September 7, 2024 • 67 mins
Ever wondered how the story of Adam and Eve's temptation can impact your daily life? Join Quiana, along with special guests Hillary Whipple and Elder Darlene Harper, as they bring the newly revamped Queued4Christ"s book club to life. This episode covers our heartfelt journey towards a deeper understanding of the 66 books of the Bible, bolstered by the invaluable support from our community. Hillary shares profound insights from her multifaceted roles and miraculous experiences, while Elder Harper reflects on her unwavering commitment to being a lifelong student of the Word. Together, we express our excitement for this new chapter and our dedication to growing stronger in faith.
Explore the timeless themes of temptation and sin, starting from the very first act of disobedience in Genesis. We analyze the serpent's cunning words to Eve and draw parallels to modern-day temptations, stressing the crucial need for understanding sin and obedience. By examining the story of Adam and Eve, we underscore the importance of vigilance and spiritual awareness. Our discussion includes practical examples of how engaging in self-dialogue and using scripture can help combat the enemy's attacks, similar to how Jesus did. The importance of not placing oneself in compromising situations and standing firm in faith is highlighted, providing listeners with actionable steps to guard their spiritual lives.
Finally, we delve into the cascading effects of sin on humanity and creation, supported by passages from Romans 8:22 and Psalm 89. Elder Harper sheds light on how individual choices ripple outwards, affecting the broader world, and we discuss God's dual response of justice and mercy. Explore the profound truth that God's justice required payment for sin, fulfilled through Jesus, and how His mercy remains ever-enduring. Reflecting on the significance of free will and God's unwavering faithfulness, we encourage listeners to recognize the enemy's tactics and embrace a life aligned with Christ's teachings. This episode is a compelling call to deepen your faith and live out the promises of God with renewed conviction.
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hey, hey, hey, everyone, this is Kiana, your
creator and your host of Q forChrist, and I'm so excited, oh
my God, I'm so excited to behere, oh my goodness.
First off, I want to say thankyou to everyone that has liked,
you shared, you commented,whatever you've done.
(00:46):
I'm so excited, I'm so happyand I tell you this is something
that we have to take serious.
Okay, when you have been calledby Christ, it is a serious
thing, I tell you, andespecially when you have given
him your yes, right.
So, anyways, I want to just geton here.
(01:08):
I know you have seen all theflyers for the book.
I know you've seen all theflyers for everything, but
tonight I want to.
This is something so specialand near and dear to my heart
Because, if you know, know, westarted a book club last year.
(01:28):
Um, sometime last year, ish,last, last is that a word?
Last year, ish and um.
And so I wanted to revamp thebook club, but this time I
wanted to use it um, for theglory of God, right, really.
And um, and so I want to justkind of study the books of the
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Bible, because it is 66 books inthe Bible, right?
Why not start a book club aboutthe Bible, right?
I think that that is just socool.
Start a book club about theBible, right?
I think that that is just socool.
And um, and of course, you knowif you want to call it Bible
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study, call it what you want,but I'm just that's what.
That's the name that God hasgiven me, and so I'm excited, um
, about this.
This is the first of theMondays that we would do it, and
I don't want to make anybodysad, but next week we will be on
YouTube, so I'm so excitedabout that.
So, anyways, I just wanted tosay that little spiel.
(02:38):
I want to just thank everyonethat is on here tonight.
I have the privilege of notdoing this alone.
Okay, I love the fact that I'mnot having to do it alone, and
tonight I have the specialprivilege to have Elder Darlene
(02:58):
Harper and my sister HillaryWilford.
I'm so excited to have you on.
I just want, if you can I knowa lot of people have heard from
Elder Harper.
We're going to let her go last.
I'm going to let Hillary sayjust a little bit Tell the
people about who you are and howChrist has impacted your life.
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How cute, whatever.
Just tell the people who youare.
Hello, hello, hello.
My name is Hillary Bupo.
I am a sister, a mother, ahairdresser, a wife you name it,
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of everybody.
I'm a Mary Kay representative.
I'm a insurance agent you nameit, I am.
But God is so good.
He has done so many things forme.
I call him my miracle workerbecause he works miracles all
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the time in my life and I'm soexcited to be his daughter.
Yes, yes, I'm so excited to behis daughter.
I told my husband today, whenyou married me, you married the
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best thing in the world, becauseyou are now connected.
You know, you don't know who myfather is yet.
Oh, I love that so much.
I'm so excited to be heretonight and to learn more about
his words.
I'm excited.
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Hey, man, man, I love that somuch and I love how you said
when you married me, you marriedthe best thing.
That is just so amazing andthat's you know, um, saying
stuff like that, that increasesyour knowledge about how god
sees you.
You know what I'm saying,because God sees us like that.
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We are his greatest thing, weare his biggest treasure, we are
his greatest, and so when youcan say stuff like that, that
lets you know that God said,okay, that's that's, that's mine
, that's mine because you knowit's.
Then you know the the um, thebest coach you can ever have is
to coach yourself.
You got to be able to coachyourself and that's that's
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amazing.
I love that.
So, anyways, anyways, um, thankyou for being on here, thank
you for your time tonight, and,if you don't know, she is my
director of the book club thatwhen we started, and so now it's
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just so incredible to have heron this journey again, to be
able to do this.
Okay, so I'm excited, I'm superexcited.
So, anyway, I'm gonna let theHarper have the flow, because I
know you all have seen EllenHarper.
You probably done heard herpray, you done did some of
everything.
I'm so excited because she'sbeen on this journey with me
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from day one, y'all likeliterally, and so I'm excited to
have her on here.
Elder Harper, how are you doingtonight?
And if you could just introduceyourself to the ones that don't
know you, how about?
Okay, well, hello everyone.
Um, my name is Elder ArleneHarper.
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Um, yeah, I'm super excited tobe with Kiana and Miss Hillary
tonight.
It's been a beautiful ride sofar and I'm really just going to
study the Bible tonight.
I'm just so excited because Ilove the word and, um, my heart
is to remain a student of theword.
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So, yeah, I'm grateful for thelife God has given me and all
that you know, he has shown meabout himself through the
scriptures, through just livingright and just like teaching me
who he is.
That's been really, really hugeand I'm just so grateful that
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you know, we can just talk aboutthis stuff and share it.
So, yeah, I'm along for theride tonight.
Right, I mean, you know, and andlike you said, being able to
study the word of God, it's just, it's something on a different
level.
Um, you know, I I probably beenstudying it since I was a kid
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but didn't know I it, it wasdifferent, I didn't understand
it back then and so, um, readingit over again and being able to
get key things and and getthings out of it, and to, you
know, um, inject yourself intothe word of God and being able
to figure out like, oh, okay,this is where this is where I am
(08:09):
.
Um, uh, pastor Darius, hetaught, he taught us that the
Bible is, it's a pharmacy andnot a prescription, and so we
have to know which, um whichwhere to go to when you are
going through things.
You know a lot of people don'tunderstand that.
You know it's different areaswhere you have to go to.
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In the Bible, like you know, hehas said if you, if you got a
broken heart, you can't readLeviticus, you got to know where
to go to to read, you know, andso that's that's the main thing
about doing this to the read.
You know, and so that's that'sthe main thing about doing this,
and so I'm so excited to bedoing this tonight and, um, to
have both of you on.
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So we gonna move forward.
I'm gonna say a quick prayerand then, um, we'll go right
into where god has be startingthis time, and you know where
better to start in the beginning, right, I know people don't
heard the beginning.
You probably can recite all ofit, but we are going to start
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with something that God matterof fact, god has put it on my
heart even before I even askedGod where to start at.
So, anyways, I'm going to say aquick prayer and then we'll go
right into it.
Okay, so, dear Heavenly Father,I come to you.
First I want to say thank you,god, thank you for carving out
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this time for us to be able tocome and study the word of God
with your people, god, god, wethank you now because we know
that someone is going to be herethat haven't heard the word of
God.
Someone is going to be herethat don't understand even the
beginning of what, god, of theword of God, and so we thank you
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now, god, for allowing them tostop through, allowing them to
listen, allowing their heart tobe pierced.
God, for allowing them to stopthrough, allowing them to listen
, allowing their heart to bepierced.
God, god, we know that yourword is what we need for our
lives, god, we know that yourword, we have to live by your
word, and so we thank you now,god, for allowing us to be here.
God, we just thank you now forthe people that are here, god,
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that are representing theirhomes, god, god, we ask you to
touch them now in a mighty,special way.
God, go with their family,their children, their spouses.
God, we just thank you now foreven anybody that is connected
to them, god, and so we thankyou now, god, from on high.
We thank you now for allowingour lips to be used for your
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glory, god, and so we thank younow.
We love you, we honor you, wecherish you.
It's in Jesus' name that I pray.
Amen, amen, amen, y'all.
I'm so excited, I don't evenknow what to do.
I'm so excited.
I'm excited because this lessonlike I said this lesson was it
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came about because I was sittingthere thinking a while ago
about Adam and Eve and I didn'twant, of course, we ain't going
to start with God, you know,creating the heavens and the
earth, creating the heavens andthe earth.
We're going to start with thefirst sin, you know, because a
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lot of people, you know I ain'tgoing to say a lot of people,
but I know a lot of peoplereally don't understand how it
coincide with what we're goingthrough in this day and time,
because we are going through somuch in this day and time that,
you know, a lot of people don'tknow what sin was not seeing and
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all that stuff, and all we cando is tell you what the first
sin was, you know, and how thattemptation became about and how
the disobedience came about, andwhere the root, where it came
from, and stuff like that,obedience came about and where
the root, where it came from,and stuff like that.
So, um, I'm, I'm gonna read weare coming out of genesis 3 and
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1 through 24, but I'm not gonnaread the whole thing.
I'm gonna read just um untilverses 7.
Okay, um, only because for thesake of time and I don't want to
be on here too long.
So anyway, they said now theserpent was more cunning than
any animal of the field whichthe Lord of God had made.
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And he said to the woman hasGod really said you shall not
eat from any tree of the garden?
Now, it's the way that he putthat thing.
You know what I'm Now, it's theway that he put that thing.
You know what I'm saying.
It's the way that he said it.
Has God really said it?
I could, I could, for somereason, I could, I could just
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hear that, hey, he really did hereally say that?
You know how some people, howsome people try to say is that
really in the Bible, you know?
Try to say is that really inthe Bible, you know, or did that
really, you know?
So anyway, in verse two it saysthe woman said to the serpent
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from the fruit of the trees ofthe garden we may eat, but from
the fruit of the tree which isin the middle of the garden.
God has said and I'm sorry, I'mreading out the NIV and um.
God has said you shall not eatfrom it or touch it, or you will
die.
And um, verse four, said theserpent said to the woman you
certainly will not die.
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How, oh, now, like they, theybe ready to tell you what you
ain't gonna do, what God said,though, anyways, for God knows
that on the day you eat from it,your eyes will be open and you
will become like God, knowinggood and evil.
When the woman saw that thetree was good for fruit and that
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it was a delight to the eyesand that the tree was desirable
to make one wise, she, she tooksome of his fruit and ate, and
she also gave some to herhusband with her, and he ate.
That's deep, that's deep rightthere.
Then the eyes of both of themwere open and they knew that
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they were naked, and they sewedfig leaves together and made
themselves waist covering.
And so I don't want to read itall, I just wanted to read a
little bit of it.
We know that the story.
It begins with the temptation,because that's where the enemy
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comes in and say okay, did Godreally say that, you know, did
God, you know the serpent he wasrepresenting, say that at that
time?
Because he was really one of,he was the smartest animal.
So, you know, we have to knowthat the first theme of this is
that temptation is sin.
Of this is that temptation andsin.
And so, when you think abouttemptation, what do you think
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about and how do it kind ofcoincide with the temptation
that the enemy is bringingnowadays, like, what do you
think about that?
What do y'all All right, msHillary?
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What do you think about that?
Um, what are y'all right, misshelen?
What do you think about that?
What did I think about that?
The temptation is in.
You know, we have to know that.
Um, you know, it's the essenceright now.
It's the essence of thetemptation.
It starts with the question, thetwisting of the truth that
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appeals to our desires.
So that, right there, in itself, is what people do now.
They're still doing it.
They did it a long time ago, inthe beginning of the world.
They're still doing it.
I was told that nothing is newunder the sun.
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Nothing is new under the sun,nothing.
He did it back then he twistedthe words around.
If we're not careful, we canget found doing the same thing.
You know that's what they'redoing now.
You know, right, right.
And the thing about it, you know, my thing is, you know, I don't
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think I probably I ain't gonnasay I probably, I know back then
I probably would have slippedtoo, but I'm just saying I, you
know, now, when we know a littlebit more, is sometimes we can't
allow the enemy to speak to usin certain type of ways,
especially in certain type ofsituation.
That's almost like what I wasjust saying a minute ago, where
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you know you have to learn howto speak to yourself.
You know, because we are, weare our best coaches in and to
ourselves, and so we have tolearn how to not allow the enemy
to come in and to speak and tosway us from what God has told
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us.
You know, god.
God told us we were fearfullyand wonderfully made, and you
said it today.
You know, god told us we werefearfully and wonderfully made,
and you said it today.
You said, look, you bear tograce that.
So you have to know that beingable to say these things and not
allowing that temptation tocome in and to allure you to do
something wrong, you know, andthat's the main thing what I
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think about, because, like yousaid, people been doing this job
since the day they were born.
I really like what you saidabout the necessity for us to
open up our mouths and be ableto speak to ourselves.
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I think that sometimes we needto just stay right there, like
stay there until we create thathabit and really make it a part
of our lives, because it's easyto hear it.
It another thing to do it andto to where you are now
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comfortable, like right and usedto, um, interacting with
yourself, interacting with yourfaith, talking about those, uh,
and because there takes anawareness.
Okay, this means that we can'tbe lazy in our Christian living.
This means that we have to bepaying attention, we have to be
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aware.
We got to recognize what'shappening Right, and then we got
to also have something to say.
So we need to know the word ofGod, right.
So there is.
We need the awareness and theknowledge of the word of God to
even be ready, to be in aposition to speak to the enemy,
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because it speaks to ourselves,because the thing is is that it
has to be scriptural.
Word is the thing that bringslife.
The word is the thing that'sgoing to cut and drive the enemy
away.
As we know, when Jesus was ledinto the wilderness, he used
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those scriptures to combat Satanin that temptation.
Love it that this is, that thatstrategy right there, even in
itself is just so good because,um, it takes our, it's gonna
take some effort.
You know what I'm saying, andand and it's not something that
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it's kind of like a square oneto me, like if we not doing or
saying something, then weprobably are letting things
happen.
We're probably findingourselves vacillating and
slipping and sliding and justletting things go by.
You know, because when, like itfeels, our kids would be like,
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hey, what are you doing, right,if, if they not putting the
money in our check child?
My second daughter was about toget with subway because they
wasn't doing her check right andshe trying to find out who she
need to call and get it squaredaway and all that kind of stuff.
But she about to say something,you know, and it's like we
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don't.
I take my food back when it'smessed up.
You know what I'm saying IfJagger's don't put McFry's in
there, I'm going to get them aphone call, you know, right.
And so it's like it's for us toget into the habit of being our
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coach, getting in the mindset ofI got to do something for me, I
got to take care of me, me.
I need to use my mind, use mymouth, use my effort, use my
energy to speak life into myself, not just anything, but the
word of the living, word, rightto have me to overcome, right,
and and that that is so true,you know, because, like you said
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, we have to be able to speakthat word that God because we
know what God done told us.
You know what I'm saying.
Like you know, when God tellsyou that that, oh, you can't go
and and do this, or you can't dothat, some people like to um
trust their judgment over God'sjudgment.
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When they listen to the enemy,it's like, okay, well, did God
really truly say that?
Or, you know, you want to playwith fire and say, okay, maybe I
could do a little bit, you know, or whatnot.
But when God tell you something, when God tell you something,
it is, it is um set in stone andwe have to make sure that we
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are, um, like you said, speakingthat, that word and speaking
and speaking up and say, andspeaking back boldly to the
enemy and say, no, you shall nottempt me.
You know, just like how Jesusdid when he was, when he, when
the enemy, was trying to tempthim.
You know, and and so, and weall know that Jesus is the
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second, you know, the second,adam.
So Jesus came to redeem us, youknow.
You know, adam, he should havesaid something.
You know he should have saidsomething back then.
Who should have?
You know, he said somethingback then.
Who said that?
And it kind of, just readingthat scripture, it reminds me of
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a TikTok that I saw, like theysaid men are so.
They said men are so.
They lie so much for somethingthat they probably the one that
ate the apple and blamed it onme.
Now, that is hilarious.
That's funny, I think, about myhusband.
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He blamed everything on me.
It's so crazy.
And you look at what Adam said.
He was like Lord lord, it wasthis woman that you gave me, you
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know.
And he was right there, he and,and that's that's the, and
that's another thing that youknow it, that right there, it
revealed the vulnerabilitiesthat we must guard ourselves
from.
You know, you gotta guardyourself from blame it, the
blame game, I mean, because hesaid, oh, it was the serpent.
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Then Adam came like oh Lord, itwas that lady you gave me that
old woman that you gave me.
Yeah, she's the one that gaveit to me.
But you, standing right there,you heard that serpent when he
said it.
You heard it.
My goose has been around sincethe beginning.
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You knew where he got thatfruit from.
Come on now, it looks like theother fruit.
That is so funny.
But yeah, we have to, you know,um, be able to guard against
that type of stuff.
You know where we want to feel,like.
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You know, um, you know when weare tempted and sometimes we put
our own self in thosesituations.
Sometimes we allow our own selfto get surrounded by serpents
hallelujah, and be able to say,oh, where was the serpent?
Well, you're the one that tookyour step.
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Like, I'm telling you like, ifyou, if you, if you trying to
stay away from certain things,you don't inject yourself in
certain situations, and so thatis.
You know, that is somethingthat we can guard against.
You know, a lot of people belike oh you, just, I stay in the
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house for my safety.
You know what I'm saying,because I don't have to go
nowhere.
I don't want to put myself incertain situations that I'm
gonna have to be like okay, god,I'm sorry, you know.
I'm saying, okay, god, I just,you know, okay, I know God, be
like oh, my girl, you, you can'tblame everything on the circuit
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.
You took yourself to thecircuit.
You know what I'm saying.
You can't blame yourself on thecircuit, I mean, can't blame
everything on him.
So, but anyways, you know, wehave to, even sometimes when we
stay in, stay isolated.
We can also.
That's the devil's biggestworkshop.
I'm telling you Now that's, saythat again.
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Say that again.
The iron mind, when he tried totempt Jesus, was he around a
whole bunch of people, or wasJesus by himself, fasting?
I don't know, I don't know.
This is where I was studying.
It's not the place to be,because that's where the devil
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has all full access to you.
I'm telling you, you buyyourself and then you also have
to make sure that you arekeeping your mind stayed on
Jesus as well.
You know what I'm saying,because if your mind is all over
the place, I'm telling you.
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I'm telling you but that's good, hillary, that's good, that's
right there, you know, yeah,yeah, I like that.
Okay, I like that.
So we're going to move on tothe next point.
The next point is the impact ofsin and it says the ripple
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effect of humanity and creation.
You know, um, the immediateconsequences of adam and eve sin
was the awareness of theirnakedness, symbolizing a loss of
innocence, and the introductionof shame.
Oh, my God, now, when we thinkabout shame, when you think
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about shame, what comes to mind?
When you think about just thatintroduction of shame?
You know, because, first off,if you had done anything wrong,
you wouldn't notice that youbeing shameful, right.
So when you get to that pointand you're like, oh, and that is
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conviction, I mean conviction,you know what I'm saying.
When you notice that, okay, Idon't went too far, saying.
When you notice that, okay, Idon't went too far, I have seen,
you know, beyond, um, where Godwanted me, like, you know, we
have to know that.
So what, when you think of theof, of the shame and um, what do
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you think about that?
Or what comes to mind?
Um, for me I will say, um, thenakedness is a really big uh
part, because I know we probablystill used to, you know,
knowing what it feels like.
But shame really actually feel,feels like, you know, not just
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like you've done something wrong, but it's an embarrassment.
Can you remember being like alittle kid and just being there
and then, like everybody lookingat you you know what I'm saying
.
It's that feeling of not beingcovered, like you want to run
and hide, so it's so close tojust embarrassment.
It's like just that uncoveringthat nakedness and so, yeah,
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it's just a horrible feeling.
It's trying to right.
You know that you have donesomething wrong and you have to
look at the person that youwronged wrong and have to look
at the person that you wrongedin the eye.
Lord, yeah, it really is crazyand you know that.
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They know.
You know that they know becausehe's like why are you naked?
Why are you?
How did you know you were naked?
How did you know Right?
And shame really draws attentionto ourselves.
You know it like conviction ishope.
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Conviction is from the Lord.
That's his spirit, letting usknow, okay, I did something
wrong, right.
But it still comes with hope,it still comes with opportunity
to adjust and to move and to getit right.
But shame there is like, justlike a fear, a horrible feeling
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that comes along with it and itdraws attention back to yourself
, back to yourself.
So I believe that that is thebeginning of the enemy's tactic
to keep people, um, to startthat idol worship of self,
because it's like, um, you know,self-righteousness, um, so, me,
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me, me, um.
And so it's like, you know, godnever wanted us to sin, right?
But?
But a father is simply going tocorrect and, you know, teach us
and move on.
But when he did that, when hedid sin, it opened the door for
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the enemy to come in.
So now he's going to bring hisfalse version, his false, his
false version of conviction, youknow.
So it is the beginning of, likea deterioration of what, what
really was supposed to be, howwe were really supposed to
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perceive this, and so itdistorts.
Now it's like, like you said,how did you know you were naked?
It's just bringing attentionback to who, self, how did you
know?
Like we weren't even supposedto be paying attention to
ourselves, there was a wholeveil over that, that, that fact,
and so.
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And so, yeah, it just startedthe tearing Right.
Right, my mom, she always saywhen you know to do right and
you do wrong, that's sin.
So, when they did wrong, theyknew it.
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They knew it.
That's why they was it.
They knew it, that's why theywas hiding, right, and I was
thinking about something I was Ihad because I read it and I was
like, oh man, so they ate fromthe fruit, the tree of knowledge
.
So they learned a lot of stuffwhen they ate off of that tree.
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And I was like, well, you know,so they learned a lot of stuff
when they ate off of that tree.
And I was like, well, you know,maybe God didn't want us to
know all this.
You know about all the um,another, some other stories in
the Bible where the people, theylearned too much and then God
had to come back and turn, youknow, separate us much, and then
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God had to come back and turn,you know, separate us, right,
it's a created, he created,that's that's when he started
different language.
I think, right, yeah, createddifferent languages and
separated us from because we, we, they created a stairway to
heaven and all that stuff youknow, and right, right.
So I don't know, and that's andthat's you know, and and the
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thing about it, you know, when,when we are to the point where
we think we know it all, wecan't be correct.
It's hard for us to becorrected in that moment because
we and and I think about mychildren.
You know my children, you knowwhen they're younger, they think
they know.
You know my children, you knowwhen they're younger, they think
they know everything.
You know what I'm saying andand it's like no, I'm trying to
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keep you from that, becausesometimes God be trying to keep
us from ourselves.
So we be trying to keep youknow, keep them from like you
don't need to know all of thatright now.
You don't even know how much mybills is, because you can't pay
everybody anyway.
So I ask no questions aboutthat.
You know, if I could go back, ifI could, only if I could go,
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jesus, jesus, I don't want to goback.
I don't even want to know.
I don't even want to see itbecause I don't look.
I don't even want to see itbecause I'm not paying.
I don't even want to see it.
Right, I'm not prepared.
I don't even want to know.
Don't tell me, I don't evenwant to know.
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Let me go to my room and do myhomework.
That's all I want to have todeal with.
Let me deal with my homework,play my instrument.
Let me turn on a Disney movieand watch it.
Come on, nice and easy, real,simple I'm talking about for
real.
So, but you know, you know we,um, we try to keep them from you
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know, from them knowing toomuch, because sometimes we, when
we know too much, we destroyour own selves.
And so you know, and I knowthat that's why God wanted to
keep it that way, where wedidn't have to deal with all the
problems in the world.
We didn't have to deal with allof that, because I mean, if you
imagine, you know what it wouldhave been like if they hadn't
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ate the apple or I don't evenknow if it was an apple if they
hadn't ate the fruit, or I don'tknow if it was a half of the
end, ate the fruit, you knowwhat I'm saying.
Like if they haven't eaten the,eaten the fruit off the alpha,
the tree, can you think abouthow different the pain of our
childbirth would probably be?
You know, like I mean, wewouldn't have no pain, no pain
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at all.
We'd just go and create clay,making another one.
That's nice, ain't nothingwrong with that.
We can talk to the animals andthey understand us and we can
understand them, because back inthose days, the serpent, they
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could talk, walk and talk likeeverybody else, just like us.
There was no language barrier.
So you know, everything waseasy.
Yeah, yeah, like I said, and wealready talked about it, it not
only affected Adam and Eve, eve,but it also affected, um, their
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descendants and the entirety ofcreation.
So, um, and romans 8 and 22says we know that the whole
creation has been groaning as inthe pains of childbirth right
up to the present time, and soyou know, this talks about the
consequences of sin, um, thatare not confined, um, that are
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not confined to humanity butaffect all the creation, showing
how interconnection andprofound the impact of sin truly
is, because it really impactedus and it, like you said, didn't
just infect us, it did thewhole creation, like everything
that God created, it changedeverything.
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So, elder Harper, when youthink about the creation that
had been impacted by that, hadbeen impacted by that, what are
your thoughts when it comes tojust that whole thought of
knowing that just that one thing, that one thing that they did,
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changed the trajectory ofeverything, what are your
thoughts?
I believe that the eternal Goddesires to share who he is, what
he is, for us to know and learnabout him, to understand him,
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to fully express himself.
It's almost like he decided toinhale and exhale.
And I say that because this onething is a very good example.
There's a revelation there forus to understand that things can
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change the course of life whenwe decide to follow Christ or if
we decide to not follow Christ.
You know what I mean.
Just to show people that thatliving a life with him is so
important, it's so valuable.
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You are one person and you canchange the world, so you can do
something in Christ or you cando something not in Christ.
And we don't really recognize,like you said, the ripple effect
.
There's so many people that'sliving on this earth right now.
What we're dealing with is theripple effect, right, but it's
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we.
We saw up under the ocean, inthe, in the banging of all these
clashing of all the rippleswe're just so used to.
It is just horrible.
You know, we don't see thesimplicity and the purity of one
person's decision, we can't seeit singularly anymore.
Right, so life has taken awaythe uh, the, the like, the being
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able to zone in and focus on.
Wow, you know, hey, this oneguy, this one lady, this one man
, they did one thing and itwasn't what the Lord said.
And I think we need tounderstand that our decisions
matter Us, being human and goingwith the Lord.
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I think he's trying to get usto understand that he is the
he's, he's the right choice,he's the best way, he's's the
creator, so let him live hislife through us, right, right,
right.
So there's a lot that we canpull out from.
There's a lot that we can, youknow, pull out from the fact
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that you know he, he wants tolive a life with us.
He wanted to set everythingbeautifully, perfectly, in his
presence, you know, and so what?
But because he set mankind intobeing, you know, so, so, so,
even in his genes, like he madepeople, that is him expressing
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himself, and so it's himself.
So it's like he's trying tocontinue something that he
started, but it's, it's a storythat looks like it was
interrupted, but yet it isreally like a continuation,
right, what was already gonna be, you know, like it kind of, is
what it is and, um, like yousaid in the word, you know all
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of all, of all of all of thegood and all of the bad it was,
it was already in him.
You know what I'm saying?
It was.
He's a creator.
He's not surprised, you know,by all of this.
So it's like, wow, lord, um, Ithink I need to recognize that
life for you is better, you know, right, that life for you is
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better, you know, right, right,we my being obedient can make a
very big impact on those aroundme, on this world.
It behooves me to let you liveyour life through me, right,
because he's trying to sharehimself with everybody else,
like he's still breathing, he'sstill doing this, unfolding,
right, and he's not finished.
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So it's like, let him work, lethim I'm telling you, and the
thing about it, we got tounderstand that allowing God to
work, you know it is showing howhe has, how sovereignty is, how
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he has everything in control.
And, um, because when we, youknow, go against the grain, it's
it's like okay, now you'remessing up the whole way the
thing's supposed to go.
You know what I'm saying.
You're messing up everything,you know.
And so that's the thing You'remessing up everything.
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I think that's how God felt whenthey did that man.
Why you do that man.
You're messing up everything,man.
That man, you really just tookus On a whole nother course.
Did it have to be this way?
Maybe not.
I could have chilled with y'allEvery day.
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Now I got to keep y'all out ofthe garden.
Now I got to put y'all All theway to the left, my God, and put
some angels right there toprotect it.
No, you ain't coming in, nomore, didn't even have to be
that way, it didn't even have tobe that way, it didn't.
But okay, so we're going tomove to the last point Is God's
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justice and mercy the dualresponse to sin?
So you know, um and we kind of Ithink you kind of touched on
that a little bit, elder Harper,when you were talking about how
he just keep you know, umunfolding everything.
You know, we know that thedisobedience that God delivered,
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he gave the curse that affectthe serpent, you know, even Adam
and the earth itself, you know.
And so we also see the glimpseof God's mercy, because you know
the promise of redemption.
Now we know he sent redemption,you know.
And so we know that God isstill merciful, you know, and he
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um, like, even even after hefussed at them, like why y'all
did it?
Who told you he provided themwith clothing.
You know, and said, okay, youknow what, I'm gonna provide
y'all with clothing, I'm gonnasit y'all over to the side.
And you know and said, okay,you know what, I'm going to
provide y'all with clothing, I'mgoing to sit y'all over to the
side and you know, we, we, wejust going to keep it pushing.
And, like you said, that wassomething right there um of
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God's unfolding, um, he justsaid, okay, we're going to keep
it going.
Well, I'm not going to stop ithere, we're going to keep going.
So, when you think about thejustice and the mercy that God
did, what are your thoughts whenthat come up?
You know, I just want to readthis scripture real quick that I
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just so happen to be readingthis morning, and I'm going to
keep it together because this isjust like right on time.
It says it was in Psalm 89,god's covenant stands fast.
Right, I'm just going to read acouple of them real quick.
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It says also I will make him myfirstborn higher than the kings
of the earth.
My mercy will keep himforevermore and my covenant
shall stand fast with him.
His seed also will I make toendure forever in his throne as
the days of heaven.
If his children forsake my lawand walk not in my judgments, if
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they break my statutes and keepnot my commandments, then will
I visit their transgression withthe rod and in their iniquity
with strikes.
Nevertheless, 33, here we go.
Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not utterly take
from him, nor suffer myfaithfulness to fail.
My covenant will I not breaknor alter the thing that has
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gone out of my lips once I haveswarmed by my holiness that I
will not lie unto david.
His seed shall endure foreverin his throne.
As the sun before me, it shallbe established forever as the
moon and as a faithful witnessin heaven say wow, wow.
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So my god, like what?
What?
I?
What I like it it's thefaithfulness.
And see what I'm talking aboutthe faithfulness, the mercy,
right, the fact that when hesays something, he gonna do it.
It's like he's not playing,like he's.
So, god, right that he iscapable, he is able to keep us,
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he still he.
He counted her up, he countedup the calls, he all.
He knew this wasn't his firstchoice, but he knew because the
in the expression of himself andthe expression of his self and
the unfolding of his self, inorder for the fullness of the
plan to be seen and understood,we have to have a will.
That's the thing.
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We have to have been given awill, or we would have been just
like the angels and it wouldhave been like, okay, I get it,
god, I get you, I see whatyou're doing.
Because it would have been justyes, yes, lord you know.
And it would have just beenangels shooting all over.
We would have been robots.
No, he wanted us to be able tobe a family and partake of his
mindset, of his goodness.
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And he told us right here, in 33, he said Nevertheless, my love
and kindness will I not utterlytake from him, nor suffer my
faithfulness to fail, said mycovenant, will I not break right
nor alter the thing that hasgone out of my list.
And so he's.
He's.
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He's been teaching us the wholetime, he's showing us who he is
right, what he is.
So, as far as like his mercyand his justice, man, it it's,
it's, it's almost like it's onein the same, because, as it goes
, he had to pay for the sin,right, he had to let the story
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play out.
He had to pay for the sin,which is his justice, because he
is still yet expressing withhimself.
This is the thing I didn't agreewith.
All right, it's in me, becauseI, he can't help.
He eternal right, right, he'sthe beginning and he's the end.
He's the alpha and omega.
Okay, good, and all, all of itis inside of him.
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So he's still proving his point.
He's making it known that, okay, this is here, but this is not
what I'm trying to tell you.
I'm trying to show you the mygoodness, you see what I'm
saying.
So let me let me finish thisstory and go ahead and bring my
son, jesus, on the scene.
So he now enters his justice,the just the justice part of him
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, where it says you know, likeI'm against evil, I'm against
wrong.
And this is not the story thatI was starting, because that's
what he thought.
He's still on the type of timehe was on in the beginning.
He didn't want to just make awhole evil race only because he
can't.
He could have done that too,but he didn't.
You see what I'm saying.
So now he is able to show allthese different aspects of who
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he is and he brings in his mercy, yeah, and he doesn't give us
what we deserve, right?
So now we are able to recognizeokay, lord, you are a merciful
god I'm.
My righteousness is as filthyred I'm ready to die.
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Okay, so I'm now.
I get it, I get it.
You're good all the time,you're all the time.
So he's just continuing withthis narrative that he started
in the beginning and it's, it's,it's.
They go hand in hand.
His justice and his mercy gohand in hand because one can't
be done without the other,because he, he, he had to keep
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us from something right, so hehad to pay it all up.
First, you know, and not, andnot, and now the, the keeping us
from it also has an end and hecontinues to exemplify that over
and over.
So he did the one big justice,and now mercy is extended to us
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forever.
That's why the scripture saysthat mercy endures forever.
It's mercy endures forever.
I love that song.
Yes, I mean, you know what you.
For the same, I'm sorry, justyou know, thinking about that.
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You know his mercy enduranceforever.
So you know that reminds me ofin Matthew 6, when he's, you
know, giving out some wisdom.
He said, you know he, hereminds them, you know.
He says, therefore them.
You know.
He says, therefore, I say untoyou take no thought for your
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life.
In Matthew 6, 25, therefore, Isay unto you take no thought for
your life what ye shall eat orwhat ye shall drink, nor yet for
your body, what ye shall drink,nor yet for your body, what you
shall put on it is not the life, more than meat, and the body
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than remnant.
Behold the falls of the air,for they sow not, neither do
they reap, nor gather into thebarns, yet your heavenly father
feedeth them.
We are not much better thanthey, so to the barns that your
heavenly father feeded them, weare not much better than they.
So, by you know, thinking, goingback, going back to you know,
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when they was in the garden,they didn't have to worry about
nothing.
And I don't think God must.
Well, I don't think.
He just said he don't want usto worry about it, he don't want
us to worry about it, he don'twant us to worry about it.
So, when they ate off of thatfruit, that's what brought worry
, that's what started it.
The fear and the stress, oh myGod, the anxiety.
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God don't want, and that's whathe has been telling us.
That's what he has been tellingus.
Look, why has been telling us,look, why are you fearing, why
are you stressing, why are youworried?
Yes, wow, wow, that that is,that is so.
That is so good, that you knowthat.
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That is so good.
Um, oh, and that's such a good,good scripture that you read um
Matthew 6 and 25.
I love that because you know umwhen the, because God is so
merciful and he, he knows thatand that's why he sent Jesus for
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to fulfill the prophecy um, thepromise of crushing the
serpent's head, because he saidit.
He said it in Genesis 3, thatum, you don't we, we gonna be
able to crush, you know, on theenemy's head.
So we have to know that Godwant us to be exactly like he
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was, like Adam and Eve wasbefore the first sin.
And that's one reason why Iwant to do this, because I want
people to understand that youknow, the first sin was um
disobedience, and the first sinwas, you know, um thinking being
shameful or or being um or ortrying to do it on your own, or
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thinking that you can trust yourown judgment, or you can listen
to the enemy and all that stuffand the.
And we want um, and that's onething that I want people to know
about the first sin, becausethat's what brought on
everything.
That's what brought on, likeyou said, the anxiety that
brought on that worry, thatstress, that brought on the
fears that we go through on adaily basis.
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You know that's what the enemyplan is.
And if we can notice and saythat, oh, this is what happened
with Adam and Eve.
So, if you can, if you can, ifyou can face it, you can fix it
Right.
If you notice that it, you canfix it right.
If you notice that there'ssomething wrong.
And I never get that whenpeople say, well, I know, it's
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because of this, this, this, ifyou know what, go fix it.
I just don't understand.
Don't sit up there and tell methat, oh, your engine's messing
up.
I know what the problem is andyou ain't took it to go get it
fixed.
And then, next thing, you know,your car broke down.
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Now you're trying to get a ride.
No, you know, you knew what theproblem was.
And so when we recognize whatthe sin is, we recognize what
the enemy is trying to do um,play on our emotions.
He's trying to play on our mind.
He's trying to play on ouremotions.
He's trying to play on our mind.
He's trying to play on allthose things that he can't,
because he can't break usphysically.
You know, he got to get intoour mind, you know, and and
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that's the main thing about itis not allowing the enemy to
come and say you know what?
God didn't really say that whenGod said it, when the Bible says
it, the Bible says it, you know.
So we have to understand thatwe cannot allow the first sin to
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continue to control us when wehave the redemption, when we
have Jesus Christ now we havethat redemption to say, okay,
you know what, I can go to Jesusbecause I know to Him I can get
to the Father and I know that Iam redeemed from this.
We can't allow the first sinand I say the first sin because
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it controls everything, itchanged the narrative of
everything, and we can't allowthat to be hanging over our head
and saying that this is whatwe're supposed to be doing, when
God has already given us theway out.
So I, you know, I'm thrilledthat we started here.
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Lord, you know I have beenpraying.
I was like, oh, you know, and Isaid, oh, let's just start with
the beginning, you know, and so,but did you have?
Did anyone have anything elseto say?
Because I know it's gettingkind of late, I don't, I respect
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everybody's time.
I don't want to hold nobody.
Hillary's here an hour away, soshe probably still got to get
over the coop.
Little Trish is probably likewhere she at, where my mama at.
So does anybody else haveanything to say on the first sin
and how we can learn how toresist the temptation and learn
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how to confess and um, forgive,you know, and then hope in
redemption?
So, um, did anybody else haveanything to say on those three
points right there, like livingwith the awareness and the
repentance of our sin, awarenessand repentance, oh, wow, sort
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of like what I just said, yeah,yeah, I mean it's, yeah.
We definitely don't want to makethe same mistakes over and over
again and just keep lettinghistory repeat itself.
You know, and I I think thatjust really believing and
trusting in god's word and usgetting a revelation and I
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believe that the lord has to, heknows what each one of us need,
because our pathway to thisrevelation it may be different
for everyone.
Why?
Because you might reallybelieve that you're loved by God
, but I might not Right, andit's just for us to operate in
his work.
It takes our faith, it takes usbelieving that he really did
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what he did and so that we canapply it, so if we can repent,
knowing, okay, lord, you haveforgiven me, you have washed me,
you have cleansed me.
I don't have to be condemned, Idon't have to be shamed.
You know it's real.
I can live as a son or daughter.
I can live now as a child ofGod, and so it's I.
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Just that's what I just prayfor all of us that you know, we
get an understanding and arevelation of what the Father
did on the cross, right andDarlene, what you just said, oh,
my God.
Like you know, you mentionedhistory, learning from our
history.
That's my god.
Like you know, you mentionedhistory, learning from our
history.
That's why I, you know, um, inin school, I love history so
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much because I I had it.
Well, it didn't dawn on me untilI had one of my, my coach tell
me that you, if you don't learnfrom your history, you're bound
to repeat it.
So that's one reason why youknow it's important to me that
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everybody learn their history,because I don't want to repeat
this thing.
Right, I don't want to failthat test again, right, and I go
down and look oh, hillary gaveme Right.
I don't want to fail this testagain.
I want to keep going around andwrite Right, right, and that's
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so good, you know, because mostpeople repeat the same mistakes
because they haven't learned.
But guess who have learned?
The enemy has learned that youain't learned your lesson, so
the enemy is going to keepbringing it back to you.
He's going to keep bringing itup because you haven't learned
your lesson.
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You know, and when we can learnthe nature of our sin and how
it makes us unbalanced and howit does it, we will learn more
about our spiritual journey andthe importance of living in
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alignment with God's will.
And that's the main thing isthat when we, like you said, we
want to make sure that we arelearning the history so we won't
repeat itself.
Because you know, a lot ofpeople say history repeats
itself.
You know history.
I ain't going to say I hate itwhen folks say that, but they
say that to us all the timeHistory repeats itself like that
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.
Well, we want to stop historyfrom repeating itself.
That's the whole point.
If you don't learn it, learnwhat happens.
You will not recognize it ishappening again.
Exactly Like you said, I don'twant somebody to say that Keanu
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gave the apple to the man orKeanu gave the fruit to the man.
Now we messed up no, not a wholehousehold messed up because
Kiana did that.
No, you even put that joke onme.
No, no, I don't learn.
I learn from Eve.
I'm telling you, I learn fromher.
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I'm telling you, I learned fromher.
I'm going to let the man gofirst.
You go first.
You take the first.
You take that back first.
I'm sorry, you tell me I doStop.
No, adam, no, no, no, no.
Like Aubrey said pop pop, no,no, pop pop, no, no.
Like Aubrey say pop pop, no, no, no, adam, I'm just going to
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stand behind you and tell youthat you're wrong.
But you got to be able tolisten.
So, no, you ain't going toblame me for this.
No, right, exactly Pop pop, no,no, it's my baby y'all.
I'm going to have to call herwhen we get off here.
So, anyways, anyways, anyways.
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I'm so excited, I'm so honoredto be on here with you both.
This has been incredible.
It has been incredible andinsightful.
And you know, because the thingabout it, we all know some
parts of the bible and stuff.
They probably heard it athousand times about adam and
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eve.
But when you get differentperspective from different
people and get around, that'swhy the bible says iron sharpens
iron, and so we can gettogether and you may be thinking
one thing, I'm thinking another, and stuff like that.
So that's why I want to buildthis community, because I want
everybody to be able to.
Even if you've been in church ahundred years like my mom said,
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a hundred years even you've beenin a hundred years it's always
something new in the Bible foryou to learn.
It is always something new thatwe can feed off of and that we
can learn differently.
So, anyways, we are going toend right here.
Like I said, I thank you allagain and if, elder Harper, you
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know, I like to message you topray out, if you pray us out,
then I'll come back and say allthat little extra stuff.
If you go ahead on and justpray us out, um, and I, like I
said, I hope that this was uhlike rich for as it was for me.
So, anyway, just pray us out,all right.
So, father god, in the name ofJesus, we praise you and thank
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you, god, for this time that youhave allowed us to be together
to go through your scriptures,go through your word and talk
about some things, just reallylearn about you, and just take
some time to peruse how God'ssin has impacted this world and
how we don't have to repeat thatcycle over and over again.
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Father God, I praise you forJesus.
We thank you for what he hasdone on the cross.
We thank you that we have thisbook, the Bible.
Oh God, that we can learn fromit.
We don't have to be like thosewho have gone before us, but we
are the children, we are theredeemed, we are the ones who
get to live in this promise, andI praise you, guys.
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So touch every heart and open upevery eye, father, of those who
will be watching, who desire tolearn more about you, who are
hungry.
I pray for each and every oneof us to get a revelation that
you love us, that you paid theprice for us, that we can live
free, that we can live and dowhat your word says for us to do
.
So we praise you for thecommunity.
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God, go out and connect andgather us even now, in the name
of Jesus, for those who you arecalling to be a remnant in such
a time as this.
We thank you, god, for howyou're speaking to our hearts,
so that we can do all that youhave for us to do and praise you
in Jesus name.
Amen, amen, amen, thank you,thank you, thank you, thank you,
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thank you for tuning in.
Thank you, elder harper, again,and thank you, my beautiful
sister, hillary.
I'm so excited and I'm sothankful and I'm so hopeful that
I know that someone has beenblessed.
So if you, if you, if you wantto give your life to Christ and
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I have to make sure I say thisbecause I want you know the
whole fact of the matter iseverything that we have talked
about it won't, it won't even beeffective if you don't give
your life to Christ.
About it won't.
It won't even be effective ifyou don't give your life to
christ.
Okay.
So, um, if you want to giveyour life to christ, all you
have to do is ask a, c, t, s youacknowledge that you are a
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sinner, you confess with yourmouth, believe in your heart
that jesus christ died on thecross, you turn from your evil
ways.
You know, I like to say it likethat.
You turn from your evil ways.
You know why I like to say itlike that.
You turn from your evil ways.
They may not be evil, butthey're not pleasing in his
sight and you seek after a Biblebased church, seek after his
face and, and I promise you,promise you, he will save your
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life.
So, anyways, I thank you all,make sure you're going to the
youtube channel and like it andsubscribe, because I promise you
that we are going to be onyoutube soon, um, and so I I
want you to make sure you'reliking your, your um,
subscribing so you can get thatnotification.
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And, on top of that, you canstill go and pre-order my book,
remember Arthur?
Now, y'all, so you go, andthat's so exciting, y'all, you
can go and pre-order my book.
Go to the website atwwwcuteforchristcom.
So, anyways, I thank you allagain, thank you all for tuning
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in and please just stay Q'd forChrist.
All right, bye, y'all, bye.
Hey, hey, hey, everyone, this is Kiana, your
creator and your host of Q forChrist, and I'm so excited, oh
my God, I'm so excited to behere, oh my goodness.
First off, I want to say thankyou to everyone that has liked,
you shared, you commented,whatever you've done.
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I'm so excited, I'm so happyand I tell you this is something
that we have to take serious.
Okay, when you have been calledby Christ, it is a serious
thing, I tell you, andespecially when you have given
him your yes, right.
So, anyways, I want to just geton here.
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I know you have seen all theflyers for the book.
I know you've seen all theflyers for everything, but
tonight I want to.
This is something so specialand near and dear to my heart
Because, if you know, know, westarted a book club last year.
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Um, sometime last year, ish,last, last is that a word?
Last year, ish and um.
And so I wanted to revamp thebook club, but this time I
wanted to use it um, for theglory of God, right, really.
And um, and so I want to justkind of study the books of the
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Bible, because it is 66 books inthe Bible, right?
Why not start a book club aboutthe Bible, right?
I think that that is just socool.
Start a book club about theBible, right?
I think that that is just socool.
And um, and of course, you knowif you want to call it Bible
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study, call it what you want,but I'm just that's what.
That's the name that God hasgiven me, and so I'm excited, um
, about this.
This is the first of theMondays that we would do it, and
I don't want to make anybodysad, but next week we will be on
YouTube, so I'm so excitedabout that.
So, anyways, I just wanted tosay that little spiel.
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I want to just thank everyonethat is on here tonight.
I have the privilege of notdoing this alone.
Okay, I love the fact that I'mnot having to do it alone, and
tonight I have the specialprivilege to have Elder Darlene
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Harper and my sister HillaryWilford.
I'm so excited to have you on.
I just want, if you can I knowa lot of people have heard from
Elder Harper.
We're going to let her go last.
I'm going to let Hillary sayjust a little bit Tell the
people about who you are and howChrist has impacted your life.
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How cute, whatever.
Just tell the people who youare.
Hello, hello, hello.
My name is Hillary Bupo.
I am a sister, a mother, ahairdresser, a wife you name it,
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of everybody.
I'm a Mary Kay representative.
I'm a insurance agent you nameit, I am.
But God is so good.
He has done so many things forme.
I call him my miracle workerbecause he works miracles all
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the time in my life and I'm soexcited to be his daughter.
Yes, yes, I'm so excited to behis daughter.
I told my husband today, whenyou married me, you married the
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best thing in the world, becauseyou are now connected.
You know, you don't know who myfather is yet.
Oh, I love that so much.
I'm so excited to be heretonight and to learn more about
his words.
I'm excited.
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Hey, man, man, I love that somuch and I love how you said
when you married me, you marriedthe best thing.
That is just so amazing andthat's you know, um, saying
stuff like that, that increasesyour knowledge about how god
sees you.
You know what I'm saying,because God sees us like that.
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We are his greatest thing, weare his biggest treasure, we are
his greatest, and so when youcan say stuff like that, that
lets you know that God said,okay, that's that's, that's mine
, that's mine because you knowit's.
Then you know the the um, thebest coach you can ever have is
to coach yourself.
You got to be able to coachyourself and that's that's
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amazing.
I love that.
So, anyways, anyways, um, thankyou for being on here, thank
you for your time tonight, and,if you don't know, she is my
director of the book club thatwhen we started, and so now it's
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just so incredible to have heron this journey again, to be
able to do this.
Okay, so I'm excited, I'm superexcited.
So, anyway, I'm gonna let theHarper have the flow, because I
know you all have seen EllenHarper.
You probably done heard herpray, you done did some of
everything.
I'm so excited because she'sbeen on this journey with me
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from day one, y'all likeliterally, and so I'm excited to
have her on here.
Elder Harper, how are you doingtonight?
And if you could just introduceyourself to the ones that don't
know you, how about?
Okay, well, hello everyone.
Um, my name is Elder ArleneHarper.
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Um, yeah, I'm super excited tobe with Kiana and Miss Hillary
tonight.
It's been a beautiful ride sofar and I'm really just going to
study the Bible tonight.
I'm just so excited because Ilove the word and, um, my heart
is to remain a student of theword.
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So, yeah, I'm grateful for thelife God has given me and all
that you know, he has shown meabout himself through the
scriptures, through just livingright and just like teaching me
who he is.
That's been really, really hugeand I'm just so grateful that
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you know, we can just talk aboutthis stuff and share it.
So, yeah, I'm along for theride tonight.
Right, I mean, you know, and andlike you said, being able to
study the word of God, it's just, it's something on a different
level.
Um, you know, I I probably beenstudying it since I was a kid
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but didn't know I it, it wasdifferent, I didn't understand
it back then and so, um, readingit over again and being able to
get key things and and getthings out of it, and to, you
know, um, inject yourself intothe word of God and being able
to figure out like, oh, okay,this is where this is where I am
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.
Um, uh, pastor Darius, hetaught, he taught us that the
Bible is, it's a pharmacy andnot a prescription, and so we
have to know which, um whichwhere to go to when you are
going through things.
You know a lot of people don'tunderstand that.
You know it's different areaswhere you have to go to.
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In the Bible, like you know, hehas said if you, if you got a
broken heart, you can't readLeviticus, you got to know where
to go to to read, you know, andso that's that's the main thing
about doing this to the read.
You know, and so that's that'sthe main thing about doing this,
and so I'm so excited to bedoing this tonight and, um, to
have both of you on.
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So we gonna move forward.
I'm gonna say a quick prayerand then, um, we'll go right
into where god has be startingthis time, and you know where
better to start in the beginning, right, I know people don't
heard the beginning.
You probably can recite all ofit, but we are going to start
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with something that God matterof fact, god has put it on my
heart even before I even askedGod where to start at.
So, anyways, I'm going to say aquick prayer and then we'll go
right into it.
Okay, so, dear Heavenly Father,I come to you.
First I want to say thank you,god, thank you for carving out
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this time for us to be able tocome and study the word of God
with your people, god, god, wethank you now because we know
that someone is going to be herethat haven't heard the word of
God.
Someone is going to be herethat don't understand even the
beginning of what, god, of theword of God, and so we thank you
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now, god, for allowing them tostop through, allowing them to
listen, allowing their heart tobe pierced.
God, for allowing them to stopthrough, allowing them to listen
, allowing their heart to bepierced.
God, god, we know that yourword is what we need for our
lives, god, we know that yourword, we have to live by your
word, and so we thank you now,god, for allowing us to be here.
God, we just thank you now forthe people that are here, god,
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that are representing theirhomes, god, god, we ask you to
touch them now in a mighty,special way.
God, go with their family,their children, their spouses.
God, we just thank you now foreven anybody that is connected
to them, god, and so we thankyou now, god, from on high.
We thank you now for allowingour lips to be used for your
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glory, god, and so we thank younow.
We love you, we honor you, wecherish you.
It's in Jesus' name that I pray.
Amen, amen, amen, y'all.
I'm so excited, I don't evenknow what to do.
I'm so excited.
I'm excited because this lessonlike I said this lesson was it
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came about because I was sittingthere thinking a while ago
about Adam and Eve and I didn'twant, of course, we ain't going
to start with God, you know,creating the heavens and the
earth, creating the heavens andthe earth.
We're going to start with thefirst sin, you know, because a
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lot of people, you know I ain'tgoing to say a lot of people,
but I know a lot of peoplereally don't understand how it
coincide with what we're goingthrough in this day and time,
because we are going through somuch in this day and time that,
you know, a lot of people don'tknow what sin was not seeing and
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all that stuff, and all we cando is tell you what the first
sin was, you know, and how thattemptation became about and how
the disobedience came about, andwhere the root, where it came
from, and stuff like that,obedience came about and where
the root, where it came from,and stuff like that.
So, um, I'm, I'm gonna read weare coming out of genesis 3 and
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1 through 24, but I'm not gonnaread the whole thing.
I'm gonna read just um untilverses 7.
Okay, um, only because for thesake of time and I don't want to
be on here too long.
So anyway, they said now theserpent was more cunning than
any animal of the field whichthe Lord of God had made.
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And he said to the woman hasGod really said you shall not
eat from any tree of the garden?
Now, it's the way that he putthat thing.
You know what I'm Now, it's theway that he put that thing.
You know what I'm saying.
It's the way that he said it.
Has God really said it?
I could, I could, for somereason, I could, I could just
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hear that, hey, he really did hereally say that?
You know how some people, howsome people try to say is that
really in the Bible, you know?
Try to say is that really inthe Bible, you know, or did that
really, you know?
So anyway, in verse two it saysthe woman said to the serpent
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from the fruit of the trees ofthe garden we may eat, but from
the fruit of the tree which isin the middle of the garden.
God has said and I'm sorry, I'mreading out the NIV and um.
God has said you shall not eatfrom it or touch it, or you will
die.
And um, verse four, said theserpent said to the woman you
certainly will not die.
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How, oh, now, like they, theybe ready to tell you what you
ain't gonna do, what God said,though, anyways, for God knows
that on the day you eat from it,your eyes will be open and you
will become like God, knowinggood and evil.
When the woman saw that thetree was good for fruit and that
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it was a delight to the eyesand that the tree was desirable
to make one wise, she, she tooksome of his fruit and ate, and
she also gave some to herhusband with her, and he ate.
That's deep, that's deep rightthere.
Then the eyes of both of themwere open and they knew that
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they were naked, and they sewedfig leaves together and made
themselves waist covering.
And so I don't want to read itall, I just wanted to read a
little bit of it.
We know that the story.
It begins with the temptation,because that's where the enemy
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comes in and say okay, did Godreally say that, you know, did
God, you know the serpent he wasrepresenting, say that at that
time?
Because he was really one of,he was the smartest animal.
So, you know, we have to knowthat the first theme of this is
that temptation is sin.
Of this is that temptation andsin.
And so, when you think abouttemptation, what do you think
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about and how do it kind ofcoincide with the temptation
that the enemy is bringingnowadays, like, what do you
think about that?
What do y'all All right, msHillary?
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What do you think about that?
Um, what are y'all right, misshelen?
What do you think about that?
What did I think about that?
The temptation is in.
You know, we have to know that.
Um, you know, it's the essenceright now.
It's the essence of thetemptation.
It starts with the question, thetwisting of the truth that
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appeals to our desires.
So that, right there, in itself, is what people do now.
They're still doing it.
They did it a long time ago, inthe beginning of the world.
They're still doing it.
I was told that nothing is newunder the sun.
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Nothing is new under the sun,nothing.
He did it back then he twistedthe words around.
If we're not careful, we canget found doing the same thing.
You know that's what they'redoing now.
You know, right, right.
And the thing about it, you know, my thing is, you know, I don't
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think I probably I ain't gonnasay I probably, I know back then
I probably would have slippedtoo, but I'm just saying I, you
know, now, when we know a littlebit more, is sometimes we can't
allow the enemy to speak to usin certain type of ways,
especially in certain type ofsituation.
That's almost like what I wasjust saying a minute ago, where
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you know you have to learn howto speak to yourself.
You know, because we are, weare our best coaches in and to
ourselves, and so we have tolearn how to not allow the enemy
to come in and to speak and tosway us from what God has told
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us.
You know, god.
God told us we were fearfullyand wonderfully made, and you
said it today.
You know, god told us we werefearfully and wonderfully made,
and you said it today.
You said, look, you bear tograce that.
So you have to know that beingable to say these things and not
allowing that temptation tocome in and to allure you to do
something wrong, you know, andthat's the main thing what I
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think about, because, like yousaid, people been doing this job
since the day they were born.
I really like what you saidabout the necessity for us to
open up our mouths and be ableto speak to ourselves.
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I think that sometimes we needto just stay right there, like
stay there until we create thathabit and really make it a part
of our lives, because it's easyto hear it.
It another thing to do it andto to where you are now
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comfortable, like right and usedto, um, interacting with
yourself, interacting with yourfaith, talking about those, uh,
and because there takes anawareness.
Okay, this means that we can'tbe lazy in our Christian living.
This means that we have to bepaying attention, we have to be
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aware.
We got to recognize what'shappening Right, and then we got
to also have something to say.
So we need to know the word ofGod, right.
So there is.
We need the awareness and theknowledge of the word of God to
even be ready, to be in aposition to speak to the enemy,
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because it speaks to ourselves,because the thing is is that it
has to be scriptural.
Word is the thing that bringslife.
The word is the thing that'sgoing to cut and drive the enemy
away.
As we know, when Jesus was ledinto the wilderness, he used
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those scriptures to combat Satanin that temptation.
Love it that this is, that thatstrategy right there, even in
itself is just so good because,um, it takes our, it's gonna
take some effort.
You know what I'm saying, andand and it's not something that
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it's kind of like a square oneto me, like if we not doing or
saying something, then weprobably are letting things
happen.
We're probably findingourselves vacillating and
slipping and sliding and justletting things go by.
You know, because when, like itfeels, our kids would be like,
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hey, what are you doing, right,if, if they not putting the
money in our check child?
My second daughter was about toget with subway because they
wasn't doing her check right andshe trying to find out who she
need to call and get it squaredaway and all that kind of stuff.
But she about to say something,you know, and it's like we
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don't.
I take my food back when it'smessed up.
You know what I'm saying IfJagger's don't put McFry's in
there, I'm going to get them aphone call, you know, right.
And so it's like it's for us toget into the habit of being our
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coach, getting in the mindset ofI got to do something for me, I
got to take care of me, me.
I need to use my mind, use mymouth, use my effort, use my
energy to speak life into myself, not just anything, but the
word of the living, word, rightto have me to overcome, right,
and and that that is so true,you know, because, like you said
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, we have to be able to speakthat word that God because we
know what God done told us.
You know what I'm saying.
Like you know, when God tellsyou that that, oh, you can't go
and and do this, or you can't dothat, some people like to um
trust their judgment over God'sjudgment.
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When they listen to the enemy,it's like, okay, well, did God
really truly say that?
Or, you know, you want to playwith fire and say, okay, maybe I
could do a little bit, you know, or whatnot.
But when God tell you something, when God tell you something,
it is, it is um set in stone andwe have to make sure that we
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are, um, like you said, speakingthat, that word and speaking
and speaking up and say, andspeaking back boldly to the
enemy and say, no, you shall nottempt me.
You know, just like how Jesusdid when he was, when he, when
the enemy, was trying to tempthim.
You know, and and so, and weall know that Jesus is the
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second, you know, the second,adam.
So Jesus came to redeem us, youknow.
You know, adam, he should havesaid something.
You know he should have saidsomething back then.
Who should have?
You know, he said somethingback then.
Who said that?
And it kind of, just readingthat scripture, it reminds me of
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a TikTok that I saw, like theysaid men are so.
They said men are so.
They lie so much for somethingthat they probably the one that
ate the apple and blamed it onme.
Now, that is hilarious.
That's funny, I think, about myhusband.
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He blamed everything on me.
It's so crazy.
And you look at what Adam said.
He was like Lord lord, it wasthis woman that you gave me, you
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know.
And he was right there, he and,and that's that's the, and
that's another thing that youknow it, that right there, it
revealed the vulnerabilitiesthat we must guard ourselves
from.
You know, you gotta guardyourself from blame it, the
blame game, I mean, because hesaid, oh, it was the serpent.
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Then Adam came like oh Lord, itwas that lady you gave me that
old woman that you gave me.
Yeah, she's the one that gaveit to me.
But you, standing right there,you heard that serpent when he
said it.
You heard it.
My goose has been around sincethe beginning.
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You knew where he got thatfruit from.
Come on now, it looks like theother fruit.
That is so funny.
But yeah, we have to, you know,um, be able to guard against
that type of stuff.
You know where we want to feel,like.
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You know, um, you know when weare tempted and sometimes we put
our own self in thosesituations.
Sometimes we allow our own selfto get surrounded by serpents
hallelujah, and be able to say,oh, where was the serpent?
Well, you're the one that tookyour step.
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Like, I'm telling you like, ifyou, if you, if you trying to
stay away from certain things,you don't inject yourself in
certain situations, and so thatis.
You know, that is somethingthat we can guard against.
You know, a lot of people belike oh you, just, I stay in the
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house for my safety.
You know what I'm saying,because I don't have to go
nowhere.
I don't want to put myself incertain situations that I'm
gonna have to be like okay, god,I'm sorry, you know.
I'm saying, okay, god, I just,you know, okay, I know God, be
like oh, my girl, you, you can'tblame everything on the circuit
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.
You took yourself to thecircuit.
You know what I'm saying.
You can't blame yourself on thecircuit, I mean, can't blame
everything on him.
So, but anyways, you know, wehave to, even sometimes when we
stay in, stay isolated.
We can also.
That's the devil's biggestworkshop.
I'm telling you Now that's, saythat again.
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Say that again.
The iron mind, when he tried totempt Jesus, was he around a
whole bunch of people, or wasJesus by himself, fasting?
I don't know, I don't know.
This is where I was studying.
It's not the place to be,because that's where the devil
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has all full access to you.
I'm telling you, you buyyourself and then you also have
to make sure that you arekeeping your mind stayed on
Jesus as well.
You know what I'm saying,because if your mind is all over
the place, I'm telling you.
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I'm telling you but that's good, hillary, that's good, that's
right there, you know, yeah,yeah, I like that.
Okay, I like that.
So we're going to move on tothe next point.
The next point is the impact ofsin and it says the ripple
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effect of humanity and creation.
You know, um, the immediateconsequences of adam and eve sin
was the awareness of theirnakedness, symbolizing a loss of
innocence, and the introductionof shame.
Oh, my God, now, when we thinkabout shame, when you think
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about shame, what comes to mind?
When you think about just thatintroduction of shame?
You know, because, first off,if you had done anything wrong,
you wouldn't notice that youbeing shameful, right.
So when you get to that pointand you're like, oh, and that is
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conviction, I mean conviction,you know what I'm saying.
When you notice that, okay, Idon't went too far, saying.
When you notice that, okay, Idon't went too far, I have seen,
you know, beyond, um, where Godwanted me, like, you know, we
have to know that.
So what, when you think of theof, of the shame and um, what do
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you think about that?
Or what comes to mind?
Um, for me I will say, um, thenakedness is a really big uh
part, because I know we probablystill used to, you know,
knowing what it feels like.
But shame really actually feel,feels like, you know, not just
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like you've done something wrong, but it's an embarrassment.
Can you remember being like alittle kid and just being there
and then, like everybody lookingat you you know what I'm saying
.
It's that feeling of not beingcovered, like you want to run
and hide, so it's so close tojust embarrassment.
It's like just that uncoveringthat nakedness and so, yeah,
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it's just a horrible feeling.
It's trying to right.
You know that you have donesomething wrong and you have to
look at the person that youwronged wrong and have to look
at the person that you wrongedin the eye.
Lord, yeah, it really is crazyand you know that.
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They know.
You know that they know becausehe's like why are you naked?
Why are you?
How did you know you were naked?
How did you know Right?
And shame really draws attentionto ourselves.
You know it like conviction ishope.
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Conviction is from the Lord.
That's his spirit, letting usknow, okay, I did something
wrong, right.
But it still comes with hope,it still comes with opportunity
to adjust and to move and to getit right.
But shame there is like, justlike a fear, a horrible feeling
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that comes along with it and itdraws attention back to yourself
, back to yourself.
So I believe that that is thebeginning of the enemy's tactic
to keep people, um, to startthat idol worship of self,
because it's like, um, you know,self-righteousness, um, so, me,
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me, me, um.
And so it's like, you know, godnever wanted us to sin, right?
But?
But a father is simply going tocorrect and, you know, teach us
and move on.
But when he did that, when hedid sin, it opened the door for
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the enemy to come in.
So now he's going to bring hisfalse version, his false, his
false version of conviction, youknow.
So it is the beginning of, likea deterioration of what, what
really was supposed to be, howwe were really supposed to
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perceive this, and so itdistorts.
Now it's like, like you said,how did you know you were naked?
It's just bringing attentionback to who, self, how did you
know?
Like we weren't even supposedto be paying attention to
ourselves, there was a wholeveil over that, that, that fact,
and so.
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And so, yeah, it just startedthe tearing Right.
Right, my mom, she always saywhen you know to do right and
you do wrong, that's sin.
So, when they did wrong, theyknew it.
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They knew it.
That's why they was it.
They knew it, that's why theywas hiding, right, and I was
thinking about something I was Ihad because I read it and I was
like, oh man, so they ate fromthe fruit, the tree of knowledge
.
So they learned a lot of stuffwhen they ate off of that tree.
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And I was like, well, you know,so they learned a lot of stuff
when they ate off of that tree.
And I was like, well, you know,maybe God didn't want us to
know all this.
You know about all the um,another, some other stories in
the Bible where the people, theylearned too much and then God
had to come back and turn, youknow, separate us much, and then
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God had to come back and turn,you know, separate us, right,
it's a created, he created,that's that's when he started
different language.
I think, right, yeah, createddifferent languages and
separated us from because we, we, they created a stairway to
heaven and all that stuff youknow, and right, right.
So I don't know, and that's andthat's you know, and and the
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thing about it, you know, when,when we are to the point where
we think we know it all, wecan't be correct.
It's hard for us to becorrected in that moment because
we and and I think about mychildren.
You know my children, you knowwhen they're younger, they think
they know.
You know my children, you knowwhen they're younger, they think
they know everything.
You know what I'm saying andand it's like no, I'm trying to
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keep you from that, becausesometimes God be trying to keep
us from ourselves.
So we be trying to keep youknow, keep them from like you
don't need to know all of thatright now.
You don't even know how much mybills is, because you can't pay
everybody anyway.
So I ask no questions aboutthat.
You know, if I could go back, ifI could, only if I could go,
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jesus, jesus, I don't want to goback.
I don't even want to know.
I don't even want to see itbecause I don't look.
I don't even want to see itbecause I'm not paying.
I don't even want to see it.
Right, I'm not prepared.
I don't even want to know.
Don't tell me, I don't evenwant to know.
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Let me go to my room and do myhomework.
That's all I want to have todeal with.
Let me deal with my homework,play my instrument.
Let me turn on a Disney movieand watch it.
Come on, nice and easy, real,simple I'm talking about for
real.
So, but you know, you know we,um, we try to keep them from you
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know, from them knowing toomuch, because sometimes we, when
we know too much, we destroyour own selves.
And so you know, and I knowthat that's why God wanted to
keep it that way, where wedidn't have to deal with all the
problems in the world.
We didn't have to deal with allof that, because I mean, if you
imagine, you know what it wouldhave been like if they hadn't
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ate the apple or I don't evenknow if it was an apple if they
hadn't ate the fruit, or I don'tknow if it was a half of the
end, ate the fruit, you knowwhat I'm saying.
Like if they haven't eaten the,eaten the fruit off the alpha,
the tree, can you think abouthow different the pain of our
childbirth would probably be?
You know, like I mean, wewouldn't have no pain, no pain
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at all.
We'd just go and create clay,making another one.
That's nice, ain't nothingwrong with that.
We can talk to the animals andthey understand us and we can
understand them, because back inthose days, the serpent, they
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could talk, walk and talk likeeverybody else, just like us.
There was no language barrier.
So you know, everything waseasy.
Yeah, yeah, like I said, and wealready talked about it, it not
only affected Adam and Eve, eve,but it also affected, um, their
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descendants and the entirety ofcreation.
So, um, and romans 8 and 22says we know that the whole
creation has been groaning as inthe pains of childbirth right
up to the present time, and soyou know, this talks about the
consequences of sin, um, thatare not confined, um, that are
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not confined to humanity butaffect all the creation, showing
how interconnection andprofound the impact of sin truly
is, because it really impactedus and it, like you said, didn't
just infect us, it did thewhole creation, like everything
that God created, it changedeverything.
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So, elder Harper, when youthink about the creation that
had been impacted by that, hadbeen impacted by that, what are
your thoughts when it comes tojust that whole thought of
knowing that just that one thing, that one thing that they did,
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changed the trajectory ofeverything, what are your
thoughts?
I believe that the eternal Goddesires to share who he is, what
he is, for us to know and learnabout him, to understand him,
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to fully express himself.
It's almost like he decided toinhale and exhale.
And I say that because this onething is a very good example.
There's a revelation there forus to understand that things can
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change the course of life whenwe decide to follow Christ or if
we decide to not follow Christ.
You know what I mean.
Just to show people that thatliving a life with him is so
important, it's so valuable.
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You are one person and you canchange the world, so you can do
something in Christ or you cando something not in Christ.
And we don't really recognize,like you said, the ripple effect
.
There's so many people that'sliving on this earth right now.
What we're dealing with is theripple effect, right, but it's
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we.
We saw up under the ocean, inthe, in the banging of all these
clashing of all the rippleswe're just so used to.
It is just horrible.
You know, we don't see thesimplicity and the purity of one
person's decision, we can't seeit singularly anymore.
Right, so life has taken awaythe uh, the, the like, the being
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able to zone in and focus on.
Wow, you know, hey, this oneguy, this one lady, this one man
, they did one thing and itwasn't what the Lord said.
And I think we need tounderstand that our decisions
matter Us, being human and goingwith the Lord.
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I think he's trying to get usto understand that he is the
he's, he's the right choice,he's the best way, he's's the
creator, so let him live hislife through us, right, right,
right.
So there's a lot that we canpull out from.
There's a lot that we can, youknow, pull out from the fact
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that you know he, he wants tolive a life with us.
He wanted to set everythingbeautifully, perfectly, in his
presence, you know, and so what?
But because he set mankind intobeing, you know, so, so, so,
even in his genes, like he madepeople, that is him expressing
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himself, and so it's himself.
So it's like he's trying tocontinue something that he
started, but it's, it's a storythat looks like it was
interrupted, but yet it isreally like a continuation,
right, what was already gonna be, you know, like it kind of, is
what it is and, um, like yousaid in the word, you know all
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of all, of all of all of thegood and all of the bad it was,
it was already in him.
You know what I'm saying?
It was.
He's a creator.
He's not surprised, you know,by all of this.
So it's like, wow, lord, um, Ithink I need to recognize that
life for you is better, you know, right, that life for you is
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better, you know, right, right,we my being obedient can make a
very big impact on those aroundme, on this world.
It behooves me to let you liveyour life through me, right,
because he's trying to sharehimself with everybody else,
like he's still breathing, he'sstill doing this, unfolding,
right, and he's not finished.
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So it's like, let him work, lethim I'm telling you, and the
thing about it, we got tounderstand that allowing God to
work, you know it is showing howhe has, how sovereignty is, how
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he has everything in control.
And, um, because when we, youknow, go against the grain, it's
it's like okay, now you'remessing up the whole way the
thing's supposed to go.
You know what I'm saying.
You're messing up everything,you know.
And so that's the thing You'remessing up everything.
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I think that's how God felt whenthey did that man.
Why you do that man.
You're messing up everything,man.
That man, you really just tookus On a whole nother course.
Did it have to be this way?
Maybe not.
I could have chilled with y'allEvery day.
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Now I got to keep y'all out ofthe garden.
Now I got to put y'all All theway to the left, my God, and put
some angels right there toprotect it.
No, you ain't coming in, nomore, didn't even have to be
that way, it didn't even have tobe that way, it didn't.
But okay, so we're going tomove to the last point Is God's
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justice and mercy the dualresponse to sin?
So you know, um and we kind of Ithink you kind of touched on
that a little bit, elder Harper,when you were talking about how
he just keep you know, umunfolding everything.
You know, we know that thedisobedience that God delivered,
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he gave the curse that affectthe serpent, you know, even Adam
and the earth itself, you know.
And so we also see the glimpseof God's mercy, because you know
the promise of redemption.
Now we know he sent redemption,you know.
And so we know that God isstill merciful, you know, and he
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um, like, even even after hefussed at them, like why y'all
did it?
Who told you he provided themwith clothing.
You know, and said, okay, youknow what, I'm gonna provide
y'all with clothing, I'm gonnasit y'all over to the side.
And you know and said, okay,you know what, I'm going to
provide y'all with clothing, I'mgoing to sit y'all over to the
side and you know, we, we, wejust going to keep it pushing.
And, like you said, that wassomething right there um of
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God's unfolding, um, he justsaid, okay, we're going to keep
it going.
Well, I'm not going to stop ithere, we're going to keep going.
So, when you think about thejustice and the mercy that God
did, what are your thoughts whenthat come up?
You know, I just want to readthis scripture real quick that I
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just so happen to be readingthis morning, and I'm going to
keep it together because this isjust like right on time.
It says it was in Psalm 89,god's covenant stands fast.
Right, I'm just going to read acouple of them real quick.
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It says also I will make him myfirstborn higher than the kings
of the earth.
My mercy will keep himforevermore and my covenant
shall stand fast with him.
His seed also will I make toendure forever in his throne as
the days of heaven.
If his children forsake my lawand walk not in my judgments, if
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they break my statutes and keepnot my commandments, then will
I visit their transgression withthe rod and in their iniquity
with strikes.
Nevertheless, 33, here we go.
Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not utterly take
from him, nor suffer myfaithfulness to fail.
My covenant will I not breaknor alter the thing that has
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gone out of my lips once I haveswarmed by my holiness that I
will not lie unto david.
His seed shall endure foreverin his throne.
As the sun before me, it shallbe established forever as the
moon and as a faithful witnessin heaven say wow, wow.
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So my god, like what?
What?
I?
What I like it it's thefaithfulness.
And see what I'm talking aboutthe faithfulness, the mercy,
right, the fact that when hesays something, he gonna do it.
It's like he's not playing,like he's.
So, god, right that he iscapable, he is able to keep us,
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he still he.
He counted her up, he countedup the calls, he all.
He knew this wasn't his firstchoice, but he knew because the
in the expression of himself andthe expression of his self and
the unfolding of his self, inorder for the fullness of the
plan to be seen and understood,we have to have a will.
That's the thing.
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We have to have been given awill, or we would have been just
like the angels and it wouldhave been like, okay, I get it,
god, I get you, I see whatyou're doing.
Because it would have been justyes, yes, lord you know.
And it would have just beenangels shooting all over.
We would have been robots.
No, he wanted us to be able tobe a family and partake of his
mindset, of his goodness.
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And he told us right here, in 33, he said Nevertheless, my love
and kindness will I not utterlytake from him, nor suffer my
faithfulness to fail, said mycovenant, will I not break right
nor alter the thing that hasgone out of my list.
And so he's.
He's.
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He's been teaching us the wholetime, he's showing us who he is
right, what he is.
So, as far as like his mercyand his justice, man, it it's,
it's, it's almost like it's onein the same, because, as it goes
, he had to pay for the sin,right, he had to let the story
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play out.
He had to pay for the sin,which is his justice, because he
is still yet expressing withhimself.
This is the thing I didn't agreewith.
All right, it's in me, becauseI, he can't help.
He eternal right, right, he'sthe beginning and he's the end.
He's the alpha and omega.
Okay, good, and all, all of itis inside of him.
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So he's still proving his point.
He's making it known that, okay, this is here, but this is not
what I'm trying to tell you.
I'm trying to show you the mygoodness, you see what I'm
saying.
So let me let me finish thisstory and go ahead and bring my
son, jesus, on the scene.
So he now enters his justice,the just the justice part of him
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, where it says you know, likeI'm against evil, I'm against
wrong.
And this is not the story thatI was starting, because that's
what he thought.
He's still on the type of timehe was on in the beginning.
He didn't want to just make awhole evil race only because he
can't.
He could have done that too,but he didn't.
You see what I'm saying.
So now he is able to show allthese different aspects of who
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he is and he brings in his mercy, yeah, and he doesn't give us
what we deserve, right?
So now we are able to recognizeokay, lord, you are a merciful
god I'm.
My righteousness is as filthyred I'm ready to die.
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Okay, so I'm now.
I get it, I get it.
You're good all the time,you're all the time.
So he's just continuing withthis narrative that he started
in the beginning and it's, it's,it's.
They go hand in hand.
His justice and his mercy gohand in hand because one can't
be done without the other,because he, he, he had to keep
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us from something right, so hehad to pay it all up.
First, you know, and not, andnot, and now the, the keeping us
from it also has an end and hecontinues to exemplify that over
and over.
So he did the one big justice,and now mercy is extended to us
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forever.
That's why the scripture saysthat mercy endures forever.
It's mercy endures forever.
I love that song.
Yes, I mean, you know what you.
For the same, I'm sorry, justyou know, thinking about that.
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You know his mercy enduranceforever.
So you know that reminds me ofin Matthew 6, when he's, you
know, giving out some wisdom.
He said, you know he, hereminds them, you know.
He says, therefore them.
You know.
He says, therefore, I say untoyou take no thought for your
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life.
In Matthew 6, 25, therefore, Isay unto you take no thought for
your life what ye shall eat orwhat ye shall drink, nor yet for
your body, what ye shall drink,nor yet for your body, what you
shall put on it is not the life, more than meat, and the body
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than remnant.
Behold the falls of the air,for they sow not, neither do
they reap, nor gather into thebarns, yet your heavenly father
feedeth them.
We are not much better thanthey, so to the barns that your
heavenly father feeded them, weare not much better than they.
So, by you know, thinking, goingback, going back to you know,
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when they was in the garden,they didn't have to worry about
nothing.
And I don't think God must.
Well, I don't think.
He just said he don't want usto worry about it, he don't want
us to worry about it, he don'twant us to worry about it.
So, when they ate off of thatfruit, that's what brought worry
, that's what started it.
The fear and the stress, oh myGod, the anxiety.
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God don't want, and that's whathe has been telling us.
That's what he has been tellingus.
Look, why has been telling us,look, why are you fearing, why
are you stressing, why are youworried?
Yes, wow, wow, that that is,that is so.
That is so good, that you knowthat.
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That is so good.
Um, oh, and that's such a good,good scripture that you read um
Matthew 6 and 25.
I love that because you know umwhen the, because God is so
merciful and he, he knows thatand that's why he sent Jesus for
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to fulfill the prophecy um, thepromise of crushing the
serpent's head, because he saidit.
He said it in Genesis 3, thatum, you don't we, we gonna be
able to crush, you know, on theenemy's head.
So we have to know that Godwant us to be exactly like he
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was, like Adam and Eve wasbefore the first sin.
And that's one reason why Iwant to do this, because I want
people to understand that youknow, the first sin was um
disobedience, and the first sinwas, you know, um thinking being
shameful or or being um or ortrying to do it on your own, or
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thinking that you can trust yourown judgment, or you can listen
to the enemy and all that stuffand the.
And we want um, and that's onething that I want people to know
about the first sin, becausethat's what brought on
everything.
That's what brought on, likeyou said, the anxiety that
brought on that worry, thatstress, that brought on the
fears that we go through on adaily basis.
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You know that's what the enemyplan is.
And if we can notice and saythat, oh, this is what happened
with Adam and Eve.
So, if you can, if you can, ifyou can face it, you can fix it
Right.
If you notice that it, you canfix it right.
If you notice that there'ssomething wrong.
And I never get that whenpeople say, well, I know, it's
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because of this, this, this, ifyou know what, go fix it.
I just don't understand.
Don't sit up there and tell methat, oh, your engine's messing
up.
I know what the problem is andyou ain't took it to go get it
fixed.
And then, next thing, you know,your car broke down.
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Now you're trying to get a ride.
No, you know, you knew what theproblem was.
And so when we recognize whatthe sin is, we recognize what
the enemy is trying to do um,play on our emotions.
He's trying to play on our mind.
He's trying to play on ouremotions.
He's trying to play on our mind.
He's trying to play on allthose things that he can't,
because he can't break usphysically.
You know, he got to get intoour mind, you know, and and
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that's the main thing about itis not allowing the enemy to
come and say you know what?
God didn't really say that whenGod said it, when the Bible says
it, the Bible says it, you know.
So we have to understand thatwe cannot allow the first sin to
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continue to control us when wehave the redemption, when we
have Jesus Christ now we havethat redemption to say, okay,
you know what, I can go to Jesusbecause I know to Him I can get
to the Father and I know that Iam redeemed from this.
We can't allow the first sinand I say the first sin because
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it controls everything, itchanged the narrative of
everything, and we can't allowthat to be hanging over our head
and saying that this is whatwe're supposed to be doing, when
God has already given us theway out.
So I, you know, I'm thrilledthat we started here.
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Lord, you know I have beenpraying.
I was like, oh, you know, and Isaid, oh, let's just start with
the beginning, you know, and so,but did you have?
Did anyone have anything elseto say?
Because I know it's gettingkind of late, I don't, I respect
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everybody's time.
I don't want to hold nobody.
Hillary's here an hour away, soshe probably still got to get
over the coop.
Little Trish is probably likewhere she at, where my mama at.
So does anybody else haveanything to say on the first sin
and how we can learn how toresist the temptation and learn
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how to confess and um, forgive,you know, and then hope in
redemption?
So, um, did anybody else haveanything to say on those three
points right there, like livingwith the awareness and the
repentance of our sin, awarenessand repentance, oh, wow, sort
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of like what I just said, yeah,yeah, I mean it's, yeah.
We definitely don't want to makethe same mistakes over and over
again and just keep lettinghistory repeat itself.
You know, and I I think thatjust really believing and
trusting in god's word and usgetting a revelation and I
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believe that the lord has to, heknows what each one of us need,
because our pathway to thisrevelation it may be different
for everyone.
Why?
Because you might reallybelieve that you're loved by God
, but I might not Right, andit's just for us to operate in
his work.
It takes our faith, it takes usbelieving that he really did
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what he did and so that we canapply it, so if we can repent,
knowing, okay, lord, you haveforgiven me, you have washed me,
you have cleansed me.
I don't have to be condemned, Idon't have to be shamed.
You know it's real.
I can live as a son or daughter.
I can live now as a child ofGod, and so it's I.
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Just that's what I just prayfor all of us that you know, we
get an understanding and arevelation of what the Father
did on the cross, right andDarlene, what you just said, oh,
my God.
Like you know, you mentionedhistory, learning from our
history.
That's my god.
Like you know, you mentionedhistory, learning from our
history.
That's why I, you know, um, inin school, I love history so
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much because I I had it.
Well, it didn't dawn on me untilI had one of my, my coach tell
me that you, if you don't learnfrom your history, you're bound
to repeat it.
So that's one reason why youknow it's important to me that
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everybody learn their history,because I don't want to repeat
this thing.
Right, I don't want to failthat test again, right, and I go
down and look oh, hillary gaveme Right.
I don't want to fail this testagain.
I want to keep going around andwrite Right, right, and that's
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so good, you know, because mostpeople repeat the same mistakes
because they haven't learned.
But guess who have learned?
The enemy has learned that youain't learned your lesson, so
the enemy is going to keepbringing it back to you.
He's going to keep bringing itup because you haven't learned
your lesson.
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You know, and when we can learnthe nature of our sin and how
it makes us unbalanced and howit does it, we will learn more
about our spiritual journey andthe importance of living in
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alignment with God's will.
And that's the main thing isthat when we, like you said, we
want to make sure that we arelearning the history so we won't
repeat itself.
Because you know, a lot ofpeople say history repeats
itself.
You know history.
I ain't going to say I hate itwhen folks say that, but they
say that to us all the timeHistory repeats itself like that
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.
Well, we want to stop historyfrom repeating itself.
That's the whole point.
If you don't learn it, learnwhat happens.
You will not recognize it ishappening again.
Exactly Like you said, I don'twant somebody to say that Keanu
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gave the apple to the man orKeanu gave the fruit to the man.
Now we messed up no, not a wholehousehold messed up because
Kiana did that.
No, you even put that joke onme.
No, no, I don't learn.
I learn from Eve.
I'm telling you, I learn fromher.
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I'm telling you, I learned fromher.
I'm going to let the man gofirst.
You go first.
You take the first.
You take that back first.
I'm sorry, you tell me I doStop.
No, adam, no, no, no, no.
Like Aubrey said pop pop, no,no, pop pop, no, no.
Like Aubrey say pop pop, no, no, no, adam, I'm just going to
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stand behind you and tell youthat you're wrong.
But you got to be able tolisten.
So, no, you ain't going toblame me for this.
No, right, exactly Pop pop, no,no, it's my baby y'all.
I'm going to have to call herwhen we get off here.
So, anyways, anyways, anyways.
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I'm so excited, I'm so honoredto be on here with you both.
This has been incredible.
It has been incredible andinsightful.
And you know, because the thingabout it, we all know some
parts of the bible and stuff.
They probably heard it athousand times about adam and
(01:03:01):
eve.
But when you get differentperspective from different
people and get around, that'swhy the bible says iron sharpens
iron, and so we can gettogether and you may be thinking
one thing, I'm thinking another, and stuff like that.
So that's why I want to buildthis community, because I want
everybody to be able to.
Even if you've been in church ahundred years like my mom said,
(01:03:24):
a hundred years even you've beenin a hundred years it's always
something new in the Bible foryou to learn.
It is always something new thatwe can feed off of and that we
can learn differently.
So, anyways, we are going toend right here.
Like I said, I thank you allagain and if, elder Harper, you
(01:03:48):
know, I like to message you topray out, if you pray us out,
then I'll come back and say allthat little extra stuff.
If you go ahead on and justpray us out, um, and I, like I
said, I hope that this was uhlike rich for as it was for me.
So, anyway, just pray us out,all right.
So, father god, in the name ofJesus, we praise you and thank
(01:04:10):
you, god, for this time that youhave allowed us to be together
to go through your scriptures,go through your word and talk
about some things, just reallylearn about you, and just take
some time to peruse how God'ssin has impacted this world and
how we don't have to repeat thatcycle over and over again.
(01:04:32):
Father God, I praise you forJesus.
We thank you for what he hasdone on the cross.
We thank you that we have thisbook, the Bible.
Oh God, that we can learn fromit.
We don't have to be like thosewho have gone before us, but we
are the children, we are theredeemed, we are the ones who
get to live in this promise, andI praise you, guys.
(01:04:52):
So touch every heart and open upevery eye, father, of those who
will be watching, who desire tolearn more about you, who are
hungry.
I pray for each and every oneof us to get a revelation that
you love us, that you paid theprice for us, that we can live
free, that we can live and dowhat your word says for us to do
.
So we praise you for thecommunity.
(01:05:14):
God, go out and connect andgather us even now, in the name
of Jesus, for those who you arecalling to be a remnant in such
a time as this.
We thank you, god, for howyou're speaking to our hearts,
so that we can do all that youhave for us to do and praise you
in Jesus name.
Amen, amen, amen, thank you,thank you, thank you, thank you,
(01:05:36):
thank you for tuning in.
Thank you, elder harper, again,and thank you, my beautiful
sister, hillary.
I'm so excited and I'm sothankful and I'm so hopeful that
I know that someone has beenblessed.
So if you, if you, if you wantto give your life to Christ and
(01:05:56):
I have to make sure I say thisbecause I want you know the
whole fact of the matter iseverything that we have talked
about it won't, it won't even beeffective if you don't give
your life to Christ.
About it won't.
It won't even be effective ifyou don't give your life to
christ.
Okay.
So, um, if you want to giveyour life to christ, all you
have to do is ask a, c, t, s youacknowledge that you are a
(01:06:19):
sinner, you confess with yourmouth, believe in your heart
that jesus christ died on thecross, you turn from your evil
ways.
You know, I like to say it likethat.
You turn from your evil ways.
You know why I like to say itlike that.
You turn from your evil ways.
They may not be evil, butthey're not pleasing in his
sight and you seek after a Biblebased church, seek after his
face and, and I promise you,promise you, he will save your
(01:06:44):
life.
So, anyways, I thank you all,make sure you're going to the
youtube channel and like it andsubscribe, because I promise you
that we are going to be onyoutube soon, um, and so I I
want you to make sure you'reliking your, your um,
subscribing so you can get thatnotification.
(01:07:06):
And, on top of that, you canstill go and pre-order my book,
remember Arthur?
Now, y'all, so you go, andthat's so exciting, y'all, you
can go and pre-order my book.
Go to the website atwwwcuteforchristcom.
So, anyways, I thank you allagain, thank you all for tuning
(01:07:31):
in and please just stay Q'd forChrist.
All right, bye, y'all, bye.
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