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Another time that he has afforded.
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Us another day. Not just another day, but a blessed day.
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I'm going to stand on the floor. I want to
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be close to y'all. I want to be close to y'all.
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This is a continuation message. from what you've already heard. Amen.
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It's like the fact that we're revelations in the kitchen.
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In your bow. The book of 1 John. In the
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first chapter. Amen.
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Let's go to the Lord in prayer.
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Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you
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for your happiness. We thank you for being God all
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by yourself to us. We thank you for being the
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God who is. For what you may be to me,
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you may not be to someone else. And what you
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may be to them, you may not be to me.
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But you are the God who is. And we just
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thank you for being that God.
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Amen.
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Father God, we come before you humble before your throne
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of grace. We come asking that you forgive us of
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anything we have said, any words we've spoken, anything that
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we've entertained in our minds that was not like you, Father.
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We ask in the name of Jesus Christ for your forgiveness.
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We come with a repentant heart, God. We come today
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with no shape, form, or fashion, but to hear a word,
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a word that will change our lives for the goodness
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and for your glory. You bestow the righteousness upon us, God,
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because for ourselves we are not righteous, but filthy ravens.
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So we thank you, Lord, for the cross. For the
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cross caused us to be righteous before thee. The cross
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has allowed us to step into your presence. The cross
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has allowed us to speak to you individually instead of
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needing some one man's help.
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So, Lord, we thank you for it.
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This personal invitation that you've given to us because of
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the cross. We'll praise you and magnify you and glorify
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your name from now until Jesus comes again. We thank you, Lord,
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for safe travel this morning, even for those who might
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still be on the way in the name of Jesus.
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Bless everyone under the sound of my voice.
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Bless every ministry that's preaching and teaching the undocumented word
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of Jesus Christ, but not the foolishness of many.
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Stare at them and say.
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To them, God, that they may come right before you,
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before the judgment, in the name of Jesus. Truly, without
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you we are nothing, and we need you in every
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aspect of our lives. We thank you, God, for covering
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us and keeping us under your divine protection, and that
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your word that's about to go forth, use your service
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to speak to your people by the help of the
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Holy Spirit. Teach Holy Spirit this morning. Get into the
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minds of your people. I pray that the people of
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God open up their minds in this house and those
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that are listening over the airway.
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Open up your mind. Open up your heart.
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Open up your eyes and your ears to hear a
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word from God that will lead you to eternal life
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with him.
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And that this word may bless each.
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And every one of you. Enter into these temples in
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this house, Lord. Fill this room with your presence. And
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it is in Jesus' name that I pray.
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In the church, amen.
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In the book of 1 John chapter 5. I mean,
1 John 5 chapter mention
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in the book of 1 John chapter 1, verse 5.
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When you get there, say amen. And verse 5 reads
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to the people of God, who is he who overcomes
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the world? question. But who, but he who believes that
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Jesus is the Son of God. So it asks you
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a question and it answers you. It is not he
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who does, but he who believes. This is he who
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came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ. Not by
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water only, but by water and blood. And it is
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the Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is true.
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For there are three who bear record in heaven. The Father,
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the Word, and the Holy Spirit. And these three are one.
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And there are three who bear witness in earth. I'm
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reading the wrong chapter. Amen. My, y'all forgive me. I
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got in late last night from a flight coming from
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North Carolina. And when I saw that Lisa was confused,
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I said, I looked up and I said, I got
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to be doing something wrong. Amen. But we're going to
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get on the right track. That's what y'all here for.
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We are helpful one to another. But we're still in
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chapter 1 and verse 5. Amen. Chapter 1 of 1
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John and verse 5. Amen.
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All of you that are listening on the airwaves, forgive me.
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If you don't, you're going to have to deal with God.
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Verse 5 of chapter 1 of 1 John. This then
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is the message which we have heard of. Heard of him.
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This is the message that we heard of him. Him
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being who? Jesus. And he declared unto you that God
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is life. And in him is no darkness at all.
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What does that say to you? If he's in you,
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then it should be no darkness in you. If we
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say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness,
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we lie. Because to claim salvation while at the same
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time walking in darkness automatically dismisses your claim. And do
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not the truth But if we walk in the light
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and he is in the light, we have fellowship one
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with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ, his son,
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cleanses us from all sin.
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If we say that we have no.
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Sin, we deceive ourselves.
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And the truth is not enough.
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If we confess our sin, he is faithful and just
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to forgive us our sins. And to cleanse us from
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all unrighteousness. But if you don't ever confess it, you
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can't be clean. And you won't be able to see
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because you're going to stay in darkness.
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If, you notice all these ifs, right? A lot of ifs.
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It's a lot of ifs because if is a conditional word.
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Amen? Because it says if we confess our sins in
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verse 9, if we confess our sins, he's faithful and
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just to forgive us of our sins. But if we don't,
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He's also faithful in not forgiving you of your sins.
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He's faithful in that too. Because God is faithful in
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punishing sin. He can't go to the left or to
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the right. He's faithful in both. Verse 10. If we
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say that we have not sinned, we make him alive. See,
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if we say we have not sinned, then we make
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him alive because we were born in sin and shaped
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in iniquity. Are you with me? And his word is
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not in us. Because if it makes you a liar
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to say that you have not sinned, it makes him,
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that means that you make him a liar. And if
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you're making him a liar, then his word ain't in you.
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Because Jesus Christ is not a liar. The Bible said
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he's not a man that he should repent.
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Not a son of man.
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He can't lie. So let's go to chapter 2 of
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1 John, starting in verse 7.
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Are you with me?
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Here's your proof. Brethren, this is your proof. Somebody say proof. Brethren,
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I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
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commandment which you have heard from the beginning. The old
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commandment is The word which you have heard from the beginning.
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This is the old commandment. And that is of love.
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Everybody heard of love? Okay, there's your proof. Verse 8 said, again,
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a new commandment I write unto you. The commandment of
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love is both old and new. If you didn't know it.
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Which thing is true in him. Him being Christ.
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And in you.
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If we are in him.
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There's an if again. Because the darkness is past. And
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the true light now shines. He who says he is
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in the light and hates his brother is in the
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darkness even until now. He who loves his brother abides
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in the light. And there is none occasion of stumbling
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in him. Because when you walk in the light, you
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are governed. Governed by love. The love of God. The
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agape love of God. When you walk in the light,
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you are governed by the love of God.
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Which means there's nothing people can do to you to
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make you happy.
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Nothing.
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When you walk in the light.
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But when darkness overshadows your light, Oh yeah, you can
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cut up sandwich. Verse 11. But he who hates his
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brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and knows
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not where he goes because the darkness has blinded his eyes. Now,
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this is a spiritual blindness, and God has given me
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the example of spiritual blindness, and it hit me like
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a tongue twister. See, spiritual blindness is different from a
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physical blindness. That's why we wonder why folks do what
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they do in the negativity and in the foolishness of man,
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because they're blind. You know why you know they're blind?
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Because a lot of folks, once they do something, say, well,
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I do that for them, because they're blind. The spiritual
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blindness of the enemy blinds you when he comes on
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a mission to complete a purpose.
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That's what he does.
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He has a mission to complete a purpose and that
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purpose is to kill, to steal, and destroy. If he
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can get you to do what he wants you to do,
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you're blind. You're blind and you're blind. Because without the light,
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you can't see the trickery and the deceit of the enemy.
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But when you're in the light and you walk in
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the light, love causes you to see the darkness of
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the enemy that he's trying to pull you back into.
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Be a dog in there. You know, if you're in
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the dark, you're scared of the dark. You want somebody
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to be in there with you. They give you a
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little confidence. Verse 12. I write unto you, little children,
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because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
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Because of what he did on the cross. I write
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unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is
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from the beginning. This is to those who are mature
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in Christ. Mature in your Christian life. I write unto you,
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young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. This
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is talking to the believers who have now come into
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the place and living in the power of the Spirit
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of God. Have the victory over Satan.
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Constantly.
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I write unto you little children because you have known
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the Father. This also refers to the believers who haven't
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been saved very long. That's why he says little children.
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They haven't been saved very long.
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They are believers now.
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I have written unto you. That's when he was talking
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to Peter when he said feed my lambs. Then he
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said feed my sheep When he said, feed my sheep,
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he was talking about the young convert. When he said,
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feed the lamb, he was talking about the mature convert.
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When Jesus was asking, Peter, do you love me? I
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have written it to you in verse 14, Father, because
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you have known him who is from the beginning.
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I have written it to you, young men, because.
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You are strong and the word of God abides in
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you and you have overcome the wicked one. Love not
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the world, neither the things that are in the world, okay?
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So the Bible says God loves the whole world. Don't
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get it twisted. He's talking about us and them. When
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he says love not the world, he's talking about the
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system of the world.
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Love not the system of the world.
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God hates no one but the devil because he hates
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sin and the devil is sinning. When he says, God
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so loved the world, and then the scripture says, be
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not of the world, for God hates the world. It's
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not the world, people, it's the system. So this is
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why people say the Bible is contradictory. You know why
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they say that? Because they're blind and they don't understand
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the word. They're blind to what the word is really
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saying because they don't have no relationship with God. And
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when things say something contrary to what it said before,
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which is not contrary, but to them it is because
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they don't understand the language.
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Amen?
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So when God says love not the world, neither the
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things that are in the world is talking about the
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system of the world.
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Talking about the order of the system with Satan.
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Hmm. You got those Satan and we talking about love
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not the world. Satan is the head of the system
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of the world. For all that is in.
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The world, the lust of the flesh, because there's nothing
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in the world that is of God, and.
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The lust of the eye, and the pride of life,
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is not of the Father, but is.
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Of the world.
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This is the world system. And the world passeth away
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in the lust thereof. It's going to soon fade away.
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But he who does... Now, and this is the last
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part of the scripture. But if the world is going
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to fade away, guess what else is going to fade away?
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Those that are of the world.
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But he.
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Who does the will of God abide forever. This is
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the one who keeps on behaving habitually in the word
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of God doing the will of God. Not the will
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of man. Not the will of your pastor. Not the
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will of your mama and your dad. Your husband and
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your wife and your children and your car and your house.
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A lot of people do the will of their car.
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A lot of people do the will of their house.
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A whole lot of people do the will of their money.
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But the will of God is the only way to abide.
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Any other will, not even your will, don't even read
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that out, will work for you to get you in
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the kingdom of heaven.
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Only his will will do.
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Amen? You may be seated in the house of the Lord.
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In these scriptures, It's dealing with the end time. Amen?
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Because it's talking about those that are there now. It
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talks about the little children, the father.
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It's talking about the mature saints. It's talking about the
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young converts.
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Amen?
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So judgment day is coming.
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Amen? We spoke about the millennial period. We talked about
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the tribulation period. We talked about the battle of Armageddon
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in Isaiah chapter 24. Amen? This is real. We read
Isaiah 24 chapter mention
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it in the Old Testament. We read it in the
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New Testament. God is lacking nothing. And the very thing
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that captivates me should captivate you. Because the very thing
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that we were reading about in Isaiah is already happening now.
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So you can't tell me, you can never convince me
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that the Bible is not real. There's nothing you can do.
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You can say what you want to say, but you'll
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never convince me that the word of God is not true.
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So judgment day is coming.
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And after all the efforts of man to rebel against God,
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against Jesus Christ, After all that is completed, and after
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Satan's last stand against Jesus Christ, which is the battle
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of Armageddon, the judgment day. The end of the judgment day.
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You see, there are going to be two judgments. There's
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going to be a first resurrection, a first rapture, and
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there's going to be a second rapture. The second one
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ain't going to be free. As I spoke the word
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of God to you, then prove to you it was
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God's word.
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Blessed is he that goes on the throne.
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Judgment Day will come after Satan's last stand. And his
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last stand will be when he's released after a thousand
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years of being in captivity. with the obese as a
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seal over him and then he will be released after
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a thousand years and after he's released there's going to
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be a battle when he will not be able to
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deceive the nations anymore His last stand is the battle
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of Armageddon. But God spoke that he's going to put
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fire from heaven on Satan and all of those who
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have gone in with him. And it's going to be
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millions that's going to go in with him. But God's
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going to devour all of them. We ain't going to
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have to fight. You don't hear what I'm saying? That's
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the judgment day. And guess what? Every one of us
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will be there. I will be there. Everyone who ever
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lived and died from the greatest ruler that ever walked
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the earth to the most wretched piece of humanity will
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be there.
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And there the judge of.
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All creation, Jesus Christ, will set upon his great white throne.
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And when he sits on his throne, he's going to
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open up the book. That's why I keep telling y'all
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to open the book. Open the book. Don't just open
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it at church. Open it at home. Open it at work.
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Open the book because the end result, at the end
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of it all, Jesus is going to open the book.
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At the day of judgment.
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He's going to open the book. And that book is
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called the book of life. Jesus was set on his
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great white throne. And the books will be open. Listen,
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the scripture says, and the books will be open. And
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then it says, in another book, the book of life.
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So I would tend to wonder deep.
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The books?
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Huh. And then another book.
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The books? And then another book. Are y'all hearing me?
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The books?
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With an S.
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And then another book.
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Singular. The books? Somebody better help me. The books? Now
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they told us what the book was. But what's the book?
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Hmm. There's books and there's a book. The book is
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the book of life. What's the book?
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Those books are records. That's what the books are.
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They're records. See, when you know the scripture, the Bible
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says that the angels are writing down everything you say.
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Make your mind think back, don't you? Then what do
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I say?
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Because they're going to present it to God.
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Whatever you say. Yeah, you just got hung up. You
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just got through.
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Cussing him out.
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Let me write that down. What you call that woman?
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Let me write that down.
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Here it is, God.
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He said it. I didn't say that.
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Here it is right here. The angels do the work
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of God. The record they keep around. You got to
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be careful what you say to people. That's why you
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got to let that mind be in you. There was
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also in Christ Jesus. When they cursed him out, when
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they railed against him, he didn't speak nothing but what
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God told him to say.
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Records are being kept. The books.
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See, the books going to determine the book.
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You hear what I'm saying? The books are going to
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determine the book.
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Because the book is the book of life.
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And if you ain't in the book.
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You in trouble?
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Because when the book, book of life will be opened
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and you and me will face our records, we will
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have no excuse in that day of God's wrath, his
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burning wrath against all those who have rejected him.
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And whosoever was found written in the book of life.
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Was cast into the lake. Whoever was not found, rather,
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written in the book of life, was cast into the
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lake of fire. You see, hell ain't the stopping point.
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People tell me, you're going to hell. Yeah. And then
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after that, you're going to go into the lake of fire,
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which is the hell.
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Are you with me?
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What are you trying to say, preacher? You trying to
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say it's two hells? Oh yeah, that's not what I'm
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trying to say. I'm telling you there are two hells
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when you understand God's word. You know where the first
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hell is?
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The grave. But you don't want to make it to
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the second one. I don't want to make it to
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the first.
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One.
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I want to be called up. That's my prayer.
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I want to be called up. Your name is not
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in the book of life. You're going to be cast
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into the lake of fire. Are you just trying to
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scare us, preacher? Well, let me tell you what God
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said in Revelation chapter 20. Since you think I'm trying
Revelation 20 chapter mention
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to scare you, chapter 20 verse 15 says, and whosoever
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was found and whosoever was not found written in the
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book of life, compares to the record of all Unredeemed
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was cast into the lake of fire. Is that the scripture?
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Is that the scripture of Revelation 20 and 15? This
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includes every single individual who isn't redeemed beginning with Adam
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and Eve if they didn't come back to God. It's
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not talking about you who have repented. It's talking about
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you who have not repented.
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You will be cast into the lake of fire.
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Jesus Christ will separate the sheep from the goats. And
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those elect of God who have done all his will
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will be separated from the ungenerated, the rejecters of him
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and will be placed on the right hand, the sinner
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on the left.
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Where will you be Where will you be?
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There's going to be a placing of the left and
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a placing of the right. Where will you be? You
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making this stuff up, preacher? Let's go to Matthew 25.
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I'm teaching this morning. This ain't nothing you can apologize.
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This got to be, this got to marry me. Let's
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go to Matthew 25, verse 31. I'm going to read
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a part of this and jump and read the other part.
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Are you with me?
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Matthew 25 and verse 31. This is the judgment of
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the nations. This is what this represents. The judgment of
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the nations. Are y'all with me? This leaves nobody out.
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This is talking about America, Israel, Russia, Australia, Ireland, South America. Africa,
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all of the nations. This is judgment for us. When
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the Son of Man shall come in his glory and
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all the holy angels with him, he comes by himself,
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then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory,
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the second coming. And behold, and before him shall be
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gathered all nations. Before him, God, shall be gathered all
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nations and he shall separate them one from another. As
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the shepherd divides his sheep from the what? And he
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shall set the sheep on his what? And then he's
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going to say to them, when he was hungry, you
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fed him. When he was naked, you clothed him. When
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he was in prison, you vented him. And then shall
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he say in verse 41 unto them on the what?
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The goat nations. He's going to say the same thing
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to them. When I was in prison, you didn't visit me.
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When I was hungry, you didn't feed me. When I
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was naked, you didn't even call me.
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This is the ghost.
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Ghosts don't care nobody but themselves. Ghosts are selfish. Ghosts
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don't have a nerve to say.
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Who are you talking to?
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Who are you talking about? He said, barely I say
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it to you. I know you're not in verse 20.
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Chapter 25.
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Jesus.
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Yeah, Matthew.
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This is what he's going to say to him. Like
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they say in Matthew 25 and 10 in verse 12,
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when he answered and said, I know you not.
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He's not going to know you.
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But specifically speaking, even in Chapter 25 and verse 45,
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he says, then shall he answer them saying, because they're
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going to say, oh, wait a minute. They're going to say, Lord,
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when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a
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stranger or naked or sick or in prison and didn't
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minister to you?
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When did we do that, Lord?
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And verse 45 says, then shall he answer them saying,
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verily I say unto you, inasmuch as you did it,
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not to one of the least of these.
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He did it not to me.
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And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the
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righteous into everlasting eternal life. So to reject Jesus is
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to reject Jesus' children and to reject Jesus' word, which
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is his ordinance and commandment When you reject, okay, smoking ain't.
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Going to send you to hell.
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Drinking ain't going to send you to hell. Rejecting Jesus
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Christ is the only thing that's going to send you
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to hell. Don't get too happy now. Smoking and drinking
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and all of that is rejecting Jesus Christ. You see,
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Judas didn't do, if sin had a way, he didn't
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do the worst. when he turned him in for 30
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pieces of silver. Peter did the worst because Peter denied it.
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He rejected Jesus. Stabbing him in the back would not
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have gotten Judas into hell if he hadn't repented. But
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suicide did. But Peter, if he never repented of the rejection, Oh,
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he was going straight down. But see, here's the wonderful
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thing about God. Even though he denied him in his
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weak moment, God still saw greatness in him. You don't
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hear what I'm saying? Because when he got back on
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his feet, over 3,000 folks got saved. You don't hear
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what I'm saying? Don't count yourself out. That's what the
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devil wants you to do. The devil wants you to
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count yourself out. You see, because it is appointed unto
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every man once to die. But after this, it's just,
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it's appointed to every, everybody going to get out of here.
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If you get caught up, that's your once to die.
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But you don't want to die twice. That second death
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is going to be horrible. Amen? Look at the book
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of Hebrews.
Hebrews 9 chapter mention
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Chapter 9.
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Starting in verse 27. I want you to know that
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when I say that it is appointed to man once
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to die, I want you to see it. In chapter 9,
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verse 27 of Hebrews, it says, And as it is
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appointed unto men, not men, men once to die. This
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is due to the fall of all men who are
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under the sentence of death. It's appointed to them once
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to die. Because all have died spiritually. Once you gave
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your life to Christ, you all died spiritually. Amen?
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Which means once you died then, You.
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Die again, you separate yourself from God.
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But after this, the judgment. As it is appointed unto men.
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Once you die, judgment. It don't wait. This judgment don't wait.
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It's not like you commit a crime in this world
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and you had to go to court and they say, well,
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you're going to have to come back on the 10th.
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And you come back on the 10th and they say, well,
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we kind of crowded up. We ain't ready.
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Come back on the 15th.
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No, when you commit this crime of sin and you
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don't repent and Jesus comes back, judgment are when you die.
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Even in this dispensation of time, before the coming of.
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Christ, judgment. This is serious stuff.
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You see, the only way you and I, not just you,
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Me too can escape God's wrath and be counted in
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amongst the elect of God.
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Is to confess our sins to Jesus Christ.
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The only way. And it has to be heartfelt. And
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God gave us that example when he dealt with Peter
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after his fall. He said, Peter, do you love me?
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Peter said, yeah, Lord, you know I love you.
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He said, Peter, she... My converts that are mature. He said, Peter.
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I guess Peter thought it was over with. Do you
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love me? He said, Lord, you know I love you.
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He said, then feed my lamb. Feed my immature children.
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My babies. Then again he said, Peter.
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Now you know if somebody keep asking you the same question,
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you're going to get annoyed, right? Do you love me?
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Peter said, oh, Lord, you know I love you, Lord. See,
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at that point, God drew from Peter what he tries
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to draw from us. Peter was in a sense of repentance,
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and he drew true godly sorrow.
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Out of Peter for what Peter had done.
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Because he asked him three times, and Peter denied him
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three times. God is always significant with his numbers. So
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he asked him three times, do you love me, to
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remind him of what he did. And now he's saying,
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God heartedly, yes, I love you. Now he's saying, I'll
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die for you. As earlier, he said, I'll die for you.
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And when he saw Jesus being persecuted, he didn't know
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him no more.
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But now he's saying, what God has done, he's fixed now.
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I'll die for you.
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I'll do it.
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The repentance that we have to have of the confession
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of our sin, nobody can do it for you. Nobody
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can tell you how to do it. All these preachers
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calling you up to the altar call, telling you, repeat
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after me. All these preachers in these mega million churches
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calling you up to the altar to give your life
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to Christ. And then they tell you, I'm going to
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shake your hand, but sister so-and-so and brother so-and-so and
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elder so-and-so, they're going to take you in the back
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and give you instructions. Let me tell you something. If
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the word of God don't instruct you and don't break
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your heart, ain't nothing they can tell you in the back.
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God is the only one that deals with your heart.
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I don't care who take you in the back. If
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the Holy Ghost Don't come over you and break up
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that stony heart by the word of God and your confession.
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Only then is it true to God. See, a whole
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lot of people say, I'm sorry, Lord, because I got caught.
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That's not a true confession. That's a confession saying, can
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you fix it this time, Father? And God is going, yeah,
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I'll fix it for you. You ain't going to do
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nothing but do it again. You think God is fooled
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about you asking him to forgive you and think he
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don't know you gonna do it again? He know you
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gonna do it again. But he's a gracious and merciful God.
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But don't try him too long. So we must confess
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our sins to Jesus Christ and be saved and be
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baptized in the name of Jesus.
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And it's in that order.
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You must be saved and baptized in the name of Jesus.
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I didn't say be baptized in the name of the Father,
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the Son, and the Holy Ghost. So anybody in this
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house that's been baptized in the name of the Father,
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when that preacher took you down and said, I'll baptize
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you in the name of the Father, the Son, and
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the Holy Ghost, and raised you back up, you weren't
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baptized right.
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Amen, somebody?
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Well, Jesus is the one in the scripture that said it.
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You ain't listening to Jesus. Jesus said it. Be baptized
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in the name of the Father, in the name of
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the Son, and in the name of the Holy Ghost.
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What's the name?
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Jesus?
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Where in that did you say Jesus?
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In the name of Jesus? Nowhere.
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You see, it must be done God's way and in
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his will.
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And everybody that's been baptized, a whole lot of folks
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have not been baptized right. And a whole lot of
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folks ain't been baptized right now because they didn't say
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the name of Jesus because they weren't saved when they
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got baptized. You can't be baptized as a sinner and
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live for God. Baptism is an outward showing of inward happening.
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And if you're a heathen and a preacher that doesn't
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baptize you, and never counseled you before he baptized you,
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he's going to be having.
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Blood on his hands.
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And you're going to be in worse of shape than
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you was before you went down in the water. You
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think it's a cute saying or a joke when people
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say a dry devil go down and a wet demon
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come up? That's true. As funny as you may take it,
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it is the truth. It's an average one of what's happening.
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Whatever's in you when you get baptized is going to
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come out more. And if you were heathen when you
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go down, you're going to be more heathenistic when you
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come up. You have to understand baptism is a spiritual entity.
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People take the spiritual sacredness of God not serious. Marriage
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is serious entity, a sacred thing to God. Holy communion
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is a sacred thing to God. Being in the sanctuary
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is a sacred thing to God. And a lot of
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folks take his sacredness the wrong way. You think they
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can do anything in the sanctuary? They can bend down
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below the pews and talk on the phone. Because the
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preacher don't see you. But God see you. And God
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gonna hold you accountable. You sitting there eating chips in
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the sanctuary. God see you. When my child was home,
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I just said these prayers. Take her out to the
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fellowship hall.
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The sanctuary is where you meet God.
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You don't realize what God had me to realize. But
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I believe I enlightened all of you at one point
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that the sanctuary is behind the veil. It's the Holy
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of Holies. Do we prove it to you? Do we
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come in here to meet with God? Where did the
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priest go in the Holy of Holies to meet with?
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It ain't gone nowhere. The veil was ripped.
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That's why now we all come behind the veil instead
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of the priest. Let me.
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Move on.
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You got to be saved, baptized in the name of
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Jesus Christ. And then after you do all that, a
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lot of people get saved and baptized. Like being in
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the military. Boot camp, you ain't in the military. You
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get out of boot camp, you're in the military. A
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whole lot of people go crazy in boot camp. One kill,
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they commit suicide, claim that they're homosexual and all that,
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so they let them out. You claim homosexual now, they'll
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keep you in there. That's what they're doing down there.
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But in boot camp, you're not in the military. You're
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training to be in the military. So once you get saved, sanctified,
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set apart for God, baptized in the name of Jesus Christ,
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you have to go to work. That was boot camp.
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Then you made it out of Buchanan. And then you
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got to let him cleanse your heart from all unrighteousness.
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And then you will be counted among God's people in
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that day. How do your heart get cleansed? How do
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you let God cleanse your heart? If you don't know,
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that's a problem. How do you let him cleanse your heart?
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The word of God is what cleans your heart. You
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can tell folks that have been walking with God on
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a daily basis that those that only walk with him
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on Sunday. You can tell because their walk tells on them.
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You can tell those that stay in the face of
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God compared to those that are in his face for
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the walk and the need.
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You can tell.
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Let me tell you something. If you miss heaven, you
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won't be able to do a U-turn and come back.
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If you miss that exit on the highway, you can
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hit the next exit. Well, if you miss this exit,
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the next exit is hell. See, if you miss this exit,
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the next one is hell. Came with two exits. And
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when you miss this exit, they don't turn around. But
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to be cleansed, to be cleansed. That's why God said,
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let this mind be in you.
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What needs to be cleansed?
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Your mind. Your mind been using your body as an
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instrument of seeing all your life. Your mind is the
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one to tell you to smack that girl on the
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butt and your hand do what the mind say. Your
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mind is to tell you to sleep with that woman
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that you ain't married to. Your mind tells you that
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then your body gets in motion and do what your
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mind tells you to do. Your mind is to tell
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you to let your hand be sticky and be still
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and stuff. Your mind is to tell your hand to
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pull the trigger. Your mind does that. So when you
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let that mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
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your mind won't tell your hand to do that. Your
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mind won't tell your body to sleep with that woman.
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Your mind won't tell you that the system of the
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world is wrong. And because you've been with her five years,
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you have common law marriage.
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And you can sleep with her at will.
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No. Jesus Christ will tell your mind, you must be
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married because the bedroom is undefiled if you marry. Listen,
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the bedroom, if you marry, the bedroom is undefiled.
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I said if you, but you said if again. If
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you're not married, your bedroom is defiled. Somebody help me.
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Oh yeah.
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Your mind told you you're a man and you love
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another man. Your mind told you you was a woman
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and you loved another woman. Your sinful mind. That's why
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you got to let the mind of Christ be in you.
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So your eyes can see and you don't walk in darkness.
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You were another.
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Man, man, because you were in darkness. God ain't told
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you that. Well, I love him and God know I
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love him. Yeah, love him all you want. You're going
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to love him and you all the way to hell.
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And God going to keep loving you too. But he's
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not going to love your sin. He's going to keep
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loving you, but not your sin. See, that's the agape
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love of God. That's why people can't figure that out.
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When I say people, I mean the people of God.
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The world don't know it no way. They have a
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filial love. But God's people are supposed to have agape love.
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And the agape love of God is a no matter
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what love. You understand what I'm saying. That's why the
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scripture was talking about how can you say you love
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me and don't love your brother? He said if you
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say that there's no sin in you, that makes you
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a liar. If you say you hate your brother and
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love me, that makes you a liar.
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Why?
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Because you're walking in darkness. And the Bible just told you,
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Jesus said there ain't no darkness in me. None. As
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a matter of fact, Jesus looked Satan in the face.
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In the scripture, he said he looked him in the
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face and said, there is none of you in me.
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Can we say that? Should we be able to say that?
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We should be able to say the same thing. Because why?
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When Jesus abides in you, you got a new mind.
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When you got a new mind, you got your cleanse.
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Your heart is cleansed. You see, when we speak of
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having the right heart, we ain't talking about this thing
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to pump blood in your body. This your heart. This
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what God talking about. He ain't talking about his organ.
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He's talking about your mind. Which is spirit. This your heart.
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This your heart. This is what evil or what's not evil.
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What's evil or what's righteous. Because your mind told you
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to pull the trigger. That's evil. Your hand didn't tell
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you to pull the trigger. Your legs didn't tell you.
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Your beating blood pushing heart didn't tell you. Your mind
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told you to do that. Be with him.
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So you got to let him cleanse your heart from all,
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not some, some people just want to hang on to
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some stuff. You got to let him cleanse you of
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all unrighteousness. Well, I just stole a little piece of
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bubble gum. That's a sin. I told you sin don't
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have no weight. To man, sin has a weight. You
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steal a piece of bubble gum, put you on the hand,
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until you pay that 25 cents. Murder somebody, you go
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into court, you go into jail, you go into prison.
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Steal a piece of bubble gum, this is the God.
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That was the man. This is the God. Steal a
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piece of bubble gum? Don't repent.
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Kill somebody?
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Don't repent. Go into hell. Steal a piece of bubble gum?
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Don't repent.
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Go into hell. Murder a person? Go into hell. There's
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no weight on sin with God. It's always the same.
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Man is the one that confuses you and tells you, Well,
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that's just a little sin. No such thing as a
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little sin to God. They all be to God. It's
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just a little white lie. Ain't no lie white. I'm black.
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It's dark.
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You got to let him cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
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Then you'll be able to be counted among people. The
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people of God in that day, what day? The day
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the books are open. Because God, you see, here's the
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wonderful thing about God. And this is the misunderstood also
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thing about God. God does not want any one of
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us to be left behind.
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He wants everybody to be saved.
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And that's why people go around saying he's a loving God,
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trusting God. He's a loyal God. He really loves me.
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God would not send me to hell.
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Guess what?
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That's true.
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God would not send anybody to hell. He said it's
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not his will that any should perish. You go to
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hell because you want to. You choose hell, not God.
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You choose hell yourself because it's not his will. It's
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God's will that everybody be saved. But God is wise
-
enough to know that everybody's not going to be saved.
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They're not.
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We just read in the scriptures in Sunday school, millions
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will die and go to heaven. The scripture says so.
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But God don't want anybody to be lost.
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That don't mean there's not going to be people in
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front of you lost. See, we have our own choice
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whether we serve God or Satan.
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It's our choice.
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And you can't serve both of them, by the way.
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You can't have it both ways. Now, that cake and
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eat it too thing, I ain't never understood it because
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if I want to have some cake, you better believe.
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I'm going to eat it.
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You can't have your cake and eat it too. That's
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just stupid wisdom of man. If you give me a
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piece of cake, I'm throwing down on it. But you
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can't have God and Satan. You either have one or
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the other. And you're going to have one or the other.
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Whether you realize it or not, you're going to have
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one or the other. I can walk up to people
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claiming they're Satan, acting like a heathen. acting like they're
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damned to hell. You say, man, yeah, I'm saved. You're
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serving the devil. I ain't serving no devil. Well, you
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ain't saved. If you ain't saved, you're serving the devil.
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People will never confess that they're serving the devil because
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it don't sound good to them. But they are literally
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serving the devil. If you're not serving God, notice, put
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yourself on notice. The word serving is important. I didn't
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say just be saved, be baptized, sanctified, set apart for God.
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How do you set apart for God and don't serve him?
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He set you apart for his service. If you set
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apart from God, you're going to do God's will. You
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got people on the TV, famous people, one of them,
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always talk about he under construction. I'm under construction. You
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ain't under construction. You ain't even escalated the ground. You
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ain't broke ground for a foundation yet. You're a purebred heathen, man.
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On TV. You fooling.
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See, the thing with that, like Oprah Winfrey coming, I
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know the Lord.
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If you want to know the Lord. You don't know
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the Lord, Oprah.
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You're a heathen.
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You're going to bust hell wide open if you don't repent.
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None of them folks.
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Kirk Franklin dancing his, jerking and dancing and backing it
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up to the devil. Because he's a heathen. He's a sinner.
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Creflo Dollar, T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, they're going to bust
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hell wide.
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Open if they don't repent.
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Kenneth Copeland, Jesse Duplantis, Joyce Meyer, all of them And
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I hope many one of your famous ones that you
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love and follow, they're going to hell if they don't repent.
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They've robbed God's people for decades. They've lied to God's
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people for decades. They've preached prosperity to God's people for decades.
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God ain't never told us to preach prosperity. The only
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prosperity God ever told us to preach is behold it!
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Live right.
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The only prosperity he said, I hope that you probably
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let your soul prosper. The only prosperity God ever sold
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us is the book of Philippians 4.19. God said, I
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shall supply. He shall supply. He didn't tell you to
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go after this stuff like these preachers told you. Send
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me a thousand dollars. Why didn't he send you a
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thousand dollars for?
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And you will be blessed.
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Come on, write a blessing. I woke up this morning.
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That's a blessing. People have blessings messed up. The only
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folks that's being blessed in these multi-million dollar ministries is
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those preachers. You ever follow them?
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I follow them.
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I don't mean I follow them in their wording. I
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follow them in their lifestyle. They live in 10, 5, 7,
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12 million dollar mansions. You better know that there are
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people in that congregation struggling and they ain't trying to
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help none of them. A brother of mine wrote to
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Kenneth Copeland The prosperity leader of the prosperity preacher said,
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I need some shoes for my kids. He said, hey, look, look,
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when you preach the prosperity, there's no I can't do
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in that. How you gonna say I can't do when
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you have faith? You got a long time, this is
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a true story. A brother of mine wrote to him saying,
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I need shoes for my kids.
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He was in the penitentiary.
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He got a letter back saying, we're not able to
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do that.
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And then one of his.
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Representatives came to the prison trying to make excuses for him.
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You see, he got a lot of people in his
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administration and they wrote that. Whatever they wrote, he's responsible
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for it. That don't fly with me. I don't care
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if it's great-great-grandmother wrote it. If she's in his congregation
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on his administration, he's going to be held responsible. Preaching
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all his faith. You got two jets, Doc. You can't
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afford five pairs of shoes? You got a compound that
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they investigated. You said it was for the people of God,
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but it was for you. You live in a multi-million
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dollar house. You're almost a billionaire out of all the
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prosperity preachers. You can't buy five pairs of shoes? Those
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folks are going to bust hell wide open. And if
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you follow them in their will, so are you.
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Because you ain't no different than the fallen angels. They
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followed Satan right out of heaven. And they chained up
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in hell. It's the same thing. This thing ain't changed.
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Sin didn't start on earth. Sin started in heaven.
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Not in heaven. Yes, it did. The first rebellion against
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God was not Adam.
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It was Satan. And he did it in heaven.
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Lucifer rebelled against God in heaven. How could he be
-
kicked out if he wasn't in? Adam did not commit
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the first sin against God. Lucifer did. And then Adam,
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because he listened to Lucifer, who was now called at
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that time, Satan. And he had followers. And all of
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these preachers, he had followers. I don't follow them. I
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don't even give in to them. I don't watch nothing
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that Tyler Perry produces. Because he's a heathen, a homosexual.
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I don't watch those shows. You see, the Bible said
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don't strengthen the hand of the enemy. I take that literally.
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I don't even try to watch nothing that he produces.
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No shows, no plays, no nothing. The Bible said don't
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strengthen the hand of the enemy. He's saying he's saved.
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He's saying he knows Jesus. I say he knows Jesus,
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but I say he don't follow him. So I say
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he ain't saved. Let me get to my conclusion. This
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excites me.
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I have to draw this and draft it. Because the
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word of God will either draw you or drag you.
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So this is important. Hell is no laughing place.
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So all the lies of people telling you the devil's
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in the hell waiting to torment you.
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That's a lie.
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Hell is not a vacation spot. You can't hang out
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in hell. So the devil ain't down in hell hanging
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out waiting on you. Because when the devil go to hell,
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he's going to win the same time you're going. And
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he's going to be tormented too. How are you going
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to torment somebody and you being tormented?
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You ain't got no time.
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He's going to be tormented just like everybody else.
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He don't get no free back.
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Either you serve the God or Satan. And you can't
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serve both, God and Satan.
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You can't do it. You can't do it at the
-
same time. First of all, you're going to be confused.
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And once you get confused, you're probably going to never
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serve God.
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See, when you get confused, you're.
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Going to turn yourself into a person that God's going
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to have to give you over to a debased mind.
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Because then you get a debased mind because now you
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can't believe the truth. You've been believing your lies so
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long your lies.
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Are true to you.
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So God's going to give you over to your lies.
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And that's all you're going.
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To be able to believe. Can you come back?
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No.
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See, God is unchanging.
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Once he speaks a thing, it's a done deal. So
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once he gives you over to a debased mind because
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you want to keep believing your own.
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Lies, you're done for.
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A whole lot of these preachers have a debased mind.
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It's on TV. They really believe. They've been doing that
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so long they believe in it. They even have gone
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farther than they want to go. They don't know they have,
-
but they have. They even announced it. He believes in homosexuality.
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You can't tell him you done gone too far now.
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DJ's believes in it. That's because he is a homosexual.
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He believes in it.
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He said that he ain't got no.
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Problem with it.
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He said that the homosexuals should have their own church
-
to go to. He said that on national TV.
-
You see, I follow their lifestyle.
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I follow their lifestyle.
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You got to know your enemy. Because why?
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You can't expose your enemy if you don't know him.
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The Lord said expose them. It pays to serve God.
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But if you choose to go with the world and rebel.
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With the world in the thing of the world you
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will land in the devil's head.
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But if you serve God, you will inherit not only
-
eternal life, but a life with Jesus Christ and the
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angels in heaven also. So which will you serve? This
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is a question for you to answer. Nobody can answer
-
that question but you. Nobody can answer where will you
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be when he calls all the nations together Setting the.
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Goats on the left and the sheep on the right.
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Where will you be? On the left or on the right?
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Only you can answer that. Who will you serve?
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Only you.
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I can tell you who to serve. But it's still
-
your choice to make. God told you which way to go.
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But then he said it's still your.
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Choice to make.
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And then he also, see, God is so wonderful. He
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even tell you what to choose. But it's still up
-
to you to choose. He said, I set before you
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life and death. That's what he said in the book
-
of Deuteronomy. I set before you life and death. You choose.
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That's what he said. But choose life. Told you what
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to choose from. Then told you what to choose. But
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it left it up to you to choose. But for me,
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I'm like Joshua. I'm going to serve my Lord and
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Savior Jesus Christ. But for me, I can't choose for
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my wife or my kids.
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But for me, I.
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Ain't be holding their hand when Jesus comes.
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They ain't going to be holding mine.
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You're going to be on your own.
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They're going to be your own choice you make. But
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for me, I choose my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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In case you didn't hear me, for me, I choose
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my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Charles William Tompkins chooses
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my Lord and Jesus Christ. I said my, because it's personal.
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My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And I conclude, Jesus,
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the Lord. I stand at the door and I'm not.
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This is Jesus.
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Said, I behold, I stand at the door and I knock.
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And if any man hear my.
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Voice and open the door, I will come in to
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him and will sought with him and he with me.
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This is God's word. For God so loved the world.
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There it is.
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I know where that comes from. Everybody know that scripture.
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John 3, 16. Come on now. For God so loved
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the world that he, because he so loved the world,
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he gave. Because he loved the world, he gave. Because
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he so loved the world, he went into action and
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he gave his only begotten son. See, we are the
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grafted in. We are the grafted in of God. We
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are the adopted of God But Jesus was the begotten
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of God.
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And he gave him his only begotten son. And he
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used Abraham to.
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Symbolize that with his only begotten saved son.
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But he.
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Should be able to slave son. altar but God had
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a ram in the bush. He was just showing you.
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You love me enough to give up your son? Because
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I love you enough to give up mine. So he
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gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him
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should not perish but have everlasting life. He gave and
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if that don't mean nothing to you then don't serve him.
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But if it means something to you serve him completely
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Not just serving, but completely. See, God is not a
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half God. He wants you all. He wants all of you,
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or none of you. And whatever little thing you're doing
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that you don't think God is aware of, or even
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if you believe he's aware of, and you think it's
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okay to do, because God understands. See, that's where you
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miss it. God does understand. He does. All those folks
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running around talking about, well, God knows my heart. You
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don't cut the person out talking about, well, God knows
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my heart.
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Yeah, he knows your heart. He knows it's wicked. He
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knows your heart is wicked.
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And the little damn little things that you do that.
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You think are simple, you're wicked.
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Actions. A whole lot of saved folks think that they
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can do their own will outside of God's will. But
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you can't. It's all of his will and none of
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his will. That's just who God is. He won't apologize
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for it and neither will I. I question the very
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things that I do. Because I got to make sure. See,
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you got to be sure. See, when you miss that exit,
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ain't no turning back. So you got to be sure.
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You got to be like Paul. Paul said, I'm fully persuaded.
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I'm fully. And Paul, he left a trail that if
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you follow, because he was following Jesus, because it's a
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Jesus trail, you can't lose.
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He left a trail.
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He even let you know, don't feel ashamed because of what.
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You used to do. I said used to do, not
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do no more. He said, don't.
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And the reason why I say you used to do
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it is because people will tell you what you used
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to do.
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Oh, yeah, they did. I had somebody tell me that
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when I was out of town. You know, you used to.
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I said, hold on.
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Throw my past over my face.
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It's my past. My past.
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It don't mean nothing. What I'm doing now will matter.
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Not my past. Past always. That's why I call it past.
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It's over with.
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Can't bring it back. Can't do nothing with it. Ain't
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nothing you can do with it. Because if you could,
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then you can do something with time.
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Once the time is.
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Gone, it's gone.
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You can't get it back. You get more money, can't
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get more time. Once it's gone, it's gone. Amen?
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So it's coming, people.
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And you don't know when. But it is coming.
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And sometimes It looks like it takes so long. It's
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because we live in time. God lives in eternity.
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That's different.
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Everything has already happened to God. Everything is still happening
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to us. We live in time. But we don't know
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what time it will be. But that time will come.
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And we all are going to face two appointments. Death
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and judgment. So the question is, how will you face it?
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For me, my hope and my prayer in the Lord
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Jesus Christ, I'll face it.
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It is not my plan. Ever.
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And it'll never be my plan to hear the part
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from you. No, that's not for me.
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Come on in. That good and faithful servant.
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Well done. Now you got to understand something. Don't be confused.
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We trip and we stumble through life. But as long
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as we understand our wrong and don't get stubborn minded
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and selfish and repent of our wrong. Even if people
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Even if Lisa walked up to me and said, Pastor,
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I didn't like what you said.
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It offended me.
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And I know within my heart, the totalness of my heart,
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I didn't say that to offend her. But yet I
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have to repent. And she believes I wronged her. And
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I did.
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Even if I know I didn't.
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Are you with me?
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That's a God-made love.
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So what am I supposed to say? Forgive me, sister Lisa.
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Forgive me, sister. Forgive me, brother James. That's my job.
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That's my side. That's what I'm supposed to do. That's
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my part. I've told you about parts. It's not everybody's part.
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It's my part. Amen? So whatever you do, be watchful
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of your own soul because The devil's after you. There
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ain't nothing he can do to you. And don't believe
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because you get saved, sanctified, holy, go to you with
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a mighty burden of pride. Go into service every Sunday,
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every Wednesday or Tuesday.
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Go into all these revivals.
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This is going to guarantee you a part of heaven.
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A holy life guarantees you a part of heaven. Amen?
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Give God a hand. It is my prayer that the
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Lord use me to speak something to your heart that
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will resonate in your heart. And you can have fun
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in this life. You know, I had a person walk
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up to me because he knew I was saved.
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He loved God.
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He said, you got to be, you must live a
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boring life. That's what he told me. That's what he
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told me because I serve God. He believed because I
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serve God, I can't do nothing. I said, brother, you
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are self-sufficient. I'm having the time of my life now.
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You said it was this. I'm happy, full of joy,
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full of peace. In the midst of a storm, I'm
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still cheesing from ear to ear. When you suffer in misery.
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So don't let nobody convince you because you're serving God.
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You can't do that. We can do anything we want
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to do to serve God.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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They just tell you you couldn't watch TV or television.
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You just got to know how to get the hell
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out of the division. They just tell you you couldn't
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wear certain clothes. You just got to wear your clothes
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and be modest and powerful. That's what the Bible says.
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They say you can't go to certain places. I can
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go to the club if I want to. But see,
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when I go in the club, I ain't going for
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the club.
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I'm going in there looking for souls.
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You don't hear what I'm saying. If you can't do that,
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you don't even go in the club when you find
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yourself on the dance floor.
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He's twerking.
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Earl Flynn and twerking and everything. Because you ain't strong
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enough to go in no club. I ain't going to club.
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But I'll only go if God sent me. Amen?
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I ain't going to liquor store.
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Because I ain't never been a drinker. I ain't going
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to crack house because I ain't never been a doper.
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As a matter of fact, I used to teach AA.
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I used to teach alcoholic anomalies, and I used to
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teach drug anomalies.
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I used to teach them.
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And I always get that student in the class who
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think he knows something. How you going to teach us about,
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you've been an alcoholic? I say, I ain't never been
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an alcoholic. He says, how you going to tell us
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where we've been if you ain't been there? I say,
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I ain't got to go with you. I was smart
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enough not to go, but I can tell you why
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you went. How about that? And I can tell you
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how to get out. And I told him, I said,
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sit down and you'll learn something.
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I taught any.
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I said the same thing. You ain't never been on drugs.
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How are you going to tell us about being on drugs?
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Trust me, brother, I can tell you about being on drugs.
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So sit down. And the guy came up to me
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after the end of class and said, man, how did
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you know all this? I said, I told you, sit
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down and you'll learn something. But let me tell you
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what you learn. You see, I'm a man of God.
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And the Bible tells me that I ought to be
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able to teach A-L-L things. Here we go. A-L-L things.
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All things. Why? Because the Holy Ghost knows all things.
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And he can teach it to me because he is
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the teacher. And when I got through in that class,
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they're all, especially the one that Asked a question. Was
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a man. Because he's the one that came up to
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the front of the class and said, how did you
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know all that if you ain't never been on, if
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you ain't never.
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Been at the hospital?
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I said, man, the Holy Ghost will kick you off.
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I told you. Amen?
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Let us stand.
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I know I was kind of lengthy today, but I
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just knew in my spirit that this is, this is
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really detrimental to our life.
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It really is detrimental.
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We have to look at our own lives. It's not
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that you can't have fun in life. You can have
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fun in life. As a matter of fact, when you
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get saved, you really are having fun in life. Amen.
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So there are things we can do. I mean, if
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you ain't married, you can fellowship with a guy. You
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just got to keep it holy. I said fellowship. Ain't
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no boyfriends and girlfriends. It ain't in the Bible. All
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the Bible talk about is a fiancee.
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That's what Mary was to Joseph.
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She was a spouse to him.
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So she was his fiance.
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And God called her his wife and him her husband
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before they ever said anything. See, I'm telling you the
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will of God. The will of God is not a
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boy or a girl. It's either a fiance or a
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dead man. Amen.
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God's will.
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I can drink a little wine for stomach's sake. That
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ain't God's will. You can't drink a little wine. You
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can't drink a little nothing. Water, juice, apple salt, apple cider.
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You see, the Bible says wine is a mockery. It says,
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spin you around the world, you're going to get stinking.
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You know what that means? That means once you drink
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the wine, after a while, then you get your bug.
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That's where it says it's sneaky like a snake. That's
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the snake part, when the bugs come from drinking. That's
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what the Bible says. Because if you could drink, then
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why did God say present your bodies holy and acceptable
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in Him? Your body ain't holy with alcohol in it.
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Your body ain't holy fornicating.
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Your body ain't holy smoking and drinking. Your body ain't
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holy cursing, using profanity rather.
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That ain't holy.
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You can't present that to God. My cousin walked up
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to me and I'm done. He says to me, What
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do you think about gospel rap? I said, I'll tell
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you what I think about it. It's not gospel rap.
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I said, you got to think about this, son. When
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you said now rapping, do you think God accepts that?
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A holy God accepts that?
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Come on now.
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He only accepts worship. You think rapping to God is worship?
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Rapping don't put you in a worship mode.
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You want to boogaloo. It's no gospel rap.
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It's just worldly rap. But you can keep it clean
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because music is not demonic to God as long as
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it's not demonic.
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I mean, some people may say that because of the
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Holy Roll.
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I've been listening to music for my life. Teddy P.
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With my wife.
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Now there ain't going to be nowhere else I'm going
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to turn out the light. Because the flesh ain't nothing
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to play with. You know what I'm saying? You ain't saving.
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You think you can control your flesh? The devil has
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deceived you.
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I tried that a lot of times, but I wouldn't save.
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Didn't work out.
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I was hula hooping out the wire.
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That's when the brawl was getting around your ankle. Oh yeah.
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Said I can teach y'all things. That's one of.
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Them.
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At least, oh no, Pastor.
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But that's what it is.
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Before you know it, that flesh will have your hoo-hoo.
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And then you'll be looking up at it, looking broken,
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looking crazy, going, what happened? Folks say they love the
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Lord and they ain't even send somebody your way.
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Don't open the door. Tell them it's too late. Don't
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bring somebody with you. We can have a witness. We
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can have a witness. Into a more.
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Amen. Amen.
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Let us pray. Father we thank you Lord for your word.
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Your word will lead us in the right direction. It
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will not fail. And it will not come back void
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to you. It will go forth and do what you
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cause it to do Lord. Because you have declared that
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you watch over your word. To do what you tell
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it to do. It shall not fail you. Nor will
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it fill up. You change not God. You compromise not.
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What you say. You have said. And you mean it.
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It's up to us. To take it. The way you
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meant for us to take it. And we need the
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Holy Spirit. To break it down to us. That we'll
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be doing your will. According to your will. Not according
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to what we think it is. Not according to what
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we suspect it may be. Not making assumptions or having
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our own opinion.
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But what your.
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Will is designed for and what it is to us
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to do.
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And to know it.
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And to know that we know, that we know, that
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we know that we're in our standing with you. That's
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what we want to know. And we can only know
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that by the help of the Holy Spirit. So we
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beseech you therefore, Father, in the name of Jesus Christ.
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that you continue to impart your holy word, your holy
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direction in the name of Jesus. In this dying world,
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we need your strength in these last and evil, demonic
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and wicked times.
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Help us to stand on your word. Don't let us
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lose faith, God.
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Don't let us fall short. But God, if we happen
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to stumble, let us weevil and wobble, but don't let
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us fall down. Hold us up, God, with your mighty hand.
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We don't want to be lost. We want to do
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your will.
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That one day, the day that you have appointed, we'll
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all hear, well done, good and faithful in the name
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of Jesus. Lord, I speak to you in supplication to
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those that stand in Jesus' You know we all need it.
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I'm asking you to tell us that situation. Whatever it
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may be, God, you know, they know, and I know.
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I know what mine is and they know what theirs is.
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We all know what we need of from you. So
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help us, Lord, whatever the need is. We need help
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in our mind. We need help in our body. Healing.
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Healing in our mind. Healing, God, in our relationship. Healing
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in our family. Healing in our family. Whatever we need, God,
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you know what it is individually and collectively. So I'm
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asking you right now in your service, in the name
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of Jesus Christ, by the help of the Lord.
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Do it now.
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Make haste. For we know not the day is come.
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So make haste, God, and do it now. This is
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my prayer for you, for the people, God, and for
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my children.
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And I know, God, that you heard me.
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And I thank you, Jesus, that you always hear me
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when I pray. In your name, in the whole church,
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thank God.