December 9, 2025 • 25 mins
Christmas isn’t just about the gifts under a tree… It’s about the God who hung on a tree so He could be with us forever.
John 17:3
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning family, Good morning God, bless you. Welcome back
to the morning DeVos you Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ
Sam Rock, Amen, So winners with a z Org the
celebrity of Network. The leeh have Valley's number one urban
gospel music station online since two thousand and eight. Oh
Glory to God is by his graces, by his mercy,
by his promise, Amen, by his word that we're still here, Amen,
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and we're going to talk about today. We're calling this
one Unwrap Eternity. You could unwrap a present now, a
man present tomorrow or president on Christmas Day. And those
presents that you unwrap from the gift giver, Amen, that
you're getting from the natural people mankind. Right, it's temporary.
Although it might be a great gift, great gesture, Amen, heartwarming,
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it might be, you know, a great gift. But those
gifts that we get from others, Amen, that we give
to one another, materialistic gifts, those things are temporary. But
we have an opportunity to unwrap eternity, to unwrap a
gift that lasts for all of eternity. Christmas isn't just
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about the gifts under a tree, right, It's about the
God who hung on a tree so he could be
with us. Listen, forever, forever and forever. Time's infinity. A man,
that's eternity. That's eternity. That's the promise we have in
the Lord's that's because of his grace, his mercy, his truth,
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his love. Amen, all of it we have, so we
unwrap eternity. That's what I'm calling this one today on
the morning Devo, we're gonna be in John chapter seventeen,
verse number three. John seventeen, verse number three. If you're
at live that someone is with a Zea Org. There's
a live chat there as well, and an interactive Bible
that you could jump on these scriptures with us and
(01:51):
read a word for word. There's a place where you
could take notes. Also, there is a place where you
can subscribe to the podcast and subscribe to our YouTube
if you're not already suscribed there as well. So let's
go for it. Man. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
prayer requests, or anything along along those lines, please don't
hesitate to leave it on a live chat. That's what
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we're here for. Even if you don't agree with us
being said, Amen, and you know and you're here, I
believe that there's no coincidences. I believe that God drew
you to this Morning Devo. A man, if you're here
and you really didn't know how you got here, God
draws people to himself. Amen, and through his word you'll
be amazed of what God could do to your heart
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and to your mind physically, emotionally, and supernaturally spiritually. Right,
we could do a great work together, more together than
we could do by ourselves. Right. So welcome to the
Morning Devo. If this is your first time here, this
is Joanne. I see you. Good morning, God bless you.
Welcome back, my sister and my friend to the Morning Devo.
So we're gonna pray. After we pray, we'll share this
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out for like sixty seconds, and then after the sixty
seconds is over, on the other side of that, we'll
go on to John chapter seventeen, verse number three. Father,
I thank you for right now, Thank you for today.
I thank you for your evidence that you continue to
show us every single day of your new mercies, your grace,
your love, your forgiveness, your salvation. Thank you, Lord God
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for what you're doing. Thank you, Lord God that you
created within yourself the opportunity for us to unwrap eternity
what you did on that cross all those years ago,
satisfied to send debt, so you pay the debt that
we owed and that you did not even need to pay.
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That is the mercy and love that you offered us today,
Lo God, Thank you, Lord God for demonstrating your own
love and this that while we were still enemies of God,
while we were still sinners, you still choose chose to
die for us, and you choose us to be your children.
You choose us to be your royal priests. You choose
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us to be the body of Christ. And I'm forever
grateful for that, Lord God. I pray Love God, for
every single person that's connecting now that will connect later,
that you would guide, guard and protect us all, Lord God,
as a family of God, and that you renew our hearts,
restore things that need to be restored, redeem, renew, and
that we can have a fresh restart on life knowing
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that you are the author and that you are the
perfector of our faith, and that you love God. Your
word and your promises are all yate and amen according
to your word and your faithfulness. So I speak life
and I pray faith over every single person that our
faithful increase over my wife, our children, our grandchildren, our family,
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and over every single person on the other side of
the screen or on the other side of this mic
representing their spouse or their family and Jesus Holy Name.
My prayer is by faith and those who agree, we
say amen to the amen since the joyce, I see you.
Good morning, God, bless you. Blessings to the family and group.
Thank you for the blessings. Sister, I receive those blessings.
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Keep on sending those blessings this way. Hey man, I'm
so grateful for that. Thank you for showing up, my sister,
my friend. Sixty seconds, ladies and gentlemen, let's get into it.
Let's try to share this out to as many people
as possible. When we come back, we'll get right into
today's morning Devo Scriptures, John chapter seventeen, verse number three.
I'll be right back and we're back. We're back, We're back.
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Let's go for it. Amen. I got an amen for
sisters from sister Joanne. That means we agree with the
word amen and with the prayer. Thank you so much
for the agreement, this power and agreement. Thank you to
the group daily encouragement for sharing this out to your
group members. Amen, thank you so much. I'm grateful for
that unwrapping turn it. Thank you Jesus loves You, the
group on Meta, thank you so much for sharing this
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out to your groups. Also, Christian Business Forum, thank you
for sending us out to your group members. Global Outreach Ministries.
Thank you so much. Amen of shouting all of y'all out,
because I'm showing y'all that I'm really grateful and I
see what you're doing. Thank you to Jesus loves You.
Thank you Lord God for that group as well. Thank
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you Lord God for God It's great, come and join.
Thank you Lord God for Team Jesus. Amen, thank you
for sharing Lee have value. Christian Events, very cool group
on Meta. Thank you so much. Christian Podcasters, thank you
so much. Amen, And it goes on and on. Thank
you so much for the love and support. Amen. I'm
really grateful for that. So that's why I'm shouting y'all out.
I'm shouting y'all out. So let's go for it. Let's
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get into today's morning devo. Amen. As we see it
through the scriptures in John chapter seventeen, verse number three,
and get that on the screen that we're for ourselves
for those of a keep now walking on a treadmill
or whatever they case may be. And you have me
and your ears. Amen, thank you for allowing me to
be a part of your ear drums today. A man,
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we're gonna read a word for word. I know you're
not watching it on the screen. That's no worries, no problems. Amen.
Already had thought that out years ago, said what about
the people who not watching the video? What am I
gonna do? Well, I'm just gonna read what we're seeing
on the screen, so that way they could get a
picture in their mind. God's word is amazing. God's word
paints a picture in our minds, sometimes more vivid than
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what I could show you graphically on the screen. Right,
God could paint what he's saying in the hearts and
minds of every single person who's looking for truth, who's
looking for love, who's looking for grace. And this is
true love, this is true, true mercy, this is true grace. Amen,
Because God is the Way, the Truth, and the life,
and his name is the Lord Jesus. Amen, Let's go
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for it and let me put this on the screen. Amen,
un wrap eternity, and of course I'm trying to make
everything look festive during this Christmas season. From the time
of his recording, John seventeen and three says, now, this
is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true,
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supreme and sovereign God. And in the same manner, no,
Jesus as the Christ whom you have sent. Amen, this
is one. This is one right here, eternal life who
offers eternal life, the Lord Jesus, that you may know.
You don't have to guess, You don't have to wait
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till you get to the other side of eternity to
figure out who the Lord is, right, the only, true,
supreme and sovereign God. And in the same manner, no,
see that, in the same manner Jesus as the Christ
whom you have sent. So the eternal life giver is
the one we call the Lord Jesus. He is the Christ,
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He is the Savior whom the Father sent. In other words,
God Father loved us so much that he sent the
only eternal life giver of the only Begods and son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, so that way he can be
on mission to redeem us. Amen, to go to that cross,
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to pay to sind that. Notice, in an old Covenant, Amen,
God sent the Father sent prophets, and the prophets were rejected,
some of them were murdered, some of them were ridiculed. Right.
We see that all through the Old Covenant, God was
sending messengers to his people so that way they could repent.
And unfortunately, just like us now in mordern day times,
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a lot of people refuse to repent. So God says, okay,
if you don't want my will in your life, then
have your will be done. Because God does not force
anybody to serve him. God does not force anybody to
go to his house, does not force anybody to believe
in his word. But he offers himself. He offers himself
as a living sacrifice. Amen. He offered that. And when
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He has sended to heaven to be seated at the
right hand of the throne, he set one just like him,
holy Spirit to live within us. Amen. That's an amazing,
amazing benefit that we have as believers. Sister Nilsaw, I
see you, good morning, God, bless you, Amen, and thank
you for the blessings to all the people and the
brothers and sisters in Christ that's watching now. Or watching.
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We'll watch or listen later. Thank you so much for
your attendance, my sister, my friend. So that's what we have.
We have the word of God on the eternal perspective. Amen.
We can unwrap eternity because of what Jesus has done
in our hearts and in our minds. And if you're
born again, you know what I'm talking about. You know
that you were going in one direction before Christ, and
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then when Christ met you where you were he interrupted.
I have on my YouTube page the main video says
how God ruined my life, Amen, in a good way.
I'm glad he interrupted where I was going because I
was going to a different place a man. I was
going to a place separated from the Lord for all eternity.
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And because of His grace, now I have eternal life
in Christ. So unwrapped his eternal life. You could do that, amen, right.
So Christmas reminds us that the world unwrapped temporary gifts.
Like I was saying early at the start, God invites
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us to unwrap something far greater than a gift that's
given to us from under the tree or whatever the
case may be. We could unwrap eternity. John three sixteen.
The most popular verse I think in the New Testament
is for God so loved the world that he gave
his one and only son, So that means Jesus is
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God's gift. Jesus is God's eternal gift. Jesus is like
unwrapping eternity. Amen. A savior sin not just to be born,
but to bring us new life. Is that amazing Christ,
the Lord born from a virgin who already had lived already,
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he was already alive, but he humbled himself to be
become a form of a man named Jesus, to live
a perfect sinless life, to show us and demonstrate his
grace's mercy. He forgave sins. Amen. He did everything that
the god man was sent to do right, and he
did it perfectly. You will never see in the scriptures
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that Jesus has done anything wrong, and his heart will
motion mind. Amen. He was God, so therefore he had
the upper hand, He had the edge a man. He
knew what he was doing. People say, oh, he didn't
know who he was. Yeah, he knew exactly who he was,
but he humbled himself. When you meet a humble person, Amen,
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they're confident. It's just that they humble themselves and they
know their own mission. They don't have to prove anything
to anybody. And Jesus himself did not have to prove
who he was. He spoke who he was, he lived
who he was. Amen. And to the point of the
sacrifice on the cross. And then this is how God
showed himself to be true. He died on the cross,
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and three days later, what did he do? He rose again.
We're unwrapping eternity because of what God had offered us
through the Lord Jesus Christ. He offered us eternal life.
The promise of eternal life won't be found. And nowhere else,
no angel, no profit, none of that. The Lord Jesus
himself promised us eternal life. Folks, to whosoever believes in
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the Lord shall not perish, but have eternal life. Amen.
Now this is eternal life that they know. Amen. That
scripture in John seventeen three, that part that they know
you sticks out to me because people are going around
imagining that they, you know, there should be doing something else.
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There should be another God, you know, maybe their own God,
their own personal God. No, we can know who God
is right now and these times, in these days and
this season. Amen, we know that the Lord says. We
know that the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom
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the Father said, gives eternal life. Eternal life isn't just
living forever. It's knowing God forever. Amen, It's being with
Him forever on wrapping his eternal love. Right. We need
eternity to get to know God and his beauty and
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his presence and his love and its majestic ways. Amen.
We get to have that opportunity, Amen, to be with
the Lord for all eternity. I know some people are like, yeah, right,
you know that's for me. Listen, Before I got saved,
I heard the story of the Lord Jesus. I heard
about his sacrifice. I heard about what he did for
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his people. But I always thought that was for people
outside of my circle. I always thought it was for
people who went to church. I always thought it was
for people who read the Bible. I never thought in
a thousand years that Jesus actually died for me too,
for real, real talk. I never thought that Jesus died
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for me. So I used to always keep that separate.
It's always said, yeah, I heard the story of Jesus,
and it's cool and everything but he didn't do that
for me. So that day in December, right around this time,
around these days, it was December eleventh or twelfth, that
drunken high in my studio in Allentown, my first home,
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I called out to him. I didn't call out to Jesus.
I called. I said, whoever this God is, if you're real,
come and change me. A lot of youths know my testimony.
And the thing is the reason why I'm born again
to this very day is because he literally met me
where I was, changed me right and continues to change me.
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And now I have a problem. The problem is a
good problem is that I don't know how he did that.
Don't know how he did it, but I know he did,
and now I can know. Now I could know a
meant that this God is the real, true, loving, supreme
being God, the true God, and Jesus Christ, who the
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Father sent, gave me eternal life, so unwrapped eternal life,
unwrap his presence, not presence that a gift. I'm talking
about presence like like we were talking about the other day,
like when he's present right and surely I am with
you always to the very end of the age. Matthew
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twenty eight and twenty The gift of Jesus is the
promise that you will never walk alone. And I know
the holiday season could be lonely for a lot of people.
You know, we lose loved ones a man, we mourn.
Some people are mourning right now for a loved one,
maybe around Thanksgiving, right and now they were heading into
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the Christmas season. We're into Christmas season and then New Year.
A lot of people are not at the place where
they're feeling like to celebrating. But when you have the
love of God, when you're surrounded by the people, the
brothers and sisters of the Family of God, when you're
part of the body of Christ, you know that you
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could go ahead and share your grief. You could go
ahead and share your burdens with your brothers and sisters
in Christ, the ones that filled with Holy Spirit God,
the ones who are praying for you, the ones who
love you, the one who embrace you, the ones who
listen to you, the ones who care about you. Right,
that's the forever family of God. Now you know that
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you're never alone. And also you have Holy Spirit. A
grieving Christians still has Holy Spirit living within us. When
we're grieving. We have Holy Spirit inside alive in us, Amen,
sharing the grief, caring about us, leading us a man.
We could trust in our Lord. We could trust in
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our Savior. We could trust in the true, righteous, loving
Holy God. We could trust in Holy Spirit that lives
inside of all his children. We can trust because Holy
Spirit leads us into all truth. Holy Spirit does not
deny the truth. Holy Spirit doesn't lie to us. Holy
Spirit doesn't lead us into paths of wickedness. Holy Spirit
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doesn't tempt us with sin. Holy Spirit loves us. Holy
Spirit gives us mercy. Holy Spirit reminds us of the
promises of God over our lives. Holy Spirit reminds us
of the word of truth. Holy Spirit will use us
to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
Holy Spirit uses us to come for others when we're
going through something. Even, Amen, God, we know that we
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are unwrapping eternity in our lifetime, in real time. Amen.
As soon as you were born again, as soon as
you received the Lord Jesus Christ, you started to unwrap eternity.
Eternity is in our hearts right now. Amen. We have
eternal perspective. That's why when things happen in the world.
Christians might look like we don't care. We absolutely care.
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We're praying for the leaderships in the government. We're praying
for our pastors. We're praying for the apostles and prophets
and evangelists and teachers. We're praying for our children. We're
praying for our unsafe family members, We're praying for each other.
We do care. It's just that we have an eternal
perspective and we know what happens at the end because
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we have the Book of Revelation. We know the prophetic
scheme of things. We just don't know the exact day,
exact time that Jesus is coming back. No one knows
that Amen of Jesus knows, Gods Holy Spirit knows, but
we and our man in our humanity, we have limited
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as well. We have full access to God's came to
but limited access to his prophetic scheme, in other words,
of the chronological time that He's going to do this, that,
and the third. How many times during the years have
you heard a so called prophet prophesign the exact day
and time that the Lord will come back? And here
we are all those prophets, so called prophets who prophesied
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the Lord's coming, Amen, were all wrong, proving that what
Jesus said, no one knows the time or day a man,
not even the son of man. But he is coming back.
There is a promise. And I believe he's humbled. He
was humbled to say that. Amen. Is absolutely Jesus knew,
But in his humanity he humbled himself and said, I'm
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not gonna reveal that a man. I'm gonna hold on
to that Amen, to that truth and to that promise.
And when he does enter back into our atmosphere, when
he cracks up in his guy, We're all going to
remember what he said. We're all going to remember the
promises of God. We're all going to remember who he was.
But the Bible, according to Revelation, people are still gonna
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be shaking their fists at him and denying him and
not wanting to accept him. Amen. And they already had
judged themselves right. But anyway, I don't know why I
went down that way unwrap his presence. The gift of
Jesus is the promise that you will never walk alone?
How about this one? Unwrapped new mercy? Each morning? Why?
Because his mercies are new every morning. Lamentations three, twenty
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two and twenty three says his mercies are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness, Lord, So you don't wake up
to yesterday's leftovers. You wake up to a fresh day
of mercy. Amen. You don't have to havent. You noticed
that when you have a bad day, the next day
still comes and the mercy follows and the grace follows. Amen.
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So yes, we have bad days, but the next day
we have mercy. Men, every day we have new mercies.
But the Frank I see you. God bless you and
your family as well, and also everybody on the morning Devo.
Thank you for the blessings that you bring to the
morning Devo, my brother and my friend. I hope you
have an amazing day. But listen, I'm running out of time,
but I'm trying to get you to think eternal eternal perspective.
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Get you to think that way so you can unwrap
eternity a man day by day. It should be so exciting.
I don't know what's gonna happen today, and I'm excited
about that because I know God's gonna be with me
no matter what happens. Amen, And God's gonna be with
you no matter what happens. If you're born again, if
you trust it in the Lord, Jesus Christ is your
personal Lord and savior. If you admit to God right now.
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If you're not born again, you're in the Christmas season
and we're focused on Christ. Amen. You might want to
get on the winning team, and you can settle that
right now. Admit that you're a sinner and you need
to be forgiven for your sins. Jesus Christ died for
your sins. Amen. Not that you should die to self now,
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because I know a lot of people say if you
have to die to self when you become a Christian. No,
you're alive now, your new self, Amen, your new creation.
You're born again. So therefore the dying Amen was dealt with.
When Jesus Christ crucified, was crucified, he lay down his
life so that we should live, so that way we
could live, not die again. Amen, We're gonna live now
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we're born again. Amen. Admit that you need to be
forgiven for your sins. Go to Jesus to Christ, Amen,
and then he will forgive you for your sins, and
he will put his Holy Spirit to live inside of
us right. He's the helper, he is the leader to
all truth. Amen. He is our healer, our redeemer, all
of it. Amen. And I'm out of time here and
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I'm still going, Brother Emmanuel, past the Emmanuel. God blessed you.
It was good to see you in the morning, Devo,
my brother and my friend. So unwrap his new mercies
each morning. I'm out of time, but we were on
John chapter seventeen, verse number three. Suggest you take John seventeen.
Read the whole chapter, check out verse number three, Amen,
meditating on it and grasp that man, we have the
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eternal life through Christ Jesus. Amen, and we can unwrap
the eternal gift and unwrap eternity. So thank you so
much for hanging out with me for the morning. Devil,
I thank you so much for coming through. It's your
brother saying Lopez. Let me just send you off for
the blessing. God bless you all. God keep you all,
and remember always that God is good. Peace.
Good morning family, Good morning God, bless you. Welcome back
to the morning DeVos you Bro Sam Lopez aka DJ
Sam Rock, Amen, So winners with a z Org the
celebrity of Network. The leeh have Valley's number one urban
gospel music station online since two thousand and eight. Oh
Glory to God is by his graces, by his mercy,
by his promise, Amen, by his word that we're still here, Amen,
(00:25):
and we're going to talk about today. We're calling this
one Unwrap Eternity. You could unwrap a present now, a
man present tomorrow or president on Christmas Day. And those
presents that you unwrap from the gift giver, Amen, that
you're getting from the natural people mankind. Right, it's temporary.
Although it might be a great gift, great gesture, Amen, heartwarming,
(00:49):
it might be, you know, a great gift. But those
gifts that we get from others, Amen, that we give
to one another, materialistic gifts, those things are temporary. But
we have an opportunity to unwrap eternity, to unwrap a
gift that lasts for all of eternity. Christmas isn't just
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about the gifts under a tree, right, It's about the
God who hung on a tree so he could be
with us. Listen, forever, forever and forever. Time's infinity. A man,
that's eternity. That's eternity. That's the promise we have in
the Lord's that's because of his grace, his mercy, his truth,
(01:30):
his love. Amen, all of it we have, so we
unwrap eternity. That's what I'm calling this one today on
the morning Devo, we're gonna be in John chapter seventeen,
verse number three. John seventeen, verse number three. If you're
at live that someone is with a Zea Org. There's
a live chat there as well, and an interactive Bible
that you could jump on these scriptures with us and
(01:51):
read a word for word. There's a place where you
could take notes. Also, there is a place where you
can subscribe to the podcast and subscribe to our YouTube
if you're not already suscribed there as well. So let's
go for it. Man. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
prayer requests, or anything along along those lines, please don't
hesitate to leave it on a live chat. That's what
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we're here for. Even if you don't agree with us
being said, Amen, and you know and you're here, I
believe that there's no coincidences. I believe that God drew
you to this Morning Devo. A man, if you're here
and you really didn't know how you got here, God
draws people to himself. Amen, and through his word you'll
be amazed of what God could do to your heart
(02:34):
and to your mind physically, emotionally, and supernaturally spiritually. Right,
we could do a great work together, more together than
we could do by ourselves. Right. So welcome to the
Morning Devo. If this is your first time here, this
is Joanne. I see you. Good morning, God bless you.
Welcome back, my sister and my friend to the Morning Devo.
So we're gonna pray. After we pray, we'll share this
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out for like sixty seconds, and then after the sixty
seconds is over, on the other side of that, we'll
go on to John chapter seventeen, verse number three. Father,
I thank you for right now, Thank you for today.
I thank you for your evidence that you continue to
show us every single day of your new mercies, your grace,
your love, your forgiveness, your salvation. Thank you, Lord God
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for what you're doing. Thank you, Lord God that you
created within yourself the opportunity for us to unwrap eternity
what you did on that cross all those years ago,
satisfied to send debt, so you pay the debt that
we owed and that you did not even need to pay.
(03:38):
That is the mercy and love that you offered us today,
Lo God, Thank you, Lord God for demonstrating your own
love and this that while we were still enemies of God,
while we were still sinners, you still choose chose to
die for us, and you choose us to be your children.
You choose us to be your royal priests. You choose
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us to be the body of Christ. And I'm forever
grateful for that, Lord God. I pray Love God, for
every single person that's connecting now that will connect later,
that you would guide, guard and protect us all, Lord God,
as a family of God, and that you renew our hearts,
restore things that need to be restored, redeem, renew, and
that we can have a fresh restart on life knowing
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that you are the author and that you are the
perfector of our faith, and that you love God. Your
word and your promises are all yate and amen according
to your word and your faithfulness. So I speak life
and I pray faith over every single person that our
faithful increase over my wife, our children, our grandchildren, our family,
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and over every single person on the other side of
the screen or on the other side of this mic
representing their spouse or their family and Jesus Holy Name.
My prayer is by faith and those who agree, we
say amen to the amen since the joyce, I see you.
Good morning, God, bless you. Blessings to the family and group.
Thank you for the blessings. Sister, I receive those blessings.
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Keep on sending those blessings this way. Hey man, I'm
so grateful for that. Thank you for showing up, my sister,
my friend. Sixty seconds, ladies and gentlemen, let's get into it.
Let's try to share this out to as many people
as possible. When we come back, we'll get right into
today's morning Devo Scriptures, John chapter seventeen, verse number three.
I'll be right back and we're back. We're back, We're back.
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Let's go for it. Amen. I got an amen for
sisters from sister Joanne. That means we agree with the
word amen and with the prayer. Thank you so much
for the agreement, this power and agreement. Thank you to
the group daily encouragement for sharing this out to your
group members. Amen, thank you so much. I'm grateful for
that unwrapping turn it. Thank you Jesus loves You, the
group on Meta, thank you so much for sharing this
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out to your groups. Also, Christian Business Forum, thank you
for sending us out to your group members. Global Outreach Ministries.
Thank you so much. Amen of shouting all of y'all out,
because I'm showing y'all that I'm really grateful and I
see what you're doing. Thank you to Jesus loves You.
Thank you Lord God for that group as well. Thank
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you Lord God for God It's great, come and join.
Thank you Lord God for Team Jesus. Amen, thank you
for sharing Lee have value. Christian Events, very cool group
on Meta. Thank you so much. Christian Podcasters, thank you
so much. Amen, And it goes on and on. Thank
you so much for the love and support. Amen. I'm
really grateful for that. So that's why I'm shouting y'all out.
I'm shouting y'all out. So let's go for it. Let's
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get into today's morning devo. Amen. As we see it
through the scriptures in John chapter seventeen, verse number three,
and get that on the screen that we're for ourselves
for those of a keep now walking on a treadmill
or whatever they case may be. And you have me
and your ears. Amen, thank you for allowing me to
be a part of your ear drums today. A man,
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we're gonna read a word for word. I know you're
not watching it on the screen. That's no worries, no problems. Amen.
Already had thought that out years ago, said what about
the people who not watching the video? What am I
gonna do? Well, I'm just gonna read what we're seeing
on the screen, so that way they could get a
picture in their mind. God's word is amazing. God's word
paints a picture in our minds, sometimes more vivid than
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what I could show you graphically on the screen. Right,
God could paint what he's saying in the hearts and
minds of every single person who's looking for truth, who's
looking for love, who's looking for grace. And this is
true love, this is true, true mercy, this is true grace. Amen,
Because God is the Way, the Truth, and the life,
and his name is the Lord Jesus. Amen, Let's go
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for it and let me put this on the screen. Amen,
un wrap eternity, and of course I'm trying to make
everything look festive during this Christmas season. From the time
of his recording, John seventeen and three says, now, this
is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true,
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supreme and sovereign God. And in the same manner, no,
Jesus as the Christ whom you have sent. Amen, this
is one. This is one right here, eternal life who
offers eternal life, the Lord Jesus, that you may know.
You don't have to guess, You don't have to wait
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till you get to the other side of eternity to
figure out who the Lord is, right, the only, true,
supreme and sovereign God. And in the same manner, no,
see that, in the same manner Jesus as the Christ
whom you have sent. So the eternal life giver is
the one we call the Lord Jesus. He is the Christ,
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He is the Savior whom the Father sent. In other words,
God Father loved us so much that he sent the
only eternal life giver of the only Begods and son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, so that way he can be
on mission to redeem us. Amen, to go to that cross,
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to pay to sind that. Notice, in an old Covenant, Amen,
God sent the Father sent prophets, and the prophets were rejected,
some of them were murdered, some of them were ridiculed. Right.
We see that all through the Old Covenant, God was
sending messengers to his people so that way they could repent.
And unfortunately, just like us now in mordern day times,
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a lot of people refuse to repent. So God says, okay,
if you don't want my will in your life, then
have your will be done. Because God does not force
anybody to serve him. God does not force anybody to
go to his house, does not force anybody to believe
in his word. But he offers himself. He offers himself
as a living sacrifice. Amen. He offered that. And when
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He has sended to heaven to be seated at the
right hand of the throne, he set one just like him,
holy Spirit to live within us. Amen. That's an amazing,
amazing benefit that we have as believers. Sister Nilsaw, I
see you, good morning, God, bless you, Amen, and thank
you for the blessings to all the people and the
brothers and sisters in Christ that's watching now. Or watching.
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We'll watch or listen later. Thank you so much for
your attendance, my sister, my friend. So that's what we have.
We have the word of God on the eternal perspective. Amen.
We can unwrap eternity because of what Jesus has done
in our hearts and in our minds. And if you're
born again, you know what I'm talking about. You know
that you were going in one direction before Christ, and
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then when Christ met you where you were he interrupted.
I have on my YouTube page the main video says
how God ruined my life, Amen, in a good way.
I'm glad he interrupted where I was going because I
was going to a different place a man. I was
going to a place separated from the Lord for all eternity.
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And because of His grace, now I have eternal life
in Christ. So unwrapped his eternal life. You could do that, amen, right.
So Christmas reminds us that the world unwrapped temporary gifts.
Like I was saying early at the start, God invites
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us to unwrap something far greater than a gift that's
given to us from under the tree or whatever the
case may be. We could unwrap eternity. John three sixteen.
The most popular verse I think in the New Testament
is for God so loved the world that he gave
his one and only son, So that means Jesus is
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God's gift. Jesus is God's eternal gift. Jesus is like
unwrapping eternity. Amen. A savior sin not just to be born,
but to bring us new life. Is that amazing Christ,
the Lord born from a virgin who already had lived already,
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he was already alive, but he humbled himself to be
become a form of a man named Jesus, to live
a perfect sinless life, to show us and demonstrate his
grace's mercy. He forgave sins. Amen. He did everything that
the god man was sent to do right, and he
did it perfectly. You will never see in the scriptures
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that Jesus has done anything wrong, and his heart will
motion mind. Amen. He was God, so therefore he had
the upper hand, He had the edge a man. He
knew what he was doing. People say, oh, he didn't
know who he was. Yeah, he knew exactly who he was,
but he humbled himself. When you meet a humble person, Amen,
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they're confident. It's just that they humble themselves and they
know their own mission. They don't have to prove anything
to anybody. And Jesus himself did not have to prove
who he was. He spoke who he was, he lived
who he was. Amen. And to the point of the
sacrifice on the cross. And then this is how God
showed himself to be true. He died on the cross,
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and three days later, what did he do? He rose again.
We're unwrapping eternity because of what God had offered us
through the Lord Jesus Christ. He offered us eternal life.
The promise of eternal life won't be found. And nowhere else,
no angel, no profit, none of that. The Lord Jesus
himself promised us eternal life. Folks, to whosoever believes in
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the Lord shall not perish, but have eternal life. Amen.
Now this is eternal life that they know. Amen. That
scripture in John seventeen three, that part that they know
you sticks out to me because people are going around
imagining that they, you know, there should be doing something else.
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There should be another God, you know, maybe their own God,
their own personal God. No, we can know who God
is right now and these times, in these days and
this season. Amen, we know that the Lord says. We
know that the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom
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the Father said, gives eternal life. Eternal life isn't just
living forever. It's knowing God forever. Amen, It's being with
Him forever on wrapping his eternal love. Right. We need
eternity to get to know God and his beauty and
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his presence and his love and its majestic ways. Amen.
We get to have that opportunity, Amen, to be with
the Lord for all eternity. I know some people are like, yeah, right,
you know that's for me. Listen, Before I got saved,
I heard the story of the Lord Jesus. I heard
about his sacrifice. I heard about what he did for
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his people. But I always thought that was for people
outside of my circle. I always thought it was for
people who went to church. I always thought it was
for people who read the Bible. I never thought in
a thousand years that Jesus actually died for me too,
for real, real talk. I never thought that Jesus died
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for me. So I used to always keep that separate.
It's always said, yeah, I heard the story of Jesus,
and it's cool and everything but he didn't do that
for me. So that day in December, right around this time,
around these days, it was December eleventh or twelfth, that
drunken high in my studio in Allentown, my first home,
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I called out to him. I didn't call out to Jesus.
I called. I said, whoever this God is, if you're real,
come and change me. A lot of youths know my testimony.
And the thing is the reason why I'm born again
to this very day is because he literally met me
where I was, changed me right and continues to change me.
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And now I have a problem. The problem is a
good problem is that I don't know how he did that.
Don't know how he did it, but I know he did,
and now I can know. Now I could know a
meant that this God is the real, true, loving, supreme
being God, the true God, and Jesus Christ, who the
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Father sent, gave me eternal life, so unwrapped eternal life,
unwrap his presence, not presence that a gift. I'm talking
about presence like like we were talking about the other day,
like when he's present right and surely I am with
you always to the very end of the age. Matthew
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twenty eight and twenty The gift of Jesus is the
promise that you will never walk alone. And I know
the holiday season could be lonely for a lot of people.
You know, we lose loved ones a man, we mourn.
Some people are mourning right now for a loved one,
maybe around Thanksgiving, right and now they were heading into
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the Christmas season. We're into Christmas season and then New Year.
A lot of people are not at the place where
they're feeling like to celebrating. But when you have the
love of God, when you're surrounded by the people, the
brothers and sisters of the Family of God, when you're
part of the body of Christ, you know that you
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could go ahead and share your grief. You could go
ahead and share your burdens with your brothers and sisters
in Christ, the ones that filled with Holy Spirit God,
the ones who are praying for you, the ones who
love you, the one who embrace you, the ones who
listen to you, the ones who care about you. Right,
that's the forever family of God. Now you know that
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you're never alone. And also you have Holy Spirit. A
grieving Christians still has Holy Spirit living within us. When
we're grieving. We have Holy Spirit inside alive in us, Amen,
sharing the grief, caring about us, leading us a man.
We could trust in our Lord. We could trust in
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our Savior. We could trust in the true, righteous, loving
Holy God. We could trust in Holy Spirit that lives
inside of all his children. We can trust because Holy
Spirit leads us into all truth. Holy Spirit does not
deny the truth. Holy Spirit doesn't lie to us. Holy
Spirit doesn't lead us into paths of wickedness. Holy Spirit
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doesn't tempt us with sin. Holy Spirit loves us. Holy
Spirit gives us mercy. Holy Spirit reminds us of the
promises of God over our lives. Holy Spirit reminds us
of the word of truth. Holy Spirit will use us
to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
Holy Spirit uses us to come for others when we're
going through something. Even, Amen, God, we know that we
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are unwrapping eternity in our lifetime, in real time. Amen.
As soon as you were born again, as soon as
you received the Lord Jesus Christ, you started to unwrap eternity.
Eternity is in our hearts right now. Amen. We have
eternal perspective. That's why when things happen in the world.
Christians might look like we don't care. We absolutely care.
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We're praying for the leaderships in the government. We're praying
for our pastors. We're praying for the apostles and prophets
and evangelists and teachers. We're praying for our children. We're
praying for our unsafe family members, We're praying for each other.
We do care. It's just that we have an eternal
perspective and we know what happens at the end because
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we have the Book of Revelation. We know the prophetic
scheme of things. We just don't know the exact day,
exact time that Jesus is coming back. No one knows
that Amen of Jesus knows, Gods Holy Spirit knows, but
we and our man in our humanity, we have limited
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as well. We have full access to God's came to
but limited access to his prophetic scheme, in other words,
of the chronological time that He's going to do this, that,
and the third. How many times during the years have
you heard a so called prophet prophesign the exact day
and time that the Lord will come back? And here
we are all those prophets, so called prophets who prophesied
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the Lord's coming, Amen, were all wrong, proving that what
Jesus said, no one knows the time or day a man,
not even the son of man. But he is coming back.
There is a promise. And I believe he's humbled. He
was humbled to say that. Amen. Is absolutely Jesus knew,
But in his humanity he humbled himself and said, I'm
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not gonna reveal that a man. I'm gonna hold on
to that Amen, to that truth and to that promise.
And when he does enter back into our atmosphere, when
he cracks up in his guy, We're all going to
remember what he said. We're all going to remember the
promises of God. We're all going to remember who he was.
But the Bible, according to Revelation, people are still gonna
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be shaking their fists at him and denying him and
not wanting to accept him. Amen. And they already had
judged themselves right. But anyway, I don't know why I
went down that way unwrap his presence. The gift of
Jesus is the promise that you will never walk alone?
How about this one? Unwrapped new mercy? Each morning? Why?
Because his mercies are new every morning. Lamentations three, twenty
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two and twenty three says his mercies are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness, Lord, So you don't wake up
to yesterday's leftovers. You wake up to a fresh day
of mercy. Amen. You don't have to havent. You noticed
that when you have a bad day, the next day
still comes and the mercy follows and the grace follows. Amen.
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So yes, we have bad days, but the next day
we have mercy. Men, every day we have new mercies.
But the Frank I see you. God bless you and
your family as well, and also everybody on the morning Devo.
Thank you for the blessings that you bring to the
morning Devo, my brother and my friend. I hope you
have an amazing day. But listen, I'm running out of time,
but I'm trying to get you to think eternal eternal perspective.
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Get you to think that way so you can unwrap
eternity a man day by day. It should be so exciting.
I don't know what's gonna happen today, and I'm excited
about that because I know God's gonna be with me
no matter what happens. Amen, And God's gonna be with
you no matter what happens. If you're born again, if
you trust it in the Lord, Jesus Christ is your
personal Lord and savior. If you admit to God right now.
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If you're not born again, you're in the Christmas season
and we're focused on Christ. Amen. You might want to
get on the winning team, and you can settle that
right now. Admit that you're a sinner and you need
to be forgiven for your sins. Jesus Christ died for
your sins. Amen. Not that you should die to self now,
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because I know a lot of people say if you
have to die to self when you become a Christian. No,
you're alive now, your new self, Amen, your new creation.
You're born again. So therefore the dying Amen was dealt with.
When Jesus Christ crucified, was crucified, he lay down his
life so that we should live, so that way we
could live, not die again. Amen, We're gonna live now
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we're born again. Amen. Admit that you need to be
forgiven for your sins. Go to Jesus to Christ, Amen,
and then he will forgive you for your sins, and
he will put his Holy Spirit to live inside of
us right. He's the helper, he is the leader to
all truth. Amen. He is our healer, our redeemer, all
of it. Amen. And I'm out of time here and
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I'm still going, Brother Emmanuel, past the Emmanuel. God blessed you.
It was good to see you in the morning, Devo,
my brother and my friend. So unwrap his new mercies
each morning. I'm out of time, but we were on
John chapter seventeen, verse number three. Suggest you take John seventeen.
Read the whole chapter, check out verse number three, Amen,
meditating on it and grasp that man, we have the
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eternal life through Christ Jesus. Amen, and we can unwrap
the eternal gift and unwrap eternity. So thank you so
much for hanging out with me for the morning. Devil,
I thank you so much for coming through. It's your
brother saying Lopez. Let me just send you off for
the blessing. God bless you all. God keep you all,
and remember always that God is good. Peace.
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