October 30, 2025 • 27 mins
A brand shows ownership, identity, and purpose.
In the spiritual sense, believers are branded not with a logo, but with the mark of the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 1:13
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning family, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
to the Morning Devo. Is your brother Sam Lopez aka
DJ Sam Rock So Winners with a z orrg Live
That so Winners with a z dot org streaming our
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Just in case you like that platform and you're on
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that platform a lot. I'm literally not on that platform
at all except for the live stream, amen. Not for
any reason, it's just that that platform. I just have
no time to engage too much on that platform.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So welcome back to the Morning Devo.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's a new day in my area right now, it's dreary, raining, cold, amen.
But in other parts of the world we need to
be in prayer on there's storms hitting the islands and
the Caribbeans. A man that is gonna cause a lot
of damage and people expecting a lot of lives being lost.
So we pray against anything that takes life right. And
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we are known for praying for people who are in danger.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We're branded that way.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We're branded believers, and that's why I call this one
today Branded believers. Branded believers, a brand shows ownership, right, identity,
and purpose. In the spiritual sense, believers are branded not
with the logo, but with the mark of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We're marked, we signed, sealed, and delivered. We're gonna be
in Ephesians, chapter one, verse number thirteen. That's why when
we get together as believers, when we pray, when we fast,
when we communicate, when we gather, when we are in unity.
When we're unified, right, we are powerful. When we shine
a lot of Christ. We get together, shining the light
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amongst one another. You know how bright that light is.
And you know the enemy sees that light and goes
the other way. He doesn't want to deal with the
believers that are united. He doesn't want to deal with
a praying believer. He doesn't want to deal with a
branded believer. He doesn't want to deal. He does, he
does his best, but he fails every time. Haven't you
noticed that the enemy is defeated. Haven't you noticed that
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the enemy cannot do any harm to us as children
of God because God has signed, sealed, and delivered us
from the bolish and shackles of sin that we used
to be in bondish of before. But now no more.
We fight the good fight of faith. Well, bad things happen. Absolutely,
we're in the fallen world. But will we get through
the bad things?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Absolutely, because God is faithful to his word. So I
don't want to start preaching a maw. I just need
to encourage myself and encourage you. We're branded. There's nothing
we could do about the world mocking our belief because
we're already signed, sealed, and delivered. Were believe is because
God has chosen us to continue the work on this
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earth and this time on our side of eternity, because
we have Holy Spirit, the hope of glory for this world.
So we're branded. As soon as you say you're born
again Christian, you're branded.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
The world's gonna look at you differently because they get
to expect something different coming from you and coming from me.
No pressure though, Amen, that Holy Spirit move in your
life and move through your life so that way people
could glorify the Father that we're representing. Amen. That's what
it's all about. We're branded. Don't be ashamed of the Gospel.
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Don't be ashamed of who you are in.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Christ and who Christ is in you. Amen.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And yet we don't we don't always match up We
don't always stay at the glorious standard. We all fall
short of those glory standards of God. You do, That's
not the point. The point is God is a god
of grace and mercy, and God says and rescues and
uses the people who other people say there's no way
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xyz those people could do X, y and z for
the Kingdom of God. And yet God uses people that
are less than according to other people's mindset to do
amazing things for the Kingdom of God and bring souls
into the kingdom as well. So be encouraged, staying couraged,
be ready, stay ready, Amen, we are branded believers. Sister
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Joey and I see you. Good morning, God, bless you.
Welcome back to the morning Devo. My sister and my
friend is good to see amen. Of course, my software
wants to update right now as alive and I'm not
doing it, amen, So let's go forward. If you have
any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or anything along those lines,
please do not hesitate to leave it on a live chat.
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That's what we're here for. We also have a live
chat available at soul Winners with a z dot org
over at the live stream tab and the live stream
page there as well, Am, which I just start checking
more often.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
If you have made comments comments over there.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
My bad, I haven't checked it, amen, just because I've
been on these platforms more often. So but I'll make
sure I'll check on those asat to make sure I'll
apply to your comments over there as well. So let's
pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for
like sixty seconds, and then on the other side of
those sixty seconds, we'll come right back and we'll get
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into our scripture for today Ephesians, chapter one, verse number thirteen.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Today on the morning devo. Amen, So let's pray. Father.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I prayed, Lord Guy, that you would guide God and
protect us continuously those brothers and sisters that we have
in the Caribbean from the time of this recording, that
are in the path of a storm which people are
calling the storm of the century. I ask Lord God
that you would send for for your angels, Victoria's angels
to guard, guide, protect those lives of the innocent, Protect
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those people who will call it upon your name to
be saved and rescued. Lord God, that you do with
miraculous work, and those lands and those islands, Low God,
and that even if it pleases you, Low God, that
you would turn that storm away. But we know there's
always a purpose of what you allow to happen. We
don't know it all, Lord Jesus. I don't know it all,
Lord God, but you do. And we trust you that
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the good out of these tragic things, according to your
purpose and plan, the good will come. And we would know,
whether we know on this side of eternity, on the
other we would know the purpose and the plan that
you have. And you are good, and all your plans
are good, and all your ways are different, and all
your ways are higher, and all your thoughts are higher
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than our thoughts.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So we trust you, Lo God.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I pray a head to protection over myself, my wife,
our children, our grandchildren, our family members, every single person
on the other side of the screen and on the
other side of this mic I pray the protection of
the Lord and God's angels to protect us today and
every day moving forward. That we will not retreat. We
were not surrendered. We will move forward as brand of believers,
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together as brothers and sisters for the glory of God,
a man in this side of eternity, and that people
will see the love, the grace, the mercy, the unity,
the love that we have for one another, so that
way they could be curious enough to investigate the claims
of our Savior, of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I pray it's by faith, knowing that you hear our prayers.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You hear Our Christ, You hear our just motions of
help that we need from you, Lor God, and you
answer all the prayers according to your purpose and plan
for every individual person.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
In the powerful name of Jesus, I thank you for
it all, and I thank you, Lord God that you
are concerned with our concerns and that you hear and
you respond. Thank you, Lord God for speaking back through
your word. And Jesus Holy Name, my praise by faith
and all those who agree, we say amen to the amens.
It's the joyous I see you do. Morning, God bless you.
Welcome back to the morning Devo. Yes, it's a beautiful,
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thirstie day morning. Although the weather might be a little
crazy at least in my area. I heard it before
when I woke up earlier it seemed like it was
raining or whatever. But it is a beautiful morning because
God created this morning and the verses of God are
knew every day. Thank you so much for coming through
my sister and my friend. So let's go for it.
Help me shut this out sixty seconds. When we come back,
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we'll get right into today's morning Deva.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'll be right back. Hey, man, let's go forward. Let's
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see what the word of God has for us. Amen.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And those are on the podcast. You hear the music
for the sixty seconds. Sometimes I forget to put the
music on, but today I think I did. A man,
those sixty seconds are of time for you to either
share out the podcast as well, Amen, or just wait, pray,
get into the word, Amen, and wait for God to
speak to you individually. Because the beautiful thing about God's
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word is that God's word is alive.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
God's word is active.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
God God's words speaks to us individually, to our hearts,
to our situation, to our now moment a man. God's
word is not something that was written so long ago
that's not relevant or tangible anymore. The word of God
is always relevant. The word of God is always tangible.
The word of God is always true, The word of
God is always powerful. The word of God is always
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relevant in our times. Amen, Brother Frank, I see you.
Good morning. God bless you in your family as well. Amen,
And he sends good morning blessing to everybody on the
morning Devo. And the love a man. The love is
what keeps us together, right. Thank you so much, brother Frank,
for coming through. It's good to see you, my brother,
and my friends. Sister Nilsa. Good morning. God bless you.
Blessing to my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thank you so much for coming through and blessing us
with your presence on the morning.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Devo.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Brother, I see you, good morning, Amen, my friend, my brother.
Thanks for sharing the good news.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Amen. Why wouldn't I share it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
It's not my news, is the news of the Christ,
the Lord, the Jesus that we serve. Amen. But amen,
thank you for the comment. And I'm here to serve
as a servant of the Lord and the Most High.
Brother John, thank you so much for coming through it.
It's tomorrow. God bless you, my sister, good morning. It's
good to see you today in the morning. Devo, my
sister and my friend. It's good to see you. So
let's get into the word. Let's get into the word, amen,
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Because for some reason I stop preaching for this is
one of my things. We're branded believers, Amen, we are
known to be who God calls us to be.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
There's no escaping it. Amen.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And I know I mess up. You mess up, we
all mess up. But O will mess up. Right, check
this out, I will mess up. It's not as the
end of it all because we know that we have
the Holy Spirit living inside of us. We have the
forgiveness of God, we have the mercy of God, we
have the grace of God, we have the Word of God.
Or we could get back up from where we are.
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We don't have to go worry way back to when
we first got saved, or maybe you got saved today yesterday.
You don't have to retreat surrender. You don't have to
go back into time and start from there. You start
from right where you are. If you fall, you get
back up, brush yourself off, and move forward to the loving, holy,
righteous God that saved you in the first place. See
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that's why I don't want to start freezing. Help me, Lord,
but brands, do not be ashamed of the gospel. That's
the power OFTO salvation. You got saved, I got saved,
We all got saved because we heard the good news
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And not only did we
hear it, we felt the presence of the Lord. We
were touched by our Holy God.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
He came to our situation, and he's taking us to
where he is. He met us where we were, and
now he's taking us to where he is. But in
the meantime, let's go ahead and go ahead and preach
the Gospel through our lives and man, move forward, Pray
for people, love people, see the unity of the Church
and the Bible of Christ. So that way the world
will be so curious of who our Christ is that
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they're going to ask some questions.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And you don't have to have one hundred scriptures.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Memorized, you don't have to have a theology degree, you
don't have to have all of that to present why
Jesus is the one that you serve, and by Jesus
is the one that we serve, is because He has
done a work in.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Our hearts and our minds and our lives.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Maybe you could share a little bit of your testimony
when people ask why do you believe in Jesus and
why do you think he's God? Maybe you could share
a little testimony A story, maybe a quick scripture, depending
on your situation of the person on the other side
of the conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
And remember you're not answering just a question. You're answering
a person who has a question. So go ahead and
answer the person and not just the question. If that
makes any sense.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So just the knows sis say, Amen, Yeah, we agree
with what God says. We're branded believers. Trust me, it's
a beautiful thingful thing. Branded believers in Christ. The world
knows we're supposed to be different. So God, ahead and
shine your light so that way the people know that
we are born again believers. Ephesian chapter one, verse number thirteen.
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The Bible says, and you also were included in Christ
when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of
your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in Him
with the seal the promised Holy Spirit. Let's read that again.
When you believed, past sense, you were marked in Him
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with the seal. That means nothing else get to come
in from the seal that God placed on us and
in us the promised Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit. God has
signed us into the Lamb's book of life, sealed us
for his glory.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So there's no such thing, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be
bold enough to say there's no such thing as a
born and again believer who is filled with the Holy
Spirit to be filled with demons at the same time.
Demons will try to mess our path up. Demons will
try to scare us away or discourage us. Demons will
try to attack our mindset. But demons cannot enter into
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a born again Christian's body. There's only room for Holy Spirit, God,
a man. Torment, yes, ridicule, yes, you know, scary things, yes,
all that, but not possession.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
If you see a video out there that a person
says they're born again believers and then possessed by a
demon at the same time, first, pray for the person. Second,
don't believe it. Three, get into your word, and four
make sure that that's not you and that's not me.
Because we're branded, we're signed, sealed, and deliver for the
glory of God from now to all eternity, for all eternity. Amen,
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Wake up, Amen, we are who God calls us. I'm
no longer going to repeat what the world is saying
about me and what the world is saying about my
brothers and sisters. I'm only going to repeat what the
Word of God says.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Over our lives. Amen.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So that's in Ephesians right there. The apostle Paul was
inspired to write that to the church. Amen, And I
was inspired to share that this morning. So what does
it mean to be branded?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Right? A brand shows ownership?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
So I always thought about that, said, wait, if I'm
owned by the Lord, why would I do with anything
that will destroy my own body that's not even mine?
In other words, I try my best to eat clean,
even though we're living in a country that everything that's
in the stores and everything that's on the shelves and supermarket,
not everything, a lot of things, most things are not
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good for us.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Amen. And they know it. I'm not going to get
down that road.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But they do know that the chemicals that they're putting
inside the foods that are in our supermarket, it's are
actually damaging our system. But it's a money thing, right.
The world system doesn't operate like the Kingdom of God.
So we should be mindful. We should understand that they're
not They have the money, you know, fortune gain at
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the expense of our health. So be careful. Read the
labels a man. Hopefully this honesty going on in those
labels as well, so that way we can know what
to watch out for, what not to eat. So a
brand shows ownership, identity. Who are you right other than
my identification that I have to show people to get
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into certain places or for our applications, you have to
show your id other than my identification for this planet,
I'm identified by who Christ caused me to be right.
So I'm identified by being a christ follower, a Christian
born again And people know that, especially to the devil
his little demons, they know who we are. So if
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the demon and the devils know who we are, why
wouldn't we know who we are? So we identify in Christ.
Our identity is in Christ. And because we know who
we are in the Kingdom, we know who we belong to,
we know who we serve.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
We are purposeful, We are living on purpose and God
has a plan, a perfect plan and a perfect purpose
for our lives. A man, Sister, Vivian, God bless you.
Is greed and power over people. Yes, reading power over
people causes other people to take advantage of those people
who are not keen to what's going on. Thank God
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for the Holy Spirit for discernment. Look, it took me
years to figure that the foods that were manufactured on
the shelf, like you see a can of something on
the shelf life for a year and a half, two years,
So you know something in there cannot be too healthy,
preservatives and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But that's for another time, amen.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But I'm just, you know, realizing this, and I hope
you realize it as well.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So let's go for it. Let's go for it. We're
branded believers. Don't be ashamed of who you are in Christ.
We belong to Jesus, period. We belong to Jesus. He's
using us for such a time as this. It's beautiful.
Right you be like me, Yeah, you did? You confess
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Jesus as your personal lorn and savior? Do you believe
in your heart.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That Jesus died and rose again from the grave?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Right, don't be ashamed of that, Hown't you notice that
everybody's coming out with what they believe, and they're holding
tight and they're passionate about what they believe. We have
those people with je whole witnesses outside with the billboards,
just sitting there waiting for somebody to come up to them.
And have a conversation. They're not ashamed of what they
believe in. Right, They're out there, got the Hebrew Israelites
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there going dressing up as I don't know what they
think they are, well, they think there Israelites.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
They dressed up the way they dress up.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
They go out in the streets, highways and byways, and
they're passionate about what they believe. And then we as believers,
we're going around hiding out, as if we don't have
the word of truth in our hearts, as if we
don't have victory, as if we don't move forward in victory.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I don't know what happened to my video over here,
but something strange just happened. Hopefully everything's running. Let me
fast forward this my timer disappeared. What time is it? Amen?
That's strange. There must be a glitch in my system. Amen,
So I'm make sure I keep time here that five
more minutes left. So we belong to Jesus. We carry
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his glory and we carry his name, Amen, and we
carry his authority. Sounds very arrogant, especially the times we're
living in. Right, How dare you guys say you carry
the glory of God? How dare you, guys say you
have the authority through your scriptures? How day used to
identify with the one who has risen, Well, that's who
we are. The world also brands, right, The world is
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trying to brand us too through trends. We see it
all over social media. Pride, we see that all over
the country. Sin do I have to talk about that?
And false identity we're talking about false followers the other day.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
People are trying to brand us too.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The world is trying to have its own brand, a
brand of Christianity even right. Some people call it the
American Church, the American Christian Gospel, which is different than
what the scriptures say sometimes right, So, the world is
trying to brand. The world is trying to put a
logo on me and you. The world is trying to
brand us. Social media, the culture, and temptation all say
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follow this way, follow the yellow. While Christ says follow me.
The world says follow that trend, follow that Google, follow
that politician, follow that culture. And Jesus is saying, no,
follow me. Right, It's an amazing statement that Jesus says,
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believe and follow me. He is the way. There's no
other way, the truth. There's no other truth. There's not
your truth, my truth, their truth. There's only one truth, Amen,
and the truth by definition. Think about it. A simple
definition of the truth is exclusive. The truth is exclusive,
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and we're not the only ones, ladies and gentlemen with
exclusive truth claim. Every religion out there in the world
has their own truth claims. So if I say this
is the truth, the burden really is not on me
to prove that this is truth. You know who the
burdens on, Holy Spirit, God, the Word of God itself.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
God, the author and finisher and perfector of our faith,
has the burden of proof. He proved himself ready. But
we have to get the revelation of who God is.
You have to realize that God is an invisible God.
Have you seen him?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Amen?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
But he revealed himself through the person of Jesus Christ,
which is the perfect reflection of the invisible God, Amen,
who revealed himself many years ago on this planet Earth. Historically,
we know that's true. We know by eyewitness accounts, through
the scriptures and outside of the scriptures. We know that
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he died and rose again.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We know that he.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Appeared to hundreds of people at the same time. We
know he went back and ate with the disciples in
his resurrected body. We know he has sent it, but
didn't leave us alone. He sent Holy Spirit, God, the
third person of his Holy triune Trinity, Amen, to live
inside of us as occupying and waiting for his triumphant
return with a new Heaven and a new Earth. So
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worldly branding promotes self over surrender, fame over faith, feelings
over truth that's big right now in our society, pleasure
over purity, and listen, We're not immune to these brandings
that the world is trying to brand us with Romans
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twelfth two, do not be conformed to this world. To
me when I see it, do not I believe that's
a commandment, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
This is not mind control. This is self control by
way of Holy Spirit. And self control is one of
the fruit of the spirits. I'm not gonna say fruits,
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because the fruit of the Spirit deals with nine things, right,
but we have the fruit of the Spirit, and one
of them is self control.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I'm out of control outside of Christ. What about you?
I'll go ramping in nuts.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
If I wasn't saved when I lived before without Christ,
I wasn't really living. I was dying in my sin,
but I was doing things according to the flesh. The
flesh was overpowering all my decisions. Sin, I was a
bond I was in bondage to sin. But now in Christ,
we are free from the bondages of sin. We're not
overcome by the flesh. We're feeding the spirit, not feeding
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the flesh. And our desires and our motives and our
purpose and the plans of God are working through us, Amen,
for the glory of God. So the true mark of
a believer will get into that next time. Amen, we're branded,
we're marked by a tattoo or logo. Think about it,
by the fruit, the visible evidence of being owned by Christ.
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Amen is written in our hearts. But we'll get to
that next time, Lord willing. So I'm out of time, Amen,
Hopefully you get what I'm saying. A man Ephesians, chapter
number one, verse number thirteen. Let me get the last
comment here, Vivian says, is wild how people are branding
what they're supposed to be healing from. Ooh, awareness is good,
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But when your diagnosis becomes your identity, you stop growing
and start marketing your wounds. Wow, that's a great, great
comment a man, that's something not good you want to
think about for the rest of the day. Thank you
so much, my sister for that comment. But I'm out
of time, so let me send you off with a blessing.
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Read Ephesians, chapter number one, verse number thirteen. Read the
whole chapter for yourself to get the blessing of God's
word in your life a man, or remind of what
God has spoken. If you already know the scriptures, but
it's always good to get into them daily.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So God bless you all, God keep you all. Or
remember always that God is good.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Peace as
Good morning family, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
to the Morning Devo. Is your brother Sam Lopez aka
DJ Sam Rock So Winners with a z orrg Live
That so Winners with a z dot org streaming our
social media platforms including on YouTube page and we're on
x Streaming Live formerly known as Twitter, so there as well.
Just in case you like that platform and you're on
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that platform a lot. I'm literally not on that platform
at all except for the live stream, amen. Not for
any reason, it's just that that platform. I just have
no time to engage too much on that platform.
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So welcome back to the Morning Devo.
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It's a new day in my area right now, it's dreary, raining, cold, amen.
But in other parts of the world we need to
be in prayer on there's storms hitting the islands and
the Caribbeans. A man that is gonna cause a lot
of damage and people expecting a lot of lives being lost.
So we pray against anything that takes life right. And
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we are known for praying for people who are in danger.
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We're branded that way.
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We're branded believers, and that's why I call this one
today Branded believers. Branded believers, a brand shows ownership, right, identity,
and purpose. In the spiritual sense, believers are branded not
with the logo, but with the mark of the Holy Spirit.
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Man.
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We're marked, we signed, sealed, and delivered. We're gonna be
in Ephesians, chapter one, verse number thirteen. That's why when
we get together as believers, when we pray, when we fast,
when we communicate, when we gather, when we are in unity.
When we're unified, right, we are powerful. When we shine
a lot of Christ. We get together, shining the light
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amongst one another. You know how bright that light is.
And you know the enemy sees that light and goes
the other way. He doesn't want to deal with the
believers that are united. He doesn't want to deal with
a praying believer. He doesn't want to deal with a
branded believer. He doesn't want to deal. He does, he
does his best, but he fails every time. Haven't you
noticed that the enemy is defeated. Haven't you noticed that
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the enemy cannot do any harm to us as children
of God because God has signed, sealed, and delivered us
from the bolish and shackles of sin that we used
to be in bondish of before. But now no more.
We fight the good fight of faith. Well, bad things happen. Absolutely,
we're in the fallen world. But will we get through
the bad things?
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Yes?
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Absolutely, because God is faithful to his word. So I
don't want to start preaching a maw. I just need
to encourage myself and encourage you. We're branded. There's nothing
we could do about the world mocking our belief because
we're already signed, sealed, and delivered. Were believe is because
God has chosen us to continue the work on this
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earth and this time on our side of eternity, because
we have Holy Spirit, the hope of glory for this world.
So we're branded. As soon as you say you're born
again Christian, you're branded.
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Amen.
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The world's gonna look at you differently because they get
to expect something different coming from you and coming from me.
No pressure though, Amen, that Holy Spirit move in your
life and move through your life so that way people
could glorify the Father that we're representing. Amen. That's what
it's all about. We're branded. Don't be ashamed of the Gospel.
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Don't be ashamed of who you are in.
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Christ and who Christ is in you. Amen.
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And yet we don't we don't always match up We
don't always stay at the glorious standard. We all fall
short of those glory standards of God. You do, That's
not the point. The point is God is a god
of grace and mercy, and God says and rescues and
uses the people who other people say there's no way
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xyz those people could do X, y and z for
the Kingdom of God. And yet God uses people that
are less than according to other people's mindset to do
amazing things for the Kingdom of God and bring souls
into the kingdom as well. So be encouraged, staying couraged,
be ready, stay ready, Amen, we are branded believers. Sister
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Joey and I see you. Good morning, God, bless you.
Welcome back to the morning Devo. My sister and my
friend is good to see amen. Of course, my software
wants to update right now as alive and I'm not
doing it, amen, So let's go forward. If you have
any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or anything along those lines,
please do not hesitate to leave it on a live chat.
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That's what we're here for. We also have a live
chat available at soul Winners with a z dot org
over at the live stream tab and the live stream
page there as well, Am, which I just start checking
more often.
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If you have made comments comments over there.
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My bad, I haven't checked it, amen, just because I've
been on these platforms more often. So but I'll make
sure I'll check on those asat to make sure I'll
apply to your comments over there as well. So let's
pray first. After we pray, we'll share this out for
like sixty seconds, and then on the other side of
those sixty seconds, we'll come right back and we'll get
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into our scripture for today Ephesians, chapter one, verse number thirteen.
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Today on the morning devo. Amen, So let's pray. Father.
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I prayed, Lord Guy, that you would guide God and
protect us continuously those brothers and sisters that we have
in the Caribbean from the time of this recording, that
are in the path of a storm which people are
calling the storm of the century. I ask Lord God
that you would send for for your angels, Victoria's angels
to guard, guide, protect those lives of the innocent, Protect
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those people who will call it upon your name to
be saved and rescued. Lord God, that you do with
miraculous work, and those lands and those islands, Low God,
and that even if it pleases you, Low God, that
you would turn that storm away. But we know there's
always a purpose of what you allow to happen. We
don't know it all, Lord Jesus. I don't know it all,
Lord God, but you do. And we trust you that
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the good out of these tragic things, according to your
purpose and plan, the good will come. And we would know,
whether we know on this side of eternity, on the
other we would know the purpose and the plan that
you have. And you are good, and all your plans
are good, and all your ways are different, and all
your ways are higher, and all your thoughts are higher
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than our thoughts.
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So we trust you, Lo God.
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I pray a head to protection over myself, my wife,
our children, our grandchildren, our family members, every single person
on the other side of the screen and on the
other side of this mic I pray the protection of
the Lord and God's angels to protect us today and
every day moving forward. That we will not retreat. We
were not surrendered. We will move forward as brand of believers,
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together as brothers and sisters for the glory of God,
a man in this side of eternity, and that people
will see the love, the grace, the mercy, the unity,
the love that we have for one another, so that
way they could be curious enough to investigate the claims
of our Savior, of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I pray it's by faith, knowing that you hear our prayers.
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You hear Our Christ, You hear our just motions of
help that we need from you, Lor God, and you
answer all the prayers according to your purpose and plan
for every individual person.
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Right now.
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In the powerful name of Jesus, I thank you for
it all, and I thank you, Lord God that you
are concerned with our concerns and that you hear and
you respond. Thank you, Lord God for speaking back through
your word. And Jesus Holy Name, my praise by faith
and all those who agree, we say amen to the amens.
It's the joyous I see you do. Morning, God bless you.
Welcome back to the morning Devo. Yes, it's a beautiful,
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thirstie day morning. Although the weather might be a little
crazy at least in my area. I heard it before
when I woke up earlier it seemed like it was
raining or whatever. But it is a beautiful morning because
God created this morning and the verses of God are
knew every day. Thank you so much for coming through
my sister and my friend. So let's go for it.
Help me shut this out sixty seconds. When we come back,
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we'll get right into today's morning Deva.
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I'll be right back. Hey, man, let's go forward. Let's
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see what the word of God has for us. Amen.
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And those are on the podcast. You hear the music
for the sixty seconds. Sometimes I forget to put the
music on, but today I think I did. A man,
those sixty seconds are of time for you to either
share out the podcast as well, Amen, or just wait, pray,
get into the word, Amen, and wait for God to
speak to you individually. Because the beautiful thing about God's
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word is that God's word is alive.
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God's word is active.
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God God's words speaks to us individually, to our hearts,
to our situation, to our now moment a man. God's
word is not something that was written so long ago
that's not relevant or tangible anymore. The word of God
is always relevant. The word of God is always tangible.
The word of God is always true, The word of
God is always powerful. The word of God is always
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relevant in our times. Amen, Brother Frank, I see you.
Good morning. God bless you in your family as well. Amen,
And he sends good morning blessing to everybody on the
morning Devo. And the love a man. The love is
what keeps us together, right. Thank you so much, brother Frank,
for coming through. It's good to see you, my brother,
and my friends. Sister Nilsa. Good morning. God bless you.
Blessing to my brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Amen.
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Thank you so much for coming through and blessing us
with your presence on the morning.
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Devo.
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Brother, I see you, good morning, Amen, my friend, my brother.
Thanks for sharing the good news.
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Amen. Why wouldn't I share it.
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It's not my news, is the news of the Christ,
the Lord, the Jesus that we serve. Amen. But amen,
thank you for the comment. And I'm here to serve
as a servant of the Lord and the Most High.
Brother John, thank you so much for coming through it.
It's tomorrow. God bless you, my sister, good morning. It's
good to see you today in the morning. Devo, my
sister and my friend. It's good to see you. So
let's get into the word. Let's get into the word, amen,
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Because for some reason I stop preaching for this is
one of my things. We're branded believers, Amen, we are
known to be who God calls us to be.
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There's no escaping it. Amen.
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And I know I mess up. You mess up, we
all mess up. But O will mess up. Right, check
this out, I will mess up. It's not as the
end of it all because we know that we have
the Holy Spirit living inside of us. We have the
forgiveness of God, we have the mercy of God, we
have the grace of God, we have the Word of God.
Or we could get back up from where we are.
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We don't have to go worry way back to when
we first got saved, or maybe you got saved today yesterday.
You don't have to retreat surrender. You don't have to
go back into time and start from there. You start
from right where you are. If you fall, you get
back up, brush yourself off, and move forward to the loving, holy,
righteous God that saved you in the first place. See
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that's why I don't want to start freezing. Help me, Lord,
but brands, do not be ashamed of the gospel. That's
the power OFTO salvation. You got saved, I got saved,
We all got saved because we heard the good news
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And not only did we
hear it, we felt the presence of the Lord. We
were touched by our Holy God.
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Amen.
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He came to our situation, and he's taking us to
where he is. He met us where we were, and
now he's taking us to where he is. But in
the meantime, let's go ahead and go ahead and preach
the Gospel through our lives and man, move forward, Pray
for people, love people, see the unity of the Church
and the Bible of Christ. So that way the world
will be so curious of who our Christ is that
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they're going to ask some questions.
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And you don't have to have one hundred scriptures.
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Memorized, you don't have to have a theology degree, you
don't have to have all of that to present why
Jesus is the one that you serve, and by Jesus
is the one that we serve, is because He has
done a work in.
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Our hearts and our minds and our lives.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Maybe you could share a little bit of your testimony
when people ask why do you believe in Jesus and
why do you think he's God? Maybe you could share
a little testimony A story, maybe a quick scripture, depending
on your situation of the person on the other side
of the conversation.
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Amen.
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And remember you're not answering just a question. You're answering
a person who has a question. So go ahead and
answer the person and not just the question. If that
makes any sense.
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Amen.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So just the knows sis say, Amen, Yeah, we agree
with what God says. We're branded believers. Trust me, it's
a beautiful thingful thing. Branded believers in Christ. The world
knows we're supposed to be different. So God, ahead and
shine your light so that way the people know that
we are born again believers. Ephesian chapter one, verse number thirteen.
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The Bible says, and you also were included in Christ
when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of
your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in Him
with the seal the promised Holy Spirit. Let's read that again.
When you believed, past sense, you were marked in Him
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with the seal. That means nothing else get to come
in from the seal that God placed on us and
in us the promised Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit. God has
signed us into the Lamb's book of life, sealed us
for his glory.
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Amen.
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So there's no such thing, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be
bold enough to say there's no such thing as a
born and again believer who is filled with the Holy
Spirit to be filled with demons at the same time.
Demons will try to mess our path up. Demons will
try to scare us away or discourage us. Demons will
try to attack our mindset. But demons cannot enter into
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a born again Christian's body. There's only room for Holy Spirit, God,
a man. Torment, yes, ridicule, yes, you know, scary things, yes,
all that, but not possession.
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Amen.
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If you see a video out there that a person
says they're born again believers and then possessed by a
demon at the same time, first, pray for the person. Second,
don't believe it. Three, get into your word, and four
make sure that that's not you and that's not me.
Because we're branded, we're signed, sealed, and deliver for the
glory of God from now to all eternity, for all eternity. Amen,
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Wake up, Amen, we are who God calls us. I'm
no longer going to repeat what the world is saying
about me and what the world is saying about my
brothers and sisters. I'm only going to repeat what the
Word of God says.
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Over our lives. Amen.
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So that's in Ephesians right there. The apostle Paul was
inspired to write that to the church. Amen, And I
was inspired to share that this morning. So what does
it mean to be branded?
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Right? A brand shows ownership?
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So I always thought about that, said, wait, if I'm
owned by the Lord, why would I do with anything
that will destroy my own body that's not even mine?
In other words, I try my best to eat clean,
even though we're living in a country that everything that's
in the stores and everything that's on the shelves and supermarket,
not everything, a lot of things, most things are not
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good for us.
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Amen. And they know it. I'm not going to get
down that road.
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But they do know that the chemicals that they're putting
inside the foods that are in our supermarket, it's are
actually damaging our system. But it's a money thing, right.
The world system doesn't operate like the Kingdom of God.
So we should be mindful. We should understand that they're
not They have the money, you know, fortune gain at
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the expense of our health. So be careful. Read the
labels a man. Hopefully this honesty going on in those
labels as well, so that way we can know what
to watch out for, what not to eat. So a
brand shows ownership, identity. Who are you right other than
my identification that I have to show people to get
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into certain places or for our applications, you have to
show your id other than my identification for this planet,
I'm identified by who Christ caused me to be right.
So I'm identified by being a christ follower, a Christian
born again And people know that, especially to the devil
his little demons, they know who we are. So if
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the demon and the devils know who we are, why
wouldn't we know who we are? So we identify in Christ.
Our identity is in Christ. And because we know who
we are in the Kingdom, we know who we belong to,
we know who we serve.
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Amen.
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We are purposeful, We are living on purpose and God
has a plan, a perfect plan and a perfect purpose
for our lives. A man, Sister, Vivian, God bless you.
Is greed and power over people. Yes, reading power over
people causes other people to take advantage of those people
who are not keen to what's going on. Thank God
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for the Holy Spirit for discernment. Look, it took me
years to figure that the foods that were manufactured on
the shelf, like you see a can of something on
the shelf life for a year and a half, two years,
So you know something in there cannot be too healthy,
preservatives and all that stuff.
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But that's for another time, amen.
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But I'm just, you know, realizing this, and I hope
you realize it as well.
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Amen.
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So let's go for it. Let's go for it. We're
branded believers. Don't be ashamed of who you are in Christ.
We belong to Jesus, period. We belong to Jesus. He's
using us for such a time as this. It's beautiful.
Right you be like me, Yeah, you did? You confess
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Jesus as your personal lorn and savior? Do you believe
in your heart.
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That Jesus died and rose again from the grave?
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Right, don't be ashamed of that, Hown't you notice that
everybody's coming out with what they believe, and they're holding
tight and they're passionate about what they believe. We have
those people with je whole witnesses outside with the billboards,
just sitting there waiting for somebody to come up to them.
And have a conversation. They're not ashamed of what they
believe in. Right, They're out there, got the Hebrew Israelites
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there going dressing up as I don't know what they
think they are, well, they think there Israelites.
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They dressed up the way they dress up.
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They go out in the streets, highways and byways, and
they're passionate about what they believe. And then we as believers,
we're going around hiding out, as if we don't have
the word of truth in our hearts, as if we
don't have victory, as if we don't move forward in victory.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I don't know what happened to my video over here,
but something strange just happened. Hopefully everything's running. Let me
fast forward this my timer disappeared. What time is it? Amen?
That's strange. There must be a glitch in my system. Amen,
So I'm make sure I keep time here that five
more minutes left. So we belong to Jesus. We carry
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his glory and we carry his name, Amen, and we
carry his authority. Sounds very arrogant, especially the times we're
living in. Right, How dare you guys say you carry
the glory of God? How dare you, guys say you
have the authority through your scriptures? How day used to
identify with the one who has risen, Well, that's who
we are. The world also brands, right, The world is
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trying to brand us too through trends. We see it
all over social media. Pride, we see that all over
the country. Sin do I have to talk about that?
And false identity we're talking about false followers the other day.
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People are trying to brand us too.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The world is trying to have its own brand, a
brand of Christianity even right. Some people call it the
American Church, the American Christian Gospel, which is different than
what the scriptures say sometimes right, So, the world is
trying to brand. The world is trying to put a
logo on me and you. The world is trying to
brand us. Social media, the culture, and temptation all say
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follow this way, follow the yellow. While Christ says follow me.
The world says follow that trend, follow that Google, follow
that politician, follow that culture. And Jesus is saying, no,
follow me. Right, It's an amazing statement that Jesus says,
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believe and follow me. He is the way. There's no
other way, the truth. There's no other truth. There's not
your truth, my truth, their truth. There's only one truth, Amen,
and the truth by definition. Think about it. A simple
definition of the truth is exclusive. The truth is exclusive,
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and we're not the only ones, ladies and gentlemen with
exclusive truth claim. Every religion out there in the world
has their own truth claims. So if I say this
is the truth, the burden really is not on me
to prove that this is truth. You know who the
burdens on, Holy Spirit, God, the Word of God itself.
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Amen.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
God, the author and finisher and perfector of our faith,
has the burden of proof. He proved himself ready. But
we have to get the revelation of who God is.
You have to realize that God is an invisible God.
Have you seen him?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Amen?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
But he revealed himself through the person of Jesus Christ,
which is the perfect reflection of the invisible God, Amen,
who revealed himself many years ago on this planet Earth. Historically,
we know that's true. We know by eyewitness accounts, through
the scriptures and outside of the scriptures. We know that
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he died and rose again.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We know that he.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Appeared to hundreds of people at the same time. We
know he went back and ate with the disciples in
his resurrected body. We know he has sent it, but
didn't leave us alone. He sent Holy Spirit, God, the
third person of his Holy triune Trinity, Amen, to live
inside of us as occupying and waiting for his triumphant
return with a new Heaven and a new Earth. So
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worldly branding promotes self over surrender, fame over faith, feelings
over truth that's big right now in our society, pleasure
over purity, and listen, We're not immune to these brandings
that the world is trying to brand us with Romans
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twelfth two, do not be conformed to this world. To
me when I see it, do not I believe that's
a commandment, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
This is not mind control. This is self control by
way of Holy Spirit. And self control is one of
the fruit of the spirits. I'm not gonna say fruits,
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because the fruit of the Spirit deals with nine things, right,
but we have the fruit of the Spirit, and one
of them is self control.
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I'm out of control outside of Christ. What about you?
I'll go ramping in nuts.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
If I wasn't saved when I lived before without Christ,
I wasn't really living. I was dying in my sin,
but I was doing things according to the flesh. The
flesh was overpowering all my decisions. Sin, I was a
bond I was in bondage to sin. But now in Christ,
we are free from the bondages of sin. We're not
overcome by the flesh. We're feeding the spirit, not feeding
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the flesh. And our desires and our motives and our
purpose and the plans of God are working through us, Amen,
for the glory of God. So the true mark of
a believer will get into that next time. Amen, we're branded,
we're marked by a tattoo or logo. Think about it,
by the fruit, the visible evidence of being owned by Christ.
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Amen is written in our hearts. But we'll get to
that next time, Lord willing. So I'm out of time, Amen,
Hopefully you get what I'm saying. A man Ephesians, chapter
number one, verse number thirteen. Let me get the last
comment here, Vivian says, is wild how people are branding
what they're supposed to be healing from. Ooh, awareness is good,
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But when your diagnosis becomes your identity, you stop growing
and start marketing your wounds. Wow, that's a great, great
comment a man, that's something not good you want to
think about for the rest of the day. Thank you
so much, my sister for that comment. But I'm out
of time, so let me send you off with a blessing.
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Read Ephesians, chapter number one, verse number thirteen. Read the
whole chapter for yourself to get the blessing of God's
word in your life a man, or remind of what
God has spoken. If you already know the scriptures, but
it's always good to get into them daily.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So God bless you all, God keep you all. Or
remember always that God is good.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
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