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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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I'm thinking today of Deuteronomy 18.2 and there the Lord is talking about the Levites.

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And he says of them that they shall have no inheritance among their countrymen.

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That means they wouldn't have any lands in the area that they were going to settle in.

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The Lord is their inheritance as he promised them.

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This verse is no subtle reminder to me that the Lord literally replaces everything.

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Everything that you could possibly have you would readily give it to possess God in your life.

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To live afterwards in eternity with God is so much better.

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Those who would serve God and would be owned by God in a sense,

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spreading God whenever possible to anyone who would listen,

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would need no earthly real estate.

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God would be enough for them.

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God must be enough for us as well.

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Nobody likes to endure tragedy and as we travel the highway of holiness as Isaiah calls it,

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we know there will be sorrow and sighing and we ask God,

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please God help us every day, bless us every day, make us to lie down in green pastures.

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And he does do that in many, many cases.

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We must remember that if we are owned by God and we are his people,

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that he is so much more than anything this life has to offer.

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So when you're in the middle of the worst difficulties of your life,

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know that if you have God, you literally have eternity available to you.

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To spend with God, don't let what you're going through now loom large

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and make you forget about the blessings that you really have if you have God.

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If you don't have God, here's how you do it.

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Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior today.

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A Lord is someone who tells you what to do and you do it

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and a Savior is someone who paid the price for your sins.

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And in so doing, calling upon the Lord, the word says,

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you will be saved and saved means reborn, restarted

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and we will spend eternity together with God.

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And if we are owned by God and have God, we have everything.

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God bless you.