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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Temptation | March 3, 2026
- Only when we get to heaven will we know how many times
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- The guardian angel that is over every christian's life
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- Has called and said, send down a troop.
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- We gotta get her out of this.
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- We've gotta bail him out of this.
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- How many times we have been protected by angels?
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- We didn't even know it.
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- So it's a prayer.
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- Lord, lead us not into testing we can't handle,
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- But deliver us from evil with a higher call.
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- It's a prayer for protection.
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- Protect us, protect us.
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- When we align our hearts with god's word.
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- Something powerful begins to happen.
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- If you've never done that, you.
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- You'll be stunned.
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- Our perspective changes when we get in the bible.
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- We discover the bible is a rock.
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- It's not a marshmallow.
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- Today we're going to explore what it means to cultivate
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- A daily walk with god, a faith
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- That is steady and deeply rooted in biblical truth.
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- So welcome to the waiting world.
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- Family. welcome.
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- We're glad you're here.
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- A very, very, very
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- Pious man
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- Was going down
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- Town for a meeting.
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- He was late,
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- And he circled the block ten times
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- And could not find a place to park.
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- So he parked in a no parking zone.
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- We got out of his car.
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- He wrote a note that said, dear officer,
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- I circle this block ten times
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- And found no place to park.
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- So i parked here
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- To keep from being late for my meeting.
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- Forgive us our trespasses.
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- He got out of his meeting,
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- Went back to his car.
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- There was a ticket,
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- A citation on it,
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- And the officer
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- Had read him a note.
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- It said, dear sir,
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- I have circled this blog
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- For ten years.
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- And if i do not give you a ticket, i'll lose my job.
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- Lead us not into temptation.
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- We're coming to the end
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- Of our study of the lord's prayer.
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- Two clauses
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- And a benediction.
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- That really is a doxology.
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- First clause.
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- Lead us not into temptation.
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- Does that bother anybody
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- That we have to pray that to our father?
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- You mean to tell me that you and i have to pray to god?
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- God, don't lead us into temptation.
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- Is that something that we have to pray?
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- Because if our father,
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- Who created you and created me, is leading you
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- And leading me into temptation, i give up.
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- He knows every weakness in your life.
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- In my life.
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- And when you.
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- When you wait in that
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- Room to see a doctor
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- For two hours and 45 minutes
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- And you're an impatient person.
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- And when you get in,
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- Your blood pressure is 235
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- Over 120.
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- Man, why did god put you
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- In that situation
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- As a patient?
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- That's the reason that we're patients.
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- Knowing that you're impatient, knowing
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- How you'd respond with anger and with frustration.
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- Why did god put you in that situation?
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- And you were just perusing the internet
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- And went to a little porn site for a while,
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- And why did god let that pop up there?
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- Knowing that i battle the weaknesses of the flesh?
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- Why did that happen?
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- What's god doing?
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- And on and on. we could go.
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- You see, god knows how you and i are wired.
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- He knows our achilles heel.
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- He knows the weakness and every single one of us.
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- And if we've got to pray.
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- God, don't exploit that weakness.
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- Don't leave me into temptation.
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- We're praying to the father.
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- What kind of prayer is this?
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- And you want scriptural evidence?
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- You would say, wait a minute.
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- Jesus is teaching us to pray.
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- Lead us not into temptation because he has
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- In recent times been led into temptation.
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- Jesus was baptized.
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- Wonderful experience.
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- The trinity was present.
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- This is my beloved son and what happened in matthew
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- Chapter four?
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- We're just in sixth with the lord's prayer.
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- Look at matthew chapter four,
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- Verse one.
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- Then jesus was led.
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- Lead us not into temptation by the spirit.
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- That's the holy spirit into the wilderness.
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- To be tempted by the devil.
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- Here is the holy spirit
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- Leading jesus of nazareth, the messiah, the son of god,
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- Into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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- So jesus had just gone through, we would say in a cursory
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- Reading, this strong temptation and what a strong temptation
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- It was.
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- By the way, jesus was tempted here, exactly
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- Like you and i are tempted.
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- You know how temptation.
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- All the little ones and big ones.
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- What the real purpose behind them.
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- It is the purpose of the evil one to get you
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- And to me to miss the central calling of our life.
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- That's what these
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- Temptation about, in the words of jesus,
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- You know, turn the stones to bread.
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- He'd been fasting for 40 days.
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- He was angry.
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- Somebody said, well, the devil tempted him
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- At his weakest moment. that's incorrect.
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- He was a moment of strength.
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- He'd been fasting for 40 days.
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- He didn't fall for that temptation.
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- You see, what was the purpose of the life of jesus?
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- To call all the world to god?
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- That was his calling.
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- To call all the world to god.
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- And i'll tell you what the devil was saying.
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- Hey, you can feed everybody.
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- That's a tremendous impulse to follow.
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- I could say,
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- Ladies and gentlemen, for the rest of your life,
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- I'm going to satisfy all your needs.
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- Come and follow me.
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- But it be a long line,
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- Right?
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- Strong way for jesus to fulfill his life purpose.
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- Feed everybody.
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- Then he.
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- Then the satan, took him off
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- The top of the temple and said, jump off
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- And god will protect you.
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- And jesus saw to that
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- By the way he quoted scripture
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- To counteract every temptation
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- Had thy word in your heart, that you might not sin
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- Against god.
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- That's what jesus did.
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- The word of god.
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- What was the temptation that put on a show, man?
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- You can get a lot of people to follow you for a long time.
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- You jump off temples, you're not hurt.
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- But the next week you hit the jump off mount sinai.
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- You do a bigger, better show, but you a lot of people
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- To follow. you one way.
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- Fulfill his purpose.
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- Then satan took him on top of a high mountain and said,
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- Look at all the people, all the kings of the world.
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- I own all this.
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- I'll give it to you if you'll just bow down and worship.
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- That's the old question of means and ends.
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- Man, it's a tremendous end.
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- Your goal is to change the world.
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- Get all the people to know god and to follow you.
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- Therefore, i'll give it to you.
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- But to get in
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- That for me to give it to you, you have to worship me.
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- Do that which is wrong for a larger good.
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- We get caught up in that.
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- Jesus said, no, no, no, no deal.
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- You can't tempt the lord thy god.
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- And then when he was through with this temptation,
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- This is one little powerful verse.
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- Look at verse 11.
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- It said, then the devil left him, and behold,
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- Angels came and began to minister to him.
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- He was exhausted
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- At the end of temptation.
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- So therefore we pray,
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- Lead us not into temptation.
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- And we say here in this scripture
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- The holy spirit, literally it says, the great drove jesus
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- Into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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- What is this all about?
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- Because somebody here might be wise enough to say,
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- Isn't there a verse or two there somewhere
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- That says something about this very thing?
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- And you might be able to turn to the book of james
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- And read there in the first chapter.
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- These verses listen.
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- Verse 13, let no one say
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- When he is tempted, there's our word.
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- I'm being tempted by god for god cannot be tempted by evil.
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- And look at this.
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- And he, god himself, does not tempt anyone.
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- But each one is tempted when
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- He's carried away and enticed by his own lust.
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- Then, when loss has conceived, it gives birth to sin.
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- When sin is the comedy gives get brings forth death.
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- Be not deceived. wait a minute.
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- We've got a little conflict here, don't we?
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- Sounds like it.
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- What's the answer?
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- I think it's found in the word for temptation.
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- The greek word for temptation can mean to tempt,
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- Which mean to entice to evil to do wrong.
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- Or it can mean to test.
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- Oh, now it begins to make sense.
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- So god allows us to be tested,
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- To make us stronger,
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- But not he does not tempt us.
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- That is the work of satan.
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- Now the devil by when the bible.
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- You have too many words for the devil
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- You have satan and the word devil.
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- Satan is someone who assails you.
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- It is.
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- It is a prosecutor who always takes
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- All of your garbage and all of my garbage
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- And takes it before god and before the people.
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- And that that that that's the work of the devil.
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- And satan is a slanderer.
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- By the way,
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- You can slander somebody not just lying about them,
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- But you can tell the truth about them,
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- You know, to hurt them.
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- That also is slander.
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- So we have satan and we have the devil,
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- And they are there.
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- So lead us not into temptation.
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- He's saying, lead us not into testing
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- That we can't stand up under.
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- And we are all tested.
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- Well, how are we tested?
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- The bible tells us the world that'll test you on it.
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- The flesh.
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- The flesh is always with us.
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- And the devil.
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- The lust of the eye, the lust of flesh,
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- The pride of life always
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- Before us.
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- Life test us.
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- Look at it. i want to see how it works.
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- Still say, you know, a little book of james.
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- Still the first chapter.
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- Look at verse two.
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- Consider it all joy, my brethren.
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- Christians, when you encounter various trials, say test,
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- Knowing that the testing of your faith produces
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- Endurance, strength,
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- And let endurance have its perfect result
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- So that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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- We are tested in life
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- So that we will grow stronger, better equipped,
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- And test come in so many, but in various trials
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- The word various.
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- That means we may have test, moral test,
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- Health test, family test,
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- Business test where we're going through a testing time.
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- All of us in different ways, are different degrees.
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- Sometimes they're hot tests.
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- Man, this is big.
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- Sometime this sort of a moderate test.
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- Sometime they're sort of an easy test.
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- But we're all being tested. why?
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- So we'll grow stronger.
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- A child takes their first step unsteady.
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- Unsure.
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- Reaching for a father's hand.
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- No one is born knowing how to walk.
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- It takes training, strength.
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- Balance. time.
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- Walking with god is no different.
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- Like all journeys, walking the winning
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- Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
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- By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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- We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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- Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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- Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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- God doesn't rush the journey.
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- He lights the next step
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- In the winning walk.
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- Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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- To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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- Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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- If you're ready to grow stronger in your faith,
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- And request your copy of the winning walk today
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- And begin walking confidently with him.
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- Lead us not into temptation, into tests
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- That we cannot mature and grow up with.
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- Don't give us tests more than we can handle.
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- That's what he prayed.
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- Then he says, the second god deliver us from evil.
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- I'm thankful that we worship a god who delivers us.
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- Aren't you we.
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- We're delivered from evil.
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- And by the way, you say, well, i, i just
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- I just couldn't help it.
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- We've got a problem with that.
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- I want you to look with me.
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- Quickly. here
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- In the
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- Book of corinthians, chapter ten.
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- We need this verse.
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- Verse 13.
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- No temptation, no testing
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- Has overtaken you.
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- But such as is common to man, and god is faithful,
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- Who will not allow you to be tempted.
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- That's to do evil beyond what you are able,
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- But where the temptation
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- Will provide
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- The way of escape also,
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- So that you might be able to endure it.
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- What is this saying?
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- It's saying that i can't say, lord, i was just overwhelmed.
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- I couldn't help him, i just fell.
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- Oh no, he's saying as a christ follower, no temptation.
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- Enticement to evil will ever come your way or my way.
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- He hasn't given us the capacity to turn away from
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- And to resist.
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- So it comes right back on you and me.
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- It's a matter of the flesh, and the will and the will
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- And the flesh.
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- And the flesh is ever among us.
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- We're not
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- Above anything, any of us.
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- So we pray.
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- Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us.
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- Be our deliverer.
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- Deliver us from evil.
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- But what if evil is already has you?
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- You say,
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- You know i want to be delivered,
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- But i'm already in the middle of evil and i know it.
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- How do i get out of the trap?
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- I've already made the wrong choice.
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- What do i do?
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- What do i do? what is the way?
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- What is the way we move out of this trap?
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- What are the steps we have to take?
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- That's what we want to know.
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- First of all, we had to be willing.
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- A lot of us say, boy, i'd sure like to stop that.
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- I'd sure like to quit that.
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- I'd sure like to start this.
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- We had to be willing.
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- Are we really willing?
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- Remember the man who was by the pool of bethesda?
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- He'd been there all those years, and.
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- And he said every time
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- The water puffs up so i can be healed.
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- I don't have anybody to take me in.
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- And i've been here all these years.
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- And, jesus, the first thing you ask him,
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- Do you really want to be healed?
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- That's what he asked.
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- God, do you really want
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- To get out of the trap of evil that you're in
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- Whatever form it may be?
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- That's the first thing i'd say.
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- Yes, i'm willing.
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- Then you have to name
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- The trap the evil that you're in.
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- Name it.
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- It may not be what you think.
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- Name what it is.
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- Then you have to say it.
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- James five.
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- Confess our sins to god and confess our sins
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- To one another.
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- See, that brings in another
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- God fearing person to help you with this.
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- And then you.
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- What do you do?
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- You trade it off.
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- Here i am, caught in the evil and you know, and i i'm.
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- I want to get out
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- And i name what it is and i confess it to god.
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- I confess to someone else.
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- But now i have to trade it for something else.
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- There has to be something higher and above.
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- And sweeter and more appealing.
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- And that evil that has caught us.
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- We get trapped in.
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- Whatever's got us.
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- And we have to have a higher melody, a higher music.
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- To get us out of the trap.
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- So really, this prayers of prayer for protection
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- And how we need protection, all of us.
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- And how many times you and i are protected
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- Only when we get to heaven will we know how many times
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- The guardian angel that is over every christian's life
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- Has called and said, send down a troop.
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- We gotta get her out of this.
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- We've gotta bail him out of this.
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- How many times we have been protected by angels?
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- We didn't even know it.
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- So it's a prayer.
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- Lord, lead us not into testing we can't handle,
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- But deliver us from evil with a higher call.
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- It's a prayer for protection.
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- Protect us, protect us.
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- And then there is that benediction,
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- Which is a doxology for thine is the kingdom.
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- By the way, the word f0 r.
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- Maybe
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- The most important word in the prayer.
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- How can that be?
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- It says, for
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- Thine is the kingdom, for
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- Thine is the glory and the power forever.
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- So we got two doors here,
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- Two doors that we enter at the end of this prayer.
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- It's mine.
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- Is the kingdom or thine is the kingdom.
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- And this is a moment of decision.
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- As we prayed to this prayer, we have decided my kingdom are
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- His kingdom.
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- Thine are mine.
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- Let me show you something and let me ask you a question.
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- Can you say today
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- The little kingdom of my life,
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- Whatever size it might be?
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- Is thy kingdom
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- Really?
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- Have you and i relinquish control
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- And of our little kingdoms?
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- As as as is my kingdom really?
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- Totally his kingdom.
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- Which door?
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- And what about whatever power
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- You have in your life or power i have in my life?
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- Is it my power still, or is it his power?
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- Divine or mine?
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- Is all of your life?
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- And my life
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- Really whatever it is, it's all about his kingdom.
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- How he would have us to operate
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- And live and to move and and to use everything we have.
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- Is it really his kingdom? our.
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- Do i still claim it is my kingdom?
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- And what about any power of influence
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- We have with anybody, anywhere, any place?
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- Is it really?
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- I still have that power?
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- Or is have i relinquished all that power and say it's
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- It's line?
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- What about the glory?
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- You know, that comes when you know, good job, well done.
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- What about that glory?
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- What about any applause, any words of appreciation?
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- If we all relinquished that and said, no, it's it's it's
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- His kingdom and it's his power
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- And it's his glory forever.
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- Which door have we will?
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- For thine is the kingdom.
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- Can we really say that?
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- For thine is the power?
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- Please give it all to him.
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- Can we really pray that
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- Thine is the glory forever?
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- Is that real to you and me?
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- You said, well,
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- How can this happen?
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- I mean, i'm human.
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- I've got a life,
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- I've got desires, i've got things to do.
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- And in my kingdom and and i want a little glory.
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- And how i want to use it.
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- I mean, how does it happen that truly the whole kingdom is
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- His and the whole power around us is, is and the whole glory?
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- How does that happen? let me tell you what happens.
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- Remember when jesus said, if
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- Any person would follow me, what do you have to do?
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- Take up your cross
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- Every day and follow me?
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- What does it mean?
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- We've heard that verse.
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- A lot of us been church vanity folks for so long.
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- What does that mean to take up your cross?
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- Listen, you see anybody taking up a cross?
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- Anybody own a cross?
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- You can be sure of two things.
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- They are dying
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- Or they're already dead.
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- Nobody's cut them down, right?
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- If you're on a cross, you're dying
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- Or you've already died and there's nobody
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- To take you down yet.
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- This is what paul was saying.
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- He said i was crucified with christ.
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- Nevertheless, i live yet not i.
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- I'm not really living.
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- It's christ who lives in me.
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- Paul was saying, it is his kingdom.
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- It is his power and his glory.
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- I have crucified myself.
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- It all is his.
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- That's how we can pray this
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- Doxology, this benediction
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- Is to be crucified every day.
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- Let me tell you something,
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- And i'm a long way from it.
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- But i'm moving in this direction.
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- If you and i crucify
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- Our lives every day,
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- Part of our lives every day, if we die
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- To ourselves every day, guess what?
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- On the day that you and i die,
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- We won't have anything to do.
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- Did you get that?
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- If you and i crucify
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- This ego, this megalomaniac that's in
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- All of us in different ways, and we truly go in the door
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- That says, thine is the kingdom,
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- And thine is the power, and thine is the glory.
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- And we die to self every day on the day that we die.
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- We don't have anything else today.
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- Ladies and
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- Gentlemen, if we can genuinely pray this prayer,
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- We've got a life worth living.
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- We've got a life that is full of meaning
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- And relevance and freedom and liberty and joy.
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- Because all number one
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- Is constantly dying,
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- And we're letting the lord jesus christ be number one.
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- And every realm of our lives.
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- Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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- A light into my path.
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- Notice the promise in that verse.
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- A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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- A light for your path.
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- We can see out there.
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- Not just inspiration.
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- For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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- The christian life
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- Was never meant to be lived casually,
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- But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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- Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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- That's the heartbeat of this book.
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- The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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- Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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- A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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- In the practical realities of everyday living.
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- This isn't about religion.
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- It's about relationship.
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- It's about learning to trust god step by step
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- And stay in step with our lord.
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- The christ.
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- So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk.
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- Do it today.
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- And then we begin walking victoriously,
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- One step at a time.
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- Thank you
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- For being a part of the winning world family.
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- It's always a privilege and a joy to open
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- God's book, his word the bible together.
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- As we go through this week remember spiritual growth
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- Happens.
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- That one fateful step at a time.
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- It keeps us close to the lord.
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- We stay grounded in his word and trust that he is working.
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- Even in the quiet moments.
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- Many times we study the bible.
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- We take on too much.
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- Oh man, it's so many aspects of the scripture.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- Just take 1 or 2 verses.
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- Read them, maybe read them in another though
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- The translations and say, what does this say?
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- He will lead us always to a
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- Life that has significance.
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