Andrew Wommack - Harnessing Your Emotions (Part 7)

July 16, 2025 | 29:0

Andrew shares that Christians can harness their emotions and use them for their own benefit, strengthening their relationship with God.

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Andrew Wommack: Gospel Truth | Andrew Wommack - Harnessing Your Emotions (Part 7) | July 16, 2025
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  • >> welcome to gospel truth
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  • With andrew wommack.
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  • Celebrating 25 years of sharing
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  • God's unconditional love
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  • And grace on television.
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  • >> andrew, you believe in the
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  • Infallible word of god and you
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  • Show and inspire everyone to
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  • Believe the word of god for
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  • Themselves. god still performs
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  • Miracles, god still heals,
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  • And he still delivers. and i
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  • Thank you for your teaching.
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  • >> and now, here's andrew.
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  • >> welcome to our wednesday's
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  • Broadcast of the gospel truth.
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  • Today i'm continuing to teach
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  • On a series that i've entitled
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  • Harnessing your emotions. you
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  • Know this is a teaching that i
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  • Wrote this book about probably
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  • 30 years ago, but i haven't
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  • Taught on this in about 10 years
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  • On our television program. but
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  • This is so powerful. i've been
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  • Sharing a lot of things, and i'd
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  • Encourage you to please get
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  • This teaching. i've never heard
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  • Anybody else teach on these
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  • Things from this perspective,
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  • And yet it's really powerful.
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  • You need this. we're asking for
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  • A donation of any amount for
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  • This book. and then we have a
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  • Little brief summary, a 50-page
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  • Summary of it. if you could not
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  • Or would not send anything,
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  • We'll send you that free thing.
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  • Then we also have cds and
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  • Dvds and a usb that was taken
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  • From my television programs.
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  • And i encourage you to
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  • Please get this. i tell you,
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  • Most people, nobody wants
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  • Most people, nobody wants negative emotions, but they
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  • Negative emotions, but they don't seem to have any
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  • Don't seem to have any resistance towards them.
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  • Resistance towards them. they feel like if something
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  • They feel like if something bad happens you... this is
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  • Bad happens you... this is just natural and they submit
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  • Just natural and they submit to it. and yet i've been sharing
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  • To it. and yet i've been sharing a lot of scriptures,
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  • Where in john, chapter 14,
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  • Where in john, chapter 14, verse 1, the lord told his
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  • Verse 1, the lord told his disciples the night before his
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  • Disciples the night before his crucifixion, don't let your
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  • Crucifixion, don't let your heart be troubled. most people
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  • Heart be troubled. most people would think that's unreasonable.
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  • It would have been unreasonable
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  • It would have been unreasonable if we don't have the ability
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  • If we don't have the ability to do it. we can keep our
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  • To do it. we can keep our heart from being troubled.
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  • Isaiah 26:3, the lord will
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  • Isaiah 26:3, the lord will keep him in perfect peace,
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  • Keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed upon him:
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  • Whose mind is stayed upon him: because he trusts in him. and so
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  • If your mind is stayed upon god
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  • If your mind is stayed upon god and his word and the promises
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  • And his word and the promises of god's word, it doesn't
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  • Of god's word, it doesn't matter what comes against
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  • Matter what comes against you, you can always stay
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  • You, you can always stay in that perfect peace.
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  • Philippians, chapter 4,
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  • Philippians, chapter 4, rejoice in the lord always:
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  • Rejoice in the lord always: and again i say rejoice. in
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  • And again i say rejoice. in john, chapter 16, verse 33,
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  • John, chapter 16, verse 33, in the world you shall have
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  • In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good
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  • Tribulation: but be of good cheer; i have overcome the
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  • Cheer; i have overcome the world. it's a command to be of
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  • World. it's a command to be of good cheer, and it specifically
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  • Good cheer, and it specifically mentions in the midst of
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  • Mentions in the midst of tribulations. most people
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  • Again feel like we're supposed
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  • Again feel like we're supposed to rejoice if everything's
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  • To rejoice if everything's going good, but if everything's
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  • Going good, but if everything's going bad most people feel
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  • Going bad most people feel completely justified in griping,
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  • Completely justified in griping, complaining, being depressed,
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  • Complaining, being depressed, discouraged. did you know
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  • Discouraged. did you know suicide is at an all-time high
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  • Suicide is at an all-time high because people are letting
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  • Because people are letting emotions just completely
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  • Emotions just completely dominate them? and that is not
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  • Dominate them? and that is not what the word of god says. let
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  • What the word of god says. let me turn over to this passage
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  • Me turn over to this passage out of ephesians, chapter 4.
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  • Out of ephesians, chapter 4. and i tell you, so much of the
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  • And i tell you, so much of the teaching that i have comes out
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  • Teaching that i have comes out of this passage of scripture. i
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  • Of this passage of scripture. i actually spent one solid year
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  • Actually spent one solid year studying ephesians 4:17 through
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  • Studying ephesians 4:17 through 24. some people might
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  • 24. some people might think i didn't study much,
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  • Think i didn't study much, but i did a lot. but this is
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  • But i did a lot. but this is the focus of what i had.
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  • And right here in verse
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  • And right here in verse 17, it says, and, this i say
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  • 17, it says, and, this i say therefore, and testify in
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  • Therefore, and testify in the lord, that ye henceforth
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  • The lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk,
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  • Walk not as other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.
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  • In the vanity of their mind. you know, the way we would say
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  • This today is don't walk like
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  • This today is don't walk like an unbeliever, a person that
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  • An unbeliever, a person that doesn't know the lord in the
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  • Doesn't know the lord in the vanity of your mind. and the
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  • Vanity of your mind. and the word vanity, at first this
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  • Word vanity, at first this didn't mean anything to me,
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  • Didn't mean anything to me, so i looked it up, and the word
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  • So i looked it up, and the word vanity means the inutility
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  • And the transientness of
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  • And the transientness of your mind. so inutility is just
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  • Your mind. so inutility is just obviously saying don't, you know
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  • Obviously saying don't, you know you aren't utilizing your mind.
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  • You aren't utilizing your mind. in other words, we don't need
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  • In other words, we don't need to let emotions trump what...
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  • To let emotions trump what... what is truth. i've had so many
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  • What is truth. i've had so many people come to me and say things
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  • People come to me and say things like, well, i know that this
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  • Like, well, i know that this isn't right, but this is what i
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  • Isn't right, but this is what i feel. and they have enshrined
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  • Feel. and they have enshrined feeling to the place that
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  • Feeling to the place that it's like a god and it trumps
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  • It's like a god and it trumps everything else. there's people
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  • Everything else. there's people that'll say, nobody loves me,
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  • That'll say, nobody loves me, and they know it's not true.
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  • And they know it's not true. there are people that love them.
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  • There are people that love them. there's family members or
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  • There's family members or there's... there's people that
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  • There's... there's people that love them, but they feel like
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  • Love them, but they feel like nobody loves them, and so it
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  • Nobody loves them, and so it doesn't matter what reality is,
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  • Doesn't matter what reality is, this is what i feel. i tell you,
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  • This is what i feel. i tell you, i'm saying this in love, but i
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  • I'm saying this in love, but i am... i hate that kind of an
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  • Am... i hate that kind of an attitude. that is so immature.
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  • Amen. and i know that that may
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  • Amen. and i know that that may offend people watching this, but
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  • You know, galatians 4:16 says,
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  • You know, galatians 4:16 says, am i become your enemy, because
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  • Am i become your enemy, because i tell you the truth? i'm
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  • Telling you the truth, it is
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  • Telling you the truth, it is immature to let what you feel
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  • Immature to let what you feel trump what you know to be true.
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  • Trump what you know to be true. and yet there's people that do
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  • And yet there's people that do that all the time. we had one
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  • That all the time. we had one lady that was in my bible school
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  • Lady that was in my bible school and she... and one of the
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  • And she... and one of the assignments they had was that
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  • Assignments they had was that they had to do a teaching. and
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  • They had to do a teaching. and so she did this little 10-minute
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  • So she did this little 10-minute teaching, and in this teaching,
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  • Teaching, and in this teaching, she gave me a cassette copy
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  • She gave me a cassette copy of the tape, and i was driving
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  • Of the tape, and i was driving down the road listening to her
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  • Down the road listening to her teaching. and i love this lady.
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  • Teaching. and i love this lady. she... she's now gone on to be
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  • She... she's now gone on to be with the lord. but i mean,
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  • With the lord. but i mean, she... she loved the
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  • She... she loved the lord. and i don't mean
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  • Lord. and i don't mean this... i'm not rejecting
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  • This... i'm not rejecting her. i'm not condemning her. but
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  • Her. i'm not condemning her. but what she did was totally wrong.
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  • What she did was totally wrong. because she was counseling this
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  • Because she was counseling this girl who said that her parents
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  • Girl who said that her parents were just terrible towards her,
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  • Were just terrible towards her, and what she meant by that was
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  • And what she meant by that was they made her go to church. they
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  • They made her go to church. they wouldn't let her listen to her
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  • Wouldn't let her listen to her demonic music. and so from that,
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  • Demonic music. and so from that, she decided that her parents
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  • She decided that her parents were just harsh and mean and
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  • Were just harsh and mean and terrible and that they didn't
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  • Terrible and that they didn't love her at all. and this woman
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  • Love her at all. and this woman who made the tape and gave it
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  • Who made the tape and gave it to me, she said she knew the
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  • To me, she said she knew the parents. she knew the family.
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  • Parents. she knew the family. she'd been friends with them for
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  • She'd been friends with them for a long time, and she said they
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  • A long time, and she said they were great people, and they
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  • Were great people, and they loved that girl, and they were
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  • Loved that girl, and they were doing this because they thought
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  • Doing this because they thought it was the best thing for her.
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  • It was the best thing for her. now they aren't perfect parents,
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  • Now they aren't perfect parents, and i'm not sure that they did
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  • And i'm not sure that they did it perfectly, but what they did
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  • It perfectly, but what they did was motivated out of love. but
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  • Was motivated out of love. but this girl had received it, that
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  • This girl had received it, that they just totally rejected her.
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  • They just totally rejected her. and so the woman, as she was
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  • And so the woman, as she was counseling this girl, she said
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  • Counseling this girl, she said she knew that the girl wasn't
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  • She knew that the girl wasn't accurate in what she felt. her
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  • Accurate in what she felt. her parents did love her and were
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  • Parents did love her and were doing these things for her own
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  • Doing these things for her own benefit. but, she said, and this
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  • Benefit. but, she said, and this is what got me so mad. she said,
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  • Is what got me so mad. she said, it doesn't matter what the truth
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  • It doesn't matter what the truth was, to her, they didn't love
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  • Was, to her, they didn't love her, to her that was truth. and
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  • Her, to her that was truth. and so she started dealing with this
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  • So she started dealing with this young girl on how to forgive
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  • Young girl on how to forgive her parents for the way that
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  • Her parents for the way that they had treated her. and boy
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  • They had treated her. and boy when she said that, it made me
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  • When she said that, it made me so mad, i pulled that tape out
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  • So mad, i pulled that tape out and i... i don't normally do
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  • And i... i don't normally do this, but i ripped that thing to
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  • This, but i ripped that thing to pieces and threw it out the
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  • Pieces and threw it out the window. and... and, you know,
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  • Window. and... and, you know, i shouldn't have done it. but
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  • I shouldn't have done it. but anyway, it just makes me mad
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  • Anyway, it just makes me mad that this is how i believe this
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  • That this is how i believe this society now functions. it
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  • Society now functions. it doesn't matter what truth is,
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  • Doesn't matter what truth is, it's what you perceive truth to
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  • It's what you perceive truth to be. people will say, well that's
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  • Be. people will say, well that's your truth, but it's not my
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  • Your truth, but it's not my truth. there aren't multiple
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  • Truth. there aren't multiple truths, there is one truth. some
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  • Truths, there is one truth. some people will say, well you know,
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  • People will say, well you know, i'm a man in a woman's body, or
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  • I'm a man in a woman's body, or i'm a woman in a man's body. and
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  • I'm a woman in a man's body. and of course that goes against
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  • Of course that goes against science, it goes against the,
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  • Science, it goes against the, you know, two x chromosomes and
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  • You know, two x chromosomes and an x and y chromosome. it comes
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  • An x and y chromosome. it comes against everything. it is an
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  • Against everything. it is an absolute lie, but people say it
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  • Absolute lie, but people say it doesn't really matter, that's
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  • Doesn't really matter, that's truth to them, and we've got to
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  • Truth to them, and we've got to deal with them where they are.
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  • Deal with them where they are. the only way you're going to see
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  • The only way you're going to see people set free is to give them
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  • People set free is to give them the truth of god's word.
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  • John 17:17, sanctify them
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  • John 17:17, sanctify them through thy truth: thy
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  • Through thy truth: thy word is truth. god's word
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  • Word is truth. god's word is the plumbline, the
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  • Is the plumbline, the standard of what truth is,
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  • And we can't let everybody
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  • And we can't let everybody else have their own truth.
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  • Else have their own truth. this is why things are getting
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  • This is why things are getting in such a mess today. there is
  • 00:08:00.536 --> 00:08:03.406
  • In such a mess today. there is only one truth, there's only
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  • Only one truth, there's only one reality. and so again,
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  • I go back to this verse.
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  • I go back to this verse. it says, don't be like an
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  • It says, don't be like an unbeliever who walks in
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  • Unbeliever who walks in the vanity of their mind. they
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  • The vanity of their mind. they aren't using their mind; they're
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  • Aren't using their mind; they're just going by how they feel. and
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  • It'll even say that in a couple
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  • It'll even say that in a couple of verses down here. it talks
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  • Of verses down here. it talks about how they've gone beyond
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  • About how they've gone beyond the normal use of feeling.
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  • The normal use of feeling. so it says, don't be like an
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  • So it says, don't be like an unbeliever that walks in the
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  • Unbeliever that walks in the vanity, the inutility. and the
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  • Vanity, the inutility. and the second definition of vanity is
  • 00:08:28.431 --> 00:08:30.533
  • Second definition of vanity is transientness. and did you know,
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  • Transientness. and did you know, transient, when i was a kid we
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  • Transient, when i was a kid we didn't call them homeless, we...
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  • Didn't call them homeless, we... we called them either hobos or
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  • We called them either hobos or sometimes we would refer to
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  • Sometimes we would refer to people that were just living on
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  • People that were just living on the streets as transients.
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  • The streets as transients. that's what we'd call them. and
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  • That's what we'd call them. and what that meant was, they didn't
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  • What that meant was, they didn't have a certain dwelling place,
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  • Have a certain dwelling place, they didn't have a fixed place
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  • They didn't have a fixed place that they lived, they just moved
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  • That they lived, they just moved around from place to place, they
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  • Around from place to place, they were transient. and so when
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  • Were transient. and so when you use this right here in this
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  • You use this right here in this verse, it says, don't be like an
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  • Verse, it says, don't be like an unbeliever that walks in the
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  • Unbeliever that walks in the vanity, the transientness, of
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  • Vanity, the transientness, of their mind. what this is talking
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  • Their mind. what this is talking about, they aren't focused.
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  • About, they aren't focused. they aren't focused.
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  • Like paul said, this one
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  • Like paul said, this one thing i do. they aren't putting
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  • Thing i do. they aren't putting god first, they aren't taking
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  • God's word and focused on
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  • God's word and focused on it, they're just letting their
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  • It, they're just letting their mind be occupied and controlled
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  • Mind be occupied and controlled by things. you know, this
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  • By things. you know, this generation now with our phones,
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  • Generation now with our phones, cell phones and all of the
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  • Cell phones and all of the information that we have, i've
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  • Information that we have, i've seen statistics that the average
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  • Seen statistics that the average person spends four to five
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  • Person spends four to five hours a day on their phone. did
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  • Hours a day on their phone. did you know i get my emails and
  • 00:09:31.460 --> 00:09:34.030
  • You know i get my emails and contacts from all of my staff
  • 00:09:34.096 --> 00:09:36.032
  • Contacts from all of my staff and stuff through the phone, and
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  • And stuff through the phone, and i still don't spend but an hour
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  • I still don't spend but an hour or so a day on my phone, and
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  • Or so a day on my phone, and that's doing business. but there
  • 00:09:42.304 --> 00:09:44.273
  • That's doing business. but there are people that are sitting
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  • Are people that are sitting there just reading anything
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  • There just reading anything that's on there, playing games.
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  • That's on there, playing games. that's the transientness. they
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  • That's the transientness. they aren't focused. they're just
  • 00:09:50.646 --> 00:09:52.314
  • Aren't focused. they're just being occupied. did you know,
  • 00:09:52.381 --> 00:09:54.717
  • Being occupied. did you know, many times people will say, well
  • 00:09:54.784 --> 00:09:56.185
  • Many times people will say, well that's amusing. did you know...
  • 00:09:56.252 --> 00:09:59.755
  • That's amusing. did you know... or... or let me... amusing, if
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  • Or... or let me... amusing, if you take the word and look
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  • You take the word and look at it, the word a is an a, that
  • 00:10:03.826 --> 00:10:06.028
  • At it, the word a is an a, that means an absolute unqualified
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  • Means an absolute unqualified negative, and muse means to
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  • Negative, and muse means to think. so a-mused means you
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  • Think. so a-mused means you are not thinking, amen, is what
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  • Are not thinking, amen, is what that word means. and we'll
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  • That word means. and we'll also use the word mesmerized.
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  • Also use the word mesmerized. that man, i'm just mesmerized
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  • That man, i'm just mesmerized by something. the word
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  • By something. the word mesmer came... . that was a
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  • Mesmer came... . that was a guy's name. and he used to
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  • Guy's name. and he used to hypnotize people, and when
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  • Hypnotize people, and when they would come under his
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  • They would come under his effect, they would call it, you
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  • Effect, they would call it, you are mesmerized. and this is what
  • 00:10:30.486 --> 00:10:32.621
  • Are mesmerized. and this is what happens. people start watching
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  • Happens. people start watching tv and they become mesmerized.
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  • Tv and they become mesmerized. they are just controlled. their
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  • They are just controlled. their whole focus is on this. this is
  • 00:10:37.326 --> 00:10:39.862
  • Whole focus is on this. this is what this is saying, don't be
  • 00:10:39.929 --> 00:10:41.397
  • What this is saying, don't be like that. this is the way that
  • 00:10:41.464 --> 00:10:43.165
  • Like that. this is the way that an unbeliever is. a believer is
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  • An unbeliever is. a believer is a person that ought to know the
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  • A person that ought to know the truth. you ought to be focused
  • 00:10:47.169 --> 00:10:48.804
  • Truth. you ought to be focused on the truth, and you shouldn't
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  • On the truth, and you shouldn't be looking to the right or to
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  • Be looking to the right or to the left, you should be focused.
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  • The left, you should be focused. this one thing you do. and so
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  • This one thing you do. and so it's saying, don't be like an
  • 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:58.080
  • It's saying, don't be like an unbeliever who walks in the
  • 00:10:58.147 --> 00:10:59.548
  • Unbeliever who walks in the vanity, the inutility and the
  • 00:10:59.615 --> 00:11:01.717
  • Vanity, the inutility and the transientness, not being focused
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  • Transientness, not being focused on the things of the lord. and
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  • Then it goes on to say in verse
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  • Then it goes on to say in verse 18, having the understanding
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  • 18, having the understanding darkened. the word for
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  • Darkened. the word for understanding here is the greek
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  • Understanding here is the greek word dianoia, and it means deep
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  • Word dianoia, and it means deep thought as contrasted with just
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  • Thought as contrasted with just a surface thought. in other
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  • Words, there's some people that
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  • Words, there's some people that just look on the surface. they
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  • Just look on the surface. they deal with things in a very
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  • Deal with things in a very immature way; they don't have
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  • Immature way; they don't have any understanding at all.
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  • Any understanding at all. if you go into mark, the 4th
  • 00:11:28.778 --> 00:11:30.146
  • If you go into mark, the 4th chapter, it talks about the seed
  • 00:11:30.212 --> 00:11:33.649
  • Chapter, it talks about the seed that is sown, and satan comes
  • 00:11:33.716 --> 00:11:35.551
  • That is sown, and satan comes immediately to steal it away.
  • 00:11:35.618 --> 00:11:37.119
  • Immediately to steal it away. and the only person that he
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  • And the only person that he had total access to was a
  • 00:11:39.188 --> 00:11:40.790
  • Had total access to was a person that didn't understand
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  • The truth of god's word. so
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  • The truth of god's word. so understanding is critical, not
  • 00:11:46.629 --> 00:11:48.497
  • Understanding is critical, not just surface thought, but a
  • 00:11:48.564 --> 00:11:50.065
  • Just surface thought, but a deep understanding. and it says
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  • Deep understanding. and it says that if you're walking like an
  • 00:11:52.434 --> 00:11:53.669
  • That if you're walking like an unbeliever, not utilizing your
  • 00:11:53.736 --> 00:11:56.138
  • Unbeliever, not utilizing your mind, you aren't focused on the
  • 00:11:56.205 --> 00:11:57.773
  • Mind, you aren't focused on the things of god, then you will
  • 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:59.542
  • Things of god, then you will have your understanding,
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  • Have your understanding, this deep thought blinded.
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  • Your understanding darkened. and
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  • Your understanding darkened. and then it says, being alienated
  • 00:12:06.782 --> 00:12:08.651
  • Then it says, being alienated from the life of god through the
  • 00:12:08.717 --> 00:12:10.486
  • From the life of god through the ignorance that is in them. boy
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  • This... these are some strong
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  • This... these are some strong statements right here. and
  • 00:12:14.089 --> 00:12:16.158
  • Statements right here. and i tell you, there are so many
  • 00:12:16.225 --> 00:12:17.193
  • I tell you, there are so many christians that are perishing
  • 00:12:17.259 --> 00:12:19.528
  • Christians that are perishing because they don't know the
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  • Truth. jesus said, you shall
  • 00:12:21.230 --> 00:12:22.665
  • Truth. jesus said, you shall know the truth, and the truth
  • 00:12:22.731 --> 00:12:23.933
  • Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. but it's
  • 00:12:23.999 --> 00:12:25.401
  • Shall make you free. but it's only the truth you know that
  • 00:12:25.467 --> 00:12:27.336
  • Only the truth you know that makes you free. what people
  • 00:12:27.403 --> 00:12:29.104
  • Makes you free. what people don't know is killing them.
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  • And this is talking about, that
  • 00:12:31.574 --> 00:12:33.375
  • And this is talking about, that don't be like an unbeliever that
  • 00:12:33.442 --> 00:12:35.110
  • Don't be like an unbeliever that isn't utilizing your mind. you
  • 00:12:35.177 --> 00:12:37.513
  • Isn't utilizing your mind. you are just letting your thoughts
  • 00:12:37.580 --> 00:12:39.181
  • Are just letting your thoughts wander. you're letting this
  • 00:12:39.248 --> 00:12:40.583
  • Wander. you're letting this society dominate and control
  • 00:12:40.649 --> 00:12:42.451
  • Society dominate and control you, whatever is the hot topic
  • 00:12:42.518 --> 00:12:44.320
  • You, whatever is the hot topic of the moment. you aren't
  • 00:12:44.386 --> 00:12:46.088
  • Of the moment. you aren't understanding anything. you
  • 00:12:46.155 --> 00:12:47.590
  • Understanding anything. you don't have any deep thought. and
  • 00:12:47.656 --> 00:12:49.124
  • Don't have any deep thought. and what that'll do, it'll alienate
  • 00:12:49.191 --> 00:12:51.193
  • What that'll do, it'll alienate you from the life of god through
  • 00:12:51.260 --> 00:12:53.395
  • You from the life of god through the ignorance that is in you. i
  • 00:12:53.462 --> 00:12:57.466
  • The ignorance that is in you. i don't know how to say these
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  • Don't know how to say these things in a way that people make
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  • Things in a way that people make it feel like i'm really loving
  • 00:13:01.136 --> 00:13:02.738
  • It feel like i'm really loving them and trying to help
  • 00:13:02.805 --> 00:13:03.839
  • Them and trying to help them. that is my motivation,
  • 00:13:03.906 --> 00:13:05.474
  • Them. that is my motivation, but thee... . these are super
  • 00:13:05.541 --> 00:13:07.042
  • But thee... . these are super critical of the way that our
  • 00:13:07.109 --> 00:13:09.378
  • Critical of the way that our world lives today. the vast
  • 00:13:09.445 --> 00:13:11.547
  • World lives today. the vast majority of people are using
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  • Majority of people are using their head for nothing but a
  • 00:13:13.849 --> 00:13:15.117
  • Their head for nothing but a hatrack. they aren't controlling
  • 00:13:15.184 --> 00:13:17.386
  • Hatrack. they aren't controlling what's going on, they aren't
  • 00:13:17.453 --> 00:13:18.988
  • What's going on, they aren't making decisions, they just
  • 00:13:19.054 --> 00:13:20.422
  • Making decisions, they just let something happen and
  • 00:13:20.489 --> 00:13:21.724
  • Let something happen and then they respond to it. they
  • 00:13:21.790 --> 00:13:23.425
  • Then they respond to it. they spend their whole life being
  • 00:13:23.492 --> 00:13:24.727
  • Spend their whole life being reactive instead of proactive.
  • 00:13:24.793 --> 00:13:28.264
  • Reactive instead of proactive. i'm telling you, you are not
  • 00:13:28.330 --> 00:13:29.531
  • I'm telling you, you are not going to ever experience
  • 00:13:29.598 --> 00:13:30.866
  • Going to ever experience the true life of god if you are
  • 00:13:30.933 --> 00:13:32.935
  • The true life of god if you are just going with the flow and
  • 00:13:33.002 --> 00:13:35.638
  • Just going with the flow and letting everything that happens
  • 00:13:35.704 --> 00:13:37.139
  • Letting everything that happens just happen to you, and you have
  • 00:13:37.206 --> 00:13:38.674
  • Just happen to you, and you have no control over it, you're just
  • 00:13:38.741 --> 00:13:40.276
  • No control over it, you're just rolling with the punches. i tell
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  • Rolling with the punches. i tell you, i... i decide how i want
  • 00:13:42.711 --> 00:13:44.880
  • You, i... i decide how i want to feel. we're talking about
  • 00:13:44.947 --> 00:13:46.048
  • To feel. we're talking about harnessing your emotions. and i
  • 00:13:46.115 --> 00:13:48.050
  • Harnessing your emotions. and i have decided that i am going to
  • 00:13:48.117 --> 00:13:49.385
  • Have decided that i am going to rejoice in the lord always. i am
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  • Rejoice in the lord always. i am going to enter his gates with
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  • Going to enter his gates with thanksgiving, and i don't care
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  • Thanksgiving, and i don't care what's going on in my life. i
  • 00:13:54.857 --> 00:13:56.191
  • What's going on in my life. i don't care what's happening
  • 00:13:56.258 --> 00:13:57.159
  • Don't care what's happening outside of me. that's using your
  • 00:13:57.226 --> 00:13:59.828
  • Outside of me. that's using your brain for something besides
  • 00:13:59.895 --> 00:14:01.563
  • Brain for something besides a hatrack. that's using it,
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  • A hatrack. that's using it, utilizing it, focused on
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  • Utilizing it, focused on things, you are understanding,
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  • Things, you are understanding, you're into the deep thought,
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  • You're into the deep thought, you aren't alienated anymore
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  • You aren't alienated anymore from the life of god because
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  • From the life of god because you're using your mind instead
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  • You're using your mind instead of just your emotions.
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  • And then it goes on to say
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  • And then it goes on to say in the next verse, it says
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  • In the next verse, it says in verse 19, who being past
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  • In verse 19, who being past feeling, have given themselves
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  • Feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness. you
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  • Know lasciviousness is a word
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  • Know lasciviousness is a word that we don't use much today,
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  • That we don't use much today, and so most people just have a
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  • And so most people just have a disconnect. but lasciviousness
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  • Disconnect. but lasciviousness is just talking about excessive,
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  • Is just talking about excessive, over the top emotion. no
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  • Over the top emotion. no restraint whatsoever. in other
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  • Restraint whatsoever. in other words, there is a purpose for
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  • Words, there is a purpose for emotions. did you know good
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  • Emotions. did you know good emotions are... are great, and
  • 00:14:43.706 --> 00:14:46.308
  • Emotions are... are great, and we don't have to have a lot
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  • We don't have to have a lot of instruction to enjoy good
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  • Of instruction to enjoy good emotions. but when it comes to
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  • Emotions. but when it comes to negative emotions, the purpose
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  • Negative emotions, the purpose of negative emotions is to warn
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  • You. as a man thinks
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  • You. as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
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  • Your thoughts are what
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  • Your thoughts are what controls how you feel. if
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  • Controls how you feel. if you focus on negative things,
  • 00:15:02.191 --> 00:15:04.693
  • You focus on negative things, you are going to have negative
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  • You are going to have negative emotions. if you focus on
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  • Emotions. if you focus on positive things, you will have
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  • Positive things, you will have positive emotions. so your
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  • Positive emotions. so your emotions serve a purpose. what
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  • Emotions serve a purpose. what they are, it's a red flag, it's
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  • They are, it's a red flag, it's a warning to you that, hey, you
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  • A warning to you that, hey, you are not focused on the lord the
  • 00:15:17.973 --> 00:15:19.742
  • Are not focused on the lord the way that you should be. because
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  • Psalms, chapter 16, verse 11,
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  • Psalms, chapter 16, verse 11, in the presence of the lord
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  • In the presence of the lord there is fulness of joy; at
  • 00:15:25.114 --> 00:15:26.682
  • There is fulness of joy; at his right hand are pleasures
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  • His right hand are pleasures for evermore. if you
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  • Are focused on the lord,
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  • Are focused on the lord, you will have fulness of joy and
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  • You will have fulness of joy and pleasures forevermore, i don't
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  • Pleasures forevermore, i don't care what's going on in your
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  • Care what's going on in your circumstances. so when you begin
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  • Circumstances. so when you begin to start having negative
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  • To start having negative emotions, what it is, it's a
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  • Emotions, what it is, it's a warning to you, it's your
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  • Warning to you, it's your emotions telling you that, hey,
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  • Emotions telling you that, hey, you're thinking wrong, you're
  • 00:15:44.566 --> 00:15:46.001
  • You're thinking wrong, you're focused on the wrong things.
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  • I know that there's people
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  • I know that there's people watching this right now
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  • Watching this right now thinking, well i can't help it,
  • 00:15:51.907 --> 00:15:53.208
  • Thinking, well i can't help it, this is my situation, the doctor
  • 00:15:53.275 --> 00:15:54.943
  • This is my situation, the doctor told me i'm going to die. that
  • 00:15:55.010 --> 00:15:56.945
  • Told me i'm going to die. that doesn't mean that you have to
  • 00:15:57.012 --> 00:15:58.080
  • Doesn't mean that you have to have negative emotions. and i
  • 00:15:58.147 --> 00:16:00.783
  • Have negative emotions. and i know some of you are thinking,
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  • Know some of you are thinking, well yes it does. no it
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  • Well yes it does. no it doesn't. if... if worse
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  • Doesn't. if... if worse came to worse, you could
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  • Came to worse, you could be like the apostle paul
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  • In philippians chapter 1, i
  • 00:16:07.689 --> 00:16:09.224
  • In philippians chapter 1, i believe it's verse 20 or 21. he
  • 00:16:09.291 --> 00:16:10.559
  • Believe it's verse 20 or 21. he says, for me to live is christ,
  • 00:16:10.626 --> 00:16:12.561
  • Says, for me to live is christ, and to die is gain. i'm in a
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  • And to die is gain. i'm in a strait between two, i have a
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  • Strait between two, i have a desire to depart and to be with
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  • Desire to depart and to be with christ; which is far better: but
  • 00:16:17.299 --> 00:16:19.802
  • It's more needful for you that i
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  • It's more needful for you that i stay here. and so he decided to
  • 00:16:21.303 --> 00:16:22.771
  • Stay here. and so he decided to stay there a little longer and
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  • Stay there a little longer and minister to them. but see, if
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  • Minister to them. but see, if you had the mind of christ,
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  • You had the mind of christ, which paul was talking about,
  • 00:16:29.078 --> 00:16:31.380
  • Which paul was talking about, where he was focused on this
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  • Where he was focused on this one thing, pursuing that goal
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  • One thing, pursuing that goal for... for obtaining the right
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  • For... for obtaining the right relationship with god. if you
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  • Relationship with god. if you had the mind that paul was
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  • Had the mind that paul was operating in, for you to live is
  • 00:16:41.290 --> 00:16:43.225
  • Operating in, for you to live is christ, and to die is gain. and
  • 00:16:43.292 --> 00:16:44.660
  • Christ, and to die is gain. and so if they told you you were
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  • So if they told you you were going to die, it would be all
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  • Going to die, it would be all you could do to just refrain
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  • You could do to just refrain yourself from reaching up and
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  • Yourself from reaching up and hugging them, kissing them,
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  • Hugging them, kissing them, amen. saying, this is great
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  • Amen. saying, this is great news, i'm going to get to be
  • 00:16:52.901 --> 00:16:54.736
  • News, i'm going to get to be with the lord. you know, i had
  • 00:16:54.803 --> 00:16:56.605
  • With the lord. you know, i had a situation one time where my
  • 00:16:56.672 --> 00:16:58.040
  • A situation one time where my board was meeting. this is back,
  • 00:16:58.107 --> 00:17:00.576
  • Board was meeting. this is back, i don't know, in the early 80s.
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  • I'm not sure exactly, but i'm
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  • I'm not sure exactly, but i'm remembering that because i
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  • Remembering that because i remember where i lived at that
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  • Remember where i lived at that time. and anyway, we were having
  • 00:17:07.749 --> 00:17:10.252
  • Time. and anyway, we were having a board meeting at our house.
  • 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.488
  • A board meeting at our house. and on paper, we were broke, we
  • 00:17:12.554 --> 00:17:17.326
  • And on paper, we were broke, we were defunct. and my board was
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  • Were defunct. and my board was going to shut down the ministry.
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  • Going to shut down the ministry. and so they told me this. and
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  • And so they told me this. and you know, i had... at that time,
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  • You know, i had... at that time, that was in the early 80s.
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  • That was in the early 80s. it's 1968 is when i started in
  • 00:17:27.035 --> 00:17:29.671
  • It's 1968 is when i started in ministry. so that had been over,
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  • Ministry. so that had been over, what, 20... it had been pro...
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  • What, 20... it had been pro... over 15 years, probably
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  • Over 15 years, probably somewhere around 15 to 20 years.
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  • Somewhere around 15 to 20 years. i had put all of this effort
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  • I had put all of this effort into the ministry, and it looked
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  • Into the ministry, and it looked like they were going to shut me
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  • Like they were going to shut me down. did you know that that
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  • Down. did you know that that wasn't a positive situation. in
  • 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.355
  • Wasn't a positive situation. in the natural that would have
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  • The natural that would have bummed me out. that would have
  • 00:17:47.422 --> 00:17:48.590
  • Bummed me out. that would have been discouraging. but, i...
  • 00:17:48.657 --> 00:17:51.693
  • Been discouraging. but, i... when i thought about that and
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  • When i thought about that and they were telling me that they
  • 00:17:53.095 --> 00:17:54.029
  • They were telling me that they were going to shut the ministry
  • 00:17:54.096 --> 00:17:55.063
  • Were going to shut the ministry down, i just thought, i'm going
  • 00:17:55.130 --> 00:17:56.365
  • Down, i just thought, i'm going to bless the lord. and i got to
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  • To bless the lord. and i got to thinking about, man, it would
  • 00:17:57.866 --> 00:17:58.834
  • Thinking about, man, it would be great. i used to have more
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  • Be great. i used to have more time for my family and for my
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  • Time for my family and for my personal relationship with god
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  • Personal relationship with god before i was traveling and
  • 00:18:05.874 --> 00:18:07.142
  • Before i was traveling and ministering. and i actually got
  • 00:18:07.209 --> 00:18:08.610
  • Ministering. and i actually got excited and started having some
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  • Excited and started having some joy thinking about them closing
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  • Joy thinking about them closing the ministry down. and right
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  • The ministry down. and right before they did that i said,
  • 00:18:15.717 --> 00:18:16.919
  • Before they did that i said, well we need to pray. and so we
  • 00:18:16.985 --> 00:18:18.987
  • Well we need to pray. and so we started praying, and as we were
  • 00:18:19.054 --> 00:18:20.455
  • Started praying, and as we were praying, my mother called. she
  • 00:18:20.522 --> 00:18:21.957
  • Praying, my mother called. she was the one that was opening
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  • Was the one that was opening the mail at that time, and we
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  • The mail at that time, and we received a $60,000 gift from a
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  • Received a $60,000 gift from a church that i had never been to,
  • 00:18:28.197 --> 00:18:29.565
  • Church that i had never been to, and i've never been to since. i
  • 00:18:29.631 --> 00:18:31.533
  • And i've never been to since. i mean, just out of the blue with
  • 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:32.935
  • Mean, just out of the blue with no connection really, they just
  • 00:18:33.001 --> 00:18:35.070
  • No connection really, they just sent us $60,000, and it solved
  • 00:18:35.137 --> 00:18:37.439
  • Sent us $60,000, and it solved the immediate crisis, and praise
  • 00:18:37.506 --> 00:18:39.508
  • The immediate crisis, and praise god, the ministry continued on.
  • 00:18:39.575 --> 00:18:41.310
  • God, the ministry continued on. but i'm saying, here i was in a
  • 00:18:41.376 --> 00:18:42.711
  • But i'm saying, here i was in a situation. it would be like you,
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  • Situation. it would be like you, if you own a business and they
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  • If you own a business and they say, we're going to shut your
  • 00:18:45.581 --> 00:18:46.548
  • Say, we're going to shut your business down, and you're...
  • 00:18:46.615 --> 00:18:48.116
  • Business down, and you're... you're failed. you got to quit.
  • 00:18:48.183 --> 00:18:50.219
  • And most people would think,
  • 00:18:51.687 --> 00:18:52.588
  • And most people would think, how could you rejoice in a
  • 00:18:52.654 --> 00:18:53.655
  • How could you rejoice in a situation like that? well i did.
  • 00:18:53.722 --> 00:18:56.425
  • Situation like that? well i did. i rejoiced in a situation where
  • 00:18:56.491 --> 00:18:58.026
  • I rejoiced in a situation where i was told that my son was dead,
  • 00:18:58.093 --> 00:18:59.795
  • I was told that my son was dead, and i just started praising god,
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  • And i just started praising god, and praise god we saw him raised
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  • And praise god we saw him raised from the dead. i have rejoiced
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  • From the dead. i have rejoiced in the midst of a lot of
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  • In the midst of a lot of different situations. and this
  • 00:19:06.368 --> 00:19:08.337
  • Different situations. and this is what this is talking about,
  • 00:19:08.403 --> 00:19:10.672
  • Is what this is talking about, that emotions, if you start
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  • That emotions, if you start having these negative emotions,
  • 00:19:13.242 --> 00:19:14.676
  • Having these negative emotions, it is a warning to... it's a
  • 00:19:14.743 --> 00:19:16.278
  • It is a warning to... it's a flag that you have taken
  • 00:19:16.345 --> 00:19:17.913
  • Flag that you have taken your mind off of god.
  • 00:19:17.980 --> 00:19:18.880
  • Your mind off of god. because if your mind was
  • 00:19:18.947 --> 00:19:20.048
  • Because if your mind was on the lord, even if you die,
  • 00:19:20.115 --> 00:19:22.384
  • On the lord, even if you die, you're going to go be with the
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  • You're going to go be with the lord. even if your finances
  • 00:19:23.418 --> 00:19:25.120
  • Lord. even if your finances never come in, you're going to
  • 00:19:25.187 --> 00:19:26.154
  • Never come in, you're going to have a mansion and live on
  • 00:19:26.221 --> 00:19:27.422
  • Have a mansion and live on streets paved with gold. and
  • 00:19:27.489 --> 00:19:29.224
  • Streets paved with gold. and whatever the situation is, what
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  • Whatever the situation is, what god has provided for us and what
  • 00:19:31.059 --> 00:19:33.095
  • God has provided for us and what is available to us through jesus
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  • Is available to us through jesus is greater than any problem that
  • 00:19:35.297 --> 00:19:37.499
  • Is greater than any problem that you're facing, and you could
  • 00:19:37.566 --> 00:19:39.368
  • You're facing, and you could find something to rejoice about.
  • 00:19:39.434 --> 00:19:41.803
  • You know, i had a woman come one
  • 00:19:44.473 --> 00:19:45.674
  • You know, i had a woman come one time, and she had tried to kill
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  • Time, and she had tried to kill herself the day before, and it
  • 00:19:47.309 --> 00:19:50.379
  • Herself the day before, and it was because she was in her third
  • 00:19:50.445 --> 00:19:52.447
  • Was because she was in her third or fourth marriage. her husband
  • 00:19:52.514 --> 00:19:53.949
  • Or fourth marriage. her husband had just told her he was going
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  • Had just told her he was going to divorce her, and she was so
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  • To divorce her, and she was so depressed, so distraught over
  • 00:19:56.985 --> 00:19:58.887
  • Depressed, so distraught over this fourth divorce that she
  • 00:19:58.954 --> 00:20:01.657
  • This fourth divorce that she was going to kill herself. so
  • 00:20:01.723 --> 00:20:02.658
  • Was going to kill herself. so she tried, and it was her first
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  • She tried, and it was her first day back at work, and i was
  • 00:20:04.226 --> 00:20:05.961
  • Day back at work, and i was talking to her, and she was just
  • 00:20:06.028 --> 00:20:08.630
  • Talking to her, and she was just crying, and she says, i'm not a
  • 00:20:08.697 --> 00:20:10.499
  • Crying, and she says, i'm not a christian like you, but i know
  • 00:20:10.565 --> 00:20:12.034
  • Christian like you, but i know that prayer works, would you
  • 00:20:12.100 --> 00:20:13.201
  • That prayer works, would you please pray that this marriage
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  • Please pray that this marriage will last? and so i just stopped
  • 00:20:14.870 --> 00:20:18.607
  • Will last? and so i just stopped this woman right in the midst
  • 00:20:18.674 --> 00:20:19.708
  • This woman right in the midst of... . she was crying, and i
  • 00:20:19.775 --> 00:20:20.809
  • Of... . she was crying, and i said, now, let me make sure i've
  • 00:20:20.876 --> 00:20:22.577
  • Said, now, let me make sure i've understood. you know you aren't
  • 00:20:22.644 --> 00:20:23.945
  • Understood. you know you aren't a christian; if you were to die
  • 00:20:24.012 --> 00:20:25.113
  • A christian; if you were to die right now, you would go to hell.
  • 00:20:25.180 --> 00:20:27.282
  • Right now, you would go to hell. and she said, yes. and i said,
  • 00:20:27.349 --> 00:20:29.851
  • And she said, yes. and i said, and you want me to pray for your
  • 00:20:29.918 --> 00:20:31.153
  • And you want me to pray for your marriage and not pray for your
  • 00:20:31.219 --> 00:20:33.488
  • Marriage and not pray for your salvation? and she said, yes.
  • 00:20:33.555 --> 00:20:36.992
  • Salvation? and she said, yes. and i said, lady, you're
  • 00:20:37.059 --> 00:20:38.360
  • And i said, lady, you're thinking all wrong. i said,
  • 00:20:38.427 --> 00:20:39.594
  • Thinking all wrong. i said, after you've been in hell for a
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  • After you've been in hell for a thousand years, burning in hell,
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  • Thousand years, burning in hell, you aren't going to give a rip
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  • You aren't going to give a rip whether this marriage lasted
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  • Whether this marriage lasted or not. now it's not that i'm
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  • Or not. now it's not that i'm saying that marriage is
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  • Saying that marriage is unimportant, but relative
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  • Unimportant, but relative to eternity, it's unimportant.
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  • To eternity, it's unimportant. and it's just like i slapped
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  • And it's just like i slapped her when i said that. all of a
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  • Her when i said that. all of a sudden she quit crying, and she
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  • Sudden she quit crying, and she looked at me and she says, i
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  • Looked at me and she says, i think you're right, i need to
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  • Think you're right, i need to get saved. and so i prayed with
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  • Get saved. and so i prayed with her, and the lady got born
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  • Her, and the lady got born again. but i'm saying it... can
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  • Again. but i'm saying it... can you rejoice even if you're going
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  • You rejoice even if you're going through a divorce? some people
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  • Through a divorce? some people see, would say, no, you can't
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  • See, would say, no, you can't rejoice, that would be wrong
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  • Rejoice, that would be wrong for you to be rejoicing.
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  • The bible says that you're
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  • The bible says that you're supposed to, rejoice in the
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  • Supposed to, rejoice in the lord always, and again i
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  • Lord always, and again i say rejoice. how can you
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  • Rejoice going through a divorce?
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  • Rejoice going through a divorce? well if nothing else, take that
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  • Well if nothing else, take that scripture that says, and in
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  • Scripture that says, and in heaven, we don't marry, nor are
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  • Heaven, we don't marry, nor are given in marriage. we're like
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  • Given in marriage. we're like the angels of god. so marriage
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  • The angels of god. so marriage is just something that happens
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  • Is just something that happens here in this life. in eternity
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  • Here in this life. in eternity we aren't going to have any
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  • We aren't going to have any marital problems. so if nothing
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  • Marital problems. so if nothing else, you could rejoice at that.
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  • Else, you could rejoice at that. and father, thank you that
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  • And father, thank you that this problem that i'm dealing
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  • This problem that i'm dealing with isn't going to exist in
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  • With isn't going to exist in eternity. and you could find
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  • Eternity. and you could find a way to rejoice even going
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  • A way to rejoice even going through a divorce. you can find
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  • Through a divorce. you can find a way to rejoice going through
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  • A way to rejoice going through anything. but see, when your
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  • Anything. but see, when your emotions begin to start going
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  • Emotions begin to start going negative and you start being
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  • Negative and you start being depressed, discouraged, fearful,
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  • Depressed, discouraged, fearful, bitter, whatever, that is a
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  • Bitter, whatever, that is a warning to you that you have
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  • Warning to you that you have gone past what this says, the
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  • Gone past what this says, the normal use of emotions, into
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  • Normal use of emotions, into lasciviousness, to where you are
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  • Lasciviousness, to where you are being controlled by emotions. i
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  • Being controlled by emotions. i don't deny that emotions exist,
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  • Don't deny that emotions exist, but i deny that i am going to be
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  • But i deny that i am going to be controlled by my emotions.
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  • Controlled by my emotions. i'm going to do what's right; i
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  • I'm going to do what's right; i don't care what it feels like.
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  • Don't care what it feels like. you know during the covid thing,
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  • You know during the covid thing, they threatened to put me in
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  • They threatened to put me in jail. they threatened to come...
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  • Jail. they threatened to come... i had people say that i'm
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  • I had people say that i'm killing people by still meeting
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  • Killing people by still meeting and things like this. and my
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  • And things like this. and my wife came to me, and she said, i
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  • Wife came to me, and she said, i hate this. and i said, i hate it
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  • Hate this. and i said, i hate it too. i was not having good
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  • Too. i was not having good emotions in my natural self.
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  • Emotions in my natural self. and yet i just learned that i
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  • And yet i just learned that i am not going to let emotions
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  • Am not going to let emotions dominate me. i'm going to do
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  • Dominate me. i'm going to do what's right, i don't care if it
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  • What's right, i don't care if it harelips the devil. i don't care
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  • Harelips the devil. i don't care if anybody else likes it. i'm
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  • If anybody else likes it. i'm going to say and act and do
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  • Going to say and act and do what god tells me to do. and i
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  • What god tells me to do. and i kept meeting, even in the face
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  • Kept meeting, even in the face of these oppositions and the
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  • Of these oppositions and the governor threatening to arrest
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  • Governor threatening to arrest me and stuff. if i would have
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  • Me and stuff. if i would have just given in to my emotions, i
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  • Just given in to my emotions, i guarantee, i would have run and
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  • Guarantee, i would have run and hid. i would have complied. i
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  • Hid. i would have complied. i would have gone along with
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  • Would have gone along with everything they said. but
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  • Everything they said. but instead, we sued the governor
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  • Instead, we sued the governor twice. and he sued me twice.
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  • Twice. and he sued me twice. and praise god, finally he
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  • And praise god, finally he said, i'll leave you alone if
  • 00:23:11.847 --> 00:23:13.048
  • Said, i'll leave you alone if you'll leave me alone.
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  • I said, you got a deal.
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  • I'm out of time today, but
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  • We are continuing this series
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  • On our program tomorrow.
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  • So i encourage you to please
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  • Get this. you need to learn
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  • These truths. i've got a
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  • Little booklet that summarizes
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  • It, and then cds, dvds and a
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  • Usb. please call and receive
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  • These materials today.
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  • >> spending years living in
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  • Constant fear from growing up in
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  • An abusive home peace daniels
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  • Started to view god as an angry
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  • Being, until she received a
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  • Teaching from andrew wommack
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  • That sparked hope in her heart.
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  • >> i grew up with so much fear.
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  • And i saw god as a i mean god
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  • Who had a rod ready to punish
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  • Me. i just didn't understand a
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  • Lot of things until i came to
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  • Charis. when i started charis
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  • Bible college, i went through
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  • The class and i was praying. i
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  • Was like, god, why can't i ever
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  • Feel loved? god spoke to me and
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  • Said, the problem is, you
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  • Haven't received my love. he
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  • Explained to me, just like how
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  • You receive me as salvation, you
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  • Need to accept my love for you
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  • In your heart. and i received
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  • That confidence and i started
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  • Seeing god's love all around me.
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  • All along these years i see
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  • God's love at work. i see god's
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  • Love in my children. i just,
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  • I just see his love
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  • Everywhere. i'm a different,
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  • Completely different person.
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  • >> that is exactly what i was
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  • Talking about on my program
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  • Today, peace, when she
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  • Understood from the word how god
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  • Loved her. then the joy, the
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  • Emotion of love begin to flow.
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  • Your emotions follow your
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  • Thinking. and so we are trying
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  • To get these truths out to set
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  • People free emotionally,
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  • Physically, financially in every
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  • Area of their life. and we have
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  • Great plans. god has opened up a
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  • Great door for us to share these
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  • Truths, but we need people to
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  • Stand with us. so i encourage
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  • You to visit the website that
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  • You see on your screen, check us
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  • Out and then join with us and
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  • Become a grace partner with
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  • Andrew wommack ministries today.
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  • >> colleen could not understand
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  • God's love. her past
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  • Mistakes left her sin
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  • Conscious and ashamed.
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  • >> i was just in my own
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  • Self-pity, in my own pain and my
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  • Own hurt. it was all about,
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  • Well, this was your sin. this
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  • Was your sin. you did that
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  • Wrong. you made that mistake.
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  • Look at that poor choice.
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  • >> colleen's daughter and son in
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  • Law began to show them the truth
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  • That would set colleen free.
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  • >> i just remember i listened to
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  • A teaching, and immediately
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  • I felt like the holy
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  • Spirit said, you need to
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  • Send this to your mom.
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  • >> god is good, and he loves us
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  • Because he is loved, not because
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  • We are lovely. it is because of
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  • Who we are in the spirit that
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  • We have a relationship with
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  • God, not our performance.
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  • >> god loves you. god loves you.
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  • He loves you unconditionally. he
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  • Died for you while you were
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  • A sinner. he's not going
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  • To give up on you now
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  • That you're his child.
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  • >> when she began to believe
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  • That this love and this grace
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  • That she walks in is unearned
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  • And undeserved, it's only
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  • Through the acceptance of the
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  • Gift of what christ has done. i
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  • Really believe that's the
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  • Beginning of when her complete
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  • Healing took place.
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  • >> on march 23rd, 1968, andrew
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  • Wommack received a dramatic
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  • Revelation of god's
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  • Unconditional love and grace.
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  • Since then, andrew has
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  • Shared this nearly too good
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  • To be true news with
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  • Millions of listeners worldwide.
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  • >> hello, i'm andrew wommack and
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  • I want to let you know that we
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  • Are now not only broadcasting on
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  • Tbn twice a day. that's 630 a.m.
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  • And 230 p.m. eastern time, but
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  • We're now on tbn inspire at
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  • 11:00 a.m. eastern time. so
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  • Check it out. the gospel
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  • Truth broadcast with
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  • Andrew wommack. i believe
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  • That you will be blessed.
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  • God can touch your
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  • Life and change you. so
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  • Listen to the gospel truth.
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