January 19, 2025 • 65 mins
🌟 Episode Title: "Don't Forget!" 🌟
In this week’s episode of Sunday School Live & Online, we delve into the importance of remembering God’s promises and His unwavering presence in our lives. Through heartfelt discussion and Scripture, we’ll reflect on how God’s faithfulness inspires us to trust Him daily.We’ll explore:
📖 Key Bible verses that remind us of God’s love and guidance
🙏 The power of reflection in strengthening our faith
🛤️ Practical steps to stay grounded in God’s Word amid life’s challenges
Join us live or tune in later to be uplifted and encouraged in your walk with Christ. 🎧 Don’t miss this empowering lesson—stream now on your favorite platform!
In this week’s episode of Sunday School Live & Online, we delve into the importance of remembering God’s promises and His unwavering presence in our lives. Through heartfelt discussion and Scripture, we’ll reflect on how God’s faithfulness inspires us to trust Him daily.We’ll explore:
📖 Key Bible verses that remind us of God’s love and guidance
🙏 The power of reflection in strengthening our faith
🛤️ Practical steps to stay grounded in God’s Word amid life’s challenges
Join us live or tune in later to be uplifted and encouraged in your walk with Christ. 🎧 Don’t miss this empowering lesson—stream now on your favorite platform!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, what's going on y'all? How y'all doing out there?
This is Jared Lewis aka King j Lewis coming at
you with another Sunday School Live and online sponsored by
the Kingley Discussions Podcast, and I thank you all so
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much for being with us on today. We appreciate you
and the view of everything that's going on in the world.
It is a blessing and it is a sheer honor
that you have decided to come and showing us on today,
whether it is through our podcast, whether you may be
listening to it, or whether you may be watching it
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via YouTube or Facebook. Man, I just appreciate you. You
just don't know how much that means to us here
at the king of Discussions Podcast. We appreciate you so,
so so very much. But we are here yet again
for another Sunday School live and online with just a simple,
simple enough, just another cup of coffee and the ready
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the macho man ready Savage used to say, a cup
of coffee in the big time. Yeah, we just that's
all we here for. We're just here for another cup
of coffee. And it's a it's a but it's a
it's a good time for us to get together and
have this cup of coffee at the big time, because
today UH we get to celebrate one of America's uh well,
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one of the world's greatest, one of the world's greatest
gifts that was given to us by God. We are
here to celebrate the weekend of doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
And it is such a blessing, UH to to UH
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be able to commemorate the things that he did for
civil rights and the things that he did in leadership,
and the speeches and the great moments that he was
able to to conjugate during his time as one of
America's greatest leaders that have ever existed, and the lesson today.
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This is one of the reasons why I really love
our H boyd Publishing, Not to not any other Sunday
school literature, but our H boy does a really really,
really really excellent and good job with highlighting our current
and timely events and along with UH giving us the
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word because it's the word in fact that's gonna It's
the word that's gonna set folk free, It's the word
that's going to get folks healed. It's the word that's
gonna get full of your living and that's why we're
coming here. You know, we want to make sure that
we're having a comp events to do whatever it is
that we need to do. And and y'all already know
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what I'm here for, already know well out here for it. Look,
we're gonna we're gonna have this Sunday School live and
on live. We're gonna have fun, but we're also gonna
make sure that we are doing everything, uh in order
and in a good way so that we can not
just learn, but we can take something and use it
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for our every day for our every day living, because
that is the most important thing that we want to
make sure that we're doing here. Because here is a
Kingly Discussions podcast. We're different from any other podcasts. That's here.
You want to make sure that you're equipped with what
you need right uh throughout the week you work five days,
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three days, two days, one days, seven days, whatever. But
here the Kingdom Discussions Podcast. What we strive what I
strive to work to WARS is e reminding you and
bringing fourth things back to your remembrance and offering things
to you that you can use for every day living.
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God doesn't want I truly believe that God doesn't want
to us walking around here like what powerless, and we
ain't got no power. We do. We're Kingdom citizens, and
that's why we're here at the Kingdom discussan podcast. So
we're not gonna hark on things too long. We're gonna
make sure that we're that we're doing things in a
timely or orderly fashion. But I also want to make
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sure that we're highlighting and we're giving or just du So,
if you would right where you are, we're gonna go
ahead and have our opening prayer here that you would
just govern yourselves accordingly. For the prayer for those of
you who may be watching, of course you know, we'll
we govern ourselves accordaly, but those of you who might
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be listening via the podcasts asked that you would use
the wisdom of Job on this thing. Okay, the wisdom
the patience of Job. Now. Now, I don't want y'all
just really nearly out here just doing stuff. Now, just
take care of except don't give Jesus the wheel just yet,
all right, all right, So that is fall over the press.
We begin with our Sunday school live and online. For
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this morning, let us pray dear heavenly Father, we thank
you and we praise you because you are God, and
besides you there is none other. Dear Heavenly Father, we
thank you for this moment. We thank you for this
moment in time that you have blessed us with the
opportunity to come together to you so that we can
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learn more of you, so that we can grow more
in you, and that we can take what itever it
is that you have for us on today so that
we can use it for our everyday living Father, we
thank you for reminding us and making sure that we
know that we are kingdom sentiences, and then we can
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bind up whatever that it is that it's in our
lives that may be coming towards us. In the name
of Jesus, So Father, right now, in your name, we
ask that you will release all distractions, all distract all
distractive thoughts that may come to hinder what it is
that we want to grow in wisdom and knowledge and
understanding of your word. Thank you, Dear Heavenly Father, for
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this opportunity. We do not tech, we do not count
it as a as a routine, but we count this
thing as an opportunity to learn and grow more in You.
So Father, as we go forth in this Sunday School
listen bless us that we can be kept in Jesus name.
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I pray a man, a man and a man. Good morning,
good morning, good morning to everyone. Good morning, good morning,
and good mourning. All right, So we're gonna go ahead
and get started here, uh with our Sunday School lesson
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on today. Uh. Like I said, Uh, it's this. This
lesson here is gonna be real good it. One thing
I will say about our ch boy that I really
do like is they stay on the topic of current
event along with giving us the word and exactly what
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we need. Alright. So this is We're gonna go ahead
and get started with our Sunday School live and online
today Bible study week of January nineteenth, two thousand twenty five.
This is lesson number three and the subject for today's
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lesson is don't forget, don't forget, don't forget. The background
passage is SO one O three uh and the printed
passage is Psalms one O three one through fourteen. And
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as you know, ourch BOYD is a little bit different
than the African Methodist Episcal Design Churches Sunday School church literature.
Whereas in the am Design Churches Sunday School Church literature.
It gave the key verse at the end of the
Sunday School lesson, whereas Rich Boyd gives it in the beginning.
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So I just wanted to highlight that because now we're
getting ready to do our key verse, and our key
verse is Psalms one O three and six. The Lord
executeth righteousness and judgment for all that I owe pressed,
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Psalms one O three and six, And that is the
King James version. Again, the key verse is the Lord
executed righteousness and judgment for all that are old pressed,
Psalms one, O three and six. Again, the key verse
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is the Lord executed righteousness and judgment for all that
are all pressed, Psalms one, O three and six. Let
us move forward with our introduction on this morning. Reverend
doctor Martin Luther King, renowned pastor, orator and civil rights leader,
developed the theological concept known as the beloved community. This
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concept refers to an ideal society characterized by justice, equality
and love. Doctor King envision and community where individuals live harmoniously,
regardless of race, social economic status, or background. It was
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his hope that the US could one day be fulfillment
be the fulfillment of that vision. In the beloved community,
all people are valued and treated with dignity, and social
injustices such as racism, poverty, and violence are actively confronted
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and eradicated. Doctor King's vision of the beloved community and
his commitment to injustice resonates with our passage. This beloved
community could only be actualized by a person willing to
display compassion and unity wholly and completely toward all. These
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are the values God expresses that David celebrates. The passage
calls for gratitude and praise for God's abundant blessings that
provide restoration. The portrayal of God as merciful and gracious
in Psalms one oh three mirrors Doctor King's commitment to
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nonviolent resistance and his belief in the redemptive power of love.
He often spoke of the importance of forgiveness even in
the face of oppression, echoing the Psalm's assurance that God's
mercy is steadfast and available for all. All. Right, think
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about it as we celebrate Martin Luther King Junior's holiday.
What action steps do you think our society needs to
take to move closer to the idea of the belief
of the beloved community. Let us take a moment to
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actually think about this, because this is a this is
a really really really good question here, and what steps
or what action steps do you think our society needs
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what needs to take to move closer to the idea
of the beloved Community. And I do want to put
this in the comments section just so everyone will be
able to see that question and they'll be able to
and you'll be able to answer it in your own
real time. And I'll go ahead and put that up
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there for you as we celebrate the Martin Luther King
Junior Holiday. What action steps do you think our society
needs to take to move closer to the idea of
the beloved Community? You know, as it says in its vision,
the beloved community and its commitment to justice resonates within
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the passions this beloved community could be only actualized by
a person willing to display capassion and unity. And also,
what steps could you know this our society, our community,
the places where we exist in American government, County City
stayed all of that, what steps could we take to
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basically progress or move towards the vision that doctor Martin
Luther King had, Well, we're not going to go into
a whole bunch of it, but I did write one down,
and I wanted to highlight that. I wanted to highlight
that before we moved on. One step that I wish
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that we would take is, of course, you know, it
deals with the church. But I also I wanted to
change it around a little bit because I didn't want
it to make it seemed like I was being a hater.
I didn't want to make it seem like I was
being a hater. But in the same sense, I wanted
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to make sure that my point gets across with the question.
With what I'm about to suggest, I do wish one
of those steps was that the church wouldn't be so judgmental.
Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of the steps
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that I feel like we could do collectively in our spaces,
in our communities, is that the church would not be
so judgmental. So whenever you say so, Jared, whenever you
say so, the church won't be so judgmental. What does
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that mean? What I mean by is exactly what I'm saying. So,
whenever you see someone coming inside your church doors, okay,
the only people that are supposed to be are really
having communication with those people? Is the ushers. I know,
in our culture and in our churches, what we do
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and in our communities, everyone stops what they're doing, turns around,
and the majority of them won't even speak. I think
I'll take a seat, sip of coffee on that one.
Right now. You turn around and you look, and you
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look in your eyes of judgment before you even get
to know people. You will be surprised at the number
of people that actually want to come to church, that
want to participate and want to be a part of
the morning worship experience, and want to learn more in
Bible study and want to gain more in Sunday School.
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But you could feel the judgment as soon as you
walk inside of the door. Yes you are, and I
will say this, Yes you are a new face. And
in our culture, we want to know who he is.
You know, we want to put an eye and you know,
make sure we put a good eye on you, because
we want to know who he is. You know. But
that's that that that's one thing that I wish that
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we would stop doing, is looking in an eye of
judgment in our churches, because not to say that we're
desperate and that we need uh uh, and that we
need any and everybody, But we do, and we should
be desperate. We should be desperate to a sense where
we're inviting everyone, just as God said himself. Uh, there's
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no difference between the Jew and ju the Jew and
the Greek. That he reigns on the just just as
well as the unjust. And and I do believe in
structure and order in the church, but I also believe
I don't believe in judgment. So you know, I do
wish that it's one thing that uh, I do believe
that it's one thing that I wish in our churches
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that will stop judging. Another thing is in in the
churches whenever it comes to judging. I do wish that
we could be more welcoming. I told you I got
a whole list of it right here. I got a
whole list. But that's just one thing that I had
a whole bunch of things on the list. But I
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do wish we would stop doing that. I do. I do.
I wish that we would be more welcoming. Take that
usher board number two out of there, okay, board number two.
We all need to be slamming the door people faces.
No more. We don't even be doing that. We don't
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need to do that no more. We can use kindness
and we can have folks to be uh you know,
feel like they're a part of the worship experience without
begging them for money. Uh. We we can. We can
do that. We we we can allow people to come
and worship God and Spirit and truth just as much
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as we are. But that's just one thing I wish
that we could do. We could be more social, more
social and our reception of others, not just in the
reception of the every of our of our our regular
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attendees on Sundays. I do wish that we were more
uh easy to reception and welcome me and in our
judgment too. If you've been doing the same program and
and and and things aren't panning out the way you
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wanted to be, stop doing it. Just just stop. Just
and when someone else has a better idea than yours,
don't don't run away from the church. We don't need that,
We don't need that. Stop being so judgmental, shop, stop
being so judgmental. Just because your idea didn't work, It
doesn't mean that the world is over Okay, all right,
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So we're gonna need to think about it before I
go into my whole list that I wrote down. Y'all
should really get this man. I'm telling you, this Sunday
School book is really good. It actually has spaces in
the actual physical book where you can write this stuff
down and you can write it in it and things,
and it's just really good. You know, you should. Everyone
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should get this book. It's adult Christian Life for January
through March twenty twenty five. I'm gonna see if I
can pull it up again. We go to the cover
so y'all can see it. But y'all should really get
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a copy of this book. Man, It's really like that.
Here's the copy of it here. That's what the front
of it looks like. You can purchase it on Amazon.
You can purchase it on Bars and Noble, you could
purchase it everywhere. This is it's really a good book.
I like it is very good. But yeah, one of
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the things that I think that we should start working
on is our judgment in the church. All right, so
let's move on from our introduction. And well, well we're
still in our introduction because we're in a think about it.
So let's move to the scripture. The scripture is Psalms
one O three one through six, Praise God for benefits,
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Praise God's praise for God's benefits. Psalms one O three
one through six, Praise God, Praise for God's benefits. And
we're gonna read the new revised Standard version and not
shining away from the King James. But we're gonna highlight
the new revised Standard version, all right. So it says,
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bless the Lord o my soul and all that is
within me, Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord on
my soul, and do not forget all his benefits, who
forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who
redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you instead
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withstead instead with loving will, steadfast love and mercy, will
satisfies you with good as long as you live, so
that your youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord
works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed. And
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that is our introduction for our Sunday School live and
online for the Sunday School subject of don't forget all right,
let us move to our no portion of our Sunday
School live and online. For the subject of don't forget
all right, so Psalms one O three is ascribed to
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David Idiot. David invites the reader on his personal journey
of reflection, making this psalm a declaration of faith that
incites individual and communal reflection on God's goodness and compassion.
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The opening verses one through two set the tone with
an appeal to bless the Lord, emphasizing the importance of
remembering God's benefits towards us. This call to worship is
not merely a ceremonial practice, but a heartfelt acknowledgment of
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God's active role in the believer's life. The call to
not forget is a call to remember. In calling his
own soul to not forget all of God's benefits, David
intentionally seeks personal recall of all that God had done
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in his life. David's testimonies throughout the scripture tell us
that what God has done for David, God will do
for all believers. David's testimonies remind us of our own
testimonies of God's goodness, while David's call to his own
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soul to remember and invites us to do the same
When we call to mind God's goodness, we are encouraged. Next,
David lists specific blessings and mercies received from God that's
verses three through five. This quintin of blessings underscores the
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holistic nature of God's salvation, addressing both spiritual and physical needs.
David uses several verbs to express the blessings before moving
to a so that in verse five, God forgives, heals, redeems,
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and crowns and satisfies so that our youth is renewed
like the eagles. This formula reminds us that God blesses
with reason. Interesting in many Bible stories that involve healing,
immediately after a person is healed, he or she is
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told to do something. Blessings often involve an activity of
God and subsequent activity of persons. Forgiveness and verse number
three is central, illustrating that God's grace involves a profound,
transformative act that restores right relationship to Him. The healing
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mentioned is not physical, but also can be understood broadly,
encompassing the redemption of whole lives and promise of God's
eternal goodness, crowns and satisfies, as referenced in verses four
and five. To have one's youth renewed like the eagles
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is an indication of strength and vitality beyond one's expected self.
Verse number six acknowledges that God is not distant or detached,
but rather intimately involved in humanity's affairs. The list David
provides is universal. None of these actions of God are
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reserved for David alone. God cares for us all. Isn't
an amazing to know that even after God heals you,
right after God forgives you, after God redeems you, and
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after God crowns you, and after God satisfies you. Right?
These things are the verbs that that that rich boy
has pointed out that David said, what God does isn't
an amazing after all of these things that God does, forgives, heals, redeems, crowns,
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and satisfies. After He does these five things, isn't an
amazing that you still have something to do after this happens?
Isn't that something? So? Even after our healing, even after
our forgiveness, even after our redemption, even after our crowning,
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our restomat, so to speak, even after us being satisfied,
there is still a work to do. You know, whenever
I first started this podcast. It was almost like three
years ago. I'll tell you the exact date. Hold on,
let me, let me let my mind think. December thirteenth,
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twenty twenty one. Some dates you just don't forget, and
that's one of them. December thirteenth, twenty twenty one. And
two months before that, hear me out. Two months before that,
I had COVID. That's whenever I caught COVID. COVID was
man that it just lingered. It wasn't worse than the
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nor virus I contracted that I want to say, at
least three or four years before COVID actually came. So
the nor virus was the worst thing I ever had.
I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't take nothing. It seemed
like every time, you know, I felt better and I
felt like I could do no. So yeah, so the
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noir virus was worse, but COVID it lasted longer, and
it gave me a long lasting hurt, and it really
did something to me. So even in the midst of
this sickness, I had already purposed in myself. I was like, hey, man,
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I want to be in a position. And at the
time I was I was still pastoring at the time.
I was still there, and I was just like, I
want to do something. I want to do something. I
want to give back, but I don't know how to
give back. I don't know where this goes. I don't
know how to push this forward. So even in the
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midst of my sickness, after I was healed from COVID,
because I contracted it during the middle week of October
and in the middle week of November, I started getting
ideals putting my things in place. And December thirteenth, twenty
twenty one, is when I put the boots on the road,
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when I put the tires on the road, when I
put the pedal to the middle. I floorided and I
was like, I'm gonna just figure this out. So why'd
you say that? I said that because when God blesses you,
it becomes our duty as kingdom citizens of his kingdom
to not just sit back and just bask in the
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blessing of God without contracting it and giving it back
to other people. That's selfish. Yeah, I wait a minute, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeahah yeah. Been with me here. I don't tell you
why that's selfish to have the know how, uh and
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the way of doing something and knowing that you have
the capacity to do something and choosing not to do it,
that that's that's selfish. And I noticed that a lot
of us don't even realize that we're being selfish whenever
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we're doing those things. And that's why I say I'm
glad that I'm in the capacity where I'm in because
I'm just not satisfied, right. I'm not just crowned, I'm
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not just healed, I'm not just redeemed. I'm just not forgiven.
But I'm also in a place where I can give.
It's like a circle give and it shall be given.
Once you're in a position where you're giving, it shall
be given. I don't ever want to be caught not
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doing something, and that might pay a little bit into
the ADHD, to the to the ADHD that I have.
You know, I just and it may it may be,
it may be just that. But I do want to
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highlight the fact that it is important to always make
sure that you're in a position of giving, because that
that is very very very very very important. I do
believe that David, in a sense had a lot to give.
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David may have been the greatest king that has ever
existed in God's kingdom, because he was a man after
God's own heart. I do believe that David had had
a thing for God in a way that really did
something for others to see how this rugged man could
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love a person so dearly and he never even seen
them before, you know. And I truly believe that that
is a that is a monumental thing. That is a
very monumental thing. Always be in a position where you
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can give back and give to that that mhm and
and and it even says that right here, it says
this formula reminds us that God blesses with reason, right,
So he didn't just heal you just to be healed,
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you know? Is it that that that that takes a
whole different scope? Right? Yeah, I got this healing, and God,
I thank you for it. Okay, now let's see if
we can get other folks healed, right Yeah, Yeah, that's
that's amazing. This formula reminds us that God blesses within
reason and many barble soors that involve healing. Immediately after
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a person is healed here or she is told to
do something right that good morning, good morning, good morning,
that that is a that's an amazing thing. So let's
move forward. So the and I know it. The first
thing we went over, uh uh. The first thing that
we went over his praise for God's benefits. And the
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next thing that we're getting ready to do is God's
Righteousness and Justice. Psalms one O three seven through eleven.
God's Righteousness and Justice, God's Righteousness and Justice, Psalms one
O three seven through eleven. And we're gonna read the
new revised standard version. He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel. The Lord is
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merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding and steadfast love.
He will not always accuse, nor will he keep his
anger forever. He does not deal with us according to
our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For
as the heavens are high high above the earth, so great,
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it's a steadfast love to those who fear him, all right.
As the Psalmist progresses, it shifts to a communal aspect.
God makes known his deeds to Moses and to all
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his people verse number seven. This implies God is a
god of generations and of community, a god who acts
neither in isolation nor with favoritism. Generative generativity is a
turn that refers to the importance of older generations passing
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on wisdom and guidance to subsequent to the subsequent generation.
Both generativity and communal worship reflect the understanding that individual
experiences of God's mercy and grace are meant to be
shared within the community of faith. The psalmist declaration of
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personal gratitude transforms into a collective call to remember and
celebrate God's goodness together. The writer of Hebrews encourages believers
to in Hebrews ten and twenty five, to remain together
in corporate worship. Both passages underscore the necessity of community
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and the spiritual journey were shared worship and remembrance of
God's blessings strengthen and uplift individuals together. They remind believers
that communal worship reinforces personal faith and cultivates an environment
of mutual support, helping to sustain hope and perseverance in
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our walk with God. As we recognize Doctor Martin Luther
King Day, we remember the support in unity found in
corporate worship during the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. Was
a support of Foundation for the Civil Rights movement. David
elaborates on God's character in the following verses, but sharing
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a character that can be healed and maintained only by
God in his benevolence and supremacy. Though we cannot match
God's righteousness or justice. God is righteous and just in
his dealings with humanity, and his steadfast love invites us
to expect acts of justice in the earth. At the
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same time, God's capacity for mercy, patience, and love toward
humanity means God does not treat us like we treat
one another, or like we deserve to be treated. Because
of Jesus, we are justified and can stand before God
and a righteousness that is not of our own. All right,
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So before we dive in to this section, I do
want to go back to the Bible verse that we
read God's righteousness and justice, Psalms one O three, seven
through eleven. Now, what I want to do is I
want to highlight verse number eleven. Well, Psalms. They You know,
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the traditional thing is to say that Psalms doesn't have verses.
We'll get to that understanding later. But we just say
Psalms one O three and then we just say eleven.
We don't say verse number eleven. That's taught through traditional work.
So Psalms one O seven, Psalms one O three, and
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eleven it say, as far as the heavens are high
above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward
those who fear him. So last week in our daily devotionals,
in our Bible app there was a scripture that pointed
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out fear, the fear of God. And the reason why
I'm highlighting this is because here it comes again, the
fear of God. So the fear of God is not
a and I wanted just to talk about this just
for a second, so we can get to get to
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the meetings, so we can get into the stak of
potatoes about this thing here in the section, Because the
fear of God highlighted here is not saying that somebody
wants you to be scared of him. So fear and
scare are two totally different things. They're on two whole,
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totally different levels, two whole totally different diasporas, And there's
no need of trying to compare them, for their definitions
are totally different, and they don't They just don't mean
the same but just for the sake of this being
Sunday School, I want us to highlight those highlight those definitions,
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because here's the definition of scare in the verbs, in
the in the verb of, in the verb and the now.
So scare is to have a cause of great fear
or nervousness and frightened. Okay. And the noun definition says
a sudden attack of fright. So that is the definition
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of scare. And I can tell you that God doesn't
want us scared of him because he doesn't want us
to be nervous. God doesn't operate in anxiety. Hello, God
does not operate in nervousness. He wants you to be
sure of that what you of, that of that which
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is presented towards you. This is why we have the Bible.
In the way that we have the Bible. It is
divine revelation that is impartated from Him to his spoken people,
to his people that receive him. Okay. So God don't
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want us nervous. Okay, to just go ahead and throw
that out. God does not want us to be scared
of him. Okay. God don't want us scare of him.
That deals in nervousness and in frightened. God doesn't want
us to be frightened of him, So now go back
to fear. Fear is an unpleasant, an unpleasant, often strong
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emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. An instance
of this emotion, a state marked by this emotion, anxious, concern,
profound reverence, and all, especially towards God. Reason for alarm.
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All right, to be afraid of That's what the verb
is with alarm, to have a reverential awe of. Okay,
So when we say fear, fear has nothing to do
with being scared. Fear has everything to do with anticipation
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anticipation of danger. So God doesn't want us scared nervous.
God wants us in expectation and anticipation. That's having a
fear of the Lord. So we're not we're having a
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reference of him. That's the difference. We're not being nervous
of him. We're having a reverence for him, a respect
for him, a due diligence to him. We're not being
nervous about how if God is going to strike someone
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or anything towards that matter. We're respecting the fact that
God can do that if he so desires. But we're
not nervous or scared to a point it's a sudden
motion that will cause us to draw back from him,
but it is a form of respect. So whenever we
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see the fear of God, that's what I want us
to look towards more towards two. And that reference here
is our Psalms one, O, three and eleven, because it says,
for as the heavens are high by the earth, so
is so great is his steadfast though towards those who
fear him, So for those who fear him, for those
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who have a respect for him, for those who anticipate
that this could actually happen. You know, his steadfast love
towards them goes even higher above the heavens and the earth.
That's basically what that is saying. So I definitely wanted
to highlight that the fear of God is not saying
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that you're scared of him, but you got a great
deal of respect for what he can do, you know
what I mean. So that's exact, that's exactly what that means. There. Now,
I do want us to highlight the fact that corporate
worship is important. It is so important, it is intricral,
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it is intimate, I don't want us to ever get
to a place. And this is why I try to
keep this Sunday School live and on life at eight
o'clock in the morning. I try my best to with
God knows. I do because I want to make sure
this is not taking away from you going to your church,
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or whether you may be listening to this on the
podcast or on Apple podcast, you know whatever, YouTube music, whatever,
whether you may be watching this live whereenever. I start
at eight o'clock in the morning every week on Sunday morning.
I do not want this to take the place of
you going to church. This is not what this is for.
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I want you to be able to use this as
a tool. I want you to come, God knows, I
want you to join me. I hope any and everybody
jumps up on this thing and be able to get
something and game and progress in the Kingdom of God.
That's the objective. I want this to be an add on.
I don't want this to be a takeaway. I want
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you to go to your churches and be able to
take what you learn from here and apply it to
what's there. Because this is what we're here for the
Kingdom of God. To call those things as be, not
as though they already were to exercise our right as
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kingdom citizens, because we're not powerless. We do have the
authority in the name of Jesus to bind up the enemy,
and that's what we're here for. And a lot of
people just go to church just side of routine. That's boring.
So we want to make sure that we're actually making
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this walk, this journey in our lives very very very important.
All right, So let's move on. Let's go to number three.
We got about fourteen minutes left. Let's go to our
number three. So the first thing that we talked about
was praise for God's benefits Psalms one or three one
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through six. The second thing that we highlighted was God's
righteousness and justice Psalms one O three, seven through eleven.
Now we're going to go to the last one, which
is number three, God's Great mercy Psalms one O three,
twelve through fourteen. All Right, the new revis there in
the version says, as far as the east is from
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the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion for his children, so the
Lord has compassion for those who fear him. There you go.
Fear him, for he knows how we were made, and
he remembers that we are just dust. You can walk
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as far as the east as east will take you,
and never ever meet the west. The metaphorical east west
language in verse twelve reveals the essence of God's nature,
emphasizing his compassion and readiness to forgive. Some would say
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God removes our sins so far from us that he
forgets them. This idea of God's forgetfulness is commonsured with
verse twelve and is also expressed in passages like Isaiah
one in eighteen, Micah seven and nineteen. The portrayal of
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God as a loving father in verse number thirteen resonates
deeply with the experiences of humanity, reminding believers that we
are not alone in our struggles. The psalmist repetition in
these descriptions reinforces the assurance that God's nature is benelovent
and that his love knows no bounds. Describing God in
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parent parental terms can be difficult for some. For those
who didn't have good parent parental figures, understanding God and
parental terms can be both comforting andalogy. God is often
portrayed as a loving and compassionate father, embodying qualities that
may have been absent in our earthly experiences. However, unlike
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imperfect human parents, God is depicted as a source of
unconditional love and acceptance, always present and attentive to the
needs of his children. God offers a safe refuge where
one can find solace and understanding, free from judgment and disappointment.
God is nurtured and supportive in this relationship, providing guidance
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and wisdom for navigating life's challenges. His forgiveness is boundless,
allowing individuals to heal from past wounds and start anew,
emphasizing that their past or failures never define them. Furthermore,
God's patience contrasts sharply with the frustrations often experienced in
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unhealthy parental relationships. God is always ready to listen and
embrace those who seek him. Ultimately, while the concept of
a parental God may invote complex feelings, it also promises
a loving, protective, in healing presence that can restore and
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restore hope and foster a sense of belonging for those
who have felt abandoned and hurt. The song then remarks
on the frail nature of human life. David likens human
existence to dust, emphasizing life's delicate and elusive nature. This
imagery serves as a poignant reminder of mortality. Just as
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grass and flowers are beautiful but short lived, language David
used in verse number fifteen, so are our fleeting lives.
God remembering that we are just dust is a part
of his great mercy. As dust, humanity is vulnerable at best.
This perspective encourages readers to appreciate the present moment and
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to recognize our dependence on God, who is eternal. He
knows and understands our weakness, says our weaknesses and limitations,
and responds to them with an everlasting compassion. The prophet
out Jeremiah articulates this point and limitations three twenty two
through twenty three with his declaration that it is of
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Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because His compassions
fail not they are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.
God got a thing for us, y'all. And I'm not
even gonna sit here and lie to you. I want
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to save this for future content purpose since but my
mother and I we've had of conversation almost two weeks ago,
and it's resonating hard with me, especially right now. It's
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resonating with me because I was beginning to get concerned
about God's Church. Well who are you? Well? Who do
you think you are? You know, I was beginning to
get concerned about God's Church. But now my soul has
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rest assured. The church is going to be flooded with
people because God has been so merciful and he's been
so grateful. I'll explained that in future future, in the future,
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for our future content purposes, we'll put that in a
power session. How about that. It will take about fifteen
to twenty minutes, and I'll give it to you in
full detail. But I see God's Church in a different
place than what it ever has been before. And I
see each and every one of us in a place
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where we are at peace or what God has given us.
This is the end of our Sunday School lesson live
and online. Our Sunday School live and online. This is
the end of it. But I'm thankful because we're able
to come here, and we're able to talk about God
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and equip ourselves, empower ourselves, and encourage ourselves to continue
to keep going. God has been good to us. He
has given and given and given and given and given,
and it's it's endless. His his his, his grace and
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his mercy has just been ongoing. And I'm and I'm
so thankful for it. When we look back at Doctor
King's impartation on what community should look like, I think
that we could all take a strong lesson of steadfastness.
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I don't believe that God bought any of us this
far for him just to leave us all out by
the wayside. And I'm a good father, and do I
say again, a good father always has his children's best
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interests at heart. And I'm so glad that God sent
Doctor King two be steadfast because I knew that had
to be a lot of weight spiritually and both physically.
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It's hard to believe that Doctor King died so young
because he looks so old, and I know, I know
that was a that was a heart rending thing. There
an assassination of him too with something else to behold,
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especially for the community, because in this community that God
wants us where God wants us at. Sometimes it's fair,
and sometimes it's it's good, and sometimes it's not. It's
some times it's fair, sometimes it's good and sometimes it's not.
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It's just not racism, prejudices all over the world. But
God's I tell y'all, I'm telling you God's mercies and
his grace ever abounds. It's a blessing. It's a blessing
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to be here. It's a blessing for you to listen
to this. It's a blessing for me to tell you
about this. It's just it's amazing. But I do thank you.
I thank you for taking the time to listen. I
thank you for they taking the time to be a
part of this. Now, now we'll go ahead and since
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we have done I know it, we're going to do
our share it, live it, and hear it. All right,
share it, sing, sing, or recite the words to what
a friend we have in Jesus, and consider all the
benefits of faithful devotion to God. So that is share it,
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single recite the words to what a friend we have
in Jesus. It is number sixty one in the New
Baptist hymnal. I got one, but I ain't gonna sing it. Oh,
I'm gonna make sure I bring it next time. Sense
you know it's coming from a New Baptist hymnal and
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you know, I'll just I ain't gonna sing it, but
I'll tell you the words. But what a friend we
haven't jeez, So that now you got the tune, I
ain't gonna sing it, So now I will go to livid.
Livid is Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Desire to
see it beloved community form in our nation. Our passage
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just highlights the communal aspects of mercy, forgiveness and restoration.
What do you think our society needs to reach King's
Beloved community? And what can you do to help reach
this goal. I'm gonna put this in the comments for
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you so you can take it. Good morning, Good morning,
Good morning. I'm gonna put this in the comments for
you so you can look at it for yourself. What
do you think our society needs to reach King's Beloved community?
And what can you do to help reach this goal?
So the two questions are there for you. You can
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copy and paste it and write it down. So that
is the Livid. So we did share it, live it.
Let's do hear it. Your story is worth sharing, especially
with younger generations. Share how God has blessed you and
how God has this played mercy in your life with
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someone in a younger generation. Please encourage him or her
to share that story with a peer. Your story is
worth sharing. This is the hear it. Your story is
worth sharing, especially with the younger generations. Share how God
has blessed you and how God has displayed mercy in
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your life with someone in a younger generation. Please encourage
him or her to share that story with a peer.
Now I'm gonna put this in the comments too, because
this is your homework. Homework, yep, this is your homework.
I'm gonna actually do it too. Now I'm gonna come back.
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I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna ask to see
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expressially your story how God has blessed you and how
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you see it right there on the ticket line. It's
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be the best kingdom citizen that you can need. And
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I'm gonna add this with too next Sunday, so I
won't get so you could exercise your right as a
kingdom citizen. You have the authority, you have the power
to call those dagments. Be not as though they already were,
and bind up the enemy in the name of Jesus.
Said is your finances, whether it's your relationships, where the
conditions on your job, take that thing and subjection and
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even don't even don't even stress out, don't even crash out,
don't worry about those names. Just bind it up in
Jesus name and move forward. Anyways, I thank you all
so much. I love you, and may Heaven continue to
smile upon you. And and then, and like I said,
don't forget, don't forget, don't forget it. Always remember to
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exercise move on it, act on it. Exercise your right
as a kingdom citizen. God bless I love you, Pash
Yo, what's going on y'all? How y'all doing out there?
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for another Sunday School live and online with just a simple,
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of coffee in the big time. Yeah, we just that's
all we here for. We're just here for another cup
of coffee. And it's a it's a but it's a
it's a good time for us to get together and
have this cup of coffee at the big time, because
today UH we get to celebrate one of America's uh well,
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one of the world's greatest, one of the world's greatest
gifts that was given to us by God. We are
here to celebrate the weekend of doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
And it is such a blessing, UH to to UH
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be able to commemorate the things that he did for
civil rights and the things that he did in leadership,
and the speeches and the great moments that he was
able to to conjugate during his time as one of
America's greatest leaders that have ever existed, and the lesson today.
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This is one of the reasons why I really love
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really really excellent and good job with highlighting our current
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word because it's the word in fact that's gonna It's
the word that's gonna set folk free, It's the word
that's going to get folks healed. It's the word that's
gonna get full of your living and that's why we're
coming here. You know, we want to make sure that
we're having a comp events to do whatever it is
that we need to do. And and y'all already know
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what I'm here for, already know well out here for it. Look,
we're gonna we're gonna have this Sunday School live and
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make sure that we are doing everything, uh in order
and in a good way so that we can not
just learn, but we can take something and use it
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You want to make sure that you're equipped with what
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God doesn't want I truly believe that God doesn't want
to us walking around here like what powerless, and we
ain't got no power. We do. We're Kingdom citizens, and
that's why we're here at the Kingdom discussan podcast. So
we're not gonna hark on things too long. We're gonna
make sure that we're that we're doing things in a
timely or orderly fashion. But I also want to make
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sure that we're highlighting and we're giving or just du So,
if you would right where you are, we're gonna go
ahead and have our opening prayer here that you would
just govern yourselves accordingly. For the prayer for those of
you who may be watching, of course you know, we'll
we govern ourselves accordaly, but those of you who might
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be listening via the podcasts asked that you would use
the wisdom of Job on this thing. Okay, the wisdom
the patience of Job. Now. Now, I don't want y'all
just really nearly out here just doing stuff. Now, just
take care of except don't give Jesus the wheel just yet,
all right, all right, So that is fall over the press.
We begin with our Sunday school live and online. For
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this morning, let us pray dear heavenly Father, we thank
you and we praise you because you are God, and
besides you there is none other. Dear Heavenly Father, we
thank you for this moment. We thank you for this
moment in time that you have blessed us with the
opportunity to come together to you so that we can
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learn more of you, so that we can grow more
in you, and that we can take what itever it
is that you have for us on today so that
we can use it for our everyday living Father, we
thank you for reminding us and making sure that we
know that we are kingdom sentiences, and then we can
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bind up whatever that it is that it's in our
lives that may be coming towards us. In the name
of Jesus, So Father, right now, in your name, we
ask that you will release all distractions, all distract all
distractive thoughts that may come to hinder what it is
that we want to grow in wisdom and knowledge and
understanding of your word. Thank you, Dear Heavenly Father, for
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this opportunity. We do not tech, we do not count
it as a as a routine, but we count this
thing as an opportunity to learn and grow more in You.
So Father, as we go forth in this Sunday School
listen bless us that we can be kept in Jesus name.
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I pray a man, a man and a man. Good morning,
good morning, good morning to everyone. Good morning, good morning,
and good mourning. All right, So we're gonna go ahead
and get started here, uh with our Sunday School lesson
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on today. Uh. Like I said, Uh, it's this. This
lesson here is gonna be real good it. One thing
I will say about our ch boy that I really
do like is they stay on the topic of current
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we need. Alright. So this is We're gonna go ahead
and get started with our Sunday School live and online
today Bible study week of January nineteenth, two thousand twenty five.
This is lesson number three and the subject for today's
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lesson is don't forget, don't forget, don't forget. The background
passage is SO one O three uh and the printed
passage is Psalms one O three one through fourteen. And
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as you know, ourch BOYD is a little bit different
than the African Methodist Episcal Design Churches Sunday School church literature.
Whereas in the am Design Churches Sunday School Church literature.
It gave the key verse at the end of the
Sunday School lesson, whereas Rich Boyd gives it in the beginning.
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So I just wanted to highlight that because now we're
getting ready to do our key verse, and our key
verse is Psalms one O three and six. The Lord
executeth righteousness and judgment for all that I owe pressed,
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Psalms one O three and six, And that is the
King James version. Again, the key verse is the Lord
executed righteousness and judgment for all that are old pressed,
Psalms one, O three and six. Again, the key verse
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is the Lord executed righteousness and judgment for all that
are all pressed, Psalms one, O three and six. Let
us move forward with our introduction on this morning. Reverend
doctor Martin Luther King, renowned pastor, orator and civil rights leader,
developed the theological concept known as the beloved community. This
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concept refers to an ideal society characterized by justice, equality
and love. Doctor King envision and community where individuals live harmoniously,
regardless of race, social economic status, or background. It was
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his hope that the US could one day be fulfillment
be the fulfillment of that vision. In the beloved community,
all people are valued and treated with dignity, and social
injustices such as racism, poverty, and violence are actively confronted
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and eradicated. Doctor King's vision of the beloved community and
his commitment to injustice resonates with our passage. This beloved
community could only be actualized by a person willing to
display compassion and unity wholly and completely toward all. These
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are the values God expresses that David celebrates. The passage
calls for gratitude and praise for God's abundant blessings that
provide restoration. The portrayal of God as merciful and gracious
in Psalms one oh three mirrors Doctor King's commitment to
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nonviolent resistance and his belief in the redemptive power of love.
He often spoke of the importance of forgiveness even in
the face of oppression, echoing the Psalm's assurance that God's
mercy is steadfast and available for all. All. Right, think
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about it as we celebrate Martin Luther King Junior's holiday.
What action steps do you think our society needs to
take to move closer to the idea of the belief
of the beloved community. Let us take a moment to
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actually think about this, because this is a this is
a really really really good question here, and what steps
or what action steps do you think our society needs
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what needs to take to move closer to the idea
of the beloved Community. And I do want to put
this in the comments section just so everyone will be
able to see that question and they'll be able to
and you'll be able to answer it in your own
real time. And I'll go ahead and put that up
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there for you as we celebrate the Martin Luther King
Junior Holiday. What action steps do you think our society
needs to take to move closer to the idea of
the beloved Community? You know, as it says in its vision,
the beloved community and its commitment to justice resonates within
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the passions this beloved community could be only actualized by
a person willing to display capassion and unity. And also,
what steps could you know this our society, our community,
the places where we exist in American government, County City
stayed all of that, what steps could we take to
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basically progress or move towards the vision that doctor Martin
Luther King had, Well, we're not going to go into
a whole bunch of it, but I did write one down,
and I wanted to highlight that. I wanted to highlight
that before we moved on. One step that I wish
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that we would take is, of course, you know, it
deals with the church. But I also I wanted to
change it around a little bit because I didn't want
it to make it seemed like I was being a hater.
I didn't want to make it seem like I was
being a hater. But in the same sense, I wanted
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to make sure that my point gets across with the question.
With what I'm about to suggest, I do wish one
of those steps was that the church wouldn't be so judgmental.
Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of the steps
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that I feel like we could do collectively in our spaces,
in our communities, is that the church would not be
so judgmental. So whenever you say so, Jared, whenever you
say so, the church won't be so judgmental. What does
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that mean? What I mean by is exactly what I'm saying. So,
whenever you see someone coming inside your church doors, okay,
the only people that are supposed to be are really
having communication with those people? Is the ushers. I know,
in our culture and in our churches, what we do
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and in our communities, everyone stops what they're doing, turns around,
and the majority of them won't even speak. I think
I'll take a seat, sip of coffee on that one.
Right now. You turn around and you look, and you
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look in your eyes of judgment before you even get
to know people. You will be surprised at the number
of people that actually want to come to church, that
want to participate and want to be a part of
the morning worship experience, and want to learn more in
Bible study and want to gain more in Sunday School.
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But you could feel the judgment as soon as you
walk inside of the door. Yes you are, and I
will say this, Yes you are a new face. And
in our culture, we want to know who he is.
You know, we want to put an eye and you know,
make sure we put a good eye on you, because
we want to know who he is. You know. But
that's that that that's one thing that I wish that
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we would stop doing, is looking in an eye of
judgment in our churches, because not to say that we're
desperate and that we need uh uh, and that we
need any and everybody, But we do, and we should
be desperate. We should be desperate to a sense where
we're inviting everyone, just as God said himself. Uh, there's
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no difference between the Jew and ju the Jew and
the Greek. That he reigns on the just just as
well as the unjust. And and I do believe in
structure and order in the church, but I also believe
I don't believe in judgment. So you know, I do
wish that it's one thing that uh, I do believe
that it's one thing that I wish in our churches
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that will stop judging. Another thing is in in the
churches whenever it comes to judging. I do wish that
we could be more welcoming. I told you I got
a whole list of it right here. I got a
whole list. But that's just one thing that I had
a whole bunch of things on the list. But I
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do wish we would stop doing that. I do. I do.
I wish that we would be more welcoming. Take that
usher board number two out of there, okay, board number two.
We all need to be slamming the door people faces.
No more. We don't even be doing that. We don't
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need to do that no more. We can use kindness
and we can have folks to be uh you know,
feel like they're a part of the worship experience without
begging them for money. Uh. We we can. We can
do that. We we we can allow people to come
and worship God and Spirit and truth just as much
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as we are. But that's just one thing I wish
that we could do. We could be more social, more
social and our reception of others, not just in the
reception of the every of our of our our regular
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attendees on Sundays. I do wish that we were more
uh easy to reception and welcome me and in our
judgment too. If you've been doing the same program and
and and and things aren't panning out the way you
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wanted to be, stop doing it. Just just stop. Just
and when someone else has a better idea than yours,
don't don't run away from the church. We don't need that,
We don't need that. Stop being so judgmental, shop, stop
being so judgmental. Just because your idea didn't work, It
doesn't mean that the world is over Okay, all right,
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So we're gonna need to think about it before I
go into my whole list that I wrote down. Y'all
should really get this man. I'm telling you, this Sunday
School book is really good. It actually has spaces in
the actual physical book where you can write this stuff
down and you can write it in it and things,
and it's just really good. You know, you should. Everyone
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should get this book. It's adult Christian Life for January
through March twenty twenty five. I'm gonna see if I
can pull it up again. We go to the cover
so y'all can see it. But y'all should really get
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a copy of this book. Man, It's really like that.
Here's the copy of it here. That's what the front
of it looks like. You can purchase it on Amazon.
You can purchase it on Bars and Noble, you could
purchase it everywhere. This is it's really a good book.
I like it is very good. But yeah, one of
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the things that I think that we should start working
on is our judgment in the church. All right, so
let's move on from our introduction. And well, well we're
still in our introduction because we're in a think about it.
So let's move to the scripture. The scripture is Psalms
one O three one through six, Praise God for benefits,
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Praise God's praise for God's benefits. Psalms one O three
one through six, Praise God, Praise for God's benefits. And
we're gonna read the new revised Standard version and not
shining away from the King James. But we're gonna highlight
the new revised Standard version, all right. So it says,
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bless the Lord o my soul and all that is
within me, Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord on
my soul, and do not forget all his benefits, who
forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who
redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you instead
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withstead instead with loving will, steadfast love and mercy, will
satisfies you with good as long as you live, so
that your youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord
works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed. And
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that is our introduction for our Sunday School live and
online for the Sunday School subject of don't forget all right,
let us move to our no portion of our Sunday
School live and online. For the subject of don't forget
all right, so Psalms one O three is ascribed to
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David Idiot. David invites the reader on his personal journey
of reflection, making this psalm a declaration of faith that
incites individual and communal reflection on God's goodness and compassion.
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The opening verses one through two set the tone with
an appeal to bless the Lord, emphasizing the importance of
remembering God's benefits towards us. This call to worship is
not merely a ceremonial practice, but a heartfelt acknowledgment of
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God's active role in the believer's life. The call to
not forget is a call to remember. In calling his
own soul to not forget all of God's benefits, David
intentionally seeks personal recall of all that God had done
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in his life. David's testimonies throughout the scripture tell us
that what God has done for David, God will do
for all believers. David's testimonies remind us of our own
testimonies of God's goodness, while David's call to his own
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soul to remember and invites us to do the same
When we call to mind God's goodness, we are encouraged. Next,
David lists specific blessings and mercies received from God that's
verses three through five. This quintin of blessings underscores the
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holistic nature of God's salvation, addressing both spiritual and physical needs.
David uses several verbs to express the blessings before moving
to a so that in verse five, God forgives, heals, redeems,
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and crowns and satisfies so that our youth is renewed
like the eagles. This formula reminds us that God blesses
with reason. Interesting in many Bible stories that involve healing,
immediately after a person is healed, he or she is
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told to do something. Blessings often involve an activity of
God and subsequent activity of persons. Forgiveness and verse number
three is central, illustrating that God's grace involves a profound,
transformative act that restores right relationship to Him. The healing
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mentioned is not physical, but also can be understood broadly,
encompassing the redemption of whole lives and promise of God's
eternal goodness, crowns and satisfies, as referenced in verses four
and five. To have one's youth renewed like the eagles
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is an indication of strength and vitality beyond one's expected self.
Verse number six acknowledges that God is not distant or detached,
but rather intimately involved in humanity's affairs. The list David
provides is universal. None of these actions of God are
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reserved for David alone. God cares for us all. Isn't
an amazing to know that even after God heals you,
right after God forgives you, after God redeems you, and
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after God crowns you, and after God satisfies you. Right?
These things are the verbs that that that rich boy
has pointed out that David said, what God does isn't
an amazing after all of these things that God does, forgives, heals, redeems, crowns,
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and satisfies. After He does these five things, isn't an
amazing that you still have something to do after this happens?
Isn't that something? So? Even after our healing, even after
our forgiveness, even after our redemption, even after our crowning,
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our restomat, so to speak, even after us being satisfied,
there is still a work to do. You know, whenever
I first started this podcast. It was almost like three
years ago. I'll tell you the exact date. Hold on,
let me, let me let my mind think. December thirteenth,
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twenty twenty one. Some dates you just don't forget, and
that's one of them. December thirteenth, twenty twenty one. And
two months before that, hear me out. Two months before that,
I had COVID. That's whenever I caught COVID. COVID was
man that it just lingered. It wasn't worse than the
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nor virus I contracted that I want to say, at
least three or four years before COVID actually came. So
the nor virus was the worst thing I ever had.
I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't take nothing. It seemed
like every time, you know, I felt better and I
felt like I could do no. So yeah, so the
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noir virus was worse, but COVID it lasted longer, and
it gave me a long lasting hurt, and it really
did something to me. So even in the midst of
this sickness, I had already purposed in myself. I was like, hey, man,
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I want to be in a position. And at the
time I was I was still pastoring at the time.
I was still there, and I was just like, I
want to do something. I want to do something. I
want to give back, but I don't know how to
give back. I don't know where this goes. I don't
know how to push this forward. So even in the
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midst of my sickness, after I was healed from COVID,
because I contracted it during the middle week of October
and in the middle week of November, I started getting
ideals putting my things in place. And December thirteenth, twenty
twenty one, is when I put the boots on the road,
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when I put the tires on the road, when I
put the pedal to the middle. I floorided and I
was like, I'm gonna just figure this out. So why'd
you say that? I said that because when God blesses you,
it becomes our duty as kingdom citizens of his kingdom
to not just sit back and just bask in the
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blessing of God without contracting it and giving it back
to other people. That's selfish. Yeah, I wait a minute, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeahah yeah. Been with me here. I don't tell you
why that's selfish to have the know how, uh and
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the way of doing something and knowing that you have
the capacity to do something and choosing not to do it,
that that's that's selfish. And I noticed that a lot
of us don't even realize that we're being selfish whenever
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we're doing those things. And that's why I say I'm
glad that I'm in the capacity where I'm in because
I'm just not satisfied, right. I'm not just crowned, I'm
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not just healed, I'm not just redeemed. I'm just not forgiven.
But I'm also in a place where I can give.
It's like a circle give and it shall be given.
Once you're in a position where you're giving, it shall
be given. I don't ever want to be caught not
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doing something, and that might pay a little bit into
the ADHD, to the to the ADHD that I have.
You know, I just and it may it may be,
it may be just that. But I do want to
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highlight the fact that it is important to always make
sure that you're in a position of giving, because that
that is very very very very very important. I do
believe that David, in a sense had a lot to give.
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David may have been the greatest king that has ever
existed in God's kingdom, because he was a man after
God's own heart. I do believe that David had had
a thing for God in a way that really did
something for others to see how this rugged man could
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love a person so dearly and he never even seen
them before, you know. And I truly believe that that
is a that is a monumental thing. That is a
very monumental thing. Always be in a position where you
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can give back and give to that that mhm and
and and it even says that right here, it says
this formula reminds us that God blesses with reason, right,
So he didn't just heal you just to be healed,
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you know? Is it that that that that takes a
whole different scope? Right? Yeah, I got this healing, and God,
I thank you for it. Okay, now let's see if
we can get other folks healed, right Yeah, Yeah, that's
that's amazing. This formula reminds us that God blesses within
reason and many barble soors that involve healing. Immediately after
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a person is healed here or she is told to
do something right that good morning, good morning, good morning,
that that is a that's an amazing thing. So let's
move forward. So the and I know it. The first
thing we went over, uh uh. The first thing that
we went over his praise for God's benefits. And the
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next thing that we're getting ready to do is God's
Righteousness and Justice. Psalms one O three seven through eleven.
God's Righteousness and Justice, God's Righteousness and Justice, Psalms one
O three seven through eleven. And we're gonna read the
new revised standard version. He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel. The Lord is
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merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding and steadfast love.
He will not always accuse, nor will he keep his
anger forever. He does not deal with us according to
our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For
as the heavens are high high above the earth, so great,
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it's a steadfast love to those who fear him, all right.
As the Psalmist progresses, it shifts to a communal aspect.
God makes known his deeds to Moses and to all
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his people verse number seven. This implies God is a
god of generations and of community, a god who acts
neither in isolation nor with favoritism. Generative generativity is a
turn that refers to the importance of older generations passing
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on wisdom and guidance to subsequent to the subsequent generation.
Both generativity and communal worship reflect the understanding that individual
experiences of God's mercy and grace are meant to be
shared within the community of faith. The psalmist declaration of
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personal gratitude transforms into a collective call to remember and
celebrate God's goodness together. The writer of Hebrews encourages believers
to in Hebrews ten and twenty five, to remain together
in corporate worship. Both passages underscore the necessity of community
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and the spiritual journey were shared worship and remembrance of
God's blessings strengthen and uplift individuals together. They remind believers
that communal worship reinforces personal faith and cultivates an environment
of mutual support, helping to sustain hope and perseverance in
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our walk with God. As we recognize Doctor Martin Luther
King Day, we remember the support in unity found in
corporate worship during the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. Was
a support of Foundation for the Civil Rights movement. David
elaborates on God's character in the following verses, but sharing
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a character that can be healed and maintained only by
God in his benevolence and supremacy. Though we cannot match
God's righteousness or justice. God is righteous and just in
his dealings with humanity, and his steadfast love invites us
to expect acts of justice in the earth. At the
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same time, God's capacity for mercy, patience, and love toward
humanity means God does not treat us like we treat
one another, or like we deserve to be treated. Because
of Jesus, we are justified and can stand before God
and a righteousness that is not of our own. All right,
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So before we dive in to this section, I do
want to go back to the Bible verse that we
read God's righteousness and justice, Psalms one O three, seven
through eleven. Now, what I want to do is I
want to highlight verse number eleven. Well, Psalms. They You know,
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the traditional thing is to say that Psalms doesn't have verses.
We'll get to that understanding later. But we just say
Psalms one O three and then we just say eleven.
We don't say verse number eleven. That's taught through traditional work.
So Psalms one O seven, Psalms one O three, and
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eleven it say, as far as the heavens are high
above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward
those who fear him. So last week in our daily devotionals,
in our Bible app there was a scripture that pointed
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out fear, the fear of God. And the reason why
I'm highlighting this is because here it comes again, the
fear of God. So the fear of God is not
a and I wanted just to talk about this just
for a second, so we can get to get to
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the meetings, so we can get into the stak of
potatoes about this thing here in the section, Because the
fear of God highlighted here is not saying that somebody
wants you to be scared of him. So fear and
scare are two totally different things. They're on two whole,
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totally different levels, two whole totally different diasporas, And there's
no need of trying to compare them, for their definitions
are totally different, and they don't They just don't mean
the same but just for the sake of this being
Sunday School, I want us to highlight those highlight those definitions,
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because here's the definition of scare in the verbs, in
the in the verb of, in the verb and the now.
So scare is to have a cause of great fear
or nervousness and frightened. Okay. And the noun definition says
a sudden attack of fright. So that is the definition
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of scare. And I can tell you that God doesn't
want us scared of him because he doesn't want us
to be nervous. God doesn't operate in anxiety. Hello, God
does not operate in nervousness. He wants you to be
sure of that what you of, that of that which
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is presented towards you. This is why we have the Bible.
In the way that we have the Bible. It is
divine revelation that is impartated from Him to his spoken people,
to his people that receive him. Okay. So God don't
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want us nervous. Okay, to just go ahead and throw
that out. God does not want us to be scared
of him. Okay. God don't want us scare of him.
That deals in nervousness and in frightened. God doesn't want
us to be frightened of him, So now go back
to fear. Fear is an unpleasant, an unpleasant, often strong
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emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. An instance
of this emotion, a state marked by this emotion, anxious, concern,
profound reverence, and all, especially towards God. Reason for alarm.
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All right, to be afraid of That's what the verb
is with alarm, to have a reverential awe of. Okay,
So when we say fear, fear has nothing to do
with being scared. Fear has everything to do with anticipation
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anticipation of danger. So God doesn't want us scared nervous.
God wants us in expectation and anticipation. That's having a
fear of the Lord. So we're not we're having a
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reference of him. That's the difference. We're not being nervous
of him. We're having a reverence for him, a respect
for him, a due diligence to him. We're not being
nervous about how if God is going to strike someone
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or anything towards that matter. We're respecting the fact that
God can do that if he so desires. But we're
not nervous or scared to a point it's a sudden
motion that will cause us to draw back from him,
but it is a form of respect. So whenever we
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see the fear of God, that's what I want us
to look towards more towards two. And that reference here
is our Psalms one, O, three and eleven, because it says,
for as the heavens are high by the earth, so
is so great is his steadfast though towards those who
fear him, So for those who fear him, for those
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who have a respect for him, for those who anticipate
that this could actually happen. You know, his steadfast love
towards them goes even higher above the heavens and the earth.
That's basically what that is saying. So I definitely wanted
to highlight that the fear of God is not saying
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that you're scared of him, but you got a great
deal of respect for what he can do, you know
what I mean. So that's exact, that's exactly what that means. There. Now,
I do want us to highlight the fact that corporate
worship is important. It is so important, it is intricral,
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it is intimate, I don't want us to ever get
to a place. And this is why I try to
keep this Sunday School live and on life at eight
o'clock in the morning. I try my best to with
God knows. I do because I want to make sure
this is not taking away from you going to your church,
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or whether you may be listening to this on the
podcast or on Apple podcast, you know whatever, YouTube music, whatever,
whether you may be watching this live whereenever. I start
at eight o'clock in the morning every week on Sunday morning.
I do not want this to take the place of
you going to church. This is not what this is for.
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I want you to be able to use this as
a tool. I want you to come, God knows, I
want you to join me. I hope any and everybody
jumps up on this thing and be able to get
something and game and progress in the Kingdom of God.
That's the objective. I want this to be an add on.
I don't want this to be a takeaway. I want
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you to go to your churches and be able to
take what you learn from here and apply it to
what's there. Because this is what we're here for the
Kingdom of God. To call those things as be, not
as though they already were to exercise our right as
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kingdom citizens, because we're not powerless. We do have the
authority in the name of Jesus to bind up the enemy,
and that's what we're here for. And a lot of
people just go to church just side of routine. That's boring.
So we want to make sure that we're actually making
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this walk, this journey in our lives very very very important.
All right, So let's move on. Let's go to number three.
We got about fourteen minutes left. Let's go to our
number three. So the first thing that we talked about
was praise for God's benefits Psalms one or three one
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through six. The second thing that we highlighted was God's
righteousness and justice Psalms one O three, seven through eleven.
Now we're going to go to the last one, which
is number three, God's Great mercy Psalms one O three,
twelve through fourteen. All Right, the new revis there in
the version says, as far as the east is from
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the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion for his children, so the
Lord has compassion for those who fear him. There you go.
Fear him, for he knows how we were made, and
he remembers that we are just dust. You can walk
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as far as the east as east will take you,
and never ever meet the west. The metaphorical east west
language in verse twelve reveals the essence of God's nature,
emphasizing his compassion and readiness to forgive. Some would say
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God removes our sins so far from us that he
forgets them. This idea of God's forgetfulness is commonsured with
verse twelve and is also expressed in passages like Isaiah
one in eighteen, Micah seven and nineteen. The portrayal of
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God as a loving father in verse number thirteen resonates
deeply with the experiences of humanity, reminding believers that we
are not alone in our struggles. The psalmist repetition in
these descriptions reinforces the assurance that God's nature is benelovent
and that his love knows no bounds. Describing God in
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parent parental terms can be difficult for some. For those
who didn't have good parent parental figures, understanding God and
parental terms can be both comforting andalogy. God is often
portrayed as a loving and compassionate father, embodying qualities that
may have been absent in our earthly experiences. However, unlike
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imperfect human parents, God is depicted as a source of
unconditional love and acceptance, always present and attentive to the
needs of his children. God offers a safe refuge where
one can find solace and understanding, free from judgment and disappointment.
God is nurtured and supportive in this relationship, providing guidance
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and wisdom for navigating life's challenges. His forgiveness is boundless,
allowing individuals to heal from past wounds and start anew,
emphasizing that their past or failures never define them. Furthermore,
God's patience contrasts sharply with the frustrations often experienced in
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unhealthy parental relationships. God is always ready to listen and
embrace those who seek him. Ultimately, while the concept of
a parental God may invote complex feelings, it also promises
a loving, protective, in healing presence that can restore and
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restore hope and foster a sense of belonging for those
who have felt abandoned and hurt. The song then remarks
on the frail nature of human life. David likens human
existence to dust, emphasizing life's delicate and elusive nature. This
imagery serves as a poignant reminder of mortality. Just as
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grass and flowers are beautiful but short lived, language David
used in verse number fifteen, so are our fleeting lives.
God remembering that we are just dust is a part
of his great mercy. As dust, humanity is vulnerable at best.
This perspective encourages readers to appreciate the present moment and
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to recognize our dependence on God, who is eternal. He
knows and understands our weakness, says our weaknesses and limitations,
and responds to them with an everlasting compassion. The prophet
out Jeremiah articulates this point and limitations three twenty two
through twenty three with his declaration that it is of
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Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because His compassions
fail not they are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.
God got a thing for us, y'all. And I'm not
even gonna sit here and lie to you. I want
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to save this for future content purpose since but my
mother and I we've had of conversation almost two weeks ago,
and it's resonating hard with me, especially right now. It's
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resonating with me because I was beginning to get concerned
about God's Church. Well who are you? Well? Who do
you think you are? You know, I was beginning to
get concerned about God's Church. But now my soul has
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rest assured. The church is going to be flooded with
people because God has been so merciful and he's been
so grateful. I'll explained that in future future, in the future,
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for our future content purposes, we'll put that in a
power session. How about that. It will take about fifteen
to twenty minutes, and I'll give it to you in
full detail. But I see God's Church in a different
place than what it ever has been before. And I
see each and every one of us in a place
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where we are at peace or what God has given us.
This is the end of our Sunday School lesson live
and online. Our Sunday School live and online. This is
the end of it. But I'm thankful because we're able
to come here, and we're able to talk about God
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and equip ourselves, empower ourselves, and encourage ourselves to continue
to keep going. God has been good to us. He
has given and given and given and given and given,
and it's it's endless. His his his, his grace and
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his mercy has just been ongoing. And I'm and I'm
so thankful for it. When we look back at Doctor
King's impartation on what community should look like, I think
that we could all take a strong lesson of steadfastness.
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I don't believe that God bought any of us this
far for him just to leave us all out by
the wayside. And I'm a good father, and do I
say again, a good father always has his children's best
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interests at heart. And I'm so glad that God sent
Doctor King two be steadfast because I knew that had
to be a lot of weight spiritually and both physically.
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It's hard to believe that Doctor King died so young
because he looks so old, and I know, I know
that was a that was a heart rending thing. There
an assassination of him too with something else to behold,
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especially for the community, because in this community that God
wants us where God wants us at. Sometimes it's fair,
and sometimes it's it's good, and sometimes it's not. It's
some times it's fair, sometimes it's good and sometimes it's not.
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It's just not racism, prejudices all over the world. But
God's I tell y'all, I'm telling you God's mercies and
his grace ever abounds. It's a blessing. It's a blessing
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to be here. It's a blessing for you to listen
to this. It's a blessing for me to tell you
about this. It's just it's amazing. But I do thank you.
I thank you for taking the time to listen. I
thank you for they taking the time to be a
part of this. Now, now we'll go ahead and since
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we have done I know it, we're going to do
our share it, live it, and hear it. All right,
share it, sing, sing, or recite the words to what
a friend we have in Jesus, and consider all the
benefits of faithful devotion to God. So that is share it,
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single recite the words to what a friend we have
in Jesus. It is number sixty one in the New
Baptist hymnal. I got one, but I ain't gonna sing it. Oh,
I'm gonna make sure I bring it next time. Sense
you know it's coming from a New Baptist hymnal and
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you know, I'll just I ain't gonna sing it, but
I'll tell you the words. But what a friend we
haven't jeez, So that now you got the tune, I
ain't gonna sing it, So now I will go to livid.
Livid is Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Desire to
see it beloved community form in our nation. Our passage
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just highlights the communal aspects of mercy, forgiveness and restoration.
What do you think our society needs to reach King's
Beloved community? And what can you do to help reach
this goal. I'm gonna put this in the comments for
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you so you can take it. Good morning, Good morning,
Good morning. I'm gonna put this in the comments for
you so you can look at it for yourself. What
do you think our society needs to reach King's Beloved community?
And what can you do to help reach this goal?
So the two questions are there for you. You can
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copy and paste it and write it down. So that
is the Livid. So we did share it, live it.
Let's do hear it. Your story is worth sharing, especially
with younger generations. Share how God has blessed you and
how God has this played mercy in your life with
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someone in a younger generation. Please encourage him or her
to share that story with a peer. Your story is
worth sharing. This is the hear it. Your story is
worth sharing, especially with the younger generations. Share how God
has blessed you and how God has displayed mercy in
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your life with someone in a younger generation. Please encourage
him or her to share that story with a peer.
Now I'm gonna put this in the comments too, because
this is your homework. Homework, yep, this is your homework.
I'm gonna actually do it too. Now I'm gonna come back.
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I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna ask to see
if you've done it. So I'm gonna put this in
the description of the podcast as well. So I I
want you to write down, okay. I want you to
write down how God has blessed you and how God
has displayed mercy in your life, Okay, And then I
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want you to explain that to a person, to a
younger person. You don't have to It don't have necessarily
be to a child. It can It can be to
a teenager. It could be your child. If your child
is a teenager. Express that with your child. Express this,
expressially your story how God has blessed you and how
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God displayed mercy in your life. Okay, and get social.
So we did the share it, live it, hear it.
Now we're going to do to get social it says,
starting the online conversation about God's benefits. Share your views
and tag us and tag us at our H boy
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d c O and use hashtag r H boy d
c oh. And I'm gonna put that. I'm gonna put
this in the comments for you too, so you can
get that hashtag. And you can also hashtag Kinglee Discusses
podcast Hello, all right, so you can hashtag kd P
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k d P three five seven all right, you can
hashtag that hashtag k d P. All right, what's that
three five seven? Okay, you can do that right there,
and make sure you tag in king Lee Discusses Podcasts,
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King Lee Discussions Podcasts. Don't forget it now makes you
make make sure you has taddy that put all that
stuff in there. All right. So that's it. That's that's
all for our Sunday School live and online. If you
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will where you are, please buy your hiss while we
are closed. Today's Sunday School Live and Online their Heavenly Father,
we thank you and we praise you because you are God,
and besides you there is no other God. We appreciate
the fact that you have allowed us to be here
and you have blessed us yet this far. God, continue
to bless us as we continue to be a blessing
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to others. Thank you for releasing all distracted thoughts and
all distractions that may have come to hinder what we
have learned. So God, as we have learned what we
have taken today, we ask you to help us apply
it to our everyday living so that we can exercise
our right as kingdom citizens. These things I pray in
Jesus' name. Amen, Amen, and Amen. Just a couple of announcements.
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I don't want to hold you too long. We are
already at the top of the hour, so I want
to thank each and every one of you for coming
to our Sunday School Live and online today. Make sure
you use the hashtags. Those are very important. We would
try to be on live every every Sunday morning at
eight o'clock in the morning. Unless you know there's there's
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something else to give, Please be sure to follow us
on our social media platforms. Most of you have already
done that, and that thank you so much for doing that.
That is y'all just don't know how much that is
a blessing. Don't forget on Facebook page Keenley Discussions Podcast,
don't forget our Instagram page it's KDP Underscore three five seven.
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Don't forget our YouTube channel which is KADP three five seven.
Thank you so much for doing that. It is in
fact a blessing for you to join us in this
so and also we're going to rehabing some power sessions.
Our power sessions whill be coming up real real some
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politessis could last fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, twenty minutes, It depends,
it depends on whatever God has best us to share.
We'll get having some interviews from some passors, some interviews
with some preachers, some interviews with some Kingdom citizens, because
there's some great topics that we need to talk about
and things like that. But anyways, I thank you so much,
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and I want you to remember something. Always remember every
time we come on something, every time we partay together,
I want you to remember, always remember to be the
best Kingdom citizen when you see it right there. Hey,
you see it right there on the ticket line. It's
right there, right there at the bottom. Always remember to
be the best kingdom citizen that you can need. And
(01:04:43):
I'm gonna add this with too next Sunday, so I
won't get so you could exercise your right as a
kingdom citizen. You have the authority, you have the power
to call those dagments. Be not as though they already were,
and bind up the enemy in the name of Jesus.
Said is your finances, whether it's your relationships, where the
conditions on your job, take that thing and subjection and
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bind it up in the name of Jesus. Don't don't
even don't even don't even stress out, don't even crash out,
don't worry about those names. Just bind it up in
Jesus name and move forward. Anyways, I thank you all
so much. I love you, and may Heaven continue to
smile upon you. And and then, and like I said,
don't forget, don't forget, don't forget it. Always remember to
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be the best kingdom citizen that you can be. An exercise, okay,
exercise move on it, act on it. Exercise your right
as a kingdom citizen. God bless I love you, Pash
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