Pastor Ronny Hooks Sunday Morning -Foot Washing, True Humility

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Good morning to each of you in Central Standard Time
and those of you that are in Easter Standing Time
that are watching. Good afternoon as well, and those in Pacific.
Good morning to all of you all around the country

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and even in where this is aired over the Internet
and over the radio stations Whole Gospel Radio Station YouTube.
On the Pastoreranie Hooks and hallylujah in the UK. God
bless each of you that are joining us on today.

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I'm Pastor Roani Hooks of the Word of Life John
one fourteen Church located here in Troy, Alabama. We thank
God for each of you for being with us on today.
We know that you have many other choices, and we
thank God that you've chosen to be with us on today. Hallelujah.

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We're no further ado. We're going to get started by
having a word of prayer. Our Father, our Father, which
art in heaven hollowed. Be thy name, Thy Kingdom. Come.
Thine will be done in earth, even as it is

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in heaven. Father, give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debt to our trustpassors, that we
forgive those who are undebted to us and those who
have truspassed against us, lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from the evil one forgined the kingdom of
power and the glory forever. Help us, Lord, not to

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forget those things that you are teaching us in these
last and evil days, aboutcharacter, about how we should live,
and how we should think, and how we should behave
despite the the fulfilling of the scripture, Hallelujah. Evil in
the land. There is much evil, and the it's waxing worse,

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and the fulfillment of every scripture is being manifested right
before our eyes. Hallelujah, false prophets, men of deceivers of themselves.
And that is even a great falling away where men
and women that were once in the faith, operating in
the faith, have left, Hallelujah, their trust and belief in You,

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and they're practicing their own will. They're practicing, they're leading
to their own understanding, and they're not following the script
they're not obeying the word of God. They're trusting their name, emotions,
and their feelings. Hallelujah. They're being there a straight even
as it was in Missus and Michael's day. So Lord,

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we asks Father, in the name of Jesus that you
help us on today. Now, Lord, I ask that you
help me to decrease, that the spirit of the Living
God increase in me, even the spirit of truth that
will guide us into truth, that will preach the truth.
Preach only those themes that you have said. Father, Do
only those things that you have you call us to do,

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because we are your workmanship creating Christ Jesus. Not my will,
but find will be done. Not my ways performed, but
your ways be performed in me and through me. Lord, hallelujah,
don't leave me out. Father, I need your correction. I
need your spirit to dwell in me. Richly. I ask
you to forgive me for my sins, my shortcomings in

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the d up Go Shi the name of Jesus, I
do pray. Hallelujah, Amen and Amen again we greet you
in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
On this morning, Loujah, if you will, we want to
take a look at in reflection on what we've been

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ministering about for the last few weeks or so a month,
about the end times and what to expect and what
is going on in the world and the punishments of
the world or the judgment that is coming on the
world because of disobedience of its people, and then the

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evil in the land. I want you to think about something.
We have something in Sunday school and I want to
read this to you a little bit. The Holygos gave
me this just before we got started, and we are
studying this morning in our Sunday school lesson about no
tolerance for corrupt leaders and profits. And one of the

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things that it talked about is deceptive rulers. And it
says and neor Asian Empire was a very dominant and
real threat to Jerusalem at Michael's time. One of many
ways the Rusalm prepared for the conflict was to strengthen

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the economy so they would have the necessary resources to
fight off both foreign and domestic threats. So they prepared
for war. Hallelujah. But look at this, as today's texts suggests,
the ways they pursued economic stability were immoral and did

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not align the precepts of the Lord. Did not align
with the precepts of the Lord, where their stimulus plan
was based upon greed, exploitation, senseless taxes, and as a results,
moral corruption slowly, slowly crept in, slowly, crept in. So

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we see many of these same traits, if not all
of the same traits in our society today. They don't
just exist here in the United States. They exist all
over the world. This is nothing new. That's one of
the things that God has shown. It's nothing new under
the sun. But Jesus instituted something back when he was

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getting ready to depart to go back to his father.
Instituted a custom that was practiced by the Jews very much.
And I want us to we want to what not mean?
But the Holy Ghost is giving me to talk about this.

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It's called foot washing. It was a custom that some
churches do right now. They do foot washing when they
do communion. It's a sign of true humility, Jesus, Well,

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let me read it. The foot washing was a common
practice in the ancient world, especially when sandals were the
typical footwear, to offer guests water for washing their feet. However,
Jesus act of washing the disciples feet during the Last Supper,
which is found in John thirteen one through seventeen, is

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particularly significant. Listen to this, highlighting themes of humility, service,
and the cleansing power of Christ's sacrifice. Listen to what
it says, and the cleansing power of Christ's sacrifice his deeds,
what he did mattered. What he did brought the power

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of God and displayed in the world. For God so
loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
That's God's love coming to us and being presented to us.
That's what it means in Romans when he said he
commendeth his love towards us while we were yet sinnered.
The word commendeth me he presented. Hallelujah. And you gentlemen

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out there, you gentlemen, if there's any any gentleman still
left him. When you come on a date of when
you get ready to meet the one that you love,
sometimes you bring a bouquet of roses or single rods,
and you presented to her right, and the hope is

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that she receives it with gladness. Right, Okay. Now, he
came into his own and his own received them. Not
so this gift of love that God has for us,
man did not receive it very well. The Bible says,
men love darkness rather than light. Loory to God. In

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the beginning with the word the word was with God,
and the word was God. The same was in the
beginning with God and without him, there was not anything
made that was made, hallelujah. And then it goes on
to say that this is the John one, hallelujah, that
the light with the light of men, hallelujah. And we

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comprehended it. Not so this love that God gives to us,
we then comprehended. Man did not comprehend it. Why because
Jesus told the disciples that at one point during sin, hallelujah.
As sin reign. The law hallyly reveals sin worry to God.

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Men were not able to receive the spirit of truth.
They didn't want it because their deeds were evil. Go
over to God. It was the custom in that day.
Listen to this. It is found in Luke seventh chapter
thirty six through fifty. A sinful woman look at this.

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A sinful woman annoys Jesus' feet in the house of
the Pharisees. A sinful woman annoys Jesus' feet, washes his
feet in the house of the Pharisees. The dignitaries of
that time, the ones that supposed to be running the country,
and the weather's supposed to be keeping everything still being honorable.

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But listen to what it says, and Jesus noted that
the Pharisees didn't even offer him water to wash his feet.
It was the custom of the Jews to offer water
to wash your feet. While it becomes their feet were
dusty from walking in sandals from distances. Now you can't

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even some of you all can't even imagine what was
on the ground in those days. Animals travel the same roads.
Come on, now, people travelers, people that were no outhouses,
come on, let's be realistic. So as a as a

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means of helping or showing concern to another, they made
the customer of giving people wanted to watch their feet
that had been contaminating or are contaminated with everything that
was imaginary that you've seen walking on the same street
that you were walking on. M look at that now.

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I want you to go with me to chapter thirteen
of John. Chapter thirteen, John, we're talking about the act
of washing another person's feet. What Jesus introduces when he
did this. Yeah, sometimes we minimize the word of God.

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And I look at it like this, If God mentions it,
it's worth listening to. It's worth listening to. That is
a principle that is a rule, that is a command

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in what God or there's something to learn within what
God is saying, because his words will not God just
don't use words frivolously. He doesn't. I don't care what
we think, that how we feel. God does not use
this word frivolously. If he tells me to do good

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to somebody that's doing me bad, guess what I need
to do good? And if I don't find it within
me how to do it, I need to ask God
for help. Hello, somebody Chapter thirteen of John. Now I
want y'all to follow me here now before the feast,

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this is before the last Epper of the fact passover.
When Jesus knew that his hour was come right before
the cruci fixion, days before the crucifixion, that he should
depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved

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his own which word in the world, he loved them
unto the end. So he brought in He is the
manifested love of God that came from heaven to earth
to show forth the love of God to a people
that despised him, that hated him. That's that's that's not

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that's not toy with it. A man hated God they did.
If they if they don't love him, they hate it
because they did not obey his words. The supper being ended,
the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
Simon's son, to betray him. Jesus knowing that the Father

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had had given all things into his hands. No watch this,
Jesus knowing that the Father had given to him all
things into his hands, that he was come from God
and went to God. I don't know if you see

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the implication of that. God obeyed everything that his father
told him. He come from God, and he declared in
that sitting that he was going back to God now.
But he brought something with him that would help us

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get back to God. See, we come from God. I
don't know if you know it not. God made us,
and the Bible says, let us make man in our
image and our likeness. Adam saying, you know that by
man disobedience, sin came into the world. So Adam sining, hallelujah.
So we were outcasts, we were set apart with God

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separated himself from us, or we separated ourselves from God, hallelujah.
But by one man's obedience, salvation came in deliverance, so
we can go back to God. So Jesus pronounced that
and went to God. He came from God, and he
went to God. Verse four. He arises. Now he's sitting

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at the table. He arises from the supper and lay
aside his garments. He take off his garments, and he
took a towel and girded around himself. He wrapped the
towel around it. After that he poured water in a
basin and began to wash the disciple's feet and wipe
them with the towel. Wherewith he was girded. He took

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the towel that he had around his waist and he
wiped their feet. Then, nasty come on, now, their nasty feet.
We talked about this, their nasty feet. He went to
each one. Some of us would dare come on, even
get on our knees, and dare to wash somebody else's feet.

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But Jesus, the son of God, the lamb that was
slain before the foundation of the earth, came down to
present the level of God to us, and he's on
his knees. He took off his garments, laid him down,

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and he put a towel around his waist and began
to pour water in the basin to wash their feet.
Y'all need to hear this. We need to hear this.
He made himself subject too. He came to serve and
not to be served. Woo Halleujah. Then cometh he to

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Simon Peter. Y'all remember Simon. Y'all know Simon. Then he
came to Simon Peter, and Simon Peter said, unto him, Lord,
dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered and said up
to him, what I do to thou knowest not now?

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He said, Peter, what I'm doing now? You don't understand
it now. You don't understand it now, But thou shouldn't
know hereafter you're knowing it later on what this is about.
But now, let me wash your feet. And listen what
Peter said. Peter says, unto him, thou shalt never wash

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my feet. Jesus answer him. Listen to this. If I
wash not thou, If I wash thee not thou, hast
no part with me. This is the Word of God
that was made flesh God fourteen one fourteen. And the

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Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld
his glory. Look at this, God is showing forth his
glory and his humility. To wash this is God incordinated
in man. Jesus and Christ. Wash our feet he comes Peter.
Peter said, no, you will never wash my feet. But
Jesus said, if I don't wash you, you will never

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have any part in me. Go over to God or
with me with me. Not in me, but with me,
he says, with me Simon. Peter said, unto him, Lord,
not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
Peter now says, okay, I can't stand not to be

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with you. So whatever you need to do, do it.
Don't just wash my feet, wash my hands and my head. Hallelujah.
Jesus says, unto him, he that is washed, need not
save the wash. Say he excuse me. Jesus said, unto him,

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he that is washed needed not save to wash his feet,
but is clean every whit, and ye are clean, but
not all, not all of you are clean. Not all
of you are clean. Callelujah. For he knew who would

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betray him. Therefore he said, ye are not clean. So
after he had washed their feet and had taken the
garments and was set down again, he said unto them,
know ye what I have done to you? He called
me master and lord. You call me master and lord.

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Look at him. We call Jesus master and lord. You
call me master and lord. And I've said this before.
He's not just our savior, but he's our master and
he's our lord. Because we don't know how to govern ourselves.
So we look to God that off in the finish
of our faith, to Jesus Christ, who has a plan
for us to help us to live by every word

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that proceeds down the mouth forgot. This is what he says.
You call me master and Lord, and ye say, and
ye say, well, for I am I am Hollbach shop.
Remember what God told Moses. He said, I am that
I am Jesus saying here he said, I am, for

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I have given you an example. The Washington feet is
an example in an example that ye should do as
I have done to you. You should do as I
have done to you. Now this is an example. Jesus
went so far as to get on his knees, to

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blaze the garments to the side, to put a town
around his way, to wash the feet of twelve men,
and one of them is a devil. The dirty feet
that have been walking in the streets of Jerusalem and
all around to come to this supper. Can you imagine that? Now?

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He says, for I have given you an example that
ye should do as I have done. Reairly valley, I'll
see him to you. The servant is not greater than
the Lord, neither he that is sent greater than he

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that sent him. In other words, they are not greater
than Jesus, and Jesus is not greater than the Father.
But yet Jesus cannot to be served, but to serve.
Come on, now, this is an example for us. Were

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talking about Washington feet. We talking about being humility, the
state of humility, it really in what it really encompasses.
We're talking about leadership. We be an example in the world.
Even though the world is coming to pass and acting
like it's acting, we're experiencing this thing. This is what
we charge to do in the midst of all of this,

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just like it was then with Jesus. Remember what I said,
He said they would the Pharisees would. The Pharisees would
not even give him water to wash his feet in
their home. They are the leaders of the day, and
Jesus come to a disciples and humbles themself to wash

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their feet. He said, I'm giving I'm doing this as
an example to you. Glory to God. If you know
these things, happy are ye if you do them? Anybody
I know about all of this as I'm reading it

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to you. God called us to serve one another in
the beauty of holiness. He told us to humble ourselves
first Peter five six. Humble yourself under the mighty hand
of God, and He will exalt you in due time,
casting your cares upon him. Wife, because he cared for you. Why,

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because your adversary, the devil, as a ruined life, walkers
about seeking whom he made devour. God has given a solution,
a solution to not be devoured by the state of
this world. Yes he sees what's going on. Yes he
sees the corruption. Yes he sees the overtaxing. Yes he

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sees the stimulus. Yes he sees these things. But Jesus
is the way. He told you that he's going back
to the Father. He came from the Father, and he's
going back. And he said, follow me the example that
I've given to you. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Listen

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to proverbs. Hallelujah. Now you have this knowledge, right, he said,
Now you know these things, happy are you if you
do them? This is what proverb says, the proverbs of Solomon,
the son of David, King of Israel. I know to
know wisdom and instruction, Oh Lord to God, to know

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wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding, to
receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and equity,
to give the bill of t That's what they were,
the Pharisees and the saddest see who was supposed to

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been providing for Israel. But they weren't. Nothing in proverb
that says, to give stability to the simple, to the
young man, knowledge and discretion. A wise man will hear
and will increase in learning, my God, studying to show

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yourself approval to God. A workman that need not be ashamed,
rightly dividing a word of truth, increase in learning, and
a man of understanding. Yes, God knows you're gonna be
some things. He like. He talked, Peter, You're not gonna
understand now, but lady, you will. Hallelujah. Whenever the time

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when we're scratching our heads when we don't know. But
all we got to do is lean on Jesus a
little bit longer, and we'll understand. Old folks, you just say,
and you're understanding better by and by just be a
doer of the words. Hallelujah, obey Himjah, hallelujah. And me

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and of understanding shall attend unto wise counsels. You will
be God's counselors, because you will be charged as Jesus was.
Jesus said, you know, and you'll be doing the same thing.
You'll be going out counseling, but you're gonna be giving

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your words. You'll be given the words that they were
given to me by my Father, and I gave them
to the Holy ghost, and the holy ghosts give them
to you, and you give them to those whom I
send you to. Not your words, not your feelings, not
your understanding, but the word of the Living God. Why

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because the word will not return void. It's going back
to God. Will it take you with it? Will this word?
He said, Peter, If I don't clean you, you have
no part in me. Go over to God. Listen here

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to understand proverbs and interpretation. The words of the wise,
they're dark sayings. To fear the Lord is the beginning
of knowledge. To fear the Lord. He's talking about reverential fear.
He's talking about the respect God. We talking about this
in our class today early this morning, about allowing the

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small things that we did not to continue to be done,
reverencing God, hallelujah, the beginning of knowledge, to fear the Lord,
to reverence God. To keep on doing what you're doing,
to show God that you truly hallelujah, you truly exalt
Him above everything, hallelujah. But fools don't get mad at me,

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But fools despise wisdom and instruction. Who is he talking
to those who will not listen to the wisdom of
God and those who will not follow the instruction of God.
If you're disobedient and you're not doing what the scripture
tells you to do, and they clearly tell you what

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to do in each case, and you're not doing it, God,
not me, is calling you a fool. Why a fool
rejects the wisdom of God. And it's the wisdom of
God that's gonna get you out of here, that's gonna

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take you back with him. He already said he came
and he's going back to the Father. He is the
word of God. So he gonna take whoever listened and
come over to God, whoever listens and obeys the word
of God and is going back with him, because what
he is Master and Lord. He said, you called me

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Master and Lord. And he said what he say, I
am be doings of what I said over to God. Hallelujah.
Further in Proverbs says this one in twenty, starting the
verse twenty on don hallelujah, were dropping down to twenty.

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Wisdom cries out. The wisdom of God is crying out,
she uttered her voice. In the streets wherever you go
to fulfill your lust, the wisdom of God going there
is trying to find you. When you're disobeeding, walking away

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from God, God is looking find you out. So when
you hear that hear the word of God, you think
that they're crazy out tell quote inscriptions. That's for you.
There's no place that you can hide from God. Going
to God and he's crying out for you, you and you. Yes,

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he's going to the dope house with you. Yes, he's
going into the gambling house with you. Yes he's going
into the deep blue sea. Yes, he's going in the
outer space. Yes, there's no place. The eyes of the
Lord is everywhere, but holding the good and the evil.
He's crying out for you. She cries in a cheap

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place of concourse. In the opening of the gates in
the city, she uttered her words, saying, how long these
simple ones will you? Love? Simplicity? And the scorners delight
in the scorning, and fools hate knowledge. Turn you at

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my reproof. That's rebuke comes. Turn you at my repuke. Behold,
I will pour out my spirit unto you. I will
make known my words unto you. Because I have called
and you refused, Lord to God, I have strengthened, stressed,

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excuse me. I have stretched out my head and no
man regarded. But you have set at not all my counsel,
and with none of my reproof. I also laughed at
your calamity m mm hmmm, because you didn't want it.

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I laughed at your calamity. I will mark when your
fear coming, when your fear coming as a desolation, and
your destruction coming as a world, When when distress and
anguish cometh upon you. See, many of us are cherishing

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this thing because we're rejecting knowledge and wisdom, distress and anguish.
And this is the word, Hallelujah, Glory to God. Then
shall they call upon me. Then shall they call upon
me and guess what? But I will not answer. They
shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

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Glory to God. For that they hated knowledge and did
not choose the fear, the fear of the Lord. They
would none of my counsel. They despise all my reproof, therefar.
Shall they eat of the fruit of their own way

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and be filled with their own devices. For the turn
the way of the simple slave veal and the poverty
of fools shall destroy them. But listen to this. But
who soul hearken unto me whoo shall dwell safely and

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shall cry it, shall quit, excuse me, shall quit from
fear of evil my God, from glory God doesn't completely
give upon us. Hallelujah, humility, thanks, humble yourself to hear

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what Jesus is telling us. Likewise, we're going to do
the same thing. The only way that you can do
these things or practice these things. And you got to
submit yourself under the mighty hand of God. And as
he told Peter and the rest of them. You would
do the same things. If you belong to me, you're
doing If you don't do them, you don't belong to me.

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You're not cleansed. The only way you can be cleansed
is that you practice what God tells you to practice. Listen,
receive his instruction. Listener. Instruction of wisdom and knowledge is
like reprogramming a computer. Let me make it plain. When

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they bring new software into a computer, it's a whole
new program. Blujah. The computer now has different and updated
information to use to make decisions. Right. They can make
better decisions for you and give you better instructions. Now

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the Word of God comes into you. Now you have
the word that is from God, that is above everything
who that is powerful than a two edged story, that
is able to discern the very intention of your own
heart because you will deceive yourself. Don't get it twisted.

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You will deceive yourself. Hallelujah. The Word comes in and
it tells you what God says, and what you think
and what you believe in what the world says. Now
you got a choice to make either do what God
says like you said, be a doer of the word,
or rejected and fowl after your own intellect, your own understanding,

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and be led astray, and these things will come upon you.
Go over to God. But whosoever hearkenings unto the unto
me shall dwell safely and shall quit from the fear
of evil. Now listen, David said this and song, for

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do one have mercy on me? Now we got this knowledge.
Now we know this about humility. It's more to it
than just wiping something. Jesus getting on the knees, washing
their feet. It was just an example of what we
need to be doing. Listen what David said, have mercy

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on child forty one, Have mercy on me, O God,
according to thy loving kindness, according unto the multitude of
that tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me. Listen
to it, Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse

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me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgression, and
my sin is ever before me against thee THEE. Only
have I sin and done this evil in thy sight,
that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear,

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when thou judgest lover to God, Behold, I was shaping
an iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold Thou desirest truth in the inward parts, hallelujah, And
in the hidden parts, Thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

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Purge me with hiss, and I shall be clean. Wash
me and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me
to hear joy and gladness. And that the bones which
thou hast broken may rejoice. That the bones with thout
those things that you stood on, those principles that you
stood on before, are broken. Now you don't stand on

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your own, you stand on the word of God. They
are broken. Hallelujah. So rejoice, hallelujah. Hide thy face from
my sin and blot out all my iniquities, creating me
a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me. Hallelujah.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, renew a right spirit within me. See,
we have to repent from this, this wickedness that we've adopted,
that the world has adopted, and we've been plagued with
by our predecessors, our forefathers. Hallelujah. The behavior the beliefs.

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Holl and humble ourselves that humility come into your lives
and learn how to serve one another. See because we
as they do. Excuse me, now, not excuse me. We
had as they do have some nasty feet, have some

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nasty feet that has been polluted with all kinds of jump.
Listen to this. I want to say it now, but
I'm gonna leave it to other. End rumor is twelve
one and two. He said, I BESEECHD to you there
for a brother. And Paul said, by the mercies of God,
that you present your body as a living sacrifice, holy

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acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And be
not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, so you can prove with it
that good and acceptable and the perfect will of God.
Calling Paul further says in the Fees in six of
fourteen fifteen, he said, stand there for having your loans

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girded about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness,
and your feet shroud with the preparation of the godel
of peace, and your feet shrouded with the preparation of
the Gospel of Peace. See, your feet are important. They
signify that you are going, that you are moving forward

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in the beauty of holiness. Now you don't work for
the devil no more. For even now you work for God.
You are agent of God, your heir of Christ. You're
a joint air with Christ. You're air of God. You're
a joint air with Christ. We're soul journals in the land. Hallelujah.
Our life is now up under the leadership and the

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apostleship of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, who is
our master and our teacher, our Lord. No more we
live by the dictations of the flesh the enemy. Hallelujah.
And my last verse is found in Isaiah fifty two
and seven. Behold, now this is why Jesus told Peter,

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if I don't wash your feet, you have no part
in me, because your feet are going to carry you
to give this gospel to somebody else. Even military, get this,
Even the military understood the importance of a man's feet.

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We used to call them brokes back in the day.
Those boots that men and soldiers were on their foot
protected their feet. Why because their feet carried them to
into battle. So it was imperative that the feet becovered
with the best thing that they They used to take

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the best of levers and make boots because they would
have to go places where they would encounter things that
could kill them. So the boot had to be able
to withstand a snake bite. The boot had to be
able to withstand if they stepped into something that could

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harm or hurt them. So the boot had to be
made out of the strictest quality. But listen what God
said about the feet. How beautiful he said, But defeat
a stride with the proparation of the Gospel of Peace
isaid two and seven said that how beautiful up on

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the mountains or the feet of him that bringeth good
tightings that publishes peace, that bringeth good, tightenings of good
to publish that published salvation. That said, unto sion, thy

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God raided, how beautiful are the feet that them that
carried the Gospel of peace? Humility, y'all, humility. The only
way up is down. The only way up is down.

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Jesus said again. He said, and that he was come
from God. He was come from God and went to God.
The word comes from God, and it's going back to

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God when you go with it as clean, O, will
God laugh at your calamity because you reject the word
of truth. We've been talking about the end time but

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this is the way. There is no other way. There
is no other way. The word the Bible tells us this.
As Jesus loved the church, saw out her husband love
his wife, and he gave himself. He sanctified the church

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with the washing of the water of the Word, in
which simply means he set the part of the church
apart to be used by God. Husbands, do your wives
the same way, set them apart as a precious jewel
of God. Don't forsake to give them the word of God.

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But you got to get the word of God yourself.
You got to get the word of God yourself. Wives,
Give that word to your children when they work in
the morning. Give it to him when he breakfast. Give
it to him when they walking away wherever you're going.

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Don't just hand him an iPad or a game boy
or something like that. Give him the word when they
sit down at dinner. Give him How do you do today?
What happened today is school? What happened out side, and
what happened today that you can share with me? Did
God bless you today? They can understand that, they can

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understand them. They are we teach him how to understand
what a blessing is, and what a curse is out
of the out of the mouth of the base. Y'all
daint praise. Come on now when they ford to go
to bed. Jesus loves me, this I know, for the
Bible tells me so. Little ones who will prid they

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all week? But he is strong. Yes, Jesus loved me. Yes,
put it in their spirits by the young, and the
word became flesh, and it dwelt among us, and we
beheld his glory. He humbled himself to the washing of feet,
fathering the name of Jesus, we thank you for this

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word on today. We thank you for this teaching today
of humility, simply by the washing of the feats, which
was then example of our position in life to serve
one another. Jesus came not to be served, but to serve.
And he washed the filthy, nasty feet of his disciples.

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And one of them was the devil who betrayed him.
But he's no respective person. He showed love even to
the one that was the son of pradition. My God,
love your enemies, even as I have loved you. He

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humbled himself, and Lord, likewise, help us not to question,
but to respond, even as Paul, Even as Peter questioned
and said he would never, but he changed. He repented, Father,

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even as David has said, lfuld the one. Let a
change be found in us, that we can go with you,
Jesus going to the Father, Jesus prayed that Father, though
that you have given me, I've kept, and I've given

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them thy word, Even that thou hast given thy word
to me, I've given it to them now as I
have glorified you glorified me. It's what he said, Hallelujah,
that they may be one, even as we are one, Father,
make us one, that we too can go back, but

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with a pure and clean heart. When will humble ourselves
under your mighty hand, Father, forgive us if our treuspasses,
our iniquities, disobedience, a lack of trust in you, forgive
us and Jesus lame and pray, Amen and Amen. Now,

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those of you who believe on this, we ask that
you receive the power from God to make those necessary
changes in your lives, so you no longer live according
to the dictations of this world, and allowing the principle
of this world to govern over your feelings and emotion.
But allow the world of God to urshe you into

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the humility or the posture of serving and not allowing
your feelings and emotion to dictate to you. To get
up off of your knees, stay on your knees while
you're in this earth, investment in this earth. Stay on
your knees, stay in the humble state. One thing the

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Lord showed me years ago. I was working in a
fast food restaurant and my job was to hire. My
job was to teach. My job was to hire and
to teach. And I had a quarter to meet. I
met my quarter and I said, good, I'm through. And

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somebody came and fired one of the people that I
just hired, and I said, man, it frustrated me. And
I went to the Lord. I said, Lord, when am
I gonna get some peace? And he said, you might
as well get used to it, because you're gonna be
teaching all your life. And what am I saying this

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is gonna be a post as long as you in
this earth is being a servant. So don't learn how
to rejoice in it and not complain about it. Am
I making sense? I hope I am to. Don't y'all
get off a Facebook I mean off of a mute
am I making sense? I want to make suy'all making sense.
Stay in that state and get your mind used to

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what you're called to do. Your called to be a servant.
Now you're giving your bodies to God. That's living sacrifices.
And for those of you who are not saved and
are not sure, it's simple. The Bible says in Romans
ten ninety ten. If you confess with your mouth the
Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in your heart that God

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is raising from the dead, dou shall be saved. It's
just that simple, confessing like David did, Lord, I have
sinned against you, and you alone have I sinned against?
He was repenting God. I don't want to be that
way no more. This is I want to be like
you want me to be. Teach me and make me

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into the vessel that you want me to be. Go
over to God. If you want to be that person
that gives the life fulling over to God and ask
God to come into your heart, Jesus to come into
your heart and help you repeat after me, Father, forgive me.
I have sinned and come short of your glory. I

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asked that Jesus coming too my heart and be my
Lord as well as my savior. I believe that he
is the son of God. I believe that he died
for my sins. And I believe that the spirit that
raised him up from the dead after three days will
raise me up from dead works as well. Lord. I
asked that you give me of your spirit, the spirit

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of truth, to make me out of a witness. My
feet can be covered with the preparation of the Gospel
of Peace as a witness of God. And I thank
me and I give you praise in Jesus' name. Amen. Now,
if you prayed that prayer, the Bible says you are saved. Now.
What you need to do right now is learn how
to walk in that belief. That's why you need to

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go to church. That's why you need to study to
show yourself a prove un to God. The Bible tells
you to study, each individual to study, show yourself a
proven to God. Why so you can be an example
to others, So you can become His workmanship. So God
can develop in you the works that He has planned
for you. God has plans for you. You don't have to

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think about it no more. God already has plans for you.
God already has plans for your life. So allow God
to teach you, he said. He says in his Word
for sake, not to assemble yourself as a man of
some is because man rejected the knowledge of God or

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the wisdom of God. Now you're welcome to join this
ministry or be a part of it, as long as
the Lord says. All of the information that you need
about us is found on my web Facebook page excuse
me Ronnie Hooks or Pastor Ronnie Hooks on YouTube, on

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the Word of Life John one fourteen Church on Facebook.
You can find all information about when our classes are,
when Sunday school, weekly meetings, and all of that information
about and how to contact us all on the website.
If you want it, you can find it on that. Now,
those who may want to go to a church or

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assembly that is in your era, please you can contact
us as well. And we have contacts all over all
over the nation and over various parts of the world.
I'll say, we have somebody that knows somebody that can
get you in contact with somebody that can help you
in assembling yourself with people that are like minded, because

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you need it's just like in AAA. You need to
be around people that are like minded, that will support
what you're trying to do. You can, you can't. You
cannot expect to not have fleas if you hang out
with dogs. Hello. So if you want to DISLIKEE, you

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have to learn how to be around those that are
like minded. Hallelujah. I think that's all I have for
you today. The Lord bless you, The Lord keep you,
and the Lord make his face to shout up on
each of you. Good evening, and God bless you all. Amen, Amen,

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and