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Introduction: 12+1 Core Values | Pr Sandra Chin
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Your tea this morning. I really just want to you
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to welcome the Holy Spirit in our mids. Amen. He's living,
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He's really he's living inside of us. Amen. And this
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is why we're who we're gonna be talking about today.
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And this is the Holy Spirit. He's our best friend.
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He lives with us. He's you know, he's here forever
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with us and we should get to know him. Amen.
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All right? Cool? So first verse first, first, first, first, first,
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we want to just haven't just an overview of why
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the introduction about why we are? What is it all about? Yeah,
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what is it all about? And where did it come from?
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So we're introducing the twelfth plus one called values. Now.
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I think some months back in December and to we
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did the unpacking of the church vision and the mission.
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So again were just coming back revival to revive, back
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to where we began and where God is leading us.
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And so we we read about oh, we we were
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introduced to the vision of the church, the mission of
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the church, and the vision of the church tells us
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where we are hated, which is what's our vision of
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our church haberkurk to fourteen, that the whole earth will
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be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.
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And that is the vision of any of our churches,
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is so that everyone will know the glory, the knowledge
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of the glory of the Lord haberkook to fourteen. And
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and and so that's the vision. And our mission is
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the is the why why why we do what we do,
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which is to make disciples. Where we make disciples coming
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from Matthew twenty eight and verse nineteen to twenty is
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Jesus says, go he therefore, and make disciples of all nations.
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So everywhere we go we want to make you know,
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lead people, help people believe in this, in this faith
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in Christ, so that they can then make the knowledge
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of the glory of the Lord to others. Amen. So
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so that is the mission, the why behind what we do. However,
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to get there, we need some fuel. Any car, right,
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you need the engine, You need the fuel. And this
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is fueled by the values that we have been laying
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foundation on. The values are really the foundation Amen, that
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helps us to get to our destination. And values. You know,
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when you have values, these values help us to anchor
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into our faith and despite many challenges. We have many
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types of challenges, different trials, different opposition. The values that
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we hold we'll anchor us, anchor our faith. Amen. And
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so that is where we started twenty six years ago
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and pass it kind of just didn't want to just
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plan a church with using had knowledge, using experience in
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our past ministries. He wanted the Holy Spirit. He heard
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the Holy Spirit say to it this way, and so
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we did it very simple, and we started right, one guitar,
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three chords, one simple flaw. And he didn't know who
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was going to come. Three people. Two people came, so
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we had three three men starting the church. And so
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we are not afraid of small We're not afraid to
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start all over again. Because God is there where two
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or three are gathered in his name. He's there in
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our myths, Amen, and he hears us. And so we
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had this heart from the Holy Spirit to is a
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community of faith, hope, and love. Amen. And these are
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found in your notes in the book. Amen. And we
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want to see the knowledge of the glory of God
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filling the earth. And this is why we plant churches.
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God sent us out to plant both past them myself
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are really called to be missionaries. But we didn't end
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up going away. First. We ended up reaching a tribe
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of people with their own language, in their own fashion
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and their own style, the young people. So we started
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doing that thirty over thirty one years ago when we
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did that before we planted the church. Amen. So again
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the introduction to this is these values are very very important.
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They are the few, they are the essentials for the mission.
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So we get to our destination. Amen. And all of
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it is found in the Bible. Amen. It's founded upon
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the foundation of the Word of God. It's not like
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I like I do, it's my preference, I don't like,
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I don't do. No, it has to be founded on
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something more stronger, more permanent, more un very unshakable. Amen.
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So we have these values. We can also say that
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values are like character, the character of a person. These
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values are the also depict the character of a person.
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What is character. Character is who you are, who you
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are in the dark, who you are when nobody is seeing. Amen. Like,
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if someone see you, then you do all the right things.
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You you throw the garbage into the bin, right you.
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You you you arrange the chair, or you say good
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morning to people. But when nobody is there, will you
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still do the same thing. Will you open the door
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for the for the lady? Would you open the I
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don't know, would you do it? Nobody was there? Right?
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Would you got your heart that way? The values is
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who you are, the character, the man, the woman in
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when nobody else sees, uh, and and and and you
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know if you cannot hire who you are because in
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the long run, it's either you have it or you don't.
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And in the long run, people will be able to
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see are you really someone who has that character? Godly character?
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And so values our character? Amen, it helps us when
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noone's watching, you are still anchored in your faith. Amen.
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This is I don't know if you yeah, yeah? Values?
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Character and so where do we get these values? These
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values come from the Word of God, nowhere else, not
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just our experience, not from not from because so and
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so it's so successful. We have to anchor into the word. Amen,
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because the Word of God is unshakable. Hallelujah. The Word
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of God never changes. And you see in your notebook
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and Matthew chapter twenty four US thirty five, Heaven and
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earth will pass away, But my word says the Lord
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will never pass away. His word cannot be shaken. It's
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an unshakable rock. Jesus is the rock. Amen, allelujah. Amen,
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I'll be glad that Jesus is the unshake of our rock. Yeah,
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we can hold on to him. Amen. And you know
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the Lord says in Psalms one three eight verse two,
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the psalmisis for you have magnified your name above your word,
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above your name. God's word is above his name, so
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his word is unshakeable. So, Church, we want to anger
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our lives in the in the world of God. And
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that's where X has been built on the word. Not
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us experiences. Uh. Yes, we can have good experiences God
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experiences and encounters, but it should be confirmed. And where
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is it found in God's word? That what's the encouragement? Amen?
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So I just want to lay it down for us
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so that we remember. So the values are key key,
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It's like this key rocks, key values that help us
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to get to our destination. Amen. So because you have
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some key points there, I don't to miss it. What
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is it? The fuel is the values? All right? Just
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to help you otherwise you say what you're talking okay,
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all right? Values? The character what we are you know,
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and no one is looking okay, and where does it
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come from? As I said, the foundation is in the
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word of God. Amen. God's word never changes. We're so
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thankful for that. He says, He is the same yesterday,
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today and forever, and my yesterday, I see God the same,
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and today he's same, and I believe tomorrow he remains
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the same. Faithful Amen, Ah leelujah. So why why why
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is it important to have these values that are anchored
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in the Word of God. Is so that it can
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help us to stand strong in the face of challenges. Amen,
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we have to stand strong. Our foundation is on the
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word of God, not just based on somebody's word clever
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quotes famous words. No, because the Word of God will
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last forever. Amen, hallelujah. The word confirms their experience. And
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what should we be watching out for is that? Guys? Uh,
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it's important for our for our in our Christian faith
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to establish these values, to establish another way to put
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it is non compromising stands, non negotiables in our lives.
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Do you have any non negotiable stands in your life?
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Ladies and gentlemen, do we do? Have we established those
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non negotiables and maybe in discipleship we help we have
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over all these years in our discipleship walk with our
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partners in our church, we've discipled them to establish non negotiables.
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You cannot compromise on these things, Amen. And if you
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set it up early in your in your life, now
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even your parents can teach you some non negotiables. For example,
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a parent might tell a child to not speak to strangers,
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so don't open the or someone you don't know. It
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cannot be compromise. You tell them. Another non compromise is,
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when you hear mommy's voice, you stop. You don't run
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across the road. When you hear my voice, you stop.
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I'm saving your life. That's a non negotiable. Hear my voice, son, stop.
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So these are non negotiate parents teach that right. So
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in our Christian work as well. It's parallel natural and spiritual.
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They're parallel friends, and we have to help ourselves establish.
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If you don't, it's it's dangerous because then we will
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sway anybody say what or so can right? So we
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cannot allow ourselves to compromise. So Hona encourage you not
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just to So what we're doing here is we're not
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just talking about it. You have some non negotiables. What
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we're doing here is we're defining it and then we're
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articulating it. Not yeah, we define it. We articulate. We
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don't just say yeah, yeah, we have some non negotiable.
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We don't just internalize and yeah, yeah I have it,
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and then we don't actually, uh leave it you you
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you have it in your in your head, but you
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have don't practice it. So we want to define it.
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We want to say, what what are some of these things?
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And and and and articulate am I there or not?
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Then I can grow in it, amen, some non negotiables,
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perhaps just to help you experience understand where I'm coming from.
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So even as a young question, a young believer and
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a young I don't know when I can't remember I was, yeah,
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sixteen or whatever. But through the church they teach when
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I heard I didn't have had a leader. They don't
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call it them people who help you grow your pastors,
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your leaders, your cell group leaders. So you learn right
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and you and you begin to not only internalize it,
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but you begin to put down some thoughts and some
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one of the don't get angry at me are ladies
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and gentlemen. One of the early things for for me
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was I was told to not to be to make
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the choice of not dating a non believer now, not
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because they're bad people. Yeah, nice and very good people.
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But I have a faith that is anchored in christ.
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Once I get involved with someone who's not a Christian,
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then I might eye will compromise. Not that person's not
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that person's fault. I might compromise. I might hurt the
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Lord if I continue. So the non negotiable for me,
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no matter how fantastic the gentleman is I cannot date
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this person. Okay, there's one. It was a non negotiable
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for me. Another thing was if it's a relationship even
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when the person was a Christian, even if the person
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was a Christian knight and I only dated the guys
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who are Christian. But but they weren't always on the
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same level of faith and vision and practice. And the
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Lord spoke to me, which later we get to talk about.
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The first care about the Holy Spirit. When I was
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dating somebody, a medical doctor very would take care of me, well,
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go no near maybe who knows family is very strong Christian.
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But as I got within six months actually, so I
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got to observe and get to know the person because
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the person was very interested in me, so I, okay,
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I give opportunity to get to know. But later I
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found out that we're so different in our faith level,
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so different in vision for life and I and I
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was overseized that time, and due to some arrangements, I
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was there and as I observed, I was doing my
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quiet time, and the Lord spoke to me and said,
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don't be unequally you and I'm like, who are talking
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to Who's talking to me? Oh? I'm not anequally young?
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This is a Christian? Bye. But I knew also in
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my heart that this wasn't a practitioner by name only
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because my father is a believer, and father is a
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great evangelist and all that right, very strong Christian. But
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the child, he himself, the young man, was nowhere to
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find his own faith. And I knew then that the Lord,
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it's not just because he's a Christian. I should connect
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and carry on. Where are we at our faith level?
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I wanted to serve the lot. I wanted to be
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a missionary. I had served the lot. I just had
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so much going for me back home in Malaysia. Here
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when I was there visiting, and with that word, I
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knew God was just alerting me to be careful to
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make the right choice, and so I had to call
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it off to the horror of the young man. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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the horror. Yeah, you're so unhappy. His parents had to
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come and see me and say all kinds of things
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to me, and I just didn't know. This is what
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the Lord said to me. So and so I tell you,
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it's not just any If I just want to marry
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any uncle, uncle and brother, I can, right, But then
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you know any alimu, tou and a you know you could, right,
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But but God also has calling for you and has
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a leading. So my non negotiable was to hear what
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the least be saying. I won'ted a non Christian. I
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wouldn't continue with someone who didn't share the same level
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of faith, vision for life, practices in life, for me
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giving a bribe as well, No bribe, No bribe. Even
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if I drove and I did a double line. I've
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so many times made mistakes in my driving. The police
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to stop me. I packed somewhere I shouldn't be packing,
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and then they'll tell me, okay, sure, show me your
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license and all that, and then they say I'm going
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to summon you, and I say, go ahead, I'm wrong,
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I should a salah, but he said. Then they look
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at me in shock. Normally people say, dola, no bride,
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give fifty dollars whatever I say, I should a salah,
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I'm wrong, just just yeah, hit me with the whatever. Okay,
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on you don't do it again. No, don't do it again,
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no go yeah brea. Then they then they they know
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no you Christian? Is it? Yes? Yeah? Then they know
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they know the authorities know that Christians generally don't give bribes. Yeah,
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they don't. They're not. And this is known now because
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I went for as the director of our own companies.
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We have to go for training, right and and they
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talk about Briberry and they say and this like the
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one giving the training say, but but no, the one
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no people, the one in the Christian they never give breade.
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Muslim lady telling us, you know the Christians don't give
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you away. SUSA is very good for the if you
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know that, they are very happy that there are people
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who don't give in to do us as directors of company.
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We can also do undercounter to get deals and all
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that example. But you don't need to do that, right
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if it's the Lord the law, open it for us,
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but they are aware. So do you have a non
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negotiable and giving a bribe you're driving a main mistake,
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Just accept it and paid the bribe. It's your mistake
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you made. I made a mistake. I chose the wrong
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way to drive. I pay for it, Kate, don't always
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ask for give. I can't say my arf okay, but
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if I'm wrong, just hand it over and just paid.
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Pray for the funds and paid. Yeah. So so these
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are non negotia values in our life. It helps us
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to stable stablers or hey, many students here you're going now,
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you're in church, you're so happy and you're all you
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are are right now, and then you're going overseas Nottingham
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University in Nottingham. Whoa far far, far far far away
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from passus Stevens and all all your leaders yere one
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are something no negotiables that you won't date a non believer.
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Number two that you want. You want a premarital sex,
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very easy, nobody watches, nobody sees you get you hang
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out with some guys, some dude girls and all the
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guys as well. It's very easy to get together, very easy.
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And then you think it's Okay, no you hurt. God's
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heard you break his heart. We haven't decided now that
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I won't no matter how how amazing the girl is
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or how amazing guy is. I'm in love. No, you're
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not in love. You just lasting after Come on, we
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go homones. You know it runs. I'm old, but I
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know what homemones are. Okay, I remember made mistakes, and
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I'm telling you put the non negotiables in place. Ask
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someone to be accountable. You be accountable. It helps you
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a lot. Amen. So that's what I mean. Having values.
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The values is the fuel. It keeps us going towards
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hit our destination. When you don't have those values, you
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might just go off the road of your destination. Then
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you have to you know, God is still kind. You
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bring us back. Amen. So those are what we should
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watch out for, having non negotiables in our lives. Amen.
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Moving forward, therefore, will come to our first core value.
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We're starting with spirit film now it's called the twelfth
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plus one core values. All right, twelve plus one number one.
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We started with spirit fail. How you plant judge spirit feel?
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How come it's not word feel first? Why not? Jesus there?
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Oh give you explanation we give you the explanation. Okay,
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it's spirit filled. Got my little dove that represents Holy
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Spirit the fire core value number one spirit failed. Now
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what is the heart behind this value? When you look
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at the book of X, you'll see the title X
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of the Apostle. Yeah, but actually it should be called
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the ax of the Holy Spirit. The scene opens to
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us where the twelve less than twelve, now eleven disciples,
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the main the main apostles, right, the main Disciples and
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all the followers, all you know, frightened and scared. She
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bring going up in the upper room praying. And yet
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Jesus tells them in X one force is to wait
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for the promise of God. They're all gathered and they're
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praying there, and they're waiting, right and and the and
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they're asked and they're saying, Holy Jesus say, wait for
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the promise of God. Amen. Wow. Wow. Jesus is reminding
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them to wait for the promise of God. And they
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are waiting. Although Jesus spend how many years? Three years
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with them, right, like going to university, you know, three
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years for for you graduate. Ready, you know, these guys
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should have graduated. And yet Jesus said wait, wait for
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the promise, right and get and experience this the Holy Spirit.
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And so we we might say, hey, but Jesus is
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the foundation of church, no doubt about it, no doubt.
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But where does the book of X open and what
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does the scene we see in the early Church? The
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early Church was perth through the fire of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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So X chapter two is where we established and this
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is the foundation where our founding team founding leaders have
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planted and built the church based on the Holy spirits
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leading Amen. So in X chapter two two to three,
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it is am I right. Yes, Actually Apter two two
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to three, the scene opens with them waiting and as
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they tear it as they waited, and Jesus had gone
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to the Father, and then the Holy Spirit was given
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to us on planet Earth. Remember, my dear brother sisters,
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the Holy Spirit has been on the earth weaver since
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the day Jesus left. He has not gone back to Heaven.
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He's waiting here for the coming of the Lord, very lonely,
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you know, the only spirit because you forgot to say
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good morning, Holy Spirit, Good morning, Holy Spirit. And he's
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living in your heart. And nobody's talking to the Holy speakers.
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We always talk to Jesus or Father God. But we
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forget the Holy Spirit is a person, the third person
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in the trinity. And so the Lord says, because Jesus
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was in a human form, he cannot be everywhere anytime.
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So he is Father says, come, it's time. You've done
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what I sent you, what I sent you to do.
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And then as you come, then the Holy Spirit can
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come and he will dwell with us. He is the
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guarantee living with us until the lot comes, and he's
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helping us. Right. So just giving us just the foundation
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where we definitely know that it is Christ who has
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laid his life down for the church. But why we
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use the spirit field as the first core values, because
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it's the Holy Spirit that was the one that brought
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that the breath of life, the new anointing into the
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early Church. And so Act chapter two, verse two, you
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see this saying the verse here. And suddenly there came
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sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind. It
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filled the whole house where they were sitting. Verse three.
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Then there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire,
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one and one set upon each one of them. And
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then verse and they were filled with the Holy Spirit
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and they began to speak with other tongues as the
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Spirit gave them utterance. So they were filled. And the
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evidence of them being filled with the Holy Spirit was
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the ability to speak in other tongues in the gift
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of the Holy the language of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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And our church is founded on this, on Jesus, the
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firm foundation and the infilling, the flowing of the Holy Spirit.
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Because again it is the Lord who said in X
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one four, he says, for John baptized with the water,
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but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
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many days from now, a man, hallelujah. So he says, wait,
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wait for the promise of the Father. And that's where
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it all began. The Church k started with the Holy
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Spirit coming and filling them, and then it closes with
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them thriving and reaching the world. Amen. That the world
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as it was at that time. Amen. So this Holy
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Spirit who's living with us, is not an option. It's
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not an it's it's like, oh yeaha is an option.
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Ayah is an addition. He is important. He is essential
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for each one of us and for church. If we
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ever leave out the Holy Spirit, we have left out
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such an essential strength, such essential power. Of God in
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our church, in our lives. Amen. So ex church is
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a spirit filled church. We believe in the Holy Spirit
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who fus us and empowers us. Amen. So as you
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see through the slight number one, he is the promise
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of God. Hallelujah. Right we we we read there in
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x chapter one and verse four five, Jesus said, wait,
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brothers and brothers, there was some sisters as well. Anyway, wait,
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he said, because there's a promise of the Father for you,
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and it's the Holy Spirit. Before you do anything, wait,
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wait for the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit came.
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You see that X one four. Holy Spirit says, this
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is the promise. And then and then Jesus was actually
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teaching in John chapter four. You read in fourteen and
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fifteen and sixteen he preparing them about the Holy Spirit. Right,
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because the promise of God is so that as you
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have the Holy Spirit. He's the one who leads us
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to Christ. Amen. And Jesus is at the center. Ah
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lelujah Jesus. The center of our lives is Christ. Amen.
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So he leads us to Christ, and he reminds us
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of the teachings of Christ. What is this promise of God?
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The Holy Spirit He reminds us of the teaching of Christ. Amen,
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because we all forget, are you, Oh we forget? Yes,
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it is miracle. They Forgod right, yes it is God
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help us, and we forget. But then the Holy Spirit
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who lives in you will remind you. Ali's remember remember
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right like like like you know, telling us and reminding
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us and guiding us. What the Holy Spirit does. He
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leads us to Christ. Amen. He also teaches us. Amen,
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he feels us, he leads us, he empowers us, so powerful, hallelujah.
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I want to tell you from my own experience as
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a student. Again, I'm not a I'm not one of
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those A style like you know everything eight nine a's
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and my time and my timer. But I was in
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the top class, so a lot of level students around me,
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all my friends. I'm there. I'm there, but not so clever.
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Matt's very bad. But I was doing my SPM my
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final year high school, and I really it just became
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a Christian. But I felt the lack of confidence that
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I can scoler. Okay, do you want to school? I'm
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so competitive, yes, until now I'm still competitive. Must call yeah, yeah,
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I'm doing my master's to have to scoll a right,
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I'm so only I don't score it fail that now,
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so I must finish well. Right, So I said, Holy Spirit,
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I need help because I heard from scripture that John
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chapter four and verse this six. John chapter fourteen and
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verse twenty six. He says that the Holy Spirit will
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teach you. He's your helper. He will teach you all
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things and bring all things to your memory. So one,
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because I'm not good in my advans, I took literature.
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A Sign student taking literature, you're doomed. You're doomed, okay,
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because you're all the science paper and then you take literature.
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I tried art. My art teacher said, because it was
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rolling in his grave. So I had to give up art.
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I had to give up. It was so bad. I
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don't know what I painted. She said, you can, you cannot.
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So then I jump into you know, by choiceaid, okay,
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I'll try literature, and I join my art class students,
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you know, all my arts at the art side. I
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was the only Sign students just taking that one subject.
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You know, all of them in that classroom. I was
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the only Chinese. They're all Indians. No Indian, sister's very
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good to English. Yeah, my classmates today. They all whole PhD, etcetera.
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That's how clever they are. Right. So I joined that class,
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but I only join it from five, which means I
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lost a whole from four. Oh yo, I say, how
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so took my exam, but test you know, the what
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you call the trials before you're and I fail. And
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the teacher said, Sandra, just give it up, just give
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it up so bad. No, she didn encourage me to try.
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I think you just cannot make it, like, just give
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it up. Then I'm like, oh no, so never mind,
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I cannot. I know already admits I'm gone case with you.
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I need. It's got every aid I can. So I say, okay,
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now my mission. She's a Holy Spirit. Teach me. You
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say you are my helper. Teach me all things and
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bring all things to my mements. I don't know how
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to do all my subjects. Same thing. I pray and
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know this way, that's how I studied for five. Holy
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Spirit teach me. Come on, students, you cannot do this
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on your own. You need the Holy Spirit and tell
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it is powerful. Again, I'm not like you so clever, right,
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so I have this Holy Spirit teach me guite me
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in holy spit. And so you just prailler, right, you
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ask right and you trust? So I did. I studied
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why I'm reading all these parts. Came day of exam,
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took the exam, came day of results, got my results.
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Who he he yeah, I'm just like all my friends were.
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Got ala right, but thank you, thank you Jesus. I
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got a because I tell you, and I took the
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exam on the exam day. It's so funny. I looked
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at all the questions and then it was weird. All
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the questions that were that I could answer were all
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about the little people in the people not important in
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the book. Yeah, merchant of any don't know, some unimportant
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person I wrote, and some other appetite story. So anything,
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wow wow wow, right, alright, right right right, get right, hey, okay,
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still don't know what's this? Right? And the teacher met
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the teacher met me, and she said, so, what did
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you get a? She wid, huh, So you're the only
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one who got an A in the whole school. I did.
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She was so shocked, she said, I said, what do
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you mean? So my classmate mad a friend, goodfriend said,
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and she asked me. So she called me, you donkey.
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Why you call me donkey because you're the only one
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who scored an A. All of us had a B
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or C like, cannot be you all England very good
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swan Yeah right, say no. Teacher said you're the only
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one like, so become book prize winner for the school. Right.
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Then she offered me Form six. Would you like to
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do literature? No? Thank cute? I said, I'm gonna do
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be cause susastra and basa. I'm like you are you
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don't fool basa literature instead of English. And then I said,
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why no, thank you. You would all say give it up, right,
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But I tell you it was the Holy Spirit. He
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just led me to go to this because nobody will
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read about the meat. Who read about you know the red?
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You know about all these small people? And I said, wow,
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Holy Spirit. Oh, even my geography or we used to
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have to do geography and my science papers just could
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do it. I tell you, the Holy Space is your teacher.
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Come on, students, auntie uncle here, you cannot do something.
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He's your helper, helper, he helps you, he really does. Amen, hallelujah.
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The Holy Spirit is our helper, and so he's the
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promise of God. He leads us to Christ. He reminds
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us of teachings, reminds you about the non negotiables. Hey,
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come on, you know, girl, don't walk there, red flag,
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red flag, red flag. Don't go there, wrong place to go,
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red flag, red flag. Hey, don't remember. Don't eat that thing.
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Don't eat that thing. It's not good for you. And
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the Holy Spirit, the promise of God is the one
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that feels us. And the Holy Spirit leads us. Amen,
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this is core value number one. Holy Spirit, we are
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spirit failed. Amen. The Holy Spirit feels us, and I
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have to say that this Holy Spirit is also the
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power of God. Amen. The power of God. Why, power
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of God? In Zachariah chapter four, verse six. Zacariah four,
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verse six. So we have the we have the promise,
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and then now the power of God. Amen. In Zacharia
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for six. Remember this verse. Every we always like to
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quote this. Wow, we won't do anything for Jesus says,
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not by my not by power, but by my spirit. Hallelujah.
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Power Whose spirit, God's spirit? Not our hot spirit. Oh,
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I don't know. We tryna no, not al hey my spirit,
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cause it's not by my strength, not by power. Bye bye,
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my spirit, God's own Holy Spirit. Remember, the Holy Spirit
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comes from the Lord himself. Amen. So spirit filled. Amen. First,
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even the church in the Early Church was first filled
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with the spirit. Amen. Harleeylujah. Because if you say, don't
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throw it holy Spirit, you cannot. It was filled with
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the Spirit on day one, the birth of the Early Church. Amen.
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And the Holy Spirit, who is the Power of God,
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is our helper. Amen. He is our helper. Do you
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know that Jesus had to tell us in John fourteen
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in John or I want that verse? In John sixteen seven?
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John sixteen seven, he says that, uh, it is to
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your advantage that I go. If Jesus don't go and
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he remains physically on earth, holy Spirit cannot come. He says,
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it's to your advantage I go, so that the Holy
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Spirit will come and you will live in you. Or
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ever so, friends, a lot of us say I feel lonely.
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I'm alone. All kinds are alone. Not the word lonely
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and alone. I don't tell you this, Morney. Come on, babies,
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come on, beloved of the Lord. The Holy Spirit is
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living in you. You are never alone. Michael Jackson did
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not write the song you are not alone. I'm here
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with you. Now Jesus wrote that song. I am here
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with you, but if you are a Liverpool fan, you
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will never walk alone. Come on, ha halleluis, because the
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Holy Spirit is with you all the time, and we've
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got to come alivee with that knowledge today. Friends, you
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feel alone. Sometimes you say you're I'm the only one day,
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but you are not alone. Hey, Jesus sent Father, sent
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his Holy Spirit to live in us. We have this helper,
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you know. I know I don't have I kind of
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thought help her in my house. But I have a
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helper living in me. Allelujah. Amen, tell you is so
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amazing that the Holy Spirit hears you and he helps you.
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I'll tell you how he helped me when my husband
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broke his ankle last April, you playing playing what pickle
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ball in Singapore while or his wife Nepal doing mission trip.
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Husband played pickupball with just member there Brocky's ankle cannot walk.
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I you, oh, by time I came back, I have
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to take care of him and he cannot walk. So
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I'm up and down, up and down, upstairs, come down, up,
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cook for him, do everything, and then I have this
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garden right that the garden is full. He leaves every day.
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My dad passed away three years ago, and he handled
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my garden beautifully. Now no more daddy, So Daddy's gone.
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Nobody's gonna care for the garden. Every day I have
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to sweep the leaf come back from work, you know,
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or if I work from home, I have to sweep
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the lead a lord of leaves. So while I was sweeping,
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you know, I said, not only spay, be nice. If
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someone can help me. I can't do that. But I
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have to cook and wash and work still, you know,
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I said to do a lot of things you had troublesome,
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it'd be nice. Finish. I go back there, make a
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caller to Jesus, right, I call the Holy Spirit. Finish
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and then I is done. And I looked across my
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neighbor's house and there was this car, you know, And
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she asked me, man, do where where is your the
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other helper? Because we had those people come and clean
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for the day. I said, oh, no more. She valle
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come home ready went home to a town. Oh so
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you need help. I just I just made a call,
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you know, I help me on this spirit. And then
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she said you need her. I don't mind, I can,
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I don't mind. My neighbors. They come time to clean
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ones or whatever. I say, you serious, I need to
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clean my leaves. Love can can And it was said,
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I mean in a way, it was set there was
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someone to help me sleep the leave. Hey, have a
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chat with the Holy Spirit. Have a chat. If you
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haven't have a chat, yeah, just find just talk to him.
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I just repair it will be a nice Holy Spirit,
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thank you. But it's okay. I can still do it.
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I just don't know how. Every day the leave this friendship,
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Penny Tree, the live draw. Every day we love the
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dream house and loves. He says, you make a house
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like a house in BALI yeah, who's sweeping me? And
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so the Holy Spirit listening, helping me because I couldn't
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do everything by myself. So he really he's the power
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of God in our lives. Amen. And you know, do
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you know what he says that even Jesus put the
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priority of the Holy spe period. So you see helper there,
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he's our helper. Don't forget there's someone to help you.
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You feel no one help me. I tell you Holy
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Spirit is your helper. He will send you help. Ah,
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God will touch someone's heart and help you. You need
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finances God will help you and send the finances. It
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happens to us all the time, especially right, I don't
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know where if money come from our friend or no
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it was salary, right, you got no money? But no,
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the Lord provides. There's so many years. It just has
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that faith to trust God Holy Spirit guide him. Amen.
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So then I see the priority of the Holy Spirit.
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You know in Matthew chapter twelve, verse thirty one, in
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your book Matthew twelve thirty one. Why why we say
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priority because Jesus said, Jesus said, you gotta read it.
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If you haven't, he says, Jesus said, therefore, I say
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to you every sin and blesphem me will be forgiven
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you men will be you will forget you. Even you
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can say I don't believe in you, Jesus. Okay, you
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say that it will be forgiven you. But the blasphemy
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against the spirit will not be forgiven. He's telling you
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the why. Because the spirit is the Holy Spirit that
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comes from the Father. It's father, Father. God said, Oh,
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by my not baa, by my capital M my spirit.
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So it is God's spirit that you don't simply laugh
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at the things of the spirit. H No, someone God's
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ministry and or tells someone to do something. It was
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funny when you do. Let it. Don't laugh at the
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things of the spirit. Maybe we don't understand. Be careful
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because the things of the spirit is spiritual things, and
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you know God is serious about those things to make
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his will be done. So the priority of the Holy
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Spirit in our lives. Amen, are you? Time is flying away?
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All right? And so I put their priority And wait,
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now what is waiting? Jesus said, wait for the promise, right,
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And so okay, they waited, and then then the Holy
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Spirit came and wait so that there will be the
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helper to lead them and help them. And there's something
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that the pastor was teaching us. And say that waiting
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also means this. And whether you agree when you wait
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on the Holy Spirit, aren't you saying I acknowledge that
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you are in us, you are with us, and that
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you will lead us. Amen, that you will put an acknowledgement.
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I acknowledge Holy Spirit, you are with me. Therefore I
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will wait for you to show me what where I
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wanna go? Where you lead me? Wait? Look right, ah, wait,
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look well I want to know your ways. How immediately, No,
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as you walk with the Holy Spirit. As you wait
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on him, you are acknowledging it's so powerful. As you
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acknowledge the Holy Spirit with you, Amen, he will lead us. Amen.
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And that's how it has been for us here. Why
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are we planting simply in so many years? Simply? No,
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as Holy Spa, we wait on Holy Spirit, God touches
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somebody's heart. Do you think Paster Stephen just decided, yes,
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I can do this? No, he waited, We asked, I
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don't know, wer we asked he as somebody asked the Hey,
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you want to plan plan in Nottingham? There? You know
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this place here? Where? Where? Where? God show us this place?
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And God show us them man Stephen and Samuel? Right,
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they say, okay, yes, And where were all of them?
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Kneelaiah x Neela so x neel like birth so many
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by sending out Stephen and Samuel the twinies, all right,
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they're all tweeting away. They're really twinning. Baby. It's the
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same Mary, same time, and baby, so come same time,
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Harlene Louis, I think it's always gonna give birth tomorrow
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all right over you already. So I tell you it's
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the Holy Spirit who leads us this story of x
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continues to unfold because the leadership continues to trust the
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Holy Spirit. No one I encourage you church, if you
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haven't had the chance to experience the fullness. Holy Spirit
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is the one leads you. Your faith builds up. Amen.
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Wasn't a powerful testimony? Just now? Hey, no food out,
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God provide footnot just stand there, you just stand there? Eh?
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God was just someone will invite you and don't you worry.
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Don't you worry about a thing? Yeah, he will lead
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you and provide for you. Amen. Amen, Praise God. So
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wait if you have to wait, because this is the
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power of God. And lastly, be lastly is talking about
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walking in the spirit. Amen. So you see Galatians chapter five,
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verse twenty five says if you are now living in
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the spirit, because the Holy Spirit lives in us, let
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us also walk in the Holy Spirit. Now we as
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we are all bras saces in Christ, we're all growing.
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We're all at different faith levels. That's fine because every
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child is at different stage in like we are child
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of God. So your faith level, my faith are different.
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But we're all walking. Amen. And so if we're living
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in the spirit, we must also walk with the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Why because in your in Galatians chapter five, verse sixteen
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and seventeen. Galatians chapter five, verse sixteen and seventeen says,
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if you have a Bible turned today, or if XTIV
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wants to help you, Galatians chapter five and verse sixteen
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seventeen says, is say Danna. Saint Paul says, walk in
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the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the last of
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the flesh, for the flesh lasts against the spirit, and
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the spirit against the flesh, and these are always contrary
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to one another, so that you don't do the things
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that you wish. Amen. Now this is the verses in
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your page in your book, cup behind the next page right.
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So the Holy Spirit as you walk with the Spirit,
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you and I as we walk and get stronger and stronger,
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instead of so if you're following the spirit, we won't
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follow the flesh. Our flesh is very powerful, you know.
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It likes to trip you up all the time and
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tell you know what, just go, noa, just do. But
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the only Spay is saying no, this is the way
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walk here. But we allow the flesh, the flesh to
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lead you. And that's why he says, if you walk
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in the spirit, you won't fulfill the desires of the flesh.
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You will fulfill the desires of the spirit. The things
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of the spirit. Now these are part and passive, growing
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and learning, getting used to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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And also you have learned to submit yourself to the
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Holy Spirit. Yeah, you are made spirit, soul and body.
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If your spirit can lead, then you will lead your soul,
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which is your mind, and your heart, and your and
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your your mind, your feelings, your emotions, and your will
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lead you. And then your body also your body very
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very active and no, cannot eat, cannot eat eat you know,
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eat like people who have health issues tell you do
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eat so much sugar. You I love sugar, You love
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the cakes for yousel the flesh. No, just eat it
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be okay, No, it's not Okare your blood you go
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go up so the spirit, your spirit man can be strengthened. Amen,
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we walk, We slowly grow as we walk with Relationship
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with the Holy Spirit. Is to say, is the walking
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with Jesus as well. Amen, walk with the Holy Spirit.
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Talk to him. Good morning, Holy Spirit. Every morning I
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wake up application for you. I say good morning Father, God,
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good morning Lord, Jesus, good morning, Holy Spirit. And I
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say Holy Spirit, feel me afresh today it's a new day. Come,
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Holy Spirit, feel me, Come, Holy Spirit. I ask the
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Holy Spirit feel me every day. Application. This is what
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I do daily. So we have a relationship with him, Amen, hallelujah.
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And one things here we put that. Not only relationship
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as you relate with someone, you also Holy Spirit help
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you to be obedient to God's word. Amen. The obedi
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of God's word. He who help us, the Holy Spirit,
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so he never leaves you alone. Don't feel like, Oh,
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God except me to do all these things? Why by myself?
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But no. Holy Spirit is here to help us to
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obey God's word, to live victoriously, to live overcoming lives
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together with the Holy Spirit, not alone. And of course
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God also brings us people to encourage us. But who
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is with you twenty four to seven? Holy Spirit? Even
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if we are married, brother and sisters. I'm married for
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thirty one years. Do you think my husband is with
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me twenty four hours? No? No, I have to work,
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he has to work. We are not all the time together.
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So to the young ones here, the young love, Oh,
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I need to have a boyfriend. No, you need water?
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You see you don't have water? You die right? No?
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Food never mine, not no water, cannot write. I need water.
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When I was a teacher teaching in a school, I
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had all these students, you know, and then they're so chicky,
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the boys. They say, don't mind me, I'm just telling
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you what I experience. Teacher. What is it? Oh yeah,
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we're talking about future and things that you need, you know,
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And they say, no, I think there was seventeen years
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old or eighteen teacher. We need sex? Oh really yeah?
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And these guys say, yeah, we can have four times
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four wives. You can have four wives, but you don't
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need sex. Why you need water? You need the oxygen.
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That one you don't you won't die when I see it,
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and four you're crazy? Or one wife was as to
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that problem? Okay, you think college students, come on, you
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just beginning your life in university. You think you need
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a man or woman in your life to fulfill what
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but don't want to be alone? And I'll tell you
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be careful, choose correctly, choose wisely. Not everyone's good for you, right.
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Let God lead you. So listen amen, Ah, I have
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to I have to experiment, No need to experiment. You
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are guy, and you know what your body is very precious.
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You know you want to test everywhere, test everywhere. Way
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cannot sow seats. It's plea you know, ah, al you
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have are not everywhere? Be careful children everywhere. No, you
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cannot sow your seats everywhere. Come on, I've done this
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for years, brothers and sisters. My work is young campus
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students for a long time. I just tell them the
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plain truth. We are not in love with love. We
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are not in love with the person where I love
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with love me wrong answer. You have to love the
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person except them. Get Are you already married tomorrow? Then
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you can have sex every day? Why not? Because he's legal.
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Now it's somebody else's daughter that you are making out with.
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You know, uh huh m. Somebody has a son or
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somebody's future wife, and you broke the package. Seal. How
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thankfully we all have needs. I know, hormones raging. Once
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he got to the Holy Spirit, he's your helper. You
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bring your homones. Help me someone say I kill it. No,
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you cannot kill it. Why God give me homones because
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he made you learn to manage it, manage your emotions
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by asking the Holy Spirit to help you help me.
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I love this I like this girl. Pray first, get
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to know how la wan jumping to bits like that. God,
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love me a relationship so that like you look back,
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you have a relationship, not a bid sheep. You're not.
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It makes sense. I'm making sense, not brother. Thirty one
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years of ministry here, God bless me. I've been carrying
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all the broken heads. Okay, all the broken hands I
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have to carry. Hello. So I'm telling you don't have
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a broken heart. Well you want my bitch, she don't need,
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don't need. Live, start fresh when you're ready. God give
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you the best. Amen. That's our Holy Spirit. Help us
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with our emotions. Help us with our decision. Ask him
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to help your help help. I can't help it. I
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help you, Holy Spirit with it. I gotta have you,
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I gotta have him, Holy speed help me. We all
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have to. We're all natural, we're all humans. We have weaknesses,
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we have hormones raging up down, left, right center. I'm
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not asking you to be a robot. I'm not asking
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you to wear a potato sec I'm not he as
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good looking, as attractive as you can. But please, you
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have the Holy Spirit living in us to help us
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even in our growing up and developing into young men.
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And young women. Even even if we are elder I
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have to say, I'm elderly. Can you believe it? Ah, elderly.
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We also have to ask all this wait to help
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us to be faithful. Husbands have to pray to be
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faithful to your wives. When you're away, you find I mean,
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if your job sends you here, there, everywhere, go to
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the hotel room. But now, hey, open TV on NS
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all these funny scenes, you know, lots of pornography stuff going.
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If you make a non negotiation, you just turn off
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the TV. You say, easy for you. No, I go
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overseas jaz. I'm like, I don't turn on TV anymore
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overseasle I know what's out there. Just don't turn it on.
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U just listen, Sptify Jesus, Hello, you have some non negotiables.
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Why the Holy Spirit walk with him? Amen. He helps
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us to be obedient. He keeps us pure, He keeps
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our marriage, He keeps our promises to the future woman,
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future men in our lives. Keeps us as a community living,
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you know, and supporting one another. Amen. The power we
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have that we have the promise of the space. We
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have the power of the Spirit of God. And he
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walks with us. Amen. The presence of God is with
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us when you walk, you up, the presence of God
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is with us. Amen. Praise God. This is the Holy Spirit.
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So friends need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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You need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. In
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Jesus' name. We need him. You cannot say I need Jesus.
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But then Godfather wants to give you the Holy Spirit.
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So the first core value in our church, in our lives,
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in any church, Holy Spirit. That's what Jesus said, Wit
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for the promise of God. Holy Spirit. Amen, yes, Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Constantly being filled with the Holy Spirit. That's what you
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and I want. Do I fail sometimes I do, and
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and I have to come back and say, Lord, forgive me. Lord,
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I made the wrong choice. Lord, I lost my temper. Eye. Oh,
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that person frustrated me. Go back to the Holy Spirit.
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Holy Spirit. I'm sorry for teach me again. Jesus forgive me,
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and I want to start over again. Amen. Hallelujah's powerful
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for your application as you read this on your own
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and you have your discussions the Holy Spirit every day. Amen,
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have personal devotion. Have the personal devotion. Talk with the
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Lord you know and remember the Holy Spirit lives in
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You have time and build your relationship with the Holy Spirit.
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He's a person. Yeah, as real as Jesus is always
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the Holy Spirit.
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