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Sometimes I think we forget how big God really

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is. God is not concerned with conditions. The

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unchangeable fact is that God has all power.

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That God can bring harmony and healing out of

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any condition at any time and in any place. He's

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outside of time. and space, and the carnal mind.

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Sometimes I think we need someone to keep reminding

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us of this glorious fact. It makes no difference

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to God how long a certain difficulty has lasted.

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It makes no difference how much seeming opposition

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there is to overcome. God is not concerned with

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conditions. God does not have to prepare now

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to bring something about next year, nor is he

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unable to do something now because he omitted

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to do something else last year. God can do anything,

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anywhere, at any time, this very moment, without

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reference to anything or anyone else. God is...

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absolutely not concerned with conditions. Our

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poor little puny minds are always putting difficulties

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in the way of demonstration. We say, too late.

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Or we often say, too soon. Or too far. Or too

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near. Or too much. Or not enough. And so we kill.

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our demonstration. But all this is just the thinking

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of the mind and has nothing to do with the power

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of God. Determine today that you will demonstrate

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health, true success, happiness by realizing

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that God is working in and through you to bring

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these things about. And do not, not for a single

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second, Allow your poor little mind to tell you

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that it cannot be done. It can be done. And if

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you mean business, it will be done. If you get

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your eyes on God. If you get your eyes on your

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Heavenly Father. On your great high priest, the

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very son of the living God who is now reigning

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in that great position, ever living to make intercession

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for you and for me, how can you fail? How dare

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you limit the power and the promises of God?

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God is not concerned with conditions. Take your

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eyes off the circumstances. Sometimes, you know,

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circumstances throw us. Sometimes disappointment

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will throw us. Sometimes sickness will absolutely

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throw us. And we just sink to the very depth

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of despair, frustration. And it's long before

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we find out that we're defeated. Don't you dare

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be defeated. God is not. concerned with conditions.

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It makes no difference to God how long a certain

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difficulty has lasted. Oh, if only somehow the

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Holy Spirit can make this real to your heart.

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This can be one of the greatest truths that has

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ever been revealed to your heart and to your

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mind. We're going to continue our discussion

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about your future, my future. And you will remember

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that the very last question that I asked of you

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in our last heart -to -heart talk on this subject

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was the question of what is it that you'd like

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to have for your future? You see, this is something

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that's very personal with me too. As surely you

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have a future, I have a future. I have to ask

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myself the question, what do I want for my future?

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Do you know? If you don't know, you'll never

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get it. Because in order to attain anything,

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you have to know what it is that you want to

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attain. You have to pinpoint it. Then your whole

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nature will work toward it. The trouble with

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a great many people is that they only have an

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obscure, a very fuzzy notion of what they want

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their future to be. They want to go somewhere,

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but they do not know where they want to go. Well,

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you'll never get anywhere if you don't know where

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you want to go. Can you imagine me going down

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to the airport here in Pittsburgh and say to

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my friend, I want to go someplace. And he'll

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say, where do you want to go? And I'll say to

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him, I don't know, but I just want to go. I want

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to get somewhere. We'll say, Catherine Kuhlman,

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what in the world is wrong with you? Every time

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you come down here, you've said, I want to go

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to Los Angeles. Or I have to go to Chicago. Or

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I want a ticket to New York. I always know. I

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have always stated exactly. And so I get my ticket.

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I board that plane. But if I stand there and

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say, I don't know where I want to go. Well, he

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can't help you very well, you know. I want to

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get somewhere, but I don't know where I want

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to go. I'll tell you right now. The fellow would

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be so disgusted with me. He would be so disgusted.

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he would have the right to say, there's something

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wrong with Miss Kuhlman. She's not quite right

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today. You know? Now, this may sound silly, very

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silly, but it really is important. It has often

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happened that some man or woman, having come

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with their troubles, And when I begin questioning

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them as to what they want, they really do not

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know what they want. They do not know what they

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want from life. They're not quite sure if they

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know what they want from God. They are in a negative

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mental attitude. And so, really, there's no help

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for them. Do you want your future to be? Let's

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just lay it on the line. Go and pray about it.

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Ask the Lord what he thinks it ought to be. Be

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objective about the thing. Pinpoint it. Make

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it sharp and clean. And take it to God and then

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go out and do something about it. Your future

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can be made what you want to make. Remember again,

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God is not concerned with conditions. The unchangeable

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fact remains that God has all power. He's outside

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of time, outside of space, outside of circumstances.

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But you must have Christ at the center. of your

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future and the center of all of your plans and

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your plans must be in the perfect will of god

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you must take in consideration the will of god

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if that which you wish for your future is not

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for the glory of god and is outside of the will

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of god then you will not have a successful future.

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You must take that in consideration. I would

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not want anything for my future that is outside

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the will of God, for it would not be best for

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me. And as a tender Heavenly Father, He only

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wants His children to have His best. And therefore,

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in planning my future, in thinking of my future,

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I want, first of all, God's best for me. And

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when I have God's best, then I know that his

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best also includes others. For no man, no woman,

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living in the perfect will of God, lives selfishly.

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You just don't. That's the very nature of God,

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to give. That's the very nature of His Son, to

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give. It's the very nature of the Holy Spirit,

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to give and give. God is not selfish. The Son

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of God is not selfish. The Holy Spirit is not

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selfish. Therefore, as a part of this great union,

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neither will you and I be selfish. Therefore,

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if I'm living in the perfect will of God, if

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I, am wanting his best for my future, then I

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know that my future will not be a selfish life.

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Oh. I pray the Holy Spirit is making this real

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to your heart because it's so vitally important

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to all of us. You see, I'm talking to myself

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too. I'm not just only preaching to you. I'm

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sitting here talking to Catherine Kuhlman because

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my future is me. In truth, you are your future.

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If you want to know what your future is going

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to be, go home, take a good look at yourself

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in the mirror, look past your face into your

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mind, and look directly into your soul. There

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it is, your future. As clear -cut as though it

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were diagrammed. If you have weakness, dishonesty,

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sin, if you're negative, then that will be your

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future. Unless you fill your mind and heart and

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soul with Christ so that you become a changed

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person, you will not have a future that's filled

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with unselfishness. and joy, and success. It's

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just that simple. Believe me, it is. By permitting

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yourself to develop a skyscraper -sized fear,

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you tear down your future. That is the reason

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that I have had several heart -to -heart talks

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on fear. And I told you over and over again,

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it's the greatest enemy that you can take into

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your life. There is no greater enemy than the

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enemy of fear. Because if you've taken fear into

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your future, then you tear down your future.

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But when your life is full of Christ, when you

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receive him, he gives you the power to become.

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The human being has tremendous potentials. You've

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never been all of what you can be, nor have I.

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And that's the one thing that concerns me and

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concerns me greatly. There is never a day of

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my life that I do not realize that I am not all

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that I can be for God. I know that better than

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anyone else. And it isn't me. It's the bigness

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of God. When I realize how big God is, when I

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realize all that the heavenly Father has made

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possible to me as one of His children, I know

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that I have not reached that place where I am

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all that I can be for Him. And neither have you.

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I believe with every atom of my being that there

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was even more for the Apostle Paul than what

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he even dreamed possible. We have imprisoned

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the God within us. We must let him out. Let him

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find release. I don't suppose there's anything

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in the world so glorious as a person set free

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from his own weakness and his own limitations.

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I want to be set free from my own weaknesses,

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my own limitations, my own smallness. I acknowledge

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and have acknowledged over and over again that

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in some things I'm very small. I'm small in my

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thinking and small in my reasoning. I'd give

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you anything in the world if I could be set free

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from this smallness. It's because I'm human.

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And so are you. If only we could be set free

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from our own limitations. And there's only one

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who can set us free. Christ can set you free.

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He can and he will. So if you want a good future,

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you must seek it through him. And let him give

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you the power to become. Become what? All that

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he has made possible for you to become. The future

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of the individual is in Christ. And the future

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of mankind is in Christ. What's the trouble with

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our world? It comes down to one thing. Oh, of

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course, secretaries of state and foreign ministers

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and politicians will give you long speeches on

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what's wrong with the world, but they're just

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people like the rest of us trying to do their

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very best, and there's no doubt about that, but

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they're also caught up in the old political game

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of power against power. Basically, the trouble

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is just this, evil against good. And the reason

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the world is in such a state as it is is because

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of the power of evil. And evil isn't in the air.

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Evil is in men's hearts. We're God's children.

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We're men. Women. We're supposed to be creative.

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It's time for us to do something about the world

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problem. We must first realize that good is more

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powerful than evil. Then we must individually

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rise to the challenge. And each one of us must

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say, I'll be God's man. I'll be God's woman.

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I'll put a healthy spiritual life against the

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evil of our time. And with enough people doing

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that, we'll see the dawn of a new day. One of

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the greatest passages in the Bible is found in

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the sixth chapter of Isaiah. It begins in the

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year that King Uzziah died. You remember that

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Uzziah had been a great king. He was dead. In

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the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the

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Lord sitting upon the throne, high and lifted

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up, and His train filled the temple. Above it

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stood the seraphim, and one cried unto another

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and said, Holy! Holy, holy is the Lord of hosts,

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and the whole earth is full of his glory. Then

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said I, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I

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am a man of unclean lips, and I'll dwell in the

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midst of a people with unclean lips. But watch,

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and Isaiah heard the Lord asking, Whom shall

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I send, and who will go for us? And here is the

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answer. Here am I. Send me.