Pastor Ronny Hooks Called To Be Holy

Episode Transcript

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Mm hm. God bless each of you that are joining
us today on Facebook lives Hi. I'm Pastor Ronnie Hooks
of the Word of Life John one fourteen Church located
in Troy, Alabama. And the Word became flesh, and we

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do well. We're become the president of His glory, full
of grace and truth. We thank God for you being
with us here on today, all of you from foreign now,
all over the country and over even in foreign countries
in the UK and over in Jamaica. We thank God
for you who are joining us on today. God's blessings

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to each of you on today. So with no further ado,
we're going to get ready to get started on today.
I'm going to start off with a word of prayer.

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Hallelujah.

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So open up your hearts and minds and prepare yourselves
to be ministered to by the spirit of Truth.

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The Father.

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We do thank you as always we give you glory
on and praise for with thanksgiving, Lord, we magnify you
over every circumstance, over every situation, over every problem. For
there's nothing we declare, nothing too hard for you. You
have given us authority over all the power of the enemy.
So we exercise that authority even right now, and declare

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that no weapon that the enemy is formed against us
shall posper, And every tongue that rights against us in judgment, Lord,
we condemn it. Even right now. We're buying principalities, power
and spiritual wickedness and high places. Glory, Hallylujah, you be
glory on and praise in the name of Jesus. Now Lord,

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as I bring myself to the throne of grace, Lord,
I ask Lord, that the Spirit of the Living God
that will hath in me, come forth and speak that
which is true. Let no flesh go in thy sight.
Give as you have given. The people are ear to
hear with the spirit of saying, Lord, open up their understanding.
Even right now, Lord, we're buying the works of the

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flesh that that would hinder us from hearing the truth.
Glory all that by shid, because we know that the
coroner mind is the enemy of God. Need indeed can
do the will of God. But if he be led
of the spirit, we will not fulfill the us of
the flesh. So Lord, we thank you, We give you
praise for the spirit going forth even right now for us.

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In Jesus name, we do pray and if you agree
with me on today, say amen and Amen hallelujah. All right,
I want you to open up your bibles on today.
Open up your bibles on today. We're gonna be in

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the Book of Peter one Peter, specifically the Book of
Peter First Peter First Peter. I want you to open
up your because I want you to read along with me.
I'm gonna give you two versions of this. I'm gonna
give you the King James version and I'm going to
give you another version, which is God called called God's
Word version, because I want to make this very clear

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of what the message is today. Because God is calling
for a people that He has created in this present day,
and he calls us a holy nation, a royal priesthood.
Glory to God, Hall in Lujah. Today we're going to
talk to uh minister to you from the subject of

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call to be holy, call to be holy, called to
be holy? How about shad yad I'm a shop Yeah,
thank you, Hall in Jjah. The Lord spoken to my
spirit wanted me to read this definition definition of holy

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organized or as or declared sacred by religious use or authority.
Listen again, they're dedicated devoted, recognized, specifically declared sacred by God,

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to be used by His authority or under His authority, hallelujah,
in service to God, the Church, and the religion of
as Paul puts it, to visit the widows, the orphans,

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and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. As we
were going through our Sunday school lesson this morning, to
be sanctified, to be consecrated by the word of God.
God send the message to consecrate us glory to God.
M hmm. Now we're gonna be in the Book of

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One Peter. Let me read a little bit about this book.
It says in the first Book of Peter, he encourages
his readers us to remain holy, love one another, continue
to seek God's word, and to remember who they are

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in Christ, or mind to remember who you are in Christ.
He gives instructions on proper Christian conduct in relation to unbelievers,
how we should live and how we should act in
the in front of or in the presence of unbelievers, hollyod.

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How we should relate and conduct ourselves concerning the governments
or those who have rule over us. There's a proper
conduct with Christians how we are to conduct ourselves with
our employers and with our families. There is a way

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that is conduct. There is a behavior that God expects
out of us as believers.

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Hallelujah.

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Once you become an heir of God and a joint
heir with Christ, you can't just keep doing what you
want to do. You can't just keep saying what you
want to say. We have to bring ourselves subject to
the will of God or to the world of God.
That's make it plain. Peter acknowledges that suffering will occur.

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Let me say this again. Some people have this fallacy
that once you get saved, you're not going to experience suffering.

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Peter acknowledges that suffering will occur, but.

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That there is a reason for it, and the believer
must be prepared to deal with it.

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You saved, now, Paul said.

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In chapter twelve and one and two, he said, I
beseech you there for a brother.

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I beg you, beg you to present your body.

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Now your body is going back to the dust because
you're bought with the price. Hey man, your body is
going back to the dust. You're gonna get a brand
new body. He said, Now give me your body as
a living sacrifice to be made holy and acceptable unto God.
Which is your reasonable service. That's your reasonable service. Now

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that's you're saved by God through faith. It's your reasonable
service to give yourself to God, to be you by
God a vessel unto honor.

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And He tells us to be transformed.

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Now the way you do this and by giving yourself
is be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So
what you can prove, what is that good and acceptable
and the perfect will of God. Don't let anybody tell
you that you can't be perfect. When God said, be
ye perfect for ayo God, imperfect, be ye holy for
ayo God?

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And holy?

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Why because now you operate under the spirit. Remember what
Paul said about to call on mind. It's the enemy
of God. Neither indeed on work can do the will
of God. But we have to be led of the spirit.
Now we're a spirit led people. We don't just say
what we want to do, and we don't just do
what we want to do. We don't do the first

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thing that pops up in our minds. We counsel God first,
and everything we do what in all of our ways
we acknowledge Him. So he can direct our past. Why
because he wants to put a covering over you. You
want to put a head of protection around you because
you're going into the world with his words. Hallelujah. You

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don't want to leave God's presence unprotected. Hallelujah. I often
say this, We know that all things that we know
that all things work together for good. To them that
love God, he said, if you love me, keep my commandments. Hallelujah.
To them that love God. To them who are called

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according to purpose or His purpose, not your purpose, said,
we die to ourselves. Now we live towards God, and
we have to be led of the spirit in order
to do that rightly dividing the word of truth, allowing
God's word to structure us, reconvict us, establish us, reconstruct

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our minds and our hearts, our whole being, preparing us
to be with Him as well as preparing us to
be used by Him in this earth, for we are
as his earthen vessels. He dwells in us through his
son Jesus Christ. And that's Romans two in twenty eight
for those of you who want the scriptures Romans two

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and twenty eight. Now let's go to our scripture for today.
Mighty God, hallylujah.

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Excuse me.

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First Peter Chapter one, First Peter, Chapter one. We're gouh
for our do this chapter one through twenty five. One Peter,
Chapter one, verses twelve through twenty five. Chapter Peter Chapter

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First Peter, Chapter one, verses twelve through twenty five. For
those who need to write this down, I prefer that
everyone wrote it down. One Peter, Chapter one, verses twelve
through twenty five. Now, as I said, I'm going to
read it to you first in the King James version.

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Then I will come back in another version. Started at
verse twelve. Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves,
talking about us, unto whom it was revealed not unto themselves,

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but unto us. They did minister the themes which are
now reported unto you by them that have preached the
Gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven,
which things the Angel design to look into verse thirteen. Wherefore,

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gird up your loins of your mind, gird up the
loins of your minds, be sober and hope to the
end for the grace that is to be brought unto
you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Let me read
that again. I want you to get that in your spirit.
Verse thirteen. Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind,

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be sober, prepare your mind. Remember you said in Rumors twelve,
be transformed by the knowing of your minds. Study to
show yourself for prove unto God. Gird up the loins
of your mind, be sober, be clear headed. All these
problems that you got given to God. Pollylujah, hope to

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the end for the grace that is to be brought
unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ, at the
revealing of Jesus Christ.

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In you.

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For verse fourteen, as obedient children, listen, as obedient children,
not have what we call them, bad disobedient children. I
would just say that, not disobedient children, which we have

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in our Sunday school class have been reading for weeks
about how Israel continuously with disobedient they would reject the
word of God. He says here, Not as obedient children.
Not fashioning yourselves according to the former lust. Remember James
said that you're in James one, that you're drawing away

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because of your own lust and the types according to
your former lust in your ignorance, according to your former
nust in your ignorance. Remember, let me remind you what
Jesus John said. I believe it's in chapter three. Men

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love darkness rather than light. What he's talking about is
we love to remain ignorant about the will of God,
thinking for whatever reason, thinking that we're going to escape
punishment because we seemingly don't know. But God has sent
a messenger down through the space of time to give
us the message of truth.

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Hallelujah.

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Fashioning yourself according to the former lost in your ignorance.
But as he which has called you is holy, so
be ye holy in all manner of conversation. So your
conversation has a lot to do with you being holy,

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because it is written, be ye holy, I am holy
Verse seventeen.

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And if you call on the.

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Father, and if you call on the Father, who without
respect the person's you according to every man's work past
the time of your soul journey here in fear. Now
you come out of fear.

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Now you are in faith.

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Hallelujah. Glory to God. God has ministered to you through
the Gospel the Word of faith Verse eighteen. Far as
much as you know that you were not redeemed with
corruptible things. He talking about the Word. The Word is truth. Hallelujah,
as silver and gold. From the vain conversation. You'll go

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and give the conversation the words used to go out
your mouth, received by tradition from your fathers, received by
tradition from your fathers, the habits and the and the
fables that they used to tell you that were not
of God's word. Hallelujah, from your Father's glory to God.

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But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a
lamb without blemish and without spot, who barely was fore
ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest
in these last time for you talking about us, who

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by him do believe in God. This is what he said,
who by him believe in God believe in God through
Christ Jesus. You can't do it without her. You must
believe that He's God. And you got to do it
the word. No man coming to the Father, but by
him believe in God that raised him up from the

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dead and gave him glory, that your faith and hope
might be what in God. God, hallelujah. Seeing you have
purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit
unto unframed love of the brotherren See that you love

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one another with a pure heart, fervently being born again,
not of corruptible seed. Talking about the Word. You're being
transformed in your mind and believing in your heart that
the Word is true, hallelujah, But of incorruptible by the
Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.

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The Word is established forever and ever, My God.

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For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory
of man as the flower of gras the grass withered,
and the flower and the flower there af fallth away.
But the Word of the Lord endureth forever. And this

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is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Now that's the King James version. Now I want you
to listen real heart, how it is verbalized in this version.

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Starting in verse twelve, again God revealed to the prophets
that the things they had spoken were not of their own.

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Benefit, but for yours, but for hours.

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But the prophets had spoken, the Holy Spirit, who was
sent from heaven, has now made known to you, those
who spread the Gospel the good news among you. These
are things that even the angels want to look.

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Into hollerwing you.

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Therefore, your minds must be clear and ready for action.
Place your confidence completely in what God's kindness will bring
you when Jesus Christ appears again. Because you are children
who obey God, don't live.

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The kind of lives you once lived.

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Once you live to satisfy your own desires because you
didn't know any better.

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My God, you're ignorant.

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But because of God, who calls you as holy, you
must be holy in every aspect of your life, not
just in going to church, not just in the church meeting,
not to in church work, but in every aspect of
your life. That's one of the reasons he mentions conversation,

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because you're gonna communicate everywhere you go and everything you do.
And just like Jesus said that the words of my mouth,
man does not live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceeded out of his mouth, lovely to God, hallelujah.
But because God has called it, becalled you, it's holy.

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You must be holy even as in every respect of
your life. Scripture says, be holy because I Am holy.
So if you well, if you call God your father,
now listen to this, if you call God your father,
live your time as temporary residents on earth in fear. Yeah,

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that sounds contradictory. Let me tell you what he's talking
about in fear. He said, if you call God your father,
live your lives here on this earth in fear. But
he's talking about the reverential fear of God. Were in
total respect of God. In other words, I cleave it
to myself as this that I'm afraid not to be

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in the will of God. I'm afraid not to speak
the word of God because of the consequences that could
happen if I speak anything other than the word of God,
because I've experienced that before in my former life, I
experienced being out of the will of God because that
brought death into my life. And I knew that it
brought death into my life because I reaped what I

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sold in that lifestyle. I reaped the world when when
I did simple bad things, I ended up being punished
much greater than the situation like it should have been.
I should have been punished for how many of you
have trusted somebody you knew it was supposed to ben

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your best of besties and they didn't do what you
thought they should have done. Matter of fact, they did
a lot worse than you expected of them. See, but
God is not that type of person. That's what type
of fear we talking about. A fear to go back
to what I used to do, A fear of not
giving God the respect that he does when he tells

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me to do good to them who persecute me.

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I fear not doing that.

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I fear not being able to do that because why
in order for me not to do that, I've got
to ask God to help me. Because God, I don't
see in me, like Paul said, I don't see in
me how to do that which is good. So Lord,
I'm asking you to help me to do that which
is good towards this person because it's not in me.

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When I feel about them is contrary to your word.

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But you told me that there's no good thing that
you would hold from them that walk up right before you,
and you told me that I.

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Have not because I ask not.

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So I'm asking you for the help that I need
to do that which is good and not continueing the
evil that I once did.

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Are y'all with me?

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Glory to God, calle Elujah, Glory to God. He is
the God who judges all people. He is a God
who judges all people by what they do, what they
have done. Let me tell you this. You got to
give an account for every deed done in this body.

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And unless it's not covering, unless it's covered by the
blood God gonna deed, you got to ask for forgiveness
out of a fervent and sincere heart, with the intent
not to commit it again. And that can only come
from God. Can you see what I'm going with this?

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Go with the God.

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That's why his conversation has to be continuously in your mouth.
You constantly have to be in communicate, like they used
to say, in communication with God. Because God Jesus is
the Way, the truth and the life, and no man
can come to the Father but by him. So you
need him as a constant God being led of the
spirit of truth.

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Hallelujah.

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He is the God who judges all people by what
they have done, and he doesn't play favorites. He does
not play favorites. Just because you're a Jew don't mean
you're gonna get in. Just because you go to church
doesn't mean you're gonna get in. But if you're willing

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and obedient you will eat. You'll eat the good of
the land. You will see God. The Bible says this.
Without holdiness, it's impossible to please go over to God.
Without holiness, no man shall see God. Calenlujah, verse eighteen.

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Realize that you weren't set free from the worthless life
handed down to you from your ancestors or your fathers
by a payment of silver and gold, which can be destroyed.
This is not given to you by your mothers and fathers,
by something that is tangible in this earth. But this

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is given to you by the spirit of the Living God,
the Word of God that is forever written. The word
is established forever. God's word will not return void. If
he said it, he'll knew it. And the word became flesh,
and it dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory,

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that of the only begotten of the Father, full of
grace and truth.

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He died on Calvis crosts, shedding his blood for.

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Our sins, a lamb, the lamb of God that was
created before the foundation of the world. Hallelujah, prepared for
our redemption. He was slave for our redemption. The blood
that was shame shed became ransom.

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For your life.

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When you received Jesus Christ as your lord and savior,
not just savior, but as your lord, the one who
masters in teaching you, the one who masters in leading
you to God, my God from glory, the one who
masters and sanctifying you and making you ready to be

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received by God. You don't think that you can get
the with corruptible hallelujah. You got to be transformed, hallelujah,
into the very image of God. That's what new birth
is about. Spiritual new birth, Glory to God nineteen. Rather,
the payment that freed you was the precious Blood of Christ,

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the lamb with no defects or imperfections, My God, hallelujah.
He is the lamb who was known a long ago
before the world existed. But for your good, but for
my good, he became publicly known in the last period
of time.

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Through him.

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You believe in God. It's only through him you believe
in God. You've heard people say I believe in God.
This scripture just got through saying that the only way
you can believe in God that you got to believe
him through Christ. But you got to experience Christ. In
other words, let me make this very plaint. You got

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to experience the word of God. You got to come
out of darkness, out of ignorance, and become knowledgeable of
the will of God. And by applying that wisdom in
your life, with the help of the Holy Ghost, the
spirit of Truth, who will guide you into the truth
your tutor, Hallelujah, you will be made perfect. The Bible

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Paul Peter said this, Hallelujah. Let me go back to Jesus.
Jesus prayed.

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For Peter.

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He said, the enemy, the devil want you, Peter. He
wants you, But I prayed that your faith feel it. Not,
he said. The Bible said this not after Hallelujah, after
you've been tried, after you go through, after you've been come,

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which means that we go through. He says, Strengthen your brothers.
When you go to First Peter, Chapter one, you'll find
that Peter did just what God told him to do,
that Jesus prayed for after he went through the things
that Jesus said he will have to go through. The
Bible said that he told them, after you suffered a

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little while, you will be made perfect. He's talking to
us now. After you suffered a little while, you will
be made perfect. See that word that God speaks to
you prepared you to be able to go through the
trials and the tribulations that many a time we try
to avoid. I'm telling you right now, quit trying to

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avoid it, and go through it. Say pastor, how you
know we're supposed to go through it. The Bible says,
head though they walked through the valley of the shadow
of death, they will fear no evil, for doubt a
with them thy rod and thy staff they comforted them.
Glory to God. And look at this, not only that,

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further proof why we will yet sinners. Christ died for
the udotment when he came to the earth, hallelujah.

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Man was against him.

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Why because he was the embodiment of the spirit of truth.
Before that, the spirit of truth could not come. But
he was the embodiment of the spirit of truth. And
when the truth comes, he comes to make you free.
And many times we don't know that we're bound. We

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don't know it. Why because we're ignorant. The Bible says
that men loved darkness rather than life. Why because their
deeds were evil. Nobody likes to be exposed. Nobody likes
to be exposed. So when we come to Christ. Check

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this out, Jesus said, because he is the offen, the
finish of our faith. And he said, for the joy
that was set before him, He endured the crost. There's
a lot of us that are saints, missing out on
something that God said that we can have, and we
don't get because we go through murmuring, complaining.

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Uh. Oh, we go through murmuring complaining. Joy.

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Jesus said, the work that I do, you shall do also,
and greater works, he said, Rejoice and be exceedingly glad,
for great is your reward, not just in heaven, but here,
for the joy that is set before him, and do
it the cross. He was talking about us being delivered saved.
Don't you know that your life has an effect on

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somebody else? Your granddaughter, your grandson, your neighbor, your friend,
and even your enemy. God delights in you being an
example before them so their souls can be saved. And
don't you know this, When you find out that they've
been converted, joy comes to you. I know it's true.

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When my parents and my brothers died, God promised me,
He told me. When I was incarcerated, He said, now
go and tell them what go and do to them,
do this, do that, and do this, and do that,
and tell them what I said. And I did what
God told me to do under the power of the
Holy Spirit. And when they died, I was getting ready
to ask God why, And I looked up to heaven

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and before I could open my mouth good, He said,
you did what I told you to do.

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And I receive my peace.

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And I felt the peace of God cover me in
that time, saints, and some people don't understand it, but
I began to see that the work that God had
given me had made it possible for them to be saved.

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See, no man can say who is saved.

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Because once a person leaves this earth to be after
the body, to be present with the Lord, your spirit
goes back to God, your spirit, but your soul is
in sleep. Your soul is asleep, waiting for the day
when Christ will return.

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Read your Bible Thesalonians chapter four, Hallelujah.

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Until you're raised from the dead, caught up in the
air to be with him, Hallelujah. Your soul is asleep.
Glory to God, hallelujah, Verse twenty one. Through him, you
believe in God who brought Christ back to life and

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gave him glory. So your faith and confidence and is
in God. Love each other with a warm love that
comes from your heart. What is he talking about? Love
with a warm love that comes from you are what
God resides in Christ, Jesus, in your heart. The love
that you love another person can't come from you. That

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is twisted, it's evil, it's wicked. It has to come
from the God in you. It has to be cause
Christ is in you.

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Listener.

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The Bible says that if you know me, you know
the Father because the Father is in me, and I'm
in the Father. That's what Jesus said. And he said,
now you are in me. Okay, So when God comes
in you through Christ Jesus. God always intended to be
with his people. Listen, mouth signed. Now he told Moses this.
He said, I desire to be in the midst of

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my people. But he told Moses to get down from here.
My people have rolled up to play. He said, I'm
gonna kill them all. Moses, big for the children in
your lives, and he spared their lives. So he said,
I'm gonna sit outside the camp in the tabernacle. I
can't be in the midst of them because if I do,
I'll kill them all.

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Glory to God. God again tried again.

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After that, he made the ark of the Covenant represented
the presence of God that sit outside the Uh, that
that sit outside the camp in the tabernacle. Y'all, I
remember that when Israel was captured, when in the Bonda,
the ark of the Covenant was captured. When they were relieved,

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when they were released, I remember that in the Uh,
notaik lag, but obed Edom had the Covenant, had the
ark of the Covenant, that had his house. And while
the ark of the Covenant the presidence of God. With
that old bed, they prospered. David went to get it.
When he brought eventually brought it back, that's another story.

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Eventually brought it back to Jerusalem, it was captured again
and lost. Now the presence of God has come to
be with us us through Christ Jesus.

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He abides in us through the sun. Hallelujah. So He
is love.

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God is love, and anything that is from love must
come from the God in us. If Christ be in you,
the hope of glory, my God. If Christ be in you,
the hope of glory, my God. After all you have
purified yourself by obeying the truth. As a result, you

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have a sensere love for each other.

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Hallelujah.

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And verse twenty three, you have been born again, not
from a seed that can be destroyed, but through God's
ever lasting word that can't be destroyed. That's why the
scripture says, all people are like grass, and all.

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Their beauty is like a flower of a field.

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The grass drives up, come and the flowers they drop off.
He said, But the word of God, the Lord, lasts forever.
The word is good news that was told to you.

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It was told to you.

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Jesus prayed in the seventeenth chapter of John. He prayed,
that's the Lord's prayer. What you see in seven is
the Lord's model prayer. But the Lord Jesus prayed in
saventh And he said, Father, I've given them thy word
as you have given it to me. He said, they

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are both yours and they are mine, and I've given
them your words. Now I send them out to give
the word.

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Hallelujah. Said I pray not.

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For the world, but I pray for those that are
in the world, My God from Glory. Verse thirt thirteen
tells us that we are to have confidence or hope
in Jesus Christ, and when he returns with the grace,
God promises you. Therefore we are to submit ourselves there

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were therefore we are we should submit ourselves to asking
God for the things for his will to be done
in our lives. That's one of the parent ship. Always
be on your life. After you get through asking, remember
Jesus in the guard of your semone. He said, Father,
if it be possible to take this cup.

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From me.

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In the flesh. He didn't want to go through it.
He knew and he knew what he had to go through.
Many time we don't even know what we get ready
to go through, but else we're doing it by faith.
Jesus knew what he was going through. He knew he
was going to go to die for Ronnie Hooks, that thief,

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that robber, that liar, that was disobedient to his parents,
wasn't a father to his child, wasn't a good brother,
wasn't a good friend who put on a form of righteousness,
who acted like he was a good young man.

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But he didn't know me.

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I'm going to die for him, he said, because of that,
not my will, but that I will be done. And see,
your life has the same opportunity. That's why we give
our lives to God as a living sacrifice. See, God
still has need of you. Although your flesh is corrupt.
Paul said this, I find no good thing in the flesh.

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But with the mind I served the law of God.
Flesh the law of sin. So I be land of
the spirit. Why because the law of sin is in
your flesh, but the law, the spirit of the life
that is in Christ. In Christ, Jesus will free you
from the law, sin and death. What is that the
word that transformed your mind, that gives you hope? When God,

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When when your flesh says do bad to them that
do bad to you, the word of God say do
good to them that do bad to you. That's gonna
save you. Because you're made like Christ. You're made like God.
First John, verses five, verse chapter five, verse thirteen through fourteen.

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First John, to those that are righting us down. First John,
Chapter five, verse thirteen and fourteen. These things have I
written unto you that believe on the name of the
Son of God, that you may know that He have
eternal life. Look here these things I have written unto

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you that believe on the name of the Son of God.
That ye may know that ye or you have eternal life,
and that ye may believe on the name of the
Son of God. Believe on the name of Jesus Christ,
the Word of God, the anointed.

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Word of God in fourteen.

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And this is the confidence that we have in Him,
not yourself, not your own wicked ways, not your own feelings.

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I feel like this, and I feel like.

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That, and I believe this, and I think this, and
I think that. Put that stuff away, and learn to
ask God what it is that he would have you
to do.

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And learn to ask God what it is he will
have you to think what He says.

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Think on those things that are pure, those things that
are just, those things that are right, if there being
a virtue, any praise, Think on those things I'm stinking
thinking will get us in trouble. That if you ask
anything according.

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To His will, he.

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Hears you, He heard us asking. We gotta get out
of the habit of thinking that we know already. And
even if God has taken you to the rock and
told you to smite the rock so you can get
some water out of it, don't mean he gonna tell

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you to smite the rock the second time. The second
time he might ask you to speak to the rock
like he did Moses. He told Moses, he said, spite,
smite the rock, and out of it came water. The
next time he told me, he said, Moses, speak to
the rock. Moses leaned to his own understanding and thought

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about what he did before, and he hit the rock.
And he was a curse because of it throughout. Because
he did Old Big God, he was supposed to speak
to the rock, and the rock would have gave him water.

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Now water came out.

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Of the rock when he smote it, but Moses could
not go over to the promised Lamb.

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Hallelujah.

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Romans twelve eighteen said, if it be possible, as much
as life in you, live peace of me with all men.

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If it's possible as much.

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As life in you, And let me say this, if
you put the word of God in you, God will
sustain you.

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Sometimes I can speak about this.

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I put so much junk in my body in my
old day that and I was already a trouble comprehending
in school. My reading comprehension wasn't enough to part. Okay,
I can say this now because God is able. Woo hallelujah.

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It wasn't enough to part. So I had trouble comprehending.
And I had only a handful of teachers that knew
how to deal with me. One of them was my
math teacher. She understood what was going on with me,
so she spent time with me. And there's nothing wrong
with the Bible, says Bard, with thods that are feeble, hallelujah.

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And she did just that. She worked with me and.

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Got the other kids to understand that they're gonna people
in their lives that don't understand as quickly as they do.
So God she helped me. And in the same manner,
God helped me. See, I had trouble remembering things, and
without God I still do. God made us of promise
in his word, he said, and you shall receive the Holygol,

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and he shall guide you into all truth, and he
shall bring to your rememberance those things he said. So
you got to let God teach you. You can't just
go teaching yourself. Put it before God. What am I
talking about? Acknowledging God in all of your ways? Let
God teach you. If even if for those who listen
this that in college or studying for a test, whatever

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you're doing pray, taking it before God. Say, God, teach me.
This is what I'm about to learn. So I give it.
The Bible says this, and I'm leaving some proverbs. He said,
commit your works unto the Lord, and he will. He
will establish your thoughts when you give that which God
has ordained for you. He said, in all of your ways,
acknowledge him. God will perfect that concerning you. He will

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bring it to your remembrance. Those things he said, I
know what I'm talking about. Hallelujah. That's why I'm able
to remember these scriptures because God fed them to me,
not me, halleli. Because my mind is a carnal thing.
It don't want it don't like God. Don't fool yourself.
It don't like God. It want to do what it

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want to do. And if I let go, it will
when I ain't letting go, hallelujah. Pre Bus twelve and
fourteen said this follow peace with all men, and holiness, without.

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Which no man shall see the Lord. We'll call to
be holy saints.

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We are called to be holy. It is a state
of being that only exists in Christ Jesus. It is
a state of being.

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Thank you ho it girls.

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It is a state of being that only exists in
Christ Jesus, and the only way that any man be
in Christ. He becomes a new creation. Old things have
to pass away. He got to let it go. All
things not some things. You can't hold some and keep others.

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All all things are become new. All things are become new.
We're called to be holy, We're called to be righteous.
And that is only a condition that you can find
in Christ teethus. You can't be outside of Christ and

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get to God and be that. You've got to be
in Him. What am I saying? What are you saying?
You got to be doers of the Word. The Word
has got to be in you, and you got to
speak the Word. You got to be in you.

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You got to be wrapped up in it.

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It's got to be around you. It's got to be
in you. It's got to be in your feet, it's
got to be in your hands. It's got to consume you.
That's where the baptism of the Holy Goos comes in.
Baptize into the Spirit of God. You got to be
submerged in the Holy Spirit, submerged in the Word.

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Hardelujah.

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That's why Paul said, I got to die daily I
got to die daily, and that's my that's my declaration.
I have to die daily. I have to yield to
the word of God daily. I'm gonna tell you this.
It's not gonna be pleasing to a lot of people,

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but it'll be beneficial to him, and it will be beneficial.

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We've got to endure this thing. We got to endure it.

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He who endures till the end shall be saved. Let's pray, Father,
it is in thy son, Jesus name, we come to you.
We humble ourselves under your mighty hand as we seek
your face here.

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Today we seek you, Lord, in.

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The midst of this this word of God that has
come to us us, the word of faith that comes
to us to keep us holy.

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It advises us.

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To stay in the faith and remember that we're Christ
in Christ, and then we're bought with the price. It
advises us that our conversation should be changed not by ourselves,
but of the Holy Spirit, who gives us what to say,
what not to say, who transform our minds, who orders

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our steps, who provides for us the works of our hands,
so that we become new creature creations in Christ.

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Jesus.

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We ask you Lord to do this in us and
through us, so that others might be saved as well
as ourselves, even our enemies. Now, Father, forgive us for
our sins. Forgive us for our shortcomings, the layer side,
the weights and the sins that do it so.

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Easy to set us.

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And we give you the praise that in the glory,
not of ourself, but through the Spirit and Jesus name.

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We pray.

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And if you believe that on today, say amen and Amen, Amen.

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Amen.

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Now, those of you who don't know Jesus in the
partner of your sins, wait a minute for you come
off from me. Uh. We're gonna pray for those who
don't know Jesus that are are still on Facebook. Ah,
We're gonna pray for him right now. Those of you
who don't know Jesus were listening on Facebook. Still we're asked.

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The Bible said that if you confess with your mouth
the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in your heart that
God raising from the dead, thou shall be saved. For
with the heart man believes Hallelujah, until rites of salvation
the company through your confession, Hallelujah. Confess come through your

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mouth word to God. So if you would repeat after me.
If you want to be saved, you got to confess
it with your mouth and believe it in your heart. Father, God,
forgive me for my sins. Come into my heart and

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be my Lord as well as my savior. I believe
that Jesus Christ is your son. I believe that he
died on the cross from my sin, and I believe
that the same spirit that raised him up from the
dead will also raise me up from dead. Words. Father,

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help me to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost
so I can be a witness of Christ.

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Jesus. I thank you.

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I believe this by faith that I'm saved in Jesus's name.
I pray Amen and Amen. Now after praying that prayer,
any one of you who have done that out of
the earnestness of God, you are saved by grace. It's
a gift. It's a gift. You haven't done anything to
earn it. You just confess that the blood that Jesus

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shed was for you, and that you know that you
sin and live in sin. And now you're giving yourself
to God to be transformed and be converted and to
be made whole, sanctified, filled.

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With the honly Ghost.

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Hollelujah, and that being known by you, you have the
blessed hope of Jesus Christ. When you go through I
recommend that you ask God to go with you every
moment of your life.

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And too.

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You have need of a church that you can learn
the Word of God and be instructed the Word of God.
Now we are available in this ministry, the Word of
Life John one fourteen Church. It's a virtual ministry. If
you look on my Facebook page you will find the

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you will find our hours of worship, service and other
information is concerning this ministry. You can also look on
YouTube under pastoral onic Hooks. You can find us on
Whole Gospel Radio station during the course of a week
as well. Now, if you feel like you want to

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be in a church, a physical church close to you,
we can help you in that as well. Contact us
because we have contacts all over and we problem with
the grace of about the grace of God and with
them of the Holy Ghost. We can help you get
into a word based church of spirit filled church so

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you can learn more about God in Christ Jesus. And
we thank God for you. We thank God for each
of you being with us on today. We'll ask God's
blessing to be upon all of you, and that the
Word flows through you, flows through you richly. God bless you,
God keep you, and the Lord make his face to

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shine upon each of us.

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Amen. Amen, Amen, Amen,