Pastor Ronny Hooks- Word Of Life John 1:14 Church- God Do You Even Care

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Hmmm mm hmm. To the God bless each of you
on this Sunday morning. I'm Pastor Ronnic Hook of the
Word of Life. Join John one fourteen Church here in Troy, Alabama. Hallelujah.

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And this is our Sunday morning worship. And the Word
became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory,
that of the only begotten of the Father, full of
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and uplift the name of Jesus by which man is
able to save the name of Jesus. So we thank

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God for each of you joined us today. Again I'm
passing Roy Hooks the Word of Life John four and
fourteen Church, and my wife is Lady Sandra Hooks, and
again thank God for each of you. With no further ado,
We're going to go ahead and get ready and get
and jump right off into the word of God on today. Father,

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thank you again for your grace and your mercy. We
thank you for this living hope and for your word
says that we read in Romans eight, that the hope
that is seen is not hope. Lord, we hope in you, hallelujah. Lord,
that you would come and make your abode in us,

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not just in our confession of faith, Lord, but in
a tangible, living sense, that we be doers of the
word and not just hears only, and that the spirit
of the Living God dwell in us. Who is our helper,
who is our teacher, who guides us into all truth,
and teaches us all things that you've said, and brings

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her to remember those things you have said. Halle He's
the catalyst of our thoughts, hallelujah, and he will even
tell us of things that we don't even know about.
He protects us through the walk that we, hallelujah, share
with hallelujah Him. So we thank you. We give you praise. Now, Lord,

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I asked that you help me to decrease that the
spirit of truth will minister to your people, hallelujah. That
you will increase that no flesh scorer in nice sight
your God. You're our redeemer. You're our teacher, our source,
our resource. Hallelujah. You're he who came and is and

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will and is to come. Thank you now, Father, forgive
us for our sins, purge me from my iniquity and
brought out my transgressions in Jesus name. Amen and Amen, Glory, hallelujah, Glory, hallelujah.

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You know we've been ministering a lot concerning the uh
fiery trials. If you would that we've been experiencing in
society today, we meant it. We want to minister with
the Holy Ghost has us ministering to the need of
the saints for now. So we are mindful of what

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we're going through. And although we don't know exactly what
is to come, but we have an idea through the
Word of God what is to come. So we are
not surprised, so we're not taking advantage of neither are

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we overtaken by the cares of this world. And so
we can remain steadfast and unmovable, abounding in the work
of the Lord. Even though we see what we see
and experience what we real life experiences. This is not play,

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is real. And now as I've said before, and our
said again. The only thing that will overtake or over
our change the facts is the truth of God. The
truth of God will change the facts. It was the
truth of God that healed the woman with the issue

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of blood. It was the truth of God that raised
Lazards from the dead. It was the truth of God
that transforms your mind and creating you a clean heart
and renew a right spirit within you. It is the
truth of God that will give you joy while you

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go through your trials and tribulation. With all that is
happening in the world today, in this country, and privately
within your own families, within your own life, it almost
seems as if God is not seen as to those

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who don't know. It's almost seemed that God is not
seen what's going on in your praying, and your praying
and your praying and your reading, your reading you're reading.
It almost seems that God is not paying attention, as
if he don't even care. Hallelujah. In the time that
Jesus spent on earth, Halleljah, he being a man and God,

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was faced with this same question more than once. Hallelujah.
When you study the Word of God, you can find
multiple times Jesus was challenged to intervene in human affairs.

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He was a challenge to intervene in human affairs. Now
we're going to dig into two of them. Hallelujah. God
was challenged to intervene into human affairs many times, and

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Jesus was struck right in the middle of why because
he came to deliver a message that the Bible says
he in one place he said he came to his
own and his own received him not And in another
place he said that he came to an ungodly people died.

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He Christ died for an ungodly people. Hallelujah. Unholy didn't
know anything about God. He died for us. But yet
he came to deliver a message, not just in word,

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but indeed, hallelujah. So we're gonna look at a couple
of things that pertained to that. But our topic today
is this God. Do you care? God? Do you care

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what I'm going through Halloween? Open your Bible to the
Book of Luke or write it down. I plan. I'm
not gonna say I'm sure, but many of us out
there at some point in time in your life and
asked if God even paying attention to me. Does God

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see what I'm going through? Does God care? Luke Chapter ten,
Luke chapter ten, Luke chapter ten. This is one of
the first instances I want you to look at Luke

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chapter ten, verse thirty eight through forty two. Now it
came to pass as they went talking about Jesus and
the disciples, that he entered into a certain village. Jesus
and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

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And she had a sister you all know named Mary,
which also set at Jesus' feet and heard his words.
It's very key, but look at this. But Martha was
cumbered about much serving and came to him. She was

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overwhelmed by doing a lot of serving. But she came
to Jesus Hallelijah and said, Lord, not do with thou
not care that my sister had left me to serve alone.

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This is a place where Martha is asking Jesus, don't
you even care? Then I'm doing this all by myself.
This is where we're gonna get our topic from God,
do you even care? And that my sister has left
me to serve alone? And she asks Jesus being her therefore,

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that she helped me. This is what Martha tells Jesus
tell her to help me. I need some help. She's
in her own mind. She believes that Jesus should stop
everything he's doing and tell Mary to come and help Jesus. Now,
I remember the scripture that got you, said Mary sitting

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at the feet of Jesus listening to him. Now Jesus
speaks to Martha, says, and Jesus answered and said, unto her, Martha, Martha,
thou art careful and troubled about many things. I see
that you got You're very strategic on what you're doing,

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and you got a lot of things going on in
your mind. You got a lot of things going on.
It's a lot of things going on around you. And
they got you cumbered. They got your overwhelmed. You. We
feel overwhelmed sometimes, don't we by the things that are
going on. And we live in a god and life
to the best of our ability. But then it still
doesn't take away that we have a feeling of being

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overwhelmed at times. And Jesus said this to Martha. But
one thing is needful. I see that you're overwhelmed. I
see that you want me to tell Mary to come
and help you. Serve, but one thing is needful. Jesus said,

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Mary has chosen the good part, but shall not be
taken away from her. Were talking. Our topic is God,
do you even care what I'm going through? What I'm doing.
I'm doing all of this, but I need some help

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and doesn't seem like nobody else is willing to help me.
I'm doing this all by myself, And Jesus said. Jesus
stills Martha that Mary has chosen the good part. What
was she doing? She was sitting at the feet of
Jesus listening to every word. This is the good part.

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You might ask yourself why what got Adam? What got
man in trouble in the first place? Disobedience? Right, the
Bible says, my people are destroyed? What for lack of knowledge?
This is the good part. How can you do or

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how can you serve correctly? If you don't know what
the will of God is concerning you. Wouldn't it be
more correct to find out what your assignment is first
before you go to try to do it. It's like

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a man going out and seeing a feel that needs
to be cleared to soul, to make a guard and
to sow seed into it. So he can bring forth
food so to feed everybody how they we are. And
he goes and clear that feel, only to find out
that it wasn't his to clear it with somebody else's.

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Wouldn't it have been advantageous for him to first find
out which one is he and to plow his own
feel and do that with his own feel, instead of
going off half cocked and not knowing. And this is
what God offers us, He said, coming to me, all
ye that labor, and then I heavy late, and I
will give you take my yokup on you and learn

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of me first, learn of it. How you're going to
know how to be a witness of Christ if you
don't first come and learn the ways of God. Many
times we go off half cocked. We learned a few
weeks back about Simon that wanted the gift of the
Holy Ghost, but he wanted it for the wrong reason.

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There are many in the Bible that wanted to go
out minister the gospel of Jesus Christ, but they were
not equipped yet. They were not ready yet. They received hallelujah,
Jesus Christ is their Lord and Savior, but they had
not been taught yet the ways of God. So they
could go in, hallelujah, go in the Holy Ghost to

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teach those things that have been taught to them. God,
do you even care? Sometimes we just don't understand what
the system of God is and we go off, have cocked.
I'm saved, but you don't know what it is to

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be saved. Yes, you have an idea, but have you
gone through the furnace? Have you gone through affliction? Not
the affliction that you are serving somebody to give them
a meal of feeding or these things like that, but
the furnace of affliction. Where are you allowed? When we

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talked about this this morning our Sunday School, Allow the
spirit of truth to come into your very soul and
burn up some stuff in you that is not needed,
some things that were true at the time, but not
the truth for the time. I hope you get that,

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some things that were true for that time, but not
the truth for a time. Halleujah. A time that God
has prepared for you to go out and to be
a minister of Jesus Christ. A time of when you
are going out and you are bombarded with negativity, rebelliousness,

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outburst of anger, and when you're ministering the truth and
those that don't understand. They're constantly baling you with their
lack of understanding, with their understanding of what they're going through,
but not realizing there's a greater power here at work
and not willing to have it. Why because it looks

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it seems to be nonsense to them, because it is
demanding that they have hope for something that they do
not see. But we have to trust God. We have
to learn to trust God and be led by a
spirit that is unseen to do works that God has

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already prepared for you. But you got to do it
by faith. And in order to do it by faith,
you have to operate in the love of God. Meaning this,
You're want to come up against oppositions against with people
that don't agree with you, some that you formally have
relationship with, and now you're striving for righteousness through Christ Jesus,

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and they are still striving for self gratification. And the
two won't mix. That two don't see eye to eye,
they can't walk together because they're in disagreement. And you
still want that, You still want to be friends, you
still want to be associates, but you finding out that
you don't. The The commonality is not there anymore. Hallelujah.

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I want to take you to a deeper into this.
Does God care? This is something that Jesus even experienced.
That was Martha at asking n't don't you even care,
Jesus that Mary's not helping me? I want you all

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to go with me, Mark chapter four. And this. I
told you that this question is brought to Jesus several times,
and sometime we overlook things like this, but the Holy
Ghost brought it to my attention. You know, I've heard
people in prayer they say, God, don't you even care

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what I'm going through? I've been putting up with this
for years. I've been putting them with this for you know.
And we don't lend ourselves to God so he can
give us the peace that we need to endure in

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what we believe to be suffering. Mark chapter four, Verse ten.
I'm just gonna read ten and ever and then I'm
gonna skipped down for the sake of time. But the
much in this chapter. Look at verse ten in Mark four,
and when he was alone talking about Jesus and they

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that were about him, with the twelve acts of him,
the parable Jesus, they given a parable about the soul
the seed, okay, and that there were those with him
that other than the Twelve Disciples. Okay. So there were
many people that were listening to this being. Jesus said,

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unto them, unto you, it is given to know the
mystery of the Kingdom of God. Listen to this now,
the mystery of the Kingdom of God. This is the
key to understanding why we have to uh, why if
God doesn't respond the way we should, the way we

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think he should respond, and still know that he cares.
There's a greater Uh, there's a greater work being done
here that you don't even realize that you can't understand it. Now,
he said, unto you, it is given to know the
mystery of the Kingdom of God. But unto them, talking

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about those that are not in Christ that are with without. Okay,
Remember he said, there are those that are about him
and his and those that walk, the twelve that walk
with him. Now he's talking about those that were not there,
but unto them that are without. All these things are

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done in parables, what he said, doing in stories, things
that they can relate to, but they've got to receive them.
He puts it in a way. He doesn't just leave
him out there alone, but he puts it in a
manner that they can understand he really wants to relate
to them in a meaningful way. Now, let's jump all

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the way down to thirty verse thirty, and we're going
to continue this lesson here. Okay for those of you
who don't who need to write this down again. Jesus

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and he said, where unto shall we liken the Kingdom
of God? Okay, let's get this straight. Now, I'm gonna
tell you about the Kingdom God here had been explaining
it all through these scriptures? Or with what comparisons shall
we compare it? Okay? It is like a grain of

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mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth,
is less than all the seeds that be in the earth.
Now I've seen a grain of mustard seed. It's almost
so small you can't see it with the naked eye. Okay,

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But when it is sown, it groweth continuously grows each
h up and becometh continuously greater than all herbs, and
shoot it out great branches, so that the fouls of

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the earth made large under the shadow of it. So
the seed that was so small you feel the neked
eye you almost couldn't see it has become thanies, has
become something so great that is able to help those

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that are around it. Even the birds provides a shadow
for them. And this in this verse it says, shade
for it all right. And with many parables spake the
word unto them. He spaked the word unto them, as
I said. Parable is a story that helped to relate.

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Help you to relate holleringly the comparison of the Kingdom
of God to what he's talking about. We're talking about
does God really care? Okay, see these are things, these
are mysteries that we don't know about. God is building
something here that they didn't understand. The existed Hallelijah, He Hallelijah,

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and with many prayerble's fake. He the word unto them
as they were able to hear it, as they were
able to hear it. Many times, when we get into
these teachings from where where it's profitable for us to learn,
we are caught up in our own lack of understanding,

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and we are distracted when the pressure on the the
power is of God that when you hear all you
got to do is here the holy ghosts will help
you to understand. The Holy ghost will bring it to
your remembrance. The holy ghosts will guide you into truth.

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All you have to do is we have an ear
to hear what the spirit is saying. Okay, but without
the parables spake he not unto them. So he used
stories that were familiar to them in their genre, in
their lifestyle, whether it was about us, or whether it

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was about fishing, or whether it's about farming, there was
a story to coincide with the understanding of the comparison
to the Kingdom of God. And when they were alone
talking about Himan disciples, he expounded all things to his disciples.

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So he went further so his disciples would understand to
have a better understanding of what he was doing, because
why he was preparing them to be teachers. And the
question is asked, Martha asked, do you care Hallelujah? Now
watch this? And the same day, the same day, Jesus

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got through teaching them about the parables about the Kingdom
of God, drawing in comparison between Ahlujah their own lifestyles
and what the Kingdom of God is. The same day,
when the even was come, he said, unto them, let
us pass over unto the other side, okay, talking about

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the Lake de Sea. And when they had sent away
the multitude that he had previously been ministering to, they
took him even as he was in the ship. Halleujah.
He was in the ship, and there were also with
him other little ships. Other ships were following him, okay.

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And there arose a great storm of wind and waves
beat into the ship, so that it was now four
So now the ship that he's in is taking on water.
He was in a bigger ship, but there were smaller
ships around him, and this bigger ship is taking on water.
Watch this. And he was in the hinder part of

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the ship. He was in the back part of the ship,
asleep on a pillow. Now this ship is taking on
water and he's back to asleep on a pillow. Now
you all know how a pillow can get when it
get wet. But he's asleep. I want you to picture this.

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And they awake him and say unto him. Listen, master,
this is what they call it. Now he's teaching them
about the Kingdom of God, and they say, Master, carest
thou not that we perish again. It comes up to Jesus,

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don't you care what's going on? And Jesus and he
arose and rebuked the wind. They just got the call
the Master. Come on now. They have been experiencing miracle
after miracle. Five thousand fed four thousand said the lame

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walk and and the death made to hear blind maid
to see Hallelujah, Glory to God. And he said, unto them,
why aren't ye so fearful? Let me stop right there, Saints, friends,
loved ones. You may not want admit it, but all

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the teaching that God gives to us comes to nothing
if you operate in fear. And you got to identify
the fear in you. When God tells you you can
do all things. Your conversation, it should be I can

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do all things to Christ, who strengthens me. Not that
like Martha cared you, Not that I'm overwhelmed and tell
Martha to come help me. And not like those that
are in the boat carry you, Not that we perished.
And then just got through singing and hearing their master teach.

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And he rose up, Hallelujah, And he rows up and
he rebukes, hallelujah. He beauty, He rebukes the wind and said,
unto the sea, peace be still and the wind ceased,

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and that was great. Calm listen now, And he said,
unto them, why are ye so fearful? How is it
that ye have no faith? Saint? We know faith come
by hearing. Don't let nobody stop you from hearing the

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word of God. Don't let your circumstances. That's what Mary
was doing. She was sitting at the feet of Christ
listening to the word of God. And she did not
even let her sister or the work that they needed
to be done stop her from what listening to the
words of Christ. What was more needful that they be

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served to eat or that they hear the word of God?
And Jesus told her, this is the great This is
the good part. This is the good part that Mary
was attending to. Not to say that what you were
done was not commendable, But the best part of it
is hearing the word of God. Faith come by hearing

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and hearing by the word of God. If you don't
get it the way God give it, you won't have
anything but fear. You've got to get it the way
God gives it. Faith come by hearing, hearing by the
word of God. There's no other way. So you got

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to give attention to what God is saying in your
private studies. Pay attention to what he's saying to you.
Don't pay attention to what he's saying so you can
put it on somebody else. Pay attention to what He
is saying to you. Don't you know that preachers whom
I get this word, it applies to me. First. He

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gave me this the minister. I don't know. I got
some that he gave me weeks ago, in months ago,
but I don't know exactly. But I sit up there
and I told with it. I toil him with it.
Why because there's something in me that don't always agree
with what God has to say. But yet it is

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the truth. I want to put my facts to it,
But God says, your facts of no consequence when it
comes to the truth. This is the Kingdom of God,
he says. Hallelujah. How is it that you have no faith?
I just got through ministry to you, And how is

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it that you don't have the faith to believe in me?
How is it that you are left not understanding who
I am? And you just witness all these things and
I just got through sharing with you what the Kingdom
of God is life unto glory to God, did you

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miss it? And they ask God, God, don't you care?
But we're gonna going through. Yes, he cares. He cares
enough to give you something that's gonna help you to
get through it. Hallelujah. This is not a magic trick

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that you can go see at Ringling Barnament or whatever,
that you can go see at a magic show poof Alexzam.
This is not none of that. This is the true
in living God came to give you something that hallelujah,
that he created the world by the word of God. Hallelujah.

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Forty five, go down to forty five. No excuse me,
I'm wrong. We're gonna go to Matthew twenty seven, forty five,
forty six. You can read the rest of that chapter
four if you at your own leisure. Two instances. Hallelujah.

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I've given you where they asked, Jesus, don't you care, hallelujah,
Jesus's own personal experience. Now we're gonna talk about now
from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the land
unto the ninth hour. Now we're talking about at the cross. Hallelujah.

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So don't tell me you are it doesn't affect you, Well,
that's not me, okay. Jesus said this what they did
to me, they're gonna try to do to you. If
it came to me, it's gonna come to you as well, hallelujah.
Verse forty five. Now, from the sixth hour, there was

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darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And
about the ninth hour, Jesus cried listen with a loud voice, saying,
Eli li lam lama is about then. I'm not saying that.
The way it shold me said that is to say,

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my God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? So
in our challenge that Jesus asking God, don't you care? Hallelujah. See,
we all get pushed to a point when we're going

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to ask if it happened that Jesus is going to
happen to you. We all get pushed to a point
where we're gonna ask, God, Lord, don't you even care
what I'm going through? And as I told you, God
gave me this week ago to preach. But I had to.
I had to. It had to work in me. First,

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m our deliverance came through his physical death. It had
to happen. After he up there, he said, Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do. But our deliverance

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came through his physical death, the remission of our sins.
Jesus had not sinned, all right, but the remission of
our sins, hallelujah. And because of him not experiencing sin

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at all, but became. But because he looked like us,
Jesus not sin but because he looked like simple flesh.
It was accounted to him. Hallelujah. Listen to this. Abraham

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disobeyed God, and sin came into the world. Amen. The
practice of disobeying or disobedience became a lifestyle for mankind,
and the glory of God was changed. Hallelujah. The glory

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of God was changed. Instead of listening and obeying God,
now we heap to our own understanding. We listened to
the voice of the demon Eve, listened to the serpents,
and Adam did not do what God told him to do. Hallelujah.

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So the glory of God was changed into the image.
Get this, the image of beasts, creeping things and birds.
After that, one man's active this o' be the same,
and came the h The sin came into all men.

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One man's active dis obeeding sin came into all men,
and we begin to wear the image of beasts and
creeping things and birds. What am I saying? Your behavior
is animalistic? Our behavior is what we do instinct. We'll

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operate out of our instincts rather than the word of God.
That case in point, an athlete has good instincts, right,
and they will do a performer action that will make
them great on in that arena, whatever it is, whether

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it be basketball, football, or whatever, because they have those instincts. Now,
the ones that don't have those great instincts, what they
have are teachings, skills. They have uh, they have learned techniques,

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they have learned tendencies of people or tendencies of situations
and respond that based upon their knowledge because they didn't
have that instinct. An animal operates off of instinct too.

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That's why that's just comparison. So the question is are
you gonna rather operate off of instinct or by the
word of God. They don't just don't look good, Just don't.
I don't like the way this tastes. When you know,
when our ch I didn't like oatmeal. My mother couldn't

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make me eat it. Put it up to you, y'all
know you ladies know that you put up to their
mouth and they would not eat it. You move your
mouth and would not eat that. But I went over
my aunt Great Arts one day for a season, I
stayed there and uh, that's when she cooked for breakfast
in the country oatmeal. That's all you were gonna get.

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So but it didn't look like my mother's oatmeal her. Uh,
this oatmeal was not as soupy, but it was more
clunky looking, so it didn't have that soupy looking texture
to it. So it med. And I put on some

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real butter at that time back doing it, and some
real butter and sugar on it, and it tasted good
to me. Why don't I dared not tell you how
that turned out between uh with my mother. She didn't
like the fact that I heard and did what he heard,
but he heard. But the point I'm trying to get
across is this is that you can't go off of instincts.

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You got to put the work in and get the
knowledge of a thing before you start denying the possibility
of it. They denied the possibility that of Jesus when
they were in the boat they asked him, why carri
you Cary, not that we perish and had experienced all

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these things. Hallelujah. We don't want to be disobedient, even
though we don't always understand how God is doing a thing.
Martha was ready to tell, told Jesus tell Mary to
come help me. It wasn't to tell. Jesus told her

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that Mary had chose the better part and God. Jesus
had to remind the disciples in the boat, and there
were other little boats that were following them, that the
one who you should have faith in his on board.
I've been teaching you all along. Hallelujah. I'm gonna leave

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you with this. Romans eighth in eighteen says this, for
I reckon that the suffering of this present time are
not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall
be revealed in us. There is a glory that will

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be revealed in us. That is a change, that is
a change into the image of God and not the
image of beasts and creep creeping things and birds. When
we learn to operate as aers of God, airs of Christ,

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like the Kingdom uh subjects of the Kingdom of God,
we are believing in him for everything. Learning about Him
and not leaning to our own understanding. Then when we're
we will understand that God has not left us. God

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has supplied the things that we have need of God.
Don't you care what I'm going through? Yes, he cared,
He prepared, He prepared the lamb of God before the
foundation of the world. It's already prepared for you. All

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we have to do is receive it, the word of
God that may flesh receive it. I'm asking you all
today to receive what God has given you. Get wisdom,
get knowledge, get understanding while you in the kingdom God.
That's what this liberty been given to you by. That's

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why Christ died, so you have this liberty to know
the character of the true and living God, to know
to have the knowledge and the understanding of how to
live and not be overwhelmed by the circumstances of the world.
They gonna come, but you've got to trust that God

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will deliver you out of them. All. This is the
mystery that was ministered unto them. We say God is able,
but do we really believe it. Let's pray Father in

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Jesus' name, We thank you. It seems like we're always saying,
we thank you and we praise you. But Lord, out
of a sense your heart, I want to rend up
this prayer to you and give you thanks for what
you have revealed, not only to them, but to me
as well. I believe that you cared so much that

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you gave your only begotten son before we even were
before we even were able to think or speak, or
before we were conceived in our mother's womb, you prepared
the answer to the problems that we have today, and
whether we believe it or not, it stands to be

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the answer to our situation. Jesus. We may not understand
how he is and how he is going to do
it help us, but all it is just as the
men that were in the vote, all theyre to do
was believe and trust in whom they had on the

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vote with him. We thank you, Lord, that you've begun
on good work and we know that you're going to
complete it. We thank you for your foresightedness, hallelujah, knowing
what we're going to have need up before we even
needed it, hallelujah. And we thank you to give you

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go in praise in Jesus name. Amen. Now, those of
you who who are on the cusp or having a
rough time right now, Trust the teachings that you have received.
And I always say this, go back and prove what

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you read. Did you get an understanding of it? Or
did you listen to someone else's comments about their experience
with God and didn't and failed to have your own
experience with God? Because we are their sheep from different pastors.

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Meaning this when I when I say this, their sheep,
you are. You are saved by grace through faith. But
meant many of us come from different backgrounds. So that's
going to make what how God deals with me, how
God deals with another person, different but the same God,
same spirit, same Jesus. We need to be mindful of that.

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So I need to learn how to go to Jesus
for myself and let him deal with the man in
the mirror, because what I don't want to do is
leave from that mirror forgetting what I looked like and
going into the world acting like a beast or a
creeping thing or bird, being led by my senses and

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my emotions and not by the word of God, the
word of truth that is able to save my soul.
Those of you who don't know Jesus and the part
of your sin. We are going to open up the
doors of the church right now so you can be
received into the fold, into the Kingdom of God. To

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know this that you're saved and free. You'll be free
to work out your salvation with the teaching and the
learning that you will do it from the administration of
a church that is Bible based, spirit led, such as
this one and others around the country. If you want

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to be a part of that kingdom, If you want
to be a part of that, move repeat after me.
The Bible says, if you confess with your mouth the
Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in your heart that God
rated it from the dead, doubt shall be saved. That's
a promise from God. For what the heart man believeth
until righteousness and salvation, and for what our mouth well

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confess our salvation. The same way God created the world,
of the same way will be God will be aby
to use us to create around us through the word
of God that we minister. Hallelujah, not necessarily the facts,
but the Word of God, the truth. Hallelujah. If this

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is something that you want, I want you to We're
going to pray and you repeat after me, Father, forgive me.
I have sinned. I have come short of your glory.
Romans ten ninety ten says that if I can fess
with my mouth to Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in

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my heart that God raised from the dead, I will
be saved. I believe that Jesus is your son. I
believe that the Holy Spirit raised him up from the dead,
and I believe that the Spirit will raise me up
from dead works as well. I believe that in three days, hallelujah,
you raised them up. And Lord, I'm asking you to

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give me of your spirit, that you help me to
receive the Spirit of Truth, that he will guide me
and lead me and make me an effective witness of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is my prayer unto
you Father, and I believe it, and I give it
to you in Jesus name. Amen. If you pray that prayer,

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the Bible says this, he will never leave you nor
forsake you. Not only that, but greater One lives in you. Now.
Now you have the liberty of the spirit to go
forward and practice what the will of God is. But
you need to find you a need to go to

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a church. Ask God of your salvation. Ask God to
guide you to a church that can teach you the
principles of God or a ministry. You're welcome to join
us the Word of Lifetohn one fourteen Church on Internet.

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We meet Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and Thursday. Excuse me, Sunday,
Wednesdays and Thursdays evenings. I'll give you that information just
a moment. That way you can be begin to grow
in the knowledge and the wisdom of God and get

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understanding about how the Kingdom of God relates to you
and how it works in this present world. Hallelujah. Usually
I would turn it over to my wife at this
time so she could do our summation, but she is
busited right now, so I'll do it and indulge me
right now. God bless all of you for joining us today. Hallelujah.

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On our broadcast, I'm Pastor Ronnie Hooks again of the
Word of Life John one fourteen Church located there in Troy, Alabama. Hallelijah,
the wife and our sister, First Lady Sandra Marie Hooks
trust that this service was a blessing to you. If

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needs be, save the Sinner's prayer to yourselves and go
back over the prayer Romus ten ninety ten and just
study it on behalf of my wife and myself and
the entire church body. We are delighted that you have

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joined us today. Feel free to send us your prairie quest.
We have a website, Hallelujah, prairie quest. We can agree
with you in your prayer if it's the will of God.
We would love to have you tune in onto our broadcast. Okay.

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to make mention of we are sitting out and sitting

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up now a fundraiser for those that My wife is
from Jamaica and we have some she has some business
to and we want to be able to go there
and be a blessing to the people. So feel free
to if you want to donate to this ministry, you

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can find you can find on our website the Givelify
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And you find some other ways of giving on the

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website if you feel free, if you want to be
a part of that. Uh. I know it's a lot
to get people to trust these days, but that's we
have to be about our father's business. Whether you give
or don't give, but we we would like uh, we
would like to be trusted in that manner. So those

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are the ways that you can contact us and UH
be a part of this move to help those in
Jamaica because right now they have aid coming in, but
we have been getting word there's a greater need than
just the infrastructure being cared for. People are still without.

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Some of the houses have been washed completely away, and
we know this personally, and some people are just rooming.
They're sleeping wherever they can sleep and doing whatever they
can do to get by. But whatever we can, whatever
a little bit we can do, we know put it.
We put it in the hands of the math. It

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will go a long way. So that's our attitude and
that's our what we intend to do going forward. So
we just want to thank you for being a part
of this broadcast. We want to thank you for whatever
you decide to do of going forward, But take care
of yourself. It's already been as do God care. Yes,

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he cares. He sent his son Jesus. He prepared them
from before the foundation of the world, and nobody else
will do that for you. Now. His plan is in
the working process of being worked out, but you have
to believe it. You have to take hold of it

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and do it. The Lord bless you, the Lord keep you,
and the Lord make his face to shine upon each
of us.