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Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord, hallelujah. Well, we thank
God for each of you that are joining us on
today on Facebook Life. Hallelujah. I'm Pastor Ronnie Hooks of
the Word of Life, John one fourteen Church located in Troy, Alabama.
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Hallelujah.
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And the Word became blessed and we beheld a glory
that of the only begotten of the Father, full of
grace and truth.
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We thank God for being here today.
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We thank God for you who are joining us on
our broadcast today on this Sunday.
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Callelujah.
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A word of prayer before we go into what the
Lord had given me to talk about today, All minds clear,
Father in Heaven, thank you again for your amazing grace.
For you said where in our times of trouble call
upon you, and you said that what sin do abound,
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grace do much more about. And we believe that with
all of our hearts, mind, body, and soul. So Lord,
help us to receive the grace that you have already
commanded towards us, even while we were sinners, you commanded
towards us. So we receive your grace with gladness on today,
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the grace to do that which is right and pleasing
in your eyes. As we learned in our Sunday school
lesson today to have love one to the other, that
is the love of God, one to the God. Pay love,
a selfless love, probably a sacrificial love, not just in word,
but indeed having one to the other. Lord, So we
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thank you, we give you praise. We ask Lord, that
you forgive us for our sins, purage us for our iniquities,
for we know with mercy and truth, iniquity is purged
from us when we operate in mercy and in truth.
We also know, Lord, that all your words are right,
All your words are right, and your works are done
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in truth. According to your word your words, your works
are done in truth. So Lord, help us to be
doers of the words, not just hers on it and
walking in the truth of your word. That your work
will be established in heaven and ears and earth, even
in our hearts. So Lord, abide with us on today.
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Use me as an instrument to minister your word, to
teach your word, to preach your word as you give
it today, Father, touch the people, that they will have
an ear to hear what the spirit is saying and
a heart to receive it with gladness, hollering from By
your word you frame the worlds, and Lord will asked
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that you framed the Kingdom of God within the hearts
of men.
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We pray for our.
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Leaders all over the world. We pray that their hearts
return and minds returned to You.
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Father.
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We know that no good thing with you withhold from us,
and every secret and every plot that is conspired against
the people of God, they will fall into their own
wicked devices and their own traps. They would be snared
by their own devices, their own traps. And we know
Lord that you would supply all of our needs according
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your riches and glory through Christ Jesus. These are all
of the blessings we thank you and giving you praise
for in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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Amen, Again, we say thank you all for joining us
on today. We do our best to stay out of
the way and let the Holy Gos minister to you
as people.
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Hallelujah. I need the I need THEE. I need a
self sat if we are Lord, I need THEE. Oh, bless.
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Bless me now our Savior, as I come home.
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To to the Hallelujah, hallelujah uh.
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In times the song says, in times like these, we
need a savior.
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In times like these, we need a friend. Well, I
want to.
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Trouble you, you, you all in you that were the
I want to trouble you and your spirits Holy goes.
Leave me glory to God to think about this, what
I'm about to talk to you about today. I want
to trouble you. To think about this carefully in your lives.
I want to trouble you, Holy go speak to the people.
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Get all that you need from God, to get all
that you need from God. Now is not a time
that you should be depending on your social security. Now
is not a time that you should be depending on
your job. Now is not a time that you should
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be depending on your cars, your houses, your full one kase,
your bank accounts. Now is not a time for you
to have anything else that's going to lift itself up
as your total support system other than God, even to
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you know, even to you that don't know God, God,
hallelujah in the partner of your sins. How much of
your life? How much of your life is God a
part of Ask yourself that question. How much a part
of your life isde How much is He involved in
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your life all day, some of the day, just on Sundays,
or when you get in trouble and need help, or
even when somebody you care about needs help. Ask yourself.
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You can't do it on your own. You can't do
it by yourself. How much of God do you really
rely on? Ask yourself. Let's be honest what I said?
How much of God do you really rely on?
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Mhm? Is He truly at the center of your world?
Is He truly your total source?
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Hallelujah? Do you truly call on him all the time?
Do you truly study His word to show yourself approve
unto him? Or do you or this or this is
a defense when your asks when you're asked these things,
are you studying His words?
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And you?
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And you and you remember that you quoted a scripture
earlier this.
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Morning, not read it or studied it.
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Or you remember that you, uh, yeah, that you had
a daily bread that you read the day before, And
you say, yeah, I study the word of God. But
how much of a part of your life is he
really how Let's just think about it for a moment. Okay,
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let's just think about it for a moment. You don't
have to prove anything to me. Neither do you have
to prove it to anyone else at this time. But
this is about you. I'm talking about each one of
us individually. I know we'll call to have love one
to the other. But let's think about myself. You yourself
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right now? How much of God do you allow him
to intervene in your life?
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How much of Him do you really take? In?
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The Bible says in all of your ways, acknowledge Him,
and He will shall direct that path. Hallelujah. Turn with
me right quick too, Hebrews chapter twelve. Mm hmmm, uh huh,
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well well well, wow, wow, wow, that's not what I had.
That's not what I had. Y'all got to excuse me
for a minute. Uh my computer erased what I had,
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So that's all right. I run into these things periodically, okay, chure, okay,
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Now let me read this mm bed with me for
a second here, m h okay, okay. The Bible says
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this Philippians four in nineteen. But God shall supply all
of your needs according to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus.
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There is that is. Okay. God shall supply all of
your needs according to his riches in glory. By Christ Jesus.
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Turned with me to Philippians four and sixteen. Four and
sixteen started verse sixteen. For even in Thessalonia, sent once
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and again unto my necessity. This is Paul speaking, even
in Thessalonia. Ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit.
Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit
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that my that may abound to your account, that may
abound to your account, But I have all and abound.
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But I have all and abound.
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I am full, having received of Euphidius the things which
were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell,
sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God.
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In verse nineteen.
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But my God shall apply all of your needs according
to his riches and glory. By Christ Jesus. Again, how
much of God do you depend on? In this statement,
Paul reflects in Thessalonia he had need of some things,
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and there was only so much that those that were
around him could do. Let me give you a perfect example.
When I was faced with incarceration myself. This is back
thirty years ago, there was only so much my mother
father could do. Okay, even when I wanted to get
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out on bond and all of those things. You know,
there came a time that it wasn't feasible for me
to get out. There was only so much they could do.
Financial roadblocks impeded that from happening. And I there must say,
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most of all, it was the will of God that
I'd be where I was, that I would remain where
I was at that time. Okay, Now turn with me
he Brews chapter twelve. Hebrews Chapter twelve. Let me tell
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you about a little bit about Jesus right here. How
much of God do you need in your life?
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Here? Twelfth, starting in verse one.
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Wherefore, seeing we are compassed about with a great cloud
of witness, let us lay aside every weight and the
sin which do it so easily beset us, and let
us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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looking unto Jesus, the offer in the finish of our faith.
Who for the joy that would sit before him endued
the cross? Who for the joy that would sit before
him endure the cross? Now listen to this despising the
shame many times we read that have read the scripture,
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but we overlook what he despised the shame. What is
he talking about ignoring how it looked and how he failed.
We talked about how much of God do you really
He had to Uh, he had to ignore the reality
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of what was happening to him. He was shamed before me,
and he was ridiculed before men. He was laughed at,
he was gone. He was scourged for something that he
did not do, Lord of God. And he sat down
at the right hand of the throne of God despise
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the shame. And then he sat down at the right
hand of God. Now listen to this verse three, He said,
for consider him. He's talking to us, consider him that
endure such contradiction. M how much of God do you
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really use to resist the contradiction? What is he talking
about here? He said, the contradiction, the conflicts or the
opposing ideas. You all know what I'm talking about. When
you make up your mind to do that which is
right in the eyes of God, it's not always favorable
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with your friends or with those that are around you.
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Right.
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We talking about how much of God do you really use?
It's not when you use allow God to work in
your life. More, it's not always going to be favorable
in the eyes of those that are around you.
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There would be those around you say, well, you should
have did it this way.
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Even though when you say the Lord has leave me
this way, they're going to be those that say, well
you should I would have did it like this. I
would have did it like that, or I wouldn't have
did this. I wouldn't have did that. Jesus came into
the same type of conflicts, the same type of criticism,
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and this was of sinners, it says, of sinners against himself,
against them. At least she be wearied and faint in
your minds. When we start to allow the opinions of
others after we receive direction from God. Listen to me.
Now we're talking about using them the more of God.
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When we allow the opinions of the world and are
always to come in and try to stir up, stir
us up, and to acting in a way that is
not uh prescribed by God, on a way that is unrighteous.
The Bible says we be we we become wearied and
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faint in our minds.
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Your minds become troubled, and then you can get uh.
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There's one scripture says, uh be don't be double minded.
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You can have two schools of thought.
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Considering the two schools of thought, uh, the two reactions
that you that you are conceals.
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Okay.
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And when you operate like that, he said, don't think
that you should receive anything. Why because you're unsure. You're
not operating faith. You're not operating the belief of God.
You considered the opinion of others. And while Jesus on
the cross, all of this came on it. How much
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of God do we really use? Ask yourself. I'm gona
trying to jump with me to James chapter one. James
chapter one. These are a series of opposing questions that
I'm asking you, so you can challenge yourself, okay, James
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Chapter one, verse sixteen through eighteen. It says, do not error,
my beloved brother, when you consider these contradictions. And James said,
do not error, my beloved brother. He said, every good
and perfect gift come from Heaven above.
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Do not error. Don't let those contradictions. If you receive
the word.
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From the Lord, if you read it in your Bible,
and the Holy Ghost is guiding you to do a
certain thing, don't go to the left or to the right.
That's why it's needful that you study to show yourself
a proof to God, a workmen that need not be ashamed.
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Rightly dividing the word of truth. Hallelujah.
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He says there said listen to him. Do not error,
my beloved brother. Every good and perfect gift come from
heaven above. That's what you want, the gift of God
and coming down from the Father of lights. God gives
you the understanding. God gives you the knowledge to do.
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And what to do. And even when whom is no
vari answers.
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Variness, neither shadow of returning.
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Hallelujah. God, don't shift. We shift.
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We changed our minds. Now God will repent from what
he's city, Like with Nineph when ninephuck repented because of
what Johnath did cole and tell him. Jonah repented went
and told Nineph. The king of Ninepha repented. Okay, and
God repented, But that repenting was only for a season.
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God's judgment eventually came down upon them because they did
not change. I ran to this myself when it's like
and I was sharing this with the class this morning.
It's like a person that gets caught in the moment
that you get caught, you're sorry, but in the back
of your mind. You're planning to go and do what
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you're doing again anyway, Okay, he says. He said, there's
no variableness, neither shadow of turning of his own will be.
God he us with the word of truth that we
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should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Hallelujah.
He has begotten us with the word of truth. Now,
I was reading the other day Psalms thirty three and four.
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It goes something like this. He said, my word is true,
my word is right.
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Excuse me. My words are right.
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My words are right, and His works are done through
the truth. My words are right, and His works are
done through the truth. So anything that God tells you
to do, hallelujah, is already come from heaven above.
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Hallelujah.
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The gift to do it is already come from heaven above.
And God, don't God don't change his mind like that
and give you one thing to do and then take
it back. He follows through with it. Okay now, and
then James further goes on to say that so we
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can be like a first fruit. God wants to show
us off as like a first fruit, one that has
succeeded in the work that He's given us to do.
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God don't want us to fail. How much of God
do you really use? Now?
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He's setting all this up so you can fail, So
you're not a failure, but you're successful in the things
that He's given you do Why because He's already made
provisions for you to be able to do them.
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How much of God do you really access? Are you?
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How much of you do you really allow God to
have access of Do you truly give all of yourself
to God? Or do you give them disa portion of yourself?
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Hallelujah?
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First John one, Verse one says this, in the beginning
was the Word, and the word was with God, and
the Word was God the same within the beginning with God.
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Listen to this.
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All things were made by Him.
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All things. How much of God do you really gilt control.
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In your life? How much of God do you allow
to really work through you and for you? All things
were made by Him, and without him was not anything
made that was made?
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Think about it? Examine yourself.
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When you have come short, when you have liked according
to your understanding, was God in the midst of it?
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Was He really?
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Not because you said it, but because the evidence of
him you're using his word, you're using you're allowing the
Holy Ghost to guide you into the truth. Was it
evident there? Was it really him? Or was it you
or something else posing as God? And then you lay
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all the blame on God because of the so called failure.
There's no failure in God. Hallelujah. Look at her. I'm
gonna read something to you that helped me out a
lot in this is founding in Romans chapter eight.
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This really helped me.
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Verse one. He said, what shall we say then? If
God is for us? Now we talking about the God
that gives us a perfect gift. We're talking about the
God that made all things hallelujah. Right, and we're talking
about to God, the same God that supplies all of
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our needs.
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Hallelujah.
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He's already established himself as being loving you, not with
a sometime love or fate love, but true love. And
we're still yet holding over to God. Listen what he says,
What shall we say then? If God is for us,
who can be against us? Remember the contradiction of Jesus
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experienced the conflict even while he was doing that for
us and for them, giving that gold across for them,
He who knew no sin became sin. How much of
God do you, retaining yourself? Who can be against us?
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He that spareth not his own son, but delivered him
up for us all? How shall he not with him
also give us all things? How shall he not give
us all things? He didn't say some things, John, He
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knows that you have need of money to pay your rent.
He knows, Lisa, what you have need of your family
members to be saved. He knows the condition of c. J.
He knows the condition of Dexter. He knows what's going on.
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He knows the frailness of your body.
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And he says that.
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How shall he not with him also freely give us
all things? He's already given us a gift from heaven.
Who shall lay hallelujah, any thing to the charge of
God's elect?
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Is it not God that justified? Go over to God?
Who is he that condemn it? Is it Christ that died? Yea?
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Rather is it that is risen again? Who is even
at the right hand a go again of God? Who
also maketh intercession for us? And by the way, that's
thirty one through thirty five, not one intercession for us?
Who shall separate us from the love of God which
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is in Christ Jesus, who shall shall tribulation, tell distress,
shall persecution, shall famine or nakedness, or peril or sword
thirty six as it is written, for thy sake, we
are killed all the day long. How you killed because
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you suffer yourself to trusting God in everything, not just
in some things, but in everything. Hallelujah. We are killed
all the day long. We are accounted as for the
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slaughter glory to God. Nay, in all these things, we
are more than conquerors to Him that loved us. In
all of these things. They're gonna talk about you. They're
gonna say you should do this, versus that they're gonna
really cure you. And by doing it. One thing they
will not do a lot of them won't do is
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when you get it right, they won't come back, well
you did it right.
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They'll disappear.
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Into the woodwork, never admitting that you did the right thing.
That's not all. You got a few that will come
back and say, man, congratulations. But we talking about the
world here. The world is not accustomed to apologizing for
their error. They just keep on doing error, and they
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would love to see you continuing error.
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Thirty eight.
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For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, no angels,
no principalities, nor powers, nor anything present on things to come,
nor height, nor death, nor any other creature shall be
able to separate us from the Love of God which
is in Christ Jesus. Now I've said this before, and
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I said, I try to break this thing down so
it is applicable, applicable to our lives, make it doable.
I look at this as saying, from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, which is
in the Anointed Word, which is our Master, From the
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Anointed word that I put in my heart, that governs me,
that reproves me, it corrects me, that guides me into
the truth, that prepares me for works. That same words
that came down, that was made flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld his glory, that of the Father, full
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of grace and truth. Hallelujah. That same word, hallelujah, is
the love of God that he gave to us, that
we can put in our hearts. Hallelujah. We talked about
how much of God do you retaine, how much of
God do you allow to take over? So you can
truly die to self.
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Hallelujah.
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Hebrews thirteen and five says this, lay let your conversation
be without covetousness, great desire are something else. Don't let
your conversation change. Don't you know that life and deathert
in the power in your tongue. You can change your
circumstances with.
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What you say.
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Don't let thoughts come into your mind that are contrary
to what God says you are and what you can
do being mad of the spirit, So let your conversation
be in line with what you're believing God. For I
am in the head, and not to tell I'm above
and not beneath, I'm a Linda, or not only I'm
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blessed going in, I'm blessed coming out.
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I hearken unto your word.
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I intentionally listen to your word so I can perform it,
not by powering nor by my but by your spirit.
Whatever my hand touched is blessed, what my my, my
means of my means of survival, my means of finance,
or blessed by you. The bank accounts that I have
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are blessed by you. The deed the moneys that I
have are blessed by you. If somebody is still going,
you replace it. Hallelujah, Glory to God, hallelujah. So let
your conversation be conducive to what you believe in God
for and be content in such things as you have.
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Whatever you have, God allowed it to be so, so
find the blessing in the thing that you have. The
Bible says in Romans chapter eight that all things work
together for the good of those who love Him and
are the called according to His purpose.
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All things. So, instead of looking at the tragedy or
the dis association or the thing that you don't like,
ask God, what is it that you would have you?
What is it that he would he would have you
to do in that situation? God, you allow me to
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be here for a purpose, for a reason. There must
be a blessing here for me. There must be something
here for me to learn. That must be something for me,
somebody for me to bless. You have a work for
me to do here.
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It may be the rest from your it made to receive,
maybe to receive peace. You don't know how much of
God do you really have in you? Do you allowed
to take over? You?
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Go to God?
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Hallelujah. God says a yes and amen. My aunt told
me the other day that a preacher told her that
God has three answers, yes, no, and wait. I've heard
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that before. I've heard that before and even considered it before.
But as I was preparing myself yesterday for today going
over this, the Lord dropped in my spirit. He said,
look at my.
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Words, what does it say? And now this is what
I thought talking about. This is what I'm talking about.
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You got to be careful what people tell you versus
what you study and read. The scripture says in Second
Corinthians one in twenty for all my promises of God
in him, talking about Jesus, hallelujah, talking about the love
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of God that was made flesh, hallelujah, talking about the
one that was on the cross, that was ridiculed, and
talked about it and told that he shouldn't and told
what he shouldn't do and what he shouldn't do, talking
about him. All my promises of God in him are yeay.
And in him a man unto the glory of God
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by us. I don't see anywhere in there where it
says his promises in him that's the key. In him
are yeay. And amen. God's answer is it's not yes
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or no or wait, it's a yes and amen. God's
in Christ. When you pray according to the will of God.
When you are led by the spirit of God, we're
talking about how much of God.
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Dwelleth in you. When you're led of the spirit, you
pray in the spirit. You're lead of the spirit of God.
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His promises are yea and amen, not yes, no, await,
weight is a is a comes with the yes, wait
on the Lord, and be a good courage. He told
you yes, right.
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Now, wait on it. But the answer was what Yes.
The answer in Christ Jesus.
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When you make your abode, when you make your your
questions to God, when you make God, you're all in
all in your prayers and your conversation, in your thoughts
and your behavior hallelujah, meaning that you walk in the
will of God. The answer to your question, the answer
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to you what you ask of God, is yes.
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I didn't see nothing else in there.
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That says no. Oh wait, you know what that comes
to those who are done Not in Christ Jesus. That's
not God's answer. That's the will of man. The will
of man says yes no wait, So my question again
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is how much of God? How much of God.
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Is in you? Get all you need from God in
all of your ways.
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Acknowledge Him and you will direct your past. Learn especially
in this day and time. We see so much evil
in the land, and the Bible has told us the
love of many will wax cold. He has already told
us that the things will wax worse than they are.
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Men will become lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God.
It's happening. He said that false prophets will come into
Latin the land and deceive many.
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It's happening.
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They represent say they represent God, but they deceive many.
And then he said that men will deceive themselves. It's happening.
But he said this, what sin do about grace? Do
much more about what sin do abound grace, do much
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more abound. Thank your Holy Ghost. I'm not trying to
preach this fast or over your head or subvertly.
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I want you to understand this.
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That if we go forward in this life that God
has given us less, learn more and more to rely
on God. He told us in Matthew, when you see
these things, don't be troubled. Quit rehearsing. What's happening to
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your four one k. God sees it.
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With Paul.
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He supplied his needs right, but they couldn't do God did.
God knows what you have need of. That's what he
told him in chapter six of Matthew. I already know
what you have needed. I closed the lilies of the
field and I fed the birds. They didn't so I
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fed them. How much more would I do? I love you,
owe you a little faith. I do already know what
you have need of. Didn't he tell through the through
King David in Psalms twenty three, he said, when you
go through the valley of death, fear no evil, for
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He is with you.
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His riding and staff comfort you. Didn't he say now?
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Even in that, then he tell you that He prepares
a table before you in the presence of your enemies.
Wait a minute, he prepares a table. This is what
I'm talking about. How much of God? Get everything you
need from God? He prepares a table before you in
the presence of your enemies. Then He anoint your here
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with oil, and he tells you, through his son Jesus,
have love for one another, and love your enemies as
I have loved you, not so you can judge them.
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I believe this.
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With the table that is spread before me, and the
anointing of oil on my that it overflows, I should
have more than enough to bless even my enemy with
loving kindness. Have I drawn me that sound familiar bless
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and curse? Not that sound familia. Do good to those
who would wrong you. That's how familia. Love your enemies.
That's not familia.
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M pray for.
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Them that despitefully use you and persecute you. That sound familia.
In the world, that's not the that's not the case.
But in Christ Jesus, that is the case. That is
the will of the Father. And to receive that. God
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says yes, yes, not maybe, not no, and not wait,
but he says yes. Get everything you need from God.
Quit selling out. Put the things of the world there.
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Day by day, the wealth of this world, the systems
of this world are failing. Some of us have put that,
put that livelihood into the things of this world. Everything
that they've got is banked on through this world succeed
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or the systems of this world succeeding when it becomes
a total collapse. I'm not telling you not to invest.
I'm not telling you to not put your money in banks.
I'm not telling you to not associate with people, but
I'm telling when I am sharing with you, is.
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You get it from God.
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You put all of your trust in God to put
trust to lead you and guide you what to do
and where to do. Acknowledge Him. He'll show you where
to go. Acknowledge him. He'll show you what to do.
Acknowledge him. He'll show you how to think. Acknowledge him.
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He'll show you what to put your hands to when
in a day and time that we need to really
examine ourselves, We really need to examine ourselves. I'm not
talking about examining your neighborhood so you can find fault
in them, or your loved one, so you can find
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fault in examine yourself, hold yourself accountable to you, just maybe,
just maybe, when you repent and and allow God make
a change in you, that reflection will convict another person
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around you and will allow them the opportunity to come
before God and be likewise converted. Amen, Amen, fathering the
name of Jesus, How much of you do we really retain?
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All that we need is in You God. Everything we need.
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We say with our mouths, or we put our trust
in our belief upon you, but with our and our behavior.
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Does not.
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Does not support what we say with our mouths. Help
us to see that, Lord of ourselves, so we can
come to you and ask for for the help that
we need to be converted, to be reproved, so we
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walk not in error, deceiving ourselves or even being deceived.
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We need your help. Lord. You said that you.
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Not only would you not leave us know where you forsakes,
you said Lord, that we will know the truth, and
the truth will make us free. Help us to know,
not only know the truth, but to receive the truth
with gladness in the mighty name of Jesus, so that
we may truly be free.
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Indeed, in Jesus name, we pray man a man.
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Now, those of you who have heard that prayer, we
pray that God will help you to make the right
decisions and examining yourself, don't just do it with your
own with your own little magnified glass. Get in the word.
The word will tell you who you are. It will
tell you who you are and who you who you
follow after I know what I'm talking about. And those
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of you who want this type of lifestyle, who want
to be sure in your dealings and want to stop
relying on what's going on in the world and start
relying on God totally.
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Uh.
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I asked you to join us and receive Jesus Christ
into your heart as Lord and savior h and through
the forgiveness of your sins, so he can treat you
as sons and not as foods, not as gentiles or bastards.
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Somebody trying to get in that not in You're trying
to come in another way. But Jesus Christ is the way,
the truth, and the light. I didn't mean that one
by bastard, bast those who are illegally Yeah, well, similar
to that. But I asked you to join the body
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of Christ. And the way you do that is real simple.
I'm not coming to you with great oritations and trickery
of words and things like this, just real simple. The
Bible says Romans ten nine and ten says, if you
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe
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in your heart that God raising from the dead, thou
shall be saved.
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Just as simple. The main ingredient that you got to believe.
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If you say this, say it believing that you want
some help, and you want God's help, and if you
want this help, repeat it me. Father God, I have sinned.
I made these bad mistakes, and I did the wrong things.
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And I need you to come into my heart. I
need you to forgive me and come into my heart
and be my lord and savior. To your son Jesus Christ.
I believe that he is your son. And I believe
that Jesus died on the cross from my sins. And
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I believe Father, that the same spirit that raised him
up from the dead would also raised me up from
dead works. And Jesus Mighty name, I pray, Lord, I
asked you to give me of your spirit, the Holy
Spirit that will guide me into all truth. Who will
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empower to be a witness. It is in Jesus Name,
I pray. Amen and Amen. Now, if you pray this prayer,
the Bible says you are saved. What that means is
that your life is now hidden with God through Christ
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Jesus is hidden. Now you start the process of learning
the nature of God.
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Learning the nature of God.
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So you need to get into a Bible study that
is of the Word. Get into a church, get out
to you a pastor that can be responsible for teaching you,
and you need one that is spirit led, not just
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anybody out there to say, hey, come follow me, ask
God to guide you into the right pastor. Now make
this invitation those if you who witnessed this or with
us on today, you're invited to join us. I'm Ronnie Hooks,
Pastor Ronnie Hooks of the Word of Life John one
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to fourteen Church.
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You can find my.
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Page the information about being a part of our services
and our teachings on my Facebook page Ronnie Hooks. All
the information would be on that, and then we have
a website under construction right now to be put out
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there and in their future, Lord say the same that
have that information of our times and the zoom address
to meet with us. You also you can find me
on a YouTube channel, thank God for It. Information on
my YouTube channel, Pastor Ronnie Hooks. And you can also
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listen to us on Hope Gospel Radio station on Tuesday
nights and every day at two pm at two pm
Central Standard Time, and on iHeartRadio pull up Pastor Ronnie
Hooks on there. We'd be glad to help you and
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you can join us in our classes on We can
help you with finding a church that's near you, that
you can join experience that that fellowship with them as well.
Our desires that you be saved, our desires that you.
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Come into the Kingdom.
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Of God and dwell therein, not by anything else but
that to God be the glory. That is our purpose
and that is our calling. So I minister this word
with no restraints on me about loyalty none other than
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God my Lord is to God and to God's people
whom Heeds send me to. So that being said, thank
you for joining us on today. We pray God's blessing
me upon each of you, and let the Lord bless
you real good God bless you, and good evening.
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Amen. Amen, Amen,
Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord, hallelujah. Well, we thank
God for each of you that are joining us on
today on Facebook Life. Hallelujah. I'm Pastor Ronnie Hooks of
the Word of Life, John one fourteen Church located in Troy, Alabama.
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Hallelujah.
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And the Word became blessed and we beheld a glory
that of the only begotten of the Father, full of
grace and truth.
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We thank God for being here today.
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We thank God for you who are joining us on
our broadcast today on this Sunday.
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Callelujah.
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A word of prayer before we go into what the
Lord had given me to talk about today, All minds clear,
Father in Heaven, thank you again for your amazing grace.
For you said where in our times of trouble call
upon you, and you said that what sin do abound,
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grace do much more about. And we believe that with
all of our hearts, mind, body, and soul. So Lord,
help us to receive the grace that you have already
commanded towards us, even while we were sinners, you commanded
towards us. So we receive your grace with gladness on today,
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the grace to do that which is right and pleasing
in your eyes. As we learned in our Sunday school
lesson today to have love one to the other, that
is the love of God, one to the God. Pay love,
a selfless love, probably a sacrificial love, not just in word,
but indeed having one to the other. Lord, So we
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thank you, we give you praise. We ask Lord, that
you forgive us for our sins, purage us for our iniquities,
for we know with mercy and truth, iniquity is purged
from us when we operate in mercy and in truth.
We also know, Lord, that all your words are right,
All your words are right, and your works are done
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in truth. According to your word your words, your works
are done in truth. So Lord, help us to be
doers of the words, not just hers on it and
walking in the truth of your word. That your work
will be established in heaven and ears and earth, even
in our hearts. So Lord, abide with us on today.
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Use me as an instrument to minister your word, to
teach your word, to preach your word as you give
it today, Father, touch the people, that they will have
an ear to hear what the spirit is saying and
a heart to receive it with gladness, hollering from By
your word you frame the worlds, and Lord will asked
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that you framed the Kingdom of God within the hearts
of men.
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We pray for our.
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Leaders all over the world. We pray that their hearts
return and minds returned to You.
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Father.
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We know that no good thing with you withhold from us,
and every secret and every plot that is conspired against
the people of God, they will fall into their own
wicked devices and their own traps. They would be snared
by their own devices, their own traps. And we know
Lord that you would supply all of our needs according
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your riches and glory through Christ Jesus. These are all
of the blessings we thank you and giving you praise
for in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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Amen, Again, we say thank you all for joining us
on today. We do our best to stay out of
the way and let the Holy Gos minister to you
as people.
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Hallelujah. I need the I need THEE. I need a
self sat if we are Lord, I need THEE. Oh, bless.
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Bless me now our Savior, as I come home.
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To to the Hallelujah, hallelujah uh.
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In times the song says, in times like these, we
need a savior.
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In times like these, we need a friend. Well, I
want to.
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Trouble you, you, you all in you that were the
I want to trouble you and your spirits Holy goes.
Leave me glory to God to think about this, what
I'm about to talk to you about today. I want
to trouble you. To think about this carefully in your lives.
I want to trouble you, Holy go speak to the people.
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Get all that you need from God, to get all
that you need from God. Now is not a time
that you should be depending on your social security. Now
is not a time that you should be depending on
your job. Now is not a time that you should
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be depending on your cars, your houses, your full one kase,
your bank accounts. Now is not a time for you
to have anything else that's going to lift itself up
as your total support system other than God, even to
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you know, even to you that don't know God, God,
hallelujah in the partner of your sins. How much of
your life? How much of your life is God a
part of Ask yourself that question. How much a part
of your life isde How much is He involved in
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your life all day, some of the day, just on Sundays,
or when you get in trouble and need help, or
even when somebody you care about needs help. Ask yourself.
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You can't do it on your own. You can't do
it by yourself. How much of God do you really
rely on? Ask yourself. Let's be honest what I said?
How much of God do you really rely on?
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Mhm? Is He truly at the center of your world?
Is He truly your total source?
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Hallelujah? Do you truly call on him all the time?
Do you truly study His word to show yourself approve
unto him? Or do you or this or this is
a defense when your asks when you're asked these things,
are you studying His words?
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And you?
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And you and you remember that you quoted a scripture
earlier this.
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Morning, not read it or studied it.
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Or you remember that you, uh, yeah, that you had
a daily bread that you read the day before, And
you say, yeah, I study the word of God. But
how much of a part of your life is he
really how Let's just think about it for a moment. Okay,
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let's just think about it for a moment. You don't
have to prove anything to me. Neither do you have
to prove it to anyone else at this time. But
this is about you. I'm talking about each one of
us individually. I know we'll call to have love one
to the other. But let's think about myself. You yourself
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right now? How much of God do you allow him
to intervene in your life?
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How much of Him do you really take? In?
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The Bible says in all of your ways, acknowledge Him,
and He will shall direct that path. Hallelujah. Turn with
me right quick too, Hebrews chapter twelve. Mm hmmm, uh huh,
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well well well, wow, wow, wow, that's not what I had.
That's not what I had. Y'all got to excuse me
for a minute. Uh my computer erased what I had,
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So that's all right. I run into these things periodically, okay, chure, okay,
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Now let me read this mm bed with me for
a second here, m h okay, okay. The Bible says
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this Philippians four in nineteen. But God shall supply all
of your needs according to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus.
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There is that is. Okay. God shall supply all of
your needs according to his riches in glory. By Christ Jesus.
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Turned with me to Philippians four and sixteen. Four and
sixteen started verse sixteen. For even in Thessalonia, sent once
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and again unto my necessity. This is Paul speaking, even
in Thessalonia. Ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit.
Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit
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that my that may abound to your account, that may
abound to your account, But I have all and abound.
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But I have all and abound.
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I am full, having received of Euphidius the things which
were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell,
sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God.
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In verse nineteen.
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But my God shall apply all of your needs according
to his riches and glory. By Christ Jesus. Again, how
much of God do you depend on? In this statement,
Paul reflects in Thessalonia he had need of some things,
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and there was only so much that those that were
around him could do. Let me give you a perfect example.
When I was faced with incarceration myself. This is back
thirty years ago, there was only so much my mother
father could do. Okay, even when I wanted to get
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out on bond and all of those things. You know,
there came a time that it wasn't feasible for me
to get out. There was only so much they could do.
Financial roadblocks impeded that from happening. And I there must say,
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most of all, it was the will of God that
I'd be where I was, that I would remain where
I was at that time. Okay, Now turn with me
he Brews chapter twelve. Hebrews Chapter twelve. Let me tell
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you about a little bit about Jesus right here. How
much of God do you need in your life?
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Here? Twelfth, starting in verse one.
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Wherefore, seeing we are compassed about with a great cloud
of witness, let us lay aside every weight and the
sin which do it so easily beset us, and let
us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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looking unto Jesus, the offer in the finish of our faith.
Who for the joy that would sit before him endued
the cross? Who for the joy that would sit before
him endure the cross? Now listen to this despising the
shame many times we read that have read the scripture,
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but we overlook what he despised the shame. What is
he talking about ignoring how it looked and how he failed.
We talked about how much of God do you really
He had to Uh, he had to ignore the reality
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of what was happening to him. He was shamed before me,
and he was ridiculed before men. He was laughed at,
he was gone. He was scourged for something that he
did not do, Lord of God. And he sat down
at the right hand of the throne of God despise
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the shame. And then he sat down at the right
hand of God. Now listen to this verse three, He said,
for consider him. He's talking to us, consider him that
endure such contradiction. M how much of God do you
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really use to resist the contradiction? What is he talking
about here? He said, the contradiction, the conflicts or the
opposing ideas. You all know what I'm talking about. When
you make up your mind to do that which is
right in the eyes of God, it's not always favorable
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with your friends or with those that are around you.
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Right.
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We talking about how much of God do you really use?
It's not when you use allow God to work in
your life. More, it's not always going to be favorable
in the eyes of those that are around you.
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There would be those around you say, well, you should
have did it this way.
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Even though when you say the Lord has leave me
this way, they're going to be those that say, well
you should I would have did it like this. I
would have did it like that, or I wouldn't have
did this. I wouldn't have did that. Jesus came into
the same type of conflicts, the same type of criticism,
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and this was of sinners, it says, of sinners against himself,
against them. At least she be wearied and faint in
your minds. When we start to allow the opinions of
others after we receive direction from God. Listen to me.
Now we're talking about using them the more of God.
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When we allow the opinions of the world and are
always to come in and try to stir up, stir
us up, and to acting in a way that is
not uh prescribed by God, on a way that is unrighteous.
The Bible says we be we we become wearied and
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faint in our minds.
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Your minds become troubled, and then you can get uh.
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There's one scripture says, uh be don't be double minded.
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You can have two schools of thought.
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Considering the two schools of thought, uh, the two reactions
that you that you are conceals.
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Okay.
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And when you operate like that, he said, don't think
that you should receive anything. Why because you're unsure. You're
not operating faith. You're not operating the belief of God.
You considered the opinion of others. And while Jesus on
the cross, all of this came on it. How much
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of God do we really use? Ask yourself. I'm gona
trying to jump with me to James chapter one. James
chapter one. These are a series of opposing questions that
I'm asking you, so you can challenge yourself, okay, James
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Chapter one, verse sixteen through eighteen. It says, do not error,
my beloved brother, when you consider these contradictions. And James said,
do not error, my beloved brother. He said, every good
and perfect gift come from Heaven above.
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Do not error. Don't let those contradictions. If you receive
the word.
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From the Lord, if you read it in your Bible,
and the Holy Ghost is guiding you to do a
certain thing, don't go to the left or to the right.
That's why it's needful that you study to show yourself
a proof to God, a workmen that need not be ashamed.
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Rightly dividing the word of truth. Hallelujah.
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He says there said listen to him. Do not error,
my beloved brother. Every good and perfect gift come from
heaven above. That's what you want, the gift of God
and coming down from the Father of lights. God gives
you the understanding. God gives you the knowledge to do.
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And what to do. And even when whom is no
vari answers.
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Variness, neither shadow of returning.
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Hallelujah. God, don't shift. We shift.
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We changed our minds. Now God will repent from what
he's city, Like with Nineph when ninephuck repented because of
what Johnath did cole and tell him. Jonah repented went
and told Nineph. The king of Ninepha repented. Okay, and
God repented, But that repenting was only for a season.
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God's judgment eventually came down upon them because they did
not change. I ran to this myself when it's like
and I was sharing this with the class this morning.
It's like a person that gets caught in the moment
that you get caught, you're sorry, but in the back
of your mind. You're planning to go and do what
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you're doing again anyway, Okay, he says. He said, there's
no variableness, neither shadow of turning of his own will be.
God he us with the word of truth that we
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should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Hallelujah.
He has begotten us with the word of truth. Now,
I was reading the other day Psalms thirty three and four.
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It goes something like this. He said, my word is true,
my word is right.
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Excuse me. My words are right.
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My words are right, and His works are done through
the truth. My words are right, and His works are
done through the truth. So anything that God tells you
to do, hallelujah, is already come from heaven above.
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Hallelujah.
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The gift to do it is already come from heaven above.
And God, don't God don't change his mind like that
and give you one thing to do and then take
it back. He follows through with it. Okay now, and
then James further goes on to say that so we
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can be like a first fruit. God wants to show
us off as like a first fruit, one that has
succeeded in the work that He's given us to do.
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God don't want us to fail. How much of God
do you really use? Now?
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He's setting all this up so you can fail, So
you're not a failure, but you're successful in the things
that He's given you do Why because He's already made
provisions for you to be able to do them.
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How much of God do you really access? Are you?
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How much of you do you really allow God to
have access of Do you truly give all of yourself
to God? Or do you give them disa portion of yourself?
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Hallelujah?
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First John one, Verse one says this, in the beginning
was the Word, and the word was with God, and
the Word was God the same within the beginning with God.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
All things were made by Him.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
All things. How much of God do you really gilt control.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
In your life? How much of God do you allow
to really work through you and for you? All things
were made by Him, and without him was not anything
made that was made?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Think about it? Examine yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
When you have come short, when you have liked according
to your understanding, was God in the midst of it?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Was He really?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Not because you said it, but because the evidence of
him you're using his word, you're using you're allowing the
Holy Ghost to guide you into the truth. Was it
evident there? Was it really him? Or was it you
or something else posing as God? And then you lay
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all the blame on God because of the so called failure.
There's no failure in God. Hallelujah. Look at her. I'm
gonna read something to you that helped me out a
lot in this is founding in Romans chapter eight.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
This really helped me.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Verse one. He said, what shall we say then? If
God is for us? Now we talking about the God
that gives us a perfect gift. We're talking about the
God that made all things hallelujah. Right, and we're talking
about to God, the same God that supplies all of
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our needs.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Hallelujah.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
He's already established himself as being loving you, not with
a sometime love or fate love, but true love. And
we're still yet holding over to God. Listen what he says,
What shall we say then? If God is for us,
who can be against us? Remember the contradiction of Jesus
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experienced the conflict even while he was doing that for
us and for them, giving that gold across for them,
He who knew no sin became sin. How much of
God do you, retaining yourself? Who can be against us?
(26:32):
He that spareth not his own son, but delivered him
up for us all? How shall he not with him
also give us all things? How shall he not give
us all things? He didn't say some things, John, He
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knows that you have need of money to pay your rent.
He knows, Lisa, what you have need of your family
members to be saved. He knows the condition of c. J.
He knows the condition of Dexter. He knows what's going on.
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He knows the frailness of your body.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And he says that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
How shall he not with him also freely give us
all things? He's already given us a gift from heaven.
Who shall lay hallelujah, any thing to the charge of
God's elect?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Is it not God that justified? Go over to God?
Who is he that condemn it? Is it Christ that died? Yea?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Rather is it that is risen again? Who is even
at the right hand a go again of God? Who
also maketh intercession for us? And by the way, that's
thirty one through thirty five, not one intercession for us?
Who shall separate us from the love of God which
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is in Christ Jesus, who shall shall tribulation, tell distress,
shall persecution, shall famine or nakedness, or peril or sword
thirty six as it is written, for thy sake, we
are killed all the day long. How you killed because
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you suffer yourself to trusting God in everything, not just
in some things, but in everything. Hallelujah. We are killed
all the day long. We are accounted as for the
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slaughter glory to God. Nay, in all these things, we
are more than conquerors to Him that loved us. In
all of these things. They're gonna talk about you. They're
gonna say you should do this, versus that they're gonna
really cure you. And by doing it. One thing they
will not do a lot of them won't do is
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when you get it right, they won't come back, well
you did it right.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
They'll disappear.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Into the woodwork, never admitting that you did the right thing.
That's not all. You got a few that will come
back and say, man, congratulations. But we talking about the
world here. The world is not accustomed to apologizing for
their error. They just keep on doing error, and they
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would love to see you continuing error.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, no angels,
no principalities, nor powers, nor anything present on things to come,
nor height, nor death, nor any other creature shall be
able to separate us from the Love of God which
is in Christ Jesus. Now I've said this before, and
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I said, I try to break this thing down so
it is applicable, applicable to our lives, make it doable.
I look at this as saying, from the love of
God which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, which is
in the Anointed Word, which is our Master, From the
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Anointed word that I put in my heart, that governs me,
that reproves me, it corrects me, that guides me into
the truth, that prepares me for works. That same words
that came down, that was made flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld his glory, that of the Father, full
(31:07):
of grace and truth. Hallelujah. That same word, hallelujah, is
the love of God that he gave to us, that
we can put in our hearts. Hallelujah. We talked about
how much of God do you retaine, how much of
God do you allow to take over? So you can
truly die to self.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Hallelujah.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Hebrews thirteen and five says this, lay let your conversation
be without covetousness, great desire are something else. Don't let
your conversation change. Don't you know that life and deathert
in the power in your tongue. You can change your
circumstances with.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
What you say.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Don't let thoughts come into your mind that are contrary
to what God says you are and what you can
do being mad of the spirit, So let your conversation
be in line with what you're believing God. For I
am in the head, and not to tell I'm above
and not beneath, I'm a Linda, or not only I'm
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blessed going in, I'm blessed coming out.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I hearken unto your word.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I intentionally listen to your word so I can perform it,
not by powering nor by my but by your spirit.
Whatever my hand touched is blessed, what my my, my
means of my means of survival, my means of finance,
or blessed by you. The bank accounts that I have
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are blessed by you. The deed the moneys that I
have are blessed by you. If somebody is still going,
you replace it. Hallelujah, Glory to God, hallelujah. So let
your conversation be conducive to what you believe in God
for and be content in such things as you have.
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Whatever you have, God allowed it to be so, so
find the blessing in the thing that you have. The
Bible says in Romans chapter eight that all things work
together for the good of those who love Him and
are the called according to His purpose.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
All things. So, instead of looking at the tragedy or
the dis association or the thing that you don't like,
ask God, what is it that you would have you?
What is it that he would he would have you
to do in that situation? God, you allow me to
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be here for a purpose, for a reason. There must
be a blessing here for me. There must be something
here for me to learn. That must be something for me,
somebody for me to bless. You have a work for
me to do here.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
It may be the rest from your it made to receive,
maybe to receive peace. You don't know how much of
God do you really have in you? Do you allowed
to take over? You?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Go to God?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Hallelujah. God says a yes and amen. My aunt told
me the other day that a preacher told her that
God has three answers, yes, no, and wait. I've heard
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that before. I've heard that before and even considered it before.
But as I was preparing myself yesterday for today going
over this, the Lord dropped in my spirit. He said,
look at my.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Words, what does it say? And now this is what
I thought talking about. This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You got to be careful what people tell you versus
what you study and read. The scripture says in Second
Corinthians one in twenty for all my promises of God
in him, talking about Jesus, hallelujah, talking about the love
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of God that was made flesh, hallelujah, talking about the
one that was on the cross, that was ridiculed, and
talked about it and told that he shouldn't and told
what he shouldn't do and what he shouldn't do, talking
about him. All my promises of God in him are yeay.
And in him a man unto the glory of God
(35:45):
by us. I don't see anywhere in there where it
says his promises in him that's the key. In him
are yeay. And amen. God's answer is it's not yes
(36:06):
or no or wait, it's a yes and amen. God's
in Christ. When you pray according to the will of God.
When you are led by the spirit of God, we're
talking about how much of God.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Dwelleth in you. When you're led of the spirit, you
pray in the spirit. You're lead of the spirit of God.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
His promises are yea and amen, not yes, no, await,
weight is a is a comes with the yes, wait
on the Lord, and be a good courage. He told
you yes, right.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Now, wait on it. But the answer was what Yes.
The answer in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
When you make your abode, when you make your your
questions to God, when you make God, you're all in
all in your prayers and your conversation, in your thoughts
and your behavior hallelujah, meaning that you walk in the
will of God. The answer to your question, the answer
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to you what you ask of God, is yes.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I didn't see nothing else in there.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That says no. Oh wait, you know what that comes
to those who are done Not in Christ Jesus. That's
not God's answer. That's the will of man. The will
of man says yes no wait, So my question again
(38:07):
is how much of God? How much of God.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Is in you? Get all you need from God in
all of your ways.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Acknowledge Him and you will direct your past. Learn especially
in this day and time. We see so much evil
in the land, and the Bible has told us the
love of many will wax cold. He has already told
us that the things will wax worse than they are.
(38:50):
Men will become lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God.
It's happening. He said that false prophets will come into
Latin the land and deceive many.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
It's happening.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
They represent say they represent God, but they deceive many.
And then he said that men will deceive themselves. It's happening.
But he said this, what sin do about grace? Do
much more about what sin do abound grace, do much
(39:28):
more abound. Thank your Holy Ghost. I'm not trying to
preach this fast or over your head or subvertly.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
I want you to understand this.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
That if we go forward in this life that God
has given us less, learn more and more to rely
on God. He told us in Matthew, when you see
these things, don't be troubled. Quit rehearsing. What's happening to
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your four one k. God sees it.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
With Paul.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
He supplied his needs right, but they couldn't do God did.
God knows what you have need of. That's what he
told him in chapter six of Matthew. I already know
what you have needed. I closed the lilies of the
field and I fed the birds. They didn't so I
(40:35):
fed them. How much more would I do? I love you,
owe you a little faith. I do already know what
you have need of. Didn't he tell through the through
King David in Psalms twenty three, he said, when you
go through the valley of death, fear no evil, for
(40:55):
He is with you.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
His riding and staff comfort you. Didn't he say now?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Even in that, then he tell you that He prepares
a table before you in the presence of your enemies.
Wait a minute, he prepares a table. This is what
I'm talking about. How much of God? Get everything you
need from God? He prepares a table before you in
the presence of your enemies. Then He anoint your here
(41:20):
with oil, and he tells you, through his son Jesus,
have love for one another, and love your enemies as
I have loved you, not so you can judge them.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
I believe this.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
With the table that is spread before me, and the
anointing of oil on my that it overflows, I should
have more than enough to bless even my enemy with
loving kindness. Have I drawn me that sound familiar bless
(42:02):
and curse? Not that sound familia. Do good to those
who would wrong you. That's how familia. Love your enemies.
That's not familia.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
M pray for.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Them that despitefully use you and persecute you. That sound familia.
In the world, that's not the that's not the case.
But in Christ Jesus, that is the case. That is
the will of the Father. And to receive that. God
(42:41):
says yes, yes, not maybe, not no, and not wait,
but he says yes. Get everything you need from God.
Quit selling out. Put the things of the world there.
(43:07):
Day by day, the wealth of this world, the systems
of this world are failing. Some of us have put that,
put that livelihood into the things of this world. Everything
that they've got is banked on through this world succeed
(43:33):
or the systems of this world succeeding when it becomes
a total collapse. I'm not telling you not to invest.
I'm not telling you to not put your money in banks.
I'm not telling you to not associate with people, but
I'm telling when I am sharing with you, is.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
You get it from God.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
You put all of your trust in God to put
trust to lead you and guide you what to do
and where to do. Acknowledge Him. He'll show you where
to go. Acknowledge him. He'll show you what to do.
Acknowledge him. He'll show you how to think. Acknowledge him.
(44:21):
He'll show you what to put your hands to when
in a day and time that we need to really
examine ourselves, We really need to examine ourselves. I'm not
talking about examining your neighborhood so you can find fault
in them, or your loved one, so you can find
(44:43):
fault in examine yourself, hold yourself accountable to you, just maybe,
just maybe, when you repent and and allow God make
a change in you, that reflection will convict another person
(45:06):
around you and will allow them the opportunity to come
before God and be likewise converted. Amen, Amen, fathering the
name of Jesus, How much of you do we really retain?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
All that we need is in You God. Everything we need.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
We say with our mouths, or we put our trust
in our belief upon you, but with our and our behavior.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Does not.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Does not support what we say with our mouths. Help
us to see that, Lord of ourselves, so we can
come to you and ask for for the help that
we need to be converted, to be reproved, so we
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walk not in error, deceiving ourselves or even being deceived.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
We need your help. Lord. You said that you.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Not only would you not leave us know where you forsakes,
you said Lord, that we will know the truth, and
the truth will make us free. Help us to know,
not only know the truth, but to receive the truth
with gladness in the mighty name of Jesus, so that
we may truly be free.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Indeed, in Jesus name, we pray man a man.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Now, those of you who have heard that prayer, we
pray that God will help you to make the right
decisions and examining yourself, don't just do it with your
own with your own little magnified glass. Get in the word.
The word will tell you who you are. It will
tell you who you are and who you who you
follow after I know what I'm talking about. And those
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of you who want this type of lifestyle, who want
to be sure in your dealings and want to stop
relying on what's going on in the world and start
relying on God totally.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
I asked you to join us and receive Jesus Christ
into your heart as Lord and savior h and through
the forgiveness of your sins, so he can treat you
as sons and not as foods, not as gentiles or bastards.
(47:49):
Somebody trying to get in that not in You're trying
to come in another way. But Jesus Christ is the way,
the truth, and the light. I didn't mean that one
by bastard, bast those who are illegally Yeah, well, similar
to that. But I asked you to join the body
(48:15):
of Christ. And the way you do that is real simple.
I'm not coming to you with great oritations and trickery
of words and things like this, just real simple. The
Bible says Romans ten nine and ten says, if you
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe
(48:36):
in your heart that God raising from the dead, thou
shall be saved.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Just as simple. The main ingredient that you got to believe.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
If you say this, say it believing that you want
some help, and you want God's help, and if you
want this help, repeat it me. Father God, I have sinned.
I made these bad mistakes, and I did the wrong things.
(49:12):
And I need you to come into my heart. I
need you to forgive me and come into my heart
and be my lord and savior. To your son Jesus Christ.
I believe that he is your son. And I believe
that Jesus died on the cross from my sins. And
(49:36):
I believe Father, that the same spirit that raised him
up from the dead would also raised me up from
dead works. And Jesus Mighty name, I pray, Lord, I
asked you to give me of your spirit, the Holy
Spirit that will guide me into all truth. Who will
(49:59):
empower to be a witness. It is in Jesus Name,
I pray. Amen and Amen. Now, if you pray this prayer,
the Bible says you are saved. What that means is
that your life is now hidden with God through Christ
(50:20):
Jesus is hidden. Now you start the process of learning
the nature of God.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
Learning the nature of God.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
So you need to get into a Bible study that
is of the Word. Get into a church, get out
to you a pastor that can be responsible for teaching you,
and you need one that is spirit led, not just
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anybody out there to say, hey, come follow me, ask
God to guide you into the right pastor. Now make
this invitation those if you who witnessed this or with
us on today, you're invited to join us. I'm Ronnie Hooks,
Pastor Ronnie Hooks of the Word of Life John one
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to fourteen Church.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
You can find my.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
Page the information about being a part of our services
and our teachings on my Facebook page Ronnie Hooks. All
the information would be on that, and then we have
a website under construction right now to be put out
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there and in their future, Lord say the same that
have that information of our times and the zoom address
to meet with us. You also you can find me
on a YouTube channel, thank God for It. Information on
my YouTube channel, Pastor Ronnie Hooks. And you can also
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listen to us on Hope Gospel Radio station on Tuesday
nights and every day at two pm at two pm
Central Standard Time, and on iHeartRadio pull up Pastor Ronnie
Hooks on there. We'd be glad to help you and
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you can join us in our classes on We can
help you with finding a church that's near you, that
you can join experience that that fellowship with them as well.
Our desires that you be saved, our desires that you.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
Come into the Kingdom.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Of God and dwell therein, not by anything else but
that to God be the glory. That is our purpose
and that is our calling. So I minister this word
with no restraints on me about loyalty none other than
(53:06):
God my Lord is to God and to God's people
whom Heeds send me to. So that being said, thank
you for joining us on today. We pray God's blessing
me upon each of you, and let the Lord bless
you real good God bless you, and good evening.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Amen. Amen, Amen,
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