God Hates Selfishness - The 2nd Commandment

God Hates Selfishness - The 2nd Commandment
God is generous, the enemy of our souls is a selfish, greedy, murderer.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Good morning everybody, and praise the Lord. This is Pastor
Mike Philip. We've got a very important word for you today.
But before we get into that, we're going to talk
about the very direct link between sickness, death, and unforgiveness.
Unforgiveness and a lack of seeking forgiveness in yourself and

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for others will result in torment in your life. You
cannot carry unforgiveness and not get burned. You can't do it.
We will reap what we sew, and it's just that simple.
Before we get into that, though, I just want to
say something that's kind of specific to a situation that

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is happening with an individual in the church, and without
giving too many details, and I'm not going to say
the individual's name, but I'm going to say this a
lot of times, in growing in grace and in truth
and strengthening our faith, God needs to allow us to

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be put in a situation where our own intelligence, our
own craftiness, our own sense of luck, or our own
strength can do nothing, and we have to completely learn
to rely on His authority, his strength, and his power

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and learn to pray and learn how to walk in faith. Now,
if you get through the trial, you will have the
most beautiful thing that a man could ever possess, and
that is a more unshakable faith, because you've seen God
get you through a situation that seems, for all intents

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and purposes impossible to overcome. And He is a way maker. Remember,
though I walk through the value of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil. Gideon and his army faced

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a superior force. God sent them out with nothing but
a clay pot with a candle in it and a trumpet.
And when the clay pot was broken, then the light
inside could shine out, and the bat is one. Remember
the battle belongs to the Lord, and if you keep

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that at the forefront of your mind, you will never lose,
no matter what it looks like, because He don't lose. Okay,
if you are facing a struggle in your life and
you have been born in the water spirit, that struggle,
that time of temptation, that time of your trial is

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more precious than the easy times. It's easy to say
trust in God when everything's going hunky Dorri, you need this,
you need this. I have more stories than I can
count of people being saved from government agencies, amen being

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delivered from evil you need the trial. It's more precious
than gold. Amen. Do not lose your faith, do not
miss out the good thing that God has for you
at the end of the trial. He's the Lord. I

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noticed yesterday after our replay there was an individual that
called themselves Saxon Warrior, made four comments and then deleted them.
And I've seen you do this before, Saxon Warrior. First
of all, what I want to tell you is that
you're spelling Saxon wrong. If you're referring to Anglo Saxon.

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Saxon is spelt with an o unless it's a play
on words. And you are a very good saxophone player.
If you have something you would like to say, by
all means, reach out to me AMERICANOC Radio at gmail
dot com. You will find me to be very accessible.
That's all say about that, Saxon Warrior. Bill Clinton was

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pretty good in Saxon too. Praise the Lord. Let's get
into our study. You need the bread of life today,
no matter who you are. And I'm going to pray
that God's word goes forth with power and anointing for you,
and that He uses this vessel that I am in

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right now to speak to somebody or many somebody's out there,
Praise the Lord. You've got to seek forgiveness. You've got
to make forgiveness your thing. Forgiveness is God's thing, and
all who are godly will seek forgiveness maybe several times

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in your life. And like I said before, there is
a direct link between forgiveness and healing in God's word
and unforgiveness and sickness, death and tor men. Let's pray

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Lord Jesus, Almighty God. I pray Lord that you would
take the words and put them in my mouth today.
I pray God that I would be connected to the
vine eye and you and you and me, And I
pray that you would speak to your people today and
that they would be edified, strengthened, and built up in
the power and authority of your name. That they would

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fear no evil, that your rod and staff would comfort them,
and that their faith would not fail. I pray God
that someone would come to repentance today, that they would
get out of the snare of the devil. In the
name of Jesus, Amen, Praise God. So I'd like to

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draw your attention to Psalm chapter thirty Psalm chapter thirty two.
I'm gonna be reading from the King James Bible today
and every day henceforth. Psalm chapter thirty two. Paul quoted

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this song in Romans chapter four, talking about faith saving
whether you are a circumcised Jew or not. He referenced
Abraham in this. But I got reading this last night
and something stood out to me. And then God started

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downloading more scripture into my mind and my heart. And
so I've been thinking about this since approximately five o'clock
last evening, and I was still praying and building on
it amongst other pastoral duties this morning. And so let's
feast on the bread of life, Psalm chapter thirty two.

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Now pay close attention to the wording. Pay close attention
to the words being spoken here. Blessed, Amen, you want
to be blessed, not cursed. You want to walk into
blessings of God. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven. Okay,

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it doesn't mean that you have never sinned in your life.
It means that you are forgiven whose sin is covered.
Remember when David had a slip up and had a
man murdered because he impregnated his wife. Samuel said to him,

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You're not gonna die. God, has covered your sin because
he fessed up immediately when he knew he was caught.
We find other people in God's word like Cain, Saul, Adam,
and Eve. And when God confronted them on their transgression,
they tried to pass the buck. They tried to find

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a loophole, They tried to justify themselves, and they were denied.
David owned it. Very important, very important. Now he goes on.
Blessed is the man, unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity,

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and in whose spirit there is no guile. We've talked
about guile before. Guile is a somewhat archaic word these days.
That means what's coming out of your mouth does not
match the intent of your heart. People do this all
the time. It's false. Witness, Eve said, the serpent beguiled me.

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He tricked me, He fooled me. Amen, bless it is man,
and to whom the Lord impeuteth non iniquity and in
whose spirit there is no guile. You cannot come into
God's presence full of guile. When I kept now listen
to what he says here, Okay, when I kept silent,
When I kept silent, my bones waxed old through my

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roaring all the day long. His bones got old because
he was roaring. He was angry, he was frustrated. He
meant roaring, and it affected his bones. The writer of
the song, which is David, when I kept silent, there

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was pain, There was frustration. He says, for day and night,
thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture is turned
into the drought of summer. Say lah, he meant when
I stayed silent, What was he staying silent from? What
was his silence from? That was resulting in torment and

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angry and frustration and anger and fear? What was it?
Verse five? Here's the key. I acknowledged my sin unto
THEE and mine iniquity? Have I not hid? I said,

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I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou
forgavest the iniquity of my sin. You see before David
confessed his iniquity honestly, with no guile in his heart.

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The result was torment, It was difficulty. It was a
heavy hand on his life. But then he confessed. Not
only that. Writer goes on to say, for this, shall
everyone that is godly pray unto Thee in a time

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when thou mayst be found. Surely in the floods of
great waters, they shall not come nigh unto Him that
everyone that is godly, if you are a godly man
or woman, you will do this when he presents the
opportunity to do it, in a time when he can

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be found. And if you pass that time up, I
mean there does coming in. Amen, He'll not always strive
with man. Now, arn't my hiding place. Thou shalt preserve

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me from trouble. Thou shalt compass me about with the
songs of deliverance from the torment or deliverance from evil.
Jesus said, when you pray deliver us from evil, forgive
and you shall be forgiven. If you do not forgive,

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and if you do not find forgiveness for yourself, you'll
be handed over to a situation that you will not like.
And Jesus spelled this out very succaintly. Amen, we had
a situation in the church with the man that was
with a man that had a great difficulty foisted upon him,

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a situation that you cannot overcome with your your cleverness
or your smart or your Amen. And he called me
and he told me all about it, and it was bad.
It was bad, and it affected his children, it affected
his whole family. And God spoke to me, as his pastor,

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in his still small voice, and said forgiveness. And that
man had some forgiven that he needed to do. He
was carrying a burden on somebody else that wasn't even
in part of his everyday life anymore. And that man

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listened to his pastor. And the next time I called him,
I said, whatever happened to that problem that you had?
And he said what problem? He said, Oh, that thing?
He said, yeah, I did what you said, pastor, And
God cleaned it up lickety spit. That impossible situation was

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fixed so well that this man forgot he had a problem.
Verse eight. I will instruct thee and teach thee in
the way which thou shalt go. I will guide thee
with mine eye, not your eye his eye. Now, he says,

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don't be ignorant. Don't be like a stupid beast of
the field. You got to know this, he says, be ye,
not as a horse or as a mule, which have
no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit
and bridle, lest they near come near unto thee. Don't

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be ignorant of this. Ignorance of this thing will not
give you a pass. There are people in this world
all around you that are taken captive by Satan at
his will. Whenever he feels like I'm gonna read that

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to you, too. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked.
But he that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall come
past him about. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice
ye righteousness, and suffer joy, all you that are upright

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in heart, you want to be compassed about by mercy?
I do. I know what it is like to walk
in misery and hopelessness. Now I know what it is
like to be tormented for my own faults. I also

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know what it is like to have that released and
sent away and have peace and freedom and beauty for ashes.
I'm not talking about something that I have no experience
of myself. Amen. Now, like I said, unforgiveness and torment

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are partners in crime, and often that torment has been
decreed by the mouth of the one being tormented, Okay,
or by their actions. Term of me. Matthew Chapter eighteen. Matthew,
Chapter eighteen. Please God, there's a lot of preceding verses

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and passages that we could possibly go and get into later,
but for brevity, I want to skip right to this
Matthew eighteen and verse twenty one, and this is right
after Jesus talked about if there's somebody in the church
or ecclesia or gathering that is sinning, and you you,

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and if a brother sins against you and comes and
you come to him one on one and he does
not confess it or seek forgiveness, then you gather somebody
else out of the church, so that you have two witnesses.
And if they don't repent after that, then you take
it to the church. And then if they still won't repent,

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Jesus said, they shall be as a publican or a
sinner kick them out. But before that he also said
his will is that the one be found and will
be rejoiced over more than the ninety nine. And then
he talks about if two agree on earth has touching anything,

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they shall ask it'll be done for them of my Father,
which is in heaven. Verse nineteen and twenty. He says,
for where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them. We have
in our group the ability to have the will of
God to cast judgment. Paul told the Corinthian Church, I

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believe in chapter six, he said, do you not have
any among you that can judge a simple situation? Why
do you take each other before worldly courts and laws?
He said, He called that on righteousness. He said, you
can't judge the simplest matter amongst yourselves. And then Jesus,

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after all of that, Peter comes to him with a
question about if your brother sins against you. Okay, I've
had people in my church that thought it was their
business to just do this and nothing else, and they
were carnaling it. Amen, excuse me of all kinds of stuff.

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And I didn't do anything to them, but they talked
themselves right out the door, and they floated around to
this day where they can never have a church or
a pastor because they know better than everybody else and
they're a fault finder. But building on what Jesus said
in the rest of Matthew eighteen up until verse twenty one,

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this is what we want to focus on. Praise Lord.
Then Peter came to him and said, Lord, how oft
shall my brother sin against me? And I forgive him
till seven times. Now, A lot of people understand and
have heard this, but I want to open it up today.
Jesus saith unto him. I say, not until the until

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seven times, but until seventy times seven. Praise God. There
came a time with Israel where they ran out of
chances to go to God for forgiveness, and they were
taken and destroyed and capped into captivity by Babylon. There

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were sabbath years that they had not repented of, that
they did not keep, and God sent them into seventy
years captivity. Praise Lord, seventy times seven, every seventh years,

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seventh year, that's what he's referring to. Now. Verse twenty three.
He says, therefore is the kingdom of having likened unto
a certain king. Okay, Again, he speaks and parables for
those who can hear, which would take account of his servants.
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought
unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. Praise God.

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And Jesus is using hyperbole. Okay. The amount that the
servant would have owed the king would have taken the
servant two hundred thousand years of labor to pay off.
It was a ridiculous sum, making the debt of a
mere one hundred pence what we're going to read about

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in a bed seem insignificant. It's like if your government
said you owe us ten billion dollars. Okay, can you
come up with ten billion dollars. That's what Jesus is
doing here. This king had a servant owed him ten
thousand talents, but for as much as he had not

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to pay the lord. His lord commanded him to be sold,
his wife and children and all that he had, and
payment to be made. This man would be in captivity
for the rest of his life, and his women, his
wife and his children as well. Okay, so Jesus is
building this scenario where he has an impossible debt to pay. Well,

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this servant therefore fell down and worshiped him, saying, Lord,
have patience with me and I'll pay you will. Well,
the king knew he couldn't pay that mount, He couldn't
do it on his own. King knew that well. Then

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the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and
he loosed him and forgave him the debt. Now, what
did just Jesus just talk about whatsoever is loosed on
earth is loosed in heaven, or what's bound on earth

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is bound in heaven. He was just talking about that.
The king loosed the servant of his impossible debt. Now
look what he does, okay, verse twenty eight. But the
same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants,
which owed him one hundred pence. Okay, let's just say

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one hundred bucks. He laid hands on him, took him
by a stock, saying, pay what you old me. His

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fellow servant fell down at his feet and besought him, saying,
have patience with me, and I'll pay you all. And
he would not. Now I want my hundred dollars, and
I want it right now. But he went and cast

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him into prison till he paid the debt. Uh. Oh,
we're going to see something that is bound on earth
and bound in heaven. Now that's the point of this.
So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they
were very sorry, came and told unto their lord all

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that was done. And then his lord, after he had
called him and said to him, you, wicked servant, I
forgave you all the debt because you desired you asked
me for mercy and compassion, and I gave it to
you for how much bigger debt? Should not thou also

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have had compassion on my fellow servant, even as I
had pity on you. You received mercy and you can't and
you can't show mercy. You received forgiveness from a greater authority.
And you're going to go out and oppress your brother. Now,

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that's the other thing with Jesus's statement about forgiving seventy
times seven, and that's on them continue. That's contingent on
them coming and asking for your forgiveness. I have brothers
that the only thing I'm interested in hearing coming out
of their mouth is please forgive me for what I

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tried to do to you and your church. Now. I
don't hang on to it, and I ain't bitter about it,
but I don't want to hear anything else from them.
And they have stubbornly not ever acknowledged what they did.
I had pity on you. He says, his lord was

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wroth and delivered him to the tormentors till he should
pay all that was due unto him. So likewise, shall
my heavenly Father do also unto you? If you from
your hearts. Forgive not everyone his brother their trespassed. But

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you see, there needs to be a collective of people
that get together in order for this to happen. And
if they don't get forgiveness and they leave the gathering,
well there's a loose end that needs to be tied up. Now.
I still pray for them, I still pray that God

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would have mercy on them as he did for me.
But I would sure like to hear it come out
of their mouth, because I would love the opportunity to
say I forgive you and I love you. You know that
there are people, like I said earlier, that are taken

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captive of Satan at will, Well, do you know how
they get out of that snare? Do you know how
it happens? In the church? Paul gave some instructions to Timothy.
Timothy was a young pastor. Paul was instructing him on
how to conduct affairs within the church. Turn with me

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to Sewo Timothy chapter two. This is a heavy topic.
This is a very important topic. And there are a
lot of people that are weak and powerless and sickly
in the church because of this. Because of this, Okay,
mark my words you stick around the church long enough,

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and you're going to see this in action. Okay, two Timothy,
Chapter two, we're going to begin with verses twenty through
twenty six, but I want to start but verse twenty six.
This is the end. Okay, This is where we're going,

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and that they may recover themselves out of the snare
of the devil who are taken captive by him at
his will. Okay, there are people that can be in
a state where Satan plays with them like a cat
plays with a mouse. Why repentance, repentance, that's why. Now,

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if we back up twenty Paul's talking about the church.
He says, in a great house there are not only
vessels of gold and of silver, but also wood and earth,
and some to honor and some to Dishonor. He's talking
about some in the church. He said, if a man

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therefore purge himself from these, there'll be a vessel unto honor,
sanctified and meet for the Master's use, and prepared unto
every good work. Praise the Lord. There's things that you've
got to purge from your life, and there's things that
sometimes need to be purged from the church. Amen. And

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then he gives. He gives a personal admonition to Timothy.
He says, flee also youthful lusts. Amen, do not indulge
in youth youthful lusts. Okay, no matter how old you are.
I was listening to Holy Ghost Radio. This old pastor

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he was talking about there's a man in his congregation
that was eighty years old. Eighty years old, and this
eighty year old man came to him, said, Pastor, there's
this widow next door and she keeps hitting on me
and she wants me to come over. And he said,

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and I kind of want to do it. Praise God.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Flee youthful LUs but follow after righteousness, faith, charity, Peace
with them that call on the Lord out of a
pure heart, foolish and unlearned questions, avoid knowing that they

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engender strife.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
It meant I've had people that get into stuff on
the Internet and they get all worldly wise and they
think they know something that's important and it is not,
and they drag it into the church and they charge
and they try to start strife in the body of
Christ because they know something. Particularly Hitler is the greatest

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guy that ever lived in the flat earth theory. I
did those two things. I went to a church where
a good brother of mine that I love one God, Pentecostal.
We're having soup and sandwich business. Black woman got up
and started talking all about black lives matter, and I'm like,

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hang on second here, I thought there was neither Jew,
nor gentile, male, nor female, Barbarian nor Greek in the
Church of the Living God. But we're in a new creature altogether,
and I never went back. Good to see you, Matthew.

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It's good that you're on the phone with with Peter
this morning. Praise the Lord, church business everybody, now, he says,
servant of the Lord us, not strive. You, don't fight
with people. I'm not going to get into a useless
argument with you. Not going to happen. But be gentle

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and know all men apt to teach and patient. Amen.
I'm not looking to run people out of the church.
In fact, I've never kicked anybody out. They leave on
their own. They've moved themselves out in makeness. Listen to this,

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Listen to this instructing those that oppose themselves. They are
opposing their own self if God, peradventure will give them repentance.

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Repentance requires owning up to a holy God and owning
up to each other. If you are the body of Christ,
then Christ is in you the hope of glory. And
that is why you have pastors. That's why you have
elders in church. If you got something that's riding your

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conscience and weighing you down, you need to talk to
one of us. And we've got a good team assembled. Amen.
I have the elder counsel of the Braus that I
carry church issues before, and we pray and I will

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call in the big guns. We've got heavy hitters that pray.
And our ultimate goal is restoring the individual. He says,
if God, peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging
of the truth, and that they and here it is

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right here, that they may recover themselves out of the
snare of the devil who are taken captive by him
at will. They've gotten themselves into a state where Satan
just plays it with them like a cat with a mouse.
And what does it take for them to get out

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of that repentance? How do you get away from the tormentor? Well,
what got you under the purview of the tormentor? Well,
it's when your Lord said, wait a minute, I forgave
you of an impossible debt, and you can't forgive that
little thing he meant. But he did say, there's going

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to be times when you've got to have to get
witnesses together and disfellowship somebody. Whatsoever is bound in Heaven
is bound on earth, and whatsoever is loose on earth
is loose in heaven. We're the body of Do you
understand that we have the power to forgive sins? Do
you understand that? And with that comes healing and building

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and growth and faith and love and every good fruit
on the tree. Praise the Lord Jesus talked about this,
You talked about this. Turn to Matthew chapter nine with me.
Matthew chapter nine. Then I'm going to show you a
very direct link. Mark also recorded this, I believe in

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Mark chapter four. But for the purpose of this discussion,
we're going to go to Matthew chapter nine. And there
are a lot of people that are carrying bitterness in
their heart, sometimes to somebody that they have not seen
in fifteen years, and they will not go to God.

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And they get to like it. That's my pain, and
they like being bitter, and they like that grudge because
they're used to carrying and around like a ball and chain. Amen.
But with forgiveness comes healing. Remember what the Psawmist said,

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My bones waxed old as I roared all the day
long when I kept my silence, But when I confessed
by iniquity unto the Lord, he forgave me. And all
who are godly will do this. Don't be ignorant like
a horse or an ass, the psawmist wrote, do not

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be ignorant of this, because it's going to affect you
whether you are aware of it or not. And there
are a lot of people out there that are just
thrashing about and the storms of life thrown around in
every different direction. Every end of doctrine comes along and
tosses them around like a child, And all they need

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to do is go to God and be honest in
a time when he can be found. Raise the Lord.
And there's times in your life too, when God is
looking to build you up through that trial, to bring
you to the place where you turn that key to

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where he can put something in your life that's going
to make you stronger. Amen. I've had that happen to
me several times, and I've learned to recognize it when
it's happening to somebody. And so in Matthew nine, let's

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look at the link between healing and forgiveness. Okay, Matthew
chapter nine, starting with verse one, we're gonna read to
verse eight. Okay, he entered into a ship, passed over,
came into his own city, and behold, they brought to
him a man sick of the palsy. Okay, this man

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is sick. You got the palsy. He's lying on a bed.
And Jesus seeing their faith, their faith was that if
we carry our sick friend to Jesus, we just got

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to get to him. That was faith. Faith was doing something.
And Jesus sighed when he saw their faith, said to
the sick of the palsy, son, be of good, cheer
thy sins be forgiven thee. This man sick of the palsy.

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He needs healing. Jesus knew first he forgave him. I
want to show you this link between forgiveness and healing. Well,
now behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, this
man's blasphemer, this man, you can't do that. And then

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again Jesus knew their thoughts. Oh, He knows your thoughts
in tents and imaginations. Jesus is a mind reader. He's
everywhere at once, and he is watching. Jesus knowing their thoughts. Said, wherefore,
thinkee evil in your heart? You're thinking evil? For what's
easier to say thy sins be forgiven to thee, or

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to say, arise and walk? But that you may know
that the son of Man hath power on earth to
forgive sins. Then say, if he to the sick of
the palsy, right, take up thy bed and go into
thine house. And he arose and departed to his house.

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But when the multitude saw it, they marveled. They glorified God,
which had given such power to men. Do you see
that forgiveness and healing? You want healing in your life,

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you want healing in somebody else's life. Could be that
there's a root of bitterness holding back a lot of
power in your life, and that God wants that gone
in order for him to flow freely in your life.
And it's really that simple. A lot of times James

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talked about this, confessing sin and healing and forgiveness. Turn
me to James chapter five. James chapter five, See these
things go together. Heymen, these things all go together. James

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five thirteen. I've heard this talked about many, many times.
Praise God many times. James five thirteen. Is any among
you afflicted afflicted? Affliction? Any affliction, trouble, torment? Is any

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among you afflicted? Let them pray you being afflicted, go pray?
Is any Mary? Are you happy you got joy in
your soul? Let them sing a song? Is any sick?
Listen to what James writes here. Let him call for

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the elders of church. Let them pray over him, anointing
him with oil in the name of the Lord. And
the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the
Lord will raise him up. And listen to what's attached
to that. And we just read this. And if he
have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. You see,

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healing and forgiveness. Go like that. Confess your faults one
two another, pray for one another that you may be healed,
the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man. A veileth much.

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Are you walking right in God's eyes? How are you
going to walk with God if you don't have a
prayer life? How if you think that you can not
pray ever and walk with God. You are lying to yourself.

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You need a prayer. I need a prayer life. I
don't know what's gonna be on the phone when I
pick it up. Every day. There's somebody somewhere going through
something every single day. I do not have the luxury
of mourning over things that happen a year or two
or three ago. People in church going through stuff right now,

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and it's either gonna make you or it's gonna break you.
You're gonna walk through and have a testimony and greater faith,
or to spin your wheels in the wilderness for another
forty years, going round and round and never quite going
into the promised land. Hallelujah, Peyton, Amen, that will preach,

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He says. Elijah or Elias from the Greek was a
man subject to like passions as we are. And he
prayed earnestly that it might not rain, And it rained
not on the earth by the space of three years
and six months. And he prayed again, and the heavens
gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. Amen.

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Do you know that you have that power if you're
walking in the Holy ghost. I've seen it. I've seen
bad weather prayed away with a word spoken by the
body of Christ. I've seen it, others have seen it.

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I'm telling you there's no such thing as a problem
with our God. But we got to come to him right,
and we don't get to do it our own way,
and we do not just stify ourself to him. We
own up and empty out, and then then you walk

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in power. Hallelujah. Last words in the General Epistle of
James Brethern. If any of you do err from the truth,
and one convert him, if I hear a false doctrine
coming from you, I'm going to bring you back to
the foundation. Let him know that he which converteth the

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sinner from the error of his way shall save a
soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
When there's division, when there's error and doctrine, there's a
multitude of sins. I'm in the business of straightening that out.

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Raise Lord, and I've got to go to him every
single day too. Because it's not that I'm smart, it's
not that I'm strong, and ain't that I'm so good looking.
It's greater is he who is in me than he
that is in the world, and I've been put in
a position of authority. Whether I like it or not,

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I just happen to really love it. I'll tell you,
I've seen so many impossible things done. I don't know
what's impossible anymore. Frankly, I know that nothing is for him.
How are you going to know that if he doesn't
allow a difficult situation to come in your life so

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he can roll up his sleeves and show you what
he can do. Amen, Peyton writes in the rumble Chat,
come to him, slowly broken and humble. That's it. Listen
to Peyton. I'm gonna read that one more time. Come

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to him, slowly broken and humble. Remember when God came
to Caine said where's your brother?

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Kine said, I don't know what if I'm not Bro's keeper,
come at me, bruh.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Wrong attitude, wrong attitude. Remember what Saul said when Samuel
come to him and said, you didn't do well of God? Yeah?
I did, Yes, I did. I did what I felt like,
and whatever I think is right. Therefore that's God's will.

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Oh Saul, didn't You did your own will, and now
you won't even own up to it. And so all said,
why it was the people. Yeah, I'm just their king.
They don't listen to me, couldn't own up, couldn't admit

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he was wrong. Praise the Lord. You want to see
an example of how quick he is to forgive and
how he wants to But it's based on your response.
Turn with me to John four, and we're gonna wrap
it up with this helllujah, John chapter four. I think

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about this, Jesus, the man had the mind of God
and didn't take a step that was not led of
the spirit that fothered him in the movement of a virgin,
the Holy Spirit. And look what happened verse three of

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John chapter four. He left today and departed again into Galilee,
that he must needs go through Samaria. And he come
to a city of Samaria, which is called Psycar, near
to the parcel ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with
his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was

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about the sixth hour of the day round noon. There
cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith
under her, give me to drink. Now this woman, hallelujah,
came out at the hottest time of the day. Now,

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if that was me, I would have gone in the
morning when it was really nice and cool outside, instead
of having to carry that water. But I think that
she was there because she didn't want to run into
any of the other ladies. And you're going to find
out why she was making herself scarce. She was hiding

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in shame, and the Lord of Glory came in a
time when he could be found. They're coming from a
woman of Samaria to draw water, and Jesus saith under her,
give me to drink, for his disciples were going away

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into the city to buy meat. Then say it, the
woman of Samaria under him? How is it that thou,
being a Jew, asked drink of me? Which am a
woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with
the Samaritans. Jews don't talk to us. Why are you
talking to me? This isn't how it's done, This isn't

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how the Jews act. Jesus answered and said, unto her,
if you knew the gift of God and who it
is that Saith unto the giving me to drink, thou
wouldest to ask of him and he would have given
you living water. He ignored her question. He said, I'll

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tell you what. You could have something far better if
you knew who you were talking to. Woman saith in him, Sir,
you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
From whence then hast thou that living water? Are you
greater than our father Jacob, that gave us the well
and drank there of himself and his children and his cattle.

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Are you greater than Jacob? Is he greater than Jacob?
Let me tell you before Jacob was I am? Is
how much greater than Jacob he was? But he is?
I should say this is. Jesus answered and said, unto her,
whosoever drink of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever
drinketh of the water I shall give him shall never thirst.

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But the water I will give him shall be in
him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
And you can read about that in Isaiah chapter twelve,
and in John chapter six or seven. Six. Yeah, the
woman saith to him, sir, give me this water that

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I thirst, not neither come hither to draw. Now at
this point Jesus is going to test her. He's gonna
test her. She's forgotten all about her life. Now she's
forgotten about everything, and she's in the presence of Almighty God,
and she's intrigued because he's not doing what she expects.

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Now remember him who confesses and in whom there is
no guile, meaning you're not pretending to be better than
you are. What does he say, Jesus saith under her,
go call your husband to come hither, Go get your husband.

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This is the point that is going to decide whether
or not she gets that living water and is healed
of lust and a bad reputation that's hanging over her
head like a cloud, so that she has to go
out in the heat of the day to draw water

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so she doesn't run into any of the other women.
I know I'm reading a lot into the text there,
but I prayed this morning and I believe that the
Holy Ghost has given me a word on this situation.
And go get your husband. The woman answered and said,
I own have one. She didn't try to hide. She

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could have gone and got her boyfriend that was not
her husband. Jesus said, unto her, thou hast well said,
you just passed the test. That that's well said, I
have no husband. That's what I was looking for. I
was looking for you to fess up, because I already knew,

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for you've had five of them, and he whom thou
now hast is not your husband. In that you answered truly, well,
now this just changed everything. This just changed the whole thing.

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Jesus gave her a word of knowledge from the Holy Ghost.
Do you know the God still does that in his
body today. I feel sorry for people that say, no
Ah miracles and signs. I was just for the days
when the apostles walk the earth, And no, you ain't
got no power in your life. That's why you're thinking,

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I'm so saved and righteous that if that sort of
thing happened, then it would surely happen around me. Therefore
it doesn't anymore. That's what people do. Paul said that
there's people that we're going to have a form of godliness,
but deny the power. He said, from such turn away,

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you tell me you're a cessationist. You just told me
that you're not saved. You just told me that you're powerless.
A woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that thou

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art a prophet. She says, our father's worshiped in this mountain.
You say that in Jerusalem is a place where man
ought to worship Jesus saith under her woman. Believe me,
the hour cometh when you shall neither in this mountain,

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nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship, you
know not what we know. What we worship for salvation
is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now
is when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in
spirit and in truth. For the Father seek its such

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to worship him. You don't make stuff up about God.
You've got to worship him in spirit and truth. Truth.
He's looking for somebody to do that, But most people
are dishonest and can't own up. What would have happened

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if Jesus said to that woman, go get your husband,
and she said, okay, I will. You'll like him. He's great,
He was said never mind, He kept walking. She confessed
her shame, and he was all alone. He didn't do
it in front of everybody. A bruised reed. He won't

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break in a smoking flax, he won't quench. He didn't
come to destroy her. He came to give her living water.
It was the will of God. Stupid phone keeps giving

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me these notifications that I don't want you think I
would turn it down before I go live. Then listen
to this what Jesus says. Here he says God is
a trinity. I'm just kidding he would say that at all,
and nowhere in the Bible doesn't say that. Jesus said,

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God is a spirit. You can call him the Father,
you can call him the Holy Ghost. But he has
a name, and it's Jesus. God is a spirit. They
that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

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The woman saith un to him. I know that Messiah
is coming, that is called Christ. When he has come,
he will tell us all things. Well, Christ is come.
And he just did tell her all things, and it
demonstrated his ability to do it. Jesus say it under her,
I that speak unto thee am he I am He.

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Lest you believe that I am He, you will die
in your sins. Meaning if you believe that Jesus is
the manifest I am, you will die in your sin.
Then his disciples come along. They didn't know what happened.
They were marveling that he even talked to the woman.

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Why would anybody talk to a Samaritan woman? Yet no
man said, what seekest thou or why talk ist thou
with her? They just don't ask.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
Woman then left her water pot, went in the city
and said to the man, come see a man that
told me all things that ever I did, it's the Christ.
Suddenly she wasn't shrinking away from people.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Suddenly she wasn't hiding, she wasn't tormented by her conscience,
because she owned up in a time that God can
be found, a time specially specifically carved out just for
this Samaritan woman who was an adulterer and a home wrecker.

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Praise God. Then those men went out of the city
and came to him. God used that little lady to
start her a bible to the Samaritans. God used a

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woman that believed in the coming of the Messiah. She
believed she just couldn't get a handle on sin in
her life. But when asked, go get your husband, she said,
I don't have one. He said, well, said that living

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water is flowing. He meant, Praise God. I can't believe
an hour has gone by. Praise Jesus. Oh, let's all pray.

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Let's all pray that this word today really gets in
you and that you walk in And I want to
pray for our brother too. One more time, where everybody, all,
whatever you're doing, pray that our brother who is in
a trial does not lose his faith, that he does

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not let his thinking be captured by anything that exalts
itself above the knowledge of Christ. Amen, let's pray. I
don't care what you're doing right now, Almighty Father in heaven,

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Lord Jesus, I pray God that this word would get
in your people, and I pray God that they would
walk in power and healing and forgiveness. And Lord, we
lift up our brother that's going through a trial. We
pray God that this trial would purify and strengthen and
that he'd walk by with a faith like never before,

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and that he would walk away with a testimony, and
that in the future, if somebody comes to him and
says they've got trouble, there's something impossible and the stakes
are high, he's gonna say, I tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
What, I have a God that can fix any problem.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Come up, Hellolujah, because I've seen it. I've been where
you are. Helllujah, Jesus, praise your name, Oh Lord Jesus.
I pray God you'd be with your people today. I
pray God that men and women would repent. I pray

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God that you would search me out of any secret
iniquity of God. And I pray God that I would
be meet for your use in your most holly wonderful name,
Lord Jesus, Amen, praise God. Well, any of you want

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to reach out to me? By the way, sister Madeline
was not in the chat today because she had to
go to okatokes. I just like saying that Okatos to
do something. But she texted me and she said I
will be watching later. Okay, and uh, Saxon Warrior, learn

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to spell and reach out to me. You have a
face and a name and a location, and you have
come into the comments before and wrote stuff and then
deleted it. I can see that when you do it.
So either you got drunk and said dumb stuff and
deleted it in the morning. I don't know, But why
don't just reach out to me delect directly instead of

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doing it behind a fake name. If you're some kind
of Saxon Warrior, maybe you picture yourself as some kind
of a Viking vikings. Don't hide behind fake names and
then make comments and delete them. Man up, reach out
to me. Let's talk Saxon Warrior. Many of you have

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been blessed by this. I pray that you'd be blessed
by this. And if any of you want to compensate
us for our time for what God has done for you, you
can do that at American doc radio dot com. There
has been a drop off in giving lately, I have noticed,

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and it's interesting to say the least, but that's okay.
I'll keep doing this as long as I can. God
loves you, americanocradio dot com. If you want to throw
something into play, I plan on being back tomorrow. And remember,

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you need a prayer life. You need a prayer life.
You're not going to be connected to the vine if
you don't pray. And I had a hard past or
thirty years ago, but he drilled it into us to pray.
And I'm thankful for that because I learned something really
good from that man that has served me well the
rest of my life. Pray with the spirit and with understanding.

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No I walked through the valley of the shadow of death.
I will fear no evil.

Speaker 6 (01:07:35):
I wonder if there anybody here who laid had been nice,
shed right until all.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Because she loved no one to help.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
You long the way and all long.

Speaker 6 (01:07:55):
And if that is.

Speaker 7 (01:07:58):
Anyone, Lord, let me tell you, Let me tell you
what I've done.

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
I'm a seen to be offense around me and protect me.
Every day I tell him the word.

Speaker 8 (01:08:16):
Jean, be a bird all around. When I get better
the world, I want you to better.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
Travel world.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Sometimes it will hurt you to your heart to see
loan one, see low one to depart brought you've been there,
then the floor stranger to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
Me, the one and all Lord, but just the loon.
As you stay in the fall, you never have.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
The worry when they're knocking way you overdo. That's that
Jesus to be of fits around you, and you never
have to worry anymore.

Speaker 8 (01:09:12):
Just bottle down. So jeez, beel man, wall around.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Me when you get better.

Speaker 9 (01:09:24):
So, Jean, I want you to better when you get lonean.

Speaker 8 (01:09:37):
Bee a mad wal around.

Speaker 6 (01:09:42):
The world.

Speaker 8 (01:09:44):
Jeeves be a path me have a tro