Bobby Chandler - When God Asks a Question (Part 2)

July 7, 2026 | 25:29

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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It's forbidden for you to do
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As the pagans do, because they worship idols
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Like molech and bell and asterisk,
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And they sacrifice their children,
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And they they bring in prostitution
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And they allow all these things.
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Well, i'm looking at solomon,
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And solomon must be thinking, but i'm not doing that.
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What you ask for in life exposes what you value.
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Now, let me also clarify.
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God never asked
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And he never will ask you a question
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To receive an answer from you.
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God already knows the answers.
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He's trying to reveal something,
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A revelation to you about yourself, usually.
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So let me show you one more example of this.
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That's really powerful.
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From the story of adam and eve,
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From the very beginning of the bible in genesis chapter three,
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You don't have to turn there.
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You can follow along on the screen,
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But i just want you to see some of the questions that god asks
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Adam and eve.
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Genesis three eight through 13.
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And it states, when the cool evening breezes were blowing,
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The man and his wife,
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Adam and eve heard the lord god walking about in the garden.
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So they hid from the lord god among the trees.
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I truly believe they hid from jesus.
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I don't know if you've ever thought about that,
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Because it says that they walked with god in the garden.
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I truly believe because jesus
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Is the physical representation of god.
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He is god.
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Okay, that he was walking in the garden,
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They were walking with jesus,
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But then they allowed sin
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Into their life and so they hid from the lord god.
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Then the lord god called to the man, where are you?
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You think god didn't know where they were?
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Why would he ask this question?
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He said, where are you?
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And adam replied,
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I heard you walking in the garden.
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So i hid and i was afraid because i was naked.
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Now a lot of us would get that and be like,
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Yeah, i'd be hiding too, if i was naked.
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But they've been naked since the beginning.
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They never had a problem being naked before something changed.
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And then look at the second question here.
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Who told you that you were naked?
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The lord god asked, have you eaten from the tree?
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Here's another question.
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Whose fruit i commanded you not to eat?
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And the man replied.
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It was that woman,
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Man. we always get ourselves in trouble.
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It was a woman that you gave me.
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She gave me the fruit and i ate it.
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And then the lord god asked the woman, here's
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The last question here. what have you done?
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And she said, well, the devil made me do it.
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The serpent deceived me, and that's why i ate it.
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Any parents in the room?
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Have you ever asked your child a question that you already knew
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The answer to?
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You just wanted them to reveal the answer to you.
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I remember many years ago, my middle son was about 4 or 5
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And it was very early in the morning.
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I don't know, maybe 6 a.m., okay.
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And all of a sudden i hear the door open to our bedroom
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And my middle son just comes in and he's like, hey.
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And i'm like, what are you doing?
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It's kind of early.
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He goes, hey, i just want to tell you, i love you.
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And i'm like, yeah, i love you too.
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Why are you up so early?
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You know, and i look at his face because my
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Eyes were pretty blurry. and i look at my.
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I look at his face and i see something on his face,
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And i see that there's chocolate smeared all over his mouth.
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And so i asked the question, did you go into the kitchen? no.
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No, daddy.
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No. okay.
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You didn't eat the chocolate
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That was on the kitchen counter? no,
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But it's all over your face, okay?
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I did it.
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You know, we asked questions to revealed truth.
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This is why god will ask us a question.
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And sometimes you're going to feel like a little child.
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No, i didn't do it.
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I didn't go there. i didn't look at this.
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I didn't do that. and god's like, really?
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Where did you go?
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Tell me the truth.
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And so let's look at these questions
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And see the deeper meaning.
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The first question god asked was where are you?
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Not because god lost them,
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Please listen, but because they lost their closeness to god.
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God didn't lose him physically.
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They lost their closeness to god spiritually.
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Meaning sin doesn't hide us from god.
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It hides us from his presence.
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What happens when you give in to temptation?
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When you give in to something
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That you don't want to give into,
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But you give in to it, and then all of a sudden
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You hear this voice telling you when you're not good enough.
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My god is not going to use you.
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You must hide from god.
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God is very disappointed with you.
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He's going to leave you now. how dare you?
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You just came in here and said you were a christian.
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We hide from god's presence.
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But no matter what you try to do and how hard
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You try to do it, you can't hide from god.
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You can't hide what you've done, how you feel.
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You can hide it from people.
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You can't hide it from god.
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And so i want you to see here god is really asking this.
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God is actually asking.
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He said you made a mistake.
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Where is your trust now?
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That's what god is saying here.
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He says, where is your faith?
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Where is your passion that you had for me?
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Because now i feel like it's it's loss or intimacy.
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It's kind of gone
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Because now there's sin separating me from you.
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So i need you to answer me.
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Where are you?
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Where are you hiding?
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The second question is this.
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Who told you you were naked?
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Now again, they've been naked since the beginning.
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This was not about adam's clothing.
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Please listen to this.
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It was all about the source.
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You know what god was really asking?
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Not about the clothing.
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It's about the voice.
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Whose voice told you this?
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Whose voice told you that you were naked?
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Whose voice try to convince you that i was holding back on you?
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God was revealing the wrong voices in their life.
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Guess what god's going to do with you?
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He's going to reveal the wrong voices.
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Who have you been listening to?
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Who told you that?
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Because let me make this also clear.
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Shame has a voice.
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When you were a baby, you weren't afraid to cry.
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When you were younger, you weren't afraid to ask questions.
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But now all of a sudden, you're afraid to look dumb
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Or that somebody is going to mess with you
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And somebody is going to bring you down.
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Listen, this is the voice of shame.
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We have all felt it.
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We have all experienced it.
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The problem is, too many of us have believed it
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Instead of the voice of god.
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And shame will sound like this in our lives.
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Some somebody who is supposed to love you and protect
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You may say something like this.
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You're not enough, right?
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You should be married by now.
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Something's wrong with you.
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If they really knew who you were, they would leave you.
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What you like is dumb.
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It's stupid. it's foolish. nobody cares.
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This is what shame sounds like.
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And if you're not careful. listen.
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Here's what gets dangerous.
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It comes from an outside source, but eventually it starts
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To sound like you.
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And no
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Longer is it somebody else speaking this into you.
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Now it's you speaking to yourself like this.
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I'm stupid.
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Why did i try?
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I knew i'd fail.
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This is idiotic of me.
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I know that i'm always failing.
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I'm always messing up.
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So god may ask you the question.
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Who told you that?
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Who said you would fail?
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Who called you dumb?
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You know why god asked that question?
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He's saying this.
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Let me handle them.
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For jesus came to
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Crush the head of the serpent that lies to you.
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Your identity is in jesus, not in this world.
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And god will use what seems foolish to shame the wise.
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The last question is this or last questions?
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He said, have you eaten from the tree
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And what have you done?
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This is god's grace.
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This was a chance for them to confess and repent.
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But instead they pointed the fingers.
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Adam said it was eve.
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Eve said it was the devil. that's what we do so many times.
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But this is god's grace.
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Sometimes god is
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Going to show up and ask the question, what have you done?
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A chance to
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Repent because you want to hear something mind blowing.
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God only asked questions to adam and eve, not the serpent.
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God asked questions
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To those that he has a relationship with
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For intimacy and for a chance to to repent.
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Okay,
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So god has adam and eve, a question
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He didn't ask the serpent because he brought judgment
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To the serpent instead, right?
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So we read the story of solomon,
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And a lot of us think,
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All right, i'd be i would love to be asked that question,
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But right now, be honest with yourself.
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How would you answer it?
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Would your answer please god,
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Or does your answer only please yourself?
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Okay, now before we go deeper into solomon's
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Answer to god, i want you to know
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Something very important as well.
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Point number two is this
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God speaks through surrender, not convenience.
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Have you noticed that when you're comfortable,
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It's kind of hard to hear the voice of god?
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And i mean, when god is telling you
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To move out of that comfort,
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When god is telling you to move by faith,
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When god is telling you to pray over somebody,
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When god is actually telling you
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To risk something that you love dearly to prove.
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If you really love him more.
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But he is a good father, and i can tell you
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By experience, every time we move by faith and trust
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To the lord, god gives better than what you had before.
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And i'm not just saying that it's not prosperity gospel.
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I've just seen it over and over again
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That god is a good father
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Who blesses his children for doing the right thing.
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But god's voice
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Seems to get clearer the more our comfort decreases.
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Notice something about solomon?
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Solomon did not hear god in jerusalem.
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Solomon did not hear god in the palace.
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And god and solomon certainly did not hear
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God on the high places.
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That was breaking the law of moses,
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Even though it was more convenient.
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Saul had been heard from god when he traveled 5 to 6 miles to
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Give him to be at the tabernacle where god told him to be.
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And then he sacrificed and offered
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Everything over to the lord.
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That's when god shows up.
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So let me say it like this god meets with us and surrender.
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Not when we customize christianity to our own needs.
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So many of us are trying to be convenient.
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I don't want to get uncomfortable
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With my christian walk.
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I don't want to upset somebody.
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Listen, listen, listen.
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The gospel is offensive.
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You will always upset
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Somebody, but you're not here to please people.
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You're here to please god.
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And what you're really upsetting are the demons that control
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Other people. did you know that?
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So change your perspective.
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It's not about offending this person.
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It's about changing them
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And freeing them from the demons that want to control them.
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That's important.
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And so god meets us in surrender.
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Not when we customize christianity to meet our needs.
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Because here's what i've seen as a pastor over and over again.
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I want a word from god
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Without a walk of obedience.
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I want to hear from god.
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I want direction from my life, but i refuse
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To listen completely.
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There's some things i'm not giving up.
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There's some things
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That i want to see in my life, no matter what.
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And we want god to
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Speak as long as it doesn't cost us our comfort.
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But let me tell you, when god
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Speaks, it's always bigger than you.
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If it wasn't bigger than you, it didn't come from god.
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He's asking you to move this.
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I see miracles when it feels like everything's
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About to fail and fall apart.
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That's what gives opportunities for miracles
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To come into your life.
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And so i felt motivated and encouraged to encourage you
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That there's still a gibeon in your life you need to go to.
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There's still a place you need to go to to meet
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With god, and it's going to be a little uncomfortable.
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It's going to be a little inconvenient.
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You may have to offer something, sacrifice
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Something that's been controlling you
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Over to the lord.
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It's a place that you go to to pray, repent and surrender.
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Listen to this james 54 verse seven and eight.
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So humble yourselves.
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Now notice this right here.
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Humble yourselves to to humble yourself
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Before god is a weapon against the devil.
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Because when you humble yourselves, what does it say?
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Then you're able to resist the devil.
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Pride is an open door for the devil
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To come into your life.
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But humility allows you to resist the devil
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And shut the door and he will flee from you.
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Second chronicles chapter seven, verse 14.
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If my people who are called by my name, humble themselves
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And pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways,
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Then i will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin
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And heal their land.
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When we humble ourselves
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Before god have been response and healing comes down.
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And imagine right now if we
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All got together and prayed over our nation.
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Imagine right now if we all got together
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And prayed over our culture, prayed in the name of jesus, for
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There is a revival happening, but satan is trying to fight it.
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I can't help but feel a burden on the inside.
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Over the next few years, there is going to be
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A very tough battle that christians will have to face,
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Even within our nation
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When it comes to freedom in worshiping jesus.
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So right now, listen, we have to be on fire for god.
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It is not a time to mess around.
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It is not a time to waste.
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Things are happening in the world,
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But my jesus is coming back very soon.
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He's coming back.
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But we coming to the presence of god in humility.
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I don't know what you give being.
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What's god telling you to surrender?
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How's god telling you to meet with him?
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That's a little bit inconvenient right now.
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It's just just pushing you over the edge.
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But at the same time, you're going to see a miracle.
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And this is how you know god is real.
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Now, my last point is this.
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Okay, god grants us wisdom when we ask,
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Can we say amen to that?
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Like, hallelujah.
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Thank you jesus.
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That means that if you have questions,
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God has answers and he doesn't mind
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Revealing to you the answers that he has for you.
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So let's read the moment that really changed
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Solomon's life forever.
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First kings 37 through 15
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Now. oh lord my
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God, you have made me king instead of my father david.
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But i am like a little child who doesn't know his way around.
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He felt unqualified
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And again, he's around the age of 18
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And here i am in the midst of your own chosen
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People and nations, so great and numerous
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They cannot be counted.
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So please god, give me an understanding heart.
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Listen to his humility here.
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I don't know how to lead these people.
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I don't know if i have the skills
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Or the intelligence to do this.
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And so i need an understanding heart
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So that i can govern your people well and know the difference.
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Here.
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It is between right and wrong.
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But as you will see in the life of solomon,
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Even knowing the difference between right and wrong,
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Without surrender, it still means nothing.
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For he stated, for who by
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Himself is able to govern this great people of yours.
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And it states that the lord was pleased that solomon had
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Asked for wisdom.
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So god replied,
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Because you have asked for wisdom
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In governing my people with justice.
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And i'm not asked
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For just long life or wealth or the death of your enemies.
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I will give you what you ask for.
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I will give you a wise and understanding heart,
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Such as no one else has ever had or ever will have.
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Listen to this.
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Do you believe that he's a good father?
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This proves it.
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I will also give you what you did not ask for.
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Riches and fame.
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No other king in all the world
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Will be compared to you for the rest of your life.
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Now, when god brings a blessing into your life,
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There is always instruction
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And there is always a warning to guard your heart.
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Because if you're not careful, the very blessings god gave you,
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You start to worship them
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Instead of the one who gave the blessings.
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Okay, very easy to do.
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For god said to solomon, but listen, if you follow me
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And obey my decrees
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And my commands as your father david did,
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What have we learned at the very beginning of his kingship?
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He followed
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In the ways of his father david, except the exceptions.
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So god is saying right here, there can be no exceptions.
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Okay.
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And then i will give you a long life if you do this.
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Then solomon woke up and realize it had been a dream.
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And i believe that god still speaks to us in dreams today.
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And the reason why is because in a
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Dream, you're not distracted.
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You hear from the lord.
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You hear him clearly, but also god brings confirmation
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When he speaks to you in this way.
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Okay, not every dream is always from god,
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But sometimes they are.
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So let me end the sermon by clearing up with godly
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Wisdom is and how you can receive it from god.
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The bible says that godly wisdom is more valuable than gold.
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Private sector three verses three or 13 to 15 state.
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Joyful is
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The person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding.
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For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages
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Are better than gold.
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Wisdom is more precious than rubies. now listen to this.
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Nothing you desire can compare with it.
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Nothing you desire can compare with her wisdom.
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And god's word is everything.
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Why, why, why?
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Hosea four verse six tells us why
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My people are destroyed
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For lack of knowledge.
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Now look at this closely because you have rejected knowledge.
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I will also reject you from being priests for me.
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You know what jose is saying?
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He's saying the gift of wisdom.
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Knowledge is available for everyone.
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It's not that god wasn't giving it, it's this.
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They rejected it.
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We live in a culture today that rejects
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The wisdom of god, and instead likes to put
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A lot of worldly information at your fingertips.
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Okay, i'm not talking about a lot of head knowledge.
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That doesn't mean you're smart.
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That doesn't mean you're wise.
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It just means you have a lot of head knowledge over this life.
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What we're seeing here,
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Biblical wisdom, is telling us how to live.
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Telling us right from wrong.
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You can have a lot of head
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Knowledge and still do what is wrong,
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Still pursue the wrong things.
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So we're not talking about worldly intelligence
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Because there are a lot of smart fools out there.
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Amen to that.
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A lot of smart,
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Rich fools out there that seem like they have everything,
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Yet still depressed,
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Still anxious that they're going to lose it all.
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First corinthians chapter three, verse 19 states,
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to god.
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God is not impressed
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By your status or your money or your following.
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Okay, as the scriptures say,
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He traps the wise and the snare of their own cleverness.
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Paul is talking about people who believe
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They're so smart they don't think they need god.
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He's talking about people that have believed the lies
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Of culture.
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They don't even believe that god exists.
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And so let me say it like this intelligence
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Without surrender to god is still ignorance.
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Still ignorance.
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First corinthians 127 but god chose
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The foolish things of this world to shame the wise.
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He chose the weak.
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Things of this world is shame the strong.
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I love this verse.
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Because when you feel unqualified
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And you feel like there's no way god can use you,
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You better believe he can use you.
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The foolish things
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That people laughed at you, made fun of you, condemned.
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You, said you'll never be enough.
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So said you'll never make a change.
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Listen, my god takes the foolish things.
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And he shames the wise, the weak things.
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And he shames the strong.
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Because here's the dangers of allowing wisdom
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To get the best of you.
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Or just worldly knowledge of me.
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Satan fell for two reasons.
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He fell because of vanity.
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This is what we need to watch out
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For and pride over his own intelligence.
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Ezekiel 28, verse 17.
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Your heart is filled with pride because of all
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Your beauty, vanity and your wisdom
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Was corrupted by your love of splendor.
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And the difference here is that godly wisdom
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Actually begins not in the mind, but in the heart.
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Proverbs nine verse ten.
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Fear the lord.
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When we fear the lord,
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We surrender everything over to god.
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This is the foundation of wisdom.
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Knowledge of the holy one results in good judgment.
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Now i'm going to leave you with a very powerful verse.
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I love this one right here.
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I pray that it changes your life.
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Okay, james, chapter one, verse five.
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If you need wisdom. ask.
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You don't have to overcomplicate it.
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If you need wisdom over a relationship,
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If you need
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Wisdom over a direction in life, maybe right now
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You're at a crossroads where you're
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About to risk it all and you know it.
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God's put something inside of you.
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Bring the verse
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Back one more time.
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If you need wisdom,
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Ask our generous god and he will.
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What?
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He will give it to you.
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He's not going to rebuke you or condemn you,
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Or make fun of you, or be upset that you asked.
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And even if you have the wrong intentions over certain things,
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God can correct your heart over time.
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So how do we pursue god and grow?
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Okay. quick recap of everything we just went over.
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The first thing is this check the voices.
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You're listening to
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Our you listening more to shame
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Or rebellion, more than you are listening
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To the words of jesus.
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The second thing is this surrender over at gibeon.
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What do you need to surrender?
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What are you holding on to?
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You're saying, god, i'm going to follow you.
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Accept? no, no, no.
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Get rid of the exceptions.
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Do you trust him?
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Does he know better than you?
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Get rid of the exceptions.
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And the last thing is this.
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Ask for wisdom, not just relief.
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Meaning?
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Instead of saying, god, just fix this situation.
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Change them. get me out of this, i don't know.
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Pray god, change me.
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Help me to lead well.
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Use me and make me more like you.
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You know what's really cool about the story?
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The same god who showed up
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In solomon's life and asked this question is the same god
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Who meets with you every day.
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He's the same god,
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And he's here right now.
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All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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There is a reason you heard this word today.
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It's not by mistake.
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You're here for a reason, and god has a plan for you.
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And listen,
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If you love this church and thinking about giving to
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This church,
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All you have to do
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Is visit our website at bobby chandler ministries.
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And it's very easy to give.
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And once you give, listen, you're
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Helping change lives because of your faithful giving.
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We're able to reach not only the nation, but the world.
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Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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So that they know the love of god.
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Bobby Chandler - When God Asks a Question (Part 2)

July 7, 2026 | 25:29

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