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Creflo Dollar - The Ministry Of Reconciliation (Part 2)

January 15, 2025 | S25:E16

Creflo Dollar - The Ministry Of Reconciliation (Part 2)
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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - The Ministry Of Reconciliation (Part 2) | January 15, 2025
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  • Coming up next on "changing your world."
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  • Creflo dollar: when there's a need for reconciliation and when
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  • There's relationships that need to be reconciled, and you come
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  • Into the presence of god, there will be a conviction i believe.
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  • And i pray that god will begin to bring about that conviction,
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  • Or that convincing in our heart, that reconciliation needs to
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  • Take place.
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  • Creflo: hopefully, you're gonna choose to let heaven determine
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  • Your thinking because whatever choice you make, then that's
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  • Gonna be your mentality for today.
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  • Can you say that he's a way maker?
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  • Yes.
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  • Can you say that he's a god that sits high and looks low?
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  • Yeah!
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  • ♪ this is your world, ♪
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  • ♪ so let's vow to make it a better place. ♪
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  • ♪ so we embrace your love today, ♪
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  • Creflo: 2 corinthians chapter 5, verse 17.
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  • This is our key scripture.
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  • I'm gonna read 17 through 21.
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  • He says, "therefore if any man be in christ, he is a new
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  • Creature: old things are passed away; and behold, all things are
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  • Become new."
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  • Verse 18, "and all things are of god who hath reconciled us to
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  • Himself," but how did he do it?
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  • "by jesus christ, and he hath given to us the ministry
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  • Of reconciliation."
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  • So we have been given the ministry of reconciliation.
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  • He says, "to wit, that god was in christ, reconciling the world
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  • Unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath
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  • Committed unto us," here it is again, "the word
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  • Of reconciliation."
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  • So you see it in the previous verse, we've been given the
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  • Ministry of reconciliation and we've also been given the word
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  • Of reconciliation.
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  • "now then we are ambassadors of christ," in other words, we are
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  • Legal representatives of--we're authorized messengers of, or
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  • Representatives of, the message of reconciliation.
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  • He says now that we are ambassadors for christ, "as
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  • Though god did beseech you by us: we pray you in christ's
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  • Stead, be ye," what?
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  • "reconciled unto god."
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  • And then verse 21: "for he hath made him to be sin for us, who
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  • Knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of god
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  • In him."
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  • Now, if you missed last week, go back and listen to that again,
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  • But i'm gonna have to pick right up and we got a lot to
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  • Cover here.
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  • Now, one of the things we recognize from last week's
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  • Message is the fact that there can be no real reconciliation
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  • Without equality.
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  • I talked to you about how i thought the first step was gonna
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  • Be reconciliation when, in fact, the first step is a recognition
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  • Of equality.
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  • And i taught how jesus was the great equalizer and that god
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  • Could not reconcile without jesus coming and showing up to
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  • Be the great equalizer.
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  • One of the things we looked at, the fact that reconciliation is
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  • About creating equity.
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  • What do i mean when i use the word "equity"?
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  • It's the quality of being fair and impartial.
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  • You understand that reconciliation is about creating
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  • Equity and it's also about creating equality, closing this
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  • Gap and building relationships to do this.
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  • And somebody says, "well, how in the world can you, you know,
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  • Even talk about equality amongst people with different colors?"
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  • Well, acts chapter 17 and verse 26 talks about how god has made
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  • All men from one blood, from one blood.
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  • Verse 26 says, "and hath made of one blood all nations of men for
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  • To dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the
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  • Times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation."
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  • So we were all made of one blood.
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  • So whether you've come to the place of recognizing that
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  • Reconciliation cannot go forward without, first of all, equality,
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  • Then even in the scriptures the bible says that, you know, that
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  • We are all of one blood.
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  • So we're equal where blood is concerned.
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  • I'll tell you another place we're equal.
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  • The bible also talks about in galatians 3 and verse 28 where
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  • It talks about how we are equal in christ.
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  • He says, "there is neither jew nor greek, there is neither bond
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  • Nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one
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  • In christ jesus."
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  • So not only do we have equality where our blood is concerned,
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  • The same blood of every human being, but we also have equality
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  • Once you're in christ jesus.
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  • So in christ jesus, there's no longer bond or free, male,
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  • Female, there's equality between males and females, but there's
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  • Equality between jews and greeks.
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  • There's equality between those--of those different
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  • Ethnic groups.
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  • And so, it was very interesting time that we had in the word,
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  • But i wanna use something today.
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  • I wanna go into the book of genesis chapter 32, mainly,
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  • And 33.
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  • The entire story is in genesis 27 and 33.
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  • But it's the story of esau and jacob, and i'd like to begin
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  • With this.
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  • I want you to think about something for just a moment.
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  • Have you ever been broken?
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  • Have you ever been disappointed or hurt by someone to the point
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  • Where you wanted to get back at them?
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  • To the point where they hurt you, you wanna hurt them and you
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  • Wanted to seek revenge?
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  • And even having--in some cases, some people have had to deal
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  • With murderous thoughts, wanting to hurt somebody physically
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  • Because the act was so painful.
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  • And in the book of genesis, we find such an individual by the
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  • Name of esau, who was--who possessed those feelings, and a
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  • Whole lot of us may have considered justifying him acting
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  • On those feelings because what was done to him was so terrible.
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  • And you can read the summary of the story in genesis 27 and 33.
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  • You see, the story of esau and jacob shares the pain of a
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  • Broken relationship caused by an egregious, deceitful act.
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  • When isaac, their father, is near death, he desires to give
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  • To esau, the oldest of the two brothers, his blessing.
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  • Now, this blessing was to grant another a place of honor and a
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  • Place of status.
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  • It may not appear to be so important today, but it's a very
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  • Big deal back then.
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  • And it was customary for the blessing to be given to the
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  • Firstborn son, which would have been esau.
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  • Now, at the scheming of his mother, rebekah, jacob, the
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  • Younger son, tricks and deceives his father, isaac, so that the
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  • Blessing is given to jacob, whose name, by the way, means
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  • "he deceives."
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  • Now imagine the betrayal, imagine the anger, imagine the
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  • Horror and the shock that esau feels when he learns of the
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  • Deception that was committed by his mother and his
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  • Younger brother.
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  • In fact, the bible says that he was so angry, the bible stated
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  • That he hated jacob and wanted to kill him.
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  • He hated jacob and wanted to kill him because of this
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  • Great deception.
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  • Kinda sounds like the stuff we're dealing with today, the
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  • Hate and the strife.
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  • And i thought it would be interesting to see how they
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  • Resolve this.
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  • I thought it'd be interesting to see if it were possible to see
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  • Reconciliation between two brothers when one of them hated
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  • His brother so much that he wanted to literally murder him
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  • And to kill him.
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  • You see, biblical reconciliation is the process of two previously
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  • Alienated parties coming to peace with each other.
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  • Because god has reconciled us to himself through jesus christ, we
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  • Can reconcile with each other, no longer counting our offenses
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  • Against one another, and let me add this, if you want to.
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  • You gotta want to.
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  • You gotta want to reconcile.
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  • You gotta want to change.
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  • You gotta want to do what's necessary to see reconciliation.
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  • You see, the absence of reconciliation, both biblical
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  • Reconciliation and racial reconciliation, robs the church
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  • Of the power of unity.
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  • And i--and you say, "well, what does church have to do
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  • About it?"
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  • Well, listen, there is this type of--there's division amongst
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  • The church.
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  • I mean, where do you think you got all these different
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  • Baptists and all these different pentecostals and all these
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  • Different--i mean, they're just divided.
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  • And then, you also have to understand that there is racism
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  • In the church as well.
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  • And the absence of reconciliation, both biblical
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  • And racial, it robs the church of the power of unity.
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  • Like i said last week, the world should not be in the center and
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  • The church revolving around the world to see what it does.
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  • The church should be in the center and the world should be
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  • Revolving around the church to see what the church does.
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  • And so, brothers and sisters in the church of jesus christ, the
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  • World's watching you.
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  • How do you handle hatred?
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  • How do you handle phoniness?
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  • How do you handle racism?
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  • How do you handle division and strife in the church?
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  • God knows we know it's there, but now we should be the light
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  • Of the world.
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  • We should be the salt of the earth.
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  • And if we can show that the power of god works in the
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  • Church, then the world will pay attention to what we do.
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  • So what can be learned from the story of jacob and esau?
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  • We're gonna learn seven things that they had to do in order
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  • To reconcile.
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  • And the first one, let's begin in genesis chapter 32
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  • Verses 1 through 2.
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  • The first one, reconciliation, number one, must
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  • Begin with a heavenly conviction by god.
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  • Reconciliation must begin with a heavenly conviction by god.
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  • I'm saying that god now is the one that's gonna convince you
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  • And convict you of your need to reconcile.
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  • Verse 32 and--chapter 32 and 1 says, "and jacob went on his
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  • Way, and the angels of the lord met jacob."
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  • Verse 2, "and when jacob saw them, he said, this is god's
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  • Host: and he called the name of that place mahanaim."
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  • Now, i'm telling you right now, i want to know what was said.
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  • What was spoken?
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  • What was the word from heaven to jacob?
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  • Listen to me carefully, because whatever was said, motivated
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  • Jacob to make amends, motivated jacob to admit he was wrong.
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  • Whatever was said motivated jacob to make good and to make
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  • It right with his brother, esau.
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  • I believe that there's something that took place.
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  • There was a conviction, a heavenly conviction, by god that
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  • Said, "you need to get this right."
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  • I pray that each of us will begin to look in our hearts and
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  • Locate that heavenly conviction that says, "this ain't right.
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  • Yeah, i'm mad and, yeah, i'm upset.
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  • Yeah, i'm enraged, but this isn't right.
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  • I'm a christian.
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  • This isn't right."
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  • And when we seek to enter into his presence, he reveals to us
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  • Those relationships that are broken and he prompts us to make
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  • Them right.
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  • See, every time you come and you get into praise service and
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  • Every time you get into prayer and every time you get into the
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  • Word and every time you enter into the presence of god, i
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  • Believe that there's a heavenly conviction where god is saying,
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  • "there's a situation here you need to make right."
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  • You see, don't seek god unless you want to make things right
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  • With others.
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  • Don't seek god unless you wanna make things right with others
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  • Because that's gonna be the conviction on your heart every
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  • Single time.
  • 00:14:01.754 --> 00:14:03.088
  • You know, matthew chapter 5:23 and 24 says something about, you
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  • Know, how they brought the gift to the altar, and there in the
  • 00:14:06.392 --> 00:14:09.828
  • Presence of god, trying to bring a gift to him--look at what was
  • 00:14:09.828 --> 00:14:12.298
  • Said here.
  • 00:14:12.298 --> 00:14:13.632
  • He says, "therefore," verse 23, "therefore if thou bring thy
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  • Gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother has
  • 00:14:16.568 --> 00:14:21.674
  • Ought against thee," he says, "leave there thy gift before the
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  • Altar, go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and
  • 00:14:26.545 --> 00:14:30.716
  • Then come and offer thy gift."
  • 00:14:30.716 --> 00:14:34.053
  • It just seems like, that emotionally and spiritually,
  • 00:14:34.053 --> 00:14:40.025
  • That your relationship with god in his presence is interrupted
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  • Because there's a need for reconciliation.
  • 00:14:44.029 --> 00:14:47.433
  • When there's a need for reconciliation and when there's
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  • Relationships that need to be reconciled and you come into the
  • 00:14:50.102 --> 00:14:53.339
  • Presence of god, there will be a conviction, i believe.
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  • And i pray that god will begin to bring about that conviction,
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  • Or that convincing in our heart, that reconciliation needs to
  • 00:15:00.379 --> 00:15:03.949
  • Take place.
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  • Somebody says, "well, what if i don't do it?
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  • What if i just continue to be a racist," or "what if i continue
  • 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:11.090
  • To be mad at this relationship?"
  • 00:15:11.090 --> 00:15:12.558
  • Or "what if i continue to do that?"
  • 00:15:12.558 --> 00:15:14.226
  • Well, there are consequences.
  • 00:15:14.226 --> 00:15:17.329
  • You see, yes, we're under grace, but the consequences will
  • 00:15:17.329 --> 00:15:20.132
  • Be guilt.
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  • The consequence will be shame.
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  • The consequence will be a lack of peace and the blessing that
  • 00:15:22.835 --> 00:15:26.505
  • Could come from that reconciled relationship in your life.
  • 00:15:26.505 --> 00:15:32.344
  • What might you be stopping?
  • 00:15:32.344 --> 00:15:35.247
  • What--what's blocked?
  • 00:15:35.247 --> 00:15:38.017
  • How could things maybe even be better if reconciliation were to
  • 00:15:38.017 --> 00:15:42.154
  • Take place?
  • 00:15:42.154 --> 00:15:43.489
  • So number one, reconciliation begins, i believe, with a
  • 00:15:43.489 --> 00:15:47.826
  • Heavenly conviction by god.
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  • There's something that happened with those angels that were sent
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  • From heaven and when whatever they said to jacob moved him to
  • 00:15:52.264 --> 00:15:57.536
  • Make amends and to get it right.
  • 00:15:57.536 --> 00:15:59.004
  • I believe that's the place in the presence of god where you
  • 00:15:59.004 --> 00:16:02.074
  • Can receive that same conviction.
  • 00:16:02.074 --> 00:16:03.542
  • Number two, reconciliation needs to be intentional.
  • 00:16:03.542 --> 00:16:10.816
  • Reconciliation needs to be intentional.
  • 00:16:10.816 --> 00:16:15.687
  • Genesis chapter 32, verses 3 through 5, watch this in this
  • 00:16:15.687 --> 00:16:19.024
  • Story of jacob and esau.
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  • Verse 3 through 5, "and jacob sent messengers before him to
  • 00:16:20.659 --> 00:16:25.664
  • Esau his brother unto the land of seir, the country of edom."
  • 00:16:25.664 --> 00:16:31.470
  • Verse 4, "and he commanded them, saying, thus shall you
  • 00:16:31.470 --> 00:16:35.641
  • Speak unto my lord esau; thy servant jacob saith thus, i have
  • 00:16:35.641 --> 00:16:41.213
  • Sojourned with laban, and stayed there until now."
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  • Verse five, "and i have oxen, and asses, and flocks, and
  • 00:16:44.983 --> 00:16:48.754
  • Menservants, and womenservants: and i have sent to tell my lord,
  • 00:16:48.754 --> 00:16:53.058
  • That i may find grace in his sight."
  • 00:16:53.058 --> 00:16:57.696
  • Look at what he was doing.
  • 00:16:57.696 --> 00:16:59.565
  • Jacob was taking the initiative to reconcile.
  • 00:16:59.565 --> 00:17:04.369
  • Jacob taking the initiative, it's an--it's imperative
  • 00:17:04.369 --> 00:17:08.340
  • In reconciliation.
  • 00:17:08.340 --> 00:17:10.142
  • He took the initiative to do that.
  • 00:17:10.142 --> 00:17:12.311
  • Understand something, broken relationships are kind of like a
  • 00:17:12.311 --> 00:17:15.047
  • Broken arm and it's kinda like a broken leg: they are never
  • 00:17:15.047 --> 00:17:19.084
  • Mended accidentally.
  • 00:17:19.084 --> 00:17:22.054
  • A broken wrist never--is mended accidentally.
  • 00:17:22.054 --> 00:17:25.524
  • A broken leg never is mended accidentally.
  • 00:17:25.524 --> 00:17:28.627
  • They require purposeful and intentional action.
  • 00:17:28.627 --> 00:17:33.932
  • And if you want something to be mended, it requires purposeful
  • 00:17:33.932 --> 00:17:38.704
  • And intentional action.
  • 00:17:38.704 --> 00:17:40.973
  • So we may try to deny it, we may try to ignore it, we may try to
  • 00:17:40.973 --> 00:17:48.947
  • Deny and ignore the split, we may think that time will heal
  • 00:17:48.947 --> 00:17:54.153
  • All wounds, but it only moves the pain below the surface.
  • 00:17:54.153 --> 00:17:59.892
  • And what happens when it's moved below the surface?
  • 00:17:59.892 --> 00:18:02.027
  • That's where it will affect your future relationships.
  • 00:18:02.027 --> 00:18:06.765
  • When instead of dealing with it you just move it in that place
  • 00:18:06.765 --> 00:18:10.736
  • And hide it away and cover it up, it'll affect that
  • 00:18:10.736 --> 00:18:13.805
  • Future relationship.
  • 00:18:13.805 --> 00:18:15.140
  • And remember, whatever you cover up will produce a fake identity.
  • 00:18:15.140 --> 00:18:19.511
  • So the relationship is easier to mend when the offender, watch
  • 00:18:19.511 --> 00:18:24.650
  • This, apologizes.
  • 00:18:24.650 --> 00:18:26.118
  • And this is what i see.
  • 00:18:26.118 --> 00:18:27.452
  • I see jacob saying, you know, "i'm gonna take the initiative.
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  • I'm gonna take the initiative.
  • 00:18:30.956 --> 00:18:32.524
  • I'm gonna bring things to you.
  • 00:18:32.524 --> 00:18:34.026
  • I'm gonna apologize to you."
  • 00:18:34.026 --> 00:18:36.028
  • And i believe that it's easier to mend when the
  • 00:18:36.028 --> 00:18:39.298
  • Offender apologizes.
  • 00:18:39.298 --> 00:18:41.633
  • You know, not argue about whether you should apologize
  • 00:18:41.633 --> 00:18:44.102
  • Or not.
  • 00:18:44.102 --> 00:18:45.437
  • There's just something about, as a christian, that's what i do.
  • 00:18:45.437 --> 00:18:48.473
  • Not going into history and getting all the reasons why
  • 00:18:48.473 --> 00:18:51.476
  • Apology is not necessary except that i love you and except that
  • 00:18:51.476 --> 00:18:56.915
  • I walk in love and except that i move by love i'm
  • 00:18:56.915 --> 00:19:00.652
  • Gonna apologize.
  • 00:19:00.652 --> 00:19:04.089
  • But what if the offender does not admit the wrong?
  • 00:19:04.089 --> 00:19:07.993
  • Well, what if you, you know, you get in these debates, which
  • 00:19:07.993 --> 00:19:10.796
  • Engender strife?
  • 00:19:10.796 --> 00:19:12.164
  • What if the offender doesn't admit wrong?
  • 00:19:12.164 --> 00:19:14.433
  • Well, what does the scripture say for you?
  • 00:19:14.433 --> 00:19:17.502
  • For you, the light of the world?
  • 00:19:17.502 --> 00:19:18.937
  • What does the scripture say for you, the salt of the earth?
  • 00:19:18.937 --> 00:19:23.008
  • Well, in matthew chapter 18:15, he tells you what to do in that
  • 00:19:23.008 --> 00:19:27.179
  • Case when the, you know, the offender does not admit
  • 00:19:27.179 --> 00:19:30.749
  • The wrong.
  • 00:19:30.749 --> 00:19:32.618
  • Verse 15, he says "moreover if thy brother shall trespass
  • 00:19:32.618 --> 00:19:36.788
  • Against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him
  • 00:19:36.788 --> 00:19:40.492
  • Alone: if he shall hear thee, thou shall gain thy brother."
  • 00:19:40.492 --> 00:19:46.231
  • And so it's so important for you to realize the bible just told
  • 00:19:46.231 --> 00:19:50.702
  • You what to do.
  • 00:19:50.702 --> 00:19:52.070
  • If the offender doesn't admit he's wrong, he says you go,
  • 00:19:52.070 --> 00:19:55.374
  • You go.
  • 00:19:55.374 --> 00:19:56.742
  • You know, something happens, i've done it before in my life,
  • 00:19:56.742 --> 00:19:58.977
  • Something happens, and i won't talk about, you know, the
  • 00:19:58.977 --> 00:20:01.413
  • Situation we have here.
  • 00:20:01.413 --> 00:20:02.781
  • If a white man doesn't admit he's wrong, i never forget when
  • 00:20:02.781 --> 00:20:05.550
  • I went and said, "well, i apologize for holding ought and
  • 00:20:05.550 --> 00:20:09.821
  • Anger against you for all the things you did to me."
  • 00:20:09.821 --> 00:20:12.424
  • You know it broke him down?
  • 00:20:12.424 --> 00:20:14.626
  • It broke him down.
  • 00:20:14.626 --> 00:20:15.961
  • So god knows what he's talking about, but you know, because of
  • 00:20:15.961 --> 00:20:18.530
  • Your emotions and your anger and your rage, you're not trying to
  • 00:20:18.530 --> 00:20:22.134
  • Hear what jesus has to say, the one who knows everything.
  • 00:20:22.134 --> 00:20:26.271
  • You see, there are too many of us, too many are bible
  • 00:20:26.271 --> 00:20:29.541
  • Believing, but not bible practicing.
  • 00:20:29.541 --> 00:20:33.145
  • And it's one thing for you to know this scripture, it's
  • 00:20:33.145 --> 00:20:34.913
  • Another thing for you to practice it.
  • 00:20:34.913 --> 00:20:36.315
  • So instead of doing this thing according to the word of god, we
  • 00:20:36.315 --> 00:20:42.554
  • Go to everyone else to plead our side of the story to validate
  • 00:20:42.554 --> 00:20:47.292
  • Our feelings, to justify our anger, and we don't go to the
  • 00:20:47.292 --> 00:20:51.029
  • Person who has offended us, and that needs to stop.
  • 00:20:51.029 --> 00:20:55.967
  • That's just plain childish.
  • 00:20:55.967 --> 00:20:57.903
  • It's just plain immaturity when you do that.
  • 00:20:57.903 --> 00:21:02.074
  • When approaching a brother, and this is something that's very,
  • 00:21:02.074 --> 00:21:05.777
  • Very important, when you do decide to approach your brother,
  • 00:21:05.777 --> 00:21:09.781
  • Listen to this carefully, seek to clarify and not to confront.
  • 00:21:09.781 --> 00:21:16.988
  • Seek to clarify and not to confront.
  • 00:21:16.988 --> 00:21:21.026
  • In other words, before i confront you for being a racist,
  • 00:21:21.026 --> 00:21:23.995
  • Let me clarify to see if that's you.
  • 00:21:23.995 --> 00:21:27.699
  • Before i confront you or accuse you for doing something, let me
  • 00:21:27.699 --> 00:21:32.204
  • Clarify to make sure i got everything the way it needs
  • 00:21:32.204 --> 00:21:35.574
  • To be.
  • 00:21:35.574 --> 00:21:36.908
  • Now, please don't get me wrong, confrontation, it doesn't always
  • 00:21:36.908 --> 00:21:39.344
  • Have to be a bad thing.
  • 00:21:39.344 --> 00:21:40.679
  • Confrontation brings about growth for the one who's
  • 00:21:40.679 --> 00:21:42.581
  • Confronting and the one that's being confronted, but sometimes
  • 00:21:42.581 --> 00:21:45.417
  • It's just a lot easier to stay at the table and communicate
  • 00:21:45.417 --> 00:21:51.022
  • When you approach, trying to clarify something, versus
  • 00:21:51.022 --> 00:21:55.160
  • In confrontation.
  • 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:56.895
  • So amen, i believe that reconciliation has to
  • 00:21:56.895 --> 00:22:01.133
  • Be intentional.
  • 00:22:01.133 --> 00:22:02.534
  • Number three, let's move there.
  • 00:22:02.534 --> 00:22:05.003
  • Now, according to genesis 32, verses 9 through 12,
  • 00:22:05.003 --> 00:22:10.041
  • Reconciliation must be immersed in prayer.
  • 00:22:10.041 --> 00:22:14.379
  • Reconciliation must be immersed in prayer.
  • 00:22:14.379 --> 00:22:17.215
  • Now, even though jacob was praying for himself and praying
  • 00:22:17.215 --> 00:22:20.585
  • For the wrong thing, let's look at this verse 9.
  • 00:22:20.585 --> 00:22:23.121
  • "and jacob said, o god of my father abraham,
  • 00:22:23.121 --> 00:22:25.657
  • And god of my father isaac,
  • 00:22:25.657 --> 00:22:27.659
  • The lord which said it unto me, return unto thy
  • 00:22:27.659 --> 00:22:30.962
  • Country, and to thy kindred, and i will deal well with thee."
  • 00:22:30.962 --> 00:22:34.733
  • Verse 10, "i am not worthy of the least of all mercies, and of
  • 00:22:34.733 --> 00:22:39.337
  • All the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for
  • 00:22:39.337 --> 00:22:42.974
  • With my staff i passed over this jordan; and now i am become
  • 00:22:42.974 --> 00:22:49.214
  • Two bands."
  • 00:22:49.214 --> 00:22:51.316
  • And verse 11 he said, "deliver me, i pray thee, from the hand
  • 00:22:51.316 --> 00:22:56.988
  • Of my brother, from the hand of esau: for i fear him, lest he
  • 00:22:56.988 --> 00:23:02.093
  • Will come and smite me, and the mother with the children."
  • 00:23:02.093 --> 00:23:06.731
  • Verse 12, "and thou sayeth, i will surely do thee good, and
  • 00:23:06.731 --> 00:23:11.036
  • Make thy seeds as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
  • 00:23:11.036 --> 00:23:14.306
  • Numbered for multitude."
  • 00:23:14.306 --> 00:23:15.640
  • So, i mean, he was praying because he was really in fear of
  • 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.076
  • Dying because of what esau had said earlier.
  • 00:23:18.076 --> 00:23:22.948
  • But i still think that there's something about reconciliation
  • 00:23:22.948 --> 00:23:27.219
  • Being immersed in prayer.
  • 00:23:27.219 --> 00:23:29.454
  • Jacob prayed even for the wrong reasons, but he prayed.
  • 00:23:29.454 --> 00:23:33.158
  • So what's the benefit?
  • 00:23:33.158 --> 00:23:34.526
  • I believe the heart can be softened so that healing in a
  • 00:23:34.526 --> 00:23:38.096
  • Broken relationship can take place.
  • 00:23:38.096 --> 00:23:40.599
  • I believe that emotions can be put at ease.
  • 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:44.870
  • I believe that prayer changes us and i believe that you--you
  • 00:23:44.870 --> 00:23:49.207
  • Know, don't pray unless you want to change.
  • 00:23:49.207 --> 00:23:50.909
  • I believe prayer will change you.
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  • Spiritual law.
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  • In this principle.
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  • Announcer: the preceding program was brought to you, in part,
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