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Idolatry Part 1 Rev Jeremiah Nhyirah 22.12.24
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Hm Father, we give you thanks in the name of Jesus.
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Thank you for this opportunity to give into us all
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more time to be gathered under your feet. You are
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our friend while we are weak. You are that treasure
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that is so desire, and we seek sweit to us
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like never before. Bread of one, that's the bread of life.
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Give onto us the manner that came from heaven before.
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You are the bread of life. Guide us, direct us,
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teach us, show us your way through your way. In
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the name of Jesus, that we know live in the
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same way we have come. Now in the name of Jesus,
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we take child and authority over the utmost year, over
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every assignment, imagination or the enemy. We declared that the
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word of God will have a few calls, and the
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will of God shall be done. The purpose of God
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shall be established. The curse of God shall stand in
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our eyes. In the name of Jesus. I'll be prayed,
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amenor give just us a shout in the house. Well,
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give Jesus and shout in the house Hallelijah. Amen. This
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morning is a great honor to stand before you and
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two minutes at the word of God. And before that,
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how many of you know that we have a father
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who loves us so much, or they didn't catch that revelation.
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How many know? If you know we have a father
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who loves us so much. On Friday he came to
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paw out divine wells and we were so blessed. So
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help me. Let's stand God and celebrate the life of
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our father's. I mean as they act, Bishop Nicole has
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dankn Williams. Oh, the way you are celebrating your father,
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it's not our best. Be excited and do it joyfully
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a man. You also want to thank God for the
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life of our one, Bishop, Bishop Joan dan Kan Williams,
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or love us, appreciating loves, thank God for his life
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and all the passons that Reverend Mini says, now God
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has blessed next year with Hallelijah, I can't see Reverend Gocu,
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Reverend James, all the other persons that Reverend Minie says
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are also behind the scenes making things work for us. Hallelujah. Amen,
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Please you may take your seat once again. I thank
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God for the opportunity given to me by our bishop
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to push this morning. Actually neighbor for me that neighbor
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or as the person my brother, my sister, are you
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ready for the word that is coming? Or ask the
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person that are you sure you're ready for the word
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that is coming? Tell other person that prepare your heart,
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prepare your heart. Tell the person that open up your
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heart to receive the wed. Tell another person that, my brother,
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my sister, don't play table tennis with God today. Do
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you know table tennis some of you? When the word
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of God is coming, God says, take the wed. Then
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you take God, take back your word. You know, when
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the pastor breaches the word counts, then you're also holdly.
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You give God a back hand path. Halleliah, Amen. So
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don't play table tennis with God today with this word.
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When the word comes, received the way Hallelijah Amen. How
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been well informed and I've listened to some of the
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messages so far, by the direction of our Father, the
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process that they're teaching us, how we can escape the
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works of the flesh, and how we'll be able to
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develop and build godly character virtues that are fruit or
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the spirit. Take me to Galatians chapter five, nineteen and twenty.
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So this morning I'll be teaching you something and either
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worship or idolatry. So Galatians five nineteen twenty. Quickly, as
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we read, now the works of the flesh are manifest,
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which are these adultry, fornication and cleanness. That's sifuousness, idolatry,
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watch craft, hatred, variance, emulations, growth, strife, seditions, heresses. Okay, good.
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So I believe our process have already taken us to
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through some of the things we read, and we are
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on idolatry now adultry, okay. So what is idolatry or
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idol worship? And I know that already some of you
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have certain beliefs and perceptions already or an understanding of
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what an eye door is, Okay, what an idol is?
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Some of you in your hometowns as I'm talking to
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you right now twenty first entry Ghana, you can see
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certain statues, artifacts, physical objects that people still go and
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bow down to empoorer libation and worship visibly there. You
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can still see them now, okay. And so some of
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you those are the only things you understand or your
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regard as idols or idolatry. But by the time I
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bring the message to an end, you would appreciate that
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idol worship is not only bowing down to statues or
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graving images. Hello, And as a matter of fact, some
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of you have been worshiping outdoors without you even knowing.
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And there are a lot of idols with you around you.
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Some of you ben carry ideas around that you have
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no idea of, you know, because in your mind, I'm
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not carrying any image of some deity, and so I'm
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not an idol worshiper. But go to her past, God,
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to her past. Let's go to Exodus chapter twenty. Let's
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start from number two. So we need to understand that
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when it comes to idolatry or I don't worship, it's
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something that God really a pass God excuse. God doesn't lie.
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God hates idolatry, I don't worship. And so when God
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was given us the commandments, the time commandments, they are
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things that God specifically mentioned that he doesn't like and
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he doesn't want his children to be associated with. So
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this is the first when he said, I am the
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Lord that God which have brought thee out of the
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land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage verse three,
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Verse three dows, I have no other gods before me.
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Continue thus, are not make onto d any graving image
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or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
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or that is in the earth beneath, or that is
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in the water under the earth. No, so God is
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so specific, is so instructive. God says, I am the
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Lord and God. I don't want you to have any
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other god apart from me. I am the only God.
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I'm the Alpha and the Omega. I'm the beginning and
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the end. As a matter of fact, there was no
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beginning until I began the beginning. And so have no
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other gods apart from me, have no other gods apart
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from me. And then God was so also instructive and specific.
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You shall not make of any graving image, don't create,
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don't mold, don't make anything that looks like me, that
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looks like a god to worship it and to buy
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down to it. And the effects or the repercussions that
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comes with it are curses. And God says that anybody
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that washed an idol, even from the tie to the
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fourth generation of those people are going to be cast.
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And so you need to understand that idolatry comes with
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a lot of consequences. I saw you might be sitting
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here and thinking, I'm not an idol, worshiper. I'm not
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an idolator, but by the time we bring the message
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to an arch, I was saying, you realize that all
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this while you've been bringing casses upon yourself, and not
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only yourself, but even generations after you yet on bomb
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because the gass of idology is so serious that God
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says that I will catch these people of that they
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will not even have the opportunity to come into my tabernacle.
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By the good thing is that God says, I show
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love and compassion to thousands of generations of them. Save me.
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Ask somebody, which of these two do you like? Or
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asks Abasad, Which of these dwo do you like? Oh?
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Asks said, which of these two to serve? I dolls?
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And I try to get casts of God? Or to
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serve God and I chart his blessings. Hallelujah. I don't
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know about you, but I'll be like Joshua. I'll be
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like josh He said, choose from this day you wirself
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by aye for me, as for me, Ask for me
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at my house, Add for me at my house, Add
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for me at my house. He will serve the law. Amen.
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Then josh twenty four to fifteen, Sai ask for me
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at my house. I pray that some of you will
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be like you amen, or you'll be like that just amen,
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or you'll be like the just amen. Ouside you'll be
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like the just amen. It's and if it seems evil
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unto you to serve the law, choose this day whom yourself.
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That's somebody. To serve God is a choice. Or tell
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another person that to serve God is a choice. It's
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a choice you have to make. But JA said, ask
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for me. Choose you this day whom you self, whether
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the gods which your father said that we're on the
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other side of the flat, or the gods of the
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ammords in whom land you do were. But ask for
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me in my house, we will serve the Lord, I
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prayed out somebody hearing my voice this morning, we take
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that decision, or we take that decision that will make
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that choice that from today you are looking at yourself
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like a very young girl, young boy, But you make
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a decision. That's my children Yet on Brown, they will
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serve God. Not chid of mine will serve an idol.
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Not chid of mine will miss the way. It's a
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decision you mistake from today. And in that same church
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we don't only think about ourselves. We think about the nations.
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Yet you're teaching you how to be leaders, not only
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at the marketplace, but in the home, as a leader
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in the family. That my children will save my God,
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my first willself my God. It's a decision you need
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to make. Hallelujah. Amen. You cannot be a Christian, a
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child of God and ask you I've come to church,
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your children, the house, or somewhere else. No no, no, no,
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no no no, that's somebody. No no, no, no, no
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no no no no, no no no no. Jush said
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I at my house, not only me, Because I say,
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God does not call you just for you, I sire
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fifty one verys too. The Lord said, look onto your
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father Abraham. I called him alone, said God cross us alone.
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But he doesn't call us for ourselves alone. He said,
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look onto Abraham, your father, and onto Sarah that bear
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you for I called him alone, say alone, sy alone.
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So when God is calling you, so those of you
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who always want to go to your friends and want
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to find out what I used to accept and respond
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to the call of God. Or No, God doesn't call
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two people at the same time. God doesn't call you
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and your friend. At the same time, God costs you alone.
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So it is your decision to respond to God's calling alone.
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As an individual, you cannot afford to disobel God because
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of your friends. God costs you alone. He costs you alone,
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just that He doesn't call you alone for yourself. He
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costs you for a generation. Genesis are the twelve. Even
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though I saiahs standing as that God called Abraham alone,
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God didn't call Abraham for himself. Genesis are the twelve.
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He said, And the Lord said, onto Abraham. Now, the Lord,
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I said, on to Abrahm, get thee out of that
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country and from thy kingdom, and from my father's house
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onto a land that I will show you. Continue and
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I'll make of d a great nation. So the blessing
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God has called alone, God is going to make him
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a blessing onto generations. Are you here with me me?
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So I se I sit there down this morning listening
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to me. There are certain generations that are counting on
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you for the blessings of God. There certain generations that
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I'm waiting for the manifestations of the children and the
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sounds of God, so that the blessing that God has
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blessed upon you who also rubble on them. He said,
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I called abrahammelo, but I called him to be the
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father of many nations mm hmm Hallelijah. So trust took
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a stand and said, as for me, as for me,
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and for me as for me, oh as for me,
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ask for me at my house. I praid that somebody
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would use that as on your status this this week
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that asked for me at my house, I for me
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in my house, I from me at my house. We
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alway served alone answer me. See one thing that made
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God to lave Abraham so much, and that Abraham could
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be called the friend of God, not just you as
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a man of it. But it's one thing that I
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have come to love about Abraham. Genesis eighteen eighteen, was
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God spoke about Abraham, testified about Abraham, said, I for Abraham,
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I know him. Ask somebody does the Lord know you? Oh? Actually,
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nobody that neighbor. Does the Lord know you? Uah tel.
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There are some of us God doesn't know, asshole. Let
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us know fool ourselves. The brother said that the foundation
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of the Lord sans show the Lord knows them, that
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his God knows those who belonged to him, Or you
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can't come to church and come to church. Be in
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the car, be at the back, projecting scriptures. And your
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God says, I don't know you, Jelli Hallelijah. We've got
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you Abraham because of something he said, For I know
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him that he will command his children and his household
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after him. And this I keep the way of the
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law to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may
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bring upon Abraham that which you are spoking of him.
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See so, God said, I know this guy. He will
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be able to command his family, not just his only
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by lordical children, but his own household. And mind you,
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Abraham had a lot of servant. He was even a
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mega chudge. He was even able to raise an I
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mean of three hundred and eighty, so that they were
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born and bred in the house of Abraham. And the
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Lord said, I know that Abraham will be able to
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command his children to obey the lawd what a man,
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What a man. A lot of people came out to
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give testimony. This gentlemen, Hello, this was her name, Come again,
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Stephen Nathan Ethan. There was something that strikes me about
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his testimony. He said, I thank God that threw me,
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threw me. People are coming to church, said something like that, yes,
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I said, Wow, tell me it's not a small testimony
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you that people will be coming to judge because of you,
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some of you when people hear that you're in next
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gen and say I'm alcohol Ah, if this fasting is
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in next gend, then I'm not even going there. That
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is a very bad report. But may you have a
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good report or may you have a good report? May
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you have a good report. I am my house. I
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am my house. People served the Lord and Joshua didn't
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just make this statement, let's go to judges after two.
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I'll come back on track while you're dealing with Let's
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start from seven, that is, after you be seven gold house.
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I mm hmmm.
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So can we already together and the people saved the
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Lord all the days of tissue? Okny, you will continue.
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Let's let's let's first there. So somebody didn't rose up
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and took a decision and said that add for me
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and my house yourself God, I was able to, as
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it welcompare our desk by his life style, his faith,
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he's believing God. He was able to get people to
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follow him and to as yourself God by his examples.
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So the Bible is styling us this was when Joshua
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was dead and gone, and somebody is writing about him
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and saying that, and the people served the Lord all
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the days of Jessua. It means that as long as
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Joshua was alive and he was in charge, there was
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no room for compromise. There was no room for compromise.
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There's somebody who didn't come here to believe. And you
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must style your children. I didn't give back to you
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so that you'll be an adult watship pack. You cannot
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be in that time and people around you are not
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serving God. No, we must be like Jesshua. And the
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people saved the law all the days of Jessua, all
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the days there was no room for deserving of any
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other thing about God. Why because the person had first
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of all made the decision that as long as I live,
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whosum that men, Hallelijah, and you must you must stand
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up and begin to prophetically and place your hand on
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your tomy. You wake up at them, I said, turn
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to my you hold your lawns like this, and you
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declare in the name of Jesus, none of my children,
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even your tomorrow or miss it. Hallelijah, Amen. That is
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how we live. The Christian life. The peoples have God,
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and all the days of the elders that out lived Jeshua,
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who had seen all the great persons of the Lord
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that he did for Israel. So a man was able
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to champion a cross were people to save God? What
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cause are you championing this morning in Axen? What part
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are you leading people on? That? Because of you? There's
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another man I love so much. In scripture, his name
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is a character his second Chronicles n He says, verse five,
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there was a young man who became a king at
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age sixteen, by the name of Isaiah. And the Bible
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said that as long as this man is a career
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lived Withssiah self God. Of course, the Bible said that
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a career taught Issiah in the ways of God. He
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tasked him how to serve God and not idols. And
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because of this guy withsire during his time, he destroyed
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a lot of idols that were raised. He destroyed a
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lot of shrines, He destroyed a lot of artists that
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were dedicated to idol worship in Israel. The Bible says,
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and he saw God in the days of second career,
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who had understanding in the visions of God. And as
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long as he sought the Lord. God made him to prosper.
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Give me unenealty, give me a nalty. See so Withsaiah
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saw God during the days of who says career, what
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was the career's assignment in the life of Siah. He
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taught him to fear God. He taught him to fear God.
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And the Bible say a salooners. The guy feared God.
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God made him towards to prosper. We need people who
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would teach us to fear God, who always crossed us.
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Bring our tention to ourselves that we need God. We
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need people that would push us towards God, not people
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who pull us away from God. Hello, tell somebody you
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need a friend who push you towards God. It's not
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a friend who is always pulling you away. It's that
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one kilometers away, two kilometers dicilimitars, and now you see
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how far away you are from God. A guy who
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will always pull you away by removing your pants revenge.
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James are talking about it the other night, any time
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he removes your pants. Once you grow five kilometers away
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from God, some of you you are in pasand kilimeters,
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then you can imagine the number of times they have
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removed their pants. Hallelujah. Amen, you need a friend who
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will bring about a discussion that will stare up a desire,
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and then you hunger for God made the Lord help us,
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made a Lord help us. Hallelujah. And I believe that
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is why next generation church is here, that there will
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be no room for a God in the spirit. See
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it saddens my heart. Judges after you that will be read.
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Let's go back to Judges chapter two. After Joshua and
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the elders that were with him are tied and gone,
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the Bible says, a new generation arose. A new generation
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arose who knew that God or Joshua know that here
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done a very big program. Cap Let's go back to
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verse nine. Let's go churm to Verson, No ten, go
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to ten for me, go to eleven. Okay, what was it? Ten? Okay?
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Go back to the ten. Okay. So and also all
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the generations were guarded onto your father's and there I
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rose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord,
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a great error, a great erab who knew not the
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Lord nor yet the works he had done for Israel.
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So there was a very great gap in the knowledge
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of God. The other the nation was supposed to burst
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on the knowledge of God onto the next generation so
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that there would be no cap but they failed at
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some point, so a new generation came. They didn't know
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about God, neither the things he had done for its raine.
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And because they didn't know that, they created their own God.
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The Bible says, so they began to save their boths.
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Go to verse eleven. So because they didn't know about God,
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they didn't have any knowledge about God and all that
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is he had done, they decided to create for themselves
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a God. They decided to choose any God and to worship, saying,
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the children of is right did evil in the search
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of the law and served Baalim, that is bad. So
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they decided to serve the bowels an. I don't why,
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because they didn't know the God of the Father. For
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this and that is a mistaken that generation we cannot
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afford to make this time around. That is why we
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need to stand in the garden and breaks, so that
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as we are moving now, the knowledge of God will
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be passed on to our children. That there will never
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be a time that your children will come and they
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don't know the God that you have self faithfully all
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this year. Can you imagine, God forbid that they will
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come the time my grandchildren will come, and they don't
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know the God that I'm serving, the God that I'm
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serving through all these years you are in the choir.
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Look at how you're serving God. You have been playing
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the keyboard. Look at all the things I've been doing,
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the services I've been rounding. The house of God and
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the nation after you will come and they have no
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idea about the things you have done. And so they
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begin to invent and to make for themselves a new God.
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God forbid, say, God for bid sair, God for bed sair,
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God for bid, it will not happen. My children must
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know about my God. So God was so instructive. He
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told them all the things I'm doing in your life,
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make sure you pass it on to them. When day
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passed that God said, even the stones, the stones don't
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live there decades because it is a source of confidence.
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While you are till there asks you what had this
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one for? Let them know about the kind of deliverers.
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God did it for you. God didn't want as it
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wasn't where that is he has done will be lost
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in history. And you got to a time, a generation
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came that didn't know anything about God. God is never happy,
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is not never happy that in this country, in this country,
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in Ghana, there will be a time the generation ris
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and they don't know about our father. The abishrom God
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forbid God for being God for God for a bed,
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God for bed. You might be sitting there and you
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think that is too far away. No, it's not far away.
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It can happen when you and I that have drunk
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of the wells of the prophetic oil of our father,
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the Abbish become dormant and refuse to pass on the
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battle to the netenation. You will be a gop created.
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You go out to preach and you see it's amazing
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that there are a lot of the new generations so
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that don't know proper. We've been surprised, I'm telling you,
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and all the process what I sister this? You ask somebody, Oh,
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I'm from accent chap On. My father is the ibisure
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that can Williams and just catching their eads? Action? Which action?
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Who is Papa? And I'm like, ah, you meanly don't
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know Papa. I'm telling you there are people in Garna
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here who don't know about I find out the Abishop
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Hellod bachelor, you growing up. Papa is Papa. There's nobody
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like Papa. There's only one Papa. But why a mug
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generation is imagined, and it is a responsibility to carry
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the pattern to them, so that there's the nurses. Than
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the nurses will continue to know that a man assisted
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on this head. His name is his amin as eyebisure
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that I'm Williams. He was talking apostle all startgy prayers, Hylarijah.
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So that is it. Why I thought that trick is
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going on is because a generation failed to preserve the
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knowledge of God. So there were lots with nothing but
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to choose for themselves what they wanted. So they started
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to do evil and to serve their bows. That's that
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shall not be your portion, So that shall not be
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your porson you become a touch bearer, Oh you better word,
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you carry that side of God. Can't satire fly, They
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can't do let it never. Besides that attire will come
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and her father will not be known, and your efforts
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will not be appreciated. Hi mayandol hahia fellos kip a
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heartier how deep brown consult one John five, verse twenty one,
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and so at that time, these people used to bow
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that and worship physical idols, wooding cravin images status of anything.
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There's this school of thoughts of philosophy or belief called pantheism,
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and a lot of the Eastern religions believe in that.
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You know, one of the teachings in pantheism says that
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God is in everything. Okay, God created everything, so God
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is in everything, and so everything is God. And so
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I can't take this phone, and because I believe that
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God is in this, I can start worshiping this from indirected,
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I'm worshiping God. So when you go to India, they
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can take there's a stone and start worshiping the stone
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because they believe is that God is in it. They
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can come and buy before this monitor this lika, and
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that becomes their God. But we have been instructed by
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God that we should not bow down to any other image.
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So it's also come on to see people raising all
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ties to visible idols. But I want to shock you
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this morning that in our day and age, you're serving
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more idols than they did. Why because they may not
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be visible that we see around, But as long as
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they take the place of God, as long as they
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are faction that is still God. We directly to those idols. See,
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anything that takes the place of God is an idol.
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What makes it an idol? It's not the fact that
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it is a statue or it's that trophy. Then you
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see if they know what makes it an idol is
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the fact that they affectioning the reference that reaching that
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is still God. You have channeled it towards that thing.
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That is what makes it an idol. Hello, Hello, So
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it is not an idol because there is a traditional
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perish or effect this place. Who is dancing Greek? Ta kko,
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Blame me something, Blame me something, to blame something Greek Greek.
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You see powder and you're chanting and they're doing No,
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that is not the only thing that makes it an
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idol worship, but the fact that God's place has been exchanged,
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the fact that your priorities have changed, and you have
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not given God the first place in your life, but
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that boyfriend had become the first place in your life.
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That boyfriend had become an idol in your life and
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name then it could be your phone and nything that
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has taken the place of God, that admirationing, that reference
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that is you God, It is an idol in your
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life when it's time to come to church. And they said,
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I know, tell you today we have football that day
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because you allow that football to take the place of
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cour and to stop you from coming to church, because
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become an idol when it's time to pray. Then hey,
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it thinks going on. Now you're going to say media.
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He tell is nice. So you see, you will be
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on your phone for hours the time that you're supposed
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to be praying. When and the spirit of God is
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speaking to you. God is yearning for a fellowship. God
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is yearning life in the dose days. God will come
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me the cool of the day to have fellowship and
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coming on what ma'am? And the spirit of God is
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speaking to you. My daughter's time to pray. But you're
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so clue to your phone. That thing has become an idol.
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Some of you. The idol in your life is money.
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See anything you cannot give up, I'll give away for God.
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It means that you are placed that then above cold
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and it becomes an idol. So you'll come to church
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when it's time for offering. You afforded your money, all
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the first notes will go under the twenty cities. The
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future city is the hand that even the ten. Then
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it's left in the five cities, and then the two
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two to to two cities two two cities, one one
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one Citi and the one and the way that even
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will affold it for me? Can you man of God?
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Then there's offering time you come and just drop something,
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as if they're giving God a table. You see, so
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you have placed your money above God in your life.
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You have given your money the first place in your
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life and not God. And that is what makes it
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an idol. So at all, what there is a relationship,
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even with your parents, with your boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever, with things?
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What there is your car, your phone, your sneakers. Ain't
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noting that has taken the place of God. An't it
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doing your place above God? It's an idol? So little children,
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keep yourself from idols. Let us go to the energy
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energy their children. Keep away from anything that might take
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God's place in your hearts. Anything on anything, say anything,
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say anything, and it includes all the things in your
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minds that you're thinking about. You know, you know that,
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you know that the person you know, you know, your dad,
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your dad ain't nothing. It could even be my salvation. Anything, anything,
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ain't nothing that has taken the place of God in
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your hearts. It's a night. So you may not have
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any traditional priests to go about and dance, but you
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are the one dancing before that thing. You are the
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one on the whole comments I wasn't hall Elijah, h
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it has become an idol. Why because you have given
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pre eminence, You have given prominence, you have given a
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priority to that thing above God. Because you see in
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Joshua twenty two five, before we coming into the New Testament,
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that the Antis says, what should we do the all
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the commandments? What must we do?
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No?
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Joshua said that by taking take diligent heed to the commandments,
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and the Lord, which most is the servant of the Lord,
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charge you to love the Lord your God, and to
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work in all his face, and to keep his commandments,
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and to clive unto him, and to serve him with
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all your heart and with all your soul. This is
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the commandment when he says, came was retreated in the
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New Testament. So we said, the Lord said that we
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should serve him, We should clive unto him, We should
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clive unto him. We serve him with all our heart
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and with all our soul. So and that thing out
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take the place of God in their hearts. Just as
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if we had the desert, we should self the Lord
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and God with all your strengths, with all your mights.
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Really some of us, our strength and our mind is
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turning out into something else, but not the service of God,
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and that becomes an idol. In the Old Testament, the
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command God gave them was so visible, was waiting on
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tablets you could see, and so they were also worship
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when eye doors that you could see by. In our generation,
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the lawd said, there's a new law. I'm going to
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make our rights on the tables of their hearts. Our
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write it on their tablets of their heart. He said,
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I'll give them a new spirit, and I'll take away
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the stony heart. I'll give them a heart of flesh.
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So in our generation, the law of God is written
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on our hearts. So we don't worship idols physically, that
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we worship them in our hearts. So anything that takes
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the place of God in your life becomes an idol.
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We're going to pray this morning. What is it that
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has become an idol in your life? That maybe you've
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not even noticed. We have not even noticed, and I
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don't can even be food. Food food, yes, food, that
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thing that is stopping you so that you come first
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when the Holy Spit says it's you first. See. So
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anytime we announced that there will be three days first,
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four days first, then you're contemplating, you're striking your spirit. Ah,
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so I will know it in to me for three days,
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so I know it's food. I know it. So you
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see because of that food, then you see that you
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know be able to first Hallelijah in it. Then that
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has consumed your passion and your commitments that must be
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shunning out towards the things of God has become an
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idol halleljah. Let's write your fit. You want to pray
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the this morning? You want to pray Lord? Ain't it think?
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That is an I thought in my life as I
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pray this morning, the ones I don't know, open my
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eyes to see the ones that I do know. Father,
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I denounced them today. I denounced them today. I denounced
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them today. I denounced them today. I let them go.
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I let them go. I let them go, I let
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them go. Lift up your voice and pray. Lift up
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your voice and prayer. Let up your voice and prayer.
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Shut she cut up camp a higher, lift up your
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voice and pray. Let's tap your voice and prayer. Ain't
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not day that has become a night dog in your
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life's taking up place on God. Cut on my hoteire
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Noah Manamu, in the name of shake your take.
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In the name of cheese. Just Lord, your party, name
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of shake. Car by your mighty hand, in the name
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of Chiefe, just my cheese, Just Lord r letting me
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remote by your fire, shake a party, call you a party, party,
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nap let your fire Lord, my.
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God, give me the book of chill Toves thirty. You
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want to break mama time. Yes see, in the Old Testaments,
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anytime people wearing mouse okay as a sign of true repentance,
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one of the signs that they will part on your head.
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The second one thing is also to run their garments.
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It is sure that it's a serious moment. It's a
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time of repentance. You got through a time. They will
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rund in their garments, but they are not really repented.
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And the prophet came and said that no, it is
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not your garment. I need you to rend. But what
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I need you to rent is your heart that and
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run your heart and not your garments, and turn onto
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the Lord your God, for it's gracious and messiful, slow
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to anger, and of great kindness, and repented him of
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the evil. Yes, you want to go before God as
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you rand your heart. Ain't nitting that has taken the
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brace of God in your life. You may not have known,
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but through the word God, I was giving you a
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listen the prayer, and I've still got to forgive you.
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And now that I've still going to take back his place,
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I still going to take back It is pleasing your life.
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Prayer in the inde bin our hearts, Oh you know,
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back we come before the back up play of contract.
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Hard corder such our hearts.
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In the in our hearts that has taken your place.
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Sh their presence be removed by the blood of cheese.
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Let it be removed by your fire. In the name
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of Jesus, Oh Lord, we actually come and take your place.
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In our lives.
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Shut in our souls, shut in our minds, in the
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name of cheese. This money we live here, not the sham,
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Oh Lord, take your plature in our heart. Shot man
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tire even by culture, throw us closure, Daddy, not taking him.
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My toldure, my God, I want to pray for you
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this morning. Maybe you are here with us, but there's
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been that gap. You don't even have that requiring knowledge
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of God. You don't know God as it happened after
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the death of Jessua and the Earnest. But there is
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a messy for God that we're saying. He's ready to
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forgive you of all your sins if only you believe
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receive him. This morning's an opportunity for you wherever you are.
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I just want to see you us. Raise your hand.
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You want to give your life to Jesus or you
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have been coming to check all this years, but today
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you realize that you're you're not sure she Jesus, come
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right now, you make it. You have it your cause
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from certain eye doors. Now do you have hidden in
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your heart that you didn't even know? So you want
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to come forward and I'll pray with you. Come. You
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don't know Jesus, you want to give your life to him. Hm, tire,
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I'm waiting for you. Come see. Don't look at people
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around you, he said Abraham. I called him alone. I
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called him mellow. Your God's cause us hellone. He will
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judge us individually. He will dad us alone. We taught
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you alone. Shout out abaha, how much for are you?
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Cat Awa bahaa abaha O Jesus, shout out la baha.
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You are my strength. When I am me, you are Danish.
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It is anybody coming here, my.
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Seeking you, seeking you, subacious to give you are my loves,
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your setees us. Why seventy s the NM of life
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phata thank you that teaching everyone of us yet is said.
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Everyone knows missage in tess name. Amen. Amen will give
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you a lot of hand up of friend