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One of the major personal problems that we discover

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in the lives of human beings today is that of

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depression, discouragement, of glue. I am amazed

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how many people write in and say, oh, Catherine

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Kuhlman, I find that I awaken in the morning

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so discouraged. How can I get victory over this

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feeling of depression that I have in my life?

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Today, you and I are going to have a little heart

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-to -heart talk about something that sooner or

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later affects each of our lives. I'm going to

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give you a portion of the Word of God as found

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in 1 Peter, the second chapter, the ninth verse.

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It's a beautiful thing. I've always thought it

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was such a beautiful description of what can

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happen to anyone when faith dawns in his mind.

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And this is it. Who hath called you out of darkness

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into his marvelous light. Let me repeat it again.

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Who hath called you out of darkness You and I,

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as God's children, have been called out of darkness

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into his marvelous light. To think that the shadows,

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to think that the bloom, to think that the obsession,

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the hate, the sin, the lust, the grudges in a

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human mind, these things which weigh a man down

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and take the joy and take the happiness from

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him. can all be dissipated by one, the one who

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calls you out of darkness into his marvelous

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light. These are the things that we have been

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called out of. We've been called out of the shadows.

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We have been called out of the gloom, out of

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hate, out of sin. We have been called out. of

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lust and jealousies and depression into his marvelous

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light. For all of these things that I just named

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are a pot of darkness. This terrible darkness

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that throws us into a mental state of depression.

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Hate will throw you into a mental state of depression.

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Jealousy will throw you into a mental state of

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depression. A grudge will throw you into a mental

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state of depression. Hate. There's nothing that'll

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throw you into a mental state of depression as

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quickly as hate. You see, that's what's wrong

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with the world today. We have been thrown into

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this mental state of depression until we're literally

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living in darkness. And in the final analysis,

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it will cause fear. And the greatest enemy that

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you can take into your life is the enemy of fear.

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And all of these things are from... our state

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of darkness in which we live. But when we become

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God's children, when we accept that Christ is

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our Savior, and God becomes our Heavenly Father,

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and we become heirs of God and joined heirs with

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Christ Jesus, a very part of His royalty, we

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are called out of these things. We're called

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out of this darkness and into his marvelous light.

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Now you understand why I say to you that this

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scripture that I've just given you is one of

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the most beautiful descriptions of what can happen

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to anyone when faith dawns in his mind. This

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is the secret of finding a happy ending to your

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gloomy feelings. This is the secret of finding

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joy and happiness in your life of depression

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and discouragement. When this wonderful experience

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happens to you, one of its blessings is that

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you get... A normal mind. And a normal, healthy,

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wholesome mind is better than silver and gold.

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Better than any material blessing in this world.

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That's the truth. Better than any material blessing

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in the whole world is a normal... wholesome,

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undivided mind. And there's many a multimillionaire

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who'd give anything in the world if he could

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exchange all of the material wealth for a healthy,

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normal mind. There's nothing like it. You're

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rich. You're rich. If today you are the possessor,

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of a healthy, wholesome, and I use that word

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advisedly, wholesome mind. I've come to the conclusion

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that there are very few people living today who

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have a wholesome mind. It's another thing that's

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wrong with the world today. Few people are thinking

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straight. Few people have a healthy mind. If

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men and women had a healthy, wholesome mind,

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they couldn't read some of the things that they

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read. They couldn't stand to see some of the

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things that they feed their minds on. It's a

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depraved mind that goes after the unhealthy things.

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They feed on them. We've allowed our minds to

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feed on things that are not wholesome. And then

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we find ourselves sick mentally and physically.

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I tell you the truth. I would no more permit

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my eyes to look upon some of the things that

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millions of people are watching today. I think

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too much of my mind. I mean that. I would no

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more. You could put a sizable check before me

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and ask me in return for that check to read some

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of the things that are on the market today. And

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I would say to you, you take your check, all

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the money in the world, would not be enough to

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pay me to read and to take into my mind some

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of the things that you can go down and buy for

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less than a dollar today. Why? Because as soon

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as you see these things and take these things

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into your mind, you have allowed disease to enter

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your mind. And things like these can destroy

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you mentally and physically. It's like that.

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One of the blessings and the greatest blessings

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today is a normal, healthy wholesome mind. And

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you fathers and you mothers, you are responsible

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for your children. You are responsible for what

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they take into their mind. You are responsible

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for what that child sees, hears, reads. As a

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man thinketh, so is he. That's scriptural. It's

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the word of God. Mm -hmm. I'm sure that there

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are people listening to me right now who are

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having a perfectly terrible time with themselves

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because forces play upon their minds over which

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they seemingly have no control of whatsoever.

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Their minds are the playground of all manner

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of emotional quirks. They're weighted down. They're

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filled with gloom. Their energy is sapped. Misfortunes

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come, and they can't take them because they can't

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think straight. Oh, fortunate is the man, fortunate

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is the woman who can think straight. There's

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many a man today who's not thinking straight.

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There's many a woman this hour. It's been a long

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time since she's been able to think straight.

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And then when misfortunes come, when troubles

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come, they can't think straight. And that's a

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pity. For if one has a good, normal, healthy

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mind, He can handle these problems. If you have

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a healthy mind, I don't care what you're confronted

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with, that pain will not throw you. You'll not

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be defeated. I'm saying something that's the

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reason I'm talking very slowly and hesitate and

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pause in some of these places. I want you to

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think this thing through. You see, we've come

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to the place where People no longer want to face

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the real values of life. Sometimes I wonder if

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people really do want to think straight. I really

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wonder. Sometimes you see we're like the ostrich

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who buried its head in the sand and thinking

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that just because It didn't see the thing that

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the thing didn't exist. And we're sort of like

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that today. We don't want to face reality. We

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just act as though it'll go away. The woman,

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when her daughter was killed, was an accident

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that I remember trying to comfort her. And all

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she would say was, Tell me it isn't so. Miss

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Kuhlman, tell me it isn't so. Tell me it isn't

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true. And she grabbed me and said, tell me, Miss

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Kuhlman, tell me it isn't true. Tell me it isn't

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so. Tell me it didn't happen. She just didn't

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want to. face reality. She wanted someone to

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come along and say, it's just a bad dream. It'll

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go away. Don't worry, honey. It'll go away. It's

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like many folk today are trying to sweep all

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the garbage under the rug. And just because it's

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swept under the rug, Sooner or later, you know,

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they feel it'll disintegrate, but it won't. Somebody

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sooner or later will pull the rug right out from

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under them, and there it is. It's right there.

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We've got to face reality sooner or later. And

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I still contend that if one has a good, normal...

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healthy mind he can handle any problem but you

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can only have a good healthy normal mind if you

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have the mind of christ the mind of god And when

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you have the mind of God, when you have the mind

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of Christ, you will live according to God's laws

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and God's rules. Oh, somebody said, I knew that

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sooner or later you'd wind up with the word of

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God. Of course. You can't get away from the Bible.

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You cannot get away from God's laws. You live

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contrary to God's laws and you can get yourself

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into trouble. Your life will end up a mess. And

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we bring most of our troubles on ourselves. We

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just do. I was just thinking the other day, you

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know. about the things that we're faced with

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today. We're headed for a catastrophe as sure

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as there's a god on his throne. We have evidence

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available to show us that man is headed for catastrophe.

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A climax in his long history. We're faced with

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The pollution problem. We're faced with nuclear

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threat. We're faced with the racial problems.

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We're faced with the dope problem. And many have

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spoken out freely expressing the fear that the

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world will never survive to see the end of the

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century. But all of these problems that we're

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faced with today, man has brought on the pollution

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problem. He can't blame God for it. We'd like

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to put the blame on God. We'd like to put the

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blame on somebody else. But you want to know

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something? This pollution problem that we're

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faced with, we brought it all on ourselves. Don't

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blame God for it. Our government would like to

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blame it on somebody else. Well, blame it on

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the devil if you want to. He's a good one to

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blame it on. Did you have to blame it on somebody?

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Blame it on the devil because it all started

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with him. It all started with sin. Go with the

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nuclear threat. God will never destroy, man.

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We talk about God destroying man? God will never

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destroy man. Man is destroying himself just as

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fast as he possibly can. That's right. We are

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literally destroying ourselves. We talk about

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the racial problems. Hate is not of God. Don't

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put the racial problem today on God. God has

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nothing to do whatsoever with the racial problem.

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He's doing everything he has done, everything

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in divine power to destroy hate in the mind and

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in the lives of men and women. God is love. And

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perfect love casts about all hate and all fear

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and all jealousies. Man has brought on the racial

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problem today, not God. And when Jesus comes

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back the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, there'll

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no longer be a racial problem. For he comes back

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and brings peace and destroys the hate that's

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in the heart of man. Talk about the dope problem.

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We have no one to blame but ourselves. We brought

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all of these problems on ourselves. Mm -hmm.

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And we have evidence that's available to show

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us in this very hour that man is headed for catastrophe.

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And many have spoken out very freely. expressing

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the fear that the world will never survive to

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see the end of the century. And yet we brought

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all of these things on ourselves. Man is destroying

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himself just as quickly as he possibly can. But

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beloved, God has the answer to all of these problems.

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back to the Word of God. We need to come back

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to God's way for man to live before it's too

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late.