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This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson. I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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And you're receiving this message because you opted in to be encouraged.

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In Acts 14 verse 16, Luke records these thoughts.

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In the generations gone by, he, that's God, permitted all the nations to go their own ways.

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In the generations gone by, he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.

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Everyone finds a way. There's a saying, life finds a way. Your mind finds a way.

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The bottom line is people find a way for themselves. It's what people do.

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God made us able, but it's not actually good enough by itself.

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Having revealed the later details of his plan to save man, God expects more, or maybe less, depending on how you look at it.

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Ways are unique, but dependent on the God who created us.

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The lie so often perpetrated successfully is that man may go his own way, independent of God,

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and still prosper. This can only be believed when eternity is completely removed from view.

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If people work really hard and do really well in this life, they will still come out with nothing in the next one,

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unless they embrace the plan of God. Don't go your own way. Go the way God would have you to go.

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And the main way, the way into eternity and bliss forever with our God, is through his son, Jesus Christ.

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