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Works of the Flesh 1 Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams 20th Oct 2024
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You know when I started forty eight years ago. Bishop
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Nyako has been with me for forty eight years. When
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I started preaching, I started at the universities and the
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secondary schools. I used to go to Acchimota and all
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the secondary schools in those days, and we had people
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like Bishop Abo died Bis of Dog's with Annaba was
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at Presec, Robert and Piakoffi, kuan Chianka, all those guys.
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That was when I met them and was able to
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impact all of their lives. They are all sixty going.
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Steve and Stanley are all sixty They were twins. They
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used to come here. Everybody's growing up. And I realized
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that I need to come back to all of you.
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I need to be back to impact your life because
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the future, the future is with you people, not us. Okay,
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I have more years than I would live if I
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would leave a hundred. I have lived more years than
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I have to live. You have more years to live
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than us. So my priority is to empower you. My
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priority is to give you some keys that will help
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you make you better and let the best come out
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of you. Amen. It is said that if we have
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seen beyond our generation or our time is because we
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stood on the shoulders of giants, and that is the
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privilege you have, the shoulders of your father and your mother,
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the shoulders of us. All is the shoulders of the
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giants of your generation. And you don't have to go
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through what I went through. To be better than me
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or to become like me. All you have to do
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is to stand on my shoulders, and you can see
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more than I can see it. Are you hearing me?
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Just imagine this. Imagine something if you stand on my shoulders.
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Do you realize that you can see more than I
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see if you stand on my shoulders. Yeah, you can
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see what I can see when you stand on my shoulders,
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And that is the privilege you have. You don't have
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to go through what I went through. You don't have
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to stumble and fall to learn. You can take it
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from where I am right now and go. It's like
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when I pass over there button to you, whatever I
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give it to you. At that point, it's your job
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to take it from there and to run. You don't
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have to go to the beginning. I have brought it
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to a point, I hand it over and you run
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with it. Amen. So you have a bright future and
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a better future, than your father, than your mother, than
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all of us. Amen. The other thing I want you
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to realize you can say that, Ambishop, I want you
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to be able to listen to me very carefully. The
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Christian life and work is an overcoming life. Somebody say
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overcoming life. It's a life full of overcoming. You have
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to overcome, and God has made provision for you and
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I to overcome. Tell somebody, God has made provision for
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you to overcome. Tell somebody, Yes, it's an overcoming life.
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Never forget this. Number two, Write it down. Number two,
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anything the Bible tells you to do is for your good.
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Is not for the good of your father, your mother,
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your pastor, your papa, or your art. Bishop. Whatever God
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the Bible tells you to do is for your good. Say,
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whatever the Bible tells me to do, it's all my good,
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not for the good of my father, my mother, or
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my pastor. Is for my good. Then, number three, whatever
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the Bible tells you to do is for your good.
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You see, when he say don't do it is for
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your good. When he said do it is for your good,
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It's not for the good of your father or your mother.
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And so this thing about disobedience and rebelling against parents,
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or church or your pastor because the Bible says you
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shouldn't do something, or the Bible says you should do something.
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He's a deception and it is self sabotaged and self distracting.
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Say self sabotage and self distraction. Whenever you rebel, whenever
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you are disobedience against your father and your mother because
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you disagree with what God is saying or what the
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Bible says, you are self sabotaging and self distracted, because
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it is always about your good. Now, let me ask
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you something logically, as a logician, think true, when you
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plant a seed in the ground, who benefits the one
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that plants the seed or the ground? Who benefits when
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you sew a seed. So when you plant a seed
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or you give, you are not doing the ground a
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fevor you are doing yourself a favor. So when the
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Bible say gift, and it shall be given, and press
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down good measure, shaking together running over, shall men give
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to your bosom, not give to the ground, but give
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to you. So when the Bible talks about giving, is
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for your good. So make no mistake and let no
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body deceive you When the Bible talks about giving, it's
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for your own good. If you don't give, you never read.
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You can love God and have faith. But if you
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are not a giver, you will end up in life struggling.
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But if you're a giver, you always have a habits.
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Givers always have a hast. If it's time for sawing,
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and you're a child of God, you love God. Jesus
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appears to you every morning and in the nineties has
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dinner with you before you go to bed. But you
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don't sow. At the time of sowing, the Bible says,
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as the earth remains see time and harvest time shall
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never cease Genesis eight, I believe twenty two. And so
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if you are not a sower, when it's time to
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read an ats somebody who doesn't believe in God, who
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doesn't believe in the Bible, If that person souls at
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the time of has, they will have a hast. You
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would that be in God? You won't have a hass
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Why because you didn't soul? Why there are rules of engagement? Right?
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Rules of engagement? Do you know that when the sun appears,
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it appears to the good and the bad. When it rains,
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the rain doesn't know that this ground, the seed that
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is in the ground was sown by an eight years.
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The rain will fall on the seed of an athiars
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and the seed of the believer. So if you're a
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child of God and you believe in God and you
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don't sow, you never have a hast And there are
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a lot of believers in the church. They don't sow,
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they are not givers, and they want a harvest. You
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never have it. God is a just God, So an
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unbelieverd that souls will get the havest. I know a
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lot of Jewish friends of mine, and I know a
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lot of Muslim friends of mine who are heavily blessed
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and rich because they are givers. So they might not
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believe in your Jesus or in my Jesus, but they
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get to have us because they are givers. They are
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saw us the soul. And I'm not believers who don't show,
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and they are broke. Because the principle works for everybody.
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It works for every we call it rules of engagement.
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It works for everybody. So learn to be a giver
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in this life. If you're a giver, you never go wrong.
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You will always have If you're a giver. Today, I
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want to talk to you on what I call the
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works of the flesh. The works of the flesh qualification
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for heaven. How many of you want to go to heaven?
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Come on, show me behind you want to go to heaven?
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How many of you want to live long? Show by
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hand you want to live long? You want to go
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to heaven? Let me give you some keys in life,
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and everything is about keys and light. When you go
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to the car pack and somebody takes your car key
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and starts your car, your car will not say to
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the person thief, Julo, hewie. It will say that the
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car will respond to the key. Why it is designed
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to respond to the key and not the owner. So
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that even though I don't own your car, if I
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get hold of your key and I go to the
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car pack, I can't start your car, and I can't
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take your car anywhere I want to until the police arrestes.
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I can't use your car because the car is designed
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to respond to a key. And there are keys in life.
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Life is full of keys. There was a professor in
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harber He went home. He stood behind his door. He
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was searching for his key. He couldn't find it, and
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the lady. He saw him standing behind his own door
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trying to open the door by force and call the police.
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And the police came and arrested him behind his own door,
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and he said, it is my house. I can't find
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my key, and the police said, give us a proof,
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so proof that this is your house. And every proof
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he had was inside the house. So they took him
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to the POLICEAI, and they had to get neighbors and
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people who knew him to come and ascertain that this
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is the man's house, and they have to break into
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and for him to bring his ideas and things to
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prove to the police that it was his house. Arrested
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in your own house? Why because he didn't have a key.
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Do you know that in this life and when you
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don't have a ky, you beg and you always knock.
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But when you have a key, you don't knock. You open.
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I prayed that you have keys in life, that in
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your life you will never knock and beg, that you
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you will always have a key to open. See now,
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Jesus said to Peter, I behold, I give on to
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you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. And he said,
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you can find and lose buy the key's keys stands
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for access, say access, say opportunities, say openings. It's very
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important keep it in mind. Never forget. Say keys stands
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for access and openings. And then it also stands for authority,
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say authority. I pray that you will have access in life,
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that you have authority in life, that you will not
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struggle in life, that you will live life with is
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is because you have keys. Now let's look at some scriptures.
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I look at the amplified translation. I need James aism
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of you to help me get a microphone quickly, quickly.
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Let's look at Philippians chapter two, verse twelve. Philippians chapter two,
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verse twelve. Yeah, amplified. Moreover, might be loved as you
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have always obeyed Philippians, chapter two, vers twelve. So then
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might be loved, my dear ones, just as you have
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always obeyed my instructions with enthusiasm, not only in my presence.
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But now match be'st th eighteen.
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For it is not your strength, but it is God
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who is effectively at work in you. But to will
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and to work that is strengthening and agizing and creating
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in you. The long game and the ability to fulfill
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your purpose is that Philippians.
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Yes, Philippians to twelve.
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To twelve year Okay, I don't like this translation, ricking James.
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Let me see what King James is.
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He jaos Wherefore mine beloved, as he have always obeyed,
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not as in my presence only, but now much more
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in my essence. Wet out your own salvation with fear
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and trembling, so say your own say. Salvation is an
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individual matter. You know, when I got born again, my
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dad was an Anglican, and when I got born again,
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I started going to the church Appentacus and my dad
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didn't understand charismatic appenticlesus in those days, so he had
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serious issues with me going to the church.
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I was going. He said all kinds of things. One
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of his challenges was tongues. He had problems with this,
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speaking in tongues that I'll come. When I was speaking
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tongues and saying, what is all these foolishness you were doing?
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He didn't understand. He had zerious issues. He said things.
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But I stood my ground and I knew that salvation
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was an individual matter. And when it comes to my salvation,
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I respect him as my dad. I will honor him.
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I would never disrespect him, because there's a blessing that
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comes with honoring your father and your matter. So I
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made up my man. I will never dishonor disrespect my father,
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but when it comes to the matters of my salvation,
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I have to take personal responsibility, and I had to
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try to explain to him with all respect that Dad,
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when it comes to the issues of my salvation, I'm
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dealing with God and Jesus on this matter, and you
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are my dad. I will not argue with you, but
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I want you also to respect my decision because when
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I was living a crazy life out there, fooling around
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in town and doing all the things that I was
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doing that you weren't happy with. You know, there was
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one thing you could do about it until God stepped
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in saved me and change my life. So allow me
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to have this experience for myself. So when it comes
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to salvation, you have to understand that it's about you
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and not about anybody but you. Imen. Now let's begin
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our journey Galicians Galicians chapter five, verse nineteen to twenty one.
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Let's look at the amplified Galicians chapter number five nineteen
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to twenty one. These are some of the challenges that
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will confront you in life, at school, at home, in town,
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at the marketplace, wherever you go, secondary school, university, wherever
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you go in life, you will face these things I'm
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about to talk to you about. And these are things
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you must be willing and ready to conquer and overcome
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because you'll face it.
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Go ahead, now, the practices of the sainful nature are
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clearly evident.
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Clearly evidence number one.
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They are sexual immorality.
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Sexual immorality and its rampant is everywhere today. You go
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on social media and you see all kinds of crazy stuff.
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It's everywhere. And you must know that these things, if
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you practice them, you will not go to heaven. And
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God doesn't or as an apology, He just tells her.
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You know, the other day I went to pray with
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some guys and the sweat, the old door of the
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sweat was so strong that I couldn't get close to them,
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so I have to sit somewhere far away from them,
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because I couldn't breathe. When I went among them, the
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old door was unbearable. And you know what I told them,
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I said, you see, this thing that we are dealing
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with is like singing. When you are singing, you are insin.
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God can relate to you. Even though he loves you,
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He operates fire away from you. That's why, for the
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first time in history, when Jesus took our sins upon
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himself on the cross, God separated himself from Jesus, and
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Jesus cried and said, Eli Eli la mah sabatani, My God,
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my God, why have that forsaken me? It wasn't that
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God forsook him. But God can stand sin. God can
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deal with sin. So God literally had to separate himself
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from himself because your sins and my sins was on him.
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So sin, sin gives demons a legal right. It gives
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the devil a legal right to touch you. The Bible said,
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he that is born of God keep it himself, and
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the wicked one cannot touch him. He can't. And the
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Bible said, he that breaks the hedge of protection, a
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snake will bite you. If you are going to better
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you leave your door open. Anything can enter because you
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left the door open. Saying opens you up to the
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devil and to demons, to torture, to harassed, to torment, nightmare,
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all kinds of things. That is what saying does go ahead,
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Please said I'm go ahead. Impurity impurities. I would leave
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it for bishop and your pastors to break them down
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for you about what impurity is. You know, masturbation. There
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are all kinds of things on the internet where people
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who show naked bodies, naked these naked all kinds of
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crazy stuff on the internet. You need to stay away
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from those things because you see, as you give attention
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to any of those things, it will give you direction.
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Whatever you pay attention or give attention to determines your direction.
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Write it down, say, whatever you give attention to determines
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your direction. It to begin to direct you and guide you.
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Don't be too inquisitive to dig into things. I was
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looking at something for a project that I was doing.
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As soon as I was as soon as I started
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looking at the things I wanted them, Pam a naked
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woman just appearing and knocked it off. Immediately. I just
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cut it off a minute. I just cut it off,
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and I told the architect, you know something, you take
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care of this thing. I don't want to do it.
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And immediately I brought that in off my phone. Because
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that is how you gets. Your inquisity sets in. You
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want to look and by the time you look, you
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are in and in, and you are carried by the
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wind the carriage, and every now and then you are
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going there to look at hims you shouldn't be looking at.
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You must guide your eye, gate, tell somebody guide your eye. Geate,
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protect protect your eye, geate, go ahead, go ahead. Sensuality,
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irresponsibility to irresponsibility. You don't care, but you must care
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because in life right, there are consequences, consequences of good
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and bad decision. Every decision we're taking life, good or bad,
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there are consequences. Go ahead.
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Lack of self control, idolatry, saucery, hostility, strike, jealousy.
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Jealousy, hostility, strive, jealousy, Strive you you life fighting. You
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are always correling and fighting with somebody. Strive. Where there
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is strife, there is every evil way. So watch it.
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Go ahead. Fits of anger anger. When you are angry,
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nobody can come through you. You say anything because you
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are angry, but you see the things you say when
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you are angry, you can you can't take it back.
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So when you are angry, don't see anything, write it,
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write it down and tell somebody when you are angry,
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and don't talk. Yeah, because anytime you are angry you
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sin because anger leads to violence, and violence leads to meta.
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So when you are angry, don't talk. Just be quiet.
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It's important let your anger come down before you talk,
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because when you are angry, write down. When you are angry,
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you don't think, you tell somebody. When you are angry,
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you don't think. You don't think. When you are angry,
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you talk anyway anyhow, Go ahead, dismutes, dispute arguments. You
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like arguing, You will argue over everything to prove your
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point is unnecessary hys dissensions, factions.
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That promotes herissies.
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Every you see, what we need to do is we
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will break it down during the weekday and Sunday will
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have sections. Will break it down wet after Wed. After Wed,
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we look at it from different concord dances and different
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translations to break it down. And you when you go
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home also take your time, steadied, wet afterword find out
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what it means. Because the Bible says my people are
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destroyed for lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge
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is destruction. Yeah, maintenance of ignorance is the advantage of
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Satan over you. When you are ignorant about something, it
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gives satan an advantage. The Bible says, we are not
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ignorant of his devices. Let's he gains advantage of ass
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So it's very very important for you to know these things.
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You can work in this life and be ignorant. You
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can work in darkness. When you walk in darkness, you
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will fall, you'll stumble, you'll sleep. Anything can happen to you.
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And ignorance is darkness. You can't work in the dark.
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You must have light. The Bible said that where this
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is a lamp to my feet and a light to
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my path, go ahead quickly.
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Drunkenness, h.
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Rautos behavior and other things like this. I warn you beforehand,
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just as I did previously, that those who practice sad
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things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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You see, you're not enter the kingdom, you'll not inherit
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the kingdom. And a lot of people think that. Or
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when you go to church and you claim you're a Christian,
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or you're born in a Christian and going to heaven,
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it's autumatic, it's not automatic. Your name can be removed
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from the Book of Life. Yeah, God said, if you
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don't overcome these things, I will take your name out
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of the Book of Life. And it's not just about
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being forgiven. God will forgive you, but most times you
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will end up facing the consequence of your action. Let
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me explain this to you. You're gonna have sex with
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a woman. Then you come to confess, you are forgiven.
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Because you confess three four months after the woman or
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the lady comes and say, I lost my period and
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I am pregnant. I'm pregnant. You are forgiven badly's pregnant?
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What is the pregnancy? The consequence of your action? So
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you read what you saw, so you saw the seed.
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God has forgiven you, but the consequence of your action
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is not facing you. So it's not about forgiveness. As
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for giveness, God is merciful. He will forgive you, but
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al about the consequence of your action. How about what
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you did? So God has forgiven you. But the sister
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is pregnant and she's going to school. You through you
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are in school, and you said don't tell anybody. And
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there are people who go and commit abortion and they
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die and abortion is meta, so you can't commit abortion.
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She has to deliver. That means he can't go to
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school and everybody will get to know about it, and
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you have to face it all because you wanted to
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release yourself. And it's just a few seconds, though their
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release is not even three minutes. Yeah, it's not even
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three minutes. Their release is very short. And then you
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brought balloom, then paw it baths and you are finished.
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And in few mens, she is pregnant. I'm pregnant. What
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are you going to do about the pregnancy God has
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forgiving you? But she's pregnant. That is the consequence of
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your actions. So if you're not ready for something, you
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don't do it. And for your sisters, you must tell
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their brothers that you can't drive this car unless you
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have a license. You must qualify. You have to wake
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and get a license. This car is not to be
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driven just like that. Are you hearing me? You have
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to you have to be smart. Okay, let me show
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you first Korencians chapter six, verse nine to ten. First
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rit Chians chapter six, verse nine to ten. Mm hm, yes, okays, no,
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you're not that there. They're alright, go to amplify.
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Do you not know that? They?
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Alright?
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Yours will not inherit or have any share in the
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kingdom of God.
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You see again, look at you too, and you see
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you must be told these things because your generation and
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he's facing some temptations and tryouts. Our generation didn't face
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your generation. You be in your bedroom and they are
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sending you strange things. You are sleeping, snoring, and dreaming,
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and you hear your phone popo. You pick up your
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phone and they are showing you something you don't want
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to see. If in your sleep you say, oh, look look,
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look look small, just look, just look small. Don't don't
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turn it though, don't turn before you turn them, look
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before you turn it. Looks yeah. Spells say spells. Yeah,
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they're casting spells at you to catch you and to
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seduce you. Say seducing spirits say bewitchments. The Bible says
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who bewitched you? Not to pay the truth. So whenever
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you find yourself liking something, doing something you know is wrong,
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you are being bewitched. You are under a spell saying
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the name of Jesus by divin authority, I intercept spells,
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I break spells, and I command spells backfire, backfire. Put
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your say backfire, Say I command spells to backfire. Put
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your hands and say I command spelled backfire, backfire in
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the name of Jesus. Say down for two minutes, say
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down for two minutes. Go ahead.
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Do not be deceived neither sexually I mora, nor idolaties,
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nor idolaters, nor infeminis by perversion, nor go who are participate,
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who participates in homo sexuality, nor seacht is.
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Out Did I say that? Who is saying that? The Bible?
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So it's the Bible. Don't go someone and say, Papa said,
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I didn't see anything. The Bible said it. You have
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a problem to do with the Bible. I'm just quoting
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what the Bible says. Money my own business. I have
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no say in the matter by what the bagles is.
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My argument is what the Bible says. Amen, diz's my story. Yeah,
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he's he's my song, pray sing my say heavyhe on,
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Well these it's my Yeah, it's my mind. Okay, look
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at it now, Go ahead.
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Nor thieves, nor the greedy, greedy, dunkers, drunkards, no regireless
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whose words are used as weapons to abuse, insult, humiliates,
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in immediates or slander, no swindless who inherit or have
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any share in the Kingdom of God.
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Is what you need to do after land today and
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take your time and get all that translations, sit down,
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take wed after wed, analyze it. It will help you
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so that in your journey in life, it doesn't matter
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where you are, you'll always be hand other comer, because
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when these things confront you or come your way, you
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know how to conquer them. If you don't know this thing,
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and you're a young man or a young girl growing up,
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you can you can fall, you can stumble, you can't sleep,
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you can be a victim. But when you have understanding
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and knowledge of these things, you can avoid them. It's
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like portholes where you are driving in a particular road
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and you haven't driven through that road before, and there
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are portholes you can fall into pottom, pound, pan pampang.
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But if you are dealing with somebody, a driver who
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has driven through that road before, when they get close
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to the porthole, they slow down and they take their time.
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Why they've been through that path before. What the Bible
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does is to give you advanced knowledge. Somebody say, advance knowledge.
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Advanced knowledge comes this way. The Bible guides you to
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avoid the portholes in life, because in life there are portholes,
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there are zeros, portholes, and if you lack knowledge you
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can fall into serious patrols and most of the people.
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That's why I mean I don't condemn people and I
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don't judge people, because a lot of things people do
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is ignorance. If they know better, they will do it.
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But it's ignorance that causes people to stumble in life,
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and it is after there are things that today they
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don't entice me. I'm not impressed by so many things,
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but like five years, ten years ago, there are invitations
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and things that impresses me. There are things that five
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ten years ago I tell I will be testifying, letting
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people know that are very important to me. Right now
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doesn't mean anything to me at all. I see breakthroughs,
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I see testimonies, deliverance. God does things and I don't
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talk about it. You know what I don't talk about
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because there was a time when if you watch Esus,
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whenever he heals people, he would say go home, don't
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tell anybody. He doesn't take credit for things. There was
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a time where I'm ministering, like yesterday Saturday, I was
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ministering here and there was a Zerrus manifestation of her sister.
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She was standing here, pouncy fault. She started manifestation. She started,
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manuf I didn't see anything. I just went ahead with
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my preaching. Before I would just talk and I said, carrier, carrier,
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bring her, bring he bring he tell you that I
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want to show that. Yeah, me to I D I'm
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very powerful. I stopped those foolish things. That is canality.
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What are you trying to prove? Yeah, and that our
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preachers today they want to show the talent. They are
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very annointed, they are seventies is powerful. The fire, the fire.
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I don't do all those things. I'm maturing. I'm getting better.
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Are you hearing me? I have gained knowledge. I'm gaining mastering.
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Everybody saying mastering, Say, life is about mastering. That's what
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life is all about. It's about mastering. If you have knowledge,
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you have what we call advanced knowledge. You learn mastering
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in life. I had an invitation recently to go to
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a particular nation, an African nation, to speak at their president.
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You'll breakfast before. Oh, I would have admitted. They said,
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I will send you first classic, you'll put you in best,
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will give you a love before. Immediately, I'll be excited,
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letting everybody know. I didn't go. I wrote back and
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I said I'm sorry, thanks for the honor, but there's
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a conflict with my schedule. I couldn't make it. I've
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had invitations to go to the White House several times,
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apart from a few times that I've been and attend it.
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Then and I tell my White baby, I think you
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should go. He said, but you have to honor the
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invitation of the President. And I said, no, no, I understand
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that's the President of the United States, but you represent me.
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I need to honor my invitation and my work of
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the King of Kings and the Lord of lords. Amen
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Sidan for two minutes, but before I used to get
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excited up. A lot of things that are so in
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this ministry. We have we have a bishop responsible for
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governmental issues and affairs, and he deals with protocols and
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with foreign ambassadors and foreign countries and nations and this.
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We have a bishop for that. Because I have a
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lot of invitations, as I'm spaying a lot of on
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my table, and I say, you go represent me. You go.
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He comes by. Last week, Bishop Isando, Bishop Suzannity represented
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me in some very very high profile meetings that I
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couldn't I couldn't go. And they have to attend before
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I was everywhere. Everything invites me. I go big and
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small just to be relevant. I don't need relevance anymore.
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I don't need to trend. I tell you all this trending.
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Trend in, trend in, trending. Be careful. I don't like.
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I don't want to be trending. Peo, put the Papa.
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If you do this, you would train you are trending.
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Two years ago, my social media views was one hundred
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and twenty million. I wasn't excited about it. This is
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the first time I'm telling you. They told me I
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didn't even know, and I said, fine, Praise the Lord.
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I just moved on. Who cares of one hundred and
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twenty million. There's a whole lot to be done before
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Jesus comes and you hear me. Somebody talking to you
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is very important to me, the onundred and twenty million people,
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you know how, because you are the future leaders. Played
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that tape. Play the tip about Bishop doc. I want
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you to hear something. See down for a minute. I
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want you to hear something. Listen.
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Associated with the archbishop, or Papa as we call him.
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Since nineteen seventy nine when.
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I was.
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I was in from four I believed secondary school, and
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somebody brought me on a Saturday to the International Student's Hostel,
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which I believe is now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
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but it was like some kind of a hostel there,
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and they said that there was a pastor who had
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come from Nigeria. He was doing some kind of revival.
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So a sister in Actimotor School organized myself and some
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others and brought us on a Saturday. So I was
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attending there on Saturdays for some time. At that time
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there was no action, had not started Sunday service, and
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I had just received the Holy Spirit, so I was
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newly speaking in tongues. But I doubted, I was doubted.
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I was having all sorts of doubts. So that was
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my first interaction. I went up to the archbishop. He
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was then Brother Nick, and I said to him that
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I am having doubts about the tongues. So he just
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put his hand on my head and drove away the
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doubts from my head with a powerful prayer. And from
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that and from that moment, I was no longer doubting.
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The tanks that I was speaking.
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And I have been continuously and uninterruptedly connected to the
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Archbishop I was saying yesterday that we cannot imagine Ghana
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or even the wealth that we are in without him.
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So I just wanted you to hear this because this
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was when he was in secondary school from four from
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fur that time, Bishop about I was also there at
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the same school the World in Achimota. He was in
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from four when he used to come to my program,
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and he and I have related for forty five years.
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We've been talking for forty five years. Yesterday we talked twice.
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Sometimes we talked two three times. We've been talking for
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forty five years. And I started dealing with him when
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he was in Actimota school at Firm four. He was
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the first person who paid tie to me because all
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my congregation were students. They didn't have money. And one
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day he brought me his tithe and I said what
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is this? He said, it's my tith and I said,
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by you, where do you have money? So my parents
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gives me money. So he started practicing it, practicing it
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like the Jewish people, and he said, the Lord said,
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if I want to succeed the ministry as to honor you,
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that's it. And some of you are in from four
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from two Firm three firm one from six whatever. But
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I'm telling you you're an university. I'm telling you that
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this gospel we are talking about SoC today. Beau of Dad.
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He has churches than every church apart from church or Prientacles.
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He has churches than any church in Ghana. He has
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over ten thousand churches, over a thousand catail drives all
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over the world. He played my first red organ for me.
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He used to play my organ. When I'm preaching in
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those days, turn to somebody and say, you don't know
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who I am. You don't know who I am? Tells
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them what you don't know who you're sitting next to.
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Tell them you are sitting next to greatness that you
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are not aware of. You know why the babus say eyes,
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I'm not saying nor ear has heard, neither has entered
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the hearts of men what God has planned for those
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who love him. How many of you love God? Come on,
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show me a wave of friend. I know you love God.
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That's why you are here. Yeah, you may have some
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doubts and confusion about the things of God, but I
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know you love God. And when the bables say eyes
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have not seen, what it means is that word God
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has planned for you has never happened before your family.
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That means that God is about to use you to
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make a statement and do something that would blow the
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mind of your family and your generation. Tell somebody I
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am a game changer. I'm a game changer. Tell somebody
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I'm a case breaker. That is who you are. You
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are a case breaker. You are a game changer. God
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is going to make a distinction between you, your siblings
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and addrests. You'll be outstanding in life. You watching, it's
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just a matter of time. Sit down for two minutes. Yeah,
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it's just a matter of time. It doesn't matter how
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you see yourself. If you have an idea of what
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you becoming the next five to ten years, it to
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blow your mind one day. One day revenue issould another.
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He used to stay in my house with me at
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so One day he was leaving for Bolligar and he
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was walking into his car. I was standing at the
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top there. Then suddenly I saw books in his stomach, books,
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a lot of books. So I said, is would stop.
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Then he turns, said Papa, what is it? I said,
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start writing? And he said start doing what me write?
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What I said that our books inside of you. He said, Papa, Papa,
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don't do that to me. Now you know me. I'm
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from the North and my father never wrote the book.
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Nobody has written a book in my family. And you
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are tempting me as you write the book, Papa, I said,
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stop arging with me, start writing. Eastwood has been writing
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from that time up to now. He can't stop writing.
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Si down, He's been writing up to now. He can't
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stop writing. He has written more books than me. Beshop
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that has written more books than me. And I'm their
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father who cares. Jesus said, great that word, you shall
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do than me. A good father wants his children to
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be better than him. Besore Joel preached seteen seven some
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time ago, and I preached that scliptop before he took
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it from an angle. I never saw it before, and
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I said, hey, you, how did you see this thing?
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Because I didn't see it. And I realized that as
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we impact our children and the next generation, they will
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see things we don't see. Yeah, they're not things we
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don't know, I'm telling him, but they have to be
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better than us. I preached that scipture for years. I
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never saw it, and when he finished preaching, I said, hey,
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how did you know this day? I never saw this thing, Yeah,
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saying petition, Elisha did more than Elijah. Joshua did more
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than Moses. Yet the Bible says that Joshua had wish
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because Moses laid hands upon him. He was full of wisdom.
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Why because Moses laid hands upon him. But he did
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more than Moses could do. Elijah perform fourteen miracles, his
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father performed seven. I expect you to do more than I,
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and you will do more than me. You will accomplish
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more than your father, your mother. You will be better
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than your parents. That is the will of God for
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your life. That is God's plan for your life. Say
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down for two minutes now. If you have committed saints,
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if you have violated any of these rules and principles,
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forgiveness is available. You are forgiven. The blood can cover
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you and even the consequences. But from now going be released,
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and don't go back to your vomits. Don't be like
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a dog. Don't go back to your vomit. Whatever you've
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been doing that you see in these points I've raised, disengaged.
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Tell somebody disengage, Yeah, disengage, stop it. Tell somebody stop it,
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stop it. Tell somebody. You can't stop it. What makes
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it the problem is after the truth has been presented
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to you and you still continue to do the same thing.
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That's what the problem is. So that is rebellion and
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stubbornness is the sin of witch craft. Let me give
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you my last scripture, Revelation three five. Revelation three five,
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look at it. Revelation three five.
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He overcomes the world through believing that Jesus is the
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Son of God, will accordingly be dressed in white clothing,
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in white clothing, and I will never blot out his
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name from the book of Life.
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You see, he said, your name will never be plot
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out or taken out of the Book of Life. He said,
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I want do it, which means that your name can
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be removed from the Book of Life if you continue
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to practice this thing after you've been told, after the
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truth has come to you, and you continue in them
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and you don't care. You just go on. Some of you,
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maybe you've been masturbating, or you've been doing some things.
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You know what I'm saying. Turn to somebody, say have
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you been doing some things? Yeah? Every one of you
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are looking at me some way. Look at the way
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you're looking at me. Some way. Some of you are
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know if you're looking at me, because you know that
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you are doing some secret things, tell to somebody and
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say stop it. Tell somebody disengaged, so that your name
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is not removed from the Book of Life. Jesus said,
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He said, I will I will not blot I will
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never blot out your name from the Book of Life.
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Go ahead, and I will confess and openly acknowledge it's
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name before my father and before his angels, say that
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he is one of.
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Mine, you said, Jesus said, if you overcome these things,
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I will confess you before my father. I'm the angels.
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I will tell my father this one is my son,
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he's my daughter, He's one of my own. I will
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never renounce you or reject you. Yeah. Sometimes, Bishop and
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some of my children will bring some people to me
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and say, Papa, this one is a very good person.
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This one is this, this one is that. Because they
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are my children. I'm talking about biological and spiritu our children,
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and I know them. I accept those people based on
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their recommendation. Jesus said, if you overcome these things, I
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will recommend you to my father, and I will recommend
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you to the angels and anytime you pray, I say, Father,
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that is one of my own. Answer them. Anytime you
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cry out, I'll say angels, go quickly help and assist them.
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They're one of my own. Please start all your it.
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What we are going to do from now is to
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break it all down, word after word, explaining what every
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word means, so that you are not working in ignorance,
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but you are working with advanced knowledge. Tell somebody the
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Bible is advanced knowledge. It gives you advance knowledge to
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work sircumspectively, to walk up rightly and not ignorant or
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not ignorantly, and that you don't stumble, and you don't
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work fully sially, but you walk up rightly by heads.
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If you are here today and you are not sure
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that your name is written in the Book of Life,
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you are not sure about your salvation. You are struggling
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with your salvation. Maybe you come to check because your
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parents brought you, but you yourself, if you had your way,
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you even come to check. You read the Bible because
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it's mandating.
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In your house.
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But you are struggling. You need clarity, you need life,
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You need understanding. I want to pray for you right
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now with every heads back every eyes closed. Lift up
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your hands. If you say, Papa, I'm not sure about
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my salvation. I'm not sure I'm saved. I'm not sure
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my name is written in the Book of Life. You
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can raise your hands. Let me pray for you. Anybody here,
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anybody here, I'm not sure I'm born again. I'm not
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sure my name is written in the Book of Life.
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If you are here and you are not sure, I'm
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here for you to help you, pray for you. If
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you're hand is lifted up, you can come to me
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at the front. If your hand is lifted up, you
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can come to me at the front. Okay, if we
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don't have anybody like that. If you are here and
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you are struggling with anything I have mentioned in the Bible,
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anything that I have brought up, anything with red, you
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are struggling with it. I don't want to know what
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it is. Lift up your hands, let me pray for you.
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You are struggling with something. You don't have to tell
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anybody the details. We don't want to know the details.
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Just lift up your say, Papa, pray with me. I'm
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struggling with something. We don't want to know what it
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is is none of our business. Is between you and God.
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So if you are struggling with anything, lift up your
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right hawnd right now and let me pray for you.
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That is help. Don't handle it alone. If you can
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overcome it on your own, you won't struggle with it.
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Please come, let me pray with you. Come to me,
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Come to me, Come to the frontier, and make sure
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you don't tell anybody what it is. It's between you
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and God. Salvation is an individual matter. You don't have
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to explain anything. And don't even tell me what it is.
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I don't need to know. It's none of my business.
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It's none of anybody's business. Whether it is anger, strive
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where there is the fact that you like fighting, you
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like argument. I don't know what it is. But whatever
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it is, if it's doing you and God. Today we
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pray everybody lifts up your hands. Heavenly Father, I pray
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for your precious children. These are your precious ones for
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which Jesus said this blood and diedful. I pray that
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to everyone they will have the grace to overcome and
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o a wheming grace, and over wheming grace, and o
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a wheming victory. To disengage, to disconnect, to disentangle themselves
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from every entanglement. You know exactly what the deal with
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where they are in life. You know all the struggles. Jesus,
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You've been in the flesh before, so you are tempted
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at every point where we are tempted. Yet without saying so,
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you know the struggle. You know that we are bad dust.
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So I pray for every one of them. You know
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exactly what it is that they are dealing with. I
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want you to whisper whatever it is to God on
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your own. Make sure nobody hears you. It's between you
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and God Father. As they whisper what the challenge is.
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Let them overcome it, Let them conquer it. Let them
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become masters, masters over whatever it is. Give them the
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power and the grace to conquer, to overcome, to rise
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above it, to disconnect, disengage, Let them be disentangled from
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any yok of bondage. In the name of the Lord Jesus,
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I pray that not one of them will be slaves
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or savans to whatever it is that from today, let
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them override, let them walk over it, let it be overwritten.
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Let them walk over it and override it. Lift up,
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you say, in the name of Jesus. I override any
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challenge in my life, any challenge, any temptations, I override
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it in the name of Jesus by divine authority. I
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disengage my spirit, soul, and body. I renounce in the
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name of Jesus. And I disentangle myself from every entanglement
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and from every yoke. Say I break sol ties of
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bad habits in the name of Jesus. I renounce them.
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Breaks all ties in Jesus' name. Amen.