Joseph Prince - Why You Keep Falling Into the Same Sin (And How to Break Free)

June 11, 2026 | 27:29

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Why You Keep Falling Into the Same Sin (And How to Break Free) | June 11, 2026
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  • Joseph prince: "walk in the spirit
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  • And you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh."
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  • You don't have to worry about the lust of the flesh, amen?
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  • Just walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill
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  • The lust of the flesh.
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  • When we're under the law, that's when death
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  • Has power over us.
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  • When we're under the law, that's when sickness
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  • Have power over us.
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  • When we are under the law, that's when
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  • All kinds of sinful habits have power over us.
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  • But if you're led by the spirit, you are not under the law.
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  • God doesn't drive his flock, god leads his flock.
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  • Walk in the spirit and you don't have to worry
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  • About all your fleshly addictions.
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  • All the sinful habits of the flesh,
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  • They will all fall off.
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  • Walk in the spirit.
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  • Too restless to rest?
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  • How the lord wants to make our hearts lighter,
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  • Announcer: and now here's pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: praise the lord. you ready for god's word?
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  • Let's go right into god's word. amen?
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  • We saw last week that christ
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  • Becomes of no effect unto us, whoever of us
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  • Is trying to be justified by the law
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  • Or by our performance, we are fallen from grace.
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  • In that same chapter, it goes on to say,
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  • "walk in the spirit therefore," amen?
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  • Paul says, "i say then: walk in the spirit,
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  • And you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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  • For the flesh lusts against the spirit,
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  • And the spirit against the flesh;
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  • And these are contrary to one another, so that you
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  • Do not do the things that you wish.
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  • But if you're led by the spirit, you are not under the law.'"
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  • But if you're led by the spirit, you are not under the law.
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  • So when we say we are not under the law,
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  • We don't mean we become lawless.
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  • We are not under the law to be under christ.
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  • We are not in the flesh to be in the spirit, amen?
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  • And there is no way when you are led by the spirit
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  • That the spirit of god will lead you
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  • To break the morality, amen, of the ten commandments.
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  • No way, in fact, it will give you a holiness
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  • That will be brilliant, amen, excellent, amen?
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  • There'll be moral excellence when you follow
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  • The spirit of god.
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  • Again, not the holier-than-thou attitude,
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  • But a brilliance that will shine, amen,
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  • For all to see.
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  • When we look at this scripture here,
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  • It says very clearly when we walk
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  • In the spirit-- "walk in the spirit,
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  • And you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."
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  • Many of us, we have this in our mind.
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  • We actually read it the other way around.
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  • Do your best not to fulfill the lust of your flesh
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  • And then you'll walk in the spirit.
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  • This is not what the scriptures teach.
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  • The scriptures teach it in the positive way:
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  • "walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill
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  • The lust of the flesh."
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  • You don't have to worry about the lust of the flesh.
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  • Amen?
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  • Just walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill
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  • The lust of the flesh, amen, very clear.
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  • So our focus has got to be walking in the spirit,
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  • Not trying to avoid this, trying to not fulfill
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  • The lust of the flesh,
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  • For the more you try to do that, you are under the law,
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  • And the more you try to do that, the more you'll fall into sin
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  • As many of you have-- you know that
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  • In your own experience, and-- but the bible says it
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  • On the contrary; contrary to human
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  • Experience, amen, contrary to what is natural.
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  • It says try not to focus on not fulfilling
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  • The lust of the flesh, amen?
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  • Fulfill this. walk in the spirit.
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  • Be led by the spirit, and this walk here
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  • Is very interesting.
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  • It talks about--the word peri is there in this word,
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  • Which means around, and the word walk
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  • In the greek, and the word means
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  • To walk around, walk around.
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  • It's very beautiful.
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  • It's like--reminds me of the-- psalms 23.
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  • In verse 3, it says, "he restores my soul;
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  • He leads me in the paths of righteousness
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  • For his name's sake."
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  • And the path of righteousness there, the word paths
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  • Is the word magal, magal, where you get the word galilee.
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  • Any word has g-a-l, gal in hebrew,
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  • It means a circuit, something circular,
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  • Something circuitous, something that goes around,
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  • Okay?
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  • So it's a path of righteousness.
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  • We have a picture here of the paths of righteousness.
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  • Now, these lines here that you see
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  • Is not a natural phenomenon caused by the winds
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  • Or the earth movement.
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  • It is actually caused by the movements
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  • Of the footprints and the tracks of flock
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  • Down through the years, even hundreds--
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  • Even a few thousand years down back
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  • To the old testament times.
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  • These are the circuitous road that the flock would take
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  • Around the mountain, right?
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  • And every time they go down there,
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  • They produce these lines.
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  • They go around, and it's like--
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  • The bible says, "he leads me in the paths of righteousness
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  • For his name's sake."
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  • That's what it means to walk in the spirit.
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  • We are following the spirit one step at a time.
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  • And the flock, when they go around the mountain,
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  • They're actually eating-- you can't see the small plants
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  • That go around the way.
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  • We think of green pastures as like the whole hill
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  • Or mountain is verdant, right, with green pastures.
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  • Now, that is also true.
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  • In israel, there are some parts like that.
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  • But this path of righteousness, usually you'll find
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  • That as they go along, they'll find
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  • Shoots of green coming out, shrubs and grass
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  • Here and there, and they'll eat those.
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  • As they go around, the wise shepherd
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  • Will lead them in a circular motion,
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  • Amen, a path, and that's called paths of righteousness,
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  • Until they reach the top,
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  • And that's the way to go to the top
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  • For god's people.
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  • God leads you one step at a time.
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  • So as you ascend, as you go around
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  • The paths of righteousness, just take one step at a time.
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  • In fact, one translation says it like this later on
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  • In the book of galatians, it says if we keep in step,
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  • If we follow the spirit, if we live in the spirit,
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  • We have a life in the spirit,
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  • Let us keep in step with the spirit, amen?
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  • And it's a picture also of jesus telling us,
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  • "take my yoke upon you."
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  • You know that passage in matthew 11 where he says,
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  • "come unto me, all you that labor
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  • And are heavy laden, and i'll give you rest"?
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  • He goes on to say, "take my yoke upon you."
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  • So when you follow the law-- but the lord says,
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  • "my yoke is easy." it's not a hard yoke.
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  • It won't chafe at your shoulder.
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  • It's a yoke that is easy, and its burden, he says,
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  • Is light.
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  • Think about those two words, easy and light.
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  • You know, the bible says
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  • The way of the transgressors is hard, amen?
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  • To live in sin is hard, amen?
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  • The ways of the lord is easy and light.
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  • Hallelujah, amen.
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  • So to follow the spirit is not hard.
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  • We just follow the--you see, once you're born again,
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  • You have life, eternal life on the inside of you,
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  • And the holy spirit comes and dwells in you,
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  • And he will prompt you.
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  • It is not so much a voice.
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  • People are looking for the voice of god.
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  • "i wanna hear the voice of god. i wanna hear the voice of god."
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  • I remember when i was much younger,
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  • I always looked for conferences or books
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  • Or anything that teaches on how to hear the voice of god,
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  • Only to find that the ways of god are simple.
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  • Amen? go back to the basics, amen.
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  • When god says, "for as many as are led
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  • By the spirit of god, these are the sons of god,"
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  • It should not be hard, amen?
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  • Even a child knows the voice of the mother.
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  • So even as a baby christian, amen,
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  • If you are a young christian, you know,
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  • You should not be going for courses,
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  • Trying to learn to hear the voice of god, amen.
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  • Jesus said it like this. it's a statement of fact.
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  • "my sheep hear my voice, and they follow me."
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  • He didn't say, "my sheep need to learn
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  • To hear my voice."
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  • So to learn speaks of abnormality, amen?
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  • So just believe god.
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  • Have a good opinion of god and know that when he says,
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  • "my sheep hear my voice," we hear his voice,
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  • And the voice of a stranger we will not follow, amen?
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  • Amen, praise the lord. so we follow the lord.
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  • Walk in the spirit and you don't have to worry
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  • About all your fleshly addictions.
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  • All the sinful habits of the flesh,
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  • They will all fall off.
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  • Walk in the spirit, amen.
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  • Praise the name of jesus.
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  • And it goes on to say, "the flesh
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  • Lusts against the spirit, and the spirit
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  • Against the flesh."
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  • I wanna call your attention to the fact that the fight is
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  • Between the flesh and the spirit.
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  • It's not the flesh and you. do you notice that?
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  • It's the spirit fighting against the flesh
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  • And the flesh fighting against the spirit,
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  • "and these are contrary to one another so that you
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  • Do not do the things that you wish.
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  • But if you're led by the spirit, you're not under the law."
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  • And we know that when we're under the law,
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  • That's when death has power over us.
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  • When we're under the law, that's when sickness
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  • Have power over us.
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  • When we are under the law, that's when
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  • All kinds of sinful habits have power over us.
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  • But if you're led by the spirit, you are not under the law.
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  • So it behooves us to be led by the spirit, amen?
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  • That's how god leads you. god leads you by the spirit.
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  • God doesn't drive his flock, god leads his flock.
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  • So the shepherd goes ahead of them.
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  • Jesus says in john 10 he goes ahead,
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  • And when he use his voice, he doesn't drive them, amen?
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  • Anything that drives you is not god, remember that.
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  • You're being pushed to make a decision,
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  • Whether to accept a wedding proposal
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  • Or whether to get involved in a business deal
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  • And you feel like you are being pushed into it,
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  • You feel like you don't have the leisure of time
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  • To spend time with god, to seek the lord's mind
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  • About this, but you are being pushed into it,
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  • It's not god.
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  • You better stop there and there, okay?
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  • And nothing that deserves your attention
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  • And they'll be profitable for you will demand something
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  • That you have to do it now or else you'll miss the chance.
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  • So that's why many a times you gotta be careful
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  • If you go into stock market and things like that.
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  • You know, you gotta do it with rest
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  • And not with that sense of being driven.
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  • "i gotta--" or else you become a slave to the market, amen?
  • 00:10:41.350 --> 00:10:45.354
  • So god will never drive you. he leads you.
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  • "the lord is my shepherd." amen.
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  • "i shall not lack."
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  • Now, we all know the lord is our savior, amen,
  • 00:10:51.694 --> 00:10:54.864
  • But the lord wants to be your shepherd.
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  • It is when the lord is your shepherd you will not lack.
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  • You will not lack for strength.
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  • You will not lack for health.
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  • You will not lack for provisions.
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  • When the lord is your shepherd,
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  • You will just not lack in any area of your life,
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  • But he's got to be your shepherd.
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  • And what does a shepherd do in your life?
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  • He feeds you. he leads you, amen?
  • 00:11:12.248 --> 00:11:15.618
  • And our job as pastors is to lead the flock, amen?
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  • And to feed the flock, and to lead the flock,
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  • And to feed the flock.
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  • We don't drive the flock.
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  • Here is also a principle for parenting, amen?
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  • The wise parent will not make a goal so high
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  • For the child to pursue and the child gets discouraged.
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  • That's what happens when you tell the sheep
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  • To run up the mountain and you point to the peak
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  • Or you point to a certain location
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  • And they have to go upwards like that
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  • As opposed to going around the paths of righteousness.
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  • Amen?
  • 00:11:47.383 --> 00:11:48.717
  • And that's the same also for parenting.
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  • As we lead our children, learn to ask the lord
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  • For wisdom and direction as to how to bring them up
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  • In the way they should go, the bible says,
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  • And when they are old, they will not depart from it.
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  • Amen?
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  • Train them how to go in the way they should go,
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  • And there's a certain kind of bend,
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  • Certain kind of-- the thing they like,
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  • But you lead them, amen, in a circuitous way
  • 00:12:06.602 --> 00:12:10.439
  • Around and round and then they're going higher and higher
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  • To the place where god wants them to be, amen?
  • 00:12:13.142 --> 00:12:15.311
  • Even the nitty-gritty of life, amen,
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  • In the daily grind of life, the holy spirit
  • 00:12:17.680 --> 00:12:20.082
  • Will lead you one step at a time if you follow him,
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  • If you expect him to, amen, and it's not hard.
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  • You know, obey
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  • The slightest prompting of the spirit.
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  • The slightest prompting, learn to obey.
  • 00:12:29.892 --> 00:12:32.027
  • You know, you look at some christians,
  • 00:12:32.027 --> 00:12:33.362
  • You know, and you feel like, "wow,
  • 00:12:33.362 --> 00:12:35.264
  • They really flow with the spirit.
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  • How come that came about?" no, all of them grow.
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  • How do we grow?
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  • We obey the least prompting of the spirit.
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  • The smallest inclination, amen, we just follow, amen.
  • 00:12:44.139 --> 00:12:49.378
  • And the more you follow god, the more you obey
  • 00:12:49.378 --> 00:12:51.480
  • Those promptings, you'll find that it increases,
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  • It gets stronger;
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  • As in everything, whatever you obey.
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  • You obey the flesh, you find that--you like to eat,
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  • Amen, you'll find it very hard to stop eating, okay?
  • 00:13:00.923 --> 00:13:05.027
  • You are addicted to pornography.
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  • You'll find that the more you do it,
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  • The more you wanna do it.
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  • And the more you smoke and the--
  • 00:13:09.932 --> 00:13:11.734
  • You might not like it at first, but the more you do it,
  • 00:13:11.734 --> 00:13:13.836
  • The more you will be addicted to it.
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  • So as in everything, amen, as you give yourself to it.
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  • You know, i'm concerned that sometimes people,
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  • What are they feeding on?
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  • If they are feeding-- i'm not against you watching tv
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  • And all that, but if that's all that you're doing,
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  • You don't feed on god's word,
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  • No wonder you have lost the relish for god's word.
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  • You've lost that.
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  • Don't you feel that you missed it,
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  • Those times when you know how sweet god's word is?
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  • You know, the bible says that the children of israel
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  • When they first tasted the manna--
  • 00:13:38.627 --> 00:13:40.296
  • It says it like this.
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  • And the taste of manna was like wafers made with honey.
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  • I love it, like wafers made with honey.
  • 00:13:46.669 --> 00:13:49.338
  • So wafers, you know, is crushed, and then honey is sweet, right?
  • 00:13:49.338 --> 00:13:52.608
  • So it's like the finished work of jesus,
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  • How he suffered for us and the sweetness of it, amen?
  • 00:13:55.544 --> 00:13:59.648
  • The--god's word has a taste. god's word has a taste.
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  • So the more you relish that taste,
  • 00:14:02.117 --> 00:14:04.720
  • You hunger for it, but then you start eating other things.
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  • Later on in their wilderness journey,
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  • The bible says the taste became just like
  • 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:14.530
  • An ordinary taste to them, right, just like oil, you know.
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  • It says no more sweetness-- there's no more sweetness,
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  • And they long for the melons and the garlics and the leeks
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  • And the cucumbers of the-- of egypt.
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  • They long for egypt food-- egyptian food.
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  • You know, it's a picture of longing for that
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  • Which actually never satisfied them,
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  • But--once there was a time when they
  • 00:14:37.319 --> 00:14:40.255
  • First tasted the manna, it was wafers made with honey.
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  • It was sweet. they've lost the taste, why?
  • 00:14:43.625 --> 00:14:45.961
  • Because they've been feeding on other things.
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  • I pray that you don't do that.
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  • Don't go to the point where you lose god's word
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  • Because you've been feeding on other things
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  • That are natural.
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  • No wonder you are fearful because you have
  • 00:14:53.435 --> 00:14:54.970
  • Bought into those things, you have fed on those things,
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  • And those things have a hold on you
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  • And you start thinking like the world,
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  • You start believing like the world,
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  • You start to receive what the world receives,
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  • Whereas when you relish god's word,
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  • You live in the realm of the supernatural.
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  • You relish god's word, you live in the realm
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  • Of what jesus died to give you., amen?
  • 00:15:13.022 --> 00:15:15.991
  • And it's all supernatural, amen?
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  • You cannot be living in the natural
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  • And expect the supernatural to happen,
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  • And neither can you live in the supernatural
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  • And expect the natural to happen, amen?
  • 00:15:24.233 --> 00:15:26.068
  • So we wanna live in the supernatural.
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  • We don't wanna live in the natural, amen.
  • 00:15:27.403 --> 00:15:29.004
  • How many of you can say amen to that?
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  • Praise god, hallelujah. just take the step.
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  • Even in the gifts of the spirit, you have to take the first step.
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  • Even it's a small leading, obey that leading, amen.
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  • Walking a life in the spirit is so wonderful, amen.
  • 00:15:40.015 --> 00:15:43.352
  • You know, and sometimes we teach holiness
  • 00:15:43.352 --> 00:15:44.753
  • In such a way that's only for men's eyes
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  • And how our denomination accepts it,
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  • How our church accepts it, no.
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  • The lord wants us to walk according to the spirit,
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  • Even when no one is looking, amen, amen.
  • 00:15:54.196 --> 00:15:57.099
  • And the lord knows all the traps of the enemies ahead, amen.
  • 00:15:57.099 --> 00:16:00.969
  • There's nothing the devil will set in front of you
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  • That the lord doesn't know about,
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  • But the lord is saying--now, listen to what isaiah says.
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  • The lord says, "i am the lord thy god
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  • Who teacheth you to profit and who leads you
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  • In the way you should go."
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  • I love that. one more time.
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  • "i am the lord thy god who teacheth you to profit."
  • 00:16:15.184 --> 00:16:19.054
  • What? teaches you what?
  • 00:16:19.054 --> 00:16:21.223
  • To profit. how many of you want profit?
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  • Amen, and leads you, leads you by the way you should go, amen.
  • 00:16:23.792 --> 00:16:28.564
  • So when god teaches us to profit, it's by leading us
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  • In the way we should go, amen.
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  • It's worth it to follow the lord,
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  • And that's the secret of caleb.
  • 00:16:36.738 --> 00:16:38.373
  • At the age of 85, he could say, "i'm as strong today
  • 00:16:38.373 --> 00:16:41.043
  • As i was the day moses sent me out
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  • To spy out the land, i'm still strong at 85," why?
  • 00:16:43.345 --> 00:16:47.349
  • More than one time that phrase appears:
  • 00:16:47.349 --> 00:16:49.751
  • "because i have wholly followed the lord."
  • 00:16:49.751 --> 00:16:53.722
  • And the--even the lord himself said, "because he
  • 00:16:53.722 --> 00:16:55.357
  • Has wholly followed me."
  • 00:16:55.357 --> 00:16:58.127
  • Today, how do we follow the lord?
  • 00:16:58.127 --> 00:16:59.928
  • Back then, adam and eve, how did they follow the lord?
  • 00:16:59.928 --> 00:17:02.598
  • The bible says in the cool of the evening,
  • 00:17:02.598 --> 00:17:05.434
  • In the ruach, in the breath of the wind,
  • 00:17:05.434 --> 00:17:08.003
  • The holy spirit, the lord came with them personally,
  • 00:17:08.003 --> 00:17:10.806
  • And they walked with god, temember that?
  • 00:17:10.806 --> 00:17:13.142
  • And then in abraham's time, god said to abraham,
  • 00:17:13.142 --> 00:17:16.478
  • "i am el shaddai.
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  • I am almighty god.
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  • Walk before me," right? "walk before me."
  • 00:17:19.982 --> 00:17:23.986
  • In other words, "walk as if you're walking in front of me,"
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  • Amen, "aware of my presence,
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  • Conscious of my love and my watching over you.
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  • Walk before me, and be thou perfect,"
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  • God told abraham, hallelujah.
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  • Thank you, jesus. thank you, jesus.
  • 00:17:39.334 --> 00:17:41.170
  • One biggest hindrance that people have
  • 00:17:41.170 --> 00:17:43.772
  • About following the spirit is the fact that they
  • 00:17:43.772 --> 00:17:46.175
  • Have a guilty conscience, many of them, you know,
  • 00:17:46.175 --> 00:17:48.877
  • And that's the biggest hindrance.
  • 00:17:48.877 --> 00:17:50.279
  • The number one hindrance is a guilty conscience,
  • 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:53.515
  • And the bible says that jesus resolved that.
  • 00:17:53.515 --> 00:17:56.151
  • In hebrews 10, it says, "for the law having
  • 00:17:56.151 --> 00:17:58.120
  • A shadow of good things to come,
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  • And not the very image of those things,
  • 00:17:59.888 --> 00:18:02.090
  • Can never with those sacrifices which they offered
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  • Year by year continually
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  • Make the comers," make those who keep on coming,
  • 00:18:05.994 --> 00:18:08.397
  • "perfect," perfect in what?
  • 00:18:08.397 --> 00:18:10.832
  • The chapter before that says perfect in conscience.
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  • You know, we are not perfect.
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  • We can never be perfect in our behavior
  • 00:18:15.771 --> 00:18:17.839
  • This side of heaven, right, but we can be perfect
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  • In our conscience.
  • 00:18:21.944 --> 00:18:23.278
  • What is that, perfect in our conscience?
  • 00:18:23.278 --> 00:18:24.947
  • That means there is no sin consciousness, amen.
  • 00:18:24.947 --> 00:18:29.785
  • A perfect sacrifice has removed all sins from our life.
  • 00:18:29.785 --> 00:18:34.389
  • And here in hebrews 10, it says, "for the law
  • 00:18:34.389 --> 00:18:36.258
  • Having a shadow of good things to come,
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  • And not the very image of those things,
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  • Can never with those sacrifices
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  • Which they offered year by year continually
  • 00:18:41.997 --> 00:18:44.533
  • Make the comers thereunto perfect.
  • 00:18:44.533 --> 00:18:46.501
  • Else would they not have ceased to be offered?
  • 00:18:46.501 --> 00:18:48.971
  • Because the worshippers once," and the word once there,
  • 00:18:48.971 --> 00:18:52.274
  • Hapax, means once and for all.
  • 00:18:52.274 --> 00:18:54.843
  • "worshippers once purged should have
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  • No more consciousness of sins."
  • 00:18:58.180 --> 00:19:01.717
  • No more what? consciousness of sins.
  • 00:19:01.717 --> 00:19:07.155
  • In the king james, it's no more conscience of sins.
  • 00:19:07.155 --> 00:19:10.459
  • Now, what can give us no more conscience of sins?
  • 00:19:10.459 --> 00:19:13.262
  • Here it says in verse 14, "by a single offering
  • 00:19:13.262 --> 00:19:17.032
  • He has perfected for all time," for how long?
  • 00:19:17.032 --> 00:19:20.202
  • "for all time those who are being sanctified."
  • 00:19:20.202 --> 00:19:23.138
  • And watch this.
  • 00:19:23.138 --> 00:19:24.473
  • "and the holy spirit also bears witness to us."
  • 00:19:24.473 --> 00:19:28.677
  • This is the area that a lot of people,
  • 00:19:28.677 --> 00:19:30.545
  • They don't understand the holy spirit
  • 00:19:30.545 --> 00:19:32.247
  • And they will say, "the holy spirit,
  • 00:19:32.247 --> 00:19:33.582
  • Convict me of sin, convict me of sin,
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  • Convict me of sin."
  • 00:19:35.417 --> 00:19:36.752
  • Can the holy spirit convict you of sin?
  • 00:19:36.752 --> 00:19:38.353
  • Yes, but the focus, the main focus--like paul says,
  • 00:19:38.353 --> 00:19:42.190
  • "i have this continual grief in my heart for my people,
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  • Israel.
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  • I speak the truth in christ.
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  • I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness
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  • In the holy spirit."
  • 00:19:50.165 --> 00:19:51.500
  • It's not something negative.
  • 00:19:51.500 --> 00:19:52.834
  • "i lie not, my conscience bearing me witness
  • 00:19:52.834 --> 00:19:55.504
  • In the holy spirit," something positive.
  • 00:19:55.504 --> 00:19:57.039
  • The holy spirit is bearing witness to paul
  • 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:58.840
  • Saying that paul is not lying,
  • 00:19:58.840 --> 00:20:01.109
  • Not that he lied, and here's the same thing.
  • 00:20:01.109 --> 00:20:03.645
  • "the holy spirit bears witness to us;
  • 00:20:03.645 --> 00:20:06.148
  • For after saying," this is the new covenant,
  • 00:20:06.148 --> 00:20:08.583
  • "'this is the covenant that i'll make with them
  • 00:20:08.583 --> 00:20:10.085
  • After those days,' declares the lord.
  • 00:20:10.085 --> 00:20:11.620
  • 'i'll put my laws on their hearts,
  • 00:20:11.620 --> 00:20:13.388
  • And write them on their minds.'
  • 00:20:13.388 --> 00:20:15.357
  • Then god adds, 'i will remember their sins
  • 00:20:15.424 --> 00:20:18.994
  • And their lawless deeds no more.'"
  • 00:20:18.994 --> 00:20:22.030
  • Now, the covenant of the law says,
  • 00:20:22.030 --> 00:20:23.565
  • "i'll by no means forget your sins."
  • 00:20:23.565 --> 00:20:25.500
  • God says, "i'll visit your sins
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  • To the third and fourth generation," wow.
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  • But here it says, "i'll by no means
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  • Remember your sins."
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  • What has happened? the cross happened, my friend.
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  • Cross happened.
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  • Jesus died on the cross for you and i.
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  • He bore the curse of the law, amen, and he became sin,
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  • He who knew no sin, that we might be made
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  • The righteousness of god in him.
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  • So god who remembered all our sins
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  • Went at the cross and god reckoned them
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  • Unto jesus, and jesus died under the weight of it, amen?
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  • He died the penalty of it.
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  • He was judged for them on my behalf, on your behalf.
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • And now god is faithful to what he did
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  • That god cannot remember our sins.
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  • Remember means to be mindful of,
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  • To be keeping in the center of his focus.
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  • He doesn't deal with you based on sins anymore.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Amen.
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  • He's not dealing with you based on sin,
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  • He's dealing with you based on his son.
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  • As his son is worthy of all the blessings,
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  • The bible says, "you are worthy because you are in my son.
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  • My son got what you deserve at the cross that you
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  • Might receive all that he deserves," amen?
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  • He got what you deserve, and you get what he deserves.
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  • Hallelujah. praise the name of jesus.
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  • From pastor joseph prince.
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  • Joseph prince: now, friend, i wanna pray for you right now
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  • If you are having challenges, amen, with depression.
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  • I see a number of you are having challenges
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  • In your sleep.
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  • You're not able to sleep well,
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  • And some of you cannot even sleep without,
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  • You know, getting up so-- ever so often and all that.
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  • I wanna pray for you right now.
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  • Father, in the name of jesus, i pray in the name of jesus,
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  • Father, release that person, lord,
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  • Into the beauty of your beloved sleep, lord.
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  • As you have promised, he gives his beloved sleep.
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  • All you that neither slumber nor sleep,
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  • Grant this gift of sleep, lord, to all your people, lord,
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  • That are suffering from sleeplessness,
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  • And i command in the name of jesus
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  • That that enemy that tries to disturb your sleep
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  • Cease all his maneuvers over your life
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  • In the name of the lord jesus christ.
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  • Shalom peace, shalom peace, shalom peace to you, my friend.
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  • From this night forth, you shall sleep well
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  • In jesus's name, but do not go back
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  • To the old ways or the ways of the flesh
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  • That will hinder your sleep, amen?
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  • Watch what you watch before you sleep.
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  • Make sure you're focused on the word of god
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  • Before you sleep, amen, praise the lord.
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  • You got a devotional book, feed on it
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  • Before you sleep, okay?
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  • Praise the name of jesus. thank you, lord jesus.
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  • Lift your hands everywhere. amen.
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  • This coming week, the lord bless you
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  • And your families, and the lord keep you,
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  • Preserve, protect you and your loved ones
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  • From every disease, from every evil, harm,
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  • Danger, and from all the power of the evil one.
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  • And the lord make his face shine upon you
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  • And be favorable to you.
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  • His light of-- the light of his glory
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  • Shines on you in the midst of the darkness.
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  • Throughout this week, the light will be seen
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  • By others and they'll see the glory of god upon your life.
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  • The lord lift up his countenance on you and your families
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  • And grant to you and yours his wonderful shalom peace.
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  • In jesus's name.
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  • Until the next time.
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  • Female: i had been a smoker since i was in college.
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  • One of those habits that you picked up and,
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  • "ahh, you know, i really like this."
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  • For me it was so hard because i didn't want to let it go.
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  • Sitting under pastor's teaching so much,
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  • I understood i needed a rhema word
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  • For my particular situation.
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  • So he led me to "the battle is the lord's."
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  • I listened to that for probably about two weeks.
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  • That was the only thing i was listening to.
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  • And then i started memorizing some of the scriptures.
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  • I knew there is no success without that
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  • Just coming up inside of you.
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  • Pastor's so good in teaching us the identity
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  • Of the old man and the new man.
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  • That new man does not want to smoke.
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  • Now after this did i still have the habit of like doing that?
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  • Because it was like a regular ritual.
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  • Yes, but every time i remembered, "that's not me,
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  • I'm created in true righteousness
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  • And holiness in christ."
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  • I went to bed that night, slept like a baby.
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  • The next morning i had no desire for cigarettes again.
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  • It was such the lord, the power of his love.
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  • What a beautiful work that jesus did,
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  • And it's all him alone.
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