Sermon
Anagkazo 03.09.23
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Life. Therefore in your back these twenty one saw that so that seven came
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and show the Lord these things. Then the master of the house, being
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angry, said to seven, go out quickly into the streets and the links
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of the city, and bring in heither the poor, the maid, and
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the heart and the blind. And the seven said, Lord, it is
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done as thou hast commanded, And yet there is room. Verse twenty three
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is a verse of emphasis. And the Lord said to the seven, go
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out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that
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my house may be filled these twenty four. For I say unto you that
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none of those men which were bidding shall taste of my supper. Now the
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word we are looking at is the word compel, which is the word and
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a castle. Last week Reveren Roond taught us how to spell and acastle.
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Can I get an at the microphone? Please, because today I'll be asking
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questions as we go. You just don't just get to ask me questions afterwards.
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Get me a microphone, and somebody should starts with has it in their
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head out to spoil on our castle? Because That's what I'm going to do.
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Do you know why it's very good to study scripture because scripture will open
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you up to study other things. When you begin to get yourself into scripture
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and to know scripture and understand scripture, you find that you are going to
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find yourself studying other things. Archaeology, and I told me, and it's
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true. It's true, medicine, all sorts of things, just because of
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giving yourself to scripture. That to see if you're giving yourself to study it.
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And I'll just read it. And it is important for you to study.
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The Bible says you study to show yourself approve in Second Timothy Chapter two
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and Ver's fifteen, study to show yourself approved. Study. Don't just read
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the Bible, study it and to study it. You don't just need the
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Bible alone. You need a Bible, You need a concordance, you need
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an English dictionary, all right? Yes, oh yes, give give the
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microphone to my love between them, and spell on a castle for me and
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my castle or I know what will be it. We'll sleep here, So
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be quick, be first, And a castle, yes, that's it,
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And a castle a n A g K A n A and that the castle
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a n A d k A zo and accastle all right, What does it
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mean to an acastle? Write this down? Number one? It means to
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compel. It means to compel, number two, necessitate, to necessitate,
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to make necessary, or to enable. Yes, I should spelled the necessitate.
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Okay, they compel? Which one I didn't. I can't hear what
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you're saying. And a castle I should spell it a game A N A
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d K A zet oh anarcasm, right is gene rather than not? D
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is gen a n A gen k is an accasum? Yeah? All right?
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And I said, what does it mean number one to compel, number
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two, to necessitate, number three, to constrain, to constrain. All
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right, So how do you do this? How do you compel? How
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do you necessitate? How do you constrain? You do all these things by
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using one by one force. So when you are using anarcasm, you are
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using force. Number two, you are using permission. When you're using an
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acasum, you're using permission. Number three, you are using entreaties or beggings
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entreaties. Number four you are using incentives attractive office. And number five just
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right, ada means adames. There are many ways you can an accoust We
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can go through all of them, all right. So an accousto means to
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compel, to necessitate, to constrain, and you do this by force,
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by permissions, by entreaties, by incentives, and by other means. All
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right. Now, when we say to compel or to constrain, it is
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very important for you to understand. Now. The Bible says in second Cointience,
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after five invest faulteen, it says, the love of God constrains us.
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Second Cointience five invest faulteen, the love of Christ constrains us. When
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you look at their new King Jim's version, it says, the love of
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Christ compels us. It compels us. When you are compelled or constrained by
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something, it means that even though you don't want to do it, you
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end up doing it, or even though you are doing it, you end
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up not doing it, because when you are compelled or constrained by something,
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it becomes your primary motivation and your primary drive. All right. For instance,
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when Jesus was in the garden and was praying in Matthew chapter twenty twent,
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verse thirty nine, the Bible says, he went and he told his
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disciples, I want to pray for a bit, and I want you to
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pray with me because my soul is give I am Matthew chapter twenty six and
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reverst thirty nine, twenty six and rest thirty nine. Right, he came
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to pass when Jesus at finishing this is he told his disciples was forty.
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He said, go with me, pray tarry for a while. Yes,
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And Jesus started praying. Right. And when it was praying, he's always
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saying something very very interesting. Jesus was about to die. And did you
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know that Jesus was shown how he was going to die. Yeah, Deus
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was shown how he was going to die, why he was brained, and
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that puts him under extreme pressure. And the Bible says his sweat tend to
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blood. In Look, chapter twenty two, verse forty four, the Bible
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says, as he was praying, his sweats tend to blood. And that
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is not so supernatural as you think. That is actually a medical condition.
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It's called hemato hydrosis. Write it down. I told you when you read
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the Bible you'll be learning things. Hemato Hydrosis is spelled h e m A
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t O hi d r O sis hemato hydrosis h E m A. Whenever
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you are reading right, and you come across the wadhima hima or and it
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means it's associated to blood anemia emia imic, it's associated to blood him hima.
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It's also ascied to blood. Okay, so him a blood hemato first
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to out hydrosis, sweat of water okay, hemato hydrosis h E M A
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t O h I d r O sis hemato hydrosis. It is a rare
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medical condition where because you are under extreme pressure, blood begins to come out
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of your pause mixed with your sweats. So that thing that tapped into Jesus
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was not so much of the miracle. He was under pressure. He wanted
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to bail out if he started prain, and he said, father, if
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it is possible life, this thing passed over me. Why do you think
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he said that he did not want to do it. If you were the
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one who had been shown how you're going to die. People are going to
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lench you. The press stones on your head, they were split on you.
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They were beto with rods. And you've been shown no, and you
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you you still want to do Why Didjesus still decide in spite of the gruesome
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and very gry nature of what I'm about to go through as so do it
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because the love of God was compelling. You see, the love of God
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was pushing him to do the thing. And that is what is going to
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happen. When you begin to tell people about Christ and you begin to use
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an accastle. They may not want to necessarily come, They may not want
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to necessarily listen, they may not want to necessarily follow you to church.
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But because of what they are seeing, because of what they're experience, and
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they will have no choice and to come. Do you understand what I'm saying.
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So to compel someone is to make sure that in spite of what their
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natural inclination and orientation may be, in the end, the end are following
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you into whatever business you are in. You understand? So why is it
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necessary for you to an acastule? Why is it necessary? Why isn't necessary?
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Write it down? Reasons you must be involved in an accastle? Why
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amsu compel people? Why it isn't necessary? Give they don't want to come?
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Why don't to leave them alone? Why mussul go that far? Number
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one? Because the whole world life in wickedness. According to the Bible,
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first join chapter five's nineteen we are born of God or we are children of
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God, and we know that the whole world lives in wickedness. What that
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means is that wickedness is the natural disposition and the natural state of the world.
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And we know we are of God. The whole world lies in wickedness.
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The world is not another sway of God. He is God. The
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whole world illness. And it might not necessarily be true. The Bible says
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in Math chapter four and looked after four that this as was taken on top
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of very high mountain, and the devil speaking to himself, Look, all
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these things belong to me. All the things you're seeing, the glory that
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casts, the men, that women, the businesses, all of it belong
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to me. And if you will just buy thewn I will give it to
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you, he said, it's is mine to give, and I'll give it
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to whoever I want. That I was speaking, Yes, and who was
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speaking to Jesus God? Yeah, and it is true because that authority will
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see that to him by Adam, that is the natural disposition of the world.
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So the people you see around who are not saved, they don't actually
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have their own lives, so they belong to somebody, which leads to the
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second point number two, why you must involve yourself in the castle, because
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people are bound by the devil. They are bound by the devil. They're
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not free to worship, they're not free to believe. March after three and
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they's twenty seven, and looked after eleven, they's twenty one. They said
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the same thing. It says. You cannot enter into a strong man's house
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and just go and spoil his goods. You must first buying the strong man.
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The devil is a strong man. If you don't know, the devil
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is not someone you can just walk over. There's a pastor one day who
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went to a certain village when evangelized, and I don't know what happened to
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him. I don't even know if he's a real pastor, you know,
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because of the way the story ended. This guy went and you saw the
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shrine that they were using in the village. The village is in as certain
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part of as certain country that begins with Jean and the name of the region
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that the country begins with V. I have not mentioned anybody's name or anybody's
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region. So this guy went there and he started talking about Christ as he
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showed, right, But he went an extra step and said this shrine Ana,
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he must go, took something and began smashing the idols, ladies and
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gentlemen. The following day the guy was rotting. It was alive and was
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rotting. Yeah, because the devil has power. Look, if you don't
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have a power, look at it. It says, no man can enter
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into a strong man's house and spawl. He's good. Give me that look
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eleven twenty one. It puts it in a very interesting way. Look eleven
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twenty one. When a strong man armed keeps his palace's good sig in peace,
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that's twenty two. But when a stronger man comes. So for you
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to be able to defeat the strength of the devil, you have to be
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stronger. And this has said he looked after ten. In verse nineteen,
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it says, behold, I give you power. The weather is a jusia.
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I give you authority, authority over all serpents and scorpions, and overlook
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at it all the power of the enemy. This as himself. He said.
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The devil has power. But I've given you authority over that power.
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And so before you go and ana castle. The reason you must involve yourself
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in this compelling constraining. I mean bringing people in by false kind of thing,
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is that people are not really for you. They're bound. They want
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to worship. Some people they've had Jesus, justus. They've had church when
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they when they wake up in the morning on Sunday, they play gospel and
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it does something to them. They begin to cry. But to make their
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decision to come to church, to make the decision to give their life to
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God, it's like something is holding them back. They can't really make that
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decision. That is why you must be very serious with this and a causul
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thing, because people working around their bundle, they're bound in all sorts of
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things. People are bound by what powers. People are bound by things.
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And you have to involve yourself in this and a causual thing. Otherwise you're
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not even win ones too number what's this number? What's too? Number?
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Three? Are this last one? Because people in the value of decision,
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Yeah, they ply in the value of decision. People are undecided about what
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they want to do. Draw out after three and the sports Joel Chapter three
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Sporting, it's just multitudes. Multitudes are in the value of decision. They're
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in the value of decision. People are trying to decide. They want they
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want to do this things back. They're not too sure. They're not too
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sure. They want to know that You just need a reason so that they
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can give your lives to Christ. You are the one going to give them
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that reason by what they see, by what they here. People are there,
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some of them were borne into into Christ and families, and some of
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you are even sitting here. You've still not made that solid decision to live
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for Christ and for Christ alone. There are people in the value of decision,
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and you're wanting, can I really do this thing? Can I really
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go that far? At? Some of you are sitting here. You come
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to church. Some of you came to church allertally. They're not because you
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love the Lord, but because your parents were coming, and you have no
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choice, because they've told you on Sunday morning, you will not sleep in
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my house. You better go and get someone to stay. But if you
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are living in this house, you must come to church. And you are
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coming now. You are coming with me. Some of you, if you
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had your way, you come for second service, or even just the evening
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service in the evening, but you come because your parents are coming, and
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you still haven't made that choice, and that cars is what gives a person
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a reason to say, Okay, okay, I'm convinced now I want to
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save Christ. I want to save Christ for real. So these are the
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reasons you must uncausal people, because i'mber one. The whole world is lying
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in wickedness. That double is going on rampant. He is the one who's
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in chargeable right now. He's the one who's in charge of the systems.
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That's why LGBTQ are a plus pious player called science titter rest of the poor,
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negative age. That's why they're moving, that's why they're so spreading.
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And we don't know what it's going to come next. I hear right now,
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Piedo fists said the one. They're right. Yeah. Pedophiles are people
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who are the natural or so called natural inclination to children. Children. Yeah.
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And when I say children, I mean kids like children to like Sunday
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school. They have sexual affinishes. I mean, isn't it Okay, let's
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put spirituality aside. Doesn't even make sense. A child somebody who's like four
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or five years, No breast, no boots are the things that are attract
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us. Travel girl are nice because of breast, don't travel. I don't
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know why I look him down. I don't know why travel is look him
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downstairs? Travel? Why? What are some of the reasons girls are nice
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complexion, breasts, hips is are noted and both us. I'm serious,
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A childhood has none of it. I mean some of the people do.
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You'll wear me out. Some of the girls when we're with them in essays.
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We didn't book them all because all of us have cut our hair.
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I've cut sword, you have cut tow. I tiar ship, you have
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tier ship. You know we are We are like a group of boys in
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the school. But when we graduate and we go to messy and they start
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doing your hair, you see the hair. Hair You've made a mistake though
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some girl b that you overlooking me like you didn't like here. But now
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you see hair and the wishes made their hand, the wishes looking you're like,
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ah, my yami mistake by myam mistake. B. But some people
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can look at children who have no features, nothing els going to say I
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have feelings for this child, and that they don't even stop them. Now
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they say they want to be acknowledged as people that they can't do anything about
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it. It's like that's how they were born. Yeah, mine attracted people
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said, again, they don't want to be called piedow files. They want
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to be called mine attracted people. They don't. They don't even want to
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be called bedowvers again, they want to be called what minor attracted people look
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goodness? And you know the interesting thing is this wom they don't have children
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or not. I've never seen a peedo file with a daughter before. It's
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at people's daughters they want to use for the no sense? Okay, how
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to un accastle? Let's finish quickly? So the reason is and what number
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one? The world is line in wickedness. Number two people are burned by
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the part of the devil, isn't it? Number three people are in the
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value of decision, isn't it? Yes? So they were three? No,
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four, three. Now let's look at how to do then accastle?
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How would you go about it? How do you go about an accastle?
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How do you and accastle? Someone? We are using fast, We are
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using every means necessary to make sure that they're coming. Number one, how
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do you do and accastle? By showing and giving the love of God?
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We draw them Christ Number one? Show them love first cointence. After thirteen,
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let's say we did from the one to the stray, and then we
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move to the stating, though I speak with tongues of men and of angels,
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and have not charity or love, give me nuking James, okay,
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so that the love will come. We are talking about a laugh. Though
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I speak with terms of men and angels, but do not have love,
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I have become sounding brass or a clinging, clanging symber. That's two.
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And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
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and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have
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not love, I am nothing. That's day. Though I bestore all my
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goods to feed this particular that's always gets me thinking, how can you give
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all your good to the poor philanthropy and give even your body to be bent,
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and you will not have love? So it means all these people who
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are going about their visiting of aanagies that donating. It's not all of it
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is out of lovel Some of them is, for sure. Look at it.
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Even though I bestore all my goods to feed the poor, as many
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are doing a humanitarian you say the church is not called to be a humanitarian
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organizational. It's good for us to do these things, to going to offer
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me jas and but we may do all these things and not have love,
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the love of God. Look at the stating of the same first quintens after
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three. It says, and now there remain three things, hope, faith,
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and love. And the greatest of this is love. And you'll be
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surprised. This is a very interesting scripture because hope it's a very serious thing.
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Hope it's a very strong thing. Without hope, you die. Romans
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after eight and they're twenty three. It says that now we have this hope,
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they're twenty four. Enalty, look and give me ennalty. Romans eight,
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they's twenty three. It says, even though we have the Holy Spirit,
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and we still struggle with our bodies. Look at it. We believe
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it's also grown. Even though we have the Holy Spirit within us. As
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a four test of future glory, we long for our bodies to be released
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from sin and suffering. Even though you have the Holy goals, you still
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suffer, You still for sick, You still struggle with things. There are
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things you don't want to do but end up doing it, and it says
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that even as we have hope, we have a hope that one day,
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one day, our bodies would be saved. And the twenty four says,
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hope for things which are seeing it's not real hope. Hope for things which
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are not saying that is what we call real hope. And many of us
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are here. We are struggling with things we want to break free, and
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we hope that one day when this as comes to get out, a person
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without hope is a person who's going to die quickly. And experiment was said
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one that time, some time ago, and there were two months that we're
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putting boxes, okay, and one box was just dark, dark with nothing
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stuck dark, and there was a camera in there that could detect things that
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are in the dark. There was another box and there was a pin hole
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at the top, a very small hole at the top that allowed a ray
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of light into the box. And after that observation, the frontal that the
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mouse that was in a very dark box died very quickly because struggle, struggle,
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struggle, tried to find a where it just gave up, started breathing.
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It's not like there's no hell, but when you feel trapped in a
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situation and you feel like you can't break out because of the lack of hope.
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Can let you give up? The Bible says in them extolouts after six
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and verse nine when Moses went to an extolouts after five and rest faulting,
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When Moses went to Egypt, and you want to tell them that, oh,
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I've come with good news God and sce you come and save you.
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That people are rejoicing at first, But by the time we go to chapter
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six and verst Night, and people said, you know what, we don't
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even want to go again. The lost hope. Why because Pharaoq increased their
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workload and started beating them, because Moses had come to say, let my
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people go, and because of the because of the extreme suffering. They said,
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you know what, we won't even go again. We like Egypts like
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that. When you are deprived of hope, you can give up your future.
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You can say, you know what, it's fine, it's fine some
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people. You've tried, mass you feel, you try, you feeling,
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it's like you've done everything. It's not working. Don't give up. Don't
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give up hope. They say, what the devil is working on is for
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you to give up hope to say there's no way I can come out of
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this thing. You are draggling with some kind of addiction. You have been
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stopping you. Whenever you come to church. You feel cut to the heart
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when you hear some of these things. But when you go home, you
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fall back in despite your best effort. What's the double trying to do is
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trying to frustrate you so that you just give up hope, just give up
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any kind of possibility of coming out. Hope. It's a very strong thing.
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And then faith. Faith is the other one. They said that a
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bad hope, Faith isn't it. Faith is another thing that is very very
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solid. In fact, the Bible says in Hebrews after eleven, verse six,
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it says farm without faith, it is impossible to please God. And
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not only that we live by faith our life, as Christ says, it
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is by faith Hubert chapter two and Verst four. The just I live by
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faith Romans after one and the seventeen, The just I live by faith Galatias
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after three and ver'st eleven, The just I live by faith Hebrews after ten,
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every seting it the just I live by faith second coin Terests after five,
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and they seven will live by faith and not by such faith faith faith
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fad faith. Your whole life is faith. But God says love it is
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more important. It's more important. Give me galactitions after five verse twenty two.
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If you have tippitty, I want to hear it in tipperty, I
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know that don't have it at the back. Somebody come and take my bib
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will and read it. We are talking about my love and the fact that
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love is the best chance you have to compel somebody to come to Christ.
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Love is the best chance you have to compel somebody to come to Christ.
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If you don't show, people laugh when they talk to them about this us,
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they'll be looking at you. There are people that need the love of
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God, all the need. It's an experience of the love of God.
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Who read for me? Ready for me? Just put up your handy phone
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to read from me, right, get me a microphone. Relations five twenty
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two Typicity five two gally delagiens five two. Yes, but the spirits produced
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by the Holy Spirit within you is divine love. And or it's very no,
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really well, but the fruit is produced by the Holy Spirit within you
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is divine love. Yeseop fruit is produced by the Holy Spirit within you.
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Is divine love in all its varied expression. Hold on there. So when
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you read gallections fatty two itself. But the foot of the spirit is love,
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joy, peaces, patience, kindness, goodness, self control, faithfulness,
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and gentleness. Against is there's no law. It's not noted. But
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now we are getting more insight into the thing. Okay, what we read
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over there, it is that the fruit of the spirit is one thing in
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varied expressions. The foot of the spirit is love, and the love expresses
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itself in peace, enjoy, in faith, in kindness. Love is what
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gives birth to these things. The primary thing is love, and the target
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group, writes down, the target group of anacaso by love is people who
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are close to you, your family, your friends, your loved ones,
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your spouse. Well you don't have spouses, but we still rightings you need
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it for the future. The target group. So all the things we are
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talking about, all of them have target groups. Okay, and account al
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by love has a specific target group. The people that you can most likely
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win over by showing love is number one your family. Why because you are
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there with them every day every day. They see you, they see how
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you behave. When you show them love, they're more likely to ask the
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question, why are you so? Why are you like this? Why do
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you forgive so easily? Then that's your opportunity to tell them about Christ,
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you see, because you can never tell somebody about Christ without an opportunity.
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Your friends Number two, your friends you can you can win them over by
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love. You can compel them by your constant showing of love. Number three,
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your loved ones. Number four your spouse, I said writing for the
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future. Number five loyal customers. People that you encounter every day. Maybe
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you start your mother's shop and people come to buy every day. The people
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that come every day, the way you relate to them, the way you
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talk gently to them, the way you are always happy, the way you
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are always smiling, the way that is love in its varied expressions, And
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that is how you win this close people over. There are some people that
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cannot preach in certain places because of your behavior. There an accountle we are
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preaching. You can, you can't practice it because the way you are in
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the house. Want they say going super you go, but you will make
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your face face when they're saying you, you drag your feet. You cannot
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preach to anybody with that kind of attitude. You have to show laugh.
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You have to You have to be a person that is filled with the love
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of God. You can't preach your friends if they ask you for things,
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and every day you say you don't have, but we see you eating in
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the cafeteria. You don't share. You said, give me you have two
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pence, give me one, and you say I don't have. But also
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Jesus laves you. Please. So that's the first way to un accoustle by
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showing love. All right, And you at the target groups for this particular
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approach, the family, your friends, your loved ones, your spouse,
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your loyal customers, who else? Who else can you show? These?
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Wh are people you encounter a lot in your life. Think about it and
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add it. Number two. The second way to do an accastle by reason
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and apologetics. Reason and apologetics. Reason and apologetics. Do you know what
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apologetics is? Defending the Gospel with intellect, defending the Gospel with sound arguments,
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rebut house talking to people. Look at first Fitter chapter three, and
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there's fifteen. It says, and prepared always to give a reason, but
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sanctify the Lord God in your heart and be ready always to give an answer
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to every man that asks you the reason you are behaving the way you are
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behaving. Be ready all the time that if somebody says, why do you
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believe in the Bible, because maybe they are not really getting it. You
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know, they want to believe in God, but they just need a reason.
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Jesus said, serve and love the Lord God with all your hearts,
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with all your strength, with all your mind. See, don't leave your
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mind at home when it comes to christ. Christianity is actually a very intellectual
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adventure. You have to learn and you have to read a lot of things.
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So add the scripture Second Timothy, chapter two and the S fifteen.
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It says, study to show yourself approved unto God, and what man that
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does not need to be ashamed? Rightly dividing the word of truth. If
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you don't do your quiet time like Reverend Ronn has taught us, if you
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don't practice your quiet time like we've been taught, what is the use of
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your quiet time. You have a personal encounter and relationship with God. You
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have an opportunity to read your Bible every day. You begin to understand the
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things that you've been taught at church. You begin to get deeper, you
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begin to study. So someone comes and says, Charlie, why do you
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even believe in the Bible. You have a sound, logical, very intellectual
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arrange reason through answer to give them, and then they begin to consider it.
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Because many are in the value of decision. We've already mentioned that the
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people who are in the value of decision, this one works on them.
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It works on them a lot. So it was a target group of apologetics
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and reason number one skeptics, people who are doubting. They don't really believe
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what you're saying. They've heard it all, they're all, come on,
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they'll be here when you said they don't willing guys like they're not really buying
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it, and so they come to you and they ask a question. Number
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two people with doubts and questions. There are people in church, they were
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born into churchill, but they have questions, what is the Trinity? So
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right now, if I'm singing right now and the trumpet blow right now,
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our lives go to hell? Or will I go to heaven? So Ryan
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asks, you are here if I say Jesus or that this thing go.
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You know, people have questions, questions, and one of the words will
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help them out so that they can be able to make a firm, solid
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decision. Listen, nobody is an idiot. Everybody wants to be involved in
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something that they know they will benefit from. Nobody wants to get involved in
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something that they only really get anything from. So when you are into apologetics
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and reason, you give people a reason. Tell people, then why why
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must you come to Jesus? Have you ever been to evangelism before? And
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you were speaking to somebody and it's hekay, okay, I hear you.
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But why must I come to Jesus? Why do you even believe in God?
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Who told you that God exists? I don't think God exist. They
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start telling you about who they know, the Big Bang, evolution and all
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sorts of things. You say, you are standing there like a job because
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you don't know what to say if not studied. And when we say study,
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we mean study, not read. You don't read. For example.
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You study, you go beyond what you're being taught, and you find reasons,
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you compare your contrast, you look for supporting material. That's the way
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to study, and that is another way to compel people. And this one,
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okay, add this one. The target group add and other people in
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other religions. Yeah, people in other religions, and sometimes it maybe require
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you to study some of their material. You know, when I was in
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the university, there was a certain lady that was so I mean, the
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lady, so she's she's fine, and at the time, you know,
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my eyes were roaming, you know, and my disappointment was I found that
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she was a Muslim. Look, it paid me here. So I made
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it my personal ambition that this girl in their tyle, by the time we
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are living, she would have I mean, she will be thinking about Christ
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at least, and she was not. Just you know, do you know
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their denominations in Islam, just like just like they are in Christianity. In
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Christianity, there's Catholicism, Catholics, and there's Protestantism. All of us are
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Protestants, Okay, Protestants are those who are not Catholics. So Pentico styles
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Presbyterians method is they are all Protestants. And all of these are denominations Charismatic
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Christianity, all of them. In Islam is the same thing. There is
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Sunni Islam, the Shia Islam, there is Sufi Islam, there's Ahmadiyah Islam.
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And they're all not the same. They're not the same thing. Okay,
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they believe in different things like minor differences, just like how christanity.
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All of us generally believe the same thing. But then the minor differences is
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what divides us into all these sex like the advantage the Mormons, the divers
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witnesses again at this this star get good. Cults and sects. Cults and
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sects, apologetics works on them a lot. Reason and apologetics like Marmons,
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it's a sect. They even have your own scripture and the College and the
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Book of Mormon. Look when you're into apologics and you'll be forced to learn
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and it will be help you in your schooling. You'll be somebody who's always
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learning. And when they come to you with your books reasons, you match
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them with the scripture and it forces them to think. They will be forced
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to think about what you're doing. Again, they'll be forced the overst witnesses
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every we're aggressive Evantelica people, but they think you're teaching is bombed. It
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is what is bombed. My friend who is a doctor, was in a
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hospital and she called me one day. She was very angry, and I
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said, what is it? This is last week or two weeks ago.
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She said, can you believe it? This child has been brought to the
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hospital and it's in need of blood. And the parents are the overst witnesses,
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and they said they can't make they can't allow the transfusion. Why because
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they overst witnesses don't believe in blood transfusion. Can't you believe it? Yeah,
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And the parents said if the prince threatened her and said if she goes
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ahead with the transmitions, they will kill themselves. They'll commit suicide. They're
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looking at my face. You must speak into studying and reasoning. So that's
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when you meet some of these people and they believe what you're doing on her
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to go to the extent of saying that if you do this and I will
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die, I must be really convinced. You need to study. Some of
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them are your roommates. They go to church, all right, and they
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go to some of these strange churches, and you're not. They're not saved,
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you know, because they drink. They said they go to check,
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but they smoke. They go to check by the club. You need to
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be in to study this, all right, because of time. Let's move
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on. So this is what apologetics and reason is, I'm not it namer
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three nam three by adaptability, evangelica, how wisdom and creativity. Today I'm
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speaking a lot of English, like I see your faces are doing. Learn
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how to spell it. Adaptability A D A P T A B I L
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I T y. Adaptability. Then evangelical wisdom, wisdom that comes with evangelism.
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You don't go and evangelize the same way everywhere. You must be wise.
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And then I'm a three creativity. These things also compel people to come
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in. Look at first cointence after nine. Let's start from vers nineteen and
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give me enalty, okay, so that those who didn't attend us to see
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can benefit. First Cointensis a nine, verse nineteen. Look at it.
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And then, though I am I'm a free man with no master, I
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have become a slave to all people. Why so that I'll bring many to
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Christ? Vesta. When I was with the Jews, I lived like a
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Jew. Why so that I'll bring them to Christ? When I was with
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those who follow the Jewish law, I too lived under that law, even
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though I am not subject to the law. How why did I do this?
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I did this so I could bring to Christ those under the law,
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are you following these twenty one. When I am with the gentiles who do
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not follow the Jewish law, I to live apart from the law, why
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so that I can bring them to Christ. But I do not ignore the
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law. I don't do all these things at the expense of the law of
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God. O I do not ignore the love of God. I will bail
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the love of Christ. These twenty two. When I am with those who
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are weak, I share your weakness, for I want to bring the wicked
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to Christ. Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing
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everything I can to save some The's twenty day, I do everything to spread
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the good news and sharing His places everything. This is why we dance in
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church. This is why we act drama. This is why the people like
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someone want to poetry and smoking wed and wrap. This is why what what
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do we do? What is something? The worst? We evangelize? We
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do whatship crusades, we do what else? We do? So? Why
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so that we can we can become all things to all men, so that
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we can win some for Christ. That's how to compel. When you are
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string gant and very dogmatic, you can win a lot of people who do
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you remember when passer James was switching three weeks ago, he was standing where
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I was standing. No, he was standing here, and he said,
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he used to be a very somewhere passing. He used to go to Philippo's
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in his lego and do you remember, and he said, there used to
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be some Shashi line over there. Don't asking what was the me of google
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it? And he used to be into those things. He used to drink
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and even used to be a retailer of alcohol. Is annoy yes, said
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he used to retail alcohol. And he said all his friends went into that,
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and then God called him. He became a pastor. But notice he
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said, when he became a pastor, he didn't ignore those people. He
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was still your friend. But by the way he was living and the way
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he was talking, when they realized the way he was behaving and said,
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no, something has changed about this guy. And he said they were about
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nine or so. All of them have now become pastors or because he didn't
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go away from them. Some of you, because of your Christianity, you
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have now started picking and choosing. Look, it says wise for you to
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pick and choose your friends. Okay, because first cointence of fifty thirty three
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says evil communication corps good morals when you have bad friends to become bad.
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But I'm talking about being nice to people and not shunning them, says Christ
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was called a friend of sinness. Do you remember, Yeah, because it
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was always eating with sinners and tax collect and they never change the viewture in
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them. That's what I'm talking about. Use every creative way to try to
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win source. Write letters. Write a letter, including your testimony. Right,
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I was healed by Jesus. I was suffering like this and like that,
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like that, and I think this us can do the same way for
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Because you are shy, you can't talk. That's what at least that's what
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you claim. So write a letter and can't put it in your friend's book.
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They'll say it, they'll read it, and you sing it mix them.
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It gives them something to think about. Be creative in your approach.
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That's how to compel people. That's how to bring them to Christ. You
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must think of when you are sitting down. Don't only think about how you're
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going to eat and how you're going to dress. Also think about how you
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are going to compel people, how you are going to What can I do
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right now with what I have to be able to bring people to Christ?
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What can I do? Can I sing? Then? Let me sing?
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Don't be post stink foolishness. Your your status, it can be a way
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to bring people to Christ. You don't understande a message. I said that
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your status can be a way that you can bring people to Christ. Your
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your what substantus? Your snapchat? Your what do you gotta think? What
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are the other ones? What? Telegram? A telegram to the ubsett us.
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They have it? They have it now, because I mean I want
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I was there. They didn't have Instagram. Yes, good Instagram, TikTok,
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Facebook X. That's how you can. You can win people by that,
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making short videos talking about your testimony, Charlotte. Look, the world
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is not shy and afraid to talk about nonsense. One day I was invited
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to come and talk in a certain church and I said, okay, no
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problem. Said it was a youth thing. They were doing a youth whatever,
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and they said, oh, we want you to come in. And
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I don't know them, I don't know the church. I think Moody was
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following my podcast and recommended me or something of the sort. And I said,
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oh, what is the topic? What do you want me to speak
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on? They said, expremati sex right or wrong? And I said,
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excuse me, I don't talk about such things in church. Why is it
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even a question? Why are we even talking about whether? PM don't you
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know that fornication is wrong? You are calling me prematus like the Bible because
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fornication account telling me I will not come, cancel it, I'll not come,
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and I didn't go. I don't know. I was very hungry.
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The world is not shy to advertise non sense, even in a church.
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By you are shy is unnoted. You want to you know, you want
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to be use everything at your disposal. You're a dressing use everything at your
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disposal to bring something to Christ. Listen my words number three, last one.
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Then we close by demonstrating the power of God. That's how you compel
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people the power of God, by showing the power of God. By demonstrate
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and showing the power of God. Acts Chapter eight. Let's how we did
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from this that's five Philip. For example, we're talking about people who use
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power. Went to the city of Samaria and told the people there about the
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messire what happened? Crowd listened to Philip because they were eager to hear his
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message and see the micro science in the giving New King James of this the
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verse six, and the multitude with one accord listening to head that to the
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things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did, hearing
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and seeing, hearing and seeing. People have heard. Now they need to
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see Verse seven, what did they see on clean spirits? Kind of to
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the loud voice came out and many who are paralyzed and lame were healed.
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Verse eight. And there was great joy in that city. Last week,
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somebody asks a question here He said, what if I have a friend wis
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a ethist? Oh? Then I talk about the target group for the the
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other one go back the target group for their creative distance. Now we're talking
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about Evangelica, wisdom, creativity, and adaptability. The targets group for that
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one is clicks. Clicks. You know what the click is, right and
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click is not c l I c q. This one is c l i
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q u E click. I told you the Bible forced you to learn it.
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Click. Click. A click is like an elite type of you know,
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Google are separated by the so like doctors. It's a click nurses.
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Another click teachers when they're speaking to evis, Yes, a way to talk
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to them, and we are speaking to a caount people. Today's a way
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to talk to them. Adaptability become all things. So clicks and number two
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add ah common people. Just say common people. Let's just say common people.
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These are people who can minister to adaptability and go back to their apologetics
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and add religious people to that squad. I said sex and courts. Add
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religious people to it. That you can win them by apologetics. Okay,
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adaptability no old unsaved friends. Add old unsaved friends to adaptability. And now
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we are on power. Who can you win overweight power? You see,
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there are some people. They don't even understand Christianity. They can't relate to
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it in any way. So what they need to see as what will convince
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them. Like I was talking about the guy who was asking a but it
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is friend. You can talk from now to next year and this guy will
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not change. But if this guy sees one miracle, it were convincing.
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That is why mank But you need to trust God for grace, for the
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power of God in you to rise so that when you lay hands on the
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sick, they will get your Mark chapter sixteen, in verse twenty, and
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it says, and the Lord working with them confirmed the things that they said
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with sight look at it, and the Lord and they went about and preached
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everywhere. The preacher were everywhere, and the Lord working with them confirmed the
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words that they spoke with signs and wonders. If you said this has really
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heals, I want to see it with my eyes. If you said this
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has left, I want to see it with my eyes. This is where
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you need to trust the Lord for gifts like prophecy. This is why you
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need to trust a lot for guilt, like the word of knowledge. You
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meet someone and say your name is a true and they're spoken because they don't
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remember ever telling you their name. You meet someone and say, Sandra.
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God says her to tell you that he loves you. First of all,
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how do you know she's got Sandra? And number two, she's in a
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very depressive state. This thing that you just said, I mean, if
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she doesn't even believe in God, you start believing in God power. It's
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one sure way to make sure that people gets to hear the Gospel of Christ.
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On your feet, everybody, on your feet, listen. The world
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needs evidence and there are many ways you can bring people to Christ. We've
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spoken about some. This is not all. Oh, we can keep going
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for a whole month on how to compel people. It says to compel,
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to constrain, to necessitate, and to use all means necessary. If you
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are here, you yourself are not convinced of your salvation. You yourself,
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you are not sure about the salvation thing. Close your eyes and ask Jesus
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into your heart. You can never give what you don't have. Peter and
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John says, such as I have, I give to you. Such as
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I have. Jesus is one you can have. You can have him.
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He can be one of the things you have. You have clothes, you
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have money, and you also have Jesus and you can give him to people.
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If you have not made a solid decision for Christ, I want to
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ask you to come forward. Just come forward and let's see a simple prayer.
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And that's it. That's it. You're on your way. That's it.
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You have not made a solid decision for Christ. You've been coming to
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Chet, but you are even in Chet now, but you have not really
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told yourself I want to take this God thing seriously. I want to do
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this for real now, and if you've given your life to Christ, begin
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to thank the Lord for a salvation and begin to ask the Lord for grace.
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Begin to ask the Lord for grace. It's the Lord. I need
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grace. I need grace. I need grace. Give me the wisdom to
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compel, the wisdom to necessitate. Wisdom alone, wisdom alone, wisdom,
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Ah, Lord, wisdom alone, wisdom all on wisdom, Ald, I
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need to be wise. Follow on names, hole home, fall on smoll
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For your name is holy. Fall on name is hole, how all the
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time for the night is holy, fall on game is horn, Holy love,
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all love for your life, for your name, Holy God, you
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are O. Love for your life is holy. By your names. Lord,
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thank you and we bless you. Thank you for giving us grace and
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power and wisdom in Jesus name. Amen, Can you give the Lord of
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clap Us to take your seats