A Forever GOD makes a Promise...Let's Take Flight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to For Life and For Legacy.
We appreciate you jumping ontoday, looking forward to making
something great, becausethere's greatness in you.
So just sit back and don'trelax yourself.
Get tuned in.
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Get tuned in, get tuned up andI'll tell you what.
Get fired up because we'reabout to tackle some good things
that are good for your life andlegacy until I joined the navy.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, I didn't know anything about eating squirrel
till I joined the navy.
Don't worry about y'all whatdid I join the navy?
And that's why I realized thatother people went out there and
hunted squirrel and they wouldhunt the squirrel and, as a
matter of fact, my roommate atthe time.
He would go out there, hunt thesquirrel on base, bring it back
, put it in the refrigerator and, uh, and occasionally he might
freeze something, depending onhow many he caught, and he'd

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take it out in the barbecue pitand then he'd make it all happen
and I said, man, you're eatingsquirrels?
I sure am, and that was hisdelight.
He loved to eat squirrel.
Now you know what it is.
But going back to what I see,if he had put it before me and I
didn't know any different Iprobably would have ate it.
Oh yeah, it's good when it'sfixed right.
You know this.
This is the day and time werealize that.

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You know, sometimes we may notlike if god told us what was in
what we were about to get.
If he told us what was in it,we wouldn't want to participate.
Right now we're going throughit.
But how many of y'all know,sometimes God, fix a really good
stew, and it might not besomething you want to eat, but,
lord, have mercy, show fear goodwhen it's over.
Amen, he can make it taste goodfor you.
He can make it taste good foryou.

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So this is what we're going tosee Today.
What we're looking at is Godhas been, he's a provider.
So we're in Luke, the secondchapter, luke, the second
chapter, and the verses.
Key verses here are verses onethrough twenty, and if you did
some devotional reading in Micah, chapter five, one through six,
as a matter of fact, I'm goingto ask somebody if they could
get Micah chapter five, onethrough six, first, and we're

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going to go straight to Luke,the second chapter.
I think it's going to be good,because y'all know I do, and
many of our good people do liketo go ahead and set up a
foundation.
Amen, so that we'll know exactlywhat we're getting into.
Because we want to make surethat sometimes, if you read the
story of Jesus, it could be atwo-dimensional story.
Amen, make sure that sometimes,if you read this story of jesus

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, it could be a two-dimensionalstory.
Amen, we want to make thisthree-dimensional on today.
Is that all right?
Amen, amen, amen, all right.
If you got it, say I got it.
If you don't say I'm almostthere, almost there, almost
there, let's keep getting it.
Then hallelujah, that's what Ineeded right there.
Let's see if we can get thisgoing.
Amen, amen, hallelujah.
So, micah, the fifth chapter.
If you got it, amen, who's gotit?
Go ahead and read it likehallelujah, like you want to

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hear it, like you want to beheard.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Amen, o daughter of the Lord, he has paid for this
love.
This love is my return of peaceto you.
This love is my return of peaceto you.
But thou, bethlehem, thou shaltnot, thou shalt not the best in

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me.
After death, those I'll belittle among the thousands of
Judah.
Get one out of three.
Shall he come out of thee chair, he come forth into me.

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That is to be ruler in israel,whose drawings for have been
from of old, from ever.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
last we're going to stop right there.
That's going to be good rightthere, as a matter of fact,
because that's the point we wantto make.
What's that last word there,y'all Ever last.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
That last word is everlasting.
How?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
long is everlasting, forever.
That's right.
It's not a trick question.
Everlasting is everlasting.
There's no end to it.
And what we'll find pepperthroughout what we're going
through today is that Godcontinues to say that I'm about
to set up something that'severlasting.
Everlasting, it never ceases toend.
There's no vacillating in whatI'm about to do.

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As a matter of fact, there's novacillating in God.
God is always true, alwaysright, always good, always.
He's always.
He is the everlasting of theeverlasting.
If you will, I want to say thatthis morning, that we should
take courage in knowing that Goddoes not change.
Amen, he is an everlasting God.
Am I right?

Speaker 5 (04:53):
y'all.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
So we want to focus on that, because if an
everlasting God makes a promise,he's probably going to make a
promise that lasts forever, andnow y'all see where we're going
with that.
We ought to take courage inknowing that if he makes a
promise, he's going to make apromise that just lasts forever,
and we want to be happy aboutthat.
So let's go ahead, luke thesecond chapter, and we're going

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to dive into this really quickly.
Hallelujah, luke the secondchapter, and I need somebody
just to read the first twoverses for us.
The first two verses for us.
Luke the second chapter, verses1 and 2, and, if you get,

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greedy read 3.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's fine that all the world should be taxed, and
this taxing was made when.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Cyprus was governor of Syria and all went to be
taxed.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Everyone to his own sin.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Alright, so here it is.
We find ourselves now in themidst where Luke is actually.
If y'all don't remember whoLuke is, luke was, if you will,
an acolyte or a disciple Y'allheard the term acolyte here
lately an acolyte or a disciple,or someone who followed Paul.
And while he was with Paul,luke who, being a physician,
became very interested in howthings were being done.

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So he took it upon himself tostart writing, if you will, the
history of how this came to pass.
And if you ever notice, whenyou look through Luke, luke has
very long chapters Like hesometimes has 67, 78 verses.
You know he's very detailed inwhat he does.
So here what we find is thatLuke is actually giving us, if

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you will, a left and rightboundary about the time frame in
which the Christ, our Christ,is going to be born.
Now he's not only giving us atime frame, but he's telling us
specifically and it came to pass.
In those days there went adecree from Caesar Augustus.
Right Now we find out what timedid it happen?
Around the time of CaesarAugustus and the taxing was
first made, and they give us atime frame in which it was first

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made.
So he's even given us a betterhistorical reference of who
actually first made it.
Now there's some discussionhere about Assyrinius, as
whether or not he, as he's, beenSyria governor when he did this
, or how it happened, but if youactually align it, you'll find
out.
What we end up finding out isthat Jesus was born around 4 or

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5 BC.
Jesus was born around 4 or 5 BC.
If you put all these togetheralong with King Herod and you
extrapolate and you find out hewas born around 4 or 5 BC.
Now here's the thing we findout that everybody, it all went
to be taxed Anybody.
Anyway, I'm going to leave thatalone.
Hallelujah, and to his own city.

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So why is Joseph coming toJerusalem?
Joseph is coming to Jerusalem,as we'll see.
He's coming to Jerusalembecause there's a census going
on.
There's a census.
He's been called to comeforward so he can pay his taxes
and be a part of the census,right, and he can be counted.
Now what we find out is thatthis is something that's been

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set up by my, by man, but whatit does give us is a point in
time so that we can see when oursavior is born.
Y'all see that I don't know,baby, it's just me.
All right, so I see you seeingit.
Uh, so what we find out is godallows some things to happen in
life, just so he can pinpoint aparticular time where he's about
to make a change.
Now we might not I'm not goingto say all taxes are good, some

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taxes are needful, some are not.
Amen, like those five stopsigns on Grove Avenue.
Anyway, hallelujah, y'all gotto be there.
Don't make any sense, butanyway at all.
So we find this happening.
Now, if we want to actuallylook at this, it says verse four
.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Somebody read verse four and five for me and joseph
also went up from galilee, outof the city of nazareth, into
judea, into the city of david,which is called bethlehem,
because he was of the house oflineages of dav, to be taxed
with Mary, his espoused wife.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
There we go, great with child, great with child.
Now, hold on Now.
Y'all ever been on the phoneand said we're going to come up
to see you?
Oh, we're going to come down tosee you.
Now, you know, I live inVirginia and I tell somebody in
North Carolina we're going tocome up to see you.
Well, that don't make muchsense, does it?
Because it seems like to me I'mtraveling what South?

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So I'm going down.
Now here's the thing Nazareth isin Galilee, galilee is actually
Nazareth and Galilee isactually north of Jerusalem.
But this says he went up to see.
They went up.
Now here's the difference isthat Nazareth and Galilee are

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actually lower on this.
If you're looking at theelevation, they're lower.
And as far as and you got toget into the mindset of the
writer is that now we're goingto go up to the hill set because
it's about 2,500 feet above sealevel.
Jerusalem is set high above sealevel.
As a matter of fact, as a pointof reference, the lowest place

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on earth is the Dead Sea.
It's actually negative 400 feetbelow sea level.
So there's a straight dichotomybetween the height of Jerusalem
and the Dead Sea.
As far as space is concerned,you have almost 3,000 feet of
elevation to go from the DeadSea, if you were traveling up

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from the Dead Sea for the plainsof the Dead Sea to go all the
way up to the mountain ofJerusalemusalem.
As a matter of fact, mount zionis the highest point.
One of the highest points asidefrom mount hermit now I'll give
you a quick point here is thatmount hermon, which is back all
the way up towards wherenazareth is right, is a mountain
.
Now, if you remember thescriptures, that says as a dew

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from mount hermit, let it.
Then we have a song.
Let that do rest upon ourhearts.
The dew comes from the mountain.
The mountain is so high thatit's an elevation that may have
snow-capped peaks and the dewjust comes off of the mountain.
In dry seasons, the dew comesoff the mountain and refreshes
people.
So when you read that scriptureagain, as the dew comes on,

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when he talks about the dew fallupon us, the dew fall upon us,
it's a refreshing.
Imagine being in a desert andyou see no source of water, no
rain, nothing coming.
But God has a provision thatthe dew from the mountain is so
elevated that it will fall uponyou and refresh you Even more,
so that it will fall upon whatyou need for vegetation.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Right.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
So that you could eat .
So there's a provision from God, amen, in certain regions of
the world where we find thatthings just seem so, so elegant,
so, so, so, so, so, so poignant.
God is so good at what he doesand he just knows how to set the
scene.
Y'all he does, he doesn't.
He knows how to set the scene.
So here we find that he'scoming up.
He's going up Even thoughNazareth is north of Jerusalem.

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He has to come up from anelevation standpoint to get to
Jerusalem.
And here we have also.
It says specifically that theywent there because Joseph was
what of the lineage of who?
David?
David, david was also known tobe born.
Where did David grow up?
Anybody?
Where did David grow up?
Anybody know?
Where did David grow up?
Where did David grow up?

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David the shepherd, david, likeDavid, he was in what?
Bethlehem.
There we go.
I knew it was going to come out.
Amen, he was in Bethlehem.
How do we know he's inBethlehem as a matter of fact?
Let's do this because I thinkit's needful.
Let's do this real quick.
Let's go with us to.

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I believe it is going to be 1Samuel.
Yes, it is 1 Samuel, 7.
Chapter 7.
1 Samuel, 7 chapter and Ibelieve it is somewhere around

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verse 15.
If you got it, say I got it.
Somebody go with me there.
1 Samuel 7 chapter.

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I'm sorry.
1 Samuel 17, chapter verse 12.
There we go.
1 Samuel 17, chapter verse 12.
There we go, 1 Samuel 17,chapter verse 12.
1 Samuel 17 and 12.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
If you got it, say I got it.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Who's got 17 and 12 for me?
David is the son of an epithetof Bethlehem in Judah named
Jesse.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Alright, read 58 for me as well, verse 58.
No, you did good Verse 58 aswell.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Eight sons.
Jesse in the days of Saul wasold and mass in years In 58?
.
Yes, david answered.
I am the son of your servant,jesse of Bethlehem.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
All right.
So here we have, just so youknow, I didn't make that up.
We understand that Jesse was inBethlehem and Jesse was David's
.
What Jesse was David's father,jesse was also the son of
anybody.
No, what line did this come outof?
Anybody remember that thing?
I think they took down thiscity.
It was a big city called Jerichoand there was somebody in

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Jericho who happened to be aprostitute, but Rahab.
She believed the people, shebelieved the spies.
When they came, as a matter offact, she was the one that let
the scarlet line out of thewindow.
Y'all remember that.
And as a matter of fact, therewas a promise made to her that
if she kept her mouth shut andshe kept her people in the house
, that they would save herfamily.
And that woman, rahab, ended upmarrying somebody else and she

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ended up having a child namedBoaz, and Boaz ended up having
some children.
And the next thing you know,jesse was out.
And after Jesse was out, thenext thing you know David was
out.
And if you keep going, what youfind out?
When it's all said and done,here comes Joseph, here's Joseph
.
This is where we are right now.
Joseph comes because he sayshe's of the lineage of david, so

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we have to y'all.
I didn't do the 42 generationsdon't worry about it.
So what we find out is that thislineage is important because
what it does?
It causes him to go back to hisrespective city, from which
he's from right, but even moreso because he has to go back to
the city to pay his taxes.
He also ends up in a placecalled Bethlehem I don't know if

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you know this, but that'simportant because it's a place
that has been prophesied thatthe Messiah might be born in a
little city called Bethlehem.
God keeps his promises, y'all.
God keeps his promises.
So, if you will, since I'mtalking about God keeping his
promise, let let's do thisreally quick.
Why is this so important andhow do we find ourselves?
Let's go to second samuel,verse 7, second samuel, chapter

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7, and we're going to pick upverse 12 and verse 16.
Why are you turning there?
Here's something to be thought,to think about.
Is that, while god is in theprocess of making this, I think
he's a brilliant mathematicianas well as an archaeologist.
Anybody here not sober?

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What do you call that?
When you knit, you crochet.
That's what it is.
Anybody here crochet?
You still crochet.
Let me ask you something how doyou keep the patterns together?

Speaker 5 (17:02):
I keep it from the line.
The way I made it the way youmade it.
I just go by line.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
I put it right there.
I put it right there, I keep ontrack.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
So there's a pattern that you go along with and you
just got to make sure you keepalong with the pattern To keep
it right.
So there's a pattern yeah,there's an outline somewhere
that that you go along with,because sometimes anybody ever
seen something really crochetedand put together real well, and
you look at it and say my, howdid they manage to do that?

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You know it looks so intricateand and you say wow because you
know what it looks from from.
And you say wow Because youknow what, from your point of
view, your vantage point is, ifyou don't know what it took to
put the pattern down and then,let alone, to stay faithful to
the pattern.
See, and I want you to thinkabout this Sometimes we maybe

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it's just me I can say I'm savedand I thank God for the
salvation, but sometimes Iforget how good my salvation is,
what it took to make sure I gothere.
Oh, my God, god had to set up apattern Right here, to set up a
pattern and then stay true tothe pattern.
He stayed true to the patternso much so that he would even

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think about these little smallthings.
I don't care what David wasborn, I don't care what Jesus
was born.
But he said I do, as a matterof fact, I'm going to stick true
to my pattern, all right.
So here we go, here we go, herewe go.
Let's do this Just in case wewondered about two Sunday school
classes ago, or Christianeducation classes ago, david

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decided that he woke up in onemorning.
He looked out and he saw ify'all remember this he saw that
the ark of God was in a tent andhe said but I dwell in a house
of what Seed.
And he thought to himself thatGod ought not be in a house of a
tent.
He should be be in a tent, heshould be in a nice house.
If I'm in a nice house, godshould be in a nice house.

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And because it lighted upon hisheart, he said I'm going to
build God a.
What I'm going to build God?
A house.
And God, you know I like it.
We took another way last time,but I like it because it seems
like this is one of the timeswhere God is shocked.
You know One of the times whereGod is shocked.
I know he ain't shocked,shocked, but you look at it.
You look at it.
It's like God is saying I'venever asked anybody to build me

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a house?
Nobody, matter of fact, ain'tnobody even thought about
building me a house.
But here you are, daviddeciding to build me a house.
Okay, so here.
What we pick up here is thefirst 12 of chapter 6 in Samuel,
chapter 7.
It says read somebody, read 12for me, stop.

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So here we find out, becauseDavid had this on his heart to
do something for God, that he'ssaying guess what?
Because you did that, I want toestablish your kingdom, stop.
So here we find out, becauseDavid had this on his heart to
do something for God, that he'ssaying guess what?
Because you did that, I'm goingto establish your throne, I'm
going to establish your kingdomand, as a matter of fact, I'm
going to establish it throughyour seed, through your lineage,
and even going on to verse 16.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Somebody hit 16 for me.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
There's a word that keeps popping up.
Anybody see the word that keepspopping Forever.
That word forever keeps poppingup in this text.
It pops up in the other textthat we're talking about the
word forever.
God is a forever God.
He is a forever God, now, Iknow.
And maybe sometimes you say,well, yeah, okay, he's a forever
God.
He is a forever God, I know.

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And maybe sometimes you say,well, yeah, okay, he's forever
God.
No, you understand, he doesn'tvacillate, he doesn't slip.
We talked about it this morning.
You think about this.
How many of y'all, most ofy'all, right now, you're
blinking.
You don't even think about it.
You're blinking.
God don't blink.
His eyes are always open,always open.
He's always attentive.
He is always God.
He's an absolute.

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You know.
Sometimes I'll give you.
You say what do you meanabsolute?
You should never say never.
They say you should never saynever because you never know
what might happen.
Right, it's funny, right?
You shouldn't say never andtell somebody say you never
closed the door.
You don't say that because theywill remember the one time that
they did close the door and theargument will continue.
You say you always.

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They don't always.
They don't always.
I promise you, they do notalways do that.
There are things that should beascribed only to God because
they are absolutes, because hedoesn't change in any way, shape
or form.
So he is always good, he'snever bad.
Even when he's bad, he's good.
I'm just going to let you know,because he said I'm terrible.

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The Old Testament said he'sterrible, but when he's terrible
he's executing judgment.
For righteousness' sake, he'sstill good, because I want
righteousness, anybody here wantrighteousness.
Anybody want righteousness tostay in your house, I mean
because God is a God who lovesrighteousness.
So here he is.
He said hold on, I'm lovingDavid so much today I'm going to

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set something up for him andI'm going to establish his
throne.
How long?
Forever.
Let's go on a little bit longer.
Just in case you don't believeme, go to Isaiah 51.
How much time?
I said, just in case you don'tbelieve me, go to Isaiah 51.
I must time.
Yeah, isaiah 51 11, and I needsomebody else.
Hey, now we gonna stay right.
Isaiah 51 11.
We're gonna jump real quickhallelujah.

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Yes, therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall
return and come with singingunto Zion, and everlasting joy
shall be upon their head.
They shall obtain gladness andjoy, and sorrow and mourning
shall flee away okay, I'm gonnaask you really, somebody tell me
.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
I got an easy question for you.
That easy question for you whyis salvation so important?
Don't you think about why issalvation so important?
So right, without it, we'd belost anybody else without it, we
have what?
No hope.

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That's real good.
I love it.
Well, we have no hope, anything, anything else, anybody else.
God wants us to be with him.
God wants us to be with him,anybody else.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
If I don't prepare a place for you, if I don't
prepare a place for you, I willcome again and receive you unto
myself.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
You better bring it home, mother.
He wants us to be with him,wants us to be with him.
He shall prepare a place so hecan come and be with him.
Come on, think about it.
I mean, so let's say, forinstance, I'm standing in front
of somebody, right?
And I think it's some of thethings like if somebody said,
well, why do you love your wife?
Oh, I shouldn't have to thinkabout that.

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Y'all I'm going to tell youright now.
I shouldn't have to think aboutthat, I shouldn't have to think
about that.
And sometimes I might be able totell them you know what?
I can't pinpoint an answer.
I can tell you a lot of things,but I can't name just one.
I can go down the line of a lotof things and you know, if I'm
smart, I better say that,Because I better not be able to

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say you know, there's somethings that are just intrinsic,
some things you can't even, Ican't even tell you, you can't
even write it down to describeit.
There's some things in my mindwhen we start thinking about why
is salvation so important?
It should be ready upon ourtongues to be able to say God
has been so good to me, I lovehim so, because he's been
marvelous in all his ways.
Matter of fact, salvation isgood because he brought peace to

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my soul.
Peace, that peace, pass whatAll understanding.
Can I just give you a littlehint what I think about that?
I think about that scripturepeace that passes all
understanding.
That means that there's a peacethat's going to come to me from
God himself, something thatshakes my, in other words, this
world can't understand it and Ican't wrap my mind around it.
But yet, and still, I havepeace.

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Anybody ever experienced that?
There's a peace that just comesin.
I'm at peace when everythingaround you is falling apart.
Salvation gives you theopportunity to tap into the
peace of God, am I right y'all?
He gives that peace to us.
Yes, ma'am, you have something.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
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to pass in your own life.
To pass in your own life.
We have some favoritescriptures that we want to push
to you, that we want to makesure you bring life to your up
and coming.
Near future that I believethere's going to be a sign on

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