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For I am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel | Elder Wong Kien Yiak
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You're listening to a message to go from as church. We hope this message
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will light up your team today. I just wanted to share something that's really
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close to me. It's from Romans. Chapter one was sixteen. Romans chapter
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one. We're sixteen, and we will see how the Lord would lead us.
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Romans one was sixteen. Okay, for I'm not ashamed, For I'm
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not a shame of the Gospel of Christ. For it is power of God
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to salvation and everyone who believes, for the jew first and also for the
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Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith,
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as it is written that just shall live by faith. Amen. So
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we're sixteen. Paul is encouraging us that we should not be ashamed of the
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Gospel of Christ. Sometimes we struggle with this in our daily life, in
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our daily war. We don't have a problem with this, especially in the
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midst of believers, in the midst of the crowd that share the same value.
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It is need to worship in a chest setting like this whereby similar values.
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But when you go back to work, or when you go back to
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school and stuff like that, and you find yourself alone holding onto the principles
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and values that you've been taught and you've been asked to follow. Sometimes it's
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challenging, meaning to say that, oh, should I tell people that I
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am a Christian? Not should I tell people that this is what I believe
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in? Meaning say that the times will be challenged, whereby your faith takes
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the words, it's being confronted. So pauls are asking us this morning for
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I'm not ashamed. Friends, Sometimes we the word ashamed. Sometimes we don't
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like to be associated with sometimes because of reputation or not right because a reputation,
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I don't also siaate with that. Already what we wear right now we
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can associate with the bread right, and sometimes you don't wear us the things
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because we kind of also say with the things because you don't really believe in
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it. And this morning I felt the law once a minister to all there
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is nothing wrong with the gospel. Right. Sometimes you don't also shame with
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something because we feel there's something bad. And that's why sometimes uh, we
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do not want to be related to because it's not good. But there's nothing
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wrong with the gospel. There's nothing wrong with God. So Paul saying that
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it's us right, now we have to evaluate because for I am not ashamed.
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It's not God that will say that. For God, it's a shame
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of us because of our sins, you know what I mean. So it's
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it's a separate story regards I am so ashamed of Elvin. You know last
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night she only took his wife to for this pizza place on in nothing else,
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right, God, do not say that. God say that that's there's
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nothing wrong with the Gospel. So you and I need to re look at
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our own life. You and I need to really look at our own because
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the Bible hears this. For I'm not ashamed. Friends, if today,
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if the words that you feel that you have to change your values in front
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of people, then maybe a perhaps something you have looked deeper. Because God
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was a minister to us. There must be a secret, why paulsy For
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I'm not ashamed, right, So therefore pause asking us to look within first,
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then look external. God's asking us to look into our hearts first,
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because I don't really believe in the gospel, because there's nothing wrong with the
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Gospel. There is nothing wrong with God. So our faith right now has
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to be expressed in a way through the way we believe. We will only
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express our faith to the level we believe. We will only express our faith
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to the level will we believed. If you don't believe in something, you
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will not express, you, not pursue, you not show what really matters.
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At the end of the day, when you believe that this girl is
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for you, you would sort of go out of the way, right,
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you will sort of express you. You will sort of like share and you
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want to do something extra special because you believe ma. Right. But where
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you don't believe, what happens, it's only economy rights after della right any
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words, every economy rights you say, I give you buffaith. Choose anything
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you want to think as much as you want, right, it's still buffe
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with in a way STI have to pay a price. But when you believe
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and you love someone, it will not be the economy rights. It will
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be a class economy rights, a real buffet. So so therefore let's look
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reding first, for I am not ashamed. So this morning, where are
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you at right now? Without our faith? Have we been expressing faith in
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the sense of, like we know that God's real? Right? So let
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me just try to get to some points here, all right, mark it
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the sixth verse, that it mark it the the sixth verse that the e
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for what we what we profit a man if he gains the whole world but
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loses his soul. The Bible here says what profits a man? What does
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a man gains at the end of the day he begins the whole world but
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loses his soul. So God doesn't have a problem with people gaining things.
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He doesn't have an issue people being prosperous. He's more concerned about where our
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soul is going at the end of the day, because things doesn't give us
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purpose. What you have right now, what you wear right now, how
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much you have in terms of wealth right now doesn't give us purpose and meaning
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because read direct purpose and meaning true the things that we have. But a
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lot of times, if our values and our image and our worth is determined
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by how much we have, then God wants to minister to us this morning
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because it's encouraging us that what profit will the man gain if it gains the
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whole world but loses So that's why pause asking us that the Gospel of Christ
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is so important because it helps us to understand who we are. Many times
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in our lives we pursue things. We accumulate things, but at the end
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of the day, right, we have to give it away. So when
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I guess everybody goes through the phase when we are young, we have a
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certain image a house at home supposed to look like. But as you begin
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to age, then you realize that why on earth died by this thing?
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Have you ever come there? Why on earth dies like this furniture? Man,
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if I can reverse back the time, I will not purchase the furniture
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because it's a hassard to move that. I begin to ache a bitten right
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now, I just begin to realize. I told my wife that no more
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bi funiture after a Suddle age. Yes, no more bin funiture at the
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Sudain age, because it is a has to move number one. Then if
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as as people say that, as you begin to ish after what you want
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the downsize, where are you gonna put all the stuff? You have to
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find someone to throw the stuff away. And many times the only life you
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accumulate stuff only to throw it away. How many times you accumulate take away
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to posh And I actually believe in recycling and stuff like that. First,
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but there's a culm point. There's a Suddain point where by recycling and only
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take so much. Okay, you're covered on there's so much space we accument
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you know what you buy those um like um milk powder or something. They
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have this spoon one, they have this free spoon. They always give to
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you at the plastic spoon, the measuring spoon. But okay, we'll get
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what's the over time? Your wife is luck here? Okay, how yeh
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as coming the service that you can say, okay, appreciate it more.
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But those guys measuring spoon be a cumulate because one day, one day we'll
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use it and the one day truly sometimes that will come because we have a
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lot. Every will find every reason to use in the things. Now it's
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so much up the it was, it's existent. What profit the man be
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gains the whole world? You gain the whole couple of tableware. But losers
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who you are at the end of the day. First, okay, I'm
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using tap twere, but don't don't give us meaning. You look in you're
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trying to find out where you wan't go in life. Open up your top.
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It's empty, just like sometimes our life is empty. Sorry for what
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were the man gained in exchange where it is so worse. It is for
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whoever's a shame of me and my words. Whoever it's a shame of me
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and my words, Who I would do, not what associate with me and
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my words? Who I would have full confidence with me and my words in
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this doubtous and sinful generation of him, summer Man will also be ashamed.
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And it comes to glory of your father, which it's only injuries. So
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this morning, God wants to encourage us that do not be ashamed of what
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I'm going to share with you. Do not be ashamed of associating with me.
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Because the world can give you a certain type of pleasure, but it's
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only temporary. I could give you a certain type of pleasure which is permanent.
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The world can only give you a certain type of direction and meaning.
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But I could give you away whereby is ever lasting. The world can give
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you a place whereby you will have immense wealth. But the summit is also
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right. But I finally understood their end. Because their pathway is so slippery,
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they live, they may not see it. God sees the beginning and
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the end. So Mark chapter eight was the six to It reminds us again
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that he has He doesn't have a problem with people profiting. But God has
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an issue, or rather has a challenge for people that who cannot find life
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and cannot find meaning. Is any true at day of the day, it's
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so important for you and me to understand why we are here for why what
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is our purpose here on earth? Because if there is no purpose, you
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leave for eternity. If there's no purpose, you leave for eternated me to
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say that we just leave it because you'll just consume. But there is a
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reason why there's an expiated It is because we're supposed to used before the expirate
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date. Every product that we have on shelf right now that always expirated,
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and those things is not to supposed to be admire to keep friends. We
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are not wine. You're supposed to keep whatever. I'm not sure. Someone
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give me wine before I know what to do with it. I just opened.
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I just opened just cooke the ballads. I kept it for sixty six
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eight months, then only fare cannot use again on I said, I kept
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it for a year Plasza in the fridge. So my friend said, no,
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once you open it, you have to consume it within this certain time
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frame, otherwise it would be spoiled. I said, Oh, I said
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to this small bottles for cooking. Anyway, says the separate story altogether?
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All right? Now, Daniel? Chapter three? Was it? Let's read
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chapter three? Was it okay? D chapter three? Was it? We're
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gonna read from was it? Was it? In Daniel? Chapter three?
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Was it? Sorry? I just let me look for the Book of Daniel
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in my bible. It's missing. I'm sorry, Oh, bible, lad,
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So I'm trying to press it together with cello tape. Sometimes the chapters
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I left out? Okay? Sorry? Chapter chapter three? Was it okay?
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There was a certain time the Calders came forward and accuse the Jews.
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Verse nine. They spoke and say, this is the king of that book,
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and there's a kingly forever. Your old king have made a decree that
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everyone who hears all the different instruments shall father and worship the gold image.
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Friends, there will be days in your life, in your journey of life,
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will be challenged whereby do we believe or not? You'll be challenged in
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friends, do we believe or not? I'll be ashame or not? The
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word is that, for example, in the midst of people that may not
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share the same faith as us. Do we even give thanks for the food?
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Oh, we like m God understands so verse eleven. And wherever it
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does not fold down, worship that ever cast in the midst of the burning
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fiery furnace. Whoever does not bow down, worship the image will be cast
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now to the burning fiery image. Friends, the world is after our faith
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because if we can get us to a place whereby we don't put full trust
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in the Lord, they got us. Every everything that's coming against us really
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wants to dislodge us from our faith. Really, at the end of the
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day, they want us to lose faith in God. But every Sunday you
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come in humans as of faith because we want to reinforce faith again. Because
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throughout the week, our faith gets a beating, it leaks, it gets
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challenged, it gets to a place whereby we don't believe. There's there's there's
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one time I was talking to a believer it and you know, I see
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you believe in God, but then you have Christus. No I'm not talking
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about the wife's name. Okay, you believe in God, but you have
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this. I din't realize, I said, So where is where Where is
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your Where is the faith right now? Do you trust God all the way
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for healing? Hmmm, I see where is it right now? Like for
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example, I'm not sure where there's control. We should talking about faith and
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functory. I mean, there was there was a time whereby a believerable was
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trying to balance both in his life, you know, and then then then
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I remember speakers book to him this is it. But yeah, but don't
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you think that God at the end of day would direct us to where we
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should go? Because if faith is this matter putting where your bait is supposed
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to be, then why do we need faith in God? And the end
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of the day, there is no such a selective faith. There is no
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such a selective faith. So the Bible hears this, where wouldn't bow down
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and the worship shall be cast out? Now'stual. Certain jews that you have
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set over the affairs of the problems of Babylon, all right, they do
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not serve the God, your gods and worship the gold image that you're set
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up, were setting the nebucha angry commanded, scheduled and abnego to be brought
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before the king. I want to encourage you the days are coming whereby You'll
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be challenged so much, whether do you believe or not, You'll be challenged
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so much. To you. The Word said to take a step of faith
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to believe. When I say challenge, I'm not asking us. I don't
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think they will come a day wherever you deny Christ, but you lessen what
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you believe. Do you still believe in miracles that God can still heal?
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Do you still believe whereby God can still do the miraculous at the end of
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the day. Do we believe whereby it causes to action? Whereby I know
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the Lord is leading us even though I cannot fully see it understand. Do
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we still believe, friends, that God can can still use us emisses whereby
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we don't even understand the language? Do we trust a lot? Say that
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only God Kennedy can play solitar? But if God can use me, I'm
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really because the days are coming whereby we will shrink back even more if you
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don't take a progressive entity of moving things forward. I heard the story about
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the founder of World Vision. He said a prayer in this earliest days after
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he received Christ. He just told the Lord this statement and say, Lord,
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I am not I'm not the best speaker. Lord, I'm not the
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alist preacher that a Christian. You answer what I'm playing the superstars of the
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stage. I can't saying I can't preach. I started when I speak.
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He went on to say, by Lord, if anyone of this number one
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Christian, the one that that always on the limelight, is ever saying no
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to you Lord, or say it's too far, too hard, too much
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work. If anyone of this said no to you, Lord, would you
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consider me? Not? Can you consider me? Can you consider me and
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use me? That's all he did. M Then the rest is history.
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He studied world Vision and Samaritan Purse. Friends, our faith right now needs
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to be engaged. Then Buchaneza said that if you don't bow down and worship,
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you'll be chilling the five friends. What about us? Have you Heaven?
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Have you explained the place whereby not denying Christ but not expressing that he's
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a life in our life, see none of us here. We deny Christs,
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but not to live to the fullest expression of what our faith is.
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It's almost like denying you. Really, in times whereby God asks you to
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do certain things, have you said no, Law, I can't. I've
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rather bowed out to my bed and sleep. Now, I'm not against sleep
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of friends, I have a wife who loves to sleep. One this is
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sabots alarm cloud. Yes, husband learned to sabotash alarm cloud. Seriously sleep
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as they keep telling my wife you can sleep for alternative when the time comes.
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So she has no, she has no, she has no. The
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word is reference point of time of waking time on because she's allowed to sleep
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unto someband the shelve. You know, growing up you had this right right,
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soucied food right, right, So I always tell my wife that,
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you know, you got to learn how to wake up early, like they're
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like selling them in the morning. Right, you have to learn the wake
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up in fact before service. Even better, I said, trying to beat
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the alarm clob because the so a lot of people said the first thing you
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do when you wake up is very important, right, is to make your
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bit and stuff like right, I said, No, the most important in
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life is to beat the alarm clob because you find that you can overcome.
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Sorry, this this, this is this is me encouraging my wife too.
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Sorry anyway to husband, clipplease the play but friends, but we have to
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express what we believe you really like so the So the three friends were confronted
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by King the Bok. If you don't bounder the worship me, I'll show
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you in the fire. If you don't mounther the worship me, I'll kill
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you. If you don't mounther the worship me, I'll remove everything from you.
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Sometimes in life we are so dependent on things. So I remember one
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time when Pastor Cane and Passer was doing my premutch counseling. He asked me
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and Shelly a question, what but one day if everything you don't have everything
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anymore, you have no not enough savings, you know, everything, just
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you know, I mean, there come a point in time whereby you don't
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have you Just imagine right now you don't have. We used to hold on
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to this marriage and not well you still believe in each other or will you
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start blaming each other? There was a question was asked to me. We
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used to hold on to each other, but you don't have You don't have
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the luxury of aircorn right now because of the heat that we experience an aircorn
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it's a second nature to earth. Right, that's a lot right now,
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a lot of it, like she said, has right up A lot but
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at what point if you don't have that anymore, can you still haunt to
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each other or not? For me, it's my kitchen, my pots and
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pants. I have a lot. I have to confess right now to before
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you church. I have a lot. I have things where but I wouldn't
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have ice cream maker at home. I bought it. I have to confess
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right now, the same one you see a master chef. Yes, I
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have. I have the exact same one, the one they carry upon the
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table. One why I love it. Okay, I've chinned out one ice
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cream before and it's about there. So there's one that was one time my
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wife took one my coffee thing and she left it on the stoof for too
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long. It's sort of uh, not melted, but yeah it not melted
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that it will melt that, but it got disfigured. Lout say right that
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point in time, right, I would say where the marriage is really important?
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Not seriously because I understand, Okay, you've been telling me with it,
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but it's so personal. So it's almost like God say that in one
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point, but remove everything away from you. Would you would you still hold
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on or are you just wanting the good stuff with me? From me and
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everything else. The best server cannot We're living in God, We're living in
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Christ. Are you expecting just a clear strip path without any any any jam
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having made a detour. This is what our perception of crisis, because if
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it is, then it broke up. Then chapter three it says that this
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tree really believe God. They didn't do anything well, there was no sin
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in their life. Friends, but they were brought up in front of King
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Bucaneza. If you don't bow down to this image and worship me, I
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have to throw you to the fire, because the they will come in our
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life thereby will be challenged constantly, constantly will be challenged. What would our
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response be at the end of to day? I know that. So they
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are different age group. I cannot give you practical examples, but friends in
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our in our lifestyle as well in our lifestyle. So the three three friends
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friends, there was no passer with them. There was there's mentor wasn't The
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hard leader wasn't there, the home leader wasn't there. They have they have
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a real option to actually bow down, and nobody else knows think about it,
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nobody, nobody knows what They could also come to a place where why
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this statement was always used. God understands, it's my life. And the
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day God understands give us acond chance something's in our life. Friends, you
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and I know that once you cross that line, it will go understand something
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that we regret for the rest of her life. I've known someone who actually
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of somebody's who was relating a friend of hers, who actually abouted the child,
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abouted the child, and she said, to this very day, she
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really regretted the decision. To this very day she could turn back the cloud.
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She would not have done it. The days in our life whereby we
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will have this damage. Chapter three, experience God emits in front of you.
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If you bogga and worship me right everything you can keep, everything you
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can keep. So these three friends is an example for us. He says
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that in verse sixteen. But Sha Benegal said, and answer the king,
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Oh, we have no need to answer you in this matter. For if
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there's a case, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver
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us from the burning, fiery furness, and who deliver us from your hand,
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O King, was eighteen. But if not, if not letting me
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known you, O King, that will not serve your gods, nor we
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worship the gold image that you set up. First of all, they were
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so confident that God where it's able to deliver them. Friends, we do
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not need to come to a place whereby things happened to us that we decide.
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We do not need to wait until things happened to us that we decide.
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I mean, think about falling in love our friends. You just you,
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you don't do not just standing in front of girl that the girl they
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marry me. I mean you never talked about it. You know, you
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never thought about this person. Oh she's beside you marry me. You have
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to come to a place where about your purpose in your heart right now.
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Every guy who proposed before you think about the cause, said financial planning before.
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So you just by faith. But there is a process whereby you know,
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you know this is the right girl, This is the right girl,
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This is the right girl. Not you show up the cinema a gusty beside
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you marry me. Nobody does that. Fans movie, no movie, No,
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it doesn't work. It doesn't work, It doesn't work. What I'm
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trying to say here is this that you have you and I have to propose
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inal heart even before the challenge Number one we have for us not to be
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ashamed. It's not a shame mabby when the time comes. But in our
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house right now, you resolve, you may have resolved in your heart that
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this is this is my life. Number one. Number two is that you
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need to have this confidence that our God is a God that do deliver us
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our God to God that come true for us. That's why I thought,
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I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. Friends, Christ came some of
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you may not. Christ came for us. He came to die for us.
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The gospel is about Jesus. So what he did before he died,
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it's very bothered for you and me. You and I need to remember what
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he did before before he died. His life of perfect obedience is his example.
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His life of perfect obedience. He's atoning death, and the cross of
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his death gives us meaning with them shit. His resurrection from the day gives
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us insight that God is alive, that even death could not overcome him.
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See, for we are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. Right this
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is what Christ symbolizes, his ascension to heaven and his outpouring of the Holy
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Spirit upon the church. The fool works. Some people dislike the life of
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Christ Americas and stuff that, but don't like the cltification is the suffering.
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Friends, we want the resurrection, but we do not go on to go
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through the suffering. It's hard, you know, there's no such thing in
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life. One. It is very hard. So the true friends said,
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first of all, we have decided, really that we will not bow down.
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We have already decided. Friends. You know, wait until the problem
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comes, only you decide number one. No, right, you have to
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decide right now, friends, right now. If you're a singer, you
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have to decide who and what kind of values that you want in your life
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partner, Who and what kind of values you want in your life partner?
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Don't be a spoil of the moment. Everything about her is good. And
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after that, slip us going. After that, you come and see us.
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You know what, Please, don't we have enough radio okay to copy
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with this? Seriously, what does that means? It means that we have
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enough radio rights. I mean to see that we are we are walking to
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people with the journey lao. Seriously, we have the head off tissues to
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couple us. You know, in our counseling. It's Okay, it's all
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right. If God can accept you, you can accept life. But no
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one can. There's those such as mistake one. There's it's okay, God,
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get the mistake into go on, can can But we have we have,
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we have seen Mary just in our compus, our change like why why
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you say so key on, that's why in our pigic open your eyes big
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big please, open your eyes big big please. Okay, right, I
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say, what do you like about her? Her voice is so nice,
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it's so sweet, so sweet, so nice, that said, yeah,
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what happened after your voice? Right now? So night like nagging like they're
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like like like a fly like this, you know, little mosquito sound very
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nice? What was sweet before it becomes a fly? After that? Friends,
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we cannot be selective, you cannot the word is that? Oh?
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I just like this part. I don't like the part there's one guy was
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talking to one time. I like girl she looks really good, but I
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like girls be temperman. But they can only choose one. But I like
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girlie. She's so sweet. That looks so nice, But girl be temperment
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is so adorable. How I mean, come out if you're the council.
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But what would you say, huh, married toa? So I would say
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married married toua. Girls, you see who the guys say married to Okay,
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come he here, come here all right, I got a close ready,
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I gotta go to Banda. But you cannot just cannot just say I
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love how Christ attends to litera chidren right, but I don't like the period
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whereby he has to go up to the cross and carry the cross being sped
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at. The only the only time where you're not ashamed of and you embrace
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fully. The only time you won't be ashamed of when you embrace is fully.
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So the three friends told the king, my God would deliver me such
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confidence. When you're in full confidence of who God is, you know that
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he delivered. There's those such things as they did. End. There is
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really no such thing as they did. End. I was talking the elder
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Elder Terrence is powerful of what I mean istry right now he's retired and his
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wealth of journey of life, how God brought him true from nothing to where
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he is. And he was just sharing one of the stories that he was
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involved a project he was involved within. He said, Eldre, you know
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I was asking because he was a gem of a particular school. He said
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that, you know, I wanted to ask the property agent look for me.
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He said, oh, impossible. You have money to buy it,
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then money to buy it, So he said, cannot be the self of
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God. Tell me if this is a place for me to get on,
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he at least you'll make a road for me. And so I said,
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so what do you do? I decided to call up the other company property
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department. I see what you can cool? Cool? Course I wanna So
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yeah, I just called Coco an appointment with them. I help. My
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company is safe about twenty in twenty of the of the property value, so
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I don't have to pay any aging anything. I just do directly with the
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owner. So I look at him and just say, like, well,
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such confidence, really, such confidence, Fritz. If you know that God's
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reviewed, then nothing can be against you. So far, I'm not ashamed
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of the Gospel of Christ. Or is the power on the salvation for those
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who believe, for the just shall live by faith. This is how I'm
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going to close. I'll faith in It is an expression and the other day
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it's not just about the things that you get, but our faith. Our
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faith lit an expression. At the end of the day. When we worship
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friends, we don't worship. We don't not clap because the worship is clapping.
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We clap because we know that our Lord deserves our clap. Going for
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missions, gring for missions. When was the last time we say that I
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may not understand the culture, I may not understand the food, but yet
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I want to go for missions. I may not understand the culture and the
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food. Do you know that there was a I might share this with you
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before about there's a place that the more people cloud in Buntu because the first
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thing when when they came back with two goodies or busan king, how every
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household give them? I do I do have food. I don't have thing,
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not too much, but we have moosan king. You want to eat?
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Not? So the team they went busy about five to six houses.
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They ate for one house to another house, to another house to another house.
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Mousan king they brought back to our office. Say this to Bunis.
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They say, this gives you your pastors and your food, time workers and
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stuff like that to share, to share the lift. Subsequently, after that,
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right, I remember that I seen I saw the listing the time that
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people who signed for their place or increase because you know why, it got
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nice food to eatma, So other places may not be that nice on lesser
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people want. But friends, it's not just about the benefits we can get
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off from the place. Well. Fifthness expression, so the just shall live
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by faith. Where was the last time our faith we express our faith?
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Now? I'm not asking in terms of giving friends. I'm asking in terms
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of online When was the last time we express our faith? I believe Lord,
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because to say that, oh, I cannot is to deny Christ.
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If God say that you can, but we say that we can't, that's
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denying. Every parent will look at the child, you can you can't come,
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you can swim, you can seem just diving. You can swim.
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The child will say, no, I can't. I'm afraid of water,
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afraid I would drown. I cannot finish drinking all the swimming pool water to
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save myself. I can't. But the day will say, you just jump,
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I will guide you, I would help you. That They did not
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tell the child say you watch ten hours of YouTube with how to seem and
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you survivee you do one of the things. It's very hard to learn how
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to seem on YouTube. But if you ever try before, he can use
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the pointers and stuff that. But to un learn the stroke is very hard.
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To un learn your swimming stroke, It is very hard. The Jude
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shall live by faith. Our expression of faith is not just how high we
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jumped, because the day you come, your calculations no more already our expressions
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to how loud you clap, because the day will come here by when you
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get older. Friends, it's true now and they said you cannot keep in
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tempo, the day will come here by. I'll strength with feel externally.
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But our fire insight has to grow. Our fire is that has to grow
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even louder and brighter because the Judge shall live by faith. Faith is not
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an on off switch. I turn on my faith in church. I turn
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on my faith after church, a faith if it's a life somewhereby to truly
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believe that if God is for me and I think it can be against me
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Philippines three. I think sixteen says that I can do all things through Christ,
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who strengthens me. Sometimes as a doubt, we feel in many ways
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we feel to plan for the future. A lot of things are events,
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the pressure and the stuff like that. We look to our life series of
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life pictures. We realize there's so many mistakes that were made. It's true
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we meet not very wise decision. I would a mistake, but not very
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good decision, and we're living with it right now. But at the end
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the summary of it all, do we still believe that God is able to
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use this? The summary of it all? Do you think that God can
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just use our mistake and turn around for his glory? The summary? In
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all, friends, our expression cannot just be when we are young, then
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we can be on fire when we are older than we look towards a greener
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pasture. Our expression of faith as you grow older has to be able brighter
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than we were younger. Because there's no such thing as the judge. I'll
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live by faith until twenty five years old. Come on next, PJ.
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I truly believe friends, you and I need the exercise of faith. See
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when we look at our home strengths, the same old people, the same
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faces for the past six years, no growth. I got a message.
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I'm preparing right now. I got a message I prepared right now and say
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that things that's strolled in front of my house and every day I come back,
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that'll be different, you know, different plastic bag that will fly at
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the gate at the door my git and the question to me, I just
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checking my spirits. How long would you allow that thing to be fire or
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gate and not throw away? And it was to check in my stream?
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Because how long will not allow the homes to be empty? This is like
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a formal seats formal capacity five more capacity? How long will allow XPG to
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remain with empty chairs around me? Whereby if my faith the Bible says,
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I speak to the mountis, and the mountis be moved. The welcome back
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you put out every weekend, how long we will put the same welcome back
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there and not prey all the welcome back? Say every welcome back will be
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taken. Every chair in XPG will field see our faith need the expression,
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friends, it's not just a leader's expression, but our own personal life journey.
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Say how long will we allow things to be rowed at our doorstep and
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not attend to it? Because faith is power at the end of the day,
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and power needs to be tapped. If we ever touch a life current
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before it changes you, it gives you a jot in your heart. But
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the moment we detach from the power, we lose the sensation really, and
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that's why we need to express our faith daily. The judge, I'll live
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by faith. Because we're expressing it daily, we start losing the sensation and
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once the one we touch life like that, what have we been challenged with?
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What have you been struggling with? You know that's occupying our hearts,
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our mind? That's the word. Is that robbing us from the peace.
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The God says that I'll grant you my peace, the pieces surpasses all understanding.
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I'll give you I provided for you, the Bible says. So therefore,
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don't be in a place where you're worried, but come into my joy,
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coming to my rest. For I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of right
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Christ, for there is power in it. Friends, too many Christians are
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living without power and living under friends, power doesn't mean that you have no
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problems. Pow will mean say you have strength to overcome every challenge that comes
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your way. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more information
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