonna be what we were.
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Their sinner can corrupt us. We are to hang out with our people,
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we can minister to the ungoing. We are not to hang out with him
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all the time. We are not to play games with the devil. Our
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delays is supposed to be in the law of the Lord. We are supposed
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to meditate with him tam in night his laws. We are not a supposed
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to be out there all the time, hanging out with the sinners party and
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doing anything and everything. We are supposed to be in the house of the
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Lord at his appointed time that he wants us to worship. We are not
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as supposed to be going out there and doing anything. We are supposed to
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be coming into the house of the Lord. We're supposed to meditate day and
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night with his laws. I remember when I didn't do anything for the Lord,
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but he changed me. When I memorize this, I was not right
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with the Wold. But yet a few months later the Lord will use this.
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And I was thinking today that when we're out side of these four walls,
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we're we're not in here. We're not out there doing partying. We're
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not out there. Ye when we're out there, we're doing the same thing
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that we're in here. We're meditating on God. If we're out there doing
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not doing what the devil wants us to do, but kind here and a
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spiritual we ain't spiritual, we ain't godly. We do not have the Lord
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with us. We are hypocrites. Come on, I'm not when I used
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to do. I have spiritual in church, but i'd be a hypocrite out
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there day and night. Now I think about the Lord. I dream about
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the Lord. But back then I get it now. I do not walk
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with the ungodling, nor stay with them, nor sit with the scornful.
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I used to, but I don't now. The last verse. I had
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this verse on my heart too, the last verson Chapter one. For the
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Lord know it the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodling
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shall perish. That first stoke deep with me. When I was a sinner,
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I got to thinking about that verse, what that verse meant. I
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was gonna perish. I had no way to go to heaven but through Jesus.
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Everybody y'all said. I wasn't a Christian to anybody and everybody, But
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yet I was on my way to a devila's hell. I wasn't right with
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the Lord. I was doing a devil's bidding. I wasn't gonna do anything
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for the Lord. But in church I would act like it. And then
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I got to thinking about these last words today, these last six words,
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what yah last seven the way of the ungodly? Shall perish. My way
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was gonna perish. There is nothing my way any turning. It is God's
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way. It is heaven or Hell. I was going to hell. My
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way was parashute. And I'm glad I found the way, the one way
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to the pearly gates, the one way. There was no way I was
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going to heaven without the Lord, and now might alight. Might a like
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was not in the law of the Lord, but now it is. I
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am glad that I can meditate day and night on him. Then I couldn't.
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Then I wouldn't, but now I can, and now what I will,
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And I just thank the Lord for everything he's done. Hens retward the
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hand Lord Heaven. To thank God. It means what us messages by the
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song stay come on, I mean, while they're praying, ask God to
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help the I'm gonna say, it's truly a privilege to stand behind the sacred
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desk. And I want to think Pastor Holmberg Nathaniel for allowing me the opportunity
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to do this. I want to say, I thank the Lord for saving
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me, seem to find me and killing me with the Holy Ghost. Because
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indeed, if you're not right with God, you will go to Hell.
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It is a hard place, so you shouldn't be pulling around with it.
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I was in prayer, probably about a people before I was asked to preach,
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and I had this thought come in my mind, the appearance of holiness
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and our main scriptures in Leviticus twenty and seven. And I know some people
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are don't think I'm talking about the outward appearance. Although the outward adherance does
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matter, it does show what's on the inside. I'm not just targeting the
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outward. Leviticus twenty and seven says sanctify yourselves therefore and be holy, for
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I am the Lord your God. That scripture is a commandment from God telling
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us to be holy. So we are supposed to be holy, although we
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won't be holy all the time. We can't be perfect. We can strive,
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but we won't be perfect. We see that in Levigus twenty and seven.
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It's a command by God to be holy. And you can either be
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holy or go to Hell, because if you're not falling God's commandments, that's
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that's a place God has set for you. I also have Romans two and
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two. I believe it says of staying from the appearance of evil, and
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if you hang around the bad influences of this world. Although you're in the
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world, you don't have to be a part of the world. They will
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influence you without you even noticing it. I was influenced through the public school
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system, through the neighborhood, but thank God I got out of there just
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in time. And if you're truly holy, we see that in First Chronicle
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sixteen and twenty nine, what a holy Inn this person does. They won't
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fail to give God praise. They won't fail to worship Him even in the
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difficult times, even then you're going through tough stuff that you go through this
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stuff to make you better. It teaches you. So we see that we're
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supposed to worship him. And then in Romans one and two we that God
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gave us holy scriptures. So if we want to be holy, we got
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to live by every word that's in the Bible, because theyre holy scriptures.
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It's it's our instructions, it's our map that God gave us. He gave
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us that how to be holy, how to live holy, how to make
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it to heaven. Not only did He send his holy son to die in
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a old rugged cross for our sins, he sent this. He sent us
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a map so that we don't have to perish. We are to read this
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map every day. I believe as a Christian we are not forsake these words
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because God sent us that he wouldn't send us something if we don't need it.
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And every word that's in the Bible, whether you like it or not,
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you have to follow and obey because it's either it's either holiness or hell.
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Right hand for Heaven asked God to help with the to come home.
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First of all, I want to thank Mother, Nathaniel and Pastor he was
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giving this opportunity. It's done. Be goind the sacred DEAs and uh.
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My scripture would be in a Phesian six and eleven. Put on the whole
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armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of
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the devil. Um moving down on to thirteen. Wherefore take unto you the
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whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand withstand in the
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evil day. And having done all to stand stand therefore having your loins girded
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about with truth, and having a breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shall
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with the preparation of gospel of the Gospel of Peace. Above all, take
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above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to
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quench the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation and
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the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. That would
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be all my reading. I was praying of the night that I had God
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asked I had something on my heart. I was praying the whin Nixy parking
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lot while Mama was taking forever, And when Nixy and U, this was
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whispered into my heart. Uh, do you have the armor on? Because
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as they had already said, without the armor, you will not see heaven.
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And uh. While brother Caleb was singing the second song, the verse
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said, some risk their soul on some new made way, thinking that they
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will come to the gate someday. Oh may they find out they're done that
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there that the old Ruggy cross is the lee one. There's just one way
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to the gate. And uh, I was. I was planning a guitar
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and uh I heard it, and I was like, wait, what did
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that is said? And uh he sang it again, and I said,
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that is what it said. This is what's gonna this is that's the only
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way there's be People do risk their life. You're risking your soul on a
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new made way. They go out to all these other churches that won't get
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their soul to heaven. And I was praying and I had asked the Lord
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to confirm it, and I believe it's been. My message has been confirmed
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already, and uh, we do risk our lives. We do risk our
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lives. And I don't want to ever fail. Think you've got the glory
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and uh praise and honor that He's deserves. And I don't want to ever
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fail to give God the glory. I don't want to risk my life on
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a new made way that I take mine my soul the hell. I thank
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the Lord for what he's done for me. Come on us tonight, I
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mean, Andrew thankfuls with these messages so far and all the God they made
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us telling us suit man, we're thankful for his presence. Amen, let's
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help we preach us tonight. R so thankful for the opportunity that we have
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um to be in this house tonight, and the opportunity from our pastor and
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brother Nathaniel to say something in this youth service. It's a true privilege.
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The Holy Ghost has been here so far, and I enjoyed what I heard
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from these other brothers. Um God's here. If we want something, we
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can leave here with it. Tonight I'll be reading in Mark chapter five,
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Versus twenty five through thirty four, says in verse twenty five. And a
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certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered
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many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and
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was nothing better, but rather grew worse. When she had heard of Jesus,
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came in the press behind and touched his garment, For she said,
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if I may touch but his clothes, I shall behold. And straightway the
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fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that
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she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that
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virtue had gone out of him, turned turned him about in the press and
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said, who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, thou
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seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou who touched me? And he
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looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman,
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fearing and true, and when knowing what was done in her, came
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and fell down before him and told him all the truth. And he said,
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unto her daughter, thy faith hath made the whole go in peace,
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and the whole of thy plague. God. It is my desire to share
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the burden that God has placed on my heart. Um. I've been praying
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about this service, and God has really put this burden upon me. I
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feel like it's for somebody, maybe multiple people, but um, if God
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will help me, I want to preach on, don't discard your opportunity.
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The meaning I want to say this before I get into any more of my
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from the definition of discard is to cast aside or to dispose of, to
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get rid of. We know it. Mark's Gospel we know of. Mark's
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Gospel was a book in the New Testament where Jesus performed miraculous healings where he
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cast out devils and unclean spirits. It's also the book that holds many great
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parables. In this fifth chapter of Mark. It starts off with Jesus delivering
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a man who was possessed with an unclean spirit, but that is not the
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only great thing that took place in this chapter. There was a ruler named
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Jarius who had a daughter that seemed to be on her death bed, but
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Genius had other plans. In the middle of this taking place, while Genius
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walked to Jerius's house the crowd. As the crowd followed him, there was
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a certain woman who had an issue of blood in her body. No doubt
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she wasn't outcast to the world because of her condition. Most people probably kept
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their distance and wouldn't have anything to do with her. She had this issue
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of blood for twelve years, and no doubt she suffered not in day and
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brought had many sleepless knots from the pain. We read in verse twenty six
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that she tried many physicians. I believe that she had many opportunities to see
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the very best doctors and physicians around. I believe that whenever the door was
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open to a doctor's office, she was there to see her appointment. A
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lot of times we missed her doctor's appointments. That's just we don't want to
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go to the doctor. But she was in such a desperate need that I
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believe every time she had an appointment, she was there to see the physician.
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She spent everything that she had and still grew worse than her illness.
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When she heard of Jesus being in the crowd that was passing by where she
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was, she was faced with one of the best opportunities she could be in.
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Although Jesus was near to her, she was still faced with the choice.
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This was a life for death choice. She could have stayed right where
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she was, and she would have withered up and died in the states she
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was in. Yes, it look, Yes, it took effort to squeeze
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through the crowd and make it to Jesus. I don't know your heart's here
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tonight, but if you don't get a hold of it really for yourself,
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you're gonna wither up and die. I don't know that, but you came
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with what you're battling. But I know, before I really got it for
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myself, I would come in and sit on the church views and I would
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I wouldn't. I wouldn't be I wouldn't have the mind of God. I
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wouldn't have Jesus on my heart and on my mind. But that can change
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for you to not. She was so determined to touch to him of this
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garment that she was not bothered or worried about what people thought of her.
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She wasn't going to let pride stop her from receiving her touch from God.
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Robert sixteen eighteen says, pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before
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a fall. We see so many people come in and out of the stores,
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and I believe they come in. But pride's God unbound. It's a
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five letter word, but it's got such a powerful maning. It can't hit
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the spirit behind bridal. Keep you from getting what you really mean from God.
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It'll keep you from getting in the altars. It'll keep you from getting
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saved. It'll you from getting sanked to high. It'll keep you from getting
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filled with the holy ghost. He should be like the woman with an issue
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of blood, and I have one little ounce of pride within us. When
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you are truly desperate for a move of God, you won't care what you
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have to do to break through. Whoking got Mark chapter five and verse twenty
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five. Again, and a certain woman which had an issue of blood twelve
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years. She was bound with this issue of blood for twelve years. There
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may be someone here who here who is bound spiritually in a battle and barely
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hanging on. It may not be the timeline of twelve years, but being
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bound anytime by the devil is too long. It can change. The night.
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You could lead here saying I have been set free. What will you
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do with the opportunity you have been given the night? You might not make
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it to tomorrow. You might not make it back here Sunday. Yes,
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their scheduled service this Sunday morning and Someday night, and we'll hear some great
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preaching according to the Holy Ghost. But you might not make it till then.
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Now is the time for you to decide if you want freedom were captivity.
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A lot of people like to have pity parties, and they'll stay in
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the same shape. The god they want to look upon, well, he's
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in the same shape as he was least servant that can change. You don't
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have to be in the same shape as for you. The devil will lie
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to you while you sit in the church view and make you think you will
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be all right. He'll say things that my experience whenever you're in the church
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pew. The devil won't fight you us hard. He'll make you think there's
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no need to pray because I won't be there to torment you. But the
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next day he's gonna be rotten back and maybe back there five times worse because
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you didn't obey God. Revelation twelve twelve says, therefore rejoice see heavens,
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and he that dwell in them will to then have there's the earth and of
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the sea. For the devil's come down unto you, having great wrath,
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because he knoweth he hath but a short time. I want to go back
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to about mid Verses says, for the devil has come down unto you,
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having great wrath, because he knoweth that he had but a short time.
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The devil's fighting us harder than he ever had to conquer those. His days
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are few. He knows he's gonna burn in a devil's hell. Where is
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that Right now? He don't feel the flame. The one day he will
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feel the flames because he is the devil, because of the choices he made
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Aldams years ago when the Lord cast him out of heaven. But we can
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look at this verse and Romans eight thirty eight and thirty seven. It says,
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Nay, in all things, we are more than conquers through Him that
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loved us. The devil can fight us as hard as we want to,
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But when we have God in our life, we are more than conquers.
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We can conquer the devil with God. We can conquer the devil with the
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Holy Ghost. The devil's wanting say, I want to discard their opportunity of
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worshiping God, a braising God, singing a song unto God, blullifying God.
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But we are more than conquerors. We will all go through valleys at
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some point, but we don't have to stay in the valleys a lot of
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time gonna we're in the valley, Worshiping God will get us out of it.
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Braising God will get us out of it. Singing to God will get
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it, get us out of it. Bluorifying God will get us out of
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it. Just sitting there. I understand there's some people that are disabled,
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but nowadays we're seeing people in their teams, people in their torny say just
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sit there. God's got something for you, but you must be able to
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get it for yourself. We can't give it to you. This woman,
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well read about having this you of blood. When she was pressed through the
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crowd, didn't try to cause us sing. She was very sincere. God
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knows who is sincere and who's here just to put on a show. He
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knows, he knows who's here just to be seen him to be heard.
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If you came just to be seen, be heard, there's a good there's
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a good side. If you don't get him the altar, you won't get
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what she came for. The opportunity is yours, The choices yours. Don't
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walk out the same person as you came in. This time is running up.
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Don't wait till it's too late. A lot of people going back to
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what I just said. They think they have time, but we don't know
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how much time we have. Let Second pen Or three and ten says,
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but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night,
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in the winch to heaven shall pass away with the great noise, and the
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elements shall ment with the fervent heath the ground, the earth also in the
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works that are there, and shall be burned up. Revelations three and three
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says, Remember therefore Hell, thou has received and heard, and hold fast
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and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee
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as a thief, and thou shalt know what our all will come upon.
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We don't know when God's coming back. It says that he's gonna come back
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as a thief. In the nine A thief don't just go up to your
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house and knock and you come and say, well, hey, I want
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to steal something out of your living room. I want to steal something out
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of your bedroom. He comes and he sneaks in. God ain't gonna give
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us always a morning. We are having a lording right now, but it
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ain't gonna be like that forever. Don't waste your opportunities you have now down
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here on this earth. You can make preparations now for what you have,
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for what will profit you later. Up there, we see a lot of
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people. They make preparations, but has nothing to do with God. There's
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nothing wrong with having fun in the royal way, but if we put more
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preparations and things that we personally enjoy, like going out and hanging out with
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rift. I like it if you're hanging out with the right friends, but
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you shouldn't make that your priority. God, don't let Satan distract you with
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the things of this world, because he will. He will send distractions your
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way just so he can try to make you lose your opportunity from being set
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free, from being captive to him, from being bound to him. He's
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he's a slick devil. He's evil, but he's smart. He'll try to
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get you bound. He's got some people bound. If you're into her,
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maybe you're not, But there's so many people in this world that are bound,
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and he wants to keep you bound. But he also wants to send
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distractions your way. So you don't think of the opportunity. Well, do
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I have an option to go to church? Do I have an option to
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get filled with the Holy goes? Do I have an option to be saved?
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It's an option, it's a choice, and it's an opportunity. But
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it's up to you what you're gonna do with the times we are in the
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valley. I believe God puts certain obstacles in our path to see if we
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are truly in the fight to make it home. That we'll put things that
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we'll have to go through. God will do it. But we don't have
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to. It says we are we are conquerors through Him. We don't have
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to. We don't have to live the life of us see Him. We
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don't have to live the life of It's all around us anyway. This year
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of twenty twenty three, it's all around us, But we can still live
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to be saved, safe to fight, and holy goes Field. There's so
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many doctrines nowadays around you hear about its feel like you hear a new one
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about every day. There's just so many. A bunch of it's nonsense.
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This is the way it's gonna take. This is the way it's gonna When
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it comes down to it, the King change Bible. That's the way it's
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gonna be here. I was listening to a song today to the Course says,
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no matter how high the walls may be, obstacles are only opportunities.
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There's some people you're going through something, but you can turn it into an
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opportunity. You can turn your obstacle. You might not feel like you can
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get out of it, but it's an opportunity to not to get out of
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it. The opportunity is yours tonight. Or what will you do with it?
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Will you choose deliverance or will you choose to discard it? It's a
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choice. A lot of people over in other countries they don't have the privilege
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to get in the church service like we're here tonight. They'll have together underground,
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they'll have to do it in a secret. But while we're still living.
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And it may be like that in America. One day, God will
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take care of us if it is like that. But right now we're in
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this church service. It's up to you what you're gonna do with it.
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How do you know? That's the burden ells on my heart ours. I'm
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on brother Jesse with the sand miche would men get the song? I mean,
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ain't you thankful for the message tonight? The message is A mean.
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I feel like they've just linked right up together. Amen. And honestly,
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I feel like there is a there's an opportunity and a choice to be made
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tonight. Man, there's a line drawing him the sand. And as these
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brothers were preaching, what God laid on my heart was someone needs more than
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a reprieve. Even you need repentance. A mean, A lot of times
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we come to church, if you would stand, we come to church,
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Amen, and we get a reprieve. Amen. We get a little feel
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good, we get a little eased conscience. Amen, But we don't get
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the repentance we need. Amen. Of this lady brother Jonathan preached about was
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in peril because of her plague. Amen, of the ultimate plague. Amen,
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that we could deal with here, Amen, this generation and every generation
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to come, every generation before Amen is sin. Amen. You know tonight
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if you feel like you're in peril and struggling, Amena, you need to
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touch to him of his garment. Amen, Praise God our pastor preach Virtue've
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onna tap a mean truly it is Amen, an opportunity Amen, But amen,
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sometimes whether Jonathan talked about even an option. Amen, we have option
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tonight, Amen. But the Bible doesn't promise us about option forever. Amen.
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Yes, it's free choice, Amen, but that ain't forever. We're
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not promised tomorrow, Amen, and we're not promised that he will continue striving.
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Amen. With our selfish and lascivious will Amen. Someone tonight if you
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or that individual that has a choice that you need to make, I mean,
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I'd ask that you'd come before we make this a general altar calling dray.
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Amen. This is a very important decision tonight. Amen. We aren't
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promised tomorrow, and man, we aren't promised of God to terry. Amen.
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Right now, he could come back, Amen, and you could be
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left me with the choice as you made, whether right or wrong. Amen.
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As Joshua said, there's a line darning the sand. Choose you this
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day whom you will serve. Amen. Anyone Amen, like to be honest
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and say God, it's me. I need to make a change. Amen.
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Let's come and pray tonight. A man, I feel like someone needs
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to pray and be honest with themselves. Amen. Put on the whole warner
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of God and submit themselves to the will of the Lord. Amail, Praise
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God. Let's walk in the ways of the Lord. Amen, acknowledge Him
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and all our pass back to Shane by change for such person so taste and
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listening to the mind of the sad, harding in a bra time. No, the free