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Powerful Sunday Sermon ( Duality ) 16.04.2023
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So the next voice you are going to hear is the voice of the Man
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of God. Weaver and run. Oh are you thanking God for his life?
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If you're clapping, then do it better. If you're shouting, then
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do it better. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Oh, hallelujah, I said,
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hallelujah. Are you in church this morning? Are you sure you're in church
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this morning? Then help me sing this song. You move mountains calls so
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far all power man a man. For our brethren celebrating one more year,
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we thank God for your lives. Oh are we clawing for the are we
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thanking God for them? And our prayer for you is that God will add
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many more years to your years. And as you grow, you grow in
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wisdom, and you grow to understand and have knowledge of the Christ who has
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saved you, so that your life gets better and better as you grow older.
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Amen. And as the Bible has said that the lights on your path
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will shine brighter and brighter and brighter to the perfect day. Amen. And
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for all our other brethren, with our testimony our little brother, we thank
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God for deliverance. Amen. That his little brother didn't get his eyeposed out.
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Amen, that his brother still has two eyes intact. Amen. We
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thank God for promises life for some of you. Five hund residies may be
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little. It's what you buy credits with. Amen. But if you have
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come from the backside of the desert, Ah, my God, that is
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something great enough. Amen, and we thank God for his life. Amen.
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On, behalf of our Father and the Lord. The Archbishop Nicholas Duncan
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Williams coming cloud for the Lord. You're welcome you all to church this morning,
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So please tell your neighbors Seaton to your right and to your left,
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you're welcome to church this morning. I can see some people. They are
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talking about the amounts and women. Please tell your neighbor you are welcome to
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church this morning. Amen. In the youth church we talk with our mounts
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opening. Amen. And so you are very welcome to church this morning.
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How many of you are here for the very first time? If today is
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the very first time you're coming here, please be on your feet. Let's
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welcome you with a great youth and actually welcome. Amen. Oh, is
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there anyone else anyone here for the very first time? Amen? Quie didn't
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bring anyone. Amen. You are welcome to Action Chapel international. This is
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aci youth church. Amen. We are the youth in action. Amen.
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And over here we have Christ in us, which gives us the hope of
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glory. Amen. So you are welcome here every Sunday. Amen. Either
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for fast service or for second service. You are welcome here every Sunday.
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Amen. Protocol. Let's have the forms for them. Do we have the
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forms for them to feel? Are we bringing it all? They should come?
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Okay, all right, So please be seated. They'll bring you some
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forms to share you, give us some information. You want to get to
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know you and to fellowship with you. So please be seated in the presence
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of the Lord. Hallelujah, Oh, hallelujah. Anyone else celebrating their birthday
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in the month of April, please give us a wave. Anyone else the
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month of April, please be on your feet as well. Please be on
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your feet as well. Happy birthday to you in advance. Your bady hasn't
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come yet, so happy birthday to you all in advance. Amen. Every
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month in the Youth Church, we celebrate and we pray for our friends who
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are celebrating their birthdays. Amen. So like we pray for our brethren earlier.
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May God add many more years to your years. Amen. May anything
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that cuts life short from your background may not have power over you. May
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you prevail over and against any power of the enemy, anything that shortens life,
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May you prevail far above them. And may God give you testimonies year
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on year in Jesus Mighty. Ay. Amen, please be seated in heavenly
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places. Amen. Anyone excited to be in church this morning? Oh,
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I can't see your hands. These people. I'm not excited. These people
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are not excited. You're excited to be in church. Amen. You should
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always be excited when you come to church, because over here you will meet
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God, you will encounter God, you will learn something that you don't know,
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a man to help you grow in the things of God. Amen.
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And so today, by the grace of God, I want to share with
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you on the subject duality. Duality and duality is or a double life?
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A double life? How many of you have watched a James Bond movie before,
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a Double O seven movie, or a spy movie? You've watched a
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spy movie before. Sometimes the blow man, as we like to call it
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here in this part of the world, he will pretend to be something else
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to infiltrates an enemies camp in order to get some information. And then when
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they discover that he's actually a spy has come to steal information, then they
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will bring all their people against him, and he will begin to show himself
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as the blow man and begin to show the double life, the things that
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he has in his ars. Now you begin to show it for us to
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see. Amen. But in this context, we are not talking about a
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blowman or double O seven Amen. But we are talking about living a dual
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life, living a dual life, and that is something that in the Kingdom
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of God is not advisable to live a double life as a child of God.
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As a child of God, you are not advised, you are not
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encouraged to live a double life. Amen. And so let's take our foundation
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scripture from efficients chapter five, verse one to five. Efficients Chapter five,
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verse one to five. How many have your Bibles here with you today in
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church? Amen? And how many of you forgot your Bibles? I know
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some people they forgot their Bible when they go to church and they were like,
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oh shoot, I forgot my Bible. Amen. But please, you're
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encouraged to bring your bibles to church so that you verify the scriptures that you're
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being taught here in the youth Church. Amen. Efficiency Chapter five is one
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to five, and the Bible says that, therefore, be imitators of God
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as dear children, and walk in love as Christ also has loved us and
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given himself for us an offering, and they sacrifice to God for us.
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Smelling your identity as a child of God is that you are a saint.
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And because you are a saint of God, you are required to be an
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imitator of God. You are required to be like God. You are required
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to walk in love as Christ walked in love, as Christ loved us and
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gave himself up for us a fragrant offering and a sacrifice. And because of
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all of these, the Bible says that, but let sexual immorality and all
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impurity and convertuousness, let it not be mentioned amongst you. Let it not
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be named amongst you. Let it not come up in your conversations. Let
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it not come up in your conversations. So, as children of God,
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when you meet to have discourse or to talk about things, sexual immorality should
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not be part of your conversation. I told the first service a true story
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about when I joined the main church choir about seven or eight years ago.
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We were fellowshiping, getting to know one another, and a young man came
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to me and he mentioned his name. I even forget what his name is
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now because I realized that he was not a true Christian. He came and
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the first question he asked me was how many girls have you conquered? And
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I'll excuse me, what this is church. This is not a night club.
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So what audacity do you have to come and ask me how many girls
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have you conquered? He the Bible is saying that let not such speech be
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mentioned among you. And I didn't spare him. I really blasted him.
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I told him, I'm not interested in that kind of conversation because I'm a
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child of God, I'm a child of light. I don't indulge in that
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type of conversation. Amen. And he realized that he had come to speak
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to the wrong kind of Christian, because for Christians who are living a double
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life, that type of conversation is nice. They will indulge in it.
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Amen. They will speak, they will give commentary, they will tell you
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I've conquered thousand, two hundred. I'm following Solomon. They will tell you
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all their conquests and exploits. But the Bible is admonishing us that let not
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such speech be mentioned even amongst you. That conversation is for unbelievas. Amen.
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And so today we are going to study a few things and will break
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into groups and will discuss very real life situations about living a double life as
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a child of God, about living a double life as a child of God.
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Amen. And so living a double life is something that God does not
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want for any child of God. It is the devil who inspires duality.
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It is Satan who inspires duality. Because the Bible says that Satan was created
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to be a special creature in heaven. He was a worship leader. And
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so although on the outward he was leading worship in the presence of God and
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he had a certain outlook, his heart content was wrong. His heart content
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was full of rebellion, and he actually went head to lead one third of
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all the angels in heaven into error. And so one third of all the
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angels followed the rebellion of Satan, and because of that, they lost their
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place in heaven. Amen. And so God's expectations for us as children of
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God is that no form or sinful living should be found in us. How
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many Christians are here today? Amen? You believe you're a Christian? Oh,
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I'm asking you a question. You believe you're a Christian? Are you
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sure you're a Christian? So if we take you to court today and we
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say that we are going to jail you for fifteen years, prove to us
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that you're a Christian? Can you prove to us that you're a Christian?
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Oh? I'm not hearing some Yes, some people are years. Are you
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sure, amen? Because the truth of the matter is that a lot of
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Christians in our day live a double life. We live a double life,
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whether knowingly or knowingly. And I'll give you a typical example. If we
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go to some of you, if we tell you that, okay, bring
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your phone. We are going to project your social media, your TikTok account
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on the screen, and we are going to go through all your posts and
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all the things you watch, and all the things you liked and commented on.
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And that is the only evidence in court that will show that you are
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a Christian. I can bet you with all the money in my wallets,
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and I have money in my wallets that many of you you will be found
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guilty of duality. Am I lying? You'll be found guilty because there is
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nothing to show on your social media that you are a child of God.
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There is absolutely nothing to show that you are a Christian. And if that
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was the only measure for evidence against you in a court of law, you
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will be found guilty. Amen. And so duality is a real conquer in
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the Kingdom of God. And it has crept into the Kingdom of God because
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of Satan, because of what Satan did. Because many believers think, and
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they are self deceived to think that, oh, I can come to church
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behave like a Christian. In fact, for want of a better word,
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I can come to church and pretend to be a Christian, and I can
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go out and live my life the way I want to live in Amen.
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There are many of you, all the worldly songs in the world today.
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If we give you the mic and we are doing talent hand here, you
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can't sing it for us back to back. You even know the bridges in
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the song. You know when it goes up and comes down. You know
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how Charley, you know the beats in your sleep. You can sing it
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and wrap it and you know all of it. Amen. But if you
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come here, we are singing. We are standing here only because you made
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the way. You are guilty of duality. Amen. And so today we
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are going to learn a few things. And we are going to use a
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Bible character who was very spiritual and yet who was very guilty of duality to
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learn some great lessons today. Amen. And my prayer for you that us
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the Lord has laid this upon my heart to share with you, that it
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will bring transformation to your life. Because two weeks ago I was just there
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and I heard the Holy Spirit saying duality, duality, duality. So everything,
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I come and teach you here, I come and preach to you here.
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I don't sit down and do impace, tp imp out, or I
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don't flip a coin and then come and no, it is as given by
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the Lord Holy Spirit, Amen, to help you in your Christian walk,
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so that by the time you ten twenty or twenty one and you become a
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young man and a young woman, you are a proper Christian. You are
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a strong Christian, that you are not blown away by any forms of doctrines
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to deceive you. Amen, Because guess what Satan is out there to deceive
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you? And if you give him chance, he would deceive you greatly.
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Amen. And so God's expectation is that a student of God, no sinful
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form should be found in us. Also, no fornication and cleanness and the
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like should ever be associated within our conversation or in our character. And people
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who are called Christians should live as Christians. We should be christ Like in
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our living and in our endeavors. Amen. And so what is duality?
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Duality is the act of living two lives, living a double life, living
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a double life. It is also the act of having two personalities or two
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natures embodied in one person, one lifestyle displayed in public and another lived in
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private. Amen. And so living a double life. You are two faced.
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Let's have the picture with a guy with the two faces. You are
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a two faced human being. You are a two faced creation. Amend God
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doesn't want you to be too faced. It is Satan who is too faced.
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The other one opposites faces in opposite direction. Yes, you are a
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two faced human being. A dual life is this. You are too faced.
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You exhibit one character here and then you exhibit another character there. There
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is no consistency with you. But as a child of God, you have
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to be consistent, so we know that indeed you are for Christ. Amen.
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In the Book of Revelation, chapter three, there's a passage that the
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Bible says that the spirit of apostle John was lifted up into heaven, and
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when he was in heaven, he encountered Jesus, and Jesus said, right,
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take a note book, take a pen, and write seven letters to
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seven churches who are in Turkey. How many of you have heard of all
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the bad things happening in Turkey many many of you might have been in school,
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but there's been many earthquakes there, a lot of people have died.
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There were seven churches, Christian churches in Turkey, way before it became a
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Muslim country, and there were serving ches. And God said, write these
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letters to them. And there was a church that Jesus said that I wish
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you were hot or cold, the lukewarm Church. He said, because you
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are neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out two face. The
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lukewarm church had two faces. So when they come to church they will behave
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a certain way, and when they go home they will behave another way.
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But God wants you to be hot. He wants you to be on fire
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for him. Being cold is not an option. Being lukewarm, it's not
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an option. God wants you to be on fire for him. Please tell
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your neighbor. God wants you to be on fire for him. Please,
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are you afraid of your neighbor? Tell them like you mean it. Say
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God wants you to be on fire for him. Tell your other neighbor.
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God wants you to be on fire for him. Amen. And so such
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a life of a person, or the behavioral pattern that this person exhibits,
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is inconsistent, both in private and in secrets. Amen. Some of you,
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if I say, somebody should volunteer their phone freely to me right now,
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and let's go through the phone. And I'm a telecom's engineer. I
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know phones. The things you're hid in it, I can find it.
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And I say, hand over your phone to me, and you hand it
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over and I say give me your password. You give me your password,
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and I say confess if you have anything in there that shouldn't be in there,
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and you say no. And I ask you if you're a Christian or
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not, and you say yes, I'm a Christian. And we go through
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your phone. It is very likely that we might find something in there that
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you are hiding on your phone that I don't want anybody to see. Amen.
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How many of you have ever been in a situation where you are doing
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something but I don't want anybody to know, or give the Lord a wave
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and shame the devil? Are you shaming the devil? Yes? So if
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you are doing something that you don't want anybody to know, that potentially if
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people know about it, they will see you in a certain light. It
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is not worth doing because it gives you a dual identity. Amen. And
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so as children of God, we are called to be light only, and
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no darkness found in us. Amen. And so duality encourages the spirit of
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hypocrisy. Duality encourages the spirit of hypocrisy. And so you see what the
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scripture said in Efficients five. The Bible says that the imitators of God,
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he said love, walk in love, Walk in love. If you are
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a hypocrite, it is only a hippocrate who pretend to love somebody, but
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in their heart they are kissing them. It is only a hypocrite who come
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and say, oh hi, my name is Ron. What's your name?
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And you mention your name? And they don't even put your name to memory
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because the entire and he leaves because they're not interested in getting to know you.
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It's only a Hippocrates who would say hello, give you the queen's wave.
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Is that the queen's wave, and not really think whether there's a human
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being standing there or not. There's only a hypocrite will say, oh,
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I'll die for you when you're in trouble. You can count on me.
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The day you are in trouble, you call them, they will see your
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phone and they will block you because you are being a nuisance. But it
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says a walk in love as Christ has also worked in love and giving himself
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up for you. Amen. And so in order to walk the walk as
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a child of God, as a Christian, they are requirements to this walk
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of faith. You can't just put the title I'm a Christian and live anyhow.
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It doesn't work that way, Amen, it doesn't work that way.
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You can say I'm a Christian, but when it comes to everything on Godly
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you are part and partaker of it. I was telling the first ever before
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about when we went to secondary school or we had all gone, we're all
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freshest Jale, We're all we didn't know ourselves. So everybody was being cautious.
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But as we went along, everybody started displaying their character. And there
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was this guy. He became the Jamma, the Jama, the author of
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Jama songs and every profane song ever on the face of the earth. This
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guy will sing it, and you will lead everybody to sing it. Fast
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forward. We finished school and then we went to some church and then we
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saw this guy sits in there playing drums. He was there playing the drums,
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praises. He was drumming doing He said like, hey, this guy.
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Later we found out that his father is actually the pastor of the change.
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Somebody said, hey, his father was the pastor, so all along
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he had been the pastor's son. Meanwhile, at home, he's the pastor
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son, who is playing the dams, who is leading praises, who is
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who is the good boy. On the flip side, when he comes to
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school, he doesn't even wear a belt, he doesn't lay his shoes to
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be walking as though he owns the world. He's a master of himself.
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And when he comes to Jama, oh my, he will wake up at
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dawn, don't broadcasting, and lead all the profane jama for us. He
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was living a dual life, and so you cannot be a Christian, a
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child of God. During Easter, we understood the seven places Jesus shared his
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blood for us. We understood the seven saints of Jesus while he was going
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through what he went through for us. You can't be a child of God
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and be worldly as well. Amen. So please tell your neighbor for free,
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you cannot be a child of God and be wildly as well. Amen.
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So now let's go straight into the lessons for today that I want to
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share with you. A man, Let's go to Judges chapter fourteen. Judges
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chapter fourteen, the verse one to nineteen talks about Samson Samson. Now,
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our background to Samson was that many of you know something just to be a
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strong man. That was a character in the Bible. But additional information for
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you is that Samson was not just a strong man. Samson was born and
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separated onto God. Samson was a Nazarite. Samson was a judge. He
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was a judge over Israel for twenty years. Samson. In those days there
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were no kings, so God ruled his people through prophets and through judges.
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So something was like a president, but a spiritual leader over Israel for twenty
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years. Amen. And if you read further, the Bible says that the
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Simson went to Timna and saw a woman of Timna, of the daughters of
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the Philistines. So Samson was a Jew, but he went to Timna and
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saw a Philistine girl that he loved, and he said that she pleases me
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much. The first instruction that God gave the children of Israel is I don't
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marry anybody outside of the Jewish tribe. But Samson said, oh, I
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am master of my own because I'm the spiritual leader, I can marry somebody
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outside. Fast forward comes. Let me use it as an example. Sampson
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went with his best man. They went to Timnaw to go married the young
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lady. And Samson said that, oh you wait here, I'm coming.
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I'll be right back, and he left. He didn't return for two months.
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When he came back, they had given his wife to his best man.
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Now something was very cross. He was very upset please it. So
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Something went to catch three hundred foxes. He tied their tails together and put
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fire in between their tails, and he set them loose into the farms of
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the Philistines and bent everything you understand. And so if Samson had not wanted
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to taste of the other side, there would have been no need for all
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of that. Fast forward, Sampson, who is still the spiritual leader of
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Israel, decides to still go to Philistine. He went to visit the prostitute
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who was a Philistine. He was living a dual life. Fast forward,
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he even met another Philistine girl called Delilah that he fall in love with.
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And Delilah was his end because through Delilah they found out the source of his
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power, and they arrested him. They blinded him. They put a sword
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in hot fire, and they blinded him with it, and because of that
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his life ended abruptly, rather than living the full course of his life.
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So those are some of the dangers of living a dual life. Please tell
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your neighbor. Light and darkness have nothing in common. Amen. If we
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turn off all the lights here, it will be pitched black here. But
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the moment we turn on the life, the lights will not now come and
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negotiate with darkness. Chale, you go small and come later. Darkness will
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disappear immediately. So light and darkness have nothing in common. Amen. And
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so because some sin wanted to enjoy a dual life, so he will be
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a spiritual leader today and tomorrow. We say that, oh, I'm going
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to the phillistanside, I'll be right back, and you're going to be there
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for two months and come here and go there and come here. Ended him
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up in many problems and many sorrows. Amen, to the point that he
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lived a very short life. Amen. And so I want to give you
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four examples of duality. Four examples of duality. And the first one is
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separated and unequally yoked. Separated and unequally yoked. And so when something will
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was born, because he was a child of promise, God gave specific instructions
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concerning something. He said, a razor will not touch his hair. So
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Samson, by the time he was an old man, he was a Rastafarian.
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He had seven serious breadlocks on his head because since he was born he
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had never had a clean cut like you and I before. Amen. And
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there was clear instruction that Samson should not drink wine. So Samson never drank
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wine. Sampson never drank tequila. Samson never drank those things that they puts,
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the cocktails that they puts, a mix the mixology ones. Samson never
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drunk any of it. And so from the time he was young up until
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when he grew and said I want to marry a Philistine, he was separated
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onto God. He was separated onto God. So please tell your neighbor for
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free, because you are a Christian, you are separated onto God. Amen.
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Are you looking at them? Look at them eyeball to eyeball, and
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tell them, because you are a Christian, you are separated onto God.
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Amen. And so Samson became unequally yoked with the unbeliever. And so that
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was his state. Though he had been religiously separated onto God, which he
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showed to everybody else, but outside of it he had indulged in the other
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side. He was an equally yoked with the things of this world. Amen.
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And So, if you are a child of God, and at this
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point in your life all these worldly things, the worldly music, you're so
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fast and hungers for it more than godly things. You're born again a characra.
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Did you understand the Spanish I spoke. If now that you are born
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again and you are a child of God, you still crave worldly things,
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worldly music, there are some of you here. Every week you watch pornography
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more than five hours. You watch pornography more than five hours every week.
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If you are a child of God and you are still indulging in things of
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the world, then you're born again. Is not complete Amen. And so
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as a child of God, you need to stay in light and not straight
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over and be unequally yoked. Amen. And so there are some Christians who
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may appear to be separated from the world, but yet they live in sin.
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Sampson was one of those who are separated and yet entangled himself with the
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world. Now they call something entanglements. Who are said entanglements before? Hey,
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are you here? I'm talking to you, who raise your hand and
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shame the devil who as head of entanglements before. Amen. Opposite our property
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where we live, there's an apartment's block and I have cameras around my house,
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so I can't see everywhere. And there are some ladies in their apartment
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block. They have many entanglements. So it's like they are doing an SHS
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course. This one will appear in the morning and disappear, And the moment
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they disappear, another one appears, like, oh my god, this one's
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their masters of their trade. Hey, But as a child of God,
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you can't have entanglements. Amen. So from today, all the ladies who
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have seven boyfriends, today we are leaving all of them. Do I have
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a witness? Can I get an amen? All the young boys with fifteen
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girlfriends today, we are leaving all of them. Can I have some amen?
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Brothers, the brothers, Amen, I said, brothers, Can I
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have an Amen? And so no entanglements Amen. Because Sampson entangled himself with
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the world and ended him up in a lot of problems. Amen. And
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so because you are receiving wisdom and you are moving far from that, God
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is going to help help you to be a better believer in the better child
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of God. Amen. And So Samson played with God. Samson played with
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God. And I want to tell you it is not in your interest to
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play with God. It is not in your interest to play with God on
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any level. It is in your interests any actual fact, in your best
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interest to save God and to obey his commandments. Because if you want to
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play games with God, you'll be the one who is laughing last, but
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at the wrong side of your mouth. Amen. And you don't want to
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be at that place where you are in trouble. You are laughing, but
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you are not laughing. You know that thing. You want to laugh,
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but the thing is not coming. You'll be the one laughing at the wrong
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side of your mouth. Amen. And so a scripture for that point is
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Second Cointience, chapter six, verse fourteen to sixteen. And the Bible says
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that please put the scripture up Second Corinthians six fourteen to sixteen. Second Corinthians,
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chapter six, verse fourteen to sixteen, thank you. And the Bible
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says that do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has
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righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? Do not be
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unequally yoked with unbelievers next verse? And what accord has Christ with bailiel?
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And what path has a believer with an unbeliever. I didn't write the Bible.
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The Bible was written by the inspiration of the Lord God Almighty, by
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the spirit of God inspiring it for the admonition of us, the correction of
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us, and for edifying Amen. And so if the Bible is telling you
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that don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, then God knows why he's telling you.
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Know, to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Amen. How many of
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you have friends who don't know Christ? Give us away? Yes, my
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two brothers they do. How about Amen. The purpose of any friendship could
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either be for mutual benefits or it could be for an advantage. There are
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some friends people become. People become friends with setting people because they make them
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look good. And so from where they come from. By having this person
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as my friend, it makes me look good from where I come from.
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There are some friendships that are for mutual benefits. Amen. But because a
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light and darkness has nothing in common, if your friends are not believers,
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one or two things can happen. It's either you influence them or they influence
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you. So which one will be? Will you be able to influence them
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with your Christ or will they be able to influence you with all their worldly
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things? Amen? And so if you are in a friendship that you cannot
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influence that friend to come to Christ. Because you that you call yourself a
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child of God, a believer, there is nothing to show that you're a
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child of God. If it wasn't for church you come to on Sunday,
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we won't know that you're a child of God. Because your friend has not
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seen you holding a Bible before. Your friend hasn't seen you read a Bible
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before. Your friend hasn't heard you singing a praise or worship song to God
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before. Your friend hasn't know you go to church at Action Chapel. So
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your friend knows nothing about you as far as your walk with Christ. But
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guess what, you know everything about your friend. You know all the tweets
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when they see some boy on Instagram, do tag you with it? All
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those funny jokes some of you. You can watch funny jokes and laugh from
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morning to evening, and you are there laughing like a cockerell because the things
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are exciting to you. But there is nothing to show that you are a
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child of God. And because of that, even when you go to want
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to preach, your friend will be like, Ah, what are you trying
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to do? Why are you trying to pretend? So as far as your
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friends are concerned, you are a pretender, Amen, because you have not
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truly shown to them that you're a child of God. But from today,
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as you are hearing the word of God, begin to change so that they
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will begin to see you as a child of Light and as a Christian so
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that when the opportunity comes, when they see the goodness in you, they
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would want to follow you to church. Amen. If by the time you
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get to thirty years you've not won anyone for Christ, it means your Christian
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work what deserts did for you, you're not taking advantage of it. Amen.
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If by the time your next bed, where's Michelle? Then next time
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your birthday comes again. If you have not led anybody to Christ, if
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your behavior hasn't led anybody to Christ, if your attitude hasn't led anybody to
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Christ, it means you're not living like a Christian. She'll live. Amen.
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Travel next year. By this time, the same thing applies to you.
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You should have grown in the things of God. People should see Christ
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in you. Our logo will be talking more about it, says Christ in
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you the hope of glory. When people see Christ in you, they should
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have hope for glory. Amen. And so tell somebody, don't be like
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Samson. Don't be spiritual and cannot at the same time. Don't be separated
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and unequally yoked at the same time. Amen. And so the Bible has
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admonishing us not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, So there are many of
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us here. Will need to end some friendships with some people. That boy
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that you've been fornicating with, he's not going to marry you. He's just
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using you. That's the truth of the matter, because they will use you,
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and by the time they are grown up and they want to marry,
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they're married some foolish girl somewhere. That boy that you're letting him deceive you,
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he's only deceiving you the love that he says. He's pretending because he
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wants something. Amen. There are some people you have to delete their numbers
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from your phone. You have to block them double if there's anything like double
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or triple block. Block them on every side. You see, Satan will
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send some people your way. When you decide that, oh I want to
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save God, I want to be righteous, downt to be holy, then
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he will send some foolish girl you away, and because you are not as
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strong Christian, you will fall for it and before you know you're wallowing in
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Chali. You have to block some people. You have to change their name.
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If their name is a course, change their name to don't some one.
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They're ones who disturb you a lot. When you block them, they
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use some other phone to call you the woman to figure out who they say
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agent or Satan. Change their name because they don't have any good intention for
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you. Amen, and so as a child of God, because we are
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not going to be an equally yoke with unbelievers, because He has a thing.
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If your boyfriend is an unbeliever and you are a Christian. The unbelievers
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their brain works differently, or I hope you know they are brain works differently.
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They don't know that things you know. So then when they have an
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opportunity with you, they will say that, oh, let's go to a
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crab and go and watch a movie. It is not just a movie they
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want to go and watch because they operate in darkness. They want a dark
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atmosphere to be able to exercise themselves. But don't give them that opportunity.
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Amen, tell them that I don't go into dark rooms. Hey, can
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you tell them that? Tell them I don't enter dark rooms and make child
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of light. I don't enter dark places. If there's anything, there should
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be light or I clapping for Jesus. Amen, you see today I'm preaching
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power. I'm preaching because I want you guys to get it right. Amen.
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So no dark spaces. When we break into a smaller groups, I
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want you to open your mouth and talk so we can also hear tens.
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Amen, because you know sense. Amen. So don't be like Samson who
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wanted to indulge in darkness. He wanted to indulge on the other side because
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if Something had married an Israeli girl, a Jewish girl, he would have
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lived very long. Please, who knows any of Something's children. He didn't
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even have a child. He was just fooling around, you understand. But
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if he had married an Israelite, he probably would have had twelve sons too,
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or forty sons or thirty six sons and thirty five daughters. But because
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he was fooling around, he didn't even have a son to say that,
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oh this is something junior, and I will hand over my dreadlocks to him.
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There was nothing to hand over too, because he wasted his life.
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Amen. And so we will not be separated onto God and we will not
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be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Amen. Can you help me say that we
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won't be separated onto God and be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Amen. Second
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example of dual being spiritual and being carnal at the same time, being spiritual
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and being canal at the same time. Samson was a spiritual person, yet
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he was carnal. At certain times he gave the impression that he was very
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spiritual, and at other times he was. It was surprising how carnal he
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could be. The contrast makes you wonder if one person can be spiritual and
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carnal at the same time. And in Judges chapter thirteen, verse twenty five,
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Judges, verse twenty five, and the spirit of the Lord began to
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move upon him at Mahane done between Zorah and e Food, So it talks
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about the spirit of God moved upon him. The spirit of God came upon
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him when something was going to marry the first time, his father and his
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mother were in front and he was following behind. And the Bible says that
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a young lion jumped out of the bush to attack him. And the Bible
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says that the spirit of God came upon him, and something held the young
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lion together and tore him apart. See how you can hold your little sister's
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teddy bear and just do. Something held the lion and did The lion was
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dead. Then next time when something was on that same road, that dead
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lion I was lying there. Bee had gathered inside that dead lion, and
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honey was oozing out, and something went to collect some of the honey,
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and he was eating it, and he gave something to his mother and his
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father, and they also they didn't know where it came from. Amen.
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So the same person who the Holy Spirit could come upon that he could tear
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a lion into two, was yet behaving canna because the Bible says that he
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loved the Philistine women. He even went in onto a prostitute who was a
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Philistine. Amen. And so the second contradiction for duality is that you can
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be spiritual yet be canna. Amen. But God is calling you to be
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spiritual rather than being canna, because when you are cannal, the carnal person
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is someone who walks only by their emotions and their soul. So it's today
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I feel like this, today, I feel like this. I don't feel
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like that. They don't walk by the spirit, they walk by their feelings.
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Amen. And so God is calling us to be spiritual so that we
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don't miss out on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Can someone say amen?
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Amen? And so in first Corinthians, chapter three, verse one to
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three. Fast Corinthians three, verse one to three. The apostle Paul wrote
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a letter to the church in Corinth, and he said to them, and
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I, brethren, could not speak to you as onto spiritual people, but
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as carnal people, as babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and
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not with solid food, for until now you were not able to receive it.
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And even now you are still not able, for you are still canna.
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For where there are envy, strife and divisions among you, are you
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not cannal and behaving like me and men? And so the church in Corinth
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was a new church. It was a mega church that had grown, and
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they had fed them. You remember, when we're doing our baptism lessons,
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how many have been baptized. For those of you who have not been baptista,
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I will be there. Oh you don't believe it, say I'll be
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there. Amen, When we're going to a bapti lesson. We understood that
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as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word of God, that you
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may grow thereby the Word of God is milk, The Word of God is
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meat, The Word of God is strong meat. The word of God is
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bones also, and so there's a time where you need to win off the
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milk and eat meat. But if you don't grow in the spirit and be
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more spiritual, you cannot eat meat. When your friends are eating gold,
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joel Off, and they are chewing bones and chewing the goads and removing things
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from the marrow, you you are still drinking. When we are breaking into
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bones to eat the savory stuff inside, you are still drinking baby milk.
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Same, you are still drinking milk. Amen. And so Paul was saying
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that when you were yet to be at a place where I could speak to
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you like spiritual people, I couldn't because you are still connal. When I
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speaks Rachel thinks to you, you won't even understand. When I speaks Rachel
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thinks to you, you won't understand. So I still need to speak to
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you like babes, like babies. But I see a God raisin mighty men
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and women here who are not going to be babies, but going to be
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spiritual. Immatured. Amen. Someone didn't say amen? Someone say amen,
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because that will be your story a few years from now. Amen. And
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so the second contradiction is that you can be yet spiritual and be connal.
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And that's is duality. God wants you to be spiritual than to be connor.
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Amen. When you are connel, you can never hear the voice of
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God. When you are connel, you will never hear the voice of God
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because God spirit and you need to be in a place of the spirit in
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order to hear the voice of God. Amen. And so the next time
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you are going to that boy's house he says, come and let's watch Netflix.
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Because you are spiritual, the Holy Spirit will tell you don't go.
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It's a trap. Amen. And when you turn away and go home,
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that boy don't answer. One will never call you again because God would have
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delivered you from a trap that will bring you an sdi someone say Amen,
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Amen, you better believe what I'm telling you, because it's very true.
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We can come to pass. Amen. The third aspect of duality is worshiping
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with your mouth and yet rebelling in your heart. Worshiping God with your mouth
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and yet rebelling in your heart. So are you are opening your mouth,
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but you are going to the motion. But in your heart you are thinking
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about that PS. Five game. In your heart you are waiting for us
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to close chests. You're going watch Arsenal and Everton. In your heart,
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you are waiting to where it's that a mutuo and listening your mother is cooking.
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In your heart, your mind is far away. You are not really
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here serving God. In your heart, you are already planning how your week
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will go. All the boys you talk to, all the girls you talk
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to. In your heart, you have already posted five hundred pictures on Instagram.
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Already self is in the bathroom here there there God has seen you.
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Amen. So you cannot be worshiping God with your mouth and in your heart
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you are in a place of rebellion. Amen. Romans Chapter twelve, verse
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one and two. The Bible says that I beseech you, therefore, brethren,
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by the messes of God, that you present your body's a living sacrifice
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wholly acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be
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conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
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that you may prove what is good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
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Amen. And so that boy that likes to play with you, and
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that likes to remove your clothes, though he hasn't paid brad price, Amen,
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that boy who likes to take off some things when nobody knows about it.
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Amen. The Bible is saying, present your bodies and living sacrifice onto
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God. Present yourselves and living sacrifice onto God. The boys who like to
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go and hide in the bathroom when they are bad thing boys. Any boy
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who bats more than ten minutes, there's something wrong with them. Some boys
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can win be in the bathroom two hours. They are still bad thing.
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If your brody is like that, go and knock on the door and tell
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him God has seen you. You know what I'm talking about. The brothers
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who like to go and hide in the bathroom. God has seen you.
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Present your body as a living sacrifice onto God. A man, present your
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body as a living sacrifice onto God. And don't be conformed to this world.
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This world has popular culture. There's everything popular that is going on in
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this world. And it seems that that is what people like. The things
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that are popular, that is what people like. But as believers, we
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can't like everything that is popular. Because out there they are saying that it
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is popular for a man and a man to marry. Can you imagine that?
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Are you with me or you know some man who are married? Hey,
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they say, it's a popular thing, and it is okay for a
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woman and a woman to be married. If let me hold my peace,
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amen. And so it says that don't be conformed to this world, the
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way the world works, the way the world thinks. Amen, it is
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natural. There was a funny story I heard about a young boy who called
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the police on his mother because he told a lie, and the mother took
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a king and beat him. So he called the police, And when the
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policeman came, he asked, and so what happened? They said, oh,
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she beat me here, and the policeman I said, madam, give
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me the king and told the boy the heir, if you lie again myself,
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I will come and I will discipline you. We live in a world
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where a boy or a girl can call the police on the mother for beating
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it. It is popular culture. And so we have a lot of people
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who are not in their right minds in those places. They grow up when
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they should be married and having children, they will say that, oh,
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I want to marry a tree that I feel I'm a tree stuck in a
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human body. I am a cat stuck in a human body. Do you
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understand. So there is a popular culture out there. There are replications to
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it, and the Bible says that God, because of these things, he
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will give you up to a debased mind. A debased mind, so you
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are even acting foolish. But then you don't know. You think, oh,
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it's popular that a man who say that we don't weare men clothes?
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Again, I identify as a woman. So he's coming and he's wearing women's
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dress and women sho mean while he has a beard. We know that your
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uncle John. But then he said we should call you janets. And when
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we call you, say you have said you said call me ma'am. I
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said, no, you are saying you look like say why should I call
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you ma'am. So there is a popular culture out there a man, and
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it's because people have decided to taste of darkness. Amen. People have decided
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to be more cannel than to be spiritual. But God wants you to be
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spiritual so he can speak to you, he can direct you. The Bible
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says that the parts of the righteous shines brighter and brighter onto the perfect day.
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When God is leading you on a path that he has set for you,
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he won't bring you into such foolishness. Amen. So by the time
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you get to a certain age, it is expected of you that you should
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marry, you should have children, you should pass the heritage of the Kingdom
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of God to the younger ones. But you cannot be a fifty year old
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man who is saying I identify as a woman me while you've never been married
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before, you don't have children. You are eighty years old. You say,
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I identify as a cat. If it was me as a governor,
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I will catch all of you. Are going to put you in the zoo
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because that is where you belong. Amen. But God help us so that
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we don't stray away by living and do our life. Someone say man,
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And then the last point I want to share with you. Men please us
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and God please us. Men please us, and God please us. Today
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looks like the time has run power for us. Men, please us and
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God please us. So there are people who want to please God, but
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also they want to please other people. So shout outs to all our peer
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pressure people, all our peer pressure prone people who are easily prone to peer
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pressure. Shout outs to you. Because you can neither please God and please
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human beings at the same time. Can we do an exercise. Everybody,
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try and look up. Just look up. Yes, and as you are
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looking up, try and look down at the same time, look up and
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look down at the same time. Was anyone able to do it? Hey?
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Please, we need a doctor here. It is impossible for the human
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eye that is working correctly to look up and look down at the same time.
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Prayer for our vision double vision. No, we are talking about all
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things being equaled, ideal situation. It's impossible. So you can't look to
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please God and look to please man. Amen. You can't look to please
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God and look to please man. The Bible says we should present ourselves as
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a living sacrifice holy unacceptable to God. So when that boy is telling you
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lies and you know what he wants, don't be a please out of men.
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Amen, please, man, let's tell us this. Sisters don't be
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pleasers of men. Hey, are you afraid of them? Say it's say
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sisters don't be pleasers of men. And sisters please tell our brothers. Some
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of them peer pressure is there is their sickness. Unless they don't hear,
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then they are going they are every way. Sisters, please tell the brothers
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don't be pleasers of men. Oh, sisters. Are you afraid of the
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brothers? Please tell them don't be pleasers of men. Amen. So choose
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to please God only rather than pleasing men. Amen. And so I want
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to share scripture with you from James chapter three, verse seventeen. James Chapter
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three, verse seventeen. And the Bible says that but the wisdom that is
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from above, the wisdom that is from above is first pure, It's is
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peaceable, it's as gentle, it is willing to yield. It is full
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of mercy and good fruit, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Amen. Let's
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please be on our feet. Has anyone learnt anything today? Or only one
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person? Has anyone learnt anything today? Amen? So we're going to do
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an exercise. You're going to pray for yourself. You're going to pray for
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ourselves because we know ourselves better than anyone else. When you go, when
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you are in your secret place, it is only you who is there.
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No one is there. No one knows your dual life. We can't tell
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your dual life on face value. Amen. But you know yourself, and
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you know yourself if you are guilty of duality. But today, as God's
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word has come expressly to us. We want to ask God for forgiveness,
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that the Lord should pardon us wherever we have missed it, wherever we have
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been pretenders, and we have lived a dual life, that God should show
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us mercy. Just open your mouth and begin to pray. Open your mouth
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somebody and pray. Open your mouth and pray somebody. All the things that
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we have done that gives us a dual identity that does not really portray us
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as children of God. Show us mercy, Lord, tasting of the sense
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of evil, tasting of evil, sense iniquities, trespassing. Forgive us,
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Lord, forgive us Lord, on the account of the blood of Jesus.
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Forgive us law, on the account of the blood of Jesus. Forgive us
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law. And help us, Lord by Holy Spirit, to live right.
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Help us to present our lives to you as a living sacrifice. Bless your
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name. Father. We give you a praise in Jesus name. Amen,
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some of you are no praise. So let's help everybody all right. Sometimes
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they don't even know they are living in dwells in So with your right and
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left and say, Lord Jesus, I come boldly before you today through the
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blood of Jesus, that I may obtain mercy. Say, Father, forgive
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me for wherever I've missed it. Any dual life, a need, dual
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personality in my life. Please help me to live right for you. Help
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me to present my life, to present my body, a living sacrifice wholly
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unacceptable before your throne of grace in Jesus Mighty. Ay, let us believe
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a shout to beg Amen, and let's welcome our EMC while you take your
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seats. Amen,