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Pearl of Great Price | Pr Kenneth
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church.
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We hope this message will light up your tea.
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The first one this morning was entitled Suffering of the Grape.
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Actually that wasn't the real title. The real title was
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He makes all Things beautiful in its time. But I
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told the people at eight fifteen a story about how
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owner of a vignyard, a wine dresser, owner of a
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vineyard in America, how he won best wine of the world,
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beating the wine of France for ten years in a row.
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I think it was nineteen seventeen to nineteen eighty something
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like that.
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Okay, he won.
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And got to produce wine better than even France, who
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wins almost every year for the last so many centuries.
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Because he discovered that if you could suffer the grapes
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just a little bit more a time in the maturity
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of grapes whereby you don't give them water, and what
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happens with the grapes is that they go deep into
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themselves and produce or release something that doesn't get released
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until that pressure or pain or stress or struggle comes.
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So even as human beings, and especially as Christians, we
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sometimes go through pain and struggle and stress and problems
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that actually is allowed by God, so that we dig
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in deeper into the source and resource that we never
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knew was there.
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And so that was the eight point fifteen message.
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It was recorded both on video and audio right now,
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I think because the team is home or having lunch.
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I told them, don't worry about recording this session and
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maybe you'll be recD on it at another place at
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another time. Oh, look at as you say. You get it,
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you know, but you get it on some phone. But Daniel,
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thank you so much. You don't have to really because
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we'll get it recorded some other time. But anyway, thank you,
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thank you, Daniel. It's good to have a leader. It
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so like, so quick on his feet, a fantastic man. Wow,
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praise God. Which school he went to? A? Which leader school? School?
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He went to School of hot not oh rash sheell
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rash shall school of hot knocks A wow. Okay okay.
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So the message was long, and I thought I could
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do it all in one, and the Holy Spirit said
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to me, don't try to do it all in one,
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or you will not even mess up, but you might
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not give the quality cake if you rush rush rush,
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no quality.
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Huh.
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So I'm going to give you the second part now,
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and it's not he makes all things beautiful in this time.
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But thank you x TV. It's Perl of great price.
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Per or. How many of you like pearls? Wow?
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If Lizay, who doesn't? Oh, I got you, I got
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your hand up. But you like pearls? My wife likes Pulse,
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just I can't for them. I almost was going to
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buy her pulse, you know, but when I saw that
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they were eighty ring git, I realized that, you know,
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it may not be.
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The pulse that she wants. You know.
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Now I saw one that was eight hundred ringgit. You know,
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I thought, okay, maybe these you know, but they were
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not surround you know, they were like more like uh,
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you know the rice puff what was what we called it,
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rice chrispies? You know rice chrispies. You know the puffy
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rice chrispies. Did they look more like that? You know,
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eight hundred ringgit. When I was in Sandakan they were
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selling it. It was born your pulse.
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Right.
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Then I went to one shop I don't want even
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walked into that. You know, a steely walking into the
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shop is free, right, that's okay, just walk But I
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wish I didn't because my wife saw the real pearlse
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and you know eighty thousand ringgit you know, one hundred
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and twenty thousand ringgits.
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So I said let's go, saying we'll come back here again. Okay.
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Anyway, I reminded my wife in heaven there's a lot
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of pearls if she can wait that long.
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You know, if the gate yourself, the gate yourself is pearls.
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All right, So anyway, jokes aside, purls are actually very nice,
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and they look very nice on my wife, even at dificial.
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My wife is the one that makes the pulse available.
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Oh yeah, let her know I told you that. Okay,
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all right, Rachelle is giving the eye to Daniel.
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Daniel if then, if Daniel's going to buy pulse for
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Rachelle anytime soon, I'm going to have to raise his salary.
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Okay, let's not talk for the shop.
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P what semie eleven eleven eleven eleven semi eleven purse?
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Don't buy la?
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Okay, pearl of great that's why he says pearl of
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great price, okay.
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Not pearl of fair. You know what fair price is,
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super bucket in staple fair price. Okay.
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So in small letters at the bottom is the purpose
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of the irritant. Okay, purposely made it small because that's
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the not so good news that pearls need irritance to produce. Anyway,
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let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's look at some
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scripture that show us what the Bible says about pearls. Okay,
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here we go. Matthew thirteen forty five to forty six.
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By the way, the doctor just gave me the X
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ray two days ago, and my bone, my heel bone,
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is healing very well, Praise the Lord. And he says
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that in two months time you should be able to.
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You know, get back into your normal activities. So, oh wow,
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changing time for Christmas.
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And I said, when can I get back to pickle ball?
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He said, you know, had the pickle first, forget the
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ball for a while, maybe in six months time, so
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that you had to wait before you beat me again.
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Never beat me out, Okay, maybe never, but yeah. I
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was like, I'm kiddy, no, no, no, no, I'm sure I'm
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sure Pasadena can beat me up when I play with
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my left hand. Okay, Matthew, did this can even from
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bad to words? Matthew thirteen forty five forty six. I
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heard that Pasadena is very good. Now, very good Russia. Okay,
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she's laughing, she's loving. Okay again the Kingdom of Heaven,
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let's ready would have gone Matthew thirteen forty five to
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forty six. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant
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seeking beautiful pearls, who when he had found one pearl
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of great price, when and saw all that he had
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and bought it, meaning he actually sought off exchanged his
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life because you know why, on the money and possessions
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and assets that he has came from his life, because
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he swept for the money, he worked for the money.
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He gave his life for all that he had, So
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now he's giving it back in exchange for the pearl.
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That was the value of the pearl. So this pearl
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is very valuable. It's one pearl, not see he read
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looking for beautiful pearls, but he settled for one, okay,
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and he gave his life in exchange for that one.
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So that pearl that we are all looking for needs
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to be worth your life. That is the kind of
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value God himself is looking for. I want you all
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to understand this scripture is worth you giving up everything
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for this one. I'm not sure whether anyone of you
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have found it yet. Okay, I pray you have, like
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Jesus should be that pearl of great price that we
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give our lives in exchange for you know.
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We got Jesus.
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I want you, I want all of you, and you
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want my heart. Here's my heart, here's my life. I
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give you everything because God, Jesus you are worth more
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than any treasure.
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Amen. Right, So cool?
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But what God is after is that he's after pearls
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in our lives. Let's look at another scripture. Revelations twenty
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one twenty one is easy to remember as far as
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references concerned, because it's Revelations twenty one twenty one.
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Okay, the Bible says the twelve gates in Heaven.
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Were twelve pearls. Each individual gate was off one pearl.
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Can you imagine a whole gate. A whole gate is
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one pearl? Can you imagine that? And the street of
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the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. Heaven is
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going to be such a beautiful place. We're just gonna
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be so amazed. Haven't even gone in now to Heaven.
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The pearl really is gonna just really cause you to
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go wow. And this is not a normal wow, not
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this wow spelt backwards. And you're just gonna You're just
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gonna look at the gate and go like, I can't
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imagine what's awaiting me behind that, because even the gate
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amazes me. And as soon as you enter the gate,
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the flow will amaze you because it's gonna be gold.
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And the best kind of gold is like transparent, pure gold,
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and it's going to be good enough only for the floor,
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right the floor, the lowest of the lowest in heaven.
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Pure gold makes it.
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And so I'm telling you, if heaven is gonna beautiful,
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so ours have lost loved ones there there already, and
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they're enjoying it so much. And we will joining it
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one day and we'll all celebrate together.
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Amen.
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And if there's still any unsafe loved ones that is
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not Christian, you know yet, I pray, let's pray that
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they will all come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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I'm telling you it's gonna be such a beautiful place.
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And the one that makes it beautiful is not even
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the Pulley Gate and the a pure goal of the
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streets of pure goal, but Jesus one glimpse of Jesus
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is gonna make you fall.
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In love with him again and again and again and again,
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and you can't have enough of him.
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You think some Bible teachers here on earth are really good,
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wait until you hear Jesus teach the Bible and you
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be like, I can't get enough of this man, right, Okay, So.
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It's gonna be good.
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Ah, And I pray that all of you look forward
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to it. All of you look forward to it. Christians
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should never be afraid of death. It should never be
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afraid of going home to be with the Lord. It's
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going to be really, really a special blessing from God.
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And that's why the Bible says, a beautiful in the
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sight of God are the death of his saints.
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You know it's raining, is it?
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Just have a little bit of a look outside, because
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if it's not raining, then I have to check it out.
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It could be smurfs running around. Okay, thank you so much,
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Thank you Albert for looking so long. And whether it's
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reading or not, is the ray? Thank thank you so much.
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Can I can I can? I just tell you.
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Something before we move on, tell you something before you
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move on. And I can't confirm this. I can't confirm this,
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but I just want to share a conviction.
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I have.
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That the gate right because because it's one pearl, that
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means it must.
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Be a very big pearl, one huge pearl. Then when
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you enter, it just opens, it just breaks into half. Right.
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So so so I can't imagine a pearl as a gate.
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I can't. I can't. Maybe it is so, and I
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can stand corrected because our.
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Minds are so small heaven and God is so great,
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so he can do anything he wants to love it
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can be a big pearl that you can walk through.
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I don't know, because you know, like Jesus walked through walls,
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he was resurrected, you know. But what I think it
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could be is that we become pearls. We become pearls.
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What God is after in transforming us is that we
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become posed, and when we walk through those gates, it
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actually takes a pearl to walk through that gate. I'm
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just giving you a suggestion. It's not even backed up
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by any scripture, but it's like it's like if you
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are oil and you're walking through a gate of water,
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you can't get through. You've got to become water to
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get through. You you with me, or if you were
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water and the gate was oil. Actually doesn't mean that
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the gate is oil. It means that you will take
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oil to go in, and it doesn't. It might not
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mean that the gate itself is pearl, but it means
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that the entry, the way to enter, is to become
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a pearl. Okay, So just just keep it at the
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back of your head because I sort.
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Of believe that that's what God is after.
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And so when you are walking through a gate that
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is meant to be peerl, but you are not peerl,
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or you have not allowed God to make you into
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a pearl, you might not get through, Okay. So so
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I want to encourage you just to think about it
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for a moment. Is there a reason why God put
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a pearly gate one pearl as a gate or did
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he try to Is he trying to say that everyone
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that walks through this.
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Gate is a pearl?
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So it's like a pearlyague gate is a is a
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is a one person walking in Okay, So I think
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you get what I'm saying. I don't want to go
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deeper in this because again it's not backed up blah
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okay by scripture. Okay, I just want to let you
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understand that God really is after our transformation, and he
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might not just be pearls within us. It might be
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that we become a pearl, and therefore He will continue
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to add irritance into our lives to make us become
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something that we never knew we could. Okay, Okay, I
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shouldn't be labeled the point because it's not the most
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important thing, all right, all right, So next.
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Light, next life.
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Pearls are precious, priceless and powerful. Pearls are precious, prices
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and powerful. Now precious Why because it's found in the
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Bible and God has chosen to use pearl. He didn't
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say diamond, no, although most of you would rather a
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diamond for your anniversary or a diamond for your proposal,
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or you know, he used goal a lot, and he
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used some other precious stones. But Jesus and God and
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the Bible is using pearl and even pearly gay, Okay,
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So it's precious because yeah, the Bible has included it
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as a rare gem and we need to pay attention.
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We need to pay attention because the Bible is telling
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us pearl number two.
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Is priceless.
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Because the value of this pearl that God is after
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warrants the man who finds it to exchange it for
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his life. That's how priceless it is. Now, he had
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to sell everything he had, and he thought it was
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worth it.
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That's the thing.
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He sold everything he had and bought that pearl of
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great price. So God's word is telling us that that's
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the kind of value of a pearl that he wants
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us to go after. Not many pearls, because the merchant
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was after many beautiful pearls, but he said the fock
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come out one, and he gave his life for that one.
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So it's priceless and certainly powerful. Because in the Bible,
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every time Kate is mentioned, he speaks about authority. So
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when they were building the walls and the gates of
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Nihi Maya, well Jerusalem, Nee Maya's time you read Knie Maya,
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Knee Maya says, we are rebuilding the walls. Walls in
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the Bible speak about identity, and so when the enemy
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comes in and tears down the walls, they are tearing
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down your identity. And that's why when Satan came against
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Jesus in messochupter four, he says, if you are the
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son of God, throw yourself down.
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He's always after your identity. Satan is always after. He's
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going to.
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Say, if you are that great, if you are a Christian,
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if you are a child of God, if you know,
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He's always after because if you can break down your identity,
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he's got you. That's why people got identity crisis and
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all the kind of stuff.
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They are not certain, they are not confident.
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And when he shakes the identity of a pastor, of
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a preacher, he goes after your identity. Who said you
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are you know? Who said you are a child of God?
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Who said you are worthy? Who's you know? Suffer it?
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Right? Okay?
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So understand is the walls speak of identity and.
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The gay speak of authority.
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So the enemies of God, the enemies of the of Jerusalem,
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burned down the gates. By what happened was Ni Maya
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was very careful not only to rebuild the walls, but
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to hang the gates back. And so God is after
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our identity and our authority.
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God wants to restore.
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Listen our identity, every person here in this room, listen
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to me. Identity must be restored and the authority must
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come back. Otherwise we find it hard to cast out
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demons because we don't know who we are and we
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don't know what we have. It's in knowing who you are,
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then you know what you have. If you are a prince,
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you know you have princely authority. If you are a king,
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you know you have kingly authority. If you are a policeman,
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even if you are a plain close policeman, you still
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have authority because you know who you are. So the
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devil was to break down who you are, so you
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don't know who you.
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And you don't know what you have.
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Everyone's say, okay, so it's called a pearly gate.
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So gate is an authority.
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So pearls speak about precious, priceless.
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And power full.
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This is the potential of every Christian in this room.
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Precious in God side, priceless in God side, and powerful.
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Can I hear good?
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Amen? All right? So we want to have pearls in
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our lives.
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Next light says, I believe the Bible considers pearls as
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precious because.
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Of the way they were formed.
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Now we are missing a y at thhe all right,
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And sister Katrina up there was the first one to
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not ahead because she's the English teacher you see, so
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he said.
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Yes, why know? Why?
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Why? No? Why in thhe Okay, so let me read
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it to you again.
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I believe the Bible considers pearls as precious because of
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the way they are formed.
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So we need to look into how they are formed
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and then realize why did Jesus even choose to mention
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pearls to include pearls. He didn't say diamonds, he said pearls.
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And I think between diamonds and pearls in this life,
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I think more people would choose diamonds, but Jesus has
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chosen pearls, and I think it's because he knows the
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way they were formed.
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Okay, are you ready?
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We're gonna look into the way diamonds. No, no, just
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to make sure that you're awake. Pearls are formed. Okay,
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there are two questions.
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I have for you.
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How a pearl is formed in our lives. We want
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to look into that, how a pearl is formed in
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our lives, and number two, how our lives are formed
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into a pearl. All right, they're probably the same answers
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to two different questions, but here we go. Let's now
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look into pearls. I'm not a pearl expert. Somebody turned
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to your neighbor and say, he's not a pearl expert.
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So maybe in this rumor there are pearl experts. All right,
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I don't know, Sharon, Are you a pear expert?
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No?
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Okay? The only pearl I know is in the milk
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tea boba and they cook it with you know whatever,
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uh my's tasty is tasty. There's the only pearse I know.
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But I'm gonna tell you about three types of pearls.
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Are you ready?
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The natural pearl, the coultured pearl, and the imitation pearl. Okay,
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these three are found in the market, found in the
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world day the day and the world. We live in
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three kinds of pearls, or three types of pearls.
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That produce, and there's a market for all three. There's
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a market for all three.
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So people will settle for imitation because that's all they
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can afford, or there's all they want, or they only
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wonder look and not the value. All right, as long
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as people think from afar one hundred meters away, she's
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wearing pearls, I'm fine because I just want to look
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rich for So there's there's a market for imitation. Pearls,
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and there's a market for cultured pulse, or people say
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it farmed pearlse okay, cultured pulse, and then there's definitely
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a market, although a smaller market.
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For natural pearls. All right.
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Next light says that the main difference diference is found
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in the value.
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That's the main difference.
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The main difference between the tree is one imitation is
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probably about ten US dollars. You can get it for
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forty four ing it, okay. Sometimes some toy shoppers sell perse.
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Have you seen the toy shop on sell perse?
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Ah?
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Yeah, we buy it for kids, you know. And then
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they write they just wear mummy purse. Okay, and lemmy
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say yeah, as long as you're happy, please, you know,
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mommy can buy you purse. You want the real one
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as your husband in the future. But you know, the value,
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the value the price. Are we all on the same page?
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We agree? We agree the main difference. Okay.
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Now let's look at the next slight that says the
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difference or the differences that makes the difference. So the
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value is the main difference. But what makes the difference
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to the difference? What are the differences that cause the
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value to be different? All right, three things, time, environment,
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and rarity, under time.
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Under time. I want to tell you it.
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Takes a long time for a pearl to receive what
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you call a coating, the thickness you see. I'll tell
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you in about two minutes how a pearl is made.
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And some of you already know it, but let's just
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put it at the back of your minder. If we're
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talking about the coating, there is a coating around the
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pearl that goes on and on.
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It coats again, it coats again and again.
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And the more the coating, the more thick the coating
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around a pearl, the greater the value.
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But it takes time.
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It takes an except for imitation, pearse imitation pearls don't
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have the kind of coating.
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Okay, they have a paint.
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They paint, you know, a transparent glass ball, the glass ball,
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glass gully, a gully marble glass, the transparent glass marble,
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and they just paint on it like maybe a paint
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that was manipulated from what you call a mother of pearl.
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Have you ever heard a mother mother of pearl? So
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mother pearl.
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They will scraping or they will bash it up, and
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they make a substance where it becomes paint and they
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take the paint and they just.
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Paint over that one. Not even you scratch so you
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can see the you can see the glass.
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So that that's cheap. So that doesn't take time, that
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doesn't need time at all. But time is the one
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that makes the difference because of the coating. Understand that
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number two environment. Uh. They tell me that when the
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pearl is in the right environment, it gets rounder, and
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it's in the shape of the pearl that the price
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is it.
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So if it's like your crispy path or crispy whatever was.
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Rice, crispy s okay or whatever it is, you look,
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it doesn't look round, right, the cost comes down, even.
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The natural pearl if it's not round enough.
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You know, I know a lot of people here are
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nodding their heads, and I'm so happy to see that.
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The people owning Persia. Yeah, so cool, fantastic. You know,
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it just tells me how.
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Rich is churches all he hardly a praise God? How
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come rich?
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And you're just not going like that? No yet I
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know yet. Okay, maybe you will be a.
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Pearl, Amen, amen, Amen, Albert.
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Shape the shape, the shape, the shape, and you know
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where the shape is most round is in salt water.
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I did some research. It's in salt water more than
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fresh water. Pearls can also develop in fresh water, but
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the best kind is in a god forsaken undisturbed place.
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It cannot be disturbed. Its pristine water.
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See right where there's no boats or whatever it is,
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or fishermen try to, you know, disturb the waters. It
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has to be on his own and it has to
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be in salt water more than fresh water for the
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shape to be perfectly round. Think about it. You know
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what salt is, right, Salt is sweat. And there are
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many Christians who avoid sweat. Means we don't want to
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sweat for Jesus. We don't hardship, we don't pressure, we
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don't go for missions.
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We want air conditioning, we want television.
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We want to watch the service from the comfort of
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our homes.
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Even though pandemic is gone for a few years.
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Now, you still, you know, I call it Sarah Christians,
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you still want to be in your Sarah watching because
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the comfort. Now, I'm telling you, right now, I told
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the first service. So nothing great comes out of come.
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You can't build muscles, you.
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Know, am I right? Albert, you need resistance.
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And if you are building your muscle on a certain weight,
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let's say one hundred kilograms, and you if you keep
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doing one hundred kilograms for the next three years, it's
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just all you will get is maintenance. You need to
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break into the one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty,
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one hundred and thirty because your muscle also needs to
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break And however, you know in this room that's why
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we call it breakthrough, and that too many Christians who
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are not breaking through because they are unwilling to go
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one step higher, are willing to serve one hour more,
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aren't willing to read the Bible one page more, aren't
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willing you understand this.
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So I don't want to say.
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I love you too much to have you all appear
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before Jesus regretting. I want you to at least try that,
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even with broken food, do something.
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Try not to.
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Live by excusers, by live by exploits. Exploits means, sir,
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God can use you more than you think you can
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be used.
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That's what exploits really mean.
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Like if you working at the office and you and
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your boss is causing you to do more work than
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you're paid. There's exploitation, right, But God wants to use
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us more.
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Than we think we are capable of. That's another kind.
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Of explotation, but it's a good explotation.
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Daniel, eleven thirty two.
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They that know their God shall be strong and do
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great exploits. But instead we are making great excuse Okay,
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we don't want excuse us.
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We want great exploits. Can I hear good? Amen? So
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God is shaping us.
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In salt water, in sweat water, in times are hard water,
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in times.
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Are not so easy? Water? Are you all seeing me? In? Like?
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There is trouble? Also in a Christian life water, there
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is also headache and stress.
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Water. There is also struggle and pain and sorrow. Water.
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But we get shaped by God, everybody, Okay. And finally,
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rarity rarity. Rarity just means a who is asking. If
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a person is asking he only wants a ten US
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dollar pulse, then so be it. I can make a thousand,
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I just I just bring whatever you know, Just give
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me whatever marble, right, I just painted here you go
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ten US dollars. Who's asking? But the one who's asking
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is God? And God is asking for pearls of great price.
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He's not even asking for.
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Cultured he's asking for natural pearls of great price. I'll
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show you in a slighter what's the difference. The difference
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is in a couple of zeros behind. That's that's a
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real difference, because even in cultured pulsa, you cannot fetch
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so much. And God is saying the pearl that he
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wants out of our lives. It has to be worth
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you giving up your life for. So he ain't asking
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for imitation. And I'm sad to say that there are
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imitation Christians around who was settled.
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For just give me a paint.
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That's why there's a scripture that says in the last
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days they will have a form of godliness. Deny is power.
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A form means painted overland. As long as you think
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I'm a pearl from ten meters away, I'm fine. But
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when you come before the Lord, he will be able
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to detect whether you're an imitation or whether you are
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naturally form perl. From a mile away, he can smell you,
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but our friends can't, our colleagues can't, our classmates they can.
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You know, you look like a Christian, you play Christian song,
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but in reality, in your house where you are alone,
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the things that you watch on internet. Don't be an
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imitation Christian. Please don't be a fake. You want to
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be be real because God is after the pearl of
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great price. So who's asking? God is asking, and he's
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asking for better because he believes that all of you
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in this room can amount to better, including me.
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I'm not done yet. No, I'm not done yet.
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After this injury, I'm saying, Lord, please more, because I
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don't think this injury is by accident or you know
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or no, it was an accident, but you know it
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wasn't don't don't waste time. You've gotta get injured, then
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get injured for good reason.
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Don't waste time. There's there's no you have time to waste.
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So rarity, the rre it is if you can produce
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like that, you know, just just produce like that, just
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have the look and.
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Not the power. No problem. Ten dollars I pray, and
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there's no ten dollars Christian in this room. Okay, please please,
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no ten dollars Christian in this room. Right.
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I pray that every one of you are priceless, come on,
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price less? Can you hear gray Man?
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Next one? Next one?
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Okay, let's let's now, don't go to the slide for us.
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Oh no, see you go to this slight idea you saw.
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Never mindnumb mine. He's not your fault. It's not your fault.
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We saw already that imitation takes one to seven days.
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It's only ten dollars. But okay, I want to go
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into the story. Can I go into the story? I
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had to go into my iPhone now because the story
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is is that here? Please please forgive me. I am
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not showing off. Okay, can I tell you?
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Okay, I read to you.
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I read to you because I haven't memorized it, because
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I'm not a pearl expert.
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But here we go.
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There are three kinds of pulse, or three kinds of
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ways pearls are produced. Number one, let's do the natural.
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There are essentially three times. Okay, I read that natural
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culture imitation. I read that natural pulse. Let's tarty with
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that natural pearls form when an irritturnt. No, no, don't
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start look at your husband and wife now, don't look
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at your brother or sister now, please please?
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Yeah? How may you now know why God putting it
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in our lives? Yeah?
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Yeah, He's after the pearl he's after the pearl. Okay,
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all right, how many of you know everything in your
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life right now? Okay, don't don't look don't look left,
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don't look right. How many of you know everything in
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your office right now?
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Don't look left, don't look right.
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Okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, thank you, because.
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These two fellers work together in the same office. Yeah,
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there is a reason for irritans.
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We forgot that natural pearls form and an irriturn usually
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a parasite.
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You know, you know, you know there this uh.
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This proverbial, proverbial a story that says a dirt one
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day went into a per oyster, a sand, a grain
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of sand went to a muscle and when so we're
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talking about sand and dirt. Actually, in real life, it's
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usually a parasite. No, no, supplik, He said, you know,
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how too much are you? I said, parasite that if
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we look at Rachel.
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No, I don't. I don't think you meant that. I
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don't think you meant that.
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I think yeah, yeah, not really, not really okay, really,
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but not really okay, parasite.
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You know, in our lives there are many parasites. Love,
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but you know, we don't.
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Like the parasite. Right, we hate the parasite. We blame
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the parasite. We see our classroom has a parasite, and
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so we work the parasite. We tell the teacher and
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look at the parasite. Right, But you know what the
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parasite is there for. And if we keep rejecting parasites
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in our lives, we will become a ten dollars imitation
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at the end. I don't want you to become a
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ten dollar in mediation. So everybody, I think it's time
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to start embracing parasites.
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I can see how your eyes going on. I can
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think of a few.
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Okay, okay, Oh we are the par yeah, yeah we
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could be. Do you know when you come to church,
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churches got eythens, but God put them there because at
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the end day God is after you as a pearl.
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So if you keep going to churches that don't have urethants,
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I want to go to a church that there's no trouble,
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no problem. No one looked down at me, no no,
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no one look up to me, No one looks.
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Aside to me.
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No, no, no, you know, I please God give me
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an everything free church.
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He gave you a pandemica. So we don't have to
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go to church. He gave you you don't have to
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go to church. Just say home.
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Everybody watch online, because online you can't see the paraside.
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Everything looks good online. Has he given you a name
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that okay, let's talk and please don't go to school
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and go to your workplace Monday, then say, oh, I.
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Got a new need for you, my dear colleague. It's
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very nice. Name is para parasita.
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Parasita parasita. Usually a parasite has worked its way into
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an oyster or a muscle, or a muscle or a
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clam now as a defense mechanism. How many of you
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in this room have got defense mechanism? Yeah, yeah, you
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know what your what was because some people shout out
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to me, was your defense mechanism. Blame blame, dumb parasite
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coming to my life, you know, blame. My life was
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easy without you, you know, my life was peaceful without you.
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God burn up all the parasites in my life.
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No, seriously, there is a defense mechanism found within the shell,
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within the oyster itself, within the muscles, within the clem Okay,
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maybe somebody else shout at me or shout to me. Uh,
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what the other defense mechanism? Yeh, change table, change table,
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change church. So everything you do, change change your cologne,
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change your death, change your department.
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Ask for a.
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Promotion or demotion, no piece that just demote me.
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Just demote me. I don't mind being devoted.
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I just can't stand to be in the same office
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with this parasita. You want to know what defense mechanism
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the oyster has. It's called a fluid. A fluid that
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is called Knacker an a c R E. And Albert,
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don't try to make it into a I could see
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your your husband's faces are like oh now again say
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in in Africa Naka and a c R E.
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There's a fluid called Necker.
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The Knacker is already in the oyster.
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Listen, ladies and gentlemen.
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The thing that will make you valuable is already inside you,
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and God wants you because comfort doesn't bring out the
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Knacker is a fluid.
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The Knacker only moves Jang Jiang Jang.
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It only moves when it has two, so he doesn't blame,
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he doesn't do anything. It now covers. Can imagine that
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the parents come into Officer and you just slaughther it
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with love it.
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He just yeah, this on the necker just comes out,
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flew it right, oh dirt, oh saying ooh eat it.
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Then let's just surrounded with all this love.
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No enough, one more layer, two more, laya Hello. He
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doesn't say good morning to you, good morning to you,
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or no, you haven't said good morning to me. You know,
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you ever say you never say you love me. I
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love you because God told me to. Ah. And this
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this necker within you that just comes out, and it
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just just bills and surrounds this dirt, this parasite, And
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the more you surround it, the more you can't see
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it anymore.
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He doesn't fight it. He doesn't fight it. It quotes it.
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Now you know why God chose Perl.
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He wants Christians to coote all the dirt and the
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parasise in your life with everything that is from the Lord.
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And how does a dirt become a treasure? How does
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a parasite become a jewel? When he gets covered and
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slaughtered and you know, and and and and and and
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and you know, just surrounded by knacker. There's unending and
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it takes time, not just one day, two days time.
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So the longer this irritant is in your life, or
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is in your office, or is in your school. And
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every day he doesn't want to smile to you, but
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you smile back.
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Knacker. Right.
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He throws rubbish in front of your place. You know
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you don't throw rubbish on in front of you pick
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up the rubbish. And I don't know, I don't know
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what else. The other day when I went to Malacca,
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I was eating very good kaya, very good from Baba
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Baba Charlie, very good, very good. And then uh Pacea
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said you want to buy any back? I said yeah,
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So I bought six. Bought those bag say he so many?
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I don't know. I was thinking about my neighbors. So
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I bought four, two immediate neighbors and two signed. Never
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bought them any gift at all. I thought I would
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just knacker them.
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All four of them.
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No. Sorry, One has uh left for the States because
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his uh daughter just gave birth, so he went to
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the States for six months.
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And so I ate his kya, no point in wasting it, yea.
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And all the neighbors were like, you know from far
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can earth, so good your kaya. I know. Now we're
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becoming friends. Now now now I want to go blocker
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and gain and buy them some more stuff so I
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can necker them some more. Wouldn't he wouldn't it be
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a good sentence to knacker people, to Jesus. People come
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to you said, how do you?
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How do you? How did you? How did you come
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to know the Lord? My neighbor just nackered me. Ah,
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not nagger, not nag. And he didn't nagger, He knackered.
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He just kept surrounding me with this layer of fluid,
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over and over again.
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Do I expect him to buy me back? I don't
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think so. It's amazing. Think about it. Why did the
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Lord choose pearl? Because he was?
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Is the way it's formed, okay, But without the irritten
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the neckar doesn't get released.
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There's something in all of us in this room.
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Something beautiful comes out of you in times of trouble,
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at least it was meant to be there. Or something
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bitter can also come out, so we choose right, bitter
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or better? Can I move on? It's a different mechanism.
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A fluid is used to quote the irritant. Layer upon
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layer of this quoting, called necker is deposited until a
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lustrous pearl is formed. Now let's look at culture. A
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cultured pearl undergoes the same process. The only difference is
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that the irritan is surgically implanted. All right, it's not
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so natural. It's either a bead or a piece of
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shell called mother of pearl. So they use a mother
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of pearl and they, you know, force it. Some of
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our lives and some of our Christian development feels forced.
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These seeds or nuclei are most often formed from muscle shells.
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Quality cultured pearls require a suffce amount of time, generally
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at least three years for a thick layer of necker
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to be deposited. So three years just too mature, three
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years just to form necker, right, for a thick layer
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of necker to be deposited, resulting in a beautiful gem
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quality pearl.
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Lower quality pearls have.
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Often been rushed out, so cultured pearls that can also
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be of low quality. You know how low quality is
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produced when we rush through. We want things done now
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now now, now do it for me, and do it now.
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I'm hungry. Now give me the drink, now, give me
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the handphone now. But you know what it produces pearls,
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but very low quality because they've been rushed out of
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the oyster too quickly, and they have too thin a
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coat of necker. No point having it, no point having
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pearls with toothing, because it is the knacker that gives
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it its value. Anybody, Okay, the knacker that is produced
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out of irritance is the one that gives it value.
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And I want to believe that everyone in this room
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has more necker to give. Okay, Hey, good amen, more
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knacker to give. Please, don't resign so quickly, don't retire
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so quickly. I believe the best production of necker is
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ahead of us. Now, pearls can come either from salt
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or fresh water.
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I say that to you. Historically, salt water.
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Pearls were rounder and had a better knacker than fresh
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water pearls, while fresh water pearls tended to be very
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irregular in shape, with a.
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Puff rice appearance. The most prevailed.
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You know, but you know what if you if you're
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gonna settle for less yes, I guess beauty is in
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the eyes of the beholder. Maybe the world is asking
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for lesser Christians. Maybe maybe the world wants Christians who
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don't mind LGBT.
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So a lesser Christian will agree the kind of Christians
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the world.
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One's is the rush kind God wants the great price,
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are you assuming there is a demand? No, in the world,
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even for Christians. There's a demand in the world, even
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for Christians. But they hope that you are not the
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one of great value, because that would mean that your
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knacker or you know, the coating will be so strong
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that nothing will nothing will devalue you. Everybody, Okay, all right,
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I don't want.
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To bore you.
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I'll just go for a few more and then we
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will close this part. So after the three years of
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the cultured and muscle or oyster, it takes another three
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years to put the force in the irritant and takes
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another three years, so anywhere from three to six years cultured. Okay,
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after pearls produce, only approximately five percent are of sufficient
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true gem quality for top jewelry makers.
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So these cultured places are the farmerser.
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They have one hundred and you know how much it
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spent over each pearl to invest in it, over each
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cultured pearl, one hundred US.
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Dollars to spend. But they say only five percent.
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Will produce gem worthy pearlse So there's no guarantee, h no,
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no guarantee that every Christian.
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Will become a pearl. Sorry, I just started it in a.
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For you to think about, because everybody thinks that Christian
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you've gotta.
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Be a pearl.
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Not necessarily, as all you come to church, read your
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Bible once a week, you'll be.
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You know, I don't think so.
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But you can make a choice today what kind of
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pearl you want to be? Yeah, because if you want
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to be God's kind, which is very rare, then the
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price is a little bit higher. Okay, let me try
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to finish this. Okay, one hundred dollars for every oyster
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that is found, whether a gem quality pearl is produced
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or not, and.
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A day only five percent get produced. Okay, last one.
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Imitation pearls are a different story altogether. In most cases,
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a glass bead is dipped into a solution made from
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fish scales. Oh, the one makes me hungry. I'm thinking
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of tasty tiner fish scales. This coat thing is thin
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and may eventually wear off. One can actually tell and
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immitation by rubbing it across the teeth. Have you done anyone?
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Take a pe rub it across your teeth.
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While the layers of necker on a real pearl feels gritty,
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the falls or imitate. Imitation one will start to come off.
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The paint was come off. Please don't be a painted Christian, Okay, guys,
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be a pure Christian. The island of Mallorca is known
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for its imitation pearl industry, and the term Malorca pearls
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or Majorica pearls is frequently, though inaccurately, used to describe
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these pearl stimulants.
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Okay, so what's the difference the imitation one.
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You don't need time, you don't need a necker, you
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don't need irritating Okay, but there are many in the market.
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The couching ones told you the difference, and of course
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the natural one, which CAUs once. Okay, Now let me
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write and run this race to the last lap by
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the next few slides.
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Now x if he can help me.
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Imitation takes one to seven days and it's ten dollars,
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right or more? Second Tivity three five says having a
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form of godliness, but denying its power from such pulse
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or from such people.
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Turn away.
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Paul was not talking about Christian non Christiana. He was
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talking about the types of Christians, because he would never
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ask a Christian to turn away from a non Christian.
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You mean he will ask us to go and witness
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with them, love them, but he's asking us to beware
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of the imitation the Christians that you will only.
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Have a form. Okay, stay away from them. Okay, this
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I know is very strong. Let's move on.
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Cultured pearls take time between three to six years, and
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they are done for profit.
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Profit.
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Now why because after some businessmen saw that people pay
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big money for pearls, they had an idea, Wow, actually
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there's a market for nice looking pearls.
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But we cannot wait so long. We cannot wait so long.
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Is there a way to do it faster and so
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that we can do it faster and produce more because
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people are willing to pay.
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So Christians or people, or.
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Pearls that are rush through are usually done because of profit.
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The purpose is to gain a profit out of the process.
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How many of you think that Jesus after profit. He's not.
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He's not.
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I'll show you what he's after Okay, in the next
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one we'll go. But anyway that there is some value
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to this anywhere from one hundred US dollars to even
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ten thousand US dollars, you can because they've found a
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way to culture, pearls to be a little bit more
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round her, all right. And if the pearl is about
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four or five six years, okay, higher value, but it
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will never fetch the value of a natural perl, and
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it will never be considered a pearl of great price.
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Okay. Next one natural.
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The natural takes ten to twenty years, okay. And if
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you are willing to wait, this is what you call passion.
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So it's very easy to distinguish a passionate Christian and
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one that's just out for profit, and one that's just
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out for show.
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Okay.
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I pray that none of us will take that road
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for a form of godliness, or for show, or for imitation,
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never mind life, as long as they think it's pearls,
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I'm happy. I pray that you will not settle. I
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pray also that you will not just be here for profit.
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What's in it for me? What's in it for me?
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You know?
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And you just rush through being a Christian doing the
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right thing so that you can get the right blessing.
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Mammy said to me that if I can be a
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good Christian kid, I will get.
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To use my handphone profit.
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Mammy said to me, if I can be a good
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Christian boy, I will get together profit.
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So we are doing something for profit, but we just
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go through the emotion.
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I also, do you mean, but when you meet a
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Christian who is passionate without even a promise of a
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handful or for more TV time or more this more,
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that is passion. That's why people like volunteers, because volunteers
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don't work for money, and volunteers when they become volunteers
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that they work because of.
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Fire.
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And this one, the cost goes up, the value goes up.
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All right, natural pulse very hard to get. But you
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want to see one more. One more is what the
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Bible calls pearl of great price, or as the world
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would call it, of exceptional value, exceptional value. This one
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takes forty years or more. One pearl, no friend. And
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they said that in the in the research I was reading,
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usually is discovered by accidental because people don't even know
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where to find it. And then we found it out. Said, well,
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this part of the sea has never been touched, this
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part of the sea has never been disturbed. This part
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of the sea is pristine waters. Blah blah blah blah
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blah blah. And you know it's salt water and look
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at this pearl. I'll tell you a little bit more
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about this pearla forty years. Now, in the Bible, forty
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years is a very forty is a very significant number.
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Is a cycle. Forty years is a cycle of life.
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Eighty years is two cycles of life. So when a
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pearl is is of great price at forty years, it
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means one life in that one lifetime. And the guy
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who got founded a pearl of great price gave his all,
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gave his life for that one perl.
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I want to tell you right now, when you're talking.
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About the peerl that God is asking for, it's not
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just talking about money anymore.
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He's talking about life.
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Is a cycle of life forty years and it's now purpose.
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So we have gone from We've gone from imitation. Play
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play first P play play second P is cultured profit.
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Profit. You're in this? What do you have for me?
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I give to you? Why?
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Okay, you give me one, I give you one, You
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give me two, I give you two.
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You know there's this promise that goes on.
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Third one is passion and now final one is purpose.
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You know what purpose is? That means that even if
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you don't.
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Have passion, how do you how do you understand that
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you cannot have passion every day? I know, I mean
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my team liverpooler is losing one game after the other. No,
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I'm actually really knows no, su passionate now. I don't
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know why we get more passionate that you do. You
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know games sports. The country gets more passionate about a
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sport when their team is winning. That's why when Malaysia
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is winning, the whole stadium is where we're losing, is on.
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It's this is a mentality we have, right. But passion
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can go up, passion can go down. It's not every
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day that you're passionate about your spouse. I can't tell
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you now, place, sir, It's not every day you're passion
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about your spouse like I can tell you is the
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true thing? Okay, uh, I'm thinking about the wives who's
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got two or three kids to take it off, right,
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and the husband thinking, your wife passionate for you every
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day thing five times?
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All right, she's got these you know, precious little uh
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here it dance, here it is and I gotta pariicise it.
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All hanging on her hair, hanging on her eyebrows and
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everywhere else. And you know her husband comes back, you know,
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tries a new Colonne opens the door like Tazan. No,
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it's not always no.
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Every day when no. But you know what, we can live.
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Every day purpose. Every day we can live by purpose.
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That means that even you don't feel like it, that
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you still come to church. You don't feel like you
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still lays up your hands.
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You don't. You don't.
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You don't feel like you used to bless the Lord.
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You don't feel like you used to read your Bible.
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You don't feel like it. That is disciple first, That
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is Christian.
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That is of great price. It takes a lifetime to
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get there. You know, folks, you.
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Know the value goes from one hundred thousand US dollars
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to millions.
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Again is in the eyes of the beholder. People will
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pay for it.
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And I want to tell you who are bier God
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himself because he's looking for that pearl. Okay, something about
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this pearler. I read about her, and this is also
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on your screen. So they said, how do you know
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these pearls of great price? Right?
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How you know? So according to the experts, you pick
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up the pearler.
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You pick up the pearl, he says, he will display
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I wrote it down for you deep internal glow. Want
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to look at it? If you ask Gut a brother,
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Gut who is a jeweler. He knows jewelry, and when
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he looks at the diamond, he tells me once again,
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I don't pay for what they tell me. He says,
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because I'll be in a jewelry business for fifty years.
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I can see the worth of a diamond when a
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pick it up. So I said, what do you see?
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Girt is.
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From Germany and he was in jewry business for fifty
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five years now, and he picks up a diamond or whatever.
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He says, I look for fire in the stone. I
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got to see fire in the stone, whether with a
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naked eye or with you know, the help.
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I got to see fire.
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The more the fire burns within the stone, the higher value.
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And nobody ever told me that.
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He says, some fire, sorry, some jewelry or gems they
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sell you has no fire. I said, God, that sounds
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like a Christian. That sounds like revival. That's how ours
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could be Christian a long time but lose the fire.
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Next year's theme is revival. I pray that all of
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you here in his room in Jesus name me creaing
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myself will have a fire. If there's any one of
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your sons and daughters who are no longer serving the Lord,
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no longer to go to the church. It is not
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that he doesn't have a Christian name or doesn't have
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Christian parents.
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He's lost there.
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You know what God is after as a master jeweler,
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He's after the fire.
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Amen. So when you take a pearl they call it.
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There's this deep internal glow of beauty that's shining from within.
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I see beauty from within.
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So if anyone here have ever been told that you're
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ugly and you look into the mirror, you cry every
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time you look in the mirror, can I tell you
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the truth? The truth is that God doesn't see that mirror.
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And who is the one that judge who's ugly and
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who's not from the outside. Because God is after things
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that people can't see. That's your real value and that
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takes time to build. And so the word orient in
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in in a bracket, it's just this is the word
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orient just means this. People in jewelry business use the
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word orient a lot. The word orient just means rainbow color.
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So when you see, uh, so someone if a person
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takes a pearl. It says, I see a strong, radiant orient.
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He means there's a rainbow of colors just shining from
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with it. And you know, rainbow can only be created
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by God. No God created a rainbow, and it was
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meant to be a promise. And so when you see
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a rainbow shining from within you you're seeing God in you,
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the one who gave you the promise?
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Are you also doing me?
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And of course the world wants to think the rainbow
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for themselves, are right? You know that the rain is
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a symbol for something else devils to this spot now
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this start, But this particular rainbow is particular orient and
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you cannot manipulate.
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It has to come from insight.
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But there was a huge cost because you know why
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when the pearl was untouched for forty years in the seawater,
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you know what happens every year the Necker sial goes on.
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This keeps going on so much Necker that now it
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begins to become something you never even imagine it could become.
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But there's only number one.
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There's some one something internal shines forth. And then number
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two there is a mirror like external shine or reflection.
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The pearl suddenly becomes so reflective. When you look at it,
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you can see your face. That's how they know a
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lot of the pearls that, even the most expensive. Now
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you can see maybe a glimpse, maybe if you polishes,
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I think I can see a silouette.
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But they're saying to you right now, and this is
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from the experts.
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When you look into a pearl of great price forty
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years or more, not only do you see a shine
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from within you is so clear, it's mirror like that
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you can see your face. And then the Lord spoke
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to me, you know, he spoke to me. When I
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read this, he says, Kenneth, that must have been what
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the man who found one pearl of great price saw.
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He was looking for pearls, beautiful pearls plural, but he
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settled for one because he found it. You know who
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he found. He found himself. He took up the pearl,
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and he saw his face. Because God is not after
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real Purlse. What is he after real Purlse. It's after you.
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He's after me. He wants to make sure that all
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of us make it to the pearly Gates, and that
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Pearly Gate hopefully will match our peerl and that's why
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it's water to water, oil toil, Otherwise it will not
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You cannot enter, are you okay?
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I know?
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I know. We always push away the very thing that
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makes us who we should want to be. Yeah, we
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always fight with the very thing that's supposed to be
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there to make us. So that's how you know, they
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think of the pearl and go like, Okay, this is different,
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and this is worth my life. I'm gonna sell everything
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I have because I found the real deal. Purpose of
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the irritant is the next slide is to form pearls
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in you, says the next line. And that's why the
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Bible says in Matthew seven six, do not cast your
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pearls before swine. You get that because all of us
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here in this room, let's just say, we haven't become
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the pearl, but in our lives, many hardships have created
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pearls inside of us. And these are pearls of wisdom.
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When I look at you know, doctor James, look at
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his you know, dear wife.
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Says the Christina.
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Anyone who sits with them, I tell you what, you
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will get pearls from them. I am quite sure. And
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it did not come because of comfort came from hardship, sweat,
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having four children bring.
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Them all up to fear the Lord.
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I tell you any one here will benefit from sitting
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one hour with them.
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Pearls.
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They have pearls, but pearls came from the irritant they
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allowed in their lives.
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Areyway?
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Okay, you know I'm looking at some of the older
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ones here. I think this is the Sharon not so old, ye,
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but but she will always tell you she's all she's
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the youngest oldest person.
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Here like this.
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It's okay, I don't know what I'm mis kidding, but
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I'm sure she's got a lot to tell you.
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Her husband went through a tough time with his health.
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It's not easy enough to take care of someone who's
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not well. She probably cried tears we never seen tears.
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Also are salty water, right, he said, salt water that
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produces this. Some of you have cried in this room.
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No one sees, God sees you sit down one hour,
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says Sharon. I'm sure she won't just t talk to
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you about pick a ball. Although pickles so salty. I'm
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just sorry, side side joke. Okay, but no, it's not
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just the older ones.
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Here that have it.
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I'm sure the ones here, we're in your thirties, forties,
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everyone has got a pearl. So the Bible is saying, please,
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don't take this purse and cast it to swine. You want,
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you want to cast your purse anywhere, casting to people
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who want it, cast to people who say, uncle, can.
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You tell me more about life?
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Come come to Rachel And and said, Rachel, you've got
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two kids, Come to Albert. You know they're their first child,
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Passendra and I had the privilege of walking with them
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when Shay had some challenges.
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In her life growing up.
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But these two never gave up because they put their
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faith in Christ. Yesterday we just heard the testimony from
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Jessica and Jason Martin Jerome.
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What a testimony they give. They almost want to give up.
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You know how many times who knows that tears? Who
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knows that tears? But today Jerome's a mocking miracle.
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If you have a tough child, go sit with Jason
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and Jessica.
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I tell you, in one hour, they'll tell you things
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that So I've got pearls or so, and I'd rather
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cast them before people that came to change to receive it,
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because hopefully when you take it, you make something out
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of it. But please don't go outside and just cast
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it anywhere, because those those swine would trample precious pearls that.
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You took so long to earn. Are you also hear me?
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It's very important, very important, Okay? And then.
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Now let's go into this other slide not only to
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form pearls in you, but to finally form you into
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a pearl, to get you ready for.
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The pearly gate. That's why I tell you I really
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believe in this.
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Irreturns will either bring out the promise or the problem
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in us.
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That's what the next slight says. Do you agree with this?
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Sometimes iverythings can come right, pers I can come right.
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Difficult people can come in the officer and you know what.
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They reveal your temper, They reveal the imitation pulls that
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incite you. They reveal your immaturity. They reveal that, oh,
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maybe you have not really grown up in the lot yet.
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Maybe you read the Bible, but you don't really know
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the Bible. So Irriton's come into your life to also
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test you. And what comes out is problem after problem
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after problem. But God is not after the problem. He's
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after the promise. So God, when he gives you irri
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return respond well to the returns.
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So then the promise can come. Amen. And what's the promise?
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The pearl of great price.
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Okay, but ladies and gentlemen, if the last six months
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of irritance in your live and all you see is problem,
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something's wrong, And I pray that today as I cast
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pearls to you, you will go home with it and
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go like Lord, I want to see my neighbors differently.
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I want to see my colleague differently. I want to
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see the uncle differently. I want to see the auntie differently.
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I want to see my classmates differently. I want to
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see my teacher differently. Lord help me, because otherwise I
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end up always being the problem and seeing other people
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the problem back to you, because it's all inside you,
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and so God will continue to do so. Even if
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you change office, change church, change schooler, you will find the.
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Same thing.
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Are used to me, change country, you will find the
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same thing. What's the joy of VJ just told me
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that Melbourne used to be the most diverpl city.
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Now they're trying to chase the Asians out, some of
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them and so.
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A stabbing just happened with an Asian lady, you know,
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because they're trying to demonstrate Asians get out to make
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Australia Australians. So this is how only like you know,
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some something in America. There's someunding sounding some in the
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UK who's marching, you know, marching saying you know if
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you know why, you know this is not your land,
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blah blah blah.
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The world.
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Hey, a livable city, the most livable city in the world,
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three times in a row is now becoming a nightmare.
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So I'll church in x Melbourne for two sundays I
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think in a row. I'm not sure.
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Better it was one Sunday of two Sundays in row pass.
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Joe Vida reports that, you know, it's only half the
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attendance because people, the Asian in our church are scared to.
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Come into the city listener. So we need to pray
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for our people.
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Pray, pray, and you know, ask also from wisdom and
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and and how what.
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Do we do with this?
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I pray that you know, it would just be something
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that would just pass. But it's not the place. Stop
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thinking that just as long as you change the place,
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you would change everything. No, it's not Okay, I'm going
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to close already, and I know it's a heart message,
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but I want you to understand. And I'm casting pulls
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to you now because I love you and and this.
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Is what God wants you. He wants to encourage you.
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All right.
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Irritants will either bring out the promise or the problem minutes.
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I know, but you're standing up reready. I'll finished, race, rude, irritated.
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I love you.
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But while every while every oyster muscle clam has the
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potential of creating a pearl, not everyone will. In fact,
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in stats in research that's only one in every ten thousand.
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I hope that not every one, only one in sixty
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people here becomes a pearl. Extra has three thousand people
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now buzz under count three thousand, three hundred across the countries.
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I hope that not just one becomes a perl.
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My prayer for disciple first is everyone becomes a per
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only a small percentage of the one makes it to
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the hands of the jewel.
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We don't want that last few and then are closed.
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It all depends on how we respond to the irritants
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in our lives and how we allow others to respond
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to us.
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As irritants. Yeah, sometimes we can also be ritants. Let's
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finish with some scripture.
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And then our close Philippians six, or sorry Philippins one,
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verse six, verse twenty nine, and verse thirty. Being confident
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of this very thing, that he who has begun a
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good work in you will complete it under the day
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of Jesus Christ, somebody say amen for you. It has
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been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe
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in him, but also to suffer for his sake, having
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the same conflict which you saw in me, and now
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here is in me. Next slide second Corinthians four seven
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to ten. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels.
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Yeah, that's right.
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We do have a treasure in this earthen vessel. That
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the excellence of the power may be of God and
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none of us. We are heart pressed on every side,
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That's right. Some of you are heart pressed on every side.
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Yet not crush. We are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted,
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not forsaken, struck down, not destroyed. Always caring about in
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the body or the dying of the Lord Jesus, that
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the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
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Last Slight and last Scripture, Second Corinthians four sixteen to eighteen.
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Someone say, don't lose heart.
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Even though our outward man is perishing, Yet the inward man, oh, Hallelujah,
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is being renewed. The necker is going on and on
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and on. The inward man is shining forth stronger day
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by day. For our light affection, which is but for
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a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding
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and eternal weight of glory. While we do not look
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at the things which are seen, but at the things
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which are not seen. For the things which are seen
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are temporary, but the things which are not The things
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are seen are temporary, but the.
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Things which are not seen are eternal.
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