4WoTW 3: Waging War with Wonder (The Expulsive Power of a Supernatural Joy in Christ)

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Of God, it is at a certain levelthat it will make you drunk it
it's wet, but it must hit a certain dimension before you can
get drunk. Those who will be drunk and he
says fill it to the brain. It means that you are figured

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out and you are filled with the word.
You can't experience the transition.
But we choose your word over every medical report.
But we choose your word over good accounts.
But we choose your word over thesuggestions of men.
May we always give your word the1st place.
Zuri AKA meke zika rande makumbaSE calamande.

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Blessed is the man that loveth the Lord and prices and prices
above all things. His wealth, his seeds shall be
great in the earth. Makuri kasara Mandela besoda
bada. May our propheting be visible to
all. Eternal Father, we are grateful

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to you once again for the great opportunity that you always give
us. Two thoughts to be known,
nourished and to be fed by your words.
Lord, tonight we've come again, hungry to know you, and we know
we shall be filled, flattered inJesus name.

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Every heart will be attentive, every heart will be receptive,
every mind will be attentive. We come against destructions.
Thank you. Thank you for always loving us,
that you teach us. We don't take it lightly.
We thank you in Jesus name and everyone said Amen, Hallelujah.

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Are you ready? Are you being blessed by the the
teachings on Lester Joys? OK, Amen.
Let me give you a scenario. Maybe I'll start with a

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scenario. You came home from work one
afternoon after an exhausting day.
Nothing remarkable. Just another Tuesday or another
Wednesday. You walk into your backyard and
check on a small patch of land that has always been there.
Like a small mound that has always been behind your window

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or something. It seemed pointless but it just
felt like ah, let me just clear my backyard.
So while clearing your backyard,you hit something hard,
metallic. You clear the depths and then it
is a chest full of gold coins, old and gleaming with like

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millions staring in your face. I'm sure in that moment, your
heart to be racing, plans to flood your mind.
Dreams will be unlocked, your security is achieved.
You follow your knees, trembling, speechless and done

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by the sheer weight of what you found that night when you sleep.
You'll just be rolling in your bed and marvelling, marvelling.
How many of you think that the quality of your life would

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change at that discovery? How many of you think that don't
be too spiritual because you areyou are actually not very
spiritual. So how many of you found gold
coins you think your life would change or maybe not even gold
coins. Some of you 1000 Ghana is an
answer to your most of your problems.

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I've thought you too well, how many of you will be very amazed
like wow, I found gold in my backyard and the mound has been
there all along. So the wonder of such a treasure
in your backyard makes you go like, hey, you start, you drive

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the best car, you start the the business you've been believing
God for. What are some of the other
things you do? You won't go to work again.
You dig the house. Someone said she'll dig the
house. Perhaps there are more gold

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coins, but I think the quality of your life will change
significantly, significantly. Is it true?
So keep that scenario in mind because we're going to come back
to it when we are closing. But when you read the Bible, you

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realise that there are too many images connected to the
Christian life. I'm sure if I pass the
microphone round, everybody would have something to mention
that. What are some of the images of
metaphors that you find? Why are you laughing?
I mean, who laughed? Crystal, you laughed.
Patrick laughed. So Patrick, give us one of the
images you find in the Bible or the metaphors.

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OK, let me let me start. Let me give one.
So the Christian life is likenedto a journey.
It's likened to a journey, like what the Bible says concerning
Abraham in Hebrews Chapter 11, that he was Hebrews 11.
Can you see? It was Hebrew Chapter 11 verse
18, Hebrew Chapter 11 verse 18. These all died in faith, not

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having received the promises, but having seen them afar off.
They were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that
they were strangers and pilgrimson the earth.
So you've been singing. This world is not my home.
I'm just a passing through. My treasures are laid off
somewhere beyond. The blue Savior becomes me from

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heaven's open doors. So we are passing through this
earth. Maybe you don't like this
royalism, our home. I know one that you like.
You relate well with that one. Amen.

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So the Christian journey, the Christian life is like a journey
we are passing through this earth.
It's also like we are liking to a building or a temple.
All these are just metaphors like a building and a temple.
Bible tells us in First Corinthians that we, you know,

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First Corinthians, our three verse 9, that ye are the Lord's
guarding ye. He says, for we are laborers
together with God. Ye are God's husbandry.
The word husbandry is garden. So we are God's garden.
It's a metaphor. We are God's garden and we are
God's building. So you can see another one here.
We have garden. We are the garden of the Lord

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and we are the building of the Lord.
Do you like what I'm, I'm showing you?
Then there's another one, like it was likened to marriage or
like we are the bride. So it's a metaphor.
So Ephesians chapter 5, the verse #25 husbands love your
wives, even as Christ also love the church and gave himself for

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it. So the church is described as a
bride. Then verse 26 says that he might
sanctify and cleanse it with thewashing of water by the Word.
Then also slavery and freedom like we see in Romans chapter 6,
verse 18 or Galatians chapter 5 is 1.

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Bible says that we should stand therefore in the liberty where
we're in. Christ has set us free and we
should not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
And Romans 813 also tells us that being made free from sin,
we have become servants of righteousness.
So all these, there are many, I can go on.

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We are like apprentices. We are.
I mean, a number of them. All these metaphors are to help
us to understand and appreciate what the Christian life is
supposed to look like. Are you, are you, are you here?
What is a metaphor? It's OK.

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It's OK. You don't.
You don't want to know. It's you don't.
You don't remember. I understand Mr. Intim didn't do
a good work. That's OK.
Also, Vine and branches. John 15.
How many of you remember John 15?
I am the vine. You are the branches.
So it's an image. It's actually talking about the
intimate, the intimate relationship that we share with

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God and how that is our lifeline.
The day we are disconnected fromGod, we begin to die.
When God said to Adam that in the day you eat off this tree,
you will surely die in die you will die.
You know, when Adam sinned, he died and that death was a
separation from God. Juicy.
So it's it's an imagery in the Bible.

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Who can mention another husbandry.
I mean, husbandry is God is the same as what is in First
Corinthians chapter 3, verse 9, a treasure in a field.
Yeah, like a pill of great price.
That's how we are described by Jesus, a bride and a groom.

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I mean, all those things are correct, but I'm hearing a sheep
and a shepherd. Absolutely.
I can't hear you. The narrow gates, like all these
things are to describe the Christian life, but there's also
a soldier we also described as soldiers.
I don't know why those ones those those ones are we are

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described as soldiers. I am a soldier in the army of we
used to sing it growing up. And if the soldier falls down,
hey, in the army of the Lord, you rise again in there.
We used to sing it growing up. So we are we are like soldiers.
In fact, the Bible speaks of howthat when the children of Israel
came out of Egypt, they were like a harnessed group.
And the word harnessed group in the Hebrew means they had battle

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formation. It means the way the children of
Israel came out of Egypt, the way they walked, the way they
came out, the arrangement was like an army.
So we are soldiers. And what do soldiers do?
We fight you. You see what I'm I'm trying to
show you, we fight. But it interests me that every

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time the Bible is talking about the Christians fight a lot of
times, you know, when we, I needto put this in perspective
because a lot of us think that we have been called to fight
Satan. We've not been called to fight
Satan. Satan is a, is a vanquished
entity, defeated by Jesus Christ.

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Every power Satan has is a sham.It's not, it's not real power.
You know, if Satan had power, weshould have all been dead.
And if Satan truly has power, heshouldn't be, he shouldn't use
deception. Satan is a con artist.
You know where con artist is? He's a scammer.

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He's he, he tries to portray what he's not.
And that's what makes a lot of people afraid.
And when someone is actually haspower, the person doesn't talk
much. The person just you just show
up. You just show up and then
everybody is hiding to do the right thing.

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Yeah. Are you with me?
So Satan is vanquished. So our fight is not really with
Satan. When you read Ephesians chapter
6, the whole armor of God, thereis nowhere that says we are
fighting Satan. So the armor actually is not for
opposition, it's for defence. We are not fighting Satan.

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The way we fight is by standing.Says put on the whole armour of
God that you may be able to stand.
So we don't wear the armour to fight, we wear the armour to
stand. Says go back to the verse 12 put
on the whole armour of God that he may be able to stand against

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the Wiles of the devil. We are not standing against the
devil because he's defeated. We stand against the Wiles and
the projections. The things that he chose is what
we stand against. We don't even fight back.
We are just standing against. We are holding our ground.
So said I know you will come to reasonable my friend, I've got
you. I've already got your plan.
We stand against the Wiles of the devil opposite.

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What does lesson John's got to do if you are going to
understand it very soon says puton the whole armor.
If I want you go through the whole armor.
We are not told to take anythingexcept the shield of faith and
the sword of the Spirit. It says above all, taking the
shield of faith where British shall be able to quench all the
fiery darts of the wicked and the sword of the spirit and the

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helmet of salvation and take sorry.
So we take the the shield. We take the helmet of salvation
and the sword of the Spirit. The rest is given.
The breasts of righteousness is given.
We don't do anything to get it. Can we go up a little bit?
They don't believe what I'm saying.
So let's read it from the Scriptures above all, no go to
go to verse 13. OK 14.

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That's 1313. Wherefore take unto you the take
unto you the whole armour of God, that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand, and
look at verse 14, stand there for having your loins get about
with truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness,
and your feet short with the preparation of the gospel of

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peace. Verse 16 above all, take.
When it came to righteousness, he says, have it on.
When it came to shit, go, go up,go up, go up again.
When it comes to righteousness, he says take then the breast,

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the breast and then the belt of truth.
He says you are already gatheredwith it.
You know that's I'm not teachingthe whole arm of God.
Then he says when it comes to the devil, stand against with
stand. What was this resist the devil.
He didn't say fight the devil resisting no resist means come
stand, stand. OK, let's do this so that do as

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though you want to pass this resists.
I'm not letting you pass. That's resisting that.
He say fight the devil. He says resist the devil.
He says once you are resisted. So come, come this way.
I mean Babusa, he will flee fromyou.
He didn't say fight the devil. He will flee.
He says just resist him. Resist him, he says as I resist

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him. No, you can't.
You can't No sit and no resisting in your mind.
He's giving you pornographic thoughts.
He's giving you. He's reminding you of your
weaknesses. He's reminding you of the lies
you told. He's reminding you of the way
you didn't pass exams. He's reminding you of the reason
why you don't You don't qualify for the job.
You're resisting me on my How doyou do a Satan.
My mind is filled with the rightthings.
I refuse to think this way. This is not me.

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I resist. I said that to bring you to this
point, most of our fights has todo with sin and lesser Joyce
check the scriptures. Most of the time the Bible tells

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us to fight. He tells us to fight sin and the
flesh, not the devil. Your flesh is more powerful than
Satan and that's why he sets youup with your flesh.
So when the flesh does not die, when you don't put to death your
flesh every day, Jesus doesn't look that take up your cross and

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follow me and die daily. He says take up your cross
daily. The cross of Jesus was not to be
a pendant around your neck. It was to be the mechanism by
which of flesh is put to death. That's why the cross was given.
We saw it in Galatians chapter 6, verse 14.
He's as if I'm going to boast, I'm going to boast in the cross,

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but God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me and I
to the world. That means the cross is the
means by which the world dies tome and I die to the world.
The things of this world does not tempt me because I'm dead.

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Do you know why? When Jesus died on that cross
was Jesus, but I was present with him.
Jesus didn't die a lonely death.I was is buried with were buried
together with him. So when Jesus was being nailed,
I was being nailed with him. Can I show you scriptures?

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I don't know if you like what I'm sharing with you.
First Peter 2:24. First Peter 224 who in his own
flesh bear our sin in his who his own self sorry bear our sins
in his own body on the tree thatwe being dead to sin who is

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being who is dying. Look at the look at the
communication of the scripture. He's saying that Jesus himself
bore our sins in his own body onthe cross.
That we being dead should live unto righteousness.
That means that when Jesus died,I died.

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Romans chapter 6 verse 2. These are scriptures, you know.
I just want to draw your attention to them.
God forbid. How shall we that are dead to
sin live any longer? The ring Galatians 220 For I am
crucified with Christ, not I am crucified.
Look at what he says. I am crucified with Christ with.

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So when he was taking the nails,I was there.
Since I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live yet
not I, but Christ that liveth inme, and the life which I now
live in the flesh. I live by the faith of the Son
of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Colossians chapter 3 verse 3. The Bible says that when he was
talking about certain affectionson God, he says, for you are
dead, and your life is hid in Christ with Christ.
Your life is hid with Christ in God.
That's my reality as a new creation.

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So, so Satan is not the issue. My flesh is the issue because
let me say it in a way that you are going to understand it.
I've said this, I'm going to sayit in two ways.
The first one, I've said it too many times that when you become
born again, your spirit man is 100% saved, 100% transformed.
Juliana, there's, there's no update we can do to your spirit.

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Your spirit is saved. So long as you are born again,
so long as you've invited Jesus into your heart, your spirit is
100% saved. Nothing can be done to your
spirit. All the glory of God, all the
power of God, all the riches of God is inhabited in your spirit.
Your spirit holds all of God. The life of God is in your
spirit, but your soul is not saved.

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Your soul is being saved. Your soul was not saved 100%.
Man is a spirit. He has a soul and he lives in a
body. So you're sitting here.
What I'm seeing is your body. I don't see your spirit.
If I took a sample of your spirit and ran a test on your
spirit, your DNA, everything, your spirit is 100% like God.

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That's what the reality is. Your righteousness is in your
spirit. Eternal life is in your spirit.
If a good health is in your, your spirit cannot be sick
because God lives there. Bible says that he that anyone
that has received Christ has become one spirit.
We have been commingled with Christ.

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So when I stand, my spirit is 100% like Jesus, but my soul is
not. My soul is not saved.
My soul is in the process of being saved.
So coming to church is what saves my soul, like Romans 12
tells us, says be transformed bythe renewing of your mind.

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And the mind is embedded in the soul.
So the soul is not 100% saved. And that's where the emotions
are, that's where the feelings are, that's where the desires
are. So in my spirit is no sin.
I know the interesting thing, you also have a body.

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Your body feels your body gangs up with your soul.
If other soul was birthed when the spirit merged with the body,
Bible says that and God breathedinto Adam the breath of life and
man became a living soul. So when God breathed the spirit
into man, the merging of the spirit and the lifeless body

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produce the soul. So a lot of times people I'm not
able to separate the soul and the spirit rightly, but the word
of God helps us to do that. For the word of God is quick and
sharper than any 2 edged sword dividing ascender, the soul from
the spirit. So the word of God is what helps
us to determine what the soul isand what the spirit is.

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Now your body because it is not saved, still has the memory of
sin. So the sin in your body gangs up
with your emotions and makes youchoose lesser joys.
I'm taking my time so that you can understand what I'm
communicating. So you know what Paul said in

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Romans Chapter 7. I know you know the scripture
Romansh. So let's start from this 14.
Look at what Paul is saying. For we know that the law is
spiritual, but I am carnal. I'm sold under sin verse 15 for
that which I do, I allow not. Let's try a soft starvation,
maybe passion or amplify classicor something.

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No, let's let's not do message. I'm a mystery to myself.
How do you realize that? You have mystery even after the
preaching on lesser joys. You've chosen too many lesser
joys. You've chosen movies.
You you chose a series. You chose worldly music.
You want to waste your time on enemies, but you know that I'm

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not supposed to choose lesser joy.
So you look at yourself in the mirror.
You're like, I'm a message to myself, man.
For what? For I want to do what is right,
but I end up doing what my moralinstincts condemns.
Hopefully before the year ends, I made touch on this, The law of
the mind. Your mind knows what is good.

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You know that spending hours on a movie is not what you're
supposed to do. And although you know it, it's
like you, you are helpless. You know you are not supposed to
be at the pants hall week, but you, your ass were going.
Your mind was like so today you are sitting here looking at my
face. You were not here last week
because you are pants changing your pants, so you must be

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pants. Because I'm a mystery to myself,
I can identify with Apostle Paul.
You know you have to pray. You've been taught prayer.
You know you have to listen to messages.
But it's like there is somethingthat incapacitates you.

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You know you're supposed to be in church.
You are fine. 3 hours to 10, youstarted feeling some way.
You don't want to show up. I'm a mystery to myself, so I'm
a mistake to myself for what I want to do, I said.
For I want to do what is right, but end up doing what my moral

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instinct condemns the 16 And if my behavior is not in line with
my desire, my conscience still confirms the excellence of the
law. He said that my my mind knows
that according to God's writings, I'm not supposed to be
doing what I'm doing. 17 And nowI realize that it is no longer

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my true self doing it. Can I imagine what Paul is
saying? He's saying that the part of me
that does not feel like coming to church, the part of me that
craves Lester Joyce pornography.I was struggling to mention it,
but I had to let it out. The part of me that chooses the

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bottle, it's not a true me. It's not a true me.
I imagine I wanted a bottle of your pasta.
Catches the pasta. It's not a true me.
It's not a true me. Why?
Because in my spirit there's no contradiction.

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So Paul is not talking about hisspirit here.
Oh glory, Glory, but the unwelcome intruder of sin in my
humanity. That's I told that sin guns up
with your flesh. It guns up with your humanity.
So Jesus said put to death your flesh daily.

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Paul says I die daily. That I die is not my spirit,
it's my flesh. It's the flesh that makes you
choose lesser, Joyce. Everything you are doing, the

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lack of prayer, the lack of coming to church, your
stinginess is your flesh. You are stingy.
You already stingy to yourself. You have money, but you'll be
hungry. You have money.
Oh, but you'll be hungry. You're like, no, I can't spend

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the money. I worked for it, but why did you
work to live a good life? But no, everything is look at
what he says. Go back, go back to Romans
Chapter 7, please. And now I realized verse 18 for
I now for I know that nothing good lives within the flesh of

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this fallen humanity. And that's why a lot of you
boast in Paul even said that I didn't know sin until the law,
and the law is what ignites sin in me.
First Corinthians #15 So the lawis always you do you do.
The emphasis of the law is you. So every time you enter the

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flesh to think you don't need Christ, you don't need the help
of Christ, you are facing a temptation and you don't want to
employ the strength of the Spirit.
You have entered your flesh. Oh, I can.
I can. You see, I've said it here
before, Professor, that on Sunday I'm going to say it
again, that falling from grace is not falling into sin.

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Falling from grace is falling tothe law.
Anytime you employ the law, which emphasizes on your doing
and not what Christ has done, you have fallen from grace.
So falling from grace is more dangerous than falling into sin.
How? Because when you fall from grace

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and you are employing works, youare telling God I don't need
your help to live a holy life. And nothing dishonest God like
telling him that Christ's death was unnecessary.
So anytime you employ A flesh, Ican do it.
I can do it. I mean, my friend, no, you are.
In fact, to pray with your fleshis to tell the Holy Ghost He's

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useless to you right now becausethe Holy Spirit helps in our
infirmities, for we know not what He was given to help us.
He's our helper. So every time we choose the
flesh without the Spirit, your help was not necessary.
I don't need you. So realize that you'll be
sitting in church and you're notrelying on the Holy Spirit to
stay through the sermon. So your mind will be roaming and

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by the time you realize you'll be sleeping because we're not
relying on the Spirit, the Holy.There are too many times I've
gone for all night tired and I didn't sleep too many times
because I'm always relying on the Holy Spirit, even when I was
working go for all night too. My sleeping starts when they are
closing, taking, offering. And I'm like, Oh my God, the

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Boris time. And Paul is saying that in my
flesh where we trust in ourselves.
He said that it's a falling humanity and nothing good lives
there. We believe ourselves too much.
A lot of the follings is becausewe believe ourselves, believe
ourselves. The longings to do what is right

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are with me, are within me, but the willpower is not enough to
accomplish it. 19 My lofty desires to do what is good are
dashed when I do the things I want to avoid.
I want to avoid it, but you can't.

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It's 20 So if my behavior contradicts my desires to do
good, I must conclude that it isnot my true identity doing it.
Sena Pamois. Is that correct?
Sena Pamois. I must conclude that it's not my

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true identity doing it, but the unwelcome intruder of sin.
Sin is an unwelcome intruder. You've not called him, but he's
coming, hindering me from being who I really am.
Verse 21. Through my experience of this
principle, I discovered that when I want to do good, evil is
ready to sabotage me. Look, Paul is a born again man.

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He's not talking to Gentiles. He's he's addressing.
It is what we all face. So let's not read it and say,
oh, it's for unbelievers, Pastor, this, this is for
unbeliever. It's not for unbelievers.
It's for the believer. It's the believer when he wants
to, you see, he says, through myexperience of this principle, I
discovered that when I want to do good, it has happened to me

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too many times. I can tell you from experience,
every time I want to do something good, I see evil
standing there staring at me. Sometimes you're on your phone.
The Holy Ghost tells you put your phone down when you lie in
your bed. I need to talk to you also lying
in the bed. You are looking at the phone.
The evil in the phone is staringat you.
Sometimes it's not even because you're watching something bad.

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It would drain you of the littleyou know you.
You've been running on spare time for some time.
You've been running on spare andspirituality.
So the Holy Ghost says no, we need to keep this spirituality
and and use it as the fuel to ignite some more.
But but the phone by the time you realize you are just on
TikTok and you are just wasting time on TikTok cyber cannot even

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stay away from their phones in service.
You rather be in the check, but they'll be talking in church.
Yeah. Taking.
I don't want. I don't know why.
When I'm preaching, I see peopletaking snaps of me.
For what? For what I'm preaching Says they
are. Meanwhile, you're not in the
media team. That's 22.

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Truly deep within my true identity, which is my spirit.
I love to do what pleases good. Deep within me I don't like.
I don't. I don't want to kiss the lady,
but I ate and deep with him. I didn't want to do it.
I didn't want to take that money.
I took my mom's phone and I wired some money to myself.
Deep within me, I've got some people deep within me.

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I didn't want to do it. I knew it was bad.
My true identity, which is my spirit, longs for God, wants to
do God, wants to come to church.I want to do what pleases God,
but I find myself choosing lesser.
Joyce verse 23, then post it. But I design another power

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operating in my humanity. Did you hear that?
Waging war against the moral principles of my conscience and
bringing me into captivity. It means when I don't kill my
flesh or don't Jesus die to saveme and to deliver me to live a

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holy God satisfied, fulfilling life, I will choose my flesh,
which is actually supposed to bemy captive.
It becomes my captor and I'm rather dead to my flesh.
It brings me into captivity as aprisoner to the law of sin, this

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unwelcome intruder in my humanity.
The humanity is your flesh. I like the way you are pushing
in and out. Next verse, What did Paul say?
What an agonizing situation I'm in.
So who has the power to rescue this miserable man from the
unwelcome intruders? And look at how King James calls

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it. King James calls him the body of
sin, the body of death. Sorry.
The old wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the
body of this death. That means that every time you
want to do the right thing, the flesh dies.
You just decided, oh, I need to pray.

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The moment you wanted to pray, the flesh said not today.
So if I don't kill my flesh, I can never choose God.
I know I'm to I'm to choose God,but I can't.
So he says put to death. Put to death.

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Is that the last verse? The next verse says that but
thanks be to God in King James, I thank God through Jesus
Christ. It means look at this, can you
put 25 and 2624 and 25 together?He says, O wretched man that I
am, who shall deliver me from the body of this sin of of this
death. Then he says, I thank God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. It means through Jesus Christ I

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can put to death the flesh and this desires not in myself, not
in my strength, not in my intelligence.
I can teach you 15 ways to stay and trust or chest and you will
form miserably 15 ways to keep your cool so you don't lose your

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temper. My God, you even get angry at
.12 because you say why are we on .12?
It's too it's too long point thesteps.
You'll be angry at the long steps because we can't, we can't
keep the law. We are just incapacitated to
keep the law. So how do I put to death, Kayla,

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this body of sin and this body of death through Christ, my
Lord, so that with my mind I said the law of God, but with
the flesh, the body of sin. Next one, keep it like that.
Don't, don't change, just continue.
That's it all wretched man that I am so something very

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interesting is happening here. Can you imagine Apostle Paul
calling himself a wretched man? Galatians chapter 5, verse 24.
Galatians 524. Galatians 524.
And they that are cries have crucified the flesh with its

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affections and lasts to them actually show you what these
these lesser joys are and what they do to you and how to deal
with them. I don't think you are interested
in my preaching today. He says they that are Christ.

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How many of you are Christ? This is your reality.
The flesh has been crucified. Not just the flesh, the
affections, the feelings, the tendencies last.
The wrong desires have been crucified.
That's my reality, Oh my Kurananda.

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So the lesser joys we choose is because we are still alive.
We have become allies to what weshould consider enemies.
We are still loving what we should kill.
You are befriending what is killing you.
And that's why we are so struggling as Christians.

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Some of you have never come to aplace where you've vehemently
told God, Lord, take this away. You see, the thing about what
Satan does to you is that Satan makes him look more less
offensive to God. Oh, it's not a big deal.
Oh, it's not the big deal. Don't tell anyone.

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Nobody will find out. Is between us the secret to save
me that he doesn't have to know what is It was just a kiss.
Just a kiss. We just we just was just two
seconds. I mean nothing really Satan

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makes sin looks less offensive. That's why I keep saying that
sin is primarily not to you or who you send with it is to God.
That's that's the that's the that's the main thing it
dishonest God. You know the interesting thing
let me say like this so you get it.

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Christ died to kill sin so that I can be killing what he has
already killed. If Christ didn't kill sin, I
can't kill sin in my members. But because Christ has already

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killed sin, he gives me the power to be killing.
I didn't say to kill to be killing.
Every morning you wake up, you must put sin to death.
That's why you can go for all night.
It doesn't mean if you don't read Bible, if you don't stay in
God's presence, you run. One month, fine.

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It's not true. I don't know if you get me.
That's why you can't say that. I've gone to church three times
this month, so I think it's OK. No, no, for three months I'm
fine. Paul called himself a wretched

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man. Apostle Paul.
So what I want to do, I I can't do what I want to do.
That's Apostle Paul who wrote almost like 2 tapes of the New
Testament. He said I'm you've not even read
your Bible. Let's you've not even when you
do quite and you can't write paragraphs, let alone 2 teds.

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And he's telling us it means we can't believe what he's saying,
that every morning I wake up, I must look at my flesh and say I
kill you today. You will not be the means by
which I choose what dishonest God and destroys my body.
So Christ died, He killed sin sothat I can be killing every day

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what he has already killed, whathas already killed.
Romans, chapter 8, verse 18. And I don't keep you too long,
for if you live after the flesh,ye shall die.

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It means every time I'm responding to my desires, I'm
experiencing death. But if through the Spirit I love
this, he could have just said, for if you live after the flesh
you shall die. But if you live, how could He
have said holy or righteous saying that this?

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But He said, you could have said, But if you modify the
deeds of the body, you shall live.
But I see that the secret in this verse is through the
Spirit. What would have just said?
Look at the Scripture closely. What would have just said, If ye
live after the flesh, you shall die, But if ye do modify the

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deeds of the flesh of the body, you shall live.
But that would make us enter into more works.
More works, so he says. But ye through the spirits,
through the Spirit, through the spirit, through the spirit.

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That's what the Holy Ghost is given to us.
Can we try a soft starvation of this?
I know today I don't know. You're not enjoying me.
But he says, But if the life of the Spirit puts to death the
corrupt ways of the flesh, it means the life of the Spirit.
That's why pause. And you know, John says that

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when you see a brother sinning asin that is not unto death, what
he needs is life. And this life is supplied by the
Spirit. So he's saying that if I'm
receiving the life that the spirit supplies, I'll be so
inundated with life I can't fallinto anything whatsoever.

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I can't choose any lesser joy because every day I'm depending
on the spirit supply of life. He says, If ye through the
Spirit put to death, you don't put to death with your strength,
you don't put to death by your willpower, you put to death by
the Spirit through the help of the Spirit.

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When you wake up in the morning that you are faced with a
temptation, you look to God and say, Lord, help me, because if
you don't help me, I will choose.
I will choose this lesser joy onSunday.
Prophet in genesis #4 He says, but if thou shalt not do well,
sin lieth at thy door. And he made us understand that

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in God's original design, any time there's sin staring at you,
there is the offering. God has already provided the
offering for sin. But sin in itself, God doesn't
have to punish anybody for sin. Sin in itself has punishment.
That's consequences. So there's the offering for sin,
and there's the punishment for sin.

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Why you choose the offering, which is Jesus Christ.
You escape the punishment and the consequences.
Why you choose the consequences?You have forfeited your
offering. When you choose the sin, you
have forfeited your offering. Who is Christ?
You indulge in the sin, you facethe consequences.
God is not the one who punished you for STI.

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God doesn't have a back that he goes and looks at you and say
what can I give rush genital? What?
What can I give Clements aids? What can I give some more?

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All of the above. God doesn't have a bag of STI's
distribute. God doesn't punish you when you
go wrong. Why you why you?
Why you're going through something as a result of sin is
because you rejected Christ withyour offering and said Christ
cannot help me. His death was useless.
It hasn't been anything to me. I would just I mean, sin is just

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light. I would just do it.
And after that you ask for forgiveness.
Yes, you will forgive you, but there are consequences to sin.
There are consequences to lesserjoys.
So on Monday morning I woke up and was a funny thought in my
mind after hearing this. You know, in John, Matthew 11,

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Jesus said that Matthew 13, Jesus said that that's one of
the things you go through is because of the word that you
hate. So it will shock you that lesser
Joyce will become more appealingafter this teaching, more
appealing. It will be like, it's like
you've been passing there every day, but now you'll be noticing
things. This lady has been in the office

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with you all along, but now it'slike something is happening.
You can't focus. That movie you've been avoiding
on the Netflix, this thing, it was never a problem.
But now you have heard the way you choose a lesser joy is I'll
show you the I will show you howto kill the the flesh.

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I'll show you, I'll show you. But the first thing you must
understand is that Jesus has already killed sin.
But it's my responsibility to bekilling sin.
And I will show you how to be killing sin.
I'm showing you something here that I'm going to emphasize
through the spirit. I'm emphasizing when I'm ending.
And I woke up on Monday morning,I've not forgotten.

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And there was a funny thought inmy mind and I said on, I said,
Lord, I choose you as my offering.
I want you to sin. This thing is maybe something
that usually comes to mind. Satan just came.

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It's like a new accord they've Satan came to pack with trying
to tempt me. I just to as a Lord this way you
should learn to be broken beforeGod.
So I'm trying to talk to God as a Lord.
I refuse to choose this. I will yield to the sin in my

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members. I look to Jesus as my offering
and all this is coming out of mymouth.
I'm not saying it in my head. I'm not thinking it.
I'm declaring it out loud. I'm saying it, I'm hearing
myself that I refuse to choose lesser joys.
I will not be a slave to what mybody wants.

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I will say that don't yield yourselves to become instruments
of unrighteousness. Instruments like the way a
hacksaw is an instrument, your body becomes the instrument by
which you're practicing. So you know, one of the ways I'm
just, you see our war and our battle that was that we should

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fight to keep our faith is that we should fight the good fight
of faith. It's not against the devil.
It is to maintain your faith. We're going check through the
scriptures on fighting. You're no fighting Satan.
We have no business with Satan. We have business with our flesh.
And to crucify is not to kill, is to slaughter.

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Jesus was not killed. He was slaughtered, was
slaughtered like a pig. That's what you do to your
flesh. You RIP it apart, you take it to
the sketching post and say you shall not control me today.
But how do you do that with the Word?

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We fight with the Word. The Word of God is quick and
sharper and I need to edge. So it means every time I spend
time in God's Word, hearing, meditating, declaring, I take
the sword of the spring and I plunge it into my soul and it

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kills all the tendencies of the flesh that wants me to do the
foolish things. The reason why we still struggle
is because we have left the scriptures.
We are not reading the Bible, weare not listening to the
messages and we are just walkingaround.
You go to work, you are not listening.
You come from work, you're not listening.
God said to the the children of Israel and Hebrews, Deuteronomy

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chapter 8 just even while you are walking by the wayside, you
should be listening to my way. You should be reciting my words
while you walk by the wayside, while you lay in your bed, you
should not be on your phone. That phone has become an idol.
That's become an idol. When my phone starts hitting the

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ground, I start evaluating Holy Spirit.
What's going on? Yeah, like in a shortage, bra.
They pick up bra. So the Lord is just trying to
tell you that you are spending too much time with it.
So some of you, the best God cando is to help you to spoil the
phone. So you are holding that brass.
Then for three weeks, 3 weeks, you don't have the phone.
You realize that in three weeks you don't indulge in anything

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carnal. You are highly spiritual.
You are listening to the messages with your laptop.
You are reading your Bible because the instrument that
leads you to sin is not there without the phone.
Which girl is coming to call youto go and sin?
In the same way, if I put to death my flesh, which is the
instrument I used to sin, When sin comes knocking, the

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instrument to carry it out is dead.
I can't respond. I can't respond because the
instrument to carry it out, that's what the Bible says in
Romans #12 present your bodies. If my body belongs to God, I
can't see you. Salt with that lip.

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It's not my own one that thinks Smith will go.
Sweat went somewhere they wantedto play cards, says Smith didn't
come with his hands. This is what he has said.
They are not mine. They are for the Lord.
So that's been too spiritual is the reason why you are sinning
is the reason why you are so choosing the the things that are
destroyed. That's why I called it the soul

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destroying power of lethargic. What you yield to them to you.
You are having fun, but you are destroying your soul to yield
your body as instruments of righteousness.
Instruments, instruments. Put yourself on the altar.

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You're a living sacrifice. A living living.
A sacrifice that is living. It means on this altar the fire
doesn't go out. You are always on the altar.
I'm walking around, but I'm on the altar.
I don't owe myself anymore. So you have bought with a price.

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He bought you. You see, we the reason why we
choose lesser choices because wedon't see the hearts and the and
the nastiness of sin. Sin was so nasty we needed a
divine sacrifice to deal with it.
That's how nasty sin was. That's the the solution to sin

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should be a divine sacrifice that God himself should die.
That was how we were delivered from sin.
That's how nasty and that's how dangerous and serious sin is.
We need a divine sacrifice to bedelivered from it.
So he says to us, fight. Fight with the Word.

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Take the word, the spirit, the word of the soul, of the spirit,
and wage war. Kill the soul.
Plunge the sword in your soul. It's the Scriptures.
That's when I see people who don't have time for God's Word.
I know that there are people whobattle all kinds of things.
There are too many messages thathave been preached and a lot of

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you leave what we are teaching you and you listen.
Look, there are a lot of preachings on works floating in
the system. When you listen to you it, you
just enter works and you don't know how.
That's why I don't like to shareexperiences.
Not because we don't have experiences, we have
experiences, but we how God provides for us, how God takes

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care of us so we can preach things we can and it will make
you enter works. We can preach hours of prayer,
We can show hours of prayer and we can make it a law that if you
don't pray this number of hours,our sense that there's something
you have fallen from grace. You who don't pray 5 hours a

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day, God knows. I can't pray 5 hours a day.
He knows. Today someone sent me a message
said I sense my prayer life is slow.
Let me tell you something today.Until God tells you don't do any
self evaluation. If you do self evaluation
without the spirit you will enter works and it will shock

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you. It will shock you if the Holy
Ghost hasn't come to told you oryou have not asked you spending
time with Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost doesn't say that of
late you've not been praying as much as I expect you to or the
Holy Ghost hasn't said every daya minimum should be one hour and
you put it upon yourself that you pray for hours every day.

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I mentioned one hour because Jesus said one hour was easy.
Jesus demanded one hour of prayer from men who didn't have
the Holy Ghost. So we the Holy Ghost, one hour
should be culture like when I find this, everybody lives.
One hour should be fluid, but you go hear someone saying that
oh I pray 10 hours every day, but I tell you, realize you are
feeling bad that I don't pray like this person.

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Look, we are not blessed becauseof how long we pray.
The blessings are not generated because we pray.
The blessings are already given to us because Jesus paid.
I'm blessed because he paid, notbecause I prayed.

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I know I'm being soft, but it's very easy.
But these are messages that we are preaching.
It's like injection. You know when they come to give
an injection, they push it a bit, hold on, then they put
them. So that's how I'm doing it.
I know what I'm doing. Let me wrap up.

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Tell your neighbor that neighbor, neighbor.
The more you feed on God's weight, the more the sword of
the weight is fully activated todeal with your flesh.

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Don't stay away from the weight.Don't be a Christian who doesn't
read Bible. Don't be a Christian who doesn't
soak in messages. The list of the messages that
today before I came out having aconversation with someone who
shows up in my life anytime is in trouble.
And So what I said, I said, hey,what is going on because I know

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that trouble will bring you. And he said, oh, he started
talking said, but I realized something.
So the person but I realized something that listening to the
messages has done me much good. I said in my head, because the

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word of God, he says he said I realized I was somewhere, but I
I I something happens. I catch he said I'm not even
tempted with sin. He said, pastor, my problem of
was sex and women and alcohol, he said.
But now suppose he mentioned thenumber of months he has stayed
away from sex. Someone that every week like two

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or three times here a peterman healed.
He said I've gone months, months.
That's why Satan creates uninterestedness in listening to
the word. It creates a lot of

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uninterestedness. Some of the way you wake your
office space is such that you can listen to messages out loud,
but you will not listen. You rather say, oh, break time.
You watch Netflix, you'll be watching Korean drama, you have

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watched anime, you yourself, youhave become animated.
But there's something wrong withyou.

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More, you are listening, you know thou preparest a table
before me in the presence. It means what you are faced with
problems, enemies surrounding you all around.
God's solution is a prepared table.

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That's what he said in something.
So you prepare table before me in the present.
It means in the face of temptation, when it's a staring
at me. What I need to do is to eat the
word. Do you know why eating the word
is the way we fight our enemies?The Hebrew word used for bread
when Jesus said I am the bread is the same root word that is
used for fight. Bread is like hem.

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Fight is like ham. It means anytime I'm feeding on
the word, I'm fighting. So we wage war by feeding.
We wage war by feeding. So we are not feeding because in
fact, this feeding preaching is feeding.
I'm feeding you right now. I'm feeding, right?

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I'm what I'm doing is I'm feeding.
And the more you are eating whatis being dished out, spending
time listening to what has been dished out, you would realize
that the practices of sin and the choosing of lesser Joyce.
So my whole message on Lesser Joyce is actually showing you
sin, its consequences and how todeal with it.

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So the more you are feeding on the word reading, listening, but
listen more, listen more, listen, listen.
You should have messages. That's when you know that your
prayer life is low. You go and listen and receive
some inoculations, realizing that enhancing that the thoughts

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are wild. Quickly you go to the soul
destroying power of lesser. You start listening, start
listening or you realize that The thing is still staring your
face. You have seen that it's a lesser
joy. It has, you know it's a lesser

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joy. It's staring in my face.
It has the power to destroy my soul.
There is a no, I won't end here.I will go and look for the
bitter after taste of this lesser joy.
Then if I partake of this lesserjoy, it's like, it's like
frankincense. It's bittersweet.
No, not Frank. Frank is bittersweet, yes.
So it's first bitter, then it becomes sweet.

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But the Christ, the death of Christ was first bitter, but it
produced sweetness for us. But this one, it is sweet and
very bitter. So you are looking at the
opportunity. That's not when there are some
opportunities to travel, must decline, like an opportunity to

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travel. Rosenberg and all the people on
the team are canal people. And your spirituality is
wobbling because you can see as you are about to indulge, demons
will show up in front of you. It's all show up.

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So my best, right? I didn't get it again because of
bees. I didn't get my birthright
again. Are you understanding what I'm
saying with the Word more than listening to the Word of God?

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Look, I've thought it plenty. The supernatural effect of
listening to God's Word, TBC, phenomenal.
Speak forth the word, anchoring your life on God's Word.
I've thought just listen the fermentation of the world, just

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not just listening. Some of you have cars, plates in
the car. Don't be afraid.
Whoever sits in your car, if it's 10 minutes in the car, they
would have had 10 minutes of God's weight.
But some of you, they sit in your car, then you turn down the
volume, then you go to Urbanu FM.

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I think now we have to be putting jingles in the message
after some testament to say keepthat down here because sometimes
we are tempted to change that. You will hear keep that down.
Keep the podcast on, keep listening because you know what?
Do you know how God washes us sothat they're washing it?
It comes by the weight. It comes by the weight efficient

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of the fight. This is why we are listening to
the weight. We are being washed.
You are bathing spiritually. Every time you are engaging the
Word, you are buffing, buffing, buffing, but you realize that
you become clean. Right now buffing is taking
place. So he's sanctifies by the
washing of water, by the Word. What?

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But this is what I want to emphasize on.
He said If you through the Spirit do modify the desires of
the flesh, you will live throughthe Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is your is surest bit.

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The reason why I'm saying that is because you cannot kill the
desires of your flesh with real power.
We kill desire with desires, andyou kill the desires of your
flesh to choose lesser joys withthe superior desire in Christ.

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You know the very beautiful thing, this desire in Christ,
I'm not even the one waking it, for it is God who is that waking
you both to will and to do according to this is mind
boggling and breathtaking. He's saying that he puts the

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Philippines for it is 2/13 for it is God which not who?
Which the Which of God is this power?

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Listen to this put. Can I see 14 good to 12?
Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not us in my
presence only, but now much morein my absence, work out your own
salvation. So instead of that, you must

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wake your salvation. However, I've had this structure
of preachers preaching so hard, you have to wake your salvation.
You've got to do something. It's works work on your your
100, Juma Juma, my God. And they're preaching it hard.
You've got to work on your salvation.

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You've got to love God. You've got to love God.
The reason why you're not prospering is because you don't
love God. You got to love God.
I see five people here. You are loving God, you gotta
love God and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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But the question is, how do I love God?
And all the time we preached it,we didn't even know how to love
God. It's easier to say all the
reason you, you know, oh, if if you want to come to Jesus, I

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tell you, you got to do something.
You got to take an initiative. You got I don't I don't doubt
those things. But the emphasis of the New
Testament, He says, I will writemy loss in your heart.
I will be your God. Put to the Hebrews, chapter 10,
Hebrews chapter 10, the verse #10 or verse 8.

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He does. I will be your God.
I will be your God. I will write the laws in your
heart. I'm the one doing the work.
You are just yielding. You are just yielding.
Can I put to the Hebrews 10 or Hebrews?
Yeah, Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10/10.
Quickly, you just put it there. If it is not it, we'll preach

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with it. Don't worry.
It's best words 888810 Let's check 810 810 for this is the
new covenant that I will make. Let's count the number of times
we'll see the eye for this is the new covenant that I will
make with the House of Israel inthose days, say the Lord.

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I will put my laws in their hearts and write them in their
minds, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a
people. Next verse.
And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, saying, know
the Lord also know me from the least, the greatest. 12 For I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins,

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and their iniquities. I will remember no more. 13 How
many times and five is the number of grace for clapping for
Jesus? Clap for this.
Your clap that is suffering fromanemic clap.
That's our clapping for Jesus. The technical people do not

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clap. You don't clap.
Amen. Hallelujah.
So in the New Testament, the emphasis is not on you, it's on
God. So everything that God wants you
to do, he has already taken the lead to do it.

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So I will write my loss in your heart.
Nobody would teach anyone to sayno.
The Lord, they will know me, I will, I will cause them to know
me. I will cause them to know me.
Go back to Philippines 213 says,For it is God who is at work in
you. So he's telling you that your

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salvation, no, you must work it,but the working of the salvation
God is at wake. What is God says wake out your
own salvation. So we preach it and we stop at
verse 12. You got to wake your salvation.
I see God, you know, and he's telling you right now in your

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dream, you got to wake your salvation.
I say you got to wake your salvation, and if you don't work
your salvation, you're on your way to hell.
Oh, my sister, you're not working your salvation.
So your finances is bad. You're not married because

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you're not working yourself. My God.
I know these people are not in church today, so I don't see
these people responding to the message because they don't love

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God. If you love God, you're going to
give your neighbor a high 5 and say I love God.
Willpower. We've emphasized willpower.
How many of you have sat in the church as the person was
preaching were like what is this?
You live feeling more miserable than you came.

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You can leave church and ask a question.
Then who has hope? Who has hope?
Because when the preacher was going, So when this Nakuba is
here, they can't even tell you that.
If you don't respond Amen, you are going to hell.
Then who will be saved? He came to die and will lose the

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salvation. He came all the way from heaven
to die for because we didn't say.
I think I like that, Bruche 1. You got to wake your salvation.
Oh, you got to wake your salvation.
Oh, you got to wake it. You got to wake it.

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You got to wake it. Oh, you got to wake your
salvation. Wake it now.
Wake it now. And you are like, how do I work
this thing? And by the inspiration of the
Spirit, Paul did not end there. He says you work your salvation,

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but it is God who is working, working, working.
So when you are faced with the with the lesser Joyce, with
pornography, your desire to resist is the working of the
Spirit. You just got to yield.
You gotta yield, you gotta yield.

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You just have to yield, he says.He's not working in you, just
Willow, he said. He's working both to will and to
do. It means that he doesn't just
produce the desire for me to be willing to do the right thing.
Like Paul said to the Romans. He says that's the willpower to
do the good thing that I want todo is not dead.

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But when he's writing to the Philippians, he's just as a
secret that in in Oh my God, that the willpower that was not
dead in the book of Romans. I see it in Philippians.
I see it in Philippians, for it is God who is at work, not just
we, but to do what to do. Some of you are asleep.

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I need to keep you awake. So he's not just making you

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willing. It means every time I wake up in
the morning and there's the desire to pray, it's not Adrian.
Adrian will not want to pray. No, every time I'm faced with a
lesser joy and I'm sensing put aphone down, ignore this call.
It's not me. It's God's waking me by the
Spirit. So for it is God, which that's

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the power the Holy Ghost produced in you, for it is God
which worketh in you both to be willing to do and actually to do
of his good pleasure. Scott, it's not you.
It's not you. Stop trusting your flesh.
Stop thinking like what is pornography?

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If you see if it is, what is pornography?
Why are you still watching it? If it is, what is lying?
Why are you still lying? If it is, what is anger?
Why are you so angry? Why are you losing your temper?
So it says this power helps, this power that makes it

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possible. And this power is from God.
It's from God. I said that it's not me because
what if it is me? I will start praying 5 minutes.
I'll be on my phone after 5 minutes.
Why it has not happened to you before?
You actually took your phone just to go and look for some
instrumentals. So you actually started to
render the most chandelier makala mazuro, no, no mocha.

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Then you had a notification, then 45 minutes.
It's not me to pray and to be focused on God.
Like when I woke up today, I woke up, I did my quiet time,
finish my quiet time, did Bible reading.
I was late. I literally spent like the whole
day in my Bible. It's don't do me.

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Wow. It's not me.
It's not me, it's God. I'll be a fool.
Angel will be a fool to take thecredits.
It's God, It's God. So we don't fight the flesh with
willpower. We fight it with a greater
desire. And this desire, he said that

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it's the Holy Ghost that produces that desire.
He's the Holy Ghost. He's the one producing the
desire, producing the desire, and not just the desire, the
ability. So it means every time you
choose a lesser joy, you did notyield, didn't yield.
You got to love God. But you know this.

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I was asking the Lord, So Lord, how do we fight?
You're telling us to fight the flesh, that I should kill my
flesh, and you are telling me that it's not my willpower.
So how am I going to? How am I going to kill this
flesh? It's strong.
The flesh is strong. Prayerlessness is is a plague.

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And I don't know how to do. I don't know what to do.
And even if I know how to do, I've read all the steps but I
don't know where to start from. The steps are so jumped.
It looks like .1 is .10 and .10 is .19 and .19 is .4.
I don't know where to start from.

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How do I war? And the Lord said to me, he says
war with wonder. He says wage war with wonder.
That means that the more I'm looking at the beauty of Christ,
that's why I'm putting to death this body.
It means when there's when there's sin in front of me, when
there's a lesser joy in front ofme, all I've got to do is to
look at this wonderful Jesus. And as I look at Jesus in his

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wonder and in his beauty, sin loses his grip.
That's how I fight because Jesusis beautiful.
Psalm 45. There's two.

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I'm 45 years too since that. What's fairer than the children
of men? It means that we would like
Jesus. I will cost him the first among
10,000 we sing it my beloved us the most beautiful among town.
It means that what I'm captivated by his beauty.
Sin will not be beautiful. That's how I fight.

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I fight by looking at his beautyin wonder, wide eyed and
mystified. This is a may we never lose our
wonder. When I lose my wonder for this
all satisfying, beautiful Jesus who choose other things that
looks beautiful, I will trade him for trinkets that disappear

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with the morning mist. The way you fight is by my word.
I'm gazing at my wonder, my wonderful son.
You look to Jesus, look to Jesus.

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That's that's how you see when the children of Israel were in
the wilderness and they murmuredagainst God and the serpents
came in the wilderness and it was biting them.
He didn't tell them to blend heads.
They were in the wilderness. I tell them to get through and
blend it together and drink it and put comfort in Naftali balls

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and crush them and and make a solution of because they are
from the tribe of Naftali. That's rubbish and it's been
breached. We are under grace, but we still
take people under the law. All those are contrary, their

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works. If you don't do this, what
happened to the name of Jesus? What happened?
So they went to preaching a certain school.
Someone's mother called me. She gave my number to another
person to call me, and the womancalled talking to us.

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Who is your pastor? What you're telling me?
And the woman, I'm sure she's I can be here be I don't know if
grandson because her eldest son was about 38 years old.
I don't know. So to me she's old.
Things are not working and I said, what church do you go to?
Service message from church? Have you told your pastor?

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She said yes. I said what did he do?
So he just prayed for us and showed us some things to do, but
it's not changing. I said that's because only Jesus
and his grace can take the grip of Satan and break the power of
hell and incapacitate demons that afflict families.
You can blend. You can, I don't know, you can

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blend, you can grind, you can and it will not change.
They will give you so below. It will not do anything.
So you are coming to school. Your mother will pack so below
from some church and puts away something is happening, drink
it. What happened to Jesus?
When the devil comes out to eat my flesh, when I wake up with a
panic attack and I can't reach that.
So below what happens? I've got a name and the Bible

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says that all the spices in the Old Testament, when I mentioned
his name, that those, those spices, they are poured forth.
It says your, your name is like sweet fragrances, spices that
are poured forth. What's not Besop leaves, It's

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not the blood, it's not the name.
We get preachers preaching all kinds of things, and what they
do is that they take the beauty,they strip Jesus of his beauty,
and they put the beauty of Jesusin things.
That's how those things become idols.

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An idol is anything that is almost like an alternative to
God. So I give you a bottle of oil
without Jesus, it becomes an idol.
And instead of running to Jesus,you run to an idol because those
things look good. Just that they have one Ole
missing. They become a God.

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Look to Jesus, this is now what's fairer than the children
of men? Grace is poured into thy lips,
therefore God had blessed thee. There's no he's not talking
about David. Could David have qualified to be
the first of thousands? He didn't qualify.

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He was talking about Jesus. It's a messianic sound.
Do you know? I know some examic sound.
This one says my heart is indicted, a good matter.
I will speak of the things that I've made touching the king.
Who is the king? God says my pen, my tongue is
the pen of a ready writer. So he's talking about the king.
He says you are fairer than the children of men.

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The king is fairer than the children of men.
Who is that king? Jesus Songs of Solomon chapter 5
verse 10 says they were asking me what is my beloved like?
Since my beloved is white and Ruddy, the word white actually
speaks of his blasting, blazing glory of righteousness.
Since my my beloved, this is Jesus.

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He's white and Ruddy. Ruddy speaks of his humanity.
The white speaks of his divinityand he's the chiefest among
10,000. Look at the next vase says his
head is like the most fine gold.This cannot be Solomon with a
woman problem thousand women. If I went back to do the

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calculation what to have slept around 1000 women, it was taken
3 1/2 years or so to touch everyone one night back-to-back
three men. He can he cannot be he cannot be
the one of the most fine gold. His locks are bushy and black as
a Raven. 12 His eyes are like the eyes of doves by the rivers

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of waters washed with milk. This cannot be Solomon.
This is our Jesus. He's beautiful.
Hebrews chapter one, verse 3 tells us.
Hebrews 1/3 shows us, he says, who being the brightness of His
glory, and the express image of His person, upholding all things

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by the Word of power, when He had by Himself pressed our sins.
Can we do passion of this verse?Can we do passion of this verse?
Can we do passion of this verse?Can we do passion of this verse?
He says The sun is the dazzling radiance of God's splendor.
God's splendor. The sun is the dazzling

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radiance, which is something is radiance.
What does it mean? It's bright, it's beautiful,
it's expressive, says The sun isthe dazzling radiance of God's
splendor, the exact expression of God's true nature, nature,
his mirror image, mirror images,splitting image.

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When you stand in front of your mirror, you don't see when you
when you see when there's a problem with what you are
looking at the mirror, it's actually what is standing in
front of the mirror. That's all.
You see what you don't like in the mirror.
You don't break the mirror, you correct the substance.
Although there'll be no mirrors in this world by a lot of us are

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like Narcissus. You know who he was The wedding
narcissistic came from a guy whoone day saw his face.
He so looked at his face till hedied.
He died in the at the river where he saw his face.
That's why you get the wedding. Narcissistic.
The mirror is supposed to reflect the glory of God.

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We are supposed to see His glory.
But we come to the web looking for ourselves.
Can I say something? Am I shake your theology back
and say you don't come to God. You don't come to Jesus to find
your identity or when you come to God, He will show you and

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that's a lie. We come, we discover His
identity and when we see who He is, that's who we are.
We don't come looking for what He has not made.
We come looking for Him and whenwe find Him, that's why I showed
you some Isaac of the 40 verse 9says that the heart of our gods
will behold your God and this iswhat we see.
We are transformed, so we don't come looking for an identity

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that doesn't exist in Christ, His righteousness.
He gave us His faith, He gave usHis hope, He gave us His love.
So we don't come looking for things that Christ does not
provide. So if you're sitting here
because you got you think that you get a car in three months,
can I give you a good advice? Just go somewhere in Sawam or

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Latte. You'll see some hearts entered.
They will give you a car in an instant.
Not here. We come here to see Jesus so you
don't come looking for an identity.
You come, you see Him in His beauty that was as as He is, so
are we. So it is as He is.

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We are, so we are finding out what is He like.
And in unraveling what He is like, we find ourselves.
That's it. That's a lot of people become
born again and they still say I'm like this me dear.
If you joke me. As for me, me dear, I was born

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like this. Hey me, I'm like this.
Hey me. I don't have my temperament.
Stop that nonsense. It means you've not seen the
king. You've not behold beheld him
enough. Because when you see him, you'll
be you'll be transferred. He says, he says we with
unveiled faces, 2nd Corinthians are traversing, beholding us
like glass, the glory. What we behold is glory.

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Something is happening to us. So I'm struggling with sin.
I just behold that Jesus who wastempted in all points, but
without sin. I walk away from sin because
I've seen him who walked this earth without sin.
And the Bible doesn't even say that.
As he was, that would have been good boy.

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As he was, He split at the Red Sea.
I mean, as he was, He turned water into wine.
As he was, He healed a blind man.
As he was He, he cuts the fig tree and he died.
But as He is, it means as Jesus is right now at the right hand
of the Father, as Jesus is rightnow in heaven, in all His glory,

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in all His beauty, That's how I am.
That's how I am what happens. But what the Holy Ghost is
giving, He said through the Spirit.

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And that Spirit is not your spirit.
That Spirit is a capital S, the Holy Spirit.
Remember in John, John 14 and John 16 just that when the
Spirit comes, one of the things the Spirit will do is that He
will glorify Jesus. Remember from the teachers of
the minister of Jose. So He will glorify me in John

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chapter 1416 verse 13, John 1613.
And the word glorify is the worddoxazo.
It means to esteem, to make beautiful.
So how be it when the spirit of truth is come, He will guide you
into all truth, for he shall notspeak of himself.
So Pastor, stop telling us aboutyourself.
Stop telling us how many cars you have.

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Stop telling us your prayer hours.
Stop telling us the places you've ministered in.
I was telling my father-in-law on Monday.
I don't see it as a testimony. If 4000 people have watched your
YouTube ministration, it's not atestimony.
The testimony is the number of lives that have been molded to
look like Jesus after watching, because anybody can have watch
hours. It's not a testimony.

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Oh, but Pastor Adrian, you don'thave 4000.
I don't need it. If I can get 10 people in this
building to reflect their lives like Jesus and to look like
Jesus and to live like Jesus, I've made it.
What is 4000? And nobody looks like Jesus?
It's 4000 and nobody looks like Jesus about the Bible says that

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going into other world, you don't know what you're talking
about. So it's what you're going into
the world you're not going to make, you're not going to make,
I don't even know what word to use.
You're going to make converts. You're going to make disciples,
people whose lives are confirmed.
That's what we are going to makedisciples.
People who look like Jesus aftersitting here for two years, we

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should look like Jesus when I look at you like oh look like
Jesus is to look like your father son because you are you
are not beholding enough. I know how you behold Bible says
that when Moses was read in the first first Corinthians and

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three means reading is beholding.
He contrasts reading Moses beholding the glory and the
beauty of Christ. So as I read Christ and
Beholding Christ. Back to John 1613.
This is the Holy Spirit will glorify me.
He will glorify He would. He would make me big.

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He will not. He says he will lead into all
trades. Shall not speak of Himself.
The Spirit does not speak of himself.
The word doxas means to render or to esteem.
Glorious means to magnify. One of the things the Holy Ghost
does is that He removes the shackles in our eyes that blinds
us from seeing the glory of Christ, since when the Spirit

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comes, he will glorify me, He will make me look beautiful.
That's why any time you commune with the Holy Spirit, you fall
in love more with Jesus. So it brings me to this, I

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remember last meeting, I made a statement and I said Satan
cannot remove the gospel. He cannot destroy the gospel, so
he blinds people from seeing thegospel.
I went back to the second renders of four, verse 4.
You know actually what he blindsthem to.
Paul actually gives another kindof a description of what the

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gospel is. The first Christian of four,
verse 4 says in whom the God of this world has blinded the eyes
of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel
of Christ. So the gospel is actually the
revelation of our glorious Christ.
That's what he blinds them to. So he blinds from seeing that

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Jesus is glorious. Then choose other things rather
than Jesus. So how do I wage war against my
flesh? I wage war by the world and I
wage war by consistently lookingwith wonder at Jesus.

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I see Him as he is his beauty. I'm just showing that He's
beautiful. So he said even in his death we
see his beauty. How did he die this kind of
death? For me, as I gazed on, as I
gazed at that, as I think about that, the reason why He died the
way He did was to help me kill. The sin which He killed is to
help me to be killing the sin which He killed in His flesh on

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the cross that's in my members. He died so I can kill it.
I kill it by consistently looking at him.
And as I keep changing and keep looking, the quality of my life
just keeps changing. Remember Moses in Hebrews 11

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ready. Last week I was a Moses able to
look at Egypt and see all the privileges of Egypt, all the
glories of Egypt, all the strength of Egypt.
Can we go back there? Hebrews 11 I know you remember
it. I don't want us to read it
again. For by faith Moses, when he was
born, go to his 24 by faith Moses when he came to four

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years, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
Chips in. Rather the key is actually in
verse 26. Look at verse 26.
Esteeming the reproach of Christ, greater riches, greater
riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect unto

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the recompense of the world. 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not
fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing it
means the way Moses was able to look at Egypt, and say, Look all
the pleasures of Egypt, all thathappened.
I have told you Egypt is the type of the world.

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So the joys in the world, the beauty in the world, the beauty
of sex, the beauty of sex beforemarriage, the beauty of
pornography and masturbation andalcohol and womanizing and
drinking and blood money and getrich quick easy methods.

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The reason you that the way you'll be able to skip all that
and the way you'll be able to run away from all that is by
seeing an invisible God who is beautiful.
When I heard someone say when wesee the invisible, we will do
the impossible, and I said no. When we see the invisible, we
will love the invisible and we'll forsake the world because

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we realize that he's infinitely beautiful.
Anything we put side by side with Christ will fail in
comparison. It's beautiful.
It's true. When you see the invisible, you
do the impossible. But contextually, Moses was not
doing impossible. He was running away from
opportunities by seeing the invisible.

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One was running away from Egypt in this small church.
If I have a little son, I'm surehe will be a lovely person.
If I have a 2 year old boy so lovely and people with smelly
mouth will be kissing my son. Imagine I have a daughter.

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After service, everybody wants to touch my daughter.
When you're coming to talk to me, I'm carrying my daughter.
You want to. If you do that, I'll slap you
because it slows brain development of the child.
You ask the child how are you doing?
You're fine, you're great, you are blessed not able to do that
man. Imagine I have a child here.

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If it's another baby crying while I'm preaching, they'll
say, why don't you take the babyout?
If it's my baby, oh, can you do something for him to keep quiet?
That's what growing up instead of the churches we attended.
When the pastor's son is misbehaving, nobody can tell
him. Stop the fooling and sit.
Oh, I was killed at that. I was tearing the pastor's

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children. My God, you are like any other
ordinary child. You are so born in sin like I
was born in sin. Sit there and stop the fooling.
My brother sit down so the pastor shout after service is
dirty. He has wallowed in sand because
nobody can tell them to sit downwhen they have a son here.

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He's got service, you can spank him.
Don't do I will tell your fathercorrect the child.
You are correct because I've been using God's way to correct
you. So there's little you can do for
me that you see my son misbehaving, You correct him.

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But Moses forsook Egypt. Why he's So what did Paul see
when he wrote that I may know him.
This after 30 years of working with God.
What did he see that I may know him and the power of his
resurrection. What did Paul see that he said

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I'm counting everything I have as rubbish that I will win
Christ. I'm sure you saw something.
What did he see? He doesn't tell us when he was
going to Damascus he saw Jesus and he doesn't tell us what
Jesus looked like. So the reason why we don't have
radical conventions amongst us is because we've not truly seen

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the King in his beauty. So people get born again today
and they go back to the world because they are not captivated
and enthralled by beauty. And not just any kind of beauty,
the beauty of Christ, to see him, to love him, to treasure
him, to want to be with him. We don't see that because at the
heart of the gospel we preach, we tell people to come.

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So he does something for them, not telling them that their
greatest treasure in the salvation journey is to have
God. So when we see the King in his
beauty and in his glory, that's how we wage war against sin.
When we say that Jesus is beautiful, real, and Jesus is
more beautiful than my feelings and my emotions.

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And I told the ladies, your emotions are not God, God is
God. Your emotions does not define
truth. God's word defines truth.
So when you wake up in the morning and your feelings are
some way, you don't bend God's word to fix your emotions.
You bend your emotions, you holdit and you cause it to submit to

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the truth of God's word. You don't look for the
scriptures to validate your problem or you don't look for
the scriptures to validate, oh, you've misbehaved.
They are looking for scriptures to validate why you did what you
did. No, you and a lot of you that's
why you are still trapped in sinbecause you are looking for
things to allay. But we are all human beings but

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didn't know be firewood. That's a silly demonic health
sponsored statement. But I have a message for you.
If your body is not firewood, it's a body not be firewood.
That's what they say but didn't know be firewood means that you
have feelings, but God doesn't deny that you have feelings.

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Just give them to me. Pour your affections on me.
I'm the one who can refine them,so pour them on me.
Bend that firewood. I'm never realizing that it

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would have. You'd have escaped a lot of
falls if you were consistently beholding the beauty of Christ.
Consistently you are always called like Jesus is so
beautiful, like he died for me as you, you can read some things
in the the world and you're likewow, like Jesus, he his moral

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perfections, his moral beauty, his official glory.
You're just odd. Wow.
So come and see God. He's a 49.
He said come and see God. So we come to behold, and what
we behold the world loses its joy that we become satisfied.

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Like what Psalm 17, verse 15 says, we become satisfied who
become satisfied in Him. The world becomes nauseating,
nauseating. When you see porn, you want to
vomit. Just As for me, I will behold
thy face in righteousness. And when I behold your face,

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I'll be satisfied. I'll be content, I'll be happy,
I'll be joyful because I've been.
I've beheld your face. When I see your face, I come
alive in satisfaction. So I wake up in the morning.
The first thing I go to is the word, to behold his face, and I
become satisfied. Yes, progress 27 Seven, says the

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full soul, lots the honeycomb. But to the hungry soul, every
bitter thing is sweet. He said that this hungry soul,
every bitter thing is sweet is when I see the King, I behold
his glory in his word. I read about Jesus.
I hear about Jesus when I'm satisfied my soul is not a
bitter soul. So even the sweetest pleasures

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and opportunities the world can offer me will be nauseating.
Oh, we have. Have you seen this girl?
She's nauseating. She's nauseating When a friend
suggests a girl to me, she's notborn again.
She doesn't have Holy Ghost, shedoesn't go to trash.
She doesn't have she's not no matter how physically striking

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and appealing she looks. Have you ever not gone to a
place? I'm not use the food.
It was well garnished, but you wanted to vomit.
So there's like a lady who is well garnished with eggs and
onions like earrings, but she's nauseating.
She wears big bangles. It looks like onions on come be
still, but she's was eating. You see the guy, He hasn't a

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boy. He's wearing them Crips pants
with the lines in the pants withthe clean shoes as a mirror
shoe. He's put on his tie and he's in
the he's in the best tuxedo. But when you see him, you feel
like vomiting. They're like, what is this?
But we are attracted because oursoul is hungry.
The soul is hungry. The flesh is not dead.

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So the flesh sees a flesh substance like magnetism and
magnetic substance, and the magnetism is that they were in
bed. You saw someone who is not born
again. You saw someone who is not born
again. It's not field of the Holy
Ghost. Bible calls them dogs.

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Outside the gates are dogs. Fornicators.
Harmony Bible calls them dogs. And you are petting a bulldog.
You're calling him baby. You see the King in his beauty.

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We'll be satisfied. I know you don't like my
preaching. You'll be satisfied.
Will you be satisfied when you see Jesus?
I'm not. You wish you knew this earlier,
it would have been fine. YouTube addictions will break.
Simple, simple. It took me about a year to learn

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what I'm teaching you. Because if you see me as
beautiful, if you treasure me, if you love me.
When they had an opportunity to fall, someone came to.
If you know the person was coming home at the person not
today like not today, OK, but not today.

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I'm I'm sorry why my soul is satisfied because sometimes
before you go and do the visitation and the lady wants
you to fall. You have communed with God.
You have fellowship in the scriptures.
When you come, you came with joy.
When the person say, hey, no, not today, but you said not

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today, for here it will happen today right here because the
soul is hungry and the soul is craving for a superior joy.
And that joy can only be found in Christ, in Christ Jesus, in
Christ. I know this is the preaching you

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don't want to hear. No, no you don't hear.
These are not common messages. We preach things to pamper your
ego, things to pamper your your worldliness.
Oh God is going to give you water keels.
God is going to give you. Please please have you for real
without the Holy Ghost has waterkeels more than you better ones.

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Have you been to what is the other one in the American
prison. This is the for real and that's
your role model When you have women like Deborah in the Bible,
you have women like Hannah in the Bible, you have women like
Ruth and Abigail. Has she been to on your status

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is a short 30 seconds motivationfrom hell spoken by all these
wealthy people who are hungry for Jesus themselves, but they
don't know that's why they're filling it with tattoos.
They're filling it with alcohol,they're filling it for men.
They're filling because they arehungry and that's your role
model. That's your role model.

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So I started with a scenario. What will you do if you found a
treasure of God, said it would change your life, but Jesus is
final than gold. Jesus is precious than gold.
Jesus is the one who can give you joy that after you express
this joy, then this peace when he gives, when Jesus gives you

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peace, someone is when someone dies to say rest in peace.
But the peace Jesus gave, even death cannot steal it.
So it brings us back to the snap.
What would you do if when you open this chest, it was God?
Your life will change better than what gold coins will do to

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you. It will change better, far
better, far better, far better, far better, far better, far
better. Far better.

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Far better. When you open the treasury box,
what was inside was not temporal.
It was eternal. It was God.
It was God in the box. God doesn't just offer wealth,
He is wealth. Not the kind that buys houses,

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but the kind that satisfies the soul.
In finding gold, you could wreckyour routine, but in finding God
you'll be awakened in awe. To find joy is to find God.
To find God is to find joy, to find joy that God cannot buy,

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and to find peace that death cannot steal.
The world will be no seating, noseating, no seating.
Mercier, can you talk to God that he should break from your

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eyes everything that has blind due to his glory talk to Him?

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Talk to him. Oh, large
thanks. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

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thank you Lord. I want to hear you lift your
voice and tell the Lord I want to desire you.
I want to desire you. I want to desire you lift your

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voice when you see how wonderfulhe is.
That's how we wage this war. We wage of the word, yes.
But when we go to the Word, we see his beauty, we see his
splendor. That's how we fight.
That's how we fight. He's too beautiful.
That's how we fight. That's how we fight.

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That's how we fight. Hora mande sharadoro sohai.
Oh yes, Lord. Open my eyes, Lord.

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I want to see Jesus, to reach out and love him and say that I
love you. Open my eyes.

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Help me to listen soon. Open my eyes.
I want to see Jesus. Open my eyes.
I want us to see Jesus, to reachout and touch truth and say that

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I love. Open my ears Lord, and help me
to listen. Sir, open my eyes.

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I want to see you. I always want to end this
series. My prayer.
I wrote a prayer for you. Can we pray this together with
your right hand lifted? Oh, Lord, thank you.
Can you say this with conviction?
Say. Oh Lord, thank you for the

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precious truth of your word. Truth that opens my eyes to the
pathway of victory over sin. The battle is not first with
fists clenched, but with eyes opened.

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Eyes that see the glory of the beautiful Christ.
When my soul is stunned by the splendor of Jesus, When my heart
is seized by His beauty and enthralled by His Majesty, sin

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loses its grip. This is how I fight, not by
willpower, but by wonder, not byduty, but by delight in the all
satisfying wealth of Christ. So today, Lord, I fight with

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wonder. Christ is my all, my joy and the
weapon by which I put sin to death.
Let this truth be the truth I breathe daily.

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Let it be the compass that leadsme moment by moment into the
freedom of holiness. Lead me, oh God, into victory,
not by exalting me, but by exalting your Son through him

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who loved me and gave himself for me.
Jesus Christ, my treasure in Jesus name.
Amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen.

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Jesus is beautiful. Jesus is beautiful.

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