Lawson Perdue - The Royal Law of Love (Part 1)

October 13, 2025 | 29:55

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - The Royal Law of Love (Part 1) | October 13, 2025

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- friend, i'm so glad that you tuned in.
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Today we're gonna be talking about "the royal law of love."
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They asked jesus, "what is the greatest commandment?"
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He said, "love god with all your heart, with all your soul,
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With all your mind, and with all your strength,
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And love your neighbor as yourself."
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Stay tuned, and we're gonna talk about
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What loving god really looks like.
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Blessings.
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(gentle upbeat music)
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I want you to turn with me,
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It's really talking about the heart.
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Your heart directs your life,
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And we're gonna talk about the heart.
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And if your heart's right,
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Things in your spiritual life will be right.
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And if your heart's wrong,
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Things in your spiritual life will be wrong.
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If your heart's right,
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Things in your natural life will be right.
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If your heart's wrong,
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Things in your natural life will be wrong.
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And so this series,
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I'm really talking about the condition of your heart.
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I want you to turn with me to mark 12.
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I'm sure you all know the main scriptures here,
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But i'm gonna start just a little bit earlier
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And i'm gonna go a little bit farther.
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We'll begin in verse 28, mark 12:28.
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We'll read through verse 34.
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"one of the scribes came,
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Having heard them reasoning together,
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Perceiving that he had answered them well, asked jesus,
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'which is the first commandment of all?'
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And jesus answered him,
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'the first of all the commandments is,
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Hear, o israel, the lord our god is one lord.
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And you shall love the lord thy god with all your heart
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And with all your soul, and with all your mind,
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And with all your strength.
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This is the first commandment.
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And the second is like namely this,
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You will love your neighbor as yourself.
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There is no other commandment greater than these.'
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And the scribe said unto him,
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'well, master, you have said the truth.
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For there is one god, and there is no other but he,
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And to love him with all the heart
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And with all your understanding, and with all your soul,
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And with all your strength,
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And to love your neighbor as yourself
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Is more than the whole
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Of the burnt offerings and sacrifices.'
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And when jesus saw that he answered discreetly,
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He said unto him, 'you are not far from the kingdom of god,'
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And no man after that asked him any question."
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Now what really struck me about this when i read it,
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Most of the time when jesus talks to scribes, to pharisees,
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To religious leaders, his words are
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Very much less than complementary.
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I mean, he calls them vipers, snakes, right?
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He tells the, "you take these people
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And you make 'em twice the child of hell
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Than you already were."
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I mean, jesus does not mince words.
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He is very direct.
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He is very honest.
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I don't believe jesus was religious.
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But when this scribe asked him this question
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And jesus answers it,
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And the scribe comes back and says, "listen."
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He said, "you have said the truth,
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And this command to love god with all your heart,
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All your soul, all your strength, all your mind,
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And to love your neighbor more than yourself
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Is more than all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices."
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And jesus actually complements him.
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And he says, "you are not far from the kingdom of god."
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And so when i look at this, this basically just means
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To love god with everything in you,
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Everything you are and everything you have just to love god.
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But what does it mean to love god with all of our heart?
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And a lot of times people don't really understand
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The biblical meaning of the heart.
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And so, you know, to define the heart,
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In the hebrew, the primary word
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That is used in the old testament for heart,
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The word heart's used over 800 times in the scripture.
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But it's laid and it means the center,
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The seat of the will and the emotions.
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It's really talking about the inner man
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And the mind, the will, the heart, and the understanding.
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In the greek, it's the word kardia,
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The center of all physical and spiritual life,
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Your thoughts, your feelings, the middle.
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So when i teach spirit, soul, and body,
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You've seen me teach this
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With three concentric circles, right?
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The inner one being the spirit,
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The next one being the soul,
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Next one being the body.
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And that is the best way that i really know how
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To communicate spirit, soul, and body.
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And a lot of times we take the the circle
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That's between the spirit, the center circle, and the soul,
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And we define the soul as the mind,
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The will, and the emotions.
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And dr. lester sumrall defined it that way.
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Oral roberts defined it that way.
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I believe that andrew wommack defines it that way.
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But if you take those three concentric circles,
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You take the one between the spirit and the soul,
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And you put dashes around it,
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And when you get the whole center, the core of your being,
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It's not just talking about your spirit,
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It's talking about a combination of your spirit
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And your soul.
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And there used to be people that would teach on the heart
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And they would teach that the heart was equal to the spirit,
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But the challenge with that,
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When you read the word heart in the scriptures,
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About 97% of the time
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That the word heart is used,
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It's used either a combination of the spirit and the soul,
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Or it's used as the soul.
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So the heart is more than just the spirit, right?
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Now, sometimes it's used,
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And i'm gonna give you an example, as the spirit, right?
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There are verses where you can define it
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And you have to read the context,
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And you have to read what's being said
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And you can say in that verse, and i'll show you one,
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That word is talking about spirit, the spirit of man.
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But in most verses where it's used,
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It's either a combination of the spirit and the soul,
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And the soul being the mind and the will and the emotions,
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Or it's the soul.
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Once in a while, about 3% of the time,
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If i'm correct in my studies, it's used as a spirit.
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So we'll look at this verse.
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Let's look at ezekiel 36:26-27.
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This is a prophecy of the new birth.
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And in ezekiel 36:26-27, when we read it,
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Look at what the scripture says here in ezekiel 36:26-27,
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It's actually, in this verse,
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The word heart is talking about the spirit.
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Listen to what he says.
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"a new heart will i give you
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And a new spirit will i put within you,
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And i will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
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And i will give you a heart of flesh,
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And i will put my spirit within you
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And cause you to walk in my statutes
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And you will keep my judgments and do them."
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That's a prophecy of the new birth.
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That's talking about having a born again spirit.
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And in that verse,
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The word heart is talking about the spirit.
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But here's an example of the word heart
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Talking about the soul.
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In proverbs 23:7, the scripture says,
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"as a man thinks in his heart, so is he."
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So the soul is defined as the mind,
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The will, and the emotions,
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So you don't think with your spirit,
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You think with your soul.
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So in that verse, it's talking about the soul,
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But many times it's either talking about the soul
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Or a combination of the spirit and the soul,
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So it's really the center, the core of your being.
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Now, there are promises when we look into the scripture
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About the heart, and here's one of 'em.
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You've all heard it in 2 chronicles 16:9.
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It says, "the eyes of the lord run to and fro
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Throughout the whole earth, seeking to show himself strong
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On the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him."
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God says he wants to show himself strong on the behalf
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Of those whose heart is perfect.
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When you get your heart right, amen,
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God is seeking, i believe still,
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God is still, the eyes of the lord run to and fro
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Throughout the whole earth
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And god is just looking for somebody
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That he can show up big in their life.
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Amen?
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In fact, if god isn't showing up big in our life,
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I don't think it's his fault.
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I think a lot of times
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We get in the way of him in different ways.
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Another promise of the heart is it gives us direction.
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Turn with me to this verse in proverbs.
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Let's look in proverbs 4.
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We'll start reading
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In verse 20, and we're gonna read a few verses.
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"my son, give attention to my word.
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Attend to my words.
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Incline your ear to my saying.
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Let them not depart from your eyes."
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You wanna keep the word before your eyes, right?
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I love what smith wigglesworth said about this scripture.
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He said, "read it through, write it down,
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Pray it in, work it out."
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Amen.
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Your attitude towards the word determines
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The place that god holds in your daily life.
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Smith wigglesworth was noted
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For having all kinds of miracles, raising the dead.
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Amazing miracles, really.
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Friend, thanks so much for being part of the broadcast.
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We've been teaching on "the royal law of love,"
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And i have a lot more to share about this subject.
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If you don't like what you're receiving in life,
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You can change it,
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And the way you change it is by focusing on your heart,
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Because your heart is directing your life.
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Get this teaching, it'll be a blessing to you.
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I told you about when dr. lester sumrall
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First went to see him, he had a newspaper under his arm.
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Smith said, "that stays outside.
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You can come into my house,
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But i don't let any bad news in my house."
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And he wouldn't let anything in his house except the bible.
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Amen.
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And when he said, "read it through, write it down,
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Pray it in, work it out," he did it.
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He lived that out. that's how he lived his life.
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Somebody asked him one time,
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They said, "how long do you pray?"
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He said, "oh, i generally don't pray over 10 minutes."
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And then he re-explained himself.
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But he said, "i generally don't go over 10 minutes
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Without praying."
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In other words, he was really talking about
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Being in constant fellowship with god.
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And so give attention to the word of god.
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What would happen if donald trump
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Walked in this room right now?
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He'd have your attention, wouldn't he?
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Right?
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Give attention to the word of god.
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"my son, attend to my words.
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Incline your ear to what i'm saying.
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Don't let them depart from your eyes.
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Keep them in your heart."
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Keep the word of god.
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David said, "your word have i hid in my heart
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That i might not sin against you."
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Keep hiding the word in your heart.
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Amen.
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For he says, "they are life," talking about the scripture,
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"unto those who find them, and health."
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That's the hebrew word mar┌, it means medicine,
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"to all their flesh."
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Then he says this in verse 23.
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"keep your heart with all diligence."
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Take care of spiritual things.
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How many of you take care of natural things?
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How many of you take care of your bank account?
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Well, if you don't, you'll get in trouble, right?
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You take care of your physical body.
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Just like you take care of your physical body, right,
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What are you doing about your spiritual person?
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So he says, "keep your heart with all diligence,
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For out of it are the issues of life.
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Put away from you a froward mouth."
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I wondered what that word meant so i looked it up
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In barbara's translation just before church.
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It means a deceitful mouth.
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Do you know how many people are in a habit of lying?
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I mean, not only in the world,
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I'm talking about in the church.
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Just tell the truth.
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Life works better when you tell the truth.
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But he says, "put away from you
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A deceitful mouth.
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Perverse lips, put far from you.
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Yet, let your eyes look right on
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And let your eyelids look straight before you."
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Listen to what he says next.
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"ponder the path of your feet."
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Think about where you're going.
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You know, there's some places i don't wanna go.
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There's some things i don't wanna do.
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I've already thought about it.
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I've already made certain decisions in my mind
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Before i ever get to certain places.
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So the decision's already made,
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So did you know that keeps me out of trouble?
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Does this make sense?
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Because i've already made a decision,
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I'm not going there.
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I'm not doing that.
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So since i'm not going there and i'm not doing that,
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I'm not going to places that will lead me
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To going there and doing that.
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Does that make sense?
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Gotta have some boundaries in your mind.
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I'm not talking about being legalistic.
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I'm talking about using your brain.
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Think about where you're going.
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Think about it.
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"ponder the path of your feet.
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Let all your ways be established.
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Turn not to the right hand or to the left.
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Remove your foot from evil."
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See, i don't wanna go certain places.
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I don't wanna do things,
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Certain things so i don't,
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If it starts to go that direction,
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We just stop right there and we just adjust.
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We make a course correction.
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Amen.
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You don't have to wait until you get clear over
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In the barn ditch and run into power pole
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And have a total crash.
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You can adjust.
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Amen.
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So when our heart, when he says, "keep your heart,"
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The word will give you direction in your life.
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The bible says in psalm 119:130,
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"the entrance of the word gives light
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And gives understanding to the simple."
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Take a simple attitude towards the word of god.
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Amen.
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Make some choices before you get there.
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Amen.
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I already made choices.
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I remember in high school,
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I got baptized in the holy spirit when i was 14 years old.
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I got on fire for jesus.
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Do you know i made decisions before i ever got in places,
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And then, you know, i grew up in the country,
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A bunch of wild kids doing what wild kids do.
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And they say, "do you wanna, you know,
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Do you wanna go to the kegger?"
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No.
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"do you wanna pitch in?" no.
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See, my mind was, i already was set.
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I was already going a certain direction.
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And because i was already set
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And going in a certain direction,
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I didn't have to go there.
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I didn't have to think about it twice.
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Amen.
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You don't have to be in the heat of the moment.
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There doesn't have to be this big war between your flesh
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And your spirit because you already made a decision
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From your spirit that i'm letting this rule me,
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I'm not going that direction, i'm not doing that, so, amen.
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I hope this makes sense.
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But i've already made some choices
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On the inside about certain things,
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Certain things i'm not doing, certain places i'm not going.
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This is the way it's gonna be, so we look at that,
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He says, "keep your heart with all diligence,
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For out of it are the issues of life."
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Focus on the word.
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Guard your mouth.
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Keep your focus and think about where you're going.
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And he says, "let all your ways be established."
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The word gives us direction.
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God gives, our heart, when our heart's focused,
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When our heart's going in the right direction,
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When we're keeping our heart,
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Then that brings direction to our life.
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I love this verse.
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It's another one about direction.
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Proverbs 3:5-6, "trust."
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What is faith?
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Trust.
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Faith is trust.
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Faith is confidence, right?
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"trust in the lord with all your heart.
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Lean not to your own understanding."
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It's not your understanding.
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Don't lean on your own understanding.
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"in all your ways, acknowledge him."
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Acknowledge god. what does god want?
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What's god's desire?
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Where does god want me to go?
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What does god want me to do?
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Amen.
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"in all your ways, acknowledge him
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And he shall direct your paths."
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I believe god's directed our paths for years and years.
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Even today, i got up this morning,
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I was having a certain meeting in the day.
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I asked barbara, i said, "what do you think about this?
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What do you think about putting money in this certain area?"
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She said, "no, don't do that."
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I said, "what do you think about that?"
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She said, "do that."
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As i was going, as i was thinking,
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I'd done some investing with for the church
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And i hadn't heard anything back so i called the man,
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I said, "hey, is that still available?"
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That's the one i asked her about.
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She said, "do that, don't do the other one."
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(coughing) excuse me.
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I said, "is that still available?"
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He said, "it is."
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I said, "okay, put me in that too."
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Amen.
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And i got far enough along when we were doing,
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Making the decision for the church a while back,
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We weren't far enough along with some other things
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That i could make that commitment,
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But today i'm far enough along
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That i can make that commitment.
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And this morning when i talked to barbara,
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I said, "what do you think?"
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She said, "no, don't do that."
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And she said, "i like those people."
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I said, "what about this?"
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"yeah, that's the one. do that."
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Amen? i believe that our steps are ordered by the lord.
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I believe that god directs our steps,
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And when we follow him,
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When we follow him,
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When we follow him,
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And when we keep, things get, you know what?
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It gets better and better.
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Look at this in proverbs 4, where we are,
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If we go back up to verse 18, look at what he says.
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"the path of the just is like the shining light
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That shines more and more till the perfect day.
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The way of the wicked is as darkness.
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They don't even know what they're stumbling is."
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But our steps are being ordered,
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Our steps are being directed by the lord, amen.
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You never know how one step, when you do one thing,
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How that's gonna affect, or you affect one person,
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How that's gonna affect more and more people down the road.
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Amen, but when you obey god, how do you obey god?
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One day at a time.
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Friend, thank you so much for staying tuned.
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Lawson Perdue - The Royal Law of Love (Part 1)

October 13, 2025 | 29:55

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