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Understanding What God Wants | Elder Terence Atkinson
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You're listening to a message to go from at church. We hope this message
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will light up your day today. I've got a message I believe that the
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Lord wants us to know, which is actually very important. All the messages
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are important, okay, but understanding what God wants, Understanding what God wants?
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Do we take the trouble to understand what God wants? Hey? Look,
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sometimes when our spouse tells us something, do we understand what she wants?
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Do we understand what he wants? You know nowadays that I only eat
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chicken breasts because no skin, Ma, no skin, easy to cook,
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you know. But Elder Mabel she likes chicken pie. But the thing is,
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when you go and you do the shop, you have to be very
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specific what you want, right. So I went and I bought chicken breasts,
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you know, looked pretty good. And then I bought her chicken thie
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and she says, what kind of chicken te you bought me? It looks
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like the chicken and look ami or something like that. So I can't help
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it. This is what they have. You see, My understanding of what
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a good piece is and her understanding or what a good piece is is totally
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different. So when we look at what God wants. He's looking at me
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very very blankly. So I say, okay, next time you buy the
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chicken tie, you show me what you want, and then I will know
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what you want. Understanding what God wants? Do you know that understanding can
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either be a stumbling block or a stepping stone. Understanding can either be a
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stumbling block or stepping stone. How do we understand something? What do we
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mean by understanding something? You know? You can understand something wrongly? You
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can? You know, I can tell you don't go there. I don't
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ever want to see you go there. I can tell my children that.
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And as far as they're concerned, I don't understand, because Indian mind,
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they understand. But see, what they don't understand is what I understand.
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And what I understand is if you go there, somebody is going to come
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around and smack you. See, but I understand, but they don't understand
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that. You see. Do you realize how many of you've got? Very
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few of you've got teenage children? Right? How many we've got teenage children?
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Okay, all right, I asked you this question. Suddenly, when
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they become teenagers, do you feel like to them you have become irrelevant.
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Not yet young teen coming attraction older teens? Anybody experienced that or not?
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Suddenly you don't understand you got it all wrong. I mean you're old.
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What do you know? Right? They always tell you that you're so old?
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What do you know? Hey? I was once a teenager myself.
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Yeah. So the thing is this understanding can either be a stumbling block when
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you don't understand right, when you don't see things right, You understanding may
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get you into trouble. Your understanding may lead you How many of you have
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heard this understanding? One drink is okay? After all? Is just a
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glass of wine? The Bible says, for your stomach, drink one glass
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of wine. How many have you heard that statement before? And how many
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of you know that there are many people who never learned to stop at one
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glass? True? Why start the one glass and allow yourself to go on
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to two to three and ruin lives? See, that's the wrong understanding of
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scripture. Scripture never meant for you to find that it's okay to take one
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glass of wine? After all? It what did Paul say? If you
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cannot get better than you, you take one glass? It will help you?
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So it was a medicinal take, It was a take for a healing
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purpose. Was it take for the sheer enjoyment of the buzz you get from
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the alcoholic content? Ah? Do you know that understanding is quite a funny
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thing. It is funny because it can break us. Understanding the wrong way
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can break you. If you understand that God is a God of love,
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so He's okay with everything I do, no matter what I do. After
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all, God understands. How many of you heard that statement before? It's
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true, But that kind of understanding, in that way can break you,
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because how many of us know that God himself has said, away from me,
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I never knew. You may have called me this, you may have
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called me that. You may call me lord, Lord, you may cast
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out demons in my name, you may have healed the sick in my name.
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But away away from me, I never knew you. Oh, how
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did this happen? You see, the wrong kind of understanding can break you.
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How many of you have heard this statement? God works in mysterious ways.
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Every time I hear that, I say, hey, man, this
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is not in the Bible. God doesn't work in mysterious ways. God works
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his way just because you don't know. It doesn't make it mysterious, It
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just makes it away. You don't know. But after he does it,
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guess what you know? Is it mystery anymore? No? The Bible says,
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the mystery that has been kept hidden for generations has now been made known
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to the Sains. What is that Christ in you? The hope of glory?
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Hey, it is no mystery to us anymore because Jesus is in us.
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God works in mysterious ways. Every time I hear that, my hand
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back of many stands because this is how the devil managed to trap Eve with
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a half truth. You see, don't allow half truths to get involved in
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your understanding because it is those half truths that will cause you to fall into
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a lie. So that's why even statement like that I just don't like.
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But you know that understanding can make us because when we understand right, Praise
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the Lord, things are going to change. You want change, you want
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breakthrough, You want to see something good happen in your life. How does
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it happen when you have the right understanding? So do you think it's worthwhile
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to get our understanding right? Absolutely? So I want to actually go into
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that and perhaps we will understanding a little better. Okay, let's look at
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Ephesians four eighteen. It says having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the
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life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the
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blindness of their heart. I remember the last time I came here. I
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told you about this lady who has not seen the son in two years because
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the son thinks he is a she. And the Australian government has taken that
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son away because the woman said, no, you are not a she,
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you are a he, and she has not seen the sun in two years.
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Do you understand what I mean? Some of you are looking at blank
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faces. Okay, let me explain it. The guy thinks he's a girl,
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so he's gone to his mother and says, I want to be a
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girl. The mother said, no, you're not a girl, you're a
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boy. He goes to the school and he tells the teacher, my mother
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won't allow me to be a girl. She reports it to the authorities.
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The authorities come and take the child away so that they can continue to turn
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this boy into a girl through what through chemicals and through surgery, and the
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mother has got no say. Having their understanding darkn Do you and I actually
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know what this means. Let me tell you what I just learned this week,
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and this is happening in California right now. Parents found out. They're
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in kindergartens across the state. They have a club for kids. You know
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what is this club? This club is for boys to learn to love boys
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and for girls to love girls. And this club is a clandestine club.
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The parents were never asked permission. But the parents found out, and now
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they are taking the education system to task because in this state, if the
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children want to join a gardening club, they have to get parents permission.
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So how come when they have this LGBTQI club, permission was not asked.
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Do you know that the battle is for your kids? Are we aware that
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the battle is for our children? You want to send your kids overseas to
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study, You train them from now, You prepare them for the crap that
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they are going to receive overseas. In terms of this, I have to
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be straight. I'm very sorry because this is a reality that you and I
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have to face. The world is confused. This is what scripture says.
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Having your understanding dark and being alienated from the life of God because of the
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ignorant rance that is in them and the blindness of the heart. This is
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happening today. When I read that, I tell you, I got so
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angry. I got angry because you have taken the fight to the dirtiest of
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levels. You're trying to influence the children. I'm not telling you don't send
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your kids a way to study. I am telling you that if you want
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to send your kids to study, you teach them from now right is right
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and wrong is wrong. Hell is hot and singing right, and God is
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holy, and Christ is coming and righteousness will prevail. You got to train
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them from now used to I told you I trained my girls. Man,
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two girls, We're not going to be around forever. We can go at
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any time. You need to have someone on your side who will help you
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each and every day. And you know who that person is. He is
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Jesus. Get to know him now. The Bible says train your child and
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the way it's a lord, and when he grows old, he will not
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soon depart from it. The Bible also says spare the spare the rod,
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and spoil the child. You try sparing the rod in Australia, I mean
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you try not sparing the road in Australia and see what happens. Hey,
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guys, this is real, This is real. Bible is very clear.
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I mean, Jesus knows what he's talking about. Wisdom, Wisdom is the
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principal thing. This is Problebs four seven. Principle is the principal thing.
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Wisdom is the most important thing. Therefore, get wisdom, and the Bible
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says, and in all you're getting, get understanding. Hey, look,
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if there's nothing that you can get, get the understanding of God's word that
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for you will be the greatest pearl of great price, which of course is
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Jesus understanding who Jesus is. I've been praying for this message. I've been
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praying that the Lord anointed this morning as I walked for hours. I prayed
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and walked around the neighborhood for hours, praying that God's wor will settle in
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our hearts. Because time is short. Jesus is coming again. He's coming
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again, really soon, and we better be ready. We had better be
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ready. The world is a very tentative place now, So the Bible says,
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in all you're getting, in all your desire to improve yourself, in
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all your desire to increase your wealth in all your desire, to build your
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own minor kingdoms for yourself. The Bible says, get understanding. I heard
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a testimony or I heard a prayjuice now, but somebody who's going to go
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away or might be going away in the future, How do you prepare yourself?
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Get understanding? How do you know whether you're doing right? Get understanding?
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In Isaiah forty twenty eight, it says, have you not known and
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have you not heard? That the Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator
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of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding
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is unsearchable. Do you know why I ask you to get God's understanding?
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Because it's all the understanding you need to be successful. I shared with you
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the last time that we have no rights succeeding without the help of Christ.
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You remember that. Now I am telling you that with Christ comes that understanding
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you need to be successful, not successful the world's way where they make a
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lot of money, spend a lot of money, die and go to a
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christless eternity. Is that success? That is failure? How about this?
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Earn a lot of money, spend a lot of money, die and go
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and be with Christ totally successful, and scripture is saying it comes with understanding.
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I just love the way the Lord brings understanding. After your Testimy,
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maybe I didn't need to share sit down in just you know, say okay,
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she's preached the message. I don't need to go anywhere, don't need
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to say anything. Hey, understanding. What is the understanding that God is
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trying to get to us? See through your precepts. I get understanding.
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It is through God's precepts. Therefore I hate every false way. You know,
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I like the way and Ivy puts it. Of course you don't see
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that, but in my notes it is. I gain understanding from your preceps.
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Therefore I hate every wrong path. Can we hate every wrong path?
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You know? What's the thing about a wrong path? A wrong path is
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not the right path. I remember. I don't know whether I've told you
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this before, but we had to go to X Kneeli. All right,
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but I'll tell you again. It's a story worthy to be told X Kneel.
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So I put on ways, all right, but ways is not Jesus
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Christ. Ways is the wrong path. Jesus Christ is the right path.
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So I put on the wrong path and so I went, and I kept
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on driving, and suddenly the big highway became a smaller road, and then
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suddenly became a path. And I looked in the left hand and looked on
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the right hand. The grass was taller than the car. But we say
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no, no, no, you go here and then turn right. Okay.
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I went, and then suddenly I see a palm oiler stayed in front
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of me. Okay, this his turn right. So I turned right.
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And when I turned right and drove a little bit, there was a big
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cow sitting in the middle of the road. Yeah, didn't detect stumbling block?
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Yeah yeah, no I didn't. I did. I was I needed
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to get the church again. Oh, I didn't tell you that small road
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became a madpath. Okay, So this car was lying there, so he
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looked at me. I looked at it. Serious, I'm not kidding you.
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We stared at each other. Then I horned. Then the cow looked,
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gave me such a father up look, and got up and moved away.
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I traveled on. When I traveled a little bit more, the where
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sit straight road right, one big ditch in between, no bridge to cross.
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I'm serious. So I backed the car out again and I drove and
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guess who was there. The cow was right in the middle of the road.
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So I pressed the horn. The cow gave me another dirty look.
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Hey, I let you go the first time. Can you just leave me
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alone? Got up slowly, moved to the side of the road, and
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I travel And you know, I don't know how I got to church that
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day. I did, I did. We eventually got to church and her
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new red car was now brown fulled with mud. I hate every false way,
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this is what Scripture says. I hate every false way. It takes
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up your time, it spoils your day, it dirties your car. But
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if we take the right way or no problem, and we reach where we
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want to go, pack the car, go up to church, everything is
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fine. So then we ask ourself this question, So what is the right
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path? Then? What is the right path? I'm going to tell you
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something that you already know. But seriously, guys, this is what God
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wants and we had better get with the program. If you don't remember anything
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of what I'm going to share with you, remember this, which is something
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we all know. It's what God wants. Matthew twenty eight nineteen. Go
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therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
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Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe
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all things that I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you
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always, even to the end of the age. I want you to know.
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You know why the word amen is in yellow, because I wanted to
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highlight it. We have always shared this word, right, Oh Lord,
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behold, I'm with you until the end of the age. How many of
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us when we call the descriptures say amen? You know what amen's means.
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Let it be so, let it be done. In other words, what
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is Jesus saying? He's saying, I want you to share Jesus, and
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that's what I want you to do. So do it? So do it.
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Hey, when we meet the Lord one day, he is not going
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to ask us how many children we raised. He may ask did you bring
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them up in the ways of the Lord? He may ask did you disciple
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them? Oh? No, Lord, I was busy making money. I
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actually left the school to teach them. I sent them to Christian school,
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you know, so they could learn about you. Oh really, you think
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you can give God that can answer? Oh? Lord, you know I
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was very successful in my job, I became the CEO internationally. My name
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was in Who's Who. Then Jesus asks you, is your name written in
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the Lamb's Book of Life? Hey, there's only one book we need our
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names in, and that's in the Lamb's Book of Life. You know how
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we get our names written in the Lamb's Book of Life? We do what
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God wants. You know? The Bible says Jesus says for God to love
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the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in
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him should not perish, but have ever last thing. Why and well,
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we are we accepted Jesus, We called him into our hearts to be our
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Lord and savior, and we are saved. But is that the end of
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it? God wants us to do something with that salvation. He doesn't want
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us to just keep it to ourselves, because what is that? That is
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selfish nurse. If he wanted to keep it to he would not have given
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us this. If he just wanted it for us to keep it to ourselves,
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this would not have been his last statement before he went up, Hey,
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or one of his last statements before he went up. Can we have
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a mind to share? With people. On Thursday. I had this burning
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thing in my heart to see my parents. So I think it was Friday,
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Thursday or Friday last week, one of these days. No, no,
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no, it was even the public holiday, so it would be Tuesday.
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I went to see my folks. I want to see both my parents,
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and then of course they inclined and I spoke to my dad about that
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letter I wrote, because I actually found a letter again. I found a
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letter that I wrote to him eight years ago, sharing with him the love
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of Christ and putting a prayer in there that he would pray every day to
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receive, you know, and to keep his life in the Lord. Now
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they come from a traditional faith. It doesn't matter what faith you come from.
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You can even come from the Christian faith. But if you're not given
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your life over to Jesus with your own mouth, there's a question mark.
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So I shared with my father and mother and I said, guys, you
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are not getting any younger. I actually told my parents that you and I
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will live each and every day, each additional day, by the grace and
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the power and the love of God. It's a gift. So I told
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them it is my sincere desire that you be sure that when you are ready
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to leave this earth, you meet Jesus as a friend. And there's only
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one way that happens, and that's to give your life to him, to
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confess his name upon your lips, to believe that he died and he rose
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again. And I know you believe. I told him, you believe in
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God, believe also in Jesus. And I let both of them in the
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salvation prayer which they both prayed, and the fervency in which my father prayed.
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It. I was very encouraged. And then my mom said, you
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know what, I pray to Jesus every day. I thank him every day
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for the life that he has given me and for the help that is giving
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me. And I told her that's the way. Aha, aha, I
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like it. Go for it. You gotta make it that way. You
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gotta thank Jesus, you gotta acknowledge him. How many of us have loved
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once that we have not shared with It's not easy sometimes, but you know,
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with each and every time you share Jesus, it becomes easier. You
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know, it becomes easier because you're telling them something good man where they want
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to take it, or they don't want to take it. There's their business.
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If I know, I just read, I just read the best one
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time me is in a little shop in Bido. How many have you read
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that on Facebook? So it seems that you know this. You read that.
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It seems it's fantastic. So we're going to be traveling, you know,
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in about in about two months time. So I've already put this in
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the group saying, now mine is just five minutes from the NKV. Let's
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go try it. Let's go try it just before EPO. Okay, So
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that's what they say, it's the best. So somebody posted the article.
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If you like it, you take it. LA, I'm sharing something good.
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You want to receive it, you receive it, LA, you do
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want to receive it, don't receive it. So that's what it is about
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sharing. Jesus, I got something good I want to share with you.
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You want to learn about it? Great, you do want to learn about
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it? Your business. I'm not pushed and I'm not gonna fall to pieces.
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Hey, God, on the days when I fall to pieces, when
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somebody doesn't accept the Lord, he's their choice. What is my responsibility?
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My responsibility is to do what God wants. And what does God want he
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wants me to share. Doesn't it seem like that is the theme of every
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message you've been receiving of late, that all may know, that only know
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what how fantastic you are, how fantastic I am. No that all may
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know Jesus, that all may know Jesus. So it's so difficult to share,
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right, it's so difficult to share. You can go to the next
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light. Wow, so difficult to witness. Hey, you like these slides
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on? Not thank you? I was so boredered the same or PowerPoint slides.
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So I asked somebody why you're slide so nicer? So they say slide
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go. So I went to slide go and huh yeah, So I tried
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listen. Even I'm surprised at the outcome. Okay, sour, praise the
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Lord. H It's so difficult to witness, So it's easy to say,
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you got to go out it witness. I got to give you a handle.
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How do you do this? You know, it's so easy for me
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to stand here like on a soapbox and say, oh, we must do
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this, we must do without telling you how I'm wasting your time. So
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I don't want to waste your time. In Psalms one one nine thirty four
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says, give me understanding, and I shall keep your law indeed, indeed,
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as as Jean luc Picard would say, indeed, okay, I shall
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observe it with my whole heart. Hey, we're not supposed to do it
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on our on our own. You know, we were never supposed to do
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it on our own. We were never supposed to be able to manage this
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on our own. You see, we always thought that we had to do
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it right. Wrong. It's not just us. Scripture says, give me
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understanding. Who are we talking to me? Talking to God? God?
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Give me understanding? How do I share? Talk badminton? Huh? Badminton
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is gonna save somebody? Yeah? And I talked badminton and the guy understood,
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I shall keep your law. You know, how we keep God's law
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is when we understand correctly. So how we understand correctly? We ask God?
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God helped me understand. So now we begin to understand correctly and guess
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what we're able to keep his law? What is his law? What is
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he? What does he want? I want you to share? I want
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you to witness? And what does it say? I shall observe it?
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With my whole heart. You were not meant to be evangelists, because some
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are men to be evangelists, but not all of us are meant to be
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evangelists. But you know what, we are all meant to be witnesses.
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So nobody is asking us to share to a ten thousand people, Share to
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the one, share to the one. When was the last time we invited
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our neighbor to homes? Would we even think of inviting our neighbor to homes?
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Why this isn't our neighbor need to know? Jesus when we learn that
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understanding, Now every time we see a neighbor, we're looking with eyes to
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invite that person to homes. We were the most quiet people in our neighborhood.
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I think people didn't even realize who we were because we're come in,
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we go very quiet, seen and not heard. We were seen and not
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heard, but in our case, we were also not seen. But now
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things are changing. Even as I do my walks, you know, I
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see a lot of people and I say good morning, Hi, hello.
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You know, I see some old ladies walking and say how are you today?
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Then the Lord has put in my heart one lady which I see,
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she's not, so she doesn't look so healthy, and she walks really slow.
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And she told me I can barely walk one round. You've gone so
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many rounds already. So I'm waiting to talk to her. The next time
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I bump me to her, I will tell her start first with going to
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the next lamp posts and the next lamp post, and then one day I
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will tell her, why didn't you come to our homes and meet us so
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that we can pray with you? Yeah, because the worst that can ever
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happen is she will say, no, I'll live. I'll live. In
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Isaiah chapter eleven, verse two, it says the spirit of the Lord shall
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rest upon him, and the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of
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counsel and might, and the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the
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Lord. You know, when we don't witness, we are telling God we
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don't fear you. Is that frightening? He should be, because we're not
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doing the one thing that God has asked us to do. So it's no
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longer an excuse. I'm afraid, I'm shy. He's already given you the
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He's already given you the way. What's the way? The way is asking
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God for understanding. And when you ask the Lord for understanding, the Bible
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says, the spirit of the Lord will rest upon him who is the him
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that's Jesus, But that Jesus is actually whatever the Father has given to Jesus.
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Jesus says, he's given to us. So the spirit of wisdom and
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understanding, enough counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear
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of the Lord. These are the things that help us understand how to do
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what God wants us to do. So now we've prayed and we've asked the
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Lord God give us understanding. We've prayed and we've asked the Lord, help
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us to do it, help us to reach out, help us to share,
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help us to know what to say. We've asked the Lord. Right,
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then, I want to tell you this to seal it. In Proverbs
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three, verses five and six says trust in the Lord with all of your
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heart, and lean on on on your understanding in all your ways. Acknowledge
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him, and he shall make your path straight. Trust in the Lord with
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all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. Hey, the
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mystic the problem was always how we understood. Bible is saying trust in the
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Lord. And then it says, in all our in all your ways,
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acknowledge him, and he shall direct direct your paths. It says, in
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all your ways, acknowledge him, and he shall direct your Lord. I'm
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going to share to this guy, and he said, he wants to see
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you before he accepts the Lord. Lord. He doesn't have much time left,
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he doesn't have long to live. How do I get through? I
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don't know what to say. I don't know how to say. You know
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what I was doing. I was acknowledging God. Say God, you have
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the answer and you can help me. And then the Lord gave badminton.
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But the Lord didn't stop there. So this man wanted to see Jesus.
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So when I was sharing with him, I said, look around. You
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see all the people who are there who are caring for you right now.
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They are Jesus. They are doing it because they love Jesus. They're doing
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it because Jesus is in your heart. So if you want to see Jesus,
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he has been with you all along. Just look around the people who
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are caring for you. He shall direct your path. Trust in the Lord
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with all of your heart. The word heart here means the inner man,
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your mind, your will, your heart, Trust in the Lord with your
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inner man, not the outer man that fears, not the outer man that
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sees things around him, the inner man. You know, as I was
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going to that hospital, going up to share, it started to rain so
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heavily, and I was gonna get wet in my heart. I just said
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this, Lord, nothing is going to stop me if I have to get
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wet. It's all right. Umbrella don't work. That can aren my desert
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not having umbrella. By the time you open you umbrella, you already.
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So I don't like umbrellas you know, you open the car, you trime.
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By that time already you're inside the car. So you are so so
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the inner man, the mind, your will, and your heart. You
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gotta trust in God with all of this. And it says lean not on
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your own understanding. You know what is lean on? Don't support yourself with
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your understanding. You know when you're tired, and how many you would lean
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against the wall like this? How many we ever lean on the wall like
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this when you're tired. Sure, hence it helps, right, Scripture is
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saying that kind of help you don't need. You don't lean on your own
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understanding because you're understanding. We discussed earlier on maybe right, maybe wrong can
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be flawed. So when we see ourselves not hitting the mark, not getting
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the target right, we have an indication. Why is an understanding correct and
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are we leaning on the wrong way? Then the Bible says, with all
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of your heart, we have this trouble with the word all because we always
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like to reserve a little bit. Creg You always want to have a reserve.
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But God's in it. He's all in it. He's in it all
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the way. God doesn't give you half measures. He gives you full measure,
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full measures. So when you trust in the Lord, it's either all
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or not. There's no other word to describe all than the whole all.
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You know. You go to Hebrew, you go to Greek, you study
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the word all. You know what it means all. No fantastic thing I
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got to share about that. It's very clear, and it says you don't
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lean on your own understanding, but to lean is to support oneself. So
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you want to get it right. You want to see that person come to
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the Lord. You want to see your sharing make a difference. You want
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to see people get saved. You want to see your loved ones give their
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heart to the Lord. What the scripture say you have to support yourself on
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what on the Lord. Scripture also says you acknowledge the Lord. What does
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it mean by to acknowledge the Lord? It means to know acknowledge the Lord
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in all of your ways. Give glory to God. Always mention the Lord.
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Let the Lord know every step you take that song is coming to mind.
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Every step okay, every step you take is ordered by the Lord.
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Acknowledge the Lord in everything. God, I'm going it's raining, Praise the
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Lord. You want to stop the rain. I'm happy you don't want to
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stop the rain. It's not going to change the way I do things.
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I acknowledge you Lord. You're greater than the rain. You're greater than getting
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wet. You're greater than the summ of my knowledge. You're greater than because
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my knowledge will not get this person safe, but the power of your Holy
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Spirit. It's going to reach out. Remember the scription whose power power the
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Holy Spirit, and the Bible says, acknowledge the Lord in all of your
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ways, and he will make your path straight. You know what this word
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means straight. He will make your path smooth. Have you heard the statement
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smooth sailing. Ah, Sir, I don't want to get into smooth operator.
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Okay, smooth sailing. He will make your part smooth. He will
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make your path straight. And I love this one. He will make your
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path right. Yeah, that's what this word means. How many of us
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want to be on the right path. You want to be on the right
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path. Acknowledge the Lord in all of you always, and you will be
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on the right puff. Totally unrelated. Well, it seems unrelated, but
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it's related. I want to share this with you. In Acts sixteen twenty
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eight to thirteen, it says that but Poor called with a loud voice,
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saying, do yourself no harm, for we are all here. Then he
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called for a light and ran in and fell down trembling before Paul in Silas.
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And he brought them out and said, sir, what must I do
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to be saved? You know what read the story comes from paul in Silas.
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They were worshiping, They were praising the Lord. They were acknowledging the
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Lord in the prison, in the darkness, in the deep dungeons. When
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the Lord showed up, shook the prison. The chains for off, the
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doors fell off, and the prisoner, the prison keeper, the warden,
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the what is he um? Well, the man who was looking, you
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know, the guardian of the prison was about to kill himself. And Paul
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said, don't for we are all here. What did scriptures say? He
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brought them out. He called for a light, which means it was dark.
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How could the man take Paul at his word that they were all there?
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Did we ever ask ourself this question? So Paul said, don't do
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it. We're all here. Firstly, how did Paul know because it was
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dark, no like, How did the man know because it was all dark?
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It was all it was dark, it was at night, needed a
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light. How did the men know? And how did the men know?
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How to say this, sirs? What must I do to be saved?
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Hey, guys, When you and I are busy acknowledging Jesus Christ, even
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though we are in the deepest and darkest dungeons of our lives, people are
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going to recognize that we are saved and they need to be saved. And
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they are going to come and tell you, hey, can you share with
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me? How can I receive the Lord? And they will take you at
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your word because the Holy Spirit will convict their hearts. This man is telling
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the truth. I never saw this, and the Lord said, no,
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you got to see this. And the question that the Lord asked me was
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how did the man believe what Paul said because there was nothing for him to
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see. It was by faith at Paul's word, which can only come by
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the power of the Holy Spirit when we acknowledge Jesus Christ. We hope you've
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