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This morning the great apostle like an expert jeweler

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displays love as if it were a brilliant diamond juxtaposed to the evil that love

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is not to hold before us its many gleaming facets. He deliberately uses

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the highest word for love in the Greek vocabulary and immediately it takes it

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far beyond any definition of love known to the Greeks or to anyone else. Paul uses

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the Greek word agape that great New Testament word for love that has a

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meaning all its own. It is used of the love of God the Father for God the Son.

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John chapter 17 and verse 26 reads that the love wherewith thou has loved me may

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be in them and I in them. It's the love spoken of in John chapter 3 and verse 16

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for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever

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believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life and it is spoken

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of of the love that Jesus had for his own. In the Gospel of John again at chapter

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14 and verse 21 he says he that hath my commandments and keepeth him here it is

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that loves me and he that loves me shall be loved of my father and I will love

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him and I will manifest myself to him and because this kind of love does not

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arise from our feelings listen to me because this kind of love does not arise

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from our feelings it is commanded by God because it does not always coincide

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with our natural inclinations nor is it concerned only with those for whom we

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have some natural affinity you are not just supposed to love people who love

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you since love is commanded it cannot be based on emotion are y'all listening to

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me since love is commanded it cannot be based on emotion on the contrary it is

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based on the will John chapter 13 and verse number 37 says a new commandment

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I give unto you that ye love one another and have as I have loved you that ye

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also love one another and by this shall all men know that you are my disciples

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not because you go to church on Sunday not because you have a large print Bible

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not because you wear a cross around your ankle or your neck not because you have

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a fish emblem on your bumper not because you answer your phone praise the

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Lord not because you're too blessed to be stressed but men will know that you

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are my disciples because you have love one for another look with me brothers and

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sisters at love's concerns the first of love's concerns is to be Christ like in

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suffering love suffers long or love is long suffering the literal meaning of

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the word is long tempered when you love you are not short tempered I'm working

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on that I'm a work in progress please be patient with me God is not through with

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me yet long suffering long suffering however is more brothers and sisters

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been patients long suffering is self restraint when faced with provocation in

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other words love does not retaliate

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love is never in a hurry to punish its enemy it's long suffering Abraham

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Lincoln when he was president of the United States the 16th president of

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United States had a mortal enemy named Edward or Edwin Stanton Edwin Stanton

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could not stand Abraham Lincoln Stanton said that Lincoln looked like a

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gorilla he said you don't have to go to Africa to look at a gorilla you can

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just look in the face of Abraham Lincoln he said Abraham Lincoln is the most

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two-faced man I've ever met and Lincoln who was always quick-witted says if you

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really think I had two faces I would keep this one Lincoln was hated by Edwin

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Stanton but Lincoln made Stanton his secretary of war and when asked why he

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made Stanton his secretary of war Lincoln said because he's the best man for

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the job he never retaliated Lincoln's love Lincoln's kindness one Stanton over

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so that when Lincoln was assassinated Edwin Stanton stood over his coffin with

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tears in his eyes and said the greatest ruler of men is this man who lies in this

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kai skin love when it is real is long-suffering David displayed this

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kind of love this kind of patience in his relationship with King Saul on no

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less than 24 separate occasions Saul tried to murder David but David knew

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that he was God's anointed David knew that God had anointed him king so he

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was patient enough to wait for God to give him the throne and those of us who

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read the Bible will remember on several occasions David had an opportunity to

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take Saul's life but David said I will not touch the

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Lord's anointed nor do God's prophet any harm David would not retaliate and in

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due course God handed him the throne let your enemies lie on you let your

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enemy try to destroy you the Bible says no weapon I wish I had one or two more

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witnesses formed against you shall be able to prosper because God will stand

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between you and the weapon thrown at you the second of love's concerns is not

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just being long-suffering but it is Christ like brothers and sisters to be

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kind love is patient and then love is kind where patients and long-suffering

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passively wait kindness is active goodness that goes forth on behalf of

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another long-suffering is waiting for God to move but kindness is moving in

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goodness and peace and mercy towards somebody who has done you evil the

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greatest example of this other than Jesus is what David did with Mephibosheth I

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need one or two more Bible readers here on 24 occasions Saul tried to kill

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David but David would not do soul any harm Saul is now dead and David's friend

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who was Saul's son their hearts were knit together like brothers Jonathan is

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now dead and Jonathan has a son named Mephibosheth who is in the home of a man

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named Zyba Saul has been long dead and David is now seated on the throne of

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Israel enjoying God's blessings when he remembers how good Jonathan had been to

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him I wish I had somebody who read the Bible which Saul tried to kill him

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Saul's own son Jonathan warned David of his father's plans and Jonathan saved

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David's life on several occasions and David became king of Israel seated on

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the throne he started thinking about how good God had been to and how God had

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used Jonathan to save his life and David said is there anyone left of the

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house of Saul that I might show kindness because of Jonathan and brothers and

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sisters you are in this church this morning enjoying God's blessings not so

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much because of what you've done but somebody in your past was good and God

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is blessing you on your grandmother's behalf

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God is blessing you because you had a praying aunt or praying Sunday school

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teacher somebody in your past was a blessing to somebody else and God is

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blessing you because he's answering prayers of somebody who's sleeping in

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their grave

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and somebody remember that Jonathan had a boy named Mephibosheth David said

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bring it here they brought Mephibosheth to David and David said he's gonna eat

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with my sons at the table but they said no king he can't come because he's

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crippled in both his feet he's deforned he's he's crippled he's limping he can't

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sit with Solomon he can't sit with Amon and Tamar he cannot sit at the kings

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take the king said bring him here I don't care what his handicap is I don't

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care what his drawback is I don't care what his lameness looks like

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sit him down at my table and I'm so glad that God let me sit at his table I

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don't care what he looks like I don't care what he's done I don't care where

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he's been bring him to my father's house

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and all the crippled folk in here like me to all the broken people in here like

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me to all the folk in here like me who got some decisions you wish you had made

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some roads you wish you had never traveled but God lets you come in his

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presence you ought to help me tell God thank you

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love is his passion love is kind it takes nothing away from you to be kind to

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people it does it doesn't take anything away from me to compliment somebody else

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is preaching I don't have to be the one singing to clap for the song I don't have

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to be the one praying to say amen for the prayer it takes nothing away from me

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to compliment John Adolf I enjoy hearing him preach and hearing him preach takes

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nothing away from my preaching I enjoy Marcus Cosby's preaching I enjoy Ralph

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West's preaching we are not in competition with one another because

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competition leads to envy

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which leads me to the second thing I want to talk about when you really love

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your content loves contentment in the first place love listen to me is never

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envious the translation of the word in Paul's writing embraces both envy and

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jealousy whenever jealousy whenever a person is jealous they desire to have

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the same thing you have for themselves they want to style their hair like you

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style your head if you color your head they gonna color their head if you

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drive a nice car they want to try the same kind of car you drive they want to

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talk like you they want to walk like you they want to act like you that's

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that's benign that's that's no harm in that that's a sincere form of flattering

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you they really want to be you I have no problem yesterday at the funeral the

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preacher told me at the funeral yesterday said Reverend I might as well tell you

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right now the sermon you preach today I'm gonna preach that as soon as I can and

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I said to him Reverend I have no problem with that at all you know how many

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sermons of other preachers I've preached as soon as I can because if you're

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gonna preach like somebody you might as well preach like somebody who can preach

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I mean it don't make sense to try to preach like nobody who can't preach

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come on talk back to me if you can I mean you ain't trying to be ugly you're

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trying to be as pretty as the person you trying to be like so what love when it

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is real jealousy wants what the other person has but envy does not want you

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to have it now they know they can't do nothing with it they just don't want you

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to have it listen to me beloved since love is an act of the will the best way

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to deal with envy listen to me the best way to deal with envy is to crucify it

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and the way you crucify envy is by actively praying for and supporting the

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one whose gifts you covet because it is impossible to be envious of somebody you

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praying for I wish I had time to stay right there love does not want itself up

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the word vaunted not itself means love is never egotistical love is never

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narcissistic love does not draw attention to itself or to what it is doing

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because it wants to be seen if you give something away and then tell somebody

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you give something away that's not love love is not anxious to impress other

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people you do your arms you do your good in secret you you you you do nice things

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for people privately you don't you don't pay my bills and then go tell 30 people

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you paid my bills I wish I had somebody to help me preach it you don't you don't

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go out of your way to help me so you can put it on Facebook because you have just

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committed a dead deed but if you do it in secret God will reward you openly you

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know why so many people are blessed around here it's because they're going

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out of their way helping people privately and God is blessing them openly

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don't get mad with me cuz I'm being blessed openly do something nice

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privately

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moreover love is not puffed up one who is puffed up is the person who has an

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exaggerated sense of his or her own importance

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psychologically they suffer from what is known as Dunning Kruger effect Dunning

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Kruger these two men Dunning and Kruger came up with this idea that's called the

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Dunning Kruger effect the Dunning Kruger effect goes like this people of low ability

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drastically over estimate their own abilities in large part because they are

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incapable of understanding what they don't know can I run it by you one more

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time Dunning Kruger effect people of low ability drastically over estimate their

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own abilities in large part because they are incapable of understanding what

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they don't know the person who comes immediately to mind is Donald Trump

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because Donald Trump's statement when he ran for president in 2020 his statement

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was this exactly only I can fix it that's Dunning Kruger effect that's

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over estimating your abilities because you are incapable of understanding what

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it is that you don't know and so when you don't understand what you don't know

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you lie about what you do know I mean you just start talking about stuff you

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don't even know anything about the hardest thing in the world for us to do

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is say I don't know somebody start talking about in bombing you ain't

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never been to a funeral home but you know everything about in bombing

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somebody start talking about a naval ship you ain't never been in a swimming

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pool but you know everything about a submarine just say you know I'm gonna

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shut my mouth right here because I don't know what the devil I'm talking

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about I wish I had somebody to help me preach it love is never eccentric it

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does not behave itself like the fool we just put out of here a minute ago it

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does not behave itself unseemly love knows how to act in every situation it's

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the devil that makes you disrupt the worship service the spirit of God will

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never have you disrupt worship because that's behaving unseemly in other words

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love has good manners it does not exhibit inappropriate behavior but it

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always treats others with compassion with respect and with consideration love

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when it is real is genuine and not artificial because if it's artificial you

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can't keep it up but when it is genuine you love in all seasons then too love is

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never seeking its own way true love is never selfish it's never self-centered

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it does not insist on having its own way those of us who read the scripture

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will remember when when Abraham and his nephew Lot were taken off to where they

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had gone and their their herds started to grow disproportionately and their

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servants were were growing out of proportion and and there was no more

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room in the land for them to dwell and Abraham's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen

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got into a dispute because there were so many of them and so many herds to take

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care of and Abraham who is the older of he and Lot comes under his nephew and

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says let's not let's not argue with one another let's not fall out over this land

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because we are brothers he said I'll tell you what we're gonna do you take the

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land that you want and what you don't want what you leave leftover I will take

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it now Abraham had every right to take all the land if he wanted to because God

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had given it to him in the first place but Abraham who does not want to seek

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his own way says to Lot you take what you want and what's left over I will

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take it and you know the story Lot took the highlands of Sodom and Gomorrah and

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Abraham wound up in the lowlands of Mamre Lot got a hold to land that had

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been angelically tagged for demolition Lot got his hands on land that was

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about to go up in a fire sale Abraham got the lowlands of Mamre and God said

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to Abraham don't worry but lot he has the land but you got the promise and when

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you know God has given you the promise let them think they've gotten the upper

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hand

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let them think you ain't gonna ever make it after you after I leave you you

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ain't gonna be nothing

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boy please

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the God I said some of y'all over thought they remember Reverend Ike

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Reverend Ike had a saying that goes real good right here you can't lose with the

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stuff are you a better saying come from the scripture if God be far off who can

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be against us I don't care who walks out of your life make sure God walks into

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your life and when God walks into your life he'll take back what the devil

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tries to steal from you

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yeah

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furthermore love is not easily provoked love is not roused to a spirit of

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anger and bitterness love refuses to be exasperated even though it may be justly

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aroused to righteous indignation it is not insulted or carries a chip on its

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shoulder because true love only responds in anger to that which makes God angry

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when you're a loving person you put blinders on and you don't pay attention

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to people's insults you don't pay attention to people's criticism you

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don't pay attention to people's lies because when you are when you are sure

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of yourself and confident in who you are people will mistake your confidence

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for arrogance when your confidence is really ability and when you know how

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God has blessed you and how God has made you and what gifts God has given you

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you don't have to bury your stuff to make somebody feel good about themselves

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you don't have to make yourself look small in order to make somebody else

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look big if you got that kind of ego problem you need to get out of my life

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I need to unfriend you on Facebook I need to divorce you if I got to make

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myself look small in order to make you look big you got a problem not me

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small people we get around some big people and get big to death

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love thinks no evil the word translated here means love does not keep

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account of how many times it's been wronged love suffers long it takes no

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no worthless inventory sisters need to learn that

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because brothers if you can help me tell the truth and go home

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women don't get hysterical they don't they don't throw a knife at you no more

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they don't back over you with their car and all that and not not because they

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don't feel like it they don't want to go to jail so they don't do all that

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and they don't they don't carry a switch blade and they buzz them and all that

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no more they don't get hysterical when it's time to fight they get historical

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you remember they bring up all the stuff you did all the stuff you should

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have done but didn't do talk back to me if you can they remind you of stuff you

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forgot you try to hold in hand on behold in my hand get back get on your side and

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then you start thinking what not what what what did I do and then if you can't

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think of nothing they just mad cuz today is Sunday but love girls bears no

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resentment love does not walk around with a butcher knife love does not hold

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grudges genuine love does not attribute evil motives to people and does not

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dwell on the evil that people have done to you it is natural to love them that

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love us but it is supernatural to love them that hate us I'm trying to hurry

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here love rejoice is not iniquity love does not rejoice when bad things happen

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to people who've done us wrong true love does not gossip true love does not

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rejoice in the German word shortened Friday shortened Friday means when

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something terrible happens to somebody you don't like you're happy about it I

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don't get happy when something happens evil to people who don't like me because

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the Lord says be careful the ditch you dig for them

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somebody helped me preach it you gonna fall in it yourself finally loves

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convictions love rejoices in the truth it rejoices when truth is proclaimed and

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when truth wins the day a lie will run around the world while truth is still

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putting on issues love bears all things to bear all things means love

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patiently endures and overlooks the faults of others it literally means that

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when you love somebody instead of always looking for failures and faults you

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know what their faults are but you cover it that's what true love means you you

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you look at people and and you don't and you and you say to yourself how can you

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be friends with that person you know how crazy they are but you cover it how

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can this pretty woman love this ugly man she covers it let me let me let me let

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me give you a biblical picture of that you remember in the book of Genesis when

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Noah got drunk his son Ham saw him in his drunkenness and laughed at him and

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went and told his two brothers when Shem and Japheth heard of their father's

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drunkenness they took a blanket they took a covering and walked backwards and

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laid the blanket on him backwards not to look at his nakedness and Noah blessed

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Shem and Japheth and cursed Ham because Ham laughed when the other two covered

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it one Friday on a hill called Calvary Jesus covered my sin and I'm in this

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church this morning because I'm covered by the blood of Jesus Christ I'm saved

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today because Jesus covered me with his own blood

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what can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of Jesus what can make me hold

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again nothing but the blood of Jesus I want you to hear me brothers and sisters

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stop stop thinking that you in here because you are so loving you're not

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in here because God needs you you're not in here because somebody else can't take

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your place you're in here because God loves you and the love of God hopes all

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things believes all things endures all things because love never fails let me

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run across the field right here I got one or two more things in my nose but

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let me just cut across the field could be running out of time love endures all

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things and the closest thing we can come to to that kind of love before we

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get to the love of God is the love that a mother has for her child fathers love

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their children but they don't love their children like mama love their children

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because when a baby cries the daddy just think the baby is crying but the

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mama knows what the cry means one cry means they're hungry another cry means

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they need to be changed and nobody could know that but somebody who is

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sensitive enough to know what that cry means somebody ought to help me close

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here sometimes mama and daddy get mad with their child the child is going to

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jail or the child has gone astray and the child is on drugs and the child can't

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be trusted in the house by themselves because they've made all kinds of foolish

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childish mistakes and the daddy will say I don't want nothing to do with that

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boy don't don't don't let him come in my yard I don't even want him at my house

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I don't want to have nothing to do with him anymore I'm through with that boy and

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the mama said you're right he's done wrong I'm through with him too I don't

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want to see him no more the longest I know I brought him in this world but I

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don't want to have nothing to do with him and then that boy will come back when

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the dad is not home

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and mama said listen I'm gonna give you this money but you better not tell your

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dad where you live boy mama gonna come bring you some food because her mother's

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love is almost the love of God I said almost the love of God I said almost the

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love of God let me tell you what the real love of God is like while we were

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yet sinner we were on our way to hell Christ didn't just give us some food

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Christ didn't just tell us we could come to church Jesus went to the cross and

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died in my place the just for the unjust the righteous for the unrighteous

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now the only folk who can shout right here is folk who've got some stuff in

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your past that you shame to talk about you've got some stuff in your closet

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that if you open the door all your skeletons would fall out right now

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Jesus knows what your skeletons look like Jesus knows what your sins look

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like but he loves you so much that he died for your sins and then he rose for

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your justification and even since you've been saved you've committed some

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horrible sins I need somebody here who has sinned since you've been a child of

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God you have lied since you've been a child of God you've gone astray since

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you've been a child of God God does not dismiss you once you sin but if you

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confess your sins he is faithful and just and he will forgive you of all your

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sins and then cleanse you from all unrighteousness I need somebody who's

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been cleansed this morning I need somebody that God has washed away your

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sin God has covered your foolishness God has rescued you from the mess you got

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yourself in God is look beyond your faults and has seen all your needs

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God has made a way out of no way God has smiled on your life and you are blessed

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this morning beyond what you ever could have imagined when you look back over

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your life and see where you are right now your soul don't have to wonder how

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you got over you already know it was nobody but Jesus if you know it and

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you're not ashamed to testify if he's been good to you and you don't care

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who you're standing by if he's made a way for you and you don't mind opening

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your mouth if God has shined on you and you don't mind testify right now is a

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good time this morning is a good morning to give God your best hallelujah you

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might not make it back here next Sunday you might not live to see another day

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so why you have a chance why don't you lift your hands and tell God thank you

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for where you brought me from thank you for the doors you've opened thank you

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for the tears you've dried thank you for the people you took out of my life

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thank you for the people you put into my life thank you for making a way for me

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thank you for saving me thank you for raising me thank you for keeping me

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living he's saying buried he carried my sins far away but rising he justified

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freed me forever one day he's coming back what a glorious day but in the

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meantime before he comes back I'm a shot I'm a given glory I'm a praises name I'm

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telling thank you

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he walks with me he talks with me he tells me I am his own and the joy joy do

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you have joy if you got joy why don't you grab somebody tell him this job the

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world didn't give it the world can't take it away yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

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yeah yeah yeah yeah I know he's alright